You Be Trippin' - Europe w/ Fahim Anwar | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

Follow Fahim on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/fahimanwar/ SPONSORS: -Head to https://Superpower.com and use code TRIPPIN at checkout for $20 off your membership. Unlock your new health intelligence. 100+ biomarkers. Every year. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod -For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off for life plus Free Shipping AND 3 Free Gifts at MenGoToMars.com -Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @‌MUDWTR with code TRIPPIN at https://mudwtr.com/TRIPPIN ! #mudwtrpod On this week's episode of You Be Trippin', Ari Shaffir sits down with comedian Fahim Anwar to talk about the backpacking trip through Europe that nearly ended in disaster. Fahim tells Ari about planning his first big adventure abroad, staying in hostels, making friends on the road, and getting left out of the "hot people" group. What starts as a dream trip quickly turns into a nightmare when a mysterious foot infection lands him in an Italian hospital. From Rome to Paris, Fahim reflects on almost dying overseas, the unexpected friendships he made along the way, and how stand-up comedy has become his favorite way to see the world. Au revoir! You Be Trippin' Ep. 122 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:16 - The Beginning of Backpacking Through Europe 00:11:13 - Booking The Trip 00:13:50 - Trying Not To Cry Eating Pizza 00:18:06 - Foot Starts Swelling In Rome 00:20:10 - Being Admitted Into An Italian Hospital 00:33:26 - Breaking Out Of The Hospital 00:38:44 - Flying To Paris 00:44:51 - Reflecting On Almost Dying 00:47:59 - Traveling From Stand Up 00:50:59 - Where To Next? 00:55:48 - Travel Tips 00:59:16 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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at what you did. Good or bad? So today, a good friend of mine, hilarious comic with a new special out called House Money on YouTube. Yeah, man. For He-Man War, one of the best comics in L.A.

And therefore, the world. Holy shit. I love his intro. Thank you, man. Yeah, I mean, I'm working on him. I was really bad as an introduction guy for this and not happening. I would like really screech everything to a halt.

Constantly, I'd be like, I'm a bad MC. And then you just worked on it or what? It's funny that you learned that after tapings. Yeah, no, I never got better at it. I should be better at this after it's all in the can. I brought up Joe List and I was like,

is one of my best friends. I was like, eh, well, no, it's a good friend of me. These friends are mine. You even downplay that. And then Joe was like, why would you have to say, why would you have to say, I'm not one of your best friends? What did it gain?

I love List. For you to not. I was like, sorry about that later. He goes, no, it helped me get settled with the crowd. Yeah, yeah. It is wild that you would have to stop yourself. Your autism would stop yourself from, We're acquaintances, actually.

I mean, I enjoy myself when I see him, but would be my best man? No, I wouldn't say that. Not quite. He'd be invited, yeah. And he's like, when are you bringing me up, dude? Just bring me up. Just say my name. Yeah, just say Joe Lisp, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, you're an L.A. guy for a bit, and then you bounce. I'm an L.A. comic, yeah, I bounced. Yeah. I remember that, man. Bouncing? It was sad. Yeah. It's kind of cool, though, because I remember when you left,

and then you were in New York plugging away and then you're just getting bigger and bigger and then I forget when it was but I just definitely noticed when they announced you you got a pop that you never got before you know and I just as a young comic I noticed that and that was like interesting

and you see it happen with other people too I saw it with Shane this week where'd you play I mean we always play the only time I ever play with him is like a comedy mothership where we're all famous. Yeah. Or Vulcan,

the same shit, one of Rogan shows, we're all famous. But back at like the seller or the stand or something, it was like, oh, they knew him a little, but now it's just like,

oh my, you're the biggest comic in the world, I think. No, for real. Not even I think. Yeah. Like what Louis was. Yeah.

You're not that. People like, yes, fucking yes. I was like, wow. Wow. And it's like,

did none of them know he's fat? Can they, like, are you cheering for fat? Well, no, he rides the line. He's like the blade of skinny and fat. You can't put him in one box or the other, man. He's like a tight end.

Yeah. What is he? Right, right. Other out of the fat people is not so fat. Well, he's tall. He's tall. There's like muscle under there as well. Under, deep under there.

He's not, he doesn't read as like Ralphie Mae or something. He's not a Ralphie Mae. He's not a Ralphie Mae. RIP though, RIP, you know, RIP. RIP, that's good for Shane's like, if he died, he was not Ralphie Mae. He was not Ralphie Mae. He was no Ralphie Mae. He was not, he was that supposed to be.

He's skinny is what it means. Like, oh, that's a comment. I'm excited to see his SNL man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, who are we going today? What do you want to tell me about?

Oh, yeah, when I went backpacking in Europe when I was working at Boeing. Love it, first of all. I dreamed of pitching this show to, like, guests who don't do podcasts, like Tucker Carlson or like some, like, athlete or some writer. Well, he's doing a travel show. He's doing Russia. and then where's he going to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, part of it's like, hey,

no matter who you are, you went backpacking when you were, when you were younger. Yeah. You know, even for like Biden or something. Didn't you have a period where you're like,

let me see, well, there's a period where hostels are an option to you. Right. And then you get aged out of that. You get aged out. You better hit it while you can, yeah.

So, I mean, I had just gotten a job at Boeing. Boeing 747. I worked on the 747-8. Yeah, you remember I worked at Boeing in Long Beach. Uh-huh. And so, you know, I just left, I lived at home forever.

So I didn't have any adulting experience. Like, you know, I lived under my parents' roof forever. My mom made breakfast and shit and really party and stuff. Yeah, you're Arab to the core. Well, I'm Afghan. It's not technically Arab, but that's our ongoing thing. Like, you do that. Bobby does that as well.

You just like, yeah, you're Arab. You're all the same or whatever. I love the Afghan. I'm not Arab. Like, you're either Chinese. Yeah. Let's see it. I mean, there are.

right here. Boom, we're like in the sand. You can like center your camera on this. Yeah. Were you from Farah? No. So Israel is start of Asia.

It is? Yeah. Technically it's right here. It's this and over. Even though everyone considers Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, that's all Middle East or Africa, really. You know? Yeah.

Like Yemen seems like Africa. I don't know where. Is it just down this straight? But Israel is Asia. The line is Egypt is Africa. So you're Asian, dude. I'm Asian, that's right. But if you do that, well, then way deeper is Afghanistan.

