You Be Trippin' - Italy w/ Paul Virzi | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

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How long were you in LA for? First 12 years of comedy. Okay. And then here for another 12. I remember, wow, you've been here for 12 now? That's crazy, I still feel new, right? I remember the first weekend I met you at the stand, you were like, hey, yeah dude,

that was, you've been here 12 years, dude, yeah. It adds up. You actually did it smart, you came at the best time. You came, I feel like LA was starting to, not that it was like dipping, it's still LA, it still has the comedy store and stuff, but New York was like popping off with the cellar, the stand had opened, the stand became hot.

I came like a month after the stand opened, maybe two months after. And the stand popped, they didn't think the stand was gonna become the East Side Cellar, which it is. Oh my God, it was like the preeminent, I mean you talk to anybody, especially the old Third Street stand, and it was like, I've talked to people through other people that didn't know me, they're like, oh noinent. I mean, you talk to anybody, especially the old like third street stand, and it was like, I've talked to people

through other people that didn't know me. Like, oh no, we've been there like four or five times. It's just like a thing to do in New York. Yeah. People actually now say, it used to always be the seller. People now go, oh, are you stand or seller? Or like with a stand and seller? Because the stand just does it right.

Like, you know, I mean, I don't like that somebody's eating octopus in front of me when I'm fucking, you know? They think, yeah, like there's pizzas and octopus, but it's awesome, dude. Yeah, it is tough when you're on stage, you're like, damn, I am hungry. Oh, dude, there was a pepperoni in front of me, and I said, I go, dude, that looks good.

They're like, you want a slice? I go, I already look like such a guinea. Short answer, yes. Long answer, I can't take it in front of you. I can't take it, I'm not gonna get a piece of it. And you see them the whole time, you're like, I don't think you guys are still eating. Oh, dude, that's a leftover slice. Cause you could actually look at it. That's 45

minutes of waiting. That pizza hasn't been touched in 45 minutes. Yeah. And you're like sitting there like they haven't been eating while I've been on you've slowed down. I mean, maybe you pick at it again, but I'm like, ah, you're going to throw that out. Yeah. Were you there the night? I don't think you were there, dude. Renazzi was there. There was a kid that lost his, I didn't, nobody knew that what it was, but I get on stage and I looked to the left front row left of the, of, uh, at the stand. He has a giant stake with the huge

Tomahawk and everybody commented on it. And every time somebody commented on it, the place went nuts. I go last. So it was Renazzi and then I go, and I just look at it and I go, holy fuck this. And the place went nuts. I go last, so it was Renazizi, and then I go, and I just look and I go, holy fuck this, and the place went nuts. He lost his fantasy football league, and his punishment was to get the biggest steak,

and sit. Oh, Renazizi's the perfect guy to point that out. And they went nuts, cause Renazizi was in the league, and then like, so the whole thing, and then I shit on him afterwards, they were like, dude, it was everything that we ever wanted, and this kid had to eat it. He had to eat, part of the thing, he had to eat it. Eat the whole thing., dude, it was everything that we ever wanted and this kid had to eat it. He had to eat, part of the thing, he had to eat it.

Eat the whole thing. And dude, it must have been, I mean, it was gigantic with the big Tomahawk thing and they had it on a wooden thing. Like, and he had to eat it and every, like, and I just go, dude, that, like, in mid-joke, I go, that's the biggest fucking steak I ever see and the place went nuts.

I didn't know what was going on and then I found out. But no, that's the only thing that the stand does that can be distracting is like like there's oysters in there. It's so funny. It's so funny. Yeah, you hear laughter, you hear silence. I hear plenty of silence on my stage. I rarely hear it. K to you. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Great. Fucking hell yeah. All right. I mean, I can't say. We'll start the episode when I get back. I can't say no to that. Where you been and where you going?

This is Ari's Travel Show. Yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's UB Trippin'. Yeah. Hi guys. Welcome to UB Trippin'. It's a travel podcast.

I take a guest and he tells me about a great place he's been and a good time to be. I'm going to be talking about travel. I'm going to be talking about travel. I'm going to be talking about travel. I'm going to be talking about travel. I'm going to be talking about travel. I'm going to be talking about travel. I'm going you be trippin. Uh, it's a travel podcast. I take a guest and he tells me about a great place he's been and occasionally even a woman. But today it's back to the normal, a man, Paul Verzi. Thanks for coming in.

No, where are we going today? We I mean, look, I've, I actually have traveled a lot of places, but I could not come on this show and, uh, and not talk about the motherland. You got to greet it up. I got to, I got to talk about the motherland and I got to talk about Italy, been multiple times going again next year. Okay. Okay. Before you go, do you fake tan? No. Okay. I don't need to. I go outside for like 10 minutes.

Listen, I'm going to tell you before we start, I'm not going to try to, it's going to come out. There's gonna be a lot of anti Italian jokes. Okay, great. But it's weird because you're so like, you're like, here's what you don't understand about Italians. Jews and Italians are extremely similar. Extremely. Dude, my father married, my father's 100% Sicilian. His wife is Jewish. Wow.

Yeah, after my mother, my mother's Greek. Oh, they got. So I'm half and half. They got divorced when I was little. And my father. Greeks and Italians also overlap a lot. Greeks and Italians overlap a lot, but there's a little bit of a like, behind back like Greeks are like, we're better. And Italians are like, I'm better. There's kind of that. Yeah, we're better in but the times like I'm better there's kind of That yeah, we're similar, but where they'll here's what I lost. I'm up both brag about stuff from 2000 years ago We started the alphabet

And I'm like, yeah, what did you do Yana? About how civilization started but what I found through Started the IRS. Yeah, go ahead dating Jewish women my father having a Jewish wife Jews and Italians are Unbelievably similar their priorities are different with certain things. What are we talking about blowjobs? What's the term about blowjobs? What are we talking about? I mean that could be something we talk about Yeah, what how are they different Jews Jews and Italians are beijais.

You grew up in New York, so it's a different kind of Jew. It's the OG Jew. Well, Jewish women love it, I think. Yeah, I used to think they didn't swallow, but I've been lately hearing a lot of stories that they quite do. Yeah, but I, dude, as far as like, I didn't realize how much Jews care about the food being good as much as Italians.

A lot of people talk about how Italians talk about the foods, foods. Dude, you ever talk to fucking Jewish people about a restaurant that they went to that is good? It's like talking to an Italian. They don't shut up about it. They talk about, they'll talk about the service, they'll talk about the pricing,

they talk about everything. Did you ever date an Italian girl? I have before. Very, I mean, I didn't know enough to have enough data points to really get involved, but extremely hairy pussies. Really? Yeah, I mean like.

No trimming? Not the one I'm thinking of. What a gorgeous lady, but man, that bush was like a separate fucking entity. Wow. I think she might have been too young. Some of these girls have to learn how to be a fucking adult. You would think that if you saw a big bush,

especially in these times, you trim it down a little bit. It was 25 years ago. Oh, okay. But yeah. So Italy. When did you start going? Let's get into it. I'm gonna just pull up a map here.

So the first time I went to Italy I believe I was 11 or 12. Really? Yeah, 11 or 12 years old. Oh yeah. Dude, I was eating. And then we went not long. You know what I did? I did a transatlantic, dude.

I flew to Venice and then we took a 15 night cruise that sailed back to New York. Really? That's why the Democrats lost because they were focused on transatlantic. Four days at sea of nothing the horizon is all water. So you fly to Venice, you do a bunch of ports in Italy, you stop in Lisbon, Portugal. Yeah. Okay. So where's Lisbon? Over here. Yep. So you stop in Lisbon. That's the last of the fucking. That's the last of the land, huh? And then that whole fucking thing right there on the map,

all that water, four days to New York. Wow, why? Cheaper? No, it was just a fucking, no, actually way more expensive. I mean, it was like. Isn't it crazy how high up Portugal is? Yeah.

Like it's like Nova Scotia level. Dude, right when we got off the port in Lisbon, they were just, hasheesh, hasheesh, you want weed, you want drugs, you wantia level dude right when we got off the port in Lisbon. They were just Hashi shashi. She won weed you want drugs you want to do right when you got off Wow I know you need you it's hard to smuggle them on To get them on to get weed or drug whatever on the thing So it's like come sell me some and it was like when camcorder like Like this is what going the smaller camcorders were bigger like we're like became big

It wasn't that it was like yeah, and my brother was videoing me get off the port, and my dad saw it. And like, not that it mattered, because I was clearly older than him, but my dad just watched me do a drug transaction. Wow. He just watched me buy hash from this guy in Lisbon. So then when you got back on the port in Lisbon,

four nights at sea. Caught the, the last two days, caught the tail end of two hurricanes, because it was September, October, and just 18 foot waves crashing into the side of the boat. Now granted you're on a hotel on the water, but you fucking felt it. People throwing up, running, you heard dishes breaking.

It was fucking wild. And it was like top notch, like this isn't carnival. This is like everybody in there, everybody to beyond the thing was like six grand each. Then you're talking food, then you're talking. I mean, this thing was top, top notch. Oh, but let's go to Italy though. Let's go to Italy. Yeah. The best thing about this podcast is every time it's, it's sidetracks. I can be like, Oh, no, no, I have an exact reason. We got to come back.

We got to come back to a place. Um, so, okay. So just start, I don't know. Tell me about it. What are the people like? What are the food? Like what'd you get into while you were there? So here's, here's what I could say about Italy. Um, it is definitely, and you hear this in, in about Asia too, but the food in America, that version is not the food there. That's like China. Yeah. It's like China eyeballs. So pizza in Italy is not fucking Joe's on Carmine near the seller.

I mean, a thousand percent no. It is smaller, it is like a thin, crispy, the sauce tastes different, it's a different thing. Okay, yeah, so you're not, like that's what people don't understand. Like, as a matter of fact, my father, who's 100% Sicilian, my grandmother came here from Sicily at 10 years old, didn't speak a lick of English yeah he did not like the food in Italy compared to the food

here because he was so Americanized used to it palm he was so Americanized with going and getting a slice like we would get here in the city then when you go there it's almost like these personal that was different delicious and it's all different yeah sometimes you're like well I don't like something and look why like cuz this like well that's not better or worse that's just different you're just showing a difference I don't like something and they look why like cuz this like well, that's not better or worse That's just different. You're just showing the difference. You don't tell me quality. I enjoyed it But it's I it wasn't like going to Joe's it wasn't like yes, so do one time we were in San Francisco And and me Rogan Diaz and we asked the club owner Tom Sawyer. We're like, hey Joey's like I want Chinese food I want the most authentic you can find I I want the authentic stuff, give me that.

And he's like, okay, I got a place for you. And whatever it was, wasn't, you know, whatever their version of WoHUB. And we get out there, after the shows, we're starving, because soap and lay is perfect. And he's just kind of like, you know, just kind of playing with his food with a fork. And he goes, what's the matter, Joey?

