August 2022 | Free The Animal

Week 3 of EASY No-Alcohol; an Update With a Surprise Pretty Thai Lady Guest

By Richard Nikoley | August 30, 2022 |

You won’t believe how pretty Sureerat is at the age of 41. “41?” you’ll ask. “No way!” you’ll exclaim.

…It’s a new thing since my definitive breakup a couple of weeks ago. We met last Saturday and sort of hit it off. It was outside on the patio of WeCafe, a place she really likes…there being several locations on the island. I chat up pretty girls all the time—daily, and any hesitation being long gone from me—and in no time we were sharing a table. I mentioned that the previous evening I’d been to an opening party at Club House, the former Stoned Crab Pub sports bar. The landlord was unwilling to renew the lease, so they did it twice as big and better in a new and better location. About 36 screens, streaming anything you can think of (soccer, rugby, cricket, Oz football, badminton comps, snooker comps, tennis, table tennis comps, boxing, MMA, F1, and even NFL Full Access).

She hands me the keys to her car, we head over, share a slice of pecan pie, then head back to We where I’d left my motorbike. Before parting, I mentioned that I’m a bit of a “tuber” (what Thais call us) and would be shooting a video, weather permitting, at Nai Harn Beach the next day.

“Want to watch?” I ask.

“What time?”

…She shows up at my place about 13.00—an hour early!!!—and we hop in her car, go to JeePhueng Phochana and Steak House, a tiny hole in the wall by Thai folks who serve only farang food; that’s amazing food at even more amazing low prices.

Chicken and Pork Steaks; Mushroom and Green-Peppercorn Sauces — 129 baht ($3.55 US)

…And then we head over to do the video, her pretty face on display.

Since then, she invited me to dinner last night at the amazing Thai seafood restaurant, KanEang. In return, I popped over to her house this afternoon to do a bit of handyman work she needed. She’s come home during lunch, bringing shrimp pad Thai and fresh pink pomelo fruit.

Once I’d taken care of her home-repair issues with relative ease, she says, “I thought you could only work on computers!”

Items Covered In The 3-Weeks of Ridiculously Easy No-Alcohol Progression; 7-min video:

Sureerat’s introduction, and how she really has her life together as a single mom of two (details in the video)
Declaration once again as to how easy this is, along with the implication that I haven’t really nailed down the total why of the ease this time around
Then an explanation of exactly how it’s easy this time, the one secret element I hadn’t yet integrated

I’ve been saying environment, environment, environment as it seemed obvious—the tropical paradise and all, full social life, etc.

But something was just missing from that incomplete explanation; but you’ll need to watch the 7-minute video to know exactly what it is and how you can immediately understand how to avail and advantage yourself in many areas of struggle. I’ll also toss in a couple of pictures of the pretty and adorable Sureerat.

I Was Unequivocally Right About Every Single Thing From Day One

By Richard Nikoley | August 29, 2022 |

— With 98 Published Posts During The Covidiocy To Prove It Is it not the height of presumptuousness, pretentiousness, and puerility to take another to task for asking questions, making observations, forwarding data, pointing out inconsistencies, exposing contradictions, alluding to motives, identifying politicization, refusing to comply, and recognizing a bandwagon conforming narrative when he sees…

Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness: Everyone’s Take is Wrong. How To Assess It Correctly

By Richard Nikoley | August 27, 2022

Dad texted me: Richard just had a thought, we’re here at Pismo Beach on a beautiful day consuming a watered down old fashioned. Now for the thought, please do a post on taxpayers paying off student debt. I never got a student loan, didn’t get a degree, but now me at 84 still paying income…

My Persistence: Taking Big-Tech Microsoft To Task Pays Off

By Richard Nikoley | August 25, 2022 |

Remember the days when you could get a customer-service rep on the phone…or even better, just walk into one of their offices and deal face-to-face?

Them days is long gone.

It’s perfectly logical from a business dollars-&-cents perspective, though. For service businesses primarily, employee cost is the biggest category of costs by far. Lowering them pays off big in terms of enhanced profits and the capital to self-finance company growth.

And so we get the inevitable. Closing branch offices and centalizing because of lower costs of communication. Then we got those horrendous voicemail-hell, answering-system trees, which the Urban Dictionary defines as:

When accessing a voice mail phone answering system, one becomes lost, going down the wrong path or getting stuck in a loop, unable to get pertinent information or leave a message with the appropriate party.

Those have actually become better in the last decade with voice recognition and AI tech. Some are downright good when they prompt you to just say what you’re trying to do and they place you in the right, or close to the right, place.

