You Be Trippin' - Laos w/ Wonton Don | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

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With Uber Reserve, you can book your Uber ride in advance. 90 days in advance. Perfect for all you forward thinkers and planning gurus. Reserve your Uber ride up to 90 days in advance. Uber Reserve. See Uber app for details. Where you been and where you going? This is Ari's Travel Show, yeah.

We're going to talk about travel today. It's you'll be tripping, yeah. I've only been to Colombia. That's as far south as I've gone. Really? Yeah. It's weird that people that go to Asia don't go to South America.

They're the two cheap areas. And Africa is another thing. I would like to explore more of South America. I went to Colombia over COVID because it was one of the few countries you could travel to. It was on our list for that reason. We narrowed it down to where can we get banded in? Oh, okay.

And who would take Americans and also who was good on COVID or not terrible on COVID. So Brazil was out. We're like, this is, it's a mess there. But a lot of people were as good as us or better. We weren't that great on it, with numbers-wise, for who knows reasons. But so Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, trying to think what else, Malta. Croatia, I think maybe it was allowing people.

There were some that were like, you can work remotely here, they have those digital nomad laws. But then I was like, I don't wanna be in fucking Prague in the winter. I was like, I don't wanna be in fucking Prague in the winter. You know, I was like, let's go someplace warm. So we just narrowed it down, but yeah, Ecuador was a fucking rule. Here's the cool thing about there versus Asia,

every country talks the same. You switch borders and you're still talking the same language. Versus going from Laos to Thailand. Can you speak Spanish fluently? Better, no, I can get by though for food and shit, food and a place to stay. Okay.

I can definitely get by. I can use the wrong word to have the right meaning. Yeah. You know, do you have bed? Yes, yeah. It's like, you have rooms open. Mm-hmm. It's like, they'll get it, you know?

Yeah, I think I know like survival Chinese and then survival Spanish. What do you speak, Mandarin or? Mandarin. Yeah, but I don't like, my Mandarin is not good, but I just know survival. Like you could drop me in the middle of China and I could like at least find a hotel.

Damn, that's great. Yeah. That's what you need. That's like the first level. That's all you need. Can I get by here? Can I live? Yeah.

Not live, but like exist, you know? Yeah, cause I arrived not knowing how to speak a single word. Why'd you get there? Except for Ni Hao. So I graduated from college and really had no idea what I wanted to do. And my friend went abroad to Shanghai,

and he loved it so much that he just didn't go back to college. He just dropped out of college and was like, yeah, you know what, I'm going to stay in Shanghai. Wow, really? So he was a year below me, but I was graduating. And I've always loved traveling. So he was like, you can get a teaching job

out in China very easily. You should just move out here for a year and then you can use your vacations and holidays to travel around Asia. So I was like, that sounds great. And I didn't know a word of Chinese. So I was like, all sounds great. And I didn't know a word of Chinese. So I was like, all right, I'll go out. And I applied for a couple teaching jobs.

I got them. They'll really take anyone. And I just told the school, I was like, all right, I'll move to China, but I wanna be living with another foreign teacher and just be like living in the city, like somewhere downtown. And then when I arrived, I was like living in the burbs of Guangzhou my first year

and living alone. Whoa. Yeah. That's lonely. That was lonely. I remember I checked into my apartment in China. They had like a framed photo of Lizzie McGuire on the bedside table. I don't know why, maybe they thought

that would be comforting. It was kind of comforting to be honest. But yeah, so my first two weeks I was like, all right, I'm gonna quit and come home, this sucks. But on Halloween, because I live so far out, the buses would stop running at like 10 at night and start back up at six in the morning. So I was like, all right, I'm just gonna like stay out

and party all night. And that night I met some people from Liverpool who had been there for a bit and they kind of took me under their wing. I met all their friends and ended up having a blast. And then just every weekend I would stay with them. And yeah, we became close friends. And so I stayed that year.

Yeah. You know how you watch football at all? A little bit. Okay, so you know how like a receiver will catch the ball and he has to start staying in bounds and they're dancing. Oh, okay, I thought you were talking about, yes. Yeah, no, yeah, American football.

Yes. And they're kind of dancing in bounds, trying to get to that first down or the touchdown. Yeah. And they're kind of leaned out over out of bounds. Yeah. Their feet are just staying in. Yeah. And if they can get past the first down

It's first down, but they don't well that was fourth turnover. Yes I feel like that's that when you go to a crazy foreign place Like if I could just make a friend before I booked my flight home exactly stay for a year Yes, and it's like it's so close to like I can't I know I'm not being anybody I'm out It sounds like if they were just better buses you'd be out of there Yeah, probably. And I mean, and how I met these guys is absurd. I was, so there was one other person teaching

kind of near me, and so we were playing a game at a bar where we're at this Irish pub in Guangzhou, China, and so there's a lot of foreigners from all over the world, and we're just trying to guess where they're from and then we walk up and ask them and then if I'm right, my friend has to buy me a beer if I'm wrong, I have to buy him a beer. We kinda like turn it into a game

and I guess that this larger Liverpoolian lad was British. I think I get, wait, no, I thought he was from the US because he was kinda like fat and bald, I just maybe assumed that. And then he was like, no mate, I thought he was from the US, because he was kind of like fat and bald. I just maybe assumed that. Sounds right. And then he was like, no, mate, I'm from Liverpool. And I was like, oh, you're British. And he was like, I'm not British, I'm a Scouser.

Because people from Liverpool just hate England for some reason. Damn, yeah. And then I was like, oh, cool. And then he was like, I think the second thing he asked me was like, by the way, mate, do you like drugs? And I was like, yeah, I mean, sure. And then just hands me a bag of white powder.

What? And then I was like, all right, I guess I'll try some. I assumed it was Coke, but after doing it, I could tell it was not, it was not cocaine. What was it? It was Meow Meow. No, that's Meow Meow. I was about to change the subject, just to was not cocaine. What was it? It was meow meow. No, that's meow meow. I was about to change the subject

to ask you what the fuck you meant by that. What's meow meow? I think Chinese factories changed, they found a loophole where if you changed a couple bonds in MDMA, it was legal for a bit. And so these factories would just make it until China would close the loophole. I think it's pretty much probably what they were selling

in the US is bath salts. It was sold in the UK as like plant food, but that was just, they would just say it's that so they could export it abroad. It ended up being a lot of fun, honestly, but that could go very wrong too, if you get the wrong batch of some like weird Chinese factory drug.

