You Be Trippin' - Greece w/ Milana Vayntrub | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

Follow Milana on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mintmilana/ SPONSORS: -Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/trippin Don't forget to vote for your favorite Trippy nominees below!! https://forms.gle/g5VrsDRu5D5WwNii8 On this episode of You Be Trippin', Milana Vayntrub tells Ari Shaffir about how a simple father-daughter vacation to Greece completely changed her life. She first describes the most beautiful, quaint Greek island (that must not be named). Then she goes on brutal hike that literally led to nowhere. But the trip takes a powerful turn when Milana learns about the Syrian refugee crisis happening just miles away. Instead of heading home, she spends two and a half weeks volunteering on an island near Turkey, doing everything she can to help. βρε! You Be Trippin' Ep. 98 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Introducing Milana Vayntrub! 00:07:51 - Milana Goes to Greece 00:18:29 - Hiking in Crete 00:22:53 - Refugee Crisis in Greece 00:41:56 - Helping The Refugees 00:53:52 - Outro + Trippy Nomination Rambles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bro i went to australia for a month i didn't touch a single bill like i didn't even handle war did you just call me bro for the first time does that mean we're recording because you haven't you've been like a normal person this whole time and then all of a sudden you call me pro i'm loosening up we're not recording yeah i'm getting to know you he brought up burning man and drugs and i'm like all right we let my guard down where you've been and where you're going this is our race travel show yeah we're going to talk about travel today It's U-B-Tripping, yeah. Hi, everybody.

Welcome to U.B. Trippin. It's a travel podcast. I go to a new place every week with a guest. It's the only podcast that is endorsed by the communist regime of China. My guest today is an actress and sometimes comedian. Nah. All right. Sometimes director.

Oh, that's cool. It's way cooler. It's fun. They're both cool. Yeah. It's not as street as being a comedian. Like, if you tell people you're a comedian, there's so much cred that comes with it. It's cooler now than it used to be.

Yeah. It didn't used to be that cool. Like when Jerry Seinfeld was doing it. No, when I got to L.A. and I was like, they're like, you know, so they're getting an apartment. Like, what are you for a living? I'm a comedian. Like, no. I still think landlords don't think it's cool.

But, like, in terms of other people who make things, I'm like, oh, you write your own things. And then you put them out there. And then maybe you get to travel because of it. That's, I give you 10 street credits for that one. All right, I'll take that. No, that is true. Did you see what Gaffekins said at the Golden Globes or whatever? What do you say?

Because they finally started doing like a stand-up award. Oh. And he goes, finally the people with talent. Here's this category. And you see like Taylor Swift. Like, yeah, we write and perform our own stuff and like bring up our own stools and stuff. So, yeah, we're doing it all. I mean, Taylor Swift is writing and performing your own stuff.

Yeah, she does. But she's never moved a stool. So you're right. You get points for that. Malana Vaintraub? It doesn't matter. You've already ruined it. Melania?

Oh my God, no. Melania? It's getting worse. It's Milana Vintraub. And it's R.I. Shapir. That's about right. Okay. Where are you from?

Right over here, the star. In Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Is that the capital? Yeah. Whop-whoop. You were born there? I was born there. I left when I was really young, but I've been back.

Your decision, I assume? Yeah, you know, just like a nice wave of... Do you know what this lake is? No, I didn't get to travel around it much, but I would really like to. Yeah. I hear it's like not so welcoming these days, but I would really like to go back.

What are the stands that are safe and what's the not ones? Do you... I think Uzbekistan is safe. Okay. Tajik? I mean, Tajikistan is safe. Kyrgyzstan is probably safe. Kazakhstan.

I mean, there's corruption everywhere. Like, Russia isn't safe. Like, Russia is corrupt. They're all corrupt. No, but I mean, like, you know. But so is America. They're just more open about it. Like, cops are bribed here too.

It's just different. Yeah. There you can, like, do it when they pull you over. Just like, they should take care of this. I was once in Russia. This is not the story I'm going to tell, but I was once in Russia. And I was like kind of dating a guy who live there. and he gets pulled over

and they just stand on the corner there with a stick and wave you down if they want to pull you over they don't have cars they just wave you down to see if you've been drinking and driving it's kind of like a random thing but the randomization is like do you have a nice car

because then you're more likely to pay me off yeah wow and so they started doing this breathalyzer test on the guy who was dating and he's like how about this I could give you $100 now and you could let me go

or I could do the breathalyzer and if I don't have any alcohol in my system you don't get any money and I promise you I have no alcohol in my system so we can like take the time to do this or you can just take this money and let me go what?

Isn't that ball? Wow. Isn't that cool? That's kind of the only reason I was attracted to him. I mean that is cool. I'm a bit of attracted to him. That's so cool

and it's like how do you want to play it? Yeah. What a fun, like, what a fun game every moment. It's like you can walk away with nothing. I know. That's like, you could walk away with nothing and waste our, both of our time, or you could just take this $100 and then shake down the next person. Yeah, get as many, yeah, whatever, how much of a ruble goes for this year?

Damn, that is so cool. I love a good shakedown. My doctor told me that he would always get, like, would always get, like, pulled over, white tax in, like, Merida in the Yucatan. And he's like, oh, your headlights out. He's like, it's like, well, I need $5, whatever. And then some wage just was like, it's just like a toll. It's every time I go here, it's the same cop.

It's the same as paying a toll. So what's a difference, really? Right. Damn, that's cool. How long did you get a guy in Russia for? Like three months. Where did you meet him? I met him in Moscow.

Is he right at protests? Yeah. I wish. I was there. My dad lives in Moscow. Okay. And so I was there visiting my dad. for New Year's, and New Year's is a really big deal in Moscow.

So there was, like, going to be a big New Year's party, and I met him, like, a week before that. And then, like, New Year's was, like, our romantic moment. And then we dated for a little after that. Damn. That's cool. Yeah, and you, like, came back to L.A., and that's when I was like, oh, no, this doesn't work in America.

Travel love is so weird. You're like, you don't do anything. You're like, that was what was attracted to you about me. Yeah, but also, like, you can't, you're, like, cool guy Russian swagger does not translate here. It's actually quite embarrassing. Like when you go and like tip the band to play a certain song that like works

in your like allegal culture doesn't work here. It's gross. Your man's abrasive. Yeah. That's so funny. Also like in LA like you're just Armenian. Yeah. Like it's nobody wants, nobody enjoys your culture.

