You Be Trippin' - Ibiza, Spain w/ Sal Vulcano | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

Follow Sal Vulcano on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/salvulcano/ And check out Sal on tour!!! Dates here: https://salvulcanocomedy.com/tour/ On this episode of You Be Trippin, Sal Vulcano rolls on lollipops and goes to the craziest clubs in Ibiza. He shares stories of topless women, people having sex on stage, and almost getting kicked out of cab. The two also discuss massages, racists, costumes, and a guy who pooped his pants on the airplane. Other topics: henna tattoos, Flaming Lips balloons, beaches, and a trans woman. Sal was a wild youth. ¡Tiempo de fiesta! You Be Trippin' Ep. 19 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://store.ymhstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who's that? Who's that chick? That's what you can expect to see at the clubs there. Oh my god. And this was in the fucking 40s? This was the year 2002 maybe? Alright let's start. Jesus Christ! I mean those tits are unbelievable!

She seems so casual. Very casual with the tits. I mean tits were very casual here in this place. Wow. All right. Where you been and where you going? This is Ari's Travel Show. Yeah, we're gonna talk about travel today.

It's UB Trippin'. Yeah. Hi, everybody. Welcome to UB Trippin'. I'm Ari Shaffir. I'm the host. It's a travel podcast. We're Meesee and I'm the host. Hi, everybody. Welcome to You Be Trippin'. I'm Ari Shaffir.

I'm the host. It's a travel podcast where I meet myself and a guest to go to a different place in the world every episode. It's the only podcast that is endorsed by the Green Party. And today on the podcast, my friend Sal Vulcano is on, first time on. He's got a fucking first one. We got a fucking second time on, but I didn't like my first episode. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that.

I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that. I'm gonna say that.

I'm gonna say that. I was talking about the upgrade I got. Yeah. And you know, like in the olives. It's funny. A lot of I've had to bury a few and a lot of times people start talking about something and then it like hits us both halfway through like, this is just a fun vacation. Yeah, this really wasn't very interesting.

Had more entertaining stuff like going on like kind of crazy stuff. Where'd you go? Where are we going today? We went to Ibiza. I've never called it Ibiza. That's how the Spaniards say it. They say it so I said it to be fun about it. But Ibiza Spain 2002 I believe. 2002? 22 years ago where the young 25 year old Sal Volcano was in his clubbing days. That's when you were still volcano right before you changed your name?'s right to be different I was volcano yeah I changed it from the O to the U I was sick and tired of the joke so first the volcano was already taken and so you know how many volcano volcano things I've heard my whole life Sal versus volcano

don't erupt on oh really okay now yeah yeah everything volcano yeah I I just saw the thing you made for the special or what's they made for the special a Little like trailer sell special is out right now. It's called terrified. It's on YouTube comm And they made a little They made a little teaser thing 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'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 Volcano. You also, you executive produced it. I'm executive producer. You're executive producer on it. And more importantly. More importantly, you had wore many hats. You were a creative consultant. You were an opening comic.

Opening comic, for sure. You were in charge of the most important thing, is ginger tea. Ginger tea, yeah, I'm in the credits as ginger tea. That was like a very close to a cure-all That was the most steeped It was like It was a lemon honey and ginger

Times a billion you got randomly sick. Oh my god, dude. You remember what happened, right? What they're like the like so that so the it was at the first day. Yeah, it's the first time Yeah, we filmed two days first day. I wake up that day with a cold I started getting it the night before I wake up with a cold. Yeah, my voice is raspy Yeah, I have a sore throat. My energy is low and like literally my throat hurts to swallow. Yeah, I'm like what oh my god What am I gonna do? So you're like, alright, here's what you're gonna do. Don't speak. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. What's up, Bandit? Way to move. Way to move the camera.

Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit. Bandit, the whole crew's here. Oh, what about Sal, though?, go, go, go, go! He needs it, he needs it! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Oh, get him. Get him, Banner. Get him. Get him. Oh, I don't want you licking me because Ari's ass. Oh, yeah, you licked my ass with that mouth. Remember when you licked my ass, buddy? Um, yeah, so you're getting sick. You're getting sick. It's a worst-case scenario for a special. Right, because it's also, like, not only is my energy hit,

but you don't want a sick voice. Yep, yep. And so you're like, here's what you can do. Don't speak. And you get these Baroka tablets. Right, Baroka. It's a cure-all. It's great for hangovers. It's one of those dissolving tablets that has, like like a billion percent vitamin B and C and all the vitamins. And it dissolves and you drink that and you pound it.

So, the day's going on and you're telling me take as many of those as I can. I didn't say take as many as you can. Keep taking them is what you literally said. Take one out, you take it again. I said, no you won't. Take it again. I said, alright. Then later on you said, did you take another one? I go, no, you go, take another one. No way. I said, I take him too. You go, take another one.

No, I wouldn't say that. It's got caffeine in it. Yeah. Yeah. I said, did you take one? Yeah. You're like, no, I'm like, take it. No, no, no. I would never. It doesn't have like 200 milligrams.

It's a full cup of coffee. Well, look, here's what happened. So I'm doing those throughout the day. There's no way I would understand you because I would never advise to anyone to take more than one every day You literally told me this communication. He taking them miscommunication. I meant to keep taking every day But it was only the day before the night before that you told me that keep taking I meant keep taking the ginger tea No, ginger tea didn't come and play until the venue. Yeah, we were at the house the Airbnb and you were like just keep taking them Oh, no. No, I know what it is now

I know it because there's you know, you ever get this things where you like that. I couldn't have said that thing Yeah, but I believe you you're receiving that I did say I think you drank like a third of it And I was like just keep drink go keep take but I keep drinking finish guzzle the fucking glass I think I remember you also saying did you take another one? and I said no you're like, what are you doing? Take it again. Wow Well any who yeah, you're sick. So I get to the witness I get to the um I get to the tape I get to the venue tapings about to start and I I already like I've tried out to take in some ADHD medication.

I'm trying all different medications and doses over the last couple of years. Like just see how they fare for me. And I started taking a brand new one only a couple of days before. So I might not have been fully regulated to it at that time anyway. I mean, it actually was fine. But when you add the three tablets of the Barocca with the caffeine in it. And nerves. And the adrenaline to go do the show.

Adrenaline for a special. And the, you know, whatever, the ADHD stuff. Then they also got a doctor to come give me a B12 shot in the arm. Oh yeah. 20 minutes before I went on stage. The B12. So before I was about to go on stage,

I have in me three caffeine tablets, ADHD medication, a B12 shot in the arm, and just the adrenaline to go out and perform. We have one of those fake NFL doctors from any given Sunday to come in. It was like, who's this guy with no tie? They call him Rock Docs. Do you know that? Rock Docs, to get you back ready to go. Is that what it is? You know who need one of you rockin petty? Yeah Yeah, they get those I thought it was cuz like they usually do rock like rock like we are rock and roll guys Yeah, yeah to get you back on like, yeah Anyway, yeah, the point is terrified is out now. It's fuck you address like forrest gump as well

Yeah, exactly like forrest gump. You would dress like Forrest Gump as well. Yeah, I dressed like Forrest Gump. Exactly like Forrest Gump. Like one million percent like Forrest Gump. Just for no reason, never mentioned it. All the pictures. Was out in line in Chicago in December, people were like, why you wearing shorts? I'm like, every day is like a box of, you're like what?

Anyway, you guys are coming in the front, you're short, I need your first cameras. You look like you just arrived from a cross-country job. I've used, I've gotten so much mileage out of that costume. I wore it Halloween, I wore it for your special. I was like, all right, a month and a half after. And it's in the credits, because there's pictures of us in the credits.

Yeah, just as far as go. It's so funny, because no one- I wore it for Burt's 5K, no one noticed. One person noticed, like, wow, perfect costume. Thank you, why is no one, everyone just thinks I'm wearing shorts and a polo shirt. Yeah, and your hair One person was like, oh, perfect costume. Thank you. Everyone just said someone's shorts and a polo shirt. Yeah, and your hair and everything was like, the beard. But I'm surprised in all the comments, thousands of comments, nobody was like, what is Ari wearing? Anyway, great job. Congratulations.

Thank you very much for a tremendous help. I appreciate you. What a fun time. It was. It was a really fun time. I went to Chicago days early. I actually went on the road before that. Took a nice roadie. It was just really, really nice.

My family came with me. And the shows ended up being great. And a lot of people I loved were there. That's one of the things I'll do as a producer is like, let's get the experience right. Let's not let you fly in the day of. You got some money. Get a hotel. Yeah. Let's get ameliorated.'s not let you fly in the day of. Now you got some money. Get a hotel.

Yeah. Let's let's get ameliorated. Good word to the times. Let's just like chill. You say listen ameliorated. Oh, I don't know that one. Might be wrong. Acclimate it. Acclimate it. Cool. Yeah.

What's ameliorated? I might be misusing it. You got how do you know to spell it? Yeah. A.M.E.L. OK. I.O.R. Oh, you're right. What is it? Yeah. A M E L. OK. I O R. Oh, you're right. What is it? What does it mean? Make something make something better. Just as make something bad or unsatisfactory better.

Misuse. Yeah. Misuse. Still, though, I spelled it right. Not bad. All right. Let's get to a visa. Yeah, let I spelled it right. Not bad. All right, let's get to Ibiza. Yeah, let's do it. Let's get to Ibiza. So you're 2002, you're in your 20s. Yeah, so I would call it 2000 to 2002. I was in my club phase.

Piece of shit. Yeah, I used to be a piece of shit. Yeah, I used to be a shit. No, I know, it's okay, I'm not. Same me. Water sticks, yeah. Same me, but I fancied going to a discotheque and going like, you know, yeah, and staying out through the morning.

Yeah. What an interesting lifestyle that is to be into that. You couldn't pay me to do it now, but I mean, everybody was on the same wavelength. Whatever was having a moment, that was having a moment. I'm sure that still exists now. is a visa right? Yeah, that's what you that's what you're doing Yeah, that's what it is I had gone to Mykonos in Greece for the same reason two years earlier

Uh-huh, and then a cup of coke go the year before which I think now you can't go to you just get chopped into pieces I could poke. Oh, yeah It's not a tourist destination anymore, and it was like a Cancun before Cancun was done. Wow. Yeah. That's what I was wondering. It's overrun by gangs and just, what do you call those guys? Like El Chapos? Yeah, El Chapos.

All right, buddy. But no ins and outs. She only gives you a taste. She gives you a taste of the attention. Yeah. And then down. Hey, guys. Just breaking in here real quick to let you know that Sal

Vulcano not only has a new special out called Terrified on YouTube. It's a fucking great, great piece of fucking comedy. He's also got a new tour coming. What? Yeah. It's crazy. The guy's working.

Everything's Fine Tour. Everything's Fine. Do you want to check out at Sal Volcano, Volcano? Volcano. Volcano comedy.com. People say, so many people say Volcano. I just also accept, I'll accept it. Yeah, I think I've only called you Volcano.

Yeah. Like most. Give me some cities. Oh, you could have told me you were gonna do that. Yeah, I should have. I just thought it would run down. Now you have to edit this out? Nah, I'll just run it.

I have a special on YouTube right now. Greensville, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Knoxville, Torrenton, Burlington, Portland, Red Bank, Huntington, San Antonio, Phoenix, Tucson, Indianapolis, Evansville, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Jacksonville, Get to the Chopper, Tampa, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver, Seattle, Spokane, Fort Wayne, Columbus, Cleveland.

And then that's just the first little leg. We're adding like 10 times that, so I'll see you. I'll see you. Everybody check out Sal Vulcano Comedy.com to check if your city's been added. And that's it. Now let's get back to the episode. And don't forget to hit subscribe. Wherever you're watching or listening right now, it's on Kim now.

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July 20th, 21st, 22nd. I don't know where I'll be then, but I'm just saying, why don't we get a little something? Why don't we put a little something together? I'm in. Yeah. Shroomfest. All right, let's get back to the episode.