Yeah. So, I mean, when I was working at Boeing, the... You're not above Pakistan. Oh, yeah, we share a border. Yeah, so it's like, yeah. What if it was like two hours of us just like checking out the geometry and borders? Oh, Kalad. Oh, Bangladesh.

I have shirts from there. He's a good one. So I was on my own, you know. Oh, like, and I had these vacation days that accrued, just I never took them. Yeah. And then there was some company-wide email that was like, if you don't use your days by this date, it'll be chopped in half. What? Yeah, it was just some egregious thing like that.

I'm like, that's fucking bullshit. So I'm like, I'm going to use them. I'm not just going to have them be halved. At worst, they should be like, hey, if you use them by this day, we're just paying you for them and then you lose them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're paying as if you worked. Totally. So I wasn't going to get.

get extra money and they were going to half it. So I'm like, let me just, I gotta use these days. And I go, I've never been to Western Europe. I've never been anywhere really. I'm like, I'll do like a Western Europe run. What's Western Europe? You know like the classics. Oh, Western is like France.

It's like the thriller of Europe, just UK, Paris. Yeah, so I organized it. It was like, uh, Germany. No, I wanted to do that. You told me about Berlin. I gotta do that sometime. I want to see, I want to see Germany. I want to see Germany.

but I did London, Paris, Madrid, and there was one more. Oh, Rome. Yeah, Rome. All right. So, like, I was trying to find people to go with, and I couldn't find anybody. And I'm like, I'm just going to do it by myself. Love that. Yeah, it's liberating.

Some people can't even eat at a restaurant by themselves. But once you can be comfortable just eating at a restaurant by yourself, it opens up the world to you, dude. A movie by yourself, which I was in high school, I do that all the time now. And then I remember coming home from the old. stand walking down third there's a there's a movie theater on like third and like 11th and it was like spider man maybe like starting in five Toby yeah to McGuire nice and it was like well Tuesday night I was alone I was like yeah I just watch this well especially when you're a comic and you're on the road and you just you Tuesday at 1130 yeah let me just go oh on the road too it's like

like and you're not big enough to bring a feature yet yeah you're like what the fuck else am I gonna do i'll watch a movie by myself so i'm like i'll just backpack by myself that's so cool yeah man and then i so i got a google file i organized it all huh how long we were to go for like two weeks it was like two or three weeks this thing and so i did it was great i got i did hostels and stuff i got this like backpacking thing and organized it and it's also hostels in europe yeah well actually what i tried to do it first because i'm like super cheap i try to do this thing called couch surfing so there's a website called couch surfing.com, I think. Can I give a disclaimer real quick?

What year was this? Like, 20, 2008, maybe? Or 2006? I think 2018 was the end of couch surfing because then the creeps found out about it. And it was kind of over-drawn. Well, even when I was trying to couch-surf, no one wants to host a dude.

You know what I mean? I wouldn't. Well, I was so naive. Like who the fuck wants to host a random dude? Also like what are you gonna like steal? Are you gonna beat me up? Yes. Forget like the dream of maybe we'll fuck.

Well every guy, every guy wants to host a girl. Yeah. So if you were a girl trying to couch surf, it was gonna be way easier. But the fallout of that is you may have to deal with like a creepy, a creepy German dude is like, yeah. My bed was uncomfortable today. Yeah, is your Lumpy too?

Ah. Yeah. Like my bed smells I guess you could hop into mine It's not the best Sherman accent But so I was actually only able to line up Couch surfing in Paris But everywhere else I had to

Pony up and pay a hostel So I mean I went Yeah I went to London first I did an episode of this from a hostel in Paris I love Paris dude Me and Samtelling we're talking about Paris It was cool than I thought it would be

I thought I never was drawn to it at all This is for a different episode but never drawn to it at all, but I had to take a writing class was there. So I went and I was like, oh, this rules. What is it? I mean, I like that it's so planned. It's such a planned city.

A lot of West Africans, which is shockingly a big part of their fucking culture and the food there, West African food, but like just the coffee culture of just sit and drinking for three hours in a place while you write. Like all those chairs outside? All those chairs outside.

Just smell like there as a kid. They're like, hi, can you keep your kid down? keep them quiet and it's just like it's so cool it's the coolest place to smoke cigarettes yeah i liked it a lot so it was like uh london then paris and then i went to rome okay and then that's where things would south so like i love a beginning of back too pretty much yeah so um when i was booking all this shit i'm i'm in long beach you know that's where i'm living and so i'm just booking it on google maps and you don't know how far things are and how to get around so you're kind of approximating You're not a local, so you don't know if you're in the thick of it or not.

When I moved to L.A., me and my roommate, we're looking, we're like, oh, we can get a pool of Tarzana. Tarzana. I live in Tarzana. Really? Yeah. It's so far. Dude, everyone, when I tell them, I live in Tarzana, they think I live on Mars. But, dude, I'm telling you, it takes 23 minutes to get to the comedy store.

That's not very far at all. That's not far at all. Yeah. But it is the valley and just people are elitist out there in L.A. If you're not in Ou, you're scum of the Earth, I guess. So, I get to Rome. And I got this hostel that I think is close enough to Rome, because I'm still cheap, right? Yeah.

And this is a cheap hostel, but it's not like in the heart of Rome. But I'm like, oh, it's not that far. I think this bus takes you there. It's like pretty easy. I read some things. I'm like, this is doable. And then I get to the hostel. And it's kind of out there, man.

It's more out there than I thought it was going to be. And also, it's these portables. So it's not like an indoor hostel. It's like outdoor kind of music festivaly portables, you know. And it's, it's young people who have gone with their own crews. Like there's no like single people by themselves. Oh no. It's sort of just like groups.

Groups suck at hostels. Well, they don't suck if they're inviting, but it's just like, oh, we're all supposed to be lonely and open. Yes, yes. And you're supposed to experience these things together.

You're supposed to be these kinetic. Hey, what are you guys all doing? Well, we're all going out to get some local tacos. Yeah. Okay, sure. But if it's a group of seven and they're just doing their own,

that's kind of annoying because you have no one and you're just like sad. So. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm just kind of getting sadder and sadder like, oh, no, I've, I've made a terrible mistake. I'm in Rome, but I'm so far away. And then when you sign in, they give you this complimentary coupon for you get a pizza and a beer. So I go to the food courtyard, you know? Of the hustle?