There's yeah, I it, I wish that Russian and Armenian culture was and Uzbek culture and all that was more appreciated, but it is, like, it's kind of the culture that's still okay to make fun of. Like, we can't make fun of, we can't even make fun of the Irish, honestly, and they're like, you know, white people. Yeah. But, like, Russians are very okay to make fun of somehow. Yeah. Polacks used to be the joke. Yeah. Polacks and blondes. It was like, whichever way you want to go with it, it just means stupid person. I went to Romania. You did. Why? uh toured but also my dad was from there oh and did you like get to meet any family or no they're

all pretty wiped out but um have that happened tell me the history of the world just my people aren't the best of fighting we're good at squirreling away stuff but not uh not ourselves um so yeah but it was so cool but also very crooked yeah very shakedowny and stuff but don't you think that's kind of like what makes us resourceful. Like even in this studio, I'm like, this is, this is resourceful. You have, you're operating three cameras, four lights, two mics and a monitor all on your own. Yeah, yeah.

That's, that's some Romanian. That is Romanian shit. Like what, what's the epigenetic? That's some Romanian epigenetics right there. This is the podcast version of the guy that plays the accordion and does the thing with the drum smacks and, you know, and he's got a harmonica. Bells on your foot. Yeah, that's you.

That's what I'm running here. All right, where do you want to tell me about? Where is this? Well, I don't want to tell you this story, but this is a story you're kind of shaking me down to tell. Yeah. If it gets serious, just so you know ahead of time, though. I'm going to make jokes about it.

I encourage you to please make fun of me because I want to make fun of me. Okay. So in like 2015, how long of a story you want this to speak? I guess I'll just make as long as possible. So, like, in 2015, something like that, I went camping with a bunch of my friends. And there was, like, just a coincidence of, like, a few of the girls had lost their dad. Like, a few of my friends had, like, lost their dads recently.

And I was like, ooh, I guess that could happen to me at any moment. That could happen to any of us at any moment. I really want to get some quality time in with my dad who lives in Moscow. Okay, fair. So I don't want to go to Moscow. Have you been there? No. No. I don't enjoy it. It's very expensive. It's unsafe. There's like one good restaurant to eat at and it's my dad's restaurant. And that's not true. There are many good restaurants to eat at. My favorite is my dad's restaurant. I would eat there every day. And then- It's expensive. Russia's expensive?

Yeah, Moscow is really expensive. Moscow and London, I think, are some of the most expensive cities in the world. What? And that's not all of Russia. That's just there. I think it's mostly Moscow. I mean, there's a huge class disparity in Moscow. So there's all. There's also a lot of poverty, but they're not like in downtown Moscow, you know? Right. Or like in the center, as they call it. So there's, anyway, so I was like, let's hang out. You don't have to come all the way here.

Let's meet in Greece. I'd never been, I really wanted to go. I was also at the time dating a guy who, like loosely dating, a guy who, I was a real loose before I got married. So I was dating a guy who had his family had a house in the island which is gorgeous and tiny, tiny, tiny. Are you going to pull it up? Because it's so beautiful. There's like everyone parks their cars if you even have a car and then you just get by walking or donkey.

Like I don't even want to publicize it because I don't want anyone to go there. It's over. I won't. I'll just delete it. Oh, no, it's okay. No, I do it all the time. Oh, okay. It infuriates people that are listening. Oh, okay.

But, yeah, I'm like, I don't like to ruin places or have any part in it. Yeah, this is a really, really special little place. All right, it's bleep out. This guy's family had. Okay. Okay. And so I was like, okay, great. I'll go, like, to this beautiful, special little island,

and then I'll go meet my dad on another island. And so then he got his, like, Russian, real estate agent to it is so pretty to um but all the greek islands are like you can't mess up on a greek island in fact my only advice for greek islands is go to the one that's least populated like don't go to mikonos or santa rini um and so anyway my dad what's that's good advice yeah yeah um and so we stop was telling me i was going and he was like uh just comic sabros he goes there constantly and i'm like where should i go and first it's like i guess mecanos i'm I'm like, I'm not really in a tour or stuff because he's, oh, yeah, stay away.

Yeah. And then he was like, I was like, where are your people from? He's like, my grandmother's from this like, nothing island, nothing's there. I'm like, yeah, yeah, that one. Yeah. Where's that one? Hey, everybody. I'm breaking into today's episode in a beautiful location to let you know about our guests, a beautiful person.

She's actually a much nicer person than I am. This is an interesting episode about travel for philanthropy. It's a, I don't think anyone else has done it. I've tried to get Rayne Wilson on. He actually just fully said, like, he'll do it. He does some, like, philanthropy work in Haiti. And I was like, oh, you've got to do my podcast. He goes, yeah, I'd love to any time.

And then sometimes, guys, when I talk to celebrities, I'm, like, a little bit too scared to follow up on shit. Other people are better at it. Other people are definitely better at it. Anyway, I'm terrible. So, Rain Wilson, if you listen to this, I didn't ignore you. I just feel self-conscious. But Milana, when you...

degrees to just to help people. It's a crazy that. I mean, she didn't go there for that, but she, like, heard the calling and went. Um, and she's just like fully, as long as I've known about it, she's always been about, like, uh, helping the impoverished, ending wars, shit like that, stuff I don't care about. We also, well, let me tell you where to find her online if you want to. Um, her website, we can find tons of places if you want to donate your time or or money. Um, only philanthropy.com. It's only philanthropy.com. If you can't spell philanthropy, then you're one of the people who she's probably going to help. It's illiteracy.

I don't know if that's one of her things she's tackling, but she should. Milana, you know, a lot of people who can't read and why you're ignoring them, just because they can't read and spell philanthropy. Doesn't mean they don't deserve your help and respect. Follow her on Instagram at at M-I-N-T-M-I-L-A-N-A. Mint-M-L-A-M-L-A. That's it, everybody. Let's get back to the episode.

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Milana, follower, Mitt Milana on Instagram. And that's it, everybody. Enjoy Greece. Yeah, because the water is beautiful on all of them. The food is amazing at like the tiniest little restaurant. God damn it is. The coffee is incredible everywhere you go. Yeah.

