You Be Trippin' - China w/ Oliver Tree | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

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Where you've been and where you're going. This is our race travel show. Yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's you. All right. Welcome to you be tripping, everybody. It's a travel podcast.

It is the only travel podcast in the world that understands Manhattan is the true New York and every other borough is living in the shadow of the one and only Manhattan. You actually, my guest today made me realize the fucking joy of this fucking borough. It's a beautiful borough. Yeah. I was actually just walking by, and I ran into a group of fans, and they were basically buskers, punks, some homeless people mixed in the side of the street, and they're like, oh, for tree.

And they didn't believe it. And they were trying to get me to come back. And they wanted to buy me a beer. So they had some instruments, and they were like, Cowboys Don't Cry. It was like, maybe the only demographic that listened to my country album. So I was like, hell yeah, I feel at home here. But New York is. I saw you at Webster Hall once.

You came to the show. Yeah, me and South Elphal Conno. came to this show. Okay. He's from Impractical Jokers? Amazing. Yeah, we loved it. That was like seven years ago or something?

It was pre-panny, yeah, for sure. But I remember, you said something about Manhattan as a borough, and it made me, it was the first time I thought of like, oh, yeah, these are separate places. Nothing like Staten Island. We're nothing like the Bronx. This is Manhattan. Was that the show where I did the whole accent with the Brooklyn accent? You were in a cast.

Oh, was the tour in the wheelchair? Yeah. That was hardcore. It was so fun. Dude, I lost one third of the blood. in my body. I had an ulcer in my stomach and my foot was really fucked up and I had to do the tour in a wheelchair or not do the tour at all. And I didn't know where the bleeding came from and actually the first flight I took off in the plane. And this is in a travel story so we can bypass

us. This is just off of what you brought up. But I had a show in Toronto first show of the tour and I am going to the airport and I start feeling super sick and I end up projectile vomiting and diarying this black stuff out of me. On a flight? Right before the flight. And then I go on the flight and I'm sitting there and the airplane is about to take off. And I just feel it coming up and I'm like, I can't hold this in. And I literally just start projectile vomiting black all over the side of the wall.

And they're literally taxiing at this point. And they turn the taxi around and they take me. They said, you have two options. You can get off this plane or we can take you in the ambulance. And I was like, I can't get off this flight. I have to go. I have to play a show. This is like the pressure that they put on our.

to play a show. So I was like, somebody's got a babysitter already. They're coming. Yeah. I have to be there. Exactly. People counting on me.

So I have to do the show. So I'm like, all right, they're like, if you want to go on a flight, you need to go tomorrow with a doctor's note. So I got that.

I got on the flight. I made it. I did the whole show in a wheelchair and I had a microphone strapped on. And I was able to do 360 wheelies while I was performing. And it was a crazy experience.

But I found out that I had, I had internal bleeding, and I had to get an endoscopy and colonoscopy at the same time, so a camera up my butt and in my mouth. And, yeah, we found out you had ulcers, and it was from having this thing called H. pylori or something like this, which is caused by eating food contaminated with fecal matter. And I was able to get rid of it through some pills, but that's what created space for the ulcer,

and I damaged my foot, and I was taking extra strength Tylenol. My dad gave me those prescribed drugs. ibuprofen that was like mega pills because i was in japan on a trip and um i really fucked my foot up and then things just went downhill from there but you got spit roasted by doctors i got spit roasted yeah it was rough that's crazy it was rough but it was a beautiful experience and i still the show went on but yeah no you did great at webster in that wheelchair and like beat up i kind of half remember like beat up some guys like fuck you just play the villain yeah yeah i love to play a villain but not today not fighting you today they're cool

thing about this podcast is that I've, I just, I'll reach out to people and I'm like, because guests, I mean, audience suggests, like, I heard so-and-so has been somewhere. I'm like, all right, let me see. Because doesn't really matter who you are. If you went somewhere that you loved, even if it's only one place, you're like, oh, I want to tell you all about Italy. I want to tell you all about one trip. I wish it could be all places, but we got to keep it strict here.

Multiple episodes. Protocol. I already dropped Toronto, the T-bomb. Nothing else. I promise I won't mention one other place. But when I reached out to you, I'm like, hey, I heard you travel. And it was like, oh. bro, you don't even know.

And it was so fun talking to you online, just like talking about it. It gets you going. I love adventure. And it's always nice to meet another adventure. There's always room for another adventure in my life. Yeah. That's the thing I prioritize with friendships now at this point in my life.

It's like three different things. One of them is someone who inspires me. Two of them is someone that I can collaborate with. So those two kind of fall in the same boat. But the third thing is someone who lives in another place or can go on an adventure with me. So I'll prioritize having people in my life that maybe just live in Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan or somewhere random that maybe you and I aren't really tapped in at. But I'm like, oh my God, this is so epic that I now have someone that can enter me into this whole world and I can have a friend when I go to these places.

It's boots on the ground. So it's like if you read up the book of like Manhattan, let's say, where should you go? It's like, all right, the popular pizza places. But what you really want is like, what's the good local bar here? Right. What's like, where's their jazz on Tuesdays? So what is it? I'm not going to tell anybody.

You're going to blow your spot up. Exactly. I have a place I protect. Right. That's great Jasmer on Tuesdays. Maybe we'll get it out of you. I mean, I'll tell you afterwards. Okay.

I'm just not going to tell you. Just whisper it. Okay. Well, bleep it. It's B. Okay. It's called B. Shut the fuck up, bro.

You're going to bleep that? Bleep it. You can't bleep that. You're leaving that in. So where are we going today, though? Okay. Today, it's almost impossible for me to try to pick a place because Yeah.

For those of you don't know, I've been on quite the adventure. I just came back after a six-month run, traveling all seven continents. But that was only just a six-month run of not coming to America. I got here about a week and a half ago to the States. I came actually to New York for Tribeca because I had a film premiering in Tribeca. Which is across the street, by the way. So I came back for work.

The film is called Paradise Records. It's directed by my friend. Logic who is a rapper who's transitioning into film. I play a robber in this movie and had a really amazing time and I'm really happy with my contribution. But I will say I had only been in America for 36 hours. I came to Florida to play one show at a county fair for a bunch of crazy weed pot smokers. And they're spinning firepoie.

And yeah, that was my only time in the last six months that I came to America. So besides that, I stayed one year in America for COVID purposes. So you just got back here? Just got back. Let me ask you a question because no one gets us and I always lose it. What's reintegration like? I'm just, I'm on vacation. Working, but I went to Lake Tahoe and then I'm not reintegrated.

But I mean like, as you step back in here, are you like, oh, right, right, they do this, they do this here. Like I've forgotten? I don't know. For me. I know it's a toilet paper. I remember one time. I was like, oh, it's so soft here.

Actually, this is a great question. So actually, when I went to my friend's apartment, who's letting me stay. Shout out Michael, my boy. I work with him on a project called Unit. Believe that too. Fuck Michael. And Michael has seven apartments around the world.

So like Dubai, London, Hong Kong, New York City. So I come and I'm staying here and I'm like, go to brush my teeth and I bring a cup with me. And for the first couple nights, I still use the cup because I'm like, I don't know. Oh, right. There's only a few places that I will not get diarrhea from. So I was like even questioning it.

Like I didn't even, it's just part of my defense mechanism. And I at least get diarrhea once a month. Depends where you are. But there's somehow, some way, eat one thing, a little ice in a cup. But that's the main thing I look out for is getting stomach bugs. So that was my reintegration in. But besides that for me, I'm just on a tourist. That's in no travel video is taking a toothbrush and pouring a bottle of water over it and then brushing your teeth.

Yeah, a lot of microplastics in my testicular. SAC. Better than the amoebas. Yeah. But so you settled on China. I settled on China. And there's a few reasons for that. One of them is because I was just there.

I did the longest stint of this year was spent in China. I did about a month there. And I think that there's a lot of misinformation about China. I think there's a lot of super negative propaganda in America specifically about China. And so for me, I feel like as an explorer, I think a lot of people write it off as an idea. Or they have a lot of misinterpret. misinformation about it. And I don't know everything and I don't pretend to know anything about China. But I thought there was a chance to put some show the love to China.

All we got is our experience, right? So when people tell me like, is New York dangerous? I go, no. I walk around. It's not it. Like, well, I've heard this and this. I'm like, I'm telling you firsthand. I walk around. I'm not scared. Right. So like. But you're also a man and you're seven feet tall. Sure. Yeah. And you're pretty strong. So, like for me, it's scary. A little guy like me, I'm about four foot seven, four foot eight on a good day. Yeah, and this haircut on an easy target. Yeah, yeah. No, but I think we were speaking on the stoop before this.

And it's very specific to where you go and what places that you visit in that region. But China specifically on this topic is probably one of the most safe places in the world. As far as my experience goes. And there's a few reasons for that. And we can get into that later. But I will say there's a lot of negativity that goes around. our vision of China from America and I'm like this is so wild

also my brother lives in China so I've seen it from the inside perspective his wife is from China so I got to be able to spend some time with also Chinese artists and be able to get to see it from a little bit of a different lens than maybe a typical westerner so what can Chinese artists like what's the vibe there can they

what can they do and what can they not do well as far as I know it's very challenging to break out of China or to break into China through music just due to the fact of the applications, they don't use the traditional Instagram and TikTok and different things. They use, yeah, I think there's red note.

There's a whole different social media thing. So for me, out of all the places in the world I go, China's like one of the only places I haven't been able to really be able to tour or be able to build an audience. I obviously have fans there, and I've had songs that crossed over there, but I really want to kind of explore that.

And I made a documentary while I was there for the month period. And I was trying to kind of dismantle some of this propaganda that we've been fed, as well as just kind of show the beauty and how diverse. It's such a massive country, such a massive population. You could spend an entire lifetime in China just like you could in America and not even see a fraction of it. So I'm not going to pretend to say that I know anything about China,

but I will say I have some stories and some places that I really... Here's a crazy thing about China. Look at here's on a map. So like these are where the cities are On the right and then what the fuck is here There's not even any dots Is that desert? I would hope

I don't even know I don't even know Is what I assume I know that this is Yeah not a lot is going on in there as you can see But like are there towns There's got to be some There's got to be but there's not even any There's no markings at all anywhere

This is why I said you can't ask me I don't know anything about it But this is a great question I'm sure we could find It just always gets me Whenever I look at a map of China I'm like well what is all that place Maybe it's desert.

Maybe it's, I don't know. We're not going to find out today. We're not. So where did you start and what did you do? Okay, so the start of the trip, I went to Shanghai to visit my brother. Okay. So Shanghai is futuristic city. You've been, right?

So one thing I love about Shanghai is, for one, it's like the most clean place ever. God damn. It's fucking crazy. In America, we have like the dirtiest cities. We have such gnarly issues with homelessness, and you don't see. that in China, it's not the same kind of situation. It's a very, they keep things very clean, very safe. And I feel like as far as Shanghai goes, the buildings have LED screens lit up, like seeing

the bund at night, it's like futuristic. It's like another world. What's the bunt? I have a picture of it actually. I know you asked for some of my photos. This one? Yep. What?

That's the bun. It's just like the... Oh, that one on the left. Yeah, it's just the whole, it's that area. Whoa. But it's just, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. You know, I feel like maybe in America we have laws against light pollution or something like this. So we, I don't know why.

It's only Times Square is like that here. Right. But that's gorgeous. Yeah, it's a very beautiful place. As far as Shanghai. You know what they told me when I landed in Shanghai. Yeah. And the comics there, they were like, hey, just so you know, there's no violent crime here.

So you're safe to go around. And once they told me that, I was like, sick. And now I lost all my fear and I just wandered by myself. and that was the one thing that hit me that it was opposite of what you said you know of what not what you said but what they tell you

right and I think yeah the reason that it is this way is because there is such heavy surveillance as far as cameras everywhere that they can track everything and a lot of people might say okay this is horrible invasion of our privacy

it's not like in America we don't have people watching everything we do I mean cameras you can't even rob any place anymore it's just we can't do anything fun in America anymore so what's the problem point. No, but what's the, is it the NSA or what's the one that is surveilling us? Yeah, I think I'm okay, we have like, you know, knowledge that we have pretty much all of our freedom of, you know, searching online is fully being watched and documented. Fully being well. I got, forget I'm gonna bomb a

senator or something like that. I can't even talk to you about it online. Like decide later if I want to fucking kill a senator. You got to like, they're like, we already got you. You're done. Yeah. And I'm like, I wasn't going to do it. I was talking it out. Anyway. You were, Working, grinding the gears. Let me come to all of my own that this is a bad idea. Yeah. Well, I will say this though. So with this setup with the cameras, I actually have a picture of some of the cameras.

This isn't necessarily in Shanghai, but if you go to security camera pictures, I documented just a couple that stood out to me. So there's across like driving vehicles, there's cameras. So obviously they trace your movement, which this seems like a bad thing, right? Keep going to another image just so you can see. This is on the great wall They've got security cameras there And then go to this

This is in Chongqing But this is an example of on the street So we think Oh my God This is like this is a bad thing It's okay first of all You and I were not We don't have privacy on outside

In public I don't have privacy Now I am living a very normal life I don't have security guards I don't need that I have friends who have all the security This and that But I don't feel like it's necessary in general You lose a lot

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But anyone could take a picture of us on the street. Anyone, and it happens all the time. I get tagged in stuff where there's people across the street. It happened to me yesterday. I've seen pictures where people post stuff. So we don't have our consent to be able to go outside. It's not like we don't have CCTV cameras here in America. I don't know if it's the name for it.

There was some influencer here in New York, and she took a picture of this guy with jeans on and no shirt on walking in Manhattan. And she was like, look at this fucking asshole, whatever. And people are like, that's Ari Javier, just so you know. Oh, really? It was you. Yeah. You were in your underwear?

No, just jeans. and no shirt, sometimes guns out, you know. I like it. I live by the law. So for example, today I was walking in New York and a guy asks, can I take your picture? And he was someone who's like, oh, I love your music, whatever. A couple days before someone else

to take a picture the day before that, someone is walking in front of me and they fart on me and then me and my friend are walking and then we see out across, there's a guy filming it. So you can't escape cameras and that's just the ones that are like people filming or taking pictures.

