In support of your rant, I moved here with enough pension income to comfortably live here until I go to that big BBQ at my local Wat. I think my most important life lesson was learning what is "enough" for me. Almost every time I meet with my foreigner friends who feel compelled to be involved in some post-retirement business enterprise in Thailand I am so very grateful I was able to come here with "enough". My Turtle Beach happens to be in Isaan, and every day I wake up here, it's a blessing--one that is very much appreciated, just as it comes.

@luceinbattaglia9425

5 ай бұрын

🔝👏🦾💚🇹🇭🙏

@raycatlin3554

5 ай бұрын

I didn't know he - had - an Aunt ! . . .your - aunt . . 🤔

Hey Steve, I can totally echo your sentiments from here in Koh Chang, where I live a very happy life on the same amount as you. I also found true love, much to my own amazement!! I'm 68 and she's 56. I've been married before, but I've never been loved like this. Look me up if you're ever over this way! 🙂

@jeskg720

5 ай бұрын

Koh chang is so nice

@williamhartz8707

5 ай бұрын

A Thai woman in her 40’s & 50’s is the type to settle down with. They will appreciate an older farang man.

Your living the Dream, long may it continue.

The reason I look forward to your video all week is because you can’t shut up and it’s the reason why I watch your channel. 😊 Great stories as always. I think the once a week schedule works great for you and gives everyone something to look forward to at the end of the week.

The fact that you are interesting,learned,and have quite a bit of wisdom,over rules all else,so NO keep up the great work and do NOT shut up,you one of my weekly things that I look forward too.

Hello Steve 👋 Wanted to tell you it’s great to see you and that I think you look much better these days. Reason I watched some of your videos from when you were going to Thailand. You look much healthier and happier.

I started on Apple Cider Vinegar a while back to settle my gallbladder. The added benefit was that it literally eliminated the GERD I’ve had for years. No more medications! I add the lemon juice but also cinnamon! Yeah so many people want me to go into business with them here in Hua Hin! I tell them I’m done! Why would I jump back on the wheel? I play music but that’s never been work!

@sean13

5 ай бұрын

Awesome. That’s because you didn’t have enough acid to cause your esophageal valve to close so the acid is able to flow upwards. Now you’ve introduced acid and it closes.

Love your weekly tales! Incredibly entertaining! Thank-you!

6K & up - congratulations Steve! and I love your Kramer 50's shirt - it suits you perfectly!

Thanks Steve. Love your stories. Very enjoyable

Hi Steve. I was listening to your "rant" about ambitious people in Thailand and you had just barely started when I realized you were talking bout me. There is absolutely no one lazier than I. And present company excepted I am the only Farang living in 'Sawan' In my opinion Steve and Tim are the only bloggers worth a listen! Lennie & Geng Chiang Mai.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Grumpy Old Man checking in from Beautiful Phu Wiang, Thailand!

The laughter near 4:20 cracks me up. Plus a 'Homey' reference! You don't get too many of those nowadays.

Always look forward to Fridays because of you Steve, love hearing the stories and rants.

Loved this post, in my opinion one of your best.

No one is more an expert for life in Thailand 🇹🇭 than u! Great commentary

My Turtle Beach is in a small, quiet village in Nong Khai province, but I identify with your attitude/outlook. 🙏🙏

Love you Steve, Travis. I watch your videos and I wish you were my dad. Love you and love your videos so much. Sincerely your friend Travis

@steverosse

3 ай бұрын

I hope you're doing well.

Kudos to Roger Marez. Good man right there.

Don’t ever stop talking!!!!! We so enjoy your videos.

God bless you Steve

The new cookies seem to work well into the next morning, 555. I (68) use the same medication for a good nights sleep, but I didn't forget my morning coffee yet ;-)) Ötzi, the mummy, was found on a mountain pass between Italy and Austria, not Switzerland. He died approx. 3230 BC, no countries at that time... Being Swiss in Thailand is embarrassing these days 😅 Cheers

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Ozzi is currently living on a beach in Thailand.

Great story!! You have had an amazing life, ups and downs, but a full life. I can not wait to visit turtle beach later this year. Have a great day

Steve , many thanks for enlightening me about your friend Gordon Tickle , very relaxing to watch his videos every week along with Tim and yourself.

Thanks Steve for the content, and you are very right about how to approach Thailand : Enjoy, relax, no work, no business, find a house, a car, motorbike and carefully select a woman if that is what you want, and that's it. Never reveal your finances to anyone and if you do , divide it by 4. Keep going man.

