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April 25, 2017 - Roosh V - Daryush Valizadeh
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The Girls Of Brazil (Kingmaker Podcast)
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Welcome to Kingmaker.
I'm your host, Rouch V, and today's episode is on the girls of Brazil.
Now, I've been focusing a lot on Europe lately because I haven't been to South America since 2009.
So today I brought my special friend, Quintus Curtius, with me because he is a Brazilian expert.
He goes there often, and he was just there about a week ago.
So he's going to be here to help us to decode the girls of Brazil, see what kind of girls they are, and if it's worth it for you to visit there.
So Quintus, are you there?
I am here, Rouch.
I'm happy to be here.
Thanks for having me.
So can you just briefly give us an overview of what drew you to Brazil in the first place and what keeps you going there?
And then from there, we can get into what the girls are like.
In some ways, it's kind of something I grew up with.
I grew up in a Portuguese-speaking area of Massachusetts in southeastern Massachusetts.
You know, there were a lot of people from Azores, Portugal, a lot of fishermen community, that type of thing.
So, you know, they would talk about what things were like down there.
So my curiosity was always inspired by it.
And eventually, you know, I just like the social atmosphere, the warm climate, you know, the people.
It's a healthy and refreshing change from the frigidity and coldness of North America.
And the funny thing about that is that I left the frigidity of girls in the USA for an even more frigid Slavic type.
But I can totally understand why you and guys like you would go to South America instead, because definitely the vibe is very different there.
And before we get into that, I guess we'll just start with how the girls look like, assuming that a guy who is listening to us right now has never been to Brazil, never met a Brazilian girl.
So I'll just give my impressions of how they look like when I was last there around 2009.
And Brazilian girls are definitely a Latin type of appearance.
They have tan, tan skin.
One thing is that their boobs are kind of small.
I think this is maybe the Portuguese influence on them, but their butts are really big.
I mean, they have the biggest butts that I have seen anywhere that I've gone.
I mean, Brazil was the only place in the gym where you had to wait for the squat rack because the girls were on it.
I mean, this is the only, I mean, girls, they really treasure it.
I mean, if you're a butt man, which I was for a while, Brazil is going to be the best country.
And, but, of course, I mean, I would say that girls put more effort into their butt than anything else.
Now, whether that's good or bad, I mean, I just want to let you know what you're getting into.
They do go on the thick side, and it's because a Brazilian man doesn't like thin, petite, small girls.
They don't like that.
So girls, I'm not saying they get fat on purpose, but there is no shame for them to have a couple extra extra pounds, especially if that extra meat goes into her backside.
So has it stayed the same since then where it's and also I mean the girls they they generally are darker skin in the middle of the country up to the north but in the south you have more of that German influence so the girls can be quite white like even more white than what you can see in Spain.
No, you're right Ruch.
I mean the big word.
I think, if I had to pick one word to describe the people it's, it's variety, there is a, there's a real ethnographic variety, like you said there's.
You know, towards the south you've got a lot of immigrants.
You know European immigrants, you've got apparently, they according to what the, the books say, they say I guess 10% of Brazilians are for you know Lebanese, Syrian ancestry, and then you've got you know Indian, native Indian.
You've got you know African immigration from colonial times.
So there's a huge variety there and and all of that really factors into the and in some ways it's a, it's a very egalitarian society and in some ways not not in all ways, not economically and in some ways, but in in others it's there's, there's even less racial tensions there than you would see maybe in the United States, which is something to reflect on, I think.
Definitely now would you say that a specific city kind of has a corresponding flavor profile of girls like.
Maybe a guy who likes maybe a darker girl would go in the north and maybe Rio or Sao Paulo would be the middle middle ground.
If he's not sure what type of Brazilian girl he likes, maybe start in the middle of the country first yeah, you know, I should say at the outset that my experience has been limited to Rio De Janeiro, state that the state of Rio, I mean not just the city, but it's a state I mean.
So I've traveled by car, like within the state.
You know different cities, Mangarachiba Cabufrill different, different places, and also I spent a few hours in Brasilia, which is not obviously a totally different area, but I've I have not been to other places.
I have not been to, you know say Salvador, Minas Gerais.
I have not been to the north, but from what I hear, from what people who have been natives, you know friends, I have friends there, and what they tell me is, it's yeah, there's a lot more as you get closer to the equatorial regions, that the population is more darker skinned.
And then, when you get more south, you know, past Rio, moving towards Sao Paulo it's, it's more light skinned.
So you know I, you know I don't know if you can really, it really should come down to climate.
I guess a person should decide if they really like a temperate climate.
You know you're, when you, when you get towards the that Gaucho, you know the Element, you know, in the south, more of an Argentinian element.
You know, some people might like that where it gets colder.
And then there are some people that just like equatorial hotness.
You know, they like to be up in the north.
So it really just depends on what sort of climate you like.
Since I spent a lot of time in Rio too, I think Rio is the gold standard of what Brazil is, especially if a guy is going to go to Brazil.
It's almost guaranteed he's going to hit that city too.
So I think people who are listening right now have to understand that, yes, Brazil is a huge, huge country, almost as big as the USA.
So we're mainly talking about the middle, you know, not the dark north and not the European South.
So something in the middle.
So I think most of our ideas and thoughts on what we're about to talk about does definitely focus on Rio, which is one of the most exciting cities in Brazil anyway.
And I've been to a lot of the cities.
I've been in the north and a little bit in the south too.
So if we just assume that Rio is our base, would you say that on average, the women there are more attractive than what a man can find in a typical American town?
Yes.
That's an easy answer.
And the answer is yes.
And it's not so much a matter of inherent potential.
It's a matter of attitude.
Because we've talked about this so much, Rouge.
The problem with America is that there's such a culture here just inoculates women with this adversarial, hostile attitude towards men where they just give off a vibe of keep away from me.
I don't want to talk to you.
There's just not a level of warmth.
But what's great about the way things are in Brazil is you will never get punished for being outgoing, friendly, approaching women, sincerely trying to talk to them and doing what human beings do, for doing what human beings do.
We're made to be in communication with each other, and you're punished for that here, but you're not punished for it there.
Yeah, and if a girl doesn't like you, you'll know.
I mean, she'll be very nice to you.
I mean, you know, you'll get the picture very quickly, but that's fine, you know, that's fine.
And there is a sort of macho culture built into there where it is a sport of sorts for men to check out girls, to talk to girls, to flirt with them.
I mean, I'm not sure how things have gotten now, but there isn't this street harassment and rape, rape culture as much as it is in the U.S. Like, I think there, most girls still genuinely like the attention they get from men, and they don't use that as an excuse to hate on men.
So I think, I mean, if you're down there, you do see a lot of men who have this natural game where they didn't read it from a book or they didn't have to learn it manually on the internet, where just growing up, there is the culture is such a social culture there.
