Sydnie Wells’ Epic Big Game Adventures in the Mountains of Patagonia | Drop A Pin Ep. 102

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The episode begins with a discussion on global immigration statistics, highlighting the United States and Germany as leading nations in immi

Key takeaways

• The United States holds the largest immigrant population in the world at approximately 51 million people.
• Sydnie Wells recounts her red stag hunting expedition in the rural mountains of Patagonia, Argentina.

Main topics

• Global Immigration Trends
• Hunting in Patagonia

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Conclusion

A wide-ranging exploration of global geography, wildlife encounters, a

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Speaker 4 (1:00) Did you eat any fresh puss? Speaker 1 (1:02) Fresh puss? Speaker 4 (1:03) Octopus. Octopus. Oh, Speaker 1 (1:05) oh, oh. I can't. I don't think so. Jesus Christ. No puss. Speaker 5 (1:12) All right, Donnie, before we get going with our interview with Sydney, I have a top five for you. What are the top five countries with the most total immigrants? Speaker 4 (1:22) USA has got to be up there. The Speaker 5 (1:24) United States is number one, and it's number one by such a wide margin that it's laughable. We got 51 million immigrants. Speaker 4 (1:31) Land of the free, baby. We will take, what's that quote? We will take all your huddled masses. Speaker 5 (1:36) Give us your tired and poor. Yeah, something like that. I mean, that might be antiquated. Speaker 4 (1:40) Yeah, okay. Yeah, I think it is. Next up, I mean. I've been seeing a lot of people complain about the immigration in Germany. Speaker 5 (1:51) Germany is number two with 15.8 million people. Wow. Speaker 4 (1:55) That's where a lot of the Syrian immigrants went during their civil war. And then what about the UK? The Speaker 5 (2:01) UK is number five with 10.2 million immigrants. That's become a big Speaker 4 (2:05) right-wing talking point. All right. So I've got three of them. Now, are any of these countries in Asia? Speaker 5 (2:13) Yes. One of them is. No, two. Speaker 4 (2:15) Okay. Oh, Australia. Nope. Australia Speaker 5 (2:20) is number nine. They have 8.2 million. Speaker 4 (2:24) Oh, okay. Which Speaker 5 (2:26) that's pretty significant. Like if you're talking percentage, because the population of Australia is only 27 million. So having 8.2 million immigrants is that 25%. Yeah. Speaker 4 (2:37) And I know a lot of Southeast Asia, Asia, a lot of people immigrate to Australia. That's why like Melbourne. has some of the best Asian food in the world. So I hear. A Speaker 5 (2:45) lot of Filipinos go down there too. Speaker 4 (2:48) Filipinos go everywhere. Speaker 5 (2:49) Yeah. They Speaker 4 (2:50) do. Speaker 5 (2:50) The Filipinos. Speaker 4 (2:51) Delightful people. Speaker 5 (2:53) A Speaker 4 (2:53) lot Speaker 5 (2:54) of nurses. Speaker 4 (2:56) Yeah, a lot of nurses. A lot of Navy Speaker 5 (2:59) chiefs. A lot of people in the Navy. Speaker 4 (3:01) Okay. A lot of maids. When I was in Hong Kong, all the maids are Filipino. We Speaker 5 (3:06) were doing other type of jobs, and then you went cleaning staff. Speaker 4 (3:10) Well, I'm just saying, in Hong Kong, the entire cleaning staff of Hong Kong is from the Philippines. Speaker 4 (3:16) Let's go. It's definitely not Japan. It's hard to immigrate to Japan. It's not Japan. Yeah. What about? Japan Speaker 5 (3:23) is actually the least diverse country that there is. That Speaker 4 (3:27) makes a lot of sense. The most diversity you have in Japan are the Japanese people who moved to Brazil and then moved back to Japan. And now it's like they're seen as like a minority, even though they're Japanese. They're just Japanese people who speak Portuguese. Speaker 5 (3:42) So we got United States, we got Germany, and the United Kingdom. Speaker 4 (3:47) Malaysia? Speaker 5 (3:48) Nope, Malaysia. It's not on the list, not in the top 10. What Speaker 4 (3:50) about France? Speaker 5 (3:52) France is number seven with 8.8 million. Speaker 4 (3:54) Okay. So both of these are Speaker 5 (3:57) in Asia. Speaker 4 (3:58) What about Turkey? Speaker 5 (4:00) Nope, Turkey's not on the list. Speaker 4 (4:01) So I'm missing just, all right, two in Asia. Speaker 4 (4:05) I mean, it wouldn't, I know like places like the United Arab Emirates, they have tons of immigrants, but probably not enough to qualify. Not enough Speaker 5 (4:12) to qualify. Yeah. Speaker 5 (4:15) But you're closer to the right region now. Big country over there. Speaker 4 (4:19) What about India? No, India is not Speaker 5 (4:24) on the list. Speaker 4 (4:25) Okay. India only Speaker 5 (4:27) had 