You Be Trippin' - Israel w/ Byron Bowers | You Be Trippin with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

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Let's do the cultural Jewish thing. Okay. I mean, the show is about that, so. Yeah, I mean, also your experience in Israel is going to be a way different experience than mine was in your seminary, you know. Agree, but you have a closer connection to it. No, no, no, yeah, I've been there, too, so I can be like, yeah, I know what you're talking about. You took certain classes and where you've been and where you're going.

This is our East Travel Show, yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's you'll be tripping yet. Hello, everybody. Welcome to UB Tripping. It's the only travel podcast that has both white people and black people on it. Today, my guest is a hilarious comic. Some of I've known for a fucking long time.

The Spirit Airlines podcast is no insurance traveling, free toothbrushes. Biden-Barrs is the guest today. Yeah, clap at home, everybody. Buddy, thanks for coming on and doing this. Thank you, man. Thank you. He's got a show that he's in on Apple TV called... Lady in the Lake. Lady in the Lake.

I have met both ladies and I have been to lakes, so it might really speak to me. Oh, yeah, this is going to be interesting, man. About the Jewish and black culture in Baltimore in 1967, and the free... you know yeah and it kind of relate to kind of what's going on on now almost you know but it's when Jewish people assimilated and became white people whoa they did because I had no clue yeah coming up I really had no clue about Jewish people at all mm-hmm it's just white people you know where'd you grew up Atlanta Georgia Atlanta okay so yeah we just focused on black and white yeah then the Mexican showed up and we're like who the fuck

both of us like who the fuck is these people Atlanta also is such a different version of black then then it's just like I remember when um when Outcast won the like a BET award yeah and they were like everyone started booing because they weren't like biggie or whatever and he did you know that speech yeah that's a famous speech oh my god got something to say and I live by that I live by that yeah so yeah I try to put that in all of my uh my work you know so um yeah it's cool but that jewish and black culture I guess we'll speak pretty well to uh to where we're going today Yeah, yeah, yeah, talking about going to Israel for the first time after I met my girlfriend who happens to be from Israel, and she was like, you're going to come to my house.

And I was like, yeah, I go anywhere. I've been to Afghanistan, you know, doing a war. What was going to Israel? And boy, oh, boy. Wow, what a place, huh? It's a beautiful place, but it's just, it's, you know, people. People look at you. I don't even want to say it's race something, you're just different.

And you're figuring that out when you get on the plane because everybody's looking at you. When did you go for the first time? Oh, 2016. Okay. Yeah. First year we met. Okay. First year, you know, you meet somebody and you're going home.

And I'm talking to like Josh Ademeyer. He's like, man, you're going to love it. I love Israel. I made out with the Jews with the women so hot, you know. You know how Josh is talking and shit. And I went. And I'm like, where all the hot benches is? I just see chicks with wigs on and long skirts.

Oh, you know. The religious. Yeah, hat boxes. Like, how many hat boxes motherfuckers need to get on the plane? And there's no dish. The hat boxes. It's just me for the, but the hats are cold. Right?

They're what? The hats are dope. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, I mean, the browns are so straight. They're expensive. I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't know that because all the dandruff and stuff that is on the hats.

You know? but oh yeah he's like clean them wash your hair if you could have put on expensive hat oh my god it's like a dusty fucking book

God wants you to see this with your ass your hat but yeah man like all the the clean suits and like you know where'd you go in Israel

we landed Ben Gurren what you mean no but I mean where do you go what do you go there is you just touring around or you went to a place to her family or like

yeah her friends had an apartment there In Tel Aviv? Tel Aviv. Yeah. Their dad had one of those two-story attic. He had an attic and they turned into apartments. We were going to stay in a little tiny apartment.

But I remember being on the plane and she told me that she's like, first off, when you land, everybody just busts out and a round of applause, which was like, what the fuck going on, you know? Dude, so I used to go to Israel every Passover? to visit my grandfather and you know it was the big family holiday sabba yeah yeah nice and um i just thought every time a plane landed you clap because that was the only plane i ever went on that was crazy and i'm looking around like sada like why everybody's clapping and she's like yeah that's because they had happy that the pilot landed the plane i'm like what the fuck he's supposed

to do yeah what is y'all expecting the pilot to do to do and um that was the first place i went to where you because you know you clear and all these things so you don't have to go through no headache and then uh they like fuck all that clear shit you go they get in the corridor and they give you another security where you got to take your shoes off you got take your laptops out and then they want to see liquid it won't see every lotion every little juice you got we want we won't take all that out and my girl's like they're going to be a little they're going to be a little racist and i was like oh okay What a preparation. Yeah, and she was like, I'm sorry, that's just how we are.

Like, what in what way were they racist? They're going to pick people out, you know, that is not, is really, you know what I mean? The good thing is they do it to other Jewish people also. So I'm like, oh, this is just a Middle Eastern thing. But when I got off the plane in that little hall on the way off, somebody hopped out with a badge and was like, you come with me. And I spent three hours, you know, explaining like why a nigger like myself would want to come to Israel, you know. This type of swag, you know what I mean? Oh, my God.

Because you stand out. You know, you see other black people in these places. You're like, we got black people. And I'm like, these ain't no niggas like me. And even the black people looking at you because black America, we walk, we walk different. We like one of the, you realize we, we're the most emulated group of people because of, a hip hop right right yeah which is weird because we don't take advantage of that financially as we as we should but other yeah good points emily that's that's the version that's put out to people

that's our currency culture is our currency and you went through a cultural place yeah and i'm seeing like i'm seeing like you know i make it through bengurian airport and that's the only like person i see as far as a statue ben gory joseph magoria joseph magoria Ben Gurian, yeah, they was like, we don't have, we don't do statues here. And then the, the flag is like, if you, you've ever been to a trailer part, you see all the American flags, it's that with the Israeli flag. And I'm like, damn, I'm like, y'all can tone it down a little bit, you know. It's only y'all here.

That makes sense? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, what else is there? And, yeah, I went to the little stand. I got a grape juice. Uh-huh. those little grape juice with a Hebrew on it, and that juice was amazing.

Oh, dude. And I grabbed two more the grape juices. The little green juice with the little, you know. So, yeah, man, that's it, the flag of the star David on it. So you go there. What are you expecting when you go? I mean. You've been a few times now, but like before you went for the first time.

I only went to, I think, I went to Bahrain in Afghanistan previously, but I had to sneak and kind of sneak in those places. because it was war when I went. So we had to do convoys and like those type of things. You went U.S.O or just to go? I went with U.S. HO, like, cheaper, like no budget. You know what I mean? I think I paid $150 a show.

I did a road gig. I got paid a road gig worth over there. And I found out the plane ticket was like $7,000. I was like, damn, they could have just gave me $5 grand. And I could have like, you know, emailed the jokes over. but I don't have too much you know I was in love you know and pussy make you do crazy things did you uh so you were just dating her at the time yeah we just met wow we just met in June it's like November were you scared going

there not because I've been doing war you're right right right so you're already a kind of experience in like this is more this is more like chill and once we made it through the airport which took a while and then her brother was there to pick us up and take us into the into the city where we were staying i'm like this place is dirty in Tel Aviv yeah what neighborhood do you remember uh i don't know i don't know the neighborhood was it like the it's near the mall though graffiti neighborhood no okay it's just dirty coming from america coming from america right all the air-conditioned units are tiny the outside the windows like it's just a different look And I'm having the American thoughts like, man, when Mexicans get here, they're going to clean all this up, you know.

There is a cool thing going to another place and noticing, like, stuff that is not in the books. Oh, yeah. Like, oh, the ACs are all look different here. Yeah, they look different. The doorways are different. It's a metal door in one of the rooms in the apartment. I'm like, no hardwood floors are hard. The door is hard.

And I'm like, why is it, what's up with this door? Oh, that's a bomb shelter. What? Oh, yes. Yeah, every apartment got bomb shelters. Downstairs. Any floor. One room, if you got multiple rooms, if you're in a place where it got multiple rooms,

one of those rooms is a shelter. Really? Oh, my aunt's place had it downstairs for the building. Yeah, some places I hear like that, and they got a ping pong table downstairs. In the bomb shelter? Yeah, the past the time. I mean, if you've got to be down there for a while. You may as well fall it up.

Staring at a wall while a war is outside. But yeah, it was like, it's like, you know, she showed me her gas mask. Because I'm like, I'm from Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta. You're like, shooters happen all the time. And she's like, this is the gas mask we were wet. We have to walk to school with the buses will explode. And I'm like, shit.

It's a different lifestyle. We don't, they don't teach it. Our hood survival isn't equipped for this place, right? Because I remember the first time The LA and the earthquake came I stopped, dropped and rolled because we don't, they never taught us earthquake.

They taught us other, like tornadoes and shit like that. So I'm, and I'm equipped for the wrong. Survival. So. When my sister was there during the first Gulf War,

so they were sending out, there was the worry about like mustard gas. Yeah, so that's what the thing was. Yeah, Saddam was like, we're gonna. And they did. And, well, they sent scud missiles over, but they really didn't want to hit Jerusalem,

them so they really made sure to go further. So a lot of them went into the sea because they were like, we can't air on the short side. Yeah. But anyway, my sister was like, everyone had a gas mask. Everyone's going around. They put stickers on them. They wrote on them.

They made them like colorful because they're still kids. Yeah. 17 year olds or 18 year olds. And they would take, my girl said they would take taxis or some other form of transportation at school because the bus got hit with missiles. Damn. Yeah, I know. Hey, guys.