Right.
Right.
That I think it matches with what you said, that a woman just is going to be more warm to you in general and not see you as this evil male cisgendered Who is trying to oppress women?
Absolutely.
Absolutely, Roosh.
And I've been very fortunate to have a lot of friends there.
I've been to a lot of private parties with friends, birthday parties, holidays, Easter, Christmas.
It's a social culture.
You're expected to socialize.
You don't have an option of retreating into your room.
Just the way people live, the way people live in close proximity, you have to solve your problem.
You can't just retreat off to Nebraska or whatever and just hide from the world.
You've got to deal with people.
And all of that translates into a healthy social dynamic.
And obviously, every country has its problems, but it's so refreshing.
It's so restorative to be in a, to come from the frigid USA where essentially you're looked upon as an enemy of humanity, practically.
And you're treated like a human being, where when you open a conversation or when you ask a normal question, people don't just treat you with this overt or covert hostility.
That would mean that when you approach a Brazilian girl, she does expect a little bit more of the lively energy from you, like the dry, really dry and sedated vibe that maybe I give off.
In Brazil, that doesn't work as well.
It comes across as boring as maybe I'm high on weed or something.
In a more Slavic culture, my dryness is fine.
But I did notice that in Brazil, I mean, if these girls are really social, they're looking for a nice time, you know, they're ready to sing, ready to dance, ready to hang out with their friends, you have to bring the energy too.
It's not, so, I mean, does that match the experience that you have had there?
It does, Ruch.
And it's funny that you mentioned that because I have a good anecdote that kind of illustrates just that point.
You know, I have a phone that I use when I go down there.
I have a Rio cell phone that's just, and I would encourage anyone that goes to any country on a long-term basis to get a local cell phone there.
And it's an inexpensive phone.
It's one of these 10-year-old Samsung, you know, it's not a smartphone.
It's just for voice calls.
But every time I go, I have to generally get a new SIM card because periodically the company will deactivate the number if it goes without being used for a couple months or so.
But anyway, so I go down there and I had to get a new card.
And you've got to register the number with an ID number.
And so I went into a store and was talking to the girl behind the counter.
And she's very, very nice, very helpful.
But even though the place is busy and it's just chaotic and there's people everywhere, she's not getting stressed out, not getting stressed out at all.
She helps me out.
I start talking to her.
We start this kind of nice flirtatious dialogue.
And I just ask her out to go get drinks later on that week.
And it was just like nothing.
It was typically, it was like a normal type of interaction.
And you just say to yourself, you used to be able to do that in the States, like say back in the 80s.
And it seems like it's unless you've got this social approval, pre-screened social screening by her phalanx of friends, it's just very hard, I think, to not impossible, but it's just, There's a lot more skepticism about cold approaches, I think, than there than there used to be here.
Yeah, because there it's more built in.
There's more that expectation that guys are going to do it because guys have been doing it to her since she was a younger age.
Now, I guess this is the important part: does being a foreigner help in this?
I mean, of course, we look for an edge wherever we can get it.
And from my experience, Brazil definitely looks up to men who are from the USA.
I remember the first time I was exposed to the girls there was through a black man that I met in Washington, D.C.
Now, he was going to the same bar as me.
He was a bit older, maybe 10 years older.
And after watching me pick up, say, try to pick up girls in this bar week after week, he would say, Dude, just go to Brazil.
All your dreams will be solved.
And one thing he didn't tell me at the time was that he was paying for sex there.
But anyway, but then he was showing me all the showing me things.
I was like, wow, all right.
And then I was also hearing that, you know, Brazil, it's so sexually open, and the girl is like, kissing is so easy.
And that's one thing we will also talk about.
But of course, I mean, girls aren't sleeping with anyone either.
But it's worth saying that being a foreigner there, I mean, just like your experience in the shop getting a number, it seems easy.
But I think we also have to account the foreign curiosity factor that is definitely in play in Brazil, just like it is anywhere else that a person from the USA or from England goes to, right?
Absolutely, Rouge.
I think the best way to say it is: I think anytime any foreign person goes from country A to country B, there's always going to be some inherent curiosity value.
There's always going to be some starting point maybe where you've got a little bit of that sort of aura about you.
But having said that, the problem is, as you well know, a lot of guys, they immediately take that and think that's going to solve all their problems, or they immediately think that somehow that relieves them of the responsibility to do their homework.
And it doesn't.
Because let me tell you, anyone who thinks that that's going to be the gateway towards all their dreams is sorely mistaken.
I mean, that'll get you so far, but you've still got to do the work.
And in some ways, arguably, arguably, in some ways, you even have to overcome maybe more hesitations because there is a stereotype also that foreigner, you know, men from foreign countries are, you know, quote, sex tourists or, you know, they have expectations.
So you've got to, as you've said it before, you've got to have game.
You've got to have some ability to be a social individual and interact with people on a normal and not on a normal basis and not rely on your curiosity value.
So let's just say that a man likes what we say about how a girl looks like.
They're more of a butt guy.
They like the Latin type.
They like a woman who has a higher energy.
If he begins his journey, say he's going to take a two-week trip to Rio.
Now, I think we have to align what can he expect if he is approaching five to ten girls every day, both day and night, and maybe he has some side action on a dating app.
What can he reasonably expect based on your recent experiences there?
I think he can reasonably expect, if he's following your guidance, to have a significant number.
He's going to have a lot more dates.
I would think that as long as he's not a complete freak, he's going to have a lot more meetings and dates and social encounters than he would probably anywhere else.
And I think it's just a very informal culture.
It's, you know, because I've been to Colombia.
I've been to some of the Central American republics.
And the Spanish-speaking countries are a little bit more formal.
They're a little bit more, you know, I don't know the social mores there.
I don't really know.
I haven't spent enough time there to really speak intelligently about it.
But he can expect to have a lot more meetings.
And I think if he shows respect, if he shows that he is put in the work and that he can communicate, because you've got to have some linguistic ability there because there's just not any other option.
So you are saying they should definitely brush up on their Portuguese before going there because a lot of guys don't even try.
They're going to have to.
Yeah.
There's just no way around.
I mean, that's my opinion.
Now, there are some guys, I know there are some guys that say, hey, no, I just stick to the foreigner clubs.
And I suppose you can do that.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
I think you can't learn every language in the world.
And some people just, they just, logistically, it's not going to happen.
But if that's the case, then you should just stick to, I mean, there are clubs in Zona Sul that cater to expatriates.
And there are a lot of girls that go there looking to meet somebody from a foreign country.
And I think they'll probably do fine within there those parameters that they set for themselves there.
So you are saying, I mean, I remember when I was there, I found the English ability to be kind of average.
And I was studying Spanish in Colombia before I went for my longer trip there.
