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No Money In Dubai For 48 hours - Day 2
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Mar 27, 2025
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Morning, day two with no money in Dubai
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Hot water to start the day
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Really hot water So I slept at the beach last night I found a nice little hidden alcove place to hide under and like cozy up for the night
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The security were literally patrolling the area the whole night. So I had to hide myself in a thin place where they wouldn't see me
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I'm going to show you guys. I'm going to go over there and show you guys. It is private property
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So I had to be very careful. I couldn't sleep on the beach beach because it was just too cold
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ridiculously cold and I guess the idea of sleeping on the beach is a very Popular fantasy for a lot of people the practicality of it. You'll freeze to death
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Don't do it Okay, so here's where I slept last night. I went through here
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this bush area and then when I got in I slept inside that thing but at the very
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bottom I slept on the day last day and then the security patrolled the area
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quite a few times probably about every hour or so you see them going through
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here they go through this bit then they go around and they flash in their torch
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but because it was so dark they didn't see me I'm actually quite surprised they
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didn't see me because you can just see everything. I am a freelance photographer, yes
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And you live here? No, I don't. Oh, okay. You're just traveling through
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I was looking for a freelance and the guy that I was talking to, he's booked up because
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he's not freelance. When do you need him? I'm leaving tomorrow though, but I'll be back in February
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I mean, you live where? I live in the UK. Oh, okay. I live in the States
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Yeah. Yeah, oh well, next time. Alright, have a good day. Right, so that's just giving me an idea
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I was walking past, the guy obviously saw me with a camera. He goes, are you a freelance photographer
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And now, the light bulb moment has gone off. Ding! People are out on the beach
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looking for pictures to be taken of them. They're on holiday, they want professional pictures
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to be taken of them on the beach. So I'm just going to approach people on the beach
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say, hey, I'm a freelance photographer. I can take you a picture for 10 dirhams
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five pictures for 50 dirhams. If you do this much, I'll give you a bundle
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And then I can maybe make some money today. Eh? Let's see
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First, I'm gonna head in there, change into my swimming trunks, work out, and then crack on with the day
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Okay so it turns out I can't wash off the salt water off me for free because these are paid showers and the only free
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Shower you can get are the ones used to wash your feet. I'm gonna have to squat down to like wash all the salt water off me
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All right All fresh and clean. I want to look for those perfume guys. So when you're looking for them
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They're nowhere to be found when you're not they want to spray you all the time
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10 o'clock so I looked around on the beach and not a lot of tourists yet or not a lot of people
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Doing activities wanting their pictures taken so right now. I want to find
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Somewhere I can have breakfast for free preferably Okay, I'm just gonna..
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Nice. Thank you so much. Thank you. Alright, so it's about 11.30. The beach is slowly getting busy and I can see people
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taking photos on their phone that's the perfect time for me to swoop in and offer
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a professional photo taking for maybe 15 dirham for one and as a bundle of five
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photos you get it for 50 dirham so you get a discount so 15 for one five for 50 I need to work on my sales you guys want a professional photo taken of you Language barrier is a big thing when you travel They don speak English
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I'm just going to sit down and spot people doing a mobile photo shoot
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And then make my pitch. Can I help you use your phone to take a photo? So I'm being commissioned to use her phone to help her take the camera
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is a lot better but we'll do the fun. Hey guys I'm getting a lesson in photography 101
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I'm not too sure what just happened there. I've just been given a lesson on photography and I guess
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maybe I never really paid attention to like the squares and how the positioning and where the
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person needs to stand in contrast with like the Sun and like the other things
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around so Instagram models are the up to par with the photography they know
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everything how it all needs to be aligned with everything in the background
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and the Sun and the light and everything flippin heck to be honest I'm being a bit
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shy with this photography thing I'm like just staying back a little bit and
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looking for people trying to spot them out is it like just getting stuck in I
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I just want to take a few photos, make some money off it, grab some food, maybe do some like fun activities
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But let's see how the day turns out. Right now, I'm falling asleep
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I probably had about three or four hours of sleep this morning. Listen, if you guys know what Diyavotsky Privetz is, please let me know in the thingy
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Because this chick made me say it. I didn't want to say it because I don't know what it is. Are you guys about to go on there
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The kids. It's just the kids. The kids. Would you like some professional photos taken of them while they're on there
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We should be fine in seconds. Thank you. Okay, nice. Right, so I think my approach at the moment is a bit too polite
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How photographers do it is they just come up to you with the camera, don't they
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They say, oh, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo. And then they take it. And then after they show it to you, then you're already committed
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Then you're like, oh, how much is it? So I might have to change my approach if I want to make anybody today
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All right, guys. Would you like a professional photo taken? No? This isn't going too well this. I thought you'd just come to the beach and everyone would be like lying
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But I guess I kind of understand how it is. I tend to like dodge them as well when they come up to me at events
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I'm like, no, no, I'm alright, I'm alright. But deep down, when you actually look at it, you're like, oh, how about..