He goes, it's too authentic. Yeah. They don't like these motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah,, too authentic. Too many eyeballs, too many guts in here. That's the thing. Like when you go to Italy, even the pasta, everything, it's delicious, but it has its own taste. What do you mean? How is it different? Um, do they, do they lean on what, like, I know they don't call it gravy or sauce. They call it something else. Hey guys, I got to break into today's episode to let you know a little bit about the

guests. Paul Verzi is a great comic. He's a hilarious guy and a good friend of mine. Um, I've had great times with them legitimately. I'm trying to think right now of a, of our tailgating party, me, Renazzi and him went tailgating outside a giants game. What a fucking blast. So guards, jello shooters, some dudes were like right next to us and they were all Giants fan I didn't have my cowboy stuff on and They were like hey, we have a mask actually a lucha libre mask with a funnel and like do you want to do one?

I was like, yeah guys, of course Let me get back to the bathroom and I get back from bathroom and then I did it put the mask on Funnel to fucking chug the beer and then they go. What do you say about the Giants? I'm like, go boys, fuck you. They were like, nah, boo. Fun times. Versey's also got a special right now called Reasonable Man. It's up on YouTube.com. It's on Paul, YouTube.com slash at the Paul Versey.

Great new special, check it out. Reasonable Man also has old Netflix specials now back up on YouTube called Nocturnal Admissions. Admissions, interesting. So I was telling them before, guys, you're going to see this a lot from stand-up comedians. The Netflix deals are, they are licensing deals, they're two-year licensing deals. I'll tell you the exact, for $200,000.

At the end of the two years, you get it back. You can do whatever you want with it So you should put it up on YouTube whatever but it's two years They have the option to pay you another 400 to keep it up for four more years They're not gonna do that except for like Shane or somebody massive that they don't want to like lose and it's an excuse to like Pay them more money to keep them happy So what you're gonna see now, there's a lot of comics Be embarrassed that Netflix didn't pick up their special, which is ridiculous because who cares?

They're not gonna. They were never gonna. But they're putting it up. Paul's hand on the road, he goes, it's up now. But a lot of them are going, I fought to get it back. They couldn't silence this. That's all a lie. It was always only gonna be for two years.

You'll see my special. It's up lie. It was always only going to be for two years. You'll see my special it's up on Netflix right now. What is it? America's Sweetheart. You can get this by the way. Stay positive t-shirt. There's also like 10 Fidelberg shirts left, but you can get the stay positive shirt right now at Ari Schaff.com. But I'll put it up day one. Soon as that two years goes, it's up on YouTube. I'm not fighting to get it back. Anyway, whatever. The point is, go watch Paul Verzi.

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Interesting. Like here, I think everything is just like more. Wow. I think it's lighter I feel like the pasta is a little fresher there you know of course yeah our pizza slices are way bigger with way much with way too much cheese I think there they care more about the sauce then then I'm a sauce guy I'm a sauce covering sauce like I don't have any dry pieces yeah these people that want way more cheese

than sauce I never understood sauce it up sauce is really sauce it Like I don't have any dry pieces. Yeah. These people that want way more cheese than sauce. I never understood. Sauce is amazing. Really sauce it up. I want leftover sauce at the end. I want my plate to be like, Oh, I had way more sauce. Maybe I could dip my crust in sauce. Whatever the bread leftover. Now I'll get that. I don't, you don't want to be out of sauce looking to coat your fucking pizza for this episode.

No, but another thing that really sticks out the first time, believe it or not, my memory of being there, my memory of being there 11, 12 years old is as good as it was recently. Really? Not a weed smoker. It's, no, we're at a cafe, we're at a cafe, having a little piece of pizza, you could get coffee and the Coliseum is there.

Really? Like the fucking Coliseum, okay? You're sitting, yeah. So if you, yeah, so there is cafes. Like when I tell you you can go. So you can like eat and you watch it? Oh no, dude, you're like from where your block is, if I'm on your stoop, your stairs,

across the street is a coliseum and you have a slice. You have a slice and you just see that. And you have a coffee and you're just sitting there with a coffee and yeah, you're just sitting there with a coffee and talking like this, it would be me and you smoking a cigar, going like, oh, can you believe gladiators fought? And it's right there. So like that's and you smoking a cigar, going like, oh, can you believe gladiators fought?

And it's right there. So that's the one thing that I was just like, holy shit, one of the most historic things ever, and you're just eating a slice, and you're just having this amazing. You notice it when you're there. You're like, you realize you're in that moment. Yes, a lot of people don't like Rome.

A lot of people are like, my mother-in-law just went for weeks, and she was like, ah, our least favorite. We went to the Amalfi Coast, and we did this, which is nice. She's like, yeah, Rome was, was our least favorite. And I'm going like, well, I don't, I think because it's a city, I think because it's a city hustle and bustle. Um, another thing that people do not know about Italy is you will die crossing the

street. If you, they, this is exactly what I'm looking for. What do you mean? Ari just perked up. This is not the lonely planet version of. What do you mean? Yeah. This is like the real shit. Ari just perked up. Yeah, this is not the Lonely Planet version of it. No, no, no. What do you mean? This is the, if you are not cautious walking, they are, first of all, the cars are little, like those little fucking.

The Fiat's. The little Fiat's. Yeah, nice. And they are flying, and there is absolutely no respect for the pedestrian. So if you are crossing the street, you will get hit, you will get killed, you have to wait for the pedestrian. So if you are crossing the street, you will get hit, you will get killed, you have to wait for the lights.

These motherfuckers zip by. Oh no, dude, it's a big part of it. When you go there, you go to the hotel, they go, when you're walking, you have to wait for the sign. There is no, they'll knock you, they'll kill you. It's a, yeah. So do people jaywalk or they just don't?

That's the thing, if you jaywalk, it's like at your own risk. You jaywalk, there's a chance a loved one's gone. Wow. Yeah. You ever go to these cities where they don't jaywalk? Like, like you'll be like the light, like it's red, but like no cars coming, you start to go like, wait, what am I, what am I,

you see like 10 people like not going, you're like, am I missing something? Yeah, well that's the New Yorker in us too. We're like, we're like professional, like, I'm a professional street walker. We're professional street walkers. Yeah, street walkers's the New Yorker in us too. We're like we're like professional like professional streetwalkers Yeah, you know, no these places Italy is very much just get out of my fucking way. You're in the wrong. No, no you you know, like it's like that Yeah

So that was the one thing that stuck out is that like you have to watch the signs you have to cross with the tourists And with everybody else no jaywalking and yeah. Is it hella touristy in Rome? Yeah. Like annoyingly? I mean, yeah, because you'll see, you'll just see the groups of tours, you know, you'll see the groups of tours, but I guess you get that everywhere, right? Well, it's, it's a question.

It's like two things. Like one, the groups of tourists take you, you want to feel like you're just there living like the locals, but it's, it's, it's tour city. So you're not going to, so the groups of tours take you, you want to feel like you're just there living like the locals, but it's tour city so you're not gonna, so the groups of tourists take you out of it, but the hawkers is what I hate, where people bugging you to buy stuff or take a tour or sign up. It's to no end it bugs me. Didn't get that that much in Italy. Like the hotel just tells you what you could sign up for, like what you want to do.

But also on the streets they're not bugging you? No, not that I could remember, but like look, if you even look at that picture to the right, on the bottom right, that looks like a tour guide. Or like, you know, or- Oh, this one right here. No, no, no, the one to the right. All the way to the right of that same picture that you're on,

if you go to the right corner, bottom right corner. Yeah, so like right there, they probably are listening to somebody, but that's fine. I mean, I'll do it at the Met sometimes, where they're giving you like the like the Momo or whatever they give you a joint you kind of like lean back or there's they'll be they'll do around around here. They'll do mural tours. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And then if I'm walking by, I pretend to tie my

shoe. You get in free. Maz Jabrani just did a whole thing on that Maz Jabrani. He just put a video he goes, here's a hack. He goes, just go to a place and just wait for the tourist group the tour guide and just stand there and just listen. Yeah, just listen. They can't, what are they gonna do, fight you? Yeah, you're just standing there at the Louvre in Paris. Everybody's standing there like with headsets.

You just listen, even if you get 20% of it, right? You're getting something. You're getting something. So Rome is more like a city, but it has shit like that where you could just have a coffee and watch it. We went there. I went in there and it was it was ruins. I actually got pictures up in there Yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, you gotta send me some pictures. I'll send you some pictures for the episode. Yeah, I So big is it? I mean I'm seeing that in this window right here You see people are like, oh that's kind shows you the scale. Those people seem tiny.

I was like, what about doing a comedy tour and getting a bunch of people, and then someone's like, yeah, Schultz already tried. Schultz tried to do it, but there's so many ruins, like in the middle, you couldn't even have people stand there. Dude, I went to the Parthenon in Greece, and the first theater was there, right? On the Mount Olympus or whatever,

and you see it, and I took a picture for Bert, I'm like, hey, here's your next tour. He's like, oh sick, I'll do that. Where is that? I'm like, oh, I forgot. You were so dumb. God, it was a joke suggestion. Where is that?

Yeah, but no, dude, like when you see it, then they'll tell you like, where the lions, where the tigers came out. That's crazy. Yeah, like Joe Bartnik was just there and he had a private thing where he was able to go underground, where the gladiators waited to come up. And he was there. And he took a picture from it. So

I'll have him send that to you. But so we did not I did not do that. But you can when you go there, there is an underground thing under the ground there that where the gladiators waited. So when you watch Russell Crowe, and they're waiting to come up, that's there. Wow. So these motherfuckers were sitting there, basically waiting to go to their death in the Coliseum with fucking the emperor and everybody cheering like Yankee Stadium.

I just got the chills thinking about that. Wow, dude, there's some places in the world where it's so, it's Jerusalem's one, this, where you can just, because of this, still stand it. You can imagine what it was like then. You know, very well, you could see it and feel it. Like, I get it, I get it. In Havana, where me and Bobby just were,

you can imagine 1940. You know, you can't imagine year 1000, but like here is like, you get old. No, when you see that and you see like the architecture, you see all that, you're like, oh, that place was packed with people waiting for people to die. It was like screaming., dressed in robes. Like UFC, but to the death.

To the death. So like when we leave Yankee Stadium, right, and we're like, dude, that's home of Soto hit, they're like, when that guy's head got lobbed off, when that lion ripped that guy's, and they just like. Oh, that was a great one. They're high-fiving. And hung on for a minute, and then the last skin tour.

Oh, yeah. Me and you were like, dude, judging, standing back to back. These guys are like, dude, when that lion ripped that guy's face off, and then the Emperor stood tour. Oh yeah. Me and you were like, dude, judging, standing back to back. These guys are like, dude, when that lion ripped that guy's face off and then the emperor stood up, that was sick. Yeah, they're betting on which one lasts longer. I can't believe you bet on the more. Well, they more usually last longer.

They're wily. The darker skinned ones are always stronger. But they have experience with lion fighting. The dark ones are faster. No, but like that's really, like I agree with you. When you look at that shit, you're like, man, that's fucking, like that's, yeah. And I mean to, to eat a slice of pizza across the street from that and stare at it and talk about it was that that was the craziest part of Rome for me. And Rome is where we stayed. Like Rome was like where we first flew in, where we stayed.

