You Be Trippin' - Aruba w/ Mike Vecchione | You Be Trippin' w/ Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

Check out Mike's new special on YouTube "Low Income White" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXAipyxI-k The 2025 Shroomfest shirts are out today! Look below for the design! Plus YBT sticker packs and shirts so you can sticker up your passport, water bottle, and famous sites all over the globe and then send them to us so we get a kick out of it at the YMH offices and send a raven to tell Ari about it. https://arishaffir.com/collections/all-products Follow Mike on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/comicmikev/ SPONSORS: - Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/trippin - Upgrade your wallet today! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code ARI at https://www.Ridge.com/ARI #ridgepod On this week's episode of You Be Trippin', Mike Vecchione takes Ari to Aruba. (cue the Beach Boys song) Mike could sell anyone on the idea of vacationing in Aruba. Beach life, friendly people, great food. What more could you ask for? If you end up going, you'll probably run into him. According to Mike and Aruba Ray, the comedy scene is pretty poppin' too! Te otro biaha! You Be Trippin' Ep. 75 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:07:17 - Mike Goes to Aruba 00:19:38 - Dutch Colonizers 00:25:00 - COVID in Aruba 00:44:03 - Beach Life 00:53:16 - Aruban People 01:28:01 - COVID Restrictions 01:34:51 - Yacht Rock & Mike's Pics 02:15:36 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now this will be my second special. So how many hours? That's what we should be saying, right? Four. Four hours. Yeah, because like the CD was the thing. And now these kids, no offense, are like, they, like I remember Sagalaga making an album

and they go, wow, I may as well record it on like iPhones. And he goes, I guess it's also special. That's how easy they are. Yeah, yeah, it's easy. I mean, the way the clubs tape you now, like you could just do a special at a club Remember it's like basically got you remember laughs

Button where they could be like it was an acne. It was at Madison It was whatever like if you want to hit the button We're Minneapolis if we want to hit the record button we can make you an album Let us know and you're like, yeah. Okay like George Bucks though. Yeah Alright, well I gotta, I don't know if it's gonna go well. Yeah, yeah, depends. Can I make the decision afterwards?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but video, it's like you'd be stupid not to do a video now. It's like, well, I don't wanna go through all that. I just want the sound exchange money. It's like, no, I mean, do the video, clip it up. I could see Stan Hope doing that, like an audio only one. Yeah. I could see him. Well, I mean, that's video, clip it up. I could see Stan Hope doing that, like an audio only one. Yeah.

I could see him. Well, I mean, that's what podcasting is now. I bought audio equipment to do a podcast, and they're like, do not do a podcast without video. Yeah. It's crazy. I made this big decision to do video. My other one, Skeptic Tank, RIP.

And I was like, all right, I'm gonna get that started. And then COVID hit. But I had just started video. And then it was like, oh yeah, everyone get that start and then COVID hit but I just started video and then it was like oh yeah everyone's doing it now like fuck yeah Burt was like oh dude you're gonna be one of the few video guys you're gonna really explode yeah everything's video now where you been and where you going this is Ari's travel show yeah we're gonna talk about travel today. It's you be trippin', yeah. Okay, this will be interesting. Yeah, I just saw one of those fucking pictures from Zion. It was us on a hill.

Us on a hill, us on a... We did a rest stop. We stayed in the... We stayed in the coolest house you could possibly... I mean, I wish I had more pictures of the house. I think they had that Indian drum and I was like doing, I videotaped myself doing the drumming. Yeah.

Videotaped like I'm from the 80s. I videoed myself doing the drums and then we all slept in these bunk beds. It was like bunk beds in a couple rooms. It was me. You slept in the bunk bed one? Yeah, it was me, you, Joe and Sarah, but we had just come from Vegas, because we all went to Vegas. It was me, you, Mark, Joe. Oh,

yeah, me, you, Mark, Joe, Gary. In Vegas, and then Norman, yes, Joe, me, you, Mark, Joe, Gary. Yeah, it was for the final. It was for the basketball tournament. We realized that you could get Esty to send all of us. I was like, we'll do the gig. Can we choose our group? Yeah. She was like, I don't see why not.

Like, yes! Because we had this from La Jolla Comedy Store. That was like, they sent you to San Diego, you stayed at a condo on the beach. Oh, it's like always LA has to have it first. Is that what it is, Ari? Like podcasting. It's like, well it was like in LA

when we did it originally. It's like, Ari, can't we just have anything over here? When was this? When was this Zion thing? Do you remember? It was before COVID. Yeah. I wanna say 18, 19, 18, 17 maybe?

I don't know, I was eating a lot cuz my face was fat in every picture. I want to 18 or 17 I want to see what this was see if I have any pictures of it I mean I have it but I would have to disrupt my your your album my album. I put an album together Hold on. I want to see this but it was That was that was such a fun trip, because the Vegas thing was really fun. We watched basketball during the day. Those of us who gambled, gambled on the.

We went just to gamble. Just to gamble, do the shows, gamble. And then I remember a year later, I was on the group text, and I said, hey, let's do it again. And no one responded to me. And then a month later, you responded. And you were laughing at me. You go, ha ha, no one responded to me. And then like a month later you responded, and he's like, and you were laughing at me? You go, ha ha, no one responded to this.

Not even your own girlfriend. So that was very, that was very fun too. It was so fun, here we go, here we go. Zion. So we went right from gambling in Vegas, and I still have pictures from the Mob Museum. Just me and you went to the Mob Museum. That rule, somebody just brought that up the other day.

Yeah. And I was like, oh, yeah, me and Vec Young went. Yeah. Because on the way back, I guess, we had an extra day or something. We had an extra day, yeah, so we went to the Mob Museum. Just me and you, I think. This was the house.

Ah, this was the house during dinner. We went to the grocery store and got food for dinner. It was unbelievable. It was such a great house. And the guy was such a great guy, wasn went to the grocery store and got food for dinner. It was unbelievable. It was such a great house. And the guy was such a great guy, wasn't he? God, your face is so different. Yeah, the guy was cool. Look at Joe List.

Joe's thin. Looks like you took away Joe's fat and put it in your face. You saw wrong, Joe. I took Joe's dinner. Oh, you left it with just a bottle of water. God, he looks so mean and I look so, my face looks just inflated.

It was before his baby weight. And look at that nose on the left. It was just coming in to fray. Just your nose protruding in? That was accidental, but. Oh my God. Yeah, the guy was like, I was like, hey, I'm looking for a place in,

it was in Zion, in the nation. But it was like, it was specifically for artists to get away and to relax their minds so that they could create I Remember you saying that yeah, I said I was like, oh, it's a little out of our price range He goes, what do you what do you like? We're comedians from New York. We're just looking to get away He goes, oh buddy, I built this house for you Yeah, so I'm gonna cut off some price cuz you actually should be here and and great There's eight rooms and you're gonna use three of them? So I'll cut off a lot of, you should come.

And it was like, okay. Ah, it's awesome. Yeah, there was drums, let's see if we can, let's see what else is here. Yeah, bro. Yes, there it is. Hey, Sarah had the funniest joke maybe I've ever heard on any vacation.

We were up in this area, oh my god, I'm fat. Oh my god, I'm fat. Lead singer, no effects. Geez, oh my god I'm fat. Oh my god I'm fat. Lead singer, Noah Fax. Geez oh man. And that's a great shot. That's so great of you and Sarah. It was this overlook area and Sarah was walking around, we did a video and the video, I put the video on

and she's walking around and she's going, have you seen my daughter? Have you seen's going, have you seen my daughter? Have you seen my daughter? Have you seen my daughter? And I was like, oh my God, no. And she's like, it's okay, I have a son. That is so great. Sarah is so funny.

That's so funny. It's so great. Wait, is this it? I mean, don't show us, no, that's the next place I stayed. Yeah. But that place was, it was so cool. You have bongo drums and crystals everywhere. And like, it's nice to see your pictures versus my pictures. That's all of them. That's all I had. No, that's crazy. I had a bunch of, uh, us cause we went to rest stops and we, we obviously eight,

at least I did. And... No, this wasn't, it was before COVID. This is from a separate album. So I don't know when they were, but what a time. Yeah, what a fun trip. God, anyway, but that's not what we're doing today. That's not what we're doing today. Today we're doing where?

Where are we going today? Aruba. A nice dude, I fucking love this. Hold on. I brought an outfit for this Brought an outfit. Yeah, you trippin do I get something if I say the name of the podcast on the um, oh my god They do in every in every movie. That's just Peter Peter or Griffin We say the movie. We say the name of the podcast, we get something, something happens. Slime, the slime drop.

All right. Okay. All right. Aruba. Aruba. Oh, I still have those really yeah from what our friend our friend's wife I don't want to mention her name on a public podcast yeah but she bought those for us when we were yeah in another location and nice house

yeah so was a nice house and she was like she was like do you guys need anything from the store and it's like we don't have a nice house and she was like, uh, she was like, do you guys need anything from the store? And it's like, we don't have any footwear and she bought those for us. And I still have mine. I still have mine too. It's better than the ones that I originally had with the leather inside or whatever. It's unbelievable. You remember the old ones where it was just like a peg of plastic and they just cut the shit out of your toe.

The one that crucifies your own feet. Yeah, those things are unbelievable. So shout out to her. Shout out to her. Her. Dude, I went to Chappelle's movie screening at Masterpiece Garden a while ago. And then there's a singer named Her playing

and everyone went nuts. And I was like going to Macala, I was like, who's this? She goes, you're old. I Embrace it I am old Aruba did you have a specific relationship with this place? I love it and I I would be remiss because let me start out by having shout out my friend who has a comedy club there We've got a ruba-ray. Go on a ruba-ray

He started his own comedy club. He wanted to get out of New York. He's mostly hosting at The Cellar. You know, that's where, that's what he mostly does in New York. And he went to Aruba, he loved it so much that he built a comedy club there. He got a comedy club. And he's been in several hotels.

But, um. What do you mean he shifted to different? Yeah, he was in one hotel. I don't know all the names of the hotels, but he was like in one hotel and then, um, they couldn't do it because they needed their conference room or whatever. So he shifted to another hotel.

We were in the Marriott for a while. And then, and then there was some problem there Or issue with them wanting to don't wanting the space So we moved to the Holiday Inn and then and then and then so but he's had it in different locations But he went there. He thought it was such a beautiful place. He loved it and as a result he Put this comedy club together and what he does is he takes mostly New York City comics and he brings them in and has them do shows to tourists who are coming to Aruba.

And then he got the nickname Aruba Ray. Aruba Ray. So he was just going there for vacation a lot before? Yes. Well, he went there and he just kind of, it's one of those things where he fell in love with it and he was like, I should, I want to be here. Like New York winter is brutal. It's like, I wanna do something here.

And he's like, has such an entrepreneurial mind, that guy, where it's like, he went down there and started, you know, it took a lot of work to put it together. And pre-COVID, he was like packing his room. He would get into the hotels and he was like, he really believed in it in terms of like, these people who come down here on vacation Have to see all of the great New York City comics that I know

so it's like he would bring all the New York City comics down there and then You know go to the hotels and bring these people in and they were like, oh my god. I can't believe this is happening It's like yeah, and he's put together. He stayed yes and he put together these shows I think that's how it started and What do you think all with all winter? He does it six months out of the year. Yeah all winter and and and that's how he started it and I remember I you know, I knew him I met him at the comic strip and He was at the cellar and he had just started it

and I think he was bringing down, he was bringing down like the originally like three guys, just three guys, because he knew they would do a good job or whatever with the clients out. That's the thing too, you go like, can you bring dirty comics to something like that? Or you're like, hey dude, this is tenuous.

Like Avi Lieberman's gigs in Israel? Yes. He's like, can't have you, I'm sorry, I like you already, but I cannot have you. There's like two places in the settlement Yes. He's like, can't have you. I'm sorry. I like you already. I cannot have you. There's like two places in the settlement. So you're like, uh-uh. Yeah. You need to go to another settlement.

Are you would be good at an edgier settlement. So then you started going down. Well, then I was, I remember joking with him at the cellar. I come off stage, he bring me on., I'd come off and I'd go, hey, can I send you a link? Can I send you a tape? You know, because I understood what it, like some comics are, like, I understand it.

It's like, I want to do it and you're not letting me do it, so I'm angry at you. But I wasn't, I didn't take that approach to it. I just kind of took the approach like, oh, it's my, maybe my act isn't good for the kind of shows that you're having down there, the people that you're having down there. That's smart, because a lot of times,

it's like, hey dude, it's just like, this is tourists, or this is moms, or like Nate, Nate's like, you know, I like you guys. It's just like, I told him it's gonna be Christian Clean. Right, this is my brand, so it's like, if you could fit the brand, I'd love to have you. If you can't, then it's like, I need to stay true to what I'm doing here. I mean, I have a storytelling show, Can I do like bits about this? Those are great. That's not for this, right? Yeah, right

So that's what it was. So I didn't I was just like, oh, you know, give me a chance, you know, you know So he did and then you know, it took a while to adjust, you know I think if you work the road enough, it obviously fits better. But if you're just a straight New Yorker, you're working Brooklyn or whatever, it's hard, because these people are older. They are. Yeah, and they have a little bit of money,

but some of them don't have a lot of money. Okay, so beyond the shows though, who's there? What's a ruba? Tourists. It's all tourists. It's all tourists. I mean, there's the locals. And the locals are very like,

this is what I love about it. It's like an advertisement for what it is, where it's like, you can drink the water, people speak English, take American money. They take American money? That's their currency? Yep. I mean, that's not their main currency,

but they do take it. It's safe. There's no like bad part of the island. Prostitution is legal. It's right off Venezuela. Yeah. Which is not so nice. No, but it's a prostitution is legal. Prostitution is legal in the red light. They have a red light.

How much is a prostitute? I wouldn't know that. How much has gone up to Mike? Um, I was, I was ignoring your question. Oh, I just got, I just got married, but um, but, Oh, I got your wedding gift in there. They're in the other room. I thought this was it.

