You Be Trippin' - Greece w/ H. Foley | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

Follow H. Foley on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/hfoleycomedy/?hl=en On this episode of You Be Trippin, H. Foley rents a dune buggy and thought he was being kidnapped in Greece. On the show, they talk about traveling with your significant other, H. Foley’s fear of flying, and taking a ferry ride to Santorini. They also discuss The Acropolis, The Parthenon, a crazy cab driver, and getting drunk on airplanes. Also, H. Foley threw his used toilet paper in the trash while Ari carried his around in his bag, which is pretty gross. Other topics include: Greek food, local beers, swimming, and really steep steps. Apolamváno! You Be Trippin' Ep. 25 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://store.ymhstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm ready, baby. This is comfy. This is nice. How's that chair? It's my favorite podcast chair of all time. 100%. Okay. I'm usually sitting like this. Yeah? Fuck. It's my favorite podcast chair of all time. 100%. I'm usually sitting like this. Yeah? Fuck. I got another one to show you.

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Very nice. You can fit on a fucking, you know, on a needle. I feel like I could have like a scotch in my hand right now. I got it over there. We're talking about a, do you remember the two old guys? The two old guys in the Saturday morning cartoons that were like safari guys. Yeah.

And remember they had the map of the world? This is what it feels like, yes. They had those hats. It was like a brandy that you could sniffed. Yeah, with the old map behind us? Yeah, maps rules. Is that up to date? Pretty much, yeah, I had an old, old one in the other place

and then it was like, wait, where's the Czech Republic? Oh, Czechoslovakia. I have one. Look how big Kazakhstan is. I know, I have one in my room from my dad's office from Willow Grove Naval Base in the 90s with the Soviet Union. Whoa, really?

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I was in Vietnam. It's just one. And they showed us really? Just as USSR. Oh, that's it. Yeah. I was in Vietnam and they had these old maps of China there

and they're like, look at their Chinese maps saying that they do not control this territory. It's like, that's them. Now they're saying it is theirs. And I'm like, whoa, you guys are. Yikes. You have better problems. Welcome to you be tripping. Yeah. The travel podcast. I take you to a new place every week

with a great guest. This is the only podcast made entirely of Ukrainian refugee labor. The guest today is H Foley. Thanks, buddy. Yeah, glad to have you on. Yeah, excited. Where are we going today? What are you going to take me? We're going to Greece. You're my inspiration. My travel inspiration because I never did anything like that ever in my life. Really never do you remember when I texted you? We hardly knew each other. I texted you a picture. Yeah, I was in Hawaii. Yeah the first time I was in Hawaii Yeah, it was 2019 and we were walking through the mountain somewhere Yeah, it was like this trail and I had like the hat on. And it was like this trail. And I had like the hat on and fucking, it was like, I felt like I was in fucking Laos. And I sent you a picture of like, yeah, hey, where I'm at. I'm out here. Yeah, you did it.

You got somewhere. Got somewhere, never been anywhere. Doesn't it feel good? It does feel good. I mean, like legitimately, when you're like, reach a foreign place, which Hawaii is. It was to me at the time, yeah. It's still, I mean, it's not ours.

True. Yeah, we've colonized it for sure. True. But like, you just, I think you accomplished something. Yeah. Like, look at me in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of nowhere. Look at me now, Pop.

And Greece, the one that we're gonna talk about today, that was like the big one for me. So before that, it was only, we went to Hawaii a few times Yeah With my girl now I never traveled with any girls before this and then when we started when we got together after like years of being together Cuz you know I hadn't you know, no money and stuff like that

But even before we had no money we would like go to Boston for a weekend We'd go to DC for a little fun's fun, too. Very fun. Never been to Boston before loved Boston We went up there multiple times on multiple weekends just in the winter Just like stayed in the North End stayed in the Back Bay couple of nice dinners walked around did some shit like that Loved it and then we slowly graduated to go into Hawaii in 2019 because that's where she's from. So you sure she'd been there before?

Yeah, she lived there. She grew up there. So now convinced you finally let's go convinced me finally let's go. Yeah. And before that barely anything. Nothing. Never traveled at all. Never even on the bug.

Never. I talked to Sagalow and I think Canon once a long time ago pre-panic at Stand Up New York at Eastville and and I was just talking about camping and sagalow was like I have no interest. I'm like really? Because it doesn't there's nothing in it that interests me. So I think people like that with travel too. I want to be like try it. I went to Lake George for two weeks camped with because my college buddies family had a house there. That was all right, but not a lot of interest in camping. Yeah, but travel gets like that too. People like I've never

even thought about going somewhere else. But then when you do I feel like it feels great. Yeah. Yeah. So how come Greece? We went to Greece because I've always lived in Astoria, which is a predominantly Greek neighborhood really is best food best Greek food and Years ago before I was a comedian I dated a girl that lived on dip Mars Boulevard and we stumbled across cake lightest that diverted cake lightest Which is like my favorite restaurant was that little Greek place on dip Mars? I think they have one here, but maybe I'm not they did a day I don't know if they still have them but they did they did have right on 14th. Yes. Yeah I don't know if it's still there

And then when you're in a kick lot, oh, yeah, the verdict it clitus And then when me and my girl got together that was like our first date was out there well, like maybe someday we'll go to Greece and Then when I was up here to do comedy in 2013 My first job was a Greek place in the West Village snack Taverna over at Bedford and Morton I love how I fell in love with it how people like some like pick a country like it gets in their head. Sure. Like a like a weed. The food, the this, that. Yeah. And some people are like no interest in that. Tons of interest in this one.

You're like, OK. And then the opposite for someone else. Yeah. So, OK, that's great. And then the only other big trip we've gone is France. Yeah, that's another time. Another episode. Yeah, we went to Paris at Christmas and everything I've been told my whole life about Europe and about all that stuff has been a complete lie No, yeah, I mean like what I mean I come from like, you know a blue-collar family You know, we've down the Jersey Shore. I think the only the only big vacations we ever took was in 1989 we went to Lake Tahoe to see my cousins.

And other than that it's been the Jersey Shore, the Poconos or some off-brand amusement park. And you know Europe's this and they don't like ya and this and that and all that stuff. Then when we were in France it was like everything that I was told was a lie. The food in Europe's better. The food in Europe is great. That's crazy.. The food in Europe's better. The food in Europe is great.

That's crazy. That food in Europe is great. We'll do Paris next time you're back. They really got us. But I do remember asking you, did you have trouble ordering English? You're like, no, they were all fine. No.

I don't speak, in France I was able to, I knew a little bit to be like, hey, is it okay if we talk in English? That's the only thing that I did. But in Greece I didn't know anything. You can't know so I just use an Italian accent the whole time They did not appreciate it Where'd you start what'd you do so this what we did. So it was my girl's birthday No, we went on Labor Day. Okay, we were there for a week And as much as like me and my girl like bicker and argue and stuff like that when the rubber hits the road

We travel very very well together. Why don't be it? They'll be an argument at the airport You know what I mean? They'll be they'll be there'll be something to kick things off from what tired Whatever, you know, we both just have like social anxiety, you know getting on the plane Something she's fidgeting, you know this and that near thing. There'll be a little thing But once we get there, we're really really good and we've been very lucky Even though it's only been a few times, you know, compared to like the way you've traveled, we always get real lucky with like, cause we don't know anything,

like you know, neighborhood wise, whatever. So, pick a hotel, pick a place, pick things to do, it always works out. Can I say that I've had, I just like had a thought about this because when I went to Southeast Asia, I was worried. I'm like, I don't know how am I gonna meet people, how am I gonna, whatever.

Dude, I was petrified to go to Greece. This chick I was dating, she says any activity you do is gonna be with a bunch of other people doing that activity. So you have some shared interest. Sure. Or other travelers. My theory is no matter what neighborhood you picked, it would have been great.