Wish I could cycle on a road like the one you enjoy.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

I don't know how I lived without it.

I was certainly was ambitious 35 years ago in Phuket but now a Grumpy old man l have hopefully have grown out that.555

Steve mate you a great laugh and a lot of knowledge comes out of mouth to so don’t dam we’ll change!!!!

My dream is to be forgotten. Only remembered fondly by my children as they use some of my phrases or engage in some of my mannerisms as they pass into old age. I don’t want to even leave a fingerprint on society at large. I want to be a peculiar background character somewhere people will occasionally remark “I wonder what happened to that guy?” After I pass.

Fitzwilliam, I agree.

Well the vendors left their trash, but their negligence provides work for the trash squad workers to do. The economy , like nature, is all action and reaction, cause and effect. It all balances out. As long as no one is hurt.

Not sure how you found it but i both hate and really enjoy your opening music.

Prisoner in Paradise ... I like that!

Have a good week Steve, I always enjoy your Video!

Such.a shame that they leave so much rubbish on the beach :( Turtle beach looks so pretty, I love Thailand. It's such a peaceful place. The foam sculpting sounds very interesting :) Love the turtle, its so cute!

Great advice from a very wise man, Thank you Steve!!!! Loved the story!!!

My first five years of retirement I was ambitious . . . then I came to Thailand 🇹🇭 🌴

A+ Steeeeve! Your best PFTB ever! Why? You know the answer. Because you were real, unfiltered, not afraid to talk about female beauty or sex. No fucking reading of 30 year old stories (which I have read multiple times over the last 23 years). I was a “Fan Boy” of yours since when you had less than 1,000 subscribers. Met you in BKK, and shared our similarities. Wishing you the best moving forward, please review todays’s video, and have more videos like this in the future.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Roger that, Maverick!

Your Thai is great

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. It is okay for day-to-day things, but thirty years ago I could read the headlines in the newspaper. Can't do that now.

I too also had a good sleep, and the best thing was i didnt need the ac on! Very entertaining vid.. Cheers warren

Steve, you are an absolute hoot! Very entertaining! Keep it going....

Grumpy Old Men suggestion: for April Tim and Steve read a short fiction written about the other person. Would love to hear the clever stories!

Informative and entertaining ! Keep up the good work.

Sidney Poitier

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Yup. Now, of course, I can remember the name. But in the moment...

I did not realize i wanted to be a sea sponge but you made a great sales pitch for it.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

I accidentally said "feeder fish" instead of "filter feeder." No second takes.

Always a pleasure. 😊

there is real wisdom here, but I wonder how much is ambition and how much is boredom

@steverosse

4 ай бұрын

Well, if you're talking about me, I have never been ambitious, and I'm never bored. I spent twenty years in a cubicle in a windowless room in the basement of a hospital. Now I'm on the beach 24/7. How could I be bored?

@theent01

4 ай бұрын

@@steverosse I don't mean you, I mean the rest of your friends that opened businesses or took on big projects and lost everything. I think a lot of people struggle with what to do with their time once they retire, as they have more than they know what to do with, I know it is a concern for me as well. But when does it move from "a project to kill time and avoid boredom" to "ambition"? Thanks for the reply, I really enjoy your honesty and stories.

@steverosse

4 ай бұрын

@@theent01 Ah. Well, yeah, boredom is certainly something that Western expats generally deal with. I'm lucky to have a big Styrofoam turtle to play with. But I think there is also a belief that there's a fortune to be made here for a man with ambition. There usually isn't.

We will be visiting Turtle 🐢 Beach one day, particularly the parade time to cheer you on Steve! I have no desire to go to Thailand since my mother passed in 2020 and not much places for Thais only 😁

Good ‘ol Floyd from Mayberry. I haven’t thought of him in a long, long time.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

They kept him on the show even after the actor had a stroke. You can see in later seasons that he is always seated, never moves his left arm, and the left side of his face is immobile.

@WilliamFluery

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse I looked him up after your reference and saw that. They wrote him off as making enough money to retire. He died a year later. RIP Floyd the Barber. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Oh…I was in love with Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. Shows I’m attracted to girls from the Province over the city. Mrs. Howell did nothing for me.

@fosterbrower4116

5 ай бұрын

That.s funny as hell, just watched an episode last night and Floyd was driving a car, rolled up to gas station bitching at Goober in color, small world my friends, PEACE!!!