Yeah. And then I'm like, yeah, I'll have a margarita pizza and I'll have a peroni. And then they give it to me. And then I go to a table by myself. And then I'm just seeing, I'm seeing all this. these groups having fun. I'm seeing all these groups having fun. And there's a pool and shit. And they're all like, they have like tight bogs and abs. You know what I mean? And it's like eating carbs. Yeah, yeah. This is like my high school experience in Rome for some reason, like or in the

outskirts of Rome. So I'm just eating this like sad. That's some water. Yeah, why not? Keep going. Yeah. So I'm just eating the sad margarita pizza. And it was the first time I had a Peroni, which I was a fan. It was kind of nice to have it out there for my first. one. Yeah. 100%. But I'm just, I'm eating this pizza, holding back tears. And then I'm like, fuck this, man.

I'm gonna get a different hostel in, I think maybe I slept there one night. Wait, why wouldn't you go to that just because they're so grouped up? I'm not gonna be like, hey, you, you hard bodies look like you're having fun. Can I hang out with you guys? I will tell you, though, it's like that, that moment of like, fuck, I don't know anybody. This sucks. Once it's replaced with, you want to learn a card game? You're like, okay.

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Let's get back to that episode. Please subscribe wherever you're watching and listening because I love when you subscribe. Leave a comment for the algorithm and I can get better guests on and on and on. All right, let's get back to that. to it. Europe. So I slept there one night and then I just made an executive decision. I go, it's going to cost more money. I don't care. When am I in Italy? You're ruin it. Otherwise.

I go, because I was going to be there for like four days in this terrible situation. I go, I'm going to get a hostel in the heart of Rome. So I get it. And then I switch it up. And then as my vacation is progressing in Rome, my foot is like getting kind of swollen a little bit. Like it's a little patchy, and it's just like a little swollen. I'm like, oh, that's weird. I think it's going to go away or whatever. Yeah. But as the day progress, as each day progressed, it's like getting more and more swollen, where it's like, no, that's not good.

And it's not getting better. What? And then at one point, it just looks so bad. And it starts hurting a lot, man. Like, it's so puffy. From what? I, okay. My assumption, I still don't know to this day.

I think it was a bug bite from. from that hostel I was initially at. But not bedbugs. You don't get swollen from that. You get bites and itchy. Yeah, I don't think this is bed bugs out. This is something else. I think it's an infection from it,

like a bug bite or something. Okay. So it's just like swelling up like crazy. Not even crazy yet. I'll show you the progression. So now it's getting bad enough. And I make these friends in this new hostel. There are these three other brown guys

who were like in med school. They're from New York, actually. I should actually like reach out to them. Yeah. And so they're really cool. We were doing stuff together and, and just, I'm telling them about the foot thing.

And then it gets so bad. I'm like, I got to go to the hospital or something. It gets that bad. Yeah, yeah. So then I go to the hospital. I get this hospital in Rome.

So what are those like? This one that we went to. Okay, so we go there maybe. It was so bad, dude. Pretty much. What?

Or it seemed like a hospital from the 20. or something. Wow. So we go there, we're waiting forever. So COVID ravaged their country. Yeah,

they had it before us. Yeah. No. So, like, we're just waiting in the waiting room forever. I think I didn't get admitted until, like, midnight. And we got there at 1 p.m. So we're just waiting forever.

And these guys were such troopers. They stayed with me the whole time. And then they admit me. And then I just thought they would check it out and, like, make me leave. But they, like, check me into the hospital. And then I'm like, Bye guys. And that's the last I see of those guys, pretty much, you know?

Or no, no, no, no. Okay, so here's what happened. So I get admitted. I'm in the, I have a hospital bed. I'm in this hospital in Rome because of this foot thing. And it was so late by the time they admitted me, they weren't able to check me out that night. So I'm staying in it.

So they gave you a room? They gave me, it wasn't a room. It was like a big room with a bunch of beds. Okay. So I'm in there with other ailing people. Wow. I'm picturing like a, like a, like a, like a war war two like that's what it's what it's like that's what it was like yes wow yeah and um yeah

yeah with like patches over their eyes like pretty my wife yeah i swear to god lieutenant dan's in one of them too do you have any pictures of this stuff of me in the hospital not me in the hospital um and then uh i was so hungry because i was waiting the whole time and then i got admitted and there wasn't any food i'm asked the nurses and the nurses are nuns yeah so i'm like i'm hungry do you food and then she was like past when they're supposed to be food but this lady was nice enough to bring me soup in like crackers so i just remember sitting body of christ cross like yeah cross-legged this is delicious but a little salty so i'm sitting cross-legged and i just remember being huddled over the soup just slurping it because i was so hungry and just eating these crackers

like a mouse and then and then just laying in bed and i couldn't sleep because there was a guy in another bed who I could just hear hear him wailing throughout the night he'd be like and like right when he would stop he would stop for long enough yeah I'd be like okay he go ah ah ah ah like he was even he was even in pain in Italian and so I'm just having to sleep through the night like that And then I wake up in the morning. So the doctor comes by. He's like Bobby Fisher just doing the rounds, you know, going to bed to bed to do his diagnosis. You know what I mean?

So he goes to this bed and he's like, bra-da-a-a-ra-ri-deri, whatever, you know? I don't know. I don't know Italian. So he's doing his shit. And then the nun nurses are by him, like flanked by his sides. And he's like, blah-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And then he gets to me. And he's looking at my foot.

And he's like, well, when do we pull up a foot? Should we do one now? Yeah, pull it up. All right. Show me. Let's take you through a journey, guys. Okay. If you're watching on YouTube, go to YouTube.com slash, damn, I wish I knew the website.

I think it's U.B. Trippin' Pod. You be tripping. Unless I put it on Ari Shafir. I thought you were joking about U.B. Trippin, and then I, like, calculated it again. I'm like, that's actually a great name. Thanks. Salvo Connell. I can't have that.

The old unplug. That's you. So this is. Priest wall. Pretty swall. Gorgeous, by the way. Where is that? What is that?

You're talking about me or the fountain, dude? The fountain. Gorgeous. I forgot where. I forgot where that was. Look at a young Fahim. I know. What happened?

Look at how. Dude, isn't it cool? Even just those, you can extend this if you want to. But that that cab minivan behind you? Oh, those? I can almost imagine it makes a different sound. In the sirens go, e-on, e-on. It feels like you're a Jason board.

And the phones go, or they sound different. All right, so all is well here. It's gorgeous, yeah. Town Square, huh? Boom, seeing all the signs. You've seen that, right? That's a famous place.