Hey guys, I'll break it in today's episode to let you know a little bit about the guests. Mike Vecchione. He's one of the best comments working today. I'm not saying that lightly. His joke writing is like inspirational. I'm not going to use that word lightly. He's like, he legitimately, it's on another level. Me and List always talk about it, me and Big Jay always talk about it.

And he uses this style, this like deadpan kind of style to kind of accentuate those jokes. It's wild how fucking full on he is about every detail of it. He had a bit, I think in the Attractives, it might have been in a special CD from 2017, but about Megabus, and to research it, he took Megabus out and then back in

just to get Research about the situation instead of going off like one experience. He had like all of us would He's out there really committed to it. It's amazing. He's got a new special out right now called low-income whites welcome white Low income white singular it's available on Nate lands's YouTube. YouTube.com slash at Nate Land. It's produced by our biggest comics, not only financially, but also in terms of belly. Nate Bargazzi, yeah, he no longer is in shape the way he used to be and now he's got a little bit of a punch.

I don't know if you remember that scene from Pulp Fiction where she goes I like my punch or whatever. Shut up, fud so I don't have a fud. That's Nate. That was based on Nate. They knew what he would become. A guy who was in shape. First fat, then in extreme shape and now a little bit of a punch. It's fun. It's fun because also you can make fun of him because he used to be like legitimately fat. Disgusting.

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He's also got a special called the Attractive. It's also available on the eight line. You can watch that one as well. He's on the roads starting in, wow, right now. Good Nights Comedy Club, Tempe Improv, Des Moines Funny Bone, Hartford Funny Bone, and in Nashville, Tennessee, in Zany's in December go to MikeVecchione.com for all tickets right now. I am off the road I'm no longer

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nearly crashed. Go check out a special Low Income White right now on youtube.com slash at Nate Land and tell them Ari sent you. Make a joke about you got this from, oh, here's one. I like doing fun comments and jokes. I came here to show you that Mike Vecchione is not a anti-Semite.

I know everyone's saying he's anti-Semitic, but I was referred to this special from a Jew which should prove once and for all that Mike Vecchione, despite what every single person in the world says, is actually not anti-Semitic. Now let's get back to the episode about Aruba. But it's a Dutch colony. So it's the Dutch kind of it's the Dutch military protects it from foreign invaders or whatever. And the Dutch people, there's no,

there's a good relationship between the Dutch people and the locals, that's a nice way of saying it. Hey, so this is interesting to me, because I get sometimes into all colonizers, whatever, they were like this rush of all here to take over all of this, you know, and every island like who's going to get it. Right. And then all this and whatever. Right. So like the Dutch were some of them were terrible. Tyrants and stuff like that. Some of the French were terrible. And some of them were like, Hey, we think this is wrong. And then and then

like England will be like, Oh, we're gonna get it. And the French are like, Oh, well, no, if you're gonna take it, then we're gonna take it. Right. The Dutch gave back Timor-Leste. They were known as like a really kind colonizer. They were like, Hey, we're just here for the coffee. You guys run your own shit. We're coming for our coffee. Yeah. But that's it. Yeah. And then they go, actually, at some point, they go, you guys actually deserve your freedom, right? We're just gonna's it. Yeah. And then they go actually at some point they go you guys actually deserve your freedom, right? We're just gonna give it to you and then Indonesia came in and like killed a ton of like a half of them But like it's so I never think of Holland as a colonizer, right?

Right, but the way they did it and That was kind of the thing then where it's like that's these companies. Yeah, I forget what the companies were called that Trading company. Yeah, like the trading companies they would come and they would colonize and they was it's like that's these companies. Yeah, I forget what the companies were called that they were trading company Yeah, like the trading companies they would come and they would colonize and it was it was like a business It was like a big business back then but though but like you could see their relationship with the with the people is is a good one and Just what you said where it's like, oh, we're gonna let you guys like you guys have your run run It will will just be kind of here in the

background yeah it's still but you could see the Dutch influence there I was there for what is that their normal language Dutch Dutch is a language it's uh what's it called I forget the name of the language now it's escaping me but is it that is that no no no it's another one it's another one okay it's as mixed between Spanish and and Something else. Okay, maybe Creole. I don't know but it's like it's called something else and It's interesting and so what do you do there like it's just it seems like it's really On earth really it really is the greatest place on earth. I have no desire to go to Jamaica.

I have no desire, like, Katie, my wife, is like, well, you should maybe go to Mexico. I'm like, I have no desire to go anywhere but Aruba. And that could be just me, like, with my brain not, you know, you're a guy who, like, wants to go everywhere or whatever, but I find a good place, place like I just lock into it.

So I've been there several, several times. Fortunately for me, Aruba Ray has brought me down several times and my wife and we both perform on the shows and as well as many other comics. Okay, so then what do you do? Forget the shows for a second. Okay. Because the shows I'm sure are just shows, whatever, unless you're like, I mean, before your wife. Well, it's very specific to like, it's like doing,

it's like people who go on vacation and comics make a mistake when they go down there because they're like, oh, you guys are rich. It's like, they do that in some places where it's like, oh, you guys are rich. It's like, I don't know if they're rich. Maybe some of them are. But it's like this difference between being rich

and like saving your whole life having children and then having some money to go on a vacation with it's like I don't know if that's rich it's like comedians like you guys are rich like no you're just incredibly poor yeah yeah just like no we can all go out for a burger that's not rich but the comics like what yeah you afford two beers you don't need Chappelle to buy you one? Yeah. Also it's not a good strategy if you're performing in front of those people to be like, oh you guys are rich. Like no one wants to feel guilty about their wealth

if they have like a nest egg or something. It really is embarrassing to be rich. But yeah, it's like, so anyway, those are the kind of people who come, mostly East Coast Philadelphia, Boston, New York. When did you first start going? Did you, was it before? 2014.

Was it before you met Katie? Yes. Okay, so then let me ask you a question of just before times. Yeah. Stop me if I can't ask this. Were there groupies there? Were there people like fucking at these shows?

Have you heard, if it would be easier to go, have you heard from other comedians that people are getting laid? Let's go that way. I've heard that that can happen. Okay. I've heard that that can happen and other comics have hooked up down there.

And uh. Vacation sex. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, yeah, because people are coming, girls trips, that's a thing where it's like, I'm coming with my girl, like Bachelorette, kind of like the thing. And uh, and yeah, that's known to have happened down there. Okay. Yeah, I was dating I was always I've been in these long-term

Relationships you fuck Burke's Burt's ex Yeah, that's it It was in high school and then he in in college he dated her in college I dated her for like three months in high school. He's not over it. He dated her in college. He's still upset. Well, he's crazy He's wildly successful. So it's like doing it just to get back you all the success is to get back and to get that lady back So, okay, so I gotta say like Forget the shows for a second. Okay, what do you do when you dare, when you hang out with, I'm sure it's different. And then also I got to say this,

there's a specific kind of vacation that I've become aware of or a trip, which I call like COVID travel, where people get either locked into a place for COVID. Like they miss the last flight out and now you're like in a place by yourself or like a Christina and a Corrine were in a place by yourself or like Christina and Corinne were in Tulum and they're like, hey, all vacations are done. Like, well, our flight's still there. And they went and no one was there at a vacation spot.

And like these people went to places, I went to the Amazon where it was like, it just opened up. So it was like- The Amazon just opened up? Yeah, that's for real. So like they wouldn't let tourists in and like the day it did, like, hey, I got a vacation that day. That's crazy. So you're in this place where there's supposed to be a hundred people and that's for real. So like they wouldn't let tourists in and like the day it did like, Hey, I got a vacation

that day. That's crazy. You're in this place where there's supposed to be 100 people. It's just you. Yeah. Yeah. So you spent COVID. I spent COVID there. I remember talking to you because you went to Costa Rica. I went to Ecuador. Ecuador. Yeah. When you're in Costa Rica. Was that my imagination? 2017. That was a long time ago. It's like my parents. Capuchin monkeys.

I went to Costa Rica for, not to sidetrack us, but Costa Rican wedding. The interesting story, the Capuchin monkeys are on the porch, they're in the hot tub, and they actually, the wedding we went to, opened the door to the bride's suite and were in there like eating her food. No. Yes. Yeah, capuchin monkeys.

Capuchin monkeys are, These guys? Yeah. They are crazy, man. They're so cute. They are crazy. And they come like, they were like, they're not afraid of people. They like come into your hotel.

Oh yeah, look at this. Right in the hotel room. They just come in. What? Yeah, capuchin monkeys. Because our room faced the forest. So they were like right there. They just come right out of the forest.

Costa Rica, this is Costa Rica. Hold on. Monkey compilation. I love it. This is what our stand up Monkey compilation. I love it This is what our stand-up clips are competing with by the way What it just comes right yeah, oh my god They're so yeah, they just walk into your room

That's nuts is that's like, come on, man. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And there's entire families of them. There was like a mother with a baby on her back and the husband following behind just like, uh, everybody loves Raymond, but for Capuchin monkeys. Wow. Okay. So yeah, you spent COVID there. What'd you decide? Just like, I'm not going back? No, we got there and we were there.

When it broke? No, we went after. Okay. Okay, we took a flight because he started doing shows again because remember the six, the spacing, we started to open up a little bit with some spacing. They had stuffed tape on the ground.

Yeah. You can't put your chair over there. Are you guys together? We're together. That chair's here. Yeah. And can I just open up on a personal note about our relationship?

Me and Soder lived together. When COVID hit, I came back from Chicago, COVID hits. I know it's serious because the NBA gets canceled between the early show and the late show on Friday. When the NBA gets canceled between the the late show the early show in the late show on Friday When the NBA gets canceled the season I go. Okay billionaires are not losing money. This is very real. So I get back Katie's terrified. She's living with roommates in Astoria. I live with Soder in Astoria Soder Goes to Hoboken with his Katie

My Katie moves in and we're living together in our place in Astoria under the train. So that's for a year we're doing that. That's tough. So we're fighting. Yeah. Because you know, I mean, a lot of relationships broke up over COVID, either they got stronger or they broke up. They went to, remember that the X-Men movie where they just, they wanted to make everyone into a mutant? And they like release something to make everyone into a mutant and they like released something

to make everyone a mutant. That's how it did for relationships. It either devolved them or evolved them. It was just like, let's go, we're moving in. I think Chappelle said it best where he's like, you're sitting there with all of your life decisions. And you're looking at them, you're like, am I happy with my life decisions

or am I not happy with my life? During COVID? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that's when a lot of people left LA, go, you know what, I want a doc. I want to live by a doc, so I'm going to Oklahoma. What am I doing here? I haven't gone on an audition in seven years.

What am I doing here? And it's like, yeah, you have to think about this for a second, like, I never see my family, or I see them too much, or what am I doing? It takes you out of your normal thought process. So you start thinking from a different perspective. It's like, with standup, like the way we're in it, where it's like, am I dedicating too much of my life to this?

And then once it stops, you go, oh my God, I really have nothing but this. Maybe I'm spending too much time on this because I haven't fostered any of these other relationships. I'm just focusing on this. And that's good. It's good to be driven and passionate about something. But at the end of the day, it's like,

am I ignoring these other things? Well, you know the mistake I think we made is you and I and kind of everyone in our subset of comics, the manuscript, no, but whatever, just these comics where like every day, multiple times a day, as much as we can get up, guys. Right, right. You know?

Right. Which is like 90% of us. Yeah. We went up every day, every chance we could, because we had to, because we're a one year comic and I need to get better right now, and also I love it. And then at some point, like, okay, now I kind of know how to write a joke

and I know how to handle a heckler. And I used everything from my past, from like high school and grade school to draw upon you know and now it's like the jokes are all becoming about coffee shops and airplanes and I'm like I need to like actually get some new input right right right and then we never stopped to go hold on hold on hold on actually should take one day a week off yeah and just have date nights or just go on vacation with my parents you know see I forgot I was supposed to be doing that.

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Tell them I sent you. Tell them you've been tripping sent you to show support for the show. That's it, let's get back to the episode. I was like a guy who was like, no, you gotta go up, like that push yourself kind of a thing. Whereas like, no, no, no, I just did a special, let me go to South America for a while and get some new experiences and maybe journal about them

So that later on these seeds can become jokes. Yeah, that's a very smart way to do it on purpose It's not like it's not like it's not very consciously. Yeah, so Anyway, kovat did that for us where it's like you're dropped and you're like, oh my god Like what am I left with here? Like what are the important things other than, cause the whole thing came to a stop. So we're in the apartment, it's not, it's not we're not, it's where me and Soder live,

it's not her, her stuff is still in her apartment. Did you fight with Soder a lot? Did I, I never fought with Soder. Never. Never. God, if he was only a chick. I mean, you both worked out for both of you, but if he were a chick, that would have been a great relationship.

But like, don't picture Soder as with boobs. You gotta picture like someone else. I'm trying to do it. No, I don't have that code of imagination. Danielle Soder? Someone Photoshopped that? AI that? It's so funny because. AI that, do it now. I don't have that code of an imagination. Daniela Soder. Someone photoshopped that. AI that. It's so funny. AI that. Put it up. It's so funny because both of us.

Put a romantic Daniela Soder and Mike Beckion. Fat Mike. I'm the fat girl that he's asked to stay with. Yeah. So we're in, me and Soder had a great living arrangement for 10 years we lived and I'll tell you something like we were in such a situation where it was like it's such a good situation. We're such good close best friends and so we just decided like you know let's there's no if there's no reason to move I don't need to live by myself.

We're great friends. Let's just stay here and then we date different girls and they come back and we'd live under the train and the girls would be like, how do you live under a train? It's like you get used to it. You know what I mean? And then make dinner, we'd have pizza. It was just like fun. Nothing but fun.

Damn. So then Kate... Like a lower rent George Clooney type situation where it's like, it's just fun. It was just so fun. So, but COVID is the thing that spurred us on to his relationship and my relationship. It accelerated those two things, both of our relationships,

because he moved in with his Katie and Hoboken and I moved in with my Katie in our place. And then it was like too tight? Yeah, I mean it was like normal, like we'd get up, have a bunch of coffee and watch New York One and be like, no, what's happening? And then we both have our inner triggers

from how you're raised, You know what I mean? So it's like that's brushing up against each other and she's like, she's flipping out, I'm flipping out. It's like, yeah, it wasn't- She also likes to talk about stuff as it comes up and you're more of a barrier guy, let it explode out. It may be, yeah. Yes.

