You Be Trippin' - Kuwait & Istanbul w/ Nate Bargatze, Joe List & Louis Katz | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

The End is Ari's new storytelling show! And it's finally here! Only at https://theend.ymhstudios.com/ . Get 7 full, hour long episodes of completely unfiltered stories for $29.99. Get it now! Follow Nate on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/natebargatze/ Follow Joe on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joelistcomedy/ Follow Louis on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/louiskatzcomedy/ SPONSORS: -Head to https://Superpower.com and use code TRIPPIN at checkout for $20 off your membership. Unlock your new health intelligence. 100+ biomarkers. Every year. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod -Go to https://shipstation.com and use code trippin for sixty days for free! On this week's episode of You Be Trippin', Ari Shaffir interviews his three friends Nate Bargatze, Louis Katz, and Joe List about their trip to Kuwait. The three amigos went to do some stand-up for the troops way back in the day and have some pretty cute pics to show for it. Actually, that's about all they have to show for it since they weren't allowed off the base to experience the country. Well, they have a super cool story about a Turkish bathhouse in there too. Anyways, مع السلامة ! You Be Trippin' Ep. 115 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:42 - ISO Comedy 00:12:13 - Turkish Bathhouse 00:29:40 - Foreign McDonalds 00:36:07 - Travel Hacks 00:49:03 - Next Stop Kuwait 00:57:24 - Iraq 01:07:03 - Strollin Thru Memory Lane via Photos 01:42:41 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. Yeah, it's weird that taller guys are in the higher seats. I think it makes sense. I think it makes sense. It's almost like you've never been part of a production at any point. Where you've been and where you go. and this is Ari's travel show, yeah. We're going to talk about travel today.

It's you. We're back, folks. This is Wee Be Tripping with Ari Shafir and your host, Joe List. We got some big guests today. Louis Katz and Nate Bargatsy. Wait, it's pronounced Lewis Katz. I thought it was...

No, I thought he was... It's Louis Katz. But I thought he was doing it like an announcer who didn't know. I was going to make a joke about the last name. It's a gag. I was pronouncing the last name. Not the person name. Well, we're...

What last name were you going to use? Who was Katz? Yeah, that's why we let Joe go with it. Katz sucked. Louis, did you change your name so people didn't know you were Jewish? That's a Hollywood name. Now, are we just talking Istanbul or Istanbul and Kuwait? Because it was both places.

Oh, really? Because there was some good Kuwait. Yeah, yeah. It was a great trip. Okay, let's... Istanbul was 24 hours. And then we're in Kuwait for like two weeks. But it was a memorable 24 hours.

I have great memories of all of it. Good. You can remind me of what happened. The steam room thing, whatever the f***, shower, whatever the f*** called. Hi, everybody. Welcome to U.B. Trippin. It's a travel podcast. I'm your host, Arishifere. Every week, we go to different places, different people. Today, we got a fucking trip from these guys. I'm sorry, I won't curse. Naparazzi.

I mean, you can curse. I don't, I will not let anybody know I was ever on this. Okay. Louis Gats and Joe List. And we're going to Istanbul and Kuwait today. All right. But we're keeping my intro. Yeah, we're keeping my intro. All right.

All right. It's still be mine. And this is on, for sure. This is on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't feel like you should be a guy that doesn't have a person.

You should have a person. You should. Yeah. I mean, I've messed up quite a few recordings. Yeah, that's, you should have a person. Yeah. But then it's like, uh, what? Why does your phone attach to the microphone?

Well, I'm not sure this is recording. So this is a secondary. So you got to hold that for an hour and a half. It's also funny to me that comedians with money, myself included, are just such. retards because we're staying in an apartment that probably costs $7,000 a month that you got for a studio, but then you won't pay $150 to some queef to just hit record. It's like another $100. I don't want anybody in here. I don't want anybody.

I don't I bother people. I feel like I'm bothering employees. So when somebody comes over and like, are we going to do lunch first? Like just them go. And then it's like, that's what I'm done. Right. Yeah. I get that.

I think I get the idea of that. I treat my employees very well. all my employees. I have no employees. I've never had an employee. Even I have an employee. Why'd you guys go there? When was this?

2012, January, almost 13 years to the day, I think. I think it was January of 2012. That's crazy. Yeah. Is that how you get into it?

Who sent you? Like, yeah, I don't know. We were contracted to go to perform for the troops in Kuwait as they were pulling out of Iraq. Contracted. What are we hired?

Jason Bourne. Now, finish what you're going to say. Say how you're going to say it. Because I think you're about to say it. I'm going to get worse. I don't even know if I was right. I'm contracted to do the f***ing the wipes. I know, but he's about to say it worse.

We were what? In Kuwait. Contracted. To perform for the troops in Kuwait as they moved. They were moving, they were pulling out of Iraq. So they were coming through there. And then we were in Kuwait to perform for them on the way out. When we do plugs, I just want to mention that I'm contracted to do Zanis in Nashville, March 7th day.

I'll do the plugs. Did, uh, yeah. Is that right? I think so. See? So, Louis also went when we got a. out of Afghanistan. Louis gone a couple

times. No, I've only pulled out of Afghanistan. He's with all those guys running under the plane. Yeah, you're in Vietnam and saying the troops

as they're holding on the helicopter. You're like, I got a joke. The show's over. But you set us up with the gig with Scott Kennedy. Oh, yeah, Scott Kennedy. Scott Kennedy.

He's wonderful. Yeah, it's, I went out I went over there, I mean, probably seven times. He would go every month Scott Kim. Yeah, unbelievable. I remember, like, just talking to him about the miles he had on the sky miles.

I mean, he had so, it was like that movie with George Clooney. Right, right. I mean, yeah, up in the air. He was like, he had everything. But he was. When are you going raids with people? We did. I heard they took him on raids.

He was like, no, I'm doing it. Yeah, we did. I remember one time, was it, I don't know if I was, y'all were with this trip but we were in Iraq because we stayed in uh did we go where did we go to ira went to Iraq with yeah yeah I didn't go Baghdad yes and we stayed at the in the palace yeah there was the driving range we had cigar and then we met up my friend from high school who had beers and uh yeah I partook in that I'll tell you that and I have painkillers with me which I've said before a quick side note I'm sober for a long time now but at that trip we had Cuban cigars I had like

three bud lights and two vikinns and it's still to this day the best I've ever felt in my life I have a sun I'm sober I do yoga I meditate I've never felt better folks at home get a cigar a vikin a couple bud lights and a driving range in a dictator's palace you're gonna be living in the highlight back a little bit is this is this going through because I've had some good lines no they're all going through you're just blocking them a little bit yeah like I said to do before this doesn't seem as good compared to the palace trip yeah this is not as not as luxurious. This is not as luxurious.

We can do both. We're just pretending Louis was at that one. No, that one we went to, but we did, didn't we go, we, we drove through Iraq.

Yeah. In Emras. No, no, this is the, another one. We went to Saddam's palace. Because we stayed,

they showed us like where the, his sons, palaces got like bombed. And, uh, it was, uh, we went,

we went to Iraq. We got stuck somewhere. We went, we took a wrong turn. And it was like, got real. Cause you're just in like, like the wood, you're like in the high grass.

Do you remember when, real quick, we'll get to Louis bull's bullshit, but do you remember when we were, this is one of the craziest things that happened on that trip. We were going from base to base flying on helicopters and we got to one. We landed on one. We were with whatever army guys, but like, I think like the lower level army guys. And then we landed and these guys came driving out in like a Toyota Corolla with the roof sod off. And they had like boxer shorts with like hands. guns in here and they were like hey where are you guys go what is this and the army guys we

were with were like oh sorry captain we're going we have the comedians and then they drove away and the two our escorts were like those guys are like badass they were like real guy and they were dressed like uh like sam jackson and travolta at the end of pulp fiction they just looked like and they were these guys they made these two like army dudes look like they were like me and you it was like those guys are serious guys i was like oh shit it was like zero dark 30 guys yeah yeah exactly where like they can wear you know everybody else is in like full uniform and those guys allowed to wear shorts they were like in flip flops and shorts with guns in their waistband that's crazy and the other guys were like those guys are like serious we're so sorry

we should have like it was unbelievable you're scared going there uh uh this mid war right i think it was is bad when we were there. No, we were there 20. We were there in 2020. I think they were having a good couple weeks when we were there. No, we never, yeah, you're definitely over there. I mean, you're, you know, we're young and dumb. So it's like, I don't think you're thinking too much about it.

But, yes, I mean, yeah, you're in Iraq. Hasn't a performer, maybe that's just USO. Is that a performer's never been killed? So I think, you know, you got to stick with that. record. But that could be USO. We were on a different contracting thing. I never did a USO. I'd tell people you so you could move the conversation along. Yeah, well that's never USO. Yeah, we were on. But that's something someone people should understand is that like USO does like one, two shows a year. And then there's all these like smaller contractors that'll do other shows. And so so we, I've done those with other contractors

as well. But what messes that up is sometimes you'll go do these shows. It's hard to get the, military, you think they'd be so excited to see you, but these other contractors don't pay a lot of money, and you'll see the previous lineups, you're like, I've never heard of any of these comedians. They've seen some bad comedy, and they've been burnt. And they don't want to go again. So a lot of times they won't come to the show because of that,

depending. You've got to bark for your, you got to bark crowds in it into Iraq. This was one, the Kuwait was tough to get some people sometimes, right? Is that my wrong? Yeah, there was some light crowds there. Yeah.

I mean, I think a lot of them probably saw, I'll just speak for myself, and we're like, that was not good. because I remember having some sets that I'm like I'm eating it really? Don't you think? I can't even remember man I remember I mean some of them were so sparse they attended that it would be

impossible to have a good set you know what I mean like Well we had a couple that were outside yes yeah we were just like on top of like a tank Talking to people in like folding chairs yeah and not a lot of people And I think they were like ordered to come yeah like I think they were like guys we have these Hs that flew here can you go out there yeah you can keep company yeah wait so you started in Kuwait on this one Well, yeah, so, well, for the layover, though, was in Istanbul. And that we had 24 hours there. 24 hours in Istanbul.

You're good. Is he in? Yeah. Is he what he said? Yeah. That's hilarious. What? Norman's coming.

We're having a big hang after this. Oh, Norman's out of the pot? Maybe. I don't know. That sounds like it. No, he just texts. He just said, he wants to do it. And I said, I said, reschedule y'all's podcast.

This is the most perfect Norman thing. he's got a three-day-old baby at home and the podcast scheduled and he's like, I'll be there. Yeah. But now you're going to be there. Also, I invited him and he's like, can't. This is going to be a hang of all hang.

You've got to do something like this. Yeah. I mean, I feel like I'm supposed to alleviate my way. I'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. All right, so 24 hours in Istanbul.

Yeah. And I'd been there before, but they hadn't. Well, that's right. I remember that. Yeah. And so I kind of knew a few, like, if you go to Istanbul, there's like two big, like there's like one central area where there's two big mosques, right?

The Blue Mosque, maybe? The Blue Mosque. Is that what it's called? I know that's like the most favorite. Every movie that they've ever established Istanbul, it's in there. It's in Argo and all the other places. The Blue Mosque and Haug Sophia maybe is something. Maybe I made that up.

Something Sophia. Sophia Coppola. No, I don't know. I know Blue Mosque. That's the huge icon. Like everybody's seen that place. Yeah. And then right across the street is another mosque.

So we're staying right there for like 24 hours. No, we're not in the, yeah, we're staying in the mosque. Just pulling up a bit, wow. Yeah, it's a holiday inn. It's like, it's one of their better ones. Yeah, you could use your points. But also, I remember this is how broke we were. You had been inside.

So you were like, you two go. I'll just kill time out here. And it was like a $6 ticket. I don't ever be like, you don't want to come inside. You're like, I've been there. And I was like, wow. I was like, could you be this Jewish in a Muslim country

you might get in trouble? Well, there's a lot of stuff like that. I remember like you had a pass to get into some of the lounges, but you could only bring in one person. Oh, we had to swap out. This is when I was at the height of my alcoholism. Bring each other food.

