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Yeah, right.

And then like updated.

It's kind of like a barstool.

No, it's all right.

Thank you.

A slippery slope, man.

Slippery slope.

I know.

Well, first of all, I know I'll get right back into smoking if I do that.

And then they're like, it's different.

I'm like, it's similar.

It's very similar.

Yeah.

It's like those Kava people.

But they're like, it's not alcohol.

I'm like, it has enough of the same shit that I'm going to drink.

I just moved to Maui with my girlfriend.

I didn't know what Kava and Kratom were.

We went to a Kava bar.

They've got the big gourds, right?

We all shared one.

Got fucked up on that stuff.

It's not supposed to fuck you up, but it does, yeah,

yeah,

um, but it does, and then you're like, well, as long as I'm fucked up,

but I don't know, can you?

I don't think you're supposed to drive on it, but can you drive on it?

Dude, well, I mean, I've never seen it.

I don't know.

I don't know if that's just like, I'm just so tired.

Here's what I found, at least in America.

I don't know how it is in Canada, but if you're white, you can pretty much do whatever you want.

You can just say, I'm sorry, bro, I'm tired.

And they're like, well, drive home safe.

Where Where you been and where you going?

This is our Reece Travel Show.

Yeah, we're going to talk about travel today.

It's you'll be tripping.

Yeah.

Welcome to Ubi Tripping, everybody.

It's a travel podcast.

Every episode, we go to another place in the globe.

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today.

Appreciate that intro.

I guess it's Mike Lorry.

Yeah, a real fucking get out there and go guy.

Yeah, man.

I am Canadian.

Thank you very much.

The recent news was

interesting for us all.

I got the hell out of there during COVID, though, man.

We did?

Yeah, no way.

What do you mean, no way?

Like, it was just, it was really interesting because I think in the beginning it was, it was, no one really knew what was up, and then we all kind of, some of us knew what was up, and I went over to Eastern Europe like Romania Ukraine places like that that during the day there was there was a um

oh I can I can tell you a story that I haven't really told before too okay anyway but over there there was there was during the day there was the facade of safety then at night you just got drunk and drank beer but I got I got that virus from a from a tribe really if you want me to tell that story in yeah sure which is we're talking about where oh it's in Tanzania but to but that that wasn't the theme of today's conversation We have a different case.

Yeah, you can mention it, though.

Unless you want to get.

Yeah, sure, mention it.

Double it up when you come back.

Tanzania.

Tanzania's right here.

And where's Tasmania?

Tasmania's over here.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But we're going to Congo today.

Yeah.

Right there.

Okay.

Borderlines.

Close.

Yeah.

Across this river.

It does.

Okay.

How'd you get it from a tribe out there?

Well, everyone was afraid that people would, like a traveler would go give give COVID.

Can we say that word now?

Instead of Corona 19?

I don't know, man.

I'm a YouTuber, so I always get worried about getting demonetized.

Oh.

I don't think it matters anymore.

Look.

Tanzania.

Yeah.

That was your dad?

Yeah, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Nice, man.

83.

It's adventurous dad.

Not really, though.

No?

It was just like, didn't tell anybody.

He just left and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

But that's the thing.

He's not that guy.

Back then, that was the final frontier.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I mean, this is six years ago.

It was like, what?

That was six years ago, right on.

Yeah.

Hold on.

Wait, so yeah.

So you stayed with one and then they got you one?

Well, yeah, so I was traveling and was still making content and got really interested in visiting indigenous tribes.

It was a bit of a hard time to do that considering a lot of the borders were closed.

But Tanzania never really acknowledged the existence of the virus at all.

The The virus meaning homosexuals.

Well, that too.

Dude, because I was there

with my guide, and you're not allowed to share the same room with another man there.

They get really suspicious.

Hold on, hold on.

If they don't really condone homosexuality.

Like, you ever see footage from the 50s here and brothers are kissing each other on the mouth?

Yeah.

Where they're like, no, it's not gay.

We're brothers.

Yeah.

I'm not even thinking that way.

Yeah.

I would think they would do that too.

Like, sure, you can share a room.

You're not doing anything.

Have you ever seen that hilarious clip?

I think it was in Uganda where they bring in, I think, a trans

man or trans woman, and he's like, why are you gay?

Why are you gay?

Why are you gay?

It's so great.

But there was always

legitimately concerned.

Yeah, no, I don't get it.

It's like,

exactly.

Because over there, there's just, it doesn't, it doesn't, I'm sure it exists, but it's just so stuck in a closet.

Yeah.

And traveling with another man to save costs, you can't stay in the same room.

With white guys, they understand, but I couldn't stay in the same room as my local gut.

They wouldn't let it happen.

And it was just because of gay, or was it because of class shit?

No,

the gayness

that we could be doing all kinds of stuff.

