You Be Trippin' - Greece w/ Stavros Halkias | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

Check out Stavros' new film "Let's Start A Cult" in theaters October 25th! And follow Stavros on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/stavvybaby2/?hl=en SPONSORS: -Try VIIA Hemp! https://bit.ly/viiatrippin and use code TRIPPIN! -Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with Mando and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo TRIPPIN at https://ShopMando.com! #mandopod On this episode of You Be Trippin, Stavros Halkias talks about his lifetime of going to Greece where he does shrooms and prioritizes happiness on its beautiful beaches. On the show, he and Ari talk about marketplaces, the end of a relationship, and bad family dynamics. Other topics include: Greek food, animism, his cousin’s wedding, and being a broke college kid while traveling. Aπολαμβάνω! You Be Trippin' Ep. 34 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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Where you been and where you going? busted up one on your podcast courtesy of Ari Shaffir. Hi everybody. Welcome to you be tripping. I'm Ari Shaffir, your host. I've been to a bunch of countries and I try to, I like listening to people tell their travel tales And every week we go to a different spot with a different guest. So the only podcast that is What's the word when you're sponsored no Supported the official when it's like the official something. What is that? Whatever sponsored not sponsored of what what are you trying to say? It's like the official You know, it's something company of the New York Rangers.

Presenting, the presenting. Endorsed, endorsed. Endorsed. It's the only podcast endorsed by the vegans of America. Is it? Yeah, that's right, buddy. Wow. The Stavros Alkios, one of Maryland's finest.

Thank you, thank you. Yeah, we're talking, we gotta be top five Maryland. True, Maryland, there's, it's you. Thank you. Yeah. We're talking about, you gotta be top, top five Maryland. True Marylanders. It's it. Yeah. You, you expanded it. If we're talking Baltimore, I'm feeling right now, honestly, I'm feeling like you can't really fuck with me in Baltimore. I feel like the, the king of Baltimore right now, but Maryland's a diverse state with much, you know, bro it was the wire and then nothing till you. Yeah, a lot. Yeah. But yeah, we got John Waters. We got the water. Michael Phelps till you yeah a lot. Yeah, but yeah, we got John Waters

We got the water waters Michael price, obviously. Oh, yeah, and uh, who's the decorated Olympian of all time? Who's the gymnast from Silver Spring? So you worry about Silver Spring, bro? I don't give a fuck about the DC suburbs. I'm from Baltimore I'm from the gutter It really is the gutter I It really is the gutter. I saw it change so much in a harbor and shit. No, it's not.

It's legitimately nice now. It was great. It was like, you can't go there. Dude, I bought a house in Baltimore, like Patterson Park. When I was growing up, it was like a stabby style park. It was a don't go there at dark park and now it's like beautiful the houses on there like nice and redone and Yeah, I I bought a place in like nearby where I grew up

Yeah, but like near the water near the park. It's beautiful It's legitimately beautiful and it's like, you know, I it's crazy that I feel I go to Baltimore and like feel recharged now Which is which is fucking hilarious to think about and to say never would I have assumed? Oh, yeah special in DC in Southeast and uh and my mom was like don't go out at night, bro. It's different There's beer garden. Yeah, I don't know that it was literally the place where you were like, you're not you don't have to stop at red Lights. Yeah, they'll get you. I yeah I remember South I mean South East is nice down I remember gentrifying as I was doing open mics there I remember you know kind of get the Nats already they did that turned it around yeah I think

the baseballs like we can go in there but yeah we'll kick them out brutal Juliani go Juliani on Jul. Giuliani mustard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where do you want to go today, obviously? I guess we got to go to Greece, man. I haven't been many other places. I've taken shorter trips to Japan and Korea, but those were work trips. What do you mean work trips? I did very low level USO shows as a feature.

I went with a buddy of mine. That's great. Great comic, Bent Washburn, who's actually... He'd be an interesting guy to get on here because he lives in Europe. Thanks that yeah You know I know of him. He's really very funny He was I think his wife is in the Navy or something so she was stationed in DC for a while and I got to know him there as I was coming up and He took me with him to Japan in Korea on these USO shows and they were really fun This is this is the summer before I moved to New York. So ten years ago at this point

And that was a cool experience, but that's next time next time Yeah, this time just a lifetime of travel in Greece. You are so I went to DR And and Ian Laura was my like travel guy. Yes, and even when I was there I was like, hey, what do I how's this? How's this? He was like you were my Greece travel guy. Yes even when I was there, I was like, hey, how's this, how's this? And he was like, you were my Greece travel guy. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. You went to, where'd you go? Antipaxo? Antiparos, yeah.

Antiparos, yeah, yeah. That's it. Antiparos, yeah. Which was cool because everyone I talked to there was like, oh yeah, that's where the locals go. Yeah, yeah, I have family that has a house over there. Yeah, it's great. I family that has a house over there and like Yeah, it's it's great. I actually I'm going next year. I haven't I that's the I was gonna go Last year, I went for my cousin's wedding. Yeah, and Faso, which is northern Greece. Yeah

It's what it's a big island up there. But yeah, I've been going to Greece my whole life families from Athens and so I just figured it'd be fun to kind of like I Can give you the perspective of like, literally the first time I went to Greece I was nine months old and getting baptized. So that was my first trip. You went to Greece to get baptized? To get baptized. Man, it didn't take, huh?

That's true, man. They got to double check that holy water. Shouldn't use salt water. They really went to Greece to make one of the most heathenest motherfuckers possible. Somebody must have jizzed in that holy water. That's the only information. I never even thought of that. I am truly the least God-believing motherfucker in the world who lives the most gluttonous

lifestyle. Wow, it really didn't take. Sorry. Sorry, God. Sorry. It was at the Ayos Andon's church where my dad grew up. But yeah. So yeah, all these different versions of of Greece. I've experienced the country is like, literally an infant. The first one I remember I was in like, I want to say third grade. Yeah.

And then middle school and then high school age. And then I went with a buddy as broke college students and we we Did a layover in Amsterdam and a layover in Paris so we had like 36 hours in these cool cities on the way in and the way out and we crashed with my family and I went on with a girlfriend at the time, which Was one of the most disastrous our relationship didn't survive. Okay the trip and then I went last time for my cousin's wedding and had like a life Realization on mushrooms on the beach and it's like Greece has been very important to me And it's like really shaped a lot of shit for me for sure Wow Yeah, a lot a lot of meat on the bone. Okay. Yeah, so what do you how do we do this?

So we do like you each type of trip you can lead me you could ask me I could we take it kind of Chronological if you'd like. Okay. I don't know if we'll go off and come back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because like, so I can tell you the first trip, right? Okay. When you're in second. In Greece, the other thing to remember for me and my family is that Greece was like, it was like this,

as a child, as a little kid, it's like this paradise my father's been describing to me. Right? And my entire life- Is he from there? from there, my family came here in the eighties. And in fact, they, they came here in 82 with the goal of my mom's side of the family had moved in the seventies. Right. And so she came, she came right after college, but she hated it. She was like a young woman who was like, as soon as I'm about to be an adult

You're gonna move me away from paradise away from like all my friends and all this shit that I know and so she quickly moved back I'll buy on her own lived in Athens as a single woman with her friend met my dad Her best friend was married to a guy who's friends with my dad literally met through them and they had a nice little romance got married Had a cute little you know you see the picture pictures you're like oh my god my parents were happy they were like it's crazy my dad had hair he was happy they were like you're they're like dancing they're fucking smoking cigarette my mom was a chain smoker she quit cold turkey the day she found out she was pregnant with me she literally made a greek coffee smoked a cigarette, and was like, I'm done. Hasn't touched a cigarette the rest of her life.

Crazy. That's how much. Does she still want it? I think she wanted kids so bad. No, but I mean like even now. But I think it like reprogrammed her fucking brain, dude. Oh wow. That's a good question.

I don't think she does though. And so they came, and the story story was they came to, they were gonna visit my mom's parents who had the house I grew up in, they had split it up into an apartment upstairs and my grandparents lived on the bottom two floors. They made a little apartment. My mom and dad could live there for a year,

save up money, move back to Greece. So they came in 1982 with the plan of being in America for a year, two years tops. And they have been here ever since. My dad claims he was tricked, you know what I mean? So he claims that it was like, you know, he never wanted to leave, whatever. The thing he always leaves out is that

they basically stayed because they had problems having problems, having kids and in vitro fertilize me and my brother were like, no, they, the doctors had not gotten to IVF yet. No, no, no. They were like, you know, they're not, they're not, you're not beaten off in a cup. Is it, how poor is it there? It is pretty bad. Like that's the thing. You don't think of it as like third world, but it ain't first world. You know what I mean? It is somewhere in the middle. It's good, it's much better now.

Now they have internet and shit like that. But that's part of it, right? So I remember always, yeah, second world country. Second world country is a country that is economically developing, but not yet as prosperous as progress. Makes sense, that's what it feels like. Yeah. But that's part of it though, right? Because we've grown up in America and my dad would tell me, he's like,

You're gonna fucking love Greece. And he would tell me every, every, every like, every year my dad's like growing up, he's like, We're probably gonna move to Greece. Really? So like I thought as a kid until like, we're probably gonna move to Greece. Really? So like, I thought as a kid until like seventh grade that I was moving to Greece. So, and before we visited, he built it up. He's like, your grandfather, your grandmother, your uncles, your aunt, they love,

you're gonna love it so much. It's where I grew up. Me and my brothers are fucking jacked to go to Greece. We're like, hell fucking yeah. He hyped it. He hyped it. We're scared of the airplane so they like I was scared to fly I'm a little kid and but

Pokemon had just come out and I'm on my game cube or my game boy And I was like I got eight straight hours to play My parents never let me play video games that long and they're like just to calm them down the plane play play fucking Pokemon So I'm like this fucking rules. I'm in the best mood, right? We get to Greece, which is like- Before middle seat was a bad thing. You're like, what is this a seat? It was me and my brothers,

we're eating all the fucking snacks. It was fucking, it was honestly so great. And then we get to Greece. And you know, you think of Greece like this beautiful place and we go to Athens, where my dad's from. He's kind of from like a shitty neighborhood in Athens. His family house is there. We're fucking fat spoiled American kids.

We get there, no AC. Like we just cut, our grandparents are these weird old people are like, we like our aunt and our cousins, but it's like, they're a lot, they're so, they're like super affectionate, and they're fucking with you, and they're like, I was fat, I was the fattest one, and Greek people don't, you're not allowed to be fat.

They're fucking roasting me about how fucking fat I am. Is that part of Greek culture? Oh, dude, yeah. Shitting on people? Well, my family, anyway. I used to think it was all of Greek culture culture and then I met some of my friends' parents or you know aunts and uncles and they were just polite and I was like. Oh it's me. Oh I'm trash. I'm trash in America. I'm trash in Greece. I love when you think you made

a realization about a group or a country and you're like no it's just the one I met. Yeah that's how Greek you know that's how that's Greek culture. They'll call you slurs within, you know, while meeting you. Hi, Ray. Thanks for tuning in. I just got to break in real quick to let you know that Stavros Halkias, there's another Halkias in Greece, a comedian. A lot of them. Yeah. Pretty common name. OK. Yeah. But he was a comedian. I said somebody I was like, I know Stavros Halkias.

Is it a stand up comic? What? I think it's a TV comic. I know that guy. I know that actor. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. is a comedian. Is it a stand-up comic? What? I think it's a TV comic, different. I know that guy, I know that actor, I don't know personally, yeah. Also comedian, he'll be performing at the Lyric in Baltimore, his homecoming Thanksgiving weekend, but he's also got a movie coming out. That's right.

Called Let's Start a Cult, it's in theaters on October 25th. Yes sir. Everybody's gotta go fuck and see that. Stav, you're one of the fucking funniest in the world. Thanks dude, appreciate it. Yeah, I legitimately fucking die laughing when I see you on stage you've also turned from this young kid into like a especially when your mustache is good a real dirtbag Greek look for myself I got nothing I got a

Dr. Appaloochee special November 12th that I produced on Netflix. And guys, just subscribe to this podcast. Great episodes every week with fucking hilarious comics and mainstream, normal, non-funny people too. I love it. But yeah, I'm excited for this fucking movie. I'm gonna go see it. I'm gonna get fucked up on weed and go eat some popcorn.

We're doing a premiere in New York. Where? So I think somewhere, I'll tell ya. Angelica? Villages. Villages, that's the Angelica. Yeah, that I think somewhere, I'll tell ya. Angelica? Villages. Villages, that's the Angelica. Yeah, that's the spot, bro. That's an old Yiddish theater.

It's on the 25th actually. Really? Yeah, the premiere day. We're doing an LA premiere the week before and then we're doing on the 25th, come out. 100%. I love it. 100%.