And then remember we've got to jump all over the place. Sorry, hold on. The lounge thing was first, and you had one pass. So we were like... And you're allowed to bring one guest. Yeah. Somehow we thought, okay, bring in Louis and then come out and then give it to me.

And like, immediately they were like, yeah, we're on to you. Yeah. They were like, no. And so then I got mad. So I remember being like, these guys and I was standing out inside the airport, whatever. And then you guys thought you had hooked me up and you stole like 50 gallons with the alcohol.

And then we didn't realize there was a second layer of security. Like we thought we were just going to bring like, you remember that? Like a ton of beers. Yeah, like a lot of beers. On the plane. And then we went into security. like, what are you crazy?

But it was a weird, it was a, I mean, once we got... They have it together more than you think. Yeah, yeah. Well, there are people that are trying to like blow up their whole country. So they're kind of on it. Yeah. But once, I mean, because once we got to Kuwait, there was no drinking at all. It's totally dry over there, even for the military, which is...

No, really? Am I correct? That must have killed your list. That must have killed your... Oh, and you too back then. Well, that's a... I mean... Both you guys.

Yeah. That was a funny story, too. or I was talking to a sober friend, and I was like, well, I mean, I just went 10 days without drinking. And he's like, you did? And I was like, well, I was in Kuwait. I didn't drink. And he's like, well, that's not really a sober accomplishment,

not drinking in a place that contains zero alcohol. When the military says you can't. It's not a feather in your cap. Sorry, I get too excited. Go ahead, Ari. Where is this? Well, so then, so I'm like, well, we're in Turkey. You got to do a Turkish bath.

It's like a famous, like, Turkish delight, Turkish bat. You got to do Turkish stuff when you're in the country. Well, this was also the thing that I remember, because we had a hotel book. Do you remember that? A little fun travel tip. We had a, because we had a 24-hour layover, or 14-hour layover, something like that in Istanbul. And we did it on purpose so we could go do that. Right.

We had a hotel so we could like, you know, one hotel just shower and stuff in. But if you have a layover over eight hours or something, they have to give you a hotel. Right. So we ended up all getting our own hotel. And then canceling the one we had. But that was like something that we didn't know. We didn't even know that was like a thing. No.

I didn't know. I didn't know that until now. Yeah. And yeah. So if you have that so much. So you can go pick a crazy. I mean, I don't know if this was 40 years ago.

But if you can go pick a, you pick a long layover place. Because we picked this specifically for that. It was like, all right, you get, you know, it's a ridiculous layover. I did this the way back from Egypt. It was like, but it was like eight hours. Yeah.

But it was like quickly run in, go do all this. I think you would have got a hotel. Yeah. They blew it. Because they like have to do it because they have to put you up somewhere. Right. And then we, so we went there and then we just, you know, like I think took a shower and then had some beers, had some food. And then I'm like, so we're going to the Turkish baths.

And these guys are like, wait, what? They're like so freaked out. Yes. I felt it was, I felt it was a little bit of like, I don't know, just like, we don't, we don't bathe together. I don't know what it was. Well, it was, it's where, what's his face? They filmed taken two. Oh, is that right?

At the Turkish bath? At the Turkish bath, it's where, you know, with Liam Mason fights in the Turkish bath. It's that Turkish bath. Oh, cool. That's the one we went to. No kidding. It's like an ancient one, right? It was like hundreds of years old.

Yeah, yeah. And so they filmed, they filmed that there because the whole, taken two, I think, or three. Maybe it's two or three. I don't remember. But they're in a useful. I couldn't convince. I mean, you guys were very hesitant to do this number one tour. attraction of Turkey.

Well, because it just sounded like you were like, yeah, you shower with a bunch of guys, you get naked with the men. It seemed weird. I always say, I describe it as, it would be like if your uncle gave you a bath. That's what a Turkish back is. But a strong uncle, like a powerful uncle. Just a bearded, strong uncle that goes, that has to bathe you. Well, the bath, I remember well, because first of all, we went around got t' hibed

I drank about 45 beers. We had a rooftop restaurant. They had to get drunk in order to go to the Turkish bat. You wouldn't do it if you weren't. Yeah, I'm not going to hook up with a guy for the first time. I had to get in the mood. But yeah, so we went out drinking. We went to a rooftop thing.

And then we also got in a fight because Nate wanted to go to McDonald's. And you were like, don't you want to experience a Turkish McDonald's? And I was like pretending to be on your side. But I was like, I was like, it's a lot. Sound kind of fun. What if it's different? Is this the one? Because they are different.

I have no idea. I wouldn't know. We took a photo outside of it. That photo of Nate drinking the thing was outside of the bath. It's really old. Go to like one of the older ones. This is the one from Taken 2. Yeah.

Then it was that one. Then it was that one. It was that one. When you go inside there's a big slab of like marble. Yes. And you lay on it. They hit you with leave. Yeah.

They put these leaves on it. And I think they do this at the Russian baths here. They'll do this too. but they have a they have a yeah they put their down and they have these big leaves with all the soapy water and they like beat you with the leaves right yeah feels good though so we were uh skeptical i mean this i remember very well so i was drunk and we were drinking like buckets of beer somewhere and then we went to this turkish bath and i was skeptical and you have to get nude and put on some towel and remember i also asked i was like is there one with women is there like a co-ed and they were like what do you have crazy. Like, I really thought maybe there was like a co-ed situation. These women are not allowed here. Hey, everybody.

Always Shafir, man of many hats. Breaking in today's episode to let you know a little bit about the guests. Louis Katz, Joe List, and Napar Garalsi, three of the finest comedians on the planet. They're all touring, except Louis Katz, who has a special called the best community you've never heard of. Louis Katz is hilarious. I think that's an apt title. The best community you've never heard of.

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and I'm trying to honor him and his appearance by just like, you know, okay, I'm not going to do it. also by the way Nate is on the end storytelling show that I've produced and created it's at a ryeshafeer.com right now you can get his episode for $5.99.

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Share with the friend Watch with a friend legitimately. Watch with a friend. Invite somebody over. Watch with the front. Joe List is on the road, May 5th and 7th at the L.A. Improv at the Netflix's a joke festival. And then he heads off to the island. Glasgow. Herey. Herey. Harry. Go. Oh, I've got to be clean.

London, it's May 17th. London, May 21st and 22nd, the Lester Square Theater. Bristol, May 24th, Dublin, May 28th. Belfast, May 30th. Ooh, I'm jealous of that one. And then back to America, Levittown in June, Portland, Maine, and Tacoma, Washington in July. Go to comedian, Joe List.com. Nate Bargazzi.

Oh, Joe List also has a podcast called Tuesdays with Stories. You guys will love. I've been on there multiple times. Two of the worst episodes ever recorded. He also has a podcast. as he also podcast called The Regs with Robert Kelly He's been on The End. Dan Soder, also a star of the end.

And Lewis Gomez called The Regs. You guys should check that out as well. I've been on one of those. Nate Burgazzi has his own podcast called Nate Land. Check that out. No cursing as well. He's also got, this I'm most proud of, his own movie that he's starring in. A summer blockbuster, guys.

I'm not even joking. My buddy is going to be in a summer blockbuster movie. It was supposed to be out of March. And the studios believe in it so much, they're like, let's move it to May 29th. The end. I'm sorry. That's my thing.

The breadwinner. I'm going to definitely go see that in the theater. I'm so proud of this guy. It's like I'm proud of everybody, but I'm so proud of him. Plus, at that level, people lose their minds. He's still showing up for Dave Smith's last episode. I didn't even do that. Anyway, May 29th, check that out.

Get tickets to all of his shows at nateland.com. He's in only theater starting this April 22nd, which is in two days from now. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Fargo, North Dakota, April 23rd. Sorry, not theaters, arenas. Guys, did you even know there's an arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota? He's selling out an arena there. I don't think anyone understands this. There was a time when I started comedy, it was Dice, did an arena, and then nobody for about 30 years,

and then Dane Cook did it. And they each did it once, dice did it twice, in the biggest city in the country. Nate's doing it in Des Moines, in Omaha, Colorado Springs, Los Angeles for two nights at the Intuit Center.

Providence, Albany, Hershey, Knoxville, Savannah, Birmingham, Greensboro, where I grew up until fourth grade, Fort Worth, where I saw Billy Strings, the Diggie Center, Cedar Rapids, Rosemont, Houston, Austin, where I saw the guy from Pink Floyd, Phoenix, San Diego, San Jose,

and then Canada, Calgary, Edmonton, two shows in Toronto with the Toronto Raptors play and Drake Watches Go to Nateland.com for tickets. Guys, let's get back to the episode. And then I think, Nate, you went first, but the thing I most remember is the sound, because they bathe you personally,

and they grabbed Nate by the arms and dragged him across the marble. And it was like this. I was like, oh, I thought they were taking you. Taken two. And then they took like a bucket And they just go like Roos!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nailed you and I was like, oh God. Yeah. And then they cracked your neck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The walk, do they walk on you or? Yeah. Sounds horrible.

No, it's good. It was horrible. It's awesome. It was. It's a, yeah, it's an aggressive bat. Yeah, I forgot the bucket. It's a bucket of water. Yeah.

They just throw it at you as they hate you. In the face. It feels like if you don't get paralyzed, it'll be a great experience. It sounds like Rocky's bath when he got arrested. Yes. A rambo.

When it was my turn, I went, no neck. I was like, I got the neck thing. I don't want, they were like, what? I was like, I don't want my neck. I do remember you saying that. I was like, no neck. It's a dude that, and it's a man that will just beat you if you. He's bigger than you.

He's stronger than you. And he washes you and it feels nice. Yeah, he's scrubbed. He puts on like an oven mitt and just, yeah. Yeah, Loufa. He just scrubbing you down. And because it's Salt Stone and Echoey, I think while we were there, like,

they do the call to prayers. They do the call of prayers. That's one crazy thing in Istanbul. They have so many mosques, and they all do the call to prayers, and it sounds like very eerie and it sounds like very eerie and stuff. But there it was like echoey. I think it happened when we were there, right?

And you just hear the, and it's echoing, and it sounds like very ancient and weird. Well, also, it's like supposed to be a sacred thing, and I could not stop laughing. Once they dragged you across the thing and hit you with the bucket, like he won the Super Bowl.

I was like on the floor. I was like howling laughing. and everybody hated us. And also it's funny because when you're done with your quote unquote bath, they're like, go take a shower. That's it on the right, this thing? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Oh, yeah, that's it.

Yeah, that's the thing you got dragged across. You all sit around naked waiting for that. I can't even remember it. You get dragged on that slab? Yeah. It was like, it's a dragging slab. Oh, it's a dragon slab. Yeah.

Oh, look at some hot sh**es. I know. That's what I wanted to be with. They weren't there. And this little boy. There was no boy. we didn't have enough money for that I couldn't afford a boy

This is one boy But they scrub you up Good and then they make you shower Which is hilarious Like you take a bath And like all right Now you got to go shower And what's the point of my bath?

That's true Well would you regret it? No I loved it It was awesome Yeah I think by the way We just did like the big headlining story Yeah

That's it We open with the closer Well I also I learned a lot about travel from you. I had been to Peru before with my ex-girlfriend, and she was my ex at the time, which is a whole other bag of hammers. Oh yeah, we had a podcast about it. Yeah, that episode.

Episode three or something. We should tell the March Madden of the Syracuse Yukon story, too. But anyways, you were like, you have really traveled and were well-traveled, and I was taking in all your favorite. It was tough to balance between Nate being like, that's stupid,

let's go to McDonald's, and me wanting to be like, oh, yeah, man, this guy's like, whatever. But really, just wanted to go to McDonald's and not get bathed. Well, we ate McDonald's in Dubai at the airport. I told a guy that, uh, I was at this thing with, I was, all right, it was the, it's like the prince there. And I was at the, he owns, so I'm doing shows in Dubai.