4.7 million, which is very low for a country with a population of 1.4 billion. Speaker 4 (4:34) So is one of these in the Middle East? Speaker 5 (4:36) Yes, one of them is in West Asia, yep. Speaker 4 (4:38) Wow. Speaker 4 (4:40) If I was an immigrant, where would I want to go in the Middle East? I don't know if Speaker 5 (4:43) that's the metric you want to use. Okay. Speaker 4 (4:48) All right. So is it a war-torn country? Speaker 5 (4:51) They're involved in a lot of wars, but I don't know Speaker 4 (4:55) necessarily Speaker 5 (4:56) they're war-torn. They Speaker 4 (4:58) haven't been torn up? Speaker 5 (4:59) No. It's also the only country that is named after its ruling. Speaker 4 (5:04) Oh, Saudi Arabia? Saudi Speaker 5 (5:05) Arabia is number three with 13.5 million. Your last one is. Speaker 4 (5:10) My father-in-law and wife, they were immigrants in Saudi Arabia at one point. Yeah. And my last one, you were saying something? Speaker 5 (5:21) It's a large country as well. Speaker 4 (5:25) Yeah. I mean, it can't be China, right? Speaker 5 (5:35) Nope. Yeah. Neighbors, though. Speaker 4 (5:38) It doesn't really Speaker 5 (5:43) narrow it down. That's 14 countries. Yeah. They've got a lot of neighbors. Speaker 4 (5:47) I mean, is there a difference between an immigrant and an expat? Speaker 5 (5:51) No. Because like. Well, expat has the, typically an expat will have the desire to return to their country of origin at some point. A temporary Speaker 4 (6:01) thing instead of just having fully settled there. Yeah. Speaker 5 (6:08) So it's. Transcontinental. Yeah. Speaker 4 (6:14) Russia? Speaker 6 (6:15) Yep, Russia. They have 11.6. So your top 10, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, UAE, France, Speaker 5 (6:25) Canada with 8.8 million, Australia, and Spain with 7.5 million. Round it out. Speaker 4 (6:31) If you had to guess, where do you think most of the immigrants that live in Russia come from? Speaker 5 (6:37) Probably... Speaker 5 (6:39) Maybe Belarus, maybe China. Speaker 4 (6:43) Yeah, you probably got, where else was I thinking? I know Jamal lived in Russia at one point. He's from Tajikistan, but that's a small country. Oh, yeah, yeah. So a lot are from Central Asia and the Caucasus. So Uzbekistan, yeah, pretty much all the stands. And then plus some other smaller countries like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Moldova. Okay. Very interesting. Top five. I know like in Shanghai had a, when, at least when I lived in Shanghai, the expat population was enormous because there were so many Japanese and South Koreans that just worked there with plans to return. And then there was probably a hundred thousand Americans when I was there. Something like that. Speaker 5 (7:26) Yeah. Not Speaker 4 (7:27) anymore. That's gone down a lot since COVID. I Speaker 5 (7:30) mean, then I was looking at that list and then the list that had like the highest percentages were. primary places people go to work like um bahrain was really high qatar was really high on the list monaco was very high like 77 percent of people that live there a hundred percent of the people that live in the vatican are immigrants yeah Speaker 4 (7:54) qatar was wild when i was out there for the world cup because like all of the staff like weren't from qatar they're all from random countries in africa very delightful people yeah a lot of Speaker 5 (8:03) slave labor as well Speaker 4 (8:05) yes uh yep um i could probably count on like two hands how many actual qataris that i like met in qatar and it was probably just when me and pft were in the amir suite for the switzerland game yeah Speaker 5 (8:18) those countries are interesting that don't let anybody get their passport like you're not getting a japanese passport you're not getting a chinese passport you're not getting a north korean passport not that you would want one but Speaker 4 (8:28) no yeah i mean i have friends that like married a chinese person and i've like plan to live in China the rest of their lives, and you get a special marriage visa, but passport, no way. I don't even think they give Marbury a passport after he won four championships for the Beijing Ducks. The nerve, the nerve of them. Come on. That's the Speaker 5 (8:47) last. Eating a bucket of Vaseline and you can't even get a. Speaker 4 (8:50) That's the least you can do for Marbury. Yeah. Now, before we get into this podcast with Sydney Wells, anything else you wanted to address? Yes. Speaker 5 (8:58) From Sydney herself. I got a text from her last night. I was actually at Garth Brooks concert here in Chicago, which by the way, Garth Brooks, I was, I was sitting there. I try to be measured and think I don't want to