Back to Obida. So, yeah, so that's where I was at. But it was having a moment. So you heard about it, and you're like, I want to do that. That's the club scene. Yeah, well, we were going to New York, so all the different clubs and everything. And like the thing was where we going on

vacation and that was that was the I mean, that was the golden goose. They're a big DJ at the time you're going to see or anything. I mean, well, every night there is every night is a different club that you get to choose from because it's all clubs. And every night that certain club has their thing. And every one of them are flying in like DJs that you know you know these DJs that make hundreds of like yeah you know I mean they they were every night they had a DJ like DJ Tiesto DJ Karl Cox DJ I mean all the most

famous DJs from back then were like there Wow yeah I like not that I even care I know about them now but like it was a big friggin deal like these guys would fly in get Paid like a hundred million, but you know, yeah, I bet you they were getting a million dollars a set easy Wow. Yeah, I mean you're bringing that much money and it's like just to have their name Yeah, David get whatever they have those Vegas David. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm like, oh but like the people who know no Yeah, and so we would go like I was in that phase where we go like out in New York and you on the list

Did you have it's I mean, it's terrible now I look at that now and I'm like that is probably the if would take my whole life in three year blocks That would be like the least thing I would ever want to do it It's so funny too Cuz if you if that fucking piece of shit back then could look forward to this celebrity who could bypass the line You'd be like, that's all I want. How many nights I waited on the line and got rejected, even though you have to know someone.

If you didn't go prepared, like on a list of knowing someone at the door to name the drop, you were really rolling the dice. You know what I mean? I'm just like, you see me 12 people out. You see that I'm not wearing the right outfit. Just be like, hey, you, no chance. Nobody's gonna waste your next hour of your life.

You're just not getting in. It's okay. Exactly, and going with guys in New York. Yeah, fucking all guys trip, fuck off. We'd all have to meet and split up in cars. We'd meet at my house or whoever's house. We'd be like four or five cars of guys. And we'd all go park, and then we'd all go

to the corner, right? And then two at a time, every like three to four minutes, we would go. None of us together, none of us talking to each other online. Because if they saw that many people knew each other, they wouldn't let you in at all. They'd be like, no way.

So we'd all go up with two. How many? Just two. I mean, like one time the guy's like, you can't wear those shoes in here. Like they're not dress shoes. And so literally my friend ran to like an Ace Hardware, bought a black electrical tape,

and taped his entire shoes up in black Electrical tape and they're like it didn't draw the guy's attention down and he got in with black wearing black electrical Yeah, but it was like the big thing. So this was like the Super Bowl of destinations for clubbing. Yeah And I gotta tell you like it sounds horrible and it is, but this was when Ecstasy first like, this was Ecstasy. Oh, wait, 2002, wow, yeah. This was that. Wow. Pills. Pills, yeah.

With different stamps on them. Yeah. Do you remember any of them? And I do not condone this. I do. Especially now in this, no friggin' way, I would never do it again. In this day and age now, you don't know who's cuttin' what. And that was like that back then too, but now with the Fet.

With the Fet. You can't mess with that Fetty Wap now. Really ruins everything. I wonder if Fetty Wap is sure for Fet and all Wap. I feel like it'd be Fenty Wap. Oh, is it Fenty? Yeah. Oh, why did I say Fetty?

He's Fetty Wap. Fetty? Fetty. That's a different person. Fetty's in? Yeah. Fetty Wap is a different. Oh, it's different than Fenty Wap? No, there He's Fetty Wap. Fetty. That's a different person. Fetty's in? Yeah. Fetty Wap is a different. Oh, is it different than Fenty Wap? No, there is no Fenty Wap. There is none.

No, but. Oh, cause Fenty have fentanyl. Yeah, he would be. Oh, I thought Fenty was a thing. Isn't that a brand? Fendy. Fendy, yeah. You think it's that short for fentanyl?

Yeah. Who's that guy's name Lafendo knows all these guys like little little little Zen no not Zen so like those got like little oozy vert like What's that one guy? This is a really really popular one no no like and that, those guys. Little thug, little young thug. No, man, it's gonna come. Nadilite? If it comes to me.

There should be a rapper named Nadilite. I had this silly dad joke about one of them. Damn. I'm not gonna waste time here. Okay, anyway. So yeah, pre-Fentanyl. I remember the Buddhas was a thing and the Dolphins. I remember those. Oh, I don't remember.has was a thing and the dolphins. I remember those.

Oh, I don't remember. There was something different all the time. I don't know. I don't, again, I don't condone it. I do, especially in Europe, because in Europe they don't have the fentanyl. Worry-free. What do you mean they don't have it?

Doesn't it, they don't have it. Don't say that. They don't. They got it. Nope, they got pure pills. They don't got it. Europe on the whole has pure pills? You're gonna co-sign that? Yeah, co-sign. That's wild. They don't got it. You're up on the hole as pure pills. You're going to go sign that? Yeah, cosine. That's wild. They don't have fentanyl yet.

I think fentanyl is every way. You don't know where it's going to be. You're going to be the guy that turns up with like, we got it now. Oh yeah, dude. No, no. You're in Berlin. No need to test. Stop. Go take it. Take it. I mean, look, I'm preaching. I mean, I took my risks with these things. Yeah. And I, I, yeah. For all the kids that worked, I'm now interviewing a guy who survived all this just fine. Yeah. It's Molly, basically. Yeah. And so everyone who goes to this place is looking for the same party. It's just beaches and party. And with that, this kind of stuff, you go out and you go out. We used to be like, all right, we'll get to the place at 12, meaning midnight.

We'll get there. And then we would come out sometimes seven, eight, 10 in the morning. And everybody in those clubs is on the exact same page. There was never a fight. There was never a fight. No, no, as a matter of fact, it's the wildest thing when everyone is on that.

You just walk through the club and everybody is like your best friend. You could break away from your group. Break away from your group. You could literally walk into a circle of people having a conversation. They'd be like, what's up, brother? This is what we're talking about.

Where are you from? Cool, can I get you something? And then just start massaging your back or something. Just really nice people. Wow. I'm telling you. Just really nice people. Wow. I'm telling you. Literally on their best behavior. I mean, just like, this is the greatest night of my life.

You? Yeah, me too. And that's everybody. So you don't even have to like, there was no even like feeling like weird, like, oh, it's a huge club, it's cavernous, it's dark, there's a lot of people here, who knows who these people are.

Wait, there's like one club or are you going to a hopper club? No, no, tons. But like I'm saying, But wherever you were is. But even like in New York, like if you used to frequent, like are you going to a hoppin' club? No, tons. But wherever you were is. But even in New York, if you went to the same club, then you'd see regulars at the clubs. And so there were people that would go to nightclubs alone, because they knew that they were going to know 50 people in the nightclub, almost like a neighborhood bar. Right.

Yeah. Wow, yeah, right, right, right. And they'd be like, oh dude, I want you to meet my group, I want you to meet my group. By the end of the night, the club is walking out, everybody knows each other. It was the wildest thing, everyone's going to eat breakfast. That's like wholesome. It is pretty wild, you know?

Everyone's just chugging water. Yeah. So there's no drunk. So there's no problems, there's no issues, there's no drunk contingent in the club. Wow. Yeah. Even if it was like's no, there's no drunk contingent in the, in the club. Yeah. Even if it were like, wow, nice punch. That's a great punch. Where'd you learn that? Show me.

Or it'd be like, dude, you're drunk. What can we do to help you? Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you and your douchebag friends. Yeah. Yeah. I decided like, let's seven of us. Maybe let's all go. Let's all go. And this is back when no money. Like, you know, so I didn't even, I mean, was I like college? I was just out of college? No, no, I went to college in 98. But I was in the workforce, but it's still,

I was only making like. What do you think of this? Uncomfortable, right? It's, it's, it's. Won't work for a podcast. It's awkward. It's awkward. Yeah.

Yeah, we're gonna be readjusting a lot. I'm trying to understand where, what my place is here. Yeah. Yeah. But it's okay, it's fine. Yeah, I gotta go back to chairs. But yeah, so we're like, let's go down there and like, it'll be great.

And also, that's what everyone talked about, you gotta go to this club. World famous. World famous. The clubs had reputations. Yeah. Like just like anything else, like a restaurant. Yeah.

You have to go here on this night, you have to go here on this night. Oh right. And this person's gonna be here, and it's gonna be there. And it's like everyone went with like the same vibe. And I'm telling you, man, it was like a, I don't think there's ever been really, I don't know, maybe Studio,

I don't know what was happening at Studio 54, but like, it felt like the best. And you would really seriously actually network. Because these people were all real people with regular jobs. Did you, did you dance back then? I did. Are you a dancer? Yeah, I danced all night.

Wow. Yeah. I danced before Ecstasy. Right. And then Ecstasy made you dance more and then somewhere in the middle, and I can't explain this but it happens to everyone, you go from wanting to dance your heart out all night long after some type of acclimation period, you go to not just wanting to sit and just talk and just it's you're sitting,

but it's still the greatest. I'm not trying to romanticize this thing. I wouldn't take it. I stopped taking it after like a while because I literally felt my sharpness going away. Like at work, like people would ask me to do something, I'd be like, okay. And then they'd walk away. Did you shoot every weekend Molly?

Every weekend, no, Ecstasy. Speed, it's Speed and Molly together. It's not like, it wasn't like every single weekend, but there were pretty, wow, there were pretty big, like what do you call it, streaks of like, yeah, I would do, you know. First time I took it, Duncan gave it to me. Yeah.

It was new comic to that. Is that when you made out at UFC? No. Well before. And that was, that did rule. And took some, it was like not hitting, it was a pill, I was like, for sure, I'm like, maybe, it's like, I sort of feel like, no,

there's no maybe, there's no maybe. Same thing happened to me. And then he goes, take another half, took another half, I was like, for sure. I'm like, maybe it's like a sort of feeling. No, there's no maybe. There's no maybe. You know what I mean. Same thing happened to me. And then he goes, take another half, took another half and I was like, oh, sorry about before. Definitely didn't. Now, definitely yes.

You didn't wait long enough. No, I waited like an hour. He dosed me right. He was really good about it. He goes, you just didn't take it. It just didn't tag him enough. But then one and a half was like, game on. And then the next day I was like,

dude, we gotta do that again. He's like, Aria, I know where you're at you got to relax. Yeah. Take a month off. Yeah well back then everyone even people that don't do any drugs otherwise or don't know it was just what was going on and and everyone was doing it and like you would do it and have the best time of your life and like make all these friends and then like you'd like let's do that again Yeah and I remember the first time ever I was in Cancun and My friend gave me something and I was so nervous to take it and then nothing happened at all

Yeah, and I was like, oh, this is bullshit and like another time Oh, right next time I got something that was I guess Real or whatever was and I'll never forget the mo because everybody was like Everyone had felt it before but me, and then I remember they're like, you'll feel it, don't worry, you'll feel it, and I remember the moment we were on the dance floor, and it just, a wave came over my body,

and I was like, and they looked at me, and they go, you feel it? I go, I feel it! And everyone's just like, yeah! Everyone's just jumping up and down, he feels it! He feels it! I was like, oh my God's just jumping up and down. He feels it! He feels it! I was like, oh my God, this is what it feels like? I was like, I just, I was like, I just, I was like,

it was like, I had been feeling it for 10 seconds. I was like, the best day of my life! Oh my God. Don't do it. I do not encourage it. It was a mistake in hindsight. You can die, you can get lace with fentanyl, you never know who's cutting what in this day and age.

You'd be bonkers. The statements of the guests of this podcast do not necessarily represent the feelings of the podcast itself. This was 22 years ago, guys, when shit was different. Wow. But this is a Super Bowl for you. A Beezer's a Super Bowl.

Super Bowl, dude. So it's like $1,500 for an airplane ticket, So so you but that's that this is a soup bowl for you a bees is a super ball dude So it's like $1,500 for an airplane ticket, which is like come on Yeah, you know and then like whatever it was like it probably cost us $2,500 to go there. Yeah, and That's like my life savings at that, you know, I mean, it's like that's every you will like all right We're going in a year and then we saved the money. Uh know what I mean? Wow, yeah, saved up for it. Yeah, every year we take one big trip like that. Do you ever? And so we had one year to save the money.

Yeah, no, no, no, okay, you're all right, buddy. Back in biz. Wow, what good times. Yeah, imagine that though being like, in one year we're gonna do this and I need to start saving the money for the plane ticket and the spending money right now. Wow. What were you doing at the time? Barter? I was working at

Prudential Securities. Wow. Yeah. I worked there like four years at a college before. I was talking to Bird about this during COVID and it was just like, we'll get back to the thing in a second, but like the difference between partying with quote unquote linens on the table, which means like high level, like, you know, well to do things versus like scrounging up, well, how much do you got? $1.60, Bob's got 70 cents, you've got $3, let's get a 24 pack, let's all just drink together.

And it's like, we both agree that the latter is the better party. Yeah. I'll tell you, I'll prove it to you, we get there, right? Yeah. And it was like seven of us and we were divided into only two rooms. And so- That's another thing. Yeah.