Okay. And so one of the shows that nowadays or back then. Now. Okay. So it's like, uh, like in May. And, uh, so it's at the Coca-Cola, arena and I'm at this like kind of corporate event it's a golf event but and so this guy's there and he's he owns that basketball team well so I told him I go he's like Dubai and I go I'm going to be playing at the coca colerie and he goes yeah that's where my and he just motioned

shooting a basketball and I go what and he's like that's my basketball team that's the arena arena like oh wow and then I tell him I go I had McDonald's in Dubai's airport So it's a little different And then he continued to laugh after that And then never talked When he started talking to his buddies In Arabic

And like just I think they were just making fun of me And he got like All right That sounds right I mean Ray Ellen gave me Eating McDonald's in Aruba Which I'm still furious about

Because I was there for seven days I'm like we're eating 22 meals here I'm like I can't have McDonald's once And Aruba's not even a food place Yeah what's what's Aruban food? I'm like what am I going to eat fish 30 times. Well, also, when you go somewhere, I'm always like, I got to eat the local food. And like, about five days in, I'm like, give me a hamburger. Like, just I was in. Yeah, every

once in a way. Well, maybe do that. When you're with us next time earlier. Yeah. It was 24 hours. This was your only chance to not eat McDonald's. What is this? Is this Turkish breakfast? Yeah. No, that's like a good ground patties. Which is also funny because we were like, no, no, we're not going to McDonald's. What are we? And then I got four hamburgers and rice. I'm like, what do you got in the hamburger and French fried department? No bun. Yeah, it's just a keto McDonald's.

These photos are from so long ago. I have hair and I'm wearing a Bill Cosby T-shirt, if you notice closely. No, I didn't know. Oh, wow. Really? Yes. Yeah, see, that's Cosby. Look, zoom in.

That's Cosby down there. See him? Oh, sort of. Sort of. That's Cosby. I think it's enough that you didn't have to bring it up. Yeah. Because no one would have noticed.

Oh, and then you got that white. I think it's interesting. Remember that? Yeah. There was like a white drink off the side. Man, what's wrong with you? What are you on drugs? I can't remember things.

Oh, look at Nate reading. Oh, that's good. This is the last thing you read. Oh, there's the Cosby shirt. You can see it there. Louis's face is also hilarious here. It's like, what are you talking about? I think you got like a pasta dish.

You were like, let me get the spaghetti mariner. And Louis's like, are you crazy? Yeah. This does just look like a restaurant, but look at the background. Look at what's out there. Where is this? This is turkey again.

That's probably the one restaurant we went to. And then somewhere we had drinks on a rooftop with a full night view of the city skyline, which maybe I didn't send you that photo. Where's this? Same restaurant probably. Yeah, probably downstairs. Just lit up. That was the downstairs part of that restaurant.

I mean, we're not there for a long time. God, you guys really did it all, though, when you went. Way to go out. Yeah, yeah. We went out. And, I mean, you had so little to, I mean, you know, you have 14 hours or whatever it is. But, you know, that goes quick. So it was the best.

Yeah. And then we're in Kuwait and that was long, not quick. There we go. Yeah. Now we're talking. Yeah. Well, you had to get it in fast because we're going to be in Kuwait. So I had to pound some beers.

Ephis beer. How was the Fis? Probably good. I don't know. It's like a revolution. Yeah. Look at that. Louis is the craziest.

Yeah. You look the most different. Actually, Nate looks pretty fucking different. We all look different. Maybe Joe looks most the same, actually. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.

Look at you guys. Oh, wow. Look at it. I got my zipper pants on. Those become shorts. Wow. Hiking pants. Oh, that was the sign of a tourist white.

Yeah. What do you talk about? If it got hot, I could take my legs on. Yeah. Clearly, it was freezing. That was beautiful. Where is this? The humam?

We are wearing kind of heavy jackets. It must have. Yeah. It was hot. This is my phase of I would always wear two t-shirts. Oh, yeah. I always wear basketball shorts. And we both wore basketball shorts for underwear.

Yeah. That was one of the things that bought them. And then, uh, what? And I had rubber bands on. That's weird. Rubber bands on what?

On your wrist? Like Ricky Schroeder? Huh? Like Ricky Schroeder and, uh, the show where he was rich? I don't know, but he'd always wear a rubber band. Yeah.

No, it wasn't Richie Rich. I know the show. Silver Spoon. Oh, Silver Spores. Yeah. That's what it was. Isn't that a town in Maryland?

In Silver Spring. Oh, whatever. What is this? Did we have a digital camera? Like it was like a real digital camera, right? I can't, I mean, I can't believe he has all these photos.

It definitely wasn't a phone. I think I had, I probably had... Maybe it's all film. Maybe I have these photos. What do you call it? Temporary camp. What do you call that?

Disposable camera. I always travel with disposable cameras, but I bet that is a digital camera. I think we had a digital camera. Yeah, that was my digital camera, I think. Some street credit for Nate, long time Vandy fan. Oh.

Proves it. Yeah. This proves it. Yeah. Not just the Johnny come lately. Not a joke. Not a joke. Okay.

So we went to... Istanbul. Then we went to Kuwait. And that was like... I don't know. It was like 10 days. Yeah. Yeah, it's put the sports fans.

It's a traveling sports fans. What a picture this is. It's like, they're walking away. I like that. Well, I'm trying to just grab photos for the memory. The composition is good. Thank you. Well, take out Joe List photography on Instagram.

Almost 12,000 followers. I follow. I follow it too. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. I don't like it, but I follow it. So then you go to, so then 24 hours out, then you head to,

Kuwait. Yes. Hey, bleep out every curse word I have in here. B. Blood. That's a lot of bleak. You can keep . Bleep me saying . The bird shoe by bird.

So attractive, you won't even notice that one fucked up toe that every man in his forties gets our racing. Get him wherever you... I'm actually... I don't know where to... Ask Bert. Ask Bert where they get him. I don't know where to get them. So did we fly commercial to Kuwait City? I think private.

But no, because there's a layover. So we must have flown. Yeah. I know what you mean. I'm sorry. I make it funny. Because you would fly in military planes. Oh, yeah.

Yes. We flew in. Because that's the airport we tried to sneak all the beer in. Yes. We thought we were going to sneak beers in Kuwait. That's so funny. Like a lot of them. And then you guys were like, dude, we got you hooked up, baby.

And I was like, yes, you guys are the best friends a guy can have. And they were like, like, yeah. like get rid of this beer. I thought they weren't going to let us go in. Well, they have the security that's like kind of different where you go, you're allowed to go in to the gate basically, and then that's security's at the gate. Yes. When I went to Australia last year, Australia is like flying here in the 90s.

Oh, really? There's no security. I mean, like it's you go through the thing. You could go walk someone to the gate, your gate. No way. And like sit and hang with them when they go get on the plane. You're like, all right, I'll see you. And then you would just leave.

That's wild. Yeah. Wow. And that's kind of how this, it was this, but this one would have security because they had that second layer. So you would be, you would get in and then. Yeah. Joe, talking to your mic for a second. Oh my God.

I knew it was going to happen. We got it. We got it. We got it. We're good. We're good. That was a risk there. We were off to Kuwait.

I don't remember anything about the flight or anything. No. Do you guys remember? No. I remember, I remember just, no, not all. I remember going to. We flew. Yeah, well, the, well, the one thing, I don't remember for the flight we were on.

I mean, I, because I ended up taking a few of these flights, but like, you would fly, you know, you're not, we're not in, first. You're not even sniffing. We're in the back, back of the plane. And, uh, I, I, a few flights that I've had there. I remember once I'm flying, I went to Djibouti, another time with Dustin Chafin. It's a great word. It's a funny. Yeah.

It is. And Djibouti, everything shuts down at noon. It's so hot that they, the way they do it is you work until noon, and then there's like a nap, and then you come back online. Everybody comes back to work at like three or four. Oh, my God. Or something like that. This place is made for comedians.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Work till noon? I get up. Yeah. Djibouti name. Take off time. Yeah. So, but.

When I remember flying there, I was like in the back. I'm in the middle seat, and I go to lean it back, and this guy just, boom, just hits it. Wow. He starts just punching it. What? And screaming in another language. And so then I had to sit straight for 44 hours on the flight. Because, you know, you couldn't lean it.

You know, you're like, I think his was leaned back. Right, right. But he was a dominant fellow. Well, those languages. languages too. You know, I don't want to break up the party, but it's like, you're like, ah, you know, it's like the Libyans and back to the future. Yeah, yeah, there's no like, hey, hey man. There's also no walking away from a fight on a plane. That person's behind you for the next

many hours. Yeah, you really got to like, to make that move of like being aggressive. I remember another one going to Dubai and I had a window seat. And it was like, so it's like two, four, two. And so I'm on the aisle. like two and I'm in the window and I'm like like you know excited and this girl said next to me and she goes uh if you want to switch she's like I don't get up you know I'm gonna sleep and I was like you know I was like I don't know like you know the whole point was being in the window you lay your head here whatever but I ended up agreeing to it and then she put a blanket overhead 13 hours did not move wow never seen anything like it 13 hours did not

I've seen that in this neighborhood. Yeah, yeah. Take it over the head, not moving. Yeah, I bet she took, what do you call that? Heroin. No, what's the thing? Ambien. Ambien.

She had a champion. Multiple am. Yeah, most, yes. I mean, I was 13 hours. If you went, eight is crazy. So when you landed, did you have to like, yeah, gosh water in a face? Well, I mean, she got, I mean, she can, no.

Sounds like good wife. She got up. Everybody's like, we never met. I mean, she, I was like, you're going to get up some. And then like a hybridating bear. That's crazy. You just put a blanket on her head and slip. I also remember, oh, you're good.

No, I'm just going to say, I've been in a flight where, like you talk about not getting a fight on plane. I have the window. I like the window closed because it's dark and so I can sleep. And also the sun gets really hot. So I had the window closed. This crazy German guy on the other side keeps opening it. On you? I keep closing it.

He keeps opening it. Over you? Yes, over me. Is it not, it's a half and half window, which is like, who's next to me. He's next to me. He's not, he's on the aisle. Or like, or the middle, whatever it was. Yeah.

And I'm like, what do you want to see? He's like, the vista, you know, he's to- Well, he should have got a window seat then. I know. I know, but this reminded me. He was like, I just didn't want to, like, I fought as much as I could, but I'm like, I just have to sit next to this for the whole flight.

You needed America to come in and save your ass. Basically. Was the Vista nice, though? What? Was the Vista nice? No, it's the sky. Did you could, you then not look out the window? Because what if?

He's like, oh, look at that. You got to go, I don't care. I don't know. I don't care. Well, it's just like the sun is like melting you. You know what I mean? Yeah. You got to get the non-sunside.

That's when it's really great. Yeah. It's a tough one to pick. Yeah. You got to really think about it. I've done it before. I'm like, where are we? I've never thought about that.

That's crazy. Well, that was another thing I learned on that trip from you, the original Iraq trip, the one that, the good one. But that was, you were the first person I ever met that had the app and was choosing seats. Like, you got us exit row seats. You're like, you've got to check the seats, which I do now religiously. And we got exit row and we sat extra and needed to like sync the movie up. You had to hit play at the exact same time. I can't remember what we watched.

That was fun. We synced movies up too. Oh, yeah, I think the three of us are pressed. I can't remember. It's like a little brother trying to fit in. No, we did that. You're like, yeah, that's right. But we did.

We went to your dad's house that weekend. It was, I was, I love traveling. I was very good at traveling with you would, because it's not like we, you didn't have money, But I was able to, you're just like, just keep an eye on this. You know, when you go in, you're like, let's go talk to this person at this thing. And then if you talk to them, they can give you upgraded. I did it my, one of my best that I did was rental cars when this is here. But in L.A., when I would go there to rent a car, sixth, like S-I-X-T.

