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You honestly have one of the best videos of its kind on TH-cam! I even forgot I was watching a TH-cam video. It was more like watching a really good TV short! Your music and voiceovers are have great sound quality and ambiance, and the transitions and text insets art top notch! I can’t say enough to congratulate you! 👏

What a dick! Amazing doucheFace thumbnail! Congrats you look like every unimaginative, lazy creator on YT. Clearly intelligent people choose stupid face thumbnails because looking like an idiot is a huge indicator that your content must be amazing! 😂

Thnak u .. nice video and recommendations!

เลิศ ศิลา จอร์น เวย์ พาร์ รามอน เด็กเกอร์เคยชกที่นี่ก่อนจะโด่งดังระดับโลก

I made a picture in sakon nakhon and you can see an ufo in the sky. i just saw it later after watching the picture again. i know the place very good and i don´t know what it is. it was not moving and later it was gone. no one belive me but they also not know what it could be after watching it.

River City was was favorite please send a copy of that book to Bobby Ferdosi 1660 Sherman Way # 150 Van Nuys CA USA 91406

In case you missed it, the communists won

Very nice video thank you. Great job,👍

Great video, thanks 🙏🏻

I winder if these are still around..ill investigate today ..i know platinum is 🕵️‍♂️

I want to go to the Festival! I ❤ 🇨🇷!

The Grand Prix bar was where Neil Davis was drinking when he raced out to film the 1985 Thai military coup,he was killed by a round from a pro-coup tank, near a radio tower.

Whats your camera model.?

Awesome video. I was lucky enough to visit the Patpong Museum in 2019 which brought to life the Patpong Story. Bars such as Madrid, Cosmo, Mizu's Kitchen and Safari sadly closed down during "Covid Lockdown" and Patpong has never been the same since. My first visit to the area was in 1993, when it was still viewed as the No1 entertainment area in BKK, ahead of Soi Cowboy ...and a new emerging place called Nana Plaza.

Look for the place the government shut down. The real secret is there.

Went to Khao Kala August 2024. Saw many blue Orbs, not at the lookout. This place is real. Look up, you will see. Camera is the secret. Look at video steven olive

Next year in January i`ll try to find "Find the locker room" bar. As are barfly i want to mention here some other bars. My favourite "not so hidden" Bars. Teens of Thailand (great name for a bar) Gin Bar @ Soi Nana in Chinatown and the Black Swan Bar Suk Soi 19. An English style old school bar. They offers Gins and a great Ciders Choice

You have really some interesting topics @ your youtube channel . Fresh and modern and the world needs more German youtubers reporting from Thailand/BKK like you.

Insightful documentary, would look into Bangkok Babylon book, sign me up for the book draw please!

nice video, never heard of this place before. i had ufo sightings twice or more myself, but not in Thailand

For me the best thing in BKK is crawling through the Sois that I never has been before and of course as a stamp collector the area around the GPO and these stamp shops.

Hello, I was in the US Army during the 70's. While in I spent much of the time in Thailand. I have great memories. :-)

When I stay i Bangkok (every year for Holiday since 1991) in try to get a room in these old family owned Rest & Recreation Hotels. But there are only a few left.

I think you are from Germany, just like me. Try to catch a copy of Peter Scholls Latour´s : Tod im Reisfeld. I´ll bet you find a copy in these used Bookshops at the Khao San Road.

That knockout was brutal... hope he was okay.

Hab damals 4 Jahre gebraucht um die "Find the photobooth" Bar zu finden. Ok, es gibt noch viel zu tun.

Thanks 🙏🏽 this was a great discovery. My favorite piece was by Kona! Big fan of stencil art

John, I was the one who gave Izzy's contact details to you via K. Jenny, and I've gotta say that you've done a good job with this video. The Madrid was the first place I went (on a recommendation from Bubba Strahan, who was another legend on Patpong from 1980-1985) in 1993, and Jack Shirley was the first person I met that night. He had MANY stories and was always fun to drink with. Jack and Tony Poe worked in different arenas in Laos. But Jack followed orders better than Tony did. Legend has it that without fail, those two would get into a huge brawl about once a year. I think the video of Tony that you shared is from a story (from the BBC, I think) where they also have an interview with Jack. My wife and I were in the background of that video as we were there the day of the interview. But I've not been able to find it recently. Thanks for putting the time and effort into this. It brings back many fond memories and is something that I'll be sharing with many of my friends. Billy

Loved this video, going into detail of Pat Pong showing a great insight of Bangkok’s history. I have been living here in bangkok for the past 3 years and always researching and wanting to know the history of this wonderful city. I would love to win a copy of “Bangkok Babylon”

0.07 where is this?

