You Be Trippin' - Myanmar w/ Small Brained American (Connor McBee) | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

Follow Connor on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/smallbrainedamerican/ Check out his Youtube here! https://www.youtube.com/@SmallBrainedAmerican SPONSORS: -Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/trippin -Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/7chyhxwm   #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement . Direct Deposit, Overdraft Coverage and Discounts provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. -As a listener of this podcast, you’ll get $80 off of your first month with Talkspace when you go to https://Talkspace.com/trippin and enter promo code SPACE80. On this week's episode of You Be Trippin', Connor (aka Small Brained American) takes Ari back to Myanmar. Ari has also spent time there, so they traded stories about stimulants, dirty hole in the ground "toilets", and friendly locals. Connor fully immerses us in the good and the bad of Myanmar. Despite the military-run dictatorship and bad cuisine, he really makes you want to check it out. Tat tar! You Be Trippin' Ep. 88 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:10 - Myanmar Hostels 00:16:23 - Political Climate 00:28:00 - Burmese Love Tourists 00:42:13 - Ancient City 00:53:38 - The Rough Parts of Travel 01:03:19 - Sports & Rec 01:12:06 - Friendly People & Bad Healthcare 01:26:07 - Food Poisoning & Horrible Toilets' 01:36:26 - Connor's Travel Vids 01:54:53 - The Vagabond's Way 02:16:32 - Travel Tips & Where to Next Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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him just going i cleaned up for him no offense you wouldn't clean up for me what the fuck i mean you're an awful guy um yeah this is my spot sweet um what are you doing in america how was donnie donnie's good yeah he's a fucking bro that um that office is amazing it's like Oh, my God. You did the gauntlet? No. There's like a six, uh, six game. It's like you got to hit a three.

You got a kick of soccer ball. No, we didn't do that. You have to do all these like different things. And that's for Big Cat. No, you must have gotten the royal treatment. I don't think Big Cat was there though. Oh, okay. But I was talking with my girlfriend.

Like, she used to work in Amazon. Yeah. And she was always bitching about the office and stuff. And I went and it was like free coffee, like bring your dog. Like they have a bookshelf. Big pong table. Yeah. And Barstle is even better.

Barstle rules. They have fucking high noon machines. They have Zin machines. I heard Portnoy went there and saw that they had some warehouse and goes, oh, I get what you guys are doing. Actually go bigger. I get it. Let's get an actual fucking big thing.

They had a gym in there, a basketball court. They have former, like, real, like players. Really? Like Division I football players. One guy was like, was going to get drafted and he goes, I don't just get CTE. Like, I'm going to call it. Because they were getting paid now. He's like, I'm already kind of a millionaire.

Damn. Like, why I keep doing this? That is crazy how they grew it into, like, an empire. It's just like bros and... It's just bros. Just alcoholics. You know the Bear Olympics? No, no.

They have a Beer Olympics every year. Like, busing with the boys and all those guys. They just get fucking weights. Just drinking games. Like beer pong and Kings Cross and whatever. Imagine, like, coming home to, like, your newborn son just hammered. You're like, sorry, honey, I lost the big game today. I'm out.

We're ruined. Yeah, we're going to be in the poor house. All right, so the podcast is just like, we just talk about a place. Yeah. I don't know how much you know about it. Yeah, I watch it. Yeah. Nice.

Yes, sir. Where you've been and where you're going? This is Ari's travel show. Yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's U.B. Tripping, yeah. Hi, everybody. Welcome to U.B. Tripping.

This is a travel podcast. I'm your host, Ari Shafir, every week. Some guests takes us to some place. it's pretty simplified um it's the only podcast that stands for using the uh the elephant tusk uh for sexual reasons it's not for don't don't do jewelry guys if you're gonna use a fucking rhino tusk or elephant tusk put it to use get boners possibly pens but definitely not necklaces these things are endangered but boners we're on poor with that um small freight america connor yes sir what do you go by how do you introduce uh connor yeah you don't go as

SBA? SBA, yeah. People call me SBA, but Connor for friends. Yeah. You want a fucking MVP award? MVP? SGA. What is that?

I don't know. It's a basketball player. I'm not really in sports. Yeah, I'm a virgin. Where do you want to go? What should we talk about? Let's go to Myanmar. Yes, sir.

Wait a second. Hold on. Do I have a Myanmar shirt? Fuck. Dude, this is my first spot. What? What have I got from Myanmar? That ball?

Chinon ball? Oh, yeah. the little hacky sack thing yeah damn you brought that back huh i shipped it okay i shipped it from i forget what city maybe mandalay and then i was like okay we can get this in like there in like two weeks for this much i'm like um no no no i've just started a trip yeah yeah i'm looking at like get it there in three months or more and they're like oh all right like 40s that's it's what i'm for it. Hell yeah. Yeah, I know you went there and had a good time, so I feel like it's going to be fun

convo. Nobody's been there. Yeah. When did you go? 23, February. February, 2020, okay, recent. Okay, let's see how this is different now. Yes, sir.

Okay, what brought you there? I was on a big trip. I was going from Ireland to Japan. I was trying on a motorcycle, but then customs, I was too broke to be able to afford to take it into Asia. So I left it. I sold it in Bulgaria and then was just taking buses and fucking hitchhiking all the way across Asia as best I could had to skip Iran but yeah I was just doing land borders as

best as I could and Myanmar was on the list and where did you come in from a land border there Thailand now the land border was closed that was another one it was Iran was fucked and Myanmar was fucked so I had to take two flights oh interesting so yeah um yeah okay okay let's see out let's see what we got into what you heard about it before you went honestly on your podcast i heard about it um and that's pretty much oh my old podcast or this one yeah yeah okay uh and that's pretty much it man i just knew they had like a military dictatorship i knew there was a lot of like immigrants i think in bangladesh oh is it okay sweet sweet yeah i know there's a lot of uh burmese immigrants in bangladesh really like working

so i knew it was fucked like if you want to bangladesh as like a refugee like for like more opportunity. Yeah, it's bad. Where did you start? Yangon? Yeah, I flew into Yangon just because it was the easiest flight. I think I flew from Calcutta, India to Yangon. Okay. But the smell got better. Marginally, yes, but the beetle nuts smell got much stronger. Tell them what beel nuts are. It's like a mix between like caffeine and like cocaine a little bit. It's kind of like a middle ground. It's like a strong euphoric stimulant that you chew it and your teeth look absolutely fucked that that is wild if your teeth are looking that bad it must be a hell of a drug it must be amazing to sacrifice your teeth for that you try it oh yeah yeah it's it's like you just chew it or what is what do you

do exactly you like break it up you break this seed and then you just kind of let it sit in your mouth like dip and then spit you have to spit or you get very sick in india they have like beetle pan which has like gummies and like sugar and different kind of weird concoctions yeah in india they get a little feisty with it but in vietnamar is straight up just beetle nut tobacco and then like some fucking they take it out of like a fucking paint container it's like lime what is it lime chemical lime they call it yeah and that's what makes your teeth red but i guess it's just really good so they i mean the guy's teeth are already fucked up and then he stained them that's true that's they do not have orthodontas in vr you think his friends are like hey dude you got to get your teeth

white and he's like that ain't the problem which ones the one's in the back look at this guy the ones in back these go deep deep in it's like blood red dude I can't even look at the blood red is crazy but this one split in two this one set back like a fucking

like someone who wants a front yard more than a backyard fucking hell oh no man that's and honestly after two or three days are doing it you can see like your teeth change colors did you did you do it anymore And it was like, it wires you. Dude, it works.

It works. People were like, yeah, you know, I use it for like my construction job. It gives me energy. And I'm like, all right. So this is just like low-grade cocaine. Where did you stay there? First, I started in some hostel. It's actually quite nice.

I had a little cafe. Okay. I just found it on booking. Because I feel like Myanmar is not the place you want to show up and just like bargain for a hotel. I feel like you kind of want to know like. I got one day started like my first like real backpacking hostel trip there. It was like day one.

I've never done. I just heard about it from people. Okay. So it was like hotel one night, just like get set and find a, find a, like, a computer. Yeah. And then like, I'm going to blow up through my money. This is yours, by the way. What?

All right. Thank you. Yeah. Sorry. Hell yeah. I met your money and I saw it. Not a stingy Jew. Don't tell anyone.

I'll be thrown out of the synagogue. Yeah. Then I found a hostel and it was like, it seemed like new to hostels. Yeah. What was it called, do you know? It was, I looked it up, it's gone. Monkey, happy monkey in Chinatown. Okay, sounds very sketchy.

It was nice. Okay. Nice enough. Breakfast. Yeah. What was breakfast? Some pieces of bread. Yeah.

Something that they had, I don't know, like a bean or something I'm kind of remembering. Yeah. It was enough to get you like energized enough to get out to find food. Right. Yeah. A little bit of starch and caffeine. And tea, plenty of tea you could have. Yeah.

Okay. What about you? Yeah. same shit i think they gave us like french toast without the sugar it was just like white bread with like egg on it and like coming from america and like you know we're bigger guys i need like a lot of fucking protein so it didn't really do the trick but you know whatever it's me and mar so the difference in the hostel breakfast is from like this is really good to like to like this is an insult to somewhere in the middle like just enough energy to get me an hour that's fair

that's fair because i guess if you're staying in a hostel you're there to adventure so yeah you don't need much um yeah do you see any of that Yeah, yeah, I did the little hacky sack Yeah, I fucked around Honestly, like within the first two hours there I like made a friend This guy was just like, hello, like would you like to I'll show you around the city

And I was like yeah, let's fucking go And I think it was kind of a scam Because he took me to like a little What are those called? Laosuji I think the little robe they wear All the men Remember that? They're wearing like little skirts and stuff

Dude, this is going to take me back This is going to take me back Have you had a guest to Myanmar yet? No Okay, hell yeah. Yeah, no. And I've been waiting to, like, maybe I'll do it, but like, this is fucking way better. Let's fucking go, dude.

Being where it was male. I did, yeah, that's it. Yep, that's it. Yep. And everybody wears it. Like, nobody wears pants. Yeah, weird, right? And they have that tied up the pant, this, the tied up thing.

Yeah, it's so comfortable, too. It's so what? Comfortable. Yeah. Oh, my God, yeah. No restriction. Did you see any white dudes wearing them? I mean, me.

Yeah, there was like one. another guy in my hostel, a German kid, obviously, because Germans are all over the fucking planet. God, they really are. But, yeah, they're just infestating everywhere. It's an infestation. 18-year-old Germans, they just think. Isn't it weird? They thought we were becoming an infestation.

And then in the hostile world, now it's them. That's right. That's right. It must be dealt with. Yeah, full circle, full Jewish star all the way around. It must be dealt with. Yeah. But fucking, yeah, like this German kid, I don't know.

Like, I feel like the people you meet in Myanmar are like. very intrepid travelers because they're the type of people to be like fuck the State Department I'm just going to go and see for myself because why would you go there? Exactly. Hey guys, breaking into today's episode

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he actually really shows it. I mean, I was so stoked when he brought up he was going to do Myanmar. I mean, I was so stoked. You could see it on my fans. I was like, no. You go to his YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash at small brained American. That's its podcast channel.

Small brained pod on YouTube. I have an episode on his podcast. After we did this one, went over to my balcony, my former balcony in New York City, and we recorded one. It's just like, dude, he's like a real traveler. And you get to talking about it. It's just like, I don't know, man. It just brings you back.

You just start, like, riffing stories off each other, like one to another to another. So check out his podcast, Small Brained Pod, and check out his YouTube channel. It's just got great shit on there. And he really takes you there. I talk about stuff, but he takes you there. And you go to his Patreon, where you can get uncensored, extended cut versions of every video from YouTube, which is cool. Patreon.com slash small brained americans. American. Yeah, go check out everything. In terms of myself, I've got a few plugs.

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Friend Well I'm not going to ruin it for you But let's get back to the episode I had this theory Then like in like I actually met Donnie Wanton Don Before I knew him

Somebody told me like You guys met a long time ago In 2014 Because he was just in the Hong Kong scene Okay Or Shanghai scene I forget I think Hong Kong scene But like

There's what I saw was like like the bankers that were in like Hong Kong, why are you a banker here? You could be a banker in London and New York. You ask for a transfer here because you're way wilder than most bankers. And yeah, anybody goes to Myanmar as like a hostel or a travel. Like,

why? It's the stance on that is not like safe place, beautiful beaches. That's not the vibe. It's literally military dictatorship. That's what it's known for us. That's the number one tourist attraction is the fucking police. Yeah.

Yeah, but you meet some legend. legends in those hostels. I mean, hostels in general, but Myanmar especially. Like, I met this German kid who's just like, doesn't give a fuck, he just goes anywhere, trying to go to every country type guy, you know? So. Like right away? You met him? Yeah, I mean, he was just like staying like kind of near my bunk and yeah. Cool dude. So it definitely attracts a certain crowd. Yeah. Damn, those hostels are cool there. You really do. And everyone's friendly. I just, I don't know if it's going to survive there though. Myanmar. Like, I think it was me and there was like a fat Chinese guy in my like bunk situation and that was it for like my room

in the hostel it wasn't and it was a big place it wasn't crowded like they were not getting business right so I wonder how much they need some of those things are like were government funded it's not like full cap I don't I don't I just honestly you don't know I can't imagine the government's funding yeah what it was it like with the military because when I went it was like kind of free and then I heard they kind of took back power when did you go 2017 oh okay so you It opened up a bit. Yeah, you went before the Democratic election, and then this woman won the election.

On San Suu Kyi? I don't know. Okay. But you know about this? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, she won the election, and then the military was like, nah, we don't accept that, and then just put her in prison. If it was on San Suu Kyi, it was like, they put her in house arrest for like 20 years.

Oh, that's what it is? And then they let her out, and they go, you just can't talk about the government anymore. She goes, I'm for sure going to. And they go, okay, right back for another 10 years. years she didn't see her husband for like the last 10 years of her life oh my wait she's dead his life sorry oh okay um then they made a rule that anyone who's married a foreigner can't be prime minister okay like espionage shit or it's so that she wouldn't be the president it's just for her that's smart yeah and then you're like all right how about i'm the

advisor to that she still ran it from what i understand but just like i'll use a different title yeah it's like if trump was like you can't do a third term because i can be prime minister of America, though. Yeah, you can be prime minister. That might happen, dude. Who knows? Oh, my God, dude. Give me credit.

Yeah, but then I don't know what they took back or whatever. Yeah, so have you seen the video of it was 2021? It's a like jazzercise influencer doing a live stream from like this big, kind of historic place in Myanmar. Is this it? That's it, dude. Yeah. Yeah.

That's it. Jesus. Gay porn. I'm not sure. Oh, is that it? That's pretty kinky, man. That is pretty kinky. I might try that with my girl.

Okay. All right, let's get this out of here. He's going to distract me. Sorry. Is your editor going to have to look at that? Yeah, I don't know. Sorry, Alan.

Yeah, I don't know. He's going to get fucking hard. Bro, okay, one jerk off to that and then back to work. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, but the fucking the jazzercise influence. or it was like doing her little thing. She had her sweatband on her little like microphone. And she's live streaming.

And then in the background, our tanks just storming the capital or whatever. Whoa. Yeah, it like went super viral on I think TikTok. What? Yeah, dude. Yeah, dude.

It's history, part of history. Oh, my God. And that's when they took over the government. And that's when the military said, the military had a full on coup. They completely took over the government. Yeah, now it's a military dictatorship. Wow.

So when I was there, there was, it was military dictatorship. Her father was a general, like a beloved general in the war, against whoever before those. And then he wants, somebody assassinated him. The only reason she wasn't killed because of her dad. Okay. Because they all respected her dad. Yeah.

And then, and then, and then, um, they took over it. And when they gave back power, they said, okay, we'll give you back power. But the military is always a 51% voting block. Oh. So maybe that's why they, you can't fully vote them out. And then they're like, actually, nah. This is ours now. Yeah.

Damn. Wow. Yeah. And everybody hates the government there. Yeah. Like, I don't want to get anybody in the fucking camps or anything, but I had a lot of like kind of hush-hust conversations where people were like, yeah, we're terrified. And they're like, if you're a foreigner, like, they're for sure following you.

Did you feel like that at all? Did you see anything? No. No, it really was. It felt like this open place. When I landed, there was a guy was like, I came here 30 years ago on a green piece or whatever, like Habitat for Humanity kind of thing. Because I'm so excited to see how it changed because when he was there, it was like,

real like it was worse yeah and then it opened up right around when I was there in like a 10 year block and then for you back to fucking take over so we weren't worried about it so it was like free when you were there but also my first week there was a guy who I'll get back to your trip in a second there was a guy who unplugged a Buddhist prayer service uh-huh because it was outside of his window okay and the speakers were going it's a grumpy old man thing to do and he was like and then they put him in jail for like six months the government when you were there Yeah. Oh, wow.