be living in too much in the moment. Garth Brooks is the single greatest American performer I think of all time. Like as far as his concerts, I've been to so many concerts. Every one of his that I've gone to, it's like unbelievable. He's such a showman. He's so, and I think it's because he's so unbelievably cheesy. Like he's such a cornball and just really goes out there and has like no inhibitions about looking kind of nerdy. Like he cried probably 10 times last night. about the crowd yeah like because he would be singing like unanswered prayers and the whole crowd he'd stop singing the whole crowd is singing it does sound awesome when that's happening and it happened in several different spots and you could tell that he genuinely loves it and when somebody's passionate about anything i feel like that rubs off on the audience that you're watching like if we were just casually into geography this show would fucking suck Speaker 4 (10:08) but since we actually Speaker 5 (10:10) like it, that's what makes it decent. Speaker 4 (10:13) Yeah. I Speaker 5 (10:14) feel like him, he was just so over the top with how happy he was that people still love his songs 40 years later. Speaker 4 (10:23) I mean, that's got to be very special. But I mean, according to Nicky Smokes, though, Kanye West is the best living performer. Speaker 4 (10:31) I will say, you know, I'm half Jewish and Kanye West definitely went on a tear against the Jews for quite a long time. Speaker 2 (10:41) Yeah. Speaker 4 (10:42) The concert did look incredible. The concert did look incredible. I thought you were Speaker 5 (10:48) going to go more, but that was your only caveat. Well, Speaker 4 (10:51) the thing is, yeah, I mean. the like i i have a friend that has had a manic a manic episode in the past and like it is i mean it is a mental illness and like so he definitely was just like having a year plus long manic episode where he said some horrendous things but but Speaker 5 (11:11) as a reminder your mental illness is there's not an excuse yes Speaker 4 (11:15) but i will i can i can say the man does know how to throw a concert and it's also geography themed Look at Kanye standing on top of that globe. Where is Speaker 6 (11:24) he standing on top of? Speaker 4 (11:27) We have to zoom in. I mean, if we could just get a small version of that for our office, and then when we do like Geo Grand Prixs, we could stand Speaker 6 (11:36) on the globe. Speaker 4 (11:36) Where's Kanye standing? Speaker 6 (11:37) It's hard to see where he's standing. Speaker 4 (11:39) That was, I mean, man, I just want like a. small version of that in the green screen room imagine if you could stand on top of that globe while asking people trivia questions right there he Speaker 6 (11:50) was on canada okay so not there there he is oh he's in nepal Speaker 4 (11:55) i think yeah he's smack dabbing the himalayas yeah and that one um another uh oh before i forget sydney the reason why the reason why it's got very sidetracked so Speaker 5 (12:07) when we went to camp barstool which is actually where this episode was filmed we Sydney and I were talking and I was like, you know, it would be a cool idea because she hunts all the time and she brings back a lot of the meat. She has like duck and then she has all of her fish that she catches. She just shot an elk and I guess she's been trying to do it for five or six years. Speaker 4 (12:27) Oh, I think when we had her on the pod, she hadn't. She hadn't. Yeah. She texted me recently. Speaker 5 (12:32) Yeah. She texted me yesterday and said that she killed one and she was like, I'm going to bring you a bunch of meat. so that I could cook it because I had an idea for her that she could take the game, put it in one of our refrigerators, and if any of us content creators that know how to cook, we could grab it, cook a meal, and then they could share it on outdoors. It was just really a way to convince her to bring me a bunch of elk or venison that I could cook, and I wanted to eat it anyway. I'll film myself cooking that shit all day. Speaker 4 (13:00) I'll cook that with you. Speaker 5 (13:02) Yeah. Speaker 4 (13:02) I mean, it's a very healthy meat. It is. Very lean. And there's no Speaker 5 (13:06) recalls on elk. Speaker 1 (13:08) No, Speaker 4 (13:08) yeah. It's the USA like food scene. I mean, my wife's always freaking out about it because we got a toddler at home. But like every day there's a new type of food that gets recalled. And Speaker 5 (13:18) you got to be careful because cream cheese was one of them. Speaker 4 (13:20) Cream cheese is one of them. And then all of my like son's favorite foods like blueberries, eggs, jalapenos. Not my son's favorite food. One