Yeah, oh yeah. But yeah, I got lucky and like, this guy in Liverpool was just, he was the headmaster at a school in China, but then on the weekends was like, just slangin' this stuff all over the city. He's white? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. Yeah, he was white. Damn. I assume you asked that because I think China's known for the Nigerians are usually the drug dealers there. It's funny in Asia and almost anywhere though, also Europe, it's like, how do you find weed,

how do you find hash, one or the other, and it's like, just look for the black black guy, like the dark black, the Nigerians. And then it's like, they're just, they're cool, but that's who's, especially in China. Like their stick out. It's always Nigerian. Like cause I've met people from all over Africa when I was in China. And if they weren't from Nigeria, they weren't selling drugs. But wow. The moment you met an African from Nigeria,

there's a good chance they would eventually try to sell you drugs. That's the least racist thing you could do. It's not about the African continent, it's about Nigeria. Yes, it's just about that one country. And because at one point I had this Nigerian friend and we were hanging out for two weeks,

I'm like, oh my God, this is the first Nigerian guy who's not dealing drugs. And then after the second week, he eventually tried to sell me drugs. And I was like, oh, okay. Oh okay I didn't even start this podcast correctly I gotta introduce you to shit okay that'll all be in I guess. Hi everybody welcome to You Be Trippin it's the only podcast that tests for and makes sure there is no fecal matter in this broadcast. Today's guest is the son

of beef wonton and Don Bori. Please welcome the wonton Don. Hey, how are ya? Yeah. Happy to be here. It's a slash, right? Your first name is the and your last name is wonton slash Don? Yeah, or you can just do first name wonton, last name Don.

Oh, I thought first name was the. And then like your mom and dad. Yeah, well I can do like, you can, I'm not like the Ohio State University, like you can call me Wonton Don. Oh, you can just call you Wonton? Yes. Okay.

Yep. Is your name Don? No, it's not. Or you're just the Don of Wontons? I'm just the Don of Wontons. I make a mean crab rangoon, if you're a fan. Disgusting, it's got cream cheese. Are you kosher?

No, but I want cream cheese. You don't like cream cheese? Not that much. Okay, I mean, I think it's my favorite food. I've had it in Yangon. I'm kind of insulted. I was like, I'm here in Yangon, I should try crab rangoon.

Wait, they actually sell them in Yangon? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Okay, because it was invented in the US, so like. Interesting. Yeah, so like it really has no connection to Bur, because it was invented in the US. Interesting. Yeah, so it really has no connection to Burma. It was just.

Wow, I mean maybe they're doing it for tourists. It was just a cool sounding name, but yeah, because I've always wondered that. That's the one reason I've wanted to go to Yangon, which used to be called Rangoon, to see if I could, because I was like, if they don't, I want to open up a Rangoon shop in Rangoon. But you were able to find some there? Yeah, I was like, I might don't, I wanna like open up a Rangoon shop in Rangoon. But you were able to find some there?

Yeah, and I was like, I might as well get some. Okay. But it might've been Chinatown, and it might've just been the American part of town where they're like, you'll probably want this. Yeah. I don't remember, but I definitely found it. I was like, well, I'm here, I should try it.

And I'm like, ugh, cream cheese. Yeah, because I mean, in China, you can't find a crab rangoon. In New York, I will say New York has really bad crab rangoons. Maybe that's why you don't like them. No, but I only had it in rangoon. In rangoon? That is hilarious.

You can find them there. Yeah. It's just like, whenever I get a bagel, I'm like, light on the cream cheese. And they go, sweet, a lot of light cream cheese? And you're like, no, stop, it's fucking, you squeeze it, it all pours out. Relax.

Yeah, I don't like a bagel over stuffed with cream cheese. God damn. For some reason, cream cheese and fake crab works. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, and that's the fake crab, what's that sushi with the fake crab? I don't know the Japanese name for it. I just call them crab sticks or whatever. Well no, there's a crab sushi where it's just it's fake crab meat. California roll?

California roll. Yeah, and that's got cream cheese in it too, right? No, that's a Philly roll. That's a Philly roll. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Hey everybody. How are you, Shafir? And I just want to break in real quick to tell you a little bit about the guest. Wan Tan Don is a traveler. He's a traveling psychonaut. That's what he calls himself. He's great. You should follow all stuff. He legitimately gets out there. He makes me jealous of what he does. He'll be on... we have a few people on this podcast that are gonna be on numerous times and Don is one. Don, if you're listening to this from wherever you are, please every time we're in New

York, come back. Let's get an episode in the can. let's upload it. Ah, crack. You can check him out on, hold on, I've got it all. I've got it all right here. TikTok is the wanton don. YouTube is Donnie Does. Forget Facebook. He's done Barstool Sports a lot. And Instagram, the wanton don.

Check out all his information there. For myself, I got the farewell tour coming right now. a lot and Instagram the wanton Don check out all his information there for myself I got the farewell tour coming right now oops I'm not talking to the mic I got the farewell tour coming I got shows in well Austin sold out I got Rena let's see Tahoe Nevada oh fuck you ready to go back, man? Let's go back. Tahoe, Nevada. Whoa. All tickets are always your fear.com.

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Bye. Don, where are we going today? What are you gonna tell me about? What are we deciding on? Well, we're gonna touch on the story in Laos, which I think was my most absurd travel story. Laos is great. I have had someone else go there, which is fine.

We're gonna repeat stuff. He spent most of his time in a hospital. Okay, I surprisingly never ended up in a hospital. I probably should have gone to a hospital. When'd you go, where was it, when'd you go, why? So yeah, I already sort of explained how I ended up in China. Throw that part in here.

Yeah, we already heard it. Yeah, so part of the reason of going out to China for a year is that on my holidays and vacations I can just travel to the other countries in Southeast Asia, which I had heard great things about. Cheap flights too, right? Yeah, very cheap flights. Like Dragon Air and shit. It's just like, oh, it's like 50 bucks.

Yeah, they have spring airlines. It's like their kind of spirit airlines. So I had heard about this place in Laos called Vang Vien. Have you? I've heard of it. I never got there. I've heard of it. I never got there, I got sidetracked. I got into Buddhism for a minute,

so I was like, let me try to go to a monastery instead of heading over there and then ran out of time. Yeah, well the whole thing about Vang Vien is there's this river that runs near the town. And they have, you can rent a tube, float down the river, and then along it they have all these bars that have rope swings, swings slides trampolines And then they also like sell shrooms at all these spots, buddy

I was just in Yosemite doing shrooms floating on a river on a blow up paddleboard There's something I because I floated a few times but on booze and weed Yeah There's something to like letting the river especially when it's not moving fast It's very slowly and then you hit like a branch something and it kind of turns you, and you're just leaning back. And so then it just changes what you're looking at, and then you see Half Dome suddenly, and you're on boomers, and you're just like, wow.

And there's not like, all right, move on. You're already moving. Yeah, it's heavy. And if you gotta catch up, it's three paddles and you're there. Nothing better than taking boomers and trolling. Oh my God, God, I gotta go there now. They sell mushrooms?