And it definitely helped because going from Spanish to Portuguese is very easy.
But I definitely, I mean, if you know that you're going to take a trip six months from now, it doesn't hurt to maybe study five hours each week.
There is courses.
I mean, you can kind of just download audio courses such as Michelle Thomas and Pimsler to learn a romance language such as Portuguese and Spanish.
There's tons of books on it, tons of books.
And just doing one hour a day.
I mean, plus, there's so many things online now, which we didn't have a long time ago where you can do these language exchanges online.
You can find a Portuguese tutor online on a lot of sites such as Italki, I-T-A-L-K, and Fiverr.
Yeah, so I mean, there's this, I don't want to say there's no excuse not to do it.
I understand some men are busy and they have other things going on.
But if you don't try at all, you're basically going to limit yourself to the English groupies.
Now, an English groupie in Rio could be definitely much hotter than anything you can get in the USA.
We're not saying not, that it's not, but you're also, I mean, you're just, you're definitely, there's going to be so many girls that you want to meet, you want to talk to, but because either she's a bit shy to speak the little English she has, or you just don't have anything to speak in her language, I mean, that's just those approaches are not going to go anywhere.
Right.
And As you know, you know, language is a, it's a force multiplier.
A little bit goes a long way.
Nobody expects you to be perfect or to be fluent or to be completely talkative.
But if you can at least try, and if you can just carry on some basic introductory, simple conversations, it's going to go a long way.
And it really makes a difference for them.
And it really helps break the ice.
And that's not just true of Brazil.
I think that's true of any country, whether you're talking about Japan or Russia or wherever.
You've got to at least have some basic, I mean, just for safety purposes, you have to know what's going on around you.
You just can't walk around in a cloud.
And I think a lot of guys who are used to running game in Europe, they take for granted that a lot of the European girls have been studying English since they were like 10.
And in South America, the English education is not as standard.
So I think a good goal for men is to be able to have a conversation for between 10 to 30 minutes without having to use the Google Translate app to keep the flow going.
And then once it's clear that she likes you, she likes your backstory, she likes your vibe, then you can bring that app in and start to use it more.
But this is going to be after some attraction is already established.
I mean, if you're using Google Translate when you open her, she's going to not be too excited about that because you're basically, I mean, but look, if you're in a nightclub and the main mode of attraction is to grab a girl on the dance floor, the language part can be partially solved in that way.
But if you're not just going out at night where it's loud and you can't hide the fact that there's a communication problem, you're definitely going to have to know something, at least to say a few sentences to make her smile, to show her that you're getting plugged into the culture and you are able to achieve the language to understand her.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, that's true.
That's so true, Ruch.
Whether you're on Lapa, whether you're in Santro, like the central part of the city, just doing errands, no matter where you are, you know, you've got to be able to, I mean, let's face it, you know, girls, you know, I've been lucky enough to have, you know, relationships with a number of girls down there, like long-term relationships with a number of girls down there.
And, you know, girls are going to like us or dislike us for their own reasons.
I mean, some girls just like a certain physical type.
Some of them like a certain emotional type.
Some of them like a certain profile.
You know, but you've got to be able to get past those initial deal breaker barriers.
And if you can't communicate, you're going to really be you're going to really be at a loss.
But, you know, it all comes down to really how much time does a person have there?
Do they have an interest in wanting to learn it?
And what their goals are.
And it's really a great place for people who like social cultures, warm people.
People are very, very nice, very, very kind, very open.
And I just like that.
I like emotional women.
I love drama.
I love drama with women.
I love tempestuous.
I love volatile.
I love spicy women.
I love that.
I need that.
You wouldn't think, you might not think so, but that's just how I am, at least at this stage in my life.
So, for me, it's worth all the danger.
It's worth all the it's it's it's worth all the logistical effort that it takes to go there.
Yeah.
So let's, okay, so let's just take a step back.
We assume that a man going to Brazil for a couple of weeks did his homework a bit.
He learned the language.
He's going there.
He gets the cell phone.
He's ready to work.
He's going to stay in Rio, explore the beaches.
And now he is approaching girls and it's going well.
I think now we can talk about how specifically Brazilian girls are different, what they expect from men.
And before we get into that, it's worth saying that Brazilian girls kiss super easily.
Like they are the easiest to kiss.
It's a real kissing culture there.
I don't know if that's good, but a girl there expects to kiss a man pretty damn quickly.
And a story I can say is this.
I knew a girl there, a Brazilian girl, and she said there was a party where one person had pink eye.
And this pink eye is usually transmitted within close contact.
And apparently this was a normal party, a Brazilian party, and there was a lot of kissing.
And sometimes a girl would kiss one guy, and then not long after that, she would kiss another guy after that.
And so it turns out that two or three days after, like half of the party came down with the same pink eye.
And if you go in like a nightclub there, you see guys approach a girl and you turn around, you get a drink at the bar, and then you look back and they're making out.
Like, shit, I'm not going to talk to her tonight.
Yes.
Caveman gang, you know, bless their souls.
I mean, caveman game is king down there.
And that's just the way it is.
And there's something, there's a lot of wisdom in that.
But then we have to ask, does it work in getting to the next stage?
Does it work in getting to sex?
Because a lot of men think, well, if I kiss her, that means I am almost there.
I am halfway home.
Maybe in Ukraine, yes, because girls take a long time to kiss.
The kiss comes and then within a date, you're going to have sex.
But in Brazil, I found out the kiss doesn't correlate too much to sex.
She could just want to kiss, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Exactly.
I mean, you have to, nothing is taken for granted.
Exactly.
We've all had that experience.
And, you know, it just depends, man.
You know, you can't go in with expectations.
You have to kind of play it by ear, see what the situation is like.
But I definitely think that you have to let your intentions be known.
I mean, you can't, you get no points for shyness, let's put it that way.
And, you know, the wait and see approach, the laid-back approach is not the way to go.
Although I will say that compared with other countries, Latin women will take the initiative in matters of love more than maybe other nationalities.
So you won't get punished for taking the initiative.
And in fact, it may trigger a response on her end as well.
And just to backtrack a little bit about what you said, if you're a guy who's just going to be there for a short time and you want to try to meet somebody, I would strongly encourage pipelining on Tinder, getting on Tinder before you go, get the Tinder Plus app so you can kind of scroll through that and do some matches.
That way, when you already get there, you can already have some dates maybe lined up.
And that way you can make maximum, you can maximize use of your time there.
And I know you're not a big fan of online dating, and I'm not saying that should be the only thing a man should use, but that's where you and I may disagree.
I really am, even though the quality on Tinder may have gone down a little bit over the past five years or past three years maybe, it's not so there's there's a there's a lot more Garottas de Programa on, a lot more, you know, pay-for-play there, a lot more escorts than there used to be, a lot more trannies.