So there's cameras everywhere in this modern day. So it's like to be scared of this, but here's the plus side of this. And this is why I'm talking about this. This is what I'm interested, the plus side. Yes. So my brother lives there. And he had his motorbike stolen from him. And he's like, this is crazy.

Where did it go? It's gone. He goes to the police. The police trace on the cameras over to two cities over 60 miles away. They find a bike. They're like, this is your scooter. And he's like, no, that's not mine. This one's yellow.

And they said, no, this one's yours. We believe this one's yours. This is how we traced it through these cameras. They see where it's going and all the highways. They open up the seat of the scooter and there is an Oliver tree piece of merchandise in the seat. So, I mean, I'm not saying this is good or bad. Subjectively, you could say what you want, but as far as, like... That part's good.

This is crazy that he was able to uncover his bike and they're like, do want to press charges? He's like, no, I don't care at all. But, like, he got his bike back. It was just someone did a sick paint job on it. Painted it yellow. But anyways, that's like crazy. You can focus on the negative parts. So even really shitty things,

there's a positive part of it. For sure, there's a reason why they have this. Yeah, so even like 9-11, bad, if you look at it as a whole. But one good thing is that whole part of town now is pretty nice. You know, so you can focus on the nice part. It's like, oh, it's cool.

It's a nice little, you know. And also just like, okay, that aside, who cares about, you know, getting a scooter back? That's like an odd story. But like, you know, you can walk safely down the street. It's nice to know that if it does get stolen, they're going to find it.

Yeah. Okay, that's cool. So that's something that's interesting. to me as far as like we think about all the negative stuff but it's not like we even check ourselves to look at are we are we really have that much privacy you're out in public nowadays people are legally allowed to film you without your consent we were in Beijing with the comics there and we all went out at was three three 30 in the morning walking around there was some bodega open and we bought beers we walked around outside with them and I was like can we do this they go yeah as long as

you don't skull somebody with the bottle yeah they don't care and you're like well that's nice yeah that's really pleasant there's nice shit to this. Yeah. And I think it looks insane. Like to me it does look insane. Like to me it does look insane. It does look insane. And that's only a portion of that pool. That's just where like, yeah, it keeps going. Yeah, it keeps going over the whole street. But yeah, I think as far as like Shanghai goes, it's very modern futuristic city. Yeah. The train stations are so next level. The bullet trains, how fast they go. Like, I think it's a few hours over to like Sujo and

then from there you can go to Beijing. But like, I went to Sujo. What did you think? They had these gardens that the guy who brought me out. his wife worked there so it was gorgeous it's a beautiful place yeah and he and he goes if i remember he goes they all feel like there's a sleepy small town next to shanghai because there only eight million people yeah only eight and that's the scale yeah that's the scale it's like i don't know exactly the number but you know in the 20s of millions in Shanghai like that's that's fucking crazy that's bigger than so many countries yeah probably the majority of them and some of the cities as far as size goes, like a really good example of this is Chongqing.

And Chongqing, if you look at, it's kind of a unique scenario because the city borders of it are really big. Like, what would you consider the city is probably much bigger? It's a greater area, right? It's like, you know, when we speak of L.A., we're talking about usually L.A. greater area. As far as when we say like, oh, it's 20 million or whatever, you know, like I think L.A. is something like 8 million.

But then you look at the greater area. Yeah, you know, all the surrounding places. That's Chongqing, is that it? Yeah. So the actual size of the city, if you look at it on a map, look at how big that is, that's as big. The city of Chongqing is as big as the size of Austria. Wow. The country, Austria.

And the population is probably maybe 10 times the amount, roughly something maybe a little less. In Austria, is everywhere overcrowded there? No, I mean, that's a big amount of space right there, you know. Obviously, that's a huge land. mass the size of a country or many countries but it is a really interesting city because it's built and you've seen the social media videos i'm sure but it's like it's built on this basically a slope so you never really find the bottom level to chong ching it just keeps going down you think you're at the bottom floor but it's always this is chong ching yeah this is ch ch ch cheng for so it's got to be

the most racist sounding name of any it does sound horrible when you say it out loud but this is as far as I know and take it with a grain of salt this is the correct pronunciation Chongqing wow it looks like a video game yeah this is the one where you everyone's probably seen the Instagram TikTok videos which I've seen so many

of them I just wanted to recreate it and I made a kind of a troll video where I recreated someone else's video I tagged them in it a lot of people got mad at me because like you stole this video whatever but it's like everyone's recreated the same video where it's like you never

find the bottom you think you're here but you're actually here and it keeps going down and so i made one i kind of skewed some of the numbers and i kind of put my own little twist on it but it's really just a recreation a parody of it in a sense um wow but it is absolutely look at the old new together like that yeah and all lit up like that you've probably seen the videos where it's like trains ride through the buildings and the you know i if you look at my photographs i took some that show um let's see here yeah like you can see this this is a cool one right here this is a photograph of the carts that are going through the sky and they kind of weave through apartment complexes.

No way, really? Yeah, yeah. So this is a picture I've taken a series of photos for my book I'm making called Little Man Big World and I'm not sure if that will be the actual layout of it but I've been just taking pictures. I think I've taken around 80 plus countries for this book so far. Wait, so it's not going, it's going behind the building?

Yeah, it's behind it, it's behind it. But it's technically like, you know, weaving through. You could see like if you go to the bottom right one, like look at the scale of just that one apartment. Oh my God. But it just keeps going down like it goes lower than you can even see there. And it goes down what further below?

Yeah, further below. Yeah. Like you see that bottom part and you're like, oh, that's the bottom. But it probably goes like five, 10 stories at least below that. This is like an apocalyptic like the bottom, the bottom levels are all polluted and we've built up. Yeah. You know?

They build upwards. But yeah, that's really. I've legitimately never heard of anyone going to Chongching or really heard about it. It was the hardest place out of all the places I went to in the last year just to communicate because English speaking is very low. And there's like a lot of issues with Wi-Fi and things like that when you're underground. You know, it's so many layers that when you go into a restaurant, especially if you went to a place that isn't like a tourist spot,

it's going to be very challenging to try to communicate if your Wi-Fi doesn't work and you can't be able to use a translator. But I think one of the interesting things of China is it's very like, since everything's done through WeChat and you can't use cash, that it's like once you get into the system of it, it's extremely easy to get around. Because then you just go boom. Yeah, everything is like super tapped in.

It's just a little bit of a hurdle to get all the apps downloaded and the different taxis and things set up. But once you do, it's so streamlined. It's probably the easiest place to get around. How do you handle the language bearer here and anywhere? I mean, in general, we're very lucky to be speaking English as our first language. because, and not to say people are going to all cater to us, and I know things are shifting in the future,

but I know that as it sits right now, it still seems to be pretty standard second or third language that people speak. In America, we usually speak one language, but a lot of places, that's not the norm. There's usually two, three, sometimes more languages people know. So I've been very lucky just to be an English speaker. If it's a really complicated place,

sometimes it helps to have someone who can, either someone on the boots on the ground type person that's a friend or maybe it's Do you do the Google Translate or do the thing where you speak into it and speak it back? It depends, yeah. It takes too long if you're typing out stuff so I try to use one of the

speaking apps but I think that that was probably I was in Paris trying to communicate with somebody just like a type of cheese I wanted and then I did it and he goes oh I hear it what you're saying. It was like no no no I don't get what you were saying and then like oh great it feels like cheating but

it helps. Soon we'll have like the good Google Glass or whatever, whatever that version of it is. Yeah. We'll just go straight to like. So it's going to be like language will be less and less of a barrier. Probably in the next like four years we won't even really think about it. Dude, these are crazy pictures.

Thank you. But yeah, this is just like, it's such a crazy LED ridden, like so much light. It's just, it's bizarre to see. So it does keep going down. Yeah, yeah. It looks like the bottom floor. Yeah. It's like an airport, but.

Yeah, it's basically a meme at this point for Chongqing. But I think it's pretty. probably one of the craziest cities I've ever gone to. And, yeah, I had some quite interesting thing. They're all about the hot pot there. So it's like super spicy. It's like the, I can't remember the name of the exact pepper. It's the, it's Seshwong.

Yeah. Is that the numbing one? Yeah, it's so numb. It's so crazy. But yeah, when I went like, we couldn't figure out what any of it said and we couldn't communicate. So we're just like, oh yeah, just bring us every. And you're getting pig hearts and all these different crazy things.

and I don't know how to use the hot pot so I'm undercooking it all, over cooking it all. So you need maybe a little bit of help with something like that, but they're crazy about the hot pot out there. Do you get embarrassed when you're like trying to do hot pot or something and they're like looking at you? Do you get like the like, I want to have done it right

and I feel bad that I'm like fucking it up. I act like a tourist. No, I mean, part of my brain that gets embarrassed is so far gone. You know like the guy who is the climber? He does the free solo movie, the free climber. Have you ever seen that?

The people who don't use. Huddled. Yeah. He did. the scan of his brain where it's like the part of his brain that gets like scared. It's pretty much non-active. The part of my brain that gets embarrassed because I've publicly embarrassed myself, especially intentionally for so many years, that part is just gone.

You know, so I don't really get embarrassed. I feel sometimes like an idiot, stupid American tourist, but like I try to be mindful and try not to take up too much space. Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and now dog piss has the stage. All hell dog piss. Guess what? Violin horrendous. The show where I do, I guess what I do best, which is complaining way too much about shit that's not that important. I think all YouTubers should be jailed.

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This is... Vile. And horrendous. Here you go, I'm giving this to you. But I am Ari Shapir. Okay. It's a fucking crazy night we're gonna have here. Shit's about to go down.

Look. And we're here to talk, Paul. This is a love story. Media, herpes, gonorrhea, AIDS. I'm desperate. I'll stab you and your motherfucking lover! One of the worst things I could happen. What's your favorite Bible verse?

I'm like, I don't know any. I'm Catholic. Did you just shit your pants? It's not my shit. If you're up there, lady, don't call me. I'm the bad guy in the story. I know that. I'll be a better person tomorrow.

At least he's consistent. Finally, something we can agree on. I'll discuss it in hard. Not the evening I plan, but I'm having a blast. Now if you'll excuse me. But yeah, there's just so much crazy stuff going on everywhere you look. That's just like in a... Oh yeah, this is a guy getting his ear clean.

You can, for a dollar, or just under a dollar, you get your ears cleaned on the street. Take a little nap, like this gent here. Did you do it? No, I didn't do it, but I wanted to. On the street. Yeah, I was running out of time, but I snapped this quick. So this is actual street? That's actual street, yeah.

But there's a lot of... Who are you with when you go to this? Well, it always depends. This year I've spent a lot of time by myself exploring alone, and that has been a beautiful journey because I think a lot of times we think we need to be around people, but I think we sometimes are scared to be around ourselves. And I think through the process of spending so much time traveling alone, I really got to learn how to love being with myself

and realize that, and kind of compartmentalizing myself and my brain and my body as separate people so that I kind of recognize, like, I get to hang out with Oliver today. And like, whatever Oliver wants to do, I want to do. And so, like, trying to cherish this relationship with myself. And as an artist and producer, you know, this album I've been making around the world on all seven continents, it's been really about... It's out right now, by the way.

Yeah. I think it won't even be out, and I don't know what time this will come out, but it should be out as soon as the album's out. It's out right now. It just came out. It just came out. In the last six days or today.

So the journey of that has been treating myself as the artist and myself as a producer as separate entities because I was the only person who wrote and produced this album, and I just did it in hotel rooms across 80 different countries, seven continents. I went to Antarctica twice to record this. So like, I use my major label budget to be able to just travel and open up my traveling budgets and then once I went through that and the album was close to finish then I started opening up my marketing budgets and instead of using them to film things in L.A. and hiring people this or that I just traveled and explored the world so I've been kind of trying to instead of having all the money

fall through my hands if I use a studio in L.A. For one day it could be you know with overtime and engineer fee that could be two and a half three thousand dollars for that amount of money let's say three days I could have spend nine grand on going to going to South Africa and staying at a presidential suite for five days and make five songs and come back and cover all the... You can record a hotel. It's quiet enough. And the sounds right?

Yeah, sometimes I wonder, like, I'm like, how loud is this? And, like, my girlfriend would be, like, walking down the hallway being like, I could hear you, like, all the way down the hallway. So I try to be mindful of it. If I can, I try to get a place that's a little more tucked away or, like, if I can, I always, like, I'm mindful of what I spend, but also if a place is a fortified. enough to get a nicer sweet, that's a little more appropriate because you're kind of more distance. Sometimes they're much bigger spaces so you don't have the same noise issues because I don't

want to be annoying people. Yeah, there's that. That's all the sales influencers. I'm like, get out of the way. Yeah. Like, stop. But with that whole thing, why I brought that up was because I worked with myself as an artist as a producer and I tried to separate those two things. And I thought, as a producer, how do I get the best out of my artist? And me being the producer and the artists, I had to kind of treat them as two separate roles. So I spent time in LA working with all these producers that were the crem to the crem, biggest people who have the records for the biggest most hits, most diamond records, most number one hits, blah, blah, blah. And all I did was just soak up game. I used a notepad and I would write down all their rules, which all rules are

meant to be broken, but trying to take all this knowledge. And I worked with maybe six or seven of the top people who did some of the biggest songs of our generation. I kind of take, what works with this person? What did I like? Why did I keep wanting to go back with this person? Even if they were sleeping in the studio, even if they were taking a spa or working out with a trainer while I'm in the studio. And I was like, the environment, the space. And I saw what I did was I was like, what is going to get the most out of Oliver? Oliver is a guy who feels jaded by the music industry, feels chewed up, spit out, treated horribly, people just shooting on him left and right. How do I make this guy fall in love with music again? And there was two things I did. One of them is I

I got Oliver to go to all of the places Oliver didn't get to go to yet or the places Oliver loves going to Oliver loves brutalist architecture. Okay, let's fly Oliver out to countries just to take pictures on his iPhone of brutalist architecture. So I single-handedly probably have the largest

collection of brutalist architecture taken on a cell phone because I went to like 30 countries just to be able to seek out these buildings which is the lamest thing in the world. But that's what Oliver loves. So finding what Oliver loves and then me falling in love with photography

again, I started in photography and I came back to it. Me falling in love with buildings, me falling in love and get passionate about art actually was interdirection. It was so, it was like one of those things where everything is interconnected. So I was immediately able to see this result of Oliver fell in love with music again

because I gave Oliver the food Oliver wanted to eat. If Oliver didn't want to work today, Oliver just takes pictures. If Oliver wants to masturbate in the hotel, Oliver's going to do that because that's what we like to do and that's what's going to get Oliver happy so Oliver can make the best song. So kind of treating these entities separate

has been a way for me to fall in love with music again and try to make music that's not better, but just feels new and fresh and gets me excited about it again because you get so burnt out doing this. Your passion turns into a job. It's no longer your hobby. So I got hobbies again,

and then I fell in love with the creation and the passion, and that was directly tied back and defined. Who was that husband and wife couple that's brutalist photographers? I'm not sure. Berlin or something like that? I probably wouldn't know the names. I'm not really...