Right. You know, everyone gets locked in, I'm like, is this the right one? Is this the right hotel? And you're like, you're in you picked it would have been great, right? You know everyone gets locked in like is this the right one is this the right hotels? It's and you're like you're in Greece. It's gonna be great But I never wanted to be the guy coming back and like because when we were going hard fuck that you're gonna hit it over there It's all touristy. They rob you everything's expensive. I never wanted to be that jerk off Yeah, so like in in my heart. I have like a traveler's heart I just never did it because I was, you know, lazy or broke or doing drugs in a room. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. But Oh,

yeah. So we mapped it out. So where'd you go? We went to Athens. So we were going to Santorini. Santorini is where we wanted to go. Okay, the island of the isle of Santorini in in south of Greece is nothing agency. Yes There's a population 4,500 people in the offseason by each and is it that's a three and shit So there's a bunch of islands down there and Oh Santorini islands Santorini. I look there's a bunch of them. There's a And oh, Santerini Islands Santerini. I okay. There's a bunch of them. There's a but Mekanose Piros all those islands down there. Yeah, but this one is like the the main tourist spot. Yeah, which

Somebody had just gone and was like you should go to the other ones It's a little touristy we had had our hearts set on going to San Serrini So we were like fuck it, you know, we're doing it and like it has all those beautiful White and blue buildings and all that stuff and it's built on yeah that thing right there go back to that Boom that so that used to all be one island a circle. Oh really and then what a meteor hit no volcano Okay a couple of times but the volcano Exploded and it and it and it fell back in and then that's the that's the caldera. What do you mean the middle? Yeah, the middle. I believe that's what it's called. And then on down there on the bottom is Is an ancient?

City called Akrotiri this yeah, that's like 10,000 years old. So before anything they were there We saw those ruins. Whoa, really fucking nuts. Whoa and they all thousand what like I think like 10,000 years ago or 5,000 years ago and it Got knocked out once by some and then these modern stairs and then came back Yeah, and you know what the crazy thing is when the when the volcano exploded That's when it wiped it out, but they didn't find anything there. They only found like a couple of Like if you left in a hurry, yeah, they didn't find evidence of that

They knew it was coming and they just dipped before it happened They just took off which they can't figure out how they how they did that how they figured that out How they knew is coming that the earthquake was coming and it's all in it's all in like you can When you when you're in the water and you and you look at the at the at the cliff Yeah, you can see the levels of like, you know volcanic ash you can see you can see looks like it It's like a like it when you cut open a tree you can you can see the ribbons Of like the layers of it of the layers of the Western Wall, you can see the ribbons. Of like the layers of it. Of the layers of it.

That's how it was. The western wall, you can see where they put garbage on it. Yeah. Yeah, oh really? Yeah, it was a trash dump by the Arabs. No shit. They're like, this is important to you. And it was up to like, I've been thinking like 12 feet high,

you can just see the garbage line. Man, that's funny, because we went, when we were in Athens and we went to the Acropolis, when the Romans took over, they had like up on top where the the Acropolis and what's the other thing called? The Acropolis is on something. Yeah, vice versa. Yeah, I can't remember what the name of it is. But they turn the one thing that was like a temple to their gods into like a storage unit, just to fucking

just like out of spite to the Greeks. Oh, really? Yeah. But so we, we mapped it out. We planned it out. We're gonna spend a night in Athens. Okay, we're gonna fly into Athens. We're gonna see see the Acropolis. Yeah. And we're gonna stay. How long did you get for the whole trip? I think we were there for like nine days. Solid amount of time. So we did you don't want to be in and out. We did the first night in Athens. Okay, say that this cute little hotel that was right next right, you could see the Acropolis and you could also see the there's another little cliff where there's like, like for the body can see right up it. Yeah, like

you were literally like looking out our window, you could see the Acropolis. And you look at that window and you could see the that's like the Cathedral St. George or something like that. There's two little like little mountains that overlook that overlook Athens. It's crazy. It's like Central Park. That whole mountain. It's like in the middle of the city. 100% Yeah, you've been there. Yeah, I just went. Oh, you Oh, that's yeah. And in my tour there. Yeah. So we were literally

right there. Yeah and What we in France we didn't really do anything like Like any tour guides or anything like that, but we were in the airport at JFK Yeah, and we were like, you know what we're gonna get there. We're gonna do the same thing that we always do We're gonna overeat. We're gonna go back to the hotel. We're gonna fall asleep Let's fucking get a tour guide and go see stuff It's like 400 bucks and after I did it I was like fuck this guy doesn't he looked at the fine print like this Guy doesn't even come with us Like he doesn't come up to the thing. He just drives us around turned out to be the greatest thing ever

Why because the guy was so local knew everything drove us right up to that I walked on up to that dude I walked up that thing. Wow, and I was I was that you, knew everything, drove us right up to that. I walked up that thing. You went up to that. Dude, I walked up that thing. Wow. And I was, I was. That's, you got a picture of that. Yeah. You gotta send me a picture of that. We got pictures of that, my girl has them.

But I was, I was 60 pounds heavier than I am now. You walked all the way up. And I walked all the way up that thing. It's hard, it's all steps. Yeah, it was brutal. Slippery as shit. And I did it in Crocs. Slippery. You did it in Crocs.

Did it in Crocs. It was slippery as shit. But it was nuts. I mean, the connection when you see that or touch some of those rocks to like thousands of years ago. It's nuts. Yeah, it's absolutely nuts to think about people

just living out their lives. And then you're like, are we that? Are we that now? Will people look at us? Will people be walking around? You know Central Park and see like little little bits and pieces of statues sticking out Well, you know have they didn't have like neural links back then they just had these devices. They had a whole yeah They were walking around like idiots Wow Walking around like idiots. Hey guys

Let me just break in for one second. All right, say that less. Juie. Hey guys. Let me break in for one second. Ari, say that less Jewy. Hey guys, let me break in for one second. I gotta tell you about H. Foley. First of all, congratulations H. Foley for fuckin' traveling, bro. This is one of the reasons I do this podcast, for guys like this, who aren't like fuckin' hardcore, you know, adventurous, but are having an adventure themselves just gettin' out into the world.

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H. Foley Comedy on Instagram. Follow him on there. But leave him a message. They just had fucking Luke combs on their podcast on our garbage. That's fucking good get. That's it. Let's get back to hearing more about his adventure time in Greece. Just to go back. Yeah, as far as what I was saying about the you know, all this is the target. Yeah, all this is new to me. Never

traveled. Like the way the Greeks were like how like hospitable they were and like just how everything is set up like everything was like You got the hotel but like they did breakfast at the hotel, but it wasn't like a holiday in like make your own waffle It was like a full fucking breakfast and everybody's running around in the black pants and the white shirts It's like you were in a Greek diner and like one guy did like everything like he was the guy that checked this in he Was the guy that you know served the breakfast and all that stuff, too Do it was nuts the food was insane obviously you have Greek coffee. Oh, yeah, what is that? I think I ordered it once then I'm like a frat. Is that what it is. Yeah, it's instant coffee Oh, yeah, it's it's instant coffee and they whip it up and then they put in milk and ice

It's strong a strong. That's all I used to drink it every day when I worked at the Greek place in in the West Village Because we would be out until like two o'clock in the morning You know doing spots are hanging out or whatever and I'd have to be at work at like 730 And I would drink like four of those throughout the day to do it again Every time I'd walk out of the restaurant at 4 o'clock. I'd have a massive panic attack and then just keep moving about my night, dude Every single day I love that that they're all so hospitable. So nice. It was awesome Yeah, that is the worry you hear they fucking hate Americans here. They hate Americans and this and that you know I've heard I've heard that for sure