That's not even a thought of like, oh, this sucks. What am I? I'm like, I call under the table. Well, my first like 10 vacations, I would sleep in the bed with another guy, but like my friend. But it was like a queen size bed. We didn't go near each other. It wasn't like anything. It didn't bother anyone. It would be weird for us to, I mean, we, it was the only move. You had to save money and you know, it didn't, it was the norm. You know, like it wasn't like, but now some people are like, really? You slept in a bed with

a guy? I'm like, what's the big deal? It'd be weird. Even if like you had this bed and I had that bed and we're in the same room, be like, what are the big deal? It'd be weird even if like you had this bed and I had that bed, we're in the same room. Be like, what are we doing? Let's get two rooms. We're gonna fall into a slumber together? Me and Bert had a, we shared a room before, last day of Sober October, before Practical Jokers cruise. No.

We were like, let's just like split a room. Uh-huh. Let's just split a room. What are we gonna spend two for? And he was like, all right. Yeah, I threw up while he was asleep. Oh my God. So I'll prove it to you.

So we get there and there's like these mini beds. There's like they're like twin beds. Oh, they're beds. But then there's one, two, three and a cot. So one of us had to sleep in the cot. Yeah. And so it was like, well, who gets the cot? And it's like, well, how do we decide what's fair that?

And then I was like, I'll take the car for a price. And then every single guy was like, all right, every guy was like, all right, I'll give you three mixed drinks. I had 12 mixed drinks, so I slept in the car. Or whatever it was, they might've been like five, I might've got 20 mixed drinks over the course of nine days though.

And I just, I slept in the car because I got the mixed drinks on the table, like a so that's yeah I get picture now yeah it was like oh alright we can go to dinner two nights yeah you know that's fun for yourself kind of thing you know what you eat while you were there I don't really remember I it wasn't like we didn't go out to like nice dinners maybe once assume no whatever that whatever nice was for us at the time. It was run and gun, poolside. Just burgers and shit?

Poolside, yeah, or they had fast food there. But you weren't looking to get Spanish paella, or something like that? No, not then, not now. That wasn't what it was about. Yeah. No, I understand. It was all biz.

Yeah. Yeah, so we get there, and we get settled in and it's like night number one and the anticipation's insane. And everyone's like, it was like when outfits mattered. You know what I mean? Male outfits. Yeah, like we would give each other, like can I borrow your shirt?

Oh, that goes good. It was like, you put a little thought into it. Cause people go to that place to, you know, the hook up. Back then when you had the belt, it was way too long that you would then double over and it would come down. No. You remember that belt? Yeah, that was like eighth grade.

Yeah, that was like, it was all weaved. Yeah, it was a braided belt. Yeah, and you took all the way through it, then up and over. But then not, wasn't too tight. It was like kind of a loose, so it's like, almost like a tie. Maybe it even had a silver tip at the end.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had that in eighth grade. Ha ha ha ha ha, yeah. I remember the first night we went to a club called Space. I don't know if any of these are still there. Cologne? Space? You.

No, oh, back then, yeah. Okay. But it wasn't intrusive. Okay. I stopped wearing cologne maybe 20 plus, that was probably the end of it. I get a headache and nauseous from any perfume of cologne But then you were okay with it. I I wore this one cologne that was fine. What was it? Clinique happy?

Interesting. It was a regular alone with a citrus scent that everybody uses cologne. Yeah, we just it was just a scent It was moderation though. So wasn't it wasn't cloying? No, no, and I know that you know that word what cloying. No, no. You know that word? What? Cloying? Yeah. Wow. Why? I thought I was going to get you with another word. Yeah, no.

It wasn't cloying. It was just subtle. And it didn't bother anybody. OK. First night, Club Cold Space, that was the DJ. I'm not going to remember many other DJs, but I remember Space Carl Cox. What was it called?

Carl Cox is the DJ. OK. Space was the club Okay, and first of all these clubs are all Insane you understand like these are the these are like the clubs of the world Okay, so they are every one of them is completely unique and we'll I tell you about some of these things that night great Got had fun whatever blah, blah blah blah, out all night, we actually, on night one, we run into, in Ibiza, I can't even say Ibiza,

what a straight face, in Ibiza, Spain, we ran into. Hold on, hold on. Your mom, nope, nope. No, close. Barack. No, closer. Sad. No, close. Barack. No. Closer. Saddam.

Closer. Some friends we knew from back home. Oh. Really? We met them out at a club in the city and on the way home from this club, we were at a bus stop and one of them pulled up in a moped, a guy was driving a moped and this girl pulled up on the back of a moped and they stopped at the bus stop

and she goes, oh my God, oh my God. And we knew this girl and we were just, we saw her at a bus stop at like 8 a.m. in Ibiza. And then the rest of her friends were there and we were like, holy shit. And then we hung out with a whole other group that we knew for the whole week. Which was wild.

That's fun. That was wild. That's fun. That was wild. That first night, so a lot of what happens when you're on this stuff is you need to be hydrated and you usually want to like a lozenge or what do you call those things? You need to be hydrated. Lollipop? Lollipop, yeah. Lollipops were like currency.

They were like currency. They suck. And if you had them, you could walk up to a group. People would go around, like you ask someone for like a cigarette, people would go around like, yo, you got a lollipop. Really? Yeah, and they used to have them at the club.

Cause you gotta do something with your mouth. You suck, suck, suck. Or you just smoke a thousand cigarettes. It's just fun, you know, you don't get drunk. It's just, yeah, you smoke a thousand cigarettes, right. And dude, the bar probably made no money. They used to charge like $10 for a water because, you know what I mean?

So I go into the restroom at one point in that first night and it's one of those ones where like the guy's in attendance, you know what I mean? And you could like take a gum or whatever. Yeah. Hate those guys. And there is, you ever get flowers from a florist, there's like that green foam that they stick it in

that it holds the water. It's like if you push it, it's kind of like texture. You can't run out with water if you push it. So there's this like cylinder like this, like kind of like almost like, you know how you spin glasses and look at them? It's like this cylinder that spins and it's all made of that. And in it is just like just tootsie pops.'s a tootsie pop tree and it's in the bathroom you could take a tootsie pop if you want but that for some reason though they

charged you there was some things they didn't charge you for but a tootsie pop was like whatever it was and I looked at this thing and I go no one had any that night and like I don't think anyone saw it and I was like I Will be it would be the most fun thing if I walk out onto the dance floor right now with a tootsie pop tree You'd be here like I walk out it was about And it was tootsie pops all through the whole thing all the way up there So there might have been like I would say like a hundred through the whole thing all the way up to that. So they might have been like, I would say like 100 Tootsie Pops on it.

And I said to the guy, I said, how much? And he says, when I go, how much for the whole tree? And the guy goes, give me $95. Now this is from someone who is trying to get free drinks. Yeah, you're selling, I'm sleeping with a bar in my back for a fucking mixer. Exactly right. There was a bar in my back. But in that moment, doesn't matter.

And so I gave this guy $95 which believe me I did not have wow you felt it I Well, I mean I you know I I had vacation money It was just then then it would cause me to budget the vacation more as I went along But I was looking for a moment man and here I am 22 years later And I remember it so I walked out and I just stood at the top and I held it in the air and everyone on the dance floor looked at it and they were like, everyone just started cheering. And I just tucked it under my arm, took it,

and I was throwing them out. Like just throwing them out to the crowd, like a hundred. Everyone was just cheering and everything. It was great. It was great. And everyone loved it. And everyone was friendly and everything. It was just wild.

90, that's what it'll do to you. $95 in Tootsie Pops. What a fucking fun time though. You're like, nah, nah, it was just wild. 90, that's what it'll do to you. $95 in Tootsie Pops. What a fucking fun time though. You're like, nah, nah, there's a moment. It's the right move. I'm gonna do it. It doesn't make any sense, but it was the right move. I mean, the joy, because you're experiencing pure joy.

So if somebody wanted a Tootsie Pop, or just saw like, it's fun. This guy just came out with a tree of 100 Tootsie Pops and he's throwing it with the ground. What they're feeling is, they're already feeling elated. So to get thrown a Tootsie Pop after that and see everybody else and everyone's cheering together, it's like this communal experience was wild.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. So what'd you do before midnight? Like before you go out? By the way, I'm looking at these pictures. I'm just looking at your photo book. This is you at the plane, right?

This is you getting there. Yeah. Wow. I look so- This is you just having a good time in front of the bathroom. This is before smartphones. Yeah, you're looking at- That's you?

No, that's my friend. Okay. You're looking at basically developed 110 millimeter film. Wow. Or like 35 millimeter, whatever it was. Yeah, Rick glassman in here So the next night night to yeah night to we go to a cult called posh posh Oh posh. Oh Pacha Pacha P. A C. H. A. Just so dumb had one

It's like world famous. Yeah Pasha. Yeah, and the symbols two cherries We get in there. This is a totally different type of club. Two cherries, I just saw it in your photos. Yeah, totally different type of club. Boom. Yeah, totally different type of club. This one was built into the side of a mountain and it had all different rooms that were done up,

but they were like cave rooms in a way. Wow, cool. So it was like the wall and the walls and the ceiling were all just natural stone. Wow. And it was all different rooms, It was smaller and the different rooms had different music So we went to this one now what happens at this one? We sit down with a table of girls from Germany Jesus and like we're talking and laughing and this and that and

About some time in the conversation with them at some point, one of them said something really racist. And we were just like, oh my God. Like really, did you hear that? Like we were just like, oh my God, this is fucking insane. I don't remember what it was, but we all just started cracking up

and then we were just like, oh, the racists. And then my buddy from work, this is a bold move by my buddy Andy. Yeah. He worked with me and didn't know anyone else on the trip. But he, like, we were really tight at work and he was a cool. And he was like, I'll come with you.

It was a great hang and everything. We would never do that in a million years now. He was going through a breakup. And I'm like, yo, I'm going to Ibiza, come with me. And he's like, I'm coming. Wow. And they all clicked immediately. Like it was a love fest, you know?

And so that was a pal move. I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done that. Yeah, you would do that. No No, it's a bunch of people. I don't know. Yeah, they'd have to also not know each other. Yeah It was a good time I love it the idea I'm coming I'll do it when I'm already gone like yeah out at a hostel Or something. Yeah But I mean this is I mean that's, that's big, that's bold. Big, and a big fucking money trip like that too. With people, am I gonna get along?

Exactly. It was a different time, I think. I knew him and I knew them, and I vouched to both of them. And you're like, you got the, he'll go. I trust me, I know you all, it's gonna be good. And it was immediate. It was a different, before smartphones,

it was a different time. Oh yeah, no. You could just meet someone and start becoming friends pretty fast. Yeah, it was so different. It was better. So that night, so then, you get split up, you meet back up, you split up, you meet back up. So towards the end of the night, we go into this room

and two of my friends are on a speaker, their shirts are off, they're dancing on a speaker, and my buddy is dancing with this girl. She was pretty hot. The German? No, just another girl tights like long tight skirt really hot and like they're like grinding and Then and then he fell to dick Yes

So my friend came up to me and said, I think Andy's dancing with a guy. And we were like, really? But she's really pretty. But is it a guy? We couldn't tell or whatever. And then we told him. And he's like, yo. And he's like, what?

And then he looked at his soul like a little bit of a bulger. And he was like, yeah. We were just laughing. He was like, she's so hot though. That was also a different time for trans. Yeah, yeah. Because it was, now a lot of these trans

don't try hard enough. I mean, this was Europe and club scene, so there was no like batting an eyelash at it really. Yeah, a lot of these New York trans like, I'm a chick, I'm a chick. You're like, no, that's not enough. You gotta really go for it. Like the fucking AIDS trans is.

Yeah. 2000 trans, it's like, what, that's a guy. Yeah. Yeah, we couldn't believe it She was really pretty but um the run de rosa hooked up with its gang fest. That's how they all were back then I didn't I never got to lay eyes on her Yeah So this is night two and we're already making like it's just it's just crazy. Are these the Germans? Let me say I mean I won't show that one I'm not gonna show a bunch of racist people in their youth. They're all grandmothers now. Those are the Germans Wow, really?