You're not into studying it. I'm not into studying it. I'm out of the loop. But it made me like understand that this kind of shit is gorgeous. Yeah. That's not even really brutalist. No, but yeah,

it could technically be considered brutalist. But it's like when you pass by on the way to the airport, you see these like warehouses. And you're like, wow. It's like beautiful. Well, the thing is it's a lens thing. So you could,

I spent a lot of time in principal cities, capital cities of places because it made it easier for me to be able to access to airport and be able to, keep exploring more places and they have easier access to hotels and things like this. And so that was something where

if you're spending a lot of time in cities, you have to look around and find the beauty in it. And I just fell in love with the concrete jungle and really fell in love. I have an affinity for Eastern Europe. I've spent a lot of time there. You did. I mean, I've been to all of Europe except for four last countries. So I've been really, really obsessed with Europe.

But I think, you know, Eastern Europe has kind of stole in my heart it has for many years i filmed the video in ukraine i've spent time in all of the eastern portions you know what i love about bookarest what was that architecture was you're walking along and it you see like like cold war era like bombed out almost like concrete whatever then you see this like colonial gothic kind of building right next to it and then you see a glass right modern building right then another bombed out one yeah and it's all just jumped in together yeah it was just like you're walking along you just see the eras yeah i think also what i saw with brutalism is that i found myself in the buildings because i was like why do i love these buildings so much what is

the deal and i was like well brutalist architecture is a really love or hate type thing and i think for me as an artist that's the kind of artist i am i don't want to be in the middle it's like it's better to be on the side of extreme because then it makes people feel and that whole love and hate thing is very intertwined this parts of the brain are right next to each other so it's like passion is the the motive, not necessarily what the result of it is. So for me, like, I'm like, okay, I see this jagged thing like my jagged haircut. I see something that is misunderstood by a lot of people. It's a really either love it or hate it, mostly hate it type thing, too.

So I felt like I saw myself in these buildings, but I didn't recognize that until later. I was trying to figure out what the hell is the deal here? Why do I, why do I have an affinity for such a random thing? That's interesting too, because I like, I like it. Why? Yeah. But I think the thing is, too, is like, as an artist, you know, We see certain things, this is art and this is not art and you have this high horse.

And then maybe you get off of it and you're like, everything's art. And you could go anywhere in between those, that range of nothing is art or only this elitist stuff is art or, you know, my friend said to me, I'm like, have you been making art? And he's like, no, I've been, the way I eat a banana is art. And I was like, bro, that's fucking bullshit. You're just not painting. And that friend later passed away. And I was like, rethinking, I was like, you know what?

The guy was right. Everything's art, you know, and I think it's really, it will change. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel the opposite. But I think recognizing architecture is one of the craziest art forms because it really lasts so long and it makes such a big impression on the space around it, which is a great thing about China. The architecture is so next level. There's such futuristic. And then things that are from the past, there's brutalism there too, obviously not as much.

But in general, it's such a big, big part of the space. So it's like, for me now, the journey of this falling in love with architecture, I'm like, I've got to design a building. I want to be... Really? Yeah, that's one of my new biggest dreams. What? Have you read the fountainhead?

No. What is it? It's Ein Rand, An Rand, whatever you say it? I don't know. It's about an architect. And it's really about art. But then she chooses architecture as her art. So it's about music and comedy and everything.

Amazing. But it's an architect. And it's like, he just wants to make, get the fuck out of my way. I want to make what I want to make. No one will tell me what. If you're into books at all. I'm not. Okay.

I haven't read since middle school. I think the last book I read was scar tissue. Okay. And then everything else was, what was it? Spark Notes is what we used to use before chat, GPT. We had Cliff Notes. Yep, there you go. Here are these couple, Burnt and Hillabek Becker.

Okay. And they take pictures like this all the time of just like, they think this is the most beautiful thing in the world. I think it's crazy. Because you just look at that and you're like, oh, that's such an ugly eyesore. But if you shift the lens, then you can find the beauty in these things. And you know what they say too?

They go, well, what are they making in there? In these warehouse, they go, we're not concerned with that. Right. We don't care what they're doing in there. We just locked the structure. I've seen recently someone turned like a concrete plant into a home. And that's like what I'm interested in too is like trying to potentially rebuild around something that once existed as a plant or different things. But yeah, I've found one of my biggest dreams now is to design a home, start out small, you know, design maybe a few homes and then design some office building, something.

big scale. But I'm working out. I'm talking with some people about this. You done with music? No, music. I'm trying to turn it back into a hobby because I've reached the point where obviously, you know, it's a day job. I'm finding the love and passion about it again and I'm doing a lot of different

projects and different things with it. But it's more of like something I'm trying to do for fun and I don't feel the pressure. I don't like, I don't need to do it to make a living anymore. So I'm like, and I have a lot of different jobs and I've separated myself away from like being reliant on it. And in comedy, it's like the job is getting on a plane. And then I'll do it here for 40 bucks.

Yeah. But how do you like the plane portion of it? My friend told me this. He goes, the parts of the job that you can't change, you got to learn how to love. So if airports blow, then it's like, well, I'll make phone calls to my friends doing that. I'll make something fun. Right. You know, because it's like that does blow.

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catch a flight the next day. And I went to five different islands over the course of 10 days or something like this, maybe 11 days. The airport doesn't take all day because those are like 45 minute flights, whatever. But I maximize on airport time. Like I work so much, I make so much music on the plane. I edit documentaries on the plane. I do whatever it is that I need to do that day. I write notes.

I've written scripts and different things. So I find that I am able to maximize. Airport is not a wasted time. It's just that's office time now. Work on some stuff that you need to do. And when you get to the ocean and you... There's no distractions. I jump in the ocean.

Now you've worked all day on the plane. You can go jump and enjoy it and not think about it. So trying to separate certain spaces and treating that as part of the office portion. And learning to love the lounges and spending time. And if there's no lounges, learning to love how to just put your headphones on and work wherever you are. Which every bus ride, every train ride, every airplane ride, every taxi ride to the airport is all utilized, maximized on that time. So it's not like, oh, you're wasting out. if you're life at an airport it's like no i'm i'm working then and i'm able to explore more and not feel

guilty about it's this idea that if you're not being productive you're not doing anything but for like what you for what anybody is you have to think it's like downtime is productive right letting your brain go fallow for like an hour yeah and if it means watching some movies or sleeping on the plane staring at people just sitting there eating a fucking you know whatever hamburger while you just look at people and like make up stories in your head about them it's like this is great yeah people like why don't you doing anything. Like, I am. You have to be careful as a comedian, though, because you don't want to be that guy who just makes jokes about airports and hotels. Exactly. You gotta live a life. As a musician, I don't deal with that same trapping as much because there's not a lot of airport

songs or songs about hotels. There's only one great song about being on the road. What is it? On the road again? No. No, she'll be coming around the mountain. Oh, that's interesting. That's a classic. That's a classic. Let's go back to China, though. Okay, back to China. So, let's talk about- I want to talk to you about travel alone. I'll get back to it. Yeah, I'm so sorry. Because no one understands it. We can cut out all that stuff.

No, no, we're not cutting out anything. I wish I said this way earlier in the episode, but I'll just talk about food in Chongqing. So, for one, China has probably some of the most crazy food in the world. Probably the most hardcore out of anywhere I've ever been would be in China. The street food, the stuff on the sides of the road is like the craziest stuff. Like, I was just kind of walking through Chongqing and I was like, all right, what's like the most the things that make me feel like scared a little bit like yeah and so this whole travel series I've been making which I don't think I really mentioned but over the last six months I've been

making this series called the one man band uh exploring making music in front of all the wonders of the world is it up or you putting it up it's not up yeah it might be some of it will be up by now I don't know when this airs or when it goes but a big part of this was music was a small part of it it's more about showcasing the world through an idiot Americans lens so it's very much absurdist ridiculousness but the best way to get a taste of the culture

is through food and like obviously literally facts but the thing is with China we're talking about that's a dangerous rabbit hole to go down because China has so much crazy food so much amazing food but then there's also stuff that as a westerner is shocking right so

for example like I started out really low key in Chongqing I was like all right start out with some meal worms and some crickets and some scorpions. And this was just like entry level, because this stuff is crunchy. It's not crazy. You're just eating.

I mean, I'm not sure if you're supposed to eat the end stinger of the scorpion. So I'm not sure on 100% of the etiquette of it. But like that was like my entry level. All of it was really delicious, easy to eat. Basic stuff. They put a little hot stuff on it. It's just crunchy, salty.

You just have to embrace like, you know, what you're eating is not like as crazy as you've made it out to be. Was it squishy on the inside? No. Like the guts? I think they deep. fried or something like that. So this is like entry level seems crazy but like super basic. For my documentary I wanted to explore the range of it because sometimes I go to like I'm I'm a foodie

person as far as I enjoy cuisine. I love Michelin restaurants. I love hole in the wall spots anywhere in between but this is like you know this is on this trip I really went off to the extreme a lot of eating brains and a lot of eating you know like drinking straight cow blood from the neck you know what I mean like they poured it out. Really? With the tribe in Africa, yeah. With the Maasai. That was a different thing. Different thing.

I'm not going to get into that. I'm not allowed to speak of other countries. Yeah. Well, you'll come back, buddy. Yeah, but that was crazy. So you connect with people through their cuisine. Yeah. Which is true.

You're sitting at a restaurant or one of those like little tables they put out, you know, the little plastic ones. And you're like, I'm next to somebody else who's doing this. So you are connecting. Well, they're mostly delicacies, you know. Like eating the cow brain in Iraq, you have to do it. It's just part of the experience. You don't have to do it, but you should.

You go to Egypt, you got to eat the whole stuffed pigeon, eat some camel. You know, like when you're in Peru, which it sounds like you're going, you got to have the guinea pig. Like, it's delicious. I know. You have the whole body? Yeah, in Ecuador.

It's so good. And then you do the brain, you bright through the skull. I did not do that. Yeah, that's the best part. But they're like this and they're so cute, like smiling at you. But anyways, I love. Do you do this when I eat crazy food? I'm going into a going.

I'm either gonna hate it or love it. I'm eating it for the experience. And then half of it, sometimes like, oh, well, I did it. And sometimes like, this is delicious. I'm new my new favorite thing. Yeah. Guinea pig is so fucking good.

Yeah, it's so good. When you're going into this to like make something, create something out of it, are you, like, I'm gonna create something out of this while I'm experiencing it? Or do you split the time between like, I just wanna experience and then later I'll talk about it or make a song about it or something.

Or go back. As far as like the documentary stuff, like anything that's documented, like, It's usually the first part where we're like, all right, let's get the initial thing, the establishing, and then we'll enjoy it or not eat the rest of it. But I pretty much always will eat it all because these things are delicacies. There's a reason people love it.

When something is cooked the right way, it is very delicious. No matter what it is, if it's seasoned right, and that's the thing, even probably and... Seasons right, it's going to be good. Don't take us out of context, but human meat. It's going to be good. I was looking up... At a restaurant, though. Michelin Human.

The thing is with human is, it's dangerous because you can get a lot of... of diseases or things you know with pig though you can get diseases right you cook it out yeah that's a good point it's not some fucking i'm not kind of from a street vendor right right well that's the thing though there is some things okay so this is a off topic thing but my great grandfather he was one of the first people who got mad cow disease and mad cow disease is when a cow eats part of another cow and basically they get infected and then humans eat that cow and then they basically go crazy so that was what took his life so that kind of happens it's similar to that when people eat other humans.

There's like, I don't know if you can cook it out. I think it's actually a separate thing potentially because if you're, you're eating a cow, it's not like you're eating it raw when you get mad cow. I could be wrong on that, but I'm just saying I think there's some kind of like, there's some diseases that can be caught from it.

And I'm not informed, so take it all with a grain of salt, but like. I met a guy in Asia somewhere in East Timorne, he was talking about monkeys and how they used to eat them, but he goes, we don't, now we found out it's kind of bad for you. So we don't do them anymore with a well,

because I remember as a kid, we ate them. Yeah, I believe. I would, there's some tribes that are still doing it. Yeah, for sure. I'm curious about it, but yeah, it definitely seems on the cusp of like, all right, now you're getting close to human territory. Yeah, they're pretty close.

You're like a couple DNA strands off. I want to look at food. I want to look it back. Yeah. How are the toilets? Toilets. In China. It depends, right?

Because they don't have the toilet paper most of the time. But if you're at like any kind of more like a hotel or certain things, you just bring toilet paper with you. But it depends. How is it for you? mixed between our toilets and holes. Yeah, you'll have like super nice toilets that have, you know, the badeys built in at the hotels, if it's a nice hotel. Or you'll have something that's just the hole in the ground without any toilet.

How are you with that? Do you know how to do it? Of course, bro. There's no training. It's just a squatting position. And it's actually better for you. Yeah, they say that. It's hard to do, though, for us.

The problem is, how do you not shit onto your pants? bro you gotta get naked that's what I do I get fully in the nude I just hope that there's a door on that thing well dude that's way better in Africa you're just plowing in the bush if you're staying in the bush bro it's just

just taking a shit out there maybe you have some leaves or maybe you bring some tissues I shouldn't run your canyon two years ago I had such diarrhea and I couldn't help it and I had to go and then my buddy's like how you're going to wipe I was like give me your Pepsi I had to go so fucking bad And how was that experience?

Not great. Not great. Also, there's people passing by. Regular whites. But you know, it's part of the human experience. You're going to have to do it at some point. Yeah. Yeah, you should.