Your base. Yeah. It was. How expensive a town is it? It's, I mean now it's more. You know, from when I was a kid and a kid and then the second time in Italy, did not go to Rome, but when I was there, it was half of what it is now.

I mean, it was, now it's, yeah, now it's, they gouge people now. Because I think they need it. They had it, they had COVID rough, huh? They had it rough and they lost a lot of people, they lost a lot of businesses, so I think they jack up the price. The tourist towns too are like,

oh shit, you were lying on an industry that just went away for three years. Yeah. That's kind of wild. When I was in the Galapagos, so there was like, that's all tourism, you know? There's no, no one lived there. It was all animals.

Oh really? So it was one of the only like places where they didn't like, they didn't displace anybody. Oh shit, now have you been to Italy or no? I've been to the very, very north of Italy. I was hiking in Austria, along the Austria Italy border. Wow. All along here. And then at some point.

Oh shit. What the fuck? What the fuck just happened? At some point, we stayed in Italy one night. There was like a glacier, I'll never be able to find it here, Glacier Lake. point, we stayed in Italy one night. There was like a glacier, I'll never be able to find it here, glacier lake and it was like, we stayed mostly in, and then we like went right over here to Italy. So that's it. No, actually I went back with my brother.

We were gonna go skiing in Zermatt, but there was no snow in Zermatt. So we're like, let's go to Italy instead. You take this train, go to a mountainside, but dude, as soon as you get,'s it's it's Swiss Swiss Swiss Swiss Swiss language you cross the border it's like the second there's not even an overlap area you just get over and it changes yeah I mean it's wild you go to San Diego people still speak Spanish yeah you know it's like there's a little bit

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Italy. Okay. Venice, Italy is by far one of, I'll tell you a funny story. I didn't know it was an Island like that. So Venice, all the streets are water. That's the, I didn't realize it funny story. Wow, I didn't know there was an island like that. So all the streets are water. That's, I didn't realize it was on the water. I don't know why I thought it was in here-ish. No, no, you can't go anywhere unless, so when you get out of your hotel, you have to get on a gondola.

Is that real? Oh no, that's real. For, wow. No, no, no, all the, yeah, that's it, see? Like if you wanna go anywhere, but look, that's across the street. So those gondolas that are there, they'll come in and they'll sit and sometimes they sing

and you and your family sit in it and you go, we wanna go to that restaurant there and they fucking roll you to it. And so the locals also take gondolas? Oh yeah, oh yeah. So it's not just like. But there is also bridges. If you go far enough.

Yeah, there's. But it's out of the way. There's bridges that go over in the town. So you could just come out of your hotel and walk over the. But here or there, it's not like every block is a bridge. Oh no, no, no, it's out of the way. There's bridges that go over in the town. So you could just come out of your hotel and walk over the. But here or there, it's not like every block is a bridge, right? Oh no, no, no, it's not everywhere. No, it's not everywhere. I got a great one for you.

Are you ready for this? I'm in Italy. Okay, yes, dude, it's fucking nuts, dude. You get on that and the food was amazing. Venice. And Venice is where they blow the glass. So we went to, they make all the glass. We went to the factory and it looks like taffy

and they're making glass, like they're just hot. Like you know when it's like red hot? Yeah. And they form and stuff? And they got the whole thing and it's like a red ball and then they go like this and they're just shaping the glass. In Venice you watch them, how they make the most beautiful

like glass that you could ever. I wonder if Giaulli's from there, this artist that's like known for glass making. Oh dude, ask him about the glass blowing in Venice. It's I wonder if Giaulli's from there, this artist that's like known for glass making. Oh dude, ask him about the glass blowing in Venice, it's insane. David Giaulli, American, okay, wow. Interesting, okay. So, all of a sudden, we're in Venice and we're looking.

Who's the wait? Me, my dad, my brother, my grandmother. Okay. Okay, rest of social, she was from Sicily, but we're in Venice. Should we give? And, yeah sure sure you could do that thank you and all of a sudden we look and we just see this floating thing that looked like a floating stage and we're going what's that floating stage and it goes oh the concert this week at the Pink Floyd the Pink Floyd do Pink Floyd played in Venice on a floating stage. What dude, Pink Floyd got picture that Pink Floyd. Okay, pink.

Yeah, go Pink Floyd Venice. Pink Floyd Venice, dude. Yeah. Yep. That's it. That's it. Right there. You can see the stage right there. Where? Yes. Yep. 1989. I was there. What I was there. But 1989 was when I was 11. That's when we first went. And the guy goes, the guy, yup, dude, how sick is that? No, no, no. Our, our Ari, the stage is floating. They built, they built a barge. What? Weighed down. So they probably had like these giant sandbags or whatever and fucking pink Floyd Just rocked out in the water in Venice with all the special effects

They do it all the special effects. They do with like boats and everything Oh, you can see the city in the background a little bit. We had left We had left because we're gonna go to pink floor with the grandmother and I'm like, all right, and I'm 11 Yeah, right or like I'm 11 or 12. But all we heard all week, the Pink Floyd, the Pink Floyd. So we saw the stage that they built for him. So they had to take boats. The band had to take boats and shit.

To get out there? To get out there. So they had to do multiple trips to get the drums out there, to get the speakers out there. And they're on a floating fucking barge and they fucking rocked it, I heard.. Wow I mean they never don't they never didn't. I have a t-shirt that's me on a gondola and yeah look at that how sick

is that Pink Floyd performing in Venice on this day 1989 yes sir. Wow what a fucking ballsy band that was. Dude dude and your boy was there we there. We were there. We saw that, we saw that thing floating. And we were like, we were walking on the streets. I took away, what's that? Cause it was like, it wasn't packed or anything. And they go, oh, this weekend, the pink of Floyd, the pink of Floyd. But, so I probably shouldn't say this,

but I could say it now cause it doesn't matter. You'll get a kick out of this. So we were on a tour. My dad was like, I want it done right. He goes, we're going gonna go on a bus tour They're taking us to Capri. We're gonna you know, we went into the I went into that fucking blue in the in the cave The I'll show you that the caves of Capri. Okay, that's it. That's coming Okay

so anyway We go and we go to like when the tour would take you to a hotel you had your room and one of the rooms I think we were in Salerno or Sorrento and our room was fucking tiny. My dad, my dad went to the lobby and he called the... We are a lot alike. We are a lot alike. This is, you're gonna love this story.

He's old now, it doesn't matter. He called the travel agent from the hotel and he said, me and my family are in Sorrento right now and this room is so fucking unacceptable. He said, we're going to Venice next couple days. He says, if my room in Venice is like this, I'm going to come home and kill you. Now we're a little different.

He said, he said, he said, he said, it'd be a refund and a bad review from us. He goes, my two boys and my mother are here. If fucking Venice, I'm gonna come out, I'm gonna fucking kill you. Dude, they gave us the Donna Summer. They gave us the Donna Summer suite. Yeah, it was two floors.

My dad was running around like a little kid. You go upstairs, the shower was the size of his room, marble, and he's running around. He fucked, it was right by a bridge that went over and unlike the lifestyles of the rich and famous, Donna Summer was like stayed in that room. He freaked out so much with the other one that he's like, I'm gonna come home and kill you.

If violence didn't work, they wouldn't use it so much. I mean, listen, it's like Richard Pryor said. He goes, listen, he goes, say what you want about the mob. He goes, they kind of figured out a business plan. He goes, hey man, you like walking? You like your legs? You know, but so, and then we went to the island of Capri. The island of Capri, you go in the water

and look up the caves, the blue caves, and the blue lagoons, so the blue caves in Capri. And we went in there, you gotta get, yeah so you got so you got to get a rope yeah so yeah so we were I was in I swam in that I jumped in that so what you do is but do you see the one that's really small looks like a small hole like it's no go down one yeah you see that yeah so you got to grab a rope and go like this to get in what yeah so there's a rope so you got to go like this to get in. What? Yeah, so there's a rope. So you gotta go like this to get in. So we were all in it.

This is blue water. Yeah, we were all in it and it's lit up blue. From what? Yeah, I love how into this you are because like this is, so if you go to Capri, if you go to the island of Capri, it's like all houses on a hill. It's almost like, it's like Italy's version of like, it would be like Hollywood Hills

if all the houses were shitty. Okay. And there's just cats running around. But then you go in the water, and there's this and they call it like, and you go in, I did get a little you got a little claustrophobic going in, because you got to grab a rope to get through that kind of just to kind of get yourself in. And then when you're in there, it's beautiful and blue. But you're also like, this is kind of tight. Where the fuck's the light come from? I know I know I think it's the light. I mean this is crazy. It's so cool. Literally that's

us like that was us to the to the far right that's there with the four people in there yeah that's what we did and then just to feel it I jumped out in it like I just had to jump in the water just to feel it. And yeah, but you do feel as cool as it is, you are like, oh dude, if there's any kind of collapse here, we're all dead. Like it's like, this is the most beautiful, scary thing. But so that's the island of Capri. I don't think you can go to Italy and not do that.

So anybody listening to this podcast, if you go to Italy, you have to go to I've never even heard of it. Oh, dude, the island of Capri. That's it. That's that's the best, like picture of it right there. The island Yeah, right there. So the island of Capri, it has all boats there. There's all those caves in here. Yes, I think I think there's multiple. Okay. And then yeah, you took a ski lift too.

Like, you know, those ski lifts, you could take a ski lift to the top of the mountain. So you just sit in a ski lift and it kind of takes you to the top. Yeah. And there's all one thing that they're not going to show or talk about here. The place is just running around with cats. Yeah. So just, there it is.

That's, that's perfect. That's perfect. So it's little city like that, right? Yeah. Little city like that places to eat the mountains right behind it. Yeah. And a little city like that. That's gorgeous. Right? Yeah. Little city like that. Places to eat.

With the mountains right behind it too. Like like Edinburgh behind it. A ski lift. Dude, you got to go to the island of Capri, dude. And there's just stray cats chilling. There's just like stray cats that like everybody kind of. Dogs? Just cats.

No. There we just saw cats. I heard they protect their cats there and if you fuck with one they're like, that's a real crime. Dude, even though it's not your cat, you'll be like, the people will feed it. People will treat them good. But yeah, that's the island of Capri, dude. It's fucking amazing. Sorrento is where we had the shitty hotel.

I'm trying to think where it is. Oh, so that side of it, okay. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wow, okay. Yeah. So Capri, you have to take a boat, obviously.

And it's Calabria. I love looking at a map and finding out where stuff originated from Calabria and chili oil. I'm like, Oh, what does that mean? Is that a style of like, no, it's from here. Yeah. Or saying like the Island of Sardinia. And I'm like, what are they known for?

You're like, you know what they're known for? Or sardines. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I just heard something. It's the weirdest thing that I came to do your podcast today. I swear to God, as I parked the car, they just said, you guys upset about the election?

Well, if you guys wanna relocate, and they were going, there's a promotion going on right now in Sardinia, Italy. You can buy a dilapidated home for $1 and rebuild it up. They're doing that for people. I just literally heard that as I walked here. What? Yeah, there's $1 homes in Sardinia, $1. One American dollar, like two euro.