Let me break in today's episode to tell you a little bit about the guest. Bowers. He is, without a doubt, the coolest guy in stand-up comedy. He's also hilarious, but that's not what I want to talk to you about today. He's cool. He's super cool, and I was actually there when he became cool. Yeah, when he went from zero to hero. Byron, obviously, you were never a zero, but like, go with me on the fucking, on the joke. And I figured I'd do a promo read for him, the fitting of just how cool he was. Yeah. Well, fuck. Oh. Yeah, we're all there. Joshua Tree when he had a mushroom trip of his life he went to the past and he went to the future and he told us all about it we weren't that interested because we were flipping out we thought the

shape of a rock looked like a boom and we were all laughing pretty hard um so we couldn't quite understand what he was talking about but wow but byron is the coolest and you should follow him because he's actually hilarious uh his instagram is at byron bowers bryr o n B-O-W-E-R-S. His special is available right now at Hulu. Oh, spiritual Negro. Thank you, Byron, for naming it that usage of the word so I can promote it. Otherwise, I'd have a lot of trouble, and we'd be demonetized on YouTube.

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israel oh this kind of goes it's all burning all right let's get back to it I'm not one more time oh oh oh I'm a pyro do you know I got I got kicked out of sleepaway camp for lighting a bunk on fire yeah they're like are you a pyromaniac and I'm like what does that mean they're like it means you love lighting fires they said it as an insult and I was like oh yeah I wrote my name in Lysol on a bunk yeah Lysol burns So what you do is you light your name, cursive, A-R-I, and then you light it on fire, and the whole thing lights. But, I mean, bunks are made out of pretty much cardboard,

the most flammable wood in the world, which actually seems like a mistake, to be honest. You're going to have a bunch of kids be in a super flammable housing with bats. Anyway, they kicked me out, but I did realize that I am a pyromaniac. And anyone's been camping with me, Bobby Kelly, we'll attest to this.

I'm a pyro. Anyway, guys, we're delay. get back to Israel. They don't do this in any other IMH fucking podcast. Stavros doesn't do it. The ginger fucking dude who drinks whiskey used to. He doesn't do it. I mean, there must be.

Anyway, back to the episode, Israel. Again, stay tuned for the trippy nominees and write in your own nominees in the comments below. in YouTube. All right, bye. Does I give you a better understanding of what's going on now? At least a different understanding?

It's a different type of it's just a different type of violence. But it's similar to me to the black community. I notice being in a place where everybody is this thing, right? Even Atlanta, you go to Atlanta,

you're going to be like, damn, this place is black. But the long you're there, you see the separation of blacks. You see black people that these black people don't mess with, fuck with these black people. Wow. So when I'm there, you go to be like, I'm like, oh, these people, these people kind of don't fuck with these people. And, oh, what are these people?

Oh, these are Ashkenadis. What are these? These are Sephardic. They look, they have the Arabic features. And these people have the European features, right? Yeah. The food, the different, the nuances in the food between the two. The Ashkenazi, Sephardic food.

And the Arabic food. Yeah. Because, of course, you're going to go eat an old job. Yeah. Right? At the time, it's gentrified neighborhood, which was the Arab neighborhood because the food had the most flavored. God damn. Yeah.

So I went up, the first time I had hummus was in 20, my life was in 2016. In Yaffa? In Yaffa at, uh, that, that, that famous place with the, the grandfather is like a three-generational hummus place. Three generations, oh, the hummus place. Yeah. It's not, it's not, I don't know what it is, but, and it's just plate, five plates of hummus. what is uh damn what is the um hold on fuck i had a question in my head i forgot yeah the typical israeli food when they just give you those different type of hummuses baba ganoush everything

and then just bread yeah and that the meal is almost the the fixings the sides so that fucked me up when we was in america because my girl would reach her hand into my plate and i would smack it right and we went out to eat our first day she ordered like six plates I'm on a comedian's budget she ordered like six plates and then finished none of them and I ordered a meal yeah you know she's like I have this I want this this and then for dessert I have I'm like damn she ordering dessert it's a different social economic thing I'm thinking I'm like damn she didn't finish none of that shit you know and I go to Israel her dad we meet her dad for the first time

you know, Abagadol, you know, Big Daddy, as I call him. And... Armagado, nice. And then, uh, he's like, Mazze, uh, he's, you know.

I love saying. Her dad had to hear about 40 years, like, I mean, just forever. Running a street one, you know, homeless type of person, you know what I mean? Like, truth is really like, daddy issue, like,

we both children of addicts. So I'm like, cool. Meeting him versus my ex-wife who dad was working, man. Yeah. I'm like, to act mine too cool let's go meet this nigga wow and uh this nigga eating the head off the fish you know in the in the spot but we sit down at his favorite he's like i got to take him you know

it's really i got to take him to my favorite right and we go to this restaurant and um they put five six plates on you know uh uh the the cold the the what the pickles the the hum the vegetables and Pickles down there, yeah, the tomato bread, the cauliflower thing with the, that's pickled and all this stuff. And, I mean, they just go ahead. Yeah, the pickle cauliflower is so good. Yeah. And they're just going at it.

And I'm waiting for the, and I don't eat none of that stuff really. So I'm just waiting on the main thing. And we ordered this fish, and he's like, yeah, he's going to get it his with the head. They're going to break, they're going to break yours up, but they're still going to have bones. And they just sit, plop, eating it like. yeah you know and i'm like oh shit i'm like these niggas country you know dude when i saw my dad at his at with his with his mom there in israel and they had some hummus and he took a piece of bread and he it was like that much hummus with a little piece of bread

i'm like that what that's like a waste that's how we would do biscuits in the south with syrup crazy syrup have a little biscuit with your syrup yeah because that was the meal and she's like yeah hummus and peter is the meal and i was like i get it i get it you know i mean and um uh We went up to the little, you know, the windows and doors are different because they got metal, metal like, I don't know what you call it, just around the windows, got these metal things that hold the window. Oh, okay. And the door handles are like different, but it's like, feel like you're going to like a nice little, nice little cage in the apartments are tiny and everything is aligned up. And, yeah, she's like, yeah, this is my girlfriend.

I think he was a writer or something, but he was on some list because they tried to. blow some shit you know activists over there get real active like what do you mean like they be sitting bombs on doing stels

and running and shit y'all y'all niggas protests y'all want to sit outside y'all college dorm rooms on yoga mats and all this bullshit these motherfuckers

they don't like politicians they're putting explosives outside they had uh when I was there in yeshiva rarely but I want to go to visit my family and I go watch TV they had the commercials for suspicious packages

I forget what it's got chafashud and it was all like you remember the the poison commercials we had yeah but like don't drink something we found into the sink yeah for little kids they had that for any package here's the number to call don't touch it don't take it it's bad news bruh and she my you know shout out of alma harrel my baby you know what I mean she playing a great a great trip for me you know I mean okay um I met her friends you know rona canon who's a famous singer uh in israel you know she's sung with giddy gov um who is she uh rona rona r o n a israeli singer rona world rona kennan yeah wow that's her

that's her yeah damn i got to check her what's your music like rock or or it's a blend of everything i don't know it'srael it's not she got some english song but most of it in is really but yeah some of everything okay beautiful voice you know um rona canney oh i got to check out our shit it's good yeah her father was famous in the in that city for doing those some of things whatever he did as far as speech writing or i think he had a you know reputation for something something he did with like bomb shit you know i don't getting to it to it but yeah something like that that you know he had a reputation which could have been real which could have been in fact you never know over there you know such a wild

country because it's so it's new i was telling lewis black about this that like i like eastern europe because like i did a show in Slovenia and i was like halfway in i was like saying something about america i don't know whatever but i was like oh this is kind of a new country how who was here when it was yugoslavia and like 30 percent raise our hand i'm like so you remember it not being this country that's how new it is And Israel is slightly older than that, but they've never been like stable. They've never been like, oh, it's good.

I don't know part of me, like America won't be here in four years, but they're all there like, it might not be. I agree with you about America, but yeah, it's like, this is like when America started. Yeah. Could you feel that in the air and the people? I knew it was dirty, it was underdevelops.

I would make jokes like, yeah, when we take over, and we're gonna put a McDonald's right here. And she hated it. She was like, don't talk about my country light. And I feel bad because it's being gentrified now. Right? And some of that, the, and you see cities like San Francisco and these places lose their essence. That's happening over there.

In what way? Who's coming and how they change it? It's big tech now. And like when the war broke off, a lot of the, something happened in France and a lot of rich French Jewish people. You can tell I say Jews a lot. You can say Jews. It's like white people who say, nigger,

and they try to put the A-D-in. You know, but you, and it's so fucked up because I get it when, when those guys be like, oh, I hang around black people

with something with it. I got used to it. I learned that from being around Jewish people who talk shit about Jewish people. Nobody's more racist against Jews and Jews. They are.

That shit is crazy. I mean, I'm more racist. People like, I was on a rise. I'm like, have you been in my house? Is that why you're saying that? Because I do hate some of them. Yeah.

This is my first time seeing a person with a Yamika on asking for change. And I was like, I know you got it. Because for being in America, it do that to you that you don't think. It's like when you go to like Maine or even actually another country and you see a maid at the hotel and you're like, you're not Mexican. Yeah. Like, yeah, right. Or you see black people. cooking you're like you still cook yeah you go in the south and you're like you still back in league

but I was in um it's funny because I I went to uh so we went to next we went to Jerusalem okay we went to American Colleen Hotel of Park and we walked through the old city and I seen a Zara and I was like huh in the old city there was a Zara I mean and like the part we walking to get into yeah like that part of the old city and that part of the old city and I saw something like a restaurant that said, like 600 AD. And I was like, God, damn, that shit been here a long. You go to Providence, and you see, like, the building site, built in 1870. You're like, damn, that's so old.

