You Be Trippin' - Ari Goes to Guatemala w/ Ethan McKenzie | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

Follow Ethan on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/ethan.mckenzie/ SPONSORS: -Go to https://Superpower.com to learn more and lock in the special $199 price while it lasts. Live up to your 100-Year potential. #superpowerpod -Shop SKIMS Mens at https://www.skims.com/trippin #skimspartner -Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @‌MUDWTR with code TRIPPIN at https://mudwtr.com/TRIPPIN ! #mudwtrpod On this week's episode of You Be Trippin', Ari sits down with his friend Ethan McKenzie to reminisce about their trip to Guatemala. Ari met Ethan at a hostel there and they experienced everything Fiesta de Santo Tomas had to offer. Before hitting the festival, they share pictures of the hot springs, beautiful hikes, and the chaotic chicken buses. If you could imagine all the dangerous things about carnivals, multiple that by 100, and it's right there in Chichicastenango, Guatemala for this festival. Booming fireworks pointed right at the crowd and sketchy rides were abundant. Chao! You Be Trippin' Ep. 89 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:53 - Hot Springs & Beautiful Hikes 00:21:55 - Bargaining & Borrachos 00:28:28 - Traveling Cheap 00:37:55 - Fiesta de Santo Tomas 00:53:14 - Dangerous Fireworks & Graveyards 01:11:17 - Food Market 01:19:38 - Travel Tips & Where To Next Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. dot c a slash ymx okay you got any questions before we start me yeah um hmm no none of it matters none of it matters we're just it's just like two friends talking about our fun time um it's all

really is first thing that popped in my head when you ask me any question yeah i'm thinking this situation is like why are you gay what have you seen the meme why you gay no really like the african guy and they're like he's interviewing like the transgender lady like this is a while ago and they're rule right wing and he's like so you are why are you gay yeah i saw that one why are you say i'm gay you are transgender why are you gay that was a classic that was from school and i did i remember some of those african like uh uh like interviews because there's so much in a different time they're just like you must beat your wife to let her know and you're like you know you're on camera they're like yes i tell people you must beat your wife on thursdays and wednesdays and wednesday's

only. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, what? What? Are you gay? They really didn't understand it. And he was like, I don't get any of this. Where you've been and where you're going?

This is our race travel show. Yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's U.B. Tripping, yeah. Hey, everybody. Welcome to U.B. Tripping. It's a travel podcast.

Me and a guest take you to a strange place across the globe every week. It's the only podcast. that serves 100% fresh wallaby meat to every guest on the podcast. And today I have my friend Ethan McKenzie on. We're in the Gold Coast. We're in Gold Coast? Yeah. Of Australia, of New South Wales?

Queensland. Queensland. Queensland. Ethan, where are we going today? We're going to Chi Chi in Guatemala. Trip we took together. Okay, so let's talk about Chi Chi. Or just like, how do we meet?

I remember where I met you. The Kiwi Hostel. Kiwi Hostel, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was sick. You were playing, you, did you have weed? No, I remember, um, yeah, maybe. I had just gotten there.

Yeah, I think I might have. Yeah. No, I remember I was in the, in the, uh, I was in the, um, kitchen just eating a sandwich and you walked in, getting a tour. I was like, Ethan, and you're like, Ari. And I was like, all right. And then I saw you upstairs. And, uh, yeah, and then you're just sitting with people and I went up there and we just started chatting and smoked a job. join I think and then to do you ever go like first day at a hostel where you're like I don't

know anybody yeah yeah I mean it's like kind of uncomfortable but then yeah pretty quickly everybody's like very open yeah yeah depends how I'm feeling like if I'm feeling social or if I'm with someone it's like instantly just straight into it but sometimes if you're keeping to myself I'm like not wanting to socialize at all and I might like not socialize for like four days or yeah depends what I'm doing around how long I stay but yeah yeah I'd come from Guatemala City gotten on one of those cabs and they're like because they're like get the fuck out of Guatemala City as soon as you can yeah yeah that was every warning I was like okay and then I landed there got to that no wait I was in Antigua first I'm not sure wait what city was this

with the one that we're in that we met oh that was in um no that was not in that was not in that was not in Chala that was in Schella yeah yeah yeah you know I went there you you weren't meant to go there right no there was a Simpsons episode there was a Simpsons episode where they had a chili cook off and the sheriff was like was way into it's gonna fucking hit a thousand times was way into like he's making chili that could hurt Homer

yeah yeah I think what else and he goes crazy yeah he goes the merciless chili peppers of Katzalzakatanango no way yeah grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of the Guatemalan and same asylum hey is she out no she's still in yeah by the Guatemalan insane inside and I was like I gotta find

these chili peppers at Katsal Taka Senango and then they're like there is a city Katsal Taka or whatever Katsal Tanago and I'm like what?

So good enough reason as any Yeah yeah yeah Did you eat one of those chilies? Yeah they weren't really Oh really? Yeah I think it was just a writer's fiction

Yeah yeah yeah yeah Chelles Yeah but then you told me about Atitlan Like Atchelan

Yeah and a fucking sick hostel Which I was going to Atthlaan anyway Yeah But you're going to go more than in San Pedro area. Yeah. Yeah.

Which I did, but I stopped in... So big that lake. It's so bad. You don't understand. You think of a lake. You're like, whatever, I'll do it. You're like, no, no, there's cities. Yeah.

Different unrelated cities. So many, like big ones, yeah. And then like little ones as well. Did you go free diving with Tim? Did you ever do it? No, I didn't. Yeah. I got made to the invadena.

I just never saw the appeal to it. I should have probably done it, to be honest. He asked me and I was like, nah, I'm good. And then like, he got ready and he came. back he goes you sure and i was like you know when you have enough time to think i'm like yeah why yeah why don't i do it yeah yeah yeah you should yeah yeah it's a good one it was like that waterfall we went on yeah we cut in the wrong place to go behind the waterfall and at first in australia we're

here in australia everybody yeah we're in gold coast and it was like no we're not allowed to go and you're like you're like you sure like i'm sure i was joking i was like hey i want to go because i know that it would make you like want to go but i wasn't even going to go you weren't fucking hell you started going and I was like yeah let's do it I mean I was like

no no and then I'm like it will be fun yeah but I'm like they're like sharp rocks danger will die yeah you never know

if there was like a landslide and actually is unstable or is it like one of those ones where like it's just a bit too dangerous for like

a lot of public people going through and it's fine right yeah so you don't know or like you're or right

it's not raining currently yeah just like that tree just like that tree yeah the ladder up the tree yeah but man

we had a blast in a in a Katzotaka, whatever, Katzataanga. Chella. Chela, yeah. That was a lot of fun that hostel. Just walking around, you help me find weed. Yeah, yeah.

I'm so nervous to find weed. Yeah, just go to any of those guys just making jewelry in the streets and they'll be able to get you some. It is pretty, like, when you think about it in hindsight, you're like, oh, right, of course. A guy making jewelry with, with, like, dreads. Yeah. Like, yeah. Well, like, they all would smoke weed.

They're not necessarily there to do. deal weed but they all you know what they're doing there is to make money selling jewelry but they know that they can make some money selling you weed you know by buying some of some guy selling to you was slightly higher yeah still cheap for us you know but yeah i was in that mode of like bargain and i was like no it's crazy and then he was like it's the price and i'm like still pretty fucking cheap yeah it's like i was bargaining for pennies yeah it's fine and i also desperately needed it where else am i going to find it i'm so frightened to find some um exactly but then uh But then, so we split up, but that was a fun fucking week.

That festival was in, uh, we went to, went to the hot springs. It was in the jungle. Hot Springs in the jungle was fucking sick. Yeah, went to the little, like, ones you have to pay a little bit extra to go down there. The little extra was very little extra. Yeah, like $2. It was like $2.00. And it was like all alone.

One other guy, a couple, maybe. But I was on a little bit, yeah. It was four different hot springs, colder and colder and colder. And it's like the cliffs on the either side of like, you're going to, in like a alley sort of thing. God, do you still have pictures of that? Yeah. I'll put pictures up on that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Video of like, I mean, you're in like, it's like, it's like King Kong. Yeah. It was hot. It was so fucking cool. So high the whole time. So fucking high. Yeah.

It was weird like, yeah, it's like you're in the, it was kind of like you're in some Amazon sort of. How did we get out there? We took a bus. We got a ride or we took an Uber. We ubered initially there. And then we had no reception. I left my jacket in the Uber and he happily took that one.

Tried to get it back. Yeah. Of course, I try to like, you know, submit a thing through by and they're like, nah. And you're like, dude, come on, it's a name brand jacket. And it goes, oh, sick, thanks. No, it wasn't. It was like $5, but I really liked it. I got it from like an op shop, a secondhand thrift store.

Did I go with you to that crazy, crazy thrift store, thrift market, the $1 pile? In one of the bus stations or something. Oh, yeah, maybe. And it's like a dollar pile. Yeah, yeah. It looks like the fucking shoes in the Holocaust Memorial. Yeah, in Shell, yeah. Oh, my God.

And it's like, I buck. Yeah, you actually have some good stuff in there. I found this button-up tea that was like, you'd get that from like a thrift, like a good vintage thrift store for like $20. Really? Yeah, and I wore it the whole time. And every time I wear it, someone's like, that's a nice shirt.