Yep, and this was on the other side of that table. So she was with them as well. Let me see Oh, this was the bartender. That was the bartender. Fuck you. You fucking fuck shirt. Yeah, we're in a shit This is fuck you. You fucking fuck These Germans are hot especially that one But also all of them and now that I know they're racist hotter All right, I'll take you through actually I probably tried to put this book I made then

So it's a 20 year old book. So I it's probably in order in order of the trip Yeah, like these types of people, like crazy. Just some guy juggling. Full leather, shades head, glasses, they look like, they were just all costumes. And every club, every club had. That's how you get in, you wear all leather, you're getting in.

Yeah, well this probably, every club had their own dancers and people walking around like that, every club. Party starters. Every single club, I mean like to the umpteenth, like just fascinating. their own dancers and people walking around like that, every club. Party starters. Every single club, I mean like to the umpteenth, like just fascinating. Like they had dancers, they had wacko people, they had people in costumes.

Shaved head, hard black sunglasses, black leather with a long V-neck. And then whatever's glued to that person's head, it's a, whatchamacallit, it's a thing that comes out of a submarine. You know that thing that comes out of a submarine? Oh, it's a, whatchamacallit, it's a thing that comes out of a submarine. You know that thing that comes out of a submarine? Oh, it's a periscope. Periscope. On their head, glued to it.

Why? Oh yeah. Because why not, I guess? I don't know. Because why not, yeah. Yeah. That's what it was. I mean, walking the streets, when the clubs lit out, it looked like literally the backstage of the Muppet Show. It was insane. Okay. Yeah. So a third night comes.

God, this makes me want to go clubbing so bad. It's the same. You know, the thing is, is there, you make it, you get tickets in advance. Like they're not turning anyone away because you're not flying to Ibiza and then they're going to say, no, you can't get in. No one would come.

So you just had to buy tickets. So there's no line. How do they ensure it's going to be? There could be a line, but there's tickets. How do they ensure it's gonna be? There could be a line, but there's tickets. How do they ensure it's gonna be hot people? It just is. Yeah. It just is, that was the scene.

So everyone's getting in, you know? Yeah. And you could get a table, or like bottle service back then too. And so a couple of nights here and there we did that, which was pretty good. Bottle service? Yeah, like, well they give you your own section.

So like in the next night, I forget what the name of the club was, but DJ Tiesto was there. Tiesto, he's a big one. Huge. He's big. Yeah. And so we got, they had these little like-

Does this still go by DJ Tiesto? I think it just goes Tiesto now. Well, Tiesto, yeah. Just Tiesto. And we got these little like, it was like a- Can I just say looking at this guy dancing with his button down shirt open, so it's just his chest the whole way.

Yeah. And he's dancing all close. Yeah, it's so evocative of that It is right. Was it hot in there? Was this outdoors? Was it indoor outdoor? This is the I think this is the the train. Yeah. Well, first of all, she looks Thai Wow, yeah, so so that's that's not just somebody who you would hook up with if you were drunk That's someone who you're like, can I buy you a drink? Yeah, you'd work for it. Yeah. So that's that's not just somebody who you would hook up with if you were drunk That's someone who you like. Can I buy you a drink? Yeah, you'd work for it. Yeah Back then it was such a things like I think that's a dude man. Yeah, and no one knew it was like and do you ask? I don't know. I think we're just like whatever. Yeah, you know now it's different So we wanted to get this little section like they have these little like, you know now it's different so we wanted to get this little section like they have these little like you know

They're like a bit like the balcony or mezzanine or whatever are so happy Yeah, and we got we got this little like section to ourselves see if it's a picture in here Yeah, and it was a balcony. It was like it just had a table remember about these old pictures now Is it really anything right behind the subject is? I remember about these old pictures now is it really anything right behind the subject is Anyway, so we can hang out all day at the beach drink and it was drinking all day All day drinking then then you go back crash eat something crash at like five six o'clock Yeah, get up around 10 11 start showering get out the door like 12, and be out from like 6 to 10 a.m.

Be out by what? Get out the door at 12 and come back like 6 to 10 a.m. Like maybe even some men sleep. And then sleep from like 10 a.m. till 4? No, no. No, you get up actually. You come home and either not go to sleep or go to sleep at like 6, 7, get up at like 10, 11, and then go to the beach for 4 or 5 hours. The beach was a whole

other thing. Everybody, half the people at the beach were naked. Wow. It's just the way. I mean, beautiful girls, topless, thongs, even guys. There was some guys walking around. I only saw like two nude guys, but topless was like every fifth woman. Wow. And dude, the beach party, it's no different. They wanna bring it to you on the beach too. So there was DJs on the beach, dance floors on the beach.

People, I mean you would go and lay in a chair, but there was a whole club on the beach, there was a whole section for dancing, and people are going as hard on the beach as they did in the club. Expensive? What are, do you remember, are beers like, what the fuck, are they just like, that's fine?

Or is it like, wow, cheap? I don't remember, which means it probably wasn't that expensive. Right, okay. You know? But I will tell you one thing they did that I was like, I'm not gonna do this, but like, so the DJ, so for example,

at one beach there's this beach party, right? And there's people dancing, and there's topless people dancing and there's groups and everyone's having fun. And every time the DJ would build, like build up to like a big, like, you know, release, yeah, like a big thing, every time that he would build, the second he dropped it, no matter what drink you were holding, no matter how full it was, everyone just threw it in the air and got rid of all their drinks. So every 10 minutes, you would get hundreds of drinks just being thrown here all over

you. And this is me, which I'm a neat, clean kind of guy. I don't like that stuff, but you have to just give into it. I wouldn't throw my drink. I was on a limited budget,. I don't like that stuff. But like you have to just give into it. Oh, yeah, but I wouldn't throw my drink I just I was on a limited budget. So I wouldn't throw it. I like cap Well, I would like you to throw that like you ever see odessa live no, oh, oh wait ed brooke told me to go see him Maybe I have actually and uh Thousands and thousands of those of those neon

Uh, like you can make a necklace into it. Yeah, just like these strings about like yeah long h and you can like attach them all thousands and thousands of those neon, you can make a necklace into them, just like these strings about a long H and you can attach them all. And every bass drop, they all just throw up. So you just see thousands of neon stuff go up and then die and then everyone scrambles to pick them up. I love that shit.

Yeah, oh, you know what they did too? I don't know if you've really gone to nightclubs, but this is kinda common. But they invest, I mean, tens of millions into these clubs. The sound, the lighting, everything, they have this thing where it's like freezing cold air. Like, it was like, not nitrous, it was like, whatever it was,

white cloudy freezing cold air. I guess freon or whatever? I don't know what the, like whatever that is. They'd had like like cannons on the floor or on the ceiling, depending on what club you were in. And they'd hit it because these places got really hot, dude. Really hot. And that's why you have to stay hydrated and people

take care of each other. You'd see some of those people pass out because you're like dancing. Just chill everybody out. They would hit that thing and it would be like literally like 50 degree air, like a mini El Nino, like a tornado. And it would literally go through your body and you're already feeling tingly and you go from sweating. All that on ecstasy.

It not only does it, the sweat goes away instantly. Your whole body gets chilled and you get just like revitalized. It's freezing cold against your skin. It feels like I can't even explain the feeling. Everybody gets it at once. And the whole club, you can't even see a person in front of you. It just gets full of white smoke that's blasting out almost like a fire extinguisher. And everyone's just like, yes.

And then it goes away and you are not sweating. You are your skin's tingling and you're like rejuvenated and they did it all night Long and I I read a stat like every time they did that it was like something like every time they like hit that button It was like $25,000 Wow something like that, but it's like whatever it's part of the whatever those clubs are making millions You can't cheap out on that shit. No And then so the third night that's happening. And so the third night one of our friends who's known to be the guy to get sloppy Yeah, he has good intentions, but he gets sloppy drunk right and there is a suck there is a

Bachelorette party there right and so we end up talking to talking to them, and nice enough, we're all talking, laughing, just being, and my friend is drunk. I don't think it was, I think he was drunk, I don't think it was ecstasy at this point, and he's talking to her, and then just like to fool around, he like grabs her by like the two arms, and he like shakes her, and he goes, why are you getting married? but he was like completely joking but like he did like

she didn't want him to do that and she like shook and she's like yo what the fuck he's like oh I'm just making it he's like she's like no fun and then like a security security guard saw it and it came over and literally threw him out so this was like towards the beginning of the night. Oh. So he gets thrown out. What's the etiquette there, friendship wise? Yeah, like you shouldn't have done that, buddy.

Like we all paid $100 to get in here, it's the beginning of the night. You don't shake someone and say don't get married. Why you, ugh. Like it wasn't like she didn't feel assaulted or anything but it was just like, that was way too much for just meeting You like five minutes ago Also, you're drunk, you know, it's just you're not you're not judging correctly

So they they these two these guys came over they got him by they held him four guys all four limbs Really? Yeah, and and they take on there was an escalator to go down and they just placed him on the escalator and we're like, all right, so like And they take it and there was an escalator to go down and they just placed him on the escalator. And we're like, all right. So like, he's either got to try and get back in. No cell phones. No cell phones. No cell phones.

So we're just like, all right. I mean, hopefully he gets back in. If not, you know, but it wasn't like, oh my God, he's in danger because the vibe was, you got kicked out, like, oh, are you alone? Come on over us he'll be in Ibiza yeah he'll be fine he'll be told but they're also was still like all right you know like I hope he's okay I hope he doesn't get to the point where he gets blackout and then someone's there's still bad people you know like oh mind you the entire time it was the

World Cup for soccer and Brazil was in the World Cup and there's a lot of Brazilians there for some reason and because they all were in the jerseys yeah and they all were in like Jeeps with the top down like driving around with a flag like just all along the beach all on the streets screaming I think they won that year Brazil and we were there when they won so you know like when the Yankees won and like what happened in the streets that happened there no No, they've not been good since I've been here Well, do you remember like oh, you don't remember like 96 and 98 and all that stuff. Yeah, I was but I was not here I was in Maryland. Oh, yeah

It was like they've not they have not done their part of the bargain since I moved here as a fan So when did you come? Because they won in 2000 what? as a fan. So when did you come? Because they won in 2000 what? When did they beat the Lees-Walsley? I came in 2012, I think. 2012 or 2013.

OK. Not been to a series. The streets were, because also even if you're not Brazilian, like this, everyone's partying. Also, these Brazilian people are super happy. And you're also watching the World Cup, and you're just rooting for it because it's the World Cup. And so when they won, and there was was like a winner of the like the streets just

went completely wild as if it wasn't wild already. Yeah. Am I not on cam? No you are. I'm just wondering how you work. Yeah. Go ahead. And so that was a whole nother level.

Like people would just like screech up in a jeep and like other people would just be cheering and then jump in the jeep with them and they peel out out and drive away and like those people didn't know each other. Wow. Yeah. So my friend, so he leaves, so this night ends. So we get back to our hotel room. It's 8 a.m. okay. And he was in our room.

He was in our room actually, but we were next to each other. So we get there at 8 a.m. and it's the other six of us and he's not there. So we're like, okay, like we lost him around 1 a.m. He was alone, like I guess he could be at another club, but he really should be back by now. And so we didn't go to sleep. And so we just were like, we had no way to contact him.

So we're like, should we be calling hospitals? Like, you know, even though, even though you didn't want to just assume he was totally fine, you know, because he was drunk at that time. So we stayed up and we just sat there and was waiting, waiting. We didn't know what to do. At 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 11.30 in the morning, he walks in the door, 11.30 in the morning, just walks in nonchalant.

We go, dude, like what the hell, what the hell happened to you, where were you? He's like, oh, nah, it's fine. 10 hours later. It was 10 hours later. Like what did you do this all the way? Were you like dude? You should have came back here Like you know we were he goes now. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. I think we go. What did you do?

He goes well when they threw me out. I was hungry So I went to McDonald's So we're like okay, and what about the other ten hours? No, no the McDonald's wasn't open It wasn't open. It wasn't open. So I sat in front of it. And he goes, we go, well, when did it open?

He goes, it never did. So we go, where are you coming from? He goes, the McDonald's. What? He sat in front of a McDonald's for nine and a half hours. On drugs? Waiting for it to open, and it never opened. And he just goes, what?

Dude, we lost our shit. When he's like, and he goes goes, dude, we lost our shit. When he's like, he goes, no. Imagine him telling us that. What a fucking idiot. Yeah, yeah. He just went to a McDonald's, it wasn't open, so he just sat there,

because he was too drunk to understand why it wasn't open. He goes, it'll open soon. And then at one point, I guess he was like, it'll open in the morning for breakfast, and then it still didn't open. And then at one point he just gave up and walked back. Oh my god. It was so insane.