But I've also heard like Americans tip when nothing's expected. They just fuck up and tip I always like Americans are coming. We were rich you would think yeah I mean, I always hated European tourists when they wouldn't yeah, they wouldn't when they come over here, huh? Cuz I would always get They'd come in to the restaurant before the night before they left so you would get like you would get tipped out in like silver dollars and change because they didn't want to bring that shit well yeah so they would just dump that in the fucking checkbook what was the what was the Greek food like it was unbelievable

how did it compare to the way you worked to burn a cook light us to run a kick light this is pretty legit there no to run a kick light this isn't where I worked that was in a place that worked at snack Taverna. Very legit. Yeah. It's just the ingredients were just better. Fresh. Unbelievable. tomatoes that have never seen a refrigerator. The best feta cheese, simple stuff. cucumbers, olive oil, salt, pepper, a little bit of fucking oregano, a little bit of red wine, vinegar,

just knock it out of the park. The fish was unbelievable. The fish was unbelievable, huh? Yeah, everything was unbelievable. It's all so fresh. It's all right there. That's what I'm saying, man. We don't have anything like that over here. Maybe on Long Island in the summer or like in August

when all that stuff is getting harvested. But like you see them on the ocean, like they're fishing for What we're gonna eat tonight. Yeah, it's crazy. Oh Yeah, it was cool as shit all right, so tell me about Athens do Athens, okay We land there and again not not travelers, but we're just we you know, we get lucky and you know We just go with our gut So we flew into Athens, we landed there,

eight o'clock in the morning. We have a ferry the next morning that takes us to Santorini, okay? Down here, yeah. Where? Yes, yeah, that's where we are. We're right down there, so we're gonna hop on a ferry down there in that bottom corner.

Take us to Santorini, okay. It's an eight hour ferry, but it's like a cruise ship. So the reason we did that is because I'm petrified to fly and Delta had a flight that went from JFK to Athens, but there was no connecting flight that took you to Santorini you had to fly like You know feta cheese airlines or something like that. You know like this is up and dude I just I looked at the at what flights were available and I was like no I'm not doing that just like you know, they're they're safety history

Yeah, which I know it's all just anxiety and I know that sort of right but also sort of like a little bit Yeah, but it's a nice you're rolling the dice anytime and thousands of people take those flights every day You're united those fucking that that door came off Alaskan Airlines Yeah, and then they found out that like ten other take those flights every day. And United are those fucking, that door came off. Alaskan Airlines, yeah. And then they found out that like 10 other planes had that, 10 other Boeing planes. They just didn't tell anybody? They can't think, yeah.

Oh, that's why they're canceling all the flights. Yeah. Okay, anyway. Yeah, the 737 Air Max, I think it was. Okay. Or 737 Max. It's a major feature, door staying on. Yeah. You really want it. That's not even a door, that was just a wall.

Wow. Just a wall just came off. Imagine how freaked out you would be. It's crazy how calm everybody looked in. Thank God they had their fucking seat belts on or you would've got sucked. You would've got sucked right out. Sucked, dude.

And you're alive for a couple of minutes. One guy said his shirt ripped off. Nuts. And it all paid for, it's like, yeah, if you're. How bad would that suck? You'd have a heart attack. You get that double seatbelt thing, you'd be like, please hold, are these working?

I got six of them on me. Strapped in, maybe, could not get me out of this thing. It's nothing to me, I'm just, I'm still eating. We can smoke now though, right? That's allowed now. You're taking your mask thing off. Just ripping a heater. I think that if that happens, yeah,

you should be able to light one up. Yeah, good luck getting it lit. If you're going down, yeah, it was like, excuse me, I don't want emphysema. But that plane had just crashed somewhere where they were flying over like a valley and it just went and crashed. Remember that?

It was a couple of weeks. In Greece? No, it wasn't in Greece, it was somewhere in Asia, I think. Or maybe it was. Oh yeah, not Myanmar Air, Malaysian Air. Yes, it was something, no, it wasn't a Malaysian thing, but it was something like that. It just crashed.

And it was like a little puddle jumper with the two propellers on the side. That was also something that I wasn't getting into right. I'm not getting in this like that I'm not so you're cool with a boat. I was cool with a boat was a huge cruise. It was like a huge cruise ship, okay? So we fly in to Athens you eat could you drink on the ship? Oh, yeah fucking fucked up the whole time there is nothing because you know, we fly obviously a lot for Fucking fucked up the whole time. There is nothing because you know we fly obviously a lot for For for comedy and the way we do it at our you garbage live shows on the road now That's right

And so we fly in do the show wake up fly out do the show so we can never really enjoy The airport other than like a nice airport breakfast Yeah, but man when you're traveling and you're on vacation and you get to the airport It's like nine o'clock in the morning And you have like an hour and a half before the flight and they got to get something eaten and all of a sudden the Light and your head goes off like oh I can get fucked up We can wave we have a six-hour flight We can start fucking drinking you could pass out in two hours

You'll still be on the plane That is the greatest feeling of all time Because there is nothing better than being drunk on an airplane when you're snuggled in and like you hear the Hum of the engines and you're 40,000 feet and he got Fargo on Watching the big Lebowski. There's something like that. She's asleep. You got your headphones on your pop and snacks Just crushing Bloody Marys, and just knowing that whenever I'm done, I can just fucking lay back and I'm out. It's so much better to travel, to fly,

as someone with just a normal amount of money. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how you were as an open-micer. I was so broke that when it was like, when they were like, do you want to, I'm like, no, I can't afford, it's like $8, no way. And now it's just like, yeah, you can have a couple drinks, it's not a big deal, not rich shit, just normal shit.

Give me some snacks. The last time I was on a plane before we started doing good with RU Garbage, I flew down to the Laughing Skull Festival in Atlanta. I did that one. I somehow found another comic down there that I could stay with. The dude let me stay there.

I had no money. You couldn't even afford the hotel to give you a rate at. Yeah, and I flew back and I didn't have any money to get home from LaGuardia. This is when I was living in a story on Dipmars. I walked from LaGuardia all the way home because I had no money to take, I didn't even have money for the subway.

Took me three hours. I thought it was gonna be like 20 minutes because it looks so close It does look close and had a walk across the the Grand Central Parkway like a fucking immigrant Run it Why did I pick a turn to do this And then walked and walked all the way back. So yeah, having a little bit of money, because we're doing good now,

but we're doing like what normal people our age. It's just catching up to normal. Yes. And you're like, can you believe, I was with Renazzi at a Yankee game once and it rained. And I was like, oh, let's get Panchos. And there were 10 or $12 disposable. And I was just like, I can afford a Panchcho. A $12 poncho when it's raining.

Yeah, it feels nice, especially when you're traveling to be like, ah, fuck it. It's fucking Walmart greeter level of money. It's not a lot. Yeah, just like, yes, bring me the hummus snack pack. Yeah, oh, love a nice snack pack on a plane. Nice snack pack. Love it, it's great. Yeah, because I go full meal,

I'm like, can we just, a bunch of snack packs throughout? The only thing I hate on the plane. Nice snack pack. Love it, it's great. Yeah, because I go full meal, I'm like, give me just a bunch of snack packs throughout. The only thing I hate on the plane is if you're going somewhere, like when we fly Hawaiian Airlines, I'm expecting, give me a little taste of the island. Give me a taste, yep. A fucking tortellini in a red sauce? What are we doing here?

What are we doing here? Get the fuck out of here. If you go to Greece, get me started. If you're coming home from Greece, get me started. Okay, get me started, let me finish it off. finish before we land fucking soga knock you before we take off So I mean kippy always talk about the burger on Delta good Fucking turn your life around. I'll get it do yourself a really They're the best. Okay, it's a shitty. It's a good shitty burger. Yes. I like coffee on planes and I love upscale coffee,

but I'm like, it does something to me. You know what I'm doing now that I get older? I love coffee with my meal. I know that's a very old man thing. They say tea because coffee shouldn't go with milk. Nah, you're wrong. It's great. Coffee and a burger.

Oh, what? Oh, not with breakfast you're saying. Oh yeah, I'm talking with like dinner. Instead of instead of afterwards having a coffee set of after have it with it Because when you watch old movies all the old rich guys, they're all drinking coffee during the meal Like if you watch there will be blood he's having a coffee. Oh, it's nice It's nice so so back to Wherever you're going you better believe American Express will be right there with

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Yep, you want to do it for a day? You know I mean see the sights and then get out of you gotta see those sights gotta see it's it's an unbelievable Thing that everyone's heard of since you were four yeah I mean I was a terrible student in in school, but I knew about you know, the Greeks the Coliseum the Acropolis or a few places on the earth. Yeah the pyramids that you gotta say and So we did that so we went to the hotel. We dropped our bags off. We met the the tour guide He took us right to the Acropolis and he's like, you know, you might have a little trouble with this. I'm like, all right Oh, yeah, there's no tram

Another technology back that hey fatty you want a Snickers bar just fucking run you're up there Yeah It was 700 feet up there and I just really took my time was slippery as shit But once you get up there with all those buildings up there You're looking around and you're like god damn and like that's what it looks like now like how the fuck did that last that long? After all those thousands of years. I mean look at these pillars. Yeah, they're still like ornate There's you know, I mean, they're still like you can see them It's crazy and how long did it take to make them? How long did it take to make that was that slave labor?

I can tell you that Yeah, that's all up there. Yeah, that's all up there It's still there look at these fucking chicks and all those things are like outlines of like buildings that used to be there What do you mean like those those stones along the things there? What like this no in front of it. This? No, when you pull back a little bit. Okay. Like that shit.

Oh this, yeah. Those were little spots. So it was a whole city? Yeah, I mean it was something. Look at the view, was the view up there nice? It did, it was nuts. You just get up there and see all of Greece, huh? It was all of Athens.

All of Athens, okay. And Athens is dirty. Like dirty. I love Like dirty with the graffiti. I loved it. It's a it's a I didn't understand this because also I thought all of Athens was this. But it's a walk around in an anarchist city. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it was all graffiti all over the walls.

But it was the subways full graffiti. But it was so charming and such a in such a a weird way and like in our hotel across and the Though he called them. Jesus. They called them wedding wedding cake Architecture so all the buildings and all the apartment buildings are like wedding cake architecture over there and You know, you know, I'm talking about the way it looked like you look like you're in like Lebanon or something like that You know, I see what you're saying the stack ups. Yes right across from us These guys as we were going to bed at like 11 o'clock

We're setting up like DJ equipment on the roof and like I woke up to piss at 3 o'clock in the morning And there was a full scale rave going on across the roof on this roof It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen It was a great attitude instead of really what the fuck. I know I mean when you're doing that stuff You got a you got a roll with it. Yeah, you know so we woke up in the morning Got into a cab. Yeah like a regular cab. That's that's my only thing if You know I get to a place where I can't get an uber or something like that I'm gonna be a little because I don't love public transportation

The the ubers were fine this cab that we got was like something that adjacent-born The guy was like maybe ten years older than me. He was about 400 pounds He had glasses that were the thickest coke bottles and it's a half an hour ride from our hotel to the to the port. We did it in about 10 minutes because he fucking was six in the morning and dude stick shift just Windows are down And we're both sitting there me and my girl looking at each other like do we say something? And we just went with it got got there, got on the boat, and the boat was like, was just like a little cruise ship.

We got a little room, and the reason we did that was because of the flights and because of, we're like, when are we gonna be in the AGMC again? So you got a room in it. So we got a little, like a little cabin in it. Yeah, we saw those, we're like, damn. People were like sleeping out in the thing Oh, yeah

We got first class wasn't much more. Yeah, but it was like a little nice wasn't just chairs. It was like tables Yeah, wait, I saw those cabins. You took a ferry to not to there to a different island. Okay. Yeah, so that's so I know you're talking about Star whatever maybe yeah blue star Nice little like, you know restaurants and lounges and stuff like that The gear the cabin wasn't great, but we're there's a place. Yeah, it was a place to go Put your shit down so you have one person have to stay if you're going to the bathroom My biggest thing is fucking gypsies and pickpocketers and all I tell you like, you know, the n-word is terrible Everybody racism's wrong.

There's no pushback to the racism against gypsies in Europe. They all fucking hate them. They're brutal. They're not like, well, you know, they're all people. They're like, fuck them, get them out of here. In Scotland, in Spain, they're like, fuck them. They're robbing you. They're robbing everybody.

That was my biggest fear, so that's why we gotta think. So we knew where our bags was and stuff like that Got bags that had locks on them and all that stuff, and I was very over You know over anxious about all this yeah But we wanted to take the ferry because it stopped at the different islands And it would just you know nice to look out the window like when you pulled up to the first I got this driver's name. I want to find it, go ahead but you pull it when you pull up to the to the Other island you walk out onto the deck and you're pulling up and looking at a fucking a yeah, it's pretty cool

So that took eight hours So you kept stopping a place we kept stopping at places and it's that's a pretty cool way to see it though See the ocean like it's almost like a trip you would do four hours out four hours back Yeah, just a fun eight hour trip. It was nice. We flew back We ended up flying back because we got like a it was like a G in Airlines, which they had like goods Safe safety records stuff like that. Plus I wasn't doing that ferry ride again We did it buddy, but pulling into

Also, somebody said that if you take the ferry because we watch like a bunch of YouTube videos and like that if you take the Ferry the 20 minutes pulling into Santorini is worth the eight hours Just because it's so beautiful. It's just like like dude It's a cliff and this these these little towns in Santorini are built in the cliff Like the one place I want to say a Moody Bay or something Bay Yeah over by Ea. It looks like a Disney attraction It's the only it's the only place on the island So the the the part of the island that faces the caldera Wow look at that is literally like that. That's it

Yeah, that's it. So dude right there. Wow That that is all built into the side of that clip Yeah, dude, look at that. No fucking way, dude. It's nuts We ate literally right there on that on that little thing. What do you mean? Look at the restaurant? Yeah, and then above that is is is Ea and It's all built into the side of the cliff and you see what I'm talking about it You can see the different like low. Yeah the level Yeah, it looked I did was like walking in the Pirates of the Caribbean or see this shit. Yes all that stuff

This is the octopus is hanging up. It's great drying in the in the Sun right right next to safety of water Dry them right above that It's like put you in prison right next to your mom's house You can smell her children cooking. Yeah. So we get there. We got an Airbnb. Shake it off. Yeah, we got an Airbnb this this we had the whole house to ourselves right on the on the northern tip of the island. We had the best view of the sunset on the island. I had a private pool. No, really?

Literally on the cliff. It was unbelievable. This shit is wild. It was great. Never seen anything like that in my life. Gorgeous, look how clear the water is. Nuts. It was like that?

It was love that, it was just like that. It was gorgeous. Yeah, all we want in the water once though, because it's not really, there's not a lot of beaches on that island. It's rock, right? It's rock. Yeah. Yeah, and you and to get to the beaches You either have to walk like really down like to me a treacherous walk to get to the ocean on the other side Yeah, or you have to give to get there by boat. So what'd you do? Relax a drink. So we

Like I said, well first of all we get there we pull in and My my radars up of getting robbed of getting this of getting that when we were in Athens. I bought like a little pocket knife Just in case it was just in case I had any trouble. Yeah, dude I'm an anxious guy so we pull into the port Yeah on the thing and you know, we don't want to we're not waiting for a bus or anything Like that, so I go up to this guy Looking for trouble I Go up to this guy and like it's like a parking lot and like everybody's going different places and all that stuff and I

See a dude in one of those Mercedes vans and I'm like how much to take us to you know this place and he's like 35 bucks. I'm like cool. So we get in put our bags in there and he's not going He's still standing outside the door and I'm like, well what's going on? He's like, oh, I got to get more people and I'm like No, no, no, no, no. So already I'm like no, no, no, we're not doing this I'm like now how much you just take us. He's like a hundred and I'm like fine. Let's go Don't care. Okay, you know what I mean great. I get it we get in the car and so it's like a crescent moon Island, okay, just for the people that haven't been there to crescent moon island. There's two like big towns There's Ea which is a little bit more touristy and then there's Thera