And I was like, I got that for one Ketzel, which is like 12 cents. It does. Oh, yeah, it's one Ketzel. Yeah, yeah, it was one Ketzel. Yeah, yeah. Wow, yeah. And you're almost like, I don't know if it'll fit, like, who cares? Then just give it away.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got a few things just gave them to people. To mates. That was cool, yeah. Yeah, that place rules. What was the, what, what food do you remember in, uh, in, uh, Guatemala? Oh, pastadas. I remember, didn't we go out, like, we weren't around at nighttime and we, like, tried some of the food. You got the tostatas, you got, um, well, they just got like the normal meals where you just have, like, rice, salad and like a piece of meat. That's like a meal. But if you want to get, like, the special stuff, remember how you had that, like, it was like a banana ball with, like, beans in it? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I made you try one of those. And you. You know, I made you try one of those. you're like this is weird it was weird i didn't care for it too much what was that called do you remember no yeah no way mashed banana with beans in it you're like try this it's strange but take a chance and you're like okay yeah that was and they also had like all that that was like some

event happening yeah it was a festival because i was like is this always like this and you're like no i've been here for like a month it's not always like this yeah it just got going yeah yeah it was yeah what was going on but yeah it was some festival for like not for new years or Some Christmas related. I think it went December. Yeah, Christmas, right? No, they had all the Christmas lights in the main square and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. All the Christmas things are happening. Yeah. It's fucking cold there as well. It was cold there. Good hiking. I remember you told me, you were like, which hikes are you doing? I'm like, I don't know.

Do you remember this? I don't remember that. And you're like, what were you planning on doing? I'm like, is there hiking here? And you were like, did you do any research? And I'm like, no. I just look for direct flights from Boston. And Guatemala was on the list.

that's all right though yeah yeah it's kind of fun like doing like that sometimes you know but i found out still did it yeah fuego yeah my fuego was cool acatanango climbing up acutenango and then watching fuego did you actually get did you climb a hike across to fuego as well no did you do no no we were well you're nuts i know i regret not going actually but um i know i was up there for two nights jay which is my mates um that was fun we made a campfire two night oh my god the wind rips through it it's it's it's the craziest thing is you're up there halfway it's this it's this volcano is just going off constantly every like 30 seconds no i wouldn't be that no minute 10 minutes no more less depends i guess when you're at the base

when you see it in antigua you can just see it pop off and you're like i'll stand here for a minute it's gonna go again it won't go every minute though definitely doesn't go when i went there it was every 10 minutes maybe when you were there maybe like because it does change like how frequent it happens sometimes people go and they'll see it twice Because maybe it does like a big eruption and then for the next... But just a little smoke going off. It's a smoke. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you get up close and then you come around this bend and the guide, it was just me and two Canadian chicks. And this guy was like, look, and we're like, what the, because then you see how big it is, but he goes, wait. Because when the sun goes down, you realize it's all red. Yeah. You just can't see it in the sun. It's like molten rock.

Moulton rock. Yeah. It is a bit, it's a wig out. Oh, that's, on my trip, that was probably the, that must have been the coolest experience that hike sucked yeah if i knew what the hike was going to be i would not have done it it was straight up it was straight up hill for six hours yeah yeah it was horrible yeah but surely you know they are watching the lava on top of that mountain was just one of the coolest things in your life yeah let me see this yeah i fuck this up a lot

just everything just everything really i fuck up quite a quite a bit just like planning for guatemala Yeah Yeah, exactly Hi everybody I'm gonna break into today's episode To let you know A little bit about the guest He's not a comedian

It's just a cool guy Ethan McKenzie Took me into his home Well, I guess his brother's home Some homie was watching We remember to the Gold Coast We had a fucking blast there It was a fun time to do this podcast

And he was like When's this coming out? And I was like buddy I think I can go back and visit The city we did the podcast about I'm in one of the most Pretty cemeteries in the world out here in the same city but oh dude Ethan I got to tell you first of all first of all

right now I'm staying in your favorite hostel I don't want to say the name but open mic night yesterday was great I did a magic trick no jokes Tim is gone I think he went back to Australia they don't know when it's coming back I hung out I went to the hostel where we met and we first played boo boo boo how pretty this cemetery is yeah sat at that table and Met some Guatemalans. I was like, why do you guys drink at this bar? And they were like, what's the one place we can smoke?

And yeah, they were just cool. I told us about, oops, people are coming. I get embarrassed doing this. It told us about, they asked me about Trump. And then I said, I'll tell you anything. It doesn't matter what political party you're into. If somebody asked you about your politics from your home, just say they're terrible.

And then go, how do you feel about yours? And I did that. we think they're terrible as well. They're so corrupt. We've gotten corruption on this Guatemalan ruling class because light on crime or they take bribes from the rich. They're straight out bought out by rich companies.

I'm like, oh yeah, we got that too, bro. We've got the same thing here. One of the advisors of our fucking leaders is one of the richest men of the world. Anyway, I'm gone. I don't really know anything. What was they going to? to tell you but I got to go against the sun for a second sorry guys I'm in the shade um

but it lets you my eyes um but everybody I meet here when they're trying to sell me something because it's it's market day it came for market day a way way different vibe but everyone's trying to sell me something I was like I got no space and like why you've got space right in there I'm like no you don't understand I'm gonna it's not space like that it's a different kind of space um but I was like they're like do you know about whatever uh this city and I go yeah I was actually here a via a via hey those years pasto para um festivals of sons no mas and they were like no I was like oh it's so different right and they're like yeah it really is I was like

with the bombas I can call it fireworks call them bombas because they are they're just massive bombs and all this stuff so let's get back to the episode back to Gold Coast and whatever and talking about this crazy festival. It went to back to the Hey buddy, it's okay. Don't worry about it. You're cool.

A lot of beating dogs here, clearly. But I'm in the cemetery. I'm going to go find the church where all the fireworks went off where I took all those pictures to see how different it is on Market Day. But also, since I'm in the cemetery, one thing Ethan and I found was a massive pile of garbage. And I don't mean pile.

I mean like they filled up a cliff. And I've been walking around, um, yeah, there it is. I just found it, actually. Um, I just found it. And, uh, dude, I have a blast so far. I miss, Ethan. Um, let me, uh, how do I get to this thing? How do I get to this thing? Okay. It's here.

This is a pile of trash. Ethan, I figured out finally why it is no longer, um, super, super bad. guys it goes all the way down there I mean deep into it but Ethan if I figured it out here's how they get rid of it they just burn it this can't be good for me to breathe in they just burn all the garbage and then garbage goes like all the way down I'm gonna hold my breath and do this but all the way down there you see it block well I'm not clear of it yeah. All right, let's get back to the episode. Guys, if you're watching and

subscribing, please subscribe. Please click that reminder bell to let you know when new episodes are coming out. Um, oh, and please get some merch. Why don't you get some merch? I put up a, okay, I'm asking people now to try to find one of those, um, you'd be chicken stickers, chipper stickers in the wild. I put up some stuff. I put up up in the, um, largest, what did we get? The largest, um, oh damn, I thought I had stickers. Oh well. What do I do? Largest buying ruin. Put up one of these.

You'd be a tripping sticker. I put one up at the hostel. You and I met at. Ethan, I put up with the one I'm staying at now, your favorite hostel in Guatemala, in the bathroom, outside the eating area. Guys, get yourself some stickers and put them up all over the world. And if you see one, if you see one in the wild, take a picture of it.

And if it's one that I put up, tag us on Instagram, us on Instagram and if the one that I put up I got to do something for you I got to do something for you yeah I don't know if you're the first one to find it anyway I'll do something for you also get you be chippin um um t-shirts vinals from Jew Arsphere grinders fine uh quality goods um look how pretty this just fucking cemetery is even with the trash being burned it's just kind of gorgeous Jew vinals Go for a hike shirts

Unfortunately, I do not have any Shaleju shirts, but I will tell you Dale, Dale, Dala, Supertivo, Dale. Now let's get back to the episode. Ethan McKenzie, all-around great guy. Me, no dates. Bye. I'm gonna find the church for the end.

So then I went to Atlan, I was like, and I looked for this fucking festival. Yeah, we... I don't know, I was like, what... This is what I found for, in Ecuador. There's a festival in every region once a month. Yes. Every region will have one a year.

The birds out here are fucking wild. So I was like, all right, that's a little get me going. Find some festival. I was like, what's going in December, this place in Chi? Yeah. And, dude, you're so open. I was like, you want to go? You're like, yeah, all right.

Yeah, why not? Why not? It's right. Yeah. Same cool. Yeah. Go there. and just check it out so we got to talk about i guess first we got to talk about chicken buses

like getting to these places oh mate these chicken buses did you take any you took some chicken buses before we met yeah i took up to northern town because because i asked the guy who ran um kiwi was pretty fucking cool and he's married to like a non-g Guatemalan yeah yeah the american guy yeah was he was he was i think i think he was from guatemala i think he made to spend time in america no no he's american really yeah she might have been Maybe she was Guatemala. Yeah. No,

I went to that hostel a few times, actually, in different parts of my trip. And I was like, I'm going to this place because there's shuttles, like, tourist, not tourist shuttles, but backpacker shuttles that'll, like, pull your money. And I was like, and he goes, no, no, you can get to like a, like a change uptown, but then you got to take, you got to take chicken buses. I was so frightened. Really? That's fair enough.

It's new. It's so new. Yeah, yeah. But after being on the chicken bus, you should definitely be frightened. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's fair enough, but I don't know, yeah. The drivers are, they go nuts. They go so fast. Yeah, yeah. There's a guy riding on top and he like jumps and he's like, come on, come on, come on, come on.

He starts to yelling at people that are waiting. Like, let's go, let's go. They don't stop. They just slow down. These old ladies have to jump on. He's like, come on, come on. They grab their hand. They just start fanging around these corners, like just so fast.