Then you have trouble or support tickets. Now, I deal with a few companies and their support is fantastic. Quick and pertinent. And often, chat is available and that usually provides me a way to sort of casually get an issue resolved right on the spot and I can be doing other things whilst the guy or gal is off investigating.

But this story is about when it goes awful. Read on.

My EASY Freedom From Alcohol After Two Decades of Failure

By Richard Nikoley | August 21, 2022 |

Been there done that.

Didn’t work for me.

These are the things we tell ourselves when we haven’t gotten it right and need an excuse to stop trying.

Practice makes perfect?

I’d rather say that experience teaches us lessons and with those lessons we can do better. Success isn’t about getting everything right, it’s about getting better so that enough things go right that momentum takes over.

I don’t want to spoil the video, so I’ll stop about right here. Please visit the channel and subscribe. It’s really helping boost everything.

The Thai Girl from Isan Got Me Good. My Funny Story About How I Called Her Bluff

By Richard Nikoley | August 20, 2022

She’s a doll, isn’t she?

One theme in this video is that I keep having to remind myself, being 32 years her senior. At her age of 29, now, it’s only natural that you’re going to have to put up with levels of immaturity that you would not tolerate from an older woman. She’ll grow out of it.

No spoilers. It’s a riot 2 months in the making. 2 months ago the girlfriend and her sister headed off to Pattaya after a serious verbal altercation. Here’s what happened when I showed up unexpectedly in Pattaya.

Here’s the other Pattaya, Thailand blog posts and videos that I mention in this one:

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Pattaya at Night – A Tour of Walking Street, Soi 6, and Soi Buakhao

By Richard Nikoley | August 19, 2022

In 1986 the USS Reeves arrived, at anchor, just off Pattaya Beach, Thailand. Legendary throughout the US Navy—and East coast-based sailors lamented that they didn’t get to visit the Philippines and Thailand like the Westpack sailors did.

I’d already had 4 years of experience with nightlife scenes and girl bars in Korea, Japan (where I lived), and the Philippines. Lot’s and lots with PI, since we had Subic Bay Naval Base and the shipwork was cheap compared to Yokosuka, Japan, our forward-deployed home port.

Thailand was magical by comparison, an element I chalk up to its Buddhist culture. In all, I was there (mostly Pattaya) 7 times from that first visit in 1986, to 1990.

Two times were arrival by ship, 5 days each. Once was when I took leave in the US between Reeves and reporting to 7th Fleet Staff, embarked on USS Blue Ridge, which would happen be in Pattaya when time to report for duty. The trip back home to the USA was on the Navy’s dime, so they flew me from San Francisco to meet Blue Ridge. I arranged for it to be 2 weeks in advance of its arrival. The next time was during my assignment with 7th Fleet. I flew out from Japan on 30-days leave, spending the whole time—save for a day in Bangkok—in Pattaya.

When I left 7th Fleet to return to the US to attend Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA for French, I got another 30 days off. Blue Ridge was in Manilla at the time and by chance, Vice Admiral Paul David Miller was flying out to Bangkok on his P-3. I asked if I could hitch a ride. That was when I met Keith from England and we’ve been mates ever since…33 years. He’s moving to PI in a few months, permanently…to join his wife and 16 year-old daughter. He went to PI originally at my urging… I guess I have a small pert in tweaking his life.

Back to the USA then, to do six months of immersion French and since Keith was on a world tour—one of his stops being the LA area—he bussed it up to Monterey for a couple of days. Once school was out, I took another 30 days and you guessed it…Thailand. And, Keith—back in the UK by then—came on out for a repeat of traipsing around for a month. Then it was a gauntlet of a trip from Bangkok to San Francisco for a couple of days, then to DC for a visit to the State Department and the French Embassy for some briefings, then to NATO in Brussels for more briefings and a sort of check-in, and finally on to Toulon, France to report for duties as the navigator and deck officer of FNS Colbert. Talk about a fish out of water.

And then, during the Christmas holidays of ’89/’90, I flew out once again for two weeks. Keith was already there, had rented a house with some of his other mates, and they had a spare bedroom.

…And then I wouldn’t return for almost exactly 30 years, January of 2020, and though I’ve spent a minimal time of 3 months in the Pattaya area, Thailand feels like home to me after just over 2 1/2 years.

The video is footage I shot at night in three areas on a short 2-day visit a couple of days ago, tagged in the title. The introduction reminisces about what Pattaya was like back then, against what it’s like now.

Dirt Cheap Budget Travel – South Phuket (Rawai) to Pattaya via Bangkok. I Saved Huge.