You got it. It's just that they assume everyone knows how to shit squat. And then when you get there, you're like, I did some training. That's not their problem. That's our problem. And that's where we have to come in and be like, cool, figure it out. So I wanted to talk about the next thing that's probably the most interesting. Oh, yeah, this was cool.

There's people just doing Tai Chi. There was a huge group of them and actually went and kind of was trying to learn some of the moves. It's super, super good for you. They let you? Yeah. I mean, it's, what are you going to say?

Do they look at you weird? Yeah. No, no, I don't know. They're definitely cool about it. But I think that there are very much like, there's a reason why some of these people live. I mean, this woman on the left here, she's probably somewhere in her 80s or something like that.

And she's doing exercise. There's a reason why a lot of people live a lot longer over there. In America, we're either morbidly obese or in a retirement home by that age. The family unit in Asia too, in China specifically, is so much stronger. That's why I think there's a lot less of the homelessness issue because people take care of the family. The kids take care of the parents and the grandparents. So there's this kind of situation where the family unit is stronger. In America, we prioritize work so much.

We, you know, and I know that in China there's a very priority of work as well. so they deal with that, but I think that the family unit is much stronger there. And there's more of an expectation to take care of the elders. And I think that in America we've kind of disregarded that. This is the train that goes through the building. Wow. What?

Yeah, that's a crazy place. But yeah, everyone. Is my buddy, Rolf, he wrote that book, Vagabond's Way, vagabonding. He said that he does all these speaking tours. And they always ask, like, have you eaten dog when he's at any college? And he goes, yeah, but guys. And they all go, oh, I can't have a boy? But the places that serve dog regularly look down on us

at how we treat our elders. They go, what do you mean? You just throw them off in some home? That's crazy. Yeah. And they look down at us the way we look down on. Wow, that's so cool. What's this building?

That's an apartment. That's why it's crazy. So somebody lives like here? That's what I understand. Take it all with the greatest. I mean, look it above it. That's the apartment complex. Oh, my God.

Yes, that's a deck. That's where you go smoke. I'm not sure about like next door. Do it. Yeah, maybe not that one. But still. It could be. Jesus.

I'm not, you know, I'm not the guy to ask, but I know that above it at least people are living there. Oh, my God. It's so cool. It's so cool. Yeah, it's super next level. And even though you can't see below it, but there's like crazy street art underneath it. Oh, yeah. How did you find that?

That's surprising that China has street art. They have such crazy street art. In Shanghai, too, there's this place called M50 that has such next level street art. And there's like, it's just a crazy street art. the art district there. Yeah. Have you ever been? I've been to Shanghai but I don't remember the art district.

So this place, M50, it's like a bunch of art galleries. And that was the first place I've seen moving paintings where the paintings... What? They have like paintings and then inside of them are LED screens and they're like moving around. Sometimes they're moving off the painting, but like creating immersive art like this. But that was for me... You could see it. Yeah, if you just type in images, you'll just see street art there.

But there's like tons of galleries. I don't think they show... The movie paintings? Probably not. I mean, I'm assuming that you have to go into the museum to see that, but they have really kind of more things I have never seen in the West before. Like what? Just like a moving painting, whatever.

What's a moving painting? What's that mean? You could probably type it in, you say? Like a, it's using paintings with LED screens so that the paintings are moving images and sometimes like, yeah, above the painting on the out, like there's like characters walking on top of the frame of it or jumping off across it but I don't know you might not be able to find it okay whatever it's fine that's cool do you get inspired by art from another place I want to do art gallery and I would love to do that mixing video

collage mixed with paintings mixed with different things so she notices your show at Webster the openers I don't remember their names both cool but it was like oh there's so many visualizers now in in music And where I grew up, music, it was just like guitar and bass and, you know, maybe drums. And then, like, that's it. And now it's like, yeah, like, use all of it. Yeah, the last tour that I did was... I mean, you're doing full, like, plays.

Yeah, the last tour that I did, it was a mixture of a movie, a TV show, a concert, a play, WWE Wrestling, Scooter Stunts. Like, it was just so... And it didn't make any sense. It broke even, which, if you spent a year of your life touring that around the world, and dedicating a year of your life instead of doing other things, you're just losing money at that point.

So the business model didn't make sense for it, especially at the scale that I was touring at. But it was such a beautiful thing. And for me, that was a gift to the fans, whether they recognize that or not, they still had to pay their harder money, but I considered it a freaking charity show at that point because you're just losing money

to be able to put on the show you want. So for me, it's like 360 entertainment. The job is to be an entertainer. Who cares about music and art and these things? Obviously, that's the substance. That's the centerpiece. but it's about being a showman. Yeah, genres kind of fuck with everything.

When you're like, is it this, is that like, I think genres are dying more and more. Like comedy and film to me is a relatively dead genre in this current state. That's why I was cool to be in that movie that I mentioned at Tribeca because it is a straight up comedy. It has Jay in Silent Bob. People I grew up with Bobby Lee's ugly asses even in it.

He's so ugly. He literally gets uglier by the minute. It's crazy. It's evolved into this more Ewalky thing. It's like, he is just, he's, it's, it's grotesque. It's reached the point of like, That's the term I would use. Yeah.

And like that brutalist architecture, but like what about brutalist human? Bro, it's way beyond brutalist because that even is subjective. Some people can find beauty in that with Bobby Lee. There's no beauty. There's no, there's no one that could find that attractive. You know Lord of the Rings? Right. Soron, what he represents.

That's Bobby's face. I was thinking Schmeagle. I get more of like a shmigel. kind of vibe. He's kind of like this little guy. I'm saying the essence of Sauron is his face now. For sure. But yeah, Schmeagle awesome. Well, what's the guy from Harry Potter?

Voldemort. Voldemort, yeah. That's kind of like, it's like a mixture of Schmigel and Baltimore wrapped up in a ball sack. How has he not been killed just out of like, ugh? Dude, I've fought Bobby Lee so many fucking times. I honestly, he's not a bad fighter for that little of a guy. He's so small, dude.

I punched him and kicked him in the face. I fought him in Korea Town and this grandmas. I was freaking out. It was like we were just out in the street and I see him and then he took my beanie. I took his beanie. I can't remember how it went down, but he got a ass with him that day.

Good. It's so fun to punch. I mean, I don't encourage violence in any capacity, but Bobby's, he's just, he's a negative specimen. It's just bad vibes. And Andrew Santino is such a cool dude, so it's just like,

it's the only way that show works, you know? Go down in for dealing with it. Yeah. I would have, if I were Andrew, and I would have killed myself long ago. You have to trim the fat, and at some point Andrew's going to have to make that decision. Trim the fat. Yeah, he's going to. Okay, I didn't mean it that way, but you bring up a good point.

Yeah, he's also fat. No, no, no. He's been slimming down, I think. Bobby? Are we talking about the same Bobby? Bobby Lee? Yeah. He's been slimming down?

I haven't talked to him for a while. We kind of had a falling out after our last fight. Did you really? Yeah. We'll have to cut all this stuff out. We can't put this in. I'm friends with Bobby, but I've also punched him in the face. No, I'm friends with them too.

I love him. I love Bobby. I love the beef. He gets it out of you. He makes you so like fucking fighting. Yeah, the last time I did the, his podcast that was like, I was like, let's just keep it nice and there. And then of course he just pokes and fraud. Within 20 minutes.

He wants to fight. And then all his fans hate me, which is. And then he claims like, I wasn't trying to fight. He's like, yes, you were. Yes, you were. He knew exactly what he was doing. You know what you're doing. I came in there.

You're a dumb fuck, but you're not dumb. Waving the peace signs. and this guy came out in full battle mode. Yeah, classic. That's a classic Chongqing. Yeah. Wow, that's pretty cool. It got a lot of LED, a lot of light up, crazy stuff there.

What I thought was cool, too, is that they, wow. Does this smells different here? The smells are insane, bro. Just smells you never smelled before. Yeah. But it's a very clean place, so you're getting like, you're not getting like for example in new york like the human feces smell and i love new york but it has got some really gnarly moments where you walk down

you're like you see the human poo and you're like trying to walk past like why am i still smelling it's been half a block already i shouldn't be past this but then you notice it's on your shoe perhaps yeah that's a separate separate thing that's what i'm into um but yeah i think for me that one was like the standout i think it's probably what told you about chong cheng bro you never been on the internet it's like it's a meme at this point it's literally a meme like that's why i recreated the video you haven't seen that video you see the one i remade no you could go on my uh thing but it's basically like it shows the extent of instagram no yeah it's on instagram yeah i'm sure it's probably on my tictock too tic tic t i don't i'm out on there on purpose i'll be

dead you're not filming ticot dances how old are you i'm 17 okay you're a perfect day you're a perfect All right. Lay it in. Show it to me later. Fuck. Damn. I'm such a terrible producer. This is why you usually get at least one guy to help you. Yeah, all right. There's negative and positive. There's negative and positives. So, okay, here's what I want to talk for a second about. And let's get to these other places in China. This is so fun. It's making me want to go. No, I've never heard of Chongqing, to be honest, which is wild. Really? Yeah. Maybe it's too deep in. And maybe just wasn't on my tours. Well, it's kind of a newer development that people, it's kind of becoming like, it's, people don't actually go there because it's a mission to get there, I think.

Yeah, yeah, that helps. Even, I don't know a lot of my friends that even have gone to China. Maybe if it was a work-related thing, but like, I don't know people that are like, we got to go there. People really go like, I don't want to go to China. And I'm like, what? It's, to me, the word foreign is most evident in this country. Yeah. Like, it's all different, whatever that meaning of that word is.

tell them about traveling alone the joy of it yeah for me because i love it and every time you're you have a friend or a chick and they're just like what do you mean you're going alone i'm like it's better yeah for one it's a lot cheaper oh yeah if you have to buy someone else's flight or you know like in general i find that in this instance why it was cheaper is because i'm not bringing an engineer different things that sometimes i would meet with my engineer to work on trying to get a couple things dialed in on the mixes because my engineer Jacob, he mixes my music with me. And so

I would meet up with him from time to time, but it was just like, okay, if I'm recording a major label album in hotel rooms, this is the cheapest way to do it. I'll engineer myself to get the vocals recorded, the different things I need. So, it was really about saving money and maximizing how much I can use of my

budget to be able to explore the world. So for me, I was being really methodical about how to put the money instead of renting that studio or bringing a big team with me. I was like, all right, let's just slim it down to the basics. Let me see what I can do with just, I'm always asking people in the room.

Like, what do you think of that? Do you like this? It's like, what do I want? What do I like? So that was kind of the real reason of not wanting people around me was to get, to be able to spend time. Isn't that crazy two people go like, it's two expenses to travel? And you're like, no, I'm saving money to travel. The real trick is to basically

be a con artist and figure out different companies to work for that will cover the costs. So this year, I figured out different ways to be able to get, I work for different companies. I directed a bank commercial and these different things and they'll cover the flight from Antarctica to Spain and Spain to Australia. So I try to get the big flights at least covered. But I think basically 90% of my travel, 95% of it, somewhere in that ballpark is covered by other companies. So I work for the cookie company in Indonesia. I get a flight over there, fly back this way. Then, you know,

or maybe I play a show and that helps cover some of the costs of it. So I try to figure out ways to offset it, there's a way to methodically, if you want to. And the whole term, what is the one they use? It's the digital nomad, super corny. I feel like for me, like, I just want to like vomit when I hear that term. But ultimately, it's a really special lifestyle. If you can figure out a way to work and be creative through your phone, through your computer. Just call a nomad. Yeah. The digital nomad implies you're just building websites. Right. And I am doing that on the side. I just started my website business If anybody needs a website

Bill I am your man But yeah Basically you know this idea of Being able to work abroad Is such a beautiful thing And not be tied down And it's not like

It's not specific There's times where I have to play a show In Kazakhstan There's times where I have to play a show You played a show in Kazakhstan Yeah I played a festival out there actually The cool thing in comedy You probably do it there for festivals

They fly you out somewhere for a festival And you go hey Instead of fly me right back the next day can you fly me back in a week? Right. And they go, we don't give a fuck. Right. And then you stay and have fun.

So you guys have your flights built into the shows? Yeah, places like that. For me, like, that's not part of it. It's just like, this is an all in. And so I just make sure that I build time on the inside or outside of a tour if I'm doing like back to back to back. Or I just do one-off shows and then build trips around it. So I'm like, okay, cool. I'm here.

Let's hit Uzbekistan. Let's do a run. Let's hit that one. I went to Tajikistan after. You did. My friend just got back from there. Yeah, I loved it. Where did he go?

she went to just like all over the border of there in Afghanistan and like look over the river there's no like you can go and she's like the people go and she was like no who's gonna break into Afghanistan yeah no but she said the the show of pictures like the it's a beautiful place the mountain ranges out there crazy yeah it's basically yeah the exact ones you see in Afghanistan the other side of it but it's it's exactly like so so fucking beautiful to see that scale and it looks like what you've seen in national geographic or something. I want to shout out Hong Kong is one of the dopest cities in the world. Have you been? Yeah. And yeah. Fucking crazy. They are wild there. It's such a futuristic, almost dystopian version because it's like built in the 80s,

but the blade rounder vibes are so strong. The buildings, the architecture. It is also such a futuristic advanced LED screens. Like, have you ever ridden across that boat on the river to the other side where it's like 360 you just see like the way that it's lit up? Yeah, we took a junk boat. The comics all got a junk. boat. We were just there eating Thai food and jumping off.

Thai food in Hong Kong, dude? Where is your fucking major malfunction? I didn't do it. So I have a rule when I travel, whenever I go a place, and this is just like the strict rule of it is wherever I'm traveling, I only eat that type of food. And if someone is like, let's say a local taste means like, you have to try our hamburger, or you know, let's say like you're in Japan, you've been there for a month and you're like, all right, I've eaten sushi every single meal or all these different types of Japanese

cuisine. You could try out like the Japanese version of pizza because they make crazy pizza or the Japanese burger like the Wagyu burger. But like my rule is like I would never order a hamburger anywhere in the world unless someone was like you have to try this specific thing. So I have a strict rule. So you wouldn't catch me eating Thai food in Hong Kong. That's a no-no. But what did you just starve because they ordered a bunch of Thai food for everybody. Bro, figure it out. I am on a boat. What the fuck are you going to do? Bro the bar ride. How long is this boat ride? What? You're out at sea? You're a seaman now.