Sick, we might even sell some tickets, so folks, come out. All right, yeah. Hey guys, I gotta break in really quick to tell you about Stavros. Yeah not everybody does this but I like to promote my guest and Stavros is a great comic. Stav is one of the most hilarious guys on the planet. He's got a great sense of humor, relaxed, sexual, he's got a sexual energy to him. When you see him he just exudes sex, almost makes you drip shit out of your cock. You know just like It almost makes you drip shit out of your cock.

You know, just like drip, drip, drip right out of your cock. Just seeing him, you know, in all his sexual glory. He's like, you just want to like, how come you're not oiled up all the time? You're like, you should be more oiled with that mustache. You like get a little oil in that, get all over his body and just rub your belly on his belly. Who wouldn't want that? Hopefully he'll be doing that at the premiere of his movie. Let's start our cult on October 25th. Also, I've got dates coming. October 16th will be the pre-sale for the farewell tour. I might name it that, unless you have a better name for the tour.

It's going to be only tour dates until 2027. Um, here's what's going on sale on that October 16th day. Austin, Tahoe, Pittsburgh, Providence, Salt Lake City, Bray in Nashville, New Jersey, Tampa, Denver, best of week, Schaumburg, Atlanta, Jacksonville, San Jose, Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and possibly, oh no, yes, and Portland, possibly Dallas, San Antonio, Spokane, Boise. Also, my favorite city, Calgary, and possibly, oh no, yes, in Portland, possibly Dallas, San Antonio, Spokane, Boise.

Um, also myself and Bobby Kelly are doing a show, one show only at 5 PM, uh, the Miami improv on November, whatever that Sunday is, second or third tickets available will, will not be a second show added. Uh, and that's it guys let's get back to the episode Greece from the man himself the Greek something Greek assassin god he's so fucking hot I'm not even in dudes like that but just those ass cheeks and I don't want to put my cock in it but I want to put my face in it right in the fucking oh oh I gotta get back to the episode I'm gonna get back to the episode.

I'm gonna take care of myself. Anyway, we got there and it was, I liked it. It was interesting, it was fun. I did, it was cool to meet your family, but me and my family are staying in this un-air conditioned, shitty little apartment with one- Athens or New Orleans? In Athens.

One bathroom between us. If you shit, you had one- Athens or an island? In Athens. One bathroom between us. If you shit, you had to fucking bring a bucket to make sure the water went down because the fucking pipes weren't strong enough. It was fucking weird, dude. You had to like turn the water on if you wanted to shower ahead of time. What do you mean, turn the hot on?

Either the hot or like- Turn all the water on? I think that water to the bathtub had its own thing. Maybe it was the hot. It was just it was just a Jesus. We were not rich and we were poor in Baltimore, but it was a. Clear step down in quality of life, and we spent all the time in Athens and it was like, we're just sitting in an unair conditioned rooms playing FIFA with our cousin.

Oh, what a waste. And it was like, yeah, it was kind of like. But at the same time we liked it. It was fun because we just got to play video games, but it wasn't like, it wasn't this magical place my dad was talking about, you know, and then, and it was fine enough. That first trip was fine enough. We ended up going to some, you know, some like beach places. We visited my mom's island in Faso, which, so we took like a road trip all the way up to Faso. But that was really stressful because we're in a fucking car with my whole family and my dad has fucking anger problems and you know, it's just uncomfortable dude.

And it's like, it's high up. It's like a giant island though. It's huge. It's a great island. But I just remember getting back from that first trip and being like this is cool But I spent it in a city that reminds me of Baltimore the ocean was fun It was getting on the beach was cool all that stuff was cool But then the the fallout of it was interesting because my dad Was you could tell he saved up a lot of money,

because it was not cheap to fly your whole fucking family out there, and he spent a lot of money, he took time off work, and when he would get back from, when we get back from Greece, my dad was in the worst mood. He could not, he was just like, he would set him off at the fucking, you know, the drop of a hat. Why, because it wasn't magical? Because it was over.

It was just like, this whole thing he was looking forward to didn't change his life. He also, they were kind of recruiting trips for like, you know, for, he wanted us to love Greece. And we didn't. This is birthright. It was birthright, but without getting pussy from, you know, sex traffics Ukrainians.

You know what I mean? Like, that's the difference. They're like I do so well here it's weird. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. They tell the soldiers to like fuck some of the girls. Yeah yeah. They'll want to let them. And so yeah and it just didn't break exactly how I wanted. I also remember my mom she just had to like do chores in Greece. Like it wasn't a vacation for her either. She's looking after our whole family. And it was like the vibes were just so fucked up

after that first trip. And then second trip kind of the same thing. We're older, we're a little, but it's still pretty similar. In fact, the more you grow up, you're like, oh man, you're just feeling your family dynamics and you're just seeing everything that's fucking wrong with your family play out. My dad would do this thing where, you know,

I guess we would complain a little bit and we're like, this kinda, we don't just wanna go to Athens, we wanna go do other shit. And my aunt and uncle would always, they always went, they, my uncle. Can't plan for everybody. And my uncle did well, he was like a successful guy.

He worked in like the Greek bank, and pre the economic crisis, he was doing pretty well. They would always go on these European trips, and I think my dad felt a, he felt like the desire to portray himself as like really successful in America. Like, oh, I have my own business like I to the brother to the to his sister but brother right right and and they couldn't check on him they couldn't check if he's wrong not really not back

then you care there's no Facebook there's no nothing there's just what he has says and so we got to it got to the point where we were taking out loans to go to fucking vacations to try to live this fake life. To fake that you're successful. So the later trips, we're going to these beautiful places. Like, I mean, if you go to like, I mean, we went to Thaso, yeah, I mean, look at this fucking island. We would go there.

Look at that. That's my grandmother's island. And we took these great trips to, there was a place called Xilocastro, which was, they got a place there. How the fuck do you spell that? X, yeah, X-I-L-O, there you go. Which was just like, it was like kind of close by. It was just like, we were just like, that my family had like a,

it was like within a couple hours of Athens, we would just drive over there. And that was like the bullshit one, right? That's like the not that great place to go visit. This is everything that I picture at all these, and actually that's for your podcast. You've made it seem like this, you're eating. Yes, and like I said, this is just okay.

This is the one that's a couple hours from Athens like hey fuck it Let's get in the car and go right so we would go there. We took like these road trips all across Greece And those were beautiful trips and by the way the Parthenon I was again I was a mythology nerd so when I was a little kid going when the when the Parthenon Museum opened So beautiful I had such a great time. And so we're seeing all this great stuff. And I'm connecting with my family. It's cool to, I meet my godparents,

who I didn't really know that we would talk on the phone, but I know them. They were great. And you're having these great experiences. But then you're getting home, and your dad is fucking pissed. He's in a fucking hole financially. He's kind of taking it out on you. You see the guilt and then as a little kid I meet my grandparents and I mean I have jokes about him in the first special but where it's like you see them bicker and when you're like when you're nine years old it's funny it's like you see them bicker. And when you're like, when you're nine years old, it's funny, it's like, how are these old people? And then you're 14 and you're like,

they fucking hate each other. And this is where my dad. And they have real problems, like you drink too much. Yeah, and like they really hate each other and they're just at each other's throats and then you're like, whoa, this is what my dad's parents were like? Like this is why he's like this?

And you're just like, and then they, and then you realize your dad guilt you, and then you see how his parents treat him when he leaves to America. They made him like cry. They're like, I'm gonna die. You're not gonna be here. And I'm like, what the fuck?

And you see my aunt and uncle who deal with these old people every day, so they're fed up, and they're just fucking like rude to them. But, but like covering all their bases, like taking them to the doctor and being really caring and loving. And you're like, this is so fucked up psychologically.

And you're like, this is the weird bullshit that my dad came from. All this shit, it's so fucked up. You see your cousin's weird psychology of like they're at each other's throats, they're brother and sister, they don't, I feel like a weird, they don't really like me. Like my one cousin doesn't like me that much

and the other one, we really like each other but we can't really connect and that's sad. Why, English? English, just like, you really love someone but you just, I don't know, a little bit of the language barrier. But also just like we like you really love somebody just I don't know a little bit of the language barrier But also just like we would hang out and it just feels kind of stressful a little bit He's also more of a party guy than I was I'm trying to impress my older cousin

But I'm not this kind of I'm not going out and getting drunk as a fucking 14 year old, right? You know what I mean? Like I'm not like he tried to sneak out my like 12 year old brother to a brothel Luckily got caught. Like. Take it down, take it down. Your heart's in the right place, but you're doing the wrong. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy.

And I just remember being like, you're just, it's crazy, he's awesome. He's a good time. And when I caught him, when I was like in that zone, it was really fun. But even then it was like, when I went back as a college guy He would like he was working on these party islands even that it's like I'm trying to get pretty fucked up and try and Get some pussy, but this guy's like out till 7 a.m.

And it's like dude you always take it a little too far, but those lifer guys for a pussy It's it's just like it seems cool and then by the end of the night every time It's like it's every day for you your life is how do we get laid? It's they change they're kind of gross, but he he would get it done. Yeah He would bring like these tourists back to his tent. He didn't even have an indoor room He was he slept in a tent all summer, but that's we're jumping ahead a little bit but so these first early trips were really cool, and I would I met my mom's like best friend who was like This really interesting woman who was like the link between you saw in this woman what she was the closest

relative to what my parents were like as 20 year olds where she wasn't mixed up in all this family stuff and It was just cool she was like this very artsy woman who was like a songwriter and an actress and she was on Greek TV and shit. She was awesome and an artist and she was married to like a, her first husband died tragically but her second husband was a very cool guy and her daughter was great.

My mom's goddaughter and she was just a really sweet person and you saw, you would see the cool parts of both your family and the culture you're from, because I love all the history, and I love, the beaches are incredible, and the food is unbelievable. And everything about it's great, but you're just so reminded of how fucked up your family is.

Yeah, you were the wrong crew. Yeah, yeah. And it was like, I don't know, it was like this weird thing that I would always come back kind of depressed. Damn. And it would, and, and, and to the point where there was one summer

where my dad wanted to go, and we went for the Olymp, the last one, the last kind of like childhood trip was the Olympics, that's another thing. We're experiencing once in a lifetime things, and I'm so grateful for those trips and and you know Being at the Olympics was incredible right to the point where I was in England this year Could have gone to Paris, but I was like, you know what you're into the Olympics

I don't in the original spot in Athens, right? I don't feel the need to do it And so there were these incredible trips on the one hand and on the other hand They were like it was the start of like being like what something is so fucked up in my family something is so fundamentally fucked up in my family but didn't Sari on the whole place no not at all easily it did briefly though right cuz like we go in 04 yeah and I'm you know 04 I'm like in middle school or whatever or maybe I just started high school I'm trying to I graduate Yeah, if I graduated high school in 07, I was already in high school, but starting

My dad went back He wanted to go back in like 09 maybe and I was playing football So it must have been my junior year actually then so this was this was Football I put high school football. So we went on, my dad wanted to go back in 06. Where were you? I was a nose tackle. Nice. Yeah, it was fun, I loved it, it was great.

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It's gonna be different and we just immediately let him have it this grown man got bullied by these fucking you could tell his wife the whole summer's like you gotta lay down a law respect you and he's like okay I'm gonna do it like wrong no game plans so we bully this guy so much he quits like two weeks in and our school scrambles to hire a guy they hire a guy this Greek dude who coached the team with his dad he was unbeknownst to everyone but me, he used to be a deacon at my church and he was fired because he tried to rob the church. Him and a guy from the neighborhood tried to do an inside job and steal money from the

church, right? And I guess because they were scrambling to... He had already had that? It had already happened. He was newly defrocked. He was like a deacon. He was training to be an Orthodox priest. Let's let him lead these children.

So I get my hunch, I think what happened is because they were scrambling to hire someone, they're like, it's the JV soccer coach. Who cares? What's he gonna do? Yeah, this is some... and he was kind of a dorky looking guy yeah fuck it you want to do it great if you don't do it we have to dissolve the program so it was cool cuz I knew I had this dirt on him that nobody else had you knew but I knew about it but I was I wasn't gonna snitch but dude let me tell

you I got plenty of playing time he kept me happy anyway this guy was such a door note don't let it out yeah yeah yeah don't snitch don't snitch unless it you know so he he was also kind of a dork who wanted to relate to us and we liked him more than the other guy but because he wanted to like make friends with a kid, they got, he got the kid, not in a gay way, not in like a, in like a, I'm one of the guys kind of way. And it's wrong for a different reason. It's not, yeah, not right to give a child, no matter what your motives are.

Don't stick it into. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wasn't it, but still not. I love that. I was trying to fuck it. I was like, great. Yeah. We weren't even thinking that till you brought it up. Were you trying to fuck him? Like, no, I just said I was. Would I say it if I was. Um, and so they dissolved the program. And then after he gave the kid,

got Miami'd. Yeah, they dissolved they dissolved the program. And then after he gave the kid got Miami. Yeah. They dissolved those JV program. So they just let whoever, cause my parents were against because they're Greek, they were against barbaric American football, but because they dissolved it, they felt bad. They were like, our JV football team sucked. And they were like, Hey, you guys already have eligibility.

