Sibel Edmonds Unplugged: Travel, Food & Upcoming Documentary

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Title: Sibel Edmonds Unplugged: Travel, Food & Upcoming Documentary
Published: 2020-04-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflsEY4JkPM

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[Music] hello everyone this is going to be a casual chat update announcement video totally unscripted again this is my date 17 in quarantine it's a it's a very strange time I am NOT going to talk about politics rarely today in fact I don't have anything really political I made a few notes here so that I know the few things that I have to tell you about

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especially for my news but community but let me start with an announcement I have been working on my documentary my Vietnam documentary this project has been for one reason or another has been put on hold the first time I went to Vietnam and this is when I spent over a year in the country was in 2007 so I stayed in Vietnam the entire 2007 and part

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of 2008 and while I was there in Vietnam I was involved in several projects with different NGOs I took my little personal camera back then I didn't have iPhone I don't really I phone was not out in 2007 and with the little tiny mite attached to it but I tried my best to document my experience there and various projects on various issues various topics and so

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may be a farmer out in the farm working and boom you know comes across with his Buffalo undetonated bomb and it explodes either he dies or loses leg or legs children they are out there in the field they're in the farms they are there planes six years old four years old and they see one of these bombs they think it's a bald you know they grab

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it and there you go you have a victims and when I say victims many many victims in Vietnam I worked on that in fact in 2017 I went back to Vietnam and and I worked on several interviews there again I traveled throughout the north and the central area in Vietnam so anyhow I have compiled so much documents so many documents so much footage and for some

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reason it ended up being this project I wanted to put them together I wanted to make it into some kind of a documentary a report that includes interviews good footage with some you know with some transcripts something that has a right flow but it been placed on hold every time I tried to start the project I would start on it and then something would happen a

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year and a half ago I was moving here to Turkey from the United States that was a major move so I put that on hold again and it's been a wild ride here in Turkey anyhow you know how they say when life gives you lemon go ahead and make lemonade I said you know what I'm here in quarantine Pete this is a good time to take

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everything put it together and then see how I can organize it edited cut it give it a kind of a direction give it a flow and turn this into something that is gonna be good and it's I've been working on this non-stop and it should be ready in the next few days maybe maximum of the week and it's going to be a long one it's gonna

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be at least an hour and a half so it's gonna be a 90-minute long documentary and it's going to be available to my news but community because again it was there support through their subscriptions and donations that I was able to go back there and conduct these interviews it was because of them I was able to to hire a camera person to go and and film

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all this and also some other expenses at work that went into this project also Vietnam Twitter yes it has a special place in my heart in fact I think after the United States and Turkey I consider Vietnam I turn home my daughters from Vietnam and there is gonna be this personal aspect there because during this one year there I I ended up meeting my daughter and

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she was only three days old and we have been together since so there will be some footage and some photographs of my daughter and I so it's personal and it's something that I really want to share it with my community news community it's for me it's it hasn't been this community okay there are some members this is a new side Aqueduct news the members there the

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community members in news bye they are my extended family members they are my many of them have been with me for over 14 years 15 years some of them have been with me since the early stage of my whole whistleblowing journey I know them by name and and they are members they were part of this community so I I kind of feel really comfortable sharing these

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any kind of books so they came up with this ingenious idea I believe somebody entirely came up with the idea and they built these amazing three fold suitcases metal suitcases on wheels and fill them up with at least 100 books so they could wheel it around take it to a school let's say in a town and and then you open this this suitcase it opens into

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tree falls and there you have it like 100 plus books there and the great thing about it is let's say they have 3/4 of these metal suitcases and they're in one town what they do is they will the suitcases into this one school and when they are finished with one of the suitcases that suitcase again on wheel goes to another school and the other schools mobile

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- I'm gonna see during the up this is not gonna be edited as you can see this is casual this is not the usual me I may be able to insert a few photos and images for you so you will not get bored by just staring at me here talking talking and talking and you will you will get a flavor of what I'm talking about this

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project there's some I want to even call it project that it is it is so personal to me the whole thing Vietnam the issues I dealt with and researched and worked on while in Vietnam and everything about the culture the food I took so many cooking classes formal ones informal ones during my year plus in Vietnam god I love Vietnam and speaking of Vietnam I miss

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can't think of any case any incidents when when I would ask something like this and a cook or a restaurant owner would say no you know you know like in the West I guess maybe it's a code you can't come to the kitchen we can't do it I would go to a chef to the cook I would say can I come to the kitchen can you

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show me tomorrow how you make this soup I would like to film it I like to take notes I like to ask questions and the answer same thing here in Turkey is always yeah come on and and they love it they love to showcase their their talent in terms of cooking but also to showcase their culture to showcase their their cuisine and and and and have

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that pride that associated pride with with it I have done as I said in many parts of the world I know suddenly I went from this documentary project announcement into food which is not a bad thing because I wanted to talk about another topic and that is paths various paths you know you come to this crossroads or cross off several roads and you say I'm thinking

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studied I have either gotten deep reason or I have spent years gaining experience then and I'm it's my life has been so much more than this what I'm known for what I've known as to you hear my news foot community and also some of you visit my youtube channel I and as part of this and I have been doing this for 18 years since 2002 with

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been a consultant freelance consultant not with any particular company I get a contract there may be a company in Australia and there is some kind of international analysis they need and I sign up I do it for maybe six months no insurance but pretty good pay when I get these contracts and and I and I have been doing that the other work I have had is

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real estate I am so into going and finding this whether it's a cottage or Vista or it's a single floor rent house and and renovated but being involved with every single aspect of it and I really take joy of doing it says the game is more than a business for me it is it is it is it is a hobby too because I've always been into