You're living out at sea for, you bring the food with you. You got to bring stuff. You saw Napoleon, he puts the... The tots in the pocket. This is kind of a similar method I use where I'll bring snacks at all times. I got a thing. It's traditional food versus authentic food. Okay, so what does it mean?

So traditional is like, this is what they ate here forever. Authentic is like, what are they eating now? Right. What are the people actually eating? But everyone's eating everywhere now, so that... But I'm saying, in Australia, they all eat fucking meat pies from seven. So that's authentic. That's what they're doing here.

But that's a meat pie thing. That's as Australian as it gets, man. Fair. I mean, that's like all they have there. No, the kangaroo is good there. Have you had the kangaroo? Yeah. I mean, it's just a steak, you know.

Also, by the way, I do not endorse eating animals, especially exotics, but there is an overpopulation. It's not exotic there. They're pests. They're definitely not exotic. But I'm saying there's an overpopulation that it's killing the actual environment. So they have to take out a certain. number of them so that's where the fish comes you eat aren't they're just bread and farms meat

farms okay don't we're cutting this out bro i'm so missing so i was in austria and my friend goes my friend goes hey we're all going to the new burrito place and we're like wait same thing burrito we should get spetzel or something and she goes no it's a cool new spot to eat at and we're all going to go there yeah if a local's telling you we got to go here you go okay but i'm saying like you know by theory you're not getting to catch me eating Thai food in hong kong but i'm not being a hater or a purest, bro. I have diarrhea at least once a month, so I'm not saying that this is the way to do things. That's how you're so thin. And sometimes I work with other people, I'll travel with friends and they're like, I don't know if I love you or hate you, but this is just annoying. But I'm like,

bro, you can eat your salmon bagel in Tajikistan. But I'm setting my heart, no, I'm going to wait. We're going to have the cowtail with the bones in it, with the joints still connected in. I'm with you halfway. I was yelling everybody in somewhere with Thailand once they went to McDonald's like, guys, no, no. McDonald's is a different thing, no, dude. People have pride about the McDonald's. You ever go to a country and they're like, you gotta try our McDonald's is the best.

That's like a thing I've seen so many times. And then the different, I don't eat McDonald's, but I'm saying people have like, you know, you go to the one in France and they have like the pen of chocolots and the different things or they have like shrimp at some.

Yeah, yeah. Or like brown sticky rice and wherever. In Japan too, they have the black burger sometimes. Really? Yeah, so different places have to different. Yeah, that's maybe a reason to try it, but I still would. be like unless it was a last resort you know but yeah this is just some random architecture

shit i just love the fucking buildings there hong kong has some of the dopest architecture that's not brutalism for my days also these red taxis are just everywhere that's not a good picture but i was just like if you've ever gone to hong kong it's just like endless amounts of these red taxis you're a good photographer you get your frame pretty well my okay guess how many photos i have taken over this last year year and two months. Seven. No, make an honest guess of how many photos.

And this over this, over a year? Just a year and two months. A year and two months. I mean, let's just say. From the beginning of the process of making this book, the book I've been making. Let's say 50 a day times 365. That's five, 1500, 15,000.

Normally I wouldn't waste the time to pull. But you got to believe it because I'm not. So this is a new phone with just new stuff on it. This is not dirty. Some of these buildings aren't so clean some of them are. I know. I love that, though. The grittiness is one of the special things about the architecture in Hong Kong.

So check this out. How many items are on this phone? This is just the new phone just for photos. 105,838. This is your new phone. This is a phone from when I started this process. Only rule is that every picture has to be taken on the iPhone. Don't look through too much.

No, I'm not, but like, what's this? Where's that? That's just down the corner. I'm always taking pictures of buildings. Really? Oh, today, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just love buildings, but I don't think anyone else actually cares about it like I do. Can I search your dick pics?

Bro, get off this shit. What are you doing? I said, look at the number and I'll look through the fucking pictures. I'm going to trust me, I need to. You're like I didn't go post something from your accounts. What did you get into in Hong Kong? Do you fuck out there? Bro, I'm a married man.

You can't be asking these. I didn't know if you were married. I've been married for six years. Oh, wow. I have two sons and a daughter. No way. My kids are going to see this. They don't know you fucked ever?

They know you fucked at least three times. They don't even know the idea of the birds and the bees. They think it's fucking stork still, dude. Bro, stop. Why? They need to know. This is how it works. Bro.

My kids can't watch it. That's supposed to be a family fucking show. You're actually a pervert. Hey, kids, look, so this is normal right? But when you hit like later high school? Bro, do not. put this in the episode. And then she'll be like, don't, don't.

Let's go back to the monster building in Hong Kong. Let's go back to the monster building. I like it, but it hurts. Bro, please stop, dude. It hurts, but I like it. My wife is going to see this. Go slow, but don't stop. Bro, please stop.

Oliver, please don't stop. This is worse than spending time with Bobby Lee. You're turning into, I'm seeing how you and Bobby are friends now. It's all starting to add up. So look at this building here. This is the monster. apartment. It's just staggering to see some apartment complexes that have like, and this is not that

one, but some of them have, you know, 15, 20,000 people living in one apartment complex. 15, what? You could type it in. Type in, like, biggest apartment in China, you could say, for example. It might be 20,000. 20,000 people. 39-story S-shaped building. Maybe find a better picture of it, but this is like, this is what I'm saying.

I mean I have to look at it. Wow, what? In Hongzhou, Zhu, I've been there. I made out with a chick there. Okay, bro. Stop fucking flexing. Bro.

Wow, look at this. What? Come on. Come on. That shit is insane. That's only a small portion of it, too. Wow. Come on.

Reddit. I've never heard of this site. Oh, dude. Should I get into it? Bro Is Reddit cool It's so fucking crazy

You never heard of Reddit Reddit? Reddit? Bro, it's actually Was it about just spread things? Like no bro Anything bro Monster buildings

Dude Look at that Dude Look at the size of that thing I mean that is Jesus And look everyone's got their dick Like that's a nice apartment

Other than it's a billion people in there 20,000 people I've got Bro you think they know their neighbors No way Can they even How many neighbors? could you possibly know but dude it must be a fucking party in there but also can when they

walk down to the elevator do they go like wait who's who i wonder what the like protocol is with that yeah hold it like no we're not holding it otherwise we're gonna be here all day you've never seen this though no you got to be kidding me dude everybody's seen this that's a classic that's a classic man god it's all bent what is that for like the wind maximizing human size. Look at that. It's like, bro,

you need to get a better computer set up, bro. That is such a grainy picture. I know. I got to open it up full. By the way, I want to say I'm super impressed that you run this thing by yourself.

Even though this place is basically like a hoarder's den, dude. Oh, yeah, it is. It's legendary, though. This guy runs his, for those you don't know, this dude is a one-man show.

He runs this whole show by himself, which is actually insane. What are you, putting on, dude. I just looked up buildings in China. All right. Bro, that is so bad. You're going to put that in the episode?

No. My daughter is going to see that. I mean, who's going to teach her about the birds and the bucks? Not you, dude. Not some pervy old man. How dare you? Well, then who's going to teach her? You need a pervial man to teach you about butts.

I'm going to do it when the time is right. You have to wait. You have to wait. 17, 18. All right. Let's get off this. You're too deep, man. You've gone too deep.

Other thing I want to say is from Hong Kong, there is a really amazing film director. Oh, yeah? Top five favorite film director. This guy, his name. Look at this. It's crazy. That's one of my picks, by the way.

Look at the quality. It's crazy. Yeah, the quality's better. So it's not my computer. Wow. And here's the cool thing. So in this window, I mean, it's nuts. What we can see now in pictures.

That window, that's someone's life. Someone lives in there and has a life. Each one of those windows is a story, bro. And then you get out like that, and there's a billion fucking stories. It's fucking crazy. Are you familiar with the director, Stephen Chow? Face Off? He did Kung Fu Hustle, Shalin Soccer.

Have you seen any of these? They're so fucking legend. Yeah, was funny. Yeah, funny movie. It's like live action animation almost. It's exaggerated. to like humans Is that when he's fighting a cow

Against his like nips? No bro Come on bro There was one where he's fighting a cow It's not Bill Odenkirk Kung Fu Hustle I know which one is that That's Enter the Fist

Yeah something like that Type in Kung Fu Hustle Oh wait It's Kung Fu Hustle That's a cartoon No it's a live action Oh Kung Panda is what I was thinking of Bro what

Jack Black dude You never seen this movie No This is legendary bro one of the most epic. Who's this chick? She's the landlord, dude. She's the landlady.

You have to watch it though. I put it on your watch list. This is a really good movie. Super fucking funny. Craziest fight scene. Such big scale production, but I want to say, yeah, it's...

Kung who else I'm adding it? 20 years old, bro, still stands up so high today. Wow. But you never saw Showland Soccer? No. Bro, where have you been, dude? You never seen Showlin's soccer?

No. Bro, where are you at? What do you watch? I watch other movies. What do you watch? I watch everything everywhere all at once. What? Movies where you're in them?

I'm presuming your friends' movies? No, I'll never watch anything of my friends in them. They all do terrible movies. Bobby Lee's literally never done a single thing of quality. He's the biggest film, our star I know. All he does is reboots of fucking sex in the city and other garbage shit.

I'm trying to think he did the, he was in the dictator. Was he really? Yeah. That's pretty good. That was his biggest role, I think, of his life. He was in, um, What's that Stoner movie with the Asian guy and the white guy? The Indian guy.

Oh, Harold and Kumar? Yeah, he was in that. Was he? Yeah. Crazy. Maybe that was a big. Bobby's going to some good stuff. Yeah, Bobby's a legend.

Shout out Bobby if you're watching this. We fucking love you. Kind of. No, no, we do. He's easy to make fun of because you do love him. Dude, no, it's just if he was... Shal and soccer, that's good? What is it?

There's just karate kick soccer balls? Bro, you never seen it? No. Bro, you got it right now. It's a legendary film. It's just crazy. I mean, start with Kung Fu Hustle. See if you like that.

I will. But it's so fucking funny. So funny, but like amazing, ridiculous sense of humor tied with like crazy action. And big budget, like craziness? Big fucking budget. Massive budget, dude. Big scale. But it's crazy.

Like the amount of like cinema. Whoa. That was cool. What? Like just insane level shit. This is like air bud. Yeah. But different.

No. on crack. This shit is on another level. But he's also actor. That's so funny. That's so funny. Like that's him in the movie. He's a director actor.

Comment. Type in. See, I knew you would love this shit, dude. Look at that one right there. That guy is amazing. The egg knocking her around. The crowd and bursting it.

It's so funny. But the imagination, like the creativity. Wow. And then like how well executed it is. And this is like, this movie might be like 30 years old now. 26? Is this 2006?

2001. 201. 25 years old. Yeah, 20, 25. But, you know, then it's made years before that, you know, how long is it take to get a movie made? Especially with this much VFX. Wow.

Type in Kung Fu Hustle because I think you would actually, I think you would enjoy it. That's like one of my top five favorite movies ever. That's what, and then there's all kinds of crazy, I don't know if this, will let me see no no no it's not showing the sense of you was that even the trailer I don't even know what that was Sony pictures classic the old 824

yeah it's a musical no there's a little there's only at the beginning there's like a little music component but that's not showing it but that should oh it's probably the one underneath right it's one that's one that's trailer

yeah but I just saw that one it's the same one yeah I'm gonna all right whatever you have to watch you have to take my word for it but it's it's fucking hilarious okay Stephen Chats What movies do you watch?

I mean this. This is my main shit. Wow, cool. And that's the bitch landlord. She's a legend, dude. Did you watch any movies in China? What are the theater's like? No, but I didn't watch any movies.

I don't really watch movies anymore. Honestly, I've kind of fallen off. I mean... Yeah, what do you mean? Where have I been? Your last movie watched was in 2001. What you're talking about? What, dude?

Oh, look at this right here. I got all this. Look at this little kid right here. Watch this. They just got some crazy shit that goes on But yeah, anyways You don't have to watch any more of it But you get that sense of it

Oh, this right here, bro, actually watch that Did they cut it out? Was that? You ever see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? I saw that with Bobby Lee In a theater. Really? That's a great movie.

Anyways, I don't want to give away too much But you get the idea. This one's very much a comedy. I'm watching it. But I think it's hard. to show all of it that I want to give it away. You know how these... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Well, it's better when they do give it away. It sucks when they give it away. Right, right, right. Okay, so one restaurant I went to, I've got to find the name of this. Should I look it up or no? In Hong Kong, you can?

In Hong Kong? Bro, I went to this Michelin Star. Don't even say the name. I don't like saying names of places. I don't want to ruin it. I won't say the name. Okay. I think it was at least a two-star Michelin's spot.

It's called Bobby Lee's. Bro, you can't be tying that into this episode. We're going to have to cut out all the Bobby Lee stuff. Why? Because no one will watch if he mentioned his dumb, fucking ugly name. Obviously, if we put him in it, no one's going to, they're going to click out. Yeah. And you better not click on anybody either.

He's oversight. So, let me just say this. This restaurant was so phenomenal, man. It was literally show, like, a different version of the food. Obviously, I showed some of the more hardcore stuff, but this was like such a fine, just such a crazy find out. experience where it's like underneath your table you have like a drawer and you pull it and you have like eight different forks that are used for each of the different eight courses but there's like nine or 10 one of

the courses was literally baby food that was mixed with like crab and lobster and all this stuff that was in a actual baby bottle and they give you an actual baby spoon and they have their own like custom art piece like the level of art that went into this cuisine was so elaborate like Bruce lee is from there from Hong Kong and they're like you know he's the legend of course brusely and he has this yellow and black suit which you probably have seen from kill bill if you for those you at home who don't know it but there was this one dish that like it was about brusely and it had all this origin and it was uh it was tied to this was a game of death where did he first wear that i'm not sure what the name of that one is yeah yeah

iconic film. Yeah. So, it's where he kicked fucking Carino de Jbar in the head, in the chest.