I drove cross-country to get to L.A.

when I started after college, and I met my roommate who went to school with me, but he had moved with his family to Florida.

So we like caravan, like we both drove to Tennessee and then just like drove together.

Yeah.

And my mom was, it was right after, remember Matthew Shepard?

No.

He's a guy in Wyoming.

He got like strung up.

Gay guy, like strung up on a tied to a fence and killed.

Later, they found out it was just a drug deal gone wrong and not gay at all.

And one of the attackers was also gay.

So it was like this weird thing.

But anyway, at the time, it was like people were worried about it.

And my mom was like, hey, be careful out there.

Cause like,

and I was like, mom, we're not gay, though.

But like, two guys are allowed to hang out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm surprised it's not like that more in a place where it's like, would they burn you if you're gay?

What do they do?

No,

I think you go to jail.

Can I just say it is very refreshing to have a question that's not, how did you start traveling?

We're right into the reads, man.

I couldn't expect any less, honestly.

Yeah, yeah, good point.

Good point.

I mean, it's all travel, so that it's like

when I go on comedy podcasts, I don't go, how'd you get started in comedy?

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, you do a lot of those where you're like the traveler.

Yeah, most of the year.

I've been doing it for 15 years, man.

I was one of the first and the first group of travel YouTubers ever.

Like

15 years ago, yeah.

I always have waits

mic.

Hey,

okay,

you've been doing 15 years.

That's pretty fucking tits.

No, man, back in the day where, yeah, we do people were just figuring out YouTube.

I've been around for a long time.

Yep, we were talking about this before we started.

Let's get into Congo in a second, but like how it's changing and has changed.

And I'll I'll talk to like,

I know like somebody like 16 years older than me.

And he was like, when he,

so way before me, like years-wise, too, like, he was like, I went backpacking, and there was no anything.

It was just word of mouth on where to stay.

There was like a route, you know.

Or a lonely planet book.

A lonely planet book.

Yeah, that's what you had.

The Bible.

But it wouldn't cover like a new hostel

or which one's a party hostel and which one's a sleep hostel.

And like, and like, yeah, how do you even know which city to go?

It seemed so cool.

But that was the magic, man.

That was the magic of the world where, I mean, the lonely planets, I'm not sure what the turnaround was, if there was addition every year or what, but if there was a new place, it was all the backpacker word of mouth, right?

And even if there was a new one every year, no one got it.

You like borrowed your friends

in the hostel or something like that.

Yeah, you gave it to your friends.

You're right.

Yeah.

And so that was like five, six, seven, 10 years old.

And you're like, oh, that place doesn't exist.

You probably showed up.

I'm like, oh, what?

It's a 7-Eleven?

I used to, I was telling you, I used to go to the hostels and get the map they give you.

And then they'd circle, okay, here we are.

And then there's the bar.

And then there's this good noodle restaurant.

And they'd give it to you.

And I'd put those on the wall.

And it was one of my most prized possessions, all of these paper maps from Paris, from Bangkok, from Tokyo, all these different places.

That would be a cool way to decorate a place.

Yeah.

Or put like a pin in all the countries you talk about.

Dude, I thought of that when I was building this.

And even like, it's like I had the ideas, but like, I was like, I'll take a little, one of the mini Polaroids and then stick your picture to Congo.

Oh, that's a super.

But then I'm like,

this will just be like,

you won't be able to see it anymore.

Maybe pin, but.

Yeah, I mean, Thailand, boom, all covered, all Southeast Asia.

Yeah.

All right, let's go to Congo.

Yeah, what?

I said, the heart of darkness.

That's it, right?

Have you been to the Heart of Darkness bar in Phnom Penh, Cambodia?

Yes.

Isn't that a seedy hellhole?

That is where I saw, I found some live music.

I was looking for live music, and I was just like, one of those, like what Rolf says about like psychogeography, just get around somehow.

So I was like, I'm going to find music of some kind.

Went to one bar, they're like, no, it's only on Mondays.

I'm like, fuck.

Just walk around town.

But you know, when you're like on the way, you're like, I'll stop for some street food.

Yeah.

It's the journey is the thing.

And then went there and they were playing like

90s cover bands.

Wow, that's a very

tall

dudes

with smiles on their faces,

white-haired dudes with like beaming children showing their friends their cameras and then just boys and girls not quite but like

let's say 16 to 24.

that's exactly my experience

there was no live music but it was the the seediest club and there was old men yeah and children and and they were they wasn't their daddy well maybe it was their daddy but in a different way and someone threw a brick through the window that night yeah down down on the bottom floor And there it is.

Is it still open is the question.

Is it still open?

That's it.

3.5 stars on TripAdvisor.

The chicks weren't young enough.

It closes soon.

Oh, yeah, well.

The chicks weren't young enough, exactly.

I want single digits.

This is terrible.

There it is, man.

Yeah.