That's a famous one? I've never been there, but that's cool. A simpler time. Look, an Arab kid. I'm so happy. Not fighting. Again, not Arab. Not Arab.

There we go. But like, this is the Arab area. From Egypt. Yeah, man. Talk to Wikipedia. Where's Arab then? Because the Egyptians don't think they're Arab either. This is eluded historians for ages.

No one knows who's Arab. I do. It's you. I guess. Yeah, okay, go ahead. You got curly hair back then. It's before you got jailed, huh? Well, I blow dry now.

I'm in like the curl closet, you know? If I just towel dried, I would have had tons of curls today. Wow. So, yeah, all is well. And then, okay. This is your boy. Yeah. This is the hospital?

This is the, no, well, this is the hospital. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they came with me to the hospital. Look at their backpacks on. We've been waiting for hours. Are you only friends with other Arabs? No. But these kids are Indian.

They're Indian, yeah. What's funny is like we were hanging out together just because we just happen to be bunked together in the same room. And whenever we would go places, people would just assume that like we're part of the same trip because we're all brown. Right. You know what I mean? And then for the first couple times, you'd be like, like, and then for the first couple times, you'd be, like, like, no, I'm from L.A. and these guys are from New York,

but we hated doing that clunky correction every time. So we're like, yeah, we're all from New York. It's sort of, I should just say, yeah, I'm here of. Yeah, yeah, when you are, this is easier. It's a little different. By the way, this reminds me so much of hostile life. The kid's got his glasses on his forehead. Yeah, whatever.

He's got the double water bottle, the big one. Yeah, that they just carry on. It's a staple of a fucking hostler. Get the two liter and walk. Yeah, they're like good dude. They didn't have to stay at that hospital that long with me. Well, the one behind him is definitely trying to fuck this old Italian lady. But who wouldn't?

Look at that skin. He's like, she's radiant. Yeah. And then this guy in front's like looking at right at the camera like, can you believe he's trying to fuck another old lady? I know, but that's what he does. Yeah. And then again, another one.

Now she's trying to, you know, fuck him, obviously. You don't seem swole there? No, I am. Okay. Or not, I mean, it's not as bad as you'll see. Look at that phone behind you? Yeah. Can I see that?

They check my blood. So I got that going on. Oh, so cool. Enhance. What the fuck. Enhance. Quadrant 7. Leave blurry.

Yeah, it's pretty funny. Leave blurry. Leave blurry. Like a CSI episode where they go enhance and it doesn't get any, the resolution doesn't increase. Enhance. Enhance. And it's just one pixel and they go, got them. Yeah.

Enhance. There's no enhance. Like, well, no, this is before. You can only get better technology forward, not backwards. All right. So that's what it started as, okay? What the fuck is that? So it's just this red rash thing?

No, I mean, What are those Adidas? Oh. I'm joking, I'm joking. So it started there, like on the back, on the back of my foot, like that kind of. Oh, that's the back, okay. I think or the side. It looks like Australia.

Yeah, dude. Do you think they did it? Can't roll them out. An Australian bit me. Like, they bite in the shape of their continent. Okay. So, yeah. It was kind of some, it was on that ankle area.

You got a grandmother foot. What, I don't know what. So, okay. So that's what it was when I got admitted to the hospital. This is the state I was in. Yeah, clip your nails, bro. Yeah, that's true. I was wearing basketball shoes.

I didn't think I'd be doing like an only fan's feet pick right now. This is a bit much. I know, I know. Let me turn it off. So we're up to speed. Okay. It's all right. You can leave it up there.

I don't want to leave it up. This is gross to me. Can we do a different? What? Yeah, go to the next one, I guess. Well, then. Freeze it anywhere. Can I unplug it?

No, don't unplug it. Go to a mat. go to the map of Italy, where you are. I'll go back a few. Go to the fucking... Google Maps. So, I have to sleep, and that guy's wailing, and he's like, uh-huh, uh-huh.

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and tell them that you'll be tripping sent you. Please. Let's get back to the episode. So he's speaking Italian. The nurses are translating. She goes, the doctor is asking, because he's like puzzled and he's like looking at it with a pen and stuff and she goes he wants to know did you did you burn your foot on a scooter

and I go what because doctor wants to know did you like burn it on a scooter and when I heard that and just the state of the facility and the way it's being run and the question from a doctor looking at what's happening to my foot being did I burn it on a scooter me like a hot scooter you touched it in the wrong Yeah, like maybe it was a... But also, no. No shit. Yeah, no, that's not even close to right.

If in your medical opinion, you think I burned my leg on a VESPA is what's going on here? And wouldn't I come in with, hey, I think it might be related to the massive pain I was in. Right. Right. Right. And then felt a redness right afterwards. Yes, exactly. I'm going to suggest it might be related.

Yeah. It was just so wrong. Wow. Yeah. And it didn't give me confidence in the facility and all that stuff. And then I had to go to Madrid, I think the following day. No. Yeah, because I had this whole trip plan.

Like, what do I do? Travel tip for Mari? What? Don't over plan. Yeah, but one or two cities, stay, go, and it's time to go. You plan at home, then you leave yourself no wiggle room. That's just a travel tip for me. Well, I guess that would have been beneficial.

So do like one or two and then pivot. Do you have one or two and have those places you might want to check out? But if you don't get there, it's okay. So if you're gone for two weeks, have two spots you want to like see while you're there. But if you don't get to one because you met some girl and takes down on some of venture, it's all right, I won't do it. So it's like give yourself room to improv. Yeah, have a couple things you definitely want to do.

A couple of things you wouldn't mind doing. I want to sit at a French coffee shop. But not, I want to do this one, this one, this one. Tuesday, I'm going to sit a coffee shop from two to four. And then I'm going to like, nah, no, no. That's good advice. But I mean, I had this flight. I had this flight coming.

So, and I go, what am I going to be? They still wanted me to stay at the hospital. I go, can I, can I leave? And they go, no, like, the doctor wants you to stay here, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh, okay. And then I'm just like, what the fuck do I do? I got to go to Madrid tomorrow. This doctor doesn't know what he's doing.

And then so after he gave me that diagnosis and they went away, I just, I took my hospital robe off and I put my clothes on. And I like, look, I looked around. I broke out of the hospital. Really? Yeah, I took my bracelet off. And then I just, I broke out of the hospital. And I remember. Running with that, with that.

Like an IV bag? Yeah. Just running with slang. No, I actually love it. I just, I stalk up on a few for later. Oh, yeah. So I just remember busting out of those doors because I'd been in there for so long.