They were like, that's way past the line. Okay. So that's like the free version of Myanmar. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And he goes, I didn't know it was a prayer thing. He goes, fuck off.

Yes, you did. Yes, 100% you did. Damn. So how'd you find it? What'd you do? Yeah, just arrived, met this guy. He showed me around. He like took me to buy a lousy, like the fucking whatever skirt.

But it, you know, like, I don't, I'm not sure. Oh, the local guy took it. Yeah. Okay. I'm not sure if you've ever been to India, but it felt, I had just gotten out of India. And I was like on high. high fucking alert for scams. Like, I was, every fiber in my being was like, do not scam me.

But I follow this guy against my better judgment. And he takes me to like the shop, obviously, and like takes me to buy the Lousy. And I was like, okay, fuck, how much is it? Like, you know, the guy's got like rotting teeth and like fucking like his hands are all. Like he might have been homeless. You know what I mean? And he saw me as a quick buck, I guess. And I was like, all right, how much is the fucking skirt?

And it was like $10, which in me and more money is a lot. Like it's kind of all I brought out for. the day and I was like fuck okay I'll buy this and he's like oh yeah we got to like buy this skirt to go to this river but then the river was closed I don't know I just felt I don't know man it just felt very scam any anything oh it's closed today I have this other option for you yeah thanks for buying this shit for like double what it's worth you know that you didn't want in the first place yeah yeah yeah so I mean it's better than elephant pants yeah that's true but I mean

whatever it's it's all good I mean I don't hold any I gave him like a little bit of cash at the end of the night just to, you know, whatever, but I found it very unscammy as a country. Yeah, I think Buddhists are pretty, like, honest. Yeah, they're just like, we're here to help. That's what we'd love to do, actually. Yeah. That was the vibe I got. And I think with countries was such a bad reputation, they want, they need you to like it. You know what I mean? Yeah. How cheap was it? Oh, fucking dirt cheap. Right. Yeah, dirt cheap. I remember, I actually, a few days later, I went to this beach town called and I met this guy named Dan

he just like pulled up on a motorcycle and he's like hey you want to come to a party and I'm like yeah let's go and he took me to this bar where they were serving like it looked like radioactive mountain dew like from a barrel and like the bartender would scoop it out of the barrel

and give it to you and it was five cents like why are you charging me I'll give you $5 for the whole barrel yeah just how about I give you a buck and you just, like, you just rained it on me all night. Exactly. Whoa. Where was this?

I never got to the beaches. On the west. It was, like, the only beach I could find that was, like, open. Because South was, like, the military coup was going on. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's like. Gee, I never would have known that. There it is.

Yes, sir, putting on the map, dude. It was actually kind of pretty there. Damn. Yeah. That's not bad looking. But, yeah, me and this kid just, like, like slammed this like radioactive liquor all day got drunk he like drove me around we crashed a few times they have a resort like this there I don't know maybe I guess

this seems more like it it was very nice and there was no tourists there really nobody no me and one German guy did you um were there chicks there uh like traveler girls traveler girls uh no Burmite I okay I do have something from I'm gonna wear this for this. All right. Oh, hell yeah. Man,

you got merch for Myanmar. Yeah. You got this from a fucking market somewhere and then I found out later everyone kept like

looking and we go ha ha. I was to say like f*** or something. I don't know. I asked so long everybody knows.

I think it means something along the lines to like chill out. Okay. Yeah. Like a slang. Yeah. I don't know

but every time we check it they're like, yeah, nice. And I'm like, what? Yeah. You just got to imagine the opposite of that,

like a guy from like rural Myanmar showing up to New York City with a shirt that says like fuck on it or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I fuck bitches. All right, bro. I'd never pull out. Yeah, exactly. Oh, Burmese chicks are I would consider the ugliest in the world.

Okay. All right. I don't know how you found them. I honestly don't remember. I don't, yeah, doesn't really ring any bells on it. Because you didn't even notice them. Yeah. Because they're so ugly.

They look like the men, I guess. Yeah, you're just like, I don't even register that as a woman. They have like the beetle teeth. After like 23, you're like, you're haggard. Yeah. Yeah. Stripe has fucking hit your face hard. Yeah.

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Tell me all about it. I mean, obviously. Like, it was just like a hole in the ground. I mean, I remember one night we took a bus, I think from, or maybe from the beach to. And it was like a night bus. The only one I could find left at like midnight.

But the curfew lasts from like 1 a.m. to like 4 a.m. They had a curfew? Yeah, there was a military curfew there. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. Not when you were there? No. Yeah, I guess I went in a kind of a fucked time.

But, yeah, I drove through the curfew. We had to, like, park on the side of the road. And, like, the cops came and checked us and stuff. There was hell of police checkpoints. They, like, I had to write my name down, my passport number. Like, the cops came on the bus. I can't remember if they had guns or not. But, yeah, it was intense, man.

Whoa. Yeah. Yeah, we had one region in the north that was, like, they came up to us with guns. and was like, what are you doing here? Because we weren't kind of supposed to be there. Oh, was it, were you hiking or, um. We were trying to take a, we're trying to take a, a, um, let's get back to your trip

in a second, a shortcut in between, um, I think from, uh, to, to, but where all the hiking is, right? Yeah, I didn't do that. Because I got tried, people were trying to sell me tours there, but I, I, we did like a three-day hike. That's cool. You were camping. Somewhere to Lake.

Oh, yeah, that's the one. That's the one I heard about. Was it nice? Oh, so cool. Really? It met some awesome people from like all over. Was it dry season or was it? It was dry season.

Okay. It gets fucking hot there in the dry season, man. It definitely didn't rain the whole time. Yeah. Yeah, it got hot and then it's super cold at night in the mountains. Fucking out. Wait, what did you get into? Let's talk about you.

What? In, where are we again? Burma, me and one. Do you know why they read it? Do you know why it's called both those things? I think the British called it Burma, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Do you know the story of it? No, no. that's so funny bad press and the military is like oh they think we're fucking assholes let's rename it oh that's amazing

yeah and then they move the capital from Yangon to somewhere like in here in like the middle somewhere where no one can go protest because there's just too far that is fucking funny no I remember actually

I wanted to go to the capital when I was there because there's this big like 12 lane highway but it's completely abandoned it like leads to the capital I think that's where the fucking influencer was doing her little dance

but yeah it's just some big abandoned highway that at least of the capital but never made it there. How are influencers now at hostels? Like where? Kind of all over. See, I don't fuck with hostels

that much anymore, man. Like, I want to get like a good night's rest. Fair. You know, like my back's fucked. Influences and hostels? I don't know, because I don't really go to like the regular places that much anymore. Where do you go out there?

Yeah, my girlfriend spent a lot of time. She was at a hostel in Tulum, actually. There was actually like a boutique when it was nice, cringe as you can imagine but yeah but yeah well to loom yeah just wondering what the life is like now with everyone like photographing themselves and talking to their screens yeah i don't know man it's been so long since i've been to like a regular ass place with a regular ass hostel i mean obviously me and mar i mean everybody there was making some kind of content but honestly like i kind of support

that because it's like who the fuck goes to me and mar like let's see let's see more of it you know what i mean yeah yeah fair it's the only way you're gonna get like info out yeah so what did you get into so you went from there to the beach. Yeah, dude. I was, I touched on this earlier, but I met this alcoholic taxi driver. Like, he just drove me around on a motorcycle, but he was like hammered, hammered blackout drunk.

While he was driving? While he was driving. We crashed twice. I still got back on the bike. I was hammered, too. We just, like, went on a little booze cruise around the beach. It was so fucking fun, dude.

I want to go back and do it again. Do you ever, your parents still alive? Yes. Do they say your stuff ever and be like, don't please stop doing that they hated it when I was like broke like when I was making the Myanmar videos and I was like crashing and like you know like getting detained and all this shit like come on why are you doing this and now that it's actually like mildly successful they're like all right we love this now really just results based I guess yeah sometimes I imagine I'm doing

something like that drunk drunk driving with a fucking guy with a limp you know his teeth are rotting out of his fucking face and I imagine my mom just seeing me like from above going no absolutely not off the bike or just like oh please stop yeah please please please we're worried every time i go to china my parents are like having a heart attack for sure you go a lot i've been a couple times but every time like just come home as soon as you can get get the video come back like china's safe though right it's okay i mean i was pushing some buttons there but you know whatever okay all right so tell me more about me and mar uh yeah so um honestly the best adventure i had was in like driving around with this kid he got like so drunk he like couldn't talk anymore how did you meet him he

literally just pulled up to me on the side of the road and was like hello my friend like how are you he was already hammered it was like nine in the morning and he's like hey let's go to a party and I'm like let's go and I got on the bike it was a crowded bar like full of people like there's so many alcoholics in Myanmar did you meet these people did you see that one in the in that town where there was a guy who kept like following us and talking to us and we're trying to like converse with them and then someone else comes up to us like charitably it goes hey this man he's he's a he's a he's a fool I'm like oh town drunk yeah we were trying to talk to him he's the town drunk yeah but I mean harmless right oh totally yeah they just want to chat the guy was like you don't

that he's not actually giving any information he's like you're talking to a homeless guy you're talking to a homeless guy you get that sheen of tourism where you're like oh oh my god friendly local wow you pull out the camera like amazing yeah yeah yeah but um were they just coming up with you as a white were they like

yeah they're like what the fuck are you doing here they're like don't you know it's a bad time to visit and I was like yeah yeah but you know love of the game yeah I mean pretty much everybody was like what are you doing here like they weren't unhappy that I was there but they were confused like genuinely they're like what is this like

yeah why are you here you know yeah right like what like they're not not this isn't cool here yeah why like Thailand is literally right next door like go to thailand you know what I mean yeah go get your smoothie and you know get a lady boy to suck your balls like I don't know why that's the way to go yeah yeah yeah time I's right there yeah but the land borders are unfortunately closed with Myanmar because I think that's where all

the conflict is that's where they're like often a group well they're like I think all the skirmishes are happening near the borders like especially towards the south because the best beaches I've found on Google Maps at least are in the south but I couldn't go like I couldn't find a bus to go there all these down here yeah I think there's a train that goes there but I went to the train station and they didn't let me board because I was a what really so yeah yeah they didn't let me get on there was like guys with guns like no you can't yeah they're like you can't be like what do you mean we're at a hotel like yeah but not for you what I mean white oh they're like this is not for like foreigners can't stay in this like region in this

County. Oh shit. That's when you were in the north and they like stopped you. Yeah. So we were trying to take like instead of like going this, we just looked at it like from here from this city to this at Inlay Lake to somewhere or maybe Bugonda somewhere. Okay. Could have been but it was like this to get there and we're like let's just take like a van. And there's a reason that it was a yeah we thought we're outsmarting everything. Yeah. We'll stop for the night. I got this hat at some market that we shut down with our skin. You know like people coming up taking pictures. It was just like as my friend Derek was like walking, if I could see him, there was like a title, you know the wave at a baseball game? It was that with everyone's like cooking

stuff and I go and then back to like cooking. Just a 5 foot 11. Yeah. What? Yeah. Did you find that a lot? Yeah, of course. I mean, I think that's, it's, I don't know, I talk about this on my podcast sometimes, the small brain podcast. Small brain podcast. Um, yeah, I just talk about my travels and stuff. But I find that, like, white privilege is a funny thing abroad because it, like, gets you out of so many jams, like, being where any country being white is like a privilege. But also, like, it fucks you in some places. Like, in India, you're fucked if you don't have a local. You are fucked if you don't have, like, a brown person with you. What?

Hawkers? Yes, dude. Like, they just see you as a walking wallet. They're like, oh, the British came in. They have this, like, victim mentality. They're like, oh, well, you guys fucked us, so we're going to fuck you type thing. Oh, interesting. But, you know, in Myanmar, I didn't feel like it was ever a problem.

I felt like it was, you know, the white privilege prevailed. I like, tell me right or wrong. I like Myanmar because it was like not set up enough for tourism where they're trying to come out yet. Like, my friend Jay used to live in the upper, like, middle, west, west side. And it's like just a desolate area. Okay. And his chick was like, I'm afraid of getting like here. And then DeRosa was like, they don't even come here.

No one's here. They wouldn't come. Like, there's no robbers. There's nothing to get. Yeah. Like, nobody fishes in, like, on dry land. There's no market. Yeah.

So, like, that, where it's like, we're not set up to fleece tourists. Yeah, exactly. Which is really nice. It was really not. Honestly, I feel like those places, a lot of Middle Eastern countries are the same way. Like, Iraq. I'm sure Afghanistan is like this. Iran.

Like, they're just never see tourists. So, like, when they do, they're like, oh, my God, welcome. Like, I'm so sorry about our government, this, that, and the other. And they kind of put forth, like, more effort to, like, make you feel. comfortable. I felt that way in Myanmar for sure. People were very sweet there. It was wild. That was the vibe. Yeah. We're here to like actually it's our religion to make you feel comfortable and like get you where you going. Yeah. Yeah. I mean they're so sweet. It's kind of like Southeast Asians in general are really sweet. Thai people. Vietnamese people are really

sweet. Cambodians are kind of like standoffish I found. Maybe Laosians too. I'm not sure I never been. But Myanmar people were like above and beyond like the friendliest Southeast Asians I I'd ever met so I think it's a Buddhism must be yeah must be I met some people on a bus to to begone and they were like everyone's like talking like how do you like it and they're like it's a couple and they were like listen I know everybody's had this great experience of all we've got was scammed and they're like I understand we're the outliers and we just got unlucky we've been like scam like six times maybe they're the problem where did they look naive did they have a look to them? No, they were just like, everyone's trying to get over on us. Everyone's trying to upsell us.

Everyone's... But they were like fully aware. They weren't like, fuck. They were like, I get it. We definitely got unlucky. Because we've heard enough people say, we're just here to help. Yeah. Interesting. I find places like that, Columbia is the same way. Like, you'll get fucked hard. You'll get robbed or whatever, scammed, whatever it is. And then 10 minutes later, you meet like the nicest lady you've ever met. Like, I'm so sorry about that. Like, come to my shop. I'll give you free, whatever the fuck. I'm so sorry about that. You know what I mean? Like, it feels like they're compensating for something. I don't know have you found that Like in kind of off the beaten path places The further off you get

The more they're like You're not the way we're going to make money That's a good point You know It's like everybody else in the big towns It's like we're fishing and you're fish Yeah No harm

Yeah that's the way I felt in India for sure It was very much like You have to be like on full alert Like where are the scams Because they're out there You just have to like It makes you such It makes you a way better traveler

Going to India honestly Really? if you've never been i mean i wouldn't personally recommend it you'll have like a terrible time like guaranteed you'll have a bad time but it makes you a better traveler dude literally i'm so conflicted about india because everyone talks about how awful it is and then like you got to go yeah right it's like i don't want to look at beautiful buildings but i hold my breath yeah i honestly i just wouldn't go i wouldn't go to pakistan go to pakistan it's better okay people are nice they're muslim they're they're like honest as fuck oh i went for seven days i didn't

spend any money like not one dollar not one dollar people let me stay at their house people give me free chai i walked around a market i got like seven free chies my head was like spinning all the caffeine and sugar and free cababs and shit it doesn't matter bro like Pakistan they're like look we're here to help it's very much what we're just talking about but like times a million whoa yeah hi guys today's episode of ubi jippin is brought to you by talk space it's the number one rated online therapy bringing you professional support from licensed therapists and psychiatrist that you can access any time, anywhere. It's affordable, Talkspace.

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Oh. It was like young girls and stuff, and they all spoke English and they were very friendly and stuff. but everyone was just young there it felt like some kind of like community service like YMCA type thing it was a bit strange honestly like all the tourist infrastructure in Myanmar is a bit odd I remember I was in the ancient city

I think you went there and uh it was the coolest place I like rented a bike for the day it was like five bucks or something e-bike yeah just a little scooter you know why that is uh I don't know something dictatorship I'm not sure you can't foreigners can't rent electric I'm sorry motorized vehicles. Is that because of the president or whatever?

