You Be Trippin' - Denmark w/ Iain Stirling | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: February 9, 2026

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Well, we met so long ago. Yeah. Like Edinburgh Fringe. Before Love Island, right? Yeah. Okay. Or like early the doors, Love Island. Okay.

So I was still doing like whatever, like, little chill like porter cabins and like rooms above pubs and yeah where did you yeah well they've been the edmer fringe is so hard to explain in it but essentially you pay thousands of pounds to go into a it's a performance upstairs at a bar where they keep the equipment and like tens of thousands of pounds goes into that yeah but um i was early in my whiskey journey and i remember saying to those like you can just get like a cheapy like mixed blend whiskey and it's like just as good and you say that to me yeah and then i remember the time you were like going i could tell you were like properly humor in me. And I was like, I'm blowing this guy's mind. And you were like, yeah, yeah.

I was new to Scotland. I was, maybe I was like, really? I've heard the opposite to that. Yeah. And this guy. But then, yeah, I've gone on a real, I've gone on a whiskey journey. Do you want some scotch? I mean, hell yeah. Okay. Nice. This is that I got a whole fucking hard. Oh, I love this thing. Do you know the difference between the places and what the taste is? Not, not massively, but like, basically there's like, then the more highlandy ones are like, know that really smoky peaty flavor. That's what I love. Is that what you like?

Cowlale. Or Lefroig, are you thinking? Lefroix, no, Coilet is that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Lefroig's like the absolute, like... And where are those from? Like the highlands, like really peaty areas. Cheers, man.

Cheers. Cheers. 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. Yeah.

Yeah, that's delicious, man. Yeah. A nice little half-past two whiskey. I'm still on UK time, so this is like absolutely. Oh, yeah, you're like, it's a nightcap for you. Yeah, absolutely. This is so nice. Thank you so much for having me, man.

Yeah, you're welcome. Every time somebody wants to drink, I'm like, fuck yeah, I have a whole bar. Rob Lowe came in, he was like, can I smoke a cigar? I'm like, bro, yes. Well, like, we were saying before, I was like, I still remember so vividly that night you took all our flyers up our seat, which is that hit. There's a big hill in Edinburgh. Yeah, it's like a central park, but a mountain.

Yeah, a central, yeah, it's central park, but you've got to, like, you've got to want it. Yeah, you've got to want it. That's good. Yeah, instead of, like, it's like people in, like, hiking boots, instead of, like, women with, like, dogs and strollers. Yeah, right. Basically. Yeah. And, um, you normally go up there at the end of the festival to, like, celebrate and, like, you have a glass of water and, like, you chill out.

And you took a bunch of teenagers up there and done mushrooms in the middle of the festival. And then these kids were trying to like sell our shows for the next two or three days. And they came back. They sold my show pretty well. Yeah. But I feel like a lot of them had epiphanies in their life and they thought, this isn't the career for me. Handed it up bits of paper. Yeah, like, what am I doing?

I can just fuck. I've already paid. I don't flyer anymore. I just write poetry now. They said one of them said they were sitting on a corner. Like they, a couple of girls like, I don't want it. Like I'll take it. So they took like far too much.

I ghost them properly. And then they were sitting on a like a stoop. And the guys are what time? is it and he was like 2 a.m. he goes what does that even mean? Oh my god. Yeah, just properly fucking gone. The only thing I've got similar to it is when I went to I went to Copenhagen in a few times but they've got the um you know the area what's it called again but it's like well yeah Christiania Christiania I was told weed was legal right? yeah no I think it's more they just don't care.

You ever watch The Wire? Never. Well, there's an area they called a Hampsternam in the wire where they're like, hey, we're not going to go drinking public, just put it in a brown paper bag so we don't have to see it. Do your drugs there. But I think Christiania, the first few times I went, though, it was like, you know, there's like a middle-aged couple like sharing a bong, like it's like a latte. And now I think in the last few years it's got a bit more like spicy, whatever.

I think from what I understand, the cartels or whatever, the drug would come in and try to take more power. and then the city, the people in the city, the village of Christiania. It's basically hippies. It's hippies. Yeah, they drive them back. Like, no, you guys are bringing violence. We want violence.

Yeah. But they're also hippies. They're hippies. And it's basically like Robocop as in like, everyone's dead peaceful. So no one's armed with the ability to like push these guys back. Yeah. And it is a former army base as well. It's like completely like in the middle of Copenhagen.

They're just this army base and it's just like. It's wild. It's honestly top five places in the world for me. Oh yeah, and I loved going, but you, my vibe is, you know, get it's like I'm not really like a drugsy person. So I went with two, I went with two primary school teachers, so even less drugsy people. And I remember when we got there, I was going to like smoke a joint. But then genuinely what they said to me was smoking makes them cough. So that's the sort of level of people I'm dealing with.

Oh. And I got the best bit was we got weed, we got weed cookies from like this place. But my friend, my friend's lactose. intolerant. Yeah. So I had to go up to a drug dealer. And I was like, excuse me, is there milk in these cookies? Like what's in this? Like about this many milk goes like, it's not my question. And in Denmark, Danish people's English is amazing. Yeah. Drug dealers English is not amazing. So he was like, no, weed. And I was like, no, no, is there milk? So I had to ask for the dietary requirements of them. But anyway, we, the, the reason I

bring that up is because then everyone ate like the entire cookie but like on the back it says like this cookie's the equivalent of like five spliffs or something but they but that's the problem with edibles and mushrooms you just do it nothing happens and then you I mess it up every time I was in San Diego this wait waitress at the La Jolla comedy store was making really good weed cookies peanut butter and stuff and everything and and had half one she goes take half and then like 45 minutes later I'm like nothing I'm gonna take the other half my buddy was like take the other half but just you know this is how every one of those stories start. And I'm 36 years old and I've, and again, I'm not massively, so I'll do it in like Amsterdam or like

where it's where it's sort of a lot. I like to, I don't, I like to fuck a system but not my own system. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And yet every single time, this is doing nothing. Bang. Yeah.

Next thing, you know, you're the only one sitting down at a Bonnever concert. Which is what happened to me. There was a, there was a, um, what was that drug dealer show? on HBO. Hannibal was on one episode. Fuck. It's like a weed delivery guy. Oh, right.

Okay. Anyway, but he like, there's always him and then in different like people that he comes in contact with until he walked in and these two girls were like screaming about a mouse

and he was like, what's going on? And they're like, what is this? Like Bonnevere. And he goes, no, I've heard. I've just never heard it

played this loud. They were just like blasting it. That's what I knew I'd take it too much when a Bonavere I felt like I was at a drum and bass concert I was tripping so hard.

I was like, this is bad. When you have to go to the toilet in the middle of a Bonnevere concert, you know you've absolutely fucked it. To hang to be... I was like, I just need a bit of peace time, man. I need to chill. Dude, how great is a festival when you're like,

the Porto Johns are a great place to be alone? When, yeah, when you can find solace in like a plastic box full of other people's shit, you know you're having a good time. Yeah, like, I'll take the smell, it doesn't matter. And also there's 10 of them, so nobody's waiting just for that one. Yeah, but then have you ever, I've had it a few times where, have you ever, that's when, if you get someone knocking on the Porto,

like you're taking too long you're like I must have been in here so long hours because the possibility what I could be doing is pretty wide range I could be shitting my ass out yeah I mean yeah I could have had I could be doing like drugs or I could have had a bad burrito it's like there's literally there's a whole world of things that could have happened in this port account yeah you ever see in glastonbury you've been to glastonbury right I've not actually because I've do love island every summer so I've never been like what I just got to an age where like glassonbury was like sort of an option because I came from Scotland I didn't really know about it and then now I work all the time my wife like love like lives like lives it's like oh bro you gotta go I mean I was on last three times I'm just like refreshing online I got to I know I can just like work it but I don't want to work yeah the amount of people I know that do like like like standups that are like I'm doing 20 minutes a night at like the children in clown tent just so they can like they're like dressed as a kangaroo for like an hour just so they can go to the festival for yeah and the bar problem is I'm a dirty comic so they put me on later.

I'm like, that's when the good bands are on. Yeah, no. Get me in and out of there at noon. There's nothing worse than when you get the times in. And you're like, yeah, you're on the comedy stage at 8 o'clock. And you're like, I'm not going to be able to. The comics, yeah, the comics are cool about it. Like, hey, my favorite band is playing at this time.

Can you swap with me? And then the lady runs, it's like, you can swap if you guys. Yeah, I done an electric, I done an electric picnic in Dublin this year, which is that what you're into? Kind of music? No. I was just do in there. But knee cap we're on.

Do you know them? No. Man, they're fucking great. They rap in Irish. Really? Three young lads. They've got a really cool film out, and one of them wears like a ball of clava,

and it's like they really hot back. What are they called? Knee cap. I think it's reference to like kneecapping from like back in the day, like during the troubles and stuff. What's knee capping during the troubles? You used to take a shotgun to the back of someone's leg. See, so there's kneecap.

They're a really cool band, man. Free lads. One of them wears a lot. like a tri-color balaclava. Yeah. And they're like sort of like rappers, but they rap in Irish. They've been on like, Jimmy. In like Gaelic Irish?

In Gaelic Irish. And they've been on like Jimmy Kimmel, like rapping in Gaelic Irish. And like they're like, yeah, it's, it's. Are they like, hood? I don't know, really. They, I mean, like, they're really like, I mean, like, they say what they want to say. It's got a sort of weird, like, old school rock and roll or they'll go on like BBC things and just say stuff that there's no way you'd be,

like, political. motivated stuff that there's no way you'd be allowed to say and they just sort of don't care. Also, if you're doing another language, we're like, that sounds lovely. I'm like, I'm talking about killing everyone in here. Yeah, you're like, oh, really? But they're rapping a bit of English. Yeah, you should check them out. They're cool, man. Okay. They're loads of fun. And it's like that thing as well, like just, um, they, well, they rap in a language that's spoken by about 60,000 people. You guys got that too. Yeah, but I don't think it doesn't travel as much. Like, I suppose I'm Irish, gods don't travel as much as Irish. A squarelyga Irish language.