Still, it's a very efficient way to cover a lot of so it's like the same as the USA almost.
Yeah, I mean, there are the trends, and maybe we were, I think we were intending to talk about this, but the trends that I've noticed, there are a little bit, there's more tattoos, definitely more tattoos.
Like if you go on the subway, and these are not just little tattoos, I'm talking like girls with full arm tattoos going from their wrist up to their shoulder tattoos, more nose rings.
So there's a little bit more of the uglification, but nothing at all what you see in the Western countries, you know.
Before we get there, I wanted to add that if a Brazilian girl is giving you a vibe, she is basically spending time with you and letting you touch her, and you don't kiss her within a short amount of time, she will think that you are gay or something.
She will give up.
And now, while some can take the initiative, I find that if she's giving you the green light and you don't take the green light, then she's going to walk away and you're going to be very confused because not a lot of time has passed since you met her.
I think the one thing that a American guy has to understand when he's going down there is you have to move way faster, way faster than what you are used to.
And if you don't, you will lose her.
It'll almost seem kind of weird how quickly these girls can begin the intimacy.
And, you know, I think for some men, that is a turn on.
And for other men, it could be a turn off.
But, you know, I guess for them, kissing is like shaking hands, kind of.
So it's something that you have, it's like the first hurdle, the first game hurdle that you have to get over there is not be scared to just go and strike fast.
And the one way that'll get you ready for that is to visit the nightlife and watch what the Brazilian guys do.
I mean, they're doing what the girls want them to do.
And I know it's going to seem really super duper caveman.
I mean, some of these guys just grab them.
You know, they grab them.
And I'm not saying that you should be grabbing girls, but at least it's important to know what the girls expect.
And they'll give you a pass.
Okay, he's not from over here.
They'll give you like an extra 20 minutes more than they would of a local guy.
But if you don't take advantage of that, I mean, you know, there is some truth that Brazil is a very sexualized culture.
Not that a girl will sleep with everyone, but that if she likes you, it just moves fast.
Correct.
No, you're totally right.
Everything you just said is absolutely confirmed by experience.
And it's for me, I mean, you're right.
Just like you said, you know, some guys, some guys like that, some don't.
I mean, for me, I love that because I feel like it's the absolute antithesis of what life is like in America here, where it's hyper-frigid, hyper-suspicion, hyper-barriers, all these people thinking about the power implications of, you know, do I like, you know, you get on, you know, how many guys have been on Tinder and you get this question, you know, what are you here?
What are you on Tinder for?
What do you, what do you expect here?
What are you here for?
I mean, how many, how many guys have had to feel that stupid question?
Well, you never get that.
You never get that.
Nobody, you ask, you ask for, and the same thing is on Tinder, too.
You're down there.
You need to be asking for the number within the first five message, first back, within that first window of back and forth messages.
It's normal and expected.
And it's so liberating and it's so refreshing to be in a culture where you're not punished for being a man, a normal man, to be doing what men used to do or should be doing, which is exert efforts to meet girls and to do what men do, you know?
And they're very open about it, you know.
I mean, one girl told me, you know, I require efforts to be conquered.
I mean, how many girls here would say, I require efforts, you know, para conquistad, to conquer me.
I mean, I found that to be so when she said that, that was just so, I don't know, I can't even explain to you how I felt.
It was so awe-inspiring to me to have a woman actually say, you know, you know, I like you and I want to be with you, but I need some efforts for a man to conquer me.
I don't know.
I just found that to be very, very old school.
I just love that.
And it makes you rise to the occasion.
It makes you feel confident and at home in your masculinity when you're around feminine women.
Being around masculine women is literally soul-killing to a man.
You know, it violates your soul.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
I mean, it's criminal.
Yeah, one thing, I guess one thing I liked about Brazil the most is that a man can be a man and not feel ashamed for it.
Like if another man catches you checking out a girl's butt, he will smile.
Yeah, he will smile or raise his eyebrows.
Like perverts can be perverts.
And I'm not saying that you're a pervert if you like a girl, but you can check out girls.
It's like a natural pastime there.
There's no shame in it.
You don't have to pretend that your dick is chopped off and you have to hide that.
You don't have to meet a girl and even though you want to bang her brains out, you have to pretend that, no, you just want to talk to her about her job.
And you really are interested in getting to know her morbidly obese friend and so on, like you have to do in the USA.
But so it's really a caveman game.
This is where I think a lot of men can let their masculinity just run free.
And I'm not saying, you know, again, I'm not saying assault girls.
You know, I know someone's going to take what I'm saying and chop it up.
But some pencils are not going to be a good idea.
You can be a guy.
You can be a man there.
I just, I can't say enough good things about it.
Some ways it's also a very tribal culture in the sense that there's, you know, you've got to be in, if you've got a circle of friends, you become part of a tribe almost.
It's a, maybe this goes back to the Indian, the indigenous American element in South America.
But once you're sort of initiated into the tribe, you'll find that your social circle will present so many social opportunities.
It's just literally, you have so many opportunities.
You don't know what to do with them.
And that's why it's so, you know, Americans like to talk about, oh, but it's unsafe and corruption and unsafe.
You know what?
I don't care.
I'd rather, I don't care, you know, rob me, you know, corrupt me or, you know, whatever.
Do whatever you have to do, but it's worth it because, you know, you can, you can, your, your soul can die a slow death from loneliness, which is what they want men to be suffering here in the States.
You know, they want you to be lonely and miserable here because that helps them control you.
Yeah, it's all part of that divide and conquer to let's let women and men compete and let them fight each other.
Let them not create strong bonds, strong tribes and families.
I mean, they definitely have that going on in the States.
One thing I can advise men is that if your game is not yet optimized in the U.S., I'm not saying you have to kill it there, but until you have to be comfortable knowing how to escalate.
You have to be comfortable touching a girl.
You have to be comfortable knowing how to kiss a girl.
I wouldn't go to Brazil unless you iron that out.
Brazil is not going to be a good place for a shy, introverted man without game experience.
You're not going to do well.
No.
You really have to know, because if your game is good in the USA, when you get on that airplane and go to Brazil, you're already at a disadvantage because you're too timid.
You're already timid for that country because the men are really cavemen there.
So that's why I really think, I mean, that can work in the opposite way.
Like, say you're a shy guy in the U.S. There's other countries where you can go and you'll do fine, maybe in Southeast Asia, maybe some places in Eastern Europe.
But Latin America punishes the shy guys.
You know, Latin America is not, if you're not ready to, you know, conquer, if you're not ready to, if your hormones aren't raging and you don't see these girls with the big butts and you just want to go up to them and start, and, you know, maybe you can even kiss her within, say, half an hour.