There's to be taxes on it? And they say you can buy a dilapidated home there. Cause if people wanna like, you know, come see our beautiful countryside and rebuild so you could buy a shitty home and redo it for a dollar. Wow, do you have to rebuild? Or can you leave it for like 10 years so you're ready? I mean, they said dilapidated,

I don't know what their definition of that is. But I'm like, can you just leave it? I'm like, all right, I'll get to it when I get to it. Oh yeah, no, you'd own it. You ever remember that when they're doing that in Detroit, you could buy a house for a dollar, you could buy a house for then $100, and you're like, that's crazy.

And you're like, why didn't I buy a whole block? I know I hasn't come back yet, but I could just own a block. Just showed up with like 200 bucks and just be the fucking king. Own a fucking town, the township of Ari. You're the mayor of the town you just bought for 200 bucks? Yeah, no toilets allowed, you have to shit in public.

Like some weird fucking Clint Eastwood style rules. Dude, you could buy a town and then just do a fucking comedy festival there. Just have every fucking comedian that you know fly in for that week and just do a fucking Sardinia comedy festival. Be fucking insane, dude. But no, dude, Capri.

So Capri is... So how do you get from place to place? Buses, flights? Yeah, so it would be it would be buses, flights and boats. How long would it take to get from like here? Where's like, where's Venice? Higher or lower? This is around. You just thought you just had it. There. Okay, up there. How long it takes to get from...

Well, that's a different one. But... Oh, Verona. That's Verona. Well, how long it takes to get from Rome across like this? Yeah, it's kind of like, if you look at it like that, it's kind of like Florida. It's kind of like Florida. So, I think you're talking anywhere from two and a half to four and a half hours, depending.

Not bad. No, I mean, and it's it's all bus oh and there are a lot of trains so so hour and a half hour 40 that's great there's nothing so you really get places so yeah like you can get from there to Naples really easy yeah like if you're in the if you're in a bus for two hours you'll be like oh we're stopping here we're stopping there you could bang out like two two cities two or three cities in a day if it's two hours each. Hi guys, you know, I have a Netflix special on Netflix right now.

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like dude, you would fucking lose it in Italy. Yeah, Pisa. Is it two Z's or one? I think it's, no, I think it's one. Wait, is it S? That may be. I think it's P-I-S-A, I think. I could be wrong, but I think it's S-A

leaning tower of Pisa Yep, that's it. Yeah, I stood on that thing high No railings. Wow. No railings. I don't know what they did. Yep. Wow. My grandmother sat right in the bottom So like on the edge over here? On the edge up there is's no, so I think at the very, very top there is, on the way up, do you see the columns? There's just, you're walking against the wall. You're walking. It's because it's like,

and it's tilted or the floor's straight? No, and they have to keep, they have to keep kind of, because at one point it was going, it was jangling. They needed to do something, Yeah. To keep it like that.

Well, it wasn't built leaning, right? Because I don't think so. I think it ended up leaning and then stayed. It's gonna fall at some point. Yeah, they're on it, but I stood on that. Wow, that's so cool. That's such a fucking all time place. We grew up as kids.

It's one of the greatest sites for kids. Like Leading Tower of Pizza. Yep. You know? And so that was that then I was in Pompeii where the people were frozen and you saw that I saw people Dude, dude, we did it like you pose with them as we do respectful There were no pictures there like I don't think maybe I don't know if some people took it but like yeah

Like cuz when you have to be like solemn or no, no, no, no, no. No, it's like tourists just walking by Oh, look, they're frozen. Like people are like, look, you know grabbing your kids and shit dude. It's fucking few frozen in time So yeah, because the volcano in Pompeii, so we saw that Florence is is jewelry and leather So you go to Florence, that's where you buy your leather jacket. That's where you buy a leather wallet That's where you get a chain. That's Florence So Florence Italy is not weird that it's like certain places like we just do this here and you're like well couldn't somebody go

and do it somewhere else it's like they don't I guess no like if you went to Italy and you were like where can I get leather goods they'll go you want the best you go to Florence yeah yeah so so Florence and then of course you know we saw the Sistine Chapel and that's stuff. What is that one? That's when they paint on the ceiling? Yeah, that's when they paint on the ceiling. And then the Pope's window sometimes, rarely, rarely he would like come out. If you were like lucky there, he would just come out and leave. He lives there?

He lives in Vatican. And the people, we went to the Vatican too. Vatican's in Italy. So we went to Vatican City. Yeah. And like his window, they say like where his, and sometimes he would just come out and go like this and people would go ape shit. We didn't see the way he comes out

and fucking forgets his hat. Not so hard, just let my sweatshirt air out. Is it a wife beater you just see a mistress behind? No, but dude, I'm telling you man, like I would tell anybody if you go to Italy, like those are the places, Venice, the island of Capri, Pisa is like one where it tell anybody if you go to Italy, like those are the places Venice, the Island of Capri pizza is like one where it's like, if you're going back, you don't like hap, like it wasn't something you had to, you saw it. Like that's, that is like, Oh,

we're going to grab a sandwich and go see the leaning tower and get a silver and leaf. Well, it's like, I always started compared to New York. If you come to visit New York, never been right. And it's like, what do you do? It's like go bar hopping. That's so fun. Maybe some clubs, maybe some music, some jazz or Broadway. And it's like, every time you come back, you can do that. It's like, that's so fun, maybe some clubs, maybe some music, some jazz or Broadway. And it's like every time you come back you can do that. It's like if you have fun, you're not seeing sights in New York.

You can, but like. I even tell people the first time I wouldn't go to a Broadway play, not the first time. I don't think the first time. I think the first time, if you really want to experience New York, kind of what you said, go eat, go to bars, feel the nightlife, and then be like, oh, when we come back

we'll see the Lion King. Like I don't think that needs to be, I mean, look, you can if that's what you want. If that's what you're into. Listen, listen, this podcast is gay friendly, so if that's what you're into, fucking go for it. Yeah, but dude, yeah, somebody like you, you would've lost your mind,

you would've won ape shit in Capri. Damn. Yeah. So, do you talk to any of the people? Oh yeah. And how are they to you? to any of the people? Oh yeah. And how are they to you? Just old, they're just old school polite. You know, old school polite, like you know,

they get a kick out of you liking it. You know, it's definitely different than France, where like there's a little annoyance in France. They're kinda just like sometimes, in France they're either very nice to you and happy that you're there, or they're just like ugh they're all just they're all like they want you to enjoy they tell you oh go here oh you want this because they like it oh yeah yeah yeah they're just old school italians you know and it's different than italians here yeah you know the italians that are

like in the upper deck at yankee stadium go what what the fuck is he doing? That's not. No. They don't have that kind of garbage there? No, they don't have that. No, they kind of look at that as like a character. Maybe it's because, you know how it's like, back to the future, Michael J. Fox went, the further he gets away from his normal timeline,

he starts to disappear, his picture starts to get, like, I think the Italians, the further away they get from the homeland, the more like mutated they get. Yeah. Don't you think that's like a lot of places. I think when you go back to the motherland you kind of realize like oh let me get my shit together. I come from this.

Yeah, it's like this is how I'm supposed to be. When you get like further away you start to become a little more of like the character of that. A little less Sopranos, a little more Chef Boyardee. Oh they like there they fucking probably hate Sopranos. They're like, what? Remember that episode where they went to Italy

and was like, I want more gravy on it. It's like, ugh. Yeah, that whole, like when people in Italy see, like what the fuck, get the fuck out of you. They're like, what? Oh wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's. And was there, did different cities have different?

Fields? Yeah, sure, but I was gonna say different foods. So when we went to Northern Italy or wherever we went to go skiing near Switzerland, there was a dish that was just there. And it was like, it had some broccoli rabe in it, and it was not actually that good, but buckwheat pasta instead of regular pasta.

And it was like, this is what it's known for. And it's like, you get it while you're there because you can't get it at other places. It was fine, but that's what I mean like that's not in Rome that's not it like paella is not Barcelona it's more Madrid yeah I think like certain parts of Italy like it's always pasta but it'll be their version of it it's like they're like it's different in north south I think southern Italy and Sicily is is different too but I Sicily Italy?

Or is it a different country? So there's like, it's a different country. Okay. But like if you ever hear Sebastian Maniscalco talk, like his father would be like, no, we're Sicilian. Like we're Sicilian. My father didn't look at it like that. My father is like, we're Italian, but we're Sicilian,

but he would just go, Sicilian's just a little better. Oh really? He would just be like, yeah, we're a little, you know. So my grandmother is from a village. Yeah, my grandmother's from a village, she's from a village called Taramina. She grew up there? Yeah, yeah.

Wow. So Taramina has arguably the most beautiful beach on planet Earth in Sicily. Taramina is, Taramina, Sicily. Yeah. So, the beaches there, the beaches there are considered some of the best in the world. My grandmother's from a little village right outside there, and she came to the United States at 10 years old, didn't speak a lick of English. But the water and the, yeah. It's just insane, and I have not been.

Which is like, I wanna take my kids, since I'm Sicilian and Greek, I wanna take my kids next year to both. Really? So we're gonna do, we're gonna, yeah look at that dude. Look at this motherfucker. I mean, could you imagine dude,

sitting, drinking in that chair. Going either one, either jump in there, jump in there. Yeah, you're hanging in the pool, and then you're like, let's just go in that beautiful water right at this motherfucker. I mean, could you imagine dude, sitting, drinking in that chair. Going either one, either jump in there, jump in there. Yeah, you're hanging in the pool, and then you're like, let's just go in that beautiful water right there that goes out to literally, that's like the middle of the ocean.

Wow. Yeah, yeah, it's so. You wanna take your kids there, is that what you said? I'm gonna take my kids to there, and I wanna take them to Greece. Damn, it's such blue water. Oh yeah, no, it's, they say some of the most, like, beautiful waters in the world.

Greece ruled. Greece is like, you know what Tom Hanks said, right? I mean, not that he's like, but he said he's most like beautiful waters in the world Greece ruled Greece is like you know what Tom Hanks said right? I mean not that he's like but he said he's been to like everywhere in the world and he said like there's in his opinion There's no place like Greece, but I like home that when we were in I'm not gonna say which island I want to blow up his spot, but everybody there was like that's Tom Hanks home right there They would point out his wife Rita Wilson is Greek But the beach is there and like Tarramina and Sicily are very kind of similar. And it's not really not far away.

Right, it's all kind of the same shit. When we were on the cruise, we sailed between, we sailed at night between Italy and Sicily. So right, no, no, lower that, no, no, the strip right there. No, no, in the middle of that. Oh, Italy and Sicily, oh that. So that little thing, so I'm eating dinner in the dining room of this beautiful thing,

Italy on one side Sicily on the other and you see it you see the land of both and that close. Yeah, yeah little little tiny strip and Yeah, dude, I was just you know, I mean you want to talk about guinea and it up I was eating fucking prosciutto. I was eating prosciutto melon melon in between, in between sailing between that. That's so close. Look at that, look at that. So, yeah, so. What are these islands all about?