600 AD. And it's there, and it's there, right? And you, like, this stuff. And you're going through the narrow, these narrow, like, hallways and it's stone. It's all, like, old Jerusalem stone, a certain particular stone. And I remember driving to Israel. I'm like, why y'all building is the same color? I was like, y'all can't paint these buildings.

No, it got to be a certain stone. Probably from the same quarry. Yeah, it got to be a certain stone. Yeah, it all looks the same. You can't have like a pink house in the little old city. No. Hey guys, today's episode of Yubu Trippin is brought to you by superpower. You know, every year you've got to decide what to give your parents.

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you be tripping at superpower.com mention the show let's get back to it and like we're walking through this and we're doing like a lot of you see all the like it's like walking through the scinty alley where you see all the little shops and people selling knicknags to all the tours and the shook you went there uh or you're talking about somewhere else yeah those places right there is that a particular place where you can buy me yeah it's the big market the sook the shook yeah i think that's what they call them in Arabic places. Yeah, sooks, six, six, yeah. So we went down there, and I'm like, man, people ran through here.

It was like war, and people had to run through these narrow. We didn't even run through. Like, because they're stoned. They, like, they zigzag and they go down. There's like, Indiana Jones type shit. Yeah, right, right. And you know when war. You go down some and you're like, no, how.

Yeah, and people got to run, people had to run through it back into date. Like when Rome was there or whatever was going on at that time. And then Ronald was like, those, they go to Christian. like some thuggish looking like some thuggish people just sitting on the stoop and Ronald like that's a church she's like that's the Christians right there near the bathrooms she's like they put them near the bathrooms she's like yeah they be stabbing people and everything I was like oh them Christian Christians too I was like niggas don't believe like that need don't believe in God enough to stab somebody you know and I'm in a place where people like we got race over here

and they got they believe that's their race yeah their religion is yeah because they all kind of look the same to me yeah to me, and that's why I thought, I'm like, man, man, we gotta, God need some diverse. She's like, what do you mean? Tel Avivis is diverse. She's like, they go a Russian Jew, they go, a Southern citizen says, Jew,

you got an Ethiopian Jew. Well, that is weird, too. It's like, in America, diversity is just skin color. Yeah. But, like, that's not the only version of diversity. There's old young, there's fat thin, there's poor rich.

Because you'll meet black people that's white. Yeah. You'll talk. you be like oh shit they're gonna know the black person what's up nigger and like hello how you doing yeah oh shit you know i mean yeah and it's a it's a white dude over there and he's more like michael costa yeah you know than then then like the white dude that's something cocaine you know right with the gold chains on and shit so um yeah man so so what's what's this one the first the first part took i got a photo of a police officer i took me and my girl saw him he was like

damn that bitch bad and i gotta take a picture and i got on a black i got on a black matter i used to have a shirt like i was matter no i made a shirt based on our trip my first trip mushroom trip yeah of neil de gregard tyson and it said black matter lives and when cops see it they'll be fucked they'll be so fucked up like what's that mean like nothing that you think yeah and uh so i was wearing that shirt and i took a photo of one of this pretty ass polo you got that picture you got it somewhere i got it somewhere yeah you got it sent to me archive but then you You see in the military, the beautiful military women over there, like, and, like, you're like, damn, everybody has to serve.

And their tits are so fucking big. It's crazy because they're training. Yeah. But then you'll see little girls with makeup on at 10 o'clock at night. You're like, dressed, like, going to the cleats. What the fuck is this? And she's like, they partying because they got to go to the military in a few years. Bro, they, I remember going to a bar and having some Sahal chick, IDF, whatever, but Sahal is what

they say it. and then uh show the machine gun jackets out of it you know no magazine in it i mean and then over a shoulder with this green button down army shirt and i mean it's remember the scene in amistad where the mom's trying to hold onto her baby's hand and they're separating them and she's like that's how these buttons were on her fucking shirt with her tits popping out and it was like she's just drinking and am i nothing i've ever seen has been hotter than a hot fucking jew globe young chick with a fucking machine gun behind her. It's crazy.

I'm telling you, man. And we don't have, it's just some America just wouldn't wouldn't have. And that kind of explains the culture. And fashion ain't shit over there at the time. People wore whatever they...

It's a beach town. California. Kafka fiends, you know, like flip flops, you know, everywhere and like real beach culture type it got like a little sloppiness to it yeah you know i mean um so i go to the uh to the well and wall oh and they like um you want to go i'm like yeah i go did you have any expectations of it

well they explained like yeah she you know people explained to me like yeah this was a temple and this part got blown up so they still pray at the at the wall and um i'm going to the thing and i'm like yeah you got to put a yarmaco on i'm like how the fuck the yumma gonna fit on my on my hair. Also, like, that's a weird of them because you're definitely not Jewish. Yeah, but it stuck. But I think it's part of the thing, right?

So I'll do it. It's part of the thing, and I went, and they're like, you got to wash your hands. And I was like, damn, you got to do all this. This is before I knew how much rules in Judaism, right? I'm like, all right, I got to wash my hands. I got to put the thing on. And I go to the thing, and they was like,

no, you can't go there. I was like, why not? I'm going with all the bitches at. And they're like, you can't go to that side. And I was like, what the... It's all separated. Yeah, I was like, what? And they're like, yeah, men and women can't pray together.

Are you nuts? Like, I don't know what you're talking about. I was like, yeah, that don't even make sense. Because I know this lady is praying for a husband, and I know this dude is praying for a wife. And all they got to do is just turn and face each other, right? So I go to the man... I go over to the man's side.

Look at that. There's a fucking wall in between them. Yeah. So you come in this side over here. Now, I come from this side, because my girl isn't religious, so I'm way over here where the women's side is. And I'm like, yeah, I'll do it because they're like, man. This wall.

This wall was never there when I was there. This wall? Yeah, it was there, because it's up. That part is up. Yeah, you're up here looking down. Yeah. No, I mean, this wall that the mouse is on right now. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That's up. That's at a higher place. Oh, it's for the back. And then you take a ramp down. Oh, yeah, the ramp's over here. So yeah, you see the all the way to the bottom right. We're over there. I'm like, fuck it, I'm in town.

Let me do this thing. I never, for the experience, you know. And I walk all the way over to probably where that group of people is. It's probably like where the water fountain is or somewhere over there. Over the left? Probably somewhere, right to see the huddle. I think it's around there's the fountain or something. Okay.

And I do the hand washing. Yeah, the hand washing. And there's no towel. Oh, yeah. Why don't they have towels? Yeah, it's weird. And I'm like, I'm supposed to touch this, the thing. and then and then I put the Yamika on

and it sticks surprisingly I think I put it like to the side a little bit to be a little cool yeah and uh you know and I go up to the wall

and it's like I see people writing and tuck in the tucking notes in the wall putting notes on which I thought was weird in these little cracks yeah

I got that picture and I look and I'll take my phone out and it's a dude by the wall and he just like and he's just like this and I'm like oh this nigga he about to

he fought the freestyle rap or some shit because he's like he's just rocking back and forth like and I'm like catching his rhythm

and I'm like oh he's about to like he about to go in you know like he's about to rap he's very serious right yeah and I just waiting for his beat

and I snap a photo of him doing that I was pulling my phone and I snap a little photo and then I just I touched a wall. How did you?

I think it was like a warm, cool, cool feeling. Very, very, you know, trippy in a sense because you're feeling, it depends on your soul level. But you definitely feeling a form of energy through that. You know what I mean? It's a very historical place. So it's like you're feeling a little bit of history there. And I think they say on the other side is like the club or some shit on the other side of the wall.

Well, there's like a... There's something over there that is like not as serious, I think. You mean like over the wall? Yeah, once you get to the other side of the wall. Because you're in another... I think you're somewhere else, right, once you're on the other side? Yeah. You can't really go through it.

You're going to go around or whatever. I don't know. I've never really been on the other side. But I think there's another territory that's not Jewish. I don't think. Yeah, I thought that was like the Dome of the Rock was right back there. Hold on, actually.

Here's a good picture of it. So that's the Dome of the Rock, this thing. And that's the Western Wall. I don't know, what's there? What's all this? Hamburger spot. That's what the McDonald's going to be. You know what I mean?

But, yeah, whatever it was, they said it wasn't going to be. You know anything about animism? It's the oldest religion? One of their tenets is like that every thing living, and it might even be not living, have an energy to them with like a history and almost like a memory. I know that for, to be true.

Through what? Ceremonies we've done. Through mushrooms? Well, I just did a dab by Iowa-waska shit, too. What right now? No. No. Me and my girl, we had a ceremony.

We did a ceremony. That's a whole other. That's a whole another. Yeah. that's a whole another podcast but with animism it's like you see a tree

you see an animal whatever and it's like they're all sort of these living things I don't know how they're connected I don't know all the tenets of animism but like with that in mind if there's been a stone somewhere for a thousand years they've observed what's gone on around them

for a thousand years and you touch that wall a very fought over and tumultuous wall and they didn't replace any of those stones so you're touching where like Jesus might have just like like pop hit up there you know to be like I just got to lean on

something for a minute he might have been you're not a urinated on that yeah exactly Roman soldiers at the last supper he was right there yeah yeah and that old city is like it's a direct connection to a thousand years ago and I'm tripping because I'm like my mom being the Christian she is would like flip out she will flip out really man yeah yeah yeah Yeah, I'm just thinking about it. Because that's why I went and experienced it for my family mostly Christian. And you sent all the Puritan-looking Christians there with their little outfits on. And it don't even hit you like, oh, this is that place.