If you're not that type of guy where your testosterone is overflowing, I think Brazil is not going to be really fun.
Instead, if you're kind of a shy guy, you're going to go there and be like, look at all these cave people.
You know, they're just humping each other.
I can't disagree with anything you said.
There's a saying down there that Brazil is not for beginners.
And that's true in a lot of ways.
The beginning traveler in general is going to find things difficult because nothing is really easy.
And you've got to, like we said, conquistad to conquer, you've got to, just to get from the airport to where you may be staying, you know, you may have to get on a bus and none of the stops make sense or the directions that you were given are all wrong or somebody tries to misdirect you or whatever.
I mean, nothing is easy.
Nothing is easy.
And so if you expect to be spoon-fed, if you're one of these types of people who expects to be spoon-fed, everything, You know, don't come.
You know, it's not for you.
But if you're of a certain personality and if you like certain things, climates, then, you know, I think you'll have a great time.
So that leads to a question that so many guys ask me about South America: is it safe?
They all kind of want to guarantee that it's going to be safe and nothing bad is going to happen to them.
I'm going to say, from my experience in South America, you know, it wasn't, I can't say it's safe as in there's never going to be any kind of problem and there's not bad people that are roaming around and other tourists aren't getting robbed.
But generally speaking, if you watch your back, be careful of not getting into taxis when you're drunk, you should be okay.
You know, I think most of it is just knowing where you are and being careful at night, not going into an isolated area.
Most of the problems, most by far, 90%, 90% of the problems that I hear of guys in Brazil is overdrinking at night.
And then he's just really numb, not in tune to his environment.
And then people start to see it.
They see that, okay, this guy is drunk.
He's a foreigner.
They see you on your phone in public.
They see you not being aware.
I think that if you just don't get drunk at night or you're with a buddy that is keeping a close eye on you, you're going to eliminate 90% of problems.
But based on the past couple of years that you've been going to Brazil, what would you say is the safety issues there?
Yeah, that's well, you've made a great point, Rooch.
Obviously, situational awareness and common sense are the two big things there.
You've got to do or be mindful of the common sense things, not going dark places at night, not dressing like you're a gringo, not looking like you're not from there, not carrying a lot of cash with you, not carrying a lot of credit cards with you, or walking around with a smartphone.
But, you know, everybody there, man, the anecdotal evidence, pretty much it's only a matter of time.
If you're going there for a long time, most cariocas, most people that live in Rio have a story of being pickpocketed or robbed, or sometimes more than once.
So, again, it's not a place for beginners.
And I'm not going to sugarcoat it and say that it's not a big deal.
It's overhyped.
No, it's not overhyped.
Bad things really do happen.
And you've got to have eyes on the back of your head.
You can never let your guard down.
That's the one disadvantage that I will say that I found that I think it's gotten a little bit worse in the past three or four years.
It's that the level of street crime has gone up noticeably.
And that's only because I think the economy is so bad.
You know, there was a huge collapse of the economy in the past few years.
And you've got a lot of people just really desperate.
You know, you've got guys with advanced degrees driving Uber there just to make money.
So you can imagine what the average denizen of the favelas is dealing with.
So it's tough.
But having said all that, again, If you can accept the fact that it's a strange city where you can't really go into downtown at night, you have to take cabs or metro everywhere at night because of safety issues, you know, you adapt to it.
But, you know, I've got friends that have, you know, even in their own, right in front of their own houses, they've been stuck up and they've had their cell phones taken or they've had their wallets taken or pickpocketed.
It happens.
Do you ever see like a foreigner there that you look at him just getting shit face drunk and you think, how are you not dead yet?
Like, how are you still alive?
I mean, I see some foreigners there doing some dumb stuff, man.
And I'm like, man, I'm not going to white knight.
I mean, this person is an adult, but how are you still here?
I mean, how have you not been robbed yet?
I think because they stick to their little bubble of, you know, those are the types that are going to stay in their little hotel and they're going to go on guided tours everywhere.
And they're only going to see the major tourist attractions.
And that's fine.
You know, if you're 70 years old and if you're just visiting as a tourist, you know, what's wrong with that?
That's fine for them.
But they stay in their bubble and they pay a real premium for that.
But you're missing out.
You know, when you don't really interact with the regular people, you're missing out on a lot.
And one thing I can say, I mean, every now and then you hear of a story of a foreigner dying in South America.
And I can say from my experience there, if you look in the root causes, it's either you take a hike in a mountain that you don't know and get lost or you get involved with drugs.
People who are buying drugs and getting involved in the drug trade, I have heard of Europeans wanting to ship some of those drugs back in Europe.
Man, those people, they don't end well.
So if you do some lone hiking trip in a mountain you don't know or you get involved with drugs beyond simple buying it from the dude who works at the hotel, beyond that, you're going to set yourself up for a world of hurt there.
And on that note, anyone, we shouldn't even have to say this, but we'll say it anyway.
We shouldn't even have to.
I would think this should be understood.
But anyone that has any illusions, even thinking about getting involved in any sort of illegal activity, I have no sympathy for you.
And they should watch the British series.
I think it was on maybe the Discovery Channel or Nat Geo some years back, locked up abroad or banged up abroad, as it was known in England.
A whole series of profiles of Western tourists who went to different countries and ended up spending time in prison in those countries.
And any idiot that has any illusions of thinking they can get away with that should watch a few episodes of that show.
And then I think that'll cure them of their illusion.
No, that should not even be that should not even be a subject of debate.
Now, assuming that a guy goes down there for his first trip, maybe he stays one week or two weeks, and it seems like a place that for him, it's within his safety zone.
It's not bad.
And he likes the language.
He likes to learn it.
He likes the climate.
And the climate, by the way, we haven't said it's usually extremely warm.
What would you say is the potential for a relationship with a girl on the longer term?
Because so far we talked about girls for the short term kind of going just to have some sex.
But would you say that a Brazilian girl that you meet there could be something for a long-term deal?
Yes, because I've done it and I am doing it.
But the problem there is, you know, you've got the long distance.
The ultimate problem, it's not so much the country or the culture.
It's just the fact that the geographic separation is going to be always an issue.
And let's face it.
There's going to be a built-in expiration date to those kind of relationships, because sooner or later she's going to expect you to kind of, okay where, where are we going with this?
You know, is this going to be?
You know, is this going to be something permanent or is this going to be?
You know what what, what's the deal, and you know unfortunately, that's, that's uh, that's kind of the the, the problem.
I guess I really haven't figured that's one, that's one code that I have not broken yet really, as to how to handle that.
I mean, is there, is there possibly?
You know, if you're self-employed in the states and i've talked about this with other people you know, is it the best way to maybe work out some situation where you can spend a few months of your time in one country and then a few months in the states, and kind of you know that, that sort of bifurcated lifestyle there?