What's Greek coffee? That's a specific thing, right? Well, I would have these, like, God, I think they were called Frape's, but maybe I'm messing it up. But it was like a frothed instant coffee that just made me so happy because it was like a creamy yum yum, sugary yum yum. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, I think maybe it was called Frapet. Greek Frapers are good.

Yeah, it has just like a foamy, milky sweet thing. Okay. Oh, damn, that doesn't. It's so good. It's so good. So I meet up with my dad, his very Russian... Why did you choose this island? This tiny island?

Because the guy I was dating, his family had a house there. Oh, nice. Yeah. And it was just... Worth it. What's that? Worth it. Relationship.

Yeah. And also, short relationship. Wonderful little short relationship. Yeah. If you can get a free Airbnb out of relationship, that's a win. That's like, that's good memories. no flights as long as you didn't like stock it. In my early 20s I definitely was like parking around my place is really hard. I'm going to go stay at a guy's house.

I had a backyard in New York for a bit and it was all you could see like a woman came over. She's like, oh, I'm going to try to make this work with you. This is some nice outdoor space. Yeah. Oh my God. There was a guy that I like dated just because he had like great beverages in his fridge. I'm like oh every time I come over here I get a treat. My standards were so low. It's not it's not low standards. It's actually. It's actually quality of life standards. It's like, these are my priorities. So great at everyone in their 20s is like, we're all sort of failing.

So if you have any sort of nice thing, we're like, wow. What a huge perk. What a wonderful addition to my life. Bubbly water? And then in my 30s, I'm like, I haven't figured out you really got to be a value ad. You've got to be better than me just hanging out with my friends. Yeah. So I read an interview with one of the chicks from Desperry Housewives.

Uh-huh. The Latino one, I forget a name, but she was like. I've never seen any of them, but keep on. Okay, but she was like, I'm rich, but a guy still's got to pay. Like, fuck that. Just like, you gotta, like, bring something to the table financially. What do you think about that? In 20s, like, maybe no, but at 30s or something, I get it.

It's like, add to my life. Yeah. Something. Or it'd be way interesting. Well, that for sure, like, definitely make me laugh be way interesting. Yeah. But there is still something nice, as much as I'm like a feminist, there is something nice about just like feeling a little taken care of because also women probably jewish women

latina women italian black women do so much caretaking yeah that like oh if you can take care of me a little bit then it actually feels more equal right yeah it's like there's this fight between like that seems like a gender norm versus like who cares maybe we're just like providing for each other and i i provide for you in so many ways and you provide for me and this one actually like more linear way yeah yeah I'm okay with it yeah I'm okay with it too I was date I dated a chick once and she she had like she came from money like her dad was whatever and I was broke in LA never done anything and making no money tempting and then she was like hey we can just go to blockbuster and get a movie but like you got to pay for it like we could do less but you

have to pay for it yeah I was like yeah all right that makes sense but she was cool with just You know, microwave popcorn and $2 Blockbuster. These days, that's like my favorite thing to do. Oh, just popcorn. I don't even need to watch anything. Just give me a hot bowl of popcorn. Nice. So I met up with my dad and he had like a plan.

Like we were going to go to this island for two days and this island for two days. We did go to the island of Crete. And I was told there, my dad's like just a lay on the beach and like fall asleep person. Yeah. That's the oldest island. Uh, I, maybe, I'm not sure. Is it? I don't know.

Largest, oh, largest. It's definitely the largest. And it has this, um, basically it's, they have like a giant hike, like a six hour hike in a giant valley. And I like looked it up on like lonely planet. Uh-huh. And I saw pictures of a waterfall at the end. And I am so into a waterfall. Like, I'll do anything for a waterfall.

Yeah. And so, um, my dad didn't want to. come because he's just asleep on the beach person. Okay. And then I, um... God damn, this looks nice. I thought Crete would be like the lame like Honolulu. It is, it's not like super touristy, but it is very, from what I experienced, like, it is

a city. Like, it's a very functioning city. People live there year round where it's like, on a lot of the smaller islands, people are just there for the summers. And then go to Athens or something for the winter to work. I have been to Athens? God, it rules. Yeah, Athens is amazing.

So I go on this, I like leave at like 4 a.m. Get on a bus. I'm the first one on the bus. I fall asleep at the very back of the bus, you know, because like that's like a long bench seat on like these tourist bunch. And I wake up like an hour later and the bus is full. Like I'm being asked to move.

It was so trippy. It's just like, what happened? What happened? Yeah, what happened? And how long have I been to sleep for and where are we? And then we get to this place. Did you feel safe as a solo, solo woman? I did.

Yeah, I think maybe because it was like early in the morning. There was so many people, so many different kinds of people, different ages and ethnicities. And so I didn't, yeah, it didn't cross my mind. Cool. And so then I find out that this hike isn't like three hours. It's actually six hours. I'm not equipped.

I'm wearing like my bikini on like with shorts. Like it's not a, and I didn't like think about the, the entertainment I would need for six hours of walking. by myself. And I tried to like make small talk with people along the way, but everyone was kind of going on their own paths. And I was like, it's going to be great because at the end of this, there's going to be a waterfall. Oh, whatever it takes. I just, just keep going, because there's going to be a waterfall and you're going to get in water and it doesn't matter how much your feet hurt. And it's like all rocky too. It's like not a path. And, and, and then I see signs for

like a food, like shop, like a little pop-up little thing, and they have like beer and orange juice. And so I like, get an orange juice. And I'm like, that's weird to have a shop on the way to a waterfall. And then I keep walking. And then I'm just like in a town. And I realize that there's no waterfall that I looked at pictures for a totally different place. Like, Lonely Island is not to be trusted. Lonely planet. Lonely Island is breaking news. Here. Also, not great, yeah, not factual advice from Lillen Island. But like, what really? Lonely Planet showed me different photos of a different place and there was never a waterfall and I did this long ass lonely. I was the lonely planet. I was so lonely on this hike by myself

for hours and hours. And I'm not a person. Like, you know, there are some people that like go for jogs without headphones or a podcast or an audiobook. I'm not that person. Damn. And, uh, anyway. You missed this. I know. I could have been standing underneath that. You just like, you just like zoom in and there's just like a little. But yes, so, yeah, I just went on like a huge ass hike by myself for no reason and drove hours there and hours back and was in pain in a bathing suit. Like just terrible. So anyway, I'm sure with a different mindset, I could have enjoyed it more. Well, it's hard.