So then it's like those don't match. I mean, I like where you're going. I mean, I didn't think it was all my fault, but the way you're framing it I know it's her fault. She keeps bubbling bubbling like I'm not ready to do this It's everybody's fault it's just it's a you know matchups make fights Well, we're stuck in the situation and it's like one thing that that did help is like Ray was like hey Why don't you come you know, it's spacing, I don't know how many shows there's gonna, they're gonna be down here,

but why don't you like come and then we're gonna start to do some shows. So I was one of the guys he used, so we both went down and that's how it happened. And our relationship immediately got better when we were in a room. Where did you put it? Hotel, condo, where do you stay?

Hotel, but on the beach. Here's a cool thing from Ray. Ray's Jewish. Ray is Jewish. Two comics, one hotel. There you go. I didn't think about that. You saved money on that.

Yes. Actually, I'm getting two performers. Cause probably the shows keep new people. Well, the thing is, yeah, he keeps rotating people. He's very good about that. No, no, I mean audience. Yes. So then he really could stay for five months

and just do the shows. He could, but he always brings new guys. He's very good that way. He always brings into something where he'll spend money to bring people in just to keep it fresh and keep it. But in this specific situation, he brought us down, and then there was some kind of a lockdown that happened again while we were down there. And he was like, look,

I don't wanna spend the money to bring people in and go through all these travel restrictions. He goes, just come down and do you wanna stay? Let's just stay here, and if I have shows, we'll do them, and if I don't, we'll just chill. It's chill and you're not doing everything's locked down in New York You're not gonna be doing anything in New York Do you just want to stay here and I I said give me some time to think about it And I took one day and cuz Katie was like what are we doing?

We're gonna go back and just what into the toe what yeah go back to what right? I remember actually Soder was my catalyst where I remember hearing about him going to the airport to go to Phoenix For shows that was at a 1 third capacity already. It's like Okay, it's so funny to like Matt. Edgar was like people like can you do shows at 1 third capacity and Matt? I was like yeah, that's what we do. We're late night comics of the store We can form for 12 people What are you fucking rich guys? You don't understand what it's like in real life. One third capacity is actually how I draw.

That's the one third capacity tour. But, what was I just saying? Oh, so Sodor was at the airport, this is what I heard. And they go, turn around, Arizona just shut down. So I had to go, ugh, and go back. And I'm like, I don't wanna go through that for the best case scenario of one third of the pay. Right, right.

I'm just gonna go to Ecuador. Yeah. And then you just like, I'm just gonna stay in Aruba. I'm gonna stay in Aruba. I'll do less spots in New York, but marginally. You go from 20 spots. I think the stand was having outdoor shows. Some. Yeah, like you could get up once a week there

at the stand, but people were having outdoor shows. Some. Yeah, like you could get up once a week there at the stand. But people were having rooftop shows, but that's it. That's all that was happening in New York. And he's like, why would you go back? Just stay here. You couldn't do three a night, four a night, five a night like you were before. It was three a week.

Right. You know? Right. If you hustled, so then it's like, this is the time. Almost nothing's happening. Go away. Right. Go away and stay so it made sense and he's like what if we have shows we'll do them if we don't we'll

just chill and he actually ended up having shows she got to go up right and be in a ruba yeah so what do you do all day get up we would have coffee right and then I would work out. What's your workout? Just fucking picking up coconuts? Is it one of those? That picture. Sweet Jim at the Marriott, sweet Jim.

We do a little, I would take him, actually Ray, I would take him through the circuit. You know, I would do like a circuit. I would be like, let's go. And use lightweight, just get three sets of 10 on everything, and it's like, but people misconstrue. It's like, I'm a workout guy, but I'm a workout guy because, and I'm 52 now, but I wanna feel good.

I do these practices and stuff like working out because I don't wanna be on medication. Not that there's anything, if you need medication, whatever, but I'm trying to do it naturally. Yeah, I'm like, it's like, oh, what are you trying to prove, you're a loser. But I'm trying to do it naturally. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, it's like, oh, what are you trying to prove? It's like, no, I'm not trying to prove anything. I'm just trying to feel good.

Yeah. That's the whole thing. And I find that my way of feeling good is, you have to suffer through some stuff, and then when you come out of it, you'll feel unbelievable. Like, that's what fasting is too, which is like, don't eat. Oh yeah, you do that. It sucks. And then, but when you can't too, which is like, don't eat. It's like it sucks.

And then, but when you can't eat, you appreciate food like so much more. Sorry, COVID. I saw Che once right at the end of COVID, like, you know, like eight months later, nine months later, and he called and he was like, how you doing? He's like, eh, what's the matter? He goes, found out I have COVID today.

It was like, he's like, just joking, it's so funny. He says it as he's breathing on you? Yeah. That's the best. But it was a wacky time, but it ended up being a blessing for us because we just, we stayed in the hotel, on the beach, and it was, and then we just. In Aruba.

In Aruba. It's in the Beach Boys song. Yeah. Aruba, It was the first one. Yeah. Baby, why don't we do Dukey Largo, Montego. And the best is they had these, I don't know what they're called, lizards. Yeah. These lizards there and they are just everywhere. This guy? This guy. He's everywhere. That's classic lizard. And we would sit and get up, have coffee, sit in a gazebo. And these guys, because people feed them,

they come right up to you. They're your capuchin monkeys. They are capuchin monkeys. Wait, so they're tame? They just want food? Yeah, they want food. I mean, it's freaky to watch a small dinosaur walk up to you while you're trying to have breakfast.

How fast are they? They're very fast. They are? Yeah. When they get and go? Yeah, they get and go. And some are bigger than others. Do they bite people? I think so.

What? But only if you interact with them. I'm sure if you're feeding them. But they don't attack people though. Okay. But they look like small dinosaurs. Jesus. Can you touch them?

Not if you. Look at that shit on his back. He looks like a. But isn't it amazing like they. What's the bad gremlin? What's his name? I don't know what that. I don't know.

The first bad one. He looks like that. That looks like a mohawk. Yeah. But it's amazing that they're, these are the remnants of dinosaurs. The last remnants of dinosaurs. You think they'd be bigger ones to be the remnants?

Not these little fucking homos. They've downsized, it's a travel-sized dinosaur. Yeah, guess who you just look at those. What's the weather like out there? That's the thing, it's 80 and beautiful every day. The whole mantra of the island is one happy island. And it is, it's like beautiful every day. It's the whole mantra of the island is one happy island. And it is, it's like beautiful every day. Even if it rains, it's a passing storm.

Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. It's unbelievable. So what, who's that? That's Tony Woods. Oh, okay. And Ray, that's Aruba Ray and Tony Woods. Nice, look how fucking weird you look.

Yes. This is five years ago? Chunky face. Chunky face. You look like different though. You look like a punk kid. I'm a punk kid back then. But this is after one of the shows.

Okay. Yeah, Tony, Tony crushes. I mean Tony crushes everything. So he set up like a real club there. He put a backdrop in and everything. Yeah, he set up a real club. The club is great. Tony, dude, Tony up like a real club there. He put a backdrop in yeah He set up a real club. The club is great. Tony dude. Tony is Tony annihilates I have like like, you know how it's like certain people you can follow better than other people and other people like I have

No problem at all following that guy you do that's weird and then vice versa like I came up I can't follow Tony Woods. I Do remember they said Bernie could have beaten Trump because they both he offset his I'm an outsider guy Right, right right right you know whereas the other people that was running against were all insiders and people like I want an outsider and like he was the only option could have been Bernie also I don't really know politics but that's what I remember yeah Tony is super conversational yes that's my only skill he beats in it. So then I go on after him and I sound contrived.

That's my one skill goes away. Cause we were like, yeah, we just found a guy who was really talking like, you're reading lines. If you're going to read lines, do it like, you know, I don't know, like a fucking act. Do it like Jeremy Hots or something. I just did a list, the sesh. Yeah. Anyway, I got that feeling too, where it's like I go up

and I'm doing a bit. And I could see them looking at me like, this sounds like a bit. And I'm like, well, it is. It's a bit, yeah. It's like, well, can you be, it sounds like, we want something authentic. Like, what happened to you today? Sesh is like that. Kind of a thing versus,. It's like, well, can you be, it sounds like we want something authentic. Like what happened to you today?

Oh, Sesh is like that. Kind of a thing versus, and Joe is like super organic. He's like, yeah, it's like whatever. And it's like, I was in the middle of it, it occurred to me that they're looking at me like I'm doing a bit. And they're responding to me like, this sounds like a bit.

Yeah, I mean, you have a set up style like that. It's less like, hey, how you doing? So hey, you ever notice, like that's Big J. He's very combo. Right. Yeah, anyway, Tony rules. Tony rules that the shows were great. We went to this, they have restaurants, the food is very good.

The food is good. Yeah. Expensive? This place? No. Aruba? Not crazy. That's the other thing. Not crazy expensive, but we went to these, they have these restaurants and Ray knows all of them where they're tasting menus. So you pay a prefix fee and then you go in and they just serve you courses. So it's like, I'm an overeater.

So it's not good. I have to fill up on bread because the courses are very small. And it's just like a tasting. It's what it's supposed to be as taste. But there's like eight of them. It's eight little things that you're supposed to, you know, eat and go, you know, sample.

And you're just like, more of that. Yeah, keep it coming. Eight seconds. Yeah. This place is called Two Fools in a Bowl. Two Fools in a seconds. Yeah. This place is called two fools in a bowl two fools in a bowl Yeah, this is me after eating me and Simone. We're in San Francisco once we went to I think Zizek's or one of those Chinese restaurants and we're like Simone loves authentic You know, he wants fireworks from the back. He whenever he comes here to Chinatown it goes

Where's the fireworks and like sir? No, get out of here. But anyway, he was like, what should we get? And the waiter guy's old Chinese guy was like, I bring you stuff? And we're like, yeah. And it was like, all right. And he just, he's just like, when they decide, I was like, yeah, give me the best shit. I have no idea, I'm looking at the menu

and just like deciphering, you know. Yeah, but these tasting places are really, they're really something. They're really great. It's an experience. And I was drinking back then though, so it's like wine pairings and all this stuff. It's like just one, just don't eat and get ready to like experience it.

Experience it. Yeah. And it's something like weird. Like what would they serve you? I don't even remember what they, but each course and that's after the meal. What they took you to the kitchen? Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's small. It all seats like eight.

Oh really? It seats like eight people or 10 people or 12 people, something like that. Yeah. So that's a bright one. Yeah. Um, yeah, me and Bobby went to one of those in Copenhagen and they say afterwards the only thing you need to do after is Just go get a slice of pizza. Yeah It's a three-hour we can fill up on bread, but they they it's really uh, it's escaping me What the food is but because they over explain it like thanks before they give it to you like this is a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and it looks like they're welding it yeah we have macerated the cherries yeah I'm like well I don't know what that means yeah we took starfruit we told it his

father left him this was an abandoned starfish fresh everything fresh fish fresh fish was that that was big there. It's Joe Vega and that's a ruby Ray. And, um, this is the, I'm doing it. This is the fresh, fresh, fresh. The fish is it's looking at you. That's so fun. What a fun time to be there too. Forget about all the times you've been there, but just like nothing. So did you get paid for the shows? So you were one of the few people

that actually was making money during that time too. Making money, well whenever you had shows, but it was like. But the hotel was free? Yeah, the hotel, we stayed in the hotel because he was like, look, I'm gonna have shows, so I need the hotel, I need the hotel, and the hotel was like, cool.

We don't have any tourism right now, so sure. Yeah, that's another thing. It's like not many people were down there. It was like pretty, he was there when I was really desolate. When I was there, it was, you know, because remember how it came in waves, where it was like it happened, then it started to loosen up a little bit,

so that's when we went down, and then it was like a lockdown again, because there was an outbreak again. So it locked down again, it was like a lockdown again because there was an outbreak again So it locked down again. It made it it was tougher to move So that's why we decided to just stay God what a decision who's this lady? This is a Can you play sound on this? Yeah, you got to unsound it though. Okay. Well, yeah this is a Jewish lady.

Play that again. Play that again. So proud of herself. Yeah. Is this the type of person that comes to the show? Yeah, it was that. Yeah, it was like it's like that's how like good nature. Oh, Jewish fun. Yeah. Yeah. Fun. Seems like older people from like the north who like. Yeah.. Yeah, yeah. But not the annoying ones. Yeah, there's some people from Boston, Philly, New York, and then you have people from the

Midwest and then you have some Netherlands people coming and people from Australia. They are. Who are they? What are they like? What are the locals? Do you talk to them? Yeah. What are they like?

They're very cool, very cool island people. Island boys? Arubans. Arubans, yeah. What are they? Arubans are very like, it's very like, you see their houses and everything. It's like, they're just very chill. Very chill, like it's very obviously an outdoor culture.

It's not like the houses aren't big. They're not like, they just live very, like from my view, like simple. Is it a rush? Like, you know, New York's like move, move, move, move, move. Me and List and Norman were watching a movie and then we got ice cream and we were like strolling. And some lady's like, ugh.

And like, it was past us and we're like, what the fuck's her problem? And then we immediately started like, some fucking bitch is about to die. She's angry. It was like, she just said, oh, by the wrong people. But it was like this strolling is not allowed here. Yeah. Yeah. So everybody, everybody is in tour. They, they realize, I think the people there realize that tourism is their bread and butter. So they make sure they're very kind and everything to the tourists, even the cab drivers when you get there.

It's like first time on the island and then they'll talk to you. And they're very like, they don't want to, and that's why crime is very low also. It's like they don't want to harm the golden goose. So they realize that tourism is like the thing. And so they're very, it helps, you know, most of the economy.

So they make sure that crime is low and that people are treated well. And everybody's in a good mood on the flight on the way down there. People are the happiest I've seen any group of people on a plane. They're thrilled, dude. They're thrilled to be there.