Everybody's trying to go. And then they walked me into this doorway, and they was like, it was a stone there. And everybody was rubbing the stone, crying over the stone. And they was like, this is where they cleaned Jesus when they took them off the cross. And I was like, I remember taking my cell phone and rubbing it on the stone. You know what I mean? because everybody was touching, everybody was like crying.

Tushing this stone. And we went in the church and they was like, this is the church where Jesus. Church of the Holy Sepulchre. That's what it's called. Yeah. And it looked like an Indiana Jones set. It had hitting like caves and stuff in it.

And they was like, you want to go downstairs? And I was like, nah, nah, because I don't want whatever's in there to like. Come out like Indiana Jones. Yeah, well, say, close your eyes. Keep your eyes closed. Something there. and then yeah that's what it

and it had the hanging things up and like you know they said Jesus's tomb uh huh Jesus's tomb that's Jesus tomb right there and you go in there

you could walk right through it well I didn't go I didn't the line was long The line and they was like you want to they was like you want to wait for to see Jesus took out like damn

I'm fin to go see Jesus my family gonna be flip the fuck out and they were like you want to go to see Jesus and they was like hollow on the line and they was like 45 minutes and I'm like man I'm hungry I'm trying to wait 45 minutes to see Jesus I was like to be there for real I was like I could just pray to the motherfucker they always told us we can find her just by prayer I was like yeah man I ain't going to wait no 45 minutes to see Jesus man I'm hungry and they're like we got the best restaurant

It's a little bit of them. It's a little bit. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. I'm If you can wake up for sunrise, you can wake up for these shoes. Dillon Freewater's by Burke Kreiser.

And went to the restaurant, and, uh, they, we was like, how long, how long to wait the restaurant? There was like, 45 minutes. And we was like, put us on a list. We waited 45 minutes. The restaurant. Oh, my God. And it was cool, man. We sat at a table, and the chefs came out. I mean, they started playing music, and they was like, yeah, what's cool about this restaurant?

The chefs make the dessert in front of you. And they came out, and the tables had foil on it, and they just threw all the chocolate and everything, like, right there on the table. And it was just this big mess, and people just ate off the table. And they served your hummus, the olive oil was good. I've had hummers. Yeah, it was also oil on it. And the peter bread was amazing.

So fresh. Nope. preservatives in that shit and now you're gonna be bad and you partaking in other plates now at this point I'm coming on my ain't gotta order nothing because you realize you order a main I mean everybody ordering like that was the thing I'll say when I got there and I learned I was like oh this why my girl order all these plates because they just used to eat off all the plates right right right like I'll have some you have some you have yeah yeah they had this deal that kind of Yaffa food

and it's everywhere where if you order a main like lamb chops or something like that it's 55 shakle and it comes with all the sides you want Papagana Nush those color flour the Hamo Tseem, the pickles Israeli salad

Israeli salad Oh, I love israeli salad The hummus, the china Everything But you can fill up on the other shit And so obviously Jews be Jewing You know so like Well I just won't order a main

And they go no if you don't order a main It's 35 shuckles And then they do shots with you The people are coming around to do shots with you oh yeah it goes some it goes some alcohols let's do shots pop pow that's us that's on us you know and i'm like this is wow did you find them to be inviting or or standoffish invite anywhere in the middle either i realize you try to pay for stuff they're like no i got i got it they fight over that and then you just like you just sit back you guys figure out it was paying for me because black people

we like to split the bit we split everything yeah we itemize everything what you had lemonade get that I'm gonna fucking lemonade. Because you start off like that. You order, they'd be like, everybody at home, but they order in a thousand places. You're like, I'm just gonna get the lemonade.

Yeah. Because I ain't gonna pay for a thousand people. White people want to split the whole check. And then you go and you're like, oh, okay. And then they fight over it. And you just like, oh. And then, you know,

you learn to like sometime take care of it. Yeah. But because you don't know, because you're gonna sit in eat a meal and they're going to give you that bill and it's going to be like $400. And you're like, oh, shit. And they were like, it's in shekels.

And you're like, oh. oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i got it get whatever you want to you know um so i mean but then all right that was jerusalem i got a story about church of holy sepulchre okay so i'm there with my brother so when we went in yeshiva in seminary there was only go to the jewish court there's definitely don't go to the arab quarter they're like stay at the fuck away from there um we'd like take one step in and then go right back out like literally a step and like oh my god did it yeah and then the two Christian quarters, the Armenian and the Greek, whatever, Orthodox. But my brother, when I went there six, seven years ago, first time in 25 years, he was like,

let's go to the Christian quarter. I'm like, are we allowed? He goes, yeah, we're not religious anymore. Let's just go. And I went, he went one day while I met my old rabbi, do a little learning. And then he was like, let's go back. So he had gone. And he goes, I'll wait in line at the church. I already went to Jesus to him. I'll wait in line for us. Go look around. Yeah. Because it is a line. Okay? You're going through all these caves, these ornate, gold, everything's whatever.

And I turn a corner, I just hear, Ari? I'm like, what? Tom Rhodes is there. Oh, that's hilarious. He's everywhere. I'm like, what? What? Tom Rhodes.

I'm like, same as you, I guess. What are you doing? I'm like, I'm here with my mom. I'm like, I'm here with my brother. And then I was going to, that rock that they wash. everybody's crying they're touching it they're screaming and crying and they just want to touch that rock that jesus got that taken off the fucking thing and then bathed on they washed his body and i was like i'm going to get uh steve simone like a keychain from here he's real religious you know and he goes

keychain don't get him a cross i was like where do you find a cross because they're all the hawkers are outside what you do is you take the cross what you do with your cell phone you put the cross on the thing and it gives it the fucking power yeah I don't like that is a better so you go right outside because you can get a $100 one a $5 one whatever got one of those had a little piece of soil in there with a little glass you can look in Jerusalem soil and put it on there let it power up took a picture of it for Steve gave it to him his mom he loved you know he likes artifacts like that his mom had COVID a few years later bad they pretty much said hey come home say goodbye during those years and um get the brother home like she's not gonna it's it's over like come say goodbye and um and then they legalized like a hydro i don't know some treatment they had in florida and it turned her around but he gave her that cross and she's like the cross would turn it around yeah of course and she goes tell ari he saved me and i was like well yeah you got to say jesus had something to

do with it yeah and the beliefs man that's how powerful beliefs are for whether it's right right or wrong you know um but that place is wild and my brother pointed out it was all the little the little things with incense coming out and all the movements they have and the jews have these other movements yeah it goes if you take a step back if you're an alien they all look like the same religion they all just got their movements this versus this versus like it's just like you can feel religion there and the outfits the outfits and so almost like yeah we're about to go to my ex-husband uncle's house house and we drive and we we're in like an old part of town and i see a sign that says you will

uh respect or whatever we will throw we will stone you and she's like now it's about to really get racist because they don't like women dress like us over here like oh benabrook yeah probably and we went through this corridor narrow and i'm i'm i'm I remember hearing that said the Gittos was the Jewish Gittos before American Gittos before black people took over. Now I'm seeing the hood and feel like the hood.

When I saw that sign and said you're going to honor our things or infidels and shit. You know, it's like stay out. And they were like, yeah, they'll throw rocks. People go through that, yeah, this person got hit with a rock last week story. You know, like how niggas be like,

yeah, so and something got shot last week. They'd be like, yeah, Sunday got hit with a rock three days ago. Yeah, they're like, don't know driving in the Sabbath here. Don't do any of that shit. Fuck off. So. You know what they did? The rumor was, I don't know.

It's not coming up here, but that you can't drive in the Sabbath in their neighborhood. And they put up, you know, those little things come up on the road. So it's like you can't drive a car through it, but you can walk through it. And we walked through. We had to hop out of the car at some point and walk through. Yeah. The narrow corridors and the buildings go high up. And I remember seeing a kid.

and my rona spoke to the kid the kid just stared at him and my girl spoke to the kid and then I was like and they just kept walking and I saw the kid and he was looking at like a dead rat or something

and I was like what's up? And he just like looked at me and I was like, hey and I was like here and he just stared and he slowly spoke and he just scrambled off and I was like oh they hood hood here

you're so far into them yeah but my authority whatever he once he figured like oh this ain't the this ain't no Ethiopian East African the Kushi Jews are different yeah he's like oh shit he then he just spoke and he just he just left and then went to see her uncle who's what's his oh what's his name he's a he's an artist and a puppet person there like and that he was born in that neighborhood then he got gentrified he got a neighbor I think

by the orthodox whatever neighborhood was in because he's like a hundred he's like a hundred some years old so whatever neighborhood was in he was born there and then the orthodox moved moved in after so and I'm like man this is the hood and then that's when I found out listening to how non-religious people talk about these people I'm like they the niggas of the Jews bro they're the they get treated like the niggas over there and then when you go to Williamsburg they try to act like all high and mighty like they don't speak they don't want to speak to you but since i've been there i'm like no i know who you is because anything and the real i say they're the niggas of the jews because they be fucking the rules up like when covid came they were like you can't be in the

simulate and six feet apart they was like fuck all that if god god is the same this shit my mom and say god got us yeah we can be in the same room it's funny i met a i met a guy here a few blocks away. Early COVID, it was like, I guess we'll do lockdowns or just say, it was like,

like the first week or something. And I talked to a guy who was like, oh, I'm a rabbi in the neighborhood. We'd love to have you here. Like kind of modern, religious.