Oh, mate, I remember like, there was one I went on. And I think it was from Guatemala. They go from Guatemala City to Sheller, I think. And they just, oh, mate, I just literally speeding around corners. and you're actually, they're hitting pot holes like, they don't even try and swear from. They're just like, do do do, do, doom, and all the things are flying everywhere in the bus. The old ladies are there just, like, holding on for dear life. People are falling over.

Like, it actually is nuts. Like, it actually is a crazy experience that you, I don't know, a bit risky about, like, I think that's just, but it's just one of those crazy things that you can go do in Guatemala, you know, like. Remember that lifer we met? The what? The lifer. The lifer traveler. Oh, that old guy? The old guy.

Sort of. I sort of was quick to forget him. He was weird. Yeah, yeah. You got a lot of people weird. I was like, oh, I've been traveling for 40 years. Yeah, yeah. He's like, I'm house-sitting right now.

He's, where are you guys from? Like to Australia and America. I was like, oh, cool. He, like, kind of looked at us weird. They're weird. The lifers are weird. I met one guy once in Mexico, and I was like, oh, where are you from? And he's like, nowhere.

I'm like, yeah, but you're like. But you were from somewhere. Yeah, like, where you're born? He's like, I'm just from planet Earth, mate. I'm like, I'm like, you. Yeah, whatever. What a dork. You're leaning in too hard.

You're leaning in way too hard. I understand what you're going for, but like, where were you born? You know what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, but then we get there. To Chi Chi. Chichi, yeah. I met you in Atilan.

You're like, I'll go up there. I met you at some, like, coffee shop. Yes. And like, let's get going. Yeah. And we had some food. And then we had a hitchhike down from my town and nobody would come get me and finally someone did. I was like an hour late.

Yeah, yeah. That's all right. Sorry. Yeah, then we got the bus there, that took a little bit, and then the traffic, and then we got out and walked. Yeah. In where? In Chi-Chi, you mean? Yeah, we got out to get out early and then walked.

And then we started seeing all, like, the people dressed up in the costumes. Talk about the costumes. I remember a goat-head guy? Goat-head guy, yeah. Or like a ram or something? Yeah, there's a few things like that. I know, it's like, remember that, like, they look kind of like a face of a baby, like a mask. Yeah, a big baby mask.

Yeah. And then they would have, like, all the different colors and feathers and... giant feathers things coming out all over their body it was yeah it was so ornate yeah it was crazy yeah was the fireworks already going at that point probably because the thing started the next day there was like the um you know the like the cannon one that they shoot off into the air just boom boom boom yeah boom it would just never stop i couldn't figure out until we saw it later i think i think at the start it was like that every like 15 minutes yeah every 15 minutes So it was, like, going off.

But then, yeah, when we went that one time, it was like every, like, five seconds when they were, like, going for it. So I don't know what the festival was. I have no idea what it's even celebrating. St. Thomas. Oh, was that what it was? Yeah, St. Thomas. St. Thomas.

Yeah, St. Thomas. Santo Thomas. Yeah, the festival of Santo Tomas. Yeah, but I don't know who that is. I don't know what the fuck it is. But he is, it's, like, around Christmas, so I guess it's like a, yeah, it's definitely a religious thing, so. I kind of a vague memory of he was a saint of,

dogs he was the patron saint of dogs i might be mixing up with someone else yeah maybe yeah definitely maybe yeah yeah yeah everybody's dressed up it was so fucking wild yeah yeah and even yeah yeah they're also traditional people like like their traditional clothes as well yeah um which is really cool just it's like a another world yeah it's weird Guatemalans i found to be i try to ask for like what really like your less known observations of Guatemala I'll tell you mine. What? Shortest people in the world.

Mine, they are really short. Cheap, for sure. Yeah, no, I would say it's actually more dangerous than you would think. Interesting. Yeah, I would think out of all the countries that I went to, like the whole of Central America, and I wasn't in Honduras for too long, but, yeah, besides that, Guatemala was the most dangerous. How long did you travel in South America for? uh like south okay wait well the whole trip was uh 19 months but that was like mexico central and south

so like central america 19 months yeah did i say your name i don't know if i introduce your name no ethen mackenzie yeah that's it yeah welcome ethel mccenzie to the punch thank you yeah how long total uh uh it was 19 months and then i did another month in america at the end and like coming home and how much do you save up to do that 20 uh Australian dollars would be yeah australian dollars yeah um What, you know, American dollars? I could, yeah, I've been, everything, you go by, when I was on the trip, it's just, that's the base one, because a lot of countries use American dollars. And then you can, yeah, well, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama. All use America.

Yeah, and you sort of, they use that as like the conversion. But, um, let's say it would have just like 15,000 US, maybe for that whole time. God damn. Maybe a bit less, maybe, you know. How'd you make it last? Volunteering, yeah. And just travel cheap. just like chicken bust like you know you said you have like the two options for me there was never

another option it's only whatever the cheapest one that all the locals are using you know that and then it's like that you would be great at bargaining you're like that's just nah that's too much i look back on some of the bargains that i was running and i feel kind of bad because like some ladies they're probably trying to sell her fruit and i'm like give it give me one free if i buy 10 you know yeah but not all the time and i got a bit better but like at the start i was a bit like i need to say money but then i was like i'll just because some of them do rip you off they'll be like no they do yeah yeah there was one i was going to buy some peanuts or something some rosa peanuts and he hit me the price was like way i'm like wait what it's like eight u.s dollars yeah and they guys like

i got surprised i'm like no it's and you're like ari-ari-ari walk away i'm like oh right oh yeah right walk away yeah the guy was just like he saw tall white yeah like no fuck off yeah so it's like you have to try and figure out if they're actually just trying to rip you off or maybe they're just giving you a genuine price and then you bargaining is a bit of big move sure but if it is i was in the market town in ecuador and uh the tapestry that i wanted for home oh yeah that i just had in the backup drop of a lot of my like pods and uh the guy was like he was like told sort of it was like 60 dollars it's just all right um it was like 60 i'm like no fucking way and the guy's like bro this took me three months to make and i was

like who made it goes i made it it took me three months yeah and i was because he was like there's no price bargain on this and And we're like, all right, you're right. He didn't make it. He didn't make it. He's lying. No, I'm just joking. He might have.

He could have been like his nan or something. But they, they, those guys are the, they are the bargainers. Like, they're the ones you do have to bargain with and they are hard to bargain with because everyone knows that and they're all bargained with them. So they're ready. Yeah. And they're like, you think you got a good deal and you probably still didn't. But also it still is a good deal.

It is always still a good deal. All the stuff I was going to buy and then I was like, let me wait and buy, I was going to buy a mask. I'm like, let me see at the airport how much is. And it was like, oh, five times as much. Yeah, yeah. Because the further away you get, the less hands it's changed. Like, if it's a small, small town and it's a market, they're like, well, these are farmers from right outside here.

Yeah, yeah. And so they sell to someone who takes it to, like, Antigua, sells for a little more. Or they sell to Antigua. They buy it, then they take it to the airport and sell it for more. Oh, yeah, give stuff. Or they ship back to America. And they're like, well, now we're really hell of pricing this. Yeah.

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okay yeah yeah yeah i mean asleep just like in the middle of like you're there's you barely can move yourself and then like everyone there's a whole crowd just navigating through this one drunk asleep person just in the middle of the group like the crowd there The sidewalks are less than between me and you right now. Yeah, yeah. They're like small, so you can't get around. There's a car coming at fucking 90 miles an hour behind you, you know, on a nothing street. And yeah, this guy's just blocking it.

Yeah. Yeah, those were wild. So we got there. People were already taking off their clothes. All those kids, like, taken off their clothes. Go for it. Cough. Full dab.

And it was just like, let's go. We checked into that hotel. Call a hotel. But. What? I said I called it a hotel, but I don't know if Oh, it was like their house They've just put a few rooms in, eh?

Yeah. Something like that, I think. Yeah, she tried to, I called ahead And it was, I forget the price But I think it was like 80 Ketzel at night maybe Yeah, probably nothing much And then we got there, I told you this yesterday And they got there and the lady, it wasn't a guy,

The lady was like 120 And I was like, no, 80 Yeah She's like no, 120, I was like, I called the guy He said one, she's, no way. And I'm like, and it wasn't enough to really bitch because I'm like I don't you call my bluff I don't want to go to another place right now it's getting dark well not really but I just wanted to put our stuff down I was like

fine probably had the added pressure of me being there being like super stingy and whatever uh huh true it helped me say if you're having you there yeah but then you would have felt bad being like I think normally you would have been like whatever maybe I don't know but me there being like what's going on are you're going to be pushed over like yeah but she came back the next day that night and she was like hey Talk to my husband. You were right. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

Maybe she was being genuine. I was robbing you. She was like, I didn't realize you were talking to my husband. I think she talked to him later. Yeah. She didn't say it like that. She's like, Esperato or whatever. Yeah.

She just gave me 40. And I was like, I looked in the eye. I was like, thank you. Yeah, nice. Yeah. She didn't have to do that. She didn't have to. She already got me.