They know where they're going. So they're like, there's this, you know, we travel all the time and you're on a flight and it's usually just the same old mundane whatever, but people on flights to Aruba are the happiest people you've ever seen in your life. Because they know what's about to, they know where they're about to go. There's something I do a lot of places,

like is so and so safe, I'm always like, it's safe, but every advisory is like, careful't, careful, about everywhere. Yeah, yeah. I wonder what it would be like for this. Wow, yeah, that's the first one. Is considered safe. Considered safe. Low crime rate, governmental safety measures,

reputable resources. Patrick, crime is the big. You can drink the water, drinking the water is huge. Using American money is huge. People speaking English, you don't have to struggle. Oh, how are the mosquitoes? I mean, the mosquitoes are like non-existent. Really? Yeah.

And it's, like I said, the weather is beautiful. It's like 80 and sunny every day. Wow. Wow. And the people coming to the shows are like good, like I said, good day. Wow. Wow. And the people coming to the shows are like good, like I said, good people. It's way far down there. It's funny that Chris, look at the difference

between the Bahamas and Aruba. Or what are these, Bermuda. That's up by South Carolina. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's out there, but I picture, when in my head, when I grew up, I pictured all these Bermuda and St. Lucia at kind of the same place, you know?

But it's not at all. No, no. And Aruba's way down here. But it's all the Caribbean, right? It's all the Caribbean. Yeah, but Aruba's like way down. Yeah, it's really close to Columbia also. So it must be like, ugh.

The Colombian. God. AD and Son sunny every day What a fucking how long were you there for this that time three months have been back since yes Could be a few times and and it's it's I'm telling you I never get it's never it's always Great. Yeah, it's never bad. I never get sick of it. It's unbelievable. Have you been to Quadruki cave? I went with the first couple of times I went, I went to the donkey sanctuary. You can feed the donkeys from your hand.

There's goats, stray goats that walk around stray dogs and goats when you're driving. What? Yeah, stray. Come to the donkey sanctuary. Donkey sanctuary. What? Yeah, stray dogs and donkeys. Come to the donkey sanctuary. The donkey sanctuary. What? What do you mean? It's donkey sanctuary. You can feed the donkeys. There's wild donkeys? Well, no. Badonkadonk? Yeah. Is this badonkadonk? Look at that ass. Look at that ass. Badonkadonk. You can feed the don wait this wild dog which was a mule is The the inbreeded more are working-class donkeys. I think Donkey sanctuary. Yeah with his run around

Well, they just yeah, they hang out Look at that one. That one's got a lot to say. He's protesting. Look at this. This kid has a white parent. And that donkey's cool with it. Yeah. They have matching hair. Yeah. But the donkey sanctuary, there's also a butterfly farm, which I've never been to.

Katie went to it with her parents. But yeah, I've had my mother down there. Really? And sister. Yeah. It looks gorgeous. Butterfly form. Yeah, the butterfly form. What?

Are they just out? I'd never been there. Oh, right. But I heard, Katie went. That looks like you. That is me. That's me if I had a family. Oh yeah, it's all inside like that. Yeah.

Damn. Well probably earlier it's a caterpillar form and then it becomes a life. So okay. I don't know how it works. Flamingo Beach? That's just a beach. I must have been there.

So do they take you on like little excursions? You know what the beautiful thing about it, we're right there in the middle. A good friend is he would, when win the first couple times we went there he'll take you to all the All the places yeah, and and the rock like there's a natural pool, which is like you you can like it's a It's I don't know how to describe it. It's all these

It's like a mountain and it's a pool in the middle of this Rocky like a natural pool. Yeah Just call the natural pool So we went there and you have to take you have to like get a special Vehicle to drive to these places because it's so like rocky the natural Yeah Oh What Yeah. Oh, what?

Salt water pool. Yes, that's it. It's like, it's exactly what it is. Wow. You jump off. It's so funny because- Wait, this is up in the mountains? Yes. So that's not connected to the ocean.

It looks like there's tides. Yeah. Wow. It's great. And you know, I've jumped off some, but like when it was rough one time we went and I did not jump because I was like, what's the benefit is jumping and landing in water. The, the drawback is being paralyzed for the rest of my life if I hit rock. You weren't at Norman's bachelor party. He was going to jump off the, um,

the deck into the pool below. Right. And it was a bit of a move and he was like stepped over the railing and he was doing it. And he goes, what do you think to me? I'm like, I don't think you should do it, but I think you can make it. And everyone's like, do it, do it. And then Joe list comes in and goes, no, no, you're getting married, no, no, come back over. Absolutely not. And he goes, all right, no, I didn't do it. Yeah, I mean, that's it.

What's the benefit to be like, I did it? The benefit is you could say you did it and you feel the exhilaration of it. What, you jump like that? But the drawback is you smash your head and die or you're a vegetable. Oh my God. Yeah. So it's up in the mountains, that's so vegetable. Oh my god. Yeah.

So it's up in the mountains? That's so cool. It's great. A saltwater pool up in the mountains. Yeah, and it's like very hard on your feet. It's very jagged. Yeah. So it helps to have those web, those scuba shoes that people have.

The goat shoes. Yeah. Because it's very hard to, with sandals. Or barefoot. Barefoot is brutal But like people are up there Videowing themselves taking pictures and stuff. It's uh, I hate a fucking trouble and also as I gotta say It's like the other comics that you're with just like when we were in Vegas together

Yeah, like the other comics that you're with really matter too because it's like you're hanging out with them You're not just doing the shows with them, but during the day you're doing these types of things with them. Yeah, that would make a difference. Look at how jagged those rocks are, it's jagged. Dude, I love travel vlogger couples, because they're like, we're good travel,

but let's make our thing Gladys and Kenny, I've just discovered right now. That's these guys? Yeah, they have 16.6 thousand subscribers, and they have to be very fake on camera for things. Yeah, that's Gladys and Kenny It's so great if they had What the kid just jumped oh Oh, that kid just jumped. Yeah.

Because I was nervous and. Ugh, I hate it. I hate them. I'll jump if it's reasonable that I can. If there's too much, like, the wind, it's rough. You might fall into a rock. I can't. I won't do it.

Like, that one I'll do. That one you would do. Yes, yes. That one I'll jump there. But one time it was really rough and it was like, I'm like, there's no way. Oh, it's not so far. Yeah, it's very fun

It's very fun and that in combination with the shows at night. It's like you're hanging out with the same people So is this connected the ocean? Why does it keep going up and down like yeah? It is it's connected to a larger is it's all connected Oh but it's just like these pathways and gullies and the rock and And then there one part of the island where the hotels and all the tourism is yeah And then there's another part of the island where the hotels and all the tourism is. And then there's another part of the island, which I'm sure is not gonna last very long,

it's gonna build up, which is just kind of barren. And then there's like a prison. Imagine going to prison in Aruba. Best case scenario. Unless they're like extra brutal. Oh, I think it's worse. Probably extra brutal, because everybody's having fun like one mile away.

Yeah, you get to look out at them like, damn it. You have right across the bay from like Sun Bay, there's like, fuck. Yeah, you get them like damn it. Yeah right across the bay from like Sunbathers like yeah At least you're gonna jerk off and like chicks and bikinis. Yeah, she knows exactly what she's doing But it might be it might be the where do you stay or or unjust just died? What's the city? Yeah, that's what it is Or I just thought the airport is yeah And that's where the shows are and stuff Yes Yeah, so then over here over there is where the the other and stuff? Yes. So then over here is where?

Over there is where the other side of the island where it's mostly rough and terrain and stuff. Yeah. Natural bridge. What is that? Natural pool. I don't know, it was broken when I was there. Oh, look at that.

The natural bridge. Look at that. Oh, okay, walk over it. Yeah, me and Iso were driving by in Arizona, we were just taking a scenic route, our flight got delayed, we were driving back from Tucson to Phoenix to the airport, and then they were like, flight's delayed four hours,

we were like, let's take a scenic route then. We passed by a prison prison and he was so shook because we were driving past all these cotton fields and then there was a prison and he goes, and then they look out, he goes, it's all my people. And he goes, then they gotta look out at, they're pretty much just like, we're a slave here. That's us, we're the cotton pickers.

But did they have those signs, the signs where it's like, do not stop? It didn cotton pickers, but did they have those signs the signs where it's like do not stop It didn't have that but it didn't have a lot of like like propaganda signs like rehabilitating our nation's future Yeah, yeah getting people back on their feet. What is this place? Re-education. Yeah, this sounds great. It's like a prison. What a fun place. Yeah, it's really it's really the best Are people getting drunk every day? Is it like a... I mean, the people who are coming down there

to celebrate stuff and to party, like yeah, they're like getting drunk. They'll take like a beer, they'll go to the beach and they'll just get drunk on the beach and then go to dinner and get drunk at dinner. It's like, you know, when I was down there at one time, some staff came from the Comedy Cellar. The whole staff?

Like four wait staff. Yeah. And they, I mean, you know, they party. They party. And they party on another level. Like they were. They party every day. They party all day.

They drank all day. I was never this kind of a drinker, but I could drink like during the day and then I would have to sleep, or I could drink during the night and then I would have to sleep or I could drink her in the night And then I would have to sleep these guys drank all day Had dinner with us and then drank all night and then got up and then went on Like a cruise like a boat like a booze cruise where you're like swinging on a rope and jump

And then then drank all day and then drank all night They would just like they were constantly and then one guy night. They were just like, they were constantly. And then one guy came in, I mean, came and worked out with us. It's like, and then just kept drinking and partying. It was unreal. Wow. Yeah. But these are the kind of people at the shows here.

Now Caitlin, you have a very noble job. You coordinate Timmy transplants. I do. That's unbelievable. Are there any problems with that? Or does it go smoothly? Not all the time. Sometimes if a patient rejects the kidney,

it can be a problem. I know what that's like. Because it's like if I have a joke in my act and it just doesn't fit in the right place, I just have to rework it. Is it kind of similar to that? No. That's not the same thing.

Right? Thank you for joining me. So this is just me trying to relate to the people there. Oh, she looks so Italian. She looks mob wife-ish. Yes. Good. You're mob wives of Aruba. Yeah. Yeah, that's so Italian then. That's New Year's. She looks mob wife-ish. Yes. Mob wives of Aruba. Yeah. Yeah, that's us during that.

We went out and that's how fireworks and everything. So that was. I didn't realize how fucking classic Christian you guys were. That's a better shot. That's in Aruba? Yeah. Wow.

Fireworks in the back. Yeah. That's New Year's? New Year's. New Year's in Aruba, whatever the height of the pandemic was. You came straight from back. Yeah. That's New Year's? New Year's. New Year's in Aruba, whatever the height of the pandemic was. You came straight from surgery. Yeah. Yeah.

That's great. Yeah, I saw the mask on. Yeah. Wow. She's wearing her leopard print. Palm Beach, that's the spot. Wow, look at that. Wait, wait, wait, back up, back up.

Let me see this for a second. Let me see this for a second. Look at that. So it's really like right on the water. Yeah, the fireworks. Wow. I mean, this is like a paradise. I imagine the Dutch finding this and just being like this if it's done, right man What are the beaches like like the white sand?

It's not white but the water is like the clearest you could see it's unbelievable You know what else is unbelievable like I'm addicted to my phone like everybody. I know it. I know I am I know I am And I'm like not judging anybody else, but people will be in the water on their phones You're in the most beautiful place in the world and you're just on your phone. It's like this ocean doesn't have any Wi-Fi What's going on with the ocean? It's like there is like what are you doing? You can't let no lit or like I've been guilty of it to I'm taking pictures of the Sunsets Like just enjoy the sun.

You're never gonna look at this. I try to have a rule that I don't abide by, but the rule is if this is temporary, enjoy it. And if it's long lasting, then you could take a picture. Like us on that rock, you, me, Sarah and Joe. It's like, all right, let's take a picture. This is a moment. This is a moment, we'll take a picture

and it's with us in it. Yeah. Or like a building, okay? But this is, the, it's, a sunset is happening right now. It's like, I shouldn't take time away to get this. And you're not gonna capture it. You can't capture sunsets or moons. Right.

You just, no one ever has. And it's more about the feeling that you're having while the sun is setting. Yeah, like, wow, look at that moon, it's so big today. Like, it's not gonna, it's just gonna look like a dot. There's no context to it. And what kind of mental state are you gonna be when you're scrolling?

You're like, hey, the moon. Oh, a shitty picture of the moon? It's not gonna have the same emotional effect. Yeah. Yeah, it's like you just came out of your apartment after a fuckin' six months after your chick dumped you and then like, the first thing you saw was a big fuckin' full moon and you're like,

the feeling, it's like that ain't in there. That ain't in the picture. It's not in there. and you're not gonna feel that when you know but this is a nice one you guys on New Year's I mean fireworks so that's temporary but still it's going for a while turn around take a picture commemorate yes that's what that's the kind of thing where you take a picture I got advice from some Israeli girl and in Myanmar should always be in your picture and put whoever you're with in it too. Because if it's just a place, you know, the Empire State Building,

what's that? It's true. You got to be you with this guy I met on the plane and we were hanging out for the day, but here's us in it together. It's true. Yeah. It's true. Because it has that emotional effect. Here's one of my jokes. Okay.

I know you probably don't do this, but this is one of my jokes during COVID. Yeah. So think about it now. Like COVID is happening. So that's, you look like you're running for city council. I'm there with my mask. You will, you kept your mask on until you hit the stage and then you would drop your mask and perform. That was the rule. That was the rule. I love these laws. It used to have one about underage kids performing at the comedy store. Nick Yusuf was under 21 when he started. He wasn't allowed in, but to perform you can buck

the laws. You can smoke on stage because it's performance, you know? Oh, wow. So I'd have to lead him as a door guy. My friend from Open mics, I'd have to lead him in. I was 25, he was 20, lead him in and come to the stage. And then, and then as soon as he was done, I was like, let's go, let's go. You're a couple of, you me. He's like, give me a second Ari. I'm like, let's go. Rules are rules. That's so great. It'd be great if they really did it up because show he's underage and just had him perform in a high chair. Okay this is a COVID joke during COVID at Aruba Race Comedy Club in Aruba. Okay. I feel bad for stalkers.

