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[00:01.15] Mike: In all of the traveling that you've done around the world, what is the best travel experience you have had?

[00:11.65] What's the most memorable travel experience you had in your adventures around the world?

[00:17.40] Jeff: Well, that's a tough question, Mike.

[00:20.15] That's like asking what's your favorite food because you love everything.

[00:25.90] Everything's delicious and to pick one is very difficult but I think it's very simple.

[00:30.90] I think it's --- I like to think of --- India is a crazy place. It's a circus of a country, in a good way.

[00:38.90] It's like a circus where have --- you never know what you're gonna see, and it's very entertaining,

[00:43.65] but the --- and it's one of the poorest

[00:46.65] countries in the world, India, it's just full --- there are a billion people there,

[00:51.15] and six hundred million of them are very poor, but they're so happy and so friendly,

[01:01.15] I remember that one of my first --- my first trip to India, and one of my first days in India, there was a man, a chai wall.

[01:10.15] And a wala means like a little businessman, and chai is tea, in India so this chai wall, he had his own little tea stand on the side of a busy road in Dehli,

[01:22.90] and it was a small stand, and it was noisy, and it was hot, and it was chaotic,

[01:28.65] and crazy and he sold his tea for two cents a cup,

[01:33.65] and when I sat down I started talking to this man and told him and it was like my first or second day in India,

[01:39.90] and you know, I had just come to the country for the first time, and he welcomed me to India and he said, you know,

[01:48.65] it's so good that you came to our country, and have some free tea, and he gave me my first cup of chai ever, for free, and this man, he had nothing.

[01:57.65] he lived on the street, and he slept beside his chai wala at night, and he had old ragged clothes on,

[02:04.90] and I just remembered that I'm very wealthy and he's very poor compared to him,

[02:11.40] but yet the hospitality that he showed by giving me that free cup of tea when he really needed the money and the business.

[02:19.15] It stood out in my mind, even to this day, that the generosity even though he needs the money. He was still so generous and so nice and giving.

[02:31.90] It stands out in my mind that, you know, and I always want to try to be kind and nice like that.

[02:40.65] Mike: Can I ask you a question?

[02:42.90] Jeff: Sure.

[02:43.90] Mike: Was there milk in the tea?

[02:47.15] Jeff: Yes, there was. In India, they call it dude, and it's buffalo milk, buffalo milk in the tea. It was great. Great tea. India chai is the best.

[02:55.90] Mike: You just gave me a whole new meaning of the word dude. That's brilliant.