But she, yeah, they're not like thieves there. They're just like, I don't know. Yeah. They're not trying to. Well, the chicken buses are like, they're like that as well. They'll always try. and charge you more if you're a tourist you look wide or whatever they'll like it's actually

crazy like they'll charge the people you'll see and they'll be like give them like 20 000 or 20 20 and they'll be like 40 and you're just like hand them 20 and they're like no it's 40 and it's like i saw you charge everyone else 20 and they're like no it's 40 for you and it's like they're not trying to hide it like nicodago for example they'll like no it's 40 and they'll like pretend not oh no because you took a stop from here yeah they'll be like no you got a big backpack so that's like extra fee or whatever like they'll try and do like thing and then like you can actually just be like i'm not doing it like no 20 what i all right in nicodago and now eventually they'll just let it go after maybe like everyone else pays their 40 but in guatemala like i got yelled at by an

old lady she's like no stop arguing with this man it's actually 40 for you and i was like motherfucker i was like the public usually sticks up for you but like this this lady yelled at me and i was like shit i'm oh yeah i'm always afraid that like maybe there is a custom i don't know about maybe there is something that I'm like I'm like because I've seen people like it was in Cambodia on some island and some lady was like not used to in Southeast Asia I don't know how it isn't Latin America you would know more than me but they don't bring your check unless you ask for at the end of a meal they're just like you can just sit here for hours if you want and then when you're like sir check then like okay and this lady goes this white lady

goes we've been sitting it she went to the manager she's we've been sitting here for 20 minutes and the guy will not bring us our check like he he's being rude to us on purpose and i want to be like hey lady that's the custom here oh yeah that she's not trying to fuck you over it's just a different society was this in where was this that was in cambodia oh okay but i wanted to like i want to know sometimes you're like no no it's a there's a out-of-town price and an in-town price that you know like at a museum sometimes you're like resident pays this much non-resident like i get it like charge the tourist more you know they're poor and that's fine it's fair enough um but like i think it's just like an unofficial thing i don't know i don't because like there's many like i've been

on that bus that same bus that i did that i've done it i've taken that bus three or four times and i would pay 20 and they'll be like 40 and i'm like i know it's 20 and they're like okay it just depends on how stubborn the other person is yeah yeah and then that lady yelled to me because she's like this guy's just trying to he's rich he can pay or whatever he's a gringo or whatever yeah i'm like you know i'm not actually like i'm traveling for so long i don't actually have that much money like i'm actually trying like sure i do have maybe like yeah it is a safety net but you actually have less than they do no i wouldn't say that maybe but they they are really poor so that makes me true feel kind of bad still like i could have just paid 40 but if i'm paying the excess you know like

for every bus like the tourist price i'll be that's like another week of traveling you know well that's the thing too it's like you're going to put that money you're going to put all 15 000 into south America. Yeah. So if they get 600, then that's six, four hundred and eighty less, then you're going to pay for five hundred and a less and you can pay in somewhere in like, you know, Cambodia or like, uh, whatever, like Columbia. That could be like half my flight home. Yeah. Oh, yeah. As well, which is, you just had to leave early. Yeah. Oh, the flight. Sorry, let's get back to Chi Chi Chi. Chi. Yeah. So fucking fun. Dude, that place is, that was the craziest thing, I think. One of the, it was crazy in a weird way. Like I did some like, like,

Akkadanga was crazy in that it was like spectacular but that was just there was just so many odd random crazy things just happening around you like the guys asleep there um like them just setting off the firecrackers in the middle of the street like the fire okay okay so much the fire okay we got to talk about the firecrackers because it really was i call it when i tell people i call a fireworks festival and it it's not they just also celebrate they're celebrating tomas well yeah that's why that's why that's why they're setting off the firecrackers it's like they're it's their sacrifice to San Antonio. Because you'll see the families by the firecrackers and bring them to the guys

that they'll set them off after each other. And they'll be like, this is our donation from our family. This is our sacrifice to what. Yeah, exactly, the gods and whatever. The steps on those street on that church. Yeah. Was the spot. Yeah.

And I didn't, because we didn't know what the boomers were coming from until we saw that. Yeah. And then, and we'll talk about the fucking big pinwheel in a second and stuff. But, but on those steps of the main church, which is like the tourist thing to two if not in that season yeah you go up there and there's people prank there are people crying there yeah at the top of the steps to like jesus and then there's people like what the fuck you know that's us yeah yeah it was hectic like you had to block your ears and like um close your eyes you can't look at all the firecrackers because they'll just like

one of them could hit you in the eye like it's pretty dangerous so it was the row where they'd lay it out it was like those strips that stopped cars from speeding it's like one of those yeah look yeah well looks like that yeah and they light it and then just move and it's like for like the one of them would go off for maybe like two minutes yeah something like that or maybe a minute the pictures you took were fucking wild I got a couple of you too yeah you got some of me just blow it up behind me just gone hectic and everyone's just turned around and I just see you up in the uh off on the stairs so I went back over and then you're there just like tall like double the sides of everyone else I'm jealous of the guy

they'd seem like the guy the guy dropping the mortars in oh yeah and all they would do is light these things drop them in and then and plug their ears and it was like within two seconds boom i feel like you drop more boom i feel like you would get over it after like 10 minutes you're like my ears ringing he seemed like he was having fun maybe maybe he's like that guy's like i'm making the noise yeah yeah god it was so fucking nuts just boom boom boom and it was so fun i think i think the coolest one was because that was all in that one area uh-huh yeah and just like in that main square and they'll do on a bunch of them but like i remember i think it was the first night well there um we were like walking through the

streets and there was like remember like all the people that were dressed up yeah and that there was like a parade of like dress up like the and it was just like random like disney characters and stuff like whatever everyone was in their costumes and they're like mascot the characters i was like scuba do and oh yeah do you remember that there's like a five minute like parade of like people dressed up oh yeah oh dude i forget detail Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. And that was just on the streets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, for example, like, you take one of the side streets and they'll still like some of those people walking around and stuff. And I remember we're just walking and then this guy's praying with his Bible. He's preaching out in the street and he's going off for like 10 minutes.

And everyone's just walking super crowded street like, you know. And then he just like lays out this firecracker in the middle of everyone. And he sort of just like he just starts a lot. He just lights it. And then everyone notices and they just all just like move from it. And it's just like, it like goes off, like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, you know, like, everyone's just like there. He just lights up in the middle of the crowd. And it's like, what is happening? What is happening? What is this? Yeah, we were in a store.

I was getting a souvenir. Yeah, exactly. I was getting a souvenir, some nice, like a bag or something. Yeah. And, um, or a mask. I'm not sure what I was getting there. That's where we got the bags. That's where we got the bag.

The little bags. The little bags as well. And then you might have gone some other stuff. I got a big one to store stuff in. Yeah, yeah. And that lady, that was shitty. that was a shitty shoty equipment that was a street one the zipper broke oh did it almost immediately i thought it might have yeah yeah yeah but i just needed something to get shit home but anyway we're in the

store and the lady in the store she's nice and i was asking her like where was this mage she lives in this whatever whatever she said you know yeah her daughter was there and she goes hey cover your ears she was like warned us like oh hey you're out of town here you won't know this yeah cover your ears right now yeah yeah yeah what the fuck yeah and then we went outside and he's then he's about to light it and then he starts lighting and they just all fucking run. I got a video of that as well Really?

Yeah, I'll show you after It's pretty funny And then afterwards it's just smoke everywhere And everyone just starts walking through And then It looks like fucking Beirut During a war

The smoke is everywhere Especially in the steps You're running from it You look like a war reporter In that Yeah, it was like that or something, yeah God damn, that was fun Hi guys, today's episode

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we went down this long row of street stalls and comes out and it's a fucking theme park it's a Kearney theme park yeah we go to the theme park yeah we walked down there because I saw it I saw it from the distance and, yeah, you walk along those, like, stools all the way until you get there. Yeah, and then, yeah, that was really cool as well, like, going through all, like, the different things. And it was like, sometimes you go to these towns and these, like, they might have, like, the fair in and whatever.

They might have one Ferris wheel and, like, a few things or whatever. But, like, this was a big event. So they had, like, four Ferris wheels and, like, a bunch of different rides and, like, bumper cars and stuff. Yeah, bumper cars. You don't see bumper cars in South America too often. Like, this was, like, for them. top of the line sort of like thing you know wow besides mexico's six flags

but that's a bit different i guess that's different yeah that's like yeah i went there was pretty cool did you yeah it's fun i was like why not but um yeah they had like all the uh ferris wheels and stuff and mate that that that first night we went there on that machine whatever that contraption was it was spinner it was spin and and up a little like well yeah well what did it do okay well the way i explain this story to people i blocked a lot of it out yeah the way i explain this story like we'll we're there and we're like fuck let's go on a ride let's just go on one right let's see which

one which one should we go on and then we see this one and it it looks like you can get into this like little cage and it's like it looks like a cylinder right like a like a cylinder that's on it's it's flat and it's circle and then it goes upwards whatever and it looks like it just spins spins around yeah and we're like oh that one looks like it could be a good one you know and then we're waiting waiting for like to see what it looks like and then maybe we can go on it and then we'll just wait in so long. I remember being like, do you want to just get on and just not know what it's all about? And then just embrace it. And you're like, all right. And then we get in. Travalori is just like, sure, whatever. Yeah, that was my favorite thing about you. Like,

I could just say anything. And then you're like, okay. Which is great. But then, yeah, so like, they had these cages and they'll, like, have two kids in there. Um, and then they're like, have two kids in there. Um, and then- Kids in the cages. This is what Trump wanted. This theme park was a Trump design. It was a Trump National Park, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The dream. American dream, mate.

Yeah, but they would fit two kids in this one little cage section. Like, I think it would be worse for you, but for me, like, I could barely fit in there just by myself. The leg. Yeah. Where did the fuck you put your leg? Yeah, it was fucked. Like, I could barely fit in there. Well, at least it's not going to go fast.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then it started. And then that thing didn't just spin around. It spanned around. and then just went upside down and then in the other direction

like it just kept going in every direction and we're in this metal fucking tomb spins and then oh my god it was like a trap or something like we were like victims to this trap like that we just got lured in and we're like this is cool and all of a sudden we're in like this washing machine that's what it was it was a washing machine

ride thing and like it was horrible like it was good like okay you know for like a little bit How long do you think one of these would go for? Like, you were in it, right? Like, I asked people, like, how long would you expect this ride to go for? Like, so on 30 seconds, a minute, a minute, maybe, maybe a longer. Maybe a minute.