Some people are like, fuck that, I'm Sicilian. That's not, I'm not Italy, it's Sicily. And actually, technically they might be right, but a lot of people are just like, no, it's the southern tip of Italy. But yeah, look, you could still, look how narrow that is. So narrow. Yeah, I mean, look, look how narrow that is. So narrow.

Yeah, I mean, I sailed right between that. 815 minutes to get there? To Rome. Okay, you gotta go. What? Yeah. Yeah, dude, it's, God, I can't wait to go back next year. I can't wait to go back next year. So you go back a lot, huh? Yeah, I'm gonna go- Are there places you still haven't been there that you really want to go? Sicily. I've never been. I've never been and that's what I really am. I've never been to Termina. That's where my grandmother's from. Like I said, the closest I got to Sicily was sailing through it.

What about that eggplant thing for Sicily? Yeah, I mean the Moors was a tribe that kind of went in and I guess apparently, you know, apparently they pillaged because they did say that there's truth that Sicilians used to be blonde hair, blue eyes and then that changed. Has anybody pillaged just apparently, you know, apparently pillage because they did say that there's truth that Sicilians used to be blonde hair, blue eyes, and then that changed. Does anybody pillage without? But, no. It really goes hand in hand, right?

And pillage is one thing. You're not gonna rob them. Yeah, nobody's gonna, I might as well pillage. They're defenseless right now. You know. Yeah, I know, the does suck. It's like, can't you just pillage? Can't you just pillage? What are you gonna do then? Come on, man., the does suck. It's like, can't you just pillage? Can't you just pillage?

What are you gonna do? Come on, man. Come on, dude. It was a bygone past time. We're not really that society anymore. God, man, I gotta go. No, dude, you would, and I know a guy like you that- It never super called me,

but the way you're describing it, it's kinda calling me now. Oh, dude, no, no. You would get there, and I feel like when you got there, you'd go, oh my God, I didn't expect this like because even when I saw you even when you looked at Capri you were like what the fuck? My mom listens to his pocket sometimes and and she she was talking about the first like three or four and then the fifth one or sixth one whatever she goes I didn't

like that one I was like why? She goes the other ones made me want to go to a place. This one didn't make me want to go there and this is making me want to go there. This show should make people want to or make them them not or make them like stay the fuck. Oh, do we've had some nightmarish ones, too Yeah, like and I don't mean any disrespect to anybody in like Iraq or Iran But like you'd have to really sell me if I'm flying to the Middle East you're gonna have to sell me on restaurants It's gotta be your experience too Like we were talking with yeah with Yanis about Monaco and I'm like who would go to mark and he's like Tim I'm like, oh go to my and he's like Tim I'm like oh right yeah Tim. Oh Janice was here last yesterday. Oh he did

Monaco? No but he was like I usually ask people like where else do you want to go in the world and he said Monaco he goes I don't really want to travel but Monaco maybe and it was like oh that's a that's that calls the Tim more than to me. Yeah I've been to Monaco. I like some danger and some whatever Tim likes the high roller like James Bond life. Yeah, I'm a little more like that. Like you're like, you'll go hiking in the Philippines for two days and not know where you end up.

It's a crazy pronunciation of that. You just did the Philippines. But you'll like, you'll go hiking and not know where you're going for two days and then just go with the villagers and hopefully it works out. Like I... Did you go to any small villages like oh

what's your sister mom's your grandmother Teremino we looked that up already that's all right yeah my grandma from Teremino we did not go I will take my kids there next year. Did she like want to go back to be like this is where I did she remember it at all? Oh yeah yeah she's she yeah she's when did she come how old was she? And this is gonna really be fucking wild for you to hear so she she she came to the United States at ten years old did not speak English yeah you know boat boat to Ellis Island Wow yeah ten years old you know didn't speak sailed here and just and just yeah and it's not time to get on a boat to get here yeah you might not make it. Yeah. Yeah.

And some kids probably didn't have their parents on there. Damn that spirit. Yeah. There's some about like, I'm not weighing in on immigration, but there's something is like, whoever got here, that is the American spirit. Yeah. You're like, whatever, got to protect the borders, whatever, blah, blah, blah. But the guys who are here, it's like that's everyone who ever came here. They had that same like, let's find something new attitude, you know? And to just be like, we're going to America for like that life.

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Like I get foggy. I've started to do this too with people on podcasts. I'm like, you know what guys, I've been bad on these enough times with weed. Let me smoke right after, or towards the end. Can you go on stage high or no? Oh yeah. Like high out of your mind? In the beginning I couldn't. Does it affect your, does it affect?

In the beginning I couldn't, and then later, if I'm the right level of high, it's great, I'm giggly and fun. It won't affect your like taglines or your punches? It will. If I'm too high, it will. Yeah, cause like, I seen like Chappelle one time on stage, and he was like, I'm gonna go on stage, and he was like, I'm gonna go on stage, and he was like, I'm gonna go on stage, and he was like, I'm gonna go on your punches. It will. If I'm too high.

Yeah, because like I seen like Chappelle one time on stage and he was so out of his mind that it affected him. But then like freeze love is like functional like that like Snoop Dogg level of high where you just get all day. It's like that's just how you are. Right. You know, then then it's like it's fine. It's like having a beer on stage, you know, versus when you're 14, like I got to clear them'm out of it but I got my favorite earthquake quote I'm misquoting it but they were asking him like do you drink alcohol on stage and he goes stand-up comedy is one of the few art forms this is one of the few industries that allow you the privilege of imbibing alcohol

while you're at work. I like to avail myself of that privilege. And they go, okay. They go, does it ever mess with your performance? It goes, every single time. That's great. No, it does. One drink I can have, but I've been on stage hammered

and it just affects it. I like to have a double shot of whiskey or scotch and then like as I go through an hour or 10 or 20 Whatever it is. I get a little more tuned up and then I'm like now I'm loose But I get them on my side every day I take that journey with them if I got too fucked up high before I go on I'm like I'm like off It's off. Yeah, the crowd knows the crowd the crowds like, okay He's a little they're not getting as good a show. So that's like, let's do it after. They're not getting the wittiest you. Yeah.

And yeah. Yeah, so when I take a special, I'm like, let me get high at 3 p.m. and then come down and just be barely feeling it. Then it's okay. So the thing with Sicily is, it's so close, but like, TeraMina is like, the fact that my grandmother is from there.

Oh, I found it, I remembered it. I remembered it, that's what I do. So my aunt, my aunt Grace, she is my father's only sibling. She's in Denver, Colorado. She's big on finding out fucking 23andMe. She's big on finding out fucking 23andMe. She's big on finding out everybody that we know there. She was the one to tell me, so a lot of people say that Jerry Ferrara and me are so similar.

To the point where somebody was like. Turtle. Yeah, so similar. You look like him. So similar. No, no, no, but like, he was on a podcast and somebody reached out to me, goes, dude, you gotta hear it on a podcast.

He goes, it's the craziest thing. He likes the same sports teams you like, he goes, dude, you gotta hear it on a podcast. He goes, it's the craziest thing. He likes the same sports teams you like, you talk the same, you sound exactly the same. I listened to it and I couldn't hear anymore. I couldn't listen anymore. The craziest shit is, my aunt says to me, she goes, I heard Jerry on your podcast.

She goes, I just want you to know. He was on your podcast? Yeah, she goes, yeah, yeah, me and him are real, me and him are cool. And she goes, the Ferraras and the Verzis in the village of Sicily are so close that there is a chance that you and him are related. She goes, the Ferraras and Verzis were like this.

And I go, what? And Verzi is very rare here, but in that village, I'm not gonna say it's like a Smith or a Johnson But it's it's it's common and she goes there's there's a chance that you and him that are and and when we talk and I go Hey, dude, are you uh, we were talking over cigar. Go use Sicilian. He goes. Yeah, and you go your family from Sicily He goes yeah, and I go oh, yeah My and then my aunt goes she heard it and she was like no you guys could there could be related But then she says to me, Paul, I don't know if you know this,

but our family has an olive oil farm in Sicily. And I went there and they welcomed me because I'm a verzi and they gave me a bottle. Go to the verzi olive oil and it's in Sicily and my family is there. It's my family. I did not know this. Yep, I have this bottle at home. Okay, yep, that's it. Yep, so I have that bottle. Keep going, I have that bottle.

That bottle's in my home. And look, that's where my family's thing is. And I just found this out. Oh my God. So, if you and I ever go to Sicily, we're gonna fuck it, they're gonna load us up with bottles of that. Dude, I have a bottle of that at home.

And I just could. Wow, that looks legit. And that's my family, dude. And I didn't know. Obviously distant, like obviously, like not immediate. Yeah. But my aunt goes, oh, she goes, that's our family's, like deep rooted,

our family's olive oil. And I go, what? And they sent me a she goes, we got bottles here. I'm sending you one. And I did not know at all. And I come to find out that that's my see, I knew this podcast today was good. But now that I remember this, this is what if I didn't remember this, I'd have been sick. I would I would have been in the car like, Fuck. Yeah. Yeah. So I found out I found out that this, I'd have been sick. If you were gonna run the way home. I would have been in the car, I'd be like, fuck! Yeah, so I found out that this, so when I go there, I wanna take my family and my kids and be like, yeah, that's my namesake, and they have this thing there.

So it's obviously distant, I don't know how far back it is. That's so cool to have a relation like that, because there's all this new 23andMe travel, tourism, where it's like, I found out I'm 2% Irish. So now it's like, well that's a reason to go, more than anywhere else, you know, may as well. It'd be funny if we just showed up and I was like, I acted like it was like mine.

I'm like, no, we're going to my family's fucking olive oil today, they were like, who are you? Bida, you know who I am! Yeah, so I was actually really excited about that. So the plan is, take the wife and the kids to like, Teremina and Greece next year and do that and then just have my kids go to like, where their dad is basically from.

Did I just try to get my dad to go back to Romania? Yeah. I was going to play there a year ago or so and that's my Italy, you know? That's where he was from. He moved because of, you know, outside his control. Yeah, yeah. A couple things went on.

Some things went on. Some things went on. The defense forces were not the American level defense forces. But I was like, you wanna go? He's, no, he's, listen, fair enough. He's got some bad memories associated with that. Of course.

But he was like, what's there for me? And I'm like, I don't know, like, what would be the beer you would drink while you're there? And I leaned into all that. I mean, what would I have done if not for the Holocaust? It really is funny how you don't think, you know, we're American and we're here and we don't fucking, and then you go there

and you're like, hey, what did my dad, what was my grandfather like? Is there a shop that my grandfather smoked at? What about smoke? Dude, what about smoking a cigar where you're like, hey there a shop that my grandfather smoked at? What about smoke, dude, what about smoking a cigar where you're like, hey, your great-great-grandfather used to sit on this fucking chair and smoke right there. And you're like, now I'm generations later,

I'm like, I'm smoking a cigar in that fucking chair. Like, how nuts is that? I just got to chill, that's nuts. I agree with you, it's like, hey dad, what beer would you, like, when you were in Romania, like, would you, when you were friends, like, what would you drink? Yeah, well, he was too young, but I'm like, this is what you would have drank. If you stayed, you, it's like, hey dad, what beer would you, like when you were in Romania, like when you were friends, like what would you drink? Yeah, well he was too young, but I'm like, this is what you would have drank if you stayed.