She's like half foreign or whatever. It was like one of those things. They just don't want foreigners renting cars. And so e-bike, it's electronics. They charge them. So that's the way around it. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I guess they don't want to be

the next Thailand. What do you mean? Well, it's just like overrun. Bali's the same way. Like just the streets are just crammed with ignorant whites, you know? Yeah. But yeah, I like took a little scooter

and rode around these little fucking pagodas. Talk about this place. Dude, I felt like, yeah, I felt like Indiana Jones. Yes 100% It was sick It's so fucking cool

It was sick yeah Describe it You go into a pagoda And there's like Ivy everywhere And you have to like It's like shrouded And there's like this

Perfectly preserved Hand painted I'm sure a hand sculpted Like Buddha statue That who knows how long it's been there I mean it's an ancient capital It's been there for a couple thousand years I think it's like the oldest

Religious site in the world Maybe that's Cambodia It's like it's oh yeah Maybe in Kuwait maybe but it's like it goes on forever it's huge it's huge so my friend turner told me about it it was one of two things for southeast asia was that and uh what are those big like in the in the in the ocean by like northern vietnam oh yeah never made it's a made it to early and it was just like it's just like i don't even know how big it is like 10 by 10 kilometers no i have no idea

it's huge i think it was the ancient capital of me and marcia that's why and they i asked the locals and they're like oh yeah it's these these are like paying homage to the monks or something like that um like i guess a monk dies that one's fucking awesome that one's like yeah there was there was some tourist ones and some like not but the not ones were way better way better because you go in and it's just like what the fuck dude like i feel like i'm uncovering this for the i feel like you're making archaeological progress right now you really do you go and you're like you're on like a dirt road on an e-bike by yourself i assume yeah and then you're just like I'll go wherever I want.

You can't see, because there don't look like a lot of trees, but it's enough to block your view. Yeah, on the bike for sure. Yeah, and then you just, why I just keep doing this? And then you just come across a fucking, yeah, some like temple. Yeah, and you're just, it's the only one in there. Actually, I went to one where there were,

I saw two motorbikes parked outside. Yeah. And then I heard music playing and I was like, I think people are fucking in this one. I'm almost certain they were fucking in there. Because it was like quiet. I was like, I walked in there, kind of like you know what's going on

and it just got totally silent I was like they're fucking for sure and I just left you left yeah that's nice yeah I mean you know it's weird to stand over something yeah I'm not gonna be like actually this is I'm on vacation and you know

do you take your shoes off when you went in no fuck no dude it's like there's like spikes everywhere like ants and I went in this one it was like a five foot ant hill it's like uh I heard the UNESCO what won't make it a national heritage site because they don't do upkeep yeah oh you know what in a couple of them they had brooms though and i like swept up after myself

it was like kind of on your own terms because the buddhist statue was there and i was like he's watching me bro i gotta oh yeah there's a there's a there's a buddhist hell yeah dude i went in like a bunch of them and then and then like i went out off to my fifth one and someone is like taking their shoes off and going in i was like you're like oh man i'm an asshole damn it yeah going to hell going to buddhist hell now did you find any steps on any of them steps what do you mean like in secret passages yeah honestly no no no no the only ones I went I went in like one big one and then like one big touristy one that you pay to admit to and then I just went in a bunch of small ones the small ones interested me a little more I don't know why if no one's in him

nobody honestly I mean you know especially with the tourist infrastructure as it is like I'm sure no one's been in there in like years you know it was it was like it'd be like something like this right where it's like you go in and then there was like to me I was like okay fine and then the out on the corners there's like a little arch and it's just like a little vestibule yeah and then one of them there was like a passage and you're like oh and some steps oh you went up and then it goes like to up top to up like here and you can go interesting yeah probably everyone felt like indana jones yeah and they're all different some of them have like shrines that are like upkept like i felt like they had like the equivalent like catholic rosaries kind of thing like they had flowers

and like water and i can't even remember i might be like mixing this up with japan but like like cigarettes and stuff, like at the shrines. I don't really remember. But there was one that was like next to somebody's house, bro. Like I was on their property. Just like using my white privilege to the fullest extent. I was like, I'm just going. Walt's in here.

This is mine now. It feels good to use. Yeah, it does. Like you have it. Yeah, you might as well use it. It's like not cashing in a lottery ticket. That's crazy. Yeah, you're right.

Cash it in. Yeah. For all my minority friends, I have to use this, you know. You see this? Yeah, yeah, I did. But honestly, the hot air balloons, I feel like you pay the white tax. to do that. That was like 100, 200 bucks, so I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I just saw it. One of my

friends, my Danish friend did it. But there was like a sunrise thing. Did you go sunrise for this? Nah, I was only like two nights. Okay. Yeah. Did you? Yeah, it was like, go here, go to anywhere for the sunset. That's easier. But then like scope out some ones where you can find acts because it was like pitch black. Okay. Find access to like a stairwell. Yeah. And like go up with some Israeli chick. And it was like, all right, let's go there in the dark dark. Like you put a pin on your maps up me yeah so you don't get lost yeah and then you get there because there's no roads just all dirt roads yeah and then you get there like let's sit up there it's freezing cold and then the sun comes up first it's like you know when the sunrise like first like i can see before the

sun's up yeah dusky and then the sun and then these hot air buildings and i guess the mist like over the pagodas and stuff it was so just reveals this field of fields the wrong term it's like a city of yeah i mean it's kind of like an old atlantis in a way because it's like this ancient civilization that's just like overgrown now you know yeah it's no it's i've never seen a place like this yeah it's incredible i feel like it's similar to anchor watt but there's nobody there man like an anchorot you pay the tourist tax and you have to take like a government fucking honestly all the unESCO world heritage sites piss me off because they just have like all the brain dead pigies there like and then you get chakos and their Hawaiian shirts and and you get the fucking

chinese yeah yeah that's a whole that's a whole other thing the german the german are nothing compared to the Chinese. When you say like Germans are the worst, okay? So there's two things you're talking about. Like Germans are the worst of the whites. But if you include Chinese. No, Chinese are like first. Oh, we're not even talking about that.

Gold medal, dude. Gold standard for ruining places. Even in China. Even in China, I was on a tour bus and a tour guide got on the bus with a megaphone and was shouting, first of all, shouting an amplified sound. I say that as I'm shouting into a mic, into an enclosed space. Like, what could you possibly be saying that's so important?

Like breakfast is at noon? Breakfast is at 11? Like, what is so important? If the bus is not on fire, like, shut the fuck up, you know? And they have the little flags and. I'm remembering that one of my images of why Chinese suck is in watching a sunset on one of the main ones in main temples and a Chinese guy with an iPad filming it in front of us. get out of here who fills on iPhone

who brings an iPad out it's an in the house tool yeah it's like you don't think your fucking phone takes the picture that can extend to that he probably has like a Huawei

like foldable like $2,000 phone anyways like he's living in the future like it's all the same size it depends on the player you fucking fool also like you think you're going to take a better professional photo just buy one

like just buy a photo or just Google it Yeah. Just fucking Google it. I mean, yeah, this shit is better than anything you're going to take. Yeah. Anything. Yeah.

I will say, like, I developed a soft spot for the Chinese in China. They're, like, they're cute. The tourists are cute. But I lived in Japan, and that's where I developed my first hatred of the Chinese. In Japan. Yeah, I think I, like, the secondhand racism, like, rubbed off on me a little bit, you know. Bro, I love seeing inner racism of people like, oh, it's just like Asian and Asian. Like, or like, Latino, Latino.

Like, oh, talk to about Guatemalan. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And especially, like, in the States, they love to blame the Venezuelans. Like, a Cuban would, like, we'll hate the Venezuelans, you know? Yeah, and we're like, oh, you guys were all Mexican to us. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We have no idea what you're talking about. Exactly, yeah. I thought that was your cousin. Yeah. That's not when you go to Israel, like, which side's which? I don't know. Both you guys need showers. Chinese are a very specific thing.

Yeah. It's, they bring with them a certain sense of. Entitlement. It's like they're kind of like the Americans of the Eastern world, but like bigger and better like four times as big more racist, you know Chinese are racist? Chinese are horribly racist, yeah, for sure. Bring up Vietnam or Indonesia or the Philippines then are like scum, you know. Oh, so the jungle Asians. Yeah, it's like East Asia versus South Asia, Southeast Asia. Yeah, they're all just horribly racist. It's funny. how they all look at like if you ask them to rank them yeah it's very clear all the jungle Asians are like in a group which is like Indo Thailand Burma

yeah Cambodia whatever Vietnam I don't know and then Korea China and Japan are like not the jungle ones I guess I don't know yeah it's kind of like Korea versus China versus Japan and I guess a good argument could be made for all of them for getting on a brass tax

but and then that's them versus like everybody and I feel like probably Philippines or like Indonesia's like at the bottom if I were to say not my personal ranking by the way this is not I think Burma's got to be ranked I think that that's got to be like oh we're not obviously the other words we're not talking about them they're not even in the running but what I will say is I think Burma has a lot of business with Japan like did you see those Japanese signs everywhere okay and I saw a lot of Japanese like businessmen and stuff not a lot but like I saw a few enough to be like

what the fuck interesting Yeah, there's got to be like, there's got to be like Oklahoma City just, or Oklahoma legalized a few years ago, weed. And there was like, but they're like, we're not doing regulation. So we're going to let the market decide. Wow, less. Yeah. And so all these like growers like, let's get out there. A green, it's a, the, like the green, whatever they called for like San Francisco when they were going.

Oh, the green rush? Yeah, the green rush. Okay. Yeah. And they were all going out there for whatever. I'm sure in a place like Burma, the like the possibility, sure the government might take everything. but also maybe I can actually like Yeah

Make a fucking thing Yeah the human trafficking possibilities are endless I'm sure Like probably get anything you want across the border You just grease the right palms You know Yeah Yeah it's wild out there man

How long do you stay in a man Just like two three days Because I mean honestly That's about right So like I fucking I was in like four days I stupidly like booked A two week trip

Yeah Just because I had time to kill I was going to meet my girlfriend in Thailand a little later on and just the dates didn't line up so I wanted to kill some time in Burma big fucking mistake I should have killed time in Thailand

because I was in I was there way too long bro like I the military coup was like actively happening around in like you couldn't go past like a certain river because like you could hear gunfire no yeah yeah I know that river like there's a big tourist thing

jumping in them there's like there's a temple there yeah like a touristy thing there's like vendors and yeah Yeah. And then they're like, no, you just, you can't go. Like, we usually do tours out there, but you can't go now because they're fighting. And they're like, they might be done fighting in a week or two, but for now you can't go. Wow. Yeah. So that was fucked.

And then I have, there's that temple I remember finally understanding what it means to be like, I was with four Canadian chicks, just met them up with them. And people were taking pictures with them. It was like the tourists, the Myanmar tourists, I mean, going to like the temple. Right. from the world and they're like what the fuck a white and then they were like taking pictures with them yeah and then changing clothes and getting back in line and take another picture with the whites with the whites yeah to like this should start charging them okay here you take this give me your hat like I get a picture with you that's amazing okay wow so you're the tourist

attraction at that point yeah a blonde a blonde white chick is like yeah a god you ever travel with a black guy yeah tell me oh no I've never done it I've never done it but I've seen like videos of them in China like just touching the afro and stuff in the afro we had one and we went to that town where we were in trouble they just kept touching his hair because he had dreads and he was like excuse me like yeah you're a commodity to us you're not a person wow yeah you have these black women here like don't touch my hair like yeah good luck in me and mark good luck lady holy shit yeah but yeah i said a little too long you can hear gunfire across the river yeah yeah yeah yeah it was bad it was bad for sure um and uh what i was

in that hostel. I got like a little beach bungalow that, you know, in the U.S. would be like $3,400 easily. It was $5 a night. Or maybe, no, maybe $9. I think $9. Yeah, I paid $18 for two nights. But it was like a shack. Like it didn't really have walls. It just had like bamboo and stuff. It had plumbing. Yeah. But ants were everywhere. And I mean, and then did they have the rolling blackouts when you were there? Like for certain hours of the day, there's no power. Like predictably every day for like four hours at a time. You wouldn't that power. You went in a different time that I went. Yeah, bro. It's great. It wasn't that long ago. Yeah. I guess a lot of shit changes there, man. Their history is fucked. I think they've basically

just been fucked for like centuries at civil war with each other. So it's like all of South America where like is it's like no, no, no, you got to read the today it is. Yeah. It's like the weather. It's like, no, gang stuck over the country now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we just looked at El Salvador. We're like, we can't go there. And then we look like completely safe. It's very safe. They have a new dictator. He's doing a great job. I think my, one of the, my old laundromat, he was a Filipino. I'm like, I hate this new guy. I goes, why would I hate him?

He cleaned up the drugs. Like, I heard he's executed people like, drug addicts. I'm like, oh, all right. Yeah, you think you're going to find common ground? And they're like, marijuana is the devil's lettuce. Like, we can't have that. Yeah, damn, that's a different time. It's crazy how much it changed that fast.

But I said a little too long, and I was in that little beach bungalow with, like, bullshit for walls, a little bamboo. And I could hear, like, the jeeps in the night taking people. like three four in the morning and I'd go to the hostel owner German guy who'd been there for like decades you know you'd imagine like fucking sunburn with like tattoos and like a little weird like man bun thing and I was like what was that in the middle of the night he's like oh yeah they found people and they took them like rebels like in the fucking village I was staying in what's a junta do you know oh no some kind of militant I think yeah I don't know but they were

like the junta's I don't I never know if the jontas were on the side of the government or not I think junta is the name of the government oh I think that's an in the government yeah and then they have like on all these places columbia too they have like different types of rebels and then if one makes peace they're like well now we're your enemy or like we want to take over in a different way to use so we fight and then we fight against the government columbia is like a rat's nest of like extremists they have like the commune anarcho communists this is going to be a wildly inaccurate podcast but oh everyone like you're way wrong like we don't it's just our experience we're not looking up anything yeah we're definitely way wrong

That's right. You're like, I went to a place. There was fair food everywhere. It was great. Like, that's because there was a fair. Yeah. Makes sense. Right, right, right, right.

Dan, you could hear, who were they against? Just the rebels? I think it was like, like small militant groups, like farmers, like defending their land from being taken over. And then I'm sure you've seen the photos of, by the way, we'll never be able to go back to me more after this podcast. But I've seen videos of like the government, like burning fields, like burning houses of, it's fucked, dude. If you literally just type in, I tell my viewers this sometimes, literally just type in, Myanmar News, and it will be like the most horrific story. Here we go.

It's also the ethnic minority. They're also like, let's clean that up too. Yeah, yeah. Myanmar, oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Over 400 of fear drowned two shipwrecks. Yeah. Yep.

so maybe it's getting a little better this doesn't look too bad Myanmar soldiers flee to Thailand after rebels attack that's how you know it's bad if the soldiers are like Iro Wadi that's the river okay that does sound familiar

that does sound familiar we saw these people jumping in there there's like locals and just like taking their shirts all these kids it was like so cool no gunfire was it like a holy thing they were doing or just for fun no it was nearby that big temple oh you know I went to that it's like a beach

it's like a little white sandy kind of yeah i had a little picnic there with gunfire on the back well i mean it's like yeah it's not every i mean if the locals are chill i'm like you know i got a scooter so do you have a rule for safety when you go these places or do you just i don't know man it really depends it depends on if like the video idea is good enough i mean sometimes i'll do some really dumb shit to make a good video but not really i mean i check the state department just but it doesn't really doesn't huh it's i wish it would be more specific like don't travel to Iraq. It's like, really?

Like, it's, it's really actually perfectly fine. I wish you'd be more accurate with your, like, this neighborhood is bad or this neighborhood is bad, you know, but. Yeah, yeah, instead of just go, eh, why, why go there? And you're like, I don't have fun, adventure. Tell me what I need to know. Dude, I was in a fucking cafe this morning talking with this guy. And I was telling him, like, oh, yeah, Iraq was perfectly safe.

