Name: Budapest's WORST District Revealed w/ Ralph Schoellhammer
Uploaded: 2025-08-28T18:13:32+00:00
Duration: 1 h 14 min 18 s
Description: “Don’t go there. They will kill you,” “They’ll surround you and start stabbing you if you don’t give them your money,” and “Peter, please, please don’t do that.” These were some of the things I was em

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“Don’t go there. They will kill you,” “They’ll surround you and start stabbing you if you don’t give them your money,” and “Peter, please, please don’t do that.” These were some of the things I was emphatically and sincerely told when I informed people I was going to walk around Budapest’s eighth district before dusk. The eighth district is, after all, known for being a hotbed of criminality. I, however, am American, and the worst day in the history of the eighth district is not as bad as an average day in an American slum!

So it was with great anticipation that my friend, and friend of the show, Ralph Schoellhammer, and I decided to walk, talk, and film a conversation not only in Budapest’s eighth district but in the worst part of the eighth district—its bowels.

Watch my previous conversations with Ralph:
Conversation 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ppr2ZtprM
Conversation 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AETGpQLQjFI
Conversation 3: https://youtu.be/_aoveT_FuK0

Ralph's socials: https://linktr.ee/RalphSchoellhammer

Chapters
0:00 Teaser
1:00 Urban life
4:00 Urban decay
9:20 Collapse of the USD
12:20 High trust vs low trust society
18:30 America’s decay
23:50 The future of Europe
35:30 Ralph’s pessimism on Western Europe
47:28 US stance on Europe
52:10 Can Europe change course?
56:45 Talking with Hungarian kids
1:02:00 Continuing previous conversation
1:07:34 Impressions of District 8, Budapest