You eat this fucking dish and then like it has this I want to say it was like a slug made out that was yellow and black

and it's on this yellow and black page and as you eat it it goes away and eventually you see Bruce Lee is in the plate underneath it but like just like

so much care and thought and like if you had like a fish dish it was like shaped like an actual fish like this crazy bone thing

and you're eating off but I just never seen the level of art that went in to the presentation. And I think that the presentation that people do in certain parts of China is such a high level. It's so impressive to see.

It's like, you know, in Japan, how people, you see the level of just super perfectionists. And you see that there. And I want to say, too, have you been to those underground markets in Shanghai? No. where you like have all the recreations of all of the like designer the like fake handbags yeah yeah have you been to those yeah i think i went to one so maybe not they're really like

it's quite an experience they're massive there i think a lot of them went away during covid yeah because a lot of that moved to online retail when like everything t moot shut down with covid it was pretty hardcore yeah uh so if you go into one of those things it's quite a unique experience now this isn't the case for everyone but a lot of people they might feel even disrespected

if you don't offer to bargain with them so there's this whole bargaining that goes back and forth where you really are and you know you have to be prepared to walk and then they might chase after you and it's this whole back and forth do you have any go-toes

I don't know man I'm anti-shopping so I'm like not the guy to ask but there was a period where I liked I like the idea it's fun to bargain but I what are you getting at? What? Say it.

What? Say it. I'm not following. Oh, are you not? Are you saying I have something on my face? I'm not saying that at all. Okay. What are you saying?

I'm saying you live in New York. I don't live in New York. You're from here. I'm not from here. You lived here. I never lived here. Wait, did I say that in the show? You did.

Yeah, I did live here. Yeah, I did live here. A brief stint. Yeah, it was about one week, two week period. Um, but anyways, super crazy. So you go in these markets and it's like endless stuff and you'll be like, I want the, the Gucci socks or certain these certain name brands in there. And they'd be like, oh, we don't have it.

I'm like, okay, you sure? And then like maybe they have a secret drawer they pull out where there's like all this stuff that, you know, maybe it's the yeasies or certain things. Whatever was popping. This was like way before COVID when I went and had this experience. I tried to find them when I went back this last trip, but a lot of them had shut down. It's got to be a new place. But there was like a crazy thing where if you want like the more expensive stuff, let's say the suitcases. Yeah.

Because they can't have all this stuff out there. Like there is Gucci that exists in the country and there's legit stores. So they do have reps that like check so they kind of make it more covert. But like then if they find out, okay, you want the bag, then they're like kind of suss it out. And then they'll potentially take you to a back room. Like something where it opens up, doors slide open and you get brought into the back. And it's like all this stuff. And basically it's presented to you like this.

this is real Gucci and you're like, come on. This is not really like, it's real, it's real. And so there's this whole back and forth. But I want to try to find this picture. I have bought like what would have essentially been, I want to say like $30,000 worth of, you know, if this stuff was legit, high fashion stuff or whatever it was, it would have been like $30,000 or $20,000.

But instead, I probably paid like $200, $300. And for me, that made me really love the idea of like, you know, I like the idea of, like, what they represent the whole idea of spending your harder money to waste on buying something with the name brand is so corny and lame. It's so lame, guess. No, this is my manager. Sure.

He threw it out because there was holes in it. So I literally am just, this is just like a freebie. Adidas, but I do not. Yeah. Solomon toy machine. And my wife bought me the pants and the shoes.

So I'm really like, I'm up, bro. I'm so, I like, if I can get to close three. This is what you should worry about your friends, your kids, not seeing

yeah fucking corporate okay I will say this my kids will get nothing of my finances or anything I've set up a foundation

Dr. Oliver Tree's art grants for baby geniuses this sounds ridiculous but this is a real thing art grace for baby Jesuses geniuses baby geniuses

so the whole idea is when I die everything I own that's not art will be sold off and put into my accounts but I don't live anywhere right now

I don't have a home so I have really things that I actually own. So this is even later, it's set up, my whole will and everything has been set up so that anything I own that is an art piece is sold off and put into the accounts

and all of it is to be given away to artists. And it's not to be given away for school grants, it's not to be given away to buy equipment. It's to physically make things. I don't believe in buying equipment because I've bought people equipment and then they just play video games and the shit collects dust

and they sell it later to probably buy a video game. I don't believe in school. I think that it's broken system, I think the best way to learn is to physically get your hands dirty. You can rent equipment to make something with, but I have this kind of strong beliefs on these things. So for me, my kids are not going to be given the idea of, oh yeah, my dad made some money.

I'm going to make, that money's mine. I'm good. Like, no, figure it out, little bubba. Like, you're done. So I have a strict, strict rules with this. So no one of my life thinks they're going to get anything. My parents, my brother, sorry, guys. Every kid that was born rich sucks.

Seriously. they pretty much everyone sucks i've got some cool there's like eight no there's like eight cool ones there's like eight cool ones the thing is it's just in general it's hard to like grow up and then not have those ambitions and not want to do something really special so i will say theoretically speaking uh you have to be raised with the idea of this and i think also that makes me you know in my mind everything i make for my money for my art isn't for me anyways it's all to give back to the artist. So it's like a, it's a way for the art gods to look out for you too. It's like, all right, take care of me so we can make sure there's money goes to the people.

They actually make shit, you know? Because I'm not religious, man. I believe in the art gods. The film gods, the music gods, whatever. Maybe the travel gods. I moved town. I left L.A. I left New York once. What do you do? I, the stuff I'm going to keep with me and take with me to the next place, you know, like my vinales or whatever. It's like a take. Oh, so you're a vinyl guy. I do like it lately last few years. but like

but anything else I'm like young comics come get whatever you want you need forks knives plates anything books but how do you like categorize someone

what's there's between like a dumb guy like me who makes one dumb joke and then someone needs a comic where do you draw the line and how do you know to let them into your house like do you have to vet them there's someone you like you're supporting what's the process on this

well if you really want to come and get something free it's like well then you deserve it but like that would be fun to be like you're not a comic You only want up once this month. Beat it. You can't have anything. Well, what counts as a comic?

You have to be doing live stand-up. Stand-up comic. Okay. So you're only giving it away to people who are scraping by. You can't have shit. Okay. Could I come by and potentially take some free t-shirts like this one? No.

You could look. You could look at other people. But what if you, what if maybe someone else considered me a comic? Who's that person? They're out too now. Okay. My daughter. She's just fucked up.

No, but for example, how do you let these people end of your life? How do you put out a thing? All comics. I'll put up notes. at comedy clubs. Like, hey, on Tuesday, the 17th I'm having a fucking giveaway. Okay, cool.

And what kind of, what's the coolest thing you've given away? Well, I remember one time when I was doing LA, someone was like, kind of this fork and I was like, do you not have a fork?

Because they're so broke when they start coming. He goes, I have one fork, but I'd like to have a second fork. Wow. I was like, bro, yes, you can have a fork. Is there anything that you remember of being like, I don't want to give that one away,

but this one. I gave away a couch that was given to me the owner of the comedy store. She's dead now. I'm Metsie Shore. and Polly Shore's mom Poly Shore's mom And some kids are like

Did you fuck on this? I go 100% I fucked on it And then they later saw me And go hey we fucked on that too And I was like the lineage goes on So was that a nice couch? It was pretty nice Wasn't that comfortable though

But good to fuck on Sometimes the nice stuff Isn't as comfortable Yeah Even you think it's gonna break in eventually There's a reason you got that thing for free They knew it wasn't a comfy couch Do you want it?

Come pick it up then. Getting out of here. Wow, look at that picture, man. You got to look, camera. Yeah, that's a great example. The Imperial Palace, whatever is called? Yeah, it's a beautiful fucking place. I love that.

The palace is super next level. So I had, is it Tiananmen Square? I believe it is, yeah. Wow. I'm not good with names, but. So I had bad diarrhea in here. And this is the first place I could not avoid a shit squat toilet. I had run in and I was like

The toilet's under repair I guess There's no toilet And then the next one was like oh the toilet And then it's like oh this is what they meant And it's so hot You're sweating and the smell of like 20 different people's poop poop in the trash can

Poop toilet paper Yeah And it's just like But they had TP No Yeah you had to bring it Bring your own I think the most crazy thing

For me Yeah In China And this is the cliche shit And I should have actually Started with something like this Because it's somewhat more interesting But obviously

It's been done to death. Yeah. The Great Wall of China. I want to talk about that. So when I go to Beijing... Waterbug. What was that thing? Waterbug or something.

Bro. This is a real hoarder den, bro. Oh, my God. Don't kill it. You can't kill anything. You have to let it live here and nest. I wish you guys could see the real set. We should pull one of these cameras and show this.

Bro, he doesn't even wipe it up. Leave it there, dude. This guy is on a whole other left. level man. Leave it there. So I imagine this is similar to what your house looks like. I saw that other room over there. Yeah. It looked like someone had a hoarder had been living there for, so is this how your life is everywhere or just here. Yeah, I'm a mess. I keep it all barely it together. I need anxiety at all times. This is why it's better to not live anywhere for guys that are messy like us. That's right. I'm very messy. But you know, you just live there for a week and then it's like, okay, the whirlwind can be contained. The fuck was that thing. Bro, that was probably one of the gnarliest bug that I've ever seen. I've seen some gnarly stuff. thought I've never seen anything like that. It looked like you'd eat that if they served it. I would. I was just thinking that.

It looked good. Bro, it looked juicy. That's the thing. There's an difference between a normal bug and then something that's going to have a little bite to it, a little kick. Put a little pepper on that. Put a little pepper. Yeah. Fix your ride up.

What do you think that was though? For real. That was actually a normal. I don't know. It was like a set of but it was so fat. Just imagine what else is in here, dude. What's lurking around here? I've never seen.

I've lived in New York for 12 years. I've never seen that. I haven't seen. a bug like that either. He had like a thousand legs, but it wasn't a centipede. No. Maybe, I don't know. It could have been. It looked like, kind of like a mealworm, which is working at my apical. Do you think it's evolving in here? You probably could have something. It's evolution going on in this apartment. I mean, there's toxins with the paint and different things that could play a factor. So I wanted to talk about the Great Wall. So also,

a lot of people know about this, you know, have you heard of it? The Great Wall? Of China, yeah. All walls are great. this one is especially great 2,000 years to create this thing Yeah People say you can see it It took 2,000 years to create it Yeah

From start to finish God damn How long was the rain for? I'm not sure bro I couldn't give you numbers on that But the craziest shit about it And everyone knows this But like while people were building it

And die and they would just throw people's body Into the wall They call it the death wall Certain parts of it So it's just like There's a burial for certain people as well So the wall is like, there's human remains throughout it. There's parts, I went to the part that had the most bone density,

which is referred to as the death wall. Really? A portion of it, yeah. But there's a lot of different parts of China that have the Great Wall. I mean, it spans, I think something like, and I could be totally wrong here, but it's, I want to say 6,000 miles? I don't know. Are there like hikes?

We can do it right along it? Oh, you can actually walk on parts of it and they shut down parts of it as well. But have you been to it? Yeah. What part did you go, do you know? I don't know. It was a taxi ride from Beijing. Yeah, yeah.

Took however long it went. That's what the main two kind of parts are. This one I went to a couple times. It's nice because there's less tourists. I don't want to blow it up, so I'm not going to say the name of it because. Then everyone's going to go. Yeah, everyone's going to go.

I went far enough to where it's like. That's my portion of the Great Wall. So like that's where me and my crew. I went to where it started to be dilapidated. Right. It was like kind of unfixed. Wow. And I'm like, this is cooler now.

Yeah, yeah. You can see like. That's a legit. that's not fixed up anymore. Yeah, I mean, it's so big. And you have to wonder, too, like how effective was it at parts where it's not that high? You could climb over it, you know? Sort of.

But imagine you're an invading force. For sure. And you're like, let's go. And you're like, it's going to be a seven-day journey to get to Shanghai. This is probably the greatest art piece of all time. 2,000 years. And then they go in there with all your swords and your arrows. They're like, do you ever bring a ladder?

You're like, no. Like, fuck. I wonder how often people were hopping over that thing. I mean, well, they have. stairwell's right to the outside that's not great for defense no that's on the inside dog oh really that's the internal side that's the internal so i am not 100% sure but i believe i'm the first person to record a song on the great wall of china i recorded a podcast from on there no way podcast so you might be the first person to record a podcast and i might you know tons of people have done the

podcasting that's played out this was 15 years ago 15 years ago 15 years ago you were doing a podcast before joe rogan Not from the Great Wall. You did the Great Wall 15 years ago podcast there. What was it? You filming a video with your friend on your phone or this was a legit podcast? What was it called? Skeptop Tank, Ari Shafir's Skeptic Tank? I'd never heard of it.

You haven't heard of anything. You haven't heard of the fucking fountainhead? I highly doubt this podcast exists. It might not. Well, were you doing it before Tom Green? He was like the OTE podcast. But I'm saying Great Wall. I'm not saying first podcast.

You try to do it. to be the first guy to do it, but somebody has done it. On the Great Wall? Well, we'd have to look into it. I mean, I highly doubt you were the first guy to do it. You think you were? Maybe. Bro, so the first guy to podcast on the Great Wall

meets the first guy to make a song on the Great Wall. Oh, my God. So I had to do some of the vocal recordings inside the actual rooms there. Yeah. Do you listen? Are you listening? In the wall? In the fucking wall, I recorded the song on the wall.

Because the in-betweens are so crazy because it's like, Is that what the quarters were, where they slept? That's where people lived, yeah. Some people sell snacks in there, too. Yeah. I don't know when you went, but there's some fucking people along the side trying to sell you beer and stuff. I got a story for you about it. So they were telling me all the boots on the ground, people like, hey, don't pay more than this for water.

I see you were like a white guy. They're going to charge you more. Say no, this is the right price. And I did it up there. And he was like, let's say it was like, you know, $2, two, whatever. And the guy was like seven. And I was like, no, no, it's two. I know the thing.

He goes, that's if you don't lug it all. all the way to the great fucking wall of China. And I was like, fair, seven. Yeah. That's when you really needed. They got you, bro, up at the top there. Mm-hmm. So, where are you going to show me?