Really? I think that speaks Irish, I don't know. What's yours? What's the Scottish one? Gaelic. Oh, that's Gaelic. Yeah. And then this is, I think I, I mean, this is,

kind of Gaelic? Yeah, I'm going down a road. I've absolutely, like, this is such a straight white guy figure. I've got, I don't know this, but I can give it a good shot. Oh, dude, this podcast is full of like, your frogs are completely wrong. Like, yep, we're not, we're not experts in any way. It feels like this is the sort of thing you'd say. Every time here, people like, I was in this place.

It was all this, like, like, circus stuff. And it was great. What a cool city. and people like, it was a fair that week. That's not how it normally is. And you're like, I don't know. You go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and you're like, yeah, there's also like artists and performers

from like England and America and Edinburgh the whole time. Can you imagine just backpacking through Edinburgh in like August and like, oh wow, this is crazy. And then like, guys, we got to go next June. It's so fun in the summer. And you're like, there's nothing there. And there's just like free guys drinking tenants and a pub on their own. Dude, Edinburgh fucking rules.

Yeah, you should check out kneecap, man. They're really good. What kind of music do you look, this kind of shit? Well, I'm like, basically, like, I don't know if you're the same as you. I've done that thing where I got to like 23 and was like, I'm done. No new bands. Yeah. There's a couple sneak through, but I like sort of like.

I see Weezer last night. Yeah. Weezer's right in my wheelhouse. Yeah. My favorite band of an old time of a band called Frighting Rabbit. I remember them. Yeah, they're so sick. Yeah.

They're amazing. So, but I like sort of like pop punk from that sort of like Blink 182 era like when I was a teenager. Bro, I just saw them at City Field. They're so good. They're amazing. You know they have 100,000 hits, but like, live, they're so good. And like Tom, there's like, and Tom DeLong, while Tom DeLong's got that voice where like,

it sounds like, it's one of those, like when someone's really beautiful, but you're like, this shouldn't. He's like a good, he's like a good looking ginger. You're like, I've, this shouldn't work, but it's on. The best, the best looking gingers are, Yeah. Maybe I'm saying that because I'm Scottish and that's like in my DNA. But like there's something phenomenal.

That's what his voice is like. Big Jay used to have a joke about going down on a shaved ginger. It's too clear. You can tell what they had for lunch. Oh, you drink a Dr. Pepper. I can see it in your face. It's like, opaque. Yeah.

Oh, God. But yeah, man, I love all that. And I suppose as well, there's that thing as well with Blink One or two that I'm like really jealous of as a performer. It's like they just sort of unapologetic that like keep doing their thing. It's so funny. They're like, this guy. I had said they're getting older so he'd like spray his throat to like he goes sorry I got this throat thing um I've been munching on her fucking his mom's box for all day and it got my

my throat my throat and they guys like oh you're saying you fuck my mom he goes no a lot of us oh no a lot of us and what I love is like they don't even they just still do it like they're 19 and it's like if you just if you've leaned into it that's like that's like cool whereas like sometimes I just feel like I quite often like float around trying to be like I'm in this thing now and I'm That thing and it's just like so hard to just tie yourself down to being like I want to be this is what I do and I don't really give a fuck what anyone says about it Yeah, there's so much to be said for that heard a story about them because my buddy's like he's like I've seen him 20 times my first time I saw him so he goes I've seen him 20 times Yeah, yeah, that's tour they've ever done they were they've rehearsing now for the first time He goes the Tom DeLong. Yeah, he he just sent a text you know they broke up he did his old angels and airway shit and then he like sent a text to to to

The other one, Hopper, Hoppus? Mark Hoppus, yeah. And he goes, hey, what are you up to? Just doing shows, and it's him with like 14 hot groupies, half naked. He goes, just thought about you. What are you up to? And the guy is like, I have to throw cancer. And he goes, what? And he goes, yeah, whatever. And then, uh, yeah, and they're like, oh, we're getting back together. This can't be the end of Blink 182. And now they've been doing this, like, reunion. Hey, everybody. I'm going to break into today's episode to let you know a little bit of our guest, Ian Sterling. He's a friend of mine, and he's right now a host and commentator on a new startup show called Love Island, UK. Yeah, it's a very interesting show where people fall in love.

They go to an island and fall in love. They're chased, and they're kind of virginal, and they fall in love. And right now, there's an All-Stars version on the BBC, the Black Broadcasting Channel, in the United Kingdom of America. Check it out. Also, Ian, you can check them out on Instagram at Ian Got Jokes. It's I-A-I-N, the extra I. It's a Scottish thing. They put the extra eye on instance for retarded.

He's also got a special out right now called on 2022 on Amazon Prime called Falling Upwards. You should check out of it. He's a very funny comic. I see you guys would really get a kick out of him. He's a friend of mine. And I think that's it. Oh, he's also got a podcast called... It's a podcast called Murder They Road on BBC Radio.

I guess he's all in with a black broadcasting channel, which is pretty interesting. That's it. No morning, Shafir. Let's get back to Denmark. Please check out to you in whatever you can. Also, don't forget to get yourself a Ubi-Chippie shirt, sticker pack, psychedelic plan cards, or any of the other.

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Let's get back to Denmark And don't forget was it Travis that like Was in a plane crash? Yeah Was that right? Fully dead Like in a full plane plane crash and burned alive. I think so, right? I think so. I think he literally was in a plane crash and then one, because they've got that, they've got one like acoustic song where they talk

about like getting back together. 2008, South Carolina Learjerich, yeah, that's him. Travis Barker. I think he was in a, there was like, he had his own reality TV show at the time. Yeah. At home, is it like at home at the Barkers or something like that? Look at, look at that. He walked out of that. Do you know what I mean, though? Yeah, now he's on the Kardashians. a lot. But no, was he, I think he had his own reality thing when this happened. Did I get it here in the reality world? Imagine that. Yeah. The whole thing was faked for their numbers. No, I just, yeah, I remember watching. It was like, do you remember like those MTV days when you'd like come, oh, when I was a teenager, but you'd come home and just put on like whatever was on. It was like

Jessica Simpson, newlyweds. Yeah, but I remember an MTV switched to reality. Oh, I didn't do an intro. Hold on. I got to do an intro. Do it now? Yeah. everybody. Welcome to U.B. Trippin. It's a travel podcast every week. We go to a different place. Today, my guest is an amazing comedian. Also, you might know him as a host of Love Island, and he's now switching to a new stint

on Love on the Spectrum. Well, he'll be a contestant. Ian Sterling, everyone is here. Hey, hey, eye contact. Eye contact. I'm kind of, we're going to talk about doubleback. I don't want to talk more about Copenhagen.

Did you hang out there? Yeah, I've got like two sides of Copenhagen, because we used to go with, like, my friends quite a lot, and I really enjoy it. And also me and my wife go there quite a lot. You go a lot. Me and my wife were going to go there for our, like, honeymoon. It was like around COVID type.

What do you guys call it? You have a honeymoon? You go stag-du-Hendu for bachelor parties. Yeah. What do you got for honeymoon? Honeymoon, honeymoon. Oh, same. Honeyman, honeymoon.

Honeyman is honeymoon. But then at the time, Copenhagen got a weird, this is generally true, they got a strain of COVID. It was a mink or the mink in Copenhagen. No, the animal, the mink. Yeah. They all got, it was like a strain of COVID that was born from this mink. And they had to close down Denmark while they burned all the mink.

So we couldn't go to, we couldn't go to Denmark for our honeymoon. Wait. What? If you type in mink, I don't know, it's M-I-N-X or M-I-I-I-I-I-I-I- don't know. You spell mink. but yeah strained COVID and it was in like

it was like rife in Denmark it was like a total fact it was here's why Denmark called 17 million minks and now plans to dig up their

buried bodies get out of here ads this is why I had to go to Wales for my for my honeymoon what yeah COVID outbreak on the minks

on the minks yeah so I don't know it's so funny it's so that here yeah no I don't I don't think it even caught on anywhere other than people that were going to Denmark.

We would rather go a step too far than take a step too little to combat COVID-19. So let's kill 17 million mink. That's like to any like sort of posh New Yorkers working, watching the show, that's like, you know, 500,000 jackets. I know that some like, used to be rich, lost everything in the stock market lady who's like, let's go dig them up. I still want to be able to get my ink. Yeah, we can sell them on the market. What have you noticed about here, here's what I'm, Here's what I noticed about Copenhagen.

You tell me yours. I'd love to talk to you. Let's go into Christiania in a second. But I noticed that the chicks are the most equal of any place I've ever been. Equal as in to the men. Yeah. That's what I know. They're hot for sure, like anywhere in Scandinavia.

But they were like, can I come about your drink? They're like, you can get this round. But I don't, what do you mean? I think there's a lot to be said with the drinking culture in that country. I used to live in Norway, which we can get to. Really? Yeah. But like, because alcohol is so expensive there, it's tax.

high every country's now catching up in the last sort of 10 years but do you remember America must have been the same in the UK drinks were like a couple dollars nothing yeah like nothing my friends got back from from from Edinburgh from the French and he goes used to be you get a nice glass of scotch for three pounds 20 and it would be like drink promos five for a five or and all that sort of stuff yeah but Scandinavia because their taxes are so high on alcohols it's always been like when I went to uni in Norway it was like thirteen dollars a pint which was like unheard of,

because this is like 2008. Yeah. Whereas nowadays, $13 a pint would, it wouldn't like make your eyes water. You'd be like, oh, that's bad. Oh, yeah, exactly. But when I went to uni there,

like, this is not an exaggeration, because I was skin, when I went to, in Norway, so that was in 20, and I brought out like 20 bucks and ordered a drink and didn't have enough change for another drink. I went home that night and cried

and I'm not, and I'm not exaggerated. But most I was just like, how can I live here? So like, but then the, point I'm making is that everyone drinks beers because everything else is so expensive. So I think I actually think it's a real leveler when everyone's just on the same drink. There's no like, I'm just having a beer and I'll have an espresso martini or a... Yeah, and then you get fucked at different rates.