Yeah, because now they have to stay 56 feet away. Yeah, six feet because of the tiny neighbors, but 50 feet because they couldn't handle their relationship and they became psycho and the fucking courts had to get involved, okay? So shout out to the stalkers. Thank you. Not bad.

Not bad. Not a bad one. Not bad. 56 feet away. What's the name of the special again? I put it in already, but. Low income white. Low income white.

Yeah. What's it on? It's on Nate Land YouTube. It's called YouTube at Nate Land? YouTube.com slash Nate Land? It's the Nate land YouTube It's called YouTube at Nate land. You should become slash Nate land. It's the Nate land YouTube The Nate land You put YouTube you punch in YouTube Then and they he has this whole site And that's my big face, but I look pretty healthy there

I look well much thinner than the pictures that you have of me and Zion. But look how healthy my skin is. Nate Land Entertainment. Nate Land Entertainment, YouTube, Nate Land. Oh, OK, YouTube has Nate Land. But it's on there. Oh, Long Come White.

It's already out. No, it's out Friday. Oh, this is the trailer. When this enters, yeah. The trailer. This is the trailer. OK, I don't know when this enters yet. The trailer. This is the trailer. Okay, cool. So it's all good. They're promoting it. Wow. 4000. That's a lot. There's more than a lot of specials to get. Official trailer. That's so cool. That's

so cool. Yeah. Wait, okay. Let's go back to Aruba though. Aruba. That's so cool. Yeah. Wait, okay, let's go back to Aruba though. Aruba. So, okay. They're just in your place. They're always there, man. They keep bringing you back to the fact that they are dinosaurs. This is a gazebo, but the gazebo is in the hotel area. So, um, So about this kind of roof that just screams beach. You don't need any relaxation. Yeah. You just need shelter from the sun. But my, um, wife is big on sunblock every morning. Like now she's like, do you put sunblock on?

You need to put sunblock on every single morning. You have spad sun damage on your face, which is a roundabout way of insulting me. But she just like, she bought me a special, she just bought me a special cream to put on. The zinc stuff? No, it's not zinc. It's, it's like some kind of like, she bought me sunblock and then she's like, okay, that's might be too heavy for you to use every day. Here's a lotion that you could use.

But yeah, sunburn is people get torched here because there's a breeze blowing off the ocean and you could really get screwed up bad. On a breeze? If you're a white. If you're a white the way that I am. I think I'm gonna get, I made a decision when I had like really bad depression

and like some sunlight was the only thing that would get me out of it. I would try to get 15 minutes of sunlight a day. And then I'd be like, I gotta be out in the sun or I'm gonna get depressed. And it was like, I tell myself, you're gonna get cancer. And then I made a decision, I'm like, it's better than suicide.

Yeah, it's suicide now in my 30s and 40s or cancer later. Let's just take the cancer. That's really great, you have to make that choice. Yeah Yeah, but that's like a Huberman. I got a human where it's like, yeah I get 15 minutes of Sun I look into the They tell you not to look directly into the Sun. Yeah. He's a guy who is like you get some sunlight Yeah, it helps. It really does. It's like neurologically proven to counter depression.

So your instinct, I don't know if you went by science, but your instinct was right, if that's your instinct. You know why I went, there was this guy, you know who Robert William Abravaio is? No. Well, he just passed. He was a schizo from the comedy store. He was an NYU law student and then broke.

Like he had a mental break LA story you know happens a lot right right he lived I get that what yo ah dude I get it I get it I get it I get it he would close out the open mic night every week and then he'd get tortured by the other comics he was so crazy they go like this and he goes you're trying to kill me with with a small seismic slowly like this and go Nazi number one Nazi number two Tom Barris he hated Don Barris I don't what they throw chairs at him but off to the side so not to hit him you're destroying me but he's a full

schizo but Mitzi was like let him close out I don't know if he was ever whatever but in one moment he would get boners like this girl Katie Katie would come in and rub his back and you just see him get a boner. Like always with his old green jacket and he'd stuff plastic bags in his in here in his lapels or whatever to protect him from radiation. I don't know. I don't know. But he told me once I would give him my roaches at the end of my joints I wanted because why I certainly will me and Rogan gave one he breathed in this thing and just and just kept breathing in this little roach and just nothing came out he just he just like it developed it into a system enveloped it it was crazy he's crazy I mean legit crazy and and like a weed head and he was like, he told me once, he goes,

if you get 15 minutes of sunlight every day, it's really good for your mental health. That guy's giving you that advice? I took it and now I'm getting backed up from Andrew Huberman, PhD at Stanford. But he's like, yes, 15 minutes of sunlight is gonna help you every day, but it does let the aliens in.

So that's the counterbalance to it. It's like, do you want the aliens or do you want peace of mind? You see in New York sometimes in between buildings that slat of light and people will be stopped and they just go like this. They'll just like bathe in the sunlight, you know, in the winter. I just see people, What? I just see people buried in their phones mostly,

and I get it, but at the gym it's like, I gotta get rid of this fucking phone. The worst I've ever seen is people taking it into the steam room. I didn't even think that was possible. I've seen it now. But now it's like, it looks like a regular phone like mine, and they're just in the steam room with earbuds on.

The steam room, are you crazy? It's going to ruin the phone. I thought it would ruin the phone, but apparently the phone doesn't get ruined. You can't come in here. It's a Sauna, so that's like your moment to Sauna in the steam room, to be without it. Right.

You know what I'm thinking again? This one. It's not charged. It's a light phone. See, it works like a Kindle, so the light is like a Kindle light, you know? It's got, I gotta do it. It's so small, looks like a garage door opener.

It's got regular keyboard like a phone. It's got a Maps app. It's got a Ride Share app. And it's got texting, phone calls. I think that's it. I don't think it's a music app. That's great. I mean, can't you just,

I guess you could just delete everything from your phone. And you can just get it right back again. Yeah. In a second you can get it back. Right. This is, you're unable to get it. The issues with it is no camera would be nice to be able to take a picture.

Right, right. And I think there's something about like, if somebody sends you a picture, you have to send it to your email and then get it. The issues with it is no camera would be nice to be able to take a picture. And I think there's something about like if somebody sends you a picture, you have to send it to your email and then get it later. Oh, and no email on here, no apps, no social media, it won't allow it. So really just like, people are like, well I need a phone, or I need a phone for my kids,

they gotta be able to contact me. He's like, well this is it. That's the phone you should get your kids. That's the big thing with schools now, where it's like, and I used to teach, so it's like they, this is that's the phone you should get your kids Yeah, that's the big thing with schools now where it's like and I used to teach so it's like they have the problem of these kids Are always on their phones and then some people have like they have a pouch They have just pouches where they the kids put their phones in when they come into class or keep it in your locker But that's a fight that they're having because they're like what if something happens and they need to contact their parents

It's like is that really in class? Right. There could be a shooter. I'm like, and then what's going to be? They're going to play by play. You get a phone. Yeah, there's a shooter. There's someone in control. Yeah. That thing of like, well, what if there's an emergency? I know I don't want to be a geezer and say like, well, in my day we just went out on bikes and my parents didn't know where we were. Yeah. And they go, yeah, we're not going to go back to that day. We like someone control of our kids. Yeah, I get it. But like, I don't know. we were. And they go, yeah, we're not gonna go back that day. We want some more control of our kids. I get it, but like, I don't know.

It's just like, you gotta be in class. You gotta be in school. And it hurts your attention span. I'm speaking from someone who's addicted to my phone. Like it hurts my attention span. I've been trying to get onto this for two years and I'm unable to like get off that to go like, let me just do it

Yeah, that's an issue. This is another Another another lizard. Yeah. Well, hold on. Hold on. Look at that, man. That's That's I mean tell me that's not the most beautiful thing you've ever seen how beautiful the sand is those hut Umbrellas, yeah, the palm trees. I mean, this is like an AI version of what a beach would be. Yeah. Wow. Is that a cruise ship or cruise ships combined? Cruise ships, yeah.

Can you get drugs there? Like pharmacy drugs? Yeah. You can. I never had to but I think you can. Had to. There's pharmacies and. Had to, what do you mean had to?

That's a... Who's that? Thin Mike. Thin Mike. We saw Fat Mike, and now there's Thin Mike. All the white winter's nose. I don't know what my reason was for including that into the... Here's a chair I found.

No wait, it's me on the porch. What I would do, I would come out every morning to the porch and it was overlooking the ocean. Just like a monkey. And I would just do breathing. I would do my breathing, my Wim Hof breathing method. You forgive and forget the relationship material. You're a real porch monkey there.

Because no one uses that one anymore. No. That's the prefix. This is a tasting menu. Yeah. This is the, Infini it's a, it's a, one of those tasting places. What is that? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Back up, back up. Zoom in on that food. Right. Oh, they put it in one bite. Microdose. Microdose food. Microdose your dinner. That one looks like an island The one in the middle

I think that's caviar underneath there. See that. Oh, yeah. Wow That is really hot and they have to go like this and like put it in like a dollop or something But it's you to your point. It's like me just taking pictures of food It's not as meaningful as if i'm uh It'll remind you of that dish though Cause you had the dish. Yes. That's something it's posting. It is the problem. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's when it's like, guys, come on. But if it's a crazy meal, I don't know. I get, I always feel the need to take, take pictures of, uh,

I love when you get, when you go to a high end restaurant and they bring up something on fire or something like that. Like you ready to take a picture? I can light it like oh we're just gonna enjoy it what like yeah I just want to like like wow look at smoking like they don't even know picture yeah this is a ruby ray yeah at the witch doctors yeah this is a set they I still got the mask god he loves huh that's it that's an emacitated something, huh? That's where they, that's like a puff on top of it.

I don't even know. They use foam in the dish. Yeah, the foam. That's how you know it's a tasting that you use foam. It's crazy. These chefs are like, I mean, I get it. I do get it.

Obviously you want just burger and fries, which is a full meal. But also this is interesting. But you want just burger and fries, just a full meal. But also this is interesting. But you're right, you go out and eat pizza afterwards. You do the tasting but you don't rely on it to fill up. It's about the experience. And the way they tell you about it, it's so interesting. And you're like, so you did what?

Yeah, yeah, there's a story behind each of the dishes. This is made with smoke. And the smoke really adds a taste. And you're like, it does. Like, no, obviously we can't do this for a whole fucking thing but You know, that's another

Wow, and look what's that the size of your fucking finger? Yeah, it's how small look at that There's so many shredded little You know what it mean Bobby went to Noma in in Copenhagen They got us in, we told them we're comedians in town. This is like the number one restaurant in the world for a few years. And same kind of thing, you know, elevated, I don't know what they call that kind of restaurant. And then the guy took us,

because we found out we were comics, but you're top of the wait list, because the wait list isn't real. It's not in order, so you're now on top. And they called us, like, you wanna come in for lunch? Come in right now. And he was about to eat pizza. He was out with, I was taking a nap,

and the guy was like, put the pizza down, go, you gotta go, you gotta go. Went in there, and the guy was from America, his head chef, his lead chef. Took us on a tour of the back. We saw other chefs, there's so many chefs workin', and they were peeling walnuts. You know like the walnuts have a little shell on them, just that thin shell like the peanut shell. That's the shell and then that's the skin. They're peeling the skin and we're like what

is that for? Does that affect the taste? And he's like no it doesn't affect the taste at all. Like what are they doing? He goes well you know what you don't want? It's you know like you get that stuff like that finish skin right in your teeth and it's annoying? We're not gonna have you do that here. I thought you were going in a different direction with it. I thought they peel it. Does it affect the flavor? No, it doesn't affect the flavor.

We take the skin and we fry it and it becomes an oil. We use that. It's like, there's such attention to detail. The attention to detail. And these are high level chefs who could own a restaurant America and will write and there's peeling the skin off a walnut for hours so that someone doesn't get it right there and have to go, Oh, you got something. Your teeth. That's it. That's unbelievable. And it's like,

yeah, it's another, it's a different experience. Yeah. It's a burger and fries. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Another dollops. And it's in its own. So wow. They would catch fish there all the time. Huh? Catch fish. It's everything is like fresh. This is the them doing it. Yeah. Then prepping it. Yeah, that's how they work. So these guys are like guys on something. These are Mexicans in the back of the fucking whatever. It's so's how they work. So these guys are always like 10 guys on something small. These are Mexicans in the back of a fucking whatever. It's so crazy how close it is to

Venezuela. Yep. That guy's doing welding on your food. That's how you know. They took you on a tour of the kitchen. Yeah. Well, it's like these it's for 12 people. It's for like 8 to 12 people. And everybody's sitting around and watching them do it. Everybody to the same time. Yes. The has all come out at the same time the guy makes an explanation yeah yeah yeah wow that's fun they also have trees on stilts what yeah what is this the tree is so big that it's like whatever they have what kind of sure is that a banging tree no look I don't know what kind of tree? Is that a banging tree? No. Look, I don't know what kind of tree it is,

but I know that the tree. It bends over like that, so they have to keep it up or it'll fall. Yeah. The trees are disabled there, Ari. And they have special parking. That's you with Chef Boyardee, your hero. What's your father doing here?

with chef Boyardee, your hero. What's your father doing here? Terrible acting. Let me see that again. Come on. It was terrible acting. It was terrible acting. We get gelato after every meal though. You would. Yeah.

Isn't that fun? Island life, bro. Dude, I love gelato. That's the cool thing about New York that I realized. I was like, there's so much gelato here that I'm going to bypass ice cream because I'm going to find a gelato place. I will walk this way. It makes you feel better about eating ice cream, doesn't it?

Seems healthier. It does. It seems healthier and ethnic. Yeah, it seems ethnic. It's like I'm experiencing something. It's like a real sugar Coke. It's like a real sugar. That's also bad for you.