There's got to be a way to do that, and I know there are people who have done it, but it's, it's.
It's easier said than done, you know, but there's, you know, because you can't, you know you're not going to make any money down there.
No no, foreigner is, is I mean?
Well, i'm sure you can find people that say they're making money but usually they're retired, they're European retirees that are, that are very wealthy and they just kind of go there and they're not really living off the the economy.
But outside of the outside, the long distance problems, how about the values?
How about the monogamous values, the?
Will she uh, worship the man?
Will she cook and clean?
Will she be a good girlfriend wife, a mother?
Would you say there is an improvement in the values that would be conducive to creating a family with a Brazilian girl.
Because you know if, if there is a girl that has kissed say, a thousand dudes by the time she's 21, I mean, is that a girl that you want to wife up?
You know, because we know that the Latin culture, I don't want to say the girls sleep around more but they put less weight on what sex is.
So I don't know.
I mean, I guess it depends on what kind of wife a guy wants.
I have heard stories of European men going to Central America and they're finding a Catholic wife that claimed to be a virgin and so on.
But I mean, I know you're not say actively looking for a wife and and kids right now, but if you met a man who was, would you say that Brazil would give him more opportunities and more likelihood of success?
Oh man, that's a tough question.
Yeah that's, that's a hard question, man.
I mean that's you know, because I, I think a lot, I guess the short answer is, it depends.
It just depends on the person.
I think generally it's true that I think marital fidelity is probably not, well, I think it's probably true around the world in the warmer climates.
Morals are looser in the warmer climates.
I think it's just, you know, we have to make allowances for men and women in heat.
Let's face it.
I think if you probably did a poll of the equatorial regions, I think you'd probably say that maybe that possibly marital mores are probably looser in the tropics than maybe, say, but maybe that's not true.
I don't know.
It definitely is true that you do hear a lot of stories about, you know, you talk to Brazilian men and women, you know, they live there, they've got one wife, but then the husband will have another family with another woman.
You've probably heard those stories.
It seems like you encounter those stories a lot down there.
Like there'll be a guy will be married and he'll have kids, but then there'll be some secret mistress on the side and he'll have like maybe a whole separate family or something.
And this is something that really is not something that most Americans are used to, maybe.
But, you know, I don't know, Rouge.
I think, you know, with any, you never really know what's going on behind your back when you're a man.
And, you know, no matter who you're married to, whether it's somebody from Brazil or from Finland or from Japan or whatever, you don't know what's going on behind your back, really, unless you're there physically on the spot.
You've got to invest in it.
I think it comes down to the relationship and hope for the best.
Really, there is no other option that you've got because it's all a roll of the dice.
No matter who you're with, it's a roll of the dice.
From my experience there and from what I've heard from other men, Brazil is more for fun.
It's more, especially if you're going in cities that are larger.
I honestly haven't heard any stories of a Western man marrying a Brazilian girl in Brazil and having kids.
And I've heard that a lot in European countries and Asian countries.
But in Brazil, I've heard a lot of guys saying I went there and I kissed a billion girls.
And I've heard some other guys, they have gone there for the pay-for-play options.
But I haven't heard like a wife hunting mission in Carnival in Rio.
That's just, you know, when a girl is shaking her butt everywhere and you're like, yeah, I'm going to marry that.
And I'm not saying that to insult the Brazilian girls.
I'm not saying that.
But for the guys who are listening right now that are more family inclined, they're looking for that end game.
I don't think Brazil has it from what I've seen.
You know, I did meet two guys that I can think of.
They weren't Americans, but they were Europeans.
I did meet one guy was from, he was a Dutchman, and another one was an Italian.
And they were European guys.
I mean, they were not freaks.
I mean, they were normal, kind of, I would call them decent looking, normal guys.
And they had made a lot of money in different professions in Europe.
And then they had moved there.
And they had married local women.
But the thing is, they stayed there.
They actually got out of Europe and they maybe worked for, say, Lufthansa or they were in the finance industry.
And they made their money.
And then they cashed in their chips and they left and lived abroad.
So I guess I don't know if that's really the same thing as what you're talking about, but I think I have seen Western men work it, but you've got to be prepared to buy into the whole program.
You got to buy into the whole program.
It's not something you can just take piecemeal.
I think you've got to move there and do it that way.
That actually leads to the type of guy that does exceedingly well in Brazil.
From my experience, if you are blonde and blue eyes, you tend to do way better than any other guy.
I see some guy struggling where I'm at, and I look at him and he's blonde, and I'm like, why are you here, man?
Go to Brazil.
It's so much easier.
And I'm not saying that girls just walk up to him, but man, I hung out there with a Danish guy back in 008.
And this guy, man, he was just getting so much more attention than me.
It was starting to piss me off.
But I mean, he was tall, good looking, blonde hair, and blue eyes, and he was doing well.
Like, he was, I mean, it wasn't so much that he didn't have game and he was getting laid left and right.
It was that girls were just giving him such positive signs, smiling at him, eye contact.
When he would escalate, the girls were down, no resistance.
And I'm over there grinding it out.
Granted, I was in some kind of like hippie phase and I had a ponytail and stuff.
But the point is that if you're a blonde dude, I mean, just go there, you know, just go there.
It's a lot easier.
If you look like a Brazilian guy, if you're kind of like the Spanish look or the darker look like me, what's going to happen is that you're going to try to talk to some of these girls and you're going to use English and they're going to say, you're a liar.
You're from here.
Why are you pretending you're from somewhere else?
I've actually gotten that.
Wow.
Yeah.
You know, I think it goes back to the same old thing, Rouge, you know, that curiosity value is really very strong.
And I knew there was a friend of a friend down there, a guy who was a Brazilian guy.
He grew up there.
He was half, his mother was Brazilian, but his father was a Norwegian sailor.
And I guess his father had come to or stopped at Rio back in the 60s.
And I guess he and his, you know, him and his mom had gotten married.
And, you know, so, and I, you can imagine what he must have looked like.
I mean, he was probably your typical Scandinavian individual.
So yeah, there's, you know, there was, I think there was a thread on the forum recently about a West African guy in Korea from Ghana, I think, who was just, who spoke Korean, was just killing it there.
I guess he's like a local celebrity.
And so, yeah, people, I think in this world, you've got to try to find a way to, it's called arbitrage.
You've got to try to find a way to arbitrate the value that you bring to the table in a way that maximizes your strengths.
You know, some guys used to think, oh, I love a challenge and I love to be challenged.
And nah, no, no, I don't agree with that.
I think that's bullshit.
You know, you gotta, you gotta, in this, you know, life is tough enough as it is.
And why make things harder for yourself than it needs to be?
You know, do the thing.
I mean, obviously, do what you like to do.
