french guy: heh. ah, it was just opened, you know, it was beginning of 2000. anthony: what do you mean by just opened? french guy: before it was very difficult to travel, you know? no, if you have a permit to travel in luang prabang anthony: right. french guy: you can only visit luang prabang. you want to go another province, you need to have a special permit to change, and uh, i had a friend. my friend say, noel, let s go to laos. it s more protected and more, more, more natural, more authentic. i say, okay, why not? the first time i arrived in luang prabang, i was feeling, like ah, indiana jones discovering a beautiful city. and the point is, i fell in love and i couldn t go back. anthony: what s your typical day here? like, what if you re not working, you re on a good day, you know, sunday. french guy: on a good day you have a party. you have a party with old friends, ah, that s before the again, there is nothing special to do. it s just a way of life. fr
i haven t been back to france for a long time. anthony: when you first came here, what was it like? french guy: heh. ah, it was just opened, you know, it was beginning of 2000. anthony: what do you mean by just opened? french guy: before it was very difficult to travel, you know? no, if you have a permit to travel in luang prabang anthony: right. french guy: you can only visit luang prabang. you want to go another province, you need to have a special permit to change, and uh, i had a friend. my friend say, noel, let s go to laos. it s more protected and more, more, more natural, more authentic. i say, okay, why not? the first time i arrived in luang prabang, i was feeling, like ah, indiana jones discovering a beautiful city. and the point is, i fell in love and i couldn t go back. anthony: what s your typical day here? like, what if you re not working, you re on a good day, you know, sunday. french guy: on a good day you have a party. you have a party with old
french guy: you can only visit luang prabang. you want to go another province, you need to have a special permit to change, and uh, i had a friend. my friend say, noel, let s go to laos. it s more protected and more, more, more natural, more authentic. i say, okay, why not? the first time i arrived in luang prabang, i was feeling, like ah, indiana jones discovering a beautiful city. and the point is, i fell in love and i couldn t go back. anthony: what s your typical day here? like, what if you re not working, you re on a good day, you know, sunday. french guy: on a good day you have a party. you have a party with old friends, ah, that s before the again, there is nothing special to do. it s just a way of life. french guy: yeah. training. anthony: so how has it changed over the years? i mean, you go to saigon or hanoi? ah, money, money, money coming in, foreign ownership of everything. is that s not happening here? french guy: yes, i can see there is an accelerati
i do agree with jenna s point that it s difficult to see how the president is moved to deviate from his hard-right, pro-nra position on this. this is a president who on a good day has a 43% approval rating. his tendency is to revert right whenever he is confronted with a decision that might antagonize certain parts of his base. it s also a president, quite frankly, whose best asset isn t really expressing empathy or processing human emotion. so i just don t know that there is going to be a change of heart that you might see with another kind of leader. let us not forget things like the pulse nightclub, almost 50 souls gone in a single incident. not a thing changed behind you under that dome.