of my favorite. Like what a legend. Yeah. One year Speaker 5 (13:33) old just sipping on a pino. Speaker 4 (13:35) Dude. Yeah, I mean, that's... Do you think Europe has the same problem, or is it mainly... Oh, no, I think our Speaker 5 (13:44) inspections just suck. Yeah. Because it's not that they're getting caught in... They're getting caught after, when people are starting to get sick. Speaker 4 (13:53) yeah that was i mean and just i feel like the food in america is just way more processed than it than it is in europe and last Speaker 5 (14:01) night at uh garth this woman beside me was eating nachos that you would get at like the movies you know like the super processed cheese oh yeah and garth had black lights the color of this cheese was insane under a black light no one should be eating any of that stuff Speaker 4 (14:20) That is, yeah. I don't, I mean, I used to go to town on that stuff as a kid. I do try to stay away from that brand of nacho cheese. Speaker 5 (14:27) Yeah, my wife was like, look at my nails. And her, like, manicure was, like, glowing. And the lady beside was like, look at this cheese. It's like, holy shit. The Speaker 4 (14:36) salsa con queso made by Tostitos, though, that was crack in high school. I think that was my first munchies food back in the day. Speaker 6 (14:42) Oh, yeah, that's a perfect spot. All right, let's talk to Speaker 4 (14:44) Sydney. Speaker 5 (14:45) Hold on, wait, wait, wait. Speaker 4 (14:47) No, no, I want to just say something. There's, like. So every once in a while, I'll come across something on Instagram and I got to be like, oh, is it AI? Because half the shit is AI these days. This was actually true. Air Canada in the 70s, they had flights with a full-on dance floor on it. A full-on dance floor and maybe a glass ceiling. It was like a sophisticated cocktail lounge. A glass ceiling? Let's see if it was a glass ceiling or... Speaker 4 (15:20) Yeah, they had an upper deck lounge with a real dance floor and a mirrored wall. Yeah, and not a glass ceiling. They had a mirrored wall for transatlantic flights between Toronto and Europe. Music played from eight track tapes. And sometimes the flight attendants would even dance with passengers. I mean, that sounds awesome. The golden age of air travel was just incredible. My grandma used to tell me when she would fly. Some of the flights would have a breakfast buffet in the back of the plane, and you could also smoke cigarettes. So I like to call it, instead of taking the red eye, you're like, I'm taking the eggs and butts back home. Oh, yeah. Just fucking crushing eggs, smoking cigs. What a time to be alive. But I have hopes that, you know, well, I think in 20 years, either AI will have killed all humans or we will have returned to the golden era of air travel. Speaker 5 (16:10) Oh, 100 % not. We're going to be in there like cattle, just shitting. Like everything just going down so fast. Speaker 4 (16:16) It's going down fast, but something's going to change. I think either like AI is somehow going to make air travel so cheap that you can do whatever you want. Speaker 5 (16:25) Eventually we got to get past a place where when we go on a flight, we're worried about one dude who had bombs on his shoes on Christmas day, fucking 20 years ago. It happened one time. Speaker 4 (16:36) And I like, you still don't have to do that in most other countries, right? That's still like mainly. Speaker 5 (16:41) Yeah. Speaker 4 (16:42) Yeah. I mean, maybe it's just because I finally got TSA pre-checked that I no longer have to do that. But still, most people do, right? I thought I thought they were going to finally get rid of that, but I Speaker 1 (16:55) don't know. Speaker 5 (16:55) Yeah, I think we might be done with that. Speaker 4 (16:59) Yeah. We're done with shoe bombs. But we're not Speaker 5 (17:02) done with Sidney Wells. Speaker 4 (17:03) We're not done with Sidney Wells. So, yeah, this was a great convo. She's actually been all over the world, too. So it was cool to hear some stories. Here Speaker 6 (17:11) she is. Speaker 4 (17:17) Take Speaker 5 (17:17) it away, chaps. Welcome to the Camp Barstool edition of Drop a Pen. Today we have the lovely Sydney Wells is joining us to talk about all of her adventures. Sydney, how are you? Speaker 1 (17:27) I'm great. Love being back at camp. Thanks for having me on, guys. Speaker 4 (17:31) Some are saying you're the campiest person at Barstool. No Speaker 1 (17:33) way. Speaker 5 (17:34) Yeah, there's a lot of comments actually on. So Viva, I think it was, or maybe it was like the regular Barstool account, put out this graphic that had. me, Sydney, and Wonton as like the A option. And then it was like