Oh, look at that one, it's cute. This guy lived outside our hotel uh, our hotel room. Do you name him? No, we would check them every day though. He, he lived, he lived in the tree on the porch outside of our hotel room. Wow. Yeah. Dude, what a time. And then not wearing a mask. So he's actually could have got put in jail. What were the laws there like for that?

It was cause there would be, you know, remember how it was. It was like, it would calm down for a while and then there would be an outbreak. So they'd have to tighten it back up. And I was like, Oh, you're fucked. Yeah. Island. And so everyone had to have their vaccination card to come in and you had to go through all this process to get in. So getting there and leaving was also, which is another reason he didn't want people coming in and out.

So I was in a, French Polynesia during that time. Oh wow. And you get tested within 10 days, which is crazy, because in nine days I can get COVID during one of the heights. Yeah, none of the science is like, all the science was very like ballpark.

Also like by then I'll have gotten it and cleared it. Whatever, whatever, whatever. But anyway, so you had to get tested within 10 days before you went. You went, then when you landed, they tested you. Right then, one of the fast tests to see if you could actually come in, because always they turn you around,

which nobody on my plane. But you're all in a line. So if somebody has it, they're like, then we all have it. Yeah, yeah. But it's weird too, the way they told us to spread, there's no way that you could have,

like Bobby Kelly was like, I had it, I was sleeping next to Dawn, she never got it. I'm breathing right on it. That didn't jive with what they told you, if they were anywhere near somebody. I have a little bit more compassion than other people looking back now

because it was just such a confusion, like no one kind of knew what was going on. It was scary and we didn't know. And then it's like we didn't know and things would be revealed new every day because remember it was like, you need to wear a mask to protect yourself and protect others.

It's like, okay, well it doesn't protect you now, it just protects other people. It's like, well, and then you take it down to eat. Yeah, all this stuff. They really were doing their best. It's like I think we were doing the best we could. They were like, I don't know, try this. Yeah. That's really the vibe.

But anyway, on the way back, they had to get tested to see if you go back. So at the airport, two guys, unrelated guys tested positive, and they go, yeah, you gotta go in a quarantine house. And they go, your options are, you're paying for it, by the way. So, you're quarantined, you're paying for it.

In French Polynesia, it's incredibly expensive. And you already used your money for vacation. Your vacation's over now. And now you gotta buy an Airbnb in an expensive place. You guys can share a place, and he goes, I don't even know this guy. Like, okay, then you can get several places. Then you're each paying for it.

And then the family was like, do we have to stay? They're know this guy like okay then you can get several places then you're each paying for it and then the family was like do we have to stay like you can stay you can quarantine with them you can't go out or you can go home and he was like maybe you should go home and then the wife and the kids like all right see ya I gotta live with a stranger it's funny they put paradise yeah these predicaments that you're in it's like look you could live with this guy It's like when else would you get put in that kind of a predicament? I was in a Lakeland

Florida I was in between Tampa and and Orlando Orlando and Tampa Yeah on my way to Tampa and Simone was driving me I was gonna stayed at him and his family's house in between. And I was like, your mom and dad, they were both real close to death with COVID. So I'm like, I'm not giving them COVID.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thing. It's like, you don't wanna give, like my mother is in her 80s. It's like, you don't wanna give an elderly person. They were pretty much like, the doctors were like, hey, call your kids, tell them to come and say goodbye. Like you guys, they're done. So like hurry. Yeah. And then something turned them around. They said it was the fucking cross.

I gave them from the church of the holy sepulchre. Steve's like, I'm going to put that in their hotel. I'm just going to go, you turned it around. It was all you. Wow. Yeah. And I was like, if you believe in that, then it's not all, it's some Jesus. You gotta give him some credit too. Yeah, you gotta give Jesus some of the credit. But you, being the second Jew, that has saved people. Yeah.

So, I'm not comparing you to Christ, but he did it, and then years later, you come through and do it. That's right. Um, but anyway, I was like, I'm gonna go with you. He did it and then years later you come through and do it. That's right But anyway, I'm like I'm like if you and then I was like, let's just test I got a little bit of a cough And then it was like the red line went straight up. So what did you do then? So I was like, I don't know how to do I'm like I'm in nowhere. Where do I go? Do I get a hotel?

How do I get food if I'm at a hotel? Do is it seamless? I'm like, I don't hotel? How do I get food if I'm at a hotel? Is it seamless? I'm like, I don't know how to do this. Yeah, and leave it at the whatever. I can't go down to the lobby and get it. I don't know how any of this works. He had a buddy that was like, I'm staying with my mom. My dad died of COVID, so I'm staying with my mom,

keeping her company. You can use my, this artist guy that lived down there, you can use my condo. It's right by a golf course because you just go and use so Christian, very Christian guy, he's like, totally use it, I'd love to have you there. I'll come by and bring food, I'll make sure you're, I'm like, uh, okay. I'll just go walk on a golf course every day at sunset. It was so nice. I had such a great experience with it in just paradise. Right. I'd go on walks every day. He used it for a time of self reflection.

He had a porch, he goes, you wanna bring your weed? I'm like, I don't think I should smoke. He goes, I can do edibles. I'm like, edibles seem fine. Yeah, absolutely. And I would just. What a great situation. God.

Taking the worst thing and making it the best thing. Cancel Tampa and I was like, push it back, but I can't do it. Right. It actually got me to side splitters because I was at the improv and they wouldn't tell any customers that the show is canceled.

And I'm like, show's canceled, I'm not doing it. And they're like, let's hold off. Like send the email, people are getting babysitters. And then I'm like, you know what, I'm going to side splitters next time. And I'm like, oh, I'm never going back. This place is- Side splitters is a great club.

Yeah, one of the top five, top 10. Yeah, they're unbelievable. But yeah, it was a blessing. It was very much like that to the point where I forgot that, where if you got caught somewhere and you tested, then you would have to just stay there for two weeks. Two weeks.

So it's like. Up through your life, right now. Right, and it's your own expense. Yeah, your own expense. So yeah, you have to, thank God you had that. Thank God. But you would have been in a hotel. Yeah, spending money in a fucking Days Inn, some shitty hotel, I couldn't afford a nice one.

But the thing is, it's like you don't want to contaminate someone who's elderly or who has a weak immune system. 100%, you know. So that was the whole rub there, which is like, I can weather this and everybody else can weather it, but it's like I don't wanna hurt somebody who has a weak immune system. Yeah.

Yeah, that was the big fear. Yeah. That's what they said in our acting class too. They're like, don't act from, I'll get fired if this happens in your scenes, your improv scenes. Act from, my sister will get fired. Because everybody can get heroic about themselves,

but you'll actually feel way worse if something bad happens because of you to someone else. Yes. You don't want to be responsible for that. Yeah. That's isn't that beautiful. Just 80 and sunny on the back of a boat. They would take you out. Yeah. We went out a couple of times on a boat. This is why I introduced the yacht rock. I don't know if you're a fan. I love it on yacht boat. This is why I introduced to Yacht Rock. I don't know if you're a fan. I love it.

On yachts? Jay introduced us. Yacht Rock? Yeah, Big Jay. Yacht Rock is the greatest. And they did a documentary, I watched it on a plane. The documentary on Yacht Rock? Yacht Rock.

What? It's the greatest, man. And how the artists feel like, there was like a thing where they have, most of them are good natured about it, but the lead singer like Steely Dan, like he's, some of these guys are like kind of insulted because they're putting in,

yacht rock is kind of like a joke genre. It is kind of a joke genre. But the artists are so good. A doc-umentary. Like, like. What's doc? Because it's sitting by the dock of the bay. What is yacht rock?

Steely Dan. Switch all or just a song? No, no, no, like there's certain artists that qualify, Kenny Loggins, Kenny Loggins is in it a lot, Michael McDonald. Like it's, but these guys are like unbelievable. They're very, very good. Hey 19, Steely Dan, how's that go?

Kiss her a little, sailing, sailing. Yeah, Christopher Cross was a big one. Rosanna. Yeah. Wow, 42, hold on. I mean, Toto. Toto's a big one. What does it mean to be a yacht rock?

It's just nicely played on, it's unoffensive? What does it mean? Yeah, it's like soft, I guess another word for like soft rock, ambrosia. Yeah, the Little River Band. Daryl Hall and John Oates. Yeah, a little bit of Hall and Oates. All of Steely Dan.

All of Steely Dan, but the guy from Steely Dan was like super offended. Jerry Rafferty. Right down the line. Yeah. Yacht rock is a genre of soft rock characterized by smooth, mellow sounds, often incorporating elements of jazz and R&B that was popular in the 70s and 80s. Yeah.

Some well-known songs include Sailing by Christopher Cross. What a fool believes that it's you, brothers. I guess the time period matters, yeah. Cause I grew up, like we grew up during the 70s and 80s. Brandy, you're a fine girl. Wow, Jerry Rafferty, yeah. Yeah. Because I grew up make we grew up during this 70s and 80s Wow, Jay Rafferty, yeah But it's very good and through the documentary it just it just It shows the evolution of it and how it's been

brought back as and packaged as yacht rock and how these guys were like Very good artists and the fact that it's being put into this like jokey genre is offensive. There's even a Michael Jackson song in it. Yeah. Who decides if something's yacht rock? It's just a vibe or is it? I think it was invented by like comedians kind of invented by putting a captain's hat on and being like yacht rock.

Like. This is songs for a yacht. Yeah. Wow. Top 100 Yeah. Wow. Top 100 songs, wow. Interesting. Yeah, so that was on, we played yacht rock on a boat. It wasn't a yacht, but it was on a boat.

Oh, this is their big port. Yeah, this is their port. So Aruba, I mean Aruba, whatever, would rent a, call him Aruba, can I call you by your first name? He would just rent boats and get you guys shit to do? Well we'd all go in on it, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, do you want to go on a boat trip today?

We would go scuba. You want scuba diving, snorkeling. Yeah, snorkeling is the less. You a snorkeler? I do snorkeling, yeah. I love it. Yeah, I mean you want to talk about meditative, peaceful, it's like you're down there and you're just watching the fish

and then the sin is that you go eat them afterwards. The same fish that you're watching. I don't think it's a sin. I think let's go by what the hunter says. You know what the hunters are always like, it's more humane because they have a free life versus you want your deer raised in a fucking pen and mine is like free roaming cow

who's just out there in the wild. Somebody had this story where they, I think this sea animal was injured and they say they brought it and they nursed it back for weeks and then they put it back into the ocean the fish immediately ate it. Somebody had that so somebody's that's just so funny it shows that the knowing the food chain is just brutal. I was in like a I forget the name of the tribe place up in northern Alaska and they were talking about how many

polar bears the first thing they do is after they kill it is go split the windpipe to release the spirit because they want it to go back to their ancestors. And they gotta really respect the fucking animal. They're like, it's giving us a coat. It's giving us intestines for a jacket. It's giving us all this stuff. We gotta respect it.

If they're not killing a ton, they're just like, when they have to and when they want to, the meat's not great. But like, gotta respect it. If they're not killing a ton, they're just like, when they have to and when they want to, the meat's not great. But like, they appreciate it. I think snorkeling is like, yeah, let me see how you guys live. I don't wanna just eat you, I wanna see where you came from.

It's a little offensive, cause they swim by you and it looks like they're just ignoring you. Yeah, they're kinda dicks. It looks like they're kinda like, you're not, we don't recognize you, we don't acknowledge you. But no, it's the most most it's the most fun yeah you're just

down there and just like there's a place in Black Rock did you do the Maui festival with us huh but on Black Rock on Maui it's a result just you can snorkel whatever that's a big cliff you dive, I think Carmen did it, I think. I did not, but anyway, you can snorkel and see them go, whoop, and slam in, and go in the water, it was pretty funny. But as you're snorkeling, there's these scuba divers below you, and you're like, oh, that's another level.

You guys are 20 feet more. You have to go to school and training for that. I eventually did it, but I love snorkeling. Yeah, snorkeling is like a less, it's like you just put it on, they show you what to do. What's your best snorkeling spots? Some memorable ones. I don't know the names of them.

Oh, names, but like where? What do you mean? Like where have you liked? The only time I've ever done it is Aruba. Really? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, I haven't done it anywhere else. It's so when you get the tropical fish, it's just like, yeah, unbelievable, man. Unbelievable.

You can breathe. Yeah. Just like, do you ever freak out? Do you ever go? Yeah. Like the same water cousin. It's oh yeah. Just breathing. I'm like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, We chartered a boat and we're on the way back. There's this island we can snorkel. It's like $3 entry fee. And it was so far out and it didn't go down. With these channels, it was all corals, but channels, there was these kind of tunnels. But the tunnels were only five feet down, so you could swim along them. And I chased a fucking giant turtle through them

for like 20 minutes. And he couldn't get away. Yeah, snorkeling. He couldn't get away because he was also going through these tunnels. And you're just following him. And then finally I popped my head up and I was like, well I'm like a mile from the fucking shore.

But it was so, that's my favorite. What is this? There's a thing where it's like, It's an old Italian man. Snorkeling, yeah. Can you cover up those tits in posts? Um, yeah. This wasn't supposed to be on, by the way.

This, uh, ship had sank, so it's like you could, you could see it. Wow. And you could go down and like. No, you can do little, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could see it's still there, like. Do you do that when you're snorkeling, and go like, and like dive down for like 10 feet and then come back up hold your breath for a minute

Yeah, but I'm always breathing water in you don't hold Dan that's a good life What are your thoughts? I think it's really important that you have to make sure you soak the roads because it can get very slippery. Even when it's...even when the ice is hot ice, it can get really dangerous. Hot from the bones. A high five. You son of a bitch. Yeah, it's like...I, I've put my post in that where it's like zero in New York. How great does that feel?

It's great. When you see the tent back home, you're on a vacation, you see the tent back home and it's horrible. It's like, it makes it better. Yeah, it makes it so much better. And everybody was furious. Yeah. Oh, God, it everybody was furious. Yeah. Oh, god, it really does make it better.