We know who you are. You're a comic, you know? We'd love to have you if you want to come Friday night's dinner anytime. I was like, all right. I was like,

you guys still doing services? Like, no, we shut down there in COVID. I'm like, really? I thought religious exemption. They're like, it's a disease, bro. What religious exemption?

But those guys are like, They don't. That's what the, I think that's what the tunnels came up. They be not getting in the military because of that shit. They be doing all the niggie shit. They don't believe in the state of Israel. They're like, no, it's supposed to be when Messiah comes, then worse the country. You're not supposed to do it until then.

So we're just living here, but this ain't a country. And so they don't believe, they're like, we're not serving in a military to protect something that doesn't exist. Yeah, I heard they be like, fucking all the rules up. So that's what I think those Jew tunnels were. They're like, we got to lock these doors. You guys can't get in there. and they're like, well, we'll find another way in. Oh, wow.

Because we're praying. Yeah. Wow. That makes sense. Yeah. And then after the, all right, you can open the doors. We're going to get these tunnels, though.

Yeah, we're not going to give them up. We're good. It's good storage. And then I was like, why these people beefing? Why they put them next to each other? That was my question when I got to Jerusalem. She was like, this side is Muslim. This side is Hasidic.

And then the Christians over here. And I'm like, none of this is where I'm from. It's done purposely. Yeah. You would think they put like, all right, so Arabs, you go a lot. Yeah, like, space it out. Yeah. The secular is you go Tel Aviv.

No, we all, it's like right. It's like, it's just like a wave, like when a wave hit, like right there. I mean, when the Jewish quarter ends, the Arab quarter begins, it's just, it's an imaginary line. It's this. And now it's Arab quarter. One stalls Arab, one stalls's Jew. So. I wonder if they're friends with each other.

Man, that was crazy. And then, and then we left there with the Miss Pay Ramon. The desert, my girl for every place. The crater in the middle of the... Oh, that crater. The crater in the middle of the desert. You got pictures of that? Yeah.

Okay. And we stayed at the hotel. Don't know it. Man, it's a, it's a, uh, was it kosher? It's called kosher hotel, right? Where it's everything in the ocean. It's a spa, apparently. And we felt a little guilty for going there and spinning the bread.

Yeah. But she was home, she wanted to, she has a little, she had a little paper in her pocket. Yeah. So we had a room overlooking the crater. and they had wild she's like you know how some you know Israel had Israel had wild uh cats yeah oh speak about the cats so her friend with her friend she was like oh I got to go I got to feed the cats I was like what yeah I go out and feed the stray cats in the park it's like a million cats in uh in Israel right yeah you know where they came from go ahead just say it anyway it doesn't

matter they so when the British came there were too many rats and big mice oh I heard that Let's bring in a few cats to kill them. But then the cats had no natural enemies. So they just bred and lived out there. And they're mean. They're mean. Funny story. When I landed in Lebanon, they had a dog problem.

And then they killed two million dogs. To kill too many of them. They killed all the dogs. Oh, my God. Really? That's how people was feeling. Even the Lebanese people were like, yeah, they killed the dogs, all the straight dolls. Bring in the Syrians, please.

But that's what happened when I got there. 1.5 series landed. That's a whole other story. Wow. You know, so, but yeah, man, we went to Miss Perry Ramon, and they got, wow, Ibex. Like, those goats that stand on stuff.

And, uh... Standing on, like, rocks. They stand on the side of rocks, and they got the little horns. And I got video of them crossing the street, like Billy goats. You know, they eat out of the trash can. They like... Damn. They, like, everywhere, right?

And, uh, but it's, Wow, the seat, because you got this beautiful view of this crater. You said it like a hotel like this? Yeah. Like a view down there? They added another one, but it was only one at the time. Okay. And I remember going to get some food, and it was like a thousand cheeses.

A thousand cheeses? And I was like, man, y'all really like cheese. It was wet cheese. It was like dry cheese. It was balls of cheese. Uh-huh. You know, I'm usually just a American cheese and cheddar, right? Yeah.

And then this cottage cheese. and it's like all these cheeses and then it's like pickled fish and it's like it's like cold shit and I'm like

yo can I get let me get a burger y'all y'all got burgers yeah we got a burger can I get a burger oh we can't cook the burger I was like why not because we made the cheese

in the fridge we can't keep the brown beef in the fridge place that we keep the cheese and I was like what and they were like yeah we cook burgers doing it on a whole different

uh time and i'm i'm only here two days they're like you don't get that on thursday i'm like what about friday they meet up the it's whatever rules they got they don't do you can't mix yeah they don't mix it so they can't i couldn't get no burger i had to walk to a gas station get up i eat a gas station burger it's so funny because it's like i said those cultural differences you notice when you land oh the doorways are different oh the fucking air conditions are in the outside you you can't even comprehend like what do you mean you don't have you out of burger meat like no we got it we just can't We already put some cheese on this grill. Yeah, we're doing cheese.

And you'd be like, what? It makes me stop screaming at people because you want to like, wait, don't do that, but you realize, I might just not know how the system works here. No, this is the food. And it's like, you know, Israeli food is healthy. First, I want the healthiest cleanest diets you're going to have. But when you're like, when you're a meat and potato guy and there's like different meat in potatoes, because you think about it, I ain't see one cow when I was over there.

And they keep being like, yeah, we got, we got lamb. I'm like, what? Yeah, we don't have ground beef. We got lamb. And this is a shit I hate they do over there, over you in other countries. It's the same. No, no, the fucking ain't the same. It's a different meat with a different diet.

You know what I mean? Spices in there. Yeah, you put arugula on the motherfucking hamburger. Bitch, you don't get the fuck out of here, the cherry tomatoes and shit? Oh, what the fuck is this? Drizzling in olive oil. How many? Black seeds on my hamburger bun?

I was like, what the fuck is there? Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, yeah, they didn't have because they said it was a kosher hotel and so we're like, all right, you know, and we got a, she took me down, we booked, it was my birthday, so we booked like an ATV through the crater.

And I was like, this is going to be cool. We got the ATV and we drove it down to rocks, but you don't think how it's going to be. It sounds romantic and you got to, boom, boom, going out of your rock. And her back, she got a bag, she's like, hold on. I was like, what? She's like, I broke my back in three places.

I was like, why the fuck was you book? We had an ATV going out. You see that? We drove down that shit and a side by side. Well, on this right one, this one? I mean, something like, yeah, but they know the way down. Yeah. I mean, I off-roll now, so I get it, but.

And then around to there. Yeah, and then you're doing six hours in that crater. And then it's no food. Oh, right. It's all undeveloped, right? I don't know if I ever once in the experiment. Like your guy is. gonna stop in the middle of the desert

and he's gonna pull out a tray of wafers and Turkish coffee Turkish coffee rules and I don't even drink coffee but I had to because it was nothing else and it was so it was so big I'm allergic to coffee too and I drunk it and it's so bitter

and it's just like it's just like I don't know I can't describe because I don't drink it enough but it's all the bitter shit and you just got to drink it and it's hot but it's hot

it's hot but the coffee it's hot because you're in the desert but the coffee is also hot and they're drinking they're like

hmm this is good and they have the most amazing conversation it's these you know I think the the desert flies

are just gangsters fuck yeah yeah and they's like you want to drive or you want to go see the bedroom

you want to go talk to the bed one in the tents did you like let's just drive okay yeah you know I don't want to have

a conversation with the need I don't really know but I should have went to see them. I heard they cool as fuck and they were like, yeah, you get some tobacco. We did when I was 18

and I don't, I wish I could have done as an adult to meet them and like, what's your cultural about? I just like, when's the food? Where we sleep? And they're like, they got camels and they got stuff in there

and I'm like, I just want to drive. I just want to drive and I'm like full of dust and stuff. And I remember my girl went behind this big room. She had used a bathroom. There's no bathroom

and was in that crater, of course. She went behind a rock, the pee, right? She's squatted behind this rock a pee and a pee and a fucking tour one of those tour buses came down

while she was in the middle and she just had to sit there and really just sit there and continue peeing as this bus is full of tourists just came down this thing you know

I got a photo of that too you know so we go that and the bearish is night the pool the water is cold because it's November

in the crater so if you type in hotel and they got a little pool your room got a pool and it's the desert view.

Damn. Yeah. So we got a couple's, now we got a couple's massage. Okay. So we had one, you scroll down. Damn, look at it.

So the desert's all right here. Yeah, it's all right there. This is the only place. A deal happened. You know how Israel. Somebody did a shady deal and got control of this whole thing. Wow. But we had,

we, that's the, you went in this pool looking over that? No, that's the, we had our own personal pool. What? So we had a suite. Yeah, you got your own personal pool with your own view. It's still on the side like that,

but it's yours and the goats. The eyebecks came up here The goats come up to you and shit And, you know, Snit tried to get in your room And eat food And steal your bag So, you know They eat, they chew through anything

So, uh, we go get the couples massage And they was like, yeah, put on the white robe And, um, and, uh, come back out And I go and I put on my white robe And I come out and it's a black dude I see a black dude And I ain't seen a black dude Miss Beron. He's like sweeping the floor

and he see my feet and he just stopped and he just looks up slowly and I'm like what's up and he just stares and he just like and he just sweeps off and I was like damn he never seen the nigga before or he never seen the dude in the row and here with the robe on on that side of the on that side of the glass you know what I mean and I go upstairs and all the women are in a huddle you know and they're talking to my girl and She's a little, whatever, she's a little flustered or whatever. And I realized like, oh, shit, none of these masseuses can, I don't think they can touch me.