So it was, when it first came over to, like, L.A., you could go, it was cheaper than anything. For a second. I used to be a six at L.A. Yeah, for, I mean, yeah, you would, you would get, you could get a BMW. Then they got luxury cars. Well, they had, because there's all German cars. Like, it's all, so you could get BMWs, you get whatever. So, I mean, every time I would be in L.A., I would be, like, driving around like an Audi.

And then it's like, what are you doing? It's like, like, soda or Norma or something's like a Nissan. I'm like, I guarantee you mine is $100 cheaper than yours. Wow. Because you could, you just always, if you look and go find it, it's you can find good, things that people don't know about. You heard it here for it. Yeah, it used to be the exit row

was just you had to ask for it. They didn't up charge her to sell it. They'd be like, hey, I'm tall. Would you mind? Like, yeah, absolutely. Well, the exit row, I remember a time, this is how old I am. The exit row was cheaper

because you were doing service. Like you didn't want it. Like this was like, you were like willing to help. Can't you not lean back in the exit row? You can, no, the first, the first exit row, no. The second one, yes.

Because you're away from the exit. Oh, wow. And the one in front of the exit row, you can't lean back. Okay. Southwest, I love it because when you watch people, because there's really only one exit row in Southwest. Yeah.

There's, and then there's two that look like they're in an exit row, but they're not. The double. The double seat is the glorious seat. And so it's very fun to watch people be like race to that one, and then they don't realize that they're in maybe the worst seat on the plane. Oh, that's always fun.

Because it's, yeah, because you have, you know, well, you know the one seat where it's got all the leg room. Yeah. And then you have those two double ones. Those are not exit row seats. you think they are. People get in them because you're like, well, Xero's here. I got space next to me. It's too crowded normal seats.

Right. So the exit, there's like one really exit row, you know. Why does only Southwest do that? Like no seat in one spot? They might change it. I have a technique, though, if you don't want people sitting next to you. Bring a meal. Just eat it.

I do this on the subway, too. If you eat, if you're eating, no one wants to sit next to you. I don't shower for like four days straight. I just play hoop. I got my, Aaron, Weber on my podcast, he said him and another big man, if he sees a big dude sitting by the window, he'll sit in that row with that big guy because no one wants to sit next to two big guys. I've done that too. I've done that big guy. No, but if there's a big guy there and there's in the middle. No, then there's one big guy in the aisle and then I go to the window, then no one's sitting between us still. No one wants to next to him. Right. I hear you. All right, now I'll tell you that story. I got to go to the window. I got to you. I got. I got. I. I got. I. I I got a phone call one day. I wanted to make this thing.

It's a way for other comics to show themselves. Oh, that's right. You're not hosting your own show. They did them dirty. Aria figured out a way to put it up somewhere else. You thought about bringing it back. All the time, I need your and Tom's help. You guys ready for this?

Okay. It's a fucking crazy night we're going to have here. Shit's about to go down. Look. And we're here to talk, Paul. Storytelling show. It's telling true, true stories. Word to word would happen.

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Wait, let's go to Kuwait. What did you do? Yeah, let's get to Kuwait. Because there's some good Kuwait stuff too. So the way it works, the contractor. Now this is a government contractor. This guy's a contractor. You get a guy.

You're assigned a guy who, which I still don't understand what a contractor is or what any of the stuff means. A lot of contractors are. Yeah, which weird. So much of the military base is run by private contractors, even though it's all, like the security of the military. base isn't military. It's private security, which is odd.

And also the people that were taking care of us were private security instead of military. People building up all this stuff as contractors. Yeah. Yeah. So our guy... I think you've seen all that stuff play out now. So our guy, I don't know what the guy's name was. I can't remember. I can't either. But he had the fucking most

bizarre accent. He was so weird. He was like for American, but from a different country. But he would say, what this? About everything. like in any context, it's almost like forget about it in Donnie Brasco. It was all these different meanings. So like we'd be talking in the back seat like, oh man, I hooked up with a girl one time. What this?

Yeah. And it was almost like we decided he was hanging out with people who English was their second language. Right. And somehow his English had gotten worse because of that, right? Yeah. And did he not have a crazy like cocaine sex story? I think so. Do you remember that?

I don't remember. He had some wild He was a wild guy It was one of those things Like an onion We're like it just kept peeling away And you're like We're in the hands

Of a complete psychopath In a war zone And he kept telling these stories And they would get crazier and crazier And he would drive kind of crazy And he had a ponytail I don't think he had a ponytail Maybe he had a ponytail

I must have a photo of him somewhere I wish I could remember They all They all drove Very crazy Very fast Like in Kuwait Like there's

No I feel like no speed limit. Like you was just kind of... Oh, yeah, and there's no ambulance. And it's like, if you get in an accident, you just die on the side of the road. What's this? You don't remember him telling a story

where he, like, does all this cocaine with his girl and they have sex, and then he like, she's shit to bed or something like that? You don't remember... That's like one of the few things I remember from the trip. Maybe... All right, sorry. Maybe I have confusing the two.

I don't know. Maybe. Perhaps. Perhaps. But, no, I mean, I mean, show. You're like, didn't he sh-h-a-s shoe and all through a table

or something like that? No, but he was just insane. And the other weird thing about Kuwait was like, so you're kind of at a base, forward operating base, which I forget the name of the main one.

Fab, yeah. And then we would... It's just the three letters of what you said. Key fob. Fort operating base. So... What do they call it?

Fob. You'd have all this. Oh, Jesus. That goes the whole recording. It's all deleted. Yeah. So yeah, you just hang out all day. It was like long hours.

And then I felt bad because we had gone and done it before. And you thought this was going to be the travel event of a lifetime. Like we were doing insomnia with Dave Attell. A lot of sitting around. And we just sat on like basketball bleachers for like four hours talking about which comics we hated. Not unlike what we do most of the time. All the time. And then you're like, are we going to town?

Literally all the town. Yeah, we never left the base. You couldn't drink on the base. We played a lot of racquetball. Were you allowed to leave the base? They ate very good at racquetball. Yeah. Yeah, back then I was good at record ball.

Were you allowed to leave the base? No. Not at all. No, they wouldn't take it anywhere. You couldn't do anything. So we would, and even when we had days off, they would fill our days off with these tours, which were sometimes cool. And then sometimes like, can we not, can we not do the tour today?

You could kind of feel like they don't want to do it. Yeah, no one wants to do it. Exactly. Like you just, like, because I think they're just, they got to find something. They're like, well, we have these guys out here. And so we got to, we don't want to, it's one of those, no one wants to waste each of time when you're kind of like, hey, you can waste our. Don't we, we're, we're just hang out.

We're good, yeah. But there's like a movie theater. You can go see movies. There's, you know, there's like a convenience store type, Walmart store type, not as big as Walmart, but like where it's got just a bunch of random stuff in. What's that called? Get a haircut. Oh, yeah.

There's a name for the store. And they like, it's like Walmart, like, there's like groceries and a motorcycle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you could watch the movie You get a haircut

We got a haircut Yeah One of the movies we watched Was Hall Pass I remember that They sing the national anthem Before the movie And then you watch Hall Pass

Which is such a funny Diconomy to like have The Star Spangled Bandard Everyone's at attention And then they're like Here's Hall Pass And it's a not a good movie What's that called?

Oh I want to think of it though But they also like They showed us the and the tours would be interesting though to see some of the stuff I remember seeing like a was it Apache helicopter is that the crazy that we met like a lady who like who who flew the Apache helicopter and this the helicopter is so crazy like every inch of it's for one it's like one person fits in there every inch is controls so you're like how what different thing are you controlling and this lady was so bad got she like wasn't supposed to be able to drive them but then you got the laser eye

surgery so she could and like yeah it just like it's just like it's like a basically a flying weapon is all it is it is it was pretty badass also I did a bit about this for a while they don't tell you they shoot flares out the side of the helicopter every flight to throw off the radar or some kind of thing but they don't they didn't tell us it's if you got RPG yeah it's like it's like an RPG came up at you it would try to attract that so we're flying in the helicopter all of a sudden you just hear like you feel heat and see like a red thing I'm like they're shooting And I'm like, we're f***ed.

And then they're like, oh, no, we do that on everything. And I'm like, well, can you just give us a heads up that you're going to be firing rockets off the side of the thing? And that was, that was definitely on their more fun trip to him. We didn't do anything cool like that in Kuwait. So you didn't do anything in Kuwait? You just stayed in a base all the time and the tours. Was the tour's cool? Did you see anything of note?

Like I said, sometimes cool, sometimes not. I feel like. I don't remember the tours. What tour? Well, they would take us around the base. I remember once. Oh, a tour of the base? I think I had a very, I can't remember exactly what I did, but some kind of.

faux pa with an injured soldier. Like we're supposed to visit the injured soldier. And I think I said, I can't remember exactly what I said. It was something like, so, so what do you've been up to? There's something, something really stupid. And it was very embarrassing. I have a bullet in my sternum. So they had us go visit the injured soldiers, which I felt back because I'm like,

well, they didn't even see the show. This is maybe how are you doing? Yeah. Yeah, maybe something like that. Yeah, something like that. I was just like, I don't know. I'm just trying to make small time. It's like Seinfeld going to visit the kid.

Yeah. Because I'm going to kill this. Yeah, they had us do a show at Kuwait. Kuwait was, I lost my wedding ring in Kuwait. Jesus. Yeah, I mean, I was pretty newly married, and I lost my wedding ring pretty immediately. And I left it in Kuwait. So.

Why did you take it off? I don't really like a wing. I don't wear it now. I don't wear one either. People married? No kidding. Totally married. Wow.

Yeah. Thanks. Do you remember, I remember once we did, you did karaoke, and Joe puts on a show when you do karaoke. And I was like, I thought it was awesome. But like the other army were like, man, what's wrong with you? They were like not into it. We did Kuwait in the base? I think you did a thing called love.

No, another guy did a thing called love. And you did something else. And you were going all off and nuts. And they were like, man, what's with your friend? I have no memory of that. You know what we're talking about? We did karaoke? I think, yeah.

Yes. You did karaoke. Wait, hold on. There was a military karaoke going on on the base and then I was like, I'm going to... I mean, I can't imagine another... Yeah, unless we went to another military base some other time. I don't think so.

No, yeah. How'd you get this gig? How'd you all go together? Scott Kennedy. I think I knew Scott and I introduced you all to Scott. Yeah, you had done... I already gone with him and... You and I went with him on that awesome, amazing, perfect, beautiful trip.

Yeah, yes. Well, because, yeah, we went with Kuwait. I wanted to go to Afghanistan I never got to go to Afghanistan but I went over there a bunch but like went to Iraq you know that's where you fly in the Blackhawks I remember flying at Kirkuk

and I don't remember if you were there if we're one time it's flying to Kirkuk and it's like where Abraham the prophet like his house is there where he lived like you're just in that I mean it's unbelievable like you're just on the oldest

I remember flying in a helicopter and you're flying over for an hour you're flying and it's like you're flying over the ocean like there's no lights right but you're not over the ocean you're over just saying wow and it's just completely dark and you're just like I'm the farthest from anywhere my home or anything there's if something happens there's not you don't see little towns you don't see anything that's crazy did you fly in a c130 the big bomber I didn't fly in anything yeah we're also with the big bomber and they let me go into the cockpit as well, which you had done before, and they put night vision goggles on.

We were flying into Baghdad with all the lights with night vision in the cockpit. It was unbelievable. And then Nate and I, we have a picture that was stolen from us, that we were flying into, and the C-130. It was completely empty. It was just the two of us in a C-130, which pull up a C-130. It's like, it's bigger than a 747. And it's just the two of us sitting back there.

So you never even put on a bulletproof vest or a helmet or anything. Nothing fun. Our picture is at, yeah, where is there? A picture's at, yeah, where's there? A picture's at creak in the cave, right? Yeah, I see it all the time. It's so funny. Yeah, well, the story behind that photo, by the way,

Nate was moving away. We had a going away party, and I framed this beautiful photo of the two of us as a gift to Nate. He just left it, didn't give a shit. I forgot it. And then I went back. I was like, hey, you forgot your gift. I'll go get it.

