Episode Transcript: #1501 - James Lindsay
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Do what you can ride an elephant in Thailand. I wrote an elephant in Thailand nice
It was actually they were actually healthy happy elephants that were well taken care of because it's an elephant rescue
So they're free. They're free elephants. They they wander around
They mean they literally came out of the mist in the jungle like like a movie. It was crazy and
They're treated really really well, so I didn't like the riding a part
But that does kind of fucked up, but they don't give a fuck man. You you are literally like a hat to them
Yeah, they're huge. Yeah strong, but they came over and
the whole idea was you pay for this experience with the elephants and
In that they rehabilitate these elephants and they've released many of them back to the wild
That's good stuff because they can they don't need to be trained to be able to just eat vegetables and let the vegetation
They just do it so they came over and you were introduced to the elephant
You're gonna take care of for the day and then you start feeding it sugar cane and they love you
So you're feeding them and you touch them. They're super gentle like the most gentle creatures
And then you actually clean them off you washed them off and you you know
So there's like this grooming thing and then when you go to get on them
They know you're trying to get on them
So they actually lift their leg up like this so you can step on your leg
And then you step on them and you climb on top of them. It's difficult like it's hard to ride them
But they literally don't give a fuck if you're on them because you're so light to them
And then they make their way through the jungle, but it was pretty cool. That's not yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool