You Be Trippin' - The USA w/ All Gas No Brake's Andrew Callaghan | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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Terms apply. Yeah, I remember in Central Washington, some guy was like, he had like no teeth in the audience. I kept looking at him. I was like, they were kind of fucked. And I was like, is that like meth or heroin that you lost her teeth? And he goes, yeah, but he like held up his drinks like seven years sober. Wow. And I was like, but you're holding like you're drinking a beer.

And he was like, it's not meth. It's like fair. Yeah, fair. Yeah, I had an experience like that. I was in Bombay Beach recently and I was chilling with this like custodian dude at the local bar there called the ski. and he was like he's like man I love that I've stopped partying he's like doing a shot of jameson I'm like what do you mean he's like I haven't smoked meth in two weeks I was like what first of all you haven't really stopped and two is this not a party to you don't

where you've been and where you're going this is our race travel show yeah we're going we're going to talk about travel today it's you be tripping yeah hello everybody welcome to it's a travel podcast it's one of the only podcasts that has never owned a slave um we're still in talks for some later stuff but as of right now we are slave free going on almost two years um every week we go to a different place and today uh my guess is andrew callahan thanks for having me man i appreciate it yeah all gas no brakes back all gas no breaks is back as of two days ago so we did it and i'm stoked bro this is my first travel podcast i've ever done really yeah i've done every kind of podcast but i'm excited to get into the nitty gritty of the road

Nice. Okay. Where do you want to go? Where do we go? Well, I've been on the road for like two and a half week, so I got a brain full of travel game right now. Okay. Usually it's out of the country stuff. Oh, shit. Well, I'm down for that too. Have you been anywhere wild or stuff? But although you really are an American. Yeah, but when I was like 1920, I really was into international travel. Like I went to Vietnam and France and Spain, all these places because I wanted to like expand my consciousness. Yeah.

But then I noticed that like running those backpacker circus, I was kind of meeting the same type of person. Yeah. A lot of times. Maybe that's just because I was staying at hostels. But it was like, they'd always hate on America. When I meet Americans abroad, they'd be like, I'm just traveling because, like, America's so bland. And I feel like I want to experience real culture. So I'm here in, like, the Philippines. And I'm like, dude, wait a second.

I'm going to go back home and figure out if it really is bland. And so I've been traveling domestically almost as a reaction to that for all this time. Interesting. Because also, you're right. Those people are all on the same path, the backpacker route. I hate America thing. It's really late. They just have this notion that America is like this bland,

melting pot homogenized spot yeah which kind of makes sense if you're from like the suburbs of new york or massachusetts or even like orange county california but then when you start getting into like the nitty gritty like i just came from cajian country in louisiana then i was in a texas german town called fredericksburg and i just left this like gulagichi coastal settlement called st helen island and now i'm in new york city and i'm like damn i may as well have just traversed the entire planet all right let's talk about america then it'll be way better you've seen it all so like okay good point though so usually when you're in another country

sometimes it does this thing where it like shines a light on your own which is great yeah but then it could be better or worse but that's interesting where you're like America's all bland and you're like no it's just harder to explore because like not everything has been totally colonized by tourism as is the case

in a lot of Southeast Asian and European countries not everything has been colonized by tourism yeah because the history is like more recent you know so not everything has been memorialized into like some crazy ass museum like France was around in like year 1200 if not earlier. So pretty much every chapter in history

has been mummified into a museum exhibit of some kind. The frontier history of the U.S. is still evolving. Like, Vegas is growing four times the pace. I'll be a museum exhibit in 500 years, but right now it's just a bunch of casinos. What have he found? Like, there was in American Gods,

he was like, no, New Orleans is like a different country. Yeah. It's like, not actually not America. We just put a border around it. Like, you know, Hawaii too. It's like, yeah, that's really not America. Dude, all of South Louisiana is like a different country. like yeah as far as like the creole cajan and insane like Caribbean history it's like a blend of

everywhere in the western hemisphere what are the people like they wouldn't get to rural new new Orleans is like it's own planet south southwestern louisiana is like lafayette church point brobridge new iberia church point bro bridge i've never been heard of these places that's like rural acadiana so cajans acadians yeah that's where you hear like zyto and cajan music and the kids ride horses of all races and creeds. Clitin-Shaneer, king of the... Yeah. King of the Zadico?

I actually have only met one Zadico musician. His name was Donnie Broussard. I met him at a bar at 11 a.m. last week. In Louisiana? Yeah, in Church Point. Where the fuck is Church Point? Damn, I've never even heard of this. It's a sick place.

Shout to my homie Justin. He let us stay at his house for like a week up there. Well, I actually met Donny Broussard and Mamu, which is northwest of there. But yeah, Church Point is considered to be like the heart of, a, you know, Cajun country. That's Cajun Mardi Gras. What?

Yeah. So there's multiple Mardi Gras. In this one, I think they chase a chicken around town, and whoever catches it is, like, demand for a whole year. I love these fucking... Sick, right? It all comes off, like, some sort of, like, animist mixed with, like, religious Christian. Yeah. And it was, like, a way to control people.

Like, all right, I'll give you a party. Just we'll do a couple of year old things. Yeah. Chase a chicken, and then... Yeah, I don't know. There's not, like, an explicit. it reward but it's just like the social validation of like you caught that chicken bro literally that's the only picture about church point really yeah on here there's nothing else he usually has a bunch

of pictures yeah damn wherever you liked tell me about some places in the past couple weeks yeah uh dude charleston south carolina is pretty sick i love it there yeah i never really understood what was dope about it and i started going to like west ashley and like some of the neighborhoods that aren't in the peninsula, the tourism area. And there's like a cool street culture there. And the people from there are sick. What do you mean? Like the low country.

There's people out there who just have boats. They just go out and drink on the boat. And there's dolphins in the marsh and stuff. People fishing, living off the land. There's a type of person now that I've discovered like Lake Person. It's like rich trash. Yeah. I can't think of the exact word for that.

But they have a lot of that stuff at like Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Where it's like they're not rich, but in Missouri they're rich. so they may as well be deep creek and um deep creek lake in western maryland yeah you're from maryland uh-huh um yeah and it's just like you see these people like i'm putting this on them when they're like when i was growing up i could barely afford one bud light now i've made a lot of money and i i drink 30 bud lights you know i mean like no taste change what do you think are the top five maryland cities oh i mean ballmore's up there yeah Annapolis but uhnapples blows and Baltimore is kind of wild.

Is there any hidden gems out there that people don't know about? Yeah, Western. No one goes Western Maryland. What's over there? So you're looking for hidden gems is what you do? Well, I go to Maryland a lot,

but I'm always stuck in damn Dundalk. And then out here, let's just find Maryland. Out there is like over the, over the Chesapeake, it gets weird and different. Oh, there's like a strange... All this shit.

Oh, wait. Have you been to Tangier Island before? No. You know what it is? In Maryland? So if you look in the Chesapeake Bay and you follow those tiny little islands or islets at the very bottom of the map, that last island is called Tangier Island, where they speak this perfectly preserved 1800s Elizabethian English. What? And there's only about 2,000 people there.

And they have tourism, but they have the most unique, I guess, English accent in the Americas. And that whole place is about to disappear within 40 years because of sea level rise. Whoa. That's a whole ongoing situation. But if you get some time, look up Tangier Island dialect. How these people sound, you just wouldn't believe it. Really? Yeah.

Let's do it. Why haven't ever heard of that? It's a crazy thing when you don't even learn about your own state. That's how I am, too. Where are you from? From, like, Seattle, pretty much. I don't know shit about the state because I left as soon as I could. On this island, we can say that our parents were born.

So this guy's got a more normal one, but those two guys talking on the porch, like. It's like Philly. Apparently, this is how people used to speak during the colonial times of Virginia in Maryland. She was bound to counter. She said, it's a long-way giant. Who's that, man? Who tells you about these places? Dude, I've just been deep into the linguistic rabbit hole recently, bro.

Yeah. Because I'm doing a project on endangered languages. Okay. Like what? There's Cajun French, Gullah Goli, which is like a Charleston, South Carolina lowland dialect. Endanger why by the internet? The internet's one factor, also just like stuff like bridges and highways. Letting people come in and out.

Yeah, because, but you can see, it's really about cultural isolation if you think about it. So if you go to Williamsburg, you know, there's people speaking perfect Giddish there in one of the most densely populated parts of the country, Amish, Mennonites, people like that. So it really has to do with like kind of not letting outsiders in to poison the well. It's weird when you hear those, like, the, I won't call them Yiddledittles, but I do like saying that. But, yeah, even their English accent is like something. I'm like, wait, you're from here. Forget when they're talking Yiddish, but like, yeah.

Yeah, like, how do you have an accent being American, fully American? Yeah. Yeah, isolation? Isolation, like strong cultural connective tissue that like keeps people tighten it together. Right. You know. I have this theory that because of the internet, we're not going to have any accents anymore. So that's kind of the root theory of the documentary that I'm working on,

which is like, is that true? And I think that it's mostly true. But then you see groups that are, like, for example, if you look at the Amish for the Mennonites in West Texas, their kids don't have phones and they keep the accent. So I do think it's the Internet that flattens people's dialects for sure. Yeah, I mean, you hear, you're exposed to, like, other ways of talking, instead of never hearing other way of talking.

But then there's also, like, people who become popular online, and then people start talking like them. Like, when I was a kid, Chief Keefe was the most popular rapper, and we started saying shit like, or we would say, beep, when we'd make some money, because that's the time of a money counter. We'd say shit that he would say and that became like regional dialect. So the internet can both preserve random dialects and throw others to the wayside.

And spread some. Interesting. Also like duolingo and shit. Like if you look at the Navajo Nation, which is the Native Americans in Arizona, they're able to keep their language alive because they can have the kids do duolingo and you can use AI to translate the stuff they like like, like Minecraft and Disney into Navajo. So it's kind of a double-edged store with the internet because it allows like you can teach kids stuff easier as far as keeping languages alive. But it also flattens a lot of shit too. Damn.

So you're talking about preserving these things? It's like a seven-part series. Each is about a different language that's endangered in the U.S. Where are you going to go? Hawaii, Alaska. Hawaii, they got an accent for sure. Yeah. But also, like, native Hawaiian language has like 5,000 speakers left or something.

Even the language that most people think is Hawaiian, just Hawaiian pigeon, which is like a hybrid of English. Hey, guys. Breaking into today's episode to let you know a little bit about the guest, Andrew Callahan. He is famous for all gas, no brakes. What a show that is. Kind of changed the game on, like, interviewing DOLTS. You can find him on Instagram at Andreww.m.m. Channel 5.

Oh, santo. Channel 5 on Instagram for a news show and all gas, no break show. It's at all gas, no break show. And his website, channel 5. I will tell you that I messed up. I didn't realize so after the episode that he is a big RV guy. I should have done one about RVs.