Okay, which is a little bit more locally. All right. Yeah, so so there's so there it is So Thera would be like in the bottom like right on the inside and then yeah, and then Ea is up there Yeah, he is up there. We stayed just a little bit north of Ea to the left We were right there Dude, we were right there. It was nuts. Wow. It was nuts so We say to the guy are you take it take us over by Ea we're driving and you go everything There's nothing in the middle there. So you have to go to the other side of the island the back side of the island

That's where the highway is to get everywhere side. Yeah, do you go around that's where the airport is? Yes, so you go around that to get there Wow we get in the same ancient. Thera Yeah, okay, we get we get we get in the car We're driving and we're on like, you know, and the only thing I have compared to is movies So do you remember in the beginning of the Godfather 2 when they went when they were the funeral possession was going over the rocks? No in the very big it was just all rocks Okay It was just all dust and rocks and there was a little hot like it was like something out of Star Wars

Like you'd see like a little like clay hut They're a little this or a little that but it was nothing and we're on this like Abandoned road and we're driving and all of a sudden this guy just stops and pulls over so The knife came out and I just had it like down here on my thing. This is like a little pocket knife It'll do it You're gonna look at it down there. Pulls over to the side and all of a sudden another car pulls up behind us and I'm like fuck This is it and I am freaking out and he just turns around and he goes so

My shift is over Okay We're gonna switch drivers and he's gonna take you there and I'm like, what the fuck I thought for sure They were kidnapping us. But this is me being the over anxious pussy American. But it's also like we don't have anything like that here. No, I've never heard of that. What even the shared cab? It's like, what do you mean waiting for people? Yeah, it did. Can you imagine being being on the subway and it stops in the

middle of thing and the and the and the conductors like, Alright, guys, that's my shift and another guy got on and Finished to ride freak out But dude was cool as shit Got in took us to the place. The place was awesome Only thing they don't throw the toilet paper in the toilet. They don't throw the toilet paper in the toilet Oh, I got asked about toilet. That is how many times you fuck up? Not that bad, okay, cuz luckily I had just started my the I'd kind of just started the Ozempix Maybe for like I think two months and the side effects were really starting to set in so I didn't shit like most of the

Time that I was there lucky for them. I could have ruined the island what What? Okay, so you got to throw it in the trash can throw in the trash. How's that with a chick? I mean, she was doing the same thing and somebody came every day and took it out. They did. Yeah, I just I just every time been with a woman in a place like that. I'm like, I'm not letting her see my fucking toilet paper, dirty toilet paper. But

everybody does it. And you've been you've had to been in so many places. I have where that's the norm. You know, I did in Ecuador what took it with me Rolled it rolled it rolled it took with me threw it outside. All right I can see but sometimes I forget and I'd be eating at a restaurant or something like I still got a fucking a lot of shit paper in my are you kidding me? No, how many wipes do you did? I would never be mine Mine's like a duffel bag. Yeah. It's a lot of wipes. Oh my God. You wouldn't smell that through your sweatshirt occasionally. Yeah. Oh dude. You're worried about the girl. See me. You're eating with fucking with shit

paper in your looking back on it. Now it's not the best. Oh dude. That's brutal. But here's the thing. Yeah. Again. It's just hard because what is it? But you get used to what? Go ahead. It's never that bad. It's never that bad. They do it. They do it. It's not like you're like, Hey, for the only people on earth are going to have to deal with this. It's like you go to bottom row and then we're like, can you believe these people camper? I could never be a Jen pop. Like, well, 80,000 people are like someone can do it. It's never that bad. It did. But the bathroom did smell a little bit like sewage. Yeah. Like the first day, but also it all does there, right? The bathroom. They all just kind of have that volcanic ash or not quite that water. You kind of smell. Yeah, you couldn't drink the water. Couldn't talk to us. We used to write. You got to use to that again. Here you go. Lied to those European bottles of water. They're all right. They're ice cold in the fridge, too. Yeah, and they're they're weird looking they're different than our that our waters

I love this. I don't know. They're just they just look weird the shape different. They all look like Orangina bottles to me Yeah up and then curve. Yeah, they're strange, but they were great. It's like, you know Icelandic this or whatever There's little cultural Observations you can make where it's like the street signs are in different font or the background color is different or right or the water bottle shape different here. The water bottles are weird and their water bottles,

the caps stick to the water bottle. Like if you wouldn't, when you pop it off, it stays there because they don't want it probably getting dirty. No, they don't want it, yeah, they don't want it for recycling and littering purposes. They really are ahead of us with a lot of that stuff. No hormones and antibiotics, everything is just... You feel good, right?

Yeah, it's crazy. You feel good, and you're not eating salads. I mean, it's a Greek salad, sure, but you're not eating salad. You're eating restaurant food. We're on vacation and you're still feeling good. Felt great. It's nuts What I would tell me about some of the food?

So the food was unbelievable. So we get to Santorini first of all they lay Stuff out for us eggs on the counter red flag right there They don't put the eggs in the refrigerator, but why because they don't bleach them. They don't wash them off Yeah, so we didn't touch them but Yeah, we had a lady where we're staying on our windowsill one day was like what the fuck just 12 eggs Yeah, like oh my god, so she's like man. I we've got tons of chickens when you crack them open They're the most golden eggs orange in your life. Yeah Yeah, not yellow at all. That's nuts. We've been lied to the whole we've been lied to. I mean, it's really darker than that. Yeah. Unbelievable. It's tough to point to India say darker than that. Ladies and gentlemen, here's your garbage. Hosts do not stand by these comments anyway. So the first thing we did was we went to a moody Bay, so we walked down there and and

the steps were brutal it's all walking and Unless you're taking a car. Yeah, you're really jammed up So we're jammed up. He can't get anywhere Especially if you're fucking 400 pounds. You rented a car? Didn't rent a car. I'll get to it. Okay.

You ready? So we walked down to, we walked down, we're right at the tip of where you walk down to Amoody Bay. Walked down and I see that and I'm like, holy shit, man. That's when it like hit me. Where you were?

Yeah, all those things up against the wall That's the only place that's that's like that on the island where it's lower Everything else is up top and I was like, holy shit Walk up to this restaurant sit down Order a Greek salad order some tater mousse a lot though, which is like the salmon dip. That's good I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it. I would just eat it.

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that's kind of congealed but also pork. It's a block of kefalateri, most people use kefalateri cheese with a little, it has a little dusting of flour on it, they fry it and you hit it with lemon and some chopped up tomato. God damn, it's good. Good night.

I'm a huge fan of grape leaves. It's just so good there. You get it here sometimes, you're like, all right. But there, it's like, what the fuck? You like grape leaves? Love a grape leaf. A dolmade, love them. I probably ate about 4,000 of those when I was over there.