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It's a horrible feeling this. Everyone's like, no, no, no, no, no. Some of them, the look they give you, it's like you're scum
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No, no, I remember the feeling from When I used to do sale I did sales for five years going up to people on the street in a shopping center at events
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Sir miss madam madam madam. Have you heard about this? Miss do you drive sir
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So have you constantly constantly speak to a hundreds of people a day
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Rejection becomes your your your safe place. It becomes the status quo rejection
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You get so used to it builds resilience You callous your mind
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Would you like a professional photo taken? No. You guys want to pose a quick photo? No
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No, we're good. You look perfect for a photo right now. Oh
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Would you like one? It's okay. Are you sure? I'm just going to regroup for a second
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I've literally walked the length of the beach asking. There are tons more people than I've filmed
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I'm just going to have to try a different approach. Right now, my batteries are like two bars
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I need to charge it and it takes a good like two hours to charge
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I need to get someone that pays for a photo I go find somewhere to eat
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charge this and then come back out later Right, so I thought I found my target audience for a sec there. I chased the camel back and then
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I didn't even ask for permission I just started taking pictures of the children on the camel so I could show to the dad that
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Oh look look at these look at these before you knew they were all good
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I mean you can probably see why you don't they aren't a lot of people doing it because it's just like this almost mission impossible
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this like all right trying a different strategy I'm at the jet ski place and
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Everyone on a jet ski wants their photos taken right the only thing is They've got a photographer or maybe a waterproof camera on the jet ski with them
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that will take the photo i've taken a few photos i'm going to show it to them when they come back
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all right so the owner of this place that i'm trying to leech off of has been on the walkie
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talkie maybe speaking to security or something telling them about someone that's over here doing
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whatever i think it's after i started taking pictures that they've got their waterproof
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camera out but yeah i'm literally like sat on their thing waiting to like leech off with them
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So you can, I can understand. I really don't know what to do now. I've tried everything
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So you're a professional photographer? Kind of, yeah. What's your name? Hadik
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Hadik, nice to meet you mate. Yeah. I'm sorry this light is just atrocious
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But what are the odds of me walking around the beach taking photos of people and getting them to pay for it So the thing is that this is the perfect time for a photographer or videographer to be here in Dubai
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because everyone's coming to Dubai, the weather's amazing, New Year's coming up
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I go to people to people. Yeah. And like for instance I see someone taking pictures here with their mobile phone. Yeah
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I walk up to them, I introduce myself to them that I am a videographer, photographer
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Yeah, I can professionally shoot your videos and stuff. Yeah, so if they're on board with me
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But mate I've been trying that the whole day. They've all just been saying no. Yeah, it happens
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It does so the thing is that you do get rejected a lot. It works just like 20% of the time
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Okay, so that was Hadik a professional photographer and videographer In Dubai testifies to how difficult it can be over trying to freelance photography, especially on the beach
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I've tried again, I've tried different tactics and that's all that matters
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Alright, so I had no luck at the beach but now I've met another creator Adam
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Yo, what's up? So he lives in Dubai I met him at VidCon and I was struggling a bit
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so i asked him if there are any hacks around dubai and he might have one for us i accidentally
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found out how to sneak into the cinemas so let's go let's go let's sneak it into the cinemas guys
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i don't know i don't know act like we're tourists we don't know we accidentally ran into this place
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you're in your room you know like they don't really care i think yes how are you bro
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I'm good. You are coming to the cinema? Yeah. I was just here bro. How are you man? Good
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So you had to go here? Oh no no no I just we went into this door. We were in the food court
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That's not allowed. Really? Yeah you can go from there. I have to exit. Okay
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I changed that there. Okay bro I see. All right thank you bro
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Flipping heck bro that was mad sketch 10 minutes ago there was no one there no one there I went through and then they were like
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I was in the cinema I went into the movies and I just started watching I was like bro
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this would be amazing for Toba but I felt like we could have gone in because when he asked oh did
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you come from here we could have said yeah we just um came downstairs for a break yeah
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Okay, you know what? It wasn't meant to be. They weren't here 10 minutes ago
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We can try and do it again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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That was a cool hack. Are there any other hacks that probably won't get you in trouble
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All right, yeah, there are plenty in Dubai. So Dubai, if you ask, you will receive
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It's how it is. Like, typically, you know how you go to different places and then you ask for something
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and like for a restaurant, they have any leftover food and they give it to you? In Dubai, anyone will give you like anything
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like with businesses, like they want to help you, you know? Yeah. So if you ask maybe 20 restaurants
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one or two or three are definitely going to give you something if you're hungry
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People here are very nice. Okay, so you see the security guy that came out
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of the back door. Yeah. What if he sees us in there again? I'll just say, yeah, we'll..