Oh, I messed up. Would have been perfect. Andrew, if you're listening or watching, come back on, talk about RV life. Dah! I mean, it's a real, real... Sure coming on my side. RVs, why don't you guys tell me?

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U.B. Chippin' stickers, Jew Vinals, much, much more at R.E.Shavir.com. Follow the U.B. Chippin' Instagram account at UB.chippingPod. And that's it. back to the episode yeah the alaska shit's pretty crazy there's just one place i'm really excited to go it's called st lawrence island it's a small sovereign island in between siberia and alaska where they speak a combination of inuit english and uh siberian language and it's called siberian you pick but it's okay so if you look right in between siberia and and russia you see that this big ass island

That's St. Lawrence Island. And whose is it? It's owned by the United States, but the tribal authorities who are like of Inuit, aka Eskimo background, they own it. So we had to like apply through their tribal council to even be able to go there to film. But Savunga is like their main town. It has like probably around 1,000 people. And they killed all the polar bears.

So it's like safe to walk around anywhere on the island because they're not going to fuck with you. On purpose? Yeah. Yeah. Because you know, polar bears are like pieces of shit. yeah that's what they say right yeah they just come they hunt people yeah other bears they have like you can like calm them down so they just went and killed them all to get rid of it like all right well they're probably their ancestors did because they're like man things would be great if those

people weren't people if those fuckers weren't roaming around does everybody have one of these like snowmobiles i haven't been out there yet but oh you're going yeah and i'm going in the in the summer obviously look at the difference thing this one in the summer and this one in the winter yeah god it's going to blow in the winter and you know who's trying to shut them down Trump. No. PETA. Really?

Yeah, because they hunt whales up there. If it's not PETA, it's something similar. Basically, like, it's illegal for you to hunt whales, but they have these tribal protection. So they'll go out there, they'll fucking spear a thousand pound, if not more, endangered whale. That's like, technically, there might be a hundred of these whales left or something. And they'll take it back to the village and eat the blubber for the rest of the year. And the whale people are like, we don't give a fuck. Dude, the whale people.

It's tough where we're living off this. The whale people are so obsessed with protecting the whales. Like, they're on Facebook messaging the grandchildren of the elders who are in elementary school being like, you need to kill yourself. Like, it's fucking, I got to show you some screenshots. Yeah, dude. These fucking whale people are nuts, dude. Really? Yeah, the whale protection community may as well be like ISIS.

Aren't you allowed to eat them in like Norway and stuff? Don't they're just like, oh, here we're fine. Is that like non-endangered ones? I don't know, man. I've had whale burgers before. And it wasn't like a deep, dark alley. Well, it wasn't like eating a panglin in Wuhan. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. We're just like, where do we have on the menu? I just know that you can't just go out there and hunt whales in Alaska. In Alaska. Unless you have some kind of tribal order. We got to get some tribal protection. You and me do. Yeah.

Yes. Yeah, really get, like living our lives. Fuck, yeah. Yeah, dropped dynamite into like the pond in Central Park. RFK style, bro. Yeah. That's right. Damn.

So tell me more about American places then that you loved. Dude. Or that you hated. There's so many layers to. it yeah okay because there's places that everybody loves which i call level one cities that it that you could not even be a traveler and you'll like it new york new orleans san francisco before tech why do you call them level one cities because you can be a level one traveler who doesn't even know like how to find cool shit and still have the best time in your life yeah just wander

around it'll be fine because it's so stimulating that you're like most european cities are like that paris is like that yeah there's so beautiful it's like an energy that you can't escape when i went i was like where is a good cafe Fays, like, how do I find a cafe? And people are like, dude, just, you're overthinking it. You'll find a cafe. Exactly. Just walk.

And that would be a level one. A level two would be like Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis. Why? Because they're sick, but you might not be able to pick up on the energy immediately. You'd have to kind of write a little bit of a plan for yourself. Okay. Three. Three.

Dallas, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, Florida. Places that like you're going to have to work. a little hard to have a really dope time. You've been to Fort Worth? Yeah, I like it. It rules. See, that would be a level three. So you know, if you get to the Metroplex, you're sitting at DFW, you'd have to ask a couple

people, yo, should I go to Arlington or should I go to Frisco, Texas? And they'd be like, or should I go to Deep L.M. Dallas? They'll say, no, downtown Fort Worth, find a bike or dive bar. You'll have the best time. It really was great. Yeah. We went to there, Billy Strings, and we're just like, let's wander around. I'm like, oh.

It seemed like authentic cowboy shit. Dude. Like people are dressed up to go dancing with their wives. but like, you know what I mean, in that cowboy gear. Dude, I'm so happy you're showing love to Fort Worth right now. Really? Yeah, because like it's really sick. I'm like, not a lot of people drop Fort Worth.

No, they don't. It's Dallas if. Usually it's Austin, but then it's like Dallas or Houston. But like, damn, Fort Worth, I've just never been there. And it was awesome. Level three is normally have like really cool neighborhoods that you can find and great people from level three's compared to level ones. Right.

Level ones, no one is friendly. No. How could you be? But it's everything so beautiful. that doesn't even matter. But there's an elitism that people have, like real New Yorkers like they think they're like second coming to Jesus.

That's not bad. By the way, San Francisco is coming back. I think so? Yeah, Tech has abandoned it already. So it's bottomed out and is on the rise. It's still terrible. I hope so.

It's on, it's back heading that way. What makes you think that? Tech was staying there. They were using it and they weren't from there. They drove the prices up. No one could stay there anymore. So they had to move to like San Jose and shit like that.

Yeah. but they left they all left but where's the rebound coming into play the artists are now getting cheap housing oh so prices are going down finally they have to it's like no one's there anymore it's almost like crazy it's like you just can't keep raising the rents when no one's here well the landlords tried to gaslight the public between COVID and 2023 where you say to your landlord like hey every business is leaving town everything's vacant except for sales force tower and then literally the real estate blocks would be like no I don't worry dude and now they have to be like all right fuck it we'll drop you down from 1,800 well right the whole right all these whole

companies left and brought like 600 employees out with them so it's like they're not renting anymore yeah there's some gas lighting happening in l.a too where like the hollywood hills houses are still really expensive and you're like why isn't it going to burn and you're not going to protect it like it's also like you can't make a bunch of money here like you used to right it's not like i have an office in universal city right now and there's people moving out every single day you halls come in people loading up a computer equipment and studio equipment going wherever the fuck they're good I mean you can edit from anywhere all that stuff is like we just don't need to be there anymore

auditions for like acting just are all online yeah I think I don't really know so if you were to go back in time and you were like 18 19 right now trying to restart your career like as a kid where would you base your operations out of stand-up sure stand-up's different because there's not many cities you can do it oh okay you go on the road you're fine but like to like everyday practice you really need you really need there to be like places to go on stage So you'd say here still?

I started in L.A., which was a mistake, but I would still say L.A. or Chicago or like start in one of the minor towns, like Milwaukee. What is that? What's Milwaukee? Level two? I would call Milwaukee a level two. I think Milwaukee's sick. Milwaukee's underrated. Yeah, Green Bay would be level four, though. What's level four? Level four is when the city sucks, but there's a few cool people that you can find and they'll show you the best time ever. Level five is when it sucks so bad that you have to start liking. shit that sucks in almost a post-ironic way to accommodate a hero's journey for yourself.

Like, I hate all my friends, but they're all my friends. I'm hanging out with it because there's no one better. Yes. Appleton, Wisconsin. It sucks there? It sucks, but it's also like, it's so bleak. I saw somebody get pregnant in like the 21 and 22, and it was like, what? And they're like, this is it, man.

Like, I found a not so fat wife. I'm pretty stoked. Like, yeah, this is this far. I don't have, like, ideas of, like, how I can change. changed my life. Yeah. There's some level five in upstate New York. There's some level five's in New Hampshire.

There's some level five's. Arkansas's got some. I mean, that's where you made your bread and butter off fives. Yeah, Indiana's got some fives. I used to park my RV at the Walmarts in Indiana a lot. Just to me people? Well, there's no homeless people in Indiana, really, so Walmarts don't campaign to

shut down overnight parking in their lots. I thought that was their jam. Walmart allow overnight parking as company policy, but each individual Walmart can campaign with the city or the corporate board to be like, now let's let's end that here and that all depends on how much of how many tweakers are so like portland oregon you can't even find a walmart in oregon unless you go to like deep east oregon where you can park overnight because they're like who cares you're not bothering anybody or it's like hey we had another OD you've got to get them out of here or there's people getting their

cars broken into and there's shoplifting and just all types of gnarly shit that happens you know about the wawa lights uh in the bathrooms blue lights in the bathrooms at wawa it's some of the wawa's Does blue light make it harder for you to sleep? No. Blue light makes it impossible to find a vein. Oh, fuck. There it is. Yo, that is crazy.

Yeah. Wow. They're just like poking away. That is so gnarly. Yeah. They're like, you can use the bathroom. And is that because veins are blue? I guess.

So it cancels that. Wow, man. Yeah, I don't know. I guess. Yeah. I support Wawa in all situations, including that one. Okay. So you're in Vietnam.

You're like, okay. Yeah. I think America might, you guys might, might be wrong about America. I want to examine this myself. Well, every single, I was in Saigon, because I did a semester abroad in Melbourne, Australia when I was a junior in college. Okay.

And I met this graffiti artist named Futon, because graffiti is a big thing in Melbourne, Australia. And Futon was like, yeah, mate, we got to go to fucking Vietnam. It's the best place ever. And so we got on a plane to Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon, depending on where you stay. When they start calling it Saigon? Saigon was before the fall. The fall of Saigon, I think, was like after the Vietnam War. That's why the Vietnamese came to New Orleans because they could fish in the same elevation.

It used to be called Saigon, but South Vietnam was against the Viet Cong, and they were like more Western sympathetic. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Vietnamese resistance, Ho Chi Minh. Uncle Ho. He was like an NBA, their Tupac. Yeah. He was Viet Cong Tupac. And so I think after we lost the Vietnam War, which that's agreed upon that we lost, right?

It depends who you ask, but yes. Okay. well ultimately our consumer culture has crossed the boundary but they crushed us at the time we went how old you uh 28 did they teach they taught us that it was a tie well capitalism tourism and like all of our fucking pop culture has definitely won the arms race if that makes sense so like it's not as if south vietnam has it has like a communist vibe it's hyper capitalists so i can say that america won the game but we definitely lost the war right they said we said we tied we just got sick of fighting yeah it was like no one was really up and so we just left but when you get to that's what they were doing driving us

away yeah but when you get there now you see the first thing you see is like fake supreme hats on every corner and shit so it's that's kind of what i mean everyone's wearing air jordan's they got justin beber t-shirts yeah so pop culture was victorious but yeah we're in hoochie mean city um i was going i was having the best time ever dude vietnam is so sick it's fun right it's so cheap you know app called grab no it's like uber but it's three times more expensive and you just jump on some Vietnamese dudes back on a scooter. We were just doing that. The guys like, come on.

Give me like a five or whatever. Because I was so tall, they would always like see me and just keep driving. So I'd have to try to call like four different grabs and finally somebody will let me hop on. They have a whole system now for it. That's crazy. Yeah. But my decision to travel domestically happened because I was at a hostel in, uh, Byron Bay, Australia. Yeah, I know Byron Bay.

And I kept meeting these like, I don't want to be negative, but like really cringy, self-hating Americans. And all they would do is talk about like, you know, America's so boring. You know, I grew up in, where's Northwestern at in Illinois? Oh, yeah. I grew up in Evanston, Illinois. And, like, I was just so sick of the mediocre food and culture of the United States. And, like, I just wanted to, like, see the world. And I was like, why did you have to hate on America first, brother?

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Yeah, why is that? And I was like, damn. Yeah, it's like this thing. Everyone I know who left L.A. It was like, L.A. shocks this. You can still say it's cool. You can still enjoy a new city without having to hate the old one. Thank you.

L.A. rules on the low. It's fucking awesome. The best burritos, best tacos in Cali. The true culture of the city is so sick. That's why people are like, oh, L.A. is dying. I'm like, no. West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Echo Park Silver Lake is getting expensive and people are moving to other hipster areas. It's not as if the city's dying.

It's not like Norwalk and Downey are changing prices. Right. Like, right. People always forget, like, that pocket of L.A. That people refer to as, like, L.A., even when conspiracy people are, like, the satanic demonic energy of L.A., like, they're referring to, like, two out of 30 zip codes. Yeah. What about Riverside?

Right. That's L.A. Or maybe it's not. I don't want to get in trouble. Yeah. But it is, you're right. And they all view L.A. as just that business of Hollywood. Yeah.

And you're like, Caritown doesn't care about any of this. Exactly, dude. And the people who ran that, like, small pockets are not even from L.A. Right. They just, you know, like, the show business is. not built upon like city natives. It is weird that it's a one industry town or a major industry town. New York's not like that. New York's has models and Wall Street and fucking ping pong people and just everything. You bet some ping pong people? Yeah, I see the whole

crew. Where they at? Near Dime Square. Okay. They're down there and they're sick and they're old and they're just sick at it. Is Dime Square like by one six nine bar where they have that triangle? How long has it been called that for? In the last five, five, six years. yeah cut on it's nice to get dollar beers from that store right there and just sit at that bench but it wasn't called dime square there's also a place right there too where you can get one of those smoothies and put booze in it um and then walk over the bridge from there wow that's a real trick yeah but i mean like if you're looking to walk over the bridge yeah for a nice day but like yeah you get those smooths full of booze having put rum in it and just like enjoy all the way yeah

that sounds sick you know what they call dime square dime bags I don't think so What is it? Dimes Like hot chicks Yeah I don't know if that's why It could be both

It could be I think that's where all Like the young Super cool people Yeah Yeah like I said I used to drink fucking beers in a bag

They were like 10 years ago Um I became known There's still It's show more Let's let AI tell us Why it's cool was initially he was jokingly highlighting the air a smaller scale

compared to times square yeah but what's the dime though why not mime square what why dime yeah overall dimes it's a restaurant overall bohemian vibe you ever see that you got to run overall bohemian that's overall you're like fuck I get that place two years before it's an erowan equinox okay it was a dime dime's restaurant Yeah, Bohemian is like, I get why you'd want to be here. The place is ruined. Yeah. It's like stage two gentrification.

Yeah, is it neighborhood to neighborhood too? Gentrification is kind of like a nuclear bomb where it drops on one place and gradually infects and sanitizes all around it, you know? That is what's happening to L.A. You're right. The Riverside areas are like just haven't been gentrified yet. It's still the same fucking family shit. My neighborhood in the East Village is that.

It's like, oh, NYU kids, their parents found out it was safe. and they're like, let's ruin it for Ari. And that word safety is so crucial when you look at East Coast gentrification because of the history of the East Coast. Like most Italian-American families, including my own, because I'm originally from Philadelphia.

You're Italian. Worst of the whites, by the way. Irish. Oh, Irish, okay. Oh, Callahan, yeah. Yeah. So they left in the fucking, I agree with you about worst of the whites, by the way.

And then they left in the 60s, you know, because it was unsafe. And we know what that means. You know what I mean? Yeah. We know what they meant. You know what I mean? crimes going up.

It hadn't even gone up yet. They were like, it's like, the signs point to what crime is about to go up. Yeah. And so, and now it's taken about four or five decades and reverse white flight is happening. What does that mean? Well, you, flying it. No, white flight is when white people left New York, Philadelphia, and Boston and Baltimore in the 60s.

To go to the burbs. To go to the burbs after the GI Bill and shit. They had a solid, like, half a century, really. Or maybe it was more like 30 or 40 years. Their grandchildren. are now like, this is fucking boring. So they already have the desire to leave because there's no culture in the burbs.

And then now it's getting safer. So reverse white flight is when the descendants of white flight people start coming back to the city. So when you said NYU kids who are rich who are moving back to the city because it's safe, their great grandparents are for sure from New York City. And they're like, are you nuts? Yeah.

And then they look at it and they come down here and they see everything kind of bulldozed. They're like, oh, this is nice. That is weird when you see like it's wrong. It's being gentrified. It's like, well, wait, hold on. It already was gentrified. something else.

Yeah. And before that, it was something else. And really, if you want to go back, just make it all Indian. Yeah. You're not going to do that. Yeah, exactly. So, I feel like fucking gentrification is bad. Development is good.

But it's all about pace. Like, if an area improves over the course of 20 years, like, that's pretty tight. But you can't, like, change an area in five years. You can only tear it down and build some new shit. It's impossible. People, culture doesn't move that fast. It does now with COVID, I think. What?

Because of people mass migrating to different. It's like big seismic shifts. So, like, the East Village, let's just say, was open. for bars during COVID and then everyone was like oh this place is sick yeah at mixed with another subway stop like went a little further down first down a 14th to like all the way to like Avenue A so it just like put everything in play like that and now the weekends are garbage yeah weekends are all woo girls and whatever it just wasn't that before yeah it was I mean I used to live at my I used to live around here when I was like 13 14 and 15 every summer yeah

next to old hells angels clubhouse am I on second on second on second to second yeah next to with my aunt and uncle in the summer and this shit was crazy. The type was block in America when they were there. Yeah, I remember someone did like a stick up robbery of this old bodega called Pack Punjab

on second and third. And the Hell's Angels, they posted up outside every single day for the next month as a show of force, like don't fucking rob this place. Wow. And that was cool to see as a kid.

I was like, bikers are cool. They love Indians. They're just like, you're one of bars. So, okay, so you're in Byron Bay hanging out,

meeting these fucking people who hate America? They're American. Americans who think America sucks and they've gone to America 2.0 to, like, find themselves, which I hope went well. I mean, that's Australia, too. It's like, it's not really being that. I know it's a different country, but it's very similar. It doesn't feel like it. I mean, it feels, I mean. Byra Bay seems different. I love Melbourne, Australia. I'd never been to Sydney. You only been to Newcastle, Melbourne. I went to the big ass rock in the middle. You did? Yeah. How was that? It was big, man. Was there anything to do?

No, just getting eaten up by flies and shit. I was with my grandma. Every time I wanted to go there, I was like, my friend Nick Cody's like, there's nothing. Why? It's a religious thing for not your religion. Yeah, I want to make a video in Alice Springs. Yeah, that's like the middle town. Uh-huh, there is.

I've been watching videos on YouTube of these drag races they do. Drag Queens racing? No, Aboriginal kids racing cars. Really? Yeah. Damn. And fucking around. They fuck around hard out there in the Outback.

They're just always fucking around. There's all these stories of these guys who go on to like, to go like Aussie football, like Aboriginals and like dominate, whatever. And then after a year, they're like, we're going to give you a like a $2 million year contract. Like,

I just want to walk around. Yeah. And they just go back. And everyone's like, what are you doing? Like, I just like walking around, man. Yeah.

You like walking around? I do like walking around. Same man. I get high and fucking go for it. Oh, you smoke pot? I do. Damn. Should I start?

You've never? Oh, I smoked weed every. day from like age 14 to 21 but then I stopped because like I want to do something with my life but now I've done it yeah I've done it so should I start chiefing gas yeah all right I'm down do you have any strains for a first timer in a few a few years I mean I love uh Maui if you want to get creative is that an indica dominant that's a sativa oh so you're into that gets you like creative and stuff but then sometimes it turns on you and you get fucking paranoid on that stuff yeah

And then sometimes I'm like, I want an indica. What do you get paranoid about? People are looking at me weird. Oh, like other pedestrians. Yeah, or like, am I saying something wrong? Am I fucking everything up? It's not like the world's going to fall or anything like that. But like, it's just like, yeah, I'm just like I'm being an asshole.

I'm ruining everything for everybody. Oh, so okay. So it's like what you're putting into the world type shit. You don't smoke at all anywhere. That's hilarious. Yeah. I mean, that's the stereotype is someone who's going nowhere smoking weed all the time. Well, because all my friends, you got heavy in the weed.

I just didn't do shit. Well, my personality is permanently altered by weed for sure. Maybe don't start again. Yeah. You booze, right? Huh? You booze. Yeah, here and there.

All right, tell me more. What are we talking about here? America. Places to go. Some of these five cities. Oh, you want some level fives? Yeah. Fuck.

Gary, Indiana. Gary, why? It's horrible. What? What's horrible about it? It looks like this. would be right yes but if you can find one friend and gary yeah and you guys go to the library and shit together you maybe you go to an a meeting with him or something just to connect by any

means you can become a big fan of gary like you just have to forge forge a connection by fire um let me think what else is a level five it would suck to i mean look at that both the first buildings are bombed out the jesus all three who's taking these pictures all right that might be in use Michael Jackson's from there. Oh, that's not... What's their industry? They had an industry at one point. I believe it's...

And it left? Yeah, it left. Damn. Gary, Indiana. Why would anyone go there? All the pictures are of fucking bottomed-out places. Right. But if you can make that work, I consider you to be an all-star high-rated travel.

That's beautiful, though. Is there a crazy homelessness there? Yeah, there's just craziness in general there. Jesus, I've never seen, like, pictures of a place just straight up, boarded up. That's crazy. That's the homie Rat Kids tag on that plywood right there. This one? Yeah, it's RK.A. Just to show that Rat Kid's really out here tagging on.

Who's Rat Kid? Just a homie from New York. You know him? Yeah, RK. But it's just crazy to think that RK is really out there spray painting plywood and Gary. Didn't know he'd been there. But RK.A. has cutty tags everywhere. He has tags at the Greyhound Station in Lafayette, Louisiana.

He just goes there to do that dumb tag? Yeah. Well, there's more to it than you might think. It's about repetition. So if you can make that dumb tag look the same and that tags everywhere, it's kind of like a dog peeing on fire hydrants. Across the world. You know, you're asserting your claims.

Wow, interesting. Okay. So Gary's a five. I'm trying to think. I don't want to make anyone feel bad about where they're from. But level five, just to be clear, level five cities or level five, that's like the worst of the worst. If you can make them work, you're like a five-star track.

traveler if that makes sense if you can go to gary find a cool time and like and like no i actually love gary people like what yeah and then you'll like every city has one cool spot one cool person there's always somebody and if you can use your six cents as a traveler to like weed that out yeah i mean you're up i'm trying to think of some more that is the thing where it's like where it's like in a big city like well there's a lot of artistic people here so i'd plenty to choose from but even in appleton probably that's a four even an appleton on those like there's a little art scene yeah cool like mesa arizona would be a level five interesting that's a like a mesa lansing michigan five that's five fredersburg maryland five

fredericksburg yeah that's where uh fredgerick he was from no fredericksburg virginia oh shreveport louisiana's got to be a five shreve point sreveport yeah that place sucks um where else have you been in the world yeah I'm looking at the map right now. I've been to Cuba. That's pretty crazy. What'd you go to Cuba for? Just to see what was up.

When'd you go? When I was 19, because I used to go to school in New Orleans, went to a Jesuit school, and I just wanted to go somewhere out of the country. And at the time, they had opened it up briefly. So I went there for the summertime, lost my passport. Obama opened it up? Yeah. Sorry, go ahead.

Lost your passport in Cuba? Yeah. Dard. I had to befriend this dude named Augustine. He worked at the fried chicken spot. in old Havana And I told him I was like

Man I'm fucking down and out Can I stay at your spot He was like yeah sure So I just kind of slept on the floor there Until the embassy gave me my passport Or issued a new one Who's this guy? Just a random guy He thought it was cool

That's all you Yeah but that was during the Havana Syndrome incident What is that? When the people at the embassy were supposedly attacked by some kind of I don't know Electromagnetic weapon they gave them

schizophrenic symptoms. What was that? I don't know. A lot of people think the whole thing was a fake CIA sciop. But that was like right around that time. So it was a crazy time to be in Cuba. I went last year.

It still opened up. You went to a ban? Yeah, only Havana. Because we had a hurricane. Yeah. So we couldn't really get out. That's why I mentioned the parallel to Vietnam. You know, these are two communist countries,

but American pop culture has kind of crossed that boundary. And, you know, when I was there, everybody was like, you've ever been on Miami Heat Game? You ever met Justin B. Bieber, you know, all that shit. The embargo is a big thing there versus Vietnam. Yeah.

Where it's like you can't, they can't get stuff. Yeah. And it's crazy because the whole Cuban missile crisis, we know now, was not real. They were bluffing. Cuba was bluffing. Yeah, Cuba and the Soviets coordinated to bluff on that. They never actually had nuclear weapons in Cuba. They just thought like this is going to make the Americans, like, fear us a bit and gain some leverage.

Did. But it shut down Castro's revolution. Wow. But he also won. He won, but he lost a lot of the wealth because the Miami Cubans. He lost all the wealth. As they called and went to Little Havana. I saw a video on what happened there, and they were like, all right, so JFK is like,

all right, we're going to go back in an attack. We got intel from all the people that fled on where and how to do it. And then all those people are like, hey, as soon as you get there, all the villages are going to get on our side. Because those are just the rich Cubans who were like, they love us. And like, they actually hated you. And then they were like, all, keep it hush, shush. And they all start bragging about how they're about to overthrow Castro. because Cubans are crazy

and they're about to take that motherfucker and then word got back to Cuba because they couldn't keep their fucking mouse shut that's why the Bay of Pigs invasion got foiled because when they showed up it was just a fucking right this way and they landed and everyone was just waiting for them

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more. About what? I don't know. Where else have you been? In the world? Yeah, and what does this show you about America? Let's do something like that. Well, I've been to every state except for Rhode Island. What? Why not Rhode Island? I don't know. I just haven't had a reason to go there, but might be driving through there today, which would be crazy to complete my 50 state mission. Tons of strip clubs in Providence.

Really? That's probably because the mafia has still got a presence there. That's what I heard. People always lie about the mafia, though, especially old Italian guys. Yeah. There is cool where they have, like, if I remember, right, all these, like, houses, they have, like, stamps on them of, like, when they're built, all, like, 17s and 1800s. Yeah. Old history.

Good old days. Yeah. Yeah. What are the worst states you've been to? Well, it just depends because there's beautiful states with not much culture, like Colorado. And then there's ugly states with a ton of culture. Like? Florida.

Alabama, but there's pretty parts of it. That's a thing, too. New York, Pennsylvania, you know, Jersey. I like Jersey. Overall, South Dakota, I'm not a fan of, except for the Black Hills region. What's the Black Hills? Black Hills is like Sturgis, Deadwood, Spearfish, Rapid City,

you know, where it's all like hilly, like Mount Rushmore, crazy horse, cowboys and Indians. Where have you found the most surprising people? Surprisingly cool or surprisingly fucked up. I guess, ooh. I was going to say cool, but yeah, I guess fucked up. Reno, Nevada is pretty dope. people who live in Reno are sick they're very accommodating and they're stoked they're not always

hating on shit you know if you go to Phoenix everyone's always either on California's nuts or they're hating on California like if you go to a dive bar right now in Phoenix Arizona let's say you go to a bar called Gracie's and you go to the patio and someone brings up actually you only have to bring it up half the people are like yo I'm about to go to LA next week and do a fucking about to go on Melrose and do a little streetwear collab with so-and-so da-da-da and then if you the other people are like fuck California man those people are ruining Arizona dude da-da-da-da-da Reno isn't really like that They're kind of just happy to be themselves. They're not really on anybody's nuts, which is cool.

Yeah, interesting. Second Cities. Sacramento's dope. That's how Sujo was outside Shanghai. It was like 15 million people or 9 million. They were like, we're just a sleepy town outside Shanghai. Yeah. And they're just like, we're not in competition with anybody.

Isn't it crazy? There's cities in China that have like 100 million people or 5 million. You never even heard of the name. Never even heard of it. And it's so big. It's a size of Phoenix. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, we're just like a nothing town.

That's how you know America will win the culture war. against China because we got towns with like 100,000 people that everybody knows. Yeah, what does they know? Yeah. Where else have you been outside in the world? Let's look at the map real quick. Okay. Been to every state in Canada, pretty much, except for Yukon Territory.

Been to Mexico. How long did you stay in Vietnam doing that backpacker route? I was just a couple of weeks, man. Just in Vietnam? Yeah, just in Vietnam. I had the best time, though. I honestly can't wait to go back. damn what did you get into what food you eat uh just mostly fuh and bonnese and all the regular

shit but i was staying with my homie out there who's a graffiti artist he writes 60 i didn't realize his girlfriend is like the kim kardashian of vietnam and uh owen ohan h the queen the queen maybe she's not but she's really like a famous influencer out there and she was telling she was telling a bunch of shit about vietnam Damn, she looks hot. All of the culture out there. But it was cool because it was like I was with the homie 60 who's like the graffiti top dog of the town. And then she is like the top influencer of Saigon.

So they really showed me like the ins and outs of the town. You know, like actually what to do? Actually cool shit, not just like tourist trap brothels. Are you into graffiti? It was. Well, yeah, I am. But that's what sucks about graph as you go to jail. Ooh.

Do Melbourne they have those like graffiti alleys where you like just go for it? Melbourne is damn near. Graffiti is basically legal there, unless you paint the trains. They don't play around when it comes to the trains. But you can stop the public transit in Melbourne. You can put your hands on the sensors and shit at the train yards to make the trains stop, and you can just paint them, and you get like a domestic terrorism charge. It's like some post-9-11 shit.

Like if you fuck with major transport, you get like some crazy enhancement. So I do know people who have gone to jail for like five years for writing graffiti in Melbourne, but I also know people who paint every day and cops, like honk at them and be like, nice work, mate, you know, while they're painting. I love that accent. Sounds like a punch in the face and buried in mud. That's also a great part about Melbourne, Australia, is you see best friends fight, and then they get a beer together 30 minutes later.

And it's just fun. Because there's no guns. Right. So your ego can only take you so far. Yeah. It can take you as far as your hands can work. But you can't just go to your fucking car and get a gun and kill everybody. I'm coming my car.

I'm coming back here. I'm killing all. y'all yeah you know movie that is no i haven't seen i haven't seen enough shit um um what were we saying fuck you've been to saudi arabia no you no i don't want to go there have you been anywhere there in the middle east uh yeah i went to dubio and a layover one time and uh i'm on the way to my homie's wedding in nigeria because he's nigerian yeah and uh it was like a 12 hour layover do you send him money uh do i send him money well i would but his family's actually high up in the Nigerian government, which means they have more money than all of us combined.

Because if you're in Nigerian government, I appreciate that makes you like that's when I send you the email. It's like they're principals, but they need a little money to get out and then they can give you much of money back. Maybe that's how he got to America. We're not sure. Did I know somebody who fell for that scam? No way. Yeah, my friend's brother. Wow. Yeah, no, not old person. Wow. This is like a 19 to 25 year old, something like that range. And you started getting cunty to everybody. And they're like, why are you so like uppity and like mean and he's like well i'm about to make a lot of money and you guys are going to be fucking begging me for so wow he really fucking dug his own grave with that vibe then it came out how

and people like are you kidding you're not getting a new house my grandfather i'm not going to say shit i already said it we can cut that little part someone in my family has has gotten catfished by nigerians really yes so there's an anti-nigerian sentiment on one side of my family but the other side is very pro because one of our co-hosts is nigerian and he's pro that scam well i'm sort of If you're a Nigerian kid living in a small city or village or neighborhood Legos, and you can successfully convince an American douchebag to give you $1,000, I'm more than likely on your team. Yeah, it's like, I just need some help getting out.

But it's like, there's just that feeling of like, I want this money. Yeah. Okay, I got lucky. They reached out to me. And not an ounce of, I mean, why me? There's no way. Why would they reach out to me? I don't know anyone in Nigeria.

Yeah. I think scammers go after ego, too, you know. like they can probably tell if you're like if you if you're like a narcissistic personality i mean catfish people most people will get catfish for like 75 year old dudes who will match with someone who has an anne hathaway profile picture on facebook and they're so juiced on themselves that they're like yeah makes sense i'm the fucking man of course ella enchanted wants me catfish like sexually catfish i know a guy who got that catfished sexually but just on on different dating apps yeah oof that's a great one is to be like wait so you never met her but you're sending her

But like you said, someone who has a high ego, extreme narcissistic trait might be like, yeah, bro, I'm a silver fox. Yeah, it's the young ones that I've seen as catfish for the sex. But they don't get it. They don't get late, is what you're saying? No, it's some dude. But when they get catfish, do they send money? Are they sending pictures? They send money or Picks?

Because Picks is like blackmail from me. Then this blackmail, right. I knew a guy that was like telling this chick to like, hey, all right, you catfish me, this dude. uh please stop and they would just keep posting those messages like look at this creep still trying what was he saying first he was doing sexual shit but what kind of shit damn i wish i knew because that makes all the difference because if it's like come over baby i love you it's not that weird but if you're like to meet you let's go out on a date hit me in the paddle also even light flirting on like on text seems terrible yeah like anything you say

yeah it's all got christ hansin vibes touch you even the winky face i'm like gotta be careful i was with bobby lee once we were hooking up with chicks in like a two-bed uh hotel room and i was like making out with mine bobby kept trying with his and i just kept hearing and go like can i touch your shoulder can i just touch your shoulder they're bit cute i just want to touch your shoulder like this sort of cool

i'm just like trying it's where it all begins man just go for it uh where do you want to go everywhere dude i'm trying to think of a better answer than that Can you do your stuff foreign? Yeah, definitely, dude. But whenever we have foreign correspondence,

we prefer for them to be from the community unless it's somewhere mad close like Canada. But even when we do Native American coverage, we send Native Correspondence because we're like,

dude, I'm just some English-speaking white dude. Like, not everybody wants to talk to me. I also might not have the wherewithal to ask the right questions and shit. You don't know what to ask.

Yeah, if it's New Zealand, like even we had something in New Zealand, I'm like, let's just hire a New Zealand correspondent so they can like have the base knowledge to work off of.

get those face tattoos. Yeah, that shit's sick. I definitely want to go to Morocco because my girl's dad is from there and she's like barely ever met him, kind of. How do you mean him? Just rub the bottle three times and hope he comes out? Some like that. Or we have to track him down.

He has no foam, but he like smokes a ton of weed. He lives in Rabots. We're just going to get there and just try to follow the aroma. Robots where they give out weed at the coffee shelves. I don't know, dude. I think so. Where do you want to go next? Morocco's high on the list.

Oh, so we're up. Morocco's a level one for us. What is? Level one of what? desire yeah level one of desire not the american travel ranking yeah okay sorry to where'd you come with this list i love that the ranking system i just thought of it this morning no really it sounds like legit what's a four again a four is a place so one is a place that has the energy that sucks you in and just magnetic you don't have to know anybody or have any plan

you can just show up and have a dope-ass time new york sf back in the day paris places like that i would even say havana's kind of like that two is it's a cool city you just have have to have a little bit of a plan or you're going to be stuck in some sanitized commercial district like philadelphia you'd have you'd want to know all right i'm going to go to the italian market i'm going to walk around fish town you have to at least know a thing or two if you want to have a good time as a tourist three is the place sucks mostly like 60% of the city sucks ass you'd have to kind of like almost know exactly where to go like very specific you probably need a friend it's not something you can do by yourself four is the entire city basically sucks but

there might be just a one little scene or one little pocket, but you need to know people and you got to have a very specific plan and be willing to not get down on yourself if you have a couple shitty days. It's like, keep trying. Level five is when it sucks so bad.

There's no fun to be had. You have to create fun in a hopeless place. That's like murder a body and cut it up. Yeah, or like go to 7-Eleven and talk to people. Shit like that. Go to their house and play video games. Seems like those people out there are friendlier because like, hey, what's going?

They just start a conversation. Yeah, they're not like, are you from here? And New Yorkers are just like, what are you talking to me for? And they're like, why would I not talk to you? I do think New York has the best, like, public street energy. Like, the way people interact with each other here, it felt like it's more natural to human beings. Really?

Yeah, totally. People minding their business. Minding their business, yeah. Shared frustrations is typically how people connect. Because everyone's like, oh, these people are so nice in the South, but it isn't always real. Wait, it's country. It's country nice.

Or bless your heart, how are you doing? A lot of times it's just a nicety that exhaust. the actual people from there. New York, if someone likes you, most of the time, they fucking like you a lot. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you do get the thing of like when you live here, you talk to your like, your homies from the neighborhood. Exactly. They're not your friends,

but you recognize them and you'll stop when you're walking your dog and talk like 10 minutes about the Nix or something and then move on. How close are we to a Nix victory? What do you mean?

Is it looking unlikely? Unlikely. Really? What's it? 3-0? 3-1. They'll have lost. a ton this comes out are you serious oh for sure dude not for sure but like they're just

facing a better team pacers but i'll tell you what cities behind it this is as good as they've done since i've been here yeah it's a good one's like pretty excited morale boost right yeah and it's like they were bad for so long and people go like whatever it's like it's like if you haven't gotten late in five years and then you do but she's like i don't want to go on a second date with you you're like you know what it was cool for it lasted 100% bro it's pretty nice who has the ugliest women in america spiritually or physically physically let's just spiritually after that that's a good one and i guess we'll have to go city and not not state you can't go state it's too buried so hard dude because i'm not trying to be stereotypical

but like okay like everyone would say the girls in tempi arizona are super hot yeah but i can't really get along with them you know so it's like it's almost like you do coke do i now know have i Historically, yes. It's a great way to get along with him. Yeah. You're talking to the guy. But I mean, I would do more blow based upon how much I didn't like the people. So if you don't like, if I was like, I'm having a hard time connecting with someone,

just shovel as much as you can in your nose and it'll work. But if I'm in a sick-ass place and someone offers me a bump and I'm having a good time, I'm like, I'm good. I'll just keep drinking. Yeah. Fuck, ugliest. Fuck, dude. Oh, my God.

I mean, St. Louis is not doing it. and too good. St. Louis has ugly chicks. Generally. Philly's kind of ugly. Prettiest. It just depends what you're into. It's so hard.

It's so hard, man. Coolest girls. Yeah. Philly. My cool. Any girl born and raised in Philly is tough. I like girls who are tough who aren't like pushovers and shit who like don't. You know, like people respect them, like dudes respect them and shit, you know.

Girls from New York are cool, too. I just like people who are a little more rough around the edges and don't let life just happen to them and complain about shit that that's LA yeah yeah for sure the chicks in New York are when I moved here was like I couldn't believe how many chicks would come over a fuck and then leave that night yeah just like yeah I got work tomorrow I mean maybe my place was awful but um yeah it was like they're just like I got shit to do they're so like smart and driven yeah not like waiting for something to happen for them yeah it's it's funny like different cities have different gender culture and also countries like For example, in Australia, the girls are way cooler than the fucking dude out there.

My friend said this, that in Australia, chicks here, they make you work for it to, like, to have sex. In Australia, like, let's just get sex out of the way and then we get to know each other. Yeah. Girls in Australia rule. In L.A., the homies are way cooler than the home girls normally. In my opinion, in Portland, girls are better than the dudes. in the Bay in Portland girls are better than dudes okay in the bay girls are better than the homies like like it just depends new york bay chicks bay chicks over bay dudes

LA dudes over LA girls what's wrong with the bay dudes they're fucking crazy and what do you mean they're all criminals man I mean at least I don't know babies are slimy man at least the ones that I grew up around shot to the homies but big girls are smart they're into they're hip-hop. Criminality is deeply rooted in the culture of the Bay Area in a crazy-ass way. Maybe that's just

the world I grew up around. Interesting. This is the part of California no one knows about. Oh, I love it up there, dude. Oh, yeah. Well, actually, I love everything west of Reading.

Yeah, and then all this, Fresno, all this like western Yeah, like Lone Pine is mad depressing, dude. Lone pine. Yeah, everyone always thinks California is L.A. and San Francisco.

Yeah, to those people, I say, Shut up Look at all this Yeah What the fuck's Ridgecrest Is it all right It's a desert town Okay

It's near Mojave Which is the air and space port It's kind of pop famous Oh okay Ridgecrest is good Especially if you're on the way To the lakes and stuff That are northeast of Bakersfield

Yeah The bell is nice I love the Mojave But I've kind of overdone The Mojave a lot But I used to be a Mojave man What do you mean? I used to always go out

And just look for towns and show you used to love Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona, and Amboy, California, 29 Palms. What are you looking for at 29 Palms? Cool. What do you look for in these places? Solitude and, like, leather-faced people. Just to talk to them? They've got interesting lives and perspectives.

You always into, like, talking to people like that? Yeah, since I was a kid. Because, I mean, I might be reading it wrong. I haven't seen everything. But, like, all gas seemed like a lot of, like, let's make fun of you by just letting you be you. Yeah, now not so much. Now not so much what? Well, I don't like making fun of people as much as I do.

like I was never making fun of people in like a roast yucco the clown sense but I mean like I don't know I like to actually connect with people and now that I'm getting older I'm like making people laugh is dope but I like making friends more and the problem with all gas is almost everyone had an interview even if I connected with them a bunch in the moment the video would drop and half the time they'd be like fuck you right right you're mocking me yeah right and it was so formulaic that I would like I would have a genuine connection with somebody And it would come out and they'd be like, man, what? And so it just felt, it was just grimy.

It just made me feel bad over time. Some people, like my homie, Mr. Daddy, rest in peace, were okay with the mockery and ended up, like, embracing it more. But most of the people were like, this guy is a clown. And after that, I began dealing with what I call the Borat problem, which is where. Well, no, people see you, and they, like, act extra crazy wanting to be mocked because they want to go viral and you lose the authenticity. So it burns you on both sides. What do you do? Like, so my buddy works for impractical jokers.

Yeah. He goes, if they get a sniff of somebody recognize them, they're just like, shut it, shut it. We can't have it. For real. Somebody's like, pushing this. Probably is a budget buster sometimes. Yeah. But they're like, I don't know, man.

The way he looked at you, I think he knew you. They're like, we can't make it be false. It has to seem real. Because when people are trying hard to act anyway, especially in the context of comedy, it just fucking ruins it. Did you ask somebody what they do for a living? Like, I'm a penis inspector. I'm like, buddy, that's not how this works. Yeah.

you tell me the real thing and then i'll make a joke out of that yeah see i was watching some of your old shit back in the day you're really fucking pissing people off back in the day what do you mean just it was legendary like the slave ship's yeah i was like yo tv back in the day was way funnier it wasn't tv but yeah what was that on i mean kind of internet that slave ships one was it for a movie yeah paid for it by the shamwell guy he was like i want you to make more of those things um he wanted the rights the old and like they're not mine but he's like can you make more I'm like, yeah, let's go, let's go nuts. Did you ever get nervous making that show?

Yeah, every single second. What are you kidding me? I just couldn't tell, like, how do you prepare yourself for, like, a potential situation like that? Compartmentalized. I don't know how you do it, too, like straight-facing. But, like, compartmentalize where you're just like, I'm not really here.

It's just like a thing you're doing. And then once you're in and after, it's like, damn, that one's pretty dumb. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. But I just feel like people used to be more free with, like, trying funny shit back in the day. But also, no one was looking for it.

Yeah. So you really could get anybody at any time. It was actually like that when I first started interviewing. Even back in 2019, there wasn't man on the street style like there is now. It's everywhere. Like when I'd interview somebody, they were like, oh, I've never been interviewed before. Like when I started out on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, there wasn't interview content on the street of party thoroughfares online. Now, dude, I was in Scottsdale the other day, just walking around.