And I went back to the creek in the cave, and it was just hanging. She's like, oh, perfect. And so now it's hanging at the green room in Austin. No way. Wow, that's cool. It's a cool picture. It's Nate's, yeah.

It was awesome. It was the most thoughtful gift I've ever given. I loved it. I'm sure that night was a little crazy. Yeah, it was a little spicy. But yeah, but we flew around in the C-130. When they do those two, then they do a spiral landing. No way.

Oh, right. What? Because it's, because you're coming down so you're not shot at. So it's like just and it's like a three-sixth. So you're over a safe space the whole time here. So instead of like going like that, they do it all in one, wow. So you're not at like 10,000 feet of a couple miles of. way.

Not, but we're men. Yeah. So, no. Scared to take a bath. Going to it. With other men, yeah. What were the toilets like there in the base? I feel like we have to start making stuff up.

Crazy. Those thorns and blood and landlines. The toilets were nice. It was like, it was, all they had was a very, very nice gym. So that's why we played racquetball. We played basketball. We played basketball. Also, we watched the, that might have been the other trip, too.

The Notre Dame. national championship where they got killed. Oh yeah. Definitely. Look, I can send some. Well, you can go to my Facebook and they're all on there. Oh, yeah. So that's at Saddam's Palace. So that's where we were. Oh, yeah.

You hit golf clubs into, so you're on his, in his palace. PX. PX. The PX. The PX. That's the Walmart. Wow. Yeah, I got a bunch of photos like this of us smoking Cubans. Well, that's the crazy thing about Iraq. Sorry, Louie. You go to Saddam's palace, which is now what American military and they also have a humidor filled with Cuban cigars.

You can just go in and get your Cuban cigar and pull it out and smoke it. So we sat smoking Cuban cigars at Saddam Hussein's Palace. This is the one that you are on. This is Nate's. Happy place. Yeah. So a game decked out in Vandy. This is a pukeshell necklace phase of my life.

This is... Like a McDonald's, baby. I want McDonald's after this. This is pre... Huh? Let's get McDonald's after this. I've had it recently, man. I had it.

I had delivered two days. Yeah. We had, uh, this was pre-LASIC. Uh, you look so different, dude.

Look at that. It's crazy. Why, yeah, me, trip you out to look, you can see yourself. Yeah.

I feel like I'm back to that. Look at, look at a young Joe list. Like, I look beautiful. Uh, this is probably a lot of me and Joe. Yeah,

this is the, uh, this is the Iraq one? But this is, that's Quaid. That's Kuwait. That's Kuwait. That's Kuwait.

That's quite. Yeah, that's quite. So that's where a lot of hanging out there So there's a lot of You know you just be A lot of hoop Basketball

You're there for a couple weeks I remember calling in a veils to the cellar From there Yeah from there from Kuwait Nice form That's nice form That's nice form Wow

Put the hand in the cookie jar baby Look at that butt I know I remember calling in veils To the cellar From Kuwait Still not getting any thing. And I would, and I would say I'm in Kuwait trying to, I would think, maybe they'll trigger her

into going like, oh, yeah, he can do some spots. Still never got spots. And that's Biff from back to the future. You might remember. Look, it is Kuwait. There's a gas fire, oil fire, whatever you call it, a finery. That's out the window of the car. There's some, that's their animals. Sheep, goats. That's their pets. Look at this. There's the stage. Joe Zahech. Yeah. That looks familiar. I'm on this trip. No, no, no. But he has the other album.

Yeah, there's no outdoor. But this was the one people. That looks like it might be us. Yeah, there's us in the green room. Look how fun we are. Look at that. Pretending to talk. Creek Farris.

The exact pretend to talk. Yeah. There we are. Oh, look at that with me, a Sinatra. There's the digital camera. Yeah. Oh, yeah, a little elf. It revealed.

Boom. Yeah, yeah, we'd have to wear. That's the one from the creek. Yeah. That looks like that's not the creek. But it's the same idea. Yeah. Black jackets.

I have a feeling you're going to come to it. See, this is us with a bunch of guys who probably, I can't tell if they liked us or hated us. It's hard to tell. But it was a very small space. So your knees would be kind of in a lot. This is the C-130? That's the C-130, yeah. That's the back of it.

It's open. Oh, look at this. And there's a Mountaine d'Uhl. Is that how you say it? Moutten d'UUO? You can tell it's classy when you're putting it. Mountain doing a glass. Oh, I had a big mountain dew phase.

Look at that. That's Saddam's Palace right there. Really? Yeah, absolutely. Look at my ass, by the way. Take me, please. Maybe that's not Saddam's Palace. That's a different base.

It was hot. This trip was hot and long. There's a guy, go back one. There's a guy. He'll go back one. So that's where you would go stand if the siren went off and there was like bombs being launched at the base. If Louis was on stage, you ran and dove under here.

That's roomier than a southwest. Airlines bathroom. Yeah, yeah. But we had it, I think it was only one time. I remember everything went off and you just had to go take off in there. And there's Scott. He's no longer with us. RIP.

I asked him once, it was like, hey, do you ever, like, it was new to L.A.? And like, I was like, do you ever get worried or, like, hitting on somebody that if they're straight, they might beat you up? He's like, I'll beat them up. Yeah. What are he talking about? Yeah, he was, yeah, I mean, dude, he went over there. I mean, his schedule, because it'd be every two weeks. He would go, he would go and come home and be home for two weeks.

And then he'd go back. Wow, there's a cool base. This is Iraq. Louis, this is what you missed out on. I mean. Yeah, it looks pretty cool. So wait, let me go to the other one. What?

I mean, this is all the good stuff. Wait, get to it. Come on, just rip through. Go to the palace. Look at there's a bunker. There's a show. Look at that guy. He's loving me.

They put the black people on the outside? It's cool. Long sleeve, under the short sleeve. You nail it. I remember those guys. I remember those guys too. They like me. More than they liked you.

I don't know. They kept saying that. The other guy sucked. Yeah. that's cool look at there we are on top of a crane thing yeah look at that huh look at the size of that tire I'm six two how hot is it here it's hot oh she wears the sleeves just to not get some so the sun yeah wow that's a very Jewy move I like it I'm not Jewy it's a jury move he's not Jewy thank you that's a

nice thing that's ever said to me look at that look at that show wow that one so they're all just standing around yeah yeah this is a COVID show And they asked them to go out there. Like, could you got, we got these two kids. Could you go watch them to go? They, yeah, they don't. All with guns. It's like a show in central Philadelphia.

They make them go because it's like the one thing that Scott did that was good is he would go to small fobs. So forward operating bases. So he would go to the bases that they would not get. A lot of people would go to Kuwait or like maybe some Baghdad. Like there's, you know, some big stuff. Scott would always be like, no, we're going to like this small little operating base. So you'd be doing a show and there's just not a lot of There's that many people. That's like 12 people.

I remember doing it one. This is like the Trump rallies where they go look how many people and you're like, oh. I remember the one show, I doing one show and like we're, I'm staying in and they made these guys just got off a mission. And so they made them go, you're going to go watch them. And we're like, it's like eight. My friend died today. Yeah. It's like eight in the morning.

And we're like, we're like, we don't have to do. the show and they go no no no y'all came all the way here they're going to watch your show and so then i'm staying in front of a buffet and a guy walks so they're having to watch and then a guy walks in and just starts making food from the buffet and just walks around me and i'm just staying there had no microphone doing his show geez look at that certificate of appreciation that march of 2011 there you go wow those are the good times company raging bulls number first battalions 21st entry regiment certificate of operating base warhorse forward operating base warhorse

that was fob warhorse damn but I want to see the Kuwait ones or how many more of the 57 out of 90 all right well you don't have to go through all these yeah let's go to uh way better the what well why don't you can't you zoom out to like the multiple

yeah it's just and we'll tell you to pop in oh that's a cool photo right here that's a great photo yeah that helicopter went you just had to keep your head down there went everywhere just kicking up sand yep that's what it sounds like

Nate Pouting was the cabbill. Wow. That must have been really cool. That was super cool. How many years are you guys at this point? 2011? I was 31. Joe started in 93.

76. Could you shoot any of these? Could you shoot guns out of the helicopter? I didn't shoot any guns. I went another time in shotguns, but I did it in this trip. It was, we've been a comedy eight years. No. I've been doing coming 11 years.

Yeah. Yeah, I started in 03. Woo. Yeah, that's embarrassing. I started early. This is Saddam's Palace. Here we are. That Saddam's.

Yeah. What a terrible. That's probably the helps. I think that's a bidet though, not a toilet. It looks like a bidet. It's a toilet's in the bottom corner. Yeah. Yeah.

Just seeing those little standing shower. That's it. So the big thing with his power. So, you know, this is where he did the interview with, CNN or so Theo Epstein I meant to say Theo Theo Fogglese

Who is what's Sawyer Diane Sawyer? Diane Sawyer I'm pretty sure it was either her or someone else Yeah there it is

Yeah there is How about that? Look at that You put in the comments What? Oh Wow So they sat in that chair

Those two chairs That's pretty cool And did that interview And so when we ran there So a big thing All the gold That he has on there It's all painted

It wasn't It's not it's not real gold or anything. So the outside and everything would always be painted real gold because the point, he wanted to look. So like when everybody looks,

they're like, oh, wow, that guy's, yeah, he's the leader. And so when we, I remember doing, everybody, they were like Arnold Schwarzenegger came and stayed in this place

and all this stuff. But when they, we took over this base, the day they attacked it, he also had lions and tigers and like a bunch of wildlife like that. So the soldiers, like, not only have to go, you know, fight all the humans, they're also like he's got tigers running around.

Jesus. Oh, there's the Diane Sawyer. Yeah, that's the Diane Sore. Oh, you're doing the mockup of that? Yeah. Saddam said in that other seat. Wow. Did you sniff the seat? Did you sniff a seat?

Yeah. Oh, you're talking to yourself? Yeah, because I think we were going to do something fun with it. Oh, yeah. There was a, we had a lot of high hopes with a lot of stuff. Remember we had a video of me going to try to go to the bathroom? We filmed it for two weeks. I still have it somewhere.

That's his handwriting. Yeah. Saddam Hussein wrote some shit at. I forget the story there. PLT, Rye, hold a mail. There we are. Look at that. What is this?

Jets football. That's his, um... Yeah. His palis. Big carp. They made it to a driving range. Is that a river? No, it's like a reflecting pool.

That's a refrain. But they have carp in there. People would fish. No shit. Wow. Yes, he could fish and go off. So he's got his own kind of lake, basically, right? Yeah, I mean, this is all his power.

Like, so it's, yeah. It really is just a reflecting pool? Yeah. That's huge. It would be, it's like if you had like half of Manhattan with something around it, like a wall around it. That's like what his palace was. Look at this.

They put a driving range there. America, baby. Hey, how's your form here? It's better now. Okay. This is pre-lessens, pre-anything, pre-playing really a lot, you know. Yeah. Look at Joe.

Yeah. be a bit. What's, what is this? Where you eat? Yeah, Saddam would eat there and have, that's where you'd

shit. Yeah. Look at that. I mean, it seems so fun to be out there in that. Oh, yeah.

I mean, he'd chill. I mean, it's, you know, it's, and it's, it was crazy. That's where you would

go in the, you know, ride through the streets of Baghdad and a suburban. Well, that was another fun thing is when you rode to the streets,

when you'd go through an underpass under a bridge that the trucks would be staggered like this, and then they would switch underneath, so people couldn't drop bombs off the top of the overpass. How would that help? Oh, really? So you'd come out at a different place.

So, like, you'd be staggered, so one car's like this, one car's like this. And as you go under, they go like this, so you think you're going to time it and drop it at the cars switch position. Is this just going to hit the other car? No, it just hits the side of the other car. Well, the other car, and there's the cross swords.