You're so right. I have been skeptical of endeavor and ambition since my earliest memories, and it has been a great blessing. I have religiously goofed off for most of my life. I'm on my own much colder, wetter, turtle beach, and while away the hours destroying turfgrass and planting native plants on my little patch. Life is good.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Carry on.

@caryallen8409

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse I forgot to add that the story about regaling Miss Universe with a medicated comedy routine was hilarious!

Love your chats Steve ,

Have a great week😉

In the past you've talked about "King & I" and how it was banned in Thailand. I watched a neat 1958 interview with Oscar Hammerstein. He said "Getting to Know You" was the number that best symbolized the play, as it was about race and color fading away as people got to know each other. South Pacific, as you mentioned, had that theme too. Hammerstein also said King & I was about a struggle within a man who was born believing in absolute power, but was persuaded to western democracy by the English governess, and was therefore in a way destroyed by her. I can see why Thais would see that as objectionable, because it paints the king as fallible and vulnerable.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

You're overthinking it. So was Hammerstein. Since most Thais have never seen the play, and couldn't understand the language if they heard it, that seems like slim reason to hate it. But having a woman he's not married to touch the royal personage? To even dance with him? That's scandalous, and you don't need to understand the language to see that. You also see Brynner (in the film) clowning it up during the dance scene, literally breaking the fourth wall and mugging to the audience. Making a clown of the monarch? A much more in-your-face and unmistakable thing to witness than the dramaturgy involved in parsing a character's spiritual demise.

@ncascadehiker

5 ай бұрын

Agree. Thanks for the interesting reply.

Another day in paradise great weather, ocean good rant see ya on Tim Newton show sunday

Enjoyed your video, thanks. Until the next one.

Good morning Steve from Trevor in Christchurch NZ.You looking very smart today,younger,must be the non check shirt ,as always look forward to your show

Well said Steve

😊Great show with good information Thank You !!

Glad you had a good week! It has been a rough one here with mom, but your posts (and Grumpy Old Men) helps cheer me up:) I like the bit about 100% of the non-ambitious folks succeeding in Thailand. Sounds good to me. The rat race is over-rated. I used to be all about a nice car and lots of really nice things. But since I gave up work to take care of my mom (for more years than I expected), I see the corporate grind as the bullshit that it is. The next phase of my life is going to be about finding peace, finding myself and being content. Thanks for all you do and share, Steve. It really does make my week better.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words. Some day maybe we'll watch Wheel of Fortune together and trade Mom stories.

@jgb4unme1

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse that sounds like a deal:)

Enjoyed you conversing in Thai Steve...Your talks are thoughtful and refreshing....You have found your Turtle Beach which most of us do not.

The Prisoners of Turtle Beach, sounds like the title to a good book.

@charnick54

5 ай бұрын

Would Steve be Number 2 or Number 6?

I like the play on words you used on the placard at the base of your turtle: รักษ์ (meaning "preserve") is pronounced the same as รัก (meaning "love"), so the sign means "preserve the beach, preserve the sea turtles" but reads as "love the beach, love the sea turtles".

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Well, the words were provided by the Park Supervisor (the man in the video) and painted by Khun Thong, a local artist. I knew the scope for embarrassment would be huge, so I made sure not to mess with that part of the project.

Wendy Fitzwilliam is amazingly beautiful 🤩

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Right?

Gordon’s garden and bird sanctuary love it.Less is more.?

Hey Steve you can probably mix cement, sand and perlite (or vermiculite) to make a weather proof turtle that is not as heavey as pure concrete. I do prefer your approach of using old lighters and other jetsam. Stay healthy!

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, currently the turtles weigh almost nothing and are completely waterproof. Nothing but plastic and latex in them. They will be, however, as everything in the tropics is, damaged by the sun if installed outside.

I too can only sleep 4 or 5 hours per night, mostly because I quit drinking 5 months ago (Dr orders) Curious of your ingredients to your brownie recipe Thanx bro Love your rants!

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Just a box mix and cannaoil. I put 10 g of cheap green Thai block weed in 150 mg of oil for two weeks. Bake according to box directions.

You flatter me.

Love you Steve🎉

Good points.... I should be in the clear.... haven't been ambitious my whole live.... (60 years, live the last 23+ in Singapore) not planning to become more ambitious after retirement....