Yeah, it's hard to be like to rearrange in your head what you wanted. Yes, the expectations. Adjusting the expectations was hard. If you're like, if they were like, hey, this is cool hike to a small town. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Wear socks. Right, right, right. So anyway, that was my little creed experience. And then kind of when we were around on some island, I found, I started like really understanding what the refugee crisis was that was happening there. In Greece? In Greece. So there was a Syrian war where the government is attacking its people.

Okay. So all of these families. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Syria Okay, so you know about this There's just some words I don't Never quite wrap my head around So like the refugee like

Is it just a decision like hey we gotta get out of here Pack your shit and let's go A refugee is specifically a person fleeing war But you can be like a religiously prosecuted refugee It's a person for fleeing for their safety I should say right so it's not like you're not kicked out Like you're like talking to your wife or husband And the kids like hey

We're not safe here getting worse let's go yes but we don't have any money so it's very dangerous to leave but it's more dangerous to stay wow okay or if like your home was blown up probably helps the decision yeah or if like the people around you are getting assassinated by the government or your kid can't go to school anymore because there's you know yeah it's around the time i don't know if you remember this but there was like an image that's burned in my head of this little boy that washed ashore This is sad. Sorry, I mean, we're going to talk about refugees.

Okay. So is, yeah, and then... Don't keep talking, it's okay. Okay. It's going to, yeah. Yeah. That's going to be it. Ugh.

Yeah, so there was like a picture of like his body on the shore, and this is in Greece. People were... That was in Greek. Oh, this was in Turkey. So they were, what people were doing was traveling. from Syria to Turkey and then crossing the Aegean Sea to get to Greece. That's the photo I saw. Damn.

Yeah. And that photo just, like, fucked me up so hard. And I was like, oh, I think I have. I don't think I can. Just didn't fell off and just drowned? Well, so, yeah, they're, like, they're traveling on these tiny little rafts with, like, mule. What do they call? Mules.

Coyotes? Somebody take them across? Yeah, yeah. But they're like coyotes in Turkey. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. And they put them on these little like inflatable things with a motor engine.

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I have it for sale. I'm already. I'm going to not get me on my cell phone when I take my dog out for a while. Remember that one? I ended that one January 1st. Bye. Yeah, and then also, like, to your point about poverty,

like they seem poor, but, like, right now, if you had to leave... I'd be poor, suddenly. You would suddenly be poor because you would not have access to your bank. Yeah. That's true for all of us. Uh-huh. It's weird that, like, you just assume you're like, you guys are like the homeless people that we already have here.

And then a little talking, you're like, what's this saying? If not for some... There goes I. If not for... I don't know that one. The grace of God, there goes I. Okay. Continue.

Same shit. Like, you can get into the same shit. That's what I do with drugs sometimes. When I'm on mushrooms and I'll see like a meth head, I'm like, I just caught a different drug. I got kind of lucky. My friends didn't show me weed instead of meth. Right. You know?

Yeah. Oh, I think about that all the time. There is no difference between me and a homeless person, honestly. Like, maybe my chemical disposition in some ways, the way my neuro pathway is formed as opposed to somebody else is. Yeah. Yeah, like a little, but it's just like the nurture. you were talking about before we started. Yeah.

It's like someone just didn't watch them or something. Or they did and they have such mental illness. I have a friend now who's dealing with borderline personality disorder and she is, not borderline, I'm sorry, bipolar. And she has basically burned every bridge in her life to the point where even her parents are like, we cannot have her here. Wow. And that's, and people, and people.

And because we live in such a fucked up medical institution country or, you know, because our country provides no actual free health care that's accessible, she's like on a long wait to see a psychiatrist. It's so hard to even get her to see a psychiatrist because she's sick, all that kind of stuff. So yes, it's like you just, are you sick enough to end up that way or are you privileged enough? Like there's so many variables. But, yes, I'm constantly thinking about the hand I was dealt. Yeah, and then you talk to them, and it's like, I think this is like negative. We've got to get back to the travel stuff. Okay, no worries.

This is negative of like, well, your privilege of this. And it's like, it's not a negative, it's a positive. It's like, that's sweet. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, I wish for everyone to have more privilege. There you go, yeah. Yeah, except Latinos. Okay.

I could just end it right there. We've got to have someone to fucking push down. Yeah, you want to, you wanted to talk more about that? I don't know. Or maybe Terjocs. Yeah. Yeah, pick someone less of the population, at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, just, just Ecuadorians specific. Anyway, anyway, so, okay, so you see, what do you see there? So I'm just, like, getting the news in a different way, and I'm realizing that, like, kind of everywhere in the world is more educated about everywhere in the world except for Americans. Like, we are so centric on our own country. We really only know what's happening in other states. Never actually do we read about world news.

I mean, now people are really paying attention. to the Middle East. But like shit's been going on for a long time over there and nobody has known anything. I love these new experts. Brand new experts. I'm like, you just got into this two weeks ago. I know.

There have been times where I've tried to talk to people about Israel Palestine. I mean, for so long. And people are like, I just don't know enough. And I'm like, well, that's a great answer, actually. That is a good answer. I love that answer. So anyway, we, I start like basically looking up ways

to be like, can I volunteer? Can I, like, I don't know, drive somebody somewhere? Because you saw this image? Because I saw that image and then I started doing more research and, you know, just, I saw young volunteers handing food to people on trains. And the trains also, I mean, talk about epigenetics. Like, I'm also a Jew and I saw. What was that word?

Epigenetics. It's like the information in our genes. Like our anxiety is an epigenetic factor. It's like our grandmother had this fear around famine, and it was passed down to our mom, and it's passed down to us. And for some reason, I need to always, if you're hungry, that really affects me. Interesting. Okay. I'm sure there's a better definition for it.