And there's like a little club district. six different dudes all doing what's your body count would you let will you go through your girl's phone and trade phones with her what's the freakyest shit

you ever done and they're just mining content and I realize from everybody and it's made it a lot harder yeah people see that and like hey I'll go next yeah

or somebody with an actually cool story is like I don't want the internet to see that right they know what's going to happen to it you can't catch them off guard and catching people off guard is crucial for infield shit

I saw one of these two drunk chicks and somebody brought up trans stuff and one of the chicks, they're both drunk and one of the chicks like, well, here's something I don't understand about it though and the other one's like, Megan, stop. She goes, no, but I'm just saying though

that if she goes, Megan, Megan, stop, stop, Megan stop. And she's like, you're too drunk to know your life is about to get ruined if you open up your mouth at all. Yeah. And there's no accountability for the dudes interviewing them. Just a totally insane. safe. It's firing a gun into this street.

Like, I'm just going to get you drunk to say something not completely clear and you're done. Yeah. So you can get views. It's crazy. It should be illegal, actually. Yeah. And I said that one time on a podcast, I was like, they should have some legislation. And everyone was like, well, then you'd have no career.

And I was like, fuck. But at some point, you're like, yeah, fair. Yeah, because, I mean, your life will be ruined. Like, the digital footprint that you give somebody, if you film them when they're 18, confessing to incest or making statements about the train. fans yeah they're gonna be 25 being like why did my IBM application get spiked right yeah you know because they're like oh is this the same you know because it's just liability the key word is liability as long as corporations are still concerned about that you're fucked one

day when we're when when the current generation is like 17 and everybody had an only fans and got interviewed on the street they'll be like all right fuck it it's the part of the game that happens that happens yeah as long as the gatekeepers grew up with no internet you're toast because like what's this all about and you're like uh-oh yeah i heard there was some guy who got drafted by the by the um whatever cleveland basketball team god i'm fucking hung over um but then he had posted when he was a high school that he was better than lebron and like lebron like hey we dug this up and now he's a teammate with lebron and lebron was like guys guys that was a 16 year old who posted that fucking chill but a corporation doesn't feel that way no totally

I remember I had to scrub through my Twitter and I remember I posted some shit when I was in high school I said I wish we could take all the Asians out of Seattle and replace them with bad Brazilian bitches I was like No but I'm like why did I tweet that shit Like because I love Asian people

And you know it's not like I have something against them I think it's tough to know what you were thinking back At any time like what was this joke based on And I bet it's because you love the Brazilian bitches Maybe you're just discovering them And you're like well I want a lot of them Oh, well, there's Asians. That's how we get the most Brazilians in here.

Yeah, exactly. But I just imagine they print that out and, you know, they show that to me at like a board meeting. And I'm like, can you explain this? I'll see myself out. But now I'll be able to because of what you just said. Me and, uh, was it stone? No, somebody.

We're in, uh, we landed at the airport in Kansas City, and there was some like 60-year-old woman holding a sign for her friend. And the sign just said Karen. And so she's holding up, there's a white chick holding a sign to Karen. And we're like, we should like, we both were like, let's take a picture of that and then we're like we might just ruin her life yeah if we just post that become a meme and then it'll get out of hand it's just like it's just irresponsible now

yeah becoming a meme is a nightmare yeah and it was like well i just want to post like nah you gotta know the risk is out there that's why i feel so bad for the hawk toa girl why because i mean even though it blew up you know she never knew what to do with that spotlight you know she was just out one night She was just out one night. And some content farmer is like, what's the best way to suck a dick or whatever? Whatever the fuck. And then she answers,

and now she's viral on these weird Miami-based influencer managers who are tied into these crypto schemes, convince her to make a coin, and they do a pump-and-dump. And she's sitting out there in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, watching all these YouTubers and reaction people talking about she's a scammer and a horror and all this dumb shit.

And now she's just sitting there broke and disgrace for the rest of her life. And she can't go anywhere without. people saying hawk to us she's going to be 45 years old your kid's going to be in elementary school and she's going to see her mom talking about sucking dick and shit i mean imagine if your mom was out there on camera talking about performing fallacious the mom thing okay sister co-worker anything someone right now it's not that we have to frame it yeah your dad it'd be even worse yeah that'd be worse because this kid you're gonna have it's like well i'll have to prepare them i saw a video filmed on sixth street in austin of

this dude describing you know what i mean getting his like fucking butt eight or some shit or whatever and it went viral got a million views and i thought fuck what if that was my dad um yeah what if that was your dad my dad talking about getting receiving antilingus as a young man you don't want to see that shit let's see 500 000 that's what she's worth right now still is it and that might be gone this might be old i think she's just why do i have to know about She didn't want to be known though You know what I mean? Like she's just out there having fun

And I feel like I'm responsible for this situation that she's in You are Yep Why? Because the format The format, yeah Yeah, how do you feel about it? I feel like I have to do something to help her

I just don't know what I'll do She probably doesn't even know who the fuck I am I heard the guy who was like Who filmed her was like What the fuck? I'm the one who made the video Why am I getting more stuff about this? I'm like, well you're like an awful person

Yeah But do you ever feel that way that you're like an awful person for ever done this stuff? No, not awful, but I did feel definitely morally conflicted about that shit. And that's part of the reason I made such a transition is because of the spread of that format. Right. When I filmed back in the day, if someone said,

yo, can you take this down? I would take the video down. But it's the way that the format has spread that makes me feel like I sort of unlocked. You know Planet of the Apes? Yeah. I feel like I'm the scientists who let the gorilla escape and take over the world. Yeah.

Yeah, we're like, hmm, how did we do this? But that's life, though. That's life, right. You can't go back to it. I was a kid. You can't control the domino effect of your creative choices. Your intentions weren't bad. No, my intentions were like to have fun and make videos with my friends.

So I feel about like Philip Morris, we were like, hey, before you knew that was cancer causing, you weren't doing anything wrong. I mean, you're overpricing cigarettes, maybe, but that's about it. But that's a profit thing. That's fine. And then once you realize they were cancery, you're like, ah, shit, we really shouldn't have hidden that. That's the problem. It's finding out and then doing it. anyway yeah even like I'm not gonna defend the Sackler family or anybody who made

okay I love them but they were trying to make products that could alleviate pain for people who had their backs broken and shit yeah and then they went to like right to that thing like let's hush hush the bad stuff of course and you know I'm not gonna put myself in the same bracket as Purdue Farmer or anything but I'm just saying sometimes positive intentions if you mask the downside can lead to I just don't think most evil in the world is consciously delivered yeah I think you're right I think you're right about that. And then, like, I wonder how much

if they hit you with a billion dollars if you could lie to yourself. Totally. And, you know? And go, like, no, no, these forest jobs, like, cutting down those trees, that's actually paying a lot of people's wages. Yeah.

And that brings me back to Ridgecrest that you mentioned. Okay. There was a, there used to be water all around there. It dried up. From what? Climate change, man. Oh, I love it. There's so little snow here in New York now.

Yeah, it's a benefit for you guys. But there was a lake up there that dried. up. I wish I had the name offhand. What's the one that stunk? Salt and Sea. Yeah. You ever go there? Oh, I love it there.

Bombay Beach is my spot. Bombay Beach is a census-designated town in Nyland, technically in Nileland, California that is the cheapest real estate in California that's on the base of the Salton Sea. And the reason it's so expensive, so cheap, is because it has the highest rate of asthma of any locale or zip code in California. Why? Because the Salton Sea, the silt is very top. And so as the salt and seeds drying up, the silt flies into the wind, and it becomes toxic dust that if you inhale is almost guaranteed to give you some kind of asthma or lung cancer later in life.

And you go there? Why? I just think it's dope looking. Look at that. I mean, you're seeing all the Burning Man art, but there's such a dope. There's a sick-ass bar there called the Ski Inn. Yeah. You should look up Ski Inn Bombay Beach.

It's got to be one of the best dive bars, I think, in California, if not the country. Wow, really? just look at the inside of it oh cool oh look at all the build that's what I do yeah pretty cool yeah it's the only bar in town

but really skiing a little rest after spending the last two or three hours coming all the crazy things or installations I've seen

skiing's a dope spot and if you you buy enough drinks or food they'll let you park the RV out front you're always an RV guy yeah RVs are the best because you get to avoid the three worst things about American travel you know what that is hotels rental car facilities okay hotel check-in and concierges yeah and airports those are the three most vibe killer things you can be in the TSA line the budget line and then the hotel line The budget line, when you land and you're like, sick, I'm in a new town. Like, all right, let me go get a car.

And you're like, hey, you're actually not going to be where you want to be for hours. You've got to take a shuttle to the thing and you've got to wait for it. So it's like a 15 minute of wait. Then you've got to get there. So now it's 15 minutes. And then you get there and you're like, I've been in line for an hour and 40 minutes. And you've got to be around these corporate travelers and just there's certain stuff like the sound of a room key when you scan it. I hate that sound.

I hate the sound of, you know what I mean, just the vibe of a run a car. Are the RV people all friendly to each other? No, it's not like Nomadland Depends where you're at So RV people It's one-third tweakers Oh One-third retirees

Who want to see Every national park And one-third of the homies You know So it just depends where you're at If you're street parking If you park next to another RV They'll come at you

Like I'm fucking What you mean? They'll be like Hey brother You know this is my spot You're fucking blowing it up I've got my girl in there We're trying to make some money

Get the fuck out of here You know The retired people Just like I don't know if they hate you Because you're young but they're just, they got a boring vibe. They're like, we, it was between a house and Florida and an RV,

and now we're on the way to see the Grand Canyon. You're like, all right. Just keep selling it to you. Yeah, you're like, what the fuck? Like, you're not doing it, ladies, it's fine. Then Yosemite, and we're going to dip back down to Big Bend. But the homies who live in RVs, they're sick. Yeah.