Whoever wants to can join this fucking team. We need a kicker. We'll take. And so I played football only because of that. I ended up being kind of good at it. So shout out to... I won't say his name. He's already disgraced enough, but shout out to him. And so that in 08 it was a big turning point because my mom was just... she hated going to Greece with my... because she always had to... it ended up her... she wasn't on vacation, she was just like, and my dad's family is passive aggressive and shitty to her and like, you know, all this classic in-law

stuff, and she was, got tired of fucking doing laundry with no laundry machine. She got tired of fucking hanging out for grown men. They're everywhere. Yeah. They're all those lines are everywhere. Yeah, yeah. And so me and my mom stayed in America, and my dad and my brothers went, and that was kind of symbolic about how things

were going in the family. It was like my brothers hadn't really broken free, and I was like, I'm not. The excuse was, I have football. I can't. I have training camp. I can't do it. But I didn't want to fucking go.

And so. it's crazy You are the Greek guy now from this beginning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know I know well But it was always very important to me and that's what was really So I I was just kind of like I need to do my own thing But I did I still loved and missed Greece right I just like I couldn't be around my fucking family I just like whatever it was just like too much. And then I kinda was like, you know, I couldn't really afford, we were broke,

I'm a college student, or I'm in high school, I don't wanna go in this family context cause it was fucking depressing. And then when I was in college, maybe my senior year of college, maybe it senior year of college, maybe it was like, maybe it was right after I graduated even, so it was a long time. It went from like, oh, eight to, you know, maybe,

I don't know, 2014, some shit like that, 13. Just didn't go? Didn't go at all. It was maybe the year before I moved to New York. Me and my buddy on some broke college student shit just fucking said, he was Greek, I was Greek, so we're like, we can stay with each other's families. So we don't have enough money to do anything.

Let's just fucking, let's go where our family is from. By the way, it's so freeing to be that broke and that young. Yeah, dude. Because you can just do that. Yeah, me and him. Oh, you got a hotel. Can I stay on the floor? Yeah. It's not even like no hotel. You don't feel like you're imposing guest rooms, right? Yeah. Fucking sleeping on sleeping in a bed. And that's how like Greece is one of those countries that's so homophobic. They never considered that we might be gay. Although in hindsight, we seemed

so gay. My mom, when I drove cross country out to LA to start my career, my friend was coming from Miami, from high school, whatever, he was down in Miami, and we were gonna go like this, and then go the whole way. And it was right after Matthew Shepard, and my mom was like, Ari, be careful. And I'm like, why? She goes, people might think, but we're not gay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two guys can be friends. That's not unheard of. That's how repressed your fucking religious family is. Just friendship is sexual. Something's up. No, we really seemed gay. I mean, we even, like I said, we had a layover

at the Eiffel in Paris. We stayed in Amsterdam in Paris. And sucked each other off. We went to the Eiffel Tower and kissed in front of him took a picture Wearing a fucking wearing a fucking little the little berets Yeah, yeah but that trip where it was like Alright, we're going to Athens his family both of our families from Athens, we'll see everybody.

We'll have the food in Greece. And the food is really like so incredible. It's so good. No matter where you go, every restaurant in Greece, every traditional Greek restaurant, it's like, it's the same menu, and every restaurant is at worst a B minus, and at best, the best meal you've ever had in your life.

Better than like the best fucking three Michelin star. Especially that the fish is so fresh. So fresh. Yeah, they bring you, if you go, every beach has a fucking restaurant or two on the beach and you ask them what's fresh. Yeah. They'll tell you. It's crazy.

And you're eating a fucking piece of fish that was swimming that morning. It's like they have a menu but like that doesn't really apply you know like we didn't get me today You can order like yeah, you some of these places you go There is no menu and she's like like there's a great place this place in Lavrio There's a great restaurant where me and my boy George would go and the lady comes out and she's like I have zucchini today I have pork, but no chicken. I have octopus. I have, you know, sardines and, um, and it's just like, and that, that place, Laura Lavrio was just, it's not again, not that nice. It's just a couple of hours

outside of Athens. And so, um, uh, they have like these nice rocky beaches. There's some great, the temple of Poseidon is over there, which is pretty cool. Yeah, there's so many cool temples. The gods fucking are alive there. You really see the hand of all of it. It's awesome. And you're swimming on a beach

and there's this awesome Acropolis looking thing and it's just beautiful. But anyway, so me and George did this trip where it's like we go to Athens we fuck around with my drunk awesome Cousin we get fucked up. He takes us to these little hole in the wall like it gets these great sandwiches like these like just Just like you know, he takes in specific little places that you can't you know, you can't find anywhere my aunt and uncle That's the best they're obese guy there where yeah it's not that's not stuff you're supposed to do let me just tell you the actual cool thing yeah like when you took me to a

Greek place in Queens that's not a travel guide no no no it's just like my Greek friend knows a good yes yes yes yes and the same thing my aunt and uncle lived in Athens and their fat their gluttons they have the best the best they take you to restaurants that are just in little neighborhoods and they do like a kebab that's just like, you know, a little beef, a little fucking meatloaf stick and it's the best, it's just in the middle of a residential neighborhood

in Athens, you pass it 100% of the time, insanely good. Or they take you to a fucking souvlaki place that my aunt has been to since she was 20 working as a fucking Secretary in that business district in Athens, and it's just like simple. No one makes it like him I've never seen anybody use tomatoes homemade tomato sauce on their souvlaki and he just They're so good. I think it's called Thanassis and I think it's called Thanassis. Which one's super lucky, this? Yeah, it's just the kebab.

Oh, okay. The grilled, but he just, his shit was fucking good and they just take you to these incredible places. And so we do that in Athens. Yeah. And it's just me and my boy chilling, right? Like we see my family, but it's not that crazy. I connect even more with my mom's friend

that I was telling you about, this lady, Eleni. And I'm talking to her and her husband and they're like, she's an actor, he's a director. And I had already been doing comedy at this point and I feel like real connection to them. I'm like, wait, I'm like these people. Like these other, and I love my family. Because they go from just being your aunt or whatever

to like, oh actually you're cool. I'm talking to them as human beings for the first time, right? And this is because I'm there by myself. And me and George sometimes would split off. And I would be there completely by myself. That's cute. Right?

And he'd be with his family. I'd be with my family. Or I would just like, and even when I was with my family, I'm just, I'm sleeping there, but I'm leaving and walking around and just, I'm going to a museum, you know, not just the Parthenon Museum, but there's there's a the National Portrait Gallery in Athens that my family was never into that kind of you know

Like we never went when we were there But I I was into that kind of stuff like when I'm on the road I love checking out a fucking museum or a park and I did that portrait museum up here I think they have one here. It's called Fuck I forget. It's in an old house that somebody's like, oh I'll donate it to art. Oh really? It's all portraits. Well this one is fucking awesome.

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a beautiful island. It's in the same chain as Santorini and, Mekono and like, Paro and Andiparo that I told you about. But it's just the biggest island and he's from there, right? Like he, his family's from there, they moved to Athens and then he moved back. And dude, this guy's living like,

his retired life was, he, he retired and he was a beekeeper and he made his own bee and he made his own honey. Some of the best honey I've ever had in my fucking life. And him and his boys, one guy made moonshine and one guy raised rabbits and they're literally bartering. And I'm going there dude and I'm fucking.

Bartering rabbits for honey. Bartering rabbits for honey and moonshine. And no shit dude, one of the best, one of the times I most connected to my family and my dad was we're in Knoxville, and this is my dad's best friend growing up, right? They're boys. And me and my buddy George are dressing to go out and go to some bars, whatever, go into it. And Knoxville is a beautiful island with so much shit to do.

I love this shit where it's like it's just the cliffs of the secluded and homes right into the water. So beautiful, dude. And so there was one night, and we had a lot of, me and George had a lot of, it's a big enough island where we rented a- See this chick? Yeah, I actually fucked her.

Oh, nice, bro. Hell yeah. Both are dicks in her ass at the same time. No use for the pussy or mouth. Real Greek style. Both are dicks in our ass at the same time. No use for the pussy or mouth. Real Greek style. Hey, wedding for wedding Noxus. That's Noxus style fucking, we can't be over your mouth.

Two in the bun. Two dogs in the bun. Two in the bun, shut up hon. But yeah, we rented a fucking smart car. We drove around like these, these beautiful old villages. There's, you know, and it was like a dude, this smart car had no, it had just a motor and no electricity. So we have a boom box and there's no, there's no, there's no headlights.

And so we were chilling. We, we drive across the the dangers you'll put up with in a foreign country. We, we, we, and my, and we were like, gonna do this hike and we're like, this is taking so long. We might not be able to get back because we're on the top of a hilly. So we fucking, we're running back.

We're fucking getting home with no, with in the darkness. It was legit. So scary, dude. But great adventures and then fun shit that you just love doing and then we have a night where me and George are like, getting dressed up, gonna go out at some bars, I mean, we didn't, we almost got pussy once on this trip.

I mean, I think. From what, just meeting? Like we went to a a well on the next island So we went to meet my friend my husband side what to do is just by relatives. Well, that's what the nice thing There was no decision. It was like where can somebody put us up? And so we went to Knoxville and then well like I've worn out my welcome there Yeah, just a couple days here, right? And then we went to EO which is in that party college kid party island, okay And that's where that's where I was saying my cousin

He was a fucking bartender at a rock and roll club right and he's just that motherfucker is staying out till 7 a.m. every night It's one of the most You know I oh I oh s literally It's one of the most, um, IOS literally. Yeah, there you go. Um, You stay out til what? Yeah, he's making us stay out til like 7 a.m. But let me finish the Noxo thing,

we'll talk about EO. Noxo, me and George are getting ready to go out. Just, we would just smoke, we would roll up our own cigs cause we're European and like, That's the coolest place to do it. Fucking drink a couple beers walk around That was nice though. Just walk around at nighttime Chill out where you know?

My my godfather's there and he's like where you guys go and he's like and he just puts a fucking jug of moonshine down And he's like come on have a don't before you go have a drink with me And he's like I got this he's literally like my godmother's made like this delicious like rabbit stew or like stewed rabbit with like You know pot. I don't remember what the kind of pasta isn't some like Greek fucking villager cheese And it's like should I have a little bite to eat drink a couple this we dude we end up at that table With him with him my fucking godfather the funniest guy Huge fucked up thumb that he sliced off You know in like a carpentry accident

Just the horniest guy in the world just like constantly They're they're in like such a traditional marriage. They were they had an open relationship by accident They're so conservative that she's like, my husband can do what he wants. Like that level. That level of like, yeah. Freedom on that level. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And she's like, yeah. What a strong move to put a bottle on the table. He's like, where you going? Boom. Boom. And then it's not just a shot. It's like, here's all this. We got plenty. But he did slow play.

He was like, come on, take a shot. Sounds like Shangri-La. And then he starts. Big Shangri-La and do the shingles and then he starts Yet a little yet a little yet. He does he's he drinks like Shane. I'll tell you my impression of Shane Gillis who's have one Legitimately being telling you doing a sober year. Yeah has actually saved my life filming You know just even just even doing anything. Cause it's like, you can't be a tires and yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm sober for another, at least till February. But so we're, we're drinking and then he's telling

me these stories about him and my dad when at that, on that Island, like, you know, trying to get tourists and like just being young men, he's telling me these hilarious stories about they're working in Athens together and my dad, my dad like won some bet by eating like, like father, like son, he's telling me these hilarious stories about they're working in Athens together, and my dad won some bet by eating, like father, like son, he ate like 15 souvlaki in like one sitting, and how they would fuck with their friends, and just like little pranks,

and then he, and we're getting drunk as fuck. He's FaceTiming my dad, and they're shitting on each other the way me and my friends, you know, each other's like, what's up, you fucking pussy?'s like what's up you fucking pussy Just like shitting on each other and it was like again It just humanized my fan my parents and my family and I saw I got that Version of my father for my godfather and I got the young version of my mom from her friend Eleni and I'm just like, I'm connecting to them and I'm feeling like by myself, I'm feeling this connection that I never felt before, you know what I mean? And I was like,

oh, I love Greece. I just, my family was the problem. Like close proximity to them was the problem or just not even the problem, but like it overpowered how great Greece was. It really helped me to make my own connection and be like, I have to seek this stuff out. Not because my dad was forcing me to. So it was just chance if you happen to go to that island. He was like, I can house it then.

But then it's like, you took the chance. But that's always available to me, right? Like they're, my God, you you feel like but then you found that joy Yes, yeah, yeah for sure And it also just made me and then you can just and then you can and then when you're kind of free of all that Stuff you can enjoy it. It's the most beautiful fucking place in the world. It really is and anywhere you go like I I literally stopped I

Was gonna go meet my this latest trip. I was gonna go meet my, this latest trip, I was gonna go meet my aunt at that place, Ksilo Kastro, a couple hours outside of Athens. Something came up and she was like, one of her friends got sick or something, she was like, I gotta take her to the hospital, like I can't. And I was in a car with my buddy and his fiance,

it was like a big group trip, the last trip we took. And I was like, ah, fuck, we can't really go there. And we just pulled over to a rest stop. And then it said, like, beach. We got gas. We got goodies, which is their shitty McDonald's or whatever. And it had signs for a beach. And I'm like, you guys want to just see this?