In fact, we should pull it up. Okay. But, yeah, so I saw this image of like a woman handing people food on a train, and I was like, maybe I could do that. Like, I don't know what I could do. cells control gene activity without changing the DNA sequence I don't know that's how you're using it English language is pretty open you can change meanings whenever you want

but now then like type in Jews this is just like racial yeah this is just like racial characteristics yeah this is nothing maybe it's nothing maybe I've just been using the word genes Jews get lost a lot yeah so how did they get through the desert

No one can correct you. Except for everyone in your comments. Yeah. Who now has access to the internet while they're listening to this. Oh, yeah. And new experts. You're literally wrong about everything. Hashtag new experts.

That's going to be the theme of this podcast. Anyway, so I just. So you've seen people doing something about it. Yeah, like just on the news. And I'm like, I would really like to be one of those people because this feels so, so painful. and our last step on our trip is Athens. Okay. And I find out about a volunteer meeting in a city in Athens called Exarchia.

I'm sure I'm saying that wrong too. And we, yeah, we took mostly boats to, oh, Crete to, no, that's not how they went. They went from Syria to Turkey. and then Turkey Overland To an island called Lesvos L-E-S-V-O-S Okay

Lesvos And that's where Whatever was invented Cisering Pretty sure So see how they start off in Syria They travel all the way through Turkey

With like They've already spent I mean any cash they have They've like spent on that commute And then And this kid washed up like here No, on that, on like, I think he was on the Turkish shore. Yeah, so probably on that sea, if you want to zoom in there.

God damn. Yeah, it was like somewhere around there. Okay. And they got to get out of Turkey and into the EU? Yes. And then once they land in Lesbos, there were all of these, like the UNHCR and other refugee aid programs that would help them with their paperwork. And then they would go on.

to a giant ship that would take them to Athens. And then through Athens, they would work their way through Europe once they were on the mainland. Okay. So anyway, I was like, I got to do something about it. So I went to this meeting. It was all Greek. That's where the expression comes from. Didn't understand a thing they were saying.

Oh, also Exarhia is a really cool neighborhood in Athens. That's a wonderful place to go check out because it's kind of like the punk rock grunge. Yeah, it's very, I mean, super graffiti. what's the word for the it's not punk it's it's a fucking fuck it's like the anti people

anarchist anarchist is very anarchist yes I think that is maybe the exact perfect word for it yeah what what's the neighborhood Exarchia damn yeah look graffiti's everywhere

oh fucking loved it it was I had an extra join on me when I left and I just saw some like I mean more or less gypsy and I mean more or less gypsy and I was like I was on a balcony and I was like hey

I was like Kira's Bota and he's like Yeah He said it in Spanish? I think I said it in Spanish Yeah I don't know why Yeah I think I don't know why

I just go to Spanish When I'm anywhere but America I spoke in like Spanish With so many Asians around here But he was like Yeah for sure And then I was just throw it down to him Just punkers

It's great It was very cool So it makes sense that that's where the meeting was. Okay. And there I met a British photo journalist and his friend who was an Egyptian guy but living in London. So he spoke Arabic. And I would just like get drunk with these people and like brainstorm and be like,

should we fundraise and get a bus? Like what should we do? And at that point I had been like, like on TV a little bit and I had a little bit of a following and I was like yeah I think the best thing I could do is give them money like try to raise money that's probably the best thing like a lot of us well you have a reach yeah I had a little bit of a reach yeah so it's like get the word out to some people yeah and also educate Americans on how uneducated we are like yes there is this thing that you should be paying attention to but also be paying attention to

all of the things that the news isn't saying to you it's where we We scanned over the word like refugee and once it just like summed it up into, it's like when you hear drugs and you're like, no, that's weed and meth are different things. But like refugee and immigrant are like, they're not exactly the same. Refugee means like you're running away from something. Yeah, immigration and emigration are different. It's like it does say that like we, they're an other. They're an other, yeah, so we don't have to look at them.

Yeah, they're an other. You don't have to worry about it. They're just the poor people. You don't really have to interact with them. It's uncomfortable too also. Is it? To examine, like, suffering. Yeah.

Let's get back to District 1. But isn't there something? Isn't there something also about, like, experiencing people in different places in their lives, in their suffering, that makes you look at the hand you were dealt and not take it for granted? Yeah, for sure. That's a cool thing about traveling, too, is, like, you see. casual poverty or whatever and you're like not in the moment

but sometimes in the moment you're just like damn I have a my place is nice I thought I had a shitty apartment but it's actually great every time I lay in bed every time I get into my cozy cozy bed with my big fluffy down comforter I am like

and then I think about every person who doesn't have a bed I was just figuring out you know what I have never heard anybody talk about but I think is really really fucked up because we've talked about homelessness a lot now before this we started recording even and there's like with homelessness people talk about you have to feed the homeless that make sure that you feed

the homeless no one ever talks about sleep like fuck the homeless you're saying well no I'm sleep like help the homeless people who don't saying have sex with homeless people I'm saying sleep with homeless people no one ever talks about like the other needs of the unhoused people no I'm saying if you don't eat for a day it's fucked up but like you get a good night sleep you're okay the next day you can be okay yeah you can be okay it's not easy but you don't sleep the whole night yeah you are not a okay person the next day you don't sleep for two nights you're yeah you're hallucinating you're a crazy person you don't say for three nights you're like basically dead yeah then you just fall asleep on the side of the road then you're just on the side of the road and it's like

But then we're, like, putting up everything we can to make sure that homeless people don't sleep places. It's, it's, it's like. We're taking that away from them, and then we're sending them to jail to sleep? I don't vote, but it does seem interesting that no politician is ever talking about the homeless crisis in America in every fucking city. You don't vote? Let's talk about this place. Okay, so this place. So you went to lesbos.

So what are you planning on doing there? I had no idea. Just let me find some refugees and help him? I somehow got in touch with this nurse on the island. I don't even remember how. I mean, I was messaging everybody. Yeah. I was...

What's your dad doing at this point? Oh, my dad went back home. I didn't tell him that I was going. It was like the end of our trip. I was like, hey, I'm just going to stick around Athens for a bit. You go home. Because I couldn't tell him I was going to do this. Also, you know, my dad is like a basically a racist.

I love, I love him. But like if I was like, hey, I'm going to go help these Arabs. And he would be like, but you know they hate you, right? Like, do you know they wouldn't do this for you, right? Which I, now that I have like so many wonderful Muslim and Arab friends, I know that they would do that for me. Yeah. Ever see a lone survivor? No, what's that?