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We'll have to go. No more the excuse, my friend left his phone. Okay, you got it
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We've got to be bold in life. Be bold in life. he's only gone and done it
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you did it boys have you done this before? no I'm like
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this is just like you know my friends have seen them do never do this
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but like they'll do some hacks here and there but I do know Dubai is very generous so
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they'll let you walk here and there they're nice people oh my lord well there you go you can do it guys you can do it as long as you don't get caught you
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can try i was too scared so i thought you know what let's not i don't want to get in trouble
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in dubai or end up in jail or anything like that but it was a pretty cool hack yeah yeah it was fun
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big thanks to adam for all the tips i'm going to the gym right after yeah so i got my bag in my
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like my stuff. So I'm thinking you can get a one day free trial on my gym. Just go online. You can
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get a one day free trial. Oh, can you? Yeah. Or just come with me and I'll be like, yeah, my guy Toba
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he's taking me moving to Dubai. And when I get him a one day free trial, they're re, what do they
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call it? Redesigning it. So there's like no shower temporarily. But like you can come to the classes
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and workout like it's funnest free cinema and free gym all from adam we can do it bro it's like a
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like a 40 minute walk yeah but i have my scooter it's like usually i take my scooter it's like 15
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minutes but we can walk together yeah okay i'm part of the workout okay okay so we are going to
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attempt to get a free gym trial for one day A few countries have free trials I know has like one day free trial three day free trial Sweden has like seven day free trial No way Yeah So let see
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what we can get over here. Hey Michael, how are you guys? Good? This is my friend Toba
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Hi. He's taking a move in here. How are you? He's taking a move in here and he wants to
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try out the gym if you're ever in Dubai this is the guy to go he's looking he knows all the tips
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order hacks all around the city and the description voice yeah you've got what's
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your Instagram? Adam, A-D-A-M, dot J-K-E. That's an Instagram. There you go. Go follow him on Instagram
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TikTok, YouTube, the whole lot. All in description. You guys are awesome. Big up this guy. What an
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interesting day it's been. Right now I'm walking around with swimming trunks and some sweaty
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skin. I'm thinking the best place I can take a shower is the beach, but then it's more or less
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the same thing isn't it the salty water from the beach or the salty water from your sweat i just
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need to find somewhere to take a shower i'm leaving dubai in the morning at 6am let's see what else
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we can explore in the meantime hello good evening how are you i have a proposition so back in the
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olden days so my grandma my great grandma before they used to use money to pay they used to trade
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by butter so they trade a service for another service or they trade a service for products
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so i was wondering if i could trade my service for a meal so i could either do the dishes or sweep
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the floors in return i get a meal they want like a picture to us like this and they trade us so
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they want what? a picture with them. a picture? yeah. okay. is that possible? yeah, of course
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all right so i just had a lovely meal and now we're going to take some pictures
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this is how you trade by baltic eyes thank you so much guys have a good one thank you amazing the alignment the synchronicity
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of the universe i spent the whole day today trying to offer people pictures for some money
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and then i walk in there offering to do the dishes or sweep the floors they say actually no
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it's pictures we want i'm like thank you universe thank you okay i've just had some vegetable sushi
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Loving it It's important to be like a cup of water
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Over here it's a bit difficult In the UK I think it's like a law
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Like you have to be able to get a cup of tap water at least
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Over here it's like oh sorry sir we're not allowed to Oh just this one
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Water from the tap come on thank you McDonald's though thank you
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all right now my chances of washing all this sweat off me tonight is the little
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leg washing thing the little leg taps for me to use the little leg taps I would
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either have to like squat really low and like spray it on myself or I use
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something to scoop the water and pour it on myself and I think I've just found
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something I might be able to borrow and put back. So over here is a nice little
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bucket. So I'm gonna take this bucket to the leg tap place, use it to wash myself
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and then bring it back. Hopefully no one says anything I don't get in trouble. Let's see
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And that's my beautiful people brings us to the end of this video
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No money in Dubai for two days. A very, very expensive city
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It's not gone as I thought it would, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the outcomes and things I've managed to find and how it went
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I thought it'd be super, super hard Dubai being like crazy expensive. I've eaten, I've had a shower, I've done some things, I've gone to the gym
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If you like this video, give it a big thumbs up. If you're new to the channel, hit the subscribe button, hit the notification, share with all your friends
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And I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace
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