And it's literally a roadside beach on the side of the highway. And it was like it was for Greece C- if that beach existed in New York it houses on it would cost 10 million dollars and it was kind of bullshit it was like a rocky beach the people there were trashed water crystal fucking clear right next to fucking highway, and it was just like that's what Greece is man It's like the shittiest beaches would you would stab people to fucking have this reminds me of I went to Dr. To whatever their capital is fucking weed

But like and I went to Boca Chica Beach their beach and everybody there when I did a show there They were like what that's the trashiest beach. I'm like, you know how much better is it Far Rockaway? It's so much better. Far Rockaway, disgusting. And then Hawaii reminded me of that too. I was getting a ride to somewhere and we just pulled over and fucked on this, like right along the highway.

And it's like, it's a Hawaiian beach. You fucked a taxi driver. You fucked this, hey man, that's not very, that's not very island style of you fucking my ass. Cheers out the door. Yeah. Hold on. Say mahalo.

Let's go. Wait, wow, that's so cool. Because it is crystal clear everywhere. Dude, so beautiful. And so anyway, it just like, I don't know, man, I felt like that trip almost like exorcised these demons. And how long ago was this? This was probably 11 or 12 years ago. Okay. And so ever since then I've been going back as much as, yeah, before we knew each other. And then I would go back, you know, as often as I could. I was pretty broke for a while there, so I would be like, it was, I couldn't go that often, but I would go with my buddy, you

know, and it was just like I was starting to feel this incredible connection to first of all how ancient it is Athens when you go to the Parthenon and you go there's a there's a marketplace there when I stayed I key that's now just it's mostly touristy kind of like where Shincy bullshit right outside of right right under the Acropolis so like down where it starts to become a thing all the way around, like the sidewalk all the way around. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

That kind of like marketplace. Yeah, it gets some great sunflower seeds there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get like little bullshit. The trinkets, I got a couple for the wall. Little trinkets, exactly, yeah, yeah. And it's not like there's any secret, like there's a couple okay restaurants, there's some cafes, and they're all fine.

They're a little more overpriced and a little less quality than a random one. But the energy, where you go there and you're like, this has been a marketplace, an active marketplace, for thousands of years. Some fucking guy 3,000 years ago was out here looking for a snack like I'm looking for a snack. Some cocksucker in a toga and sandals who was like and the stones are the same stones

Yeah, you could it's not like a repave. Yeah There's parts of it to do your exact same those roads in New York and some of the West Village where it's still that cobblestone Yeah, oh wow. Yeah, what it was a horse some fucking Dutch cocks Yeah, yeah, I was on these cobblestones. Yeah get And you get that there where it's like. But it's thousands of years, man. And it was like, I would just have these like really powerful moments of, you just feel sort of like how insignificant you are, but also how that's, that's beautiful almost, where it's like, yeah,

every, you're the same as a guy 4,000 years ago, you're the same as a guy born halfway across the, you just feel like, in how almost meaningless you are, and how like, it turned, and this is just a piece of it. That's animism. What is that? Animism is like the, it's like the oldest religion.

It's like that everything has like a soul, trees for sure, but also like stones. So if you're at the Western Wall, or whatever, you're like, oh Jesus, like, it the Western wall, or whatever, like, oh, Jesus, like, yeah, here, you know, like you're it's it's saw every like, imagine the pyramid looking out, right? And just just the generations going by. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, all there. It's just like, yeah, compared to this remembers your great, great, great,

great grandfather. Right? Yeah. And I guess I thought of it more is just like, I was using it as like a marker for how much has passed, like almost thinking of like, yeah, just how many, how much this thing is fucking just randomly experienced. And I don't know, it just like, it had me feeling, it was just like, I felt like this powerful connection. And then you add onto it the fact that now I don't feel this family guilt to like this place and as a human being

Just as myself. I love it. Yeah, I have this connection to it I want to like I want to get to a point where I'm living in Greece a third of the year Wow, really quarter of the year three months out of the year. I want to be in Greece because people like me go It's it's Greece. It's cool. There's not that connection. Yeah, exactly. I mean even without that connection I think people should go I really believe it's like the best place you can go Yeah, I think it really is for what it offers There's a reason it's like a country all we have is tourism and it's still keeping the country afloat Can I give a couple tips and you do while we're doing Athens? Yeah shifting. This is the part that on

I think I stayed here for a couple days past this shifting this is the part that on I think I stayed here for a couple days past this this park all here is so fucking cool yes anarchist it's and the people there are so artsy yeah yeah like everyone I met is like a writer and a musician and actor they've recently banned Airbnb's in that neighborhood because they were just taking over they're making yeah expensive for those kinds of people but yes downtown Athens is actually fucking cool the restaurants the outdoor you've ever go to an outdoor movie oh yeah absolutely bro it's the best bro you get a beer you they put an ashtray by a born spoke

whatever you want I'm I was I watched Dunkirk high as shit off a fucking fucking weed vape, eating oregano chips. And then you see the sky, a cattle walk past the screen. Just straight carried, like this is so cool. You smell the fucking sea air and all this shit. I saw a French movie with Greek subtitles and I didn't know any of it, but it was some film noir and I'm like, I can follow along. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's awesome, dude.

I mean, it's just. And then any restaurant. Any restaurant, any's I mean, it's just and then any restaurant any restaurant any traditional Greek restaurant It will be like I said absolute worst C-plus absolutely and that's the worst one in the whole country. Yeah doubt it even most of our solid B pluses Yeah, and like I said, some of them will be the best meal you've ever had in your life They came by and just like wrote their menu on the table while we're there. Like here's what we have today

Yeah crayon. Yeah, we went back to that place. Like, here's what we have today, like a crayon. We went back to that place. I don't remember what it was, but it was like, damn. And it's just the culture and it's a culture of chilling. It's a culture of, no one's rushing you out of any restaurants, no one rush you out of a coffee shop. Have a good time, hang out. Yeah.

It's that, and I feel that very intrinsically in myself. My biggest skill I think is hanging out. Well so I actually think that. So this is you the first time I went to your apartment it was like what are you doing? I'll grill some lamb. Yeah. You're like oh this guy gets it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think it wasn't an egg. Yeah Yeah, too small for an egg. Yeah, like sick on a balcony as wide as this. Oh, yeah, and you're like, it's that that's a real Is yeah, you got to have a grill in my opinion. Yeah, Lant. What are your favorite foods there? Yeah, my standard. Yeah, if I could give people like a standard order You got to get the koreatiki, which the Greek, what we think of as a Greek salad. It's called the villager salad, a Choryatiki. And you get that, you get a Tzatziki,

or great dips, you know, like there's Tzatziki, there's- The eggplant dip and the garlic dip. Yeah, Skordalia. What? Skordalia. Wow. Tzatziki's the the classic yogurt base garlic dip, but score that yeah is like all all garlic yeah, all garlic all garlic and a little potato and That I'm a salata which is the fish fish roe the caviar dip that's fucking awesome

We're we got great fucking good with the freshest bread. Fresh bread, yeah, fresh bread, some pita if they got it. Yeah, pizza, that's what I mean. They don't have it all the time. Pita's more for like the grill places. Regular places just have like nice fresh country bread. You get a koryada, you get whatever dips you want. They got eggplants, zadiki you gotta get.

You get a fry and all the fries are hand cut, fucked up shapes, and some old Greek lady has just peeled them. I like that, what are the two cheeses? Saganaki? Saganaki's the one that's on fire. Yeah, that's a good thing to get. I love that.

That's a great one to get. I love that, and halloumi's the other one. Halloumi's grilled, yeah. But that's saganaki. Man, and you gotta eat it right away. There's no like, let me just, as soon as it comes, get a bite. It's like a super fresh, it's the best version of like a mozzarella stick. Yes!

It's like the absolute platonic idea. Lemon over it. Lemon. Awesome. And then look, you get a lamb chop or, or. Love lamb. There's something called, if you eat pork, kodosouvli, it's kinda like, if you like gyro meat, it's almost like, instead of, it's like slow roasted,

instead of like, sheets of it. Yeah. So it's like the most tender souvlaki you've ever had in your life. It's just like, yeah, a huge spit of this succulent fucking pork. Wow. Even, yeah, that's more like it.

Wow. Yeah. But see what they have, man. You should go, when you go to Greece, ask, because each restaurant will have a specialty. And some of them will be like, you got to try Kodosouvli, or they'll be like, we have the freshest fish. And just ask what they have fresh. Well, you know what I mean?

And like. It's a different cultural way to do it. It's instead of like what are you known for? It's like when I was in Croatia on island Croatia and it was same vibe yeah and they were like eating moving into town to get somebody into like we got lionfish today we just caught one. Yeah yeah yeah well bring it then. Yeah exactly like yeah and if I had to go standard if I had to go like just what I try to see if a place is good, I go their fried squid, their calamari. Yeah. And then I'll go and then I'll go

lamb chop. Lamb chops are so good there. I also like how they'll have like just the hanging octopi. Yeah. Octopuses. To tenderize them. Yeah, so you're eating here and they're just like hanging. I love a nice grilled octopus too. And then if you like the traditional food, like a pastitsio, or like they have a lot of like tomato sauce based like kitchen stuff.

I, when I'm on vac, that's kind of heavy, that's kind of whatever. But some places are known for that. So try that too if you want to. I mean yeah, that's awesome. I love seeing that. You see it and you're want to. I mean yeah, that's awesome. I love seeing that. You see it and you're like, what? It doesn't seem healthy, but.

No, that's the good shit, baby. It's getting tenderized. Tenderized from the sun? Yeah, legit. And getting to the sun and getting hung out there like that. They beat it over some fucking rocks first. Really? Yeah, oh yeah.

Wow. It is quite good. I mean it's just, I just feel so fucking good when I'm there, man. You're right, and then not rushing you out is such a cool thing. Never rushing you out. It's almost like you gotta wave them down

to be like, hey, hey, I gotta go. 100%. Americans will be annoyed at how long it takes, but that's also part of it, it's like, hang the fuck out, man. Like, my perfect day in Greece has three activities. It's wake up, go for coffee, take a little stroll, go back, get ready for the beach, sit at the beach for fucking hours.

The activity is nothing. The activity is hanging out, chill at the beach, humongous meal on the beach, and then take a nap and if you feel like it, go out, get a little something. But if you don't just fucking another opportunity to hang out, stroll around at night, see how it feels. Let the fucking air that night air hits you off the fucking water. And then, yeah, it's great. Is there a Greek coffee? Greek coffee.

It's like, you know, I mean, they're big. It's interesting when you're like an immigrant in a community and you're like my family's frozen when they left Right, so they like frappe everybody drinks Nescafe frappe. That's like Greek immigrants from like the 80s and 90s You go to Greece. They're like Fucking old people bullshit coffee. All right They're like we have espresso like they're like everything is Fredo espresso They're cold drink of choice is Fredo espressos now which is like kind of a latte really like kind of kind of close to a flat white type of thing this is

different thing what I call authentic and traditional yes yes like traditional like in Thai is like a papaya salad but authentic is 7-eleven yeah that's what they actually yeah it's like yeah in Trin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what they actually fucking eat. Yeah, it's like, yeah. In Trinidad, it's like KFC is humongous. Interesting, interesting. Yeah, and they're like, oh, while you're here, you gotta get some KFC. Yeah, yeah.

I'm like, all right, that's what they are. I'll do it. That's authentic. Yeah. Yeah, so, fuck, how do we get to that though? What was I talking about? Oh, the coffee and shit, yeah. Yeah, just recommendations of what to do when you're in Athens., but yeah, I mean I just like those are all bomb and also

I mean the the food know that they have like bakeries and That's if you're an early riser get to a fuck it every place still has like their local bakery It's a little old-school where it's like they have a local bakery and go get a fucking with your coffee go get a fucking cheese pie or a spinach pie or I love a Zambon noti rapita which is ham and cheese pie but oh yeah they have those pies all in filo all in cake and they have different cheeses different hams different they have a sweet one it's so good it's and it's so that's what I love about Greece it's simple man it's like it's so sick that's what I love about Greece it's simple man it's like we have a handful of things we have these pies for

breakfast with some coffee chilling on the beach aren't fat it's not a very they walk around culture they what yeah well they you know the the I think it's a little bit of portions portion control and they walk around a lot. No GMOs. Dude, swimming too is so good for you. It's crazy how much that kind of helps. But yeah. Okay, so let's get back to your other trips then. Yes, back to the other trips. And so that trip kind of switched it up.