Five minutes. Yep. Yeah, right? It, like, went for that long. I don't know why, but it just kept going. And it was, like, fun for, like, for me, it was fun for, like, one minute, two minutes. And then I was like, this isn't stopping. Get me the fuck out of here.

Yeah. And I was like, I was like, all right. I was like, I need to, like, not, I need to concentrate on not dying right now. So I was just like, you know. There is that fear, because, like, what's the safety regulations here? Yeah, yeah, well... Like, we don't think of those terms. Yeah, like, things could happen, and it's like, okay, oops.

Oops, you knew what you were getting yourself into, right? Like, that's what they would say, I feel like. Yeah, you sign the waiver. I'm like, I didn't sign anything. Like, oh, well, anyway, buckle up. There's no seatbelts. Like, well, enjoy. Yeah.

And I was like... Random terms? Yeah. And I was just like, fuck, this is like not stopping. And I was like, this is a bit of a rough one day. And I just hear you in back, like, oh. And I was like, oh, all right, struggling because you're like, how tall are you six one? Six three.

Yeah, well, I'm six, uh, six one, I would say, maybe six six one. Still fuckable? Yeah. Still over the, we care with a unit of measurement. It just made it. It's six feet, it's real woman, fuck you at six feet. That is, you're either over that or under that. Yeah, yeah.

Um, so I was like, you're probably even fucking struggling more than I am. Um, yeah, and that eventually stopped. And then I just remember you just got over to the side of the park and just puking. I was like fuck I might have killed him hey I was like bro I am not in a good way I am not in a good way you're like all right take a preith I'm like no no no I've been here before

let's go out towards the outside of the park I gotta take care of this yeah it didn't end the night though no what did we do after that I think no but they we went back so we went back and then we just hung out of the the festival but we came back to that

um like the theme park theme park thing yeah fair fate thing um the next night yeah yeah and then went on the ferris wheels then that's when we went crazy on the rides like we went on like four different ones right the ferris wheel was how do we explain this ferris wheel like the ferris wheel is supposed to be a pleasurable slow ride up with a loved one or a friend and you look at the sights and you're like oh look how high we are this is nice you think of like a normal ferris wheel like it just moves like in a way. What do you think? Five times? Five times. This guy was like, 10 times a speed. Like, it was like, how could you, it's hard to explain like how, how fast it was. Like, it was way more fast than you would think a ferrets. I've never seen a ferris will go this fast. I didn't think it

was possible for it to go that way. Yeah. Yeah. Because you would get, it went first and backwards. Yeah. And when you get, when it's going, go backwards on the low end and you get at the, top and there's this thing where you get it up and then start going down yeah yeah yeah you'd have like momentum yeah look forward and but then you do backwards like that'll be better and you're like just flying away from everything and then oh and then your stomach would just fucking yeah yeah i remember every time that would happen i would like lean forward and then like as soon as you get a thing i'd lean back and then it would make it even worse yeah you're trying to really make it go like ride up and down i was like Ethan i get what you're doing it's a funny concept but i just please

don't yeah i didn't care i just did it you're right to do it yeah I think it was funny. Went on the bump cars. They were kind of disappointing. Bubba cars were disappointing. Yeah. Because they couldn't go straight. Yeah.

No, that was just slow. Yeah. I think I got one good hit on you and it was just... I was like, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like that. I remember I got one of these kids, though. I felt kind of bad, but...

They're in for it. I feel like that's what you're in there for, yeah. I know you want to win, kid, but it's not going to happen today. Yeah. Just like you and backgammon today. Fuck. it's nothing better than beating a season due in backgammon and a double to end it

that last game of mine was everything was rolling for me yeah it was just god that was like oh I couldn't have asked anything better but I think it made up all the luck that you had in the first few games you still roll that double six in that first game that fucking come out of there yeah there was yeah I didn't it wasn't totally unlucky

there was good ones um so okay A couple more memories I have. Yeah. One, I don't have remember this. Well, it's, we want to talk about the cemetery. Yeah. I want to talk about that weird thing that they were like,

it looked like they were sacrificing a child, but then they weren't. It was like the real indigenous, like, hey, we're here because of this. Like a local townsman was like, a councilman was like, we're part of the indigenous. By the way, here's another observation of Guatemala. The most indigenous, like, part of the population of any Latin American. country I've been to. They're all like a small, like Ecuador, like they're a strong voting party, but they're

not the majority. And here it seemed like it's all indigenous. Yeah, there's a lot of indigenous people in Guatemala, yeah. Mexico, no, El Salvador, no. Mexico, no for sure. Yeah, Panama. Oh, Costa Rica, no. Yeah, it's just, Guatemala's very, and I think, maybe like, it could, yeah, I don't

know. Like, I mean, the Amazon, obviously mostly indigenous, but like, that's not the most people are not in the amazon yeah it's fine there's a lawnmower going off somewhere yeah shit it'll be a little annoying but what is it i don't know he's just doing his lawn over there that's probably going to be constant not ideal it's pretty close yeah okay finish his yard god damn this fucking whole area is so goddamn nice i mean we're in such a fucking i don't know a rich part of do that house we saw from the lookout

I feel like that was like Rupert Murdox vacation home yeah you know yeah it's very remote though it's pretty remote it'd be pretty annoying to get to but looks pretty big yeah unless your helicopter in oh yeah true okay so back to Chi Chi back to this fucking

Festa Festa de Santo Tomas yeah yeah so some other memories that we got to talk about wait what were you talking about I think we've probably should figured that out yeah we should have thought um whatever no we get the fireworks no it was well let's let's talk about let's talk about let's talk about let's talk about the cemetery first yeah

so one of the things that were like one thing to visit in this town is that there's a cool cemetery yeah the yeah that's like it was very cool very nice that was the first thing that we did actually you're right you put our shit down then we like went to the cemetery yeah yeah because we could see it from the uh from our little hotel you know i was actually thinking it was a regret of mine let's talk about regrets a second we have with us some regrets so what's your one big regret what's the fuck um let me let me let me think um it's lightest on me mine was as you think of no you just had one you already had one not taking a picture of something oh yes yeah yeah yes you're right yeah so mine was i wanted to do

a pot i was already starting to record these podcasts yeah i was like i want to do one with you from that cemetery would be a cool backdrop oh yeah travels yeah but then we wouldn't have done it about chichi which is also yeah yeah yeah you know I was like oh fuck I'll never see that guy again well it worked out yeah yeah hmm yours was not getting that picture yeah well yeah the fireworks were crazy and there was this one one that was just I feel like you wouldn't believe it if I didn't actually have a video or something and I have a video of like all of the other ones and they're like okay and there was another one that was really good I'm glad I got a video of that but there was this other one that was just super cool.

Well, there was these towers. Yeah, we saw them setting it up. Yeah. Yeah. We saw them setting it up. It was these metal piping towers that went up 50 feet. Yeah. Yeah.

And it was crazy. Like, it's like a playground or something. Yeah, like 50 feet. And they'll set up all with fireworks and everything and like things going off. And it's interesting. Like, from the main tower, like they were setting off different things, things happening all the time. And it would be gone for like half an hour.

all these different ones and you would like think that it's all done on the tower and then all of a sudden they'll just have some other fucking thing go off in the tower

people were up there fucking flying around oh yeah well they were climbing them yeah well then you got the drunk guys underneath that were dancing

in the thing I had the drunk guys down there there was like that psychedelic sort of flower pattern thing happening going off in the fireworks

because the top was a spin wheel yeah wait and as you let a fireworks the whole thing would spin and go yeah yeah yeah and just make it spin faster and faster.

Yeah, I don't know if it was that one. Or there was like the stuff, I put the video up. And then the guys, you just see him dancing underneath, these drunk barachos. You have videos of that? Yep. Oh, nice, dude. Guys, if you're listening, this is one you want to check out on YouTube. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For sure. Yeah. And, but I think what was really, what was really cool, the lead up to those fireworks was just the crowd. I'm not sure if you remember how crowded that area got. Like, we stood there on the church an hour before, making sure that we had good seats for the firework like we had a good position and it just got crowded and crowded and it was like if you ever been to like a festival where you're like you're

in the middle of the mosh pit and you can like barely move yeah it was like that and there's like old ladies old men trying to get through this crowd and they're just getting crushed wow that's right we just watch it all we'll watch it all because we were standing up from behind on the stairs you know stairs of the church yeah because everyone wanted to watch it and um that was just crazy and then like trying to get this fucking huge church stool thing trying to get trying to get it through and I'm like good luck yeah they're like move move yeah there's no space there's no space they couldn't like people couldn't even move like going through like the main move to where yeah yeah but then as soon as the fireworks started

that's when everyone just stopped and just started watching it wherever you are yeah you're there just stop moving and people were just watching the fireworks and we got a good spot yeah we did right my legs were hurting a little bit but that was all right um stood there for like an hour but um yeah and then the fireworks started the tail was happening and everything and then that was gone for like 30 minutes I think and then this is this is the fire oh well this is your big memory yeah yeah the wildest thing yeah so this is the firework that I didn't get a video of because I didn't know what was happening and then as soon as I saw that that's when I started videoing everything else in case something like that happened again but like it was crazy like at the top that was like

think of like a circle like a hula hoop if you guys know what a hula hoop is yeah yeah cool like that with like and it's a bit thicker right and then it has a firework on one side facing one direction and the firework face on the other side facing the other direction so it would just spin right and then when it lit it just started spinning up and it just like a UFO it floated up into the air and just like went off in the sky and just like went off like hundreds of meters into the town somewhere and just would have just fucking landed in someone's house like yeah yeah we don't even know where it is to this day no regulations at all yeah yeah yeah It was great.