But they're more hippie oriented. You just got to get used to that. You got to see a dream catcher in a tapestry and not be judgmental. Just be like, you know, at least you're not retired. Yeah, I remember being at, one near Gatlinburg, somewhere out there, western Georgia. And it was like, when we stopped like, hey, do you know how to empty your fucking tank? And I was like, no. And the guy was like, let me help you. He was just like helpful. But I think that was like a retiree guy. Yeah. One time I was

in Tucson and I'm driving around through this place called Barrio, I need a super dense thoroughfare where I'm staying at this like friend's house. So I'm supposed to park my RV into the house. But there was a black water tank had a hole in it. So there was shit water. shooting out the side of the RV onto people's cars and onto the homes because it was like once it was one story like cottages like with spanish adobe architecture so it was like little santa fe looking houses just getting covered in mud and shit water and it was a full black water tank so it's saying 30 gallons of waste so i'm thinking i don't know what i'm like dude if if if if we shit stay in any more houses and cars that our home girl's not going to let us stay the night because it's obviously disrespectful to the neighborhood just tight-knit community so i hit the gas i'm like we're going to go to the parking lot and we're going to empty the entire fucking black water tank just in whatever this nondescript parking lot is i don't care what you know ramifications there is for the environment we have to deal with the situation so i jump out you know i mean there's a little building like a nondescript so i thought building next to where we parked the rv i pull the lever

shit water 30 gallons of shit water sprays all over this building and all over the the ground and my homie puts an iphone flashlight on the building and he's like bro we fucked up and I'm like what he's like this is an elementary school for the deaf and blind oh no their sense of smell is the most it's all they have

the deaf and blind you can't get in if you can still smell that was a moment where I was like I said a prayer oh no I asked God for forgiveness I was like what did he say he didn't say anything

yeah that's no but it could have been some carmic retribution down the line but it felt like I was spiritually cursed from that point forward oh no but we also had a new rule after that no shitting in the RV well you're right that's what you're supposed to do right no you're supposed to be able to shit in the RV depends the bus no but the RV yes after that there was no shitting before there was so what you do with like hey pull over I need a gas station sometimes outside the Walmart yeah yeah Walmart they have bad bathrooms though yeah you just can't

shit if you have it's like oh should i woke up the middle night i got a shit it's like well that's not you got to go outside the RV and use it on the ground pieces of paper to wipe your ass why can't you keep toilet paper around we just didn't think think that far ahead dude why is that the rule because if you mean or you could walk to it a m p.m. or 76 if you need toilet paper but no one needs toilet paper this part does rule doesn't it yeah this part does rule damn it looks cool that's the problem of these small towns it's one thing to do

and it's cool but like that's your option yeah I think that the dive bar or the coffee shop or a good spawn point if you're really trying to figure out what I'll do is

I'll look up the word dive bar and I'll look at like what has one or two star reviews and I'll see what the reviews are and if the reviews say like the bartender was a total dick I'm like I'm going

sweet perfect perfect that means you were out of line you were pushing them for no reason exactly it's the middle of a conversation if you got a five star rated dive bar it's like fucked out

that you know it's like the customer is not always right in fact they're always wrong in some situations do you find ever that when you go into a town like this you have to reset or any town you have to reset your vibe of like how quick people are going to be and how like or just like anything like that like it's like I'm in the middle of a conversation relax but here in new york it's like customer first we got to yeah we got to you know yeah reset the tones also just reset your expectations for like what kind of people you're going to meet like if I go to Okay, Ocala, Florida, or somewhere like Valdasta, Georgia, and I go to a dive bar, if I hear some super racist shit, I'm not, you have to just be ready for that.

You just got to be like, okay. It's like, what the fuck ever. Yeah. You know what I mean? If I go to Boulder, Colorado, I have to be okay talking to someone in, like, full tie-dye, like, trap, like, parachute pants and shit. I'm like, you know, it's all good. I'm, you know, I'm not going to make, obviously, you're wearing tight-eye.

You know, I'm not, I'm not going to, I'm not going to get cringed. out right you know if somebody is telling me about their acid trip and how they talk to god if i'm in where i'm from i'm like shut the fuck out right but if i'm in that environment i'm like hearing them out like this is where they are so you have to like okay the funniest thing is the fake racists though what do you mean so i think austin has that when someone is trying to be race okay let me put this the best way a fake racist will say something so specific that they can't be racist because you know they grew up around like a ton of black and brown people so a Someone who is fake racist will be like, man, I hate how they like, I hate how like Cambodians are always gang banging or like how they always play music loud on the back of the bus.

You'd have to grow up in the inner city to know that. So you're being a fake racist. A real racist will say something that makes no sense. Right. I was in a Fredericksburg the other day. It was a real racist. And I asked him, I was like, he's like, what's your girlfriend's name? I was like, my girlfriend's name is Jamaica because they named her after that.

Jamaica? Yeah. And she's white. And he was like, man, there's too many white people. getting influenced by black shit especially around here he goes feels like everybody around here is a white rasta and I realized

you have to be racist to think that because there's no fucking white rosters in Fredericksburg Texas. You just saw somebody with dreads once you see what I'm saying? Yeah. Real racists will like take one interaction they've had in their whole life and make it their identity. Fake racists are like saying things that's like that's actually not a problem where you live. Right.

You saw it or you're afraid of it but it's not even a real thing. Yeah. Yeah. Fake racists will make well yeah fake racists or white guys who are from the inner city who aren't racist who are trying to sound racist to make friends with people who are racist I think there's that we're trying to fit in with racism yeah that's definitely got the awesome vibe even though they all forget like Austin's the most liberal city in Texas yeah it's it's a big thing in Nashville too and just a whole they think that's what's expected

of them yeah exactly that's a perfect way to put it yeah it's like code switching to someone who's uh code switching yeah coding's a new thing Yeah, I mean, I do it all the time when I'm trying to get interviews locked in. You talk like them? Yeah. So what do you do now, now that you're not like making fun of people? A whole bunch of different shit, dude. Real reporting.

Okay. What do you mean? Well, I mean, I still just fucking covering social issues and stuff, but I'm relaunching all gas and it's going to be funny. I'm going to an adult baby gathering in two days. Explain that? Adults who dresses babies. I love that. And they have a mom who.

comes over and puts a pacifier in and gives them all my milk out of a bottle and though the technical name of the community is adult baby diaper lover abdl and it's been a hard shell to crack wow i mean so so how do you talk to them without making fun of them you just let them be there don't say anything i'm curious if they're going to be happy or angry babies though because it'd be really funny if one of them had like a tantrum angry babies because babies aren't just happy I mean that's like that

yeah yeah I listen you found what you're into so it's like fucking go for it so they fuck I mean this chick looks like she fuck I'm more with like a dirty diaper I'm more wondering if they shit

in the diaper well that's a big part of being a baby taking shitting it's a big part of it they pretty much only eat shit and sleep yeah and they get angry so I'll be upset if they remove diaper to poo or if they just always are always smiling and laughing you have a diaper as a child as an adult no have you yeah I did pay off a bet oh I did wear a diaper

all day we get one change that was it so so I I pissed and shit and then used that as a change when you shit in a diaper does it kind of composite smear all over your butt cheeks or does it has a little area that can rest in no I mean it sags but if you'd walk around it it would do but there was definitely a little composite because you're not wiping. Where'd you go? Where'd you go when you had shit, shit butt? Into my shower. Oh, no, you didn't go out to the coffee shop? No. That would have been awesome. Yeah, if I had to shit again, then I'd be fucked because no changes. You only get the one change. If I had to go out, though, I'd be like blaming other people like immediately. And I'd be like, dude, someone in here

fucking stinks. That's what Joey Diaz does with weed within his hotel room. They're like, sir, you smoke? He's like, no, I smell it, though. Like, tell whoever that is to stop. And he just keeps lighting up. Yeah. Yeah, then he'll light up again and he'll call down. And be like, hey, they're doing it again. Most adult babies, I know they say they've had rough childhoods, and they want to redo it, heal wounds by being adult babies because their childhood was traumatic in some way. So if I become a baby now, then... Oh, interesting. So you're just going to meet them and say, like, what's your deal?

Well, I'm going to one of their play dates. Are you going to dress up? No. I could get a binky or something, but I'm not going to wear it. diaper. Why not? Because I'm not an adult baby. That would be kind of cultural appropriation, don't you think? It would sort of be that. Because they probably got their own

intricacies and nuances of their community. You can't just show up here and be one of us, dude. Especially with the cameras rolling. It's like me going to film a gang and wearing a fucking red rag on my head and being like, what's up, blood? They'd be like, you're for gays. Damn, that's a world. What about Furbys? Furbies? Yeah. They're chill. They're chill. They're not as interesting

to me as the adult baby, so. Why? Well, because the furry fandom is like connected to anime, and it's, there's, I like furries. I've always stood up for them. Yeah. Because everyone thinks they want to fuck dogs and stuff. No, you want to get fucked like a dog.

Yeah. Or they call it whiffing. It's when furries have sex with, with no genital contact. But the furries, the sex thing is not a big part of the furry lore. Like when I first went to Midwest Fur Fest in 2019, I remember like this furry check me right off the bat because I was like what's the freaky furry shit that you all do and he was like bro this is not about that and he don't they almost revoked my press pass but I'm happy that furry came up to me and said what's up because that modified my line of questioning to get to the real

meat and potatoes of the fandom it's not sexual it can be for some but they had it they had it even divided where they had like a 21 plus not safe for work furry zone and then they had a more wholesome furry zone a lot of them have Asperger's and autism and they have a hard time maintaining eye contact and having regular conversations. So being reverting to like a childlike animal state and getting to make animal sounds and say, hello, my name's Dopeo. Can I pet you? What?

Helps them. So you don't have to like live like a person? You don't have to like do regular staring people in the eyes. When you're a furry that instead of having eyes, the fur suits have holes that have their own eyes that are googly eyes. So you don't, you can have interactions without the awkwardness of looking at somebody. And I have a hard time with eye contact too, not if it's. someone like you but someone who I don't know I've never seen sometimes I look at them like

why are you looking at me yeah I like looking at the ground I wear this mask out the other day that's dope with the whole outfit yeah the elbow of a mask but um anyway I felt like so removed from people I was just staring at people in the street passing by and I was like I'm in like a nice bubble yeah dude wearing a mask rules it rules I think that's why so many people have like held on to the mask shit from 2020 I don't think it's not just germ freak stuff I think it's like a social crush a little bit anonymous yeah Yeah, definitely, bro. Where do you want to go, Morocco?

Back to Southeast Asia. After this season of, what's that goddamn show called that took place in the Philippines? Amazing Race? No, White Lotus. Yeah, after White Lotus, I want to go to Thailand. I fell for the marketing. They have to have subsidized that show in some way because I'm, like, all about it. I haven't watched.

I've heard about it, though, and it seems like everybody's way in. It's dope, do. Really? Asia, it would be cool. I mean, I want to go to North Korea real bad, but they said I can't go. Who's, oh, you're too look-upable. No, not even. that they just after the auto warm beer incident where that poor guy from ohio like obviously got

tortured to death or something up there they don't let americans in but they've reopened for tourism what's auto warm beer auto is a guy named him auto auto warm beer he was an american tourist who had this um he signed up for this shit called young pioneer tours which is like the cutting edge tourism if you want to go some more really dangerous like syria right now you can go with the young pioneer they'll take really yeah wow so he went with young pioneer tours and allegedly Allegedly, this is according to North Korea. North Korea, Middle East, North Korea tourists. Damn.

Yeah, this place is legit. Allegedly, Otto stole like a propaganda poster from his hotel room and they caught him trying to take it to the airport. So they held him there and they basically brought him back to America as like a vegetable to his family. Yeah, when they finally gave him back, they were like, oh, he's done. Yeah, yeah. We're not going to fully kill him, but like.