They can't work. It's a religious one. I don't think they could touch me. Because I was like, which one am I going? They picked a lady like a sweet, a big, big, big, big, big, back gorilla Swedish lady with, like, the side buns. You know what I mean? It looked like, she chopped down trees.

And I was like, and she was like, yeah, they can't, none of them can touch you. So you got a male one? No, I had to get the female, but she was, from Swedish someone like blonde you know none of the Jewish ones can touch yeah so wow that's so different yeah it's different and then my girl mad I'm like what's what's wrong with you she was like and you know you know when you date somebody like they're sensitive to racial shit more than me because you don't give you don't give a fuck and uh she's like yeah man the ladies came up they saw you and they was like oh wait where you find this one

so he's not he's not like the other ones he got intelligence in his eyes Wow And that's Israel's way They say whatever the fuck Wow And they mean that as a compliment Yeah

But you're like But the basis of it is That none of the rest of them have intelligence Whatever it was She just felt the certain A certain way about it You know what I mean She got mad

Yeah she was mad She was mad And we leave there and go to Eilat We go to Eilat You know what I mean Dauphin Reef They got the malls I went to McDonald

I want American food by this time. We're done with it already. We weeks in. We weeks in. Wow, that long, dating a chick for that short amount of time. July, August, 10 months, five months in, you're there for a month. Bro, you're braver than I. We were there a month?

We were there a while, like two weeks. We did a trip. We went a month at the time. I go there for months now, but I remember if we got through a lot and I'm like, this more like it. Because you're like, yeah, it's like Miami. And I see a mall. I'm like, I'm definitely hitting McDonald's, you know what I mean?

I was like, I got to try McDonald's everywhere I go And I went and I remember going to the mall And there's a mall with stores you never heard of It was like a ragged-ass outfits in this mall Ragged ass outfits in this store Ragged ass in this store Right And I go to the mall

And I get a, I think a double quarter pound with cheese Or a big bag with extra cheese or something You know, I'm feeling good It's in shekels So I'm like, I'm feeling bald out, you know and I get my food and it's missing some instead of adding cheese they took away cheese oh my god

and I'm like what the fuck so I go back in the thing and I'm like yo I said extra cheese and they was like the guy from the back looked leaned back

and he had on the thickest glasses and he was like cross-eyed and he was like slow like I don't know what the what's the what's the N.P.C. What's the word for? Retarded?

Yeah. Oh, what's what's it called? Cerebral, I don't know what the fuck is. Mongoloidism? No, no, right? But no, it's a word that you see. Surip palsy? No, it's mentally challenged.

Mentally challenged. So, whatever it was, I was like, oh, two fucking retarded comics trying to remember the name of them. Another PC comics. This is going to go well. And I ain't watching. I was just like, oh, shit, they got, they got them here too. they make them in they make them like this too you know uh and I'm like this where

they keep them at it down there yeah at the McDonald's because I my girl was like why you want to go to met no nobody you know only only the lowest of the low eats at McDonald's we know we don't eat at no McDonald's you got to be lonely and and crazy no it's not here oh so oh it is it's your buddy do you lock himself out Yeah, probably. All right, buts. Oh, it's four or five? All right.

We got like 10 more minutes. Yeah, so, man, I'm like, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm like, they got him. I'm like, this way they be hiding the motherfuckers. You know, like got y'all ass. Because you try to tell me how, you know, dude, we're so smart, we're intelligent, we're so artsy, you know, we, we're well-read here. You just shipped off your fucking downskins. there you go there you go right there and it's like so you wanted to put extra cheese on i'm like

nah no i'm good i'm just gonna eat it like this like i thought you were trying to be rude you're just dumb no yeah yeah yeah it ain't done it's just like i'm not fin to go back and forth right i've been you know in israel but when when i met her mom and me and my girl we go we'd be getting into these little spats like this and that and i met her mom and her and the in the texer guy got into it about where the where you put the coins in the coin machine i'm like oh this what y'all niggas do y'all just like the debate about Little shit. Because that's what I was there doing the whole time a lot,

just debating about the smallest of things. And then friends would be asking like, so what do you feel about, you know, some of the well-read people? And you're like, you know, whatever. You're just having these debates the whole time. That's a good observation. It's they just like to debate.

They just like to talk. They're not even mad. They're just like talking all the time. I was there. So when you see the war going on and this guy saying, I'm going to do this and they're like, oh, they're just doing it on a bigger version. yeah you see norm or anybody they're like they just like to talk out little shit they

no coin go here no you know and it's just that you know and i'm like oh okay and um and so i'm like i'm not gonna go back and forth about no motherfucking cheese with this niggis just like your way's fine yeah that's actually will help me like handle my parents and my family because i'm like oh you just that's what you guys do yeah no no do it this way i'm like we're taking this straight like it's better this We'll go your way. You go with your girl or something and you be like, hey, I'm thinking about doing it. You should do, you just, this is how you should do.

I was you. I'm like, I ain't asked. I didn't ask you. I didn't ask you. I'm just doing this. I'm not asking you. I'm telling you, I'm about to go to the bathroom. Well, you're going to go to the bathroom.

Well, you're going to need it later. I'm like, a lady. Yeah. Then I'll go later. Yeah, you know. So it's like. And so, yeah, and I went, I remember I went to swim with the dolphins and the dolphin reefs.

And, you know, which was beautiful. And my girl knew the, people who started this place started this place Of course Because in a place like that All the artists are artistic people know each other All the non-religious people know each other

Because they all had dreams And they all decided to do certain such Right So you go to the nightclub And they'd be like Such and such is on this nightclub We used to be bartenders together Like 18 years ago

And you know I swear it feels like almost every Israeli That left became made money That left what? Israel for the smallest little thing because they're obsessive about the thing it's also I think I mean we're just guessing

I think it's a mixture of like money culture like make money like do it well you know education culture like everybody is educated just Jewish intelligence you know that's a part I'll get way some like pushback but like whatever genetically that's what we are I see it I just see it

you do yeah I mean I'm black and I'm a person of intelligence. Yeah. But the imagination and the, the, the, the, the, the thirst for, and I guess because you, I didn't know, people like, we on an island, and I didn't realize that, like, y'all really are, I mean, not y'all, but it really is an island because you can't go here,

can't go here, yeah. So the thirst for the information. And army training, too. So it's like, then you get a regimented training. You got that, and then you got a break out of it and unlearn. And I didn't know that, because when you see all the Star Davis and stuff, that that is the beginning of the mental training to like this is

your place yeah and you hear that this is what we're taught for y'all so when we get out of the army we go do drugs we go to Greece we go to these places to re-learn who we really are yeah they all go to Thailand and fucking Nibar and whatever

my dad said when he was in the army way back you know 50s and the deal was go to Petra and die was like the standard thing because I got to see the world so you'd go sneak into jordan yeah go see petra but the jordanian border patrol was was horseback patrol and they were like some of the best trackers in the world and they were like you'll try to hide they'll find you they'll kill you but like you like fuck it i want to see petra but like go to petra and die

so that's why i go to those places because knowing people die and never leave in Atlanta because i'd rather die my thing is i just didn't want to die at my mom's porch damn damn That's why I went September 11th, if I went to Bahrain to entertain the troops during the war. I went to Afghanistan, I got to stand. Because I was like, a part of me was I'm going to die anyway. If I stay here, I'm going to die. Because it's violence that goes on here. So like, fuck it.

Like you might die. It's like, we're going to die regardless. The thing society try to put on you in my, you know, in this small Christian, whatever, you know, whatever it is, you should do this, you should do that, whatever that is. and you want to break free of that. You know, you're in the hood every Friday, you know, doing the hood shit. And there's no way out because you can't afford to get that. I'm a man, I'm a nigga smoking weed.

They got, I'm just looking through their travel magazines that they might have took from somewhere. That was me because I didn't smoke weed. Wow. You know, just looking through travel magazines, you know. What is that look? Look at that light. You know, so first chance you get, you're gone.

And that's kind of how I want to do comedy because I could travel for free. I could have a hotel when I get there. And the club give you food so I can eat. And they give you some tips on where to go. Yeah. That's the cool thing about travel for comedy too. It's that, well, you guys live here.

What's the not locally planet thing to do? Like, oh, this is cool bars that does fucking hip-hop on Tuesdays. You should check out. When I went to Paris, I told everybody, that movie where all the killers go to that hotel and they can't kill no more, you know, like the Wic, John Wick movies, they got this hotel once you go in you turn your guns in right right right i was like that's the green room for me in the world i can go to any country and go to a green room and be like that's my safe way i can say whatever fuck i want to and the council coach ain't really in there i could be like

and when i was single where's the women where's the wine where's the food and then you'll judge and they'll tell you exactly what you do want to know not like what they think you want to know yep do me and norman we're in um the comedy seller Vegas and they'd have a few guys we knew and then like a couple locals and so we're talking about something about chicks or something like that and one of the local women come the comedians comes in and we're both like and then um you know so stuff happens because we don't know her yeah and she's just like i guess she kind of hurt us and she put her stuff down she's like that sounds like a chick you fucking an army blanket and an attic i'm like oh she's cool oh yeah she's like i misjudged you lady

i'm sorry and chicks will tell you like two female comments yeah is is i ain't never been to a place because we're American, you never heard a female comment. It was like, yeah, this place got great comments full of sex clubs. I had to start going. I used to fuck, I used to go there all the time, but, you know, I'm 30 now, so. And I'm like, God damn.