I had a great time. I felt more safe walking around in Baghdad at night than I do in Atlanta. And this old lady turned around and gave me like this. nastiest look like her son had died in Iraq or something who knows but she she wanted to make it known like I do not approve of what you're saying and then she like stormed off and you're like a lady we're not at war anymore we won yeah like we instilled their entire government like it's good because of us yeah my son die I'm like getting it safe from me that's right yeah I mean I don't know my great great great grandfather drove out the British but they're they're out exactly yeah now they're

just like they have the best molly now that's right best ketamine yeah yeah always trust a britt for powder that's right that's right um do you ever go to any of these places and be like actually this is sketchy i'm turning around yeah um i feel like shinjong china was pretty sketchy like the whole alleged genocide happening there like we got followed by police um and we got detained a couple times that was as bad as they say for sure like even going from the border of Kyrgyzstan just to like the next city over in China like a four hour journey I think like 120 kilometers it shouldn't take long especially on a highway dude in America that would take you fucking 30 minutes you know I mean it took us 12 hours in China checkpoints checkpoints every like

seven kilometers or maybe I'm exaggerating it was like every 30 minutes we're at a checkpoint like what are you going to pick up inside that time it's like once you get on the jersey turnpike you don't have to go through another toll until you're off and they checked our passport and they asked what asked us what we're doing at every they didn't have bathrooms they didn't have have water at the checkpoints nothing there was no like accommodation at all it was just like are you Muslim yes or no like okay you can go it was fucked man damn yeah that was pretty serious that was probably one of the most serious on that picture oh nice just changed oh it's your little now it's grease but yeah oh these are your photos yeah nice it's all blocked but

beautiful um yeah that was as bad as I say I feel like most places that were fine I mean the thing is that with war like it was the same when I was in Ukraine like I was in Lviv and Kiev and stuff and everything was fine like and I mean I'm sure soldiers would tell you the same thing like everything's fine until it's not like one day Putin was just like hey I might launch some nukes into Kiev and I was like I'm out like you will you'll hear the news enough to go yeah yeah it can just change on a dime so you see that interview with this guy saying the best time to go to a place is right after a bombing fucking legend fucking and everyone's like oh right yeah yeah I wouldn't go after two straight bombings because now it seems habitual

right but after one they might have a chronic issue at that point Yeah, then it's like, oh, there's just always going on. Well, it's like right now flights into Newark or cheaper because like all the fucking crashes and stuff. Yeah, air traffic controllers are getting fired. Uh-huh. Yeah. Got to find a time to get right in there. The sweet spot.

Yeah. Yeah. Talk about Chinloon. That ball game. Oh, yeah. I just saw it with my buddy. We were just, yeah, just chewing beetlenut and doing that, smoking cigarettes. It was just like the bros.

Yeah. How much did you play there? I tried playing once. Here's the ball. It's kind of tough, isn't it? But it's a soccer thing. It's a volleyball Oh, I didn't see them play with the net

I just saw him fucking around on the sidewalk So that too When we were in that town Where the government's like you shouldn't be here We had to get a special dispensation From a guy like All right we're gonna let you stay But like this is in this is trouble

Like don't don't fuck with anything Don't make yourself known too much Interesting And I stole this key by accident Hit a hard key And I took him Fuck he was so nice But they were playing hacky sack out there

They were like really wanted to But it's this They play with a fucking Oh shit I have not seen getting over a net and so it's like that i saw that my first day i was like walking by the river and it was like they were just doing this that's but they get up so crazy oh i bet you get some gnarly concussions doing that yeah but i mean they get their leg up so high just roundhouse

kicked to the face bro yeah holy shit the flexibility the flexibility the Asians yeah it's all that squatter is he have an american flag bandana on his head maybe right hilarious You ever see What's this? Everyday Yeah Some nonsense

Some nonsense English You ever see these like These like Definitely left behind Like U.S. Oh shit Yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah I've never I've I pray to find like a You know Like Pittsburgh Steelers Like fucking Super Bowl

Like The losers Yes I found one Really I saw a bunch of Texas Rangers Baseball team

champion and I was like wait when was that I don't remember that and then I looked it up and I was like oh yeah they lost this is the city that got it I forgot what town it was what country was Southeast Asia and it was like did you get one no I wasn't like for sale I just saw

I saw like one guy wearing I was like oh weird and I saw like two more and I'm like how do they all have this shirt oh my god yeah I should have tried to buy it off one of them just give them $100 be like dude look this is hanging up in the studio I'm gonna change your fucking life your family's life I'm gonna lift your

family out of poverty for generations. I got to show this picture my friend took of like this perfectly, these two guys with their leg up. That's amazing. Perfectly like trying to smash this ball down. I don't know how to get it up. They get their leg up and they hit down on it. That is crazy.

Do women play it or is it just men? I only saw men. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you see the, um, the Burmese like MMA? It's like bare knuckle like MMA. what is it I don't know what it's called but I was trying to make a video there

when I was there there was like some tournament on but I ended up like getting sidetracked and doing something else I don't know if MMA is the right word for it it's something

but I don't think they use gloves man like it's fucked like it's super bloody and really oh maybe this that seems like tie boxing Burmese boxing maybe I'm just making this up

who knows doubt it maybe you just saw a street fight But there it is Yeah, yeah They're fucking For Myanmar with blood There you go The guy with the bare knuckles

Like bottom left kind of This This Up right And down That one Oh Ooh

Ooh That's Singapore Maybe I'm wrong For Myanmar with blood The Singapore Oh let the way That's what it is Yeah it's

Bear knuckle MMA bro These guys are just like bloodied And there's like a whole underground fighting scene. I really want to go there and make a video about it. You're familiar with blood. I bleed whenever I am in the ring.

I also injure my opponent and make him bleed too. It's one of the fighters. Yeah. Oh, wait, they're on gloves there though. Maybe I'm a liar. But it's supposed to be pretty brutal. Maybe they got it safer. You can use your head and shit.

Really? Yeah, like you can head butt people. There was like some big tournament there when I was there. That's cool. Do you try to do stuff like this, like sports and things? Yeah, I do enjoy sports for sure. Like in Japan, I've been to a lot of baseball games. Dude, Donnie told me about this fucking game in Turkmenistan or Tajikistan maybe.

Yeah. Where they have these like horse riders and they take like a goat corpse and they try to get it across the, it's like soccer, but with like a goat corpse and they're all riding horses. Yeah. And they have like crow bars and they're like trying to push it into the fucking end zone. Really? Yeah. My friend Zane just did one of these. He went to Kazakhstan for the Nomad games.

That's badass. And he was filming them. That's bad ass. Yeah. Wow. That's bare knuckle. Just taped up a little bit. Yeah, there you go.

That's more like it, yeah. I guess it looks a little like Thai boxing, but that makes sense because it's like right their neighbor. Yeah, exactly. Empty arena. I know. I do this thing. It would be so amazing to go there and, and like film it. But yeah, I do try to do sports.

I really want to go to like a rugby game, like in Pakistan or something. I think it would be fucking sick. Yeah, and then baseball in Japan is always a good time. The girls with like the little straps, the little, have you seen this? They have the little backpacks with kegs on them. And you just run, you're like, Sima Sen, and they run up as fast as they can. They have knee pads, and they just like squat down. They pour you a draft beer, and it's like five bucks.

Wow. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's life-changing. I went in DR baseball game. Oh, I bet that was fun. It was so fun. Poole was supposed to play, but he was like only playing one out of every three days.

Interesting. He's like his great Major League Baseball player, but he retired like 42. He's like, I make the rules. I play one out of every three games. Yeah, but he goes, it's my dream to actually play where I grew up. I never played pro here. I played straight in the major. So, like, but he's like, I'm old, though, chill.

Yeah. So he didn't play that game, but, like, the power went out in, like, the seventh inning. Oh, no. Just people getting stabbed. No, it was pretty safe. Everyone was drinking rum, but it was just like, it was nice, but it was like. But then the first thing to come back on was the speakers, and they just started blasting, like, let's go.

Like dance music, and everybody just fucking going for. it you know and it was like this is wild drinking rum everyone's dance party until they got the lights back on that is sick dude was it was the sundown or was it like sun's down so it's dark it was pretty dark that's yeah they had one of those like emergency lights like a little bit you could sort of see and moonlight too yeah god i was like what is this that's amazing and they're the number one team i think it was tequist delisi i think it was like the top team the yankees of the place that's amazing yeah it's like i feel like when latinos were in the u.s or like talking on speaker phone or like they have a speaker in the gym or something i'm like

shut the fuck out like come on but when you go to their country like i get it dude like this is beautiful this is amazing yeah yeah yeah it's amazing do you like take invites from people to like go just if someone's like come out to our house for for dinner yeah i almost never say no almost never it's got me in some trouble but um what do you mean well i i think i may have ended up in like iraqi propaganda in Iraq Are you worried about getting people in trouble with your videos? Yeah, I blur faces And I have like good information about like where I am

I'll ask a local, be like, hey, what do you think of this? Like I'll run some footage by people and be like, is this too much? Right. Yeah We were in Cuba, I got real worried Because I just saw some Kirk Cowes video He was like, I sort of was talking to some hookers And then those hookers like disappeared for 15 years

and it was like oh I'm like just blur everybody I don't even know what the rules are take the video down if that's like it's not that hard I think it was like too late oh yeah yeah but it was like yeah I don't know what the laws are here so I'm like isn't this interesting this guy's doing that what the fuck you don't show that

yeah I think any crime you definitely shouldn't be filming I mean I tried to film a video one time in the Bronx and people were like don't put me on camera and I think people will tell you if they don't want to be filmed type thing I think it's just when people don't know they're being filmed and then you get them doing something like illegal. But I mean, acting a fool, like the guy in Myanmar, like I had some hesitations about that

video for sure, like drunk driving. We crashed a couple times. And dude, at the end of the night, I paid for everything. And then he and his buddy asked like for some more money. And I was like, you're just going to drink this. Like I paid for the whole fucking day. Like we're all blackout drunk. Like, why do you need more money?

So I said no. And they drove off and I ended up doing something else. I think I was like in the shower or something. And they fucking crashed into into my hotel later in the day. It came back and crashed again. You're just going to drink with us. Like, yeah, right. What do you mean?

Yeah, you're going to drink it too. Oh, my God. Yeah. Myanmar was a fucking trip. I think the characters there were like unparalleled in all my travels. Like, because you have like the sweetness of the Southeast Asians. And then they're like kind of a hermit kingdom of Southeast Asia. They're kind of like the North Korea.

So you have like this, all this allure. And like they're like, who are you? you hear and it's just like so much chemistry between the locals you know I don't know if you found that but what do you mean chemistry between the local well like between you and the locals like they're so curious and they never see foreigners and they're just so fucking secluded

it's like they were so friendly yeah so this one when we were on that trip it was like a two day trip because we're like let's let's go vans and whatever we got off one and they were like you can't stay here they get us they may just get on the phone and you're going no we're going up to from to

to forget exactly but like you were out there yeah it was when instead of doing this we went straight out but like let's do two hours get out stay for the night explore do another two hours stay for the night explore and then go to where we're going yeah yeah um but what was I going to say oh the lady got on the phone with us he was like you can't be oh so one of the cities that was that was kind of okay to stay in um some guy pulls up in a bike we're like all right the hostel's like like a mile so it's kind of it's hot and we have all our like all our stuff with us yeah some guy pulls up on a bike He was like, what are you guys doing?

And our, you know, our tensions up. Like, you're not going to scam us. He's just like a civilian or? Yeah, on a motorcycle. And he goes, I can drive you to the thing. It's far. I can drive you, come back. And we're like, all right, what's the, this is obviously like, what are you trying

to get off us? Yeah. And he goes, all right, you got me. And we're like, what is it? He goes, I was trying to work on my English. Oh, that's precious. Oh, yeah. I was like, all right.

That's precious. I guess I did have ulterior motives Oh my God Wow Yeah they were all that That's the worst scam you'll get in Myanmar Wow Wow

That's amazing man So friendly taking into your home Like let me show you We do our tea So people will let you into their homes Yeah once I remember now I'm having these memories As I'm talking to you

That's amazing Yeah That's the beauty of travel podcast And you like reel up old memories Like I didn't remember the fucking gunshots in the white sandy beach on the whatever that river is yeah just now but heroin yeah fucking legendary place man me and marr hopefully they get their shit together man because there's so much potential to be had and I know like tourism is like it's like a tricky

situation with doing it the right way and not fucking your entire like culture i.e. Thailand Bali but they definitely have something special going on like I feel like more people should see it for sure yeah so I started this like four month backpacking trip in in Myanmar to the It just started in Myanmar. Jesus Christ. Yeah, which I'm like so thankful because it was like, you're in. You're going. Right, just diving in.

No Thailand, no like massages, just fucking. Yeah. Just because I was like, I'm going. I got all my visas I need to ahead of time. That's smart. That takes a, yeah. I was like, I'm going to, that's the region. I was like, let me get, I needed Vietnam ahead of time.

I needed Myanmar ahead of time. I forget what else. Maybe Lao. Yeah, maybe. I never ended up making it there, but I had for wherever I might go. Okay. And then the Thailand's on arrival. Some of them are on arrival.

Yeah, yeah. But, and then I just looked at the weather. Weather was best in Myanmar. So I was like, I'm going there. I got it like a day before. It's like no rain for two weeks. So you didn't have like an entry thing with your visa, like certain number of days. Yeah, it's 30 days starting any time in the next six months.

Oh, so you had six months to decide. Yeah. Yeah. But so started there, went, did almost a month and then went to Chiang Mai. We did a month in Myanmar? Holy fuck, dude. Maybe 27, 28 days. Jesus Christ.

Well, I guess it was. safer then so it was safer i was so like wow made a couple groups you know yeah meet other travelers you keep seeing them what kind of people did you meet were they like young like german boys or there was a couple northern one northern uh england guy big newcastle black fan okay uh that i just ran into again in vancouver meet some legends out there in those hostels bro fucking legends yeah they don't give a fuck dude so the first night at the first hostel i was just me and this other chick this German chick and and it was like she was like oh yeah I took the land border from Thailand and I was like what that's badass yeah and she goes so here you can stay in the beach

up to two days for free and they won't like movies so I slept on the beach and I was like she probably stunk to high heaven bro I mean I came from hotel life and meeting this lady who was such an adventurer I'm like what do you mean by yourself are you crazy yeah won't you get taken yeah and she was just like no care in the world and I was like oh my I got to be more free I think something with women They're either really protective and guarded on the road Or they just don't give a fuck dude I met a French girl

This is a long story But like she was hitchhiking with us through Kyrgyzstan And she was going to hitchhike To and through Pakistan and India alone And I was like Listen Like take my advice Please don't do this

Like I was trying to be her voice of reason But she's like I do not care I go to Pakistan like blah blah blah I don't know if I need visa I don't care and I'm like You're going to get fuck Like 100% sure.

Be better off of a ditty's house. Yeah, honestly. Wow. What happened? You ever see her again? No, we just parted away. We got into China together.

And yeah, we took like a military or like government bus through Xinjiang and she like was cheap and tried to take like the tourist bus and then got held up. And yeah, that's the last we saw over. Do you have a line of like, of like, okay, I want to go the cheap route or the real route versus like, actually it's going to cost me two days if let's say spend four extra dollars and take a flight? Yeah. Yeah, because I mean, time is money, right? And I feel like, I don't know.

Like burnout is real on the road. I'm sure you felt it in like Southeast Asia. Like, I don't know. Because I mean, money at that point, everything's so cheap. It's just like bargaining tokens. It doesn't really fucking matter. So you're just like, all right, I'll save a couple. Or sometimes I'll like splurge on a nice hotel.

Like me and my buddy Tommy sabbatical, we made this series on YouTube where we went from Kyrgyz time all the way. He's supposed to come on this. Is he? I think so. He's going to be a great guest, man. He's got some stories. Really?

Oh, yeah. He got detained in Russia. He was in prison? That's what people are saying. It's so funny. I got all these, like, suggestions from people. And this whole world of, like, you guys that, like, I wasn't really familiar with. Uh-huh.

That are, like, not just like, hi, we're here in front of this, but, like, actually fun, cool, interesting people. Uh-huh. Yeah. Making cool videos with some style and, like, some panache. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. People like, get him about Russia.

Yeah. Sabatical is a fucking legend. He's got a story. He lives in Bischak. So you'd be easy to get him. Oh, really? Yeah. Maybe I shouldn't just have that.

How do you, uh, do you, sorry, edit out. Yeah. You lay in some really far off place over that. Yeah, lay in Bishkek, Bishkek Kazakhstan. That's right. Osh, Kyrgyzstan. I feel like you asked me something. Yeah.

I feel like it too. Hold on. Oh, like saving money. Yes. So we went from Kyrgyzstan. I actually started in Uzbekistan, did land borders all the way through Xinjiang. And long story short, we like ended up at this border. All land borders, yeah.

Why? It's more fun. It's better. Landowners are so cool. Way better. Yeah, you can really understand a place. You can see like, okay, the culture here is like getting intermingled with the culture here and then you go across and like horribly racist to these people.

And like you just never know. It's always different, you know. There's something also like when you take a flight or like an overnight flight and you just wake up or another place. It's like a transport. You don't see the change. It's like cheating. It's cheating.

You don't see the border areas that have both cultures. Yeah. It's too easy. It's too easy. And airplanes, airports are just like, it's like a fucking mall. It's like, oh, yeah, I've been to Dubai. It's like, you were in a mall, dude. Airports are the same everywhere.

Yeah. To a degree. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, we did the land border and then we just ended up at like a trucker. Dude, it wasn't meant for tourists. It was like, it was just like a transport border between the two countries, Kyrgyzstan and China.