Me recording a fucking podcast from on top of the Great Wall of China. Bro, I don't believe it for a second. I'm on there, but that's just me on there. Bro, anybody could have taken, that's a fucking AI, an easy AI picture. Anybody could have made that. Damn, and I want to. You probably made this shit before I came here today. Or we're just making, rendering out AI pictures on mid-journey.

Boom. Mike in hand. Bro, this doesn't prove anything. You're just standing there taking a photo off with the fucking microphone. I'm recording it. Audio only. You don't even have it plugged in.

It's plugged. No, that one's not plugged in. Bro, you're so fucking fake. This is so forced, dude. It's up. It's up online. You're looking for 10 minutes on your phone and the thing exists on YouTube?

Not on YouTube. It's pre- YouTube. Oh, my. Yeah, before YouTube. Bro, YouTube's 20 years old. It was audio only. bro you're gonna tell me you recorded the first podcast on the Great Wall but it was audio only yeah it was before we were doing video

bro did you make a music video did you make a music video on yours low key yeah I filmed it for a documentary it exists bro this setup it was so elaborate I had so I had a bulletproof vest that I put a mixing deck on and then I had a piano strapped on one arm and a drum pad on the other and then I have a head gear I have headphones with a microphone phone on the thing. So my version...

Was anyone coming by? For sure. I met a bunch of fans too. I met... I mean, bro, that's... I got no fans in China, but I got a lot of tourist fans on the Great Wall of China. And I played the album for some people on the Great Wall as well. Did you put it out yet?

No. Well, it should be out by now, yeah. Okay. But it's not out yet. Oh, I can't wait. Yeah. But pretty legendary. I made this song.

You're like playing... Yeah, I don't like this. I made like, yeah, the demo version. and then I re-developed it further on. What did you shoot a lot? iPhones? Bro, what are you talking about? Legit production?

I don't know what the name of the camera is, some Sony. But it's a... I can show you a picture. Yeah. But my rig was pretty impressive, but it actually is pretty dangerous because I was recording all these wonders of the world

in a lot of places, bro. It just draws too much attention because you have to put it on this vest. It's legit a bulletproof vest to strap on because you have an iPad had in the back portion of it with like Ableton Live on it, the latest Ableton Cho.

I had the full setup, all the wires and everything and it's wiring down. It was a nightmare, bro. And anytime I started getting PTSD because I'm like, bro, I'm going to get arrested. But like, I wasn't trying to do anything better. So like, why do you have this for music? The thing is that it was all with the best intention. Like I'm just trying to be able to create an art piece and be able to show the beauty of the world and pull the inspiration into it.

So super positive intention. Music video from in the Great Wall of China. It wasn't a music video. I was recording the song. Wow. So I did Great Wall of China. I did the Pyramids of Egypt, which is total nightmare. That place is crazy.

All the people like, you have to be paying off people left and right. Left and right. I did it at Machu Picchu. Nope. Sorry. Where's the other one? I was on acid of the pyramids. Really?

Yeah, it was awesome. I guess the pyramids are the old, that's an old wonder of the world. That's the only really proper standing old ones. wonder of the world but I'm trying to think I did it at Christ the Redeemer in Brazil as well yeah but anyways I've been trying to find like unique places that that'd be a cool seven album seven seven song album yeah wait how many wonders of the world are there eight well if you count the old wonders and the new wonders there's 14 14 I think there's seven of each but then there's like all these ones that are gray area wonders you know where they're like okay that's kind of a wonder

world is that you in China yeah bro you look so ugly back then bro Was that actually you? Yeah. Is that you in Cuba? Yeah, that's my buddy. Bro, you were even uglier than that? That's my fat buddy Bobby Kelly. And what's the spot on the left?

Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon, yeah. That's so lame, bro. I'm joking, I'm joking. But anyways, this whole thing of making... Is Grand Canyon a wonder of the world? Hell no, bro. Hell no.

US has got nothing on there. Damn. But dude, there's a lot of ones that are like, oh yeah, you could say like... McDonald's? McDonald's. It's a wonder. I guess the chain wonder. It's a franchise wonder for sure

But I want to say though The whole thing of recording these different places That putting on this bulletproof vest There was times where It was a little sketchy And in Shanghai I was playing the album for my brother And his wife And we had the headphones on and the gear

And then the police came And then they basically Because it's so much gear I think that What we were under the impression It was maybe they thought I was attempting to do espionage or something because it's near, it was on the Bund and it was like,

and there's, I think, believe there's government buildings around, but they were super nice and super, they're cool about it. They just took pictures and like passports and different stuff that they wanted to document in case anything happened.

But it was just like me playing them some music to show them the album. But, you know, definitely I started getting, because this happened in a lot of countries and I started getting PTSD from it where I like. From police coming up to you? Yeah, there was times like where like unmarked police cars,

not in China, but in other places where, They came up and take your pictures and snap your IDs and different things. And then there was just a few things. You know, sometimes you had to pay off the police. Some countries, that's just part of it because the police don't make enough money that you actually just... Part of the culture is to pay the police a tip, basically. But, yeah, it was, you know, a lot of times it's paying off park rangers or people that are working there.

So it was a very stressful thing. And I'm actually very happy it's over because it was very kind of scary for me. I'm glad. I don't want to do that again. Are you going to put it like an album of just Well that's just what the whole album was It's not about the wonders of the world It's just recording it at unique places Yeah, the world like I recorded it and you know

On the ice in Antarctica and with the tribe And all these different things So just getting a sense of bringing in culture Dude, the concert I put on for the tribe was insane bro It was probably the most punk rock concert I ever did What was it? For the Maasai. Wow

Me playing a show for the Maasai dude They didn't have they don't have electricity They live in Poo Huts and they literally we rented a generator from someone in the town and brought a sound system from these

We rented one from someone in the town Some Swahili guys And then we brought it in And no one in the tribe Had heard beats like this And they didn't know How to dance to it

It was like a very unique experience But there was like a Kind of at one point It turned into a mosh pit And it was like No on its own Me with the Just the Swahili guys

Not the tribe really The tribe was like Didn't even know how to react to the music because they had never experienced anything like it. But that was my most unique concert I ever put on. And I put on some pretty strange ones. And so how did they dance? They didn't know how to dance to it.

I mean, they were not really heard like trap beats or, you know, they're familiar with like four on the floor stuff, but drum and bass things like this. They are familiar? Yeah, they have like, you know, some, a lot of like that dance music. Out there, dance music is popular. But it's a lot of them. In Germany and Berlin, probably them listening to Kraftwerk for the first time, the first electronic.

I just saw that video that. And they're just like on the floor. Yeah. And they're like, and you're like, that's not how you dance to electronic music. But they don't know how to do it. It's like playing live for the first time in there. And they're just like, oh, cool, man. And you're like, it's not beatnik stuff.

Yeah. But that was right in the transitional. Yeah. That's crazy. But yeah. Wow, playing for them. Also one of the mommas too, one of the older elders, the elder mommas, she put one of my trap rap songs as her cell phone ringtone.

So I was like, I was honored to be part of the legacy. but that was like crazy she never it's like alien music to them you know yeah so that's like crazy to imagine like certain styles of music haven't like reached parts of the world did you have band members with you i just played the one-man band solo okay solo dolo dude i mean that was all i could really bring out there it was pretty rough i played antarctica like seven eight times but it's just DJ sets because it's too expensive to bring them who's there not a lot of people were you playing in uh where you playing in uh where you playing in south america The end of the year?

Going somewhere, right? I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm going to do all seven continents for this next door, but I haven't. Not all of it's worked out yet. Okay. Where were you saying? I don't know if it lines up.

I'm going to come see it somewhere like here. I don't know. In Antarctica, you're going to the Antarctica show? Do you doing a show in Antarctica? I'm going to do a third year in a row. I did Antarctica the last two years, concerts. I play three each time. So one ambient set, two dance sets.

But I'm going to do one more. December, January? Yeah, December January. Where are you going to be in that period? Are you coming back by that? I'm trying to do solstice right around here. Okay, and when is solstice? Into December, December 21st.

You might have to come and do a podcast while I'm performing. And you can talk over me and we'll be. Just like, so then later, where'd you're just like? That would be crazy while I'm DJing. That would be crazy. That's the next thing is how do you mix the mediums, you know? How do you do a, there's got to be a podcast where they're DJing while podcasting, right? stand up and whatever.

You know, it's all about mixing the mediums together. That's why I like, where I really get excited about is like, how do you mix things that shouldn't go together together, like the Great Wall of China and making music? You know what I mean? That's where I'm like, that's exciting. And you could hear Mo, the band Moe behind us playing the whole time

and I'm just talking to some kids. What, Bonaroo? Yeah. How was that? It was great, but it was like that sort of a mixture where like you get the ambient sound of like, oh, this is a feel. They did one at Yankee Stadium.

You can review someone while they're performing. While they're performing. That's what I'm saying. Like take it one step further. How would you do that without ruining their show? Well, that's the thing you kind of do, but maybe it's a collab. Dude, David Joe once did, I did an interview with him, and he made me sing the responses to him,

and he would ask me questions while seeing. That might be the way to do it. Sing? Have them sing the answers back, and you sing the questions. Wow. Interesting. That would be super next level. People, where we got to cut this out,

dude people are going to use this shit before we do yeah that would be so crazy it's probably been done if you can imagine it's been done to learn some music they got the music so they already know how to yeah yeah you just have to sing shitty you don't have to learn a song you just improvise and there's be music going on playing so you sing along with the instrumental and the only singing is the people asking questions and responding through melody but we have to cut all this out this can't be used yeah this is a big idea dude we're going to be rich We're actually going to be rich. I'm going to afford fucking bugless houses.

That's what I'm saying. Oh, nice. But anyways, take it or leave it. I'll give you that one free. It starts free and then if you want to. Did you ever know that? And then it's some question. Right.

I'm not going to do it. And I already did that. Yeah, right, right, right. But you get the idea. And with the right funky baseline. I mean, there's that one comedian who has autotune. Right, that guy. Who's seen him on that?

Bro, are you not on the internet? I don't even use it. And I'm not a comedian even. There's that guy who sings and does comedy while he's doing autotune. He like has the audience respond in. Morgan J. I don't know. Ronnie J.

Yeah, he's a... Morgan J. Ronnie J. on the beat. Yeah, I think it's this guy, yeah, with the mustache. You know him? I won't listen to anyone with a mustache. All right, yeah.

You don't need to put it on. No, I'm not gonna. You can't be putting on other comedians, especially ones you don't know about. Or you have secret beef and you couldn't acknowledge it. It's tooth and nail, claw, everything. keep everybody down support no one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Except fucking Numeruunu. And then Bobby Lee is number two. Bobby Lee's number two. I can't believe you fight with him. It's so great. We have to pull up a video of me fighting Bobby Lee, dude. You could splice us in. Bro, none of the videos have worked so far.

Not on that. Go, like, just type in on YouTube or something. YouTube shorts. Go down. There's one that's specifically good. Bobby Lee is a copy. There's one say uh There's so many

Is that you? Oh my God That's not a good example That's not a good example? No no no no bro I've whipped his ass so many fucking times The thing is bro You have to be nice because he's brittle

He has very brittle bones He's also dying Type in a You know about the cancer right No Yeah What happened? He got cancer

Oh my God Yeah He's got like long throat and like toe and dick cancer and something like that bro you were fucking with me right now he had like a lot of anal he wanted to stop and his doctor's like

you gotta stop doing the anal or at least don't let him blow loads in your ass and Bobby was like bro my kids are gonna watch this fucking episode you understand this Oliver someone's gotta teach them

about butt sex and blowing loads reverse cream pies that's so you think they're gonna go to school I was like reverse cream pie and they're gonna go what is that and then go

what is that Jimmy Trees is so uncultured they don't even know what a fucking Jimmy Tree who's that boy's name what is the

reverse cream pie. It's when you cream pie in a butt. It's a Neapolitan. Do you know Neapolitan ice cream? No. It's like a strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. Right. Poop.

Seamen. Blood. And you sound to really be maybe the figurehead of this movement. You like kind of the face of it. When they know about Bobby's cancer, it's going to get out more. Bro, we can't. We can't be talking about his cancer. Does he actually have it?

know if he's telling anybody yet but yeah it's pretty bad butt butt and rectum and dick cancer you never know with bobby dude he's the boy who cried wolf he cries a lot there's one video where i fight him in koreatown if you go to youtube what okay youtube what's that like a website youtube yeah youtube it's uh it's kind of like a video archive oh interesting okay so what bobby he fights he just ran into him and started fighting yeah literally on the street That's kind of where it all started. I don't know if they'll know it's Korea Town, but you could just fight. Look at that one there.

Yeah, yeah. It's the first one. This one? Yeah, yeah. You just ran into him? Yeah, this is on the street. It was on site, dude. I had seen him on the...

Are you smoking in there? It's so great. It's a molly cop. Oh, yeah. I stole his hat. Look at this lady, dude. I punked him so good, dude. Oh, my God.

That's just on the street, just randomly. He was a wrestler when he was in high school. Not anymore, dude. Not anymore. Now he wrestles body image. Pretty good though, right? Yeah, but we had way worse fights. We did like a many different...

He just ran across him? Yeah, I fought him on Tiger Belly, Bad Friends, HC. Podcasts. I fought him like multiple times on each. H3 podcast. But yeah, pretty narrowly. That's so funny. That's so funny.

Yeah, man. They're talking about it. It made its way on a lot of other podcasts, yeah. Oh, yeah. He's dressed up here, fight. Over the years, dude. He's like three feet tall. He is.

He goes down so fast, too. Well, no, he's top-heavy. That's part of the thing. You got to punch him down. Dude, and he has beef with Santana. Santana? Santana. Sanana?

Andrew Santana? Yeah, the guitarist. From Megadeth. Look at those people in the pack. I know, bro. But yeah, he's a legend, dude. Bobby, I love you, man. No more fighting, though.

I have to retire. I'm out of the game. You have kids. They can't see that. I know. Well, I have to be a good father figure. Jimmy, if you're watching, don't have butt sex to your 16 or 17.

