Mike Okay

Mike Okay

@mikeokay · 1.4M subscribers · 97 videos · English

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26:57

The Fine Art of Getting Drunk in a Parking Lot

912K views · 1mo ago · 26:57

Tailgating. There are many layers to this age old American past time. I don't know what those layer are. But I want to do it. What could be more fun than drinking with strangers in a car park for six hours, so that the football game you paid hundreds of dollars to attend becomes a vague memory, buried under a hangover and a deep sense of anxiety and regret?

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36:15

China's Working Class Is Live-Streaming To Survive

977K views · 3mo ago · 36:15

For centuries, China's rivers have been vital to its survival. People from villages across the country used them to travel to the cities and sell their goods and wares. These rivers were once filled with thousands of boats carrying passengers in every direction. But today, China's road and highway network has become so vast and efficient that those boats became useless and went extinct.

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38:54

China's Most Viral City Is Hiding a Dying Job

637K views · 3mo ago · 38:54

The city of Chongqing is essentially built into a mountain. Due to its terrain the city needed manpower to transport its goods from place to place, since vehicles couldn’t tackle the hills. The bang bang men, named after the bamboo sticks placed along their shoulders used to carry up to 50kg on each side, were once 500,000 strong. Today there are less than 2000 of them.

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38:52

Travelling Across Japan To Poison Myself

683K views · 5mo ago · 38:52

Japan's Fugu fish spent most of it commercial existence being totally illegal. And that because, if prepared incorrectly, it will slowly kill you if eaten. Let's go eat it. Join me as I hitchhike 250km through western Honshu. Cheeseburgers. Fighter jets. 300 million year old limestone plateaus. To reach Shimonoseki to learn about and POSSIBLY eat... The World's Most Poisonous Fish...

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35:12

Japan Is Losing Something It Can Never Get Back

843K views · 6mo ago · 35:12

Right. You gotta be patient with me on this one. I'm trying to make a point and I spend half the trip figuring out how to make that point. Basically many shrines and traditions in Japan need to destroy and rebuild in order to survive. Something like that. It's a pretty vague link. But i think i achieve it. Watch till the end to find out! That's called retention. You have to watch the whole video in order to get what's called a payout. Payout or payoff? I can't remember.

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45:47

The Japan The Algorithm Is Hiding From You

2M views · 7mo ago · 45:47

Once again we delve into the lesser explored side of a new country and this time we're in JAPAAAAAAAN. This was my first time visiting Japan. It wasn't as Japanese as I thought it was going to be. Does that make sense. Anyway. What was I talking about? Ah yes. Japan. Heres an AI written description that is supposed to be good for SEO or something. It's got Japan written into it like 200 time. Japan Japan Japan. We get it!

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43:46

I've Never Travelled Somewhere Like This (Remote PNG)

1.3M views · 8mo ago · 43:46

Thank you to The Papua New Guinea History Project for providing some of the music in this video I travelled along Papua New Guinea's isolated coastline, a place where the jungle still hides relics from World War II. During the war, more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers were stationed in Papua New Guinea, and some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific campaign took place along this very coast.

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33:14

Entering Papua New Guinea Alone in 2026

958K views · 8mo ago · 33:14

Not a lot can prepare you for Papua New Guinea. Especially when you enter the country overland from Indonesia with absolutely no plan. In this video, I cross the Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border alone and head to Vanimo, my first stop inside PNG. With zero itinerary and no idea what to expect, I dive straight into life on the ground from smashing beers and betel nut to navigating unpredictable first encounters in a town that doesn’t slow down for anyone.

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25:52

Drunk Camping in an Abandoned Soviet Ghost Ship

784K views · 11mo ago · 25:52

Once, the Aral Sea was one of the largest lakes on Earth. Today, it’s a dried-up desert filled with abandoned Soviet shipwrecks, rusting on sand where waves used to hit. In this video, I travel to the Aral Sea region to see what’s left, meet people who still live here, and spend the night inside a Soviet shipwreck that hasn’t touched water in decades.

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34:39

Afghanistan Broke Me..

3.5M views · 1y ago · 34:39

Things don't always go to plan. I think this why I've been loving this trip so much. Nothing has gone to plan. This route has already taught me so much. But it's always scared me. In this video I'll find myself stranded in an Afghan mountain town. The only way I can get out is by striking a deal with the taliban.

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36:17

Entering Taliban Controlled Afghanistan in 2025

4.6M views · 1y ago · 36:17

This video marks the first in a 3 vid special. When I entered Afghanistan through Ubzekistan this month, I found a really interesting road on a map. So I decided to travel it. Of course it wasn't that simple! Once upon a time, Afghanistan was the ultimate stop on the 1970s Hippie Trail. a place of freedom, music, and discovery. Fifty years later, I return to a country scarred by war and isolation, to see what’s left.

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