You would have been like at these restaurants. What would your dad drink? Like what were people in the village doing? Yeah. You know? Yeah. How was Romania? I mean, loved it.

Really? All of yous in Europe, and I don't count Greece for this, even though it's the most East, but, right, where's Greece, over there. It's so wild, all those people. So I had to make a decision when I go to a tour there, I'm like, I leave open days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday I don't work.

So I can either stay in that city I just played longer or go to the next city early. Berlin is always gonna be, that's a Saturday, don't give me a Sunday show, I wanna stay there. Or, you know, it's one of my favorites. But like Brussels, I'm like, do that on a Thursday or Friday so I'm hanging out. There's nothing there.

I'll have a waffle, I'll have a beer and get out of there. But Ljubljana, Slovenia, I was like, I'll do that one day, I fucked up. It was like, I should have been here longer. I did as much as I could in 24 hours, but Slovenia, Romania, it's like, they're newly free. And so they're wildlings. The people there are just nuts.

There's indoor smoking rooms in a bar, like at an old airport. You just go there and smoke and still be in the bar. People, I left in well Slovenia but it's all got the same feel actually this might have been Romania no Slovenia and I left and I was like oh sure I left my we were leaving to go to a bar I left my umbrella inside cuz it stopped raining I was like I left my umbrella like I go get it I'm like okay and I ran in door came back and I but there was no one in there.

I went to the green room and found this old, beautiful hall. You know? And then I left and I'm like, hey, there's no one in there. They're like, yeah, okay. I'm like, but the door was open. They're like, yeah? And I was like, well, is somebody supposed to lock the door?

They're like, oh, dude, we're in the field, in the shadow of communism of communism and eastern block shit no one's gonna fuck with the government building like your sister's gonna disappear it's not even yeah so they don't even didn't why why lock it yeah yeah no it's different yeah it's different and that feel is like when i was there i was like how many people remember yugoslavia when this wasn't and it's like 30 of the room was like uh- huh. So it's like Romania too, like Ceausescu and then all his like generals, they tormented these people.

They're just newly getting capitalism. Yeah, it's nuts. It's like, you always hear those stories at the Olympics, right? Like they'll be like an Olympic figure skater, and you're like, yeah, she was taken from her family, but these people took her in and she started ice skating. You're like, what?

Who took her in, what? What took her from its family? Yeah. Like all she knew was this. They took, yeah. And you're going like, what happened? Oh, she was in a fucking communist country where, you know, they probably didn't like that.

So they had a fire room in, I think in, was it Cluj, or was it, I think Bucharest, in a big fire. And a lot of people were caught there. They're, Great White, was that the name of the band? They had a big fire and everybody died. There was like a stampede and they blocked out the doorway. Oh, fuck dude, yeah. But they had that version of it.

But these people didn't die, they just got badly burned. A few died. And they went to the hospital. The hospital was so crooked that they were watering down anesthetics, like the stuff that you rub in your hands, what's that called? Hand purifier, what's it? Sanitizer.

They're watering it down to be cheaper, to sell it. So the people died in the hospital because of bad care. And then they had this bravado, let's ship them off to another country that can handle them. And they go, no, we're the best. They're dying in your care. And then once they go, okay,

we're gonna finally ship them off to where you're dying, they're like, my son first. Your son's not in me, you're dying, they're like, my son first. Like your son's not in danger right now. Like, here's a little money, my son first. And then more people died. It's so crooked, it's so crooked that it made me realize how crooked our government is. Because like, oh, we do the similar things.

I can't see through ours as much, but if we're doing that and they're doing that, obviously, then I can tell we're crooked too. Yeah, and we have a lot more money and power, so we do it just different ways. Yeah, we do it different ways. But, yeah, I think every place has their own, but they're just so blatantly, like it reminds me

of that scene in Airplane, which is one of my favorites, where the guy in Russia was just giving the news, and there was a gun to his head while he was giving the news. It's like, no, you're gonna say this. I mean, like, some of us. Yeah, in Cuba, we were listening to the radio. We went through a hurricane, so all the power went out. So we had a radio, battery radio,

to find out what's going on, updates. And so this guy was translating for him. My Spanish isn't that good. And he was like, all right, they're saying, they had a pregnant woman and two elderly men. It'd be rushed to the hospital. They seemed like they'd be okay. Power, no reports yet. They need the hurricane to pass before they can even try to get it working again on the island.

And he goes, another saying, this was all made possible, no deaths, made possible by the glorious revolution. So now this is the propaganda part. Made possible by the glorious revolution, which protects all people, whatever. It goes, that's part, that's gone to their head. This is what they have to. Yeah, no, no, that's part is they have to. They're like, oh, we don't have that as blatant, but we are doing what they tell us. Yeah, Alexis Guerrero was telling me that,

because he's Cuban and his family's from Cuba, and he was just saying that they would just go to the house and be like, hey, your family has to be at that parade honoring the government. You have to be. You have to be there all together in solitude. You can't be in the house, because it's a complete disrespect showing

that you're not for the government. You all have to be there, and if you're not, they'll fucking take you out. Yeah, they evacuated people, and I was like, what if you don't go? They're like, oh, well first of all you wanna go because you have like one wall missing. Like you don't wanna be on that during a hurricane.

And he goes, what if you say no, fuck I'm going. He goes, then six cops will come. Like you're just not allowed to go. And I go, if they say hey, you're evacuated, can I gather some stuff? They go, yeah, yeah, sure, of course. Take your time, get whatever you need. So it's like, it's just weird.

And then they're like, what do you guys do? Can you stay doing it? I'm like, yeah, we can, and we often do. When people die, I'm like, yeah, often they do. But it's like this freedom thing. Yeah, it's like we do have, we make fun of those people, and we're like, this guy's fucking sitting on his roof.

This guy's sitting on his roof because water is up to his roof. Yeah, but like he does have that right where they're it's like, you know. Yeah, he's like, what are they doing? Yeah, we make fun of them. Yeah, we make fun of them because some of them don't make it because they're stubborn. But it is kind of funny that that is a freedom that we do have where it's like, no, I'm going to stay at my house.

I'm just going to stay here. And you're like, all right. Well, I mean, the news said what I didn't like was when they fucking when that news guy was crying it's just like yeah is that an animal fuck is that Fuck is that? Did the Cuban government... What the fuck? Bug your house?

Oh my god, it's a fucking leak in the ceiling. Oh. What the F? Oh shit. This fucking place. I gotta tell them upstairs, I don't know what the fuck. Oh shit Oh shit leak in the ceiling I thought I was I thought it was a mouse I don't know if this is better or I thought that that was a mouse but down like what's the irony? We were talking about like water and houses and sitting on the roof. Oh, you just that sucks

Well, hey, that's on them. That's on. I mean, yeah, but is a landlord here She's downstairs. I mean, yeah, but. Is the landlord here? She's downstairs. Somebody's coming through the fucking roof. It's starting to peel up there. Oh shit. It's not even raining. I was gonna say, it hasn't rained in days. I wonder what that's from.

It comes upstairs, it's just overflowing. Oh, it could be, you know what it could be? No, it's definitely what it is, pipes. It's the pipes from people showering, or it's the pipes from somebody, yeah. So basically one of the pipes during the plumbing has a little thing in it, and it's just flooding up. We had that happen, and as we had to fucking redo it.

They're gonna have to go in, it's gonna be mold in here. They gotta go and do this immediately. It would only be mold if it went long. They're gonna just have to. So we had a flooding here during the last big, big storm, the top of the roof, a branch got in the drain. And it started building up. Coming through the third floor got it worse.

Upstairs got it bad. Guy died, was just floating up there. We were just talking about how in Cuba, it's shitty. We're sitting here in Manhattan. I mean, I'm spending way too much for this. Are you? I mean, to have that. If I'm spending more than $500 a month, I don Are you? I mean, to have that. If I'm spending more than 500 a month,

I don't need that. You can't have that. Now, how'd you find this place? Searching, searching, searching. I needed a front room that was big enough to do it. I needed very specific, you know? So when I walked in, I'm like, nope, not enough space for cameras, nope.

Oh, you knew. Yeah, and then I'm like, yeah, this will do. In the neighborhood. Yeah. You know? Oh. All right, let will do in the neighborhood. Yeah. You know? All right. Let's keep going. No.

Yeah, this is making me want to go back. Yeah, this is making me want to go back. Because now, there are some places I have not been since 1989. What advice would you give someone who's going to like, hey, I'm headed. Tell me, what do I know? The first thing that I would say is do not

expect American Italian food. That would be, because there's going to be people going, imagine what the pizza is, if it, no, no, no, you're getting a different country's version of it. Even though they're the, it's their cuisine, you're getting a different version of it. So don't be disappointed if the pasta is not like the pasta here, or the pizza is not like the pizza here. Go in with like a, I'm getting Italy's version of their food, not here.

Because that would, my dad was disappointed. My dad was like, you know, it's Italy, but like I just, you know, cause he was used to going to fine restaurants here. And I'm like, dad, that's not, you're not gonna get a Veal Parm there. And he was like, yeah, I was expecting, you know, it's lighter.

Well, listen, they're not as, Italians here are fatter. Oh, right, exactly. Italians here are fatter. You see, you don't- You're wasting away. When you go, it's lighter. Well, listen, they're not as, Italians here are fatter. Oh, eat more. Right, exactly. Italians here are fatter. You see, you don't when you- You're wasting away. When you go, oh dude, you need to eat, that's why, like, oh manja, manja. Because like-

What's manja? Oh manja, that's eat. Oh wow. Yeah, manja. So every time, every time you, my Sicilian grandmother, I would go to her house and she would make meatballs, still to this day, I cried, the meatballs were the best.

And she'd go, manja, manja, means were the best she will mind you mind you means eat but They always you know They always say you can't leave an Italian's house on an empty day just keep feeding you because it's part of the thing But when you go there you you're gonna leave another thing that's incredible there at times We didn't talk about this is like they took coffee to a whole like espresso and and cappuccino. That's all their shit That's all like like cappuccino is their shit So it's like yeah, so They you know and it's like for them they could sit and they just they could sit and they just sip it and they'll just sit down It's like a fucking thing to do. They do the single shot coffees

Here everything standard double shot, but when I go to like Australia and you get a flat white I'm like this isn't give me and like yeah, it's one shot per thing I'm like, oh we do two me amped, but like, yeah, it's one shot per, I'm like, oh, we do two shot standard. And then Starbucks is a three or four. They just wanna be satisfied where we have to fucking have the jitters. Well, everything we do here. It's just above and beyond. Even the weed, it's like, oh, have one eighth of this cookie.