What a name for a bar, though.

Heart of Darkness.

And it really is that.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's their music here sometimes.

And it was just these smiling dudes.

Why'd you bring that that up?

Oh, because of that.

Because the real heart of darkness is the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the green heart of Africa.

It really is, right?

It's right down in the fucking middle of the whole thing.

If you look at a map, there's a few big green patches.

I have a biology degree, so I'm a big animal fan.

And been to the Amazon, it's fantastic.

And the next place, the big undiscovered jungle, was there.

Look how green it is.

Look at all this.

Yeah,

go to satellite view.

Satellite view.

Down layers, kind of like bottom, middle, other side.

Right, there it is.

Boom.

Look at that deep emerald green.

Wow.

Yeah, I went right to the middle, man.

Look at that red text.

That means do not go there, weary traveler.

This?

Yeah.

And then go, so go up like 10 o'clock.

There's a small little pin that says Boende.

Up, up, up, up.

That's an other direction?

To the left.

Left, left, left, left, left, left, left.

More, more, more, up, up, up.

Buende.

I went there.

The middle of the green.

So

this story has.

How did you start getting into this kind of shit?

Going to random places?

Well, like, okay.

There's a Stephen King book about a short story about some chick who comes into a bar.

I forget what it is.

Maybe anyone can remember it.

But she comes into a bar.

She's like got wild hair.

This guy's serving, and he's like, she's hot.

And he's like, what are you doing?

He's like, I'm getting to so-and-so someplace.

And he goes,

and I'm just in a rush.

Can I get a coffee to go?

And it's like, okay.

And then he's like, what are you trying?

She's like, I'm trying to get there before 9 p.m.

And he goes, oh, that's tight.

She goes, I know some shortcuts.

Then she comes back a month later.

Her hair is more wild.

She goes, I'm going to so-and-so.

He goes, what's your time?

And she goes, it's four hours.

No, it's five and a half hours.

She goes, I know shortcuts.

And then eventually, he's like, what's the deal?

And she goes, I just try to find shortcuts all over the world.

And then eventually I start going to places that are like, but like shit happens.

It's like rednecks fucking each other and stuff like that.

And then like eventually I start leaving and getting there like with less time than it should be, like only two hours for a four-hour trip.

And then eventually I get there before I leave.

It's a Stephen King book.

Yeah.

You know, and, but there's like monsters and shit, these shortcuts.

You should probably find deeper and deeper shortcuts.

And then the guy starts going with her.

And then once you start with this travel idea where it's like, oh, Thailand was so cool, it's been discovered.

Right.

Oh, where's the next spot?

Oh, where's the next spot?

And then certain people go to like, I want to see the Freddie Mercury statue in Montreux, Switzerland.

And other people are like, I want to go where maybe no body with that complexion has been.

And that seems like that's where you are.

Yeah.

Speaking of the next level for a statue, if you love statues, you go to Lvov in Ukraine and there's the statue of the guy who invented BDSM.

Forget his name.

But he's standing in front of his like trademark BDSM hotel and he's a statue and he's got a trench coat and his hands are in his trench coat.

You can put your hand in the pocket of the statue and you can feel his dick.

Wow.

What?

In Lviv, L V I V.

Amazing place in Ukraine.

And yeah, yeah, yeah, L V I V

L V I V.

Yeah.

I don't know what I forget his name.

Leopold.

That's the dude.

And so there it is.

There it is.

Yeah, and you can feel his dick in his pants.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

It's so great.

Look how scholarly he is.

Yeah.

What's that other hand coming out?

I don't know what that hand's doing.

Someone else reaching around.

Invented BDS.

Yeah, like it's chicken black getting it.

Oh my God.

Yeah, so, but that's it, dude.

You get it.

It's like you always want the deeper, more authentic experience.

And then once you go deep and you're on that bleeding edge of travel and you learn more through misadventures, you kind of want to find the next one.

Yeah.

Hi, guys.

I'm going to break in really quickly to let you know a little bit about my guest, Mr.

Mike Corey, Fearless Afar.

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Every week, we just go to a different place.

It's a sometimes super adventurous traveler, sometimes less adventurous.

All of them are pretty wondrous about the world, and it's fun to see their trips through their eyes.

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Nothing this episode I'm telling you to do.

This guy's fucking, Mike's nuts.

But it is his experience, and that's what we're getting.

It's just like, tell me about your trip.

Imagine your friend just got back.

You're like, tell me all about your trip.

Don't say, which restaurant should I go to if I want to go?

Just tell me about your trip, and you'll glean some info that way.

Mike Corey has a YouTube, has a website, and has a Instagram, all fearless and far.

That's his fucking thing.

He also is taking people on trips into the woods and jungles of Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

He has this thing called tribal rights, which are crazy.

Toronto, July 25th, three days, two nights in the woods of Canada, which are great out there, by the way.