If you don't like to be in, you know, If you're a guy who likes hot climates and you don't want to be in St. Petersburg, don't go.
That's fine.
But you've got to parlay your strengths, man.
You've got to, like a guy like you, you know, with your, you know, Safavid akamened Persian features, you know, you might, you might find, you know, a real, get a lot of mileage, say, in Eastern Europe.
And that's you're where you enjoy being, you know, maybe, but maybe you might find things more difficult in, say, Beirut or Sicily.
So, you know, you gotta, everybody's gonna do what they have to do.
So before we move on to talk about the direction that the culture is going, whether good or bad, I guess we can just recap the keys to success.
If a man is interested in Brazilian girls and wants to go to Brazil, I definitely recommend a trip of at least a week long or spend a week in one city so you can maximize the amount of leads that turn into something more.
As Quintus said, you have to learn the language at least a bit.
At least make the effort.
Try to have some conversations that you can carry for a few minutes until you take your smartphone out to use Google Translate.
Get ready to use a more aggressive game there.
You definitely have to be more aggressive than the USA.
A girl will look at you a lot.
She'll smile at you.
She'll give you the green light, but there's a full expectation that you are the man and that you are going to take the interaction to the next stage.
Like Quintus said, definitely if you're not there for a while doing some pipelining on Tinder or another dating app is fine.
What's good about Brazil is the weather is usually good.
So day game is on the table, especially if you're going to the beach, go to the beach.
Everywhere, everywhere.
And at night, I mean, there's a nightlife there is also good.
You'll find some nice clubs with live Samba, and there'll be lots of girls to talk to.
Now, is there anything else that we missed for a guy that wants to go there?
Just situational awareness.
Be aware, be safe, and just don't let your guard down because, you know, curiosity value goes both ways.
People will be curious about you in a good way.
And malfeasers will be interested in you for bad ways.
So just be aware that curiosity value goes two ways.
So be safe.
So now I haven't been there, like I mentioned, in a long time.
Are things getting better or worse there?
And before I before you tell me, from what I've been hearing from guys, things are getting worse or off.
It seems like the social justice virus has definitely hit Brazil in a big way, especially on the universities.
I actually, we did a viral article for Return of Kings not long ago.
I'll post it in the show notes.
It was something like 27 girls who became ugly beasts because of their feminist ideas.
At least half of those girls were actually from Brazil.
So there is definitely some social.
And I'm thinking, how the hell did social justice and feminism get entrenched in the big cities in Brazil?
Such a poor country that basically, I mean, has all those hills wrapped up in the slums that are no man's land for the government, for the cops.
So, how did this actually happen?
And anyway, does that confirm to what you've been seeing in your past couple of trips there?
Yes, it does.
And there's a Twitter account which I have followed, and people can find it on my Twitter.
It's called this Angis Chipois de Federau.
Before and after university, they do these picture profiles of what a girl looked like before and then after school.
But I mean, some of that's an exaggeration.
But no, the general, you're absolutely right.
The general trend has been sliding, slouching towards Gomorrah a little bit more.
Has been a little bit of the slouching towards the social justice mindset.
And you see it in the piercings, the tattoos.
Again, it's not endemic.
I don't want people to think that every single person out there is, it's not even in the same universe as, say, the U.S. or England.
But there's a difference, say, from, say, five years ago.
I think you're also noticing girls, and I've asked other girls about this because I wasn't sure if I was imagining it, but there seems like the girls when they go out now are a little bit more scantily clad at younger ages.
That seems to also kind of go with that, the sort of the lowering of the, I don't know, the lowering of the inhibitions, I guess.
So, yeah, it's happening.
You know, I mean, I think a lot more girls now, I'm seeing, and I talked to this girl that I know down there as we were walking down Sikera Campus, one of the metro stations in Zonosul.
You know, I was seeing a lot of girls kind of more muscular, too.
Like, there seems like a lot more girls with shirts that'll be like these shirts, t-shirts talking about jujitsu or, you know, I'm great and this kind of thing.
You know, the exaggerated sense of self-importance.
And, you know, a lot more girls wearing the sort of the workout clothing, the calsas, these, the, the, there's a, Brazilas have this typical workout uniform that I would joke about with this girl that I know.
And it's, it's like the yoga pants, the skin tight, the body-fitting, form-fitting pants, socks pulled up to their calves and sneakers.
And the socks are always worn on the outside of the pants.
But yeah, you're seeing a lot more, not a lot more, but a slightly more masculinization of the girls there.
And I guess, you know, you talk about what are the reasons for it.
I guess it's just because maybe it's being aped, the media there is aping the tendencies or the trends that they see in the mass media elsewhere.
And maybe it also has something to do with the, you know, they recently had a female president.
Maybe there's something going on there with empowerment.
I don't know.
But I don't think the good thing is, I don't think in our lifetime it's going to be going to be able to ruin the people down there like they've been ruined here.
I don't think.
I'm optimistic enough to think that it's not going to happen.
We also have to consider that Rio is a first-tier city.
I mean, it's basically like New York or London.
And for, say, you to go to Rio, but still do okay and still for it to be better than even a third-tier American town, that says a lot.
I mean, if you go to, if you really want to get away from the more degraded parts of Brazil, go to a second or third-tier town.
I mean, you won't see that nearly as much, but your Portuguese has to be on point at that.
At that point, because you're gonna, the smaller town you go to, the less English also.
Just unfortunately also, we have to keep in mind that the universities is really the, the epicenter of where all this stuff is coming from.
So I don't know if going to a town where there's not a lot of of schools there could actually help.
But I mean, you know, one thing is that I used to like oh, just go to a university town and you'll get a lot of girls that are young yeah, they're young in the process of being brainwashed, you know.
They're in the process of hating you and what you stand for and they can't wait to, you know, jump on the carousel, go out drink, be independent, have their IPhone and so on.
So I'm starting.
You know, this kind of leads to some ideas I've shared, where educating women may not have beyond high school, may not have been the best idea.
But since we can't stop that, you know, I think we just have to keep in mind that if you're not seeing what you want in the first tier towns, it may be worth it, if you like the girls overall, to go to a second or third tier town.
Right right, absolutely that.
That that's a, that's a great point, and there are a lot of guys.
I've heard anecdotal evidence about cities like Belo Horizanche, Salvador um, Porto Alegrea, I mean different, different places that are not you're not in the sticks, at least, but you're still in a metropolitan area.
You're going to get, you know, kind of a a lot less uh pretentious, uh affectations that you're going to find in a big city but uh yeah no it's, it's.
You know, there's definitely, I mean the tattoo thing and I just man it, just it just makes you so sad, it really.
You know, you see it at the beach, or you see it on the, on the subway especially, and you just say to yourself, you know why why, why would you do that?
Why, why would you do that?
And, as we all know, there really is no answer other than the fact that uh, people just don't know any better.