And then yeah, the next one is I was in a relationship that I kind of, yeah thanks dude. Thanks. It was kind of messy for a little bit and then we were, I thought we were doing pretty good for like a year, year and a half. It's kind of hazy the timeline. This person was a part of my life for a while. But it also, it's interesting because-

You talking about Nick? Yeah, yeah. Me and Nick were sucking each other off on Santorini. Bomb cell. Yeah. I mean, they were sucking each other off on some. Yeah. You get, I'm like, all right, all right. I'm here to admit it. We were gay love for us and we just broke up romantically. We loved doing the podcast. It was all about other shit. Got no sex wasn't working anymore.

Same thing with Fleetwood Mac happened to have the filling me up anymore. Your loads got smaller and it just wasn't. The loads were too small for me man. I had to move on. I wasn't coming out of my nose anymore. I had to start fucking eldest. And so, you know, I really loved her. How long had you been?

The point of what I was saying was it's kind of weird because this, like we like, we broke up like, I guess the fall before the pandemic. So it was this weird thing of like, it's so surreal because so much of my life before then feels so, so far away. You know what I mean? Where it's like, and especially my life also really changed because I went from pandemic to I blew up over the internet and then it was like, and I went from like doing okay

at comedy clubs to selling out multiple, like my life has so changed since the pandemic. When you hit the Lyric? I'm at the Lyric, I mean I did it last year. Yeah, with this coming up. This Thanksgiving weekend, home for the holidays, check it out folks, we're trying to get some surprise guests. And also like, I mean I guess I should talk about it, but I wrote and fucking was in a movie,

Let's Start a Cult, October 25th, in theaters. And so- That's crazy, in theaters. In theaters, yeah. So the pandemic for everybody is just break. It's almost like BCE and AD. Yeah. BCE is what Jews say, because you can't say BC.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just realized that. But you know what it is. Yeah, yeah, civil era. You fucking know what it is. Poor Christ. But it was not for everybody, but then in comedy especially. Kind of your fault when it started.

In many ways you picked the start date. We started that year one. Hey guys, I always like- Well you started AD, let's put it that way. Yeah, you're seven posters. Yeah. Because of death. But yeah, I don't know.

But this break, but you and other comics too, but you a lot. For me it was like. It's that break of life, all humanity, and then this massive uptick. So it really is a pre and post. So for me it's like that relationship is like so, it's very important to me. But it feels like this, I feel it emotionally, but like from a time thing it feels like so long ago, even though it's not that long ago. It's like from a time thing, it feels like so long ago, even though it's not that long ago.

It's like, you know. Five. Yeah. I'm like on five. And so, and then we had been dating for a while, but we were really, we were serious for, it was kind of messy at first, and we were serious for a while. And to me, I was like, I want to prove once and for all, this really means so much to me. And so like, let's go to Greece after the pandemic.

No, no, no. This is still before this. Right. Okay. So you haven't broken up, huh? So you hadn't broken up. No, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't broken up. And so I think it was the I think it was 19, maybe it was 18. I don't again, like it's also such a blur. But was it it wasn't 2020. definitely 2020 no way but and so we

take this trip and I don't know man it was just like is this you like hey I want to show you something special to me yeah and like met my mom on the trip and like I had met her parents pretty right before that and it was like everything felt like okay We fucking did it. You know what I mean? Like we came out of this. It was my the messiness was most of my fault I'm Emotionally unavailable and I was having a lot of trouble like I was scared because I actually cared about some you know all this All this different shit that you have to fuck something up to realize you know

I mean like it's almost like city Season 3 yeah exactly you moved on and he goes it tears me apart he's three episode six he sees a unfortunately but but yeah I don't know it's like and we go on this trip and it's just like I don't know something's a little off and it's like like, I don't know, something's a little off. And it's like, I think the seriousness kind of hit, I don't know what it was, but it was like, it almost brought up all the, I thought we were over all this shit, and I think it brought up some stuff,

and we were both in interesting parts in our lives where we were both pretty ambitious people, and our careers mattered to us, and I think part of it was like, it was just a really messy, strange time and traveling together is kind of tough and we both had a lot going on. And we were both, I think we were both people that couldn't separate life and work and it was a busy time and just a lot of shit happened. And it was just, I still to this day, I'm sort of unclear.

The vibes were just so, in a way that- So you were in Greece feeling weird? Feeling weird, man. And it was fun at first and there was just like, I still don't know really what happened. It just feels like something got away from us, got away from me, got away from both of us. And I think it was the kind of thing where we got into an argument and if we were at home We would have kind of been like taking a couple days apart

Come back to it talked it out But then it's this thing where something weird happens you get into an argument Okay, not only can you not walk away, but you're in the most beautiful, we're in Santorini, we're in like the place people go to fucking fall in love, and there's this like pressure. It's not only can we not take time for ourselves, but like we're wasting this beautiful place and you feel bad,

because all around you, we're in this fucking expensive hotel, everyone around you is in love. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just, the vibes were, like you almost, I felt like I spent some of that vacation disassociated. Like we were both kind of just getting through it, and it was weird, man, and it was like.

Dude, I love seeing couples fight in paradise. Yeah. It's so, whenever I see it, I'm like, hey, I gotta watch them for a them for which I can't now I think I would have PTSD because after having been like, without exaggeration, it was like one of the lowest moments of my life. Because it was like, because I finally felt like I finally felt like we had had something, I thought we were like a good

place. And it was like, and I don't It takes a while for me to like feel like I'm To really surrender myself to something like that. It took a lot and I'm not it was my fault Let me be very clear. The reason shit was weird was shit. I had fucked up early in the relationship, right? But in that moment, you know in that moment it was and you feel no control. You're like, I can't stop this I see the momentum. We're like, I can't stop this. I see the momentum. We're having this fight. It's nobody's fault.

We just need time to fucking cool off. We can't do it. And you're just in this weird place. Like, you know when you're like, you leave your house, in New York this happens all the time, you leave your house and you're like, oh, I'm just, you're in your flip flops and basketball shorts, you're like,

I'm just gonna go grab a coffee. And then you like see a friend and you're like, I'll walk with you. And then you're like, oh, I'm just, you're in your flip flops and basketball shorts. You're like, I'm just going to go grab a coffee. And then you like see a friend and you're like, I'll walk with you. And then you're like, you kind of have to shit. And then you're like. Yeah, now you're in New Jersey in flip flops. Yeah, and then you're like in flip flops. You're like, Bob, just a little bit more.

No underwear, your balls are chafing. You got, you know what I mean? It's like something has gotten away from you so hard and there's no fixing it. I just lost, and it was just this crazy thing. And it took a while to fucking get over, honestly, it was like, it was really fucking weird, and I think it's-

Did you break up while you were there? Not really, but it was soon after. And like- That laid the groundwork. Laid the groundwork, and because of some like, because of some like scheduling stuff, we took different flights, which actually was probably a fucking blessing,

because it was like- Oh really fucking blessing, because it was like. Oh really? Yeah, because it was like. I was gonna ask, how was that flight? We each get to cry home, you know what I mean? Like I assume I was, I was fucking sad. But it was also just like, you know, it just, and don't get me wrong, I think there were problems

in the relationship, and I think maybe. Yeah, but it could have so easily gone the other way to be like, hey we're all great now. But you know what? But also, I don't know. I don't think it was right. At the same time, it's like, I see how our lives went. And it was like, we probably both needed to be on our own. You know what I mean?

Like, it was probably better, maybe not as human beings, but for like, for my career, I don't know that I would have accomplished as much in a relationship. If you were happy. Yeah, if I was happy, I really for my career, I don't know that I would've accomplished as much in a relationship. If you were happy. Yeah, if I was happy, I really wouldn't have, right? Which, now I'm trying to get back to that, now I'm like, that's the wrong way of thinking.

Maybe it would've just been better to be happy, but I just know where I was as a human being, I was not mature enough to know that. I had to succeed, realize it doesn't do anything for you, and then realize, all right, time to try being a human being. So anyway, that was fucking brutal. But you know, I got-

And you went to Athens and Santorini on that one. Yeah, yeah. And on there, I don't think I'll ever go back to Santorini. It was the first time I ever went. It's not that, I think it's an overrated island. I think- Is that Mykonos, or is that another island? It's near it, but it's the- But those are the- Those are the big ones.

If you're a tourist, I say skip it. It's biggest thing but it's those are the those the those are the big ones if you're a tourist I say skip it its biggest thing is it says a breathtaking sunset but a lot of place have nice sunsets in Greece you know what I mean like maybe it's a little worse but much cheaper and everything else is better and we went to Zion with a list and Sarah and Becky own after we did the comic store Vegas and went out, Norman had to go home, and we stayed in the national park, but off in a separate area, this cool artist house. But it wasn't the famous hikes, but it was in our backyard. And literally zero people were there.

That's incredible. So you're like, this A- is fucking great. Right, right, right. With no Chinese fucking picture takers. And yeah, exactly, it's better, because fucking picture takers. And yeah, exactly. It's better. Because it has none of the other shit. And also other places are cheaper.

But anyway, I feel like there's some real fucked up energy towards that island. I don't know that it'll ever go back. Don't. You know? And there's too many other islands. Too many other islands. Good point.

And then, but, and that kind of fucked grease up for me a little bit, but Right, but that's the product that I was about to say like don't say I'm not going back to Greece No, just take it out on the island. Totally. I really excited the other kind of sucked anyway But ever since then it was it's it's been the kind of thing where I mean and then the most recent one I think I went I Went last year for my cousin's Yeah wedding, and I think I was I think I went one other time since then Between the breakup trip and this latest one

But you know the it didn't ruin Greece from a Greece is just too important to me And it's too beautiful a fucking place, right? Did you tell, kind of you told me like, you want to go to all the islands. You want to keep exploring, and you're like, I got to go to the Arab ones, and I got to go to the, you also gave me some good advice. When I was looking for an island,

you were like, hey, go to the ones near Turkey and say, oh, how does it feel to be Arab, and they'll fucking lose their minds. They hate that shit. Calling them Turks is so funny. Calling Greeks from southern islands Turks, they fucking hate it. I mean, put that right off the coast.

They're right there. You can all see the history there, like, oh Turkey never had a Navy. Yeah. That's why you didn't get an island you could see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right there, and like, we don't have any way to attack it. They're gonna fucking swim in their big ass pants.

Swim under with a knife. Yeah, with a knife in their teeth. Yeah, no, so I wanna go, and that was the cool thing about going this time for my cousin's wedding was we went to Thaso, which I hadn't been to since I was a little kid. And it's a beautiful island. It's breathtaking. It's like, it's not the White Houses Island.

It's not like the Ciclades, the Cyclades Island. It's so far north that it's like, it's got evergreen trees, like it gets cold. So you, I was at a beach with fucking pine trees shading you, and it's such a cool trippy thing. It's all this beautiful greenery, and like, and my cousin, she rented this boat to take us, her wedding was beautiful, and uh. You went for a wedding.

Huh? You went for a wedding. Last time yeah, but I I combo'd it with other friends of mine came We made it a big group trip eldest eldest and his wife were in Albania, and they met us Albanian yeah, you didn't know that no There's Greek no how dare you he's a fucking dog. He's not Bro for the longest time I had this theory that Italians are the worst of the whites. Mmm, and then you met an Albanian? I think, legitimately, 100%.

I'm like, you know what guys, my research wasn't complete. I was speaking from a place of ignorance. I was only matching up against Irish, and Jews, and whatever else. It's Albanians. Lot of Slavs could compete for that crown. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But yeah It's Albanians. A lot of Slavs could compete for that crown. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, I met up with Eldis and then my buddy George, who I'd gone on all these trips with, we all did this group trip and we all, we rented a great house on that island. So I got to have the friend trip. On Tasso? In Tasso, yep, yep. And that was a great trip

and my cousin's wedding was beautiful and it was nice to go back to that island and go to my grandmother's village and like just see shit from when I was a little kid and we met my grandmother's family is Bulgarian because her her father was a communist who fled Greece during World War two and to Bulgaria and Like my little war two was Greek. What happened in Greece during World War two? They we held out against the we held out against the Italians the Italians couldn't fuck with us

But then they get the Germans came and they we they fought a two-front war against us The Germans eventually took over it must have been late, right? It was pretty late in the war, but because you know Communists were getting fucking we're getting killed too by, you know, not, they didn't put up the numbers you guys did, but they, the communists, the, so, so my grandmother's family moved to Bulgaria and fled, like she literally fled the Nazis as a young girl. Fled up to Bulgaria,

because they weren't interested in Bulgaria, because no nice beaches. Well, they were in very, they were in very north, they were in really northern Greece. My dad was from out here, but if he was from here, he'd be dead. Yeah, crazy. But he was here, they're like,

it just took a little longer, so they were being processed. Wow, dude. When there was like, hey, we're living. It's insane, the stuff that like, these little things, like that's within a couple of generations, but who knows the stuff a thousand years ago, that like some ancestor almost got smashed by a rock and not only you, but four generations back wouldn't exist.