Bring Bugsbray.

Costa Rica, five days, four nights at the end of October.

A retreat tucked on the side of a volcano deep in the jungles of Costa Rica.

This is the guy to take you.

If you ever want to do something like this, this is the guy to take you.

And it's not like fucking Segura's guy who's a Spartan who's dug fucking questionable shit.

This is going to be

sex-free.

Tribal Rights of Mexico, six days, five-nights adventure retreat hidden deep in the jungles of the Yucatan.

God, he's doing, he's taking on Temez Cals.

He's taking you to like hear the animals and do shit like that.

Tribal breathwork workshop, tribal

firewalk.

Guys, it seems cool.

Fearlessandfar.com/slash trips.

Myself, I've only got a couple dates.

I'm in Charlestown, West Virginia at the

Hollywood casino july 12th get tickets right now at ari shafir.com and i maybe almost sold out anchorage alaska no second show will be added there uh i'm just doing a show

uh for fun because i haven't been to anchorage in forever july i mean sorry june 18th

i think it's like 85 sold out so if you want a ticket get it if not that's fine too um At the end of the episode, I'm going to be reading more postcards that I get from travelers around the world who send me stuff.

They've almost been sending me this money.

And I'm also going to go into this.

We're sending someone around the world as a bonus.

I'll get into it at the end of the episode.

So stay tuned for that.

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Let's get back to it, you guys.

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Subscribe again, and let's get back.

This is the craziest one.

My core, you got to come back here.

Guys, fearless and far.

Reach out to him.

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Let them know how much fun you had.

Also, please in the comments, let me know anyone who you think would be great.

Anyone who's taken a big trip.

Somebody said Patrick Beverly has been all over the world as a basketball player.

I didn't know that.

Thank you for telling me.

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Let's get back to it.

John Ronson was another suggestion.

We already did an episode.

It was great.

Anyway, let's get back to the episode.

And the world,

if you have a good guide anywhere, the world's not that dangerous.

How are you feeling about guides?

What's your pros and cons?

When I do the expeditions for my YouTube channel, Fearless and Far, I find private guides.

But I have to find someone who gets it.

Because at the end of the day, if I want to visit, let's say the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania, the red robe, spears, they jump and kill lions, right?

You can find a guide and you can be like, I want to go visit the Maasai.

They'll take you to a place.

It's like they'll have, they'll take off their blue jeans, hide their cell phone, put on the robe, do like a little human zoo experience, and then

they'll bug you to spend 50 bucks on trinkets and they'll take you away.

That's not what I want.

It's trying to find the real shit, and that takes the right kind of guide.

Yeah.

They have, you know, you just said you were skiing, but like they have these epic instructors,

past instructors.

Yeah.

And some guys are like, oh, I'm good.

I don't need tips, but I do need you to get me in there 30 minutes early and I'll just go skiing with you.

How about that?

Yeah.

And so those guys are like, okay,

I know the runs that nobody knows.

That's exactly what you need.

Not someone who's necessarily going to...

tailor your experience, but someone who knows how to get to the places no one else goes.

Who can connect the dots?

Who knows the people, who know the people.

How do you find people like that?

Well, to find,

to be the first person who finds them, it takes

a lot of work.

Wait, you're going to try to find places where they've like

never really been?

Well, dude, the story I'm going to tell today, okay.

Sorry, I get sidetracked so much.

Well, we can start a lot of places, but basically...

I love animals, like I said, love the jungle, love meeting tribes and how they live traditionally.

And I think a lot of the things that tribes do that we can learn a lot from.

Like life life there isn't perfect, but they sing, they dance.

This is a lot of commonalities you see between tribes.

Like, I probably visited 25 different tribes around the world, and like they all sing, they all dance, they all share food together, a lot walk barefoot, they all get fucked up somehow.

That's like one thing across all cultures.

They get fucked up.

Every group of people from in the cities to the most remote jungles of Congo,

every culture of people has something to kind of like tune the antennas, whether it be

fucking ayahuasca or rappe or even in the Muslim countries, it's just like cigarettes and coffee, you know, boom, boom, boom, boom.

It's always something, always something.

Yeah.

I mean, here too, for sure, it's bar hopping.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's like, let's get loose.

For sure, for sure.

And so for Congo, it was one of the final frontiers.

Again, the jungle drew me in, but as I started to dive into the country, it's called the Heart of Darkness, man, because

it has had so much trouble over the years.

Like strife?

Yeah, man.

So it's the second biggest country in Africa, only after Algeria.

And they call it the richest, but the poorest country in Africa.

So it has incredible forests, as you can see.

Yeah.

Natural resources, all sorts of things.

It's green right there.

Yeah, it really is.

That is not what you think of

Africa.

No.

It's the greenest part of Africa.

It's the biggest jungle in Africa.