It was just like, shoot. We're like, what the fuck? That's our fire. Yeah, like, where'd they go? Where'd it go? It could have just landed anyone's house. Oh, my God. Hit someone.

Oh, my God. It was ridiculous. And then they started shooting these like, I'm not sure if you're like, if it's seen fireworks and it's like they just shoot off. It looks like fireballs just going up. Yeah. They had that on like every side of the tower. So like north, east, southwest and just shooting it into the sides.

So they're just, they're just shooting them into the town as well. And like, because it's, bit higher than every any buildings I wasn't hitting anything but I'll just shoot them across I put that video up that was insane um god that was insane yeah I remember after we were there this stayed with me so we're there and then they started a big dance in the middle oh yeah and it was cool watching everybody dance during the day I picturing at night okay and then this one old man had this his old wife with him yeah do you remember this not and she was like grabbing her, hold her in close, and she was like, all right, right, get off.

You remember this? Maybe. And then she was like, get off, get off. And he was like, come on. And he just, like, grabbed her and was like dancing with her. Jesus Christ. And it seemed like that was his wife. Yeah.

And then she was like, no, I'm out of here. And he like, he like went after and like grabbed her. And people like, oh, oh, oh, hey. And everybody was like, I don't know what to do here. And he was like abusing her for sure. Yeah, far out. Wasn't he really drunk? He was so drunk.

Yeah, I think I do remember that. And then she was like, I'm not, I've had enough with you. And she started to walk away and he went after her and kind of like Yeah And like pushed her to the ground or something It was something where the whole crowd was like No no no hey hey hey Yeah yeah

But I was like someone gonna I don't know what to do Yeah yeah Because also I was like if I'm like hey that's not cool I'm like well she's going home to him Is this gonna like How do you know if it is actually his her wife Her husband I don't know

You know but it probably is Probably otherwise people just like Fuck off drunk person you know Yeah The drunk people there weren't always so bad you know remember the guys that gave us the drinks they're like oh my god you're not from here yeah have a drink and we're like how much is it like no no no we'll pay we'll pay and i was like cool all right cheers man all right then see you later adios dude i got so i was watching the uh the

the semi-final game with the world cup well we actually in uh not antigua in uh wait with us yeah we watch one of the games yeah inshela and i watched a later game and i was watching at some burrito place and these guys at across the street because everybody had it on, I remember that. And it was at some pharmacy, and they had it on. They were like five people watching and they like kept looking at me from right across the road

in a small town I went to. And then eventually they were like, it was like half time and they're like, you're rooting for the Netherlands? I'm like, no. And they're like, come on, you're from now. I'm like, I'm not from the Netherlands. And it was like, well, it's out of that

or fucking whoever Messi played for, Argentina and you don't look like you're Argentinian. I'm like, well, I'm not Netherland either. You could be Argentinian. I could be. Yeah. Yeah, some white Argentinians. um but yeah but then afterwards when messy won i think might have been shootouts or whatever

yeah they were all like and they set kids to go buy some um ketzal tica and like you're drinking and i'm like if you're buying and they're like yeah and they're just bottles of this fucking just getting drunk off that kettletika yeah where was that that was in a one that northern town where i went to that that weird um that was looking for um yeah nice well cup was crazy there everyone just loved messy Shut down. Yeah. Everyone just went for Argentina in there.

Yeah. So, okay, so that that... Yeah, the fireworks is crazy. The fireworks is crazy. We going back to the graveyard? Yeah,

let's talk about the graveyard a little. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, because I know you... Yeah, yeah. The trash bit. It was like a whole... It was like this beautiful,

colorful graveyard. Yeah, we're walking through and we're like enjoying it. It's like, every tombstone's like a different color, like brightly painted colors. And it was just really, really nice. Like it was well... And the grass was really green as well.

So it was just like a beautiful place to walk around. You smoked a joint there. We looked for a grave to get behind. Yeah. So we tried to find a place to, yeah. Where there's no one going to be and look at us. Yeah. And you feel like I want to smoke, but I want to ruin anyone's day.

Yeah, I was like, you know, smoke in the, smoke in the graveyard? I was like, isn't that like, a bit, how are you going? And you like, you've never smoked weed in the graveyard. That's what we do. That's where you smoke weed. Yeah. And I was like, of course. All right.

That's where you go to smoke wheat. And I was like, all right, let's do it. I was like, yeah, and then we found that spot, like, on the outside, and then we saw that trash. There was, like, a gully. It was a gully. Yeah. Completely trashed up. Yeah, you couldn't see any grain.

It was just trash. Dumped it over there. It's really sad. He has some stray dogs going through it. Yeah. I remember a dog, I was filming a dog going, like, who's, like, eating some food or some flour, some graveyard. I was like, what you're doing dog? He just looked up at me.

He's like, you talk about me. And then I was like, sorry, buddy. He goes, and then he went back to eating. but he was like from like 30 yards away it was great that was cool just walking around there and then you could see the town

from the graveyard when you walked over the hill a bit that was nice yeah so here's another memory before the graveyard we've finished the graveyard I just want to say

I remember us walking around and we're like this really cool thing and like we're just checking out this graveyard just like a thing you do here and I start looking around and there's like

local people here and they're like doing their thing And I'm like, you can see, like, they're real sad. And I'm like, oh, shit, we're actually, we're actually in a graveyard. In a current graveyard. Yeah, and we're here, just there, just talking and, like, hi. Like, I was like, hey, I think before we need to. We got to get the fuck out of here.

Yeah, we need to get out of here right now. Like, I think we might be disrespectful in this graveyard. And then we left. Yeah. Which was, yeah. But we're mostly. Some of these were, like, abandoned graveyards. And you're like, whoa, you come across.

I'm like, this is cool. I was fucking in one. You were. Yeah. Nice. with this chick and we were, and we're like, something banned graverards. Was he alive or was she dead?

And then we were like, like these little pods of graves, you know, and then more jungle and then a pod of like 10 grades. And we were like, oh, that's fuck. And we were like, that was wild. And then we like heard some like stuff from the next pot over and there was like a burial

going on. And we're like, oh, it's not a fucking ancient. Oh my God. This is so rude. Oh my God. They just went their thing and they just say, oh. Yeah, yeah. imagine if the guy came home

Can you guys just like... Can you guys not like Fuck while we're trying to bury my brother? Imagine just walking past I mean everyone's just like looking at you Like they've all known what you've been doing Yeah they're just staring at you Like come on guys

So we're at this indigenous thing Where the local councilman is like doing like a thing It's Spanish or catch well It's tough to understand Oh we got to talk to the screaming contest also We gotta go back to that Well that's yeah go on yeah And they're talking about the origins of this

I'm barely following it it and then you go hey do you watch suits was that the show yeah and I'm like no like there's a show suits I'm like maybe I've heard about I don't know like you don't watch it and I'm like no I don't know I don't watch it you're like like why I remember being like like maybe yeah and they were like there's a guy across your bus it was like a big tent yeah and then because there's some rain because everybody's wearing like fucking protection on their on their costume yeah and then yeah and then and then through the tent on the other side at tent you're like there's the guy from suits yeah and i'm like you're like isn't that him i'm like

i don't know man i don't watch a show yeah yeah yeah it was louis lit what's his what's his i don't know what his actual name is but kind of weird looking face chubbyish yeah yeah he's like shouldn't be a movie star shouldn't be a celebrity like actor he's like one of those actors that is an actor because they look funny right it must be good also yeah yeah yeah i think um yeah and you were like, I think that's him, it's like, oh. Yeah, no, I was saying, yeah. But you were like, it's for sure I'm like, I should go talk to him. Yeah.

And I remember, I want to hear your opinion out looking back. I was like, you should not talk to him. And you were like, why? I'm like, he is in Chi Chi, you know, a fucking indigenous fucking festival in Guatemala. He's with probably, it looked like his family on a tour group. Yeah, wife or something. Yeah, family. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because I was like, I went behind him and I was like, oh, they're speaking Hebrew. He's like, oh, he's Israeli. Yeah. or his wife's Israeli or something like that yeah and I'm like he doesn't want to be a celebrity here yeah he just wants to see this the way we're seeing it and you're like I'm just going to call him by his character name and I'm like I would not do that yeah you're like I got to say something I think the best move is to say nothing yeah yeah and then the next day you're like no I regret I should know I said something you did I went up there and behind him I

farted you what I farted yeah I just did you farted next to him yeah I didn't really like No one No what else to say So you just farted Yeah I left I just wanted to know

I just wanted to fart next to a little slit It's a fucking first world fart Fart on him Oh my God He doesn't hear this Come after me You think he recognized you seeing him Do you think you

Oh maybe yeah But you know There weren't other like white people around So maybe I was looking at him Because he was another white person Yeah there was some of that where you like you ever get that when you're in a real remote place you go further and further away from like society like Antigua there's so many whites and you're like hey there's no whites also blacks but like no no non and then you see one and a little bit like you're ruining this for me yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I think I made to look at you it was like that in Columbia a bit when I went to North part really yeah yeah or actually yeah yeah different parts in Panama and San Blas Islands and stuff.