Apple Cider vinegar and Lime Juice Steve with 1/2 a L of cold water, Mate put a bag of well rotted farmyard manure under that Lime tree, or if you like Cow shit. Thanks for the mention. GT

Hey, Steve. Something just floated to the top of my brain (a very long float, indeed) vis-a-vis construction techniques. Have you looked into PMF, AKA: Poor Man's Fiberglass? With a foam core providing your shape it might be a good way to have strength and be both reasonably light and reasonably cheap as you scale up your fantastic creations.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, but part of the project is trying to source everything locally. I'm well known in the hardware and stationary stores of Turtle Beach.

@James-MV

5 ай бұрын

Yes, and everything is available in Thai Meuang. Latex paint or thinned glue and fabric. Easy-peazy...

Support to

Another good thing about Turtle Beach is there's no daylight savings time. Thanks for another enjoyable episode.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

You know, now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen anybody in this village wearing a watch. I certainly don't.

Better than jokes are a typical Freudian promise. It's so nice to see your turtle at the visitor/prisoner center.

Sidney Poitier, who hails from Bahamas, which is where I did a work stint (tax free $$$), except I lasted just shy of three years. Nassau is also a dinky island with a ring road and fookin ‘orrible traffic.

Steve, you are my Daoist hero like Winnie the Pooh. Totally agree, think less, enjoy life more I have no ambition in Thailand. Eat, smoke some broccoli, find pleasant company.... What more can you ask for....

Please explain why your creation was named ROBERTA?

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

If she was male, she'd be Bob. But she's female.

@TimK2646

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse Forever hilarious !!! Cheers.. I think I get it, Turtles always bob above the water now and again, then again why not call a male Turtle Joe? after all over 80 years old similar ages

I think Mr Tibbs was played by Sidney Poitier

Hello Mr. Rosse, I’m enjoyed watching your videos for a while now, Where is Turtle beach? Thank you, Peter

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Thai Mueang, Phang Nga.

Love your channel Steve. You mentioned that your ex father in law’s farm was ruined by the Boxing Day tsunami which got me doing something research on that tragic event. I gather that it was a horrendous calamity and loss of life/property in Thai Mueang from my research. Just wondering if there is a memorial for the victims there locally. Hasta la vista from Austin, Texas.

@steverosse

4 ай бұрын

There has never been a tsunami on Thai Mueang Beach. Please see item #2 in the FAQ in the description of this video.

@ronkeeney1752

4 ай бұрын

Steve, I didn’t realize the offshore topography was so different there on Turtle Beach as opposed to Khao Lak where there were thousands killed, injured, and missing. I assumed that it was the same all along the west coast of Thailand.

@steverosse

4 ай бұрын

@@ronkeeney1752 And that's why it's in the FAQ. You're at the end of a very long line of people who've asked the same question.

Hi Steve, Who is practicing golf (pitching & chipping) on the Turtle beach in front of your house? I saw him on this week’s video clip 😂 ⛳️

@darkcloud9581

5 ай бұрын

Right as Steve was talking about ambitions there is a guy practicing his golf swing .............🤣

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

That's Ross. He retired here from Australia a couple of months ago. We have in this tiny little village an enormous, expensive, lavishly beautiful golf course called Aquella. Ross' putter is his cigarette lighter turtle.

I enjoy your every vlog episode. Where is that hot spring I saw you soaking in a previous vlog: near your house? Are you living currently living there on a retirement visa or do have a permanent resident visa from your previous married life in Thailand? Thanks Ronnie

I will start scattering random and various chess pieces on the beach. Nobody will know. Thanks for the show.

I looked up Wendy Fitzwilliam. You're not wrong in your assessment of her appearance.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Right?

@ScooterOnHisWay2024

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse Complete knockout.

Ohh, you forgot Sidney Poitier as Mr Tibbs, great movie, and great podcast Steve

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm terrible with names these days.

Great movie = in the heat of the night = Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.

Sidney Poirtier played the detective in the film with Rod Steiger - In the heat at the night. I remember this film well, which found its way onto the GDR TV in the 70th back then. but it was the time of Angela Davis and black power

Another powerful, insightful commentary supporting us intelligent filter feeders and our more sustainable way of life! Being surrounded by such greedy capitalist consumers, I often doubt my own sanity and minimal lifestyle. Happiness. Thank you.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, but I misspoke. My cousin Dave called himself a "filter feeder." I stumbled over it.

@jlf2221

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse haha! That’s funny! I didn’t focus on the ‘feeder fish’ term because I was intently listening more to your explanation of passivity qualities, not aggression. Filter feeder is more like it, haha, a more ‘dignified’ sort of creature! Grand post this week!

How about that Homey the Clown reference - “HOMEY DON’T PLAY DAT!”