I'm like, just make a fucking less strong cookie. Yeah. Who eats an eighth of a cookie? Yeah, yeah, just make a less, so people could eat it. Yeah, I'll eat two cookies if I want more. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so my just make a lesson so people could eat it. Yeah, I'll eat two cookies if I want more. Yeah Yeah, so my advice in Italy would be don't expect Italian food that you get in America expect it to be

Their version of it so you're not disappointed And I think like people going like nah I heard Venice is not people dude some people have the thing where there was like a couple times where in the summer the water Smelled a little bit. Okay, you get used to it, right? Go to Venice. I would say not going to Venice, Italy, and going to Italy is kind of a, hit up Venice for a day or two. I have a saying, don't be an asshole.

It's like if you are in, I don't know, if you're right by the eye for time, go see it. Don't be an asshole. I get not doing all the tour stuff, but like at some level, it's like you're here, gonna go. Don't go to Egypt and not see a fucking pyramid. Like we went the last night we were in Paris, me and my wife and kids, we went to the Eiffel Tower,

it was great. We didn't do the whole thing. We went in there, we didn't go to the top, we just went in low, we went in, and we just saw it, it was beautiful, the lights came on, we went back to the hotel. We gotta see it. You gotta see it. You gotta see it.

If you're in Venice, you gotta see it. I would say the island of Capri, go in that cave. Go in that cave in that blue lagoon type thing. I think you have to do that. And yeah, I mean, it's just a really amazing view. Did they change money? What do they use? Euros now?

Lira. Lira. They use their own. Yeah, they use their own. They use Lira. The McDonald's there is insane. It's like so much bigger, nicer, better tasting than here. I mean, not that you would, but it's just like, it's not like American.

Yeah. Like it's actually like a nice establishment. You're like, oh shit. Yeah, it's just better. But I would just say, go in with an open mind, but go see all the things. And yeah, dude, if I was old enough, imagine seeing Pink Floyd in Venice. Wow.

Imagine that. And then being, I mean, you gotta be on acid or mushrooms acid, I would say for Pink Floyd. And then, and then we're leaving now wander into the streets and it's like, what it's like, honestly, it's like when you leave forest Hills, um, on drugs and you go into this yield neighborhood and it's so good to like walk off your, your off your trip. Imagine you're tripping your balls off, you just watch Pink Floyd rip on a floating stage,

and then you're walking with the aftermath of your buzz, and you're just seeing water roads. All the roads are water. And you're just walking there on a little trip going, dude, there's no cars, that's water. You'd be like, dude, this is fucking, and then you just go and you sit down and you smoke a cigar.

And they do say the beaches is Sicily, but I think it's hard to do all of that, but not if you go two weeks. Yeah, I mean, Americans don't really have that time. But like, that's cool. Dude, it's so fucking cool. And talk to the locals. That's when people go over and over again.

So Matteo goes over and over and over again. Where does he go, Sicily? I don't know, but he just likes it there. So he likes the life there. He likes it like Paul Italia. Paul Italia spends a month in Sicily. He goes to Sicily for a month, he's got family there. Just stays in Sicily.

Yeah, Chris, they'll go to Sicily for a month. And it's like their neighborhood. That's great, because then you're over, I have to go to this restaurant. It's like, you already went to each restaurant. You already saw that big site. And now it over like, I have to go to this restaurant. Like you already went to each restaurant. You already saw that big site. And now it's like. Yeah, so now you just go to the one you love.

It's like, Chris and Paul, they treat it like it's like their neighborhood in Italy. They walk around, they hang out. And another piece of advice I would say definitely is like talk to the locals, man. Like talk to the locals and like, not like annoy them, but like get to like learn everything that you can

and to see the difference. I think that's a good piece of advice advice too because we have such a different like You know I've listed you know fuck. I'm going to Italy the pasta is gonna be and I'm like it's different It's not that shit. That's here Okay, well before I wrap up. I usually ask people this like what other country is calling you? To there's two okay. I'm gonna shoot my next special in Australia. Oh, where? Either Sydney or Melbourne. I'm leaning towards Melbourne. Where? I almost filmed my last one there. Did you? Yeah. Well, the weird thing is like you know when you could, when you're a comic you could tell the fans you have on like the graph, for some reason

so many people listen to the Verzi effect there. So many people come to my show going when you come to Australia so many people reach out. So I like, you know, I did New York twice. I did Chicago Let me go to another country and I'm like, I never been to Australia and it's on my list Yeah, so Australia and Japan are the two calling me. I love Japanese culture. I love Japanese food So I want to do that both are ridiculous flights, but like those are on the bucket list for sure I mean if you're gonna film there, you got to go a good 10 days before you film. What, Australia? Get over the jet lag, be used to it.

Yeah, we want to go for two weeks. I think at the end of the first week, like seven days I'll film and then just literally go fucking to the outback, do all the shit with my- I got a lot of tips for you there. Do you? Yeah, and if you want to film somewhere, if it's Club, the comedy store people love in Sydney. What's that seat? Probably close to three.

Three? Yeah, but it's in a corner. It's gonna be hard to film there actually because it's short, tiny ceilings. And then in Melbourne, the Comics Lounge, it's so big, there's so much room for cameras. Really? I was real close to filming there.

What, in Melbourne? Yeah. Shit, what does that hold, like four or 500? hundred four fifty maybe four hundred, but it's in Melbourne. It's in Melbourne Yeah, and um and it's just a great club great owners who like are pro comedy You know some places like yes, they like want doing a business and other places like no we're running a comedy club That they're the latter they love stand-up Yeah, so they'll help you along the way cowboy fans No, yeah, really yeah They're the latter. They love stand up. So they'll help you along the way. Cowboy fans.

No. Really? Yeah. Wow. What's that about? I don't know. Yankee and cowboy fans actually. Yeah, I guess because it's just like,

a lot of Yankee fans, I think it's just because we're. Yeah, maybe the best class style history. I think history and tradition, I think other countries that love sports in America, it's history and tradition. Yeah. You know?

That's why you watch Notre Dame. That's like, nobody went there. No, there's people that I know that are like, oh, I live in Pittsburgh, and I'm like, yeah, we're Yankee fans. And I'm like, how are you? And they're like, oh, my dad loved Mickey Mantle. Like, Mickey Mantle is basically to people in baseball

the way like Eddie Murphy was to a lot of comedians. Right. Like, Eddie Murphy, I'm sure you've talked to so many comedians who were influenced by him. I think like when you watch baseball and it was like Mickey Mantle, you're like, oh I'm a Yankee fan. You know? Well Australia rules and I have a lot of tips for ya.

Do ya? I've been there a ton of times. That's on my bucket list if I wasn't shooting a special there, but then I'm like, let's fucking go there. If we can't nobody Yeah, it's doable. You can do a tour through Australia. It's not it's not like a Crazy reach and doesn't Melbourne have like water isn't beautiful It's hip a lot of great murals everywhere. It's the coolest city. That's where they do the u.s.

I mean the Australian open tennis possibly yeah, that's where they do it But you go to an Australian football game, Aussie football game. What, rugby? No, Aussie rules football. It really only exists in Melbourne. A couple other cities have a team, but there's like six Melbourne teams.

Wait, what is it? Like, like- It's a hybrid of- Of- NFL? Yeah, but it's mostly like a version of rugby. It's closer to rugby. They're just tougher, huh?

They're just fucking nuts. Yeah, I mean, I saw somebody get out of bounds and get tackled out of bounds. That guy was on his leg and he kept pushing him out of bounds or whatever. And so then he had to throw the ball in and this guy didn't realize he was out of bounds. So he was still holding him trying to make the tackle

because he stepped on the line. And the guy was like trying to set up the next play. But then the guy was on him and he just like punched the guy in the face. No, I didn line. And the guy was like trying to set up the next play. But then the guy was on him and he just like punched the guy. The face. No, I didn't. And they were like, hey, but then they just got up and played. I wasn't like stopping and play.

It was like, oh, I got punched, but whatever. There was a guy, I just filmed this thing. I can't talk. There was a guy in rugby. And it's the craziest injury of all. So this guy is that they say he's one of the toughest people in the world. He played rugby. His head was cracked, his head was cracked and he got down, he got hit so hard he was down in the game and after the game

he's got blood everywhere and he's in the locker room and his buddy just goes this is real by the way this is real and his buddy just goes hey dude what your your testicles dude he goes what your testicles out dude his his nut sack his nut sack ripped in half his testicle was out of his sack with fatty tissue and stuff falling out of it and he was so tough that his teammate goes hey dude what's that and he his yeah he goes hey dude sorry sorry no no he goes hey dude what's that? And he, his, yeah, he goes, hey dude. Sorry, sorry, sorry. No, no, he goes, hey dude, what's that?

He goes, dude, your testicle is out. And he looked, his testicle was hanging out of the sack with fatty tissue and blood coming out. And he just went into the room and they just sewed it back up. And it was like, that's like, the rugby dudes are fucking, how funny is it that a friend pointed it out?

Like he would've just went, oh, you just put his jeans on with his fucking nut hanging out of his ballbag. Rugby players are fucking nuts. They're they're nuts. So, but I would definitely go check that out when I get there. Sports is a good thing to do when you're in a place, but I'll tell anybody. I'll tell all your listeners. I'm not just saying, I know you're like, yeah, Verzi's a fucking Guinea.

Listen, Italy, Italy is, is I definitely, but like, it's like you said, I think you made the best point when you said this. It's, when you get closer to the homeland, you're less of an animal, and like the good of your home country comes out, where when you do get further away, you're almost like brag about it in this arrogant way, when you don't even really know,

cause it's like, that's not what it's like. It's actually a lot more civil and clean and respectful. It's not braggadocious, it's like that's not what it's like it's actually a lot more civil and clean and respectful. Pleasant instead of like braggadocious. It's not braggadocious it's pleasant yes they're big on food but it like just in that moment and it's delicious but if you've never been to Italy I think that that's it like if I look when I look at this map I'm like I'm not just saying it because I'm Italian. Italy and Sicily is a must and the fact that it's that close to Greece and France it's

like go to all of them. Yeah oh my god it borders France. Look I bet you how far is Sicily is a must and the fact that it's that close to Greece and France. It's like go to all of them Yeah, my god, I'm a board is France. Look, I bet you how far is Sicily to Greece? There's a there's a in Zermatt, which is a bear around here, Switzerland. You can ski into three countries and you know what we went to during the tour we I saw the The Romeo and Juliet balcony. No way. It's a real thing. Yeah, where's that? Gerona? Yeah No, find out is it is it? Yeah the Romeo and Juliet balcony. No way, it's a real thing? Yeah. What is that, Gerona? Yeah, yeah. No, that's Spain. No, find out, is it, yeah, the Romeo and Juliet balcony, the real one, or the one that they say was balcony.

Yeah, there it is. Yep, I was there. Gerona. I was there. Casa Julieta. I was there. Or Juliet's house. I was, yep. The Capo 23. So, I went, I was there. I was there. Casa Julieta. I was there. Or Juliet's house. I was, yep. So, so.

Capital 23. So, I went, I literally stood under that and looked at that little balcony. How fucking wild is that? That's it. So if you go, yeah. If you go to Verona, Italy, I saw, that's the other thing.