Yeah. If everyone's drinking different. And everyone's bending the same. Everyone's drinking the same. The quantity is the same. So I think it's just a big equalizer where it's like it's like you wouldn't, if you took a girl, I suppose the point of making is if you took a girl out for a coffee, it would be weird. to buy her like four coffees in a row yeah like you would because they're coffees so I think

alcohols like that in Scandinavia now so the idea of like I'll buy you a drink it's like weird to buy drink after drink after drink after drink yeah does that make any sense it makes sense but also it's just like we make the same as dudes you're like you can't win me your affections with and even if I do it I'm still making mad bank anyway yeah it's a good point like that's not a big deal and if we get heart I'll go to a hospital which is like nicer than my apartment for free yeah what have you noticed about the place um well the people definitely what i like really like about them and then like and i wonder what culture is the reason they're all really like quite cold when you first meet them but in the minute you get to know them they like become like the best people best friends in the

world that's like a real that's a real Scandinavian thing it's not cold and like a in New York, I'm walking here sort of vibe, but they're just like very standoffish, very like they're in their circle. And then once you penetrate that inner circle, they're like, your best friends. Yeah, you know Daniel Simonson? Of course, yeah.

Daniel's like, like, I mean, it's probably quite an extreme version of that. He's extreme, but he's like everyone in Norway is autistic, I'm just more so. Yeah. Yeah, well, when I, I remember when I went to like Norway, so it's all the same. Yeah.

We went to watch a Liverpool game. I'm like, a load of lads. And literally, there was 15 of them, and me and my friend Robbie were from Scotland, and we just sat and not one of them spoke to us for the first three weeks we went to the football. And then after about the third week, they were like, do you want a beer?

And then they were like friends for life. Really? Yeah. Yeah, they all talk like Muppets. They all talk like, well, either they talk like Muppets or some of them, their English is so good. They like, talk like the cast of friends

if you're like my age. I had one guy that's like, it's like, this massive guy from Stravanger. So he's like a fisherman, like, background and all that. And he was, like, really deep. When he spoke Norwegian, he was like, oh, do you. But he grew up watching the Liverpool football team. He was obsessed with a guy called Stephen Gerard.

So when he spoke in English, he was like, you're right, do you want to go for a drink of that? It's like, who taught you? Really high-pitched and weird. And then he would go back to like, oh, what's all? They were like really deep. It was so weird, man. Yeah.

And, like, having that linguistic, like, dexterity. is like so as a Brett and as an American is like is meeting like an Irishman or something who learned English from a Southern American

and so they speak with this Irish Southern accent where'd you get that? It's so bizarre yeah yeah Christiania is I heard

there's two rules there I heard there's no pictures and no running is that true yeah I love I mean I would happily take that as a rule at all concerts

dude no pictures no right yesterday it was enough she's filming it's the whole first song they open it I get listen oh I don't want to be a geezer so I'm like I get it we're on our phones yeah but there's a limit and she's up here like this and there's all this fucking visuals and shit and she's blocking me and it's like three minutes and then her friend puts hers down I'm just waiting and eventually I'm like you don't want conflict but you're like please be cool and

you're like lady we can't see I don't watch it through the gig through your phone I get it If you want to get them like coming out or whatever, like cool. Yeah. But also, do you know what else? What blows my mind even more is the people, because I went to the, I went to the VMAs yesterday. Nice. I filmed like a bit of Eminem.

Yeah, boom. I went. Yeah, fuck you. I went to VMAs. Yeah. Filmed Eminem coming out. A little bit of Sabrina Carpenter. I don't really know, but she's like really mad famous.

I thought I'll film that. Yeah. And she had a really cool song. but she's like mad famous what please please please don't please me now how close is that

you look like a Sabrina Carpenter fan please please please I love something I don't know it but it's really she's really cool man really good stuff

yeah but then it's the people that film the stuff for one song and then spend the next song trying to upload the thing they've just filmed. Just wait. Just do it tomorrow. Yeah.

You're not CNN. Like you don't need to keep completely up to track with everything that's happening. That's the thing. And then I've literally heard people. And I've also, full disclosure, like, not that badly, but I'm like bad for it myself. Sometimes they're going, there's no reception in here. Well, then it's over. Don't then.

That's why I love my venue at the Edinburgh was the hive. And there was no reception. It was like the brick walls plus all the dead bodies over the years. I mean, the hive basically doesn't. have like ventilation system let alone Wi-Fi. Yeah, it's so great. You see people trying like, eh, and they're like, okay, pay attention for an hour.

Cool, we're done now. No phone pouches. Yeah, it's mad. And also the last thing that the VMA has made me feel really, really old is I, there was this girl called Lucy, I think it is. She's like a K-pop star who's now gone alone. And she's done this song called Rockstar and like, in the moment, I was like, oh yeah, she's like a cool vibe.

And I was like, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm doing a song. doing all right she seems like a pretty cool person maybe i'll give her like a shout out on my instagram or whatever yeah i typed her name into instagram clicked it she has a hundred and nine million followers doesn't need you at all hey like let me big up you i was like i have no idea this person exist this lady is more famous than the vmas oh those k-pop people in vegas sometimes you'll see them and you're like why are all these koreans here and then like and then it's some band you've never heard of you're like I've never heard of them and they're like a thousand people glare at you like because you're an idiot but I do like again I do love that there's so much like in

America as well like VMAs are so much like Latino music and like K-pop and all that whereas like when I grew up it was just like Avro Levine and nothing else yeah yeah so it's like at least there's like a bit of variety and stuff which is pretty cool trying to find a picture of you at the VMAs oh you'll make you struggle let me tell you that for free who's this guy did you meet him do you fuck him do you jerk him off I think we might have done, yeah. What did you do in Copenhagen? Let's go back there. Yeah, sorry, so.

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I want to get to it. Yeah, no. I genuinely love it. So it's really cool, really cool. When did I first go? I first went. I first went. I first went. I first went. I first went. on like a sort of like boys university trip sort of thing oh great like it was so nice because i'd been to norway so i went to university in norway and then copenhagen was like the one place i hadn't done how'd you get to university in norway is that normal well it was back when the uk was in you when we were in europe yeah this is what's so mad like i don't want to get i really don't want to get into this now but like before we when we were in europe you could for free through a program go to any university anywhere in europe that was on the

same program. I got to go to Norway for a year for free. Wow. And now you can't. There's some little negatives that you don't expect. I mean you got you got it so you don't go to university. I don't know what the positives are though as well. I don't know the positives are but I do I was taking a train to Amsterdam from London. Yeah. I was there last pretty easy three hours tops direct and then I'm like oh it's like it's like driving the length of New York in traffic. Oh yeah it's not and it's great. And the trains are so beautiful anyway.

And so then I was like, oh, I got 15 minutes. Let me go smoke a cigarette. Yeah. Dude, when I go there, I'm going to lean into that. And then I get back and they're like, hey, you got to do like the paperwork first. I'm like, no, no, I'm just going train. Like, new country. You got to do this stuff.

You missed it. Oh, man. I'm like, hasn't left yet. Like, you need more 15 minutes. It's like getting the Euro star to France. You like my mate went with the, my mate. him and his girlfriend at the time this was a few years ago

the relationship was like on the rocks so he tried to take her to Paris got all the way to the train station they were like passports he was like I've not brought my passport this relationship's already threadbare

and he was basically like I didn't know you need a passport to get on a train yeah it doesn't seem like you would I thought passport's like a plane thing and his girlfriend was like we're passing a port so he needs a passport you idiot you're like fucking bitch

you can do this in front of the train conductor like this. And then that was that ended. Yeah, but funny. But yeah, so I used to go Norway. So we went to Copenhagen on like a guy strip and then, but like there's just so much cool. Like they've got like what's mad about it is like everything's like so close together.

You can walk from like a sort of like Christiania, which is like everyone's like a hippie and smokes Sweden. You walk like seven minutes and you're at like the palace. What's a palace? They have a royal family. Yeah, they've got a royal family. Yeah. Yeah.

So it's interesting because it's Christian Christian, Christiania, Christania, is so much different than the rest of it. So the rest of it's like this shit. This is what I mean. Yeah. This is like the center of it. Just real nice and stuff. And they've got like Tifli like a bit, which is like a big like theme part.

It's like in the middle of the city. Really? Gorgeous. Yeah. Did you go to it? Yeah. I've been to a few times. They've got like, Tif, Tiff.

Oh yeah. I passed it. Was there a big clown outside? Yeah. Oh yeah. It's right in the middle of the city like. If you type in like, if you type in. like Copenhagen theme park it will be the first thing that comes up

where's it tivoli gardens yeah yeah tiffley i was right yeah yeah oh it just heard your accent with the v the f yeah i've never been in that's a great thing about this accent i can just say yeah that's what i said you can mispron someone's name yeah Craig name's john yeah that's what I said yeah I know with the accent though it's crazy yeah it's really cool and that's like right slapbag in the middle of the city as well it's like really fun what about the bikes you get on the bikes yeah loads of bikes and now they've got you. And now, yeah, perfect, man. And everyone's so, like, polite, weirdly about it. Do you not, do you think they're mad aggressive? If you fuck up, I got some aggression. I got some

aggression. Really? So, like, okay, they're experts. But not like in, I don't know what's like in New York, but in London people hate cyclists. Like, they hate them. I meant from other cyclists. Oh, right. Oh, I'm getting, were you like inebri- I can, no, no, I don't mean a dick, but I picture you like, slalming around, like, off your face. I was not. Okay, sorry, I take it back. I take it back. On my old podcast, I was recording an intro to an episode on my bike, drunk on my bike, coming home, and then I fell. And it's all on my.