Finger foods. Just crushing them. So we get there we get we get some prawns. We get all that stuff. We load up we eat feel great and so I'm a lot like my dad like any any reaction. No, we're not we're not doing that We're not doing that but my girls a little bit more adventurous.. Okay good. So we're seeing these like doom buggies Everywhere like little like ATVs you see in ATVs and we're seeing doom buggies We're like you get in but they're like little tiny cars. Okay, you know talking about but they have a cage Yeah, they have a cage like a little doom buggy like that. See if it pops up Exactly no fucking way right no fucking way did you take one of these

so zero chance zero fucking chance you got in one of these things zero chance that I would ever say yes to that insurance purposes getting injured purposes I don't trust myself fitting in it this chick barely fits I don't trust myself to drive this and no we're not doing that and whatever so that night We want to go up to EIA which which is close to us But it's a hump and we walk up this mountain like it felt like a mountain But it was literally just an incline all the way to EIA to get to where All the although like the the white and blue

places are okay on top pull up pull up here. Not those ones on top on the right the ones up top there on the right these yes up there. So the whole thing up there. It's all connected. It's all walkways. There's no streets. And it's all like made out of fucking marble. Really? Dude, it's all like made out of fucking marble Really dude, it's nuts walk down. Look at this Deep steps walk down steep steps you gotta go all the way around there a swimming area. Yeah Getting around was brutal if we didn't have if we didn't get this thing We would have had such a miserable time because we wouldn't have gone anywhere you played it plays like this right on the water

Yeah, that's exactly that's exactly where we ate we sat literally right there when we were eating the first night It was unbelievable and like people are rolling in in little boats with like bags of fish And like walking them and handing them to the like the restaurant owners They got the fish all laid out on ice the beers are ice cold. I was a beers remember fix I'm a big fix guy love a fix. He h y f I X f I X Yeah, good Greek beers like pills steps. So all that shit love a local beer. I love it like a what do you guys drink? Yeah, we have a local beer like you know what I fell in love with something not that it's local but from going to Korean barbecue is

Assai or acai. Yeah, dude, the super dry. Yeah, one of those screaming cold They've gotten me off of IPA's to go lighter beers. So all that stuff up there up top. Yeah, it's all marble It's all shops. It's all restaurants and then as the tears go down, they're all little hotels So all those little spots there have like a little baby pool or like a little hot tub. And that's what people look out over the water. And you look at that. The whole thing is looking out over the caldera.

At sunset, boats roll in. And it's like the sun's like from here to that light. And you're just sitting there watching this thing go down. It's nuts. And we got to do it in our pool at the Airbnb. It was awesome. Coolest thing ever. So normally when we go to places,

she's like, I wanna rent a car, I wanna do this. And I'm like, no, we're not doing that. And it's a fight and it's this. And I was like, you know what, fuck it. Yeah. Walked up to Ea that night and was like, we're not doing this anymore. Next morning we got up. We went to this rental place. Give me one of those no fucking way, dude Give me one of those I'll send you a video fucking way

I'm telling you oh my god take me a minute. I don't know if you want to if we could pause What the fuck no fucking way? Yeah, hang on. How did it drive? Dude, it was awesome. Okay, here it is. You got it? Dude, zipping around. No, it's like a big golf cart. What the fuck? Yeah, it's like a big golf cart.

That looks so fun. Dude, it was fucking the greatest. Open air, warm. It was one of those. Dude, you looked like you're having a blast. It was one, and I never have a blast. You look like you're on top of the world. Top of the world, baby.

Had my girl with me, zipping around this island. Never, never, never, never, never. That's the thing with travel that's opened up my eyes. I'm always so resistant to that stuff. And then when I finally. That's how they get you. That's how they get you. I don't want to let you know.

I'm not getting ripped off, and then I get into an accident, and this, that, and the other other thing or if I get a ticket Yeah, they're gonna take it and all I did was give them 40 bucks when I turned the car and they're like we'll take care of it Cool as shit Wow Drives around the whole island on that thing every day got up Parked right out front of the Airbnb hopped in that thing drove drove over to Thera drove that thing over to the ancient ruins And Akrotiri. Yeah. Oh really on the highway just fucking and dude You're going like 40 miles an hour

Dude, it was just so cool went all around the island that thing the thing about cars Are you can stop wherever you want instead of like? transportation or or like a driver or but you know somewhere they you. You can be like, oh, that looks good. Let's just pull over here. It was like our second to last day. Second to, pull over, grab some ice cream. Let's grab a coffee. You forget.

You can just do that with a car. Especially, I know how like Kevin and I are, with stand up and you're so focused. We gotta get there. You gotta get there and you're focused and like every day it's this and you know you're you're you know, you're so focused we got to get there You got to get there and you're focused and like every day. It's this and you're never really winning You're never really feeling like you're winning. But when you have those moments where you're like, oh fuck Let's stop and grab a coat. We can stop and grab a coffee. I know that sounds crazy Yeah to most people but you're just you don't think that way

I get it and when you could just cuz Because also you're already, you're going, you're headed somewhere, but you're already there when you're driving to, hey, I wanna go to those ruins. But you're really already there already. The drive is part of the trip. Yeah, the drive is part of the trip. So it's like, the ruins are just kinda like today's destination, but really it's,

if we, oh, we got sidetracked, we never made it. No big deal. Having the freedom in that little cart to just fuckin' pull over. You see like a sign And said like some other ruins that way or some like quarry like you want to check out the quarry to whip around go up We did that every day. We were driving board like the second the last day before we left I hadn't been in the ocean

Yeah, and I was and we were driving back and I'm like cuz it wasn't really any any there wasn't like a beach scene Or anything like that on that island really and I was Like you know what fuck it just fucking pulled off drove all the way down down this like private driveway Made a left made a right fucking got to the ocean. There was one other couple out there like doing the same thing Walked down rip my shirt off and just jump in the agency That's fucking awesome for like two seconds and then got out of That's fucking awesome. No, but you touched the water. Something touched my foot. Woo!

I got the hell out of it. But literally, just, and you know, she was standing there watching me. I just jumped into the, the AGNC. Yeah, when are you gonna? Ancient Ocean. Yeah. Or Ancient Sea.

So Hercules fucking went. Yeah, getting laid down there. He was doing all right. Brad Pitt. Knockout back then. Knockout. He's doing all right. Brad Pitt. Knockout back then. He's a 10 now, he was a 40 back then. Are you kidding me? Didn't have leprosy, he's probably cleaning up.

Yeah, it was nuts. It was nuts, it was such like a freeing, like emotional thing. How'd you feel? Awesome. Just getting that thing, dude, the whole time, I'm so sorry, I can't believe that I was such a dick

about this, this is the greatest thing ever. Because I am so like that all the time. With like, no, no, no, we're not doing that. We're not doing that, it's crazy. We're not doing that. Yeah. Yeah, and when you let go, it's fucking, it's when fun shit happens.

Damn. Pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, and when you let go it's fucking it's when fun shit happens Damn pretty cool. Yeah, very cool. Now the food knockout just Unbelievable everything that we talked about simple stuff Fried sardines fried anchovies. Yeah, which I would never want dude A little bit of lemon an ice cold beer knocking those things back who's oh oh after every fucking meal and who's oh and an espresso what's that red nice drink it's like light you drink it before dinner or just an apparel spritz yeah yeah I love those out there yeah and that part if I part if yeah but the

Uzos when they give you the little bottle and you just keep like filling it up for yourself. It's chill. They're over ice, right? Yeah, they do is over ice. I I was always a Zambuca guy. So I just use Uso the same way, which is basically the same shit. Just the flavors a little bit different. Just like a licorice liqueur. But that pour right into the double espresso. Not that back. That's another thing to over there. A little bit different just like a licorice liqueur, but that pour it right into the double espresso Knock that back. That's another thing to over there espresso after lunch. What are we doing over here?