And so I knew we'd be able to find some authentic things there.

So we started off in Kinshasa.

And there's also two Congos, Congos, right?

There's the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then there's the other Congo, which is to the left.

That's it right there.

Where did they split off?

They split off.

I don't exactly know how, but where everything went really wrong was that

when the Europeans were divvying up Africa, like in the 1800s, Belgium didn't have very much.

And there was some commission, I forget the name, but they gave Belgium this big chunk in the middle.

But not just Belgium, this dude named King Leopold II.

Heard of him?

Yeah, so this dude took it on and basically created a giant slave farm to be able to mostly ship rubber, but a lot of things, but mostly rubber around the world and made it like a slave empire.

And this dude, if you can imagine, there's about a population of 20 million people there at the time.

He killed 10 million people.

10 million Congolese people.

What?

For not meeting rubber quotas.

And the first thing he'd do, so if you didn't meet your rubber quota, he cut off your your hands.

And then you're...

No, you're definitely not going to meet it.

Exactly, right?

And then he'd just kill them outright for not making the quota.

Killed 10 million people, bro.

So that country, that's why it gets the name Heart of Darkness, because there's been a lot of terrible, dark shit that's happened there.

It starts with the dark continent, and it really is the heart of it.

The very heart of it, yeah.

And so the jungle drew me in first, and as I started pawing around for interesting stories, we went to Kinshasa, the capital, which is more to the

west of the country, and came across all sorts of cool things.

Like, for example, there's a group of people there called Sappers.

And it's the Society of Elegant People and Ambience Makers.

What?

It's these dudes who live in.

In the real city.

Yeah, yeah.

Sort of.

Sort of.

That's the nicest part right there.

This is the tourist spot.

It's the majority of slums.

And there's this group of people.

If you put in S-A-P-E-U-R,

and then put Congo.

There's also videos of all this on my channel, by the way.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Is there any pictures of any of this?

La Sap.

No, only videos.

So these dudes, they live in absolute poverty.

They have no money.

But they dress.

Look at this outfit.

They dress all the way.

They got like sequin.

Yeah, look at that guy.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I mean, he looks like the most successful Delta Blues musician.

Yeah.

And they were the most eccentric suits.

Wow.

So there's one guy that we went with.

His name was Ekeko, and he wore an orange sequined suit.

And he was one of the most famous separats in.

What do they do?

They're basically, it's like a culture, but it's based around

how looking good makes, like changes.

So the society of elegant people and ambience makers.

Elegant people and ambience makers.

Yeah, and so in French, it's like le sepo or separate.

I mean, this is what Cam Newton's going for.

Those guys.

This is the outfit he's going for.

They're even not that dressed up compared to some of those dudes.

Type in Ekeco, ekeko and you can probably find the guy i'm talking about e-k

ek eko

and he's called the human

human monument because he'll just freeze and you go touch him

come on ikeko there he is that's my photo right there like that the orange one this one yeah yeah your photo that's my photo yeah oh it's hilarious wow that's the that's my boy right there the human the human monument so because he'll freeze and you touch him and he comes back to life so i hung out with these guys uh i got dressed up as as well, and basically, I just walk around town and stop traffic.

Like that guy, see with the yellow car?

Oh, yeah.

That's me.

That's me.

That's me.

Oh, nice.

That's me.

Are you trying to dress up like him?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so even though you can't see it so well with the resolution, but I've got like leopard print shoes on and shit.

Yeah, so yeah, that's us back in the day.

Damn.

That's like two years ago, maybe?

January 2022?

Fearless and far.

If you guys want to follow, probably

tons of pictures here.

So they just go out and they make ambiance, which also means stopping traffic.

So they literally walk in the middle of the street and just stop and do performances.

And half the people love them, half get so pissed off because the traffic's already terrible.

And you're a bunch of guys pretend to be a statue in the road, and they're like, come on, bro, let's go.

Let's go.

That's not the ambiance I want.

Another fun one.

See that really dead, that dead eye looking guy in the middle?

This one?

No, down.

That.

Click on that for a a second.

What?

So another thing I found in Kinshot, that's...

Voodoo Wrestling.

This is my video on YouTube.

You're all...

Come on.

So funny, you're taking a shot.

Because no one's really filmed this shit before, right?

So these guys, this is the priest from the voodoo wrestling

event we organized.

And voodoo wrestling is, I think at some point, the African people in Congo saw like Hulk Hogan and these kind of like bigger-than-life superhero wrestler dudes.

And they made their own version of that,

but they incorporated all kinds of like uh voodoo and rituals yeah and so basically it's like like ww there you go wwe

but they cast spells on each other no yeah yeah so she's bringing this guy back to life he's controlling them that is like low-level wrestling low-level wrestling has more humor involved and look at this so at the end she cut out the dudes intestines and ate them

So we organized this event, and this is one of the priests.