By Richard Nikoley | August 17, 2022

On Monday morning I decided to take a pressing personal matter in-hand and deal with it face-to-face instead of texts and video chats…two things growing more annoying for me by the day in general…especially when the someone is just kilometers away.

Just take the care and time and meet up for Christs’ sake.

But by the time I started searching, schedules were not on my side for immediate or near-term departure. One advantage to living alone and having no pets EVER AGAIN!!! is that I can be packed and out the door in 10-15 minutes…and to anywhere worldwide. The pack-it-up for this trip was a standard North Face backpack, 5-minutes pack time. I love to travel light. There’s a thing called washing machines and washing services—especially in the places to which I like to travel.

All the figures for this trip are in the video, but the bottom line is that I normally would pay about $150. But this time, by using my powers, I did it for $50. And, the total travel time was only about an hour total more that the normal means I typically use.

Week 1 Report On No Alcohol For Me (Video)

By Richard Nikoley | August 16, 2022 |

It’s actually day 10 at the time of this writing, but the video was recorded some hours after completing the absolute ease of the first week—effortless compared to previous excursions down this path. I’ve been contemplating all of the elements that contribute to this, some of which are mentioned. A glaring one that has not been mentioned but will be outlined at the 2-week report.

Doing several of these videos over the last week, as I have said within them, is that they’re my equivalent of “going to a meeting.”

For those just joining in, this all began over frustration of having zero appetite for a long time, where it was a chore to eat and had it not been required, I’d have been happy to just eat nothing:

I don’t like food anymore (with video)

After input and thinking on it, I decided to try the most obvious thing: dump the alcohol and add the gym…check. Here’s the posts with videos I did during that first week.

…By day 3 of the first week, I was getting my appetite back. I posted some food pics in #2, above. Well, here’s 8 more of them, then the video.

The Weaponized Fed State Police (FBI) Secret-Surprise Raid on Mar-O-Lago

By Richard Nikoley | August 14, 2022

Time for some politics. As much as I try to avoid the daily lies lies lies from almost all sources, this is one that has signs of cutting through all the lies…it’s that unprecedented and insane.

This is primarily a written piece, along with a short video to introduce it and some of the background I’ll cover, along with brief commentary on the raid and its implications.

How Black Jesus squandered an opportunity and turned the left into warmongers just like the right
How the 2016 election was substantially fraudulent, just not enough for Hillary
How Trump’s refusal to create more global war while deescalating and diminishing existing ones turned the left into even greater warmongers than Black Jesus accomplished
The non-stop frothing at the mouth Trump’s entire term to get him on something…anything
The 2020 abject election fraud with its gift horse of Covid hysteria
The Mar-O-Lago FBI secret-surprise raid and its implications for America and the world

My Totally Unconventional Alcohol Abstention Method That Defies Experts

By Richard Nikoley | August 13, 2022

A pretty short introduction to this one because I don’t want any spoilers.

In other words, if you can’t bother to watch the interesting 15-min video, then you get squat for this one. Sorry not sorry.

That said, it is a teentsy bit taxing to watch. I shot it yesterday at the Ya Nui beach, right up against the surf, with more than a light breeze.

“Alcoholic” is a meaningless, stigmatizing term serving moneyed interests

By Richard Nikoley | August 12, 2022 |

Short intro here, and the video is only 11 minutes. So those are the high points. Take it all in in 11 minutes.

CBS’ Survivor Star Russell Hantz Interviews Me: Taboo Topic

By Richard Nikoley | August 11, 2022

I previously did my own interview of Russell the day after meeting him here in Phuket. You can check that out here. A couple of weeks later I did a post about some of the charity work he’s been doing here in Thailand. Link right here. He recently returned to Houston but is planning a return trip soon.

Some people have said to me, “who is Russell Hantz, never heard of him, why should I care?” My first response to such nonsense is, “is this a complaint?” I mean, how fucking stupidly entitled? I’m posting something about a celebrity of sorts, out to thousands of my subscribers—and whomever else may search and find—and you find some bizarre need to tell me, or post a comment, that YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM!!! as though that means squat and I should give a shit?

So just fuck right off on that score. If you’ve never heard of him, then here might be an opportunity to learn something rather than peacocking around your ignorance, expecting people to somehow be impressed with it. Hilarious and pathetic way to virtue signal, to boot.

Survivor is the most successful reality TV show of all time. My wife and I got hooked midway through Season 1. They do two seasons per year and Russell was on three times in near succession when the show was about 10 years into its run, which is now on Season 45 or something. So, I watched for about 10 years. Russell comes on and literally redefines the game in a most dramatic way—twice in a row back-to-back. So much so, that after he was to be seen no more, I stopped watching and have never watched a single episode since.