Next night. Yeah. OK. Oh, and also at the beach, it's pretty crazy. Like, there's an in-ground pool in the beach. Like, in the sand at the beach, there's a full in-ground pool. Just in the sand at the beach. Like in the sand at the beach, there's a full in-ground pool. Like just in the sand at the beach. Like you walk in the sand going to the ocean,

then there's a pool, and then there's the beach. And people are in the pool going nuts. And no one there is really in their regular life. No. Like if you're in a club in New York, you come out, you're meeting Wall Street people. Yes. There's no overlap to reg nor...

No, no overlap. Meanwhile, we ran into people we knew, but no overlap. Everybody's in the same mood. It's all different countries, like all different countries. And everybody is there for the same reason and it's an extended vacation. And it's like everybody has these different identities. I mean, we're each other, but it's like this whole like... It's a...

Like you just said, you could never be like this whole like it's it's you just said you could never be like this at any of the time anywhere else. Different idea. You're the party of you. Yeah, I was meeting professionals. I'll get to that too. So so the clubs had pools and everyone's I mean, you'll see topless photos and there are people dancing and everything.

These chicks are so fucking hot. What is it? Is that a professional worker girl? Or is that just like somebody you like? No, that was a club. They all dance at the clubs. What do you mean dance? For the club? Yeah. Oh, that's what I mean. So she's working? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's just so... Oh, she's having a blast.

And then this girl is the one. So she works at the club? Yeah. I mean, she is... What do you think she's doing now? Big fake tits? Can't be that, right? I mean, like 22 years later, I mean, she's got to be a maybe even a no, not a grandma. How old do you think she is? Young 20s 20s. Yeah.

It should be like 45 now. Yeah, 50 like us. Yeah. So and I bet if she has normal life, if she has like a 13 year old kid, yeah, he has no idea how cool his mom was. Yeah, I used to work at a nightclub. Yeah, yeah, sure. What'd you do, mom? Yeah. What'd you put take tickets? kid? You don't even know. She looks like a genie. She looks like a different dude every three days.

And it was fine. Well, we're extrapolating, but you know. Bro, I came home, side note, I came home, just still a touch jet lag from Australia. Got back three days ago, two days ago. First night, fine, managed to stay up till 10 p.m. And then like, I mean, I should've been asleep at nine a.m. when I landed.

And then stayed up all the, whatever. Slept, woke up at four. And then like, like no I'm going back to sleep stayed in bed till 10 great I'm caught up next day three hours sleep wide awake I'm like fuck woke up at 4 and I was like alright like let me go watch a sunrise never up this early and wide awake yeah so did sometimes when I'm having insomnia that's my little treat. Yeah, if you're up, it's great. Yeah.

Anyway, walking back, the sunrise is at 525. Left the East River Park, what's left of it, at 610. Walked by a chick with like Kelly Bundy black miniskirt dress, black shoes. And I was like, what club is letting out right now? Yeah. I was like, oh, she fucked. It's Sunday morning.

Oh, it's a walk. And then I realized like, oh, this walk of shame time. Yeah. And I just went out just looking for, and I saw probably three, one, the sloppiest fucking dressed up chick trying to ride an e-bike home, still drunk. It's just so

fun watching when they're high heels at 630 a.m. 7 a.m. any bike is hysterical really what's good I get it six inch awesome old lady walking by just like she like rolled her eyes and looked at me and smiled yeah love it's a lot of oh yeah that's new and that's that's so great yeah some couple dudes dressed like your friends yeah but like the belts open just eats pizza on I'm asleep I'm so over that dude. Yeah, I and I think about that those days now and I cringe It's like could you imagine getting there at midnight? Not knowing if you're gonna get in do a whole fan song and dance

But you only know this guy drugs. Yeah, and some guys we get in some guys wouldn't they go to another club We try to meet up later whatever then you get in there It's loud as fuck you have to wait 20 minutes to pay $15 for a drink. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like it's just like it's just what is going. It's just everybody wants to hook up. Like it was like everybody. That was a social. That was it.

Were people fucking at this time or was just dancing? What do you mean? Misconception about ecstasy back when I was doing it. Yeah. Is that it makes you horny? And I say no once you did is like this makes you want to touch people Yeah, but it wasn't horny as much as the touch felt good. You kind of made you more autistic to be on. Yeah. Yeah I'm like, oh, I feel so good. But if a guy did that you like it just looked like you're yeah No, I don't think it was I I mean, people probably had sex on it,

but, like, it wasn't like that in the club. It wasn't like everybody wants to have sex. It was just like exactly that. Like, someone would be so kind. They'd sit down next to you and then literally just massage your shoulders. And it felt so good. And they were cool about it, and you were cool in turn.

You're like, thank you so much. You're like, no problem, man. I'll be over there. Have a good night. Like, it just was like the coolest... It's crazy. Don't do it, don't do this. I'm telling you, I am 100% against it. It's a different time. I shouldn't have even done it then.

I took a big risk. The pre-fentanyl. Dude, we found, I have a friend who is, he found some pre-fentanyl coke and we all did it. Pre? Pre, yeah. How do you know it's pre? some pre pre pre fentanyl coke and we all did it. Pre pre. Yeah. How do you know it's pre? He was like a stash that I found in the bottom drawer of something.

He was like, Oh, this is from like, it was like, like 2000, like 18 when fentanyl just wasn't rampant. And he was like, Oh, sick. No, it doesn't have an expiration date on that. It didn't. It didn't. It didn't. Yeah, it's great. Yeah.

I don't know. I can't do it. I could never do that. Yeah. So the next night, we go out. OK, now, so we get out of the club this night. Every day and night had a story. It was wild.

You didn't have to find it. They would just find you. So we get out. And I think there's like three of us I don't know where the other guys are yeah, and we get out of this club And the clubs aren't just like all on the same block or anything. They're all over the island different places Oh, really this this this like you know this areas that have

Condensed more than others But you you'd also take a ride to like the end of the island in a taxi for like 30 minutes To go to a club that's over there You know, oh really? Yeah, okay. So this was one of those nights so we get out of the club and It's like pure daylight and it's like in the middle of nothing. We're just like where the hell are we so we're waiting We're waiting. We're waiting to get like a cab and there's just no cabs and we're just like it's like pure daylight It's a weekday and we're like, oh, well, there's just no cabs. And we're just like, it's like pure daylight, it's a weekday. And we're like, oh, well, let's just, we just got to throw, I mean, we're not just going

to keep standing here. So let's start just walking. And then when we finally come across a cab, we'll get a cab. Yeah, sure. That's a smart move actually. Right. And then like, yeah. And so we just start walking and there's other people doing that, you know, and there's cars whizzing by us. It's a two-lane road, and it's one road only, two-lane road, and on both sides of the road is just like planes. Like planes like grass.

Like just like, you know what I mean? Just fields. So it's this road with fields on both sides, and you don't see anything to the left or right but fields. So we're like, all right, let's walk. So we start, we're walking for about a half hour and we're like, this doesn't seem right. Like we've been walking for a half hour. We still see nothing but planes, like just open grass fields. And this is the same single road and there's cars mostly just going this way. And so we're like, do we go the wrong way? We walked to the airport. There's

one road from the airport. There's nothing else by the airport. We walked, we got so far close to the airport that it would, the only way to get a cab was to go to the airport. Oh my God. And it's a small airport. It was a small airport. You take like a puddle jump, like a, you know, you take a smaller plane into it, I believe. Yeah, yes, because it was Barcelona or Madrid where we had to lay over. And at some point you just see other people too. And we're all dressed like that,

and everyone's going to work. Because there's people that live there, and the cars that are passing us are just people going to work. And we're literally walking at like nine in the morning. What a bunch of fucking idiots. For like an hour to the airport. And then we got to the airport and there was no cabs.

It took like 15 minutes to get a cab at the airport. Yeah, it's just a small lap. I love how it's one guy's like, guys, let's start walking. It's like it'll save us time. Yeah. And then we're talking and laughing and time's passing and it's like, we should see something by now. And then we just, and then finally we're's like, we should see something by now. And then we just, and then finally we're just like,

it's the airport, we're walking, we're going the wrong way. Yeah, yeah. Next night, we take a cab to this, like to a boat. We take a cab to a boat and a boat to like another little place and we go to this club and it's great, whatever, it's fun. We get out and we take a cab back and right now it's three of us only I think we split up into different cabs and we're starving and we get out of this club and there's a guy

standing right outside the club holding like a plat like a platter and He's got hero sandwiches that he made at home Wrapped in saran wrap like I mean literally like what he just got hero sandwiches that he made at home, wrapped in saran wrap. I mean, literally, he just made hero sandwiches in his house, he wrapped them in saran wrap, he wasn't trying to say otherwise, and he just was selling them. And there's nobody there, but he had them on a platter,

and they were in a pyramid shape. And we were like, we're so hungry, we're so hungry. And so, we didn't know. And we were eating a food. We walked out and the guy was just standing there with a silver platter. Oh, my God. It's it's his house food, though.

And we're like, like, I don't care. We bought like five sandwiches from yeah. And then we held his kid. He held his kid down and we get in the cab. And my friend's drunk in the front or whatever. He's gone. And we're in the back and my friend's drunk in the front or whatever he's gone and we're in the back seat, right and

So the guy we get in with the things and the guy goes no eating in my cab But we had like a 40 minute ride in this cab and we just got on just bought the sandwiches. So My friend tried to eat in the front. He goes no eating in my cab. I told you that he's like, no I'm sorry. Sorry, and he tried to eat it again. He's like dude no eating my cab So then he was give, give them the sandwiches back there. So he gave it. He was homeless. He gives us the sandwiches. Now we're in the back and my friend is just drunk in the front. Like just being like an idiot. He's not being disrespectful but this guy was like had zero tolerance and almost felt like when you're

not, when you're a kid and you're not allowed to like laugh and you start laughing more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like your parents were yelling at you or something. He was like, and so we're driving and it's pitch black and we're driving. It's like so much pitch. There was no street lights and we're driving along the water and there's all trees and everything and there's no lights and this guy's driving us and now my other friend starts to eat the sandwich in the back and hide it and And he's hiding, he's trying to get out of the way of the rear view. And I'm punching him, he's trying to chew. And then my friend in the back saw that we were eating, he's like, oh, not fair.

There's a sandwich. Is that one of them? Is that a sandwich? It looks like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's so excited in the front seat. He's about to get yelled at. These homemade sandwiches, right?

And so we're ducking low trying to eat so he doesn't see us in the rear view. And then my friend in the front sees it and he's going to tell on us and we're like, no, don't tell him. And so like we're just cracking up. And my friend starts laughing and he hits the dashboard laughing. And then the guy We're driving for like 20 minutes. So we've been in the middle of nothing for a good 15 minutes So there's nothing in front of us nothing behind us

And he just puts his blinker on and he just slowly slows down and pulls to the side of the road And he goes he he he adjusts his rear view to look at both of us and he goes I am NOT liking your friend the guy in the kindergarten. He goes I am NOT liking your friend I am thinking he will be getting out of my cab He said it just like that to this day we say it to each other all the time the cadence That is that is a verbatim what he said all the time, the cadence. I'm thinking. That is a verbatim what he said.

He was like rushing over, I don't know what he was, and he just pulled a blinker, slowed down, and we're like, we don't say anything. We're like, what is this guy doing? We thought, is he going to piss? Is he gonna kick us out? And then he just looked at us in the rear view and he goes, I am not liking your friend.

I am thinking he will be getting out of my cab. And then we were like no, please please please no No, and then literally like you let him stay in and we sat with like our our hands folded in pure silence Like the rest of you could have been just stranded out there, you know That's so funny, Let me find you I Mean what a fucking time You guys look like you're having so much fun, so you did some sightseeing too Yeah, we did a little bit like who cares one day

We like we have to do at least one day,. But so we're all leading up to the last night. Okay. And the last night we're there, we're going to, I think what was called the biggest. You know what I like about some of these pictures? Yeah. You're just taking pictures of chicks' bellies and butts. Oh, they're all dancing in flash, like everyone was like.

But like, wait, where's that one? Here, it's just like, I'm just taking a picture of a butt. It's a different time. It's just like, it's a lot, she knows. I mean, everybody was taking, they were posing for those things. Like a girl would walk up to us and literally pull our top down and be like, take a picture.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah, this one's with the tits out, was fucking nuts. There was one, I think it might be in there. She just pulled it down and was like, hey everybody! Wow. So it's all leading up to the last night, right? Okay. And there's a club there called Privilege. And what I'm told is, it's, I think, and if I'm wrong, it's the biggest club in the world.