Some war movie with Marky Mark. but um this guy's running away from the Taliban this soldier and then runs into a town and they're like well we're supposed to take care of you you're a traveler and so like Taliban beat it he's our fucking ward wow yeah which is not the main story they show you they wouldn't do it for you yeah yeah yeah anyway uh and also that kind of thinking of like they wouldn't do it for you is not helpful what continues to separate us yeah um so yeah so yeah so I was out there with my friend who spoke Arabic, my new friend, who, and that was like, he was an incredible translator. And we basically just drove people from the shore to, like, hospitals or...

What do you mean? Just got a car and just... We just rented a car. Yeah, there were so many, there was so much walking that they had to do. And they were just getting out of the ocean. We were driving them to processing centers or just like, honestly, picking them up from the beach and it's like a two-mile walk. Wait, wait. What do you mean?

They would, like, get in a, from a raft onto the water? Yes. Or they would just be sitting there? They would, they would take a raft. You would see them coming in? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And a lot of, because there's also the Coast Guard out there that was stopping them,

a lot of people would go at night, super early in the morning. So we would, yeah, we would be waiting out there with binoculars, seeing if we could see a little raft and trying to predict where they would land so that we could greet them. Yeah. with like, you know, emergency blankets or just walk them onto shore, like help them off elderly people,

injured people, kids, so many kids. What was the law like about them landing there in Greece? Lesbos knew, but I think the Coast Guard had different laws, like the Coast Guard's job was to send them back. To not let them get ashore. Yes, but I think once they were ashore, because there were so many processing centers, there was so much, you know,

I wouldn't even fully call it refugee aid. know what it was but there was so many non-profits set up there that were helping people so yeah we would just put them in our car and you know if there was like families or injured people we would just try to drive them somewhere and then there we could like give there were places where I could just volunteer to like help give other people food or we had dry shoes for people that was a big thing how did you find these people to like not the people the volunteer places oh I would just walk up to them and be like do you need an extra hand okay and they were all receptive oh yeah Yeah, I mean, like, can you make an extra sandwich, you know?

Wow. And there were a lot of English-speaking people, a lot of people from, like, Amsterdam or the U.K. How were the Greeks there? They, I'm sure, were really frustrated with, like, their beautiful little Mamma Mia island, have, you know, tripling in population and two to three thousand people landing every day. Yeah, imagine this with, like, beach chairs and stuff like that, and then it's like two to three thousand people landing every day. Yeah, yeah.

And so like if you go to that second picture, that's like, it's basically, I don't know, like in L.A., it's like the grove. It's like. Damn, that's nice. It's gorgeous. That's like a little town village. And then there are people who are just sitting there and waiting to be admitted

onto this boat that takes them to Athens. What, um, wow. I mean, I got questions about it. Yeah. What were the people when they wash and shore, like, so you spoke through your friend? Yeah, I mean, yeah, my friend did a lot of the translation, did all the translating. There were some people that spoke English. Really?

Yeah, I mean, English. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there were like, you know, people that were lawyers and doctors. A lot of young people spoke English because they watched like American movies and TV. Yeah, we went to small towns in Israel. Every like nine-year-old spoke fluent English and the adults couldn't say hello. Yeah, yeah. How long did you stay here for?

I was there for about. like two and a half weeks maybe. Wow. Something like that. What would you stay? I stayed at like the cheapest hotel. I could find those like $40 a night. Yeah.

Yeah. And I shared it with my friend. And he had to leave early. So then I like, I can't remember because again, it was so long ago, but I think he had to leave before me. And so I ended up just like not going back to the beach because it was like kind of on the other part of town and going to the refugee camps. So I would go to the grocery store and like get a bunch of things to make

sandwiches and then go to the refugee camps and pass out like fruits and sandwiches and there's so many kids there did you have any like trouble um like thinking about your position in the world versus theirs like was there i mean like was there any like i just give them all my money just give them all my money yeah did you have any like part of you was like what what i'm going to go back to america to my nice house well i was what i thought i would do first is like my like a video journal for myself and I ended up documenting it as like a little mini documentary that I used as a fundraising tool. And then I was able to raise money for buses, which was like the original idea. And then enough to like one of the places that I ended up, I like formed this

kind of, it wasn't a non-profit, but it was just like a fundraising tool called Can't Do Nothing. And it would help people share their time, their money or their voice specifically for the crisis and one of the places is like this school in Jordan so a bunch of refugees ended up going to Jordan okay um and uh at the time Syrian refugee kids couldn't go to the Jordanian public schools so um we like fundraised for like to build to build a school there for for refugee kids and you know different things different things like that that we were able to help out remember that part in schindler's list where he's like I could have, I could have sold the car, I could have done more.

And he did a lot, you know, but he was like, that overwhelming, like, I got to, like, humans being killed. I got to do something. I should have done more. Yeah. It's interesting. I definitely, like, yeah, I talked to my therapist about that a lot because I have, like, like, throw myself under the, I was definitely like, you know, I started, I tried to, like,

start a company. I, like, made it an, I, like, you know, made it a whole thing. I, like, trademarked it and got lawyers and, like, hired a team. I invested a lot into it. I also at one point had like a refugee come live with me, which was like a really bad situation. And that was kind of when I was like, okay, maybe I don't need to be putting all of my,

maybe I could have some boundaries around this. Right, yeah, you got to. Or you'll burn out. Yeah. It's hard. I do think I burned out. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, how do you decide to leave? I had to leave. I think I had to go to work. Yeah, yeah. But it did become, like, my passion for, I think, maybe like two years afterwards. Just refugees all over, or here specifically, or Syrian? Specifically, like, Syrian refugee advocacy work. I'm kind of kind of half reading something about you with it.

And I just, it was like, you know, like, headline reading when, like, making a story in your head. And I thought it was like, I might get you mixed up with the chick and like. 70s show too because it's like passing reads you know um i thought it was like somewhere you where you were from and like oh so you were connected to it in a way oh yeah milakunus was doing work for ukraine that's where she's from and she did like raise 30 million dollars or something and then you were just like unrelated to these people yeah just saw some bad yeah and you know we're like like like you said we just got to pick something and do something about it like i could have picked any and that's what people gave me shit for they're like well there's so much somebody on

house people here like you could be doing something by that and I was like I could but does it matter like I'm doing something for somebody no that's annoying that's like get the fuck out of here just pick a thing yeah it's like what's the you know alternative yeah so um yeah but I did I totally burned out yeah two and a half weeks of just oh not not being there burned me out being there was actually quite energizing for me and I wish I had stayed longer doing the work afterwards like all of the fucking legal work and fundraising and schmoozing and all that stuff was burning me out. Yeah.