Wow.

If you go near the end, you can see them actually casting spells on each other and shit so picture you're in a ring and you you wave your fingers and you control their bodies that's her eating the intestines uh of of her that's shakira shakira was the was the current uh champion at the time and she i mean yeah you can you could a girl can overpower a boy if you know shows up shakira the man-eater man uh this is the end but basically it it's a little bit like like magic so yeah all right so you can they really truly believe believe in it.

This is her doing her finishing move where she puts the thing over his face.

She takes a machete, she plunges it into his stomach.

And

then

she's pulling out something they put in there before.

Yeah, so basically, but it was real intestines.

So, it's probably a bag of goat intestines she tucked into his pants, and then she cuts it out and eats it.

This video is demonetized, and I didn't even put the worst stuff in.

But everyone- Demonization becomes real.

She looks so real.

I mean, it's real intestines, and she actually eats the real intestines.

And so it's like the finish him.

Oh, my God.

And then after that, so I was in the ring filming this.

Look how many, look, they're so excited.

Look at all the fans.

Yeah.

So I had front row seats.

This is all filmed by me.

But the thing was, it was freaky because I'm like, all right, you know, I'm here for the show.

But she was possessed.

Like, she was possessed by a demon.

She would not listen to anybody.

And no one could control her.

So she did her little stunt here.

And then she ran off into the crowd and chased people with a knife.

And they all ran away.

And then my guide's like, We got to go.

We got to go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

And we sprinted out of there.

Oh, I mean, is that raw intestines?

I mean, it's, I don't think she actually killed a man that day, but she's definitely eating raw intestines.

I mean, yeah, I get it.

It's goat intestine, but also, ew.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah, yeah.

What a commitment.

Yeah.

So that was, that was the commitment to the bit.

Oh my God.

The question is, how often does she do that?

Like, once a week, once a month?

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Breathe easy.

Did she get diarrhea?

This is them casting.

So now he's giving him, he's making him eat a magic piece of bread that'll cast spells.

Now he's casting spells back.

A certain point, a dude pulls a snake out of the bread here in a second, I think, or an umbrella out of the bread first.

And then he casts a spell, like a magic umbrella spell, puts the other guy unconscious.

Bag of shit blows up, puts orange juice or grape juice on them.

I actually saw low-level wrestling in Toronto with the Polk Comedy thing.

Oh, it pulls the snake out of the

anyway.

You get it.

And there was one character that was a racist character.

That was his character.

Yeah, he was just super racist, and he was fighting a black guy, and they were fighting for like dominance of their race.

And so he beat him, and they started throwing grape soda all over him and chicken and what.

I was like, Don't!

And it really hurt him.

I was like, Don't do that!

And he was like, I'm doing it.

I love wrestling.

It is fun.

The lower level you go, the more fun it is.

This is like the low, I don't call it the lowest level, but we're using magic against each other.

You know what I mean?

The crowd, though.

He's throwing money to the crowd.

He pulled money

out of the bread or the umbrella, and then he throws the money out to the crowd.

Yeah, we organized that event, man.

We set up the ring.

They did a parade.

What were you there for?

We were there for three weeks.

That's it, and you got all that done in three weeks.

Well, we got lost for a week in the middle of there.

So the issue with going to these faraway places places and trying to stay somewhat pretty concise with the YouTube stuff is the, I mean, as you know, like the best experiences aren't the ones you can plan.

But I can't just go for a month and not have a plan either because it's like I got to run a YouTube business a little bit, you know?

Right.

So we had the first week and a half in Kinshasa right there, and we had those two events lined up.

So we had meeting the Sapur, the Elegance Makers guys, the Voodoo Wrestling, and then it was to fly from Kinshasa to Boende, the middle of the green, green, because my guide, Obed, was like, Listen, Mike, I can take you there.

I know you like visiting tribes, and if we go a couple hours north of Boende, I've heard through a friend of a friend of a friend that there's a tribe there where there's a big woman matriarch, and she's the queen of the tribe, and she lives in the jungle, and she's got a bunch of little male subordinates that are like covered their junk with one little leaf, and she like commands them all around.

And I can see if we can visit.

And so, when we got to Congo, he was talking on the phone and they had sent someone on a motorbike to go check it out.

He went like a day up, a day back, and the tribe agreed to meet us.

And so I'm like, oh my God, because they'd never had because they might go no.

Yeah, they might go no, or they might get hostile.

Or it's like someone showing up to your door now.

It's like, what do you mean you can't come in now?

You know how to get into any house?

Me?

Yeah, anyone.

No.

You just go, hey, I'm sorry to bother you, but like, I grew up here.

Would you mind if I go see my old room?

Oh, it's 95% of it.

Probably wouldn't work there, though.

Probably not.

Like, oh, really?

Did you run up here?

So that was our lead.

No, I'm from it.