It's like, oh, fall! And I can picture you like, and someone's shirt, she's like, what's your fucking problem, man? Chill, bro. No, it's like when you start, they're experts because they do it all the time. Yeah, yeah. So I start slow, so you have to kind of do this thing. Like, why watch it? I don't have to start straight.

It's hard. Yeah, I mean, there's. There is that thing of it when you go, that thing you never forget, but when you go on a bike for the first few times, you are like, f- Yeah, just get going. Have you been since they got all the electric ones? No. But what they've got the electric ones now, and what's mad is they've got that, like, system on it where if you go outside of a certain perimeter of the area, the electricity just, like, switches off. Really?

Like a pedestrian bit, it's, like, so clever. Oh, so they just want to let you. Yeah, it just doesn't work. I don't know how they do it. It's so weird. In Paris, they had, like, will you dock? put it anywhere, but only in certain areas and if you try to do it not in that area

they're like, no, you're fucked. Yeah, well, like, there's a few in Britain and over in Europe and literally they've got this thing where like, you've got this like motorized bike, but if you get, they've like GPS there or something, so if you go into like a pedestrianized area, the, it'll shut down?

It'll work, but the, like, battery pack, like, gives you extra oomph just cuts out. So it's just like a regular bike? Like really slow. But harder, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a good idea. It's really cool.

And they've got the little scooters and stuff. But there's loads of insane restaurants in Copenhagen as well Where have you been? Again, I've not done my reason I did Noma one time Did you do it? Yeah, me and Bobby Kelly were there for a festival You did Noma, like the full

Taster made you all the way through My mom told me you should get a reservation You should get them now It was like a year out But what I was about to say to it was like, yeah, you booked Noma that eight months in advance I didn't understand I was like, yeah, two weeks out

I'll get something I'll just make sure to get and then they're like no that's like that's like that's like that's like that's like rocking up to Madison Square Gardens on the day of Taylor Swift being like um a week

five please me and my friends it doesn't work that way yeah they were like but the guy who was running the festival was like we should just go there to like see it it's pretty cool and see how they get they make their spoons at a factory next door it's bananas this place have you been

yeah we've went once before yeah yeah but so we just went and one of the head chefs not the guy but like one of their his head chefs was American it's all these crazy chefs studying under that guy yeah yeah they all come through from there like there's like a few guys in the UK now and a lot of guys came from no one of the trainers there yeah yeah and they do this like in the fat duck the dessert is like this like this like pillow that literally floats in the air because the the plate must have like air in it or something and then this floating

pillows spins around and you can have your um dinner off it It's so crazy. What? I bet I've got a picture of it. No way, really? Have you got it there? If you do fat duck, floating pillow. Is it this?

Yeah, that thing. No way. And then your dessert, it spins round and you eat your dessert off it. I don't know how they do it. It must be magnets or something. But the whole, it was your dream meal. So the whole, they... What do you mean?

Before you go to fat duck, you have to fill this massive long questionnaire. And then... How about what you like? As you go for the course is like, there's like a... underwater thing where there's like little treasure chest and they've got like emblems to like my wife had like the Irish flag on it because she'd mentioned she liked Ireland and all that and on the end of the whole dream meal you get this floating pillow and that's all from Renee Rizepi from Noma where he's like training these guys well this was this is how you do it

this was Heston Blumenthal do you know Heston Blumenthal he's like this British chef he became famous for a while because he used to do things like like absolutely insane things like he'd be like here's a pint of ham like it would be like weird weird like weird mixtures but I know a load of the noma guys like worked for there

although there's Heston Blumetel there see the bald guy stood next to this dude yeah he like he's like famous for like going nuts yeah I mean look at that it's so I didn't understand what experiential meals were

yeah no more did you do the sit menu so we went we just said hi what did you get in for sorry yeah so we went we sent hi this is a life hack for anyone yeah and we're like

oh we're just Americans here on a comedy festival, nice to meet you. And he goes, oh, well, this is the place. Just take a look. It was before anything open for the day. I'm having another drink of this. This is amazing. And then it was like, oh, nice to meet you.

It's cool. And then we're like, I'm on the wait list, but we couldn't get reservations. Like, oh, cool. And the wait list is not really an order. That's what we found out. Oh. The wait list is up to their discretion. Well, I imagine they don't have to worry about it because I reckon there's people that

have, like, lost loved ones like the day before who are like, that's sad, but we booked this in like nine months ago. Yes, and I can't go. Where I'm going. I'm making it. Yeah, right. So anyway, they called me. It was about to take a nap.

And they called me, it was like 11.30 a.m. and they were like maybe 12. And they were like, hey, we have an opening for lunch. Can you get down here? Because the guy was like, you're cool. I'll put you to the top of the wait list without telling it to us. Yeah, of course. And there's always a couple cancellations.

Yeah. And I was like, yeah. And I was like, yeah. And I was like, can you come down? And the guy ran and was like, did I have, two and Bobby's like I can't man we just order pizza and the guy was like bro let the pizza go you got to get down there I mean you're gonna save a bit of money doing the pizza yeah yeah it was a 26 core lunch it's insane yeah I think how long was it the dinner at

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For context, the wine pairing is like what? money was 700 euros or something well be crona but like yeah ours was 500 bucks so i don't know what the what the translation was at the time depends 500 bucks each but that's lunch so imagine dinner's up again and the wine pairing's more again and bobby was an alcohol is an alcoholic so he's like oh i don't drink like we have a juice pairing for you they'd spare no expense they're just like ready for everything it's just it's such a cool place there's what do you remember like Like what do you remember? Do we have pictures of it? Yeah, I've got some pictures and I've got, well, I've actually trying to find this other, this one, I'm going to try and find this one other place.

Yeah. I can remember what I had. They done this amazing, so we, it was like a sea theme thing. Would you do a theme for the? Yeah, for the dinner. So it was like, they had this like, these like cockles and muscles, but they were on like, the plate was like a beach. It had like, but ice and like sand to like, rip. so it was like sat like it was like you're picking them off the beach and did you do any

did you have like sounds and stuff with yours when you're done the lunch sounds i don't remember that because they did it they did it at the fat duck and they did it at norma little like sound they give your heads heads oh definitely not yeah we had a headset to like listen to music while we ate some of the food and stuff shut the fuck up out there you're ruining everything let me find this thing um yeah And then, so they had the muscles, it was amazing. And you don't fill up on anything. It's like three bites of everything.

Oh, no, everything's so small. This pickled cucumber that sounds, you have to go to know, but you'll know there's this like pickled cucumber. And I was like, pickled cucumber. And I was like, pickled. And I like had it. And I was like, oh my God, this is like insane. It had this like spicy dressing with it. But it was like pickled and like the sharpness of the pickle cup with like the spice and like, it's this thing of like, it's this thing of like, it's a thing of like, it's a thing of like, I've never had anything like this.

You're like, well, you have two more bites. You may as well enjoy it. It almost reminds me of like, do you know, do you know that thing about like comedians that don't like post anything anywhere? So like they like comedians that only have like a couple of specials. You know like these are amazing. You're like, yeah, because you've done like,

it's not online. You can't watch over and over and analyze like what's going on. So you saw it in the room at the time, you think it's amazing and your brain like fills in the gaps. Whereas if you watch something, you know, that's stuff, that you ever watch the clip? You know that's so funny. Then you show it to your first.

friend and then they watch it. You're watching it at the second time. You're like, oh yeah, I can't spot holes. It was way slower. I must have been super high when I watched it. I think I was on acid. Yeah. Oh my god, Noma.

Here is. I've got this website, man. What? The Noma website? Just it's so cool. I want to try, I'm so interested. Should I try and see if I book Noma when's the next available table?

Yeah. The next, is there is even one? Oh, I think he closed. Is it done? I think so because he said he read all this stuff about doing sustainable, like living wage for all your employees. They were like, hey, the restaurant industry doesn't pay enough. And he goes, I actually read this and I agree they are not making enough. But if I pay them all what they deserve, I can't be in business.

So, okay, I guess I'm out of business. No way. Is it open still or not? The website's still up and running. Can you make a reservation? I'm trying to, I'm on ExploreTalk.com. It's not really loading up. You knew the Wi-Fi?

No, it's fine. Oh, here we go. Oh, it's Kyoto? Oh, yeah, he had a pop-up in Japan. This is mad. No, I don't think it is. All reservations sold out. All reservations for it have been sold.

Yeah, it's all sold out. And that's the Kyoto one. And that, and for, and for, um, Denmark as well. All reservations sold out. I can't believe you went on the day. Okay, winter, 2024 will be the last season of Noma as we know it. We were beginning a new chapter.

Noma 3.0 in 2025. But it's funny about sustainability and all that because Denmark are mad into that. Like all the hotels are staying like even you get your room card and they're like, this room car's been made by reusable bamboo. They're good on recycling. They're really good on that.

They love it. They've got, they get their bins in order. I was on a boat there because it's like water down the middle of the city and somebody took me out in a boat. And we were drinking. And then afterwards he was going to throw his trash away. He took all the bottles and put it by the trash can.

And he goes, no, the bums will take this. Yeah. It's like every moment is sustainable. And they can cash them in for money. Yeah. I didn't actually know that was a thing. I used to just think that people just went through bins and collected. I thought like they were making like lighten for their house or something.