We're running around. Yeah, these people got it figured out We gotta go back over there take over Europe. Let's go. Let's go take it over Do that sounds so fucking cool this whole trip sounds so fucking cool. It was awesome It was awesome. The salads were unbelievable feta cheese a Little bit of dill a little bit of olive oil a little bit of salt and pepper and this old bread like that They made croutons with that was so good It was almost like they served it as bread or just now they served it crushed up into the salad All that all like that peasant food kind of stuff man, it's so good Yeah, I bet you get down to with food. We're like, let's eat. Have a fucking good time here. Yeah, never here

Yeah, we were going nuts. We had like two dinners every night that was a we were just talking about this the other day cuz we me and my girl went to Kate Clyde is cuz we were doing something over on dip mart, and I was like my biggest regret about I Was mad at certain times when we go to a restaurant and I was still kind of full and couldn't really do the damage Yeah, it's almost like you look back and you see like why like the Romans and the Greeks were like binging and purging Oh the vomitoriums or nothing wrong with that. That's right. Gotta eat Smoke up a little more room go right back in And then head right back into the restaurant. That's my tip

I'll ask you for travel tip for a second, but that's my tip for Mexico City one taco and go one taco and go Oh, you're gonna be good. Let me have three like then they're gonna find another fuck. Yeah truck. You're not gonna be able to do it Yeah, no. Yeah, we were during the day We were doing that but then over indulging and dinner But yeah a little taste of this a little taste of that try the gelato here grabbing espresso there Try one of these two lines here. So I said after lunch are you idea? Spress after lunch not dinner can't do dinner. I'll be up now after lunch. That's fine. That's the right time a little espresso Little double shot double shot. Yeah

Now let's go out. Let's go knock it back chick. Loved it loved it Loved it. Yeah, she was blown away Yeah, loved it. So I'm saying you're definitely set Thumbs up on this trip thumbs up. And so then what you took the plane back and then flew home No, then we took so we stayed there Yeah, you know we stayed there for how many days five six seven days whatever it was and then we flew back from Santorini to Greece and then stayed one more night in Athens got another hotel Didn't go back to the same hotel obviously but in the same kind of general area. Yeah, we got back there and

That whole day. We just went around to that that open-air market, you know I'm talking about It's like in the middle of where like the Acropolis is, it's like looking down, it's like open. It almost looks like Union Square. And it's a bunch of shops, it's a bunch of this, it's a bunch of that, little restaurants. Maybe. And all that shit, walked around all that,

walked around the ancient graveyard for a while, had a nice dinner at at a local place in Athens that was probably the best food that we've ever had. They had these little anchovy filets that were cold, and it was like, dude, again, it was just olive oil and lemon, dude, putting that on bread with a screaming cold beer, and some dude was playing Greek music in the restaurant, it was awesome.

It also doesn't, to me, I'd say you tell me, but it didn't feel like it was put on for tourists. It felt legitimately authentic. Legitimately authentic. Like when I went to Stav's podcast and he has that background of a taverna with the ocean, and I'm like, this is just the experience. He goes, oh yeah, everybody goes to the islands.

It started with Greek tourists. Just like on vacation, like we go to Wildwood. It's for people on vacation, but not like tourists. Yeah, not like American tour. That's just how they go. So they're not doing like a luau, which is also fun, but they're not doing these normally. No.

But this shit, yeah, I feel like they're having that. It's just a Friday night. We're just having to walk in. People are gorgeous too in Greece. A little hairy. Well, it's hit or that. It's just a Friday night. We're just having to walk in. Yeah. People are gorgeous too in Greece. A little hairy. Well, it's hit or miss. It's hit or miss. Either.

Either they're knockouts or they look like me. You know what I mean? Yeah. But yeah. I think Stab's actually gonna go either way right now. We're gonna see it either really go into that creepy Greek dude or like still lovable. Stab's a good looking kid. What are you talking about?

He's got great looks. As he ages is what I'm saying. Oh, sure. A stab at 45 could go one of two different ways. I think he's going to look fantastic. Any tips you would have given yourself before you went? That you would give to anybody else? Like make sure to bring, I don't know, flip flops.

Again, I never want to be that guy because I know that I'm not a not not not a traveler But specifically with this trip, um, I mean honestly get a car. I guess is one Yeah, get that you get get that buggy. You know what I mean and zip around But but now you know, it just you know know it worked out it worked out any regrets Wish I had now no regrets, you know We got there I got like maybe like like 700 bucks and had a little bit of cash on me use the card for everything else You know, I do like cash there

They do like cash there. That's what I that's now thinking about that's a tip for I would give anybody to go to Greece I always I always tipped in cash. Yeah always to put put it on the car one lady go like it put a car She's no no. No. Yeah, just wave it off a lot of places didn't want to take American Express, right, but that's because Fees or something. No American Express doesn't fuck around at at all like you can they'll just cancel the payment So if they're trying to do anything shifty, you know, they don't want it They don't want to deal with American Express Yeah, cuz they're cuz they're they're brutal

But yeah paid for the meal with a credit card and threw it, you know through a ten or a twenty down for the tip You'd say the waiter. That's always what you do, right? Always. Yeah tip cash I mean now not not, but like in that situation. I do it because I don't want, because that doesn't show up on the credit card. What doesn't? The tip, it takes like 24 hours for that to appear. So let's say the bill was 100 bucks,

it only says 100 bucks, and then the next day it's, oh, it's 130 or whatever. So I was just doing it to keep my keep my ducks in a row Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that sounds fucking amazing. It was awesome, man And I really mean that when I say that you're one of the people that you know really inspired me to To do that kind of shit. I love it. It's like I'm not ready to ride an elephant through Vietnam or whatever the fuck They play harmonica, it's great you're doing. Yeah, they play harmonica. It's great. Very humane. I heard, uh, didn't like Louie Anderson or something like that. So you like rides riding like a giraffe through, uh, South America and stuff like that. It was like Ari. Uh, I've, I've read it to random

people sometimes. I was in the church of the holy sepulcher and my brother was like, Oh, I came here yesterday while I was hanging out with my old rabbi. And it was like, so I already saw this. I'll wait in line if you want to like walk around I did and then turn the corner Tom Rhodes like Ari What the fuck are you doing? That's nuts That's nuts the church of the Holy Sepulcher. Yeah, is there like the is only the Knights of the temple orange? Yeah, they do all that share with her. Yeah, they're dressed like that They're just weird where they where they say like that's where like the Holy Grail isn't stuff

That's where Jesus was like, his tomb is. They have the stone where they washed him. Really? They have all that stuff there? Old ladies crying, touching it, crying. No kidding. I put a cross on it because I wanted to get something for Steve Simone.

He's real religious. I was like, he'd like this. I might buy him something. And then Tom was like, no, no, go get, I was going to get a fridge magnet. He goes, go get a cross. I'm like, where do I get them? They're selling them out there. You touch it on the fucking phone.

You get phone fingers. Yeah. Jesus, number one. Yeah. He goes, you put it on the stone, it gets power. Really? And so I did, everyone was doing that. Gave it to him.

He gave it to his mom and she had COVID. They tell her that she's not going to make it. She's not going to make it. And then right then, those, whatever treatments they had in Florida, they just passed that as legal. Turned around. She goes it was the cross. No way. Yeah, she goes already did it. I'm like, well, if you're gonna get rid of me, you got to get some Jesus some credit. Jerusalem, right? Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. But she was back in Florida. But like I took it home to him. Man, that's's crazy Israeli foods top shelf, too Another time anything down anything over there It's all overlaps. Yeah, the Greeks the Turks the yeah, it's all banging Hey come back on this for Paris for sure But another time if you want to interview me about a place cuz I love that this yeah I'd love that you are you are the travel guru

But trust me on travel tips You for having me buddy. Yeah H Foley check them out every week at all your garbage and with with Kevin Ryan and Toby who built this whole studio we designed it together Looks great man. This is awesome. Yeah. Were you on Instagram? At HFullyComedy. HFullyComedy. On the gram. Buddy. Love you pal. Love you too. Love you bandit. Yeah snoring. Peace. Well guys, that's the episode. I hope you enjoyed it. I know I did. Dude,

just seeing him how happy he was on that dune buggy. I mean it just made me laugh And I'll be honest with you, when he said that I'm the reason that he went to Greece, that he went traveling, yeah, that made me feel good. You know what I'm getting a lot of in the comments on YouTube? Make sure to leave your own comment. It's people going, you've made me want to get out and go, or I bought a ticket to India because of this podcast. Leave more of those in the comments hit subscribe right now youtube.com slash at you be tripping

we're also on Instagram at you be tripping pod where we put up the pictures of the guests every week and some clips go to that it's fun it's fun follow I'm on Instagram at Ari Shafir Foley is at H Foley comedy F O L E Y C O M E D Y yeah there's someone whose garbage spell it correctly like that I don't think so today's studio was built by Toby McMullen we had a fucking blast designing you guys we decided we really wanted a fucking hangout vibe we met for two months two or three months, just like brainstormed ideas.