But yeah, I get that. But it's like, I figure like if I'm there, then it might be someone else like me there as well. I mean, in fact, they have a right to be there. Oh, yeah. It's just like, damn it, it is nice. Yeah. I'm sure this place is out there with no white people,

but you're not there. That northern town, it was like, used to be more of a tourist up than wasn't, and I was the only white, and I did what I was going there to do. And I was like, well, let me leave. And then I'm like, looking around. I'm like, where am I going?

Was there no other tourists? I'm like, this is what I've been looking for. Nice. there's us town square a couple of chicken places did they speak Spanish chicken was huge there nope they didn't speak Spanish yeah barely some did but not much so you both barely spoke Spanish we were both speaking our second language yeah yeah yeah trying to bargain and like where this come from yeah this lady one lady didn't know how to write down numbers she had to get her son in to tell her how to write down like a hundred kitzel oh true she was like she was like she's like

told me the number she learned that in Spanish and then I was like how much because like Sincuenta and Sissenta and mixed up and she wrote it that she was like hey come and then he worked on 150 and I'm like whoa yeah you didn't know how to write that yeah yeah yeah yeah um a lot of chicken is another underrated observation of guatemal they love fried chicken yeah the polloo you can so so wait what did we leave off what did we oh i know there was that little festival square where we yeah with all dance and they had like all the people come in in their costumes and they'll dance.

The Toros, the guys dressed up as Toros and they had to like, they had to run through. Yeah, yeah, the Bulls, yeah. Yeah. There were all these different characters people were dressed up as. Yeah, there was a bunch of bulls and they would like do the dance and stuff.

I wish they actually had them doing that for real though, I guess. But maybe the actual bulls? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, everybody's dressed up as a character. Yeah. That was cool. And that was all fenced off.

We were watching that. And then, yeah, and then I remember they stopped dancing and it was like everyone's just there maybe there's like another event coming you know they're waiting for like more people to do something else or whatever and then like the people that are like hosting it they had like their microphone and stuff and they're like sort of just killing time so what they did they just got like a bunch of kids from the crowd to come into the area or whatever and they're like run this competition just kind of like half time at like a sport thing or whatever and they're just like all right we're going to do a competition

who can just yell the longest the longest not even the loudest Yeah, yeah. So it's just like, kid, kid one, man, you know, like. All right, not bad. Set the mark. Yeah, yeah. Mark to beat. And the other kid would do it.

And there was this one kid that was like doing his yell. And at the end, he's like, eh, eh. And the other guy just comes and he's like, no, man, no, no, no, you're done. I like that follow rules. There were kids, like, like, eight-year-olds, be like, fuck off. Yeah, yeah. Obviously, you cheated. You bet you're done, yeah.

I was like, yeah, nice competition, guys. Yeah. could have come up with something a bit better to be honest yeah could have easily that was this is like the common like that festival and the whole chichi thing was just the combination of just everything was just so random like it was so random yeah which made it perfect yeah we didn't know what we were walking into yeah and it was highly religious as well like remember like some of the like it was like a march they went through with like the big chair and there was like the traditional ladies they'll be like there with like the candles in their hand and the candles just melting into their

hand and they're just just walking like that that's just like what they're do they didn't have it like on a holder it was like on their hand it's melting all through their fingers and stuff and they're just like that's and they had like their baby on their front and those Mayans are so fucking tough this is random and just the firecrack it's just the firecrack I mean that's mostly what I remember just I just like I just like that one time we're like it's gone off now like we were like somewhere out in the town we just heard it just go boom boom let's get let's go we're like go yeah yeah if you're another part of time if you wear the if you're

the the firework not the roller coasters were and stuff you're like we're so far away from the town square yeah yeah but if you're up near where the church was where we're getting that stuff and the ladies like watch out we're far away from that that was somewhere in the middle it was just spread out we didn't know the schedule yeah yeah oh god what a fun fucking place all the different food as well all different food yeah just like different things like you want to just have one of those and there's like five kettels like sure yeah try that try that try that the whole time we're just high and eating greasy but good random food and watching fireworks and just it was and we're like the only white people there besides maybe i think i might have seen

like 10 others maybe yeah but not very much yeah did you feel at all i say this by i know the answer do you feel at all like what are you doing here vibes and not like how dare you be here vibes um maybe but i did not no i thought of people like what are you doing here like that kind like interesting but not like i feel like you get both i feel like you get some people that are like wow enjoy the festival guys and there's some people like fuck off you know you always get some people they're probably more racist and whatnot you know and more accepting you know but you just

but like the thing is you just know that they know that there are tourists going to come to the town because that town actually is a huge market and people go there on Wednesdays and Saturdays that's right because it's all Thursdays and Saturdays because it's like the biggest market in Central America so we went on the days that it wasn't actually a big market wait in Chi Chi yeah something like that

I'm pretty sure it is like one of the biggest markets in Central America. Yeah, Chi-T on- On Market Day. Yeah, exactly. Kind of like Ottavalo and Ecuador. Uh-huh. So they're very used to having tourists around. So they're probably not like they would have just been happy to see only 10. It wouldn't be like, what the fuck? There's not like an uncontracted tribe.

Like what's your white skin all about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll be like, we get you guys once in a while. Exactly. Maybe you get a lot of people from town that don't actually come to Cheat- They're not from Chichi. It would have been a lot of people actually that are coming in maybe for the day or something. Oh yeah, nearby.

Yeah, from different towns and stuff. Maybe they don't see white people. Dude, it fucking ruled so hard. Yeah, I forgot all those little stalls we went to were like, let's try that, let's try that, let's try that. And people were interested to see what we think of it too. Like, what do you? I'm like, this is so good. They were like, thanks.

I wish I had some photos of some of the stuff we had because I don't remember. I just was too focused on eating. Yeah. I remember being like, let's eat that. And I'm not taking photos or whatever. Yeah, you really had to make a decision. Like, well, my stomach only, I can afford all this, but my stomach only goes so much. So I really got to make a choice here.

Mm. I remember they had like the farm animals as well. I remember like they had that, weird, remember that turkey? I don't know what that bird was, but had that penis on its head. Remember? And then when it like, and then the ladies would come and be like, they'll pick it up and they'll like lift it up and feel it and be like, oh, is this a healthy one? And when they picked it up, the freaking little hangling penis would get erect because it's like,

getting touched and it's like on it's on guard or whatever you know and I'm whether I remember sitting eating that just looking over being like what the fuck is that animal like that is just the weirdest looking animal yeah it was wild and they'd come up and like maybe if it was a good one they'll just buy it by their farm or whatever geez what a market it wasn't just like chotchkes it was like oh people come here to get stuff during the festival yeah like they need yeah as well yeah there's that knife salesman that you were really into knife and gun salesman oh that yeah yeah you were like I'm pretty much not buying. I didn't need to tell you that, but like, I'm interested to talk.

Because they're elite, like, what is it? The, um, what are those, it's a knives that just stick right out? Oh, a switchblade. Yeah, yeah, they're illegal here. Illegal in America too. Yeah, so I was like, oh my gosh. You know, and I'm like, I was like pressing on my power. Yeah.

Because we also don't have like guns and stuff in Australia. So, um, we don't. It's fun to touch them. I, yeah, well, I shot one. When I finished my trip, I went to America and I had cousins there and we went to death valley and went camping and stuff. Yeah. And, um, they,

had a handgun and I shot it. It was cool. Yeah. It was fun. It is fun. Yeah, it was like powerful or something, you know, that I'm happy that it's not in Australia, but it was still kind of cool. Well, there's this vibe. My brother was working in Luxembourg for a while. Yeah. And so with people all over, different countries, all live there. It's just like a town sit country. And they were like, oh, you're from America. He's like, yeah, because how many guns do you have? He was like, none. They're like, come on. And he's like, no, I don't have any guns. And they're like, all right, but you're in the minority goes no most people don't have guns oh really come on yeah true i guess in the cities and stuff it's just like most people don't it's like a small minority of people have guns yeah but

the story is everyone has guns everywhere and that's what you hear and he's like i'm telling you almost nobody i know has a gun and they're like that's new you're lying but anyway it is fun to hold one i do not i mean i got this guy it doesn't like it's too guys yeah when the sun's out the guns have come out um overall i'd say it was a great fucking trip yeah that was cool and then you went away and i went to the airport yeah yeah i took a chicken bus to the airport and you went to uh yeah where do i go yeah you went somewhere i went back to the lake yeah it was coming up to christmas because i think that was like the week before christmas and then i was like volunteering at that hostel i sent you too and i wanted to go and do the big christmas there and um and new years and everything

you know oh damn this was fucking cool was there any other memories of this place you were forgetting Chi-Chi. Yeah. I mean, that did a pretty good job of fucking saying how fucking rat it was. Yeah. No, I don't remember. Yeah. I think that was pretty much it.

Just like, yeah. Yeah. Just the roller coasters and the Ferris feels great. What a fun trip. Yeah, was cool. All right, so here's something I ask people. A couple things. Yeah.