And give as much to get. Give as much as you get. It's all about the love. What you spread is what you receive. That's a message, right? That's a good, that's a strong outro, ending message. I think it's beautiful

that you really care so much about teaching the youth. I think that you have a lot of good things to share, especially, you know, in the travel side, I think maybe it's good for you to stick at that side of it. I feel like that's stronger to share that love, but maybe it doesn't

sell as much... I want to do a sex education tour of different grade schools around the country. Around the world, dude. You can mix your travel. I limit myself. Teach these fourth, fifth, sixth graders about like fucking in the shower or like safety. Maybe maybe not such

you know harsh things but maybe you know birds and the bees. Spit on it. Things like that. You gotta be careful, you know. Hey kids, someday things are gonna happen in the bedroom and I want you to remember this

when you're old, you don't have to know this now. Spit on it. I just, I don't know if you need that part. Okay. You might be able to give out call. condoms or things like this. I think that's better starting spot. Maybe in high school there's a better time to have some of those more graphic.

Too late by then. Too late by then. They'll have not spit on it. They'll have gone through a spitable situation and not spit on it. And then they're like, why wouldn't any of who told me this before it was time? You know what I mean? It's too late. You can't teach a kid about a condom when he's already fucked in like 16. That's why you start him out.

You do the condoms, you know, kindergarten or first grade, let's say, something at a more realistic number. And then maybe the spit talk, maybe that's more middle school. but like maybe closer to high school because it's just you have to be careful you know you can't you can't give too much information obviously to be careful and now you're going to be careful somebody that you wanted to be like surprised by it and like you're like wow what is all this maybe it's better to just wait and maybe do it in high school maybe i feel like listen let's workshop it yeah i would say maybe stay offline with all this stuff and maybe we cut this out we just maybe you try to figure these things out maybe off camera would be a better time right right right right

kids in the neighborhood and then see what gets to be the pushback i would say maybe just talk about it with like a lawyer or a manager potentially and see you know because it might not it might end up biting you're saying jews no no not at all i'm saying maybe workshop it with uh police department people that might be looking out for your long term best interest yeah yeah yeah maybe look i would just have a legal person look into maybe the rules and regulations with that because you're your your tiptoeing a very fine line there. Yeah, but every country's got different regulations for that. Sure, and that's where it's going to be really, that's where it gets tricky.

Especially, I mean, I would say probably the only place you could speak to younger kids would probably be in the Nordic, you know, somewhere with some of the... They're more advanced. Well, yeah, they're a little more open-minded. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would say other than that, you're probably not going to be able to get to maybe past college even, you know. I would say a lot of these talks are probably more appropriate for college, out of college, fresh out of college. Like maybe a doctorate Talk to those people

That seems like a more appropriate age To see what's the right Yeah Time for this, yeah But yeah, I feel like I hit most of what I wanted to I think let me see if I missed anything Was there anything that shocked you about China That you were just totally not expecting?

Let me see if I had anything in here Sounds like a fucking rad trip It was fucking epic man And I've done I've done about three, I've only been three or four times, but each time I stay for a month because it's just so massive. And I don't like it. It's like 20 countries.

It's like 20 countries. You can't do like a week in China and say China. That's a one city. Yeah. But I will say the thing that shocks me the most, we already kind of touched upon. It's just the idea of not being able to use cash and trying to integrate into their system is like a very complicated kind of thing.

And the first time that that was like, I was like, wow, I never really heard of a place that you can't use cash. Not that everywhere that's exclusively true, but like, for example, when I bought the pig nose and the intestines and the chicken feet on the street. You're just swiping? Yeah, it's a barcode. So like. My last trip to Australia was a year ago. It was the first time ever in a country where I didn't touch cash. Because it's just like we don't, it's just tap and go, tap and go.

I never use cash anymore. It's crazy. It's different when you can't even use a credit card somewhere. Oh, right. That's the complicated thing of it. So you got to put money onto this we chat or something and then go. Cards connected through it. But yeah.

That's like a pretty big shock is like, okay, cashless, I get it. Yeah. But cardless, too. That's like a whole other level. Yeah. All right, here's where I ask everybody before we go. Two questions. What, what, give me a country that's calling you, you've never been and a general or specific travel to.

Right. Like for my travel tip for China, it'd be like bring a tissue pack papers. Yeah, that's good. You know, and a general one would be, I don't know. But anyway, where is calling you? Yeah. Um, there's a lot of places calling me. You're a real traveler, buddy.

Yeah, I'm grateful enough to have made it to over 100 countries. Dard. Certified, bro. Legit. I'm not talking about just... You fill up a passport? I have four passports, but I have two 50 pages right now, and one of them is almost full. And I got that one, like, literally in May, which is...

I got a travel ticket. That was last May. Wow. So in one year I did it up. 50 pager. I got a travel tip. Yeah. Because you want to save that.

It's a, it's a souvenir really. Right. When you get a new passport every 10 years, whatever, they punch that hole in it. Here's my tip. Tell them you lost it. Yeah. I do that all the time. No, if you, you don't need it anymore anyways once it's up.

I mean, you could get two passports. As long as you can prove that you're working abroad and have a visa for somewhere, you know about this, right? You only have one passport? I'm trying to get my remaining. Bro, you're so rookie with it, dude. So, hey, my suggestion for traveling is get two passports. All you need to do is have a proof that you're leaving the country and then you also need a visa for another country

because you can't be sending out your passport to get a visa approved for it while you're also traveling abroad. Wait, wait, wait, wait, say that in real time. So you're going to Chile and then you're going to go from there to... For example, I was working in general. For example, I was working in Japan to play Mount Fuji Festival. Okay. And I had to send in my passport to get a visa for that.

But I also had a ticket showing I'm leaving the country during this period. And I need to have my passport for that. So you need two passports to be able to travel. So. Two American. And so you send one off to go, hey, get that visa done. Yeah, this one needs to be sent to get out. And then this one's for traveling.

So that's why. And then you also can use that. second passport, when you go to those more gnarly places that you might not want to have on your main passport stamps. So that's kind of my main traveler tip. Other thing is when you use the electric QR code, this one I don't want to give away, so we're going to have to bleep it. Cut back in. All right, I got a tip for you. Okay. Forget the check bag because if you, if you fly with the check bag, you're not a real traveler. You're an idiot. My whole life is one big ass backpack that weighs about 65, 70 pounds.

it has a recording studio in there it has everything i need it's like a you know let out of your site right above you bro it's got my four passports yeah two of them are have holes in them but it has the other two good ones and i have my old ones in there too my i have lower back problems so i'm not suggesting this but you travel without a carry-on suitcase in your backpack you are a fool yeah because you're not like and if you're really about this life like clearly you're you're not no sometimes we got merch we're going to Kansas City and I got a bag of merch. Bro, you're doing it wrong, bro.

You're selling your own merch. Dude, I'm low level. Sometimes. I like it. Well, that's another conversation, but my tip for you guys is travel light. You do not need anything. Also, tip for traveling. Learn this in Brazil.

You can wear the same pair of underwear four times in a row. So you wear it, you turn it around. Turn it, what? Day two, you turned it around. Turn it around. So the holes in the back? Level with me. Okay.

Day three, flip it inside out. Day four, turning it around again. That's what they taught me in Brazil. I mean, I've heard of turn it inside out. I've never heard of a turn around. That doubles the amount of extra time. Yeah. Watch out for jock itch, though.

I have had it many times. So I'm not going to say it's a foolproof jock itch-less plan, but it does work. And I will sometimes wear the same. same underwear for weeks out of time. But, you know, it's like a vagabond style, you know? Yeah. You just kind of go with the flow.

Just rinse it off in the sink or something. Four times in a row. I've heard two. Four, that's another level. Bro, you ever go to a really cold place? Yeah? I'm not changing my underwear for a week. Bro, camping out in Iceland, bro.

You ever been to Antarctica freezing your cuckish off? No. Bro, I'm telling you right now, everything changes when I see you on the ice out there. 2026. We're 2025, right? This airs in 2027? It could easily air in 2026. We'll see when your album's out.

But it just, since your album, just came out. Guys, again, once again, check out the new album. Yeah. It's called Love You Madly, Hate You Badly. We made it in two hours before I said the title. Go listen to it if you made it this far. I know there's three or four of you watching.

Yeah. But last tip for traveling, if you're going to China, make sure you get the proper Wii chat set up with all your. cards put on there. Make sure you get the taxi set up and just be fully prepared to integrate into Chinese society.

Damn. These are all good tips. And where do you want to go next? Where's your one place you haven't been that you want to go? Because I'm sure you go back. I've got pretty much everywhere I want to go. I barely scratched the surface. Because even if I say I've been to places,

there's so many places in those countries I haven't been to. Greenland's up there. There's got to be some place that's like, damn, I saw my list. I mean, right now the most realistic one that I want to go to is, and not that it's the most realistic, It's actually quite complicated, but Turkmenistan is the last of the stands I have and gone in Central Asia. I want to go to Afghanistan as a high up priority. Pakistan.

I really want to go to Iran as well as Syria. So those are kind of like I went to Iraq. I loved it. It was so special. I spent a month in the Middle East this year. I fucking loved it. But those are like my main kind of spots that I want to hit right now. But there's like every spot I want to hit. I hope to make it to all of them before I die. If not, it was a good run. We had a good run. All right. If you, if you, we'll do this again at some point.

Obviously. And if I see you somewhere here. Yeah. We'll do one from like in front of Machu Picchu or somewhere. That would be amazing. We'll do it somewhere cool. I'll let you know if I make it down south. Okay.

Before Antarctica. Okay. Because usually you have to go from either Punta serenis or Ushawa. So that maybe I'll meet you down there. If I finally get the dates, you're the first I let now. Okay. You got to make it there. That's like the final frontier.

That's the thing. Hey, I'll be here. If you can make it, you can see me. Well, if you can make it, you can see me. Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm talking as you. Okay. I say, if you can make it, you can see me. I'm excited to show you the ice. I got some tips, and I'll teach you about the delicacies there.

The whale schmegma cheese, the whale semen cake, delicious stuff. Is that a real thing? That's a real thing. We'll get into it next time. Okay. All right. Buddy, this is great. Pleasure.

Thank you. Guys, that's the episode. I mean, that guy. is wild. I've seen his shows before, Oliver Tree, but I put on a good show. It puts on a really good show, actually, full of sketches and stuff. His new album is Love You Madly, Hates You Badly. Get on Spotify now or Sam Goody. What are the other ones? What are the other old record stores?

It was Sam Goody. Tower Records. Tower Records. Ket Mill Records actually started in my neighborhood of Ket Mill. Got National. The biggest thing come out of Kemp Hill. Not me. Now the camera records is done. There was another one. Amoeba, but there was another one that was in malls.

Bobbages? No, that's a nice one. Babbage's. What else? Damn. Suncoast was one. Anyway, these are classic places to shoplift from. And now, just as I'm saying it now, they're all in a business, and I can't help but think

that I might have been helpfully responsible for them going out of business. When you're leaving, okay, side note, when you're leaving and you're shoplifting, again, this is only ever advice for white people. So, but if you're with a white friend, have them do it. And you have those things that are right there that might set those off. There's a way to go around it really if you can, but you've got to go as if you're nothing and then around. You see what I'm doing here? So let's say this was the thing.

So you're walking, walking, and just like, and then you keep going. But you got to do it smooth. You've got to do it smooth. There's also what I say, the plausible deniability, which is, let's say you're stealing a mattoe glass, right? And you're walking out and you're like holding it around. Don't put it in your pocket. Walk out like this. And then if they catch you, let's do it.

Let's do it, actually. Let's do what. Any of you want to help with this? Okay. So I'm just walking out. You're a store clerk. You see me walking out with your product. You're not crazy about it, but it's kind of like, hey, what the fuck you do?

You know, you got the character? Okay, here we go. Okay. Oh, my God. Oh, fuck, dude. I'm sorry. I was walking out of him. I'm such a fucking klutz.

Yeah. White, be it. Anyway, the point is Love you madly, hit you badly, is out right now. Does he have any tour dates? Is he doing red rocks? No, he's got Mexico City, Santiago, Chile.

What? Yeah. Buenos Aires. What? And Sao Paulo, Brazil. That's where I saw Oasis. Probably not the same stadium. him. A studio stage?

No, they were playing where the soccer team plays. Oh, well. But he fucking puts on a great show. Go see all those. He's a real traveler too. That was nutty. When he came in, I was like, you know, I liked his music, so I was like, yeah, it'd be cool to see him. Him, Roblo. There's a few guys that have like super surprised me. Harlan, I guess,

the first time, where I'm like, oh, you get out there. And then we start talking afterwards. And he was like, I didn't do it, but he was like, you should definitely go to Antarctica, especially if you're going to be down there. he's so wild. He's so out there.

He's like, you know, the way he talked about it, was like we all say. It was like just you beat, you're out there. You see different cultures, different way of life.

It just gets your brain flowing. And he's just kind of like life's too short. He's a cool guy. He's a cool guy. Love you madly, hate you badly, available on Spotify right now. Sam Goody,

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And somebody goes, what about that? that amount of dollars times the same amount of dollars. I'm like, oh, I know the answer right away. It's just a cheat code. God, I stole so many albums. You know, the best one was BMG and Columbia House, where you just send them. You just send them.

So I worked at the University of Maryland at the North Hill Service desk, and then I would have packages would come in. We'd have to log him in and call the people. But there were rooms that were no rooms, like a handyman closet, bathrooms had a room number. So we would just order them to rooms that didn't exist.

And then we'd all know something's up. If it's a BMG or Columbia House package to a room that doesn't exist, we'd go like, hey, who's Margaret Thatcher? And they'd be like, oh, that's me. And so any song, one hit wonders, anyone, I'm like, I'm getting the album. So I have Space Hogg albums. I have everything because you can just like, just get it. Who's Anne Arundel?

Like, that's me. Who's Mrs. Fields? That's me. God, I love stealing music. Days are over. It's available free on Spotify. Love you, madly, hate you badly. Today's episode is produced by your mom's house network.

It's a nice group of people that have come together and set aside their down syndrome to work as a team in order to get kind of retarded podcast made as well. It's a match made in heaven. Retards for retards. That's got to be a dating site. If it's not, I'd be shocked. Also, hey, quickly look this up. Is herpes for herpes a website?

Because I think the biggest obstacle, if you got herpes, is telling someone. I got herpes. It's definitely a thing. Yeah, if you're only looking for people with herpes, it's the only uncomfortable talk. Plus, you know they put out. Everyone with herpes is a slut. That's science.

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