I hope you survived in the world. I'm such an idiot, man. Such a more. Yeah. And then Christiania is just, it's just, I think it's the best weed in Europe Sorry Amsterdam Well it would it would explain it because every time I've been

I've gone with people that don't smoke weed And I'd sort of loosely include myself in that circle Yeah And every time we've done it The people I'm with have gone insane On relatively little Yeah And that it's like pretty cool

To watch them Yeah and it's also like it's pretty good Like strong stuff stuff. Yeah, the problem is you don't, yeah. It's also weird, like, as a British person, I imagine drugs to be this, like, really illicit and illegal thing, and you think it's going to be like a scene from Breaking Bad,

and it's basically just, you walk into this, like, hippie resort, and they're all lined, it's like a German Christmas market. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all lined up with, like, little, fairy lights and all that, and they've got, like, special offer boards up and stuff, and it's like... All out in the open. Yeah. Illegal, though, but, but fine there.

in that little area. And it doesn't look like there's stalls that are like, it's not like a guy like trying to sell sneakers on the side of the road where like he's in a bag ready to like yank and go. Oh yeah, it's right. It's permanent, right? It's like set up. And the police do, apparently the police do show up and like raid it.

I really, yeah, I think I've heard that, but I really do think it's like, hey, the hell's angels or whatever are coming in. That's not what we want. We want a peaceful thing. So they sell weed and they sell mushrooms. They told me it was just the nonviolent drugs. and I was like, what about acid? They're like, that's a borderline.

I mean, the non-violent drop. I mean, the whole how it got there and stuff. But it's amazing. You know the history of it? I don't. I know it used to be a naval base, like an army base. I think it was that. And then Denmark was like, oh, yeah, right.

We're not ever going to fight no more. Yeah, it was like World War II Air. We'll still do, we'll still do, like, we'll still conscript our kids into the army for a couple years just to get them even bigger and even more Scandinavian looking. And then they have to do services. It's all dance parties. Yeah, well then chuck them into like oil at like 21

when they're absolutely tanked. They can like work a rifle for no reason whatsoever. But I heard all these hippies moved in and was like, let's just squat in these barracks. And then after a while they're like, it's ours, we've been here for five years. And then the government's like, actually you're right. Just make sure nothing falls apart.

And they just, yeah, they've not caused them any hassle. You would think as well with the way the world's going as well, like, In terms of a property redevelopment or whatever, you would think. Yeah, you'd think they'd be like, no. Houses around it got posh on or like get these people out. Or they could just use it for like land. Some developer would just totally.

It's sort of weird they don't care about that. Yeah, it's also in the middle of the fucking town. It couldn't be more prime location. Like this is another thing. Three towns right here. This is another thing about Copenhagen. In the middle of the town, it's got a fun fair. a theme park.

Yeah. They've got a theme park and an illegal drugs market. It's like the map. It's like a fucking GTA game. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, how am I in another district already?

But it's right there. It's so fun. And then I remember as well, like it's so funny. I remember one time when I went and I like smoked too much weed. Yeah. And I got high and I just, all I remember is,

let's look the first time. And I went over to some guy and he was like, the barman without even flinched. And I was like, can I have water? And he was like, please be high, over there. And I just look over into the corner. And in the corner of the room, there's just like three other British guys that have just like done a bit too much.

And I remember just being in this corner, just playing like foosball and just laughing so hard at like how small the numbers on the shirts of the back of the players were. And then at one point, I remember my friend nearly got in a fight because he just was stroking this guy's arm going, your jacket feels amazing man and the guy's like I've not got a jacket on. That's my back hair. And then this like finally breaks out.

But like, but there's never any bother, but I do think I do think it's getting sketchier. Well, it goes up and down. So somebody shot a cop. Right, that'll do it.

And then they're like, fuck all this. But then I think the people take the power back away from the drug dealers. But I had one where I was sitting on a part, they have these benches like picnic tables. And I'm sitting there and some guys, sitting near me and then he's sitting closer and closer. It's just like a sketchy looking like kind of gypsy.

Yeah, yeah. And then I realized he was like, smoke further. And I like moved over a little more. And then I'm like, I'm like, oh, this is like your see, yep. And you just like walk. I realize. I'm like, you don't want me here. Right. I get it. But they have those park areas you can smoke. But again, I feel like for a man that doesn't do a lot of drugs, this has been like quite a druggie podcast with you. But the thing about the thing about this place in Denmark is like,

It doesn't feel like you're in like a druggy. No, it does not. You're literally sitting around picnic tables with like middle class. And the art is so crazy. Oh my God. All the cool like works on the walls and all that. And then there's loads like he'd be selling like cool little trinkets and stuff like that. Do you know what there was loads of?

So many young kids in those like bikes that strap onto the back. No, those like trolleys that strap onto the back of the bikes. Like those? Oh, yeah, yeah. Like literally that. Everyone had one of them We're like just kids in it Having a nice time playing around

Yeah the kid The like the local kids Do like like Field trips out there Yeah And then shit like this is just like the See that? Yeah

They just have like Weirdo outside of art Yeah So it's nice if you're high But even if you're not high It's cool It's just cool place Yeah that's why I just wanted to be like

I did that In the early days But then there's also like There's so much like The palace and that's really sick They've got like They've also got like Pallas

they've also got like Michelin star restaurants it's like it sort of feels like a made-up place Yeah, like there's just so many different vibes it's sort of weird that they've got so many Oh shit. Oh no did something pull out? Yeah, I'm a little blast in my babe Fucking bastard Will that fuck anything? No How long have you got had the half and half? About two weeks two weeks Yeah, no I got it for like a live podcast podcast, I was like, fuck it, let me just do something.

We've got to cut it anyway. And then I was like, and then I died this side too to make it like more rich, more sharp. What happens when you go like shopping and stuff? People look at me. You know who loves it more than anybody? And I didn't expect this. Black homeless men. Oh, yeah, because it's wild.

Yeah, but black homeless, white homeless men are not as into it. Black homeless ladies are not as into it. What do they say? Black homeful men are not as into it. What do they say? That's fresh, son. fresh really they use their slang from before are you not at an awkward level though like because when I like I'm at that level in the UK at least people might recognize me but then they

might not know what they recognize me or I don't know if they know they recognize me are you on air on that or just a voice you're on air I'm just a voice but I do like stuff on screen in the UK but the reason I'm not saying that for that reason that's but what I mean is like are you not at a level now where when you're writing about do you see people looking at you and you're like oh do they like listen to my podcast? or have I shaved half my head? Yeah, I'm getting it slightly different. Is this a Joe Rogan guy or is this a he shaved his half his head off guy?

Well, yeah, you used to it too. You get this like, oh, it's Ian Sterling. You know, it's like a double take. But now the double take is just like one beat off. It's like that where it's like, oh, no, you don't know me at all. You're just looking at the fucking joy. That would do my head. Yeah.

At least I know. Yeah, people are staring. Sometimes like people overstep, but they just keep staring, you know, because they know you from something. And you're like, oh, right enough already. But this is like, what the fuck's with your head? I'm trying to think if I saw you in real life what I would think. Like, if I didn't know you, if I'd be like this guy's alipresia or like mentally unstable.

Yeah, as long as people leave me alone, I'm great. Both work. Yeah. My friend grew out his mustache like that to get people away from him. But then there was negative result is people just kept touching his face. Yeah. No, I was literally about to say, I had a long beard for a long time. and it is

insane how many people think it's okay to come up and be like yeah yeah it's crazy especially when drinks involved obviously yeah crazy what else you get into there in Copenhagen

so what else? I love Christian this you take a stroll you have a join or something you're taking a stroll down a road like this and you're just seeing these people you know about the basic human rights there no water is a basic human right so you can go to any door and say may I please have a couple water. Oh really? That's a really cool thing. You have to be beyond inhumane to say no, you can't have

running tap water. That's amazed and I didn't not know that. I know when you walked out into it, you have to go through that mad like canada. Did you do the walk down for the canal to go up into it? The canal to like an entrance area, right? And like all the engines are, because it is a former like naval army camp. When you first walk in, you are like this place is sketchy. Yeah. But then you get in and you're like, oh, actually this is cool. Friendly and cool. It's not always, I wouldn't, I don't have a tang about there after dark much. Yeah, I have not been there after dark. Yeah.

But then other than, other than that, I've done like the palace, like there's some really cool, there's other really cool stuff to see like. Like what else? Oh here, here's the entrance way. It's like you go through a little gate like that. See, that is a lot of you, first time you go, you are like, what am I doing? Yeah, because also like that doesn't, that means no exits. That means I have to come through this to get out.

Yeah, and it's like narrowing in and like it sort of, it has that sort of like, childreny vibe but like kiddie but like horror film like kid made yeah bride of chucky sort of vibe when you're going out free town Christiania and it's a stop on a subway that's what it is it's a free time within Copenhagen but yeah man there's loads of yeah what else you get into when you're there so yeah like they went to the the palace saw the the the royal family and all that I said I went to see the football team there FC Copenhagen oh yeah they've really really good FC Copenhagen really good

Kits. What does that mean? Like strips, outfits. What do you call that? Uniforms. What do they got? Is it striped? F.C. Copenhagen.

No, it's like blue and white. Blue and white. The badge is like quite fun. But some of their kits over the history has been like really nice, like really nice white. What do you call kits? Kits. K-I-T-S. K-I-T-S.

And what does that mean? K-I-T-F. Football kit. Jersey? Jersey. Jersey. K-T-K-I-T-S. Kit.