One, if you have any travel tips. one tip, but it could be anything, not your main one, but whatever. A lot of people say travel light, you know, whatever it is. Well, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, um, you put me on the spot here. Okay. In the meantime, while you're semi-thinking about that, any other countries you're like on the horizon, you're like, I'm really looking forward to going there. Or I really want to get to that place. Oh, yeah. I've been saying for a while, I really want to go to China. China rules. Yeah, I think I've talked to you about this because you've been to China. And I just want to go there and just like go to like if you like Google mountains in China

Oh you're a hiker yeah they have it there I gotta believe they're untouched yeah those people don't have Hiking days off the way like first world does yeah yeah but like some of them are like the screen savers on Apple yeah and you're like where's it like where in China is this yeah well yeah yeah it's just ridiculous and there's like some crazy VF VF rod afters you know like the you have like the metal things in the walls and you sort of can like I'll climb up them oh yeah safety things and whatever but they have a bunch of those which would be pretty crazy you probably dive it it'd be cool um yeah china would be awesome um i haven't been to europe before i've only really spent all my time and i've spent like two and a half years in latin america you say you're fluent now

spanish uh to everyone here in australia i would be fluent yeah to someone that's fluent probably not you're doing a great job taking the class and really diving into it yeah i was surprised because also i would think australians nobody would speak any spanish no no one does it's only like the tourists that are actually here. There's a lot of people from Argentina in Australia. But you were like, damn, you're flowing. It almost seemed like you stopped speaking Spanish to let me in. It's like, all right, let's be friends for a minute.

You're not going to be able to keep up in fucking Spanish. Well, we just asked us to just speak Spanish the whole time. But like you were speaking Spanish to everybody else. Because that's what I noticed also, the hostels there, the hostels in Southeast Asia are a lot of Americans, Irish, Canadians, some like Argentinians or whatever, but they meet up in the language of English, Germans, Denmark, yeah. But I saw a lot of like,

oh, I'm from Mexico City, I'm from Argentina, and they met up in the language of Spanish. Oh, okay, yeah. And then if there was somebody like me, like, oh, hey guys, let's fucking switch for this one idiot. Yeah. Yeah, no, 100%. That's more likely, that does happen more often in South America because you obviously have all the countries and everything like that. And you're people from Spain as well. So if you just get yourself in one of those groups.

But I'll be honest, like still everyone just speaks English. Like every European will communicate to each other through English. Unless I'm from like Austria or Germany and whatnot. Yeah. And then French and whoever. And maybe Quebec, they can have that French, whatever. But yeah, mainly people do is just speak English. So, yeah.

But you're right. It does happen more often. Yeah, they speak some Spanish, but, you know, universal language. Here's my travel tip now for me for this episode. Okay. Anywhere in South America, look up where, a local festival is and then get to it.

Go away from your fucking travel plans and go I'd rather just see what this one's all about. It's going to be something wild and it's going to be within a four hour fucking ride. Yeah. Yeah, okay.

That's more specific than most. Some people are travel light. Some people have a good toilet shoes kit. Some people are... Yeah, like when you say travel light I would say like I was happy to take a few more items because like I was taking buses and stuff.

You know, don't actually need to have a small bag like i was i took all my hiking gear and everything i'm obvious like you like you said i like hiking i took all my hiking stuff to go camping and everything and i did a lot of tours on my own like a lot of i hiked up the taho muko after that time you went to the lake i went up there and just hike when it was like the highest volcano in central america wow you were just there alone yeah by myself yeah it was cool honestly and i was able just do it by myself i just caught a bus over there chicken bus over and just hiked up you know whereas if you paid a tour um you'd pay like two hundred dollars three hundred

to do it. I saved that because I had that stuff with me. So, and it depends where you're going as well, but like, don't, don't have to take, don't be worried to take, um, some random items like that. You don't have to go too ultra, like ultra light that you think you'll need. Yeah. Sandals are really good. Um, this is like where they put up the fucking travel tip. Yeah, yeah. Sandals are really good. Yeah, I like, I had a good pair and they can like undo the back so they can be like slides and, uh, normal sandals. So that's a good one. Yeah. But, um, I don't know.

Just take it easy. I don't know. Um, that wasn't a great travel tip. I have heaps. Like, I could go on. I could talk to you for an hour about travel tips. Like, think of a lesser known one that you were like, that you would tell somebody.

Shit. I know one. What? That you might have. What? What do you bring? Like, there's, my friend told me, bring a Bose, his tip. He didn't, wasn't the pocket.

Bring a Bose, a small Bose speaker. you'll be the hero of the fucking hostel. Oh, yeah, that's kind of cool. But I brought Settlers of Katan. There you go. I was in Mexico and, oh, actually, well, yeah, I was in Mexico.

That's where I started my trip. My friend had it in his car. He was like Mexican and we played a bunch. And then we did a road trip and then went to Walmart and they had it there. And I'm not sure if I'm incriminating myself here. Yeah. Stole it?

Well. It's fine. I steal all the time. We're not, well, you know, you know, we, we, well, I technically bought a jelly cup, let's say. Okay, okay. So you got the jelly cup of Walmart, you take the label off, you put it over the label and, you know, it was 35 bucks. Too much. Yeah, and it's Walmart. Like, yeah. I don't give a fuck about Walmart.

It's been settled. So we got that. I got it for like, it was, uh, 25 cents or something like that. Or a dollar or something. I can't remember. But I took it out of the box and then I got one of these nice bags, kind of like what I got from Chi-Chi. Yeah, you'll, yeah. it's anyway and then I put all the pieces in there and put little Ziplocs and it's like a little bag it's actually not that big and then traveled around with it and it was awesome I was like you'd meet people and you'd be like hey didn't maybe you vibe with them would be like do you know

what Katan is and they're either like oh yeah but don't really know how to play or nah or fuck yeah oh my god yeah why do you have it you want to play right now I'm like yes yes I do and it's the fuck your energy that you know that people have for Katan like you'll probably ask every traveler i reckon 30% 40% would have that yeah and it's fuck yeah and let's go yeah and then you'll just sit there for hours playing katang because it's like trying to find stuff to do at hostels you know you can always we're talking with esther everybody knows their local card game and then you're like tell people from other localities like you guys know know this one and they're like no like look i'll learn yeah write down card games as well because

you'll always be like oh what was that card game yeah that so and so taught us there yeah now you're teaching an austrian game to fucking check people you know in fucking Thailand. I get messages all the time about like, hey, what's... Well, I'm always asking for the rules of boo-boo. Yeah, well, that's it. Everyone, because I'm sort of like, well, I didn't make up the game, but like, I learned this game, like, and I've never seen anyone play this game ever, and I've, like, made

a bunch more rules to it, and I've always played it, and it's fucking really fun. And people always message me. Like, I'm getting messages still. Like, really? How do you play boob? Yeah. What happens if you're in this situation? Like, oh, well, then this goes. You are, like, you are the governing body of Boobo. Yeah, yeah. So, um, yeah. I guess, yeah,

write down the rules to card game and play some cards at the hostel is free and it's great and you play with people you play drunk play high whatever it's great oh my god and yeah it's awesome all right ethancy you have like i like instagram or anything people can follow you to do that at all yeah you do yeah yeah i guess so yeah okay um may as well you can have a look um it's up there yeah yeah yeah you actually have pictures all my trip and everything you know oh really hell yeah um it's Ethan dot McKenzie, M-C-K-E-N-Z-I-E. MC-K-E-N-Z-I-E. Yeah, yeah.

It's like just my sort of personal one, but I'm pretty open with it. I like to share a lot of the cool stuff that I do. You take great pictures, too. If you ever go to South America, you can, like, see some really cool stuff, and you can, I always have, like, the location on the post, so you can go there as well.

All right. Buddy, this was great. It was great to see you again. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you having me. Yeah, you're welcome.

That was awesome. It was fun. Yeah, yeah. Good memory. I am back in the town. A different day. I'm on Market Day, more than the summertime. And, man, this city is alive.

Church is open. Let's look in there. I definitely got to go in there later. But yeah, I'm back where it was. This brings back like a lot of memories. This whole place was mobbed, right where I am right now. And then all there was like a parade route. Um, yeah, I'll show you.

And then all the fireworks were down there. The old lady's crying right on there. And then, um... Come over this way. No, no, no, no, grazie. Paral. Talves in like 15 minutes. Maybe.

Um. Um... Yeah. This was all... mobbed. Everybody there. It was all fireworks. Come over this way a little bit. Get out there. So, can you see over there? Yeah? That was all the fireworks all here. That's where we were running through. The, what's it called? All the people dancing with the mask on, that was all down that road. It's all market day now. So it's like different. But yeah, it brings back some memories.

So guys, thank you very much to YMH for editing and producing this podcast. Alan Caffey for editing it. Thank you, Ethan McKenzie, for taking me on this trip and coming with me. I know that was a wild thing to do to be able to have the time. A year, where were you gone? Two years? Yeah, thanks, Ethan, for coming with me. Just the idea.

Guys, everywhere in Latin America, there's, like, a festival in a town nearby you. And you just have to take a bus to another bus. to another bus and have some Mayan ladies stay on your lap for a while to get over here. That might be mass. I'm trying to think what else I got to tell you. Please subscribe wherever you're watching and listening. I got another Guatemala episode coming with Bobby Kelly at some point. This place is nuts.

Make sure to get a good a right now below if you're watching on YouTube. There's a bunch of merch you can get stickers. like this one for your passport you be tripping sticker or this one a full one for your water bottles um six pack I think for ten bucks

two of each or get your t-shirts damn this thing is cool um gotta love being in places like this or get your t-shirts you'll be tripping shirts What's the chant I'm thinking of?

D'A, D'A, D'Ala, la, la, la, Super Chivo. That's it, everybody. Until next week, please subscribe, wherever you're watching and listening. Get your merch. Thank you, Ethan. Reach out. If I find his Instagram address, I'll put it on the bottom.

Reach out and let him know what a great episode this was. And, guys, go make your own trips. Go find your own crazy festivals and places. And, yeah, I don't know. Get out there and live. I'll see you next week. Not adios. I guess it's worded at church.

Yeah, adios. Generally, tussaluego. Adios.