Benjamin Rich, the Brit behind the wildly successful YouTube phenomenon Bald & Bankrupt, is funny, entertaining, and always unpredictable. But more than anything, he is fearless. With a channel unlike anything else out there, Bald (as he often calls himself on the show) seeks to highlight the lives of real people in the forgotten corners of the former Soviet Union and elsewhere.
This means drinking homemade wine with babushkas in Moldova, having a cookout with boozy locals in Belarus, and delivering vodka to those living in the Chernobyl zone. When he is specifically told not to visit dangerous neighborhoods like Lunik IX in Slovakia, he does the opposite and befriends the residents of one of Europe’s largest slums. Often accompanied on camera by Belarusian friend Alina Adzika, Bald was most recently seen smuggling a cat out of Cuba and riding “Africa’s worst train” in Mauritania.
This means drinking homemade wine with babushkas in Moldova, having a cookout with boozy locals in Belarus, and delivering vodka to those living in the Chernobyl zone. When he is specifically told not to visit dangerous neighborhoods like Lunik IX in Slovakia, he does the opposite and befriends the residents of one of Europe’s largest slums. Often accompanied on camera by Belarusian friend Alina Adzika, Bald was most recently seen smuggling a cat out of Cuba and riding “Africa’s worst train” in Mauritania.
