Ep. 1072: Phuc Map Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Brandon J. Hurley, an American Youtuber, who to his Vietnamese audience is known as Phuc Map. He graduated with a double major in journalism and sports studies at the University of Iowa. He was a professional journalist for more than 10 years.

The topic is his life abroad.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How he mastered a new language
Being a teacher
How he gained an audience on his YouTube and other social media platforms
How countries vary in terms of lifestyle and infrastructure
The difference in altitude toward foreigners across countries

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.6	Brandon Hurley, aka FookMop.
0:43.0	FookMop is Vietnamese, and if my pronunciation is not perfect, please forgive me.
0:51.6	Brandon and I had a chance to meet up in Saigon, and he has perhaps become the most famous foreigner in Vietnam.
0:58.0	And props to him, he speaks, from what I understand, and I have asked a lot of people, damn perfect Vietnamese. And this is not an easy language. I hope you enjoy this conversation,
1:06.6	and I hope you enjoy the inspiration that if you have ever thought about trying something completely outside the box,
1:15.3	something completely new, like learning a language, like learning an Asian language if you happen to be American, for example.
1:24.5	I think Brandon, again, aka Fook Mop, and you will find out what that means in the podcast, I think Brandon gives great inspiration.
1:35.1	I hope you enjoy this conversation. There can't be too many white guys in Vietnam with your language skills.
1:54.5	Well, I appreciate that.
1:55.8	I don't know how to judge your language skills because I don't speak Vietnamese except for a handful of words, but is that a fair assessment? Well, I will say that there are a handful of foreigners that put their language
2:06.4	skills out to the public. I'm sure there are plenty of men, women here that speak Vietnamese
2:11.6	and don't let anyone know about it. In terms of being out in the public, I am one of a handful
2:16.9	because I've met the majority of them
2:18.5	already. You are 33, 34? 34 now. 34. I can't imagine at age 18 as some typical wild man in the
2:29.4	States like I was. I'm sure you were too. The last thing that you had on your mind was I will be a
2:37.9	super conversant Vietnamese speaker at age 34. I had no idea. You are completely right with that
2:46.6	assessment. To be honest, when the idea of coming to Vietnam first came up, I was against it.
2:52.0	I said, why would I go to Vietnam having such a great time here in America?
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