And it was closed that day, the Chinese border. So we just had to sleep in like a shipping container. Me and the French girl and Tommy sabbatical. And it was hell, bro. Like, I mean, they gave us like a little stuff. dove to like help us stay warm so that was great we didn't die in the desert overnight but the next day i was like fuck a dude we're standing at the ritz like fuck this i'll i'll pay for it like yeah we cannot be doing this the whole trip like there is also you understand the social

like benefits of a hostel for sure yeah i mean i grew up doing hostels i i would still do it to like gather intel if i needed to you get great intel huh great intel yeah i mean stuff is not in any lonely planet or anything we're like no not hiking me anymore was like Just some Israeli tricks. Like, we just came from this. It's really cool. Yeah. It's just not set up for tourism enough that anyone would know.

Yeah. My buddy Timmy Carter also has a YouTube channel. He told me, like, before he films, like, in the ghettos or in the slums or anything, he'll stay in a hostel just to, like, rough it and just to be a little more, like, have a little more edge about him type thing. Because when you're in the hotel, it's just like, oh, I'm going to eat my bacon and extra breakfast and I'm comfortable. But in the hostel, it's like, you're in the shit, you know what I mean?

It incentivizes you, like, get out. Yeah, get the fuck out. This is pretty hot and gross here. Yeah. You should just get out to the streets and do stuff. Yeah, exactly. But I would do like, when I was there, I was like, if I'm somewhere for one night,

I'm like, I'm getting a shower. I'm getting a hotel. Yeah, one night. You're not going to. I'm not going to meet anybody. You're only going to learn about something fun happening and then have to leave the next day. Yeah.

They're going to like, oh, we're going to like an overnight rave. And you're like, fuck, I have a flight at 6 a.m. You know? Yeah, it was like the river border. Oh, what the is that? Between Vietnam. And then you have, like, de-board. They stamp your thing.

See, that's cool, man. That's a story. That's not just taking a fucking flight. Yeah. You know. But then I was going to go from there to, I think, to Indonesia, whatever, but it was like, I'm just getting a nice hotel. Yeah.

And by nice, I mean, like, fine. Yeah. But like a powerful shower when you're like, need one. You're like, oh. A shower really, it'll set you right, man. It'll wash away all the sins. Yeah. Especially some places, like, if I'm really rough in it, the only question I'll ask at the hotel.

Because, you know, in a lot of places, it's like the only fucking hotel. Like in Kirkistan, it was just like a fucking box. Yeah. With a hole underground of shit in. But I will ask, like, is there hot water? Like, that's the one question I ask. Ahead of time. Yeah.

Because, like... You'll get the answer to no a lot? Some places in Colombia, like, kind of in the more remote areas in, I don't know. I can't even remember Mexico, maybe. Just kind of like shithole countries, you know? They don't have, like, the best plumbing. You ever do the buckets? Oh, dude, fuck the buckets.

I think that was in the Philippines. And you feel like an animal, dude. You feel like a fucking cow. just like all right I get washed the shit off my asshole like just get all the nasty bits yeah and they're like see soap up with no one

and they're like all right yeah and you're like is it did I get it I don't know like you find like soap behind you you're like damn it right yeah and it's so cold everyone's like oh yeah exactly you like get wet one time and then like suds everything up

and then fucking you start sweating while you're shutting up yeah because there's no because it's like oh yeah it's so hot it's 98 with 100% humidity Yeah, yeah And then like Right

I mean some countries It is refreshing I was in Columbia I was in some random guy's house And he just had like Kind of like a hose spicket Like elevated And that was like actually refreshing

Because we were kind of in the jungle Like near the Venice We went on board It was hot as fuck So Yeah, cold shower will do fine that It was nice, yeah But if you're in like the Balkans or something

You don't want to Yeah That's when you get like Whatever and die Hypothermia yeah And there's no hospitals do you ever worry about that on the road like you'll ever be on like a remote hike or

in Myanmar I'm sure oh I have a story about that remind me in a second but like there's no medical care like if the worst thing happens you're fucked bro like I was in that that beach town inouye song and I checked into my hostel

it was like 10 in the morning maybe 1030 and the guy checking me in was like hey you want something to drink you want a water coffee and I was like oh how about a beer and then we just start crushing beers and then it comes up he's the town doctor bro we're getting hammered Before noon.

You incapacitated your help. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was like, you are the doctor in town. And he's like, yeah, hell yeah. I do reception here and I'm the doctor. I'm like, there's no way you're a good doctor. I think you're the doctor because you're the one guy with band-aids. I found, what I found was, so I had to take, there was some shot I had to take for Asian malaria or something.

It could have been rabies, but I had to take three of them. And I got two here in America. From Malaysia, you said? For Southeast Asia. Okay, okay. And I got two here. It was like two weeks apart kind of shots. Okay.

And so then I was like, hey, I'm actually not going to be here for the third one. And my travel doctor was like, oh, we'll find you a, or whatever. Maybe one month apart. I forget. We'll find you one in Myanmar. We can find a clinic wherever. And so I was like, to find me one in Yangon, I was like, actually my plan has changed. And they found me one.

My drug here that cost $400 was like $50 there. And I was like, no, no, it can't be the right one. He goes, yeah, I'm looking at it. Did you see the medical? It's like, this is it. Yeah. dude and so it was like I mean sand floor and shit but like yeah yeah that's the thing with healthcare it's it's a little it can be a little dicey but I do think in the US we have like

highly inflated prices for sure like I mean I had food poisoning in the Philippines and uh I was like I went to the ER because it was like it wasn't terrible but I just didn't have time to like figure it out the next day and it was like late at night and anyways I was in the ER and it was like an indoor outdoor ER there was like flies I could like hear the traffic and I'm like this isn't the most sanitary place to be getting shot and they're like they're like we really want to do blood work and I was like absolutely fucking not like I'll shit in a pan and you can examine my stool but I will go through that you're not penetrating me yeah with like where'd you get that needle let me see you unwrap it yeah yeah it's like a tie battle I'm like don't turn around don't turn around let me see

you open it run a lighter over it um wait what story did you want to get back to oh no that was that was the doctor yeah wait I want to ask you about food but I got a pissed okay sure okay I could probably rip a piss, too. All right, what was the food like in Myanmar? I wasn't a fan. Any meat was, like, very gristly. You know, like, you're chewing it, and it's like, ugh, like, this cow didn't live a good life, you know what I mean?

Uh-huh. Like, this is from the fields where they're, like, shooting their own people. Like, they probably don't take care of their animals, you know? It's not flavorful. It just doesn't feel like they really care that much. I don't know. Maybe my palate isn't, like, attuned to it.

Yeah. But it was fine. It was okay. like beef noodles a lot it was okay you know they had the ones i remember was mohinga was like a breakfast soup oh yeah i think i and then like the only thing that was good they had all these fields of peppers but they didn't use them ever right so on that hike i was like can't take somebody they're like yeah there's 50 000 peppers take four right they're just growing wild they don't know what to do with them well i think they're doing but exporting them or something uh and so they're like

they're just not putting in their food interesting and so tea leaf salad is pretty good i didn't have that okay and then the mohinga was okay but yeah yeah nothing really nothing spicy I remember one time I like spent a little more yeah in Myanmar it was like three dollars but I got like a whole platter of like kind of top of style like a little bit of beef a little bit of mystery meat a little bit of whatever the fuck and like it was almost all inedible to me like I don't know maybe

because to be fair I had like a stomach bug like a really bad parasite from Pakistan that like I didn't know what it was at the time but I was just shitting like liquid like all day every day like anytime I had to shit it was going to be liquid type thing so I was like I'm more hesitant when I was in Myanmar I was like ah what the fuck is this yeah and I don't know about you but like I think I'm more skeptical of like fresh food now like lettuce I'm terrified to eat lettuce that's what I tell you yeah it's not the it's not the meat it's anything uncooked yeah the water the rinse you're like oh lettuce this is fine a piece of broccoli that's cool raw and you're like raw is that death absolutely

Absolutely, and I'll give me a canned fucking bean, the thing of canned beans, and I'll be happy. It's a cook off. My buddy got it in Ecuador, came to visit me, and I was like, hey, you've got to boil the water. You have to boil the water. He's bottled water. And he, like, made tea, but warmed it up. Didn't like, he was like, ah, it's hot enough. And then he's like, oh, actually, I didn't boil it technically, but that sip was enough.

Shitting, like, 20 times a day. Yeah, like, probably needed to go to the hospital, honestly. He did go to the hospital. Yeah. Wait, um, wait, what was I just going to say? Food? Oh, what did you take for food poisoning? Dude, I would literally just pregame my days with a modium.

Like, I probably did, like, irreversible damage to my, like, intestines. I would just take it every day. I would just take it, especially for, like, a long train ride in India, for example. Like, there's a lot, you know, it's a big country. There's a lot of trains. So I would just take it. What's the modium do? Stop you up?

Yeah, you just can't shit. So I would have, like, one shit every, like, five days. When you, like, hey, I can't be shitting a lot here? Or at all. Like, if there's a squat toilet on a mowel. moving indian train i'm like i absolutely shitting is not an option here what's your technique for squats um when did you first come across them did they anyway tell you about them

how to deal with it and or did they just throw you to the wolves and how do you do it there's not a fucking even a diagram yeah there's a diagram on how to push the thing for the hand dryer yeah yeah no especially uh for women i don't know how women like if you're wearing a dress you just get fully naked like how are you supposed to yeah take off everything no dress is easy you pillow it up oh that's true dress is the easiest that's true But what do you do with the panties? Just push them to the side and like... Well, what do we do with our panties?

Well, I just... Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Underwear is the same for men and women. Yeah, but we had a little dick flap. We have a dick flap. We do have a thing we could pull all the dick through. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, dude, honestly, the first squat toilet, you'd never believe it, but I was in Italy.

I was in, like, a nice restaurant. It was a fucking squatter, bro, like a marble, like beautifully polished squatter. Like a beautiful, like, ooh, Roman influence. Yeah, I was like, oh. I don't feel like a piece of trash. Whereas like in Cambodia or Myanmar, it's like, oh, no, you're like a dog here. Like, you know. But yeah, the toilets, is that what you asked me about?

Yeah. And like, what's your technique? Oh, yeah, just take down the pants to the knees. So it's just like as high as they'll go, like when you're in the squat position. And then just kind of push your dick down. Hold on. Okay, go here. All right.

It'll get you. If you go for it up back, there you go. Yeah, just do that. Okay. And then just kind of like pop your dick down. Take your pants. I'm not going to do anything, but take your pants to a degree. Let me see.

Let me just see. You can leave your underwear on. Let's assume your underwear is in your pants now, but let's see how you would do it. Yeah, it's like that. Okay, and then you push your dick down. Yeah. But now, let me see. Your butt's here.

Your shoe's here. It's so close. Oh, there's going to be some backslash. There will be some backslash. Because the poop is a problem too. Yeah, especially if you're like, uh, Especially if you're spray shitting. Like if it's got a little, like, radius to it.

Like, it's not just a straight, like, plop. It's like, it's like a shotgun. Yeah. That'll get you some trouble. Yeah, like when you shit, you see on a regular toy, you see the sides of the dots. Like, imagine that and a squatter. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

No, I've had a few experiences with the squatter where I would shit and then, like, flush it. but the flusher, like, pointed out, like, at me. So I just got sprayed with all my shit water. You don't know. You're like, ah, what? You're like, oh, the worst water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually, I was in China and that happened.

I was wearing my slide, so I got on my bare feet. And then I had to, like, go to the sink and, like, I had to get a bar of soap for my buddy Tommy and, like, fuck it. And cut your foot off with it. Exactly, yeah. Shave it down into a shank and just cut your foot up. Okay. Yeah, so. I had food poisoning in me.

I'm like, do you, do you have abide by this theory that once you get food poisoning, you're good for a while? No, absolutely not. I think it's like breaking the seal. I think once you get it, you get it way easier. Interesting. You have the other, the opposite theory? The vibe I got from Southeast Asia was like, it's going to come.

Once it does, you're good. So you're going to be in fear of it until you get it. Oh, it's like you're immune to it. Like you build up. You already did it. Like whatever the locals have in their gut I have now. Yeah. Did that pan out?

I only got it once. I took a Z-pack afterwards, a Zithromycin. I might be remembering this wrong. Okay. Because I gave my Z-Pak to my friend who drank the tea in Ecuador. And his doctor was like, don't ever listen to Ari. That's not what you should take at all. And I'm like, oh, what?

Here's some Iverbectin. I heard it works wonders. It does, but then they spam call you for five years. Yeah, but I was a shit squatter in some hotel. We're saying two to a room, that little trek. And I remember like, okay, I pissing and shitting and barfing. But then you piss, so you stand up and piss with this little footrests. And that's when you got to put your knees when you're barfing.

So you're like, you go to squat, shit, barf, and you're like, and they're like, oh, no, also this. You got to immediately squat onto it. Oh, that's a nightmare situation, my friend. It was really bad. So you're like face to face with the shit. Like, because in like a regular toilet, you can, there's some level of. Yeah, this wasn't the flush. It was like, take a bucket and pour water down to clear it.

See, that is like a personal nightmare of mine for that to happen. It wasn't ideal. Yeah. I was staying, that place I was talking about the shipping containers at the Kyrgyzstan, China border. I hope I'm not like meandering too much. No, that's all right. But I saw the toilet and it was like carnage, bro. It was like the death camps dog.

Like I went in there and like I couldn't even stay there. It was like, I was gagging. Like I opened the door and I just gagged and I was like, this can't. So I didn't eat. Like I had like little bites of dumplings here and there, but I was like, I cannot get food poisoning here. Like, if I do, it'll be, like, terrible. Like, what you said, that's literally my nightmare. I love when you got any traveler who's like, oh, I'm not good at this.

I don't want to do this. I'm not looking to like, oh, sure, do whatever. It's like, no, it's horrible. I'm an American. Yeah. I don't want to. I want a regular toilet. We are pampered pussies at the end of the day.

That thing I was just remember when I came back from four months backpacking and, like, really slumming it or whatever, like, I've never done before. And then coming back to my parents' house, like, surprising them. And then taking a shit. and then just noticing like this toilet paper is heavenly it's like a cloud so were you in places where you had to bring your own toilet paper then China that's what when I landed in China they don't tell you yeah and then this club owner this comedy club owner was like gave me a little pack of like a travel pack of tissue paper and he goes oh you just got here he goes you'll need this

he goes hold on hold on he got it and I'm like what what why he goes you'll know but he goes don't ever leave the hotel without that right right when I did I did that that that's that Man saved you, bro. Have you ever been in a squat toilet and not had toilet paper? Yeah. Where you're just like walking around with just shit, just smearing between your cheeks all day. Yeah, you're just like, I'm going to go. If they have a bucket, we could hand it.

Oh, no, you handed it? Dude, I've done that in America. Me and O'Neill were hiking in Runyon Canyon. And I was like, I got to take it dump, bro. He goes, let's leave my. I know when I'm not going to make it back to the car. I'm not going to make it. And it was a Pepsi Zero.

No. That's all the water we had It was a Pepsi Zero can At least I didn't have like Like real sugar to where it gets sticky Yeah, you know, at least Way to look at the bright side Yeah, fucking hell man

Yeah, that's the stuff you don't see On the influencer TikToks is fucking Do you really, they don't show you everything Using the cardboard of the toilet paper To wipe your ass Yeah One time I was in China and I think I used I didn't have toilet paper

And I think I used just like some travel Old travel visa or some like random piece of paper In my backpack to wipe my ass You really become like the Indians where you're like every part of the buffalo, you know? Exactly. If like I don't have any like skins, I'm like, oh, back of a Bible. Very thin paper. We can roll this up.

Like you're just like, what can we use? Hey, don't throw that newspaper out. Right. I need that for my ass. Yeah. It's like you're in prison, like using like creative things to make shanks and wine. Toothbrush does many things. Yeah, dude.

Was there anywhere in Myanmar that you did not? My and mom. That's what the Brits call it. They did not go that you wanted to? I wanted to do that hiked, but honestly, I was there kind of on like a content mission, so I didn't like, I don't know, hiking doesn't make for the best videos. Like you want like some story to unfold. You want some struggle. You want some, but honestly, based on your stories, it sounded like it would be interesting as fuck, like meeting those characters and like, you know, the military checkpoints.

Did you, well, that was after the hike, then we went, but I met those people, you know? When you do stuff, are you like making content as you go or like researching first and talking about it afterwards? I think the best videos, I don't research at all and I show up and I ask around. On camera? No, no, no, I'll just ask the hostel or ask the concierge. What's cool? Go around and yeah, go to a bar. Just, yeah, ask what's around.