I had a joke, me and Bobby went to Cuba. I mean, how many trips have you been on with Bobby? A couple, actually. It's Bobby Kelly, right? Yeah, we went to Copenhagen, we went to Cuba. I might see him in Guatemala. Anyway, but they were like, you're going for the election? They're like, yeah, I'm like, so what do you,

I was hoping for like civil war here. And then I'd be in Cuba, like, doesn't affect me. It's like, it really is the version of like, it's like when it's raining back home when you're on vacation. That, if it's zero at home. It was zero and that, I should have set it up that way. That it's like, it was zero when we did that.

It's like, it's zero back in, I thought you were gonna say that I thought you're on a boat with shirt off. Yeah, it's the best God months This is the other boats of the dock. There's a restaurant here There's a restaurant or you can when you come in you it's called the Boathouse. Oh, just eat You made a album. Yeah, I mean Nice for you be tri tripping. I love that. Let me see all these. I'm gonna flip through them. So you still go back? Yes. And you still what? That's your spot? Yeah, I'm scheduled to go back now. Yeah, that's my favorite. And like I said, it's all a rubric. I can go, you can go and perform. Oh, that

was a beheaded. That was one of the beheaded one. That was supposed to be one of my cliffhanger What happened to just see it what beheaded from who I don't know. I don't know what the what do you mean? There's a mystery. Yeah, I know but I saw that I thought that's crazy. I had to take a picture of it It's a cartel there. You must be but it's But it's funny because I took a bunch of pictures of them in their natural habitat, and then this was supposed to be the M. Night Shyamalan ending of it. This is supposed to be the cliffhanger ending of the podcast

was supposed to arc, where we periodically talk about how great these things were, and then this at the end What violence lizard violent? Yeah Who somebody took his head? Well, I don't know what happened to him a lucky lizards. Yeah Epstein That's so great, I love these signs they're dumb but they're the best they picture in front of the I love Some are just the name of the town. It really is like, it's a perfect picture. Oh, I love these.

I wanted to have one of these for this, for like in the corner there. Just to give you the vibe. This exact thing. I'm pointing to New York. Do you get that? Oh, I get it. And it says the miles. The next time I build a studio, I'm making this. This exact thing is what I want on that pole on that fucking a heating pole

Are you getting a tweet? Usually it's it's a fucking it's usually some spam from getting Ivermectin one time dude That's us eating on the beach time This is how that your wedding was too yes eating on the beach There's something about it with sand under your feet. Yeah, it's like It's almost like you know that thing we gotta put the towel over your head because it's the most luxurious food It's like quail or something. No, you gotta put a towel. It's like like, you know that thing where you gotta put the towel over your head, because it's the most luxurious food. It's like quail or something like that. And you've got to put a towel, it's like baby quail and you gotta put a towel over your head because even God can't see you have this.

That's awesome. You know what I'm talking about? No, I'm just hearing about it for the first time, but, um, but this, it feels like that eating on the beach. But, um, can I say say we did not on this trip, not on this picture, but we did get engaged. Uh, think on this, in this restaurant, we got engaged exactly in this restaurant because it was like the corner table next to the, on the outer skirt of the beach and I waited for the sun to what, when the sun was setting, I, my mom and sister, and of course Arouboure was there and I acted like we were gonna take a picture.

I said, Katie, let's take a picture and I had the camera and then I got down and proposed. Yeah, and this, like, it's perfect. It's like a table on the edge close to the ocean as the sun is setting. Yeah. Yeah. You should have had this lady officiate. Yes. She would have been great with those earrings.

I think that lady sent everything back that they brought her. I love those people, it's not fresh. Remember we had to relearn to wash our hands? Relearned, 20 seconds at least. Does that include the rinsing? There's nine steps to it. There's nine steps.

I was like, what? I thought I knew what it... Nine steps to doing something that you learned to do when you were four. Oh, God damn. I mean, this is the fucking life, Mike. For all of COVID, you went here. There's a few people I say who won COVID. Well, I didn't win it.

Yes, you did. Well, I won it. I won it intrapersonally and whatever Well, I want it. I wanted interpersonally and whatever but I thought the people who won kovat were the people who like did a great job of like They weren't on stage so they monetized it digitally sure Theo and fucking and the guys who did it like did an amazing So those guys I thought and all that I'm not talking about that. I'm sorry spiritually spirit I spiritually won COVID.

You, me, Ronnie Chang went to Australia. He was shooting a movie in Hawaii. He went between Hawaii and Australia and just kind of like stayed. That's all. Same thing, shot a movie and was in Hawaii. That's beautiful. But this dude, this is your COVID life.

Yes. That's a win. That is a huge win. that is a huge win. Cause it was freezing in New York. Freezing, wow. I mean, this is paradise. How much were the umbrellas? Jew.

Yes. You got engaged there, it's so sweet. Got engaged there, yeah. That's so sweet. And we were thinking about having a wedding there, but we had to get married in America. that's just the invitations for the wedding oh really yeah yeah kind of remember that picture there's Dan Natterman and a ruby ray chewing up chewing up so that just goes to show you it's like the

shows are very fun and then you hang out with the with other comedians yeah the hanging out with other comedians makes Yeah, the hanging out with other comedians makes trips like that really does. Like what are we gonna do? Jay's episode, Jesus, these sunsets must've been great. Yeah, it was unbelievable. So that part of the island is just sunset part. Yeah, it's like I said, the tourist part

and then the other side is the more underdeveloped. But the other side is very beautiful and more mountainous. That's probably where I'd go. And this where all the hotel, yeah, you would be on the other side. I'd go, hey, let's get up for some rises. I love the hotel and the eating on the beach. Hey, what's Bermuda Shorts?

What is that? That's a thing, right? Bermuda Shorts. No, that's Bermuda. That's Bermuda, not Aruba. Yeah. Okay. This is after you got engaged? No, that's my mother and sister who came to...

What the fuck is this? My sister, mom, and Katie. We ate at this Italian restaurant. It's called Nonna's. It's at the bottom of the Ritz and and then after dinner we took a picture of the sunset dude I mean this actually we're just talking how you can't capture sunset these actually are pretty good pretty beautiful but it's better with us in it yeah but like over the ocean all these like damn you're having a blast bro okay so let me can I set this one up? Yeah.

This is, okay, we're on the beach. This is, I think, our last trip there. And this is, I did this documentary, how long does it take my wife to get into the ocean? So it's just very, it's just like, I go right into the water. If it's like, whatever, the water's not that cold. Sometimes it can be colder, but I just jump in.

Yeah. This is how my wife gets into the water. So I mean, it's very long, but it's, there's like two parts. She's working up courage. It's just I mean, she doesn't even know. Okay a couple steps. I mean, she's not even to the knee just keeps going short there's knee she's pretty much going I can wait as long as you can yeah she just considering it she spots what I'm going to be sideways which is not completely correct.

I think I'm going to walk for a minute thirty eight. I'll make medicine movement there. I'll wait to get her and she'll get some shots again. I'll push her back down. I'll have her push her down. Now backwards. Oh my god. It really does take it for... This wave's gonna... This wave's gonna get her. Just get in!

Just get the fuck in! into the water before the vacation ends. Let's see if she can do it in two minutes, then. Do it. After these down, progress. There's other people, Katie. There's other people who are enjoying their lives. There's a boat. Out of the ocean, but Katie has chosen a,

there's an option, which is to just stand there for, who knows when, that's why we're doing this. How long? Six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Okay. I think obscenities at me She's still not waste no, but the amount of torture that she's going through right now just jump it You've been in water before you lived in Aruba An elderly man an elderly man is in I mean I do this to completion then go in it's crazy Katie go in it's almost it's the right way to say it. Charging is the right way to say it. Charging is the right way to say it. Charging is the right way to say it. Charging is the right way to say it.

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It's infuriating. It's just like did this documentary. It's infuriating. It's just like, you're just like, get in. Get in. Sometimes I'll be in and I'll be telling her, come on. And she's like, no, I need to make my, I need to do it my own time. Okay, it's pretty far for her. I can't believe she didn't get in the other one. No, she came and confronted me.

That's why we're doing a part two not against me extreme sports that's deep as she's been in yeah the dude here was I mean they can't go away that guy is Katie Katie do it Katie fucking do it come on Katie there it is okay it hit her waist waist deep it hit her waist she's got to know it's about to happen now oh Oh, boobs gotta be cold for a check. Yeah, the way dick is for a boy. Dive, Katie, dive, dive. But imagine how painstaking this is. Wouldn't you just sink down? Just. It's wild. And you know this in the first time if you're already making that she does this every time she goes in the water Every time go Katie go she's so close. Just she's so close on ease

Just act like you're a fucking Italian at the altar just drop There it is Do it do it do it I mean you're in okay and now she's doggy paddling that's crazy she's so proud of herself She's so proud of herself. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha What the fuck's wrong with her? This every time she gets into the water. That's what it is That's what it is every single time she gets into the water. I have a tip We do travel tips in this show, okay, this is not a travel tip, but you know how you piss in the water Yeah, piss by the water Force her in no no no this is for yourself. Oh, you know when you're like I gotta pee Yeah, I'm not gonna go all the way back there.

I'm gonna go in the water and piss. Or at least go up to your waist. You know, piss by the water. It's so much more fun. So you're up to your ankles in the water. Your chick can see you behind you. Just start pissing. Let her run down your legs and then go in the water.

She'll see it. If you're sitting right next to her like, hey Katie, hey Katie, and just let, it's so much grosser but it's the same thing. You're about to go in the water. Right, right. It's so fun. It is so much grosser, you're right. Pissed by the water.

But I think that I would either get her to, you think she would get in the water faster if she saw that? Yeah, piss and try to come and hug her or something. Chase her in. You gotta get behind her. in that's such an Ari solution to the problem that's good Ari problem-solving that's a travel tip that is a travel tip it's the Aruban army Wow what are you throw sand to people this is this is outside of our who are they beat this is some parade I don't know that was happening right outside a balcony saw of course I had to take

video of it fat this guy's hey oh budget conquest in the band that's cool That's cool. It seemed like an appropriate way to end the podcast. Yeah. Well, to end the picture, video collage portion of it. I love a beach. What's the vibe like after you're in a place like that for that long? How relaxed are you? You're so relaxed and then you come back to New York and it's like, all right, we're

getting back. What's the reintegration like? Especially after that one long trip? I mean, I think you mentally brace yourself for what's about to happen when you come back. You know what I mean? It's like, okay. Like I was at this place for a long time and it's like, I'm so relaxed and whatever, but it's like, I don't know about you.

I don't know about other people watching this, but like I'm so relaxed and whatever, but it's like, I don't know about you, I don't know about other people watching this, but like I'm a routines guy. So it's like I have a certain routine there that I get up and follow every day. And then when you get back to New York, it's like, okay, the scenery has changed, but it's like I'm comfortable getting back into my routine. I get overwhelmed for a day or two.

If I'm so locked into the vibe of another place, a very chill place, it's like, uh, forget six months in Ecuador. I mean like a week or two or even like being in Europe on a tour for a month. I'm just like, Oh, it's a lot. It's a lot. It takes me. It takes some time to reintegrate. Yeah. Well, a part of it is too, you travel a lot and I travel a lot where it's like eating restaurant food all the time. It's like you got, there's like someone else is cooking your food so they're using oils, whatever, you know, into the food. So you get back and it's like you start cooking

for yourself again and you start like that's a thing and starts feeling better that way, you know, because eating, like we had a restaurant the entire like three months. Yeah, wow, yeah. I, unless it's less formal, but somebody else is always touching and making your food versus making your food yourself.

I never make my own food. Oh, you don't? You always order it out. Rarely. If I get like a HelloFresh sponsor, I will, but that's about it. Occasionally I'll throw some spaghetti on or some, or eggs. But like, yeah, when I came back from Southeast Asia, I spent a week trying to get someone to say hello

back to me after I said hello to them. Because there's a big culture of good afternoon, good morning, good evening, in whatever language, as you pass Latin America, Buenos tardes, Buenos noches. Strangers. Strangers, you should pass like, Buenos noches, Buenos noches.

And like, you're in the middle of me and you'll be talking right and then some young kid or old lady will walk by as one you know I was like and then I'll tell her like what what it's not just and then back to like her camera it's just like you just do it yeah there's such a culture in New York to I find when I'm in other places like it's like if somebody comes and talks to you you're much more open to be like yeah like but there's that initial New York thing

It's like what do you want? Do you want what do you want? Because it's always like in New York for the people living in other places It's like people will come up to talk to you, but there's always a ulterior motive, so it's like they'll say Something and then it's like okay now this is my agenda pre sale yes, so that gets exhausting after a while But when you go to a place and people somebody's like nice day today Okay, now this is my agenda. The pre-sale. Yes, so that gets exhausting after a while, but when you go to a place and somebody's like, nice day today, it's like, what dude?

It's like, well no, it's a nice day, and you're like, yeah? And? And? It's like, what's next? And they're just like, no, it's nice. I find it now, we just moved in the elevator, like we didn't have an elevator

It's a fourth floor walk-up where we were living so the elevator It's like, you know, I got to get my small talk game up. You gotta get it up Yeah, and it's good cuz we're right now we're in a heat wave. Yeah, so it's like why there's great Yeah, yeah, but that's a good talking points like wow hot enough for you That's a good art one. That's this lay has a bit about it It's like, you know, people hate small talk, talk about the weather. It goes, I love small, the weather's a great topic

and I enjoy it every time. It's hot today, yeah it sure is. You know it was hotter yesterday. It was hotter yesterday. We both have a shared experience. That's my thing. New to the building is a good one. Just personally I'm telling you.

Oh, you new here? And then I go, no I've been here for two years. He's like, oh my God, I haven't run into you. What's your name? I'm gonna forget it. Right. The good thing about that is people love to give information out.

It's like, especially like older people, they love to give information out. So I had a thing before where I would just, if like a security guard or an older doorman, I would be like, hey, can I smoke in here? And they would be like, no, you can't smoke in here. I'd be like, oh, well, thank you. It's like just, they wanna give information.

It's like, you know, so it's like, let them give information. Where's the laundry room? It's like, well, you gotta go down. You gotta, it's like, oh, well, thank you. You really helped me. It's like, they feel good. That is one.