Yeah. And so North Korea's narrative is that he caught some kind of parasite that his immune system wasn't used to handling. But they just tortured him until he was veggie? The U.S. narrative is that he was tortured into a veggie. state. But, so basically, young pioneer tours has reopened their North Korean travel. See? Yeah. But Americans can't do it now. They can't go to North Korea for any reason. Why?

Because of the auto incident. They just, they feel like it's just a recipe for disaster. I don't know. They just don't, they're not ready. So I'm going to send my Mexican correspondent, Hesway to North Korea, which is going to be fucking hilarious. He might be the first Mexican in North Korea history, right? Yeah. But Michael, Alice went. I've had a few people I know go, or one. Henry Rollins went, but they were like, hey, this was before the auto war, but he was like, you can't find out that he's Henry Rollins. Somebody was like, hey, what are you doing?

Shut the fuck up, man. Don't call attention to me. How are they going to film out there? You can film. You can. In the four places they let you go. Right. The hotel, you know, it's like a, they curate the whole experience to where there's

no way that you can see an authentic North Korean person when you're traveling there. Experience city life in LeViv. and Kiev. See how life continues in mid-war. Leviv has been chill the whole war. Really?

I've been there to run a war. Is Kiev bad? Yeah. I mean, it was supposed to be like Berlin 2.0 before the war, you know, potties, all night dancing. Yeah.

And then things kind of fucked up and now Athens is like Berlin 2.0. Athens, Greece. Athens. Yeah. Have you been there? No, I just heard it's sick as fuck.

I mean, dude, you talk about painting train cars up. Yeah, my homie merch from L.A., shout to him. He's a graffiti writer. He just went to Athens. He was like, I've never had more fun anywhere in my time.

A graffiti writer, not artist? Difference, yeah. What's the difference? A graffiti writer is a tagger at heart, a vandal, someone embracing more fundamental elements of the culture. A graffiti artist is generally more concerned with marketing themselves to galleries, collaborating with brands. Whoa, interesting.

Or it's just those big bat, like big. Yeah, because graffiti is supposed to be at odds with private property. It's all about, yeah. Street art and graffiti are different. A graffiti writer and a graffiti art. to Straso different. Are those all part of street art? Street art would be at odds with graffiti in every way.

But there's some who have, like, street art would be wheat pasting, stencils, legalized murals. That's why sometimes you'll see, especially on like the different fault lines of the class war, like in Bushwick or Bedstey, you'll see graffiti writers doing big fill-ins over murals. To say fuck off? Yeah, because,

street art is kind of a corporate and state tool to make a place look edgy normally it's like a sanitized way it's basically like the commercial hybrid of graffiti and graffiti is supposed to say fuck you I do like

I do like street art I do like a mural nothing wrong with that I like murals too I do like a painting instead of a brick wall it's like well paint it up nice make it look like put some art on there but a lot of graffiti writers see

street artist is not paying their dues in the graffiti world. For example, a lot of the really respected street artists, like Barry McGee, for example, he began as a graffiti writer. So he has so much respect that street art is kind of his like magnum opus. Like he's allowed to do murals because he has the respect because he's paid his dues to the culture first.

He already showed you to do the illegal stuff. Yeah, decades. Whereas some people just go straight to street art, city commission murals, stuff like that, doing Ace Hotel lobby art. artwork and without ever paying their dues to graph interesting and graph create graffiti created street art so it's kind of seen as like you know i mean uh-huh interesting you got to like show that you earned it if you look up like war on murals yeah like you can see it like what i'm talking about

like graffiti you know what i mean the war murals project no oh like just say like graffiti writers versus murals okay oh you can see it right there oh interesting so they're they're fucking with this thing yeah basically yeah like this is kind of an example so they're not just okay I always thought they were doing this just be like I need a wall the paints on but they're really like so if there was a brick wall they'd leave that alone yes they would paint a brick wall too but this is a state this is a statement because probably this wall that got mural on it probably had graffiti on it before oh the city used they don't do

this anymore what what the city especially New York used to do is they would take walls and spots they're like big spots for graffiti writers and they say okay since since it's like a diss for graffiti writers to go on top of each other we're going to commission a mural here and that's going to stop the graffiti problem and then those guys the writers the taggers have caught on I've been like no this is our wall this is our spot so I guarantee you none of the writers none of the taggers who have tagged on this mural came together they all just and be like yeah but it's a shared philosophy interesting so it's really like protest pretty much it was just a rude way to like fuck up something nice it's protesting the bastardization or

commercialization of graffiti and once I tell you that when you walk around you'll see it a lot more yeah but like I said if this muralist was someone that was like a well-respected tagger first nobody would touch it interesting I always thought they were trying to add their name to something beautiful too and it was just like oh let me get in on those no way no oh that's some that's cool i've learned something um you got any travel tips um for america yeah or anywhere in general i mean it's it's going to sound cliche but just keep an open mind man you know just like try to let i mean it's good to be safe but try to let go of preconceived notions about places you know and just have an open mind like when i first went to

Nebraska, my first thought was like, this place is going to suck. It's like a punchline. And then I was like, okay, I'm in Omaha for a week or two. I'm like, I'm having a good time. Omaha underrated too. Milwaukee underrated, Omaha underrated. Omaha is dope, dude. Did you go to the, I didn't get there, Chef Boiardi statue?

No. Is he a real person that lived? I don't know. I might be wrong about this. Oh, no, you're right. Okay, Alice Obscura. Wow, he's a real guy. What?

His name, okay, boyardie. I'm on to it here. Atore Biarty He anglicized his name Or maybe they did No one's gonna be able to understand What Bwaiiarty A lot of big titans of the industry

Are from Omaha You know Warren Buffett's still out there Warren Buffett's still in the same McDonald's Every day, right? That can't be right That can't be true He just says that for credibility Yeah, no way

Keep an open mind It will help you do a lot of stuff Keeping an open mind is crucial Yeah I would tell people who want to travel internationally, do it. But if you're American, give America a shot first. Try to learn your backyard, your own backyard,

a little bit better before you, you know, try to find yourself elsewhere. Because if you're American, you will learn a lot from understanding the ends and outs of this place. It is interesting. They call America like one thing. Like when you're like, oh, Americans are this? Like, Americans, hold on.

Like Nebraska is so much different than New Yorkers. Oh, yeah. It's like 50 countries. And Cali and all these stuff. Yeah, it's like, it's almost insulting to be like. Yeah. That's what I try to take in other places where I'm like, what's Vietnam? I'm like, where?

Like, Ho Chi Minh, and I've never been to Hanoi, but Hocchemen is like, Hanoi is supposedly way more French. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, you can't really sum them up together. And probably, if you ask a Vietnamese person, like, what's the difference between Hocchima and Hanoi, like two different planets? Yeah, they're like, oh, those, they suck. Yeah.

Yeah. I would say, like, you know. Keep an open mind, it's not bad. America could heal by exploring itself, you know. That's funny, too, because a lot of people are like, there's a stereotype like americans don't go anywhere they just stay in america they do all their grand canyon they do all their american travel hawaii instead of like dr you know and it's like yeah but then i guess people like then only go out and don't actually explore america yeah

american travel rules it's the best i wouldn't trade it for anything and you can still live the RV dream here you're free yeah and no highway culture in switzerland you know i took a road trip once from warsaw all the way to to laviv ukraine and i was like oh i I can't wait to check out the truck stop towns and see like the highway culture. Yeah. I was like, fuck, they don't have that out there. Really? No, they don't have little rinky dink trucker towns and biker shit.

This is the frontier still, and it won't be that way forever. Where's Warsaw? Warsaw is in the center of Poland. Oh, oh, oh. Krak out was at the bottom. Auschwitz is somewhere between. I went to Auschwitz. Fun?

They had a gift shop there. Isn't that fucked up? Yeah, it is. No, I saw the gift shop at the end of it, and I was like, oh, God, oh, God, oh God. Thankfully, the stuff there was, like, tasteful. It wasn't like, it should be, like, vials for your tears. Yeah. So you can show it off.

I cried when I saw it. I really was, it really was depressing, though. But I feel like I had to see that during the Poland trip. There's that grief tourism that I just try to steer clear of. Yeah. I went to the killing fields in Cambodia. You see the tree where they, like, bash the infants? And it's like, you just feel like shit afterwards.

You're also like, fuck, what am I doing here? yeah you know like if the infants are in heaven they're probably like get out of there dude get out beat it there's a shit there's a um where um who's the guy from narcos Pablo Escobar yeah and so his that prison he built for himself is now like an old age home but everyone goes there for tourism and there's signs like hey guys that guy fucking sucked quit quit taking pictures here yeah so there's signs that remind you that he was yeah he sucked also don't litter yeah yeah yeah like he killed a lot of people he like destroyed Columbia yeah but then he built some soccer field so everyone's like oh i want to visit the

FARC rebels in the jungles of Columbia you know the guerrillas yeah they've been holding it down they're like still doing their shit my uh my uncle's wife adriana she's columbian and she hates these dudes sounds hot yeah she hates these dudes i'm not sure like if uh they gave them a amnesty and then revoked the amnesty and said now we're gonna kill you actually yeah i heard i heard they're pretty fucked up i thought they were a badass yeah and i asked her on time i'm like are they badass she was like no what do you mean what are they like i said like they just kind of Stabbed you in the back type shit. Ooh.

Yeah, there was this leader that gave them all said, hey, if you turn your guns in, we're going to call it. You're fine. And then they did, but everyone's like, no, wait, those guys killed my brother. Yeah, yeah. And they go, all right, all right, actually, let's kill him. And they go, wait, we only turned our guns in

because you said amnesty. And they go, yeah, yeah, where were we thinking that? Damn. Yeah. They control a lot of different areas. Yeah. You think they fight with each other? Probably.

Probably, right? And then they go all the way. So right here, down below that is Ecuador. And so they bleed into Ecuador. and that's where all the fucking drugs and shit comes into. Oh, there's a lot of drugs there? Yeah, and it's like the most unsafe part of Ecuador, also where the black people are, but unrelated.

Is it Guaya Kill? No, White Kill sucks, but that's a capital. No, this is like the north in the plias and like the beaches, but it's like that's where the slave ships got wrecked and they just washed up as free people. Because it was a wreck of the slave ships? Yeah, and so they washed up and Ecuador was like, you're cool, you'd be free if you want.

That's what they got lucky with that one. Yeah, and so that, but those areas are now all black, but the violence is unrelated to that. Yeah. It's all these people. Damn. What would you do with them? Would you interview them?

Yeah, I speak fully in Spanish, so I want to try to work that muscle as much as I can. You're not afraid they'd, like, get at you? No. Maybe after this podcast. Yeah. I said they weren't badass. Yeah. Which is probably, like, the worst thing you can say about a group like that.

Dude, can you take that back about us not make badass? Yeah. Fark, I take you back. You guys are so badass and cool, man. No, I said you're not badass. I think I needed a better word for how badass you are. Exactly. That's doesn't quite convey it.

all right andrew it was great thanks for the opportunity well that is the episode everybody once again that's at andrew dot m e on instagram is at channel 5

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