Yeah, yeah, they'll sell shroom shakes. And I looked behind the bar to see how they make them. It's pretty much just a bunch of ice, bananas, and then like a couple scoops of shrooms. Just like grind them up? Yeah, then they throw it in a blender. Yeah, so that place. How much are those? This was a long time ago, but they weren't that expensive.

They weren't like restrictive? Yeah, they were probably like 10 bucks. Yeah. In Thailand, it was always like these hippies would go to like, you know, there's a mushroom sanctuaries or whatever, the humane ones and the inhumane ones, and all those hippies would go after hours and like pick shrooms off.

Yes. And they're like, I don't know what they're doing. They're just going to the fucking shit fields, who cares? And then they realized what they were doing, and they're like, oh, no, we're selling those. Get out of here. It was like shake for weed, where they're like, you can use it.

And then they're like, oh, there's money in this. Oh, a lot of money. Yeah, and I think in Thailand, if you go to any of the islands off the coast, you can usually find a stand selling shroom shakes there too. Vang Vieng's wild though, the first restaurant I went in there, they also were selling joints of opium,

like you could buy weed pizzas, like shroom pizzas. So- Openly. Yeah. How'd they get away with it? Just pay the cops or just? Yeah, maybe like that brings in so much tourism money that they can just pay off the cops.

There was one place in Cambodia on an island I went to and one place in like, Phai I went to. Ah, yes. And it was like. I went to the place in Phai you're probably thinking of. Yeah, and they're like, we pay the cops. Yeah, oh god. And they're like, because we pay them,

they don't allow anyone else to do it. Everyone knows we're the ones with the whatever. I'm like, how do you sell joints on the beach in Thailand? Someone's like, we're friends with the cops. We pay them and then we're allowed. It's not that big a deal. Thailand though, a couple years ago I think they legalized weed

Finally cuz I was like hearing about friends that used to get caught smoking weed on the beach and the cops would be like you Need to pay us $4,000 or you're going to jail for ten years. So you know they would have to find that money somehow I can't call their bluff on that. But yeah, no, I think the last time I checked weed was yeah I heard people like smoking. You want something? I'm like, sure. I'm like, I'm a cop.

I'm arresting you. I saw you do it. And you're like, oh, motherfucker. They were like, don't smoke with anyone you don't know. But then I talked to Thai people, and they're like, we smoke all the time outside. Yeah. Yeah, they're probably more trying to bust the tourists

at that point, because they know they can get a lot of bribe money. Yeah. Yeah, so when I first arrived, I immediately realized that I had lost my camera and this was before I had a smartphone. Cause this was maybe 2010. We're recording. Nice. I'm just DIY so I fuck it up constantly. So yeah, good. Yes. You lost your smartphone? No, I lost my camera, because this was before I had a smartphone. So that camera was like how I was gonna document the whole trip.

So I was a little upset, but I was like, whatever, we're gonna go to the river and do a bunch of shrooms. You make me wanna smoke a joint right now, go ahead. And it was awesome, you know? As you said, just floating down the river, and then you would go off a rope swing, a slide. You could also get a bucket of booze. But then at one point they had a trampoline

that was in the river, and it had one of those black safety nets that goes all the way around it. So you can't jump from the trampoline into the river. Okay. But this is when the shrooms were really hittin'. And I was like, you know what, I'm gonna free willy it, get up really high and jump over the safety net and then dive into the river.

So I jump, I only just barely clear the safety net and then just flop immediately down face first into the river. I didn't realize the river was like three feet deep or something. And I just nailed the rocks. I could have easily broke my neck, but I think it kind of like deflected off my forehead

and then mainly hit my back. People drown there every week. Yeah, no, for sure. Yeah, from what I've heard, from what Colin told me too, it's like constantly they're like, hey, take it easy today, I don't wanna tell you why. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, actually I'll get to that later. Okay.

Because I think they eventually had to close the whole place down for a bit. So yeah, I get up and I'm like super banged up, kind of bleeding from the head and the back, and I walk up to one of the bars and I'm like, do you guys have anything that could help me? And they just hand me a plastic cup of whiskey. What?

Yeah, that's all they gave. That's the help? Yeah, that's all they gave. That's the help? Yeah, that was the help. So like. I want an old west ruck and remedy. I know, so I. Drink this and bite down. I sit on a bench and I start sipping the whiskey

and I'm looking around and at one point I was like, you know what, maybe I died back there because this is paradise. I'm looking around, everyone's having a beautiful time. There's beautiful like karst limestone mountains around you. And I was like, did I die? Because like this seems like heaven. Eventually doze off, which is dangerous if you've had a concussion.

I don't know if I had a concussion. And then when I wake up, most people have left and I'm just surrounded by chickens, like walking around. And so I was like, I gotta get back into town. So I head into town and I- In Vang Vien? Yeah, I head into downtown Vang Vien. I find the friend that I'm there with and we go out to eat and we kind of regroup.

The shrooms aren't really hitting anymore. And that's when a guy walks up to our table and he was like, do you guys want some yaba? You want some yaba? And I had never heard the word yaba before and I was intrigued. Like I'm the type of guy who will try everything once. Anal?

Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so I'm like, oh, I'll, like, Yabba sounds exotic, it sounds cool, I'll try. Is it weed? I'll get to that. Okay, okay, sorry.

So, he brings over these two, like, purple pills, and they look like homemade pills, something like that, and I was like, all right, let's go. I take the pill and then like a half hour later, my heart starts beating really fast and I start getting really jacked up and I'm like, let's go hit the bars, like, let's go rage. And so I get up, I walk out of the restaurant

and I'm walking really fast. I get like three blocks away from the restaurant. I turn around, my friend's gone. I later learned out that my friend got up and just had fainted. Had like fainted in the restaurant. Like all the staff came over to help him. That was the last I saw of him for like 36 hours.

What? Cause at that point I was like, oh shit, where'd he go? And I looked for a bit, I couldn't find him. I kept on walking. So yeah, I'm still super amped up. I go to a few bars and I'm just moving around constantly. I'm sort of chewing my cheeks. And then I asked this Australian bro there,

and I'm like, hey, I just took something called Yaba. Have you ever heard of that? And he's like, oh mate, that's just another word for meth. Oh, damn it. And so yeah, it was just straight up crystal meth. Oh my God, Laotian crystal meth. Yes, Laotian crystal meth. So I don't know, have you ever tried Adderall before?

Yeah. It was kind of like if I had taken 20 Adderalls, 20 pills of Adderall, you're just fucking so jacked up. The problem with Adderall is you take it like, all right, I gotta write this story, I gotta sit and write and concentrate. Yes. And then, or I gotta clean my apartment.