Yeah, brothers and sisters, everybody. It is weird to think like- Because the rock felt like, whoa, that was a close one. Every time I've driven drunk, I'm like, whoa, I was like, whoa. Almost ran over a baby and Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're lineage ruined. And it's over. Yeah, but anyway, yeah, so they fled to Bulgaria. They were in very northern Greece. And then my mom's dad, my grandfather on that side,

he fought in, there was, after World War II, there were like these skirmish border wars between Greece and like, there was a civil war. And then there was like border wars in Bulgaria He was a prisoner of war in Bulgaria fell in love with my grandmother while in Bulgaria and then took her back to Greece So whole her whole family is Bulgarian like I have extended relatives in Bulgaria But so I go to Thasso I meet some of them for the first time which is cool It's like these people that not only do I not, like I have foreign cousins, but they're Greek.

These are foreign cousins who are Bulgarian. That's a whole other level of like, but they're my blood, you know what I mean? Like. Did they tell you about Bulgaria? Little bit, we talked a little bit. One of them had good English. The other ones, it's like,

we're kind of communicating this weird, half Greek, half Bulgarian, half fucking English. Louis's been about dating that French girl. And he goes, so she's in academia. She's like really, I don't think they're together anymore, but that comedian. She's a high level newer comic. Oh, interesting.

Of the new breed of comics. We're talking real, and she's dark and dirty. She's French? She's French, Paris. A French comedian. Yeah. But he's there with all her friends, which are professors and the academia and everybody,

but their English is not that great. So he goes, these are some of the most brilliant minds in Paris, and their whole conversation is, your day was good, my day also was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so funny. That's hilarious. Wow, she has fucking, her friends are all academics, huh? But like, they're just the intelligentsia.

Right, right. Artists and weirdos and interesting Interesting. Yeah, that's interesting cuz like comics here just do not there's not at all Talk about art. No, I mean I I kind of would like to get in that zone. Honestly be nice I I'm interested in it, but whatever But yeah, this that last trip was I'm interested in it, but whatever But yeah, this that last trip was

So I'm doing it was really nice it was great to see my cousin get married and we she rented a boat and we toured the island and just Sunset like this one of the best days I've ever had where it's like you go out They take you to a couple beaches you swim out Jump out to the beach swim out to the beach jumping off the boat out, jump off the boat. Swim out to the beach. Swim out to the beach. Jumping off the boat is the tits. The fucking part of the boat tour,

the guys halfway up put an anchor down and they're like fucking fish or meat and then they have a grill on board. They start grilling pork chops and a Greek salad. You have this fucking simple lunch, swim to the net and then they go to the part of the island with the best view of the sunset and you just fucking Swim out you're just fucking swimming looking at the sunset sunset while you're in the water

Incredible with the fucking freshest most delicious Healthy you feel good and But that so that hot while you're out and yeah, you're eating it still out. Mm-hmm incredible, dude But so that trip was very important because like I've talked about this a lot I feel like I sometimes I feel like a broken record about wanting to just you know prioritize being happy and like Not letting your career take over your whole life and all this kind of shit

and that was the trip where I was kind of like I have to do that because This was last summer, and it was like right before, I mean I think I had just, I had filmed the special and I had filmed the movie. What was it called, the special? Fat Rascal. Fat Rascal, damn it. So I had filmed Fat Rascal and I had filmed Let's Start a Cult in theaters October 25th,

go see it. Whatever it done, we're gonna do a layin' after this. But I had filmed Let's Start a Cult in theaters, October 25th, go see it. Whatever we're done, we're gonna do a lay-in afterwards. But I had just done that, and then I had, and then I had like more dates left, all right? Like I still had like dates to do, and I remember just like, and I felt so unhealthy, and I was just like running my body fucking ragged, and we had been to Amsterdam before,

me and George, for old time's times sake it stopped over in Amsterdam really Mm-hmm, and and we've got mushrooms there We're like we're gonna take mushrooms on the beach and so I'm in Greece in Greece. Yeah, took them with you took them with us How do you transport them? We worried no Not really fucking Europe Put them at the bottom of a bag with a bunch of treats. No one gives a fuck People always ask it. how do you transport them? I don't really think about it like that.

What I did was I put them in a bag. I took the bag with me. That's it. Anyway, and so I'm on this trip and my cousin's way. It's a beautiful wedding the We rented these great little fucking houses and there's a beach That's a five-minute walk from where we are and it's gorgeous. You have these fucking beautiful trees a restaurant so good We ate at it. We tried it once and we were like we're coming back. That's it every day. I love that We're like, what are we looking for? We just found paradise. It was so incredible. What we're talking about, fresh calamari, fish caught that day, the fucking meat was incredible.

Different stuff on the menu so you could try different, it was great. And we had this little area with like, and I'm with my best friends, right? Eldest, my buddy George, like, you know, just like, it's great. You know Just like it's great and idyllic situation My mom and grandma are even like in on the island. I see them. I spend time with them Everything's good, and I'm on mushrooms, and I'm just like I'm so unhappy I'm just like I'm like this is great, but this is when I go back to my life. I don't want to do this anymore I feel so unhealthy. I'm barely like, you know,

I'm gaining so much weight. I'm here and this is good, but all I can think about is all the shit I have to do. While you're on mushrooms in paradise. Yeah. And that's when I was like, dude, if this is how much, and all this stuff is good for me, and what I have to...

What stuff is good for you? It's, dude, I was about to go promote the special and I sold out the beacon three times and I couldn't wait to do it and all this stuff but I was like, I'm not celebrating any of this, I'm not enjoying any of this, it's all just an obligation and that was the start of me being like, damn, something's gotta fucking change. And then obviously I had to do it,

I had to do all those things, so I couldn't change my life like that but that that put the seed in my mind where I was like the next time I come to Greece I'm not gonna feel this way because it reminded me of some of those trips when I was a little kid where I was like all this shit is weighing on me all my family shit and all this other stuff that's like and it's like Greece had always been I finally got Greece to be where you want best place on earth for me and like a real escape and I was like I'm if I'm letting the all these things affect me here. It's like

What the fuck is the so wait so you're you're on the beach just walking it's hitting you and then I'm sure first It's some giggles whatever and then it hits you with which I call it capital T truth. Yes. Yes You know, yes, which is hit me a lot. That's happened to me a couple times on mushroom Yeah, it's like the reason I started that other relationship by the way I was like who are you kidding you in love with this girl go date her that was I had that mushroom trip in Seattle Like, you know four years before or whatever But yes, and it's just like I see it now as perfectly as possible and it's almost like I've been kidding myself Yeah, but it's always been right under the surface and I'm just gonna peel back

that little surface layer anything that mushrooms tells you is like hey you gonna have to do you should deal with it yeah it's not just like I happen to think unless it tells you you're gay every time that you can push down but anything else you want you get past that So you had this thing of like fuck why am I unhappy? I've just like yeah, definitely shouldn't have been and no one could understand that yeah, and I also felt bad I envy it at Sagala looks at you. What the fuck I'm looking at you. Wow what amazing time? Yes, but the reality is remember that poem of the guy who everybody liked oh, yeah Yeah, Pagliacci or whatever, or like that joke.

Where he's like, but doctor, I am Pagliacci, the clown, that gay clown or whatever. No, it wasn't that one. It was this guy who was the envy of all the women and all the men. Oh no, no. And he was so cool, and then one day he put a bullet in his brain.

Yeah. And everyone's like, what? He had everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and for me it was more like the coward suicide of just getting fat as shit. But it was like, it was a slow moving bullet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And yeah, I just saw that. I was like, that's my future. If I don't stop, I couldn't stop for a while. Like, I had that realization last summer and it took a while, you know what I mean? Well you gotta tie up loose ends, you can't fuck everybody over. I had to tie up loose ends, I had to,

I mean it took me until February to really like clear everything out, because I had to, the special was in December, I had to fucking promote that and then I had makeup dates in February from being sick sometimes and not doing, you know what I mean? But that's sort of what what led me to you know this perfect place to do it so you're with friends yeah and you're on a beach and

it's beautiful out and that's the perfect like all that shits out of the way and now I can just I can just think and and it's also like you feel so alone you're around your best friends and you can't even describe what's happening and and you look and you seem Happy and I kind of had to fake it a little bit, too You don't want to be like I'm going I'm having a freakout because you don't ruin their magical trip So I'm just like in the I'm just like oh, yeah guys And I'm just like freaking the fuck out like fuck Going in the water and staying in the water with like goggles on.

Cry underwater. Yeah, yeah. Now I can see my tears are surrounded by them. Just freaking the fuck out, being like, fuck. Dude, I love a fucking mushroom sad. Yeah, it was tough, man. With Fahim, I had this experiment where I'm like, he's never smoked or done mushrooms.

I'm like, hey, I want you to be the first to do mushrooms before you smoke weed. Whoa. And every time, I'm like, don't smoke weed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. mushrooms before you smoke weed. Whoa. And every time, like, don't smoke weed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to get you home. And he did, but he had this moment where all of Benji's grandmother's beach house

in Malibu, great place. And his moment where he thought about his parents and how they're getting older, and he goes, oh, they're going to die. Oh, everybody dies. Oh, everybody dies. And then just swims down. Oh my god.

And he came back fine, but it was an hour of just crying. Holy shit, damn. I'm like, what are we doing? I'm like, I think he's gonna ride it out. Yeah, you gotta let him ride it out, brother. Yeah. Wow, so then you took that, but you managed to maintain that after you sobered up.

Yeah, I mean, it was also something that I could feel. I mean, it wasn't like that, but it was just like, this is affecting me so much, I can't even enjoy these moments. It that, but it was just like this is affecting me so much I can't even enjoy these moments. It's like, it was just, it was like happiness was completely zapped out of my life. And it was like, that's what it really,

I knew it, don't get me wrong, you don't have to be a fucking scientist to know I was getting too unhealthy. Every month I would just gain weight and just my, I would be high as shit and eat like shit. 40 pounds down right now. I'm 40 pounds down right now.

I need to do a little more, but I wanna stay, I just wanna feel healthier, that's all it is. So, you know, Greece has just been very important to me. So then what, so you decided like, hey, wrap up these things and then don't go on the road, don't get anything new. I haven't been on the road since February. I'll do tires, cause that's my buddy.

Yeah, I'll do tires, and I will go on the road next year. But I told myself at least a year to set up these habits. And now I feel ready for the road. Because also I wasn't ready for that level of touring. I didn't know what was about to happen. Now I felt it. I'm also going to spend money on like, I'm doing a bus so that I can wake up in a city and like work out and like,

yeah. And I'm going to, I'm going to try, I'm hiring, I want to hire a buddy to come and like be the fucking nutrition coordinator. And like Nate has that go buy shit. And he has that haircut and nutritionist and workout guy and one, I need that. I need, I mean, I'd be great if I could get that guy. And if it's a buddy, it's just like summer camp exactly so I'm hoping part of the part of the like hey openers Oh, he's cool. Yep. Yep, so yeah, I'm hoping to just find all that shit and like just again It's not about making money

It's about if I could leave a tour and not feel like and feel energized instead of I want to kill myself Yeah, it's worth all the money in the world. Exactly. Let's have a drink or two. Yeah. Fuck, that was great. Let's go home and refresh instead of like, oh, what's next?

Yeah, exactly. Dude, I literally have this talk with Diaz did it first, then me, and then I try to prepare. Diaz warned me, and then I just try to warn all my friends of like, hey, you get no dates for a decade. Finally you get a couple dates, like on the road. And then suddenly it's three weeks on, a week off, three other weeks, and then the DC improv.

Like I've always wanted to go to it. We got that one middle, like, oh, sick, I've always wanted this. But then you don't realize that's seven straight weeks and your Jews aren't gonna help you out on this one. They're just gonna get you working. And it's gonna be like, oh, shit, too much. I have an Italian, but yeah.

But he's a Jew. My Jew's not a Jew either. My Jew's not a Jew either. It's the Jew arts though. You know? Sure, sure. Yeah. And you gotta pull back and be like,

I wanna enjoy this. What's my line? And everybody goes through it. Yeah, and so I feel pretty, I don't wanna sound like, I almost like a broken record. I wanna sound ungrateful. And I'm happy now.

Not bad. I feel really happy now, and I feel like, yeah, I can't wait to sound like, again, I wasn't like a broke a record, I don't want to sound ungrateful. And I'm happy now. I feel really happy now and I feel like, yeah, I can't wait to do Tires, we're about to film that right now, I can't wait for people to see, let's start a cult, I'm really proud that, I mean, I'm working on just being happy about stuff and I'm like, holy shit man, if nothing else happens for me, I had an incredible career. Like, I made, I had two specials, one self-produced,

one on Netflix, I made a, I starred in a movie, people try, people are actors that try to do that. It's an indie. Your resume's already in and you're still building it. I'm good, man. And I wanna be like, this is great, I've been, you know. What a healthy way to think about it. That's, it's just like everything is ice-sitting

on the cake from now on. And I just want to do fun things. I'm so grateful that they put me on tires, and it's so fun to work with those guys. And then even stand-up I'm approaching now is like, I can't wait. I haven't written the new hour. I've written like 15 minutes.