I know I don't look like it, but I'm heavily albino.

It doesn't affect the beard, but the rest is really albino.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that was our lead.

Okay.

And so we landed in this little town of Boende

on the tarmac.

There's a video of this all too.

On the tarmac, there's two crashed airplanes when we land.

And we get in there, and immediately what happens is we

can see that you can see the dirt tarmac right there.

That's where we landed, yeah.

So we get half the city.

Yeah, man.

It's a tiny place.

Can you see the crashed airplane on the map?

Maybe.

Maybe.

There's

wow, it's a dirt.

It's a real dirt.

It's just dirt.

There was a crashed plane when we landed.

Did you just drive from here onto the runway?

runway yeah there's there was kids and like cattle on the runway when we landed they had this they had to pass once to scare the cattle away and then they they landed again you just like walk up there there's a path for that

dude no one goes there no one goes there right so you do a drive-by to light them up to scare like the cattle and kids off the off the fucking runway and then uh that looks poor yeah

So

they don't get foreign tourists there.

They didn't even know what tourists were.

So, dude, when we landed, we were greeted by one of the the governor's officials and he's like you have to come see the governor and so normally what happens in in countries like this in any kind of tribal place yeah you got to go meet the elder you got to like kiss some babies shake some hands anyone coming in they'll want to know exactly because it's it's so isolated

and um

so the his assistant comes and says you have to come see the governor so we're like okay great that's me we expected that dude

pretty cool yeah i mean imagine coming yeah getting to like wherever.

And they're always

happy to show off all their luxurious things they have.

Often it's like Tupperware and all these things that we think is a bit silly.

But for them, like having nice Tupperware and a can of Coca-Cola is like a symbol of

from just trade over the years.

Yeah.

I'm seeing if this plane is there.

Yeah.

In the YouTube video, you can see the plane, but maybe this is taken before or after.

Okay.

So

the governor's assistant comes, takes us to the the governor.

We go into this like big kind of palacey type place.

And immediately, by the tone of the assistant,

he's not stoked.

And so we walk in this big house, and it's a big, big ass living room, super tacky, you know, like decked out with all the weird little...

He's got his like...

posters of like rock stars and he's got these big elegant cabinets and all these things and he's sitting there on on a big ass couch watching television like full blast.

And when we walk in, he doesn't even look at us.

And I assumed it would be like at least a handshake or something.

But you can just sense the vibe is not good.

And so

we walk in, we're like, hello, like, bonjour, they speak French there.

And he just points to another couch.

And so me and my guide go sit down.

TV's still on full blast.

And we start to speak.

It's like, hello.

And he goes, Why did you come to my jungle?

And we're like,

I'm sorry.

And we were told to call him Votre Excellence, Your Excellence.

So I'm like, Hello, Your Excellence.

You speak French.

Yeah.

Mostly

and local languages.

And he's like, so I'm like, hello, Your Excellence.

My name is Mike.

This is my guide to bed.

And we're just here to, you know, see

the jungle and the people.

And I love the jungle.

And he's like, nobody comes here to

see things.

You are spies.

And we're like, no, no, no.

Like, I love biology.

I love tribes.

And he's like, what a dumb cover for a spy.

It's like, you have people in your country.

And I'm like, yeah.

And he goes, well, the people here are not very different.

People are not different.

You are here to take my trees because there's so much illegal logging.

And he doesn't even understand tourism because no one's ever gone there to see things.

So

he had.

Yeah, why would you?

Why would you?

Like, there's nothing to see there but trees

and jungle and tribes.

Les Palace de l'Étoile.

You speak French.

Yeah.

From being in.

From being in Canada.

Yeah.

And, dude, so he didn't believe us.

He thought we were spies.

I couldn't film it, of course, but I told him, like, we're going to make, I pulled out my, I had a little GoPro.

And he's like, prove to me that does not take GPS.

That does not take GPS, which is like...

Because you GPS pin certain trees to cut down.

Or like mine.

because there it's all about like it's exploited so heavily and every foreigner who's ever gone anywhere in the jungle is looking to cut down hardwoods or set up a mining operation.

How do you prove the non-existence of something?

Exactly.

And you can't.

I can't.

And he doesn't know what a fucking GoPro is, so I can't prove to him this isn't a GPS device.

And honestly, it probably does even do GPS.

Because I might.

Yeah, it's like.

Ever look for that feature, bro.

Exactly, maybe.

And so how this little jungle trip started was him saying, like, you're spies.

We don't believe you.

And he told his guard, he's like, take them away.

And he made us, what he said is, we are not allowed to go in the jungle.

He doesn't believe we're there just to see things.

Who goes to see things?

That's ridiculous.

We're spies.

We're here to find mines or cut down trees.

And we have to stay in the compound until the next flight.

And there's only one flight a week.

And so, and there's no negotiation at this point.