But that's the women of other places that allowed them to explore their sexuality, and then they become like mothers and stuff like that, you know. That's a crazy way to travel. You travel to fucking not die. Well, your odds are like, Like, you're going to, yeah, the people around you, they go into jail.

The people who went to college to do college things, but I'm not one of those guys. I'm the first grader from college, but I just threw all that shit to the side and piss people off from my family. Because my mom was born in the projects. Really? Yeah.

Damn. She's born in projects, and they stressed education. In Atlanta? In Athens, Georgia. But you don't know at the time, they couldn't get education. That's why they stressed it so much. grandma had the form so she couldn't get education my grandfather left them in the projects

they they was the first to go to segregated schools and they teachers called them niggers and said they were they they got weird brains they ain't gonna learn anyway they had to hear that stuff that stuff but then i meet black people who grew up in the land and they like yeah my grandmother graduated from more house i'm like motherfucker because they have so much they're family dynamics or whatever so far ahead but then they treat me like they treat me like I'm less than right but this a this is within the my community thing you know so I wasn't I'm from a certain whatever anyway you know I would go to spell when they're like why are you hanging out with this dude what do you mean because I was they just knew I wasn't of

that cloth you know yeah it's a it's a hierarchy within that in our society too and then you find out about brown paper bag testing in these things. And he's like, what do you gotta be lighter? You gotta be lighter than the brown paper bag to go to get accepted to certain fraternities. Wow, when I got to college and found out about high yellow and redbone. Oh yeah.

And like what that meant? I was like, black people like, no, but black people have to hate someone. So it's other black people. Yeah, and he's like, man, we was denied. You know, you hear a lot about what white people deny us of, we don't hear about what we deny. And I'm a product of some of that denial.

And when I, even in Hollywood, I walk in those rooms, I see it on their face. What do you mean? Like, they don't like them there. Because a nigger just walked in the room. Not an African American. Not, uh, you know, not a, uh, you know, not somebody from the arts. Right.

Who like the same, who are inspired by the same artist you are. And I say niggie and I act in a way sometimes they don't want. other cultures. I'm supposed to not be in there. Because there's like an assimilated kind. Yeah. And then there's like. There's American Jews and his Israelis.

Right, right, right. So you say Jews, like, you got to be more specific. It's like, it's learning like when somebody speaks Hebrew now. You know, Mazotov. You know, Mazotov. Mazotov. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, oh, he started here.

It's like, oh. Or somebody was like, oh, you date of Israeli? You know, you know, you know, a little bit of Hebrew. I'm like, you know, you know, Kahah, Kaah, like Ken, Ken. And she's like, you know, you know what Husbah is? And I'm like, that's Yiddish. She's like, Yiddish. It is, it is Yiddish.

I don't even know. How'd you know? And I was like, it sounds a little Eastern European. Twangy, yeah. And I didn't even know. I just came out and said it. But you just sit at the table. Like, I didn't know, and I don't really know the words.

So I'm fucking it up. But when they say like, you know, when they come up and say microwave or my you mean or whatever, I know from listening, that means hello or, you know, what's up? What's up? You know, and you're at the table and you sit there and you eat and so you learn through listening, you know, what some of these things mean.

And then you learn to fake it when you eat somewhere. Yeah, just like say enough in an accent. Yeah, like, kin, kin, you know, when I was talking to my daughter, you know, a mottecchli, like you start. to get the some of the your your your your your mouth started to form a certain way when I when I talked to my you know my daughter you know and I said the way my lady was saying versus like but it's a still country that's so funny we had when I was in fourth grade or fifth grade this guy David Kurtzer came in and his dad was like an ambassador so he was all over he learned

Hebrew Hebrew Israeli Hebrew and we all read from the prophets or something in Hebrew we're like Ani holihe Leche de chereotinba and he'd be like And we're like, what the Who the fuck is this guy? Like real deep Spanish You can go like Quanto tempo

Desde Aki And then somebody else like It's just like Oh that's different You know it When I say my brother Nesika or Anilhehavatah Wow

And she say She say She said I know She said in a different Way you know what I mean And learning that Aya-Fi and Yaffa yafah is one's I'm tired and one's pretty

and I'm like damn that's too close that's too close now give me another word yeah that's too close and it's teaching me these things Siti you know it was meaning titty and I'm like I got that one you know Bamana I got that and the hugs and these and these like scattered words

and then learning to put them put them together you know so if you had we gotta wrap this up if you had to tell somebody like hey you're going to Israel you gotta do this. It could be like try a certain food, go to a certain place, do a certain thing. You know, they might not know. Obviously, they're going to go to Westwood. They're black and single. I'm going to be like, go to club Atlanta. It's an eggplant club.

An eggplant club? Yeah. Abrogyne is the guy told me. And I'm like, what does that mean? He's like, I don't want to be racist. But it's where Israelis go to meet black dudes. Because I was like, why is it a club? I went down. I was like, I'm from Atlanta. What is this? They're like, it's a club. They play in hip-hop and shit. And then he's like, yeah, it's an eggplant club. So if you single and you're single and you're single and you're Black, I'm like, you got to go there. Atlantic. Black can go in.

They're like, you want to go in? I'm like, nah. It's bad news. I'll make mistakes. Yeah, you know. Because when you walk around, when I walk around Israel is an African-American, you know, it's just what it is. The looks you get from a certain type of ladies. You get looked at differently, though, right?

Can you feel it? You can feel it. You can feel the ones that are attracted to you. You could feel other brothers who might be like, oh, shit. You know, it's one of those of the people who don't like. you but you're an American realizing you don't know what you're getting discriminated against and most likely it's because you're an American and a lot of places don't like America interesting because you're like most because I'm

black you're white no you're white to them like how my like how my African friends when I when their uncle came from Nigeria and I walked in the house and he was like you know Kata you know and he looked up he African and he was like uh and they and they he was tense it was tense and he was like I was like what the fuck happened he was like he said who let this white man wolf in my house what this white man wolf doing here and I was like oh shit you know uh and he was like I told him you was in Nigerian that didn't know you didn't really know you know that didn't take the trip home

and know you was in Nigeria. And I think that was the last day I was, you know, identified as African-American. Now you're just American? Black. Black. Oh. Because I kicked it with Nigeria.

We went on a trip and we became cool. All enough, this was a random Nigerian that I met who became the leader of the army of Nigeria like 20 years later, you know, he runs stuff. So, but, you know, being, kicking it with a Nigerian family, seeing how they move and the hierarchy of the brothers and stuff. And I'm like, we don't, I don't have, I don't have that. I don't have a black American dynamic because the fathers wasn't there, but I don't have even this culture, this part of the culture that's been passed down.

You know, the five names and, and, you know, I told, I told my friend he needed to go home. I told him we was 20 something. And I was like, man, we lost. I was like, I don't know what to do. I mean, I'm in school and all that, but I have no, it's a gap. It's a blank space of who I am. And I was like, you have a, you got a flag.

I know, your parents raised you to not, you know, the ones that want to make you American. Oh, you got a language. You got a flag, you know, that goes all the way back. You got a history. You got to go, you got to go see this thing. And they did. They all end up going back, you know.

And I don't get into it. Because I remember his dad died, and they had to dress in their families, you know, in the African garb. And it was such a powerful thing to see. And he was like, you're a part of the reason why we all do this because we all went back. Oh. You know. And it's like, it's just strong to see. And I'll never have that.

Yeah, right. There's no connection to a homeless. until 23 and me came out and then I was like oh okay where you're from I'm mostly uh like Paris go figure well I'm I'm I'm German with the white side German uh French and uh what the black side Ireland um I'm like a bunch but I'm mostly Nigerian but I'm um not Europe I'm the other one on the other one what they say the Hebrew the the black Jewish part It's Eurobide and what else? Ebo.

And there's one try to start with an, I think it's Ebra, Ebra. So I'm like an Ebra version of that. Damn. Which they say that, which they claim to be the black. I'm like, that's ironic because I date a Jewish woman.

But that tribe claimed to be the black Jews. Oh, really? Yeah. And I'm 0.6 Iranian. And I'm like, man, that's probably I say Jews the way I say it. I would do 23. me, but I know what it's going to say.

Oh, yeah. You are. My girl did her. 50% Ashkenazic Jewish and 50% Ashkenazic Jewish. 99.7. 99.7. That's about right. That's more pure than a barred dove.

It could be 97% and then the three, other three percent is Italian or something. But yeah, man, thank you for having me. Yeah, thanks, Byron. Sponsored by the Star David. You got a, you got a travel tip when you go traveling? Oh, well, what I would say, yeah, if you're black, I would say, they do that the rest of food not just not so like israel but in general travel tip um once you leave the i one you should travel to see the privileges we have as a nation because this is a very

privileged nation oh yeah and you will see some things that will make you be like holy shit and i stopped complaining about racism and stuff once i saw what racism look like in other places and two um uh yeah once you leave you someplace you go you are american and you'll be looked at as an American. And you don't believe me, go to Paris. Go to Paris and see how they treat Americans on the level. Wow. And they're just like, fuck.

You speak English? No. And then they'd be like, I don't talk about it. I kept my mouth shut for a full day until I'm like, I got to eat. But I didn't even want to open my mouth because then it's like, well, now we know who you are. Yeah. We've done things. We've done things in other places.