…So out of the month of July he spent down here in Rawai, south Phuket, Thailand, we saw each other frequently, hung out, trapsed around. So what can I say about Hantz on a personal level?

The Energizer Bunny.

Just like on Survivor. He’s also smart, strategic, and has an excellent rapport with people he likes and finds interesting—just like on Survivor. Perhaps that’s what made his performance on the show so appealing. He didn’t have to play a role, so much. He’s a really personable guy with a smile and piercing eyes. The girls adore him, and quick—and I’m not talking about only bar girls. He courted many a “legitimate” young woman in his time here.

…He rode his scooter over to my house one mid-morning, set up his gear, and interviewed me. We shot about 30 minutes of footage which he cut down to 15 minutes—owing to the constraints of having a YouTube Channel, The Russell Hantz Show, with over 40,000 subscribers (another answer to the “who is Russell Hantz?” question).

If you watch my interview of him along with what I’ve written above, you might ask: why is he introducing you like that, since that’s not what happened? Chalk it up to harmless creative license. It’s his show, he’s the star of it. Period.

A correction to something I said: I should have said hundreds, not thousands, when referring to my engagement with Asian bar girls over 40 years, since 1982 in Pusan, Korea, when I was an NROTC Midshipman still in college. So from 1984 to 1989, 5 years living in and travelling all over Asia, and now 2 1/2 years in Thailand, hundreds is a reasonable number.

I’m not Wilt Chamberlain, after all.

A final note before getting to Russell’s interview of me about the disrespect the western world shows to this ubiquitous bar girl industry. I laugh. How do people think these hundreds of thousands of girl bars scattered all over Asia exist, if there aren’t millions and millions of men—both Asian and western foreigner—patronizing them? Yet nobody does it! Amazing! Either they condemn, deny, or keep quiet outside the realms of being within the culture of it.

Well, I unabashedly and unapologetically assert that I have partaken in the delights for 40 years. I haven’t a gram of shame, trepidation, reservation, or evasion over any of it. I always knew what I was doing, no exceptions. If I’m going to talk or write about it, I’m damn sure going to be transparent, open, and honest. All the rest can condemn and/or lie about it all they want. I will not.

And if my activities “cause” people to feel repulsed or disgusted, what in the fucking fuck do I care? What anyone thinks about me is none of my business.

Update on my Abstaining from Alcohol to Cure Loss of Appetite

By Richard Nikoley | August 10, 2022 |

It’s only 4 days in, but as I explain in the video, I’ve done this rodeo before but this time is remarkably different—a cinch. I explain in the video just why that most likely is, and it may offer good clues to those considering a trial run or a permanent thing. The first few days is the hardest. This time, it’s just not hard at all.

And my approach is remarkably unconventional. So much so that the “experts” would likely tell you to never do this, especially the first few days.

I discuss my mental attitude and focus keeping me on track, accountable to myself. Producing these updates will keep me accountable to my audience.

I discuss my energy, alertness, and refound boldness and gusto. I tell a cool story about a stone-cold sober motorcycle ride from 8pm to midnight last night in my cafe racer—through winding roads, hills, and valleys.

You can watch and listen to the 11 minute video here.

For the premium portion below, I’ll show the food pics on day 3 and now, day 4, and what it means for my appetite problem. I also discuss in detail the restaurant they come from and the reason for price disparity. I addition to those three pics, there’s one of a quaint little steakhouse (chicken and pork) with only 4 tables that I go to almost every day (insane prices!). Plus, there may be a lasting benefit to having had the appetite problem. And more.

I’m going to do most of my videos this way from here out. You’re welcome to just watch the video, but the behind the scenes stuff, additional tidbits not in the video, elaboration—all the good writing content stuff will be premium. Keep in mind, please, that when you come her and enjoy an add-free experience, no pop-ups, no annoying shit in your face all the time, the paying members are providing that to you. They are also paying for the hosting which isn’t cheap, because there is no ad revenue.

So give ’em a little nod for paying for your better experience.

Drop Alcohol and Work Out to Cure Loss of Appetite

By Richard Nikoley | August 8, 2022 |

I began digging into this loss of appetite thing that I previously posted about. Good idea to check out that post and watch the video as a prerequisite to this.

With suggestions from a couple of kind folks I began digging. That turned up a lot of possibilities but the ones that seemed the easiest to implement were dropping alcohol and working out, then see if the appetite begins to return.

