The Bird Show.

Hey, Susie. Hey, how are you? Good, how are you? You sound like you're on a playground. I'm on a crowded bus. Let me just draw a picture for you. They're selling live chickens through the window. There's many live chickens on board. There's mothers and children, everyone sitting in the aisle. I hope you can hear me because it's a very hot and very, a lot of activity going on.

Smells like chickens.

Yeah, we can hear you fine.

Yeah, for those of you that don't know who Susie is, because we've got, you know, the commercial running and a whole bunch of people are checking us out now for the first time.

Susie left a year ago, over a year ago, and she is traveling the world by herself. And she calls us up from time to time just from different corners of the planet.

And she's in Mozambique now, correct?

I am in Mozambique.

And where is that? I don't even know.

Listen, don't feel bad. I didn't know before I got here. It's above South Africa on the east kind of southeast coast.

And they speak Portuguese here. So it's crazy. It's like the only Latin-flavored country in all of Africa.

I didn't know anything about it. I'm just, like, I just basically am so dumb. I was like, I'll just make a straight line down the East Coast of Africa. I'll start in Egypt and go straight down. So whatever's in my path, I'm, like, learning about it as I go. So Mozambique is crazy. The roads are just terrible. It's really, really poor. I would say almost everybody here lives in like really a house with no plumbing,

no electricity made of like mud and grass. It's definitely one of the most basic places I've ever

been. Is everybody staring at you right now with a cell phone in your hand?

You know, the thing is they don't have electricity, but they have cell phones. A lot of them have cell phones. They buy, like, they buy these cards so you pay beforehand because people don't have mailing addresses. You can't, like, it's not like you can get your bill neatly in the mail. So people, and the interesting thing is that people have to go to stores to recharge their phones a lot of them because they don't have electricity in their house but the cell phone is everywhere like if somebody's like not dirt poor but just like sliding by they have a cell phone no nobody's looking at me believe it or not sure because you know they're selling chickens out the window yes i say if you're on the bus jen and you get a call home to find out if you need to have a fresh chicken in the yard.

You know, you just pick up your cell phone. Hey, we need a chicken because I'm on the bus right now. I can just reach out the window and grab one. Susie, there's this reoccurring theme that we hear from week to week with you. And it really is. I've had a couple problems here already. like I'm just a mark, you know, like when you're in a country and you stand out so much and everyone's really poor, you're going to get a lot of attention. You don't want to. Like, I get off a buses and people's hands are in my pocket. I was sitting on the beach and I didn't bring anything to the beach because I know you just can't bring a backpack or anything. I had a pair of sunglasses with me and somebody just ran up and stole them.

Believe it or not, this country's still okay, but it's like, wow.

Like, you know, I feel like I've been everywhere and I've seen everything,

and then I get to another country, and I'm like, wow, it can get harder, it can get

poor, it can get more basic, it can get more dangerous, like everywhere I go, I'm like, oh my God, more surprises. So most of the big has offered some great surprises, but also it's tough. Like I'm just getting here sweating right now. I'm on a 12-hour bus trip. I was standing for most of it. It's hard.

Somebody pin a middle on me, but people here do it every day. This is their life. So part of me is like, just shut up and don't complain. This is their life. You're in it. You got to deal with it. At this point now, you are, I mean, you're past what your year deadline was going to be. Is there any part of you now going, okay, I can see the end of this?

I bought a ticket home. I bought a ticket home, and it was really crazy. I bought a ticket home from Johannesburg. I'll be flying home from South Africa, so I'm just headed all the way to the bottom of this continent. And I made it for that I'll be gone a year, a month, a week, and a day, because I think that kind of sounds cool. Yeah. I mean, when I'm in a country that's this hard, where I'm just, it's hit literally, you guys, I've been on the road now for three days straight, just taking buses. It took me a day. I'm not exaggerating you a day to go 120 miles on a bus. It's so crowded, so hot, so bumpy. The roads are really bad here. So, like, the harder things get, I'm like, wow, it's going to be amazing to be home until, like, have some comforts, you know. You know, Susie, that could be the name of your book, a year, a month, a week, and a day. I like it. It's kind of catchy, isn't it?

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