I gotta sweep and do everything, I'm too unfocused, I'll just focus. And then you're so focused, you're like, well let me rearrange, let me take everything off the closets, let me take all this out, repack, refold, and then you're like, you still haven't cleaned anything. By the time it wears off, five, six hours later, everything's a mess.

Yeah. I'll use it sometimes for video editing. It can be very helpful if you have to just focus on a task. Can I tell you my drug I invented? I'd like to invent, if there's any scientists out there, please run with this. It's called Tardall It makes you temporarily autistic

So you can concentrate you can do your work. You don't need any social functions You don't need to be able to like talk In the loud right level around women or stuff You're just focused on your homework or fucking counting jelly beans That sounds a lot like Adderall to be honest, because I'm not very social whenever I take that, and probably can't talk to women on it. But I like that idea. Okay, thanks.

Yeah, so I'm just like, I'm going from bar to bar. At some point I lose my flip flops, but when you're on meth you don't feel pain. So I'm just like, I'm walking on these gravel roads for the whole night, not feeling any sort of pain. It's coming though. Oh yeah, it's coming. And I end up not being able to find our guest house.

And like, Vang Vieng's not a large town. Where were you staying, what kind of place? It was just, it wasn't like a hostel where you had dorm beds. We did have our own room. I think me and my friend had like one room with two beds in it. Okay. I guess that was behind someone else's house?

Yeah, it's kind of just like a small hotel. Okay. Like a really shitty B&B? Yes. Right. Yeah, exactly. But I like, my friend had the key that had the address on it, and it's just, I couldn't figure out where I was staying.

Oh, that sucks. So I'm out like all night. Eventually, this is like the next day. I'm like, all right, I should try to lie down. The next day. You've just been up the whole time. Yeah. And like still have, still I'm like have,

I'm still wired from this yellow belt. I mean, the problem is with Molly sometimes it's like, sometimes like, oh, the percentage of speed is too high. And then I'm like, no, no, you cannot fall asleep at 6 a.m. I can't fall asleep until 6 p.m. Yeah. And you're like, damn, but you just took straight that ingredient.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing to like cut it with or ease the effects. Yeah, so I still have no interest in sleeping, but I'm like, I at least need a room for a little bit. So I just book another guest house. I get into it. I remember I smoke a cig, and then I try to lie down and sleep for a little bit.

When I wake up, the cig has somehow lit my pillow on fire. And so there's just like smoke everywhere. So I'm like, oh shit. I take the pillow. I dunk it in the toilet. I dunk it in the toilet for like 20 seconds. I take it out. It's still on fire. I dunk it for like a minute.

I take it out. It's still on fire. What? So I just leave it in the toilet bowl and leave the hotel on that. Cause I'm like, I've already lost my security deposit. I at least made sure the whole place wasn't gonna burn down there fair you did the right thing yeah so I leave the place and I'm still like what I'm still

wandering around for like what time of day that was probably seven the following morning Wow he just gave you the other you bought it I bought it it was dirt cheap though yeah so I'm, oh wow. Yeah. So I'm back on the streets, probably wander around listening to music for another eight hours. I swear that at some point, a bar owner tried to prank me

because when you're on meth, You tried to what? He pulled a prank on me. I swear this happened. I was at a bar and when you're on meth, you get like super paranoid. I swear a bar owner brought me a phone at some point and was like excuse me sir your mom's on the phone Like I had a straight-up panic attack, but then I got on the phone like hello. Hello, and no one was there

I think he was just trying to fuck with me. He was probably like oh this guy's clearly on Yabba Probably has to be super paranoid. He's seen it. oh, this guy's clearly on Yabba. It probably has to be super paranoid. It's not the first time he's seen it. He's probably seen someone else like this. I know what that is. Chewing their cheeks. Yeah. Tripoli pointed that out to me one time, Sam Tripoli. We were at, I think, Brea Improv, and somebody was getting kicked out and they wouldn't leave. And then eventually it was like, all right, we'll call the cops. You're out of here, but you're not out of here. So the cops were coming. Maybe there's a fight. I forget what it was, it doesn't matter.

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And this is when I start, like the Yabba starts finally wearing off. And- What a great feeling when fucking speedy stuff starts to leave you. No, this was a horrible feeling. Because when you're on the Yabba, you couldn't feel pain. And then when I finally start to sober up,

I realized that the bottoms of my feet are like shredded. I had cuts all over my feet, and I chewed my cheeks so much that I had cuts like all on my cheeks. You were John McClane, what's his name? John McClane's the guy from Die Hard. Yeah, we had to run over the glass. Oh yes, yes, yes.

He's like, bye, I got it, we're all done. So then for the next four days, I couldn't eat solid foods and I could barely walk. From meth. Just from meth. And it, see. Tell me about Laos, the meth is out of control. Yeah, I thought Yabba sounded kinda like.

I thought it might be weed. Yeah, it sounds like something that might be weed. And so, yeah, no, so that's, the Nazis used to take meth before going to battle and that now makes perfect sense. Yeah, it does. Because like when you were on it, I felt no pain and you need zero sleep and you don't need food.

Yeah, you can fight for two straight days. All right, let's relieve me. Yeah, and I think actually like- You ever see Hitler at the Olympics on that? Oh yes, yeah. It's so funny. Put that in, he's just like, let's go. Yeah, I have seen that clip.

He's like, how's this black guy winning? Yeah, that's what I looked like. Wow, oh yeah, a bartender would be like, let me fuck with this guy. Yeah, but I mean, if I ever had to go to war, hopefully I don't, I would probably wanna be taken a little meth. God damn.

And I think that's what the militant groups in the Middle East, like ISIS and stuff, I think they's what the militant groups in the Middle East like ISIS and stuff, I think they were also taking, there's like a pill called Captagon that's the most popular drug in the Middle East and that is pretty much just meth. And I think a lot of them take that. Really?

Just to fight her, you know the Vikings would take those blue meanies or those. I've heard about that. Yeah, and it was like you get your arm cut off and you're like, fuck, that hurt, but okay, let's keep going. Yeah, they would go into full berserker mode. Berserker, yeah, the berserker mushroom,

that's what it is. The berserker shroom, they would work themselves up into a frenzy and then go to battle. And people are like, these guys are nuts. Yeah, being sober in war would be rough. I feel like you at least need a few drinks in ya. Seems though, it's like, yeah, the berserker shroom, but I'd hate if I was like the general of the army.

Let's all take these berserkers, and then I'll start going like this. It's like not the best. Yeah, shrooms would not be my drug of choice for combat. Yeah, I'm sure they tested it. Yeah, so like the next five days were sort of ruined, but I ended up, I think from there we went to Cambodia and then Thailand for a bit.