Brandon tied to somebody else. And they were like, you can only pick from one. You were the overwhelming favorite. I think that's Speaker 1 (17:56) crazy that us three were on one line. Yeah. Speaker 4 (17:59) I mean, you're the clear favorite. You have the most outdoor skills. I wouldn't say you're actually campy because campy is like an insult that means like corny, right? You say that's a really. Campy movie? I Speaker 5 (18:10) think it could be... Campy does not mean outdoorsy. I think it'd be homophone, right? Same sound, same word, but very different meanings. Speaker 1 (18:18) Campy. What Speaker 4 (18:19) does campy mean? Campy. It means it's like... Speaker 4 (18:28) It has reached campy cult classic status over the years. The song has reached campy. He goes, yeah, campy just means another word for camp. No, you crushed that. Yeah. I Speaker 1 (18:42) thought it means what the hell? I don't think I would be the most like. Okay, campy, I guess, person? Speaker 5 (18:48) I think people assume if you're going to bring somebody to camp, you want somebody who knows how to fish. You want somebody who knows how to hunt. You can build a fire. All those things survival-esque, you do it and you do it all the time. Speaker 6 (19:02) I Speaker 5 (19:02) don't know how much you build a fire, but you fish and hunt and prepare game and do all those things. You even have chickens and shit now. I Speaker 1 (19:10) do have chickens. My block, I love them. I think the biggest thing with camping, though, is really just like... Having somebody that's with you that doesn't complain. They don't even need to know a lot about the camping, but they're just willing to go do things that you tell them to do. Speaker 5 (19:23) Yeah, that's why when I pick who I would go to camp with, the two people that always come to mind is White Sox Dave and Kate. Speaker 6 (19:30) Because Speaker 5 (19:30) they're like, go with the flow. Dave's going to complain the whole time, but he's going to do it. He's probably going to be entertaining. He needs to Speaker 4 (19:38) be entertained. And Speaker 2 (19:38) I Speaker 4 (19:38) think he's gotten a lot better with his complaining, too. White Sox Dave, yeah. Speaker 5 (19:42) When we were in Greenland together, he was fantastic. Like didn't get on my nerves at all. Speaker 4 (19:46) And my first trip, I took him out abroad for the very first time in the Dominican Republic. The only time he complained is when he had actual food poisoning and had to be rushed to a hospital. I feel Speaker 5 (19:56) like that's fair. Speaker 4 (19:56) Yeah, that is very fair. Well, I think it's because Speaker 1 (19:58) he has ADHD too. Like these activities keep him going. If he's just sitting there, he's going to be complaining and having the worst time of his life. Speaker 5 (20:05) And he's a stewer as well. Like he stews on things and lets it get him like fired up, which I like about him. Speaker 4 (20:12) I just need to. Quickly now clear the air accurately. So Speaker 5 (20:15) you Speaker 4 (20:15) are 100 % not campy because campy is an adjective that describes movies, shows, or styles that are intentionally exaggerated, flashy, and artificial in a playful or humorous way. So I'm not going to call you too flashy or exaggerated. I'm just going to call you outdoorsy. Outdoorsy. Barstool Speaker 5 (20:31) outdoorsy. Barstool outdoorsy, yes. Speaker 4 (20:34) I would Speaker 1 (20:34) argue us three here are the most outdoorsy. Speaker 5 (20:38) Yeah. At camp. Yeah. Speaker 1 (20:41) As in... It doesn't have to be like a hunting and fishing, but like there's a lot outdoors. He's very broad. Speaker 4 (20:47) Shout out Tyler Spade behind the scenes guy. He's so outdoorsy that Dante thought he was Native American, even though he's blonde hair, blue eyed, the most Scandinavian looking guy ever. And he goes, dude, are you like Native American? And he goes, why would you ask me that? And he goes, he started that fire so fast, which is not just because he can start a fire. It does not give you the grounds to accuse them of. To call them Native American. That's such a Dante move. But in your travels, like you've done a lot of outdoors videos for the past. How long have you been with Barstool? Speaker 1 (21:20) Six years in February. Speaker 4 (21:22) Okay. Now, the couple of times I've gone on trips with you during the day, we're doing really cool outdoorsy stuff. But at night, we stay in pretty nice accommodations. Like we went duck hunting in Arkansas and we stayed in this beautiful duck lodge at night. Speaker 1 (21:34) Yeah. Speaker 4 (21:35) Me and Chaps went down and fished Speaker 1 (21:37) with Speaker 4 (21:37) you in Key West. And then we