K-T. K-T. Your kit. Yeah, I've noticed since I've been in New York. we were laughing about the other day I said I was talking about having kids and everyone in the audience was like kids you got new shoes like what pro kids yeah I was like kids short words with a vowel in the middle or a nightmare but yeah they've got like really cool really cool kits and what's also great about Danish football is the standard

solo you sort of watch it and think if I had the season's strip I reckon I could I could get in there and still play. I could definitely play the last five minutes, I reckon, and not like massively stand out. Dude, I was with a friend from Newcastle. We were in Myanmar, and he was part of my travel group, whatever. But we got to some Buddhist monastery, and they were playing football, soccer. And he goes, guys, hold my stuff. And it was just like, and he was like younger kids, but like, you know, 16, 17, 18.

But he goes, I need to show them. And it was just like, it's another level. raised in the UK playing football is another level of the sport Yeah you sort of like yeah It'd be like me trying to play like basketball Yeah Literally never yeah

Yeah and I came into like Yeah exactly Anyone from here could come into like Probably the professional levels Yeah I reckon any American Who like grew up playing in college Or whatever could like walk into the British basketball league And like not be good

But get away with it Right be fine Not to be a liability The only reason you get found out Is when they heard an American was coming they'd be like, this person must be sick. So there'd be too much hype around you.

Yeah, it must be nice to be in a league where you're like, we won the league, we're also still bad, just less bad. Well, these guys are all, you get to like Champions League, which is a big European saying, they beat Manchester United recently, which is pretty cool. But Manchester United, it's like

the worst Champions League performance of any English team in years. They just don't care. They just don't care. or a bit of shit. You know who my team is? Who's your team?

Guess in the Premier League. I would guess. Use your mind. Who would you say? Tottenham. You're correct. Yeah. What I went was I was going to go really cerebral and like Aaron and I realized, oh, right.

Okay. I done, I overthought it. I was given a team in Edinburgh. I was hanging out with some people. Fuck it. The fridge is so fun. I bet at Edinburgh, there's people that are so liberal that if you said, what's my team, they'd probably be like,

I don't know. Maybe like Manchester City, I don't know. It was some Londoners. They had a bunch of Molly. They were just like, Molly. And like, I've never seen it dished out like this in a little tissue paper. And then just like, there you go. And I'm like, what?

I just met you. And you're just going to eat the tissue paper. Can I just say for the record? I've never done Molly. But if anyone, if someone offered me a grape that I'd never met in a tissue paper, I'd be like, no, I don't want it. I could be bleeding in the street and something could offer me a plaster and a little handkerchief and I'm like, no, I don't know you.

That's gross. I was like, all you guys are all doing it. So we're all talking. We're at Free Sisters. Of course you. Three sisters are like the shediest pubbing the friend and a man came up to you with powder and a tissue. But they were like, hey, no, you should watch Champions League.

It's like really or Premier League or whatever. It's really good. And I'm like, okay, well, who should I root for? And they were like, Arsenal, man. he should be Arsenal and this one of his other buddies like what are you guys talking about like well he wanted to start watching football and it's like we're telling him arsenal he goes no Tottenham and they go they were all like oh yeah don't know don't know that don't it was just like oh of course why don't I think of that way to go forgetting it well yeah you go what can

I say I'm a London boy I know that I know the vibes every time I pass by a hot Spurs shirt now here I'm like spurs it's our year people like what you don't army coys come on you come on you Have you ever gotten late in Denmark? No, Norway when I was at university there. Yeah. That was wild because obviously everyone's so beautiful. So pretty. And then obviously you show up looking completely normal, but you're different.

And different is like, it's like amazing. Are you the most attractive man in Scottish history? No, Daniel, it's Daniel Sloss. No, Daniel's a hideous. No, he's gross. You have to look at him for real. He seems good only if you're looking at him in Scotland. His eyes are wrong

He's not Look he's in shadow Because that He's got a lot of burn there No That's got fake eyes No that's that This is him real

Without the fucking stuff Look at it no It's all off Yeah but I'm like Who looks Who looks good Ever really No one that's funny

Yeah That was that was a That was a weird time When he was doing the whole Yeah But on saying that I have no I have absolutely

No Standp on Googling people's images and me like look at the state of this guy because I am you have some hot ones me I used to do kids TV there's some absolutely wild pictures of me on the internet like dressed up as like Shakespeare's

wife dancing around the middle of the street yes I think that's the exact same vibe that one there of me the same thing yes I mean instantly why won't it click anymore there we go what's happening to my computer this is like you know this is like a door like in this one you look just like a dweeb you look way less hot. Were you fat there?

Yeah, I've lost quite a bit of weight recently. What? Is this you now? No, that's the guy. That's a guy. That's like, what happened? That's a guy that was on Love Island America before I worked on it. So I just done a tweet like, oh, delighted to be on the new series of Love Island America. Wait, so is Love Island, are you on Love Island America? Yeah, I do the voice over there.

You do the voice of that too. What does Nicky do for it? Nikki? Oh, she does Fuck Boy Island. Fuck Boy Island Oh yeah Nicky yeah yeah Look at that one with my fringe Look at that

This? That was just That is why That was That was Is that when I met you? No that was my That was my

That's when my That's when my That's when my wife Had just met And she allowed that To be a thing And I don't mind looking And also the thing about that is

There's nothing wrong We're looking like shit If you don't care But that's me Thinking I'm cool Try my absolute best You would have gone well The Puezer concert

That's Princess Trust trust, right? That's the now king of England's like charity thing. I've made that's me like I've bought a suit got my favorite glasses on, done my hair. That's you trying. That's not you trying to play a prank. That's me making my absolute most effort I've ever made for anything. You're so much better looking

now than there. That wasn't that long ago. Wow. So yeah, that's the vibes. Hold on now I got to now I got to add fat to it. I was never like big big I don't think No that sucks I wish I could have gotten a fucking porker picture of you

Yeah that's annoying That's when I was at my thinnest in that blue suit You go down a little bit That picture with me and my wife I was like they were next to it Nice suit Is that velvet? Yeah that's the most in shape

I've ever been Bro First of all nice pull way out of your league Oh unbelievable Wow Yeah you're welcome Wow. One for the dorks. That's why, look, that's when you go, I need to, that's like I got, I got, I got, I got

promoted and I needed to let up my game. Wait, does the collar change colors or is it? Yeah, no, it's like a suede valour vibe, so it's like. But this side is different than that side, or is it catching a light different? This conversation now feels like every conversation I've had stones in my entire life. It's a changing color. It's a constant state. Yeah, no, I think it's the velour

So the way the light catches it But yeah, that was the most in shape I've ever been in my life It sucks, like But when you have you ever got in shape at all And then I thought I thought I'd like finish my journey And then you like just go back to normal

For like a week And you're like, oh, I'm fucked again Yeah It's like so annoying Yeah, it's like You gotta be nonstop I'm gonna go back to drinking my whisky I might have another glass

What was I gonna say? All right, well let's let's talk about just finish it up with Denmark and stuff like what is some stuff that people would not have expected that you saw there over the years or whatever yeah well I mean no I felt so Christiana the later years at night yes yeah okay but early on no and otherwise no not at all I think what you wouldn't how eco-friendly they are is actually mine is actually mind blowing to people nice just a tiny bit man I don't take that it'll do me like like like like like like I look like

It's not an exaggeration. It is like everything's made from recycled this, recycled that. Yeah. Like the key cards at hotels like made it like bamboo. That's interesting. That's like not in the Frommers guide or the Blownly Planet Guide or something like that. No, nothing, everything. Bikes.

Everyone's, everyone cycles everywhere. And it gets cold. Oh man. The other thing as well, you know when someone's like, you know when someone's not European when they go to a Scandinavian country and you can just, basically if you don't bring a proper winter coat you can tell a tourist because they're basically just wearing every item of clothing they brought to the place

like I can see you in like five shackets and a couple of jumpers because you didn't think to bring like that. My buddy Steven and Stellar he said that he goes you can tell the tourists because they don't wear the right coat they just wear more of the wrong thing yeah that's so true you just wear like four or five wrong things

a shirt another shirt and his hoodie oh my god because you literally in Copenhagen from about mid-September You need like a, like, puffer Arctic survival jacket. It's so cold. That's another thing. The people there, they can make big jackets, like, so sexy.

Like, they've got these, like, designer puffered, like, whenever I wear a coat, I always feel like I'm sort of like a 1950s explorer. And they just wear these, like, helly Hansen, I think. It's called, like, cool puffer jackets with, like, jaggings. And you're like, you look so fucking cool. Whereas I just look like, My granddad, like it's so weird. Yeah.

Yeah, they are stylish. Here's one I noticed. Wait, I lost it. What was the food like? It's gone. I'll get it back. Oh, they... What is Danish food?

Pickled and fish. They love that. Yeah. Pickled stuff and like pickled herring. It's like a big thing over there. Yeah. Have you ever tried that? Yeah, that's a Jewish food too.

That's an overlap. Is that, is that genuine? I didn't know that. Pickle herring is a big one. A traditional Jewish. How come pickled herrings are Jewish, though? I don't know. We'd love it, though.

It's like a big thing on like Saturday. I always worry when I ask something like that and it's like there's like a really sad story. Like story attached. That's all they could have in. That's all we had when we were like trapped and then. Oh God. I'm such like a white British guy where I'm like, what do you mean hardship?

Yeah. Smore bread. That's a good one. Smores. Oh, smore bread is like really. really nice. Yeah, it's just this little toasty, like, Melba toast

with, like... It's hard to explain on it because it's, like, really crumbly, thick brown bread. It's really nice. Yeah, it's a crumbly brown bed. Oh, they have hot dogs there, too, don't they? Pulsa.