And like- Just one big trip? Yeah, we did like a little loop around there. That's about the, that's the path. Yeah, that's what like- Thailand and Cambodia, yeah, I mean that's actually, I ran out of time, I was in Thailand in the north. And I was gonna go up there and take the river

From from hold on Chang Rai is up near there. Yes, and then I was like I was like my what you're my is over here and then Chang Rai is over by the border. Okay, and then um, But I read but it was supposed to be Laos and then Cambodia and then instead I just jumped to Cambodia But it's the same people everywhere at the hostels and shit Yeah And then I mean if you're like really on a budget, you can get a hostel room for like $9 if you want that. It's crazy. Yeah.

It's crazy how affordable it is. Even cheaper sometimes if you wanna go like, the lower version of that, which I'm like, it's already fucking low. And then if you pay 50 bucks in Thailand, you can stay at like a nice resort with a beautiful pool on the beach. Was Laos like that?

Yeah, I'm sure Laos was like that back then, because like Laos was probably even cheaper than Thailand at the time. I think so, because Thailand's set up kind of for tourism, and Laos and Cambodia like somewhat, but not like Thailand. Yeah, and then did you go to Yangon on that same trip? Yeah, I started in Yangon. Okay, cool.

So I just looked for like, I got in Yangon. Okay, cool. So I just looked for like, I got all my visas I needed, like Thailand's on arrival, so I didn't need it, Vietnam was ahead of time, and they give you like, in the next six months, you got one month. Okay. So I was like, okay, I don't know about Cambodia

or Myanmar, whatever, went to some like, consulates here. But then I just waited till like two days before, and I looked for who has the best weather for the next 10 days. Nice. And so it was Myanmar. you went to Myanmar at the perfect time because there was a window like for a while They were like it's too dangerous to go then they opened up to tourism And then I think it's like recently gotten pretty dangerous again, and they're not recommending people go

That's why they changed their name from Yangon from Rangoon to Yangon and from Myanmar to from Burma to Myanmar Yeah, you know Yeah, because the military dictatorship sort of thing. Yeah, I was like, this is bad press. Let's just not be Burma. We're not Burma. I don't know what you're talking about. We're not Rangoon. And they also like, yeah,

they didn't want to be still related to the British. Cause I think, How interesting. British were the ones who probably named it Rangon when its actual name was Yangon, but they were like, oh, we can't. Oh really? I went back. Cause were like, oh, we can't. Oh, really? I went back.

Because they, like, the British changed names everywhere. Like, Beijing used to be Peking. Guang. Oh, that's right, Peking Duck. Yep, and Peking ravioli, have you ever had those? Uh-uh. I think that's only a Massachusetts thing, but that's what they call dumplings.

Oh, wow. Peking ravioli. So what was the food like in Laos? What kind of food do they have? I was not eating a lot. This was in 2010, so I don't recall. I was just out of college. This was like, yeah.

So I honestly couldn't tell you much about Laotian food. I can tell you a lot about Thai food. Thai foods. That's the next episode. Who were the, would you meet any of the people? Who'd you meet generally? I would guess like foreigners. Yes. Yeah. Foreigners. One Island I went to, I went to like Ko Chang in Thailand that had a lot of Russians there. I think that's, oh, in La That had a lot of Russians there. Okay, no Laos, we're talking Laos. Oh, in Laos?

A lot of Australians. Nice, yeah. And then. They're so fun. Yeah, they are a lot of fun. Yeah. They can drink. They can drink.

And pretty much, I feel like a Southeast Asia loop is like a rite of passage for Australians. Well, it's cheap to go from there to there. Yeah. That's the closest place. It's a very short flight. Start in Bali, start in Bali or Thailand, but Bali's right there. So that's the majority of the people you meet.

I remember I met this one Canadian guy, but he sounded American, and I was like, oh, are you from the US? And he got very offended. Fuck off. I know, it's like relax, dude. Oh, you don't think you sound like you're from the place right next to you?

Yeah. But so, a side note about Vang Vien, I heard like a year after I went, there was one day where three Australians died. All on the same day, separate accidents. Like separate accidents. Yeah, so they probably drowned or did something like I did, dove into the rocks.

And that's when the government came in. And that press. And they were like, you need to close down all these. I mean. Is this kind of what it looked like? No. That looks, search them. Search like Vang Vien tubing or something.

Oh yeah. Because that looks like way too common and subdued that's starting to look I think that's the very Water a big balloon over it think the end tubing. Okay, I'll look that up And so then the government came in I think they forced them to close all of the Riverside bars for it they were closed for maybe like two or three years, but now I have heard they're starting to open back up. Yeah, like that one, if you go over to your right.

This? Yeah, you hit that one. Yeah, like that's something you can. Uh-oh. This music. No, absolutely not. Oh, it's just a promo video. Oh, absolutely not. Oh, it's just a perm. Oh, like that?

Yeah, they got, that looks like me. Was that me without hair? Was I there and not known? And these like, the water slides and the fro swings are all pretty shoddily made. Yeah, I mean like who built that, a fucking carny? Look at all these whites. It's having a blast.

Look how happy they all are. Oh, buckets? Do you drink buckets? Yep, drank some buckets. Buckets are, oh my God. Australia, if you send a bucket to an Australian, they're just like game on. Yeah, if you just, and they will just do

Red Bull vodka buckets. And I mean they will just do Red Bull vodka buckets. And I mean, if you drink enough Red Bull vodka buckets, that's gonna feel like meth after a while. Yeah, you just up. Wow. They also sometimes, I saw this more in Thailand, but did you see the laughing gas stands? Yeah, those are great.

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I mean, so you're just on tubes drinking, just like this. Yeah. And what, like there, there'd be a rope, you pull yourself in? Yeah, you pull yourself into these bars and just. And then go in and pay? How did you have money? Like a little sack? You pull yourself into these bars and just and then go in and pay. How did you have money like blow?

Sack that's not probably had a plastic bag of of cash And little just shit liquor Shit liquor, but everyone's fucking every is are people fucking on there? Not on the river, but like at night or is it just all for hanging out? I did not get laid in laos, but I assume so. Did you know other people that did? Wow. Yeah, I assume people are getting laid in Laos. Yeah, this might be me, this guy.