This is like where they tore the statue down and everything. Wow. Look at my piece side. This is where they tore the what? The Saddam Statue statue. Wow. Remember when we thought we kind of won? Yeah, this was like, so like when we were doing, we were there, it's a little like,

you're a little nerve wracking because you're just on the streets. Yeah, we got out. This is a part where in the streets and it's literally still a war zone. Yeah. Like the war is ongoing. And I took a photo of no photographs. Classic. Classic.

Classic. What a scally wag? What was it like as a city? Like, it's, I mean, you're looking at it. Really? That's his son's palace. It's like Gaza. Yeah, and so that's where they...

Yeah, that's where they bombed. So when they dropped, when they first dropped the bombs, they hit his son's palace first. Look at that. Uday, Cusei. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did? Look at these photos.

I mean, that is something. Wow. He's got to go up and drill this photography. A good point. Wow. I mean, that is spectacular. Sepeatones. Cipatone.

Wow. I made love to her. I'm just trying to pick up the pocket. guess get a lot that's my friend from high school that's Brennan Holbrook possibly Brian Holbrook they were twins yeah and this is where we found some beer buddy guns at each other that's crazy damn right yeah I went to high school with this guy we happen to puff into each other point and fist is out each other look at that this is the we had a good time so he was just stationed there yeah he happened to be there it was crazy look at those big

this is this is cool this is one of the when I'd go go to the going to the bathroom things. Yes. That's what I was like, it's like the idea I was looking for a bathroom the whole time. That's a beauty.

Oh yeah. We staggered out. I mean, look at these, these colors. This is spectacular. You know, bits about going to the bathroom in Iraq,

don't you? Uh, Djibout is like number one or number two? Isn't that your bid? Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about.

Those are Cuban cigars. Cubans. So this Saddam's Cubans? Probably the best trip of my whole life. Unbelievable. Oh, man. Get out of here.

Look at that. Look at that. Look at those. spectacular. All right. Let's get there. It just keeps going up. That's the photo.

Yeah, that's the one. That's the famous photo. That's the famous photo. Yeah, I do recognize that. Yeah. There you go. Nate looks like hell. Wow.

You look smaller. You're not drunk now. I was a mess, man. Jesus Christ. Okay. Oh, here I am reading decision points, which I thought was a funny bit, too. Yeah.

Okay. That was the one. Okay. That was the good trip. Let's go. Let's go. The reason he's here. The reason why.

We're all here. You know what? Go back to our back. Oh, yeah. We're back in the right. That was fun. I think the first one. Here it is.

I went to Kuwait again. There we go. There's this. Nate looks mad at Louis there. If I know. No, we have, but we,

like, how does this guy still have hair? I mean, the middle scene. We appreciate it. Good looking out. That's how you earned the big leather seat this time. Yeah.

I remember smelling my hand. Oh, this is because when we landed, there was some kind of weird wet stuff on my luggage. I checked my bag, which I never do. And it was just. damp. I came back in the suitcase

was damp. So that's going to be smelling it. It looks like you just fingered a plate of it. Yeah. Just really give her a blast. Look at that beauty. I see, you saw some good sights. Look at that. Those are some nice clouds. Look at that. That's a good sun. Look at that. No parking size. This is us giving you the tour

of Kuwait. Because you guys have already been there? There's the fire truck. They had, they were all, were you in Kuwait the other trip? We went to Kuwait. You go to Kuwait and then from there you go to Iraq. And then... That's a beautiful. Yeah, that's a good photo.

What a cool picture. Yeah, I need to get this from it. On a tank. That is cool. Yeah, that is a good. It wasn't the first time I was on a tank in that time period. Whatever. Look that.

Oh, classic. Classy. Riding it. Louis, always working blue. You gotta do it. He can't do it. This is hard for him to do anything. That's a funny face.

Like you're blowing people up. Oh, yeah. I love the Army guys must have been like, yeah, it's funny. I actually was just doing that yesterday. Yeah. I should have got a haircut then. Oh, look at that in a tank. How do people listen to this podcast of us going through photos? Are they going to see the photo?

Yeah, this part won't be great. They'll see the photos if on YouTube. This is definitely a YouTube one. Okay. Yeah, this part won't be great. Is this taking you back at all? Do you remember the smells? That's good pre-in-in-the-middle-of-pott guess.

This part won't be great. For the audio, this is what you want to switch over for sure. Me riding the tank is cool. Yeah. What did you get in a word for biggest dork? Oh, that's hurtful. That's hurtful. I'm on the trip with Louis.

Slam. Second place at best. At worst, I mean. It really was the second place Dork Award. This is on YouTube, though. Now I'm self-conscious. Is this the worst episode? Come on.

No, this is really great. But this part, you'll want to be here to see all these pictures. Maybe they'll just lay them in. What, was there anything you wanted to do there? You didn't do? Well, Louis wanted to do everything. See anything. See the country.

Oh, this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Louis got sold a bad bill of goods because I think Nate was like, oh, yeah, we're going to You go see the world and Louis showed up and was like, wait, what is going on here? Look, and that's, I mean, that's how we perform, like for that. What a wild. Are those seats facing away from you?

Yeah, those are the bleachers for when Biggeracks come. And they turn them around? That was from when Gary Seneas came. Well, we, this one, I think he knew we weren't going to Iraq. Yeah, I knew we were going to Iraq, but I still thought we'd see some, like, we didn't see Kuwait, really. Yeah, well, I don't know if there's, yeah, you're not allowed to really see it. I thought they had already taken back Kuwait.

Didn't they take back Kuwait? right away? Yeah, I think they had Kuwait. So why couldn't you walk around Kuwait? There's a lot of times when like... Because you're just on the... Yeah, you're on the Kuwait base. I don't think the deal is if we want to keep a base there,

Americans stay the fuck out of their country. Oh, I get it. Well, the other thing is that in Kuwait, they kind of, they need you more because they're so bored. They're just as bored as we are. Like in Iraq, they're fighting a fucking war. The people in Kuwait are just kind of sitting around waiting to go get sent out. So they're in more new comedy.

That was just like the station where they keep them before they went into comedy. Yeah, that's like our main spot. That was like the fob in Kuwait is like much, much bigger. It's like a, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, there he is. That's his. That's him.

What the hell is his name? Yeah. That's what this? Yeah, what's this? He was bald with kind of long hair. With long hair. Isn't that the name of the thing too, him? Ball with long hair.

No, it was this X, whatever. PX. PX. That's him. What this? What this? He was great. I wish I could remember more details, but we were dying.

We were like howling, laughing at everything he would say. He was so crazy. And he was obsessed with women. Unlike me. Were they hot at all? The Army chicks? The one. The one who drove the Apache, flew the Apache was hot.

I remember that. I probably have a photo. There's Louis on stage right there. You can put in front of a TV, which is hilarious. Probably like turn the goddamn TV This must have been like the best show This looks like an actual show How bright it is though

It's pretty bright Pretty bright high ceilings Not ideal They're drinking cups of coffee This guy's on his computer That's so rude Doesn't it look like you're a foot and a half tall Because the TV's like three feet higher than that

I think this is, wait Is this a show from Louis last week That's a good photo You're both wearing vandys Well Louis was cold He was cold So I gave him my jacket Oh, that's adorable.

Yeah. Louis, you look like Woody Allen right there. No. A little bit. What's going on? Oh, there's a soccer image. Yeah, I think we were watching them play. Just watching Army people play soccer.

That's a beautiful photo. Here's a racquetball. Here we go. I remember this is what I remember with this trip. It was infuriating because you were like a poker player that doesn't know how to play poker. You suck but kept winning. You'd hit it like upside out.

No, I'm good at racquetball. No, no, no, no. I remember. I remember it would like hit your. wrist and then you'd win by accident. No, I'm good at racquetball. Accidentally. No.

Are you wearing sunglasses? These are my podcast glasses. What? What? What? What? What? I podcasting these glasses.

Right now? This episode? No, one other podcast before this. What are they? I'm now on, I podcasting these glasses. Is it because why? Why? Just decided.

I like it. Thanks. I like it. Now that's funny. That is funny. That is funny. Make it shorts into a diaper. He's got small shorts.

Yeah. I mean. Look, I'm a bitch. you look at me. It looks crazy. You have so much time over there because there's not a lot to get to do. So it's like, you get down with racquetball

and you're like, you guys want to go play racquetball? Look, there's quaint. I don't remember. We were driving and you were like, can we get out? Because I distinctly remember you'd be like, can we just get out and walk? And they were like, no, what this?

That must have been infuriating for you. You want to walk around? As somebody likes to travel and then going like, no, you can't. What the fuck you're doing here? It's great. I mean, but that's also a thing with like a lot of these contract gigs

where like, I know they tried to get me to go to Japan, and they're like, but you can't see Japan afterwards. I'm like, I'm, I mean, I'm glad to perform for the troops, but that's my one thing is that I get to see Japan. We're at peace with them now. What did you go, in 1946? No, they just don't want, they don't want to complicate their business. They want to buy the flights for you. They don't want, they don't want you. They don't have to worry about you.

Yeah, or like, if you get in trouble or something like that. So, all right, the war was over in 46. It ended in 45. Okay. I just want to get facts right here. Can you edit that out and make me say something right? 1943? A lot of misinformation out there.

I don't remember us. Yeah, that was the... That was the... That was the flamen. These dudes' pictures are everywhere. Who are they? Sheik-looking guys. Well, that's a crazy thing, though, is you go...

You go into, like, the head of the command of the American Army base, and all the pictures are lined, the walls are lined with, like, basically chic-looking dudes. because it's Kuwait. And it's like there. There's your girl, Louis. There's you talking to her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not as hot as I remember.

Whoa, that's unnecessary. Hey, hey, hey, come on, come on. You can probably look her up. What's the last name? U.S. 2011. Yeah, that was the beginning of the end. Glenn.

That was the beginning of the end right there. No, I kept that hair for like another decade. It was a horrible mistake. Just right there. Wow. I can't believe it was that bad then. I had no idea. I couldn't even see that part.

Sheppel. Sheppel headline this show. he's still on stage whoa look at that that's a bazooka it's so cool in comedy to be able to get it set to a trip like this with buddies oh yeah yeah

it's pretty well that's what this one was so good I mean with Scott we became good friends with Scott and most people that go but a lot of times you'd go over there it might be a couple of comics you don't really know that well but then you get to know him

I went Jack Cation we went over there once and so like it's but this one was like crazy because it was this was the only one that because I've been in they were like oh yeah you can I was like can I bring I specifically could bring yeah three people that you're like oh it was a bringer yeah yeah look at that tucked in was a set list keeps a tuck list or you're probably sketching things you wanted to see I know they never showed you look how mad he is no no no no what I signed up for that's him really taking it that's me thinking about remember that's the one thing I remembered was all these controls right there. I mean, that was,

that was like a thing for me. Yeah. Yeah, she was not happy. She did not join you. Looking back, you're like, this is probably the worst part of their day, that they were like, oh, on Wednesday, I have to show three ha-h-h-h-hulls how to be...

I wonder if they remember this and go, no, they're all successful comics. They're all like, like... Like, it would be like in college, if you remember, don't people remember, like, people that came and spoke at their college or something, like, maybe? I mean, I didn't go to college. Oh, I remember being up there.

They make, like, they create a runway where there's no runway. I mean, it was just pretty cool. You could, I mean, I know it's every runway, but it's like, it was just pretty cool. Yeah. And the guy who was, who was commanding all the planes was like 19. It would be like, blew me away. It was, and he had this crazy, important job. He goes, here's the runway.

We go, well, it's all helicopters. He goes, yeah, we didn't think about that. That's a good point. Yeah, you didn't get to 90. Oh, you're showing this. I see. Keep going. We got some good stuff coming up.

Some crazy shit to go down. There's a bus. Hey, didn't we wear a camel? We read a camel. Well, look how that's the same. It must be the same green room. Same exact green room. That's probably why you take the picture.

Look at the camera's different. Different camera. Yeah. Different camera. Upgrade. I probably dropped it drunk. Gotta get one of those. It has a good shot.

That looks like the post for the next special. Yep. Is that Austin 316? Yeah. This is back in Kuwait. I'm pretty sure. Oh, this is all in Kuwait. Never mind.