Okay. So everyone's like, oh my God, like, you could buy a ticket, but you could buy a ticket for an express line. Because it's like, it holds like thousands of people. And again, like even the people that we found that we knew and new people we met, and then they would like go to the same club as you the next night. So now we're friends with like 25 people. You got a crew. You got a crew. Dan or Eden.

And so everyone's like so excited because this is the night for this club particularly, right, or whatever it is. Don't know what to expect. And we get to this place and it is, it's just like from the outside you're like, this is, you know like in the city, like a warehouse, and it's like you hear the music outside

and you're like, oh my God, it sounds like it's crazy in there, like imagine that times like 100, right? Yeah. We get online, we're waiting, we're going through these stanchions waiting to get in as soon as you get in They give you a map That's how big the club was Wow. Give you a man What it was like this big almost like um Like a like like a baseball card size and it like opened up like four or five accordion times over what and it was like

It was a map. It was things you needed to know, it was like whatever, and you needed the map. What, to get around? Yeah dude. It was that fucking big? I hope I still have it somewhere, I might have saved that. It was that big.

So we finally get in and we get to, there's all of the, there's the main entrance, like the main area, and then it's just, you could just get lost. So we get to the main area, and then it just, you could just get lost. So we get to the main area, okay? There's two Olympic-sized swimming pools next to each other, inside. In a club?

In a club. And above those- What's it called? I think it was, here, it's the last day. Okay. What does that say? Does that say privilege? Privilege. Yeah. So it's two Olympic, what's the last day? What does that say? Does that say privilege? Privilege. Yeah, so it's two Olympic-sized swimming pools, right?

This is what we walk into, okay? There's trapeze artists above the pools going back and forth, just flipping and, yeah. Yeah, she's just showing her tits. Yeah, so there's people on trapeze above the pool, like just, I mean, literally, like freeform, by the way. Like, there's not a net under them.ze above the pool like just I mean literally like a free form by the way Like there's not a net under them like the pools under them, but like they're not like you know I mean They're just going for it Wow

At the exact same time. There's a huge stage and on the stage is a sex show People are having sex on the stage show. People are having sex on the stage. It was and let me tell you something. That's what you want everybody to see. I don't know if everybody was trying to play it cool or people are there are numb to it. But I walked in like oh my God and I'm looking around and people didn't even blink. And I was like I had to like maintain my composure because I cannot believe what I'm I can't believe what they're doing here. Like, it's not illegal. They're fucking up on the wires? No, no, no, no, on the stage.

The trapeze artists are going. Who's fucking? What position? It was a doggy position. And then the guy is like, how is it with two girls up there? Just crazy, dude, it's just crazy. And he was the show.

We're talking to people. It wasn't just some guy who got up there and started fucking? No, no. It was just the show. But I'm talking to these girls, beautiful girls. I'm talking to them. And on the stage, people are just having sex. It's just like you try to stay in the conversation.

But it was like nobody cared. It was just wild, dude. Wow. It was just wild. Wow. It was before cell phones, right? Yeah, so you could be uninhibited. So there was no, but wait, it was definitely before cell phones. No, no, was it?

Wait, when did I get a cell phone? No, I think, but first of all, the cameras weren't anything. No, no, no, it was flip phones. It was flip phones. It was flip phones. It wasn't even flip phones. It was flip phones. If it was, it wasn't even flip phones. It wasn't even flip. 2002 was flip phones or just a brick. I got my first cell phone, I think, in 98.

But they didn't have cameras on until later. No, no, no. These were also you were in another country. The cell phone service in other countries, you couldn't get that. Not only was the service not good, but if you got someone, you couldn't hear anybody. So they were useless. But check this out.

They had on the wall, I'm telling you, like 60 feet in the air, there was a huge billboard. Picture like a scoreboard at a ball game. It was this black scoreboard that only had like lit up like light, like yellow bulbs. And there was a number on the bottom of it. And you could text that number and your message would go on the bill of it, and you could text that number and your message would go on the billboard. So if you needed to find your friend, like all you saw was like,

like guys, it's like Vinny, I'm at this room, come find me, and this, like, so like people would text that to find their friends. I don't know, like the text, like I don't know why they weren't supposed to answer the phone. What would you text right now? What would I text up there? Yeah, right now. What, I don't know. the text like I don't know why they were just text right now. What would you text right now? What would I text up there? Yeah right now what I don't know. I know what this is one of the greatest This may be the greatest nightclub fat Joe has ever seen yeah

Thanks to me it begs it begs the question cuz I'm you're paying for text 22 years ago I think you had to pay for a text. It begs the question, why wouldn't they just text their friends? Because I probably didn't use my cell phone because of roaming charges back then. Roaming charges back then were wild. Four days in Montreal, your bill would be $600. I don't know, but it was this extension, this number, and you could put your message up there. And that's how people were getting in touch with each other.

So maybe it was for the people who had cell phones and I didn't, I don't remember. But that was crazy. And then all of a sudden, I get removed from my friends, alone, fully alone, and it's not far after getting in there. We get there, we see the swimming pool, the trapeze, the sex show, the thing, meet a couple people, maybe we're like an hour and not even.

It's the beginning of the night and I lose them. And I spend like at least an hour like going, just walking, looking at them. Well there's a fucking map, you're never gonna find them. I couldn't find them. I spent an hour walking around trying to find them. I couldn't find them. If I get outside, this outdoor area, I get outside,

they got this like, it's almost like the World's Fair had been there You know that stuff over in like flushing like those like big orbs like outside it's like this big grassy hill near water and there are these like hexagon shaped orbs Like artwork, but they're like these big spheres and like it looks like like an installation You'd see it like a installation you'd see at a World Fair or a mall, I don't know what it was. And they're like, it basically looks like they cover you.

And so everyone outside is just sitting on the floor talking, it looks like a concert. But it's not a concert. And everyone out there is just, groups of people just sitting on the floor just bullshitting. Recuperating from their fucking Mali dancing. Yeah, or just like you wanna take a break and you wanna end up with go talk. Oh that's cool, their fucking Molly dancing. Yeah, or just like you want to take a break and you want to end up going to, like.

Oh, that's cool. That's really cool. Yeah, and so I'm walking. Sounds like all this stuff is set up so intentionally for the party. Yeah. So like we have places for you to relax in between. Oh, wow.

Yeah, so I'm looking for my friends. Can't find him. And then some guy is like, yo, you want to drink or whatever? I'm like, yeah, he gives me like whatever, a water. And we start talking. And he's like, I'm with my friends over here. You want to come hang out with us? I'm like, yo, you want to drink or whatever? I'm like, yeah. He gives me like whatever, a water. And we start talking. And he's like, I'm with my friends over here. You want to come hang out with us? I'm like, all right.

So I go outside. I sit down with like three other people. And every one of them was an Australian architect. What? Yeah, they were all architects from Australia. And they were the coolest people. And I sat with them and spoke to them for hours, hours, these guys.

And then at some point, hours later, one of my friends walked by and saw me outside and I met back up with him. Damn. Who are these guys? What did you talk about? I took a picture with them. Who's this chick wearing an I love Sal shirt?

People we met that we knew. They're all wearing, it's like a bachelor party, they're all wearing, she is this Glenn. I guess they could change their words we met that we knew. They're all wearing, it's like a bachelor party. I guess they could change their words on their shirt or whatever. Let me see. I thought I took a picture with these fellas. The last day is still coming up.

Is that you? No, that's my buddy. God, what a fucking outfit. That's one of them. One of the Australians? That's the first guy I met. That's the first architect I met. That's the first architect I met. And then he took me back to the other architects.

Just to be cool? Yeah, I can't find my friends. Come hang with us? I just went and sat down and who's this? He can't find his friends. Oh, hey. Hey, what's up, dude? Oh, and it's not even like it,

because that was the culture. Right. So it wasn't like, do you mind if he sits with us? Just sat down, what's up? And they would just say their name, and you'd immediately get the pleasantries out of the way and then just hang out. I would never do that now, you know what I'm saying?

It was just wild, it really was wild. That sounds fucking bad ass. Coming home, this kid. Yeah. He shit his pants so bad on a plane. That there was no hiding it. What? There was no hiding it. And it was it was during food service.

And it was so bad that the flight attendants decided not to collect everybody's food. What do you mean not to collect? They just they were gonna like when there was time to collect food and throw the garbage out there they just didn't come to do it. They like people sat with their food for like two hours before they came back in that area and he was beet red and we all were like, he did it and he was mortifying, but like it smelled so bad and it was on a plane so you couldn't escape it. Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. At the time I was working for Prudential Securities and I just, I forgot this but I just saw that picture. At the end we went to get henna tattoos. Yeah. And that was a full sleeve, like a full forearm henna tattoo. And basically, what happens is they do it, and you let it dry, and then it's supposed to last,

I forget, but it was supposed to last like. It's a Chris Angel tattoo. It's supposed to last like four or five weeks. Yeah. I get one, my friend gets one on his leg. I was like, do I get it? Because back then I don't think I had did I have a tattoo yet? I did, but it wasn't anything visible. I was thinking of getting an arm one and I didn't know. Believe

it or not, back then in the workforce, it was like frowned upon to have like a tattoo showing on your arm. So I was like, well, F them. I'm going to get this henna one. It's temporary. They can't say shit. I'll say got on vacation. It's going to go away soon. Just see what it would like what the reaction was Test it for Will Smith's son. Why test it for when you want to get Will Smith's son exactly. Yeah multiple Will Smith son so I did that so I like took it back and I remember having that for weeks at my job my buddy Donato he got it and he had an allergic reaction

My buddy Donato, he got it and he had an allergic reaction to the, what's that called again? Henna? He had an allergic reaction to it. By the time we got home, it was on his leg, it was burning his skin. Burning through his skin like festering. He had to go rush off and get antibiotics, get creams, everything.

And like dude, he had, it looked like he had like burns from a fire on his lap. In the shape of like, of that? Yeah, and eventually when the henna died off, he still had like the scarring and like redness. Wow. And so he had like. You know Donato.

He had it red, you know Donato. I don't know Donato. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he got better, but it was like, it was crazy. He had an allergic reaction to it. What's this bus right here? You're on a bus to the airport? No, some places would, there'd be buses to get to clubs.

Dude, these girls, and then up here too, but these, just, everyone looks like they're having such a fucking fun time. Everyone is. No, not like no inhibitions were like, oh, I'm licking my tit. Not that, just like, just like happiness. Happiness.

Without thinking about what do I look like? Just like, we're having a good, ah, look at, she's like, yeah, whatever she's looking at, it's like go, and happy for whoever she's looking at. Yeah, so just remember, like anybody involved in this scene, there was no hate, no animosity, no hate, no fighting, no nothing.

So it was just, everyone was really cool everywhere. And so that's what you get, that's what that equals. Like you just feel great. Like you just feel like everyone's having a great time, anybody will help you out, you're meeting people You know everyone's on the same exact page That's you. I don't I can't see but could be Did you have any like Realizations of like you look better and worse in these pictures. I know

About yourself like did you like sometimes after after music festivals people people are like, I just wanna stay here and keep, and you're like, well, it's closing on Sunday, so you can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, by Monday morning, it's all gonna be. Yeah, I mean, there are plenty of times where the clubs turn the lights on. You know, like, even here, in like, Manhattan, like going to Sound Factory, or like, tunnel,

or like, those places, like, you stay, and then turn the lights on, it's so funny, it looks like, it looks like the Walking the walking dead like just everyone in their nighttime outfits Just pouring out into like a hot sunny morning People are gonna get breakfast and things my buddy We used to deliver mail and he was the guy that like used to get it for everybody Yeah, and he would go out and he knew everyone at all the clubs and we go out he'd always drive when he had a big like expedition or whatever so we take like seven eight

people and he drove so he when he when he had work in the morning to go deliver the mail sometimes you'd be like all right this is my time I got I got to leave now and everybody was like we want to stay like don't leave and he used to be like I will stay and I will stay and I will not go home I will stay out the whole night and not go to sleep if you deliver the mail with me and I used to be like, I will stay, and I will stay and I will not go home. I will stay out the whole night and not go to sleep if you deliver the mail with me. And I used to go deliver the mail with him. I used to go in the mail truck, which is literally illegal,

so I'm just joking about it. I'm joking about this. I used to deliver mail. He'd park it, I'd get a bag, get a bag, and we'd go up and down the opposite sides of the block. You helping him? Yeah. I'm like, I got you.