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interior design I have also studied it I have spent a lot of time on it I have done it and I have done as successfully not in this grand scale because I've never the money together than a grand scale but it would be you know you see economy is not doing that good there's a little cottage and you see us for sale sign and something about

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it just makes you pause and say I see this in this way some there's this calling and then you say I want to do this the last one I did was in Bend Oregon area anyhow it's that it's cooking its consulting it's a travel and when I say travel I don't mean you know you get on the plane and you go somewhere for four days and

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you catch a nice Broadway show or whatever show and then you're done in a couple of restaurants then come back my travels are usually combined with so many different things it's combined with research it has political aspect it has cultural aspect it has food aspect I have food I think food is a major determinant of where I go and where I go back and so with

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these travels also things with culture multicultural facet traveling and as I said not going on a cruise ship and say oh you know what I saw Turkey and I saw Greece and I saw Italy ha ha I traveled you're not I mean you have been in a cruise ship and you may have seen a couple of landmarks but that doesn't really in my book in my

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opinion that doesn't it's not considered exploring the culture and even getting any sense any true sense of what that country or that culture is about it's is so much more than that and I have learned so much it's not only food is other things I mean I raised my daughter the first let me see about six months of her life she and I were in Vietnam

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by ourselves basically no other family and and I I was friends with Vietnamese ladies I'm in this small village in this small tiny little town and I learned things that ended up being beneficial to me things that that culture has one of the things for example you're gonna say or give me an example here is an example one thing I learned is they the culture is

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so much into massage and massage in Southeast Asia is not this luxury things you know you go to a spa this is let's say in the US and you have to pay $85 or $90 or $100 for 45 minutes of this person coming and massaging you know massage is like a daily thing in Vietnam you walk on and on the streets and you see these ladies

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they're sitting in this tiny little stool that they are offering foot massage and you sit there whether it's for 30 minutes or 15 minutes they have a little little plastic tub with what are they and they go and they bar there are these sensory points in your feet and it's easy and Vietnamese people no matter how poor or how rich they get massage all the time

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they are going to massage well one of the things they have is baby massage and they use that at least in the southern part of Vietnam where I was for baby so that babies even from the time they are born they sleep so much better they usually have these elderly ladies delicate then who are specialized in what they call baby massage and you can call them

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and for something like I don't know two dollars and if there are friends is for nothing they come and they do this ten minutes or very soft very soft massage on this newborn baby and they use this eucalyptus extract oil tiny amount they don't put it right on the eyes around the face but they put it on the baby's pulse points that would be maybe in

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on the egg hole or on the feet that would be behind the ears again very tiny amount that they do this soft massage and guess what babies the ones I knew there including my daughter they slept from like that early beginning being newborn usually six seven eight hours straight at night in fact I had to get up take my baby out of the crib and and

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and feed her while she was still sleeping she wouldn't get up and I because it relaxes them and and with that eucalyptus they were telling me that it really opens up your nostrils so you breathe better well that's something I learned in Southeast Asia and and I don't I don't know anybody else in the West who knows about it them and I tell them about it

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they say wow that makes sense you know or if they have baby they're like can you show me how she was doing it I'm like sure here it is this is what they did and this is the amount of pressure liquid which is very soft you learn you learn about various herbal teas they use for four different humans that actually work in Vietnam for example one

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of the most commonly used herbal tea is this dried artichoke you know the the green artichoke they take the leaves out and they put them on these white sheets under the Sun and they dry it doesn't go into factory some air and blow dryer powder that thing dry it no it's in the Sun and people can just do it in their backyard then they put these

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in these little bags these cloth linen bags and and they oil it and they see it and they Greek at hand and it does amazing things to your liver but also to your digestive system hmm okay I've never had artichoke tea and I'm talking about maybe now with the more organic stores or the herbal supplement stores back then it was not as popular this is 2006

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I learned things same thing in Turkey is settings all over the world in India so going back to what this was about trouble I don't mean you know I see that sometimes on Twitter or Facebook maybe I'm guilty of having done that as well but it's like people go somewheres like hey guys I'm now eating my hot dog a la India style on the street and

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of me that topic into news web I don't know it sounds or it feels it's like it's not a right home for it also I mean this is not some kind of a business though I don't want to go and set up a website and and do it in a full-time basis No so here's the question is this something that I don't know would it have

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enough interest I know it has interest from people I know but I don't know that many people that I should be doing probably once in a while through some different YouTube channels I'm I'm wondering okay I'm thinking out loud and I'm hoping that I would get some stuff from you telling me hey you know how about this or that but remember I'm a woman of a

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woman of limited resources I heard and I have read bunch of comments when this topic came up yesterday on Twitter people saying oh yeah it will be great you set up and give us this that travel that it's like Hello you know there's gonna be someone handling the camera in this documentary that's going to be out on Vietnam you are going to see some of the

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interviews where I am handling the camera the actual camera it's not the same I'm not in the scene plus it takes away so much from it to handle the camera ask the question you know or have a translator in this particular case but this guy in Vietnam it was it's very hard to do and I think the end result is not as appealing because you know

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in it and you know you do the cooking you don't want people sit there and watch you chopping the onion putting it away then go grab something no those those things are totally cut from the final footage from the final products and I'm not America okay I am NOT a video editor and could I go and and take some courses and learn it yeah but I

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don't wanna it's not my thing I don't like it and I usually suck at things that I don't like okay I can list all sorts of great strings I have that I know of I'm not saying egotistically then I can make a list for you about three times longer things that I am terrible at terrible and you buy good I mean really bad so I know

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my weaknesses I know my strengths I know what I like what I don't like well I don't like software business I don't like technology technology doesn't like me and whenever I touch something it goes kaput I am known to get things broken and and ain't no