And I'm just like, just freedom. Like literally, I'm like, I haven't used my eyes before, you know? And then I walked back to the hostel that I was staying at. And I told the guys what happened and all that shit. And I'm like, it was crazy, dude. And so I said bye to them and stuff. And then I got on a flight to Madrid the next day. And then I was in Madrid

And it was just getting more and more swollen Oh, what he didn't give you anything for it? Uh, no. You just left before he could do it. Well, because he said, did you burn it on a scooter? And then I bounce. And you're like, fuck you, I'm out of here. Pretty much.

Wow. I didn't want his prescription for a burnt leg on a scooter. Like, what's going to give me? I was in Ecuador and I was getting a, I was having some pain in my chin, I think, or something like that. And the doctor was like, let me see your feet. He goes, oh, your toe. And my picky toe kind of goes under.

It just kind of goes, it's like it got bent over and it goes under. He goes, oh, it's that. I'm like, oh, no, it's always been like that. That's not it. This pain is like new in my shin. And he goes, no, it's that. It's your foot is formed wrong. I was like, how do you explain to a doctor?

Like, hey, dude, 100% is not that. Yeah. I've had that since I was three. So it's not that. I'm telling you this. Can you give me another thing? I'm like, we're going to get out here. Pretty much.

This guy's an idiot. So that's why I bounced. And then I got back to the hostel. And then I think I did pay for, I was trying to avoid this, but it was a lot of money to get a house call. So the hostel had a service where you had a doctor come to the, it was like 300 euro or something. It was a lot. So I just ponied it up.

And then he prescribed some stuff and I was taking some pills and I think it was some ointment too or something. But it wasn't working. I don't think he prescribed me the right stuff. So I'm in Madrid and it's getting worse and worse now. Now it's so swollen, I can't wear my shoes anymore. No. Those basketball shoes I was wearing on the whole truck. trip I couldn't they wouldn't fit my foot wouldn't fit in the shirt where I'm cool sort of all

laced up like an Arab wood uh like just not that tight though yeah like kind of loose the way cool people do it was such a nutty professor foot it wouldn't it wouldn't even it wouldn't even fit in a cool unlaced way yeah so I had to wear flip flops uh what I had to wear flip flops because it was just so swollen with grandma foot yeah with uh uh professor clump wow so let me show you the progression yeah okay that's so this This keeps getting grosser. It's previously on Fahim's fucked up for it. How it started, how it's going.

That's right. Previously on Uggfoot. Oh, yeah, it's me breaking out. Me right after it broke it out of the Roman hospital. God damn, Fahim, you could have gone in such a different direction in your life. How so? You could have dropped a package in that trash can behind you, if you know what I mean. Oh, my God, yeah.

Damn. Okay. Mama did this for you. Look at this. Oh, my God. You want a wharf? What the fuck? You think that's from a scooter?

You think that's from a scooter. You got a Plato foot. How gross is that? Your foot then looks like Bobby Lee's I'm sure does now. That's a good point, yeah. He definitely has a foot like that. Like if you cut that open, the pus that what the fuck?

Dude, that's dangerous. I thought I was going to lose my leg. I mean, I know you're okay now, but I'm like, no, you have, just seeing that, I'm like, you got to go scene right then, right now. Yeah. You're going to lose your fucking foot. I swear to God, when I was in Madrid. and I'm having to wear flip flops.

I thought I might lose this. And you're in another country. And you're in another country. You're like, I don't trust this medical field here. Yes, exactly. I don't know how it works. There's a system back home. Everybody lives with their grandfather.

Wow. And now it's climbing. It's like climbing up my leg. What the fuck is it? I don't know. And then the foot's getting way more and more swollen. Oh my God. And okay.

That's a lot is bad from that one. Well, okay. So, yeah, I'm in Madrid and I have this fucked up foot in It's just getting worse and worse every day. And I'm in Madrid for three days, I think. It's hard to even enjoy the countries I'm in now because... For sure. I'm in so much pain.

Does it itch? A little bit too, yeah. And then I have the same... Just kind of get ice cream or like gelato. I mean, I could, but it would just sort of like... I wasn't able to enjoy a trip like this that much because I'm not going to lose my foot. Right. You're scared, too.

Yeah. So I'm in Madrid for three days, have as much of... fun as I can. I go to the, is it the Prado Museum? I do the tourist, and it's hard because there's so much

walking in Europe. Yeah, right. And I'm hobbling on this foot. Wow. Like I still want to explore. That's cool of you, though, you're willing to go out and do it still.

A lot of people are like, I'm done, I'm just laying down. Yeah. But here's the thing. Hostels, they're not designed to be kicking it in. Yeah.

It is weird when you see somebody like, hey, I'm traveling for two years or a year. I'm sick today. So I'm not going anywhere. I'm just going to stay in the bed in the hostel or just in the courtyard and just chill for two days and go over my notes or something. Yeah.

But it's like you're all alone. Everybody gets up and goes out. Yeah, you adventure. So do the Madrid for three days. And then I fly to Paris. And then, so Paris was the one place where I was able to get couch surfing, a host. So this guy is named Florian. Coolest dude, man.

Like, we still keep in touch a little bit on social media, like on Facebook and Instagram and all that. So he hosted me at his place. place and it was awesome because like he's a local so he knows all the great food spots like in theory when couch surfing is done right it's amazing i i still wanted to do it when i got back from asia i was like i need a host some people i know that they need a place and it would be cool like let me show you a cool new york and then i was like i want some stranger in my place yeah well if not staying at the place if you know someone in whatever city you're visiting it's such a life hack to like what's there to do what's cool here it's tribal knowledge they know everything

thing. TripAdvisor isn't going to know. When I was in Austria, visiting my friend, Innsbrook, and she was like, let me take you to the cool burrito place we all go to. And like, in Austria? She goes, yeah, it's a cool new burrito place. We go get burritos to sit by the river. Everybody does it.

And you're like, I never would have done this. Yeah, how would you ever know that? A place to open last year. And a burrito in Austria. How was it? Really solid, but it was just like everybody hip was there. That was the cooler part about it. Okay.

I mean, it's not like, you know, a Cali burrito, but like. But they don't know any better. They don't know any better. It's in the right ballpark. It's a spretzel that's wrapped. Yeah. It's probably, it's like a chicken season wrap, and you don't have the heart to tell him.