What is it? Pulse. That's the hot dog? That's what they call sausage in Scandinavia. They sort of do, like, those, like, 7-11 hot sausages, but they're sort of

more of a delicacy rather than, like, a health and safety nightmare. Yeah. But yeah, they love that. mayonnaise on their chips but I think that's an American thing you do that on french fries sorry yeah uh that's mostly ketchup of mustard yeah they do mayonnaise which is disgusting yeah um holland do that as well amsterdam does that oh yeah they do it hella like mayonnaise what it's so disgusting

it's like the fattiest thing for you too it's so gross just get mustard it's almost like no calories yeah it's gross it's gross it's gross and part from that i can't really i can't really i got just clean. It's just so clean. It is clean. So nice. What were my observations about? So cold. Yeah. They got some good museums. Really good museums. They've also got nice museums and they's not got the whole undercurrent of like they actually borrowed stuff, which is nice. Instead of stole it. Yeah. It's so funny how people are like, we want that back now. And you're like, no, we've had this for 300 years. What's insane about the UK museums at the minute is like, now you've become more and more educated on it. It's like that thing of like, I don't. Don't not don't mind, but I get that like we stole a bunch of shit and we've got it in a universe and we've got it in a museum and like that's history and that you need to write that wrong. But like to this day, there's still like countries going, can we have our deal back and we're

like, no. No. We're looking at it. Yeah. We're in the middle of looking at it. I'll tell you when no one looks at it for a week or two and then I'll maybe give it back. Come over here. Pay eight pounds.

You can look at it. And it's like, I get it. It was stolen. I didn't steal it though. Someone else stole it. It's literally finders keepers. Yeah. It's like when you have a lighter.

You're like, you didn't pay for that. I'm like, but I didn't steal it from you. Oh, my God. Yeah. So that's the one thing that blows my mind to say British, Britain still doing that. Yeah. God, what was my fucking observation of Copenhagen? It was somewhat expensive.

People drink, though, which is nice. And they sit inside and drink bars and beer. Watching watching everyone in a bar drink beer is a fun thing. Yeah. Church of the Holy Spirit. What is going on in my phone? They also have the, well, we have it now here. It's just the tap and,

go. It was so great. Like another round. It's just like pop. I remember like when I was at uni there they used to do, um, when I was at university, um, oh, that's a really nice meal I had there once. When I was at Copenhagen, they used to use like, I remember they used like, people were using like, again, it's like 2009. They'd use like tap and go for like, um, chewing gum and stuff. And I remember thinking at the time, I was like, this is banana. Because everything because everything was so expensive. Oh yeah. Gum is like 40 bucks. Yeah. It was so expensive. You're going to have to get ready for that if you go. And what's more insane is

Norwegians go to Sweden for their big shops it's cheaper. Sweden go to Copenhagen, literally drive over the border or do their big shopping come back and then Denmark are just like fuck. But like that's, Denmark's that expensive and it's still

but thanks to Britain and, thanks to inflation, Britain and America are still like we're like, it's like they're like trying to catch them up. Dude, it is funny when you go to a place and you go back when the dollar or the pound is just stronger. And then you're like, is everything cheaper?

No, no, no, just whoever your evil dictator was at the time has just made your economy better. It's like, I remember America for me was, I grew up in a council estate, not maybe when, like two people in your whole like area would go to America and everyone would give them money for trainers and jeans. Levi jeans and trainers because it was so cheap. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can get them here cheap and bring them back to me. Yeah, and now America is like seven times more expensive than the UK because you are. pound is like non-existent there. I remember my observation.

Right, I'd love to get involved. Okay, I'm at out-sort, eating, nothing expensive, whatever, none of this matters. Tell terrible stories. Someone goes into a store and leaves their baby outside in their stroller. And I was like, what the fuck, they're leaving the baby outside? I'm like, yeah, who's going to take a baby? Yeah, there is like, from my experience, there is like no crime there. No crime.

You just leave your infant child, your baby in a stroll. roller outside. We don't want to take them into the store. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy with a little sweater. They don't do that in the... Where you live now? You live London.

London. Oh my God, you're joking. You wouldn't even leave the wheels for the buggy outside. I don't know if it's like in New York. If you're cleaning your apartment, you're like, oh, I don't need this painting. Let me take it outside.

Now, another thing. Let me go back and take it. The first thing's already gone. I never realized that until we just moved house recently and like it wasn't until like we had this like old chest. draw something and then the my builder at the time was like just leave it outside your front door yeah and i was like it'll be gone i went no but it's trash and i was like we're new to the area

we don't want to be the people that like whatever literally within like and this was a chunky thing this had to been taken in the van wow and it was gone which means someone's walked past it immediately gone home got a van banged it in gone you see the Asian ladies like stopping and looking and if you want something on the street you're like you better get it because they're for it. It's so mad. Yeah, Copenhagen, you could just leave. You could probably leave money.

And they'll be like, it's not mine. Yeah. Wow, yeah. That is nice. That's a lovely note. That's how I want to end my selling of Copenhagen. Yeah. Leave money on the street.

I would say, bring a warm, beautiful. Bring a warm jacket. Make sure you've got a spare two grand for dinner at normal. Yeah. And there's a few other places. Shut the fuck up. Sorry, go ahead.

And then, yeah, cycle everywhere. Go to Christiana, but also go to the palace and look at the royal family for a bit. Are they out there? Yeah, there's lovely little bits. Yeah. All right. Well, yeah, this is great. What neighbourhood did you live in before in London?

I don't want to ask you a now neighborhood. Oh, I lived in, I've always lived northwest, so Shepard's Bush is where I first moved, which is like right next to the base of the BBC building. How was it out there? Yeah, it's cool, man. Really chill. It's your neighborhood. Oh, look at you.

a New York Comedy Club. Yeah. That's great. I was there. I'm there again on Friday. It's one of my favorite clubs. Like legitimately, it's like a real dingy New York comedy club.

I just done the new one in Upper West Side as well. Okay. So far. Yeah, I like to. It's just too far. Yeah. But I like to be sure. Also, that's another New Yorkers can fuck off with that.

Like they go, that's so, like New Jersey. So far. I'm like, it is 20 minutes on a train. Grow up. London's so big. London's so massive. If you got the west side of the east side and you're like, oh that's an hour of 40 to get there.

I was like, I walked to you and 25 minutes. People are like, you walked. I'm like, yeah, it's 20 minutes. What was wrong with you people? L.A. is the even further. Oh my God, no L.A. you can fuck off. Like, I was so excited not to get sidetracked, but I remember the first time we ever went on a,

and I've done it earlier like twice, it was their filming and they were like, this chaperone guy that we get when you do like film and stuff was like, we'll do this big night, I've got it all planned. I was like, oh, amazing. So we went to this bar. We had a drink.

He's like, cool. I'm going to drive. drive you to this like like pub sort of thing like I was like okay cool so we got in a car and drove to that one there's like I'm gonna go restaurant then and we've like got in a car and like 40 minutes in a restaurant and I was like this is so shit I just want to sit in one place oh yeah just get mellowly drunk and then just walk home I've got no interest in this it's it's an LA thing and getting in your car I was walking to whole foods just to get lunch and and two different people stop like all right you're

ride. I'm like, no, it's 15 minutes. And they're like, yeah, get in the car. I'm like, it's closer than my subway stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so weird. Like, at night, does people just drink and driving earlier? They just not drink. Yeah, yeah, drinking drive. It's a drinking drive town.

Uber changed it a little bit, but it was a real drinking drive town. Yeah, because I couldn't get my head. I've done it plenty of times. Like I got to an accident drunk driving with a cab, hit a cab right in front of the comedy, the, um, saddle ranch near the comedy store. Yeah. I was so close to where it was going. Yeah, I know exactly where you are.

Yeah. There was a cab stopped, Looking for somebody. If you're going to have a crash, it's always as you start the journey or just before you get to where you need to be. Two doors down. Yeah. And I was trying to rush back to get back for last call to the store from, I think I was watching St. I hope or something.

But hit a guy. Then I had to get out and exchange information and a cop slowed down to see. Yeah. And it was just the one moment of my whole life being changed. But we're good. We're exchanging. And he goes, okay, he drove off. And I was like, I mean, I was lit up.

The guy, was the guy on tier? Was he sort of, what were you? No, he was just taking pictures of. I go, it's my fault. It's my fault. I'll pay for the damages. Totally my, totally my fault.

Totally my fault. Totally my fault. He got my insurance. Well, Ian Sterling, who else spells their name that way? I know. It's an absolute fucking nightmare, man. Ian with two eyes. It's actually.

I-A-I-N. It's Gaelic for John. Really? Yeah, because all my family is John. Oh, wow, that's cool. Ian does jokes on Instagram. Yeah, I mean, that's one of those annoying things where that's what I made my name like 10 years ago.

now you've done it got 800,000 of dollars it would be 1.6 million if it was just Ian Sterling yeah I'd have like over a million if my name was Ian I-A-N Sterling S-T-E-R-S-T-E-R-G Sterling that is actually gutting to know especially in this day and age of like short attention man how many followers I would have had if not for that you're like I don't know make a funny joke make a funny joke is your title this won't catch on it's a shit name you're right Ari um well Guys, don't forget,

Ian is a whatever you want to say about a host. I don't give a shit about that, but he's a great comic and see him whenever you fucking can. I'll put your dates, whatever's coming up once I put this episode out. Thanks, ma'am. But, yeah, I remember that fucking get-together in Edinburgh meeting you there.

It was the Pleasance Dome and we're at the little bar, and I just remember it so vividly. And I remember you saying you're taking the guys off his seat the next day. And I still remember saying to you, you just drink any whisking, it's fine. and it has bothered me.

It's bothered me. Forgiven. Forgiven. Like, honestly, I think about it. It's like 10 years now. I wouldn't. I wouldn't go. I don't mean like thinking of it a lot.

But I would say every time I drink a whiskey, I probably go. It's one time. I'm glad you got it up your chest. I probably thought about you more than you can ever imagine. I don't remember that. Well, I wouldn't surprise me. But you were wrong. No, yeah.