So, I made a video about all of it.

You can go watch the video right here.

Below, for members, I’m adding adding premium content that includes a how it’s going 2 days in. The focus is on the small positive things you can notice within a day of stopping and they build and get even better. This, provided you’re one who drinks too much, too often, and on a near daily basis.

I also put up an embed of the video and a food pick from a meal just a bit ago. Oh, and a source for 50 of those before and after pics of folks who stopped. Absolutely amazing.

“Grooming” New Bar Girls In Thailand (NSFW)

By Richard Nikoley | August 6, 2022

This is a gloriously racy post. It’s primarily contained within a video anyone can watch, but I’m putting all my commentary about the experience, and a pornographic image behind the paywall. Paid members only.

To expound upon that video, it’s about me going out last night and having two serendipitous experiences at two bars with two brand new bar girls who just started. In the first, it was a meetup for a second time with an amazingly pretty 27 year old who just started working, being unable to find work as a coffee barista, her normal work. Right now, she’s only peddling drinks and that’s small money. To make good money, she will have to go home with customers she takes a liking to. It’s all up to her. But she is scared and trepidatious.

The second is a crazy ass story. I’m approached in a 2nd bar by a 20 year old who’s openly bi-sexual. But, she has only been in relationships with other girls for the last 4 years. The last one just ended and so she’s in a bar to see what being with men is like. Unbelievably honest and excellent English, because for some years her mother was married to a Swedish man and he communicated by English.

She’s the one I showed the porn image to.

Also, below the paywall, I’ll elaborate on other things, such as my overly heavy-handedness about white western women.

Here’s the link to the video. I’ll embed it for the paid members.

I don’t like food anymore

By Richard Nikoley | August 5, 2022 |

I’m jumping ahead by a video. I’ve recently been doing a lot of videos in order to boost my YouTube Channel into the monetization realm, which is where they share their ad revenue. Getting there requires subscribers and watch hours. If you’d like to help a guy out, subscribe to my channel and watch my videos…or at least the ones that look like you might want to check out. Everything counts, so even if you watch for only a few minutes, it’s all chalked up. Doesn’t matter how you watch in terms of mobile, on YouTube, or embed. Liking and sharing is a bonus. Thank you.

I’m jumping ahead and over the one I had planned for the day because I want to put it out there immediately, owing to my audience being so food and diet centric still.

I don’t want to do too many spoilers, but I can expound upon the subject matter. For a good while I have lost the basic desire for food—a desire all of us are familiar with. Sometimes, I’m hungry as hell but dread having to eat and I often put it off and put it off. I’ve lost count of the times I choked something down because I know I need the protein and micro-nutrition.

One 2nd to last thing. In the video, I recount being not too desirous of the food offerings spread out at 2 birthday parties I attended last night. I named 2 exceptions at the 2nd one: the plain fried rice and watermelon. I forgot to mention the exception at the first one: baked potatoes, cut in half, then infused slightly with garlic butter. If I had it to do over again, I’d have just had 4 halves instead of 1, dispensed with everything else.

Finally, here’s the link to the CCTV footage of me being knocked out cold which could be relevant, or not. I don’t know.

I Did A Great Harm—My Recompense

By Richard Nikoley | August 4, 2022

I did an awful thing and then endeavored to correct it. And I did so.

I’m not saying 1 word more about it. You will have to watch the whole video if interested.

I’m not even dropping a clue.

Utter evil, then redemption.

Management By Walking Around And Asking Questions To Know All The Lies

By Richard Nikoley | August 2, 2022 |

Of all the videos I’ve done, this is the one I want every single reader, subscriber, member, or wanderer to watch. No exceptions.

In fact, I want you to watch it a few times. Because, I want you to integrate the message and make a lot more money over the course of your life—once you understand the underlying power.

In the video, I’m going to run you through what it takes if you’re balls-ass as a person and take on any job anywhere, and excel.

The only reason few people on earth can do it is because they were trained and indoctrinated to be submissive, compliant, and a cog in the machine.

They dutifully submit an application, hoping their experience and skills are competitive for what the employers are looking for, for their empty box to put someone in. Boxed in.

It’s a far cry from a man decades ago just wandering around, introducing himself, availing himself of any and all opportunities to trade his labor and time for for dollars in any capacity for which he could muster the basic abilities.

This is about generalism over specialization.

I have long though that specialization is the wrong road.

Too much to say or write about how wrong that is, both personally and societally.

Perhaps this: competent generalists always herd all the petty specialists, like the classic doctors and lawyers.

Now watch.

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