Yeah. That's the main base, though. I remember that place. Well, speed kills slow down fast and seatbel. Everybody just flies. Everybody just drives as fast as they want. Yeah. There's no speed limit.

Yeah. You just do whatever you want. Whatever you want. Damn. I think we probably sat in that van for four hours. Because that's the other thing when you're there in a military trip, anybody in the military gets priority over you. So you'd sit in a helicopter and we're like, here we go.

And then they're like, no, these two lieutenants got to go. And so you'd get out of the helicopter. So we did so much of this. It's funny to do a podcast on a trip where we literally just sat in many of the man most of the yeah you know there's a there was a show that was me I put a dick in Mitt Romney's mouth

yeah there was a show where I mean what someone had a story where it was like a comic because you that you would you're getting helicopters to go so you're kind of waiting

yeah and so they were they were sitting on the helicopter then another person ran up and they go Robert Hawkins and they go you got to get off these people got to go and then that helicopter got shot down yeah wow who's Robert Hawkins

Robert Hawkins is very funny comic And he would have got shot down Yeah If you don't know Robert Hawkins His albums are on Spotify They're amazing You should have him on the pod to talk about Yeah he's on a lot of stuff

A lot better than that He has like Yeah You really should Yeah That's the story I think this was a barbecue I think there was Canadian forces there

And I think the Canadians were barbecuing Do you remember that? Yeah, that's right And then there was an Iraqi guy That was on our team Do remember that guy? He was kind of kooky I think I have a photo of him

Yeah I hope he got out he's uh yeah he's like from iraq but joined art jave yeah he's so funny he's also he's he's got around we i've been seen he's quick comedy for the most part seriously yes but he had what was talked to him uh every once in a while yeah he has this really funny bit about the blue angels kind of making fun of them but they heard the bit they liked it and then he got to fly with them yeah and like do their whole thing yeah when he got off and they crashed and died Canada wow good paul louis that was pretty crazy right good memory all right

How was the food on these bases? Any good? Yeah, they were like grilling. It was fun. I remember eating a meal with the sheiks. Yeah. One time. And they said they were like, they have, they brought in chicken.

They go, here's the chicken. And you're like, man, there ain't no chickens here. Well, I don't remember this. I do. This was like a transport boat. They showed us this. He said, he wanted to see the guns. Like, but this thing can transport stuff.

Like, show us the guns. You're like, I'm not a toddler. Yeah. I don't even remember being at the water there. Yeah, that was the Persian Gulf. The Canadian barbecue. I do remember this. In Arabic?

In Arabic? No, it's just blurry. Yeah, you're looking for anything. Great, great trip. This is beautiful. How long were you guys there for? A couple weeks, I think. 10 days?

10 days. Yeah. Did you guys get in any fights? I remember once I was like. It's when they turned to God. I was like said something to Joe about like the food he picked for like when we're eating like kind of like a oh boy I think of a Jewish way to be friendly like oh busting his balls and you're like well you do it your way and I do it my way you're like not happy well it's not because we sat around I'm look at these movies yeah it's paranormal activity three hangover two we bought a zoo we bought a zoo is canceled for Lippikovsky that's and you're going to all them Pussing boots yeah like it's but you are like all day every day every day day with somebody for 11 days. Yeah, just hanging out.

Things are going to get a little spicy. But they didn't, not too bad. That's all I remember, really, was you were like, just let me eat how I want to eat. And I was like, okay, sorry. Yeah, Joe doesn't want people telling them how about to eat. Nobody knows. There you go. I think I have that poster somewhere.

Entertainerary 2012. January 2012. I remember that. Oh, wow, January 13. Yeah, you're right. Can't Patriot. Almost exactly 12 years ago. That's crazy.

13 years ago, yeah. Wow. Whether the comedy show will be held in the movie tent. That's going to be way better. Bingo. You pushed Bingo back? Yeah. Bingo.

You fucked Bingo up? Yeah. The comic autograph session is off. There was an autographed session. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The movie. Yeah. I mean, no one wants it. I bet not a single military person has those. Bobby Lee was in this trip. Yeah. Yeah, probably none of them.

There must be someone in his shelf somewhere like at the end of Indiana Jones. There it is. Wow. Here's a flight. Okay. Look at 36 G. 23C. There's a 36.

Geez. Look at how we have paper tickets. Like even that is like, Hey, group A baby. That's pretty nice. Away to Istanbul, Istanbul, New York. Oh, this is on the way back. This is at the airport.

I remember this. That's the airport? No, I think this is the airport. No, I think this is the airport. We're heading back to Istanbul. That's why I was showing the ticket. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we're at the airport.

I remember eating there. And I'm drinking two. Now you're double fisting. Just like you're double-fisting beers before. Yeah, yeah. I have diabetes. At this point, I couldn't wait to get a cocktail. Oh, yeah.

Did you get a good seat? I don't know. No. No, but go with that one look like. It was first class. Maybe you just took a picture of the first class. Where? Oh, that was a... I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I edited that. Oh, look at that. That's funny, funny bit. I'm reading How to Survive an airplane crash on the plane. That's how I make the big bucks. That's a long flight. That's a long flight. That's what you did.

Yeah. That's good. We flew. Man. Cool trip. It was a very cool trip. It was very fun. Damn.

It was just fun to hang. I think if we cut this down to 30 minutes, this will be pretty good. I think so, too. Yeah, I wish you had someone that worked for you. Yeah, it does get bad. It's the second one I've done. Like, there's where people go, oh, look at that one. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah. That's cool. It's usually, like, reference the photos afterwards. Let me show you one. Can you put those in so people can see it? Yeah, we put them in. Okay. All right.

That's cool. solid guys it sounds like a great trip yeah yeah it was special it was wonderful and we've all kept in touch

we all talk every January 13th we all get on the phone and we call each around the Kuwait trip do you uh this is what I do at the end of these tell me about some place you want to go and also a travel tip in general

well Louis wants to go to Kuwait he's never seen it yeah Louis you should go can you go now it's probably safe now I'm good I think I saw go to Iraq yeah what's calling you guys any place you're like

I want to go to Australia, New Zealand. You've never been? I still haven't performed there. It's my last hope that comedy internationally is good somewhere. Australia? Horrible Edinburgh experience. Oh. That's a different thing.

That's a festival. Melbourne comedy's great. Sydney comedy's great. I want to see us because the Australians seem like they do comedy like us. So I kind of want to go there just to do comedy there. But travel-wise. Go to comics lounge in Melbourne. You've been a lot of places.

Yeah. I have been a lot of places. Yeah, but where do you want to? Vietnam I've never been to I've heard that's awesome I've been to Vietnam I've been to Vietnam too when were you there

on a I forget the year but it was like a gig really yeah it was like my crazy story with Paul Allen the building oh yeah yeah I got put on the boat

oh I forgot that was there I remember mostly the boat yeah we flew to Vietnam and then Singapore and we got on Singapore wait you hung with Paul Allen yeah oh there's like more recent no he was like a better story

yeah yeah every story we alluded to is better than the stories he goes it's a better story it's not for this podcast I'll save for Rogan reminds me we were all in Ecuador and the horse got away we had to chase the horseback did who went with

did you go to where do we go I had that joke about it the snakes like the Burmese pythons No, it was Cuba or something?

No, no, like down there. South America. Columbia, Brazil? Point. Oh, my gosh. I'm blamaking on the names. Where did he touch you? Brazil?

Venezuela. Don't blink on. They're all here. El Salvador. Peru. In Honduras. That's where you want. I had to talk about Honduras.

Yeah. I did some shows there. We went from a U.S. O.T. We went there to Greenland. Wow. I was in Greenland for 24 hours. It was dark the whole time.

Soon to be the 51st state. Yeah. That's right. It was dark the whole time. And when you walked around, they had big, big coats hanging and you had to wear the coats because it was minus whatever. And then also, when you walked around the night, he was like walk with purpose because there's polar bears. Jesus. Polar bears?

So like, go quick. Don't just. Yeah, yeah. Don't go. Or that the purpose scares him off. Like this guy. Well, it's like, I can't bother him right now. Don't drink Coke.

Yeah. Yeah. Just remember that there's polar bears. That's scary. I'm trying to think. Where do you guys want to go? I want to go to Japan. I've always wanted to go.

Well, now it's hard because I just had a baby. But I'd like to spend a few days in Tokyo and they go down to Mount Fuji. Fiji, I mean, Fuji or Fiji? Which one? Fuji. Fuji. Fuji's the island over here. I'd like to go to the Far East, but it's hard with the baby right now.

Also, York in the UK, I've always wanted to go to. It's supposed to be spectacular. Really? York? I was in, this is how I like to travel sometimes. When I was in Wales, this woman that was talking to was like, you've got to go to York. It's the most beautiful city on Earth. And she's like, there's a great park there also.

And I was like, oh, maybe I'll go there then. Sometimes you go to one place and someone's like, you've got to go to this place. And so you go. Wales is the best trip I've ever done in my life. Really? It's spectacular. Oh, it was awesome. Yeah, I think I want to go to Australia.

You've never been. I mean, Australia. I'm sorry. I've been to Australia. Italy. Italy. Yeah. You've been to Italy?

I've never been to Italy. Do you know where your family's from there? Yeah. They're more of the top, kind of the Swiss. Yeah, I like how he doesn't know the country. Actually, he's just reading it off the map. It's like there's Swiss. Well, I've been to Germany.

Remember, we had 24 hours in Frankfurt, right? That's right, yeah. And there was nothing. It was unfun. I have photos from that, too. And we go, we have one of those, get a layover in Germany. We're like, all right, we're going to go hit it. And then it's just, it's nothing's open.

It was like 7 a.m. on a Tuesday. And we couldn't even go indoors. Yeah, yeah. We thought like something would be. And it's that place just shuts down. And then the only thing, Right before we had to go back, they were like opening for breakfast. Yes.

And so we were like, oh, maybe something. I'll pick Philippines. Dubai. I'm excited by going to Dubai. Like, I want to see. Really? It supposedly everybody that goes to Dubai says it's crazy, dude. My podcast says last week with somebody went to Dubai.

Is they say it's crazy? He said it's just like really nice. Yeah, yeah. I've heard it's like Vegas without the sex or the drugs, which sounds horrible. Yeah. Yeah. Singapore. I heard Singapore has good.

Singapore is good. And I went to the best zoo I've ever been to. Really? Really? They have an amazing zoo there. They have a night zoo. What? So the animals are up?

The animals are up. So the whole point of the zoo is so it's all like dimly lit and you just kind of, you walk around and I mean, the animals are moving. Really? And it's wild, dude. Oh, wow. And so you hear the lions are roaring. Everybody's really active.

There was a tiger. And the tiger was like pacing. And I remember we looked and I could see the tiger. I made eye contact with the tiger. And it was like you felt that tiger just stopped and started staring at us. Oh, God. And he felt like that moment of like, this is what it would feel like. Like he's just like, well, what are you?

And yeah, it was the coolest, coolest place I've ever been. Singapore nights. They should do that here. I don't know. They really should. It's like somewhere. They do us. don't they do nice at the zoo or like a sleepover night at the zoo sometimes yeah yeah yeah

yeah that's more about a party vibe but this one is designed to see more animals it's yeah yeah it's it's it's it's yeah it's yeah it was awesome yeah because those animals are up night times usually right nocturnal nocturnal nocturnal oh that's right fancy so i mean everything's active everything's moving everything it was very very cool all right you guys got any tips for travel then we'll get out of here uh uh my do something don't drink of the plane. We never tips many travels. Boom, Jews.

Hotels, when you look up hotels, always look at, if you look pictures of hotels, look at the bathroom. And so the bathroom had a, and it's maybe a little different now because the bathroom has a glass shower.

That means it's at least been renovated and updated. Now, that being said, that's good. That was, this was, that helped more when it was really glass showers were kind of, newer thing.