They just, you know, they don't, they don't um, there's no, there's no downside to not doing it.
Let's put it that way.
You know, in a sea of billions of individuals, billions of people, people are just so desperate.
Now, how can I show that i'm special, how can I show that i'm a unique individual, that i'm maybe even better than anyone else?
And this is where that kind of i'm gonna deform myself and this tattoo piercing culture comes, or just wanting to get attention from men, or wanting to create, you know, to virtue signal and participate in some kind of outrage.
So it's really this need, this human need To be different, this human need to be superior, but it goes kind of haywire in cities that are large because now there's so many people that you have to compete with to be different, to be your own person.
I mean, this is why so much of the degeneracy we see is a function of city size.
I mean, you can point me, go, I can go to Warsaw or to New York.
They're both cities that are large.
Take me to the center of both.
You're still going to see the gays and the freaks and the sluts.
So, really, it's a function of size that you really see the worst thing.
So, I'm starting to get a lot of feedback from men that they're going to sacrifice this big city where everything is served to them on a platter, you know, nightclubs every night and sushi restaurants and so on, and just kind of rough it out a bit more in the second or now.
I'm hearing third-tier now.
I mean, because there's now, because okay, how many first-tier cities are there in the world?
Multiply that by 100 to get the number of third-tier ones, right?
So, I mean, that's, I think, the direction we're going to go as men, right?
That's a great point, Bruce.
Yeah, that and you know, in fairness, I suppose I should say also that the tattoo and the piercing thing is not confined to just women.
I saw maybe just as many guys, if not more, with tats.
And I'm not talking just some dragon on a shoulder or something.
I'm talking like, you know, full arm or stuff on the back.
And so, yeah, it's a general trend.
And I think you're right.
I think the second and third rate cities are going to be, you're going to be able to get away from a lot of those pretentious big city, you know, and you're going to save a lot of money too.
That's the other big thing that I keep hearing.
Rio is not a budget city.
I don't know who started that rumor, but you're going to.
So, how much would you expect to pay there if you rent like a one-bedroom Airbnb in a reasonable area and you eat and go out?
How much do you think?
Good question.
A good question.
Yeah, I would say if you get, man, this is depending on where you stay in the city, and it's probably a good idea to be in Zona Sul and not, you know, Bochfogo or Flamengo or Santro or some of these other parts.
But if you're going to be in Zona Sul, probably you can expect to spend between, you know, on Airbnb, if you get an apartment, you know, probably around between $50 and $70 a night, which is pretty good for a big city.
That's going to go up depending on what area you're in.
The better areas, it might be even a little bit more.
But it's worth it because you don't want to be in far away from the beach because I just like being near the water.
I think it's, for me anyway, I just like being, I like hearing the sound of the ocean and being near the water and whatnot.
So, but so Airbnb is pretty reasonable, but things like going out, you know, to eat food, it's about the same as a big city in the U.S. You know, you, you know, you're you're if you think of an exchange rate, like for every if whatever something costs in Real or Gayais, divide it by three, that's going to be about what it is in dollars.
You know, and I like to use sort of this the Sukkos index, like Sukos or the fruit drinks, like a 300 milliliter drink in Zona Sul is around eight Geis.
So you divide that by three.
That's not peanuts.
I mean, it's, but every time I go back, it seems to go up.
So, inflation is also a factor there.
But from what I, when you get outside the city, you get out to smaller cities in Rio State, things are a hell of a lot cheaper.
And I mean, really, really cheap.
But then again, it's a trade-off.
So if you want to hit it hard in Rio, you're probably going to need about $100 per day.
Yeah, I would say.
But if you find, I know I found a long-term rental there, a shared room for, I think, $400 a month.
So if you can find a long-term rental.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
And I mean, granted, it was in like a dump, and I've shared it with six other people.
But the point is, if you want to live cheaply in Brazil, you definitely can.
You definitely can.
But if you're just going to go there as a tourist for like an exploratory bang trip, you're definitely going to be going out a lot.
You're going to want to have logistics that are good, your own private room or apartment.
So I think $75 to $100 a day, that sounds right.
Yeah, you need to have your privacy because, you know, hotels, and this is only a Rio thing, which really, really used to, I can never understand.
Well, I can understand it, but I don't accept it.
I mean, there are some hotels that they make a big deal about bringing female guests back to the room because they're worried about security and about prostitution and all this stuff, which I find, I think that's insulting to assume that just because you're with somebody that somehow it's so I just you know, I mean, it's not every hotel is like that, but I think for hotels are a lot, I think hotels are overpriced there, so I would not recommend it.
I mean, if I was advising elderly person to travel, I think, yeah, you'd want them to stay in a hotel where they're going to have the security, but you know, there's no reason not to rent a room.
You know, you've got the privacy issue taken care of.
I think we basically covered everything.
I definitely would say that for just short-term or casual relationships, a Brazilian girl is much preferable to an American girl.
When I was in Washington, D.C., I would go to the Brazilian hangouts specifically to meet these fresh off-the-boat girls.
So that's what kind of helped me back then.
This was in, man, this was in like 06, I think.
But it is worth a trip.
I haven't been there in a long enough time that I'm starting to get the itch.
So maybe, Quintus, next time you go there, if I'm in the States, I'll have to join you.
And is there anything?
Absolutely.
Is there anything else that you wanted to add maybe that we missed?
Or did we cover everything?
You know, I just think, you know, try to enjoy the little things.
You know, it's the little, you know, don't, I think when there's a tendency a lot of guys have when they're on the road, they feel like they have to work their way down a checklist and they have to be going crazy and going, you know, just try to enjoy the moment.
You know, go take a walk in some of the open-air public markets, you know, and listen to the sound of the fish vendors as he calls out or listen to the, you know, go look at the weird Amazonian fruits on display there and just soak up the whole ambiance.
You know, just be happy to be alive because that's really what's so great about travel is it just reminds you that you can get outside your skin.
You can put on a new set of clothing.
You can shed your old skin like a reptile and grow a new one and you can be a better man for it.
So just, you know, don't put all the pressure on yourself.
Have fun, enjoy life, and, you know, see what happens.
Okay, great.
I really thank my friend Quintus for coming on.
I haven't been to Brazil in a while, so I don't think I could have done this podcast without him.
For more of his work, I strongly advise you to visit his website at qcourteous.com.
I'll also link it in the show notes.
Thank you, Quintus, very much for coming on today.
Hey, thank you, Roosh.
Thanks for having me, man.
So that's all I have for this podcast.
For more Brazil advice, check out one of my older books, Roosh's Brazil Compendium, which I linked in the show notes.
You can also leave a rating on iTunes, share this podcast with a friend, or drop me an email at ruche at ruchev.com to let me know about your experiences in South America.
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