I'm so excited to come up with the new hour and work on it in the fall and then workshop it in front of people who, like, I wanna go work on it in New York and in random places for the next couple months, like in between filming tires, and then I'm excited to take it out on the road and have it grow and build. And I'm. Put it on a big show for people.

Put it on a big show, really try super hard, sell that material, and then I'm not in a rush to put it out as a special. I wanna let that marinate a little bit, take it out, and then take it out, maybe I'll go to Europe and see how different people appreciate it, go to Australia, and not- Oh, tour it for a while.

Tour it for a while, and then take a break. Try it in New York as 15 minute chunks. Really put it through the wringer and really have a fun time. My Jew hour was like COVID hit. I was supposed to record it, and then COVID hit. And then, so that's six months off, whatever. And then I'm doing other material.

Then I came back to it like a year later. It's so much stronger to be like, oh, this joke's too long. This joke's almost the same as that joke. When you get to see it through fresh eyes, you're not emotionally invested. So anyway, I'm actually in a weird place where I feel happy.

Are you okay with it? I feel, yeah, it's awesome, it's great. And that's why I'm like, I even went to, I actually, so I was working in London briefly this summer and I had four days off and I went to Greece because I had four days off and there was a direct flight and I went to Corfu for just four days off and I went to Greece because I had four days off and there was a direct flight and I went to Corfu for just four days and it was just beach, didn't know anyone,

beach, chill, food and I was like, you know what man, I'm busy, I have a lot of stuff coming up but I don't feel that way again. And it felt like a real victory man, it really did. It really felt like even though I have stuff that could give me that same anxiety, I don't feel that way.

I feel more in control of my life. I feel I'm excited about the projects I'm doing. Choosing the right things. Just choosing the right things. But all the things you were choosing the right things before, you were just letting it build up. No, I wasn't. I was overbooking myself.

Oh, okay. Even though they were the right things. But I'm just thinking about the lyric and the beacon. I'm not thinking about all the other things. All the other theaters I did between those and how I felt the need to you know promoting your special important But I didn't promote as much as I did I need to go I went cross-country I went like New York LA Austin, Chicago. I didn't need to do that in a week. That's so bad for your body

It's like hey, you could have missed out on a podcast or two. Yeah, it's fine. We're also these days. You're like Hey, my specials out January 1st. Can I come in November and just sure exactly? Yeah, but anyway, I'm putting out these from fucking two years ago. Yeah Don't slow something a door port church. I was like for what? Yeah, the pocket Well, yeah when this comes out in 2028 I forgot about that. That's hysterical dude. Yeah. Well, yeah, when this comes out in 2028, we'll be doing the sequel to let's start a cult. That's great. I'm so always amazed by how much mushrooms will fucking lead you if you let it. Yeah. Yeah.

And Greece and that animus like old place. I do. I definitely feel like it's, I think it's so important to me man, like in a real way. And it's nice to just, I don't know, sometimes instead of like looking for meaning and like trying to, it's just like, sometimes you're just like, it's just, sometimes it's just where you're from, where you are, you don't need to fight that always.

Like I was thinking about where to live and it's like, I just love New York man. Like, cause I had been away for so long and I'm saying people are moving to Austin people are moving to you know I could move to LA I could just pick a random place and buy because I can't afford shit here But if I could buy an insane spot somewhere no, okay. See you're right. Like I was but I was like, you know what? I just love it. New York chose me. I love stand up. I don't ever wanna leave. You have so many friends here. I have so many friends here.

I love the lifestyle here. Sometimes I think about like, if they treated us, if they treated athletes the way they treat us, like what's next, what's next. Yeah. After LeBron wins his second championship, like now what are you doing? Because try to win more?

Like what do you mean, you're gonna move on to acting now? Like what do you mean, I'm doing this. I'm in a Hall of Fame career. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah and I guess like not worrying about what's next or I guess I'm not as, yeah. I'm just, I'm really, I wanna live my life where my health is important and then you plan stuff

like my trip to, I can't wait for my trip. I'm going to Greece next summer. Fresh fish and stuff, it's like you can eat so healthy there. And work will find your way. All that other shit will find its way. You can't avoid the other shit. You're gonna have to work. You read The Fountainhead?

No. You read it all or no? I read, but I don't know about The Fountainhead. It's heavy reading. Yeah. But it's just like ultimate artist. He's a architect, doesn't really matter. It's any artist.

What is The Fountainhead? Fountainhead is a book, it's a novel. Okay. And it's about this guy who is is that Ayn Rand? Yeah, forget anything you've heard about it People like what she was socialist like what no no she wasn't well I don't know she was against socialism, and then she took welfare in her yeah in the end of her day I'm like great great great anyway. This book is sick

Okay, but it's this ultimate artist He's got his a 100% focus on the art and no one could be this level of artist. But it's what you should strive for. Interesting. It's kind of my Bible, to be honest. Interesting. Yeah, and it took about a year to read it.

Every chapter I gotta stop and think about it for like three weeks. But he goes on a vacation. And he goes, everything's set, everything's in in play, okay I can go and he goes off, maybe in Greece actually, I gotta look at it, but off on a boat somewhere in the middle of nowhere from this guy who owns a bunch of newspapers, he's also an artist in the newspaper world.

And he comes back and things are getting fucked up, but his thing was I'm leaving because it's all taken care of and this doing nothing is part of it. Like just having a good time is part of it. And then it comes back to the art. Yeah, I fully agree with that. I think just life in general is like that. And I honestly, I admire that about you

about just like, you just fucking left. You went to fucking Asia. And I was like, that's awesome. And shit wasn't going good for me yet, but I was like, even then I was like, part of me was like, I really remember you disappearing and me being like so jealous of being able to do that because I knew at the time I could never do that and now I feel like and look now you totally can tell your juice. Hey in eight months I'm going so get everything in before that. Yeah, which is you've done which I've done. Yeah. Yeah, you do responsibly

Yeah, and like I'm also just the place where it's like, yeah, fuck it, if something's awesome, I'll do it, and if it's not, I don't give a fuck. But. You know what we gotta plan? What's that? Not soon, but in a few years, a fucking comedian's trip to Greece.

I would love that. Well, no, that's why I wanna go to Greece for a while so that people can pop in and out. Like, I wanna be there for a month, so let's say you wanna come for four days, whatever, on a Euro trip. I got a second bedroom in whatever Airbnb I have. Sam, same thing, I've been talking to Sam.

Sam needs it. If anybody fucking needs it. Sam needs it. Sam fucking needs it. But yeah, I wanna say, I definitely wanna say that. He was bitching once about going on vacation, so it's only to me and Shane, we're at the Fat Black, back room was still a bar, and I was like,

I missed that bar. But like, but he was like. Is it not a bar at all anymore? Not at all. They gotta get that back. Yeah, I haven't, I haven't been in a while. But he was bitching. He was like, he was like, you know, it's just hard.

You guys don't understand I'm tall. It's flying as hard and me and Shane was like, bro, we're taller than you. That's so fucking funny. Who are you talking to? I'm tall. The shit you'll lie to yourself about. Just cause Sam like, will have a panic attack if he doesn't do four sets a week. He's about. Just cause Sam's like, we'll have a panic attack

if he doesn't do four sets a week. He's pretending it's cause he's tall. Yeah. Hilarious. What other islands in Greece do you want to go to you haven't been to? I want to go to Mylos. Mylos.

I just went to, I also want to go to the ones like I like all the aunties. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ones that are right by there. I also want to go to the ones like a little bit on tease. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ones that are right by there. I want to, I've never been to, I have a lot of friends from my part of Baltimore. There's people from like Carpathos, which is one of those southern ones.

Heal, another one that's kind of like, I want to go check those out. I've never been to Crete, obviously. That's fucking. That's the oldest one? That's the biggest one. That's the big one. Or just the biggest one? Super South.

Yeah, it's massive, is that it? Yeah, right there next to it. I'd like, even though Cyprus isn't strict, yeah, Rhodes, I wanna go to Rhodes too. Rhodes seems cool. Yeah. Look at, and that's everywhere in the whole fuckin' country, this shit.

Yeah, dude, it fuckin' rules. And you come across something in Athens, where you're like, sometimes there'll be that glass thing where it sees some ruins down there You could walk over. Yeah, when the fuck was this from it's awesome. Just uncovering it daily. I know dude I mean, I just love it So yeah I just I want to do that and then I want to go island hopping and I also want to do a road trip across the

Whole country because it's a small country across the mainland part across the mainland because the other thing is the coastal parts of the mainland Just as beautiful as some of these islands. Yeah., oh yeah, there's parts of it that are gorgeous. So I just wanna like, I wanna have a like, maybe not encyclopedic knowledge, but I wanna really over like, you know, a couple years, really fucking get to know the country. Should we see my fucking, hold on, I got all these things saved I just realized.

See how you've been to. Oh, interesting. I probably told you about. Yeah, I mean, probably. You probably told me 90% of them. That's what I'm thinking about. I'm like, who do I get these from? I'm like, oh yeah, all you.

Yeah, Thanasi I definitely told you about. That's the place that has the kebabs. Kebab place, yeah. Yep. That's a little touristy, but pretty fucking sick. Yeah. Oh, that's my Airbnb. It was right fucking looking over over like you could see the

balcony it was right there that's beautiful I don't know that's my driver told me about that oh I gotta do a commercial for my driver for this just a wine store yeah but it was like that's my people though I think I've seen that place I don't know that I've been there over here was the shit I didn't write it down yeah it wasn't record was like stuff we came across right right right I think I've seen that place. I don't know that I've been there. Over here was the shit, I didn't write it down. Yeah. It was like stuff we came across. Right, right, right. Damn, dude.

Yeah, man, great place. Obviously very important to me through the years. It's been very important to me. Yeah. Like in my, almost like my development. And I'm really, yeah, I wanna spend a lot of time there. I for sure come to see you. Going forward.

If I'm living out there and you're just staying out there, it'd be like, hey, London's getting too much. I gotta fucking 100% go meet Stavie for a while would love that dude. Would that's my Saganaki tour of an island. Well, my goal. So I want to go visit, I want to go travel and then I want to be like, what place do I love the most? I am buying a sick spot there. And I will go spend my summers there. And like, that's it. That's it. And then sometimes I'll go in the fall and like, you know,

uh, like spend all spend. There are those islands that with that crazy wind. Yeah, they got wind. Yeah. Which is like, Hey, don't avoid this place during these six months. We almost got there. Like you don't want to be the north side of that. I really during these six months. Interesting. Cause like, we'll play cards. Like you won't play cards. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that there were that, there were some places that were that bad,

I've never experienced that level of wind. I know, I'm not seasonal anyway, I know from time to time it gets bad. Yeah, it was like, it was like, yeah, maybe up in here or something. Okay. I don't know. Interesting. But, damn dude, this was awesome.

Yeah dude, thank you for having me. Yeah, okay, so a couple things I ask people before every time. But you I just ask, like which other islands in Greece, it's usually like what other places calling you. Do you have any other countries that are like you want to go to? Um, I think I used to be like scared of super foreign shit. I used to be like scared of Asia. Yeah, it's scary. And like, okay. But it shouldn't be. Yeah, yeah. It's just that the foreignness of it foreign shit. I used to be like scared of Asia. And like, okay. But it shouldn't be.

It's just that the foreignness of it is scary. Right, and so, and I never really gave a fuck about that stuff, but I went to Australia once, and I went to Japan, and I'm just like, you know what? I kinda wanna see, I just wanna see everything. I do wanna, I want to, you know, I don't have to, I obviously will always go back to Greece, but like, I wanna go to Africa, I wanna go to see everything I want I do want to I want to you know I don't have to I obviously will always Go back to Greece, but like I want to go to Africa. I want to go to fucking China. I want to go

You know rules yeah, I want to I want to see China I want to I want to spend time in Korea, and you know I only I barely did on that little USO thing I Want to for non sex tourism reasons go to Thailand. It seems, it's tough, you can't say you want to go to Thailand as a fat guy in a Hawaiian shirt because everyone thinks you're there to buy prostitutes. But it looks sick.