But honestly, like, I'm trying to be a little more strategic these days. So I will do a little bit of research and I'll go into a place with like a concept and then I'll meander around. Like those Myanmar videos, I was like, oh, I want to go to the beach and it's going to be a beach. beach video. And then I'm at this alcohol and we're drunk driving and crashing. It's like, this is fucking perfect. It just kind of finds you in Myanmar, you know, like you don't even have to really try. You ever hear about, was it finding Silverman? No. They were doing a documentary in this like circus family. And then in the middle of the, as they're making this documentary, they're like, oh, this guy's. Kids. And then it was like, we've already been rolling

for like two weeks. And then it's like, that's the dream when you're making a documentary. Yeah. Yeah. Can you read? Get on camera. Petto! We got a peto! Jackpot. Yeah. Yeah, if you're making a beach video and you come across a drunk taxi driver,

and you're like, oh, hell yes. I was already rolling. Yeah, this fell into my lap. This is perfect. Yeah, I mean, as far as places I'd go in Myanmar, to be fair with you, man, I don't think I'll ever be able to go back because I did a video on that bus during the military curfew. Is it up?

Yeah, yeah, it's on YouTube. I think that's probably the reason I can never go back because I talked about and then they might clock you yeah I think they'd have I mean the videos went viral as fuck dude like the guy the drunk driver he was kind of like a local celebrity for a bit like he was on the news and stuff this one it's that guy there that's him no no down one oh wait that's the first guy that like maybe scan this guy was yeah yeah dog yeah dog fucking legend yes sir wow he's I mean already fucking rules. You got a Bucky's shirt?

Yes, sir. Where are you from? Atlanta. Okay. Yes, sir. I mean, this guy's already gone. Well, this is, I just cutting, okay, this is where the video actually starts, but yeah. Dude, to bike on these things, is this, this is the beach, okay, come back to go.

I was like, where are we going? He goes, the next place. So, yeah, the goal was to go to Snake Island. I was like, all right, let's fucking do it. And I'm trying to do the intro, like, what's going on? Where are we going? And he, like, can't speak. he's already so drunk like it wait snake island's in Myanmar yeah yeah it's like

infested with these like venomous snakes yeah yeah but I didn't realize it was Myanmar it was a little underrated honestly the journey was what made this video so special that's the fun thing too is like that's what I mean but like take a flight it's like it'll save you time but like time from what like yeah you want to be on a bunch from traveling for six hours with talking to people looking at them and you meet locals you're not going to meet like you know German kid on a trust fund you're going to meet like local guys like moving a chicken from town to town. You know what I mean?

Buddy, this is, just seeing this footage is taking me back. It's like, I can smell it. Yeah, right? A little sour and like a little jungly. Yeah. This is me trying to be like, where are we going? And he can't even tell me where we're going, bro.

He's hammered already. We're going there. I mean, he's in flip-flops and just slides. And there was no foot pegs for me on the bike. I'm like six foot two and my legs are just dangling on. I'm like using all my core strength to like not fall off, dude. Trying not take it the burn. Yeah.

Oh, my God. And then later in the video, it's me, him, and then his friend. It's three of us on the bike. No foot pegs. Just like. Oh, do they have those billions place that was outside? Yes. Yeah.

Yes. Pool tables outside. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, that's right. They love it. Yeah. And they're already hammered.

And that's a nice table. It's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just incoherent English. They're all hammered already. Fucked up, dude. Yeah. he was trying to say

my name is Angolilian but it's kind of like my name is Angolili Oh that's the beer Myanmar beer But you know what That funds the junta That funds the

What does? The beer Like it's the government's beer The Myanmar beer So all people are in my comments Like hey you know Don't drink the beer Because you're

Well what am I gonna get a bud light Fuck off Alright shut up Dude I was somewhere And they were like I think maybe South America Somewhere But they were like

Ecuador Columbia and they were like, hey, all these guys are growing weed now for the cartels and it's fucking bullshit, you shouldn't do that. And then the farmer's like, okay, well, they said you can make 10 times the money growing weed instead of tomatoes. And also, if you don't grow the weed,

we're going to kill your daughter. So why don't you guys fucking mind your own business with the critique? That's true. Let us do our thing. I have a drinking problem. I'm drinking this beer. Do you get drunk in these places a lot?

Do you try to like? Yeah, yeah, no. Honestly, the best times I've ever had traveling is just drinking. This is his homemade beetle nut. He gave me like a moldy beetle nut that he made like himself And I was fucked on this one. I was fucked on that one buddy gets you so I was fucked bro It was better than coke I think because you're like you're not like intoxicated intoxicated

Just like happy you know oh right You just feel good it makes you like feel like happy not just buzz Well it's like a physical it's like it's like a really strong it's like you're already going Your teeth already turning red yeah it's fucked yeah my girlfriend was like Please stop, like you're ruining your teeth. You ever smoke those beatties there? Those little cigars cigarettes. Yeah, I think I did that in this video too, actually.

I tried to get one to smoke on that hike. I'm like, I'll buy one or two. And they're like, no, it's a pack of 200. Right. It's a kilogram. And I'm like, no, I don't want that. I'm like, it's a dollar for 200. I'm like, oh, okay.

Yeah. And then I smoked way too many. And that's where I think led to my sickness. That, some food, whatever's all together. It was like, I'm fucked. What, you got like the flu or something, like a respiratory? No, it was the barfing and shitting and... Why would that make you barf, though?

I don't know. It was just a bunch of things. It was like 12 quail eggs, too many of those beady cigars. Oh, God. What are those cigars called? I don't know, but they taste terrible. Yeah, but you see everybody smoking them. Yeah.

I stick to the beetle on that, though. I stick to the beat on that. Honestly, it's so nice. I think if there was like a Zen version of it over here, it would take off. Dangerous! Ah! And he's like, no problem, no problem. Give you room.

He's like, turn. turning around on the bike, like, no problem, no problem. That's like the bus is supposed to see by. How are you holding camera? Oh, yeah, I have like, yeah, I know, I don't know. Just not holding on. Yeah. And it's crowded at 10 a.m. already.

Dude, I'm telling you, like, there's boozers in Myanmar. Look at those slides. Everyone's wearing the dress. Yeah, they have the little seats, those plastic fucking children's chairs. Yeah, yeah. That's how you know. It's a good spot. Bro, this is taking me back.

That's the bucket with the, Hulk juice in it it's bad uh it's hard to see but yeah he's got a bucket he's just fucking so you want one or two i'm like one he fucking pulls it out that it's like glowing dude yeah what is that you just go for you're like all right fuck it dude yeah i'm like i'm probably never coming back to me or might as well try this shit yeah oh chang import um they i feel like it's one of those things like if it's habitual if you do this every day for fucking years you're fucked but like yeah do it for two days it's fine Also, this dude told me he had 20 of these a day.

He's like, I have 20 drinks a day. So I'm like, oh, what's two going to hurt? Like, fuck it, you know? Yeah. There's Myanmar beer and Mandalay beer, right? Yeah, I don't know. I just had the Myanmar beer. The little, it's like the old school, like, 70s pop top.

Like, it's not like a crack. You don't crack it like a Coca-Cola. You're like, pull it off. Yeah. Oh, it's so satisfying because it like, it like snaps. Yeah. It's like there's like this, like, I have all these, like, essays in my head that I'm never going to write. Uh-huh.

But one of them is like compare all the shit. beer across the globe. Okay, that's fun. And so there's usually a contest like this in Ecuador is either Pilsner or Klub, and you're either a Pilsner guy or a Oh, the Klub, they have that in Columbia, dude. Okay.

It's terrible. It tastes like, remember Bud Light platinum? Like the sweet Bud Light with like extra alcohol in it? Yeah. That's what it tastes like. Platim. Yeah, but they all have their shit beers. There's usually one to two of them. People have their favorites, but it's like, this is the shit beer

of the country. Yeah. Honestly, though, I feel like a logger's a logger. or a pilsner or a pilsner it's fine it's all fine yeah but it's it's i mean it's bud light it's acceptable yeah it's like totally fine or a high life and it's like their version of that yeah it's yeah i mean you don't want craft beer no what would be in my craft beer even and no one's drinking it look at that guy he ate his own mouth yeah dude everybody this is where i'm asking him like oh his job's electronic yeah i was like uh do these guys have jobs are you

are you going to work today it was like 10 30 in the morning and he's like oh yeah you know he works in electronics he does this this that and the other and i was like are you going to drive there and he's like maybe they'll drive there i'm not sure but the meanwhile the parking lot's full of fucking motorbikes and we're all getting hammered look at the table they have nice phones that's the cigarette that's it yeah that's it yes that's it i mean one is good two is a prop yeah the coconut filter yeah oh i got to get one of those again it hurt my lungs man yeah the coconut filter is just like it's like a crutch for a joint it's not stop right right right it's just so you can hold it right it's like it's healthy yeah we

were getting fucked up dude oh this is i think he told me to chew this like lime leaf yeah and then drink the drink the pineapple hulk juice it was actually why would that cut it no i think it's just like a treat it was really oh that's the pop top you see behind you that's the kind of pull pull top yeah yeah or it's like uh it's on the sign yeah i think they did like there yep that's exactly right they were doing some kind of giveaway where you can see at the bottom at the top and like drink five get one free or something yeah not that they need any more incentive to drink like they're all fucking boozers dude i really want to go back but i think you could go you could yeah you'd be fine you'd be fine what advice would you give somebody who's going now like i'm going

what do i need what do i not need um yeah just pack light because you're gonna be on the move a lot i'd say you're gonna be on the move a lot yeah yeah because i mean it's like there's not that many places to see honestly and you kind of just want to hit it and quit it with me and more like I wouldn't stay it's crazy you did a month man I wouldn't want to stay like longer than I two weeks was too much for me I was alive it was the most free I've ever felt really I just started a long-term travel gotten like all my shit here in order and like and like taken off all my friends I don't know what do your friends say about like from back home or from like norm core shit yeah I think like as I continue to travel I kind of lose touch for a lot of people because they

don't really understand but the people you do grow towards are like fucking homies you I mean, like Tommy sabbatical, sleeping with him in a fucking Kyrgyzstan shipping container in the desert. Like, that's your fucking your comrades. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, yeah, it's hard to relay the messages, but they appreciate that I'm like doing what I want. So, you know. You hear, they're like, what are you doing?

Your career's going well. What are you doing? Yeah. But I'm like, I've tied up on my loose ins for a while. I can take a little break. Yeah. But anyway, going there and just feeling like, I didn't understand until I got back. Zero responsibility.

Nothing. especially solo travel do you have no one to answer to no and i was like what do i want to do stay here an extra day or like actually my feeling i'm going to leave yeah i don't know if you get this but also i'm in a hostile i'm not gonna money gets makes people weird yeah and i have more than a hosteler i don't have a ton but i have more than a fucking so i'm faking it yeah yeah but i'm just going to defer to the poorest guy you know if he's like hey what's a one dollar cover i'm like i know right let's not do this right right why do you do that i don't want to make anybody feel weird okay i don't want to change the vibe yeah yeah but why the poorest guy why not like the

i'll go like one up from the poorest it's like you get the second second worst bottle of wine right right right right like you don't want to be the guy that keeps you from going to the club yeah but i'm like i'm not going to push anybody out of their comfort zone yeah but maybe one guy you come up to here everyone else we can go down to there right they're pretty much on the same level mostly right Well, if you're staying in a hostel, you're not, like, bawling by any means. Right. I mean, like, yeah. So some people, like, $1.5 is fine.

Other people like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And you're like, I mean, all this people leave a hostel, but like, this one's a dollar a night cheaper. And you're like, dude, we had a good crew. It's going to take you four hours to get there. Like, is your time worth, you know, 25 cents an hour? Yeah. But if I'm somewhere for like 10 days and I meet somebody, I'm like, hey, man, listen. Like, I was in Guatemala with this Australian guy where we went to these like hot springs.

And there was an upscale hot spring for an extra quarter or dollar or something like that. I was like, buddy, I'm only here, I get you're on a budget, I'm only here for 10 days. I will pay for both of us for the upscale hotsmiths because I don't want to not do it.

I don't even know this, but I'm fucking bawling out of control. I can afford the 25 cents. I mean, that's what it is. It's like, I'm not crushing it, but I have a dollar rich.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the thing is like, I don't mind splurging when it's necessary and it'll make the experience

like better, but I do want to interact with the local culture or the local customs. The only time I don't want to spend more is when I'm getting scammed. Like, I will fight tooth and nail. If I think a taxi driver is scamming me out of any amount of money, I will fight with him.

I will stand there and fight with him on the corner for however long it takes. Agreed. I just don't like dishonesty. It feels bullshit. Yeah. It's a waste of money and it's dishonest as fuck. Like, you shouldn't be rewarded for, and a lot of people were like, oh, well, you know, like, he doesn't make much.

And I'm like, dude, he's lying to me right now. Like, if he had just told me the honest price, I would have done the honest price. Yeah. This thing is working with Live Nation, where it's like, just tell me a worse deal and I'll take your worst deal. Don't tell me this deal and then just not pay me a bunch or like do surcharges on the customers

for 40%. Yeah, dude. But look, you're where nobody is here. Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, Myanmar is a, yeah, it's a fucking beautiful place, man. Even in, I didn't film anything there

because it was a bit touristy, but there's, maybe you went there. It's like these huge golden Buddhist stupas. The golden temple. It's like 200 feet high. What's a stupa? It's like what was in

but like golden. maybe there's some other like significance i'm missing um within buddhism but yeah it was fucking uh this thing gorgeous man absolutely gorgeous yeah yeah that's the one yeah and it like you could see it kind of all over yeah yeah yeah and like they have tour guides there and they it's kind of just like pay as you go like pay whatever you want yeah and like if he charges me more like if you gave me like a good service yeah i'll like pay you the extra and not I feel like I'm going to escape. But if you just take me somewhere, if you quote me at price A in the taxi, taxi drivers are the

worst. They're so fucking scummy. Or they can be. If you quote me at like $5 and we get there and you say 10, like, I'm going to argue with you. Just say 10 to begin with. Yeah. Yeah, right.

I'm in the same way. I feel like you're getting over on me. I don't want to be a cunt. Yeah. I don't want you making a bitch out of me. Also, you're like ruining, I mean, I don't want to get all fucking meta, but like, that's what ruined Bali and that's what ruined Mexico City and that's what's literally ruining Thailand is Hey boss, hey boss, hey boss, taxi.

Hey boss. They think that you're just a wallet And that's why India is so fucked It's like it's just an incentive structure They see a white guy and they're like money And so they get scanned left and right And they just know it's a hustle You know what I mean?

It's my friend Rolf He wrote that book, souvenir In The Bagabony Yeah, legend, right? Yeah, I read his books for sure Yeah You'll see it in hustle sometimes here or there Somewhere that's cool, that's cool, yeah

And the true spirit Yeah But he said he was in somewhere in Africa and Namibia And he was like treated like a fish Like let's get over it This guy's like polishing rocks and selling him But he was just there

He was like a long-term backpacker So he was just there And after like a while The buses keep coming and leave and he stays Then they eventually go Who are you? What's your name? Then they're like oh now you're a human We're not getting any money off you

So let's talk I guess Yeah and that's the thing is I think When you land in a place And India fucking scarred me in so many ways But now I always say, if they're like, how long have you been here? Like just making small talk. But you know they're sizing you up. I'm like, I've been here three weeks.

I just always tell people, oh, I've been here a month. I've been here two months. Yeah, what's the, why tell them I'm here right away? You're just going rob. Because then I'm like, I know the prices. And then one of my Chinese friends told me, if you're ever anywhere, and anybody quotes you at any price for anything, cut it by 10. Like if the hotel's 2000, give them 20.

Be like 20. And then start bargaining from there because their price is way too high. You're just way too low. and then you can, you know. I was buying a hookah in Egypt. Hell, yeah. And I researched how much it should be. But the bargaining is like, I mean, you're just not, you're, oh, look at that picture.

That's a guy named Ari Shafir I met in. Oh, fucking way. Yeah. I saw, I saw, I saw, there was a sign up for like a boat cruise in the hostel, Sunset Cruise. And I was like, oh, no, I crossed it off. And then I heard, who crossed my name off? And I'm like, what? He spelled it with 1F.

It was crazy. Wow. Where was it from? Somewhere in America. Wow. Shafir's also a made up name. What, like Ellis Island thing? My dad made it up when he came, when he went to Israel.

His old name was too, like, German sounding after the war. Yeah, same with my last name. Like, I went to Ireland because it's like an Irish last name. I went to Ireland. I was like, oh, my last name's this, this, this. And they're like, we've never heard of that. And I was like, fuck. It's funny.