If I was new to a building and I'm like, oh, hey If somebody's like she were like you knew him like yeah Yeah, I'm trying to get and you'd be like, do you know how the liberal on George's like? No, like you got a call in to put money in your car. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah And then like three four five. Well, there's my floor. It's like, I'll see ya nice to meet you Yeah, was it mark Mike? Oh, well nice to meet you Mike. Yeah Gotta get your small talk game. Yeah, I gotta get the small talk, and it's a nice. Otherwise you just like,

plus once you've already seen somebody three times and haven't talked to them, it's gonna be that for years. Now you're not allowed to talk to them. Yeah, yeah. So get the small talk game up. But the name thing is important, like there's doorman now, so it's like, I wanna remember the doorman, because there's that window of opportunity

where you learn their name. Make a note. And then after that, it's like, I do that on the doormat, because there's that window of opportunity where you learn their name. Make a note. And then after that, it's like, I do that on the road. Make a note of your phone. I do that on the road. Do you ever do that on the road where it's like hosts and feature? Host and feature, wait staff from there?

Because I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna be like, fuck. So I try to go, I look up, you know, I look up, you know, whatever club, Denver Comedy Works. I'm like, oh, this waitress is that, that waitress is this. Just like, so I can go like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because by the end of the week, you know, whatever club, Denver Comedy Works. I'm like, oh, this Waitress is that, that Waitress is this, just like so I can go like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because by the end of the week, you know the name, and then a year and a half passes.

Right. Well, I mean, I'm not as good as that. Like, I forget right immediately. People introduce themselves, you're still getting acclimated. It's like, I'll forget right away. So I'm like, what's your name? And then I'll write it down. Host, feature, waitress, whoever's managing, sound guy.

So just, I keep it all on my phone for that, you know. Cause when you go back in a year, it might be different people. There's those guys who are like, the headliners that you worked with when you were starting, you know, like, hey Tom, play that song. And you're like, how do you know his name? Right, right, right.

It's crazy. I'm like, oh, I've been here. I'm like, it's so cool. Yeah. You're just like, you're part of how do you know his name? That's crazy. I've been here, I'm like, so cool. You're just like, you're part of this family. I have a East Village list of people, so it's like, get their name, and then I write it down, so then I go, this place, this guy's name. So when I go, I'm like, oh shit, they're there,

and I can look it up while they're getting my order. I'm like, thanks, Kenny. Because I got it, I don't want to forget it again, it's so lame. Well, I saw that with you when I was opening at the Comedy Works for you. It's like everybody loved you, I saw that with you when I was opening at the Comedy Works For you. It's like everybody loved you ever first of all you sold out every show So they love that like you're you're helping the the economy of the play, you know I mean, but it's like yeah, and they love they just they love you. I've been like so much and afterwards

It's like I'm ready to go. It's like take no no, we're gonna we're hanging out with the staff Like I'm hanging out a little bit. You know, just like, you were kind of like, informally just like kind of talking to everybody at the end of the weekend. And I was like, oh, aren't you going? Because most guys are like out of there. But you were like, at the end of the weekend, it's like they took that picture on stage,

and then everybody's like kind of a hang with you. Yeah. Yeah, so that's very nice that you do that. They do an open mic now, because a lot of the staff are comics now, and they do an open mic, and then Colin did it, and then I did it. Was that with Colin?

Yeah, maybe. And I was like, yeah, sure, I'll go up too. And it's like open mic to the staff. It was like, this is rough. But you gotta do a different show. Yeah, I've been there so long, that is my road home, is the dev account for it. Yeah, that place, yeah. I go there every year. And if I don't have a new hour, I'm like, I gotta do a different show. Yeah, I've been there so long, that is my road home. Is it there? Yeah, that place.

I go there every year. Yeah. And if I don't have a new hour, I'm like, I'll do a storytelling show where we'll all come together and do something like that. But you can tell the staff genuinely loves you there. I had a streak going of consecutive openers

that got headline work afterwards that I was really proud of. Yeah. It was like, you, Norman lists, Sean Patton, Simone, I'm trying to think who else, O'Neill. Yeah, actually I headline there after like, and I was part of this thing and I was like, I felt really good and I was like,

I'm gonna bring a guy that could headline here. Yeah. And then she, Wendy was always like, yeah. That's fantastic. So before we go, I gotta wrap this up. I got a fucking meeting in three minutes. Okay. What country do you wanna go to

and do you have any travel tips? Cause you did this thing we did on Skeptic Tank, RIP, about China, your trip to China, which is a pure classic fucking this podcast episode. Absolutely. But we did it on that one. Dude, can I say that the trip to China was one of the most amazing things.

And a trip to China was pre-COVID. And also I went to Israel. And that was those two places in pre-COVID and pre-conflict. Like unbelievable, both places. Where do you wanna go? What's calling you next? Obviously you wanna go back to- I was just in Europe, opening for Nate Bargatze. both places so where do you want to go what's calling you next obviously want to go back to I was just in Europe opening for Nate and Barghatse he did a

European tour rules I think I would like to Russia Russia really just to see it and and and I'm very interested in it. And also India. Yeah. It's surprising. Those are the two. It's so dirty that's surprising to me that that's calling you. Yeah, yeah.

Russia and India. India I'm so conflicted on. What calls you about India? I've just never been to that. I mean, I went to China and that was like interesting, but India is like a different Culture and I just I Don't know man. It would be it would be really it's just somewhere. I've never been in the car

I've never I've heard read stuff about it, but I've never Never been anywhere over there. There's runs they have runs really. Yeah, there's a few clubs now English speaking Well, it's English colonized. Yeah, so they have like clubs and there's a those runs We can make like not a lot of money but enough for a flight and like three days in New Delhi three days of Bangladesh Or whatever. There's a Bangladesh. I met the guy at the stand who runs it runs a club of really Because some of those some of those China clubs were incredible. Yeah, they were awesome Yeah, like small little rooms, whatever and I saw the pictures and the videos from it. It's they're unbelievable. So India would be cool Also because I'm a huge fight fan. Yeah, I'm a huge boxing fan. They're doing a lot of fights in Saudi

Yeah, they are. So I would love to go to Saudi also interesting. Yeah, that's funny. That's three countries that So I would love to go to Saudi also. Interesting. Yeah, that's funny, that's three countries that Off the beaten path. I don't wanna go to. Now? Yeah. Where do you wanna go?

India calls me of the most of those. Yeah. Russia, I don't know, I'm not against it. Also because the United, like the, you know, Columbus, they all trying to find India. Oh, right. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, trying to find India.

I was like, I wanna go around here, let's go this way. Like, what the fuck? Like yeah, I tried to find Trying to find India and the spices that's why it's called Indians because they're like we found it yeah, India they look different I heard they look browner. I guess that's right. Yeah, and That but it's the spices that drew us where it's like we we need these spices In Europe, they were like our food is so bland that we need spices. So they had to venture to India. They were looking for India. So it was spices that was the motivating factor. This is so dangerous here.

And then up to there. Wow. To go to the fucking slums of Mumbai. Do you got any travel tips? General or specific? Like when in a rubble, I always do this or, or like pack light in general or whatever. I always, I always pack, I always pack light and then you can always do laundry. So that's it. Just to carry on. I went through, uh, I,

I did a basis in Japan, Korea, I always carry on, pack light, because you can always do laundry. The thing you told me in China... Make sure you bring a travel pack of tissues. Yeah. And when you needed it, you realized. Absolutely. I stocked up with tissues.

Yeah. That is... Yeah, I will abide by that again. That's number one for China, probably India too. Bring a little packet of tissues. You're going to get diarrhea. There will be no toilet paper to have them with you. Um, the other one is, um, I think those were the two pack light. That's great.

Tissues the special again, Mike, you were one of the best comics in the country. You're like legitimately I'll say it more off air because I know this gets, gets embarrassing, but sure. Like you're kind of an inspiration in terms of like your writing and, uh, and just like the amount of like commitment you have to a bit writing in a fucking, uh, mega bus for just for research for a bit is so fucking high level. Thank you, buddy. Yeah. It's like, wow, I gotta like commit more. And thank you for always helping me

and thank you for always promoting the stuff. I appreciate it. What's it called again? Hold on. Low Income White. Low Income White. Is now on Nate Land. There'll be a link at the bottom of the screen

or if you're watching on Spotify. Mike Vecchio, one of the best. Thanks for coming, thanks for doing it. And it really did make me, I gotta go to Aruba. It looks all around. You gotta go to Aruba now, man. It's the best. Yeah, this is like, the quality of this podcast

is if I finish one, I'm like, I wanna go there. Yeah. And this did make that good. Oh, good, glad. Yeah. All right, buddy. One happy island. All right.

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God, what a time. What a time to go to Aruba. catalogical humor outside of a stage at Skankfest. I'm Maurice Chauffeur and I stand by that. God, what a time. What a time to go to Aruba. I forget all of them whenever he's been there, but during that COVID time, we're just staying there. It really is. There's this like special thing that happened in COVID. I call them like specific times. You can't recreate that, you know?

Like Yoshi, he'll be doing an episode coming up about Afghanistan. He was there during, in Kabul, uh, during the, uh, American, like, when, when we had it. And that city's gone now. That's, it's just not like that anymore. It's, it's, uh, the one I compared to most is, and I won't get this on, but it's like a Nazi or a German soldier during the, um, occupation of, of France. And I'm not talking about the hunt for the Jews, you know? Run Miriam, or whatever that is. No, I'm talking about when all the Jews have been found and they've been taken care of to their desire.

You know, I don't agree with it, but you know, they got the job done. Once those were all gone, now you're just fucking baller. You got nothing to do. It's just pretty much run Paris. You go to a fucking bakery, be like, can I get a baguette? And they're like, sure do it's just pretty much run Paris you go to a fucking bakery but I can't get a baguette and they're like sure it's $3.99 like oh I'm sorry um what does that say s ss would that do for payment

and they go oh you know what officer why don't you just take one we love you guys here god what a time that would have been I mean obviously not if you're French but you're visiting France what a a trip. And there's specific ones. I was in Ecuador when when the Amazon opened up right after COVID. I was one of the only place in this in a lodge. The only guy there. It just opened literally that day and I was like I'll make a reservation and go in. I didn't realize what I was getting. Corina and Christina going to Tulum. It's not great for the equipment. Um, when everyone was leaving for COVID, it created a really special time and place. I know a guy who

got stuck in Turks and Caicos, she's having threesomes all day and, and swimming and, and diving on beaches where nobody was. It should have been an overrun place, but it didn't, no one was there. Anyway, interesting tale. That's it everybody. I guess I do want to go to Aruba. It sounds like a good vacation spot. Not exactly my vibe I'll be honest with you. Not exactly my vibe but if it's kind of like first class I'm not like I'm not like I'll pay for first class guy but when I get bumped up for sure I don't mind it for sure. I'll take it. I'm like, this is worse. I did it once actually. They had me sit next to some stranger with Shane and Mark in front. And then me behind him was sitting next to a stranger, but all these open rows. And I was like, I'm just gonna get my own row back in a,

you know, premium, low class, premium. And Mark and Shane were like, that's crazy. But you guys are talking. I can't talk. But I'm like a but you guys are talking. I can't talk. What am I gonna lean over the seat? And then I realized I didn't get a fucking meal. Shane does the stewardess back to talk shit, but she was cool. She brought me a meal. Give it up for Delta. Yeah, that's it everybody. Hope you enjoyed. Get your Shroomfest shirt also. Shroomfest, if you don't know, it's just an international holiday to appreciate mushrooms. All you gotta do is participate, just like every year. It moves around every year. But all you gotta do is participate, is take mushrooms. It's just an excuse to take mushrooms. And people all over the world,

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Also the Ubi Trippin shirts. Oh I already said it. Grinders, stay positive shirts. Go for a hike shirt. Also a good one. And that's it. I think we've said everything we have to say. I know there is something I'm missing, but I'm busy. I'm busy doing low-income white stuff. Go check out Mike's special right now. Guys I'm Maurice Shaffir. Until next week when we go to China. But how do you say goodbye in Aruba? Oh the point is listen I would take a free trip to Aruba it does seem relaxing. It's not my level of adventure so I'd say for this one it doesn't make me like I gotta fucking get there the feeling you get Oliver tree is gonna come on and do an episode and he told me about like

inner China and it made me go like I actually have to make a trip there it looks so fucking cool sabbatical came in we got a lot of good ones we got a lot of good ones yeah a lot of good ones are coming up. Um, alright guys, until next week. Bye! Oh, sorry, I gotta break in. I almost forgot. A congratulations zone order of sorts. That's right. The State of Origin 2025 is taking place, and for once, the good guys win.

That's right, the Queensland Maroons take it this year. If you don't know, the state of origin is a scratcher, quite a sporting event. Indeed. The Jersey I have behind me in this episode and many other episodes in the studio is of the Queensland Maroons. They are the good guys and they fight every year in a three game match, state versus state, mate versus mate to decide who is the better person. And this year the good guys won. New South Wales known for cheap shots, and just in general racism. And this year the good guys from Brisbane took it home.

Yeah, Brisbane's people. They would never leave uneaten food in front of their mother. You know, they finished with their plate. They're good customers. They get drunk on weekdays. They live to tell about it. They're all about buckets when they go traveling. If you meet anyone from Brisbane, well, at a hostel, you've got a friend. And if he's like, or she, or they, or like, hey, I don't feel like going out tonight. You go, oh damn, that's too bad. I heard they have... buckets at this place. I'll tell you, they're gonna come out because people from Queensland are good people.

They're hearty and they're real. And people from New South Wales, Wales, excuse me, they like to f*** children. Yeah, they like to f*** their children. That's what they're not all about. They're Sydney, they're uppity, they're a f***ing hoity-toity. They're like, you know, they have no relation to the country folk. The way people from Queensland do. So congratulations once again to the Maroons on your victory at State of Origin. Wish I could have been there to cheer you on. I was there for your victory last year and it was quite a sight. Yeah.

Until next year, boys. OZOZOZI! OYOYOYOYOI! Down with Sydney, up with Brisbane. Yoooo!