Yeah, and then if you go back to the Google search, I saw one more photo that, that one looks like, yeah, at some point you just get like a- Laos most dangerous attraction. Yeah, Laos most dangerous a trend. Yeah, I was most dangerous. Oh my god Recording I am for once Tubing and bang-bang wow 20 people died in 12 months in hell Yeah, so that's but I have heard it's it's starting to come back to life

People are still gonna drown and die. I mean, it's like don't drink and die. That's what killed the guy who did the remake of Hallelujah. Whatever his name is. Well don't drink and drink. Yeah definitely don't drink and drive. No, you can dive. Oh yes yeah don't die but you can drink and float. Drinking and floating I think. Just don't dive. Look at this. Yes. Never dive and never try to free willy it off. Look how many people I mean someone's falling off there Someone's getting drunk and just shoving. Yeah Bumping part of the problem too Is that people would get on Raspy floating down the river and then float past all the bars and keep on going and then just

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Look, these mountains in the backdrop. This was the first- This may as well be Yosemite. This was the first place I saw the limestone mountains. And they have those on some of the islands in Thailand too, but those are just beautiful wow they kind of look like the avatar mountains or really or they kind of look like start tubing Endor I think in Star Wars one of those movies was filmed in Guilin Guilin China has very similar

mountains to the ones in Laos, and that's where they filmed the rebel base in Star Wars. What, like this? Yeah. Damn. That's beautiful. Imagine that, just like. That looks more my speed, those pools right there.

Wow. Did you see anything like that? Luang Prabang, that's the other city. Okay, yeah. Did you ever get there? I think we had to go there first. We took one of those sleeper buses. So it was like a 12 hour bus.

I took one of those in Vietnam, and he was like, it's a sleeping bus. I'm like, what's the difference between a sleeper bus and a sleeping bus? And he's like, I'm not the one who speaks English. What is it? I'm like, I think it's the same thing. He goes, no, it's a sleeping bus.

So maybe a sleeper bus might just be a long ass bus ride. A sleeping bus is the buses that do have a bed. Chairs go backwards. Yeah, where you can actually be completely laid out. Yeah, if you're five foot seven or below like Vietnamese people. Serge. So like this, you'd float down this

and see those mountains in the back? Wow. All those mountains, you'd float down this and see those mountains. Yeah. Wow. I mean, forget about the boozing and degeneracy and what'd you call the drug? Yaba. Yaba. This is gorgeous.

Oh, it was. If you're just smoking a J, drinking a beer, this is Montana, this is anywhere. Yeah, that's why like when I first arrived, like I was in heaven for a while on those shrooms and then just everything went downhill. And then, by the- I mean, you do the right thing by taking untested drugs.

You do the right thing. Yeah, and by the end of it, I was like, I gotta get the fuck out of Laos. How long did it take your feet to repair? I ended up, I was wearing flip flops at first. After that, I had to wear socks and shoes for the rest of the trip. No.

Yeah, because I was just in so much pain. Damn. But the worst was actually the cheeks, just because you're surrounded by great food. But then I like literally could only drink smoothies because I had so many cuts in my mouth. Damn. It just looks gorgeous.

Did you keep up with that guy that you were friends with that you know Yeah, he now lives in Japan. He married a Japanese woman lives there. Yeah has a Japanese son Damn That's pretty cool. What else you get into allows I Mean, I know it's funny because a lot of these trips are Southeast Asian trips. Yeah, I'm trying to cover just one country I know there's Danny the other guy too, who's like, I came from China, then went to Laos. Yeah, well that's the thing,

because I think after the Yabba story, I was like, we gotta get out of Laos. Fuck this place? You weren't even fucked with. You didn't get arrested or anything. No, I wasn't, yeah, it was just my own doing. I never got arrested or anything. But yeah, so I didn't do a ton of time in Laos.

So I mean, I don't know if you've ever touched on the Philippines. I did a trip there shortly afterwards. We'll do that next time, next episode. Yeah. I actually have not. That's another place I wanted to go in Southeast Asia and then just never made it there.

Yeah, no, it's worth going. There's definitely not like a drug scene in the Philippines. Well, not now, right? Oh yeah, because they had, that guy's no longer in power, but they did have- Duarte? Yes. Punishable by death? Punishable by death, but then also he'd be like,

if you turn in a drug dealer, we'll pay you like a couple hundred bucks. So then people were just like turning in dead bodies turn in a drug dealer, we'll pay you a couple hundred bucks. So then people were just turning in dead bodies and just being like, this guy was a drug dealer, I swear, and getting paid by the government. Well, that's how the fucking COVID numbers got so high, right?

Every death was like, COVID. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The hospital was like, give us our million. Yes, exactly. If you search Guilin, China, that's another spot where they have these beautiful limestone mountains. How do you spell it? You think? G-U-I-L-I-N. Guilin. Yeah. Wow. That's like the limestone mountains. Wow. Steroids. I mean, look at that.

And bigger, bigger, bigger. Look at that, though. God damn. And float down to the river like that and just see all that shit. Wow. God, I want to go there. I mean, you should.

I recently got a visa to China again. Again? They're still giving them out? Yeah, they are. I mean, you should, I recently got a visa to China again. Again, they're still giving them out? Yeah, they are. I mean, look at that, floating down that river would be tremendous. It is incredible. And like, if you go, there's Guilin, but then there's a smaller tourist town called Yangshuo

where a lot of foreigners go, and that place is incredible. I'm gonna see where this is in China. I don't know what the- This is where you do it, find a place and then pull back until you realize the context. There is Hong Kong down there. Wow, okay.

Jesus, landlocked. Shenzhen's right there, Hong Kong's right there. This is, here's what I think. This is what I want to explore in China. See this, where it's like city, city, city, city and then this is what I want to explore in China see this where it's like city city city city And then this is just blank Yeah It's just like why?

There's a lot of desert there. I think isn't that like the Gobi Desert? Oh, okay, that makes sense and not just like not worth it and then yeah, and then this area all down here is Tibet and you need to get like you can't just go to Tibet with Chinese visa you have to get like another visa that allows you to go to Tibet Wow so that's tough I have not been there I did go to Kunming which is what's that called Yunnan and and did a hike there called Tiger That's where the Hunan food is from? No, no. That's Hunan.

Yunnan and then there's Hunan. You did a tiger what, hunt? Tiger Leaping Gorge is the name of a hike. It's like a two day hike, a three day hike. I think it's the most beautiful hike I've ever been on in my life. Dude, I'm trying to get, you know, the Camino de Santiago, whatever?

Camino de? Oh, the Camino Real. Maybe in like bottom of France to all the way through Spain. Oh, no, no, no. So it's like a whatever. But then they have these in like Austria, Italy border. And then we did one in Myanmar for like three days, two nights.