It's not a barrio. Technically, it's a wrap. It's a wrap. Oh, yeah, so luckily, he has a doctor, my Paris friend, you know? He goes, because my foot's still fucked up and shit. He goes, you should come see my doctor. She's great.

I forgot what her name is, you know? And I'm like, yeah, that'd be great, man. Can you set up an appointment? So he gets me an appointment. Oh. And I see his doctor. And this doctor is so good, man. She just, she knows what it is.

She prescribes me an ointment, I think, and maybe a pill. And I start, and it's so cheap, too, man. When I pay for it, it's, it's like 40 bucks. And you have no insurance, so it's full price you pay. Yeah, but it's like super affordable. And then it starts working, dude. Oh. And it's such a relief that it's finally.

How long until it starts going down? Yeah. Like two, three days. It starts like deflating. I'm like thank God dude. It's going in the right direction instead of the wrong one. I want to see how many more photos I have of this.

This is this. Okay, here I've got like two more. Oh, here we go, here we go. So this is me in the waiting room to see the doctor in Paris. Yeah. I'm wearing my fat guy flip-flops. It doesn't look quite as bad.

Yeah. So the soul's your feet. Well, not gross. Yeah, that's true. So, and then, I mean, this is kind of pretty bad. Ugh. Yeah God damn

So I think that's before I start taking the stuff I mean you're such a casual post for near death I know I was like documenting it and stuff Yeah So it's fun to look back to have these photos Yeah, I really is I forgot how bad it was because you hit me up about the show You know or I asked you you know

Like yo I'm in town doing the pods and all that stuff For the special and you're like oh do this one He's like you have any stories about travel And I'm like well remember my foot got fucked up And then so I had to dig up these photos. I love that. When I hear that, I'm like, perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

In Italy? Great, excellent. My win. Yeah, I go, my foot got Elswollen. You go, perfect. And then you go, bring picks. So I had to like, I had to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

These cameras aren't even on. You're just going to jack off to these when I leave. Yeah. You're like, yeah, yeah, just leave them with me. We're going to punch him in and post. And I just hear you come when I leave. So I had to dig these up. I had to like go into Facebook deep in my house.

And then it's been so long since I've seen these photos of my feet and like as I'm watching them on this big screen with you right now. Yeah. I'm actually retroactively terrified. Wow. Nice. Nice. I mean, I'm tired for you. I look at this and like I'm just so grateful to be walking right now, you know? What was it? I think I I I think it was an infection of some sort from I think it's from a bug bite from that first hostel in Rome. This is my hypothesis. Wow. I think the the doctor in Paris thought so too. I think. I think the the doctor in Paris thought so too. But right? How does that happen? Would you ride any scooters though? No, you motherfucker. Are you friends with that Italian dog there? Why does it keep going off? Did you ride any scooters?

Eskuter. Eskuter. So then I took the medication and then eventually I got back to normal. I got my life back. Oh, yeah. Look at, I'm wearing shoes again. Yeah, they're tiny again. I can almost do it.

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Let's get back to the episode. Did you, so you really didn't enjoy Italy much at all? Well, Italy, I had a few days before it happened, though. I had that one in that kind of, no, also, it wasn't fully blown until, like, it started hurting a ton in Madrid. Yeah. And then the tail end of Paris wasn't as bad because that's getting better. But Madrid was fucking terrible. Yeah.

And like the day before when I was in Italy, that was awful, too, because I went to the hospital and then I was sleeping with that whaling guy and just being. He's definitely dead. Let's hope so. No, I'm just kidding. So, and just being in this hospital, like a 1950s hospital in Rome, and that was scary too. Yeah. Because you go, what's going to happen to me?

I'm a long way from home. Am I going to die here? It is frightening because you realize how much you trust your own medical, even though you don't trust American medical, when you're gone, you're like, oh, that's all I want. Yeah. I know what it is. First bad is sometimes people talk about American medicine and all this stuff.

You don't want that. I'll tell you you don't want that. Yeah. Damn. Did you, what was it going to say? All right. Well, that was good. That's hilarious.

Would you go back there? Where? Italy? Yeah. I did go back. You did? Yeah. Oh, my parents.

That's kind of good, like, revenge on that trip. Kind of. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, like, I went to Rome, right? And then. The second time, or this time. Well, the first time I went, you know?

And then all this shit happened. I was planning for one of the days to go to the Vatican. I wanted to check that out. Uh-huh. That was part of the time. the reason to go to the trip like i just wanted to be a cool place to check out yeah case the place yeah case it you know yeah pick up some you know notes a lot of gold is there i think okay yeah they got deep pockets man and uh but the foot was all fucked up so i couldn't go to the vatican and it sucks because i'm like

oh i guess i'll never get to go to the vatican and then my parents were doing a europe trip and they go do you want to come i'm like yeah sure so i got to do it when i went with my parents so that was kind of nice That's also not bad because also like it wasn't like you weren't gonna be fucking at the Vatican. You're like, no, I can't fuck. I thought my mom and dad are here. I gotta do the Vatican the lame way. Someone's got to do so many drugs here. You think it's a great fuck spot?

Yeah. To treat like the Vatican, like Coachella. Yeah. Like I go to the Vatican. I take shrooms. I so want to do for trumes. It's like, yeah, yeah. It's like burning man.

Like we all fuck each other. We're all in open relationships. We fucking St. Peter's Square. They got to wave the thing with the box with the incense coming or whatever, you know? Yeah. And if you're in the way, they're so mad, they're just like, like, kind of swinging at you. These guys are like, beat it tourists. Really?

Yeah. What is that smell? Do you know the religious thing of it? No. It's sort of like fajitas. It's like Benihana. It's very showy, huh? Yeah, can you just bring it out?

Normal? Yeah, it'll still be hot. It doesn't have to be currently cooking. Finish the cooking, then bring it. That's cool. Fun. Do you still travel now? You still go anywhere?

No, I mean, I feel like with our jobs of stand-up, it's kind of a hybrid. So, I mean, I do get to see some cool places because stand-up takes me there. Like, I got to do Amsterdam. Have you done Tumler out there? Tumelers, yeah. Yeah. It's dope. Yeah.

It feels like a club in the States. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but specifically Amsterdam is probably the most like America. In Europe, non-American, English Europe, the most like America. It's booming full of just do regular stand-up. It's weird how much they love just standard American comedy, and you don't have to switch anything or pour anything over. Because they have Boom Chicago out there too.

