Radio Mano, Papa Tchango

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Hello everybody, not doing any audience intros this week because I'm in a bit of a

hurry. Got to check out of this hotel in Puket Thailand, Puket P.H.U.K.E.T. not

called fuck it but it might as well be. It's my least favorite place I've ever

been in Thailand. So it's everything I love about Thailand. It seems to be missing

here and yeah it's full of tourists. It's like I don't know, cancun, frat, bro,

heaven, you know lots of buckets of beer and ripoffs and crowds and it's horrible.

I'm here because I need to get some dental work done and there aren't any dentists

on the little island where I was hanging out. This was the nearest big city. So

here I am hopefully the dentists aren't as shady as the restaurant owners and

hotel owners and taxi drivers and everybody else. We'll see what happens. This

episode is a very special episode. This was recorded in Hawaii a couple of weeks

ago where I was visiting a man named Tom's school. It was his 80th birthday and I

was invited because Tom is an old friend of my buddy Tal Ruspoli and Tal very

generously and kindly shared his friend Tom with me and me with Tom and I think

I definitely got the better part of that deal but I got to hang out at this

amazing compound on Maui full of giant metal sculptures made from discarded

factory pieces from sugar mills that are now defunct on the island. Tom salvaged

some of these giant chunks of steel and that were used to make presses and

other machinery and the sugar mills. Anyway it's an amazing place. I'll put some

photographs up on my website as well as links to places where you can see more.

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