Yeah, yeah. We fucked it up. I want, get the meal faster. yeah we say all that shit i'm in italy like hey man y'all put some cheese on this motherfucker chicken afraid all right buddy uh all right come back again and do afghanistan or so or cuba or anywhere but yeah yeah definitely come back again buddy i love you too man i appreciate it too appreciate it i already took me on do shrooms for the first time it was wild after i've been reading someone was calling me to it and he provided you provided the the the

The place. Yeah. That place in Joshua Tree. But it's not just the place, but like the spiritual place, the safe space. Yeah. Because I'm a child because of friends. I was scared, but I was getting called to do this thing. And I was reading upon it and you provided the safe space.

God, that was a sick place. A bunch of comics. So everyone's, oh, we're all friendly here. No one, no neighbors. No neighbors. Wilderness. The Milky Way was there. The Milky Way was there.

Wow. It was some type of solstice where the moon was bright, hyper moon, shooting stars. Shooting stars everywhere. But I think I saw some meteors there. I was laying black and I was like, saw a fire. And I was like, I know how much. I was like, Edgar, did you say? Yeah, I saw that.

I'm like, okay. And you kept asking me questions. You're like, you need anything? Or you saw me? You were like, I'm like, I'm everything. I was already eating or something like that. Like, it was just a trippy. Byron, where you've been?

And then you're like, him with an answer. I couldn't even go. And I was like, all right, he's good. He's good. I meant you need any water, but you've been good. I couldn't eat because I've eaten before. And I knew what the pattern was. You're going to eat P, E, P, E, P, E, P, and I just kept living it.

So I became full. By going back through time. By traveling, yeah. Well, I guess I ate just ate 10 million times. Yep. I know what it is to eat. And I remember having a thought And I was like

By the time I thought the thought I was already in the past That's how crazy my shit was The funny thing is too is like I read all that shit I had to go through it I love that you did You went off

You came back So to us like Oh Byron's been on a walk Or something like Hey Brian where you been We're looking for you I've been to the past And I've been to the future

It's all the same We're on a journey I'm like damn I thought I meant like over that rock Or that rock You're different I don't travel bro So yeah

That's all another story. So stay tuned. Welcome to the 2025 Trippy Nomination Award Show. I'm Ari Shafir. And this is the moment you've all been waiting for. The nominees for the 2025... Trippy Awards. it's been a great year everybody year two of the ubi tripping podcast and man what a year it was from the

start me and uh paul morrissey talking about our two trips a year um that's possible mistake challenge all the way up until well coming soon ralph bots uh on a reboot from the old skeptic tank podcast. It's been a great year, and we have to give it up for the people who were outstanding this year. First category. Best Pictures. Ethan McKenzie, Guatemala. That's when I was on. Joe, Sarah and Ari. Joe List, Sarah Tolomash and Ari Jafir. Eckuara. Great pictures by Joe List. Giulio Gallerati, Afghanistan. Man, that was a great one. H. Foley and Kevin Ryan, the true real fucking dirt bags, trash people. Route 66 pod. Sam Talent, France, Andrew Schultz, Burning Man, Tom Rhodes, Mongolia. Next up, best guest, Hamilton Morris, China, Ari Maddie,

work visa, Steph Tollev, Scotland. Oh, a chick. Burk Krecher, Vietnam. Paul Verzi, Italy, Tom Segura, Tunisia, and Harlan Williams last year's best guest going to africa best trip it's different than best guest here's the difference between best guest and best trip this trip i'm on six months traveling around enjoy my life great but if i'm boring like i normally am on podcast not best guest best trip best trip best guest you get the difference best trip uh jo list sarah dolomash visiting a rjavier in ecuador kevin and h Route 66. Burke Kreischer, Vietnam. That was a good one.

Mike Vecchio, and six months in Aruba. Jim Norton, going to Brazil with Patrice O'Neill and, well, you know, doing bad stuff. Joe DeRosa, China, Harlow-Williams Africa, and the Small Brain American, Connor McBee, Myanmar. Worst trip, Chris O'Connor, Switzerland. I mean, that's probably going to win. And John Fidelberg, uh, uh, beat by a, host mom in spain most surprising andrew shultz hey burning man that's a drug thing man

tucker carlson trying to staying off uh politics for once um tom sigora getting laid carman lynch follow me here carman lynch uh during drugs in peru ayahuasca steptolev knowing how to dance a scottish highland dance and chadwallin ghana dumbest move one of my favorite podcast Trippie Award. Tom Sigour, no condom, two different times with a German backpacker. That's just a crazy thing.

H. Foley, shitting himself. Mark Gagnon, making fun of a UAE cop to his face. Joe List, drinking warm tea. You gotta boil it. What does this one say? Scammed. Oh, Jordan Jensen scammed into helping.

Some fake recycling plant. Oh, we got to get some of this background. Best sexual adventure. Jim Norton, getting hookers in Brazil with Patrice, the legends. Dragosch, upskirts in Turkey. Tom Segora, the German backpacker again. Emma Wilman getting pink eye in Amsterdam, not Amsterdam, Netherlands. The drugs is the trippy trips.

Let's go. Andy Haynes, getting fake mushrooms in Belize. Carmen Lynch, ayahuasca. Hamilton Morris, the drug labs. Can you see me? The drug labs of China. Let's see here. Let's take these off for a second so I can see.

Ari. Oh, that's me. Snort and Ritalin? In Thailand. And then Danny Brown, Barcelona, getting hooked up with Barcelona at a festival. with any drug you want man i gotta get to those festivals best meal best meal mike corey eaten alligator in the uh jungle of afghan of uh wherever the fuck that was congo and paul verzi eaten um hmm eating uh italian eating italian food sorry at the at the edge of the parthenum

help me if you know any other ones if you remember any other ones best meals look it up all these will be in the comments below on youtube and um well that's right into the sun huh and um yeah leave comments on there it's if you agree if you want to vote do anything most adventurous this is a good one small-brained american going to meinmar getting back of a motorcycle just fucking live in his life man tom rhodes mongolia harlid williams africa um getting charged by a i mean this is the most dangerous but we'll get to that. Chad Wallen, going to Ghana, Julio Galerati, Afghanistan, Mike Corey, Congo, and Carmen Lynch, the Peruvian jungle to do ayahuasca. Lease adventurous, Tim Dillon, Pasha, London, Chris O'Connor, Switzerland.

Almost done. Oh, this is a fun one. Biggest piece of shit award. Graham K. selling arms to terrorists, that's a new one. Jason Ellis, being a complete arsehole in Germany. Janus Pappas, sticking a lion on his friend in South Africa. Joe DeRosa, following a guy,

you can't have the biggest piece of shit award without nominating Joe DeRosa. He is, I mean, we really should name this the Joe DeRosa Award. Even if he doesn't win, he's the biggest piece of shit I know. Following a fucking guy in China into the woods and getting lost. That makes you want Go Award. Joe List and Sarah visiting Ari in Ecuador. Paul Verzi in Ari, getting our two countries

a year challenge that we got in Switzerland. Harlow Williams, Africa, Julia Galerati, Afghanistan does make you want to go. Tom Rhodes, Mongolia, Burke Kreisher, that Vietnam trip. Damn, I really want to get a motorcycle out there. Small brand American makes me want to go back to Myanmar more than, oh, man. And Ethan McKenzie doing the Festus Santos Hamas in Guatemala. These ones, I need your help.

Best travel, buddy. Who would you most want to travel with? Just to the 2025 episodes. And the most dangerous. Mike Corey's up there. Bert Kreischer's up there. I mean, his wife almost divorced him

for what he did. But put your nominees in. And then most disgusting, Adam Rowe, puddles of urine in India. man, I don't ever want to go there. Joe List, doing a tour of gas stations, shitting diarrhea, gas station diarrhea tour in Ecuador.

Bert Kreischer, cleaning out ears, and H. Foley shitting himself. That's it, guys. All of these will be at the bottom of the screen on YouTube. Heather and Caitlin, two devout lesbians, are taking a break from their box munching championships to look at your comments and weigh them all in. Heather, as you know, is the Michigan Twin Cities champion of box munching.

Two years or, well, two out of three years. She took a break junior year to do what she called street munching when she wasn't competing, but she was getting back to the basics. And Caitlin, you know, obviously she's changing the game with her technique of box munching all over the world. They're taking a break from that. They're coming up for air, as it were, to look at your comments. Also, they're checking out the UBitrippin podcast Instagram account. So please weigh in right there.

And if you have any other ones, get in the comments, just in general. Get in the comments and vote for your favorite Trippie Award. They'll also have a list in there. Both of these will be pinned, I think, of the last year's Trippie Award winners. Okay, that's it. Byron Bowers again, Wonder Man is coming out in January. He's in Lady in the Lake on Apple TV. Spiritual Negro on Hulu.

I don't know if that's the actual name. I looked it up on IMDB. It's a spiritual Negro. But then when he told Niana, he put spiritual N-Sar-StarG-A. I don't know which one it is, but it's spiritual, and that's Byron. It's a great comic.

You can follow him at Byron Bowers on Instagram and Byron Bowers Live.com. Next week, Malina Vayantrub on Greece doing some helping refugees work. from the island of Lesbos. That's not you, Caitlin and Heather. You want to go there bad. That's it.

Thank you very much, Alan Kaffir, for editing today's episode. Thank you, YMH, for producing, as always. Guys, until next week with Milana, get out there and do some traveling, everybody. And vote. Vote for your best Trippie Award nominees and who you think should win. That's it, everybody.

Until next week, I'll see you later. Oh, and happy Hanukkah. Happy Hanukkah, I almost forgot. It's Israel. It's a Hanukkah episode.