Because there's Second City, which is Improv. And then I think once you get to a high level, there's, they have a, yeah, yeah, it's called Boom Chicago. Like Sudakis came out of there. I think some other people. Oh, but not the one over there. No, the one over there. Sudakis came out of Amsterdam?

Jordan Peel was out there too. I think they start at the ones in Chicago. and then they go to Boom Chicago. Like, Mormon to get transferred to other? Kind of like when you, it's like the big leagues. Boom Chicago is like big. They don't let anybody do Boom Chicago. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. So it's Boom Chicago and Amsterdam. But you would just think why, why in Amsterdam is. And then Toomler is a great club. I got to be out there for like a week. It is cool. Here's my advice to you, to anybody who gets a gig out there or something like that. You know, occasionally we'll get a festival somewhere.

Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, and you're so, all right, they're flying me to Switzerland. Me and Morrissey and Jessica Michelle. What's the festival out there? There was a French festival in Montreux. And they were like, let's do some English speaking. Let's try some English speaking. One show out of the 50 shows they had.

Great. I met Luis Gola because they had a South African contingency. And then there was me, Morrissey, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jessica Michelle, Kevin Isso, and Mike from comics you should know. From Chicago. Mike, fuck. I didn't seem so long.

It was great. It was awesome. But here's my advice. Say, great. They're flying me there from the third to the seventh, right? Can you fly me back on the 14th? Oh, really? Before they even get the tickets, I'd like to fly back away.

And then finished your gigs, go around. Sure, no skin of our barbacks. Because it costs the same to them. We're not putting you up. Or can you fly me back from Berlin? Because I'm going to go from there, take a train. Sure, okay. That's a good tip, dude.

Yeah. Yeah. You're already out there. Yeah. wasting a day of travel. You're already out there. Man, I should have done that. Like, I've done the Vodafone Fest in Ireland.

I've done that twice. I should have piggyback some other shit while I was out there. Pigback some other shit. You get other gigs to pay you. And they're paying for the flight. And also just like, well, let me go to Cliffs of Moore while I'm there. Let me just go do something. Two days.

Whatever you can spare. Anyway. I went to the Guinness factory. That was neat. That is cool. I didn't go. I thought it was lame. Really?

Guinness is Guinness. I get that home. But now I realize it's better in Ireland. Can you tell the difference? They can. They say that though They do and they're dumb They say a lot of things

Like they want to be free But they really want to be ruled Where else do you want to go? Travel wise? Japan Japan A lot of people are saying that It's just so different

A lot of people are saying that Because everything you see Is kind of a shade of Western society I think Japan is just fascinating And like here's a completely different way to do it And fucking excelling dude You know what I mean?

Yeah Like I heard the 7-Elevens have dope food and I'm happy with the 7-11 stuff here in America No, I'm just kidding It's a quito I mean a big bite I won't turn my nose at a 7-Eleven big bite I've eaten many

Yeah I have a hot dog It's been a while it's been a while but I have Like when I haven't planned my day very well And I'm in a pinch I'll get a 7-Eleven I got it, I just got to put some food in me That slice Well I was telling somebody else

Because like New York you have so many food options It's like a video game here Because there's so much walking Your tank is empty Just get us slice and go There's a slice Just a slice and go, gawk, go, go, go, boo, and then you're able to. Something like, just warm it up a little.

Anything fresh? Like, this one came out two minutes ago. Give me that, don't warm it up. Let's go. I got to go. Yes, everyone's standing. People are in business suits just like scarfing down some food and they keep on walking. There's none of that in L.A.

Get your crust in there and something. Yeah. Just eating over a trash can. There's none of that quick eating culture in L.A. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, that's why I do a big bite sometimes. So Japan. Japan.

That'd be cool. And then Australia, I'd like to do. Never been. Oh, there's gigs there for sure. Really? Oh, yeah. Melbourne and Sydney. Sydney, the comedy store at Sydney might be the best.

Are you just breaking even or what? I mean, you wouldn't right now at this point in your career. Well, when I went, I was below where you are now. However, when I started going, however, they were almost no one going. People go now. So some villains there, Sam Rils. I was one of the only guys that would go. Who's go?

Yeah, so the main credit I saw at the comedy store at Sydney. you know how they have like everybody in the past the main credit was from America really yeah like that wow welcome and now it's like that's no longer no one gives a shit no longer that out there it is very cool though and there's also parts I want to see like

I think actually this time I'm going to go to Canberra I've never been Perth is really fun and interesting but it's so far away from everything else Cairns in the north I went and I want to go hiking over my friend told him about it I went mushroom picking in the Gold Coast

eating them right there It's such a clean mushroom high It's so they're not dried out It's so clean So wait they're like magic mushrooms? Yeah And you just like Day after a fucking rain

Go fucking pick them off patties And then are they as potent as ones You would take here and stuff? No because they're not dry it out So it's like still got a lot of water And moisture in them Oh so the drying out makes it more potent It's per per like weight

Ah okay okay But like same stuff But if you freeze dry it It's like a shrink wrapping up your clothes. It weighs the same. It's just this much space or this much space. So, yeah. So you just have to eat more of them, but it was so fun.

It was so, it's, it's, Australia rules. They're also great laughers. Well, they have a great. Pieces of shit. Worst Coke in the world. Literally the worst Coke in the world. And they do more of it than anywhere else. Because it's so bad.

They got to get enough into it. That's exactly right. You see an Australian anywhere else? Like, you got Coke? What the fuck? This is over 4% pure. Is it just so hard to get done? good coke out there because it's like in Australia?

I think the story was that cops made a big raid and then they said we got $2 million with a Coke and it should have been like 50 grand but because they said that then that became the price and so you can't get it out there which I don't you don't import coke do you maybe you do I really don't know yeah they got to import it right you got to import I guess so like maybe it's hard to get there and so they just cut it to shit they just get so powdered up this fentanyl a thing out there I don't think so I think so I think it's just an America. Legitimately, I'm not even joking. USA.

I heard Biden went to like when he met with China. He was like, hey, we can discuss everything else. You got to stop with the fentanyl. And they're like, we can talk about it. Which I always thought it came from the cartels, but I guess they're saying it's from China. Yeah. All through Europe though. You get powder in Europe.

That's clean. You don't even think twice about it. It might be a different drug, but it's, there's no fentanyl. It's not a lace of fentanyl. Man, they're, they're fucking us with TikTok and fentanyl. Two fronts, dude. I like how they added the stem tab on TikTok, like people in America are going to click on engineering videos.