And my thought was they must have them in China. These like longer hikes where they just get you places. Appalachian Trail, PCT. Yeah. You know, we're just like, just hella long day hikes where they just get you places. Appalachian Trail, PCT. Yeah. You know, we're just like just hella long day hikes. Yeah. Long day hikes. And then they'll have some places where you can stay. Yeah. In Austria. That was, I mean, that, that was awesome. I was like the first, that was the first, um, it's in, it's in Yunnan near Kunming yeah you would fly into Kunming yeah I

definitely plan on going back to China because they I recently was able to get a 10-year tourist visa so that means like if I want to go to China anytime in the next 10 years I would go. How did you get a 10-year tourist visa? I think so over COVID they like they kind of kicked a lot of foreigners out or they just weren't allowing any foreigners to come and So many I would say about 80 90 percent of my friends that lived in China all left over COVID because the lockdowns were we're getting really crazy towards the end and They're now realizing they're like, oh, you know what we would actually like the foreigners back Yeah, and so they're trying to promote Chinese tourism again

Okay, so I have a couple questions on this pod that seems like that's unless there's anything else you got on to in Laos But it seems like a quick in and out. It was a great story. Laos was a great fun time though. Yes Yeah, I really want to do that It seems like that one China I've been to and I want to go back, but it seems like I got to see, but it seems like that time on the river is really an 18 to 30 year old time. Yeah, probably unless you just hop on the river and float

and don't just float. Yeah, just drink and booze. God damn, I'm hot in here. I feel like you could drink and do some shrooms. That's like, those are, as long as you're not getting black out. And also shrooms are the same everywhere. Yeah, yeah, you're pretty much gonna have to worry about,

yeah, you're not gonna be like, oh, I took like a bad batch of shrooms. Right, right, right, there's no bad batches. No, you know what you're getting. Yeah. So here's my questions. Yes. Generally, I'll tell you both

and you can answer whichever one you want. Where else, give me another, all places you like, it's been in your mind you wanna to go to and give me a travel tip It doesn't have to be your number one travel tip things get a lot of packed light But like anything that you're like, oh, I always try to get this mine now that I'm remembering one is Bring a dupe tube because you're gonna find a joint. You're not gonna want to smoke it right away. It's gonna be ruined Bring a dupe tube bring a dupe tube. Anyway. So what do you got? I've got one travel hack Okay, if you ever want to bring shrooms abroad, yes, because you don't worry about finding them there. Okay, I've just been

Crumpling them up and mixing them in with trail mix and then resealing the trail mix and That's worked in like three countries. Yeah. Who's going to look through granola. Yeah. I'd be like, Whoa, what is this? It just blends in with the rest, the rest of the trail mix. It's a great travel tip. That's a great travel tip. There you go. Um, do I have anything? Do I, I wonder if I have any tips for a non drug use.

And then, um, a place that I would like to travel to. I still have never been to India. I don't think it would be like a super comfortable trip. No, it would not be, no way. But in terms of filming content, it would be awesome. So what do you do? What's your deal here? I got some shit up here on your, wait, you have a YouTube page? Yeah, I have. Where you do you do? You have what's your like deal here? I got some shit up here on your way. You have a YouTube page? Yeah, I have going to do shit. Yeah, where I've done

travel series in a bunch of different countries. When I first started working for barstool, almost all my content was in China. But like now I've gone all over the place. That's a vid I did with Pong's eye who's like a Chinese drinking legend Really? He's known for his tornado chugs when you take a big beer and give it a spin. Oh, yeah Just good pours in. Yeah. Wow Yeah, that my most recent trip was actually going back to China Where I went to Hong Kong sevens, which is one of the most absurd

back to China where I went to Hong Kong Sevens, which is one of the most absurd sporting events I've been to. What is it, rugby? It's a, yeah. Rugby Sevens? A Sevens event, but they like, cordon off the self stands and they just make it like a lawless area. And so it's like a costume party,

people from all over the world. Wow, look at them all dressed up like Egyptians. Yeah, doing all sorts of substances. I brought- Is that you? Yeah. Well, you look like shit. Oh, I was feeling like shit there. You look way better now than then. Oh yeah, actually that's when the Molly was hidden. Oh. Yeah, so I'll try to do like three or four travel series

a year and then put out. Travel series. Well yeah, because I'll travel to a country and then I'll try to drop six to 10 v then put out. Travel series? Well yeah, cause I'll travel to a country and then I'll try to drop six to 10 vids. Do you have a focus on these things? Is it about a person or is it about just like, you just let it come to you?

Some of them I'll have a goal. I actually, I coached American football in Uganda. They're getting into American football out there. That's another episode. Yeah. That sounds great. Uganda. No one's been to Uganda. So that's what Israel is gonna be. Did you know that? I did actually. Yeah I did some research. They probably should have gone with Uganda in the end. Too much trouble in Palestine. Yeah but I was thinking like Jews get sick very easily like they would never been good Like they complain about their allergies.

I don't know how well they're going to fare with like malaria and yellow fever. Yeah. Oh, that's you right there. Look at this half time speech. Is that the Ugandan football team? Yes, it is. That's yeah. The wanton Don on Instagram.

What is it on? On YouTube it's the wanton Don as well. Wow. You got a size I die today. Hell I'm ready to die. Hell yeah. Well, it's the wanton don as well. Wow. If you got a size I'd die today, hell, I'm ready to die. Hell yeah, well it's just football, bro. Chill out, you're not a fucking Ferengi. This guy, this was, so this guy was born and raised in Uganda, but then he lived in China for a bit,

and China's where he learned how to play football. What? And so he kinda spoke like he was from Georgia. He somehow picked up like a Georgian accent out there. So he spoke perfect English. Wow. But he was like a born leader. He really knew how to motivate the troops.

Wow. And then it's one time's on on the Barstool site too. Yeah. And like, I would say some of the most exotic places I've been would be Tajikistan. That's how it's called me. Yeah. Have you ever heard of the sport of Buskashi?

What is that? There's like 100 men on horseback. It's pretty much it's headless goat polo. Yeah. I have. I want to see it. You saw it? Yeah.

I got to watch that live. Insane. Because there's no sidelines. So at times you're watching, and then the horses will just choose to all charge the sidelines, and then everyone just has to run for their life. Damn.

All right, Don, well, fuck yeah, you gotta come back. Yeah. We'll do another country. I would love to be back. This is so fucking hot. Why is AC doing nothing? It's getting hotter in here, right? It did start to get hotter for a bit.

What the fuck? It said it was 64. Yeah. I guess I'll plug this. I am gonna be at the Paris Olympics, so I'll be putting out. When is that? It's coming up soon.

It's July 26th to August 10th. This will be way past that. But I just found out that the Airbnb I rented does not have an AC. Oh, it's Paris. Yeah, ACs are hard to come by. When I went there for a writing class for two weeks, and it was like, just with AC, cut it down to like 8%.

Everything else was like, no way. Just don't do it. Yeah, I'm a little worried about that, but it should be fun. You're going to be fucked. You will not be able to sleep. You are fucked. Fuck. But enjoy it.

