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Drew Binsky[1] (born: May 24, 1991), is an American YouTuber that does a wide variety of travel videos.
About[]
Binsky was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, he is an American YouTuber that makes videos about his experiences in every country he visits and the stories he finds. His original plan was to visit every country in the world, which he completed in October 2021. He goes to a country and reviews what's unique in a specific country. For example, he reviewed Lebanon and said that people there are multilingual and they have Byblos as the oldest surviving city in the world, to name a few facts that he said.
Sometimes, he shows one of these facts about a specific country in the thumbnail and title and talks about it. For example, he talked about Tuvalu, a country, having the domain name .tv, and the country gaining an income of 5 million dollars yearly over it.
Overall, although he primarily does travel videos, he occasionally talks about other stuff and stories, like the world's most addictive drug (the betel nut) and Mike Posner manually walking across the United States.
"Binsky" was a nickname given to him by his family, of Jewish origin.
He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which he graduated in 2013 with degrees in economics and entrepreneurship.
As of October 2021 he has visited every country in the world, with his final country being Saudi Arabia.
History[]
He was born on May 24, 1991 in Dallas, Texas, United States and grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. His parents was bought him a globe at his 8th birthday then he spin it and memorize all the countries/capital/flags. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 2013 with degrees in economics and entrepreneurship, despite his previous tendency of partying often and getting bad grades back in 2010, as he mentioned in one of his YouTube posts.[2] During his junior year in college, he entered into a study abroad program in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied there for a semester, during which time he traveled to more than 20 countries across Europe.
Binsky launched his YouTube channel on July 25, 2012, and uploaded a video on the same day. His first video is about him trying to speak Czech.
On late 2022 (around August or September), his channel was hacked by someone impersonating ARK Invest, deleted (or at least privatized) all of his videos, and livestreamed a crypto stream starring Elon Musk.[3] However, he was on a golf trip with his dad in Wisconsin, and his fiancée Deanna tried to inform him to get his channel back and contact his manager AJ. He got in contact with a man named Zachary and was helpful in this situation. YouTube noticed and brought the channel back to Drew.
Border 197 Documentary[]
Border 197 is a potential 90-minute documentary that was shot in six countries; Palau, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Ecuador, Venezuela and Jamaica. This documentary is different from his typical videos because it covers Drew's personal experiences and what he learned after visiting every country. Chris Weddings and Drew Binsky created this documentary together. It released in December 2021.[4]
Trivia[]
- He was born the same day Eritrea gained independence.
- Binsky is Jewish.
- He disliked the country Brunei, but revisited it in 23rd April, 2023 with a much more positive perspective.[5][6]
- He spent 18 months there and traveled to 20 countries in Asia during that time. He quit his teaching job in January 2015 and began focusing on traveling full-time.
- He is married to a girl named Deanna Sallao, who hails from the Philippines. They met in Bangkok, Thailand on October 2015 at a travel conference. Deanna used to be a travel blogger, much like Drew.
- This girl is also generally ethnically, racially and genetically different from Binsky. This is called an interracial relationship and he made a video about it.
- They tied the knot on February 14, 2023 and held their wedding in the Philippines.
- He used to have a blog named "The Hungry Partier",[7] which he sold it to someone and then created a new blog by his name.
- He is a scratch golfer, EDM music lover, people-person, and he holds 2 Guinness World Records.
- Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Binsky resided in Manila with his then-girlfriend Deanna Sallao, whenever he wasn't traveling.
- However, due to the pandemic, he moved to Los Angeles, and bought a home in Phoenix with his then-fiancée Deanna in May 2021.
- Drew is a massive fan of golf, having made several videos about the sport and have played the sport in several dozen countries.
- Drew Binsky doesn't want to go to Chad again due to his experience there, he was attacked by a man because he shot a photo of a kid sitting next to him, he also was caught in a police chase. Furthermore, he had to do the filming indoors because it is illegal to film outside in Chad. After that, he was in Togo unexpectedly for 24 hours because his flight to Bamako, Mali was cancelled.
- According to Drew Binsky, Libya's visa was the hardest visa he had ever got. There wasn't any embassy in his country (the United States), so he had to take a flight to Rome, the capital of Italy. In Rome, there is a satellite embassy which is like a normal embassy, however, the guy that had Drew's passport wasn't very responsive, but after a week, he got it and it cost $3000. When he came, he was forced to stay in Tripoli due to the ongoing civil war in Libya. In the night, he also heard explosions in the distance and got woken up.
- Drew Binsky lived in Seoul, South Korea for two years and worked as an English teacher. During his experience he learned the Korean Language.
- One of Binsky's most popular videos is him visiting Wim Hof, the proclaimed "ice man", in his house and tested his method in a barrel full of ice, as shown in the picture above, but in that picture, there is only Wim Hof. 5 minutes later, he went inside Hof's house.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewgoldberg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugzy9zU4HTY6fpltdJZ4AaABCQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNBQkupUENQ
- ↑ http://drewbinskydocumentary.com/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmk4VMQwjGY
- ↑ https://youtu.be/KBabOabtXRg?t=852
- ↑ http://www.thehungrypartier.com/. Currently owned by a man named Eric.