Oh, really? Yeah, because they were getting all this shit that like TikTok is just rotting the youth's brains. It's all like, shakes, jumping up and down. And then just added a stem tab. Like, no, we have learning. It's like engineering, science. I don't know what the T stands for it.

But then engineering. Engineering math. Yeah, man. Nice. Training, trans. Do you have any travel tips in general? a general travel tip like I just had for you

for good yeah yours is good just like have them book a later travel date from a different location so I can maximize it and also don't overplan that was in Illinois

oh yeah yeah don't do too much you remind me what's a good travel plan well how about this how are hostels how are hostels they're good

they're utilitarian you know yeah I've been there with I've been in a hospital with a 65 year old Belgian he hung he was cool

it is for the youth but not But it's, don't view it as like, oh man, it sucks. I'm with so many other people. There's a time in your life to be doing it. Yeah. And you actually get to meet other cool people. So much better than a hotel.

Yeah, yeah. You don't want to be in a hotel that young in backpacking. You kind of want to be another. You're going to take a nice shower and have a nice bed, but I could meet no one. I've never met anyone in a hotel. Yeah, hotels is for once you're like over 30. I've met great long-term friends in hostels. Yeah.

Well, Fahim, the new special is called House Money, bro. It's a little way to talk right now. Guys, check it out. It's on my YouTube channel. It's free, guys. It's free. I need this.

So I will tell you, as always, when somebody will help their specials, if you go leave a comment on their special, watch it for sure, because Fahim is one of, legitimately, you are one of the best comics around. Yeah, that's nice. Thanks, man. Yeah. And in fact, when people said, L.A.

Comedy is dead. I said, no, it's not. And it's a constant argument. Really? And they're like, what do you mean? I'm like, well, it's full of people. I say, there's the Fahim of six years ago. The guy nobody knew who was just crushing.

Yeah. There's new ones. Yeah. LA's not dead. You know, just because six people left, it may room for what I always say, the Fahim of six years ago. Just these crushers that are nobody's. I mean, I feel like I'm still the Fahim of six years ago sometimes. No, you've got a name now.

Really? Yeah, I do a bit about you and Colum Torell. Oh, yeah? And then depending on who. who claps, I say, oh, I'm in that guy's face. I guess because you live with yourself for so long, you don't, you still feel like that comic nobody ever cares about or, you know,

the like crushing and obscurity. Because you'll just, you'll do well a lot and then you don't feel the needle move that much. And you're like, does it? It's slow. Yeah. Well, I will tell you, when you go see house money, leave a comment because it helps with the algorithm.

Just describe Fahim's disgusting ankles, just be like worst ankles comedy his ankles are worse than but yeah roast my feet yeah roast his feet in the comments and then enjoy it also sure just promise you won't jack off to my nutty professor for definitely and if you jacked off say the say the experience of jacking off to his nutty professor feet yeah and if you do jack off at least leave a super thanks yeah let me see oh yeah give them some guys the way we do these now i should say this too is is we're paying for these ourselves there's no comedy central and hbio and netflix paying for most of them so if you want i get it now everybody's got money but if you want

us to keep making these give two bucks give five bucks give 20 bucks depending on what you got but there's no reason not to give at least one dollar no matter how broke you are and then they'll make their money back and they keep do it again you can get more great comedy also if you're watching this episode and you have your own travel stories of Italy or hospitals and other countries leave that as a comment subscribe and yeah that's it nice man thanks for having me yeah always good And thanks for the advice on self-releasing a special again. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm hoping it works. They just got to see you. It's so funny. They just got to see you. Thanks, man. Thanks. All right. Bye, everybody.

Now next week. Well, that's the episode, everybody. Thank you very much for Heme for coming in. Guys, I'm telling you again, Fahim's a fucking crusher. That was fun. I like doing podcasts where it's taking you back, way, way back to when someone was kind of a different person.

Before they even got into comedy, really. When they were just, like, wide-eyed and, like, the relation to where you travel is different now than it was then. You know, he couldn't do the, like, the wealthy way to do it. It was just like he wouldn't do it the same way now. So it's like all these trips that we have on you be tripping are about the experience. Not about what there is to do, but what you ended up doing. And for me, my Paris, if I ever drew a Paris episode,

was all about this writing class I took with Rolls Pots in Paris, you know? That was what I did. Drinking wine with the other classmates, getting some fucking baguette and sausage and cheese and just sitting in a Palais, I think, no. Something gardens. I'm just eating it and writing and just, I don't know. And you're like, did you child the Michelin of Restaurant's?

I did not. That wasn't my experience. That would have been Tim Dillon's experience. Anyway, Fahim is a crusher. Guys, check out intrusive thoughts right now. It's his full special. Subscribe to him on there and watch all this stand-up. He's a great comic, you guys.

He's one of the more underrated guys of all time, and he's legit, a crusher. And if you're looking for something to do, check him out on the road. New Brunswick, this is in July, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts, and then August and beyond. We got Dallas, Texas, Bend, Oregon, Washington, D.C., one of my favorite clubs in the world of Washington, D.C. Improv, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, Brooklyn at the Bell House, Seattle, Washington, alas. That's a homecoming for him. Toronto at the Comedy Bar, and Austin, Texas, at the Comedy Mothership, one of the best comedy clubs in the world. not just because my friend owns it, but because also I get free drinks, and also it is a great place to watch a stand-up comedy show.

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A lot of these travel bloggers, they don't come to America, so it's tough to get to it. Some I will get to, but it takes some time. So, keep suggesting you. And if you know, let's say a musician who went on a crazy trip, like Action Bronson went to like wherever he's from, not Sarajevo, one of those Eastern European countries, let me know

that. And I go like, hey, would you tell me about this trip you went on? Something specific. Other guys are just like the travelers in general. Oliver Tree, that's because of your suggestions. Chupinski, because of your suggestions. You know, small-brain American? Because he's just, I'll have these guys on again.

But I appreciate it. I don't know what was out there. They're not just travel bloggers, musicians, actors, athletes. Yeah. Maybe Josh Cahley, I'll not be fun. I mean, wrong, obviously I get a fact, but I never run into it. Anyway, politicians.

I want to get Tulsi Gabbard on and talk about what's like these stations overseas. She's into it. We'll see. She's busy. All right, well, that's the episode, you guys. Today's episode is produced by your Mops House Network. It's edited by Alan Caffe.

I have no jokes about them. But that's it. Until next week, everybody. Goodbye.