I was going to do the apple cider/ balsamico thing but when i researched it the science said i would just rot my teeth.

Did anyone else notice the farang chipping a golf ball in the background?

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

That's Ross, from Oz, newly retired to TB. We've got a fantastic golf course here that's hardly used. Fantastic restaurant, million-dollar villas. A round there is dirt cheap, or so I'm told. There's a Pilipino guy here who was the first pro at the Club. He's helping Ross with his swing. That club is Ross' Faberge Turtle.

@FunkygibsFunkFilledAdventures

5 ай бұрын

I hope to do a quick visit in late November when i honeymoon in Phuket@@steverosse

so i listen to you and it always sends me in a strange direction "The outcasts of poker flats" There i was delving into my darkness one moment thinking to myself i bed that black sun shines bright, the next The outcasts of poker flats And im on the doorstep thinking to myself Twinkle twinkle Killer kane The ninth configuration am i ready to enter , how could i not be. Redemption stories are like a TARDIS controlled by a golden feathered monkey whos one wish isvto hit a red button and you knowingly jump in and say lets go !! Dpin that dial ! And here you are area 52 and no ones believes you they dismiss you as if you were a talking donkey walking into their dream , and you doubt yourself look ubp to your reflection in the river in the sky a unicorn bows , and you fall silent and and hear a whisper remember the ugly duckling....

Laat niet als dank voor het aangenaam verpozen, de eigenaar van het bos, de schillen en de dozen.

Can't believe you called my home a "dinky little island" 😂

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Sorry. It seemed small at the time.

@cedrimar

5 ай бұрын

@steverosse no worries. Since I have your attention, question: what does it mean when a Thai person does not take their shoes off to enter your home? Like, repeatedly.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

@@cedrimar No idea. I've never heard of that before. Not in thirty-five years.

@cedrimar

5 ай бұрын

@@steverosse Whoa! Thanks.

Hey Steve I am new to your Channel and am really loving it. You have a great personality and I share the same dream as you in being able to spend my final years in Thailand. You made a comment that I found very interesting and would love for you to elaborate on if possible. You said that the Thai Royals do not have Thai chefs but rather Chinese chefs and you also called Thai Food "peasant" food. Very interesting. Keep up the good content dude.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Well, the Chinese chefs thing I would have read in a book thirty-some years ago. Don't ask me to cite my source. But it makes sense, for no other reason than that royals, anywhere, always do whatever they can to separate themselves from the common folk. As for peasant food, sure. It's locally sourced fresh ingredients picked or slaughtered that day. Insects and reptiles make up a fair portion of the protein in the traditional SEAsian diet, Thai included. Rats from the paddies. A spice palette of only four flavors (salt, sugar, peppers and vinegar). Curries on loan from India. I'm not saying that peasant food is bad in any way. It used to be common to see school kids in the roadside ditches gathering dinner on their way home from school, picking things off trees, pulling things out of puddles. Walking down the road with their books in one hand and a bunch of green leaves in the other. It was quaint and charming. And very healthy.

@wills9732

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the response! I was curious about this because of a youtuber called Goatis and his views on "slave food". I am listening to this video and you are talking about special brownies, have you ever heard of some thing called green dragon? It is special broccoli that is saturated in to everclear. Works faster than the brownies. Like you I have been a avid fan of the Broccoli starting at age 15. When I was in Thailand 20 years ago Broccoli was verboten, has that changed? I can't live with out broccoli @@steverosse

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

@@wills9732 Yes, a big change for the moment. New governments will make new laws, but currently broccoli is sold openly and legally in fancy shops. Quality as good as in the US, and you can find it much, much cheaper here. It's a golden age, my friend.

@wills9732

5 ай бұрын

I can buy an oz for 50 buck or 1800 baht in BFE Oklahoma, are Thai prices better then that? Also can you get wax? @@steverosse

It's true that so many people go to TH with huge ambition then just dump all their money like it is some race to the bottom.

Go Herky!

Its the same everywhere ..I hate neighbours .. I,ve moved to the mountains..

over 6030 subs,, maybe in july 7k

Would live to see Steve's friend swigging balsamic vinegar!!! Lolol

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

Go look at Gordon Tickle''s latest video. I think he's drinking it in the latest. But he puts out a lot of videos.

@TeddyChefD

5 ай бұрын

I watched it. I think it was apple cider vinegar which would make sense.

@steverosse

5 ай бұрын

@@TeddyChefD Ooooooops.