It's like, your roots are at the border to America. Exactly. What was they saying? Oh, fuck. Luckily, it didn't matter. I mean, uh, Rolf or Rolf talking about bargaining and shit, Namibia, right? Yeah. It's gone, buddy.

The weed brain. Yeah, I did a smoke to get it back. God, I miss my, Myanmar. It's a good time, man. It's, um, I really wish. Where else do you go to, do you know? You really wish what? In Myanmar?

Yeah. Yeah, just, uh, and then I didn't, fuck. I think just, I just posted up for it. That's it. Three cities. Yeah, yeah. Just a little two-week tour. I didn't want to go too fast because, you know, I read Bagabonding,

and it's kind of like what informs a lot of the ways that I travel. I just wanted to take it slower. Yeah, hell, yeah. Explain. Tell how much you got out. Well, I read it when I was in, I was living in Japan. I was living for a year, and I bought the book, and it just like, it felt like, it felt like I wrote it.

Like, it felt like it was written towards me, if that makes sense. Like, it was everything that I think, just, like, summarize into a book, if that makes sense. So I was like, hell yeah. then it changed my life and then from there I changed your life absolutely absolutely yeah I mean I was like this is what I'm supposed to do like I'm supposed to fucking travel yeah and it gives you so many tips on it yeah it's practical too and it's like dated obviously it's like 20 years old talking about like you know go to www. whatever dot com but it's like the ethos of travel is

yeah some of it definitely is updating but I think he might have updated like there's certain things like um a goda was not a site or a hostile world was not a site there were no sites back this So it's like a little bit different. There's this book on poker tells. I forget his name. Some kind of cowboy. Mike Caro, poker tells. Okay.

It was written in the 70s. And there's this whole breakdown. It's written in the 70s of racial tells. Oh. And it's like, you're going to have to edit that out. Yeah, you know? But it's like in the new version of this, like you can't have that. But it's pretty much like, oh, a Mexican on payday.

If it's a Friday, And you're playing against Latino, keep pushing them. Right. They will not, they will not fold a Jack Deuce. Right. The racial arithmetic. Holy shit, man. Yeah.

Vagabani really was. I've gifted it to so many people. It's the only thing I'll gift to people. To be like, you can get something out of this. Yeah. When you see them like kind of on the fence of something, I'm like, this will help you. Yeah.

Yeah, it'll definitely change the way you see things because it's like traveling is more of a spirit it's not necessarily like what you're doing it's like how you're doing it yeah so i've read it in japan i was like fuck yeah and then i had like a bullshit english teaching job it meant nothing to me i wasn't yeah i wasn't making any difference in the world i was just like a fucking degenerate alcoholic that wore a suit and like pretended to be professional um asian teachers yeah i was they are pieces of shit you don't want your kids with these with these adults, but they're, I guess, tactically an adult right now, yeah. I can't tell you the number of times I woke up on the sidewalk after a night of drinking in

Japan. Summer camp, you're not in my suit. Like, all right, let's just go to work now. Where was I going with that? Oh, yeah, but like, it meant nothing. So I would just, like, switch shifts with other teachers. It was like kind of being a waiter. Like, you just get, you know, move your shift to whoever the fuck.

And as long as someone, as long as a white guy is in the chair, they don't give a fuck who it is. So I went to Thailand and I went to like all over Japan and stuff and it just kind of like inspired me to yeah just start sending it You read that and then that's what made you yeah I was like fuck yeah let's do this like this is this is who I am now I mean you're already in a place to be open to it yeah mentally I mean and also physically but like yeah I read it in Myanmar oh hell yeah my friend Justin my agent but my friend he was like okay you're doing this thing try to talk me out of it because like come on we're starting to do well what do you what do you mean to your taking off for months at a time. He's like, dude, you gotta pay my salary.

Yeah, he heard about it. He goes, take this. And nope, I didn't, I didn't read it in Myanmar. I took it all through Myanmar. I found an Ansan Suu Kee book of like interviews. That's that leader who was in a house arrest in my first hostel. And I was like, oh, I should read this in Myanmar. So I didn't read until I got to an island in Cambodia and then I opened a bag of bonding.

Okay. And read it and it was like, oh, luckily I was already doing it. Yep. But it was like so many tools. for yeah for how to do and prepare for coming home oh that one is the toughest one like the hitting that landing right is fucking how that's hard man like i'm sure after you're a southeast asia trip you come back with all this new knowledge and your friends are like who gives a fuck that was that would it helped me to be ready for that yeah because they're not going to care

yeah they're going that's actually what this podcast is is like i do care so like i do want to hear it i don't interrupt too much because i'm excited but i'm not going to change it to like gossip at the office. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah. It was just like, yeah, we get back. I mean, do you have that?

Do you deal with that? Oh, yeah, no. Like, reverse travel shock or culture shock is a real thing. Yeah, you come back and feel like your friends don't understand, like, this new version of you. You have these stories that they're not interested in that they just want to go drink Bud Light at like the Buffalo Wild Wings and like. And it's like, I'll go drink Bud Light with you.

But like, guys, I had the most magical experience. Yeah. You'll ever, we can just talk about it once. Yeah. It's crazy not to. it's almost like doing psychedelics like it's hard to relay and people don't care you're like guys we're all one and they're like yeah we don't give a fuck that's a thing you're not you can't relay it it's difficult I think it's hard to like package it in a way that that's why I feel like being

funny is like a good because I try to do like a humorous take on travel because it's so easy like funny shit just happens you like I'm sorry I'll say something earlier yeah um fuck what was I saying oh like it helps to like make it in an entertaining package instead of just like I I'm in, me and Martin, it changed my life, like, next to a temple. Like, no one cares, you know, so. I almost called this podcast. I was, like, contained on a list of, like, possible titles. I almost called it amazing.

Because whenever you say how was something like, people always just go, oh, it's amazing. And it doesn't describe anything. Yeah, yeah. Like, they're not, you're not talking about the shitter, like the toilet or me and my girlfriend were at some bus stop in Cambodia going across the land border to Vietnam. And, dude, it literally looked like a bomb went off in the bathroom. Like, the sink was cut in hatch. What?

Like, it was literally in, like, shards were just like, and I mean, people, that doesn't make the video. Like, no one ever shows that, you know? This theory of everyone's like, L.A. sucks all homeless. Like, because you're showing the homeless. Yeah. If you just showed the burrito places, you'd be like, wow, L.A.'s a great place for street burritos. Yeah.

Right. And the travel bloggers don't show, like, you have piles of poop. And, like, on. So same with their mom bloggers. They don't ever show their kid with, like, cookies in their face. Yeah. Or, like, they're blown out pussy. after having a kid.

Yeah, show your blown-out pussy. Show me that, yeah. Show me the fucking blown-out pussy. Mommy blogger turned only fans, influencer. Let's go. Yeah, but I think some of it, so I met with this like writer, like TV writer afterwards,

and a manager was like, and he was like, you should write about this stuff. There's a sitcom here or drama. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, all right, well, here's the problem. I don't know how to see that.

That's one. I keep blocking it. No, I can see it. I can see it. But like, so on that three-day hike, we came across a soccer game on the mountains, these kid's soccer game, and the backdrop was like these fucking beautiful mountains and whatever. And it's like, all you hear is that's a soccer game. But it was like, no, it took us a day and a half to get there.

Yeah, we had to earn that. Yeah, and we just pulled up and we're like, let's sit here for a bit. We had this homemade, like, sunblock on our faces. Yes, the root, the ground up route. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they put on you. and it's like and that's like uh and it's just like the feeling you get from getting to that

place is different than just if you just got transported there yeah no that's why i think you should take land borders like because you're flying you don't you're not earning it like you could probably technically fly to the summit of everest but you wouldn't appreciate it like someone that spent fucking 30 days hiking there you know yeah yeah you got to like struggle a little bit so how do you do it where you just where you convey to people that like it's it's an emotion connected with, sorry, it's like not funny right now, but it's an emotion connected

with the place. Yeah, I mean, I think if you're genuinely excited to be there, like I think you can convey that like really well. Honestly, like, if you're excited. Those are the Jews. Those are the Canadians.

Okay. One of those chicks was in line for a second time. I'm off of the left of them. That's them. That's them fucking in, the people you hiked with? No, that's by the river.

Oh, okay. That's by the river and where you heard gunfire. Okay, okay. Nice. I'm sorry. All right. But yeah, go ahead. But yeah, I think if you're just excited about it, like people will be able to see that.

I think people can see that like on your podcast. Like you're excited to talk about it and then that, therefore, they're excited to listen to it. So that's all it is. Right. Like you're the conduit for the idea and the place, you know, so. Yeah. Do you ever feel like taking a camera takes you out of it? Oh, absolutely.

Yeah. But honestly, like, I'm reading another one of Rolf Potts's books now. What? Marco Pol didn't go there. I never read that one. How was it? It's good. Yeah, it's just like really fun stories.

and um wait fuck what were we talking about uh conveying excitement oh does this cameras hold you back oh he he like did something where he like tried to get on the set of like a leonardo decaprio movie and i was like this is ridiculous this is like one of the most insane things i've ever heard he like took a little tugboat out into like the pp islands and like swam in the middle of the night to get on this island so the beach yeah yeah i'm saying with the movie the movie's the beach he tried to get on it yeah on the set just for funsies and then I was like reading the end notes and it's like I did this I did this to write a story about it and I was like oh that's interesting because I was going to ask him I'm doing his like writing

class in Paris are you really yeah yeah I did it two years ago okay hell yeah oh bro it's so fun really which level are you doing just the beginner one okay that's what I did he was like you're already kind of creative but like I couldn't swing the dates for the second one okay yeah but also you get so much out of it hell yeah I'm excited man yeah it's gonna be sick oh but yeah he that was on the recommended this year you're doing it yeah yeah like in couple months yeah hell yeah yes sir yeah i'm excited it's gonna be fucking sick it's so fun yeah they take you on like well maybe i won't ruin anyway for you but like they take you on like tours of paris while you're like but like literary tours give you like all these like they made

you like do a bunch of writing without adjectives interesting so you can like be more descriptive interesting um yeah they made us follow people and like try to write their story So it was like sleuthing and you're just like nearby trying to get caught. You got your little like Parisian like a little, uh, detective hat on like, yeah, like whatever. Oh, it was such a good class. That's crazy. You're no role. Well, I mean, yeah, I've read his book.

I can't remember how I heard about it years ago. But, uh, but yeah, I really love his shit. And he really understands like how to do it. But anyways, yeah, I was reading the footnotes and it was like, yeah, I did this too right about it. And he's like, sometimes I will do something just to make a story out of it. he's like it pushes me further it makes me like take risks and it makes me a little more interesting and and i find that too like honestly it's kind of like a give and take it's like the white privilege thing it's like never always bad or it's never always good it's just like a new

kind of variable in the equation if that makes sense um like there are some video like i would never get on the back of a scooter with a drunk guy why the fuck would i intentionally drunk drive right in like a military dictatorship country you know i mean just but i was like i'm filming and this is fun so let's just keep it's also right there it's kind of like with blow where it's like no no no it's like we're all doing i was like okay then fine sure yeah yeah like everyone says no it's like everyone's head goes nice and you're like sure i'm like yeah yeah you're not dead so i wasn't planning on it yeah it's like everyone's like i always wear condoms like what if one's not around like then i'll raw dog oh yeah you don't have principles let's be

honest question then absolutely 100% i'll just leave it in without even asking if they have anything I fucked this chick once in that I caught him And I was like Hey just to be clear You don't have anything She goes no I'm like And if you got pregnant You'd get rid of it

She was no no I would never get an abortion I'm like all right One stroke One stroke Like the hottest Mormon girl Like you're like all right let's just try I'm really rocking on the line here Yeah

Yeah that's the thing was like You should be filming this stuff I'm like but then I won't be living it There's a give and take for sure This is a give and take, but I mean, we just watched my video. That seemed cool. That guy didn't seem like he was acting for you. No, no, no, no, no.

And I wasn't acting. I was just like, I was just trying to film an intro, just doing whatever. I mean, it's pretty low. You've also minimized your like, it's just this instead of having a team with you. Yeah, I don't know, just get a GoPro. Maybe an external mic at most. But, I mean, you'd be surprised. Like, I mean, I'm sure like crazy shit happens all the time.

And it's just like, I wish I filmed that, you know? Or like, it's just here. And then as you age, it gets harder to relive. Like, like my phone got stolen a while back in, like, years of my life were just disappeared so yeah it sucks so i like to film stuff now and just to remember you journal i'm starting to yeah yeah kind of gay but you know that was in that hostel some one of the canadian jokes she was like right what do you write and she goes no i just have 10 minutes every morning i just like see what i did and i was like oh and then i'm so glad

i met her and did that because it was like you'd look back at details i forget people completely forgot a human that i lived with for four days yeah and that's good because it's like never for anyone else it's like unadulterate it's like pure but i find like when i'm traveling just with a go pro it's like very low impact it's like no one really freaks out at it it's people in the u.s do whatever yeah like people like on the west coast and stuff care but everybody portlanders people with blue hair like lesbians they get mad they're like why are you feeling me i'm like you're no one no one will know who you are in this video you are nobody why are you to make fun of you to be honest

but it's going to be anonymous but I'm going to be mocking you for sure I mean you got me on that you're not going to come off great in this but no one will know you yeah that's true yeah but you know I find that like I enjoy filming you know and

even when I don't want to post it I still film shit me and my girlfriend did a trip in New Zealand I probably never posted I just filmed it like for a video just to see it you know I mean it is a new way of journaling yeah and it's real it's like so real and you can see you like five years ago like oh I look different or I was you know yeah it's cool it's like a time portal you know damn I want to go to Myanmar I think you should go man I gotta go back to

Southeast Asia it's been calling me for like four solid years and I'm like can't get back can't get back with time okay because this is pretty much all you do yeah that's so freeing it's cool it can be a prison sometimes like but yeah it's awesome I mean just with like the workload but no no I mean it's it's the best job I think I could ever imagine for sure yeah I have this other job that I do love stand-up comedy but but this traveling thing is so so it's like ah fuck I get back to this other job so you see it like a job to travel stand-up no no traveling no I see it's so fun and freeing and whatever but stand-up is this job which is also not a job I do it for free all the time just because it's fun but also like I got to do

a tour I don't have time right now to go off to wherever yeah my friend just invited me to Mongolia. I'm like, no, I won't be able to free that time up until like about a year and a half from now. Damn. Instead of just like, jump like you. We're like, sick. Let's go. Yeah. Especially don't have a dog. I don't have kids and everything. And just, yeah, no, it's, that is the best. It's especially like if you're having a tough day or like, fuck it, I could just fly to Tokyo and have some ramen and like rip sigs inside. And

that definitely makes me feel better, knowing that I just have that capability. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get the ability to go, nope. Yeah. No, exactly. I'm like, Like, fuck it. And especially me, I don't have really any employees. I'm just like, you know, fuck it, I'm out. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, well, I'm going to be going here. So that means I can't go there. If I'm going here, I can't go there. It's like you've got to choose one or the other. And I only have two months, a month to do it in. Yeah, that is. The opportunity costs always hurts for sure, like not knowing, like what you're missing out on. But, you know, I just got to risk it sometimes. Yeah. All right. Let's wrap this up. All right. there wasn't anything else I mean even watching that it's so funny too so me and Roll for having this discussion once

and we figured out of writing technique where he was telling me something about it was in Paris in the writing class I was doing his podcast and he said something that reminded me of the same country something else had happened yeah and so I was like oh I took the train there

to whatever and then that reminded him of like oh I took a train in Uzbekistan wants to get me to this to get this meal I'm like oh dude I was in Ecuador I got this meal this fresh meal and it just like it just pops off You can do with travel people like there are millions of stories and I'm just remembering all

this stuff I forgot the cigarettes I forgot I forgot the face paint yeah me too actually I forgot all this stuff until you like bring up a nearby idea yeah and then it's like oh yes yeah that's why I feel like your situation is good because you don't film content you just like reminisce on it and it's the stories are always like golden you know yeah so especially if someone's like really well travel like dude you can just like me and Tommy and my friend were like stuck on a bus this like military bus from kyrgyzstan to china and we didn't have service i didn't have a sim card because i was like afraid they were going to like bug my phone and long story but uh no power like no lights on the bus nothing to do and we just like sit and riffing for like four

hours just like story for story it was just like dude golden like yeah those are the times you remember for sure yeah my last day in in uh yangon my group had left you know you meet a little group at first you're like I don't know anybody but then you realize neither do they yeah they all met yesterday so you're like you guys are old friends like they're not they just drank yesterday and so then I my group left and I'm like okay at this hostel I'm like uh it's like I come back from a little exploration of the city and then I come back there's other people there and like we're all going to like a rooftop bar I guess man got had a lot of rooftop bars and one of them was overlooking that golden oh yeah nice nice and there's one chick she had that she had that she had that um

Tolkien quote on her neck Like not all the Yeah Yeah And I was like Tolkien She was what nobody knows that And I was a nerd But like

You're not special Every white girl has a tattoo And I had just gotten into So I was like okay I'm just I'm five days in So but she told me about And Kazakhstan

And yeah Okay And she was like It was so cool It's unchat Untapped or whatever Actually bleep it And then

And then And then it's in my head now from this thing that I'm like, I've got to get there. Yeah, you should, man. And my buddy's actually there right now. Oh, like doing a Mongolia tour or two. And like, there'd be a different time. Okay. But like I just really want to.