I delivered the United States Post. I'm joking, but yeah. Wow. On Staten Island. But you did take drugs. No, I'm joking about that. Which was more illegal, helping a mailman deliver the mail or taking Molly?

I think it might be the mailman. I think it might be the mailman. I think it might be the mailman. Yeah. Assisting one. Yeah. It might be more illegal than just assisting. I mean, everything was on the up and up besides for the fact that I had no jurisdiction to do that.

Right, right. Yeah, you did it. I didn't take anything. I think you open or take something as a federal offense. I just delivered it. But, and also if someone saw me, he would have been fired immediately. Wow. Wow.

Yeah. No, when I said realizations, I meant like life realizations. Where like, I wanna be something. Like a drugged, and when I'm on vacation, I think clearly, that's usually when I get in trouble on podcasts, my first week back. Okay.

Is it coming back with a clear head of something? Clear head, I'll just say something. I haven't seen anybody, so I don't feel like I'm about to run into that guy. Yeah. So all I put my foot in my mouth, pretty That's that's what you can get me in real trouble I bet you I could tell you the times you just got home from vacation But um

But it's just like you thinking clear about the whole world and your life and on the planet just like you know I mean, yeah, you turned off a little bit. I wanna talk to my mom more or less. That's what meditating's about, you know? You shut off and then you let everything reset and then kind of things can just come to the forefront of your mind. Yeah.

Yeah. But no, I didn't have any realizations. The only realization I had is that I need to stop doing it. Because I'd go to work and there was a time, like I said, people would be like, oh, I need you to do this, blah, blah, blah. And I'd be like, okay. And then they'd walk away and I'd literally be like,

wait, what did they just say? And I was never like that. As soon as that happened, immediately, I was like, 100% done. It wasn't hard to stop. That happened and I was like, I feel just a little more dull around the edge. I'm not as quick.

And as soon as I felt like I was a little less quick, I never did it again, never again. Is this drug Crocodile? You know anything about it? Crocodile? Yeah, it's a Russian, I think, I don't know for sure. I think it's pronounced Crocodile. It's no E at the end.

I know. It's a Russian kind of meth hybrid or something. And anyway, negative side effects. A Russian kind of meth hybrid or something. And anyway, negative side effects. Russian kind of meth hybrid is the scariest collection of words I've ever heard in my life. Eats away at your skin as a byproduct, as a side effect. But I'm like, how good must it be where if you start seeing exposed bone

and you don't go, oh, well, I mean, that's it. I have to stop doing, you're like, no, I'm gonna keep doing. You were like, I couldn't follow directions at work. I better stop doing this. They have exposed bones. And they're like, maybe it's something else. Could be the sun, the ozone I heard is pretty bad. I feel so bad from that time.

They caught that as a disease, yeah. So that sounds fucking epic. Clearly this is a better podcast Calm right now, I know what it was then what we did before Yeah, this is what I fucking I when I was doing the other one we do another like I don't adoring it I'm like, I don't know. I just remember you showing me pictures, like what a cool place. It was the Amalfi Coast in Italy. It was beautiful, and it was a whole story

with getting upgraded and something fucking up, and the food, and like just the town, and all the pictures and stuff, but it was like a very beautiful, pleasant, fun vacation with my lady. This was just a adventure. Yeah. This is what was.

What are the drugs you take? Just ecstasy. Also, UB Trippin'. UB Trippin', Yeah, that's all I took Just just that's it literally and booze. Yeah, but no, I wouldn't drink when I took it. Yeah, you don't drink No, you don't want to and you shouldn't yeah It kills it actually works against it When I was in Berlin, I got to some nightclub and and it was of similar, like what the, overwhelming, you know?

And then I was like waiting, I didn't find drugs yet. And then I was like, oh, the beer, my buddy might want a beer, he's like sure. And the bartender's like, okay. And I had a bottle of water, he's like, bottle of water, okay. And then, just like, what dorks. He's just looking at us. I didn't realize until I'm like, what, what?

Why can't we get a bottle of beer? Why was it wrong getting a beer? Well realize it until I'm like, what, what? Why can't we get a bottle of beer? What was wrong with getting a beer? Well, so then I looked to my left, everyone in the bathroom just faucet, head under, just drinking water, and like, who would get beers when everyone's on drugs? Who would bother getting an alcohol? And then he turned and walked away,

he had like an apron turned to walk away, and just like naked, just butt exposed. Yeah, butt exposed. I was like, oh, what the fuck? Just shoes and an apron. That's hysterical. Yeah. This sounds, what a fucking fun trip.

Yeah, man. Ibiza, Spain. I haven't spoken about that or thought about it or told those stories. I mean, it's since like, I don't remember. Like, I haven't. How many days did you go for? It was nine days, I think.

Wow. Ibiza, and I think it's still that. It's still that. I think it is. I don't know, who the hell knows what it would be like now. Dude, that would be a funny doc. Like, it's a 22, 25 year anniversary. Of your, of whoever's epic trip.

Go back and go do it. Like, try to do it again. Okay, I could, I. Would you be even allowed on the dance floor now? Is it older man? They'd be like, what the fuck, creep. I don't even know what they do in the movement now. I wonder what they do with cell phones now.

In Berlin, it's either they put a sticker on your phone on the lens, say if this comes out. Not only you kick that out, you'll never be back here ever. Is that right? Just in regular clubs? In high level clubs.

Oh yeah. And the other clubs, it's just no one takes their phone out. It's just an etiquette of like, hey, we're all getting loose here. Just don't do it. It always amazes me. It makes me hopeful and angry when other cultures collectively agree to do something that's the right thing That's the right thing and that means oh, so it can be done. Yeah, we're just selfish assholes. We're just cunts I get it if there's a cop fucking kneeing someone to death in their neck sure pull out your phone and get get this on camera

Oh, you know I mean, but we're all partying bro bro. Or that guy's drunk, throwing up on the street. You don't need to record it. And I'm saying as a guy who's recorded that plenty. It's just, we're a trash society. There is other instances, because that's not all I was thinking about. But just etiquette that's, you know. You ever see that show on Netflix where it's like,

somewhere in Asia, and when a kid's like two or three, they just let them be literally autonomous and go into town. Oh, wow. And they film it. So they made a show of it because it's insane. So the culture is such that there is no crime. And every single person, if they see a kid, every single person knows to take care of the kid.

You know, to keep an eye on the kid. Hey, where's the helmet? Dude, they showed a three-year-old kid leave a house and walk 10 minutes into town to go to the grocery store for their parents and come back three Wow, I'm like That is possible like that would never happen here Even if I went there I wouldn't remember my uncle sending me for beers for the family to the corner store

So it was like half how old? for the family to the corner store. So it was like half how old? Eight eight corner store. But yeah, it's not the same thing. But I'm saying they allowed me to buy a 12 pack of beers. Oh, really? Eight year old. OK, it wasn't like right. It was like, well, you don't have $30.

So this. Yeah, it's not for you. Yeah. But you've been in an errand. Yeah. But I'm saying over there, even though there's still the bad apple. So you're still sending a kid out and being like, all right, everyone take a look at it. But there's got to be a guy that's not up in the middle. There's got to be some eight-year-old who's boozing.

This is impractical for Israel. So it's like, we wouldn't do it here. You remember we came out of? Flatman Lips? Yes. I have video of us, I don't know if you probably have it because you probably shared it, but we are hysterical laughing, can't keep, just cannot stop laughing over like probably nothing. I probably said something, because remember we came out and there was balloons, people

gave us those balloons? All I heard was one for 10, three for 20. And I was like, I'll be right back, you guys. Yeah. And everybody was like, what is that? What? I'm like, I know what it is. It's one for 10, three for 20.

It's balloons. Let's go. Well, nobody told me what it was. And I thought I was breathing. I thought someone handed me a party balloon. And I was breathing in helium. I am on the floor fucking, like, with womp womps and just dying laughing and then you're like Sal Balcano, it's not working. My name is Sal Balcano.

It's not working. I'm like what? Do the whole thing. I'm like half of it like my name is Sal Balcano. It's not working. I'm like what's not working? I'm like. What's not working? I'm like, my voice isn't getting higher. Everyone's like, that's not helium.

I'm like, so I'm just sucking in air? I thought you guys like pranked me. And then you're like, no, it's nitrous oxide. I was like, what do you mean it's nitrous oxide? It's not a bar mitzvah. Where did you get it? And it's like, the guy holding the balloons. I'm like, that guy is standing in the middle of the street, like, not worried of any repercussion,

selling balloons filled with nitrous oxide to people. Yeah. And then it just like hit me, and then I started like... You took one. You got one. Down. I sucked the whole fucking thing before I knew what it was. How much did it rule, nitrous? It was like very fast. It's fast.

But also I fell and cut my leg. It was the first time I had one of those. You've got to take a knee. First time I had one of those like childhood knee abrasions like that are just like this big and you wait like six weeks for them to heal. I literally under my pants was bleeding. Then we went to that diner and I don't remember

but there was like a fly. Do you remember this? The waiter hated us right away. Hated us, yeah. Hated us. That flaming lips, they were coming right out of the pandemic. They were playing, I think, Brooklyn Steel,

too small a place for their fucking giant balloons. But what a fun time to be out with people again. And out at Flaming Lips, where it's just feel good. We must have been on, did we take anything? Weed, just weed. What a blast it was though. I gotta tell, if Brooklyn Steel's watching, just a couple more seats.

There's no seats. Right. Just a couple. It's not a, you gotta go out in the hallway. If I'm Brooklyn Steel retorting, hey but I can recommend you some other places you should go. I know, but honestly, who can stand without, because it's so crowded.

Out in the lobby, there should be seats. Yeah. The recuperate place. There's like two benches out there. There's two benches, that's it. Yeah. You're not gonna take it. Give me something, because I mean,

I felt like my feet were completely numb. I didn't feel them. Just felt like I had two stumps. It's a good thing we fucking whippered you down onto the street. Yeah. Oh, those are so fun. Those nitros were so fun. I never did that before and I probably won't do it again.

You will do it again. No, I feel like I don't want to breathe in gases that are not to be breathed in. I don't need to do it. I laugh, I laugh. I'm a laugher. You drink. I just feel like it's going to kill my brain or something like that.

It kills your brain cells. They come back. No, I don't know if they do. They recuperate. They regenerate. It's like giving blood. You're not out of blood. I don't think they recuperate.

I think that's a common misconception. The common misconception is they don't recuperate. I think we have tons of them. And so you think they recuperate, but at the end of common assumption is they don't recuperate. I think we have tons of them. Yeah. And so you think they recuperate, but at the end of the day, they do not recuperate. Interesting. Well, why was I reacting slower to things people told me and not remembering things?

You were doing it all the time. You never had time to recuperate. What do you mean, after Whippets? No. After all those drugs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, at some point they can shoot a hole in your, I mean, you can destroy your liver on booze

I just feel like gas like I don't know like how what the ceiling is there like what if you suck in too much you Have like a freaking stroke or something first one I ever saw on those I tell you no I don't know it was in Thailand or a full moon party And we wandered away in between the mushroom shake place the happy shake place and like and like one of the DJs dance But there's a sort of an indoor giant canister. Some guys, what do I do? My buddy Sarah's like, I'll show you. Some guy was like, hey, you going up next?

I'm like, I'm still worried. Let me get, and he goes, do you mind? I'm like, yeah, sure. Gives the guy the fucking dollar or whatever it was. Way cheaper there. Breathes it in, go. He holds it and he just goes, starts lap, conks over on just a cement floor just a cement Thailand floor

This is one concert bust his head and we're like, what the fuck? like two seconds later goes Now enough of me and we're like, alright, but then we took knees like we like I don't need to fall from straight. Yeah I want to know that guy though, like his cops just turn the corner. He's there selling balloons. What did you just let him go and run? I mean, those, it was a black dude in Black Lives Matter time,

so they wouldn't have been arrested. I think they'd be like, guys, get out of here. I think they'd like guys get out of here. You do it that openly, it's not punishable, or you wouldn't do it that openly. Okay Right. I don't so he's got a tank you can buy nitrous. You can buy balloons Yeah, you buy them in a hedge. You just can't do them all together. Okay Okay, you know before weed was legal. You could buy a fucking weed pipe, right and a grinder, right? Right, and it's like not telling what to use this for

My tour is also on sale right now, okay I went on some great days a special which is special like you said youtube.com WWW hold on hold on hold on hold on I'm gonna do this as an insert. This is way too late in this okay But anyway guys everybody go watch the special, Terrified. Yes. It's free on YouTube. I've only produced ever, would I bother doing this

for two, no, three people. So it is of super high quality. It's on YouTube.com. Terrified, Sal Valcano's amazing special, his debut special, go leave a comment. What kind of comments should I leave just based on this fucking thing? That they came from this?