They're getting now, they've been around for a minute. No, I still stay in hotels where it doesn't, and it's like, yeah, yeah, the stains and the, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, like, you always just go, if you can just get a glimpse of that bathroom and see, that's a bit, just look, if you can get a glimpse

of a bathroom of a hotel on the website, that will tell you if it's been updated or not, more so, I think, than the room. That's not bad. Because the room could be,

the room can always look kind of the same or whatever, but just, just look at the bathroom and see if, and then that lets you know. That's not bad. That's good. I guess, well, there's always, if you need water, there's always water in the gym.

That's a big travel thing. There's always a water, like a water cooler in the gym. You can fill up your water bottle. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You don't have fruit in it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Well, not in the gym. The gym doesn't have fruit. That's the lobby water. Lobby water has fruit. I think gym water. I just went to, yeah. At a gym? Yeah, it's great.

Like citrus? Yeah, yeah. Sometimes cucumber. sometimes. Cucumber's nice. Cucumber and strawberries in there. Ooh. You're living.

Yeah. But that's my big tip. Because they, you know, they try and, you know, that you don't know how the tap water is. Are you ever embarrassed when you're filling up a water in the summer? You can just tell like, you're not supposed to be doing this. I don't feel it. You see the level all the way down with the citrus water.

You know, he loves them. They should give us, you should have free bottled water at a hotel. I mean, true. I was trying to run a business. But it's, uh, Louis gets asked if he, he has to show his key. every time. They go, sir,

you staying here? Because he is using every facility they have at every part of that hotel. Why not? Get in there. It's like when you kill an animal, use every part.

That's right. Yeah. What do you got, Joe? Take photos. Sometimes people think of photos to post, but you have the photos to remember it jars the memory.

What this? Yeah. What this? No point. Solid, guys. Yeah. Yeah, it was great

The beginning part was better It was tailed off And we started looking at pictures Yeah, you got to really think this pot How many of these have you done? Oh, 350 You've done 50 of these? 40, 40.

And this is where you're at? I thought you were quitting doing podcasts. I just quit my other podcast And then I wanted to do this one. Yeah. I'd have more fun with it. Have you? Yeah, it's fun finding out about stuff

It's not the same stuff We just sit around with your three Clean Comic Friends and talk about nothing. Three clean comic friends. All right, guys. We should take a trip so we can redo the pot. I want another crack at this.

Let's go somewhere. Yeah. The three of us, the big three. I'm down. The old gang. I'm down. I'll be you and I. Is there anything you regret about this trip?

Like, I should have done that and I didn't. We couldn't do anything. We did all we could. Yeah, okay. I shouldn't have said that thing to that guy in the hospital. That's it. Yeah. Whatever I said, that was awkward.

Oh, regret about this trip. The quay trip. Yeah, I mean, yeah, the one that he was, Louis was on, I think I were, because I think we would have, it was like, I knew this trip wasn't going to be too great because it was Kuwait. But I think it was like come and then once we do it once, we're go back. And then, I mean, Scott died and like, it just kind of ended up going on. So this trip was really, because me and Joe's already been. And then so it was like really like, all right, now Louie's going to get in. We're going to do this one.

Are you going to Kuwait? Like, yeah, you're doing shows for him over there. You're just around Kuwait. It's nothing too much. This is all you getting me in with them and then we'll do another one and then it never happened. That makes sense.

Scott Kennedy, the Middle East's Aruba Ray. Yeah. That's a good way to put it. It is a good way to put it. He was, yeah, I mean, one's performing for our troops and one's performing for people in Aruba.

Yeah. But he would go over there, yeah. I mean, he would fly, he had so many, his status was through the roof. That's insane. It was, he could get any, anywhere it was you know he would go it two weeks he'd be home for two weeks well you go

live in Houston I think yeah and go on rates he was telling us about him yeah oh yeah yeah they take me he would go with the back but yeah he would go they loved them and he loved doing it and that was the he loved doing it which was great like he everybody met he called him a hero and he it was like he took it really serious like which was nice like you because he to do Be able to do something like that, you're not going to be able to go that much if you're not really doing it for the right reasons. And he was doing it for the right reasons.

Yeah. And so he was, yeah, but I mean, yeah, it was... The rest of peace. Tough lifestyle. Yeah. But what you got. I did. All right, boys.

Thanks for having us. Yeah, thank you. Well, that's the episode, everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. That was... It made me a little bit jealous. It made me a little bit jealous. I've always wanted to do one of those...

How's this is it on my eyes? Good. Already remember, do not cuss. We went a whole episode without doing one of those dirty cusses. We're going to honor the guests by doing what they can get behind. I've always wanted to do one of those Army, you know, Air Force, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard. Hey, no offense to the Coast Guard, but you guys, you know you're like last, right? There's reasons why the Navy would be a Navy fighter pilot like Top Gun.

That's pretty cool. It's better than those like guys dressed like Daffy Duck, like the regular Navy. Sure. Army, obviously, go-to standard. Air Force. Yeah, I mean, fighters, fighter pilots. Not tough, though. Air Force doesn't seem tough.

I know. Yeah, they're tougher than me. I get that. That's not saying anything. But Marines, okay, number one, Semper-Fi. That's a Marine thing. You say Semper-Fi. What do you say about Air Force?

I'm sure there's something, but it's not widely known. So that's why Marines are better than Air Force. Marines are better than Army. Hurrah. I don't know which one that is. That could be either Army. I'll be honest. Hurrah is either Army or another Marines.

Semperfides is saying And then Coast Guard I mean if you were the Coast Guard in Greece You know with all those islands to protect Okay, that's something You're the Coast Guard in the United States What do you I mean, what's your job?

What's your job? Canada's not attacking Greenland's not attacking What are they going to drive a walrus up there Right at your border? Do not cuss. I don't see it. Mexico

No, your whole job is fine. finding people who went out boating and then ran out of gas and they've been afloat for a few days. That's your whole job. There's success stories or you just sink the ship and say we never found them. Why did I begin talking about that? It's a good question. It's an excellent question. Maybe as I continue this, I'll eventually remember it.

Anyway, the point is, what an app? Oh, I know, because it's doing the armed forces stuff. Armed forces, that's the thing. Armed forces. Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard. Color Guard? Is Color Guard one of the armed forces? Well, Lori, that's not funny. Thank you very much to the guest, Nate Bargazzi, Joe List, Louis Katz, three great, great comedians.

I've worked with all of them. Yeah, I've done live stand-up shows with every single one of them. They've also all been on my storytelling shows of some kind. Louis Katz did, this is not happening, Joe Listed this is not happening, and the end. And Napar Gatsi only did the end. It's not only, though. It's great. There was something I was going to say, yeah, I've always wanted to perform for the troops.

Steve Simone always said it was such a, like a, they're such a good audience. But then here in this episode, it's really not about the audience. It's really about, like, it's really about the experience. They drive you out there, fly you out there, I mean. Herky, that's so cool. That guy's, that's such a cool trip that you went on. That picture of them is still hanging in the creek in the cave. It was at the one in, oh, let's do a, ow, ginger tea.

Let's do this thing. It was hanging at the one in New York. She moved it. When she had a run out of town, it's in the green room of the creek in the cave. The screening of the end at the creek in the cave was awesome. It was so fun. It was so fun. I'm going to do that maybe every time at the Creek in the Cave.

Every time I do a release, I'm going to do a screening and a Q&A at the Creek in the Cave in Austin, Texas. I ran my Jew hour for a whole week there. I did a screening of America's sweetheart and a Q&A, and now the end. It was great. By the way, I'm in May 7th. I'll be doing a storytelling show, The End at the Comedy Store, the World Fame. famous comedy store, May 7th at 10 p.m. Steve Simone will be on that, as will, I believe, Big J. O'Kerson, and many, many more.

Which means I have not booked it yet, but it's the Netflix is a joke festival. There'll be comics around. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm jealous of these guys in this trip. I really am. It seemed so fun. And three guys together, comedians hanging. Me and DeRosa have been trying to go to, we've wanted to go to Japan for quite some time. And this makes me think we should do it.

Getting flown out on someone else's dime. Got a little tour guide situation. Ah, it seems so fun. Anyway. Well, that was the episode, everybody. Next week, Duck and Trussels on the episode talking about... I forget where. Let's do their dates.

For my dates, you just heard it. And you should get the end at aureeshire.com. You can get... Right now, you can get the Nate Bargatsy episode. You can get the Joe List episode No Louis Katz You can get the Ari Shafir episode That's three episodes

Oh I'm on two So that's four episodes I'm gonna be honest guys If you're gonna get all four episodes That's six, 12, 18 24 bucks For six more bucks You get three more episodes

You get the one with Shane and Soder You get the one with DeStefano, Miss Pat and Jesser Reed And you get the one with Tony Hinchcliff, Big J. O'Kerson. Anyway,

the response has been great. I really appreciate everybody. And then keep treating about it and posting about a tweet. Don't tweet. Get off that. Post messages on Instagram and stories and just tell your friends. And invite friends over to watch it. Let's do Louis Katz first because he's out on the road right now, which is

crazy. He's a Ronan. We're on the last freestanding Godless, not godless, leaderless, comedians. He's a Ronan, as David Tell calls him. See his special? The best community you've never heard of on YouTube right now has over 1.5 million views. That can't be wrong. He's a pretty unknown comic.

Sorry, Louis. It's true. And for you to get 1.5 million views on the best community you've ever heard of, that means it must be great. Let's, you know, let that sink in a little bit. Nate Burgazzi is doing only arenas. So all these dates are at arenas. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this is this week.

Fargo, North Dakota, April 22nd, 23rd, Des Moines, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Los Angeles for two nights in May at the Intuit Center. Is that where Staples Center is? Providence, Albany, Hershey, Knoxville, Savannah, Birmingham, Greensboro, North Carolina, where I used to be from, Fort Worth at the Dickies Arena. Not a Cuss. Hey, Nate, that was not a cuss.

That's actually what it's called. Where I saw. Billy Strings with Matt Eggher, what a show that was. Cedar Rapids, Rosemite, Houston, Austin at the Moody Center where I saw. Roger Waters. I can't believe you're playing places. It's so cool. It's so cool to see.

I hate playing that game of like, I just went to a wedding of like, I saw you when he was this tall. You know, it's like, it's a silly game. But like, I remember Joe List's wedding. He had just done the Netflix like 30s. And he goes, I'm just starting to hit bonuses. Like every weekend, I'm hitting a bonus. I'm getting 500 bucks like for like two different shows extra. And he was like, it's changing the way I live.

And that was 2017. So, okay, nine years later. But still. Arenas? It's so... No curse? Cool. Austin, Phoenix, San Diego, San Jose,

Calgary, Edmond, and Toronto. Go to Nateland.com. And don't forget, marking your calendars. His new movie, his very first movie, The Breadwinner, comes out May 29th. Let me tell you about this. It was supposed to be a March 13th release.

They pushed it to a summer blockbuster movie because they believe in Nate that much. So do I. So should you. He's one of the best comics. In the country. When I say in the country, by the way, you should know I mean the world. I think it's obvious.

You know what I mean? It's kind of obvious. American Senate. Joe List is May 5th and 7th at the L.A. in Los Angeles at the Improv for the Netflix's a joke festival. Glasgow, May 17th. Here we, here we. I can't say it.

It's a Nate episode. I can't say the whole chant. Here we, here we, here we go. London, May 21st and 22nd, the Leicester Square Theater. Bristol, Dublin, Belfast, and then back to the United States, Levittown, Portland, Maine, Tacoma, Washington. Go to ComedianjoList.com for tickets.

As I said, next week, Duncan Trustle, today's episode was produced by the same people who produced my television show at the end. YMH, your mom's house network. They do a great job. If you want them for any project that you're working on, well, you can't get them because they're already working for Thompsonville.

It's edited by Alan Caffee. Always with the fun jokes in there, Alan, keep that up. I love it. And that's it. Until next week, Istanbul was, I don't know if you know this, Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, but it was Constantinople. Been a long time gone. Been a long time gone.

I'm there playing again. All right, guys, that's it. Goodbye.