But why would you? Because I remember because I was just telling this American guy that I'd sort of see on a few things and thought it was cool. And I was just like, I'm going to impress me. them with my knowledge of whiskey and my knowledge is all whiskey tastes the same. It's a fucking just out of college like idea of things. Oh man it was so like yeah it was so like it was so like three guys started a podcast

yesterday. Hot take. Yeah, hot take. All whiskey tastes the same. You're like, I love when you say something and you're like, oh, you're actually just ignorant. And you're like, all right. Fair.

It's so bad. All right. Well, thanks, buddy. Next time you come in, we'll do Dublin next time. But this was fucking great. No one's ever done COVID. what a cool town it is yeah it's really I would like to say that obviously we were I was gonna do Dublin which I know a bit about but if I'd had a bit I would have I feel like I came in a bit shallow

on the Copenhagen but I think we got there no I think we got there we gave people the flavor I just wish I had a few more like places to actual reference and stuff do you have any recommendations for Copenhagen nothing you think about now you pretty much did it the I said tip of go to the go to the theme part what's wrong with yeah oh I got I almost forgot sorry I'm getting a little tuned up everybody I do with this with what Two questions. What country is calling you and then a travel tip? A just general travel tip.

What country's call me is really easy. I know it's been said a million times, but like Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan in general. I got to get there. Yeah, so I was going to, when I went from a breakup before I met my wife, I was going to go and someone was like, if you go to Japan, Tokyo's like pretty intense, but if you go further out to like the coast, it's all beachy and lovely, but like the language is a real issue and like it's maybe

a place to go by yourself especially if you're a bit like for a chill time yeah that someone told me that and i took it for red and done it and i wish i'd just gone uh yeah they scare you off things sometimes yeah and i just didn't do it and i think i end up going to like i think i literally i think i literally went to like i don't know like greece or like a real british holiday resort sort of thing for a week and just cleared my head but yeah i'd love to go never been yeah it seems like so i have this theory about cities most cities are just some bustling city and they're all kind of the same little differences except a few Paris is its own thing yeah and Tokyo is its own thing New York probably too but LA Chicago it's all in the similar

London it's all sort of similar yeah um but then Tokyo is this wild other thing god I want to go so you've never been never been never been that way at all it just looks amazing it seems like one of those cities too where it's like a tourist town but it's like not set up for tourism it's like we're doing oh yeah we're doing you can join if you want yeah and also it's like and if you don't really fit them with the roads like the cycling like you've got to do like be clean like us do our do our fit feels like yeah it feels like all the lights and everything yeah i see what you mean it's like perf it's like such a it's like it's like a tourist like photo taking wet dream but like they don't give a fine fuck if you have a nice time yeah they're doing the thing so it's like

if you go to time square no local goes to time square yeah yeah but there it's it that looks like time square but that's just a bunch of Tokyo people getting on with their day yeah exactly yeah that'd be sick and then my um what's my travel tip I've gotten anything from packed light to put mushrooms in granola to hide them to oh my my big thing is save as much money on accommodation while you're there and put it as much into the flights into the experience and getting there no fuck that I think spend as little on holiday as you can and put one the more if you can get I would rather get like premium accommodation

economy or like business flights to a place and then stay in like a relative chit-old wow because it's two days on your holiday and if you fly and it's so much fun flying like a bit nicer and then you basically buy two extra days and you're not dreading going home because you're looking forward to the flight and like a room's a room right a room's a room I agree with that like a bed's a bed if you're only gonna be able to sleep if you're doing it right you're only there to sleep yeah exactly so I just think spend as little as you can on the accommodation and spend his much as you can on to travel.

I want to travel like a king and then live like a local. Oh, wow. Live like a local makes me sound a bit like the comic. Yeah, I like you're like a fetishizing. You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

I would go like, don't spend any money in the flight, spend it all once you're there. Not only accommodations, but like go to a nice restaurant. Be able to do everything you want there. Go scuba diving if it requires. Yeah, that's a good shout as well. See, I would just like... But I like it.

When you show up, you're rested and in a good mood. Everyone else is like, you're ready to go. Ready to go. Actually, now that you've explained that bit to me, I think that advice I've given is terrible, but maybe one person would take it on. Yeah, okay. Wait, did you say splurge on premium economy?

Yeah. Okay. Or like business if you can splurge up to that. No, I like how your splurge is not like fly private, even fly first, even fly business. Your splurge was, go normal, but slightly above normal. Right, you've opened the door to allow this. I say fly business and then save the money elsewhere.

Okay. Wow. All right, edit his other one into the flight business. No, shut up, shut up. All right. Buddy, thank you very much. Cheers, man. Yeah.

Well, that's the episode, everybody. Thank you very much. Ian Sterling for coming in. Check out Ian right now on season three of Love Island All-Stars. He makes that show worth watching, to be honest. He's the Quitmaster. He's got a UK quip mind. And without him, that shows just a bunch of people going to hell.

And with him, it becomes actually very funny. And you can laugh at it. You know what? They need that guy for that. They need an installing for, what's the show where it's pretty much people with like, not Down syndrome, but like, you know, where their bodies are all fine,

but their minds are a little bit like, I don't like the way you're talking to me, that show. He'd be great on that. Check out him on Instagram at Ian Got Jokes. I-A-I-N got jokes. I'm not good at anything. I'm not this good at anything in the world. Ian Got Jokes on Instagram.

Check him out. Tell him that you heard of. Send him a DM. You heard him from this podcast and maybe he'll like you even more. He's also got a special on Amazon Prime right now falling upwards, and he's got a hit podcast.

Follow me by, by the way. Got a hit podcast on BBC Radio actually, but you can find it on Spotify called Murder They Road. So last week, I was on this beach and it was deserted. It was a, check this out. Look at this. Look at how good women are here at soccer.

Well, that was a bad example. It's a legitimately bad example. But hold on. Watch this. Film them. Film them. I mean, that's crazy. And they're like not unhot.

They're kind of legitimately hot. And they're just head. Oh. Okay, come this way. Yeah, it was deserted last week. And this is just a weekday. This is a kind of cloudy weekday. It's not even a...

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Briota. Yeah, it's sick here. This might be my favorite country in the world. What was I going to tell you? Oh, Denmark, by the way, is where I've seen probably the most street dog. Forward thinking and kind of like, what's the word for the women, independent women I've ever seen in my life? I remember going to a bar and saying, can I buy you a drink to a chick? And she was like, why?

I was like, oh, well, in my country, what we do is, because they make equal money there. And they're having to, for whatever the reason it is. But there's no thought even of going, I'm just not going to work. They just don't really do it, especially in Copenhagen. I don't know about the rest of Denmark, but buy your drink, they go, why? I'm like, well, because in my country, we pay for things for you to let you know. They don't want to have sex with you. That's the way we do it.

Just the liveliest beach I've ever been to in my life. Tiny, though, by the way. Tiny. Check out those guys. Check out those guys jumping. Wait, somebody's about to jump. Can you see it? Oh, it looks like he's about to belly flop on the steps.

So that's it. Denmark, I will say, one is my favorite places in the world. Best weed in Europe. No offense, Amsterdam, but you guys went tourists. And once you went tourists, well, you can be able to be able to be. really can't nothing good will come after that yeah but I will tell you actually I don't know I mean I don't know how long we recorded this pod but I've been to Kristanya probably five times and it used to be my favorite place in the world and what

happened to that place is a goddamn shame gangs took over kind of money took over and it's just like not safe it's dingy and it's just like not the thing anymore it was magical when I first got there it was a fucking magical place and it just changed and I wanted to be that same thing but it's just not so it sucks but go ahead find new places that's how you do it for myself I'm having a blast still gone ooh nice what else I'm gonna say please subscribe wherever you're watching or listening you be chipping pod on Instagram if you've one of those stickers, probably nothing worse in the world than an empty coconut and no machete

to crack it open and eat the meat. Damn, that sucks. Today's episode is produced by your mom's house network. It's edited by Alan Kathy, expert editor. Please subscribe, very watching or listening. That's it. Next week, fuck, I actually didn't decide. I forgot to decide. I forgot to pick next week. So I don't know. It's going to be somebody good. And I will tell you also, we've got a great run coming i don't know guys subscribe wherever you're watching or listening and buy yourself some merch help me um you know this isn't cheap out here this is this coconut cost me 10 realities that's two dollars that's two dollars four total the beaches these chairs are 10 each that's another two dollars that's another four that's another four bucks and not even

anybody's here i'm hoping some fucking slut chick she puts down her soccer ball and comes to join me hasn't happened yet isn't that a goddamn shame when you like do all the work to get some fucking select soccer player to come join you you buy another chair for 10 realis and then nobody comes to fucking join you just fucking blows kezo them oregano oh we got him um that's it um this has been fun damn my god i can maybe he man more no he's coming out of the special so it won't be him I should be darker at this point, shouldn't I? Who do we got next week?

Damn, I wish I knew. Julia Galerati is coming back in either February or March. I'll tell you who's like, might be, Julia Galerati, Ian, finance, I mean, Yoshi, Sagalo, maybe Sagalo. Eh, whatever, we'll see. Anyway, guys, oh, he's got the oregano on it. The oregano's the best. I can pay this dude.

and if you want to see anybody on actually i would say don't don't tell me because i won't know i won't uh i won't be on there like reading but usually i'll say like well why don't you message the instagram account you be tripping pod and tell them who i should get on this podcast but actually who am i who can i get save that thought um save that thought until oh balls uh where's my wallet it is gone oh nice um Yeah, save that energy until I'm back in America and I can actually book somebody. Come on, come on, yes. Can I come here?

No. This. Oh, no. See, see, see, see, see. I forgot them. One thing, in general, a little travel tip is don't take out 150 of any currency while you're in a public beach. That's known to be dangerous. I'm always to figure up.

Until next week, everybody. Thank you for listening. Oh, that's so fucking good.