Because I'm just like an in-person person. Yeah. Do these people, when they landed, do they trust you? Yeah. They did. I think so. Do they feel like I made it? I got where I'm going.

I think they felt very grateful to not have drowned. Wow. That kid's fucking horrifying. Yeah. And they all saw that image too. You know, they all have smartphones. Like they all knew what was possible for them. Yeah, it's what you realize about these.

You're like, you picture refugee and you're like, you get an image in your head and you're like, they're talking to their mom. Mm-hmm. And you're like, what? And you're like, yeah, I mean, you try to get on the Wi-Fi and you call your mom on your smartphone.

Yeah, they were a lawyer in their previous country. They just don't speak the language here. That's one of the things. When we moved here, my dad moved back to Moscow because he's like such a people person and he, when you don't speak the language, people will never know how smart or funny you are, how charismatic you are.

Like, even though I speak Russian like pretty fluently, I can have a conversation. I can't be super smart or super funny or super charismatic in Russian. I just sound a little dumb. Right. They're like your grammar's off. You're uneducated.

Yeah. Or I don't have like the vocabulary, you know. Louis had a joke about dating a French lady. And then she was like part of like the academia. And so she had all these really smart like professor friends and like writers and like that. But their English was pretty basic. So he was like we were just like second graders talking to like the professor like the head of whatever research like the sorbonnet and they're like my day is good how your day also

is good yeah yeah what'd you eat while you were here oh my god like the best cheese and like puff pastries and i don't i don't remember what a weird place what a weird way to go to Greece yeah but after that i was like oh i want every trip to be one that has purpose. Like, I want, I want to go somewhere, have an experience with nature, bond with my family or friends, and do something valuable, do something that is actually contributing something. Yeah. Because it does feed me a lot.

It's selfish. Black Lives Matter rallies? Did I have I? Yeah, did you go to any of them? You mean when they were, like, happening in 2020? They were really kicking off, yeah. No, I had like twisted my ankle and I couldn't walk during those times. To one, and then it was, like, co-opted by an environmental one.

I didn't know that. I was like, ah, I don't want to go to a real one. But anyway, just seeing them, it was like, this is cool. This feels good. Yeah? To just be out there, like, chanting for something. That felt good to you? Yeah, or a fucking anonymous march or something like that.

It just feels good to take apart in something. You know, this kind of shit. Yeah. But this is higher level. But, like, working at a soup kitchen is like. Yes, working at a soup kitchen is a thing that I sometimes do to, like, fix my soul. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. If I have like an icky something, I'm like, let's just remember what matters. It's people. Yeah. Sorry, this podcast is not funny at all. Yeah. It's somewhat funny.

We were like way funnier when we were getting coffee. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you. What do you got to promote anything? Yeah, I'm in this movie in Tribeca right now called Bad Shabbis. Oh, really? Yeah, it's pretty funny.

You would, I think you would. Is that a good Shabbas? It's like your, yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. It's like, it's got a lot of Jewish comedy, but I think it's at the film festival right now. Oh, yeah, it's playing tonight, I think. Okay.

And then, yeah, I got a couple acting things come out. Just follow me on Instagram. There you go. That's better. At Mint Milana. Mint Milana? Yeah, like Mint Milano cookies, but mint Milana. Okay, oh, that's smart.

Great play on words. I love a good play on words. Okay. All right, well, thank you. Thank you, Mitt Malana. Do you want to hold hands again? Yeah, well, I just wipe my eye. I'll give you that one.

Thank you. Well, that's the episode, everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. That's, yeah, that is an interesting type of travel. There's all these different types of travel I figured out. Well, I guess it's my theory. It's now a new one, philanthropic travel. So it's like going somewhere to help people.

Actually, Steve Simone should come on this podcast. How shaky is that? uh because left hand is that better yeah maybe uh because um he went to Haiti uh for USO right after it was right after um

there was a tsunami or a hurricane or some shit um and I remember him going like how was he goes dude there's the smell of death was everywhere you couldn't escape it they were piling up bodies in the sand was one of the most horrific scenes I've ever seen and I was like oh my god that's crazy how was the weather it goes oh beautiful every day 75 and sunny for sure um anyway milana uh same thing what a what a unabashed great way no no uh critique way to uh to see a place i mean you'd have to be nuts to what's in that cave is that puma

It seems like a fucking Puma Cabe, doesn't it? Oh, yeah, non-critique wave of just helping people. It's just like, see the call and just be like, I want to help people. And that's why our website is Onlyphilanthropy.com. Check her out on Instagram. If you'd like the episode, make sure to go tell her on Instagram. Mint Milana, M-I-N-T-M-I-L-A-N-A. man what a what an interesting way to see greece i mean so much different than getting a bunch of saganaki

the way i did it following stabbos's wrecks and just eating saganaki and trying to find the elusive saganaki with lamb topping um well that's it everybody uh till next week next week's episode who do we got ralph pods episode 99 the final episode of next year this is a This will be a redo from the skeptic tank. They always say, at YMH, they say that the weekend between Christmas and New Year is a dead week. And I was like, all right, well, if it's a dead week, I don't know. Last year I just did the Trippie Award nominations. This year, the nominations are already in.

Look at this. It's like a salt. You see it? Salt River. So this year, I'm going to start redoing, I took down all the skeptic episodes, they're gone. Maybe I'll put them up on, on, somewhere, I don't know, but they're gone. I don't know, oh, whatever, not to go into why. Oops, somebody's coming.

Let me get out of the way. This is odd. This is odd. How would anybody be coming down here? It's weird. Well, I just got told off The thing with wild camping is if you If you start

This is the bad, this is right to the sun If you start well after the We're right before the sun goes down You can just camp anywhere the fuck you want No one's around until the morning When a couple Actually decent looking chicks Tell you that you can't camp there

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that we can't put in. And YMH for producing it. So next week, Rolf Potts, all over Paris. That's one you definitely want to watch. Subscribe on YouTube. If you're watching on YouTube, I mean, definitely, we filmed it all over the city of Paris, different places.