Have you been? No, never been. The only Central Asian, or maybe I shouldn't say that. But no, I've only been to a couple countries in the region. It's hard to get to, especially with the Russian sanctions. You have to fly. You have to do some finagling with the, yeah, because you can't fly through Russia to get there. But she was like, totally safe.

And it was like, all the stand. She goes, not all the stands. She goes, that one is. But no one's been there. So you're just like, it's yours. It's a playground that's just for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like your video there, me, I'm like, that's your own playground.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's amazing. Just, yeah. It's beautiful. I mean, that's why we do it, man. Right. The untouched gems, you know. Yeah, it really is.

You get to a place where, like, oh, this is it. I'm in a level of comfort that I'm okay. Yeah. And I'm the only white. Yeah. And I'm like, I'm comfortable now being here. It's the only white. Yeah.

And then like, now let's talk to people. Let's explore. Right. Yeah, it makes you wonder like how the colonizers felt back in the day. Like arriving for like the first time. He must have felt great. Like gods, bro. Like this is mine now.

Yeah. Who's that guy, the painter who went to French Polynesia? I don't know. He painted them really well. But he was like really living into a colonel. colonizer or colonizer and he like had all these like child brides oh god yeah you're probably describing a lot of french colonizers right now yeah but this guy and he painted it really great um uh paul gogan okay anyway they had this like they had this um thing of like this little museum

somewhere in the middle of nowhere of like different americans that have come there brando really loved it and whatever and then but paul gogan they were like uh lived here for this and this died of misery 1883 He was such a fucking cunt But he played with these beautiful colors And like showed a world That no one had seen Like this shit with like

These type of dress and stuff People like what is that People back in France were like What? Yeah Yeah he found it And just like leaned in Wait so why did he die

Why was he just a boozer And just a wreck He would always like beat his child wives And just like He was like you work for me I'm white Like one of those And he was like damn

You leaned in Holy shit What year was this Like 18s Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. That was kind of what was going on back then. Yeah, so right.

So they got there like, wow, what is this? Right, let's just, everyone. Yeah, no laws, only guns. We have the only ones. Yeah, we're the government now. We say, we're good. I just come there. I'm like, I'm your captain now.

Yeah. All right. So before I leave, two questions. Travel tip, either specific or general. Yeah. Travel lights been taken a thought of times. Yeah. And then also a place you've never been to just calling you.

Well, I would say take land borders, but I feel like we already said that. Okay. My advice goes out to all the European influencers, all like the 18-year-old Germans that think they're discovering something new. Just shut the fuck up. Stop telling Americans that we have bad school shootings. Stop telling us we have bad health care. We fucking know.

Shut your goddamn mouths. We're dealing with it. I'm not in charge of it. Yeah. All right. What do you want me to do? Yeah. I left.

I'm not the president. Yeah. Yeah. I see problems too. We're dealing with it. internally all right shut the fuck up also we can talk about that after a few beers but don't open with that don't be like oh your school shootings oh the children why don't you save the children and I'm like buddy I'm yeah we're doing jello shots like how is this yeah exactly

you're kicking out squatters yeah if I'm gonna make room for Google like we can do this both ways all the time yeah exactly how far back do you think I'd have to go German before I win this argument dude under a hundred years if you can't find out what I'm gonna fucking call attention to. I was in a guest house in Kyrgyzstan and this German guy was like lecturing me about guns. Like I just met him. And he's like, come to Germany

and we'll teach you something. And I was like, are you serious? Like your dad was probably an SS officer, dude. Like shut your goddamn mouth. I, right. Like where you get off? All right. That's a good travel tip.

Shut your goddamn mouth. Yeah. And don't judge somebody for their fucking country. Yeah. Judge them on a personal level. Like you see cool. We're not your government. And we're here to have like,

a cross-cultural, humble, no-judgment conversation in like the middle of nowhere. Like, why are you making this about politics? I met a guy in Thai, a Chinese guy in Thailand. And it was like, and he was telling me how like my, well, not my age, but my like emotional age. You know, he's probably like 30. And it was just like, and he goes, yeah, you can't really do much in China. They don't let you do this. Here I am.

Like we're drinking mushroom shakes and smoking weed. And it's like, it's just like, I don't know. Everybody wants you to do standard shit. I'm like, oh, okay, this is like a connection on a social level. Where, like, you're telling me what's expected of you in China. Not like what your government does, but, like, you specifically, why you're leaving there, while you're traveling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just weird.

It's just like, why are you, I wouldn't meet a Chinese person and be like, what about the camps, dog? What about the Muslims in the camp? Like, why would you lead with that? You're a fucking psychopath. Like, well, when I got back from Myanmar, actually, so six, eight months later, all this stuff came out about the Rohingya and how they're being slaughtered. Yeah. And they go, what about that already? as if I'm a spokesman from Myanmar.

Yeah. And I'm like, guys, they intentionally wouldn't let me anywhere near that. So I didn't see any of that. That wasn't my Myanmar. My Myanmar was putting paste paint on and smoking, getting food poisoning from those cigars and quail eggs. It's not that deep. I think China especially is like one of the most like heavily polarizing places.

Like you can't just go and have a good time. They're like, are you being paid? Are you like, it's just like I had a good time. Why is that like a crime? China is a blast. It rules, bro. It's sick. so fun yeah it's like the east Asia but like wild wild west like you can do like whatever

you want I did so much coke in Beijing and people like isn't it a punchable by death and everyone just like come on and I was like what they're like yeah yeah that's with the story but they don't they don't bother us that's amazing yeah yeah you buy a beer at 3 a.m and just drinking on the streets yeah that's the thing with Asia you just drink everywhere smoke anywhere you want China it's like no smoking you're like yeah right like yeah it's like a Berlin nightclub you're smoking right by a sign says no smoking. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. And where else, where are you looking to go? I don't want to get too specific, but I would say like... You want to not say that you're saying. Yeah.

Do you worry about ruining places? 100%. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. For sure. But I think if you're like given honest appraisal of a place, you're not ruining it. But if I went to like, you know,

fucking Brunei. I was like, oh, it's amazing. Everyone should come here, and I made, like, propaganda, that'd be one thing. But if I'm like, it's great, but I had to shit in this hole and, like, you know, my girlfriend got touched, like, by some guy, you know, like, I think if you're honest about it, you're not, like, involved in ruining it. But I guess if you have a great time, it's, I don't know, it's hard. I struggle with it.

I worry about it. Yeah. Because it's not the Eiffel Tower. That's known. You go, here I am at the Eiffel Tower. They have these hawkers on the Lung San that sell you, like, old magazines. Like, oh, cool. You can find it.

it people are going all the time yeah it's those places like i'll bleep out i won't play that name okay um just because it's like yeah once it gets overrun yeah but at the same time i don't think me and mar is i mean maybe if the military figures out their shit but if it's impossible to get to i don't mind saying a name of a restaurant because like you ain't getting there yeah you know yeah uh but if it's like a specific place that you can get to kind of easily then i'm like i don't want to like a mom and pop in like hanoy yeah i'm not going to say the name that's a good point it's it's difficult i feel like you can never have and just as tourists we can never have a truly authentic experience because we're always like kind of seeing what they want us to see yeah

and then you're always kind of ruining it so i think tourism there is a healthy balance to strike i don't know man i do struggle with it though for sure i also don't want somebody walking in someone else's footsteps i want the footsteps go let's like paris a good example You don't have to go to my cafe Just wander the streets You'll find a coffee shop And you'll sit down and have your own great time You'll talk to the owner

It doesn't have to be the one you heard about I know man And like I lived in Japan And I know a good deal about it And like my patrons are always like Patreon.com slash small brain American They're always asking me about like What bar to go to and stuff

I'm just like just go and like whatever Smells good just go there And like whatever Where you hear clinking glasses just go there Like I'm not gonna give you a fucking itinerary Like you know Because if someone holds your hand It like takes the fun

out of it. Yeah, here too. It's like whatever neighborhood you're in, there's going to be a couple shitty dollar slices and there's going to be one to two really good pizza places that everyone in that neighborhood says is the best. Just find it. Yeah. I'm not going to tell you.

Yeah. Just find it. And it's part of the journey too. Because if you had to do that in New York, you'd ask like the Pakistani owner, or what about this? And then you're making connections and, you know. Yeah. Yeah, there's no shortcuts.

There's like an idea. I read this check writer. I forget. But I just read a passage. and it was about like you ruin places and it was just that idea and just like just change names change titles change names

there's nothing gained by calling it this exact thing you know say northern Thailand instead of a specific city say like make up a city name yeah that's fair because who cares it just wants to sound real

that's a good point actually yeah just call it you know whatever you say I'm in China and I'm making up and it was like we're in a you know Hatonga well that sounds like that sounds all right

I was in Ching Chong there actually is a city called Chongqing so it's not that far off but like makes it up it sounds real and then some people like cool God I don't need to know this yeah that's a good point actually and I won't put stuff in writing

that's transferred too easily okay yeah no that's a good idea actually maybe I'll start doing that because then it adds like a level of a lure to it like where is he like or just be like oh I'm in West Africa and I'm like where is he

and then you're always looking for clues in the video I think it might actually make it more engaging Do you know, have you ever read American gods, or gods of America? Yeah, I almost finished it, but the ending was so fucking weird. I couldn't do it. Yeah. Like where he's like tied to a cross and he's like hallucinating. I was like, I can't, I can't do this anymore.

Yeah, fair. Did you finish it? Yeah, love it. And then, I didn't get it. I felt like there was too much allegory. I felt like I was too stupid to understand it. That's possible. Yeah.

I'm not, if you get my drift. Yeah. But anyway, so he wrote about all these, like, magical places. in America, the House of the Rock, of New Orleans, all these different places that are like, hey, if there's like everyone's going there for no reason, it's like, that's where the gods meet up, actually.

That theory of like, that's, there's something there. Why is everyone fighting about the Western Wall? It's like, there's some magic there. Okay. So the tacky tourist destinations are like. So he wrote all these diners, but these diners along the way, like on Route 66, some random diner in the middle of nowhere.

And he goes, half of them exist. And a good 25 to 50s. 50% of them I made up because I don't want you knowing if you can find this place or not. I want you're going to go looking for it if you're on the route but it might not even be there. Interesting. So he left some like

some false breadcrumbs. Interesting. No, that's smart. Yeah. Yeah, and it adds yeah, like a level of a lure to it. Because then they would have, but I wonder if there's like some meta thing that he was trying to do where he's like I don't want it to be a new tourist attraction where my face is on the wall.

Exactly. I want to just be like, Ill Gaiman wrote about this. Exactly, where it's like, all right, you're going to go from place something. You might try to find it, but you don't want to doing the whole,

like, the exact tour. Right. Yeah, that's, that's true. Yeah. Maybe I'll start bleeping our names.

I'll do, like, specific small restaurants. What's the point of telling it? Like, you ever see that, um, is the guy who killed himself, the chef?

Bourdain. Yeah. And he's with that chick who killed him. Um, uh, she must have had a great pussy. I mean, like, great pussy.

Yeah, to die for her. the name of this restaurant it's in the documentary and he goes no no no don't don't say it and she goes why he goes what do you want a line of american tourists out the door yeah she goes maybe i do and it's like bitch shut oh she was french no i'm just doing her like that's a accent the french accent's the cussain but it's like you know you don't you want a fucking cool place you want your neighborhood pizza place yeah hole in the wall yeah that's true that's true and they're not dying they're not struggling they're doing fine let it keep doing fine right i guess that's the

argument I would I would say towards saying the name is like if they're struggling and you know like a hostile in Myanmar it's like fuck man like there's two people here maybe we should give them some business you know yeah a specific like lodge in the Amazon it's like go to this one instead of that one yeah cab driver in Greece we're like hey look up sake he was great okay sure yeah plus I feel like then then you're actually encouraging people to get out there and actually see it for themselves instead of being fucking lazy I'm like oh where did where did Connor tell me to go, where'd already tell me to go. They're like...

Right. You're walking in someone else's footsteps, but the finding it on your own is such a joy. It is, man. Honestly, like... I didn't find the right one. You didn't find the right pool place. Yeah. It's just one of them.

And you made a connection. There's no right college. Plus then you have this expectation in your head, and then it will never live up to there. It's like, you know, the Japanese tourists, have heard about this? They go to Paris. Yeah. And they have, like, dysphoria. They, like, named a fucking dysfunction over it.

Like, it's called, like, Paris dysphoria or something, where Japanese people girls especially they think they're all cute going to paris and they see all these movies yeah all these like proposals and fucking romantic stuff happening and they go there and it smells like shit and there's like you know fucking all these immigrants and like people are shitting in the street and yeah the river smells and then they like freak out they're like what even is life anymore and they like kill themselves good good less asia's that japanese aren't bad it's the chinese yeah that's true that's true mainlanders buddy thank you very much yeah it's great to meet you yeah it's been a pleasure man yeah it's been super fun yeah sorry

it's went longer than I was no hey we got roll it was sick yeah yeah yeah yeah you should jump on my pot after this okay yeah yeah um small braided American uh Patreon Patreon YouTube Instagram he barely touches mm-hmm um but the YouTube one is where you're making your best shit yes sir yes sir I try yeah um YouTube dot com slash at small brain American I'll put something in earlier too so thank you thank you man it's been pleasure yeah you're fucking doing it right you're having a blast thanks dog yeah you gotta you ought to come on the next trip yeah yeah yeah we'll meet up somewhere yeah sure let's do it okay hell yeah yeah yeah I'll tell you where I'm going travel and maybe like if you're anywhere near there yeah absolutely so funny I went to

Ecuador for six months during pandemic because like live indoor gathering was done for quite a while yeah um so it was like I don't want to keep going to the airport and getting a call like turn around Arizona shut down oh yeah so I went to Ecuador and all of my friends are like oh I can visit you I'm like sure I'll map it out I'll make sure to see what's safe once not One friend came Everybody else is like I don't have time

I gotta take a nothing but time Yeah I gotta take a local bus Nah I gotta no AC Yeah yeah yeah All right Thank you buddy Hell yeah brother Well everybody that was the episode

Thank you very much The Sir Small Brained American for coming in Guys check out his YouTube account For real it's a great one YouTube.com slash At Small Brained American Yeah he's got great stuff he goes all over. The Myanmar stuff is sick. It really took me back. I mean, I haven't been

there in so long. If you've heard this podcast, you know how much I love Myanmar. And I finally got someone to talk to about it. We'll also talk to Turner, Sparks about it, who's also there. He's the one who told me about it at some point I'll come in. We do multiple. So if you're new to this podcast, we'll do multiple times in the same country. We'll do multiple countries by the same person. Small-brain American has been to many countries. So who will be back on this podcast? buddy if you're listening come meet me somewhere come meet me somewhere we'll do one from you know where i am i took your um phone number or email i forget with me so i'm gonna contact you now that i'm back online and uh yeah come meet me somewhere it'll be cool today's episode

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Subscribe wherever you're listening. But man, guys, get to Myanmar. I know they for a while were like loosening up their grip and then they went right back hard to like re-grip. They put Ansan Suu Kyi, since I was there, back under house arrest. They went hard on killing the Rohingya. Yeah, they went hard on human rights abuses. So if you're there and visiting one of the Karen villages with the Rohingya were being

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I got so excited. Next week, me and my friend Ethan go to Guatemala for the Festo de Santo Tomas. It's one of the ones that I was on a trip on. So me and my friend Ethan live from, I think, Gold Coast. I think we did it from Gold Coast in Australia, but it was about our trip to Guatemala. It was so fun.

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Cup come cop is... Fuck. I know how to say it. say thank you in Myanmar. Anyway, get yourself a teen leaf salad, get yourself

Jahipanaz if you're there and until next week. I'll see you later. Bye, everybody.