I'm glad we actually got to end on that. That's Romeo and Juliet, that's Juliet's window. Wow, what a slut. And, yeah. So that was like the first sneak out fucking imagine some fucking trashed up whore like, Hey, Billy, where are you? Really? Come on. Like the Staten Island version. Maria Maria. Shut the fuck off. Anthony stop trying to

bang Maria already. Romeo was like Juliet like Juliet Juliet this is not gonna suck itself Juliet your father said it's okay no but it's seeing that and it's so tiny like that's the one thing everybody was like oh my god they were like that's the that's the balcony that everybody was like romanticized about but it's literally like a one-person little Balcony in Verona, Italy and we went to that as well, dude This podcast brought me back to literally things that I didn't see since then so wow

Yeah, well guys once again check out Paul Verzi's a special a reasonable man on YouTube right now at Paul Verzi YouTube comm slash Paul Verzi or at Paul Verzi on Instagram on Instagram Paul Verzi virzi yes, man, Instagram. Yeah, on Instagram, Paul Verzi, V-I-R-Z-I, yes man, I put my own money up for this special and we didn't really shop it anywhere. I was like, you know what, I'm not waiting and it's doing great, it's a month old

and it's doing good, yeah, did it at the Den. We did it at the Den Theater in Chicago. Sam shot one there, for real. Sam shot one there, Todd Barry. I shot one where Sam shot. Okay, yeah, Todd Barry shot one there, L'Rell. Sam shot one there, Todd Barry. I shot one where Sam shot. Okay, yeah. It's a bullet, it's too special. Yeah, Todd Barry shot one there.

A bunch of people shoot it there. We made it look really cool. Dang bro, that's awesome. Yeah dude, it went really well. It's getting great reviews. Wow, that looks cool. Yeah, it's getting great reviews and it's my best one yet, so check that out.

You're a killer. Dude, thank you so much for having me. You're a killer, you're a tough follow. Dude, I appreciate it. To be honest, it's like, knock, oh, there's you in the crowd too. Yeah. That's burly me.

That's if you were like a real man. No, we did that on purpose. We're like, let's get all the bald guys up front. No, but it was great, dude, and the people there were great. Shout out to, what's it called, Jason Katz and James Webb. They, yeah, man, they do a bunch of them, and they did a fantastic job. Yeah, man, check it out, he's doing great. And go to Italy, man, they do a bunch of them and they did a fantastic job.

Yeah man, check it out, he's doing great. And go to Italy, man, go to fucking Italy. Dude, we gotta go. You know what we should do, dude? We should go, we should get like, you know they want to. We've been talking for so long, a comedian's like 10 day trip. They wanted to do a comedy festival in Venice.

Dude, if they did, listen, if they do something in Venice. I'm in, if they give me enough notice, I'm in. If 10 comedians from here go to the airport and we go to fucking do a, even if you do Thursday, Friday, Saturday in Venice and they only have like six venues, four venues, fuck it. Well the thing is, I've talked to somebody who's running a club in DR in Santiago.

And he was like, what? He's trying to get more Americans to come. I was just there for vacation, and they were like, set it up. It was an 80-seater, so it ain't gonna happen. And I was like, what? He's trying to get more Americans to come. I was just there for vacation. I was an 80-seater, so it ain't gonna happen. And I was like, what would people want? Because we could do shows in the beach, way in the east and stuff, and the resorts.

And I'm like, listen, everybody wants a different thing. So I don't want a resort, that's not for me. But Monroe does. So I was like, talk to them and have a different experience ready. So it's me, it's like, hey, if you want, I have this tour up in the mountains for you. You're gonna come do a show here. You're gonna show in the north in the interim What do you want to do?

So if they would like yeah guys let's we're gonna do a couple shows Friday Saturday and then another show the next Friday Yeah, and give us some stuff or Thursday Friday Saturday and then have us for six days give it some tours It's like hey Ari Shafir Ari Shafir and Bobby Kelly like to fucking do this, so let them go there. Verzi and Tim Dillon, a little more high maintenance, will put them there. But like. The best festivals get some experiences for you. Get some experiences, like, yeah, I would like to be more

in like, I wanna hang by the beach in the pool with a cocktail, you wanna go hiking, but dude, get us out, we gotta talk to somebody because they wanted to do that. Oh, you know who wanted to do it? Mike Berlina. Oh, nice. Yeah. All right it? Mike Berlina. Oh, nice. Yeah.

All right, well, Paul, don't worry, I'll put all your stuff in the beginning, too. Thank you for having me, the best. Yeah, Bone to Pick podcast is killing right now with Bobby Kelly. Bone to Pick podcast, yeah. Doing football picks, me and Burr just do football picks now on anything better, and yeah, actually,

I'm gonna be doing a change. Yeah, something's gonna be changing with the first effect for the better Coming up soon and yeah all my handles at Paul verzi vir zion subscribe to my youtube channel What's gonna change soon? This will be up not in any time soon Where I'm kind of like, you know the way this is travel Well, we I'm gonna try to do something with that. Hello Hello Yeah. Well, I'm going to try to do something with that. Hello. Hello. Yeah. No, you're the wrong number, but you have drugs to sell prescription drugs. It's literally over three years. They've been calling me about Ivermectin once. I shouldn't have put my number in. That

was my mistake. Is that, is that why they keep calling? Yeah. They're like, what are you? I was once I was like, what is it gonna take to take me off your list? He goes, buy drugs, I'll take you off my list. I'm like, shut up, bro. Sometimes I'm like, you wasted three years of calls. I told the solar panel guy, you know, the solar panel's on the top of the house,

and he's like, you're gonna have no energy bill. He goes, it's gonna be gone, and I go, he goes, and to start it'll be 50% off. So I go, let me talk to my wife, my wife's like, Paul, I'm not putting those things on a thing and Yanis, he lives in my neighborhood, he got him and like, you know, I love Yanis but we don't like how they look but I gave the guy the in to keep calling and he's like, you talk to your wife, you talk to your wife.

Now it's just to the point where I'm just going to be like dude, I talked to my wife, it's not going to happen. It's like she said no and she's like. You're going to call in six months. Yeah, oh it's going to change. Trust me, when she sees the money I'm like, just get me off the list. Here's one thing you can say though, you can say, and you don't wanna say,

but you can be like. They won't take me off the list, what? No, you could say like, dude if you don't take me off the list, I'm gonna take legal action, but like, I don't wanna, I don't wanna. I've said, they said okay, I'll take you off the list. Maybe 50 different times, they said,

all right, I'll take you off the list. And then, I called them the next day. Yeah, it'd be funny if you just started buying drugs, you're like fuck it. All right, it's all good in its life. Yeah. All right, Verzi, I love you buddy. Yeah, you too buddy, thank you.

You're welcome, thank you. That was the episode everybody. Don't forget to go watch A Reasonable Man, not all reasonable man, Reasonable Man on YouTube, YouTube.com slash at the Paul Verzi. Also his Netflix special is up there, Nocturnal Admissions, but you can go see him on the road

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check me out at RUTV.com. You'll be tripping shirts. Here's where I've been in Italy. I've never been to the real places like he's talking about. He also did it right, by the way. I had an episode with Jordan Jensen about Italy that was so bad that I will not air it. It was legitimately terrible. She had to come in and do a different one about Ecuador. It was really terrible. Paul Verzi did it right. He did it interesting.

Here's what I did. I went to Northern Italy. My brother, we were gonna go to Zermatt, skiing in Zermatt. There's no snow in Zermatt We did a fucking hard shift instead of driving two hours that way I drove two hours over into northern Italy. Actually was in Italy twice I was on the border of the Tirol Mountains hiking up in Austria and you hike on the border of Italy and Austria It's so cool. They have these like signs Maybe stick this in. They have these little stones that say 1918 and they're up in the mountains and

that was the original border after World War I. Where they have these little stones like this big and then you just walk on Italy, walk in Austria. The Italian side, barren. Austrian side, lush. It's pretty weird. But yeah, I was like what's 1918? They're like that's the line. That's the border. So I did that once. And then we went skiing. Dude, as soon as you cross over from Switzerland, it's all German and Swiss, as soon as you cross over,

it's a bunch of fucking this. And the accent, the fucking word, the skiing there was so good. They had grappa, the red kind of grappa. You could buy a skin for three euros We do it wrong here in America. They charge you so much. They for little little bag of fucking smart chips It's like 750 crop delicious grappa three euros. This was like what I $4. I don't know I actually kind of want to go and do the full Italian thing. Yeah, I'd like to see the Coliseum

I actually kind of want to go and do the full Italian thing. Yeah, I'd like to see the Coliseum. That does seem cool. And then I'd also, I think, want the Italian experience of just like stopping in some small town, getting some pasta, call it gravy. You remember that from the Sopranos when they all called it gravy and the Italian Italians were so mortified at the American Italians. Now they acted. That show was pretty funny when

people weren't being murdered. Anyway that's it right? Today's episode is brought to you by, it's produced by the Your Moms House Network. It's edited by Alan Caffey. Yeah, I don't know. Research done by Neanderth Neanderthal, Palletti and, uh, next week. Oh, what do we got next week? I know this one. I know this one. You're going to help me with it or you just leave me out to dry. Fucking bitch. Andy Haynes is taking us to Belize next week. That's a really good one. Andy's a great traveler and, uh, he had some great stories in it and pictures and, uh,

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That was a good one. And tons more. Harlow Williams is coming back. Nominate someone for the Trippie Awards. This is Shane Gillis' Trippie for what? Dumbest move. A jamon overdose in Spain. Whatever you got.

Best trip. Most surprising guest. Le least adventurous, best meal. Maybe this will be a nomination for best meal when he's eating that and looking right at the, right at all those, you know, those old buildings. That could be possible, best meal. But put on your nominations on the YouTube comments. All right, guys, that's the episode. Thank you very much for tuning in. how do you say in Italian how do you say

goodbye in Italian? Do you know? Ciao. Arrivederci. Ciao. Arrivederci. Don't make me come back there. Italians in America are the worst of the whites. Hey I guess I didn't say this enough in the episode and I like Paul but America are the worst of the whites. Hey, I guess I didn't say this enough in the episode and I like Paul But Italians are the worst of the whites and I know my knowledge base is not as wide as it could be So I'm speaking on a bit of ignorance definitely a bit of experience but also a bit of ignorance And so I don't know Albanians and I've heard they could be the worst of the whites. So I'm not familiar So with all due slash lack of respect to Albanians as of right now Italians are the worst of the whites. I know Jews are making a comeback on that but now it's not even close

It's Italians the false bravado the fucking hey You want me to come back there? It's there they value violence in a way that our society does not value They They value violence in a way that our society does not value. They mistreat their moms. They say they respect them and love them but they talk like shit to them. They're just really bad people. Obviously, listen guys, they're whites so you can't take that away from them. They're still whites. But I'm saying worst of the whites.

Stallions, prove me wrong. Who's worse? Who's worse and why? Leave it in the comments. Guys, until next week. Arrivier there, G.