Everybody fucking reach out to Toby and tell him how fucking great it was. I gotta fucking find his Instagram. He's gonna be on this podcast a couple times. One we did about Scotland when he was in fucking high school, I think. And then another one was, he interviewed me about Thailand, about a full moon party in Thailand.

It was actually pretty fucking good. Toby McMullen. Oh, wait, oops. Yeah, at toby.mcmullen, T-O-B-Y, dot M-C-M-U-L-L-E-N. Yeah, let him know you had a good time. I mean, you enjoy the fucking studio. So all the episodes now are gonna be in this studio moving forward unless they're remote or in Austin.

I'm still gonna do some from all over the world when I meet people and I wanna do them. I try to do them in fucking weird places. I have a couple coming from Australia. In front of some fucking sick graffiti with Luke Hegge about New Zealand. Another one with my friend Ethan McKenzie about me and him took a trip together to a small town in Guatemala for some festival. We met there in Guatemala and took it. So we'll be doing that.

It's also from Gold Coast, Australia. I got one coming with a comedian, a Berlin comic, Romanian, named Dragos from Romania. We did it about Tokyo. I'm trying to think where else. Anyway, that's it. Next week, fucking Rob goddamn Lowe's in the podcast. Tell us about Egypt and he also covered a little bit about Jordan and Israel and just travel in general. That's a fucking wild one. I had no idea. When they told me Rob Lowe wanted to be on this podcast, I was like, alright, does he get the idea of it? Bro? That guy is a fucking traveler to the goddamn core.

That guy fucking ruled. So that's next week. Um, hit subscribe so you don't forget. Hey guys, nothing's going to bother you by hitting subscribing. What are you, anything's going to happen? They're going to fucking get your information and fucking rob your bank. I don't think so. And as always, the Patreon keeps going. I'm trying to fill up this whole fucking wall with your postcards from around the globe. I'm getting them and I've been really enjoying them. Half of the Patreon is patreon.com slash ubtrippin

is reading your postcards. This one is from Ireland. Which is good, because I just did an episode in Ireland with Greg Fitzsimmons and another one with Dan St. Germain. Ring of Byron West Cork Ireland. Cool. Postage and everything. Send them to a UB trippin pod 151 first Avenue listen number one first Avenue number 49 New York New York 1003 Ireland is great he said I don't know that's part of it I don't know it's great top five English-speaking countries oh interesting let's do those. US, Canada, Ireland, England, Belize. What else? What else is Australia?

I mean, how many English speaking countries are there? We got to look that up. We got to look that up. How many, how many English, not Tahiti, speaking countries. Okay, here we go. List of countries, of English speaking countries by population. List. United States, okay. India is an English speaking country?

Suspect, Nigeria, Pakistan, these are all suspect now. The UK, Philippines, Philip no they speak Filipino fuck off eligible public top no no no English speaking countries not taking that one okay okay okay no, okay. Another one is no. No, no, no. I want the actual English speaking countries. How many countries? 67 countries speak English as main. What? What are the top five English speaking countries?

United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Africa. Interesting. English speaking countries list. Okay, here we go. This is fun. United States, Canada, sure sure. Top two. Canada's got to be up there.

Ireland, Malta. Wouldn't be top five. Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago. Dude, speak English. That's right, I went. It was one of my two countries this year. My next will be during the election. I'm gonna get the fuck out of Dodge.

Kiribati, that's gotta be number one Kiribati. All right I'm getting bored with this idea. Let's get back to the postcard. Top five English speaking countries. Weather sucks but people are friendly and the food is seasoned. Wood returned. Wood returned. What a trip it's been. Keep on tripping. Crispin. And the view towards the Skellig Islands from the Ring of Bear West Cork, Ireland. Nice bro. I'm gonna put this up. Here's what I liked about fucking Foley. He went to a...

He went to a tourist destination, right? He went to a fucking tourist island. Something I would not go to. In fact, I went to Greece something I would not go to in fact I went to Greece I did not go there I took a lot of advice from Stavros Halkias who I said he'll come on the podcast as soon as he's back in New York which is like into the summer or fall but he got such a fucking joy out of it it's kind of like Thailand Thailand I count as like a little too touristy for me, but also don't forget, it's fucking foreign as shit

for anyone who doesn't like travel a lot. And there's places in Thailand that are way off the beaten path. And also even Chiang Mai and Bangkok are fucking wild. It's just very set up for tourism, which is good and is bad. But for a guy like Foley or maybe you out there, you want to place this little setup, you know?

I took a trip in East Timor, I was in Dili. I heard about a fucking waterfall somewhere. This guy, found out later he was working for the Peace Corps, just wanted some fucking tourism to his village, put up a sign in my hostel in Diliey saying, um, there's a waterfall. Got there, met the guy, cool guy, helping them grow fucking broccoli. Should I go over? I should keep straight lines.

This is going up and down. It's going to be tough. I'm going to go right here. Nice. It's growing everybody. It's growing. Send your postcards in. You don't have to be a patron. I read some of them on here and I read most of them on the Patreon. But also, why not sign up? What we're going to do is on the Patreon, I'm sending to somebody around the world. Once I get to 2,000 subscribers, then we're going to have a fucking figure

out who. Somebody. Doesn't have to be a Patreon listener, but somebody we're going to figure gonna figure out we're gonna send them on a year-long trip around the world Southeast Asia and South America probably one of the two they're not gonna be living well they're gonna be doing it the way I did the way people I met did it but anyway he still got that adventure from fucking being out there in the world and that's what I fucking loved. I love that fucking enthusiasm. I get it too. I get what he was saying about not wanting to get scammed. Like I don't want to pay for the Dune Buggy but then just putting a little... You guys don't understand to be a comedian. We're so poor for so fucking long

that it's like I can't afford a Dune Buggy. That's fucking $20 a day, $30 a day. And you can eventually tell yourself, no, we're good. Anyway, guys, thank you very much for tuning in. Today's episode, studio was built at Tobe McMullen, and Dee's, who built the army garbage studio. Mine is a lot less space than theirs.

We did it in an apartment. We did it really for a hangout vibe. We got a lot of episodes coming in. People are now starting to do what I was hoping. Celebrities and comedians and just like lots of people go, oh, I know what that show is. I've listened to it, I watched it. I have a story, a travel place

that I really wanna tell you about. Instead of just, I wanna do your podcast. It's, oh no, no, no, I've listened to it I watched it I have a story a travel place that I really want to tell you about instead of just I want to do your podcast it's oh no no I've got something perfect for your podcast I can go back on are you garbage spit forever it's produced by your mom's house edited by Alan Caffey expertly I hope you enjoyed it if you're not watching these on YouTube you're missing out he puts in all these fucking cool pictures and stuff from these guests when they have a trip to take and then also I get to like look up on the computer. It's different than it was in the studio that I had prior previously and it's just richer and it's a fucking better watch. Spotify is unchanged. It's gonna be awesome no matter what no

matter what you're listening. It's just an extra bonus thing if you're watching. That's it guys. Please subscribe Do me a favor before you leave if you're listening right now hit us hit the old subscribe Oh and But that's it. I'm really enjoying this and I hope you are too. It sounds like you guys are I read the comments on YouTube for the first 24 hours and respond to I'm trying to make jokes All right guys until next week with Rob Lowe Wait, how do you say goodbye in Greece? I'm trying to make jokes. Um, all right, guys, until next week with Rob Lowe. Wait, how do you say goodbye in Greek? I have that thing right here. I just, oh, I gotta do a fucking commercial.

Goodbye in Greek. Okay. Kifata? Goodbye, Jauntily, of real Real. I'm reading that fucking thing. Kifata, everybody! Until next week. Bye! Oh, Kifata. Why did I say bye? I already said it. Alright, enjoy.