Luxembourg Gardens in front of the Louvre on the bridge over the river Sends with the fucking Eiffel Tower in the backdrop. We just kept going to different spots and talking about a little bit of Paris, but mostly about the idea of travel in general for his new book, The Vagabond's Way, his follow-up, his spiritual follow-up to vagabonding. All right, that's it, everybody. Please subscribe, we're watching, and don't forget to vote for the Trippy Awards. Did you fucking put your vote in yet? Best picks. Ethan McKenzie, Joe and Sarah, Julia Gallerati, Kevin and H. Foley, Sam Talent, Schultz, and Tom Rhodes. I'm taking Schultz off that.

He didn't have the best pictures, actually. I'm taking him off. Guys, these nominations, plus if you fucking vote on the... comments I might add another one I don't remember everything I smoke a lot of weed I don't remember everything

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you know what I'm on is probably the best trip I've said this before but you know I'm very boring on podcast so wouldn't be the best episode which would be the best trip uh list and sarah for visiting me in ecuador kevin foley at h uh ryan uh route 66 burkeyesher vietnam mike veckione six mckeown six months in aruba jim norton going to brazil with patrice and barbara kelly

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Tucker Carlson? How are you? What? You got Tucker Carlson not to talk about politics for a whole hour? How? How? Well, I make the world that I want to make. You guys all say, like, I fucking hate what he says. Well, I made him say something beautiful. Um, non-political. Politics blows. Politics blows. What do you even doing it here? Topsagora? Like, actually, fucking. I didn't know he's a fucker. Carmen Lynch doing fucking hardcore ayahuasca drugs in the jungle of Peru. Steph Toll have, knowing how to Scottish dance. And, yeah, let me show you this fucking salt fuck here. And, um, ooh, Ooh, Akuka tricks. Uh, and Chad Wallin going to Ghana. I thought it was just a YMH employee.

He's a fucking, you know, I don't know how to say it. Uh, dumbest move, Seguora fucking with no conum twice. H. Foley's shitting himself. Mark Gagnon, lipping off to a UAE cop. Um, Joe Lists drinking warm tea. Ah, boiling, Joe. It's got to be boiling. Told you that.

Um, and. Jesus scammed into helping oh Jordan Jensen scammed into helping fucking build up fake look at this it's all salt flats here it's like a salt flat river you see it now I mean I'm definitely not allowed to be here those hot fucking what's a call checks are gonna have a problem with me what are these tracks in Kunker right um sexual adventurer jim norton brazilian hookers dragoh upskirts in tokyo tom segorah fucking the german backpacker and emma wellman getting pink eye uh from a chicken netherlands the drugs the trippy trippy Andy Haynes fake mushrooms in where was that fake mushrooms in belize uh Carmen lynch the ayahuasca in the jungle for sure. Hamilton Morris, just the drug labs in general of China. Me, snorny riddlin in Thailand. I forgot that was this year's episode. And Danny Brown getting a fucking delivery of drugs in Barcelona at his

hotel. Best meal, Mike Corey, eating Gator in the jungle. Paul Verzi, eating a meal across from the Parthon. That's an Italian. I mean, that's like the dream. And help with any other ones, best meals, most interesting meals. Last year's winner, I think, was Rolf Potts. Creighting in a monastery on top of a mountain in Syria? Afghanistan. Most adventurous. Small

brain America, Myanmar, Tom Rhodes, Mongolia, Harlem, Africa, Chad Wallin, Ghana, Julia Galauretti, Afghanistan, Mike Corey, Congo, Carmen Lynch, Peruvian jungle. And least adventurous, Tim Dillon, I've got to cut some of these. I can't give all of these as a trip.

nominees. Tim Dillon, Posh London, Chris O'Connor, Switzerland, not leaving his fucking hotel room. Biggest piece of shit. Oh, I forgot one before. It's Graham K. It's pretty much selling arms to terrorists. Jason Ellis being a fucking complete

arse in Germany. Yannis Papa, sick and a fucking tiger, live tiger or lion, excuse me, on his friend. And Joe DeRosa, just a real piece of shit in general. the biggest piece of shit's ever following some guy into the woods

Louis Gomez I forgot about him Louis fucking Gomez making his son drop jump off the fucking rocks into a fucking choppy waters I mean what a piece of shit the piece of shit

the piece of shit awards is not going anywhere it's got to be it's got to be I mean if we had to say what's got to say what's got to go biggest piece of shit best episodes like best guest um dumbest move sexual adventure drugs and then here i like this one that makes you want to go award list and sarah visiting me in ecuador it makes ecuador seem so cool um me and uh paul morrissey

having our two trips two new countries a year contest that we did in switzerland harley williams africa doesn't make you want to go do a to a to a one of those one of those uh what's it called safaris julia galerati afghanistan seems like a cool place actually uh tom roads mongolia i mean i want to go burke christ in vietnam damn i want to do that the way he did it on the fucking motorcycle just out there by himself oh small brand of american in Myanmar? Yeah, it reminds me. And Ethan McKenzie, Guatemala. I mean, it reminded me of our, me and his trip to Guatemala. So it's like, it may be like reminisce. I don't know. Best travel, buddy. I need your help for that one. Please please, please comment. Most dangerous.

Please comment. I need your help for that one. Most disgusting. Should this be one? Adam Rowe for step over puddles of urine and dry days in India. Joe List. tour of gas stations in in Ecuador, Burke Kreischer, cleaning out ears in Vietnam, each folly shitting himself. That's it. Thanks again, Mitt Milana. Go talk to her on Instagram and go visit a website,

Only Philanthropy, and give a little bit yourself. If she can do all that, really help refugees getting off the boat, trying to, like, you know, get medical care and shelter. You know, why can't you? I know why can't? I'm a piece of shit. I should be in, I should have a nomination. Biggest piece of shit.

Anyway, that's the episode of everybody. Thank you very much. Until next week, please subscribe. I'm Arjaveir saying, get out there and travel. Please say, I don't know how to say goodbye. I forgot. I did know once in Greek. Okay, that's it.

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