But it's hot as fuck and humid, too. Someone told me you like. It's sleeping in this. You're going to be able to sleep. You are fucked. Fuck. But enjoy it. But it's hot as fuck and humid too. Someone told me he was like. It's sleeping in this. You're going to be sleeping in this. I asked the local guy in Paris. He was like, we've actually had a very cold summer so far. Fuck off. So far.

Yeah, so far. But then he's like, but in August. I'm sure August will be fine. In August, it could be a problem. But yeah. And I recently got a live streaming backpack. So now I could fly anywhere in the world and do like a livestream because like the backpack has a

like a Wi-Fi modem that works all over the world So if you ever want to travel someplace random and and do a bunch of live streams I never live stream, but I would record Yeah places Live-stream kind of sucks. Then it's like I'm here in this place and I'm like not immersed in it I'm like still focused on people back home Yeah, like reading the chat and everything. Yeah, it's just like I don't know. I want to just do it and tell you about it later

Yeah, that's actually the hardest part about making vids. There are times where I always feel like if something cool is happening, I feel like I have to be filming, but there are times when you just wanna sit back and enjoy. Yeah, like this Laos thing. Imagine like, hey, so you're on this drug. Tell me how do you feel? Where are you gonna go next?

And you're like, no, no. Let me tell you at the end of it. Yep, exactly. Fuck, okay, we gotta stop. This fucking sucks. Well, hey man. Don, it was a pleasure to meet you. It was a pleasure meeting you too. Yeah, I'm glad we could finally do this.

Sorry, I just fucking rubbed my fucking sweat on my hand and then shook your hand. No, it's fine. Everybody follow him at the Juan Tom Don on everything. YouTube, Instagram, give him a follow. And then on Twitter, Donnie Does World. Donnie Does World on Twitter, get off Twitter everybody. You should not be on this most negative place in the world.

Do you have any pictures from Bengbieng? I do, I have probably, cause I lost my camera, but I think I have like four. Can you send them to me? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'll put them up on YouTube. I have a guy that made a cartoon

about parts of the Yabba story. Oh really? Yeah, so if you wanted to throw some clips of that into the pod. Alright, yeah sure, send it to me. We'll see what they can do. Alright, sweet. Caffe, figure it out.

Alright. Let's do it again sometime. Let's do it again. Everybody, you be trippin', over and out. Well, that's the episode everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you Don for real. Brother, anytime, anytime you're in New York, I mean like every time you're in New York, come by, let's cover episode everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you Don for real brother. Anytime, anytime you're in New York.

I mean like every time you're in New York, come by, let's cover another country. Laos, one of my biggest regrets in life is not going to Laos. I did do some fun stuff. There's sometimes you do this thing where you're like, you can't, you got to make a decision. Like I had a friends who went to, uh, when I was in Ecuador for six months, they went to Costa Rica and for like three weeks and I was like, ah, I found out later. I was like, for six months they went to Costa Rica and for like three weeks and I was like ah I found out later I was like it was one of Bandit's friends owners and I was like damn I'm jealous and then she was like

but didn't you go to Ecuador for six months like yeah but that trip I would have loved to go she goes we went there while you were in Ecuador for six months like yeah I want to do both and I wanted to do both and instead of going to Laos I went to a Vipassana retreat in north western Thailand and it was it was fucking great it really was it really was quite cool fell in love briefly and I learned some meditation I'll show you some right now. This is a walking meditation. So you put one foot in front of another one and you go BOO-DOE. BOO-DOE. So you go like this. You're just like... It's not kind of like that. No, no, it's regular stepping. I remember now. You're supposed to wipe

everything out of your mind. I mean, I guess I'll cover this when I do Thailand for myself. But you go BOO... wait. You're supposed to concentrate on this, but you're, you're thinking I'm putting my heel down, my toe down, my left heel comes up. My left toe comes up. My right heel comes up. I left toe down up down. And then you just cleared your mind. All your thoughts of revenge and bitterness and anger all float away as you go heel down, toe down, heel up, toe up, heel down, toe down, heel up, toe up. I might be doing too much. It might just be like heel

down, toe down, heel down, toe down, heel down, toe down, boo, doe, boo, doe, boo, doe. But I'm thinking of revenge. It's like, all right, many people have thought of revenge over the years. You're not unique. Bannock, come here. You're not unique. Everybody's had these thoughts. You're just one of a a million people every second that has these same thoughts. That's not special. That guy's just one of many Look at that guy. He's thinking look at all the people have thought of revenge. There's nothing special about them at all Oh all of a sudden you realize I don't have my thoughts anymore. Boo. Doh, boo Doh heel down toe down heel down toe down heel down toe down heel down toe down I did that instead of going to Laos

and partying the way Don did. Bandit, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, come here, come here. Anyway, still jealous I didn't go. I wanted to do the, live like a, live like a, bandit, ah, ah, buddy, no, come this way. Live like a gibbon. They have the gibbon experience in northwestern Laos, right on the border, right around No, come this way. Live like a gibbon. They have the gibbon experience in north... western Laos, right on the border, right around from Chiang Rai.

I wanted to go there. I was told it was really cool. Banner, come. But whatever. Don, you're a fucking sick man, man. Leave your votes for guest of the year and episode of the year. Leave your top 10 in the comments. From now till the end of the year. Leave your top 10 in the comments from now till the end of the year.

And we'll call all those. I think that's it. Oh, no. My special America's Sweetheart is coming January 14th to Netflix. Spread the word, you guys. Tell everybody. This is another great one.

I'm doing the best I can here. And I got a message for you. And I'm doing it in comedy form. I'm doing the best I can here and I got a message for you and I'm doing it in comedy form. I'm doing it in comedy form. Everything I learned at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival I'm now taking and putting into a regular American degenerate stand-up comedy. I hope you enjoy the things I'm doing and I know you're gonna enjoy this.

It's January 14th on Netflix.com. Also, I got the, farewell tour. Here we go. What do we got? Lake Tahoe, Pittsburgh, agent will be there. Providence sold out, agent will be there. Tampa, Denver, Schaumburg agent will be there.

Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, the real Portland, the one that's lost its facility to the homeless people. It's a war zone according to the news, but when you go there it's actually quite nice and there's great coffee, good donuts. Portland, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Portland, Denver, Tampa, Nashville. Adrienne will be with me for that. And check out The Dark Queen on Netflix. Have you guys not seen it? I know she's not super popular.

She's not as many people are gonna be passing around. So I need you guys to pass it around. It's gotta be a top five special of the year. Gotta be. And I say that because my special is next year. Today's episode is produced by Your Mom's House Network. It's edited by Alan Caffey. Thank you, Alan.

All right, guys, till next week. I don't know how to say anything in Laos. Bye.