It's so great and then it's like when I went it wasn't for that but my buddy had just broken up with his girlfriend and was still living with her for like a year, she was in sex jail and he went and fucked like 12 hookers in 10 days. Oh my God. Yeah, he was like, I'm letting loose, bro. And then of course I'm like, all right, I'll fuck a hook

while I'm here. Yeah, I mean, listen. While I'm here. Yeah, I'm not not gonna do it. I'm just not, it's not what my trip is gonna be about. Like I'm there to say, you know what I mean? You go to Greece, you have a gyro. Yeah, you have, it's like. You don't have it every day.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You go to Rome, you see the Coliseum, you don't fucking see it every day, but you go once. Yeah, but Thailand, beyond that, Thailand is-

It looks beautiful and cheap. And it's set up for tourism. Of all the Southeast Asian countries, it's the most like, it's not, some parts are overly tourist, but it's set up, we're like, we got you, we got a nice place. Yeah because I'm a beach like what I like about vacation is get a great spot relaxed by the beach and it seems like that kind of place but yeah just any I want to check

out beach place but also I'm just like I'm interested in check you know I want to go to Africa I want to go. You also have this I don't know how you deal with with fame all the time but there's places out there where no one will know you. That'd be awesome. I mean, I was in London, and even that, it's like one or two guys came up to me, but it was like, I was in Baltimore all summer. That's the place I'm the most famous in the world. Yeah.

And I was like, why did I do this? My dumb family, I should have just gone. But then I was in England, and it was awesome. No, I was in the countryside, and it was like, dude, no one just gone. But then I was in England and it was awesome. I was in the countryside and it was like, dude, no one had any fucking clue who I was. It was so sick. I ran into one guy in four months in Southeast Asia, maybe two, but I'm remembering one on an island in Cambodia

and just I'm in the rural part of that island and I'm walking around to meet a friend in the main part and then some guy's just on the beach with his wife and he's just like, Ari Shaffir, what are you doing here? I mean, Roland's already prepared, I'm like, same as you bud. Great beach, huh? All right, see ya.

And then he's like, what? Yeah, and then you keep it moving. Keep it moving. Yeah, I love that. Fucking awesome, dude. Yeah, and then also, what travel tips do you got? Think you hit one in the middle somewhere, but. Travel tips.

General, it's either anywhere from packing light to somebody said put mushrooms in granola. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you wanna take mushrooms, granola's good. When I'm more paranoid, I put them in tea bags. Tea bags is really good. Put them in there with like some chunky tea. And like it just looks like a fuckin', it looks like tea.

That's great, that's great. That's great. Yeah. That's great. That's great. That's a solid tip. Yeah, thank you. But it's gotta be like the chunky one. You know, it can't be like the thin flakes. In case they really look at it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chaga. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. What one did I hit? It was put mushrooms in a bag. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's my tip.

Travel lights a good one too. You need less than you think you need. Don't overdo it. You want to be able to just get up and go. You're not going to like the bush in Africa or something where it's like you can just buy a bathing suit. Totally, totally. And you have it. Yeah. But this was awesome. Yeah, dude. Thank you. This was really fun. Yeah. It makes me want to go back already. Yeah, right. Thank you. This was really fun. Yeah makes you want to go back already Yeah, right. This is how I'm getting so the best of these podcasts I can feel it on this one where it's like I want to get there It's the best like you finish like damn it the fucking best now. I'm pissed off. Yeah, I'm like I'm not there

I'm not gonna get to go for at least a year. There's that scream own homeless lady outside It's like in a constant state of distress about our life. Yeah Sick dude, well, yeah, that'll do it. Please go watch the movie everybody. Yeah. Subscribe to the podcast. Go check out Stav again on Instagram, Stavi Baby2. That's right. Double V. The other one was naked it out. I was too nude. So fucking lame. Like don't be nude, it's like why, it's funny. Why, and it's not nude. I was nude, anyway, what are you gonna do?

Yeah, we took a series of pictures from my old episode of My Pocket, so you did it on, that I just like, oh my goodness. Yeah, I remember that. And just let sky footage jump together. And the internet was like, no, no way. I'm like, I'm not even, nothing's out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, damn.

Yeah, and the movie out in a couple weeks, I guess over 25th. Yep in theaters and 25th not 21st Yeah, 25th and if you're a if if it's in your city, please go see it and then You know, it'll probably come out sometime in November on VOD. We're still figuring movie theater. It's cool Okay, it's very cool. And it's it's a 90 minute comedy full of just stupid fucking jokes This is what we did all I want to do is a dumb fun comedy that you will not learn a lesson The characters do not become better people. Yeah, it's a fucking just hilarious. Yes I don't know why they don't get more comedians high-level comedian do funny shit. So hopefully it goes well

I'd love to call it again. Let love I called again. Let's start a cult Let's start a cult sick when I saw it old 12 Billy Madison and there's that scene where he's just dancing and singing on the steps Yeah What is this like it's just a high-level like young comic to fuck around with his friends so you get the best shit Yeah, all right buddy, bum. So good, man. Yeah. All right, buddy. Thank you very much. Well, guys, that is the episode. Thank you very much, Stavros Halkyas.

Interesting. I like his positivity. I really like his positivity about all that, about where he is now. He's in a good, happy place. It's interesting, too, how you meet people from other countries and you're like, if you're in a time in your life

when you can really accept it like you did with that artist lady, then it's just like, you become an adult and you're like, I relate to this person now, more than my family, less than my family, whatever, but like, man. Just that, just that, thinking clearly on mushrooms. You don't get anything like that. Guys, I wanna do in this outro a little something

from my Patreon podcast, patreon.com slash ubtrippin. Sign up now. The plan is to raise enough money to find somebody, someone who listens to podcasts or someone who might suggest or anybody. We're gonna send them around the world. Gonna take that money and send them around the world. You wanna be part of that dream with me?

Sign up right now. YouBeTrippin slash, no, patreon.com slash YouBeTrippin. This one's from a guy named Andrew sent me, so they send me postcards and sometimes they send money. And this guy sent money. I want to read to you this letter. Because what I want to do is see back there. I want to fill that up with money from the podcast episodes we've done. Bank notes are in the following order. Saddam Hussein's Iraq due to sanctions.

Oh, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Trinidad and Tobago. I actually have one that I got myself. That means I got to do an episode on Trinidad and Tobago. China. That means I have to do an episode on Trinidad and Tobago. China, collect a note honoring healthcare workers during COVID. Oh, that was Indonesia. Do we do an Indonesia episode? Coming soon.

Poland, Soviet Union, Egypt. Let's get those, put those up right now. Fucking Egypt, bro. Wait, is this Egypt? Where is the Egypt one? Damn. Oh man this guy sent me a lot. If you want to send some bills of a place we've been I need you know anywhere we haven't

been yet. Damn where are all these? Is that in the wrong order? Yeah here here is Bro Egypt with the fucking Sphinx and shit there or this one send me to bomb Those are going up and Then China this is honoring the health care workers. All right, what is this one? This is just a regular China? Suriname.

Wait, Rupiah, is that India? Think of Indonesia. Okay, well, we gotta get back to that one. But let's put up this China one right now and this Egypt one. Today's episode of You Be trippin was edited by Alan Caffe. I mean, yeah, I'm gonna do this 10. It's a one. I gotta fucking, I gotta decide. Maybe we'll do more. Um, was episode

by, uh, edited by Alan cut produced by your mom's house network. Tom Segura, uh, rescued me out of, uh, you know, fucking existence that would have launched me into nothingness for forever. Yeah. I mean, it's this one, a one, it's a 10. Oh, interesting. Um, anywhere we've been, I'm want to put them to these bills. So if you guys got me from a place we've been that don't have any, here's what I got so far. A US 5, Joey Diaz.

Boom, that is so cool. That is so cool. Where's the China one? Yeah, right here. Honoring healthcare workers, interesting. Damn. Should we put this? Oh, so I got, what do I got here?

Oh, it doesn't stick. Oh, it didn't put it on. What the hell? Of course the Chinese shit doesn't work. Of course the Chinese shit doesn't work. So here's what I've got. A US 5, Joey Diaz. Canada.

Did I not do Canada yet? Oh, that's a mistake. That is a mistake. Um, see Mexico we did. This is Korea's coming. I already recorded an episode. Romania recorded an episode from there. UK, Egypt, all these, Mexico, where is that? Oh, I remember that, I remember it. Also, I got this, I just recorded with Ian Sterling an episode about Copenhagen. Should I put it up now or should I wait

till the episode where that airs? That's a good question. Anyway, and then something else I do for the podcast, come with me. And I read these postcards from around the world. Ah, I forgot the fucking, and I put them up on there. If you wanna send a postcard,

send it to 151 First Avenue, number 49, New York, New York, 1003. Mark it, address it to UBTrippin. Who's a Rout routes? And I have postcards whenever I want to fill up this whole wall. Um I read those. It's fun. Make me as part of your trips. It's very cool. This is from Sasha. I thought I'd send you a card to help fill the wall. I got this from for Zarut, Spain. A small beach city near San Sebastian. It was a really cool town with chill vibe

and a lot of surfing. I bet you fucked. When you say chill vibe, that means I had non-important sex with your bikini top still on. That's what I'm thinking. I think you left your bikini top on and just kind of slid it in and didn't make a big deal over the next day.

And if he was like, Hey, are we cool? And you're like, Oh yeah, chill. But let's go surfing. We played in a Dornasty cup. What? And Dornasty cup and San Sebastian, which is huge soccer football tournament. Oh, with teams competing from all over the world. We lost in the finals in PKs, which has sucked,

but we got to, wait. This little thing. PKs which sucked, but we got to play in the real Sociodad Stadium, which was a pretty dope experience. Loved San Sebastian too. From Sasha Silverman. Well thank you Sasha, look at this card.

Fucking cool. Oh yeah, Correo Internacional. Look, see the postmark and everything there? So people send these all over and they fucking, when they're on vacation, and hopefully when you're on vacation, I hope you think of me and send me a postcard. Send me a postcard if you wanna send a letter

with a bill of a place I haven't been. Where have we been? I mean India, I definitely need some Indian rupees. Where else? Where else? Where else have we been? Oh, uh, not Lebanon. Jordan. Need some Jordanian money. Now we got Egypt. I need some shekels. I should be able to find some shekels of my own.

Um, where else have we been? Sicily. Um, Australia. I need some Australian money. I didn't find any this last time. Oh, so it's an up and down one. I need some Australian money. I didn't find any of this last time. Oh, so it's an up and down one. Okay, let's put it there. Let's put it right here. Yeah, sign up guys. You're patreon.com slash youbtrippin.

Three episodes a week at your service. There's also a discord in there. I'm gonna start reading out stuff from there and I'm gonna start doing a, well, I have a few things going on. I'm gonna start reading comments from podcasts I'm on from other people. Just see what fucking dumbasses people are. And that's it. I got nothing else to tell you. Don't forget that presale coming October 16th

for all these dates. Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta, um, and that's it. I got nothing else to tell you. Don't forget that pre-sale, uh, coming October 16th for all these dates. Atlanta is the big one. Uh, Vancouver, Seattle, Edmonton, Calgary, um, giant theaters I'm doing.

Um, it'll all be up for sale then Nashville, uh, Schomburg. Um, you know, the whole, all the ones I said. Could just list them all. Would you mind listing all the ones I said? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, if you're on YouTube. Next week's episode, so we finished the fucking Final Fat. The Final Fat, which was Star Wars. And now, what do you think for October?

Maybe a spooky? Here's the ones I really want to get to. I really want to get to Hamilton Morris. By the way your suggestions of who to book have really helped me out. I reached out to Action Bronson, reached out to David Cho. David Cho is receptive but never comes to New York. New York. Let's see. What am I talking about now? But anyway, maybe do a spooky October?

I don't know. Fuck. I've got a plan next week. I've got a plan next week. Rolf Potts I've got to get on. He's... Forget the spooky October. Who should be next week?

Maybe Harlan Williams. His was so fucking cool. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I get on he's forget the spooky October who should be next week maybe Harlan Williams his was so fucking cool all right well tune in next week guys please subscribe wherever you're watching and you can you know I'm almost at a hundred thousand subscribers also leave a comment for the algorithm and

that's it Austin Tah Tahoe, Pittsburgh, Providence, Salt Lake City, Bray in Nashville, New Jersey, Tampa, Denver, Schaumburg, Atlanta, Jacksonville, San Jose, Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Portland and maybe Dallas, San Antonio, Spokane, Boise. I need a name for my tour if you could suggest anything. It might be the farewell tour. I'm not doing any dates. Atlanta, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska. In June. I'm not going to be doing any dates after that till probably 2027. So there will be no added cities. There'll be added shows, late shows and stuff. But no added cities. And that's it. I'm touring

December some. Austin's already sold out. If Tahoe happens it'll be in December. December some Austin's already sold out if Tahoe happens it'll be in December And then just January February March and the first weekend of April That's it and then that Anchorage gig in in June and that's it to 27. It's a farewell tour That's it until next week. Maybe Harlan Williams, that's a good idea. I like Harlan. This was so fucking cool, he went on a trip around the world. Usually I sell people like, no no, just do like one country, but Harlan's like, buddy, I think this is more interesting than that. And so, I don't want to ruin any of it for you.

Fuck. Let's plan on Harlan, and if not, I don't know. I don't know. Okay, until next week. Wait, where were we this week? Oh, how do you say goodbye in Greek? I know this. I know this. Goodbye in Greek. I know this. I was just meandering goodbye see you next week