21.31 where is this located?

Great watch. Thanks for sharing

How much for the custom shoe’s? How much for the custom sneakers?

good video. good to see someone looking at the history side of bangkok and thailand. I am personally interested in learning more about the history and will looking to visit anywhere there which can illuminate to me some passed stories.. "Bangkok Babylon" I would to read this book. Learn some history from it on the side of my own research via google. I was in bangkok for 11days last year but was not so well and will be returning 2025 to stay a number of months before proceeding to visit the rest of Asia..

This makes me miss Bkk! I started a yoga school on Patpong (probably the only one ever) between 2001 and 2006, then moved to another part of the city. Madrid was still open then

Hey, I enjoyed this. You've got some good content. Look, keep up the good work and you'll see incremental success I'm sure.

Wow this is a wonderful history story and ppl nowadays don’t know at all. I am glad that you guys found Izzy, because he is probably the last history teller that used to be on duty of CIA after my stepdad passed away last year (one guy in the group photo at opening story). He must be happy if he can watch this video from another side. Thank you and keep doing kind of this content. Good job.👍🏼

Absolutely fantastic video. I live in bkk, with my laos wife. I know patpong really interested in the history. Ok now I'll go deep. The US have a duty of care to CLEAN UP THEIR SHIT. Laos people to this day are still finding unexploded ordinance ,I'm speaking from experience. I hate it when the US vets claim to be heroes when basically they ran away. US sort it out

Hi John, I’m May, Izzy’s niece. I wasn’t at home during the filming, but I've had the chance to watch the video. I just want to express my heartfelt thanks for creating such an amazing video. Izzy was absolutely delighted when he saw it. Thank you for skillfully crafting and presenting story in such a wonderful way. It means the world to both Izzy and our family. Thank you. ❤❤❤

Allso Bar in Sth Thong Lor is shit-hot. No pretention.

Good video

Bangkok Babylon. Well-made video. Subbed for the channel, not just the free book. I think i'll go on a walking tour of Pat Pong after seeing this. Haven't been there in ages.

#Operation Galdio

Beautiful thai women that want to do sex work dont go to gogos to the same extent as they used to. Now there are special clubs, kareoko bars etc where koreans, chinese and some others pay 5000 baht for short time to the most sexy and beautiful girls. The rest goes to the other venues for work. Thats one of the reasons for the fall in quality.

I enjoyed the mention of author Tommy Thompson. He was a marvelous writer who died far too young. His true crime book Serpentine about Sobraj is a classic of its kind. I loved Southeast Asia of the 70s when anything could happen. Sorry to hear Bangkok’s sleazy side is being erased, but the whole world has changed.

You did excellent research, and presented the history well. Kudos. I would give you a super A plus…but….you didn’t apply what was truly an extraordinary research effort into scratching the surface on the Tony Po movie inspiration story. That has been shown not to be true, and the movie makers have said as much (which you can find online). That’s okay, most videos have a least one mistake, including mine, The US Secret War in Laos, which I noticed you had watched ;-)

Good video, thanks. I've read Bangkok Babylon. Currently in Bangkok and will check out some of the places you've mentioned.

Top work - My Friend! Editing and Script are ( Ha Dao)

My GrandPa was Kuomintang Forgotten Army. After ww2 there is civil war in china between kmt and communist. My grand pa and their group lost the territory at Yunan and retreated to Thailand and Myanmar. Air America CIa used to help with Supplies run operations back in the days. My grandfather would hide in the mountains back at that time which is around Golden Triangle regions now days. CIA will drop the weapons and supplies to us while the opium and heroin were shipped back to the state that time. The Lost Army of kuomintang, later after from the Pressure of USA, KMT leader Chang Kai Sheik ordered to retreat the troops for good to Taiwan, while the remaining soldiers including my Grand Father was given secret missions to stay back and wait for Further Instructions to invade Communist China, they were promised Supplies from Air America CIa and the supplies never came and later onwards they were all listed as Treasons, this history most people dont know.

Really interesting, thank you John!