Start a conversation. Sounds like a douche, something like that. No, don't give me that. No, no, that'll get misconstrued. Bird had to stop doing like, hey, stop saying I'm racist. It's getting past my little circle and people don't understand it. Wait, so is this inserted? No, no, no, stop saying I'm racist. It's getting past my little circle and people don't understand it.

Wait, so is this inserted? No, no, no, this is wrapping up now. Okay, well can we insert for this one? Yeah, yeah, leave a comment. But anyway, leave a comment, something, I don't know. Well, I mean, honestly, if you do like it, if you could hit like and leave a comment. Leave a comment, it'll help the algorithm.

And share it, it helps a lot. Share it with your friends, yeah, do that too, by the way. If you're on Instagram or Twitter, get off Twitter. But before you get off, fucking post this about this way if you're on Instagram or Twitter to get off Twitter But if you're up before you get off fucking post this about this post a story On your Instagram page and just fuck it. I don't know post a little video steal a video take 10 seconds eight No, 60 seconds a video of his special post post it up on fucker on your Instagram page Yeah, just share 40 seconds. Well, whatever just share it any way you can. Yeah Thank you. But yeah, do you have any travel tips general travel tips? Just share it for my account. What? Whatever. Just share it any way you can. Yeah.

Thank you. But yeah. Do you have any travel tips? General travel tips? We don't need one. We're pretty far in now. I'm just saying this because I've done it to myself too many times. Oh, okay.

Pack light. Pack lighter than you think. Pack, when you think you've packed, you've done and you said, all right, I packed light, take away another 10% at least. Wow. Another 10, 15%. Here's what I find with that. You've done and you said are I packed light take away another 10% at least Wow another 10 15% Here's what I find with that do deal with it If it ends up happening that you need it almost anywhere you go you can get the thing you're gonna need Yeah, if it's like toothpaste or or or bug spray or fucking sunblock. You'll find it if it's

Hiking boots. All right, you might need to find those where you are, really shop for those. But a tent you could find anywhere. If you really achieve it and you're traveling lean, it's such a better feeling. You can buy shirts, you can buy underwear, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you don't have to. Okay, good one.

Yeah. All right, Salvo Cano. Thank you very much. And where are you touring? When does the tour start? Tour starts in September, but it's on sale right now. Everything's Fine Tour. 30 cities are up right now, but we're adding

probably every city in the United States. So if you don't see it, don't yell at me why I hate it and why I hate your city and why you're not coming there. 30 cities are up right now for the first like. Salvolcano.com Comedy. Salvolcanocomedy.com Tour is Everything's Fine. And then I'm actually finishing my tour

with the Jokers through August. You can get those tickets on my website as well. And then September starts my solo tour. That's what you really wanna do. 100% new material, nothing from the special, and nothing if you've seen me in the past. Wow, that's exciting, buddy. Yeah.

It's your first big solo tour like that. Well, no, I toured solo. I finished a big one to get to this special. But it is my first really overhaul of a new hour. I had a couple- Hey, I'll tell you what, buddy. This is what I've noticed. Everybody levels up after a special.

You see the things you wish you would have done, or it's just like, there's no reason to move past your material, because it's like, I've been doing this joke for 10 years, it works. There's no reason to write another one, but you're a better comic now. And so then you're like, well, it's like I've been doing this joke for 10 years it works there's no reason to like write another one but you're a better comic now right and so then you're like well it's done now now you write a new joke and it's like wow even better yeah everybody says even Jordan and column

put out the half they were like I wish I could have done on that like yeah everybody levels up yeah in this special I have jokes as old as eight years and jokes as new as four months. Wow. Yeah. Wow. But yeah, man, thank you. Thank you really for guiding me through that whole thing, man. It was fun to do. You wore many hats for real, for a moment of sincerity.

And you know, I just, you were very, very generous with everything. You still are right now, as it just is being released. So I'm glad I had someone like that I was that close to to bounce everything off of. Otherwise I kind of would have been kind of just navigating it. You're flying blind. You don't quite know how to do it.

You need someone, another comic also, instead of just some guy or one of your Jews to tell you like, you know, like, oh, you should do this. Like, I guess the Jews have a great way of talking about talking you into an idea that you wouldn't quite be right on. That's, you know, like, oh, I was just in Salt Lake like eight months ago, like, ah, it's a new crowd. talking you into an idea that you wouldn't quite be right on. Like, oh, I was just in Salt Lake like eight months ago, like, ah, it's a new crowd, they'll forget.

I'm like, really? You know? It won't be the same. People are like, okay. And then people are like, we all saw all this stuff. I'm like, yeah, I knew it. Kanye was right, is my point. Yeah, yeah, you just need someone,

even the seating and how to get that done. And she's like, you got better to worry about. There's so much. So many little details. So much that people have no idea. I mean, it was months of work. Not even talking about the material. And then going, right, the material too.

It was like, well, why do you want to start with this? What are you starting with? Why? Let's talk about this. Why is this? Isn't this joke the same as that joke? Like, oh, maybe I'll lose one. I mean, we were, I mean, I was editing and changing jokes and punching them up

and cutting stuff out up to the minute before every single show. Yeah, did your part. There's a bunch of stuff in this special that I said for the first time right then. Like, you know, I just kind of like went for it. And that's how it should be. It's like, you can't be too like glossy.

Like, here's the routine. It's like, still like, still you're having fun. Yeah, you got it. It should be like the week before where you're still like if something happens like I'll just come I thought you should be able to like go in and out but have a good yeah That's one thing you said to me is like the first night I was like I didn't like the first show and the second one I wasn't as full wasn't as full I it was good. Yeah, I thought I I got it after that one But then the one after that, like I was like,

oh my God, if I thought I got on that one, this is. Is that the one with the water? Yeah, and then the next one was like, it was just unreal. The crowd started, you got thirsty and drank some water. And then they were just like, somebody was like, I don't even know if somebody said anything, like nice drink of water.

But then they started like, every time you drank, the crowd would go nuts. They just, as a group. It was a whole thing. Got on. 10 times. And then you're like every time you drank the crowd would go nuts. It just as a group It was a whole thing. I got on ten times and then you're like Yeah Why is it is it in is it in and why doesn't know it's like I looked at it But it was like it just attracted too much time to track it from like the stuff and yeah comedy and stuff It was so wild though, but then you got it even that even that it was like wait

Why am I doing four shows on paying nearly double to do two extra shows? Like for your piece of mind, you're gonna want. I am so happy I did that. Yeah, then you woke up the second day like going, I've already got a BB plus ready to go. So there's no pressure. And you know, the thing that was happening with me was because I was editing and adding

and up to the minute of every show and even before that I did a run of like 15 cities right before that and every single night I recorded and I had those shows recorded and I watched every single one of those and I was like just cutting stuff and this and that and the crazy thing is like when you start making changes each night it's almost like wait I made changes three nights ago, but then I changed that back. And like, I'm remembering tonight's changes, but I have to remember those night's changes. And I'm changing jokes that I, some of the jokes

I've been saying for years. So your brain, you have to like, so going into the first night, it wasn't nerves like, if I just did my set, you know, just maybe there was just excitement that it was, but it was like, oh my God, I was so overthinking to make sure that I got every single little tweak, punch up, edit, I got it exactly right, so I wanted to make sure that it was, because that was its best form.

And so I was so hyper-focused on that the first night, first, and then the second night, I was more of a fucking attitude. I was like, if I get it, I get it, if I don't, I don't, you were like, just have fun. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna go out there and have fun. Just have fun. Because that's what we're doing here.

Yeah, and I did. I had a blast on those two shows. When your button popped off your shirt and you were like, I was sitting in the back with Eric at the time. I was constantly like, okay, how's this sitting done? I'm moving around, I'm like, hey, this smoke machine's fucked up.

The smoke machine fucked up. I'm done with these smoke machines. They fuck up every time. You know, I went back there, I'm like, hey, the smoke machine's fucked up. The smoke machine fucked up. I'm done with these smoke machines. Yeah, I don't even know this. They fuck up every time. Yeah, and I went back there, I'm like, hey, this ain't on. And he was like, did you mess with me? I'm like, no.

And then I said to him, I was like, wait, what? I'm like, it's not gonna match. With J's, at some point it looked like a cigarette went out of a fucking bale of hay behind them. And it just started like, ugh. And it was like. I didn't even know that. Yeah, and I was like, get it.

He's like, what the fuck? And I'm like, but if no one's running around it's just whatever anyway, whatever but It was like somebody did something and I was like and I'm starting to scramble and you're like Should I you broke which is nice? Like should I keep going? I'm like hang on. I'm like, all right It's already interrupted so I can interrupt you now. Yeah, but I'm getting it. I'd recognize a shirt. Yeah I was like, holy shit, my button just stopped right in the middle of that. I was in the room and it grew.

We just started, everyone started laughing. I'm just like, this is why I bought two shirts. All right, well guys, that's the episode. I'm not gonna do an outro for this one, I'll just do it now. Watch how special, watch my special Jew. It's on YouTube right now. My vinyl is available for sale of Jew.

Oh, I want that. Only a thousand copies, Sal. Do you have any in stock right here that I could buy? I don't. It's, I'm, tomorrow I'm going to look at it. Can you put one aside for me? Yeah, okay. You were at the taping.

You're in the, you're in the, the booklet. I am? Yeah, it's a picture of you at the special. Oh, shit, no way. Much of us hanging out talking. Oh, that's dope. Yeah, I think you were in Aziz, Santino, O'Connor, I forget. Oh, that's awesome O'Connor forget yeah. Yeah, I'm hoping to press one of this as well. You should and

And that's it grinders and shirts all available at our ship here comm and the patreon is going strong New episode pretty much every week, but the real thing is I'm trying to say what I want to do patron The real thing is I'm trying to, if I tell you what I wanna do, Patreon. What? As soon as I get to maybe 2,000 subscribers, whatever it is, it's just building right now, I'm gonna send something around the world. What do you mean?

A year. Of the Patreon? Yeah, not necessarily a patron, but like somebody. Around the world to do what? Around the world meaning what? Go to Southeast Asia for a year. Go to South America for a year. Around the world mean go? Go to Southeast Asia for a year. Go to South America for a year. Around the world mean go where it takes you. You know, stay in hostels.

What do you mean you're sending someone? You mean monetarily you're fronting money? Yeah, find a candidate. How much is that? Probably 10 to 20 grand. No, no, no. What do you mean? That's not necessary.

It's too much. You think I can do it for cheaper? I just, yeah. Just like, send them away for a week. Nah, nah, that's what we're doing. 10 to 20 grand. You know what you have to make before commissions and taxes? Yeah, yeah, Patreon takes some.

I know. Oh my God. Yeah, and so then we're, so I don't want them like fucking writing in all the time and saying I want them like having their own experience, but like find like an internet cafe, but if a hostel has a computer, register a new account, once a month or so, let us know what you're up to.

Okay. But just have a blast. And then the idea being that's it? Or they come back and sit here and they... Well, maybe we'll do an episode when they come back. You should at least do that. Oh yeah, yeah, how was your year abroad based on the patrons?

Wow. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited about that one. I mean, who do you even bestow that to? Also- So we gotta take candidates. Is it a solo person? You're not paying for two people.

Nope, not paying for two. Don't meet people, but also, and then I thought it out. I'm not just gonna, hey, here's 15 grand on a credit card. It's, I'm gonna keep putting a thousand on there every three weeks. Budget yourself. Yeah. I don't want you just blowing on there every three weeks budget yourself Yeah, you know I don't want you just blowing it all Yeah, because I could easy to see a world like sweet scuba diving four times a day for a bucket one month later

Back home five star resorts and they're allowed to just go wherever yeah It's like those kids It's all the fucking gap your kids or somebody wants to quit their job at 30 years old or just like got a divorce. Or like someone like me. Absolutely. Yeah. You want to escape your life. Yeah. Anyway, that's Patreon. So guys, thank you very much for tuning in.

Until next week. I think I believe it's Ian Laura next week talking about Dominican Republic. I have nothing here from there. Today's episode was produced by Your Mom's House Network. It was edited by Alan Caffey. And that is it. Have a good night. Appreciate it. Yeah.