And the TV was on the full blast the whole time.

He barely made any eye contact.

I mean, I get it.

If you don't even have an idea of leisure to be like, I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but like to be like, oh, let's just go have fun and explore.

Explore.

He isn't, like, tourism is not really a thing for people who

don't have an excessive wealth, right?

So.

How did they get around?

They take the river?

The river, and there's a few small motorbike trails you can see there.

So he told his guard to take us away and put us in this little compound.

And we didn't know what to do because, again, no negotiation.

And there was no internet there, so I couldn't pull up my YouTube to prove that I make videos.

There was no way to prove anything.

Also, like the cover story.

It would be a great cover story if I wanted to cut down hardwoods.

Yeah, yeah.

Perfect, honestly.

So we were stuck in this compound, and the guy, the guard's there, and he puts us in this little

room with some beds.

And as he's about to leave, he's like,

Tomorrow morning, you go.

You go.

And he's like, I will not say a thing.

And so he...

Who said you go?

His guard is official.

Because he knew he could, I don't know whether exactly what he knew, but he knew we weren't there to fucking cut down.

His exes is in a mood.

You're fine.

Exactly.

He's going to disobey them?

That's crazy.

And so.

What a risk.

Exactly.

I'd be like, hey, he's a lunatic but i'm not crossing him yeah no i i wouldn't have crossed him either he was a big scary dude and again in a place like that you don't want to do any sketchy shit because he you can just disappear like you can just disappear and oh he got lost in the jungle right wow yeah but what saved us is the the border between his state or province whatever it is and the next one was only about an hour by motorbike and so the guards like get two local motorbike guys to get you across the border and he can't do anything to you and like leave at first light duke's a hazard Yeah.

Where it's like once you get over that county line.

Once you're gone, you're gone.

He can't come after you.

And so we went to bed that night.

If he doesn't like get him when you're like, you just left five minutes ago.

But his official, his lead guard was on our side.

And so the next morning,

we had like spoken through him to get two motorbikes and we launched out of there like bats out of hell to get to the border before anyone noticed.

And where this story gets interesting is that we didn't really know where we were going.

You know what I mean?

Like, we just had to get out, and we knew there were small motorbike tracks to other villages, and we knew there were some tribes there.

And instead of wasting a week in a little, like, dank room, let's get to the border, go like kind of tribe hopping, and figure out where we can end this.

There was a fairly big city that had another airport that was like five or six days driving by motorbike.

What's that city?

I don't remember, but it was to the to the east.

Yeah, I don't remember the name of the city.

Where is the?

If you zoom out.

So we got on bikes and we took off to the east.

But we were in such a rush, we didn't have time to really get many supplies.

And so as we were going...

Did you have money at this point?

I had my local guide, right?

So he had some local money and he could speak some local languages.

So we hit up a food stand really quick.

It's not like there's like ATMs.

No, no.

And there's not like, how do we even change Canadian dollars?

In these places,

I don't even, I pay my guide in advance via like bank transfer if I can, and then he handles all finances because the second a foreigner pulls out money there, because this is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, you just become a target.

So I always say, I have no money.

He takes care of it.

So

it wasn't Pomby.

No, no.

15-minute drive.

Okay.

No, no.

We went, like, we went days.

We went to the west.

Sorry, not east.

Okay.

And I couldn't tell scale.

Fuck, I wish I remember the name of it.

So right over the, maybe it's here.

Somewhere over there.

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Okay.

So my guide,

as we rushed out, he jumped in a food store quick, got three packs of spaghetti and like two cans of tuna for like a five-day trip across the fucking Congo jungle, and we took off, man.

Wow.

And there is a video for this

too.

But where the story gets kind of interesting and what I made the YouTube video about about is and this is all this is all covered in the youtube video as well fearless and far if you guys want to check out that's that's what the channel is yeah if you go to uh like this the tab the top tab there the youtube tab yeah i think i saw a record there we go lost in congo and trading a crocodile for a bed on the right hand side at the very bottom this this is this is the story

oh wow and so eventually what happens is you can see see in that what is that we ran out of food because dude only packed like three packs of spaghetti and two cans of tuna for a five day fucking dude why would you go in this water?

Because, dude.

That's so dumb.

Listen, let me finish the story.

Okay.

You're seeing like the climax right now.

So we didn't have enough food.

Yeah.

Four guys, three packs of spaghetti, two cans of tuna for like five days.

And so we ran out of food after like 24 hours.

And the only thing that we could find is these little villages selling bushmeat.

And so we go, one of the guys gets a crocodile.

We buy the crocodile and then we continue on the journey trying to find a a place to sleep.

And then because of the rains, the road flooded.

And

the biker's like, oh,

the bikes can get through the river, no problem.

And the bike

stalled in the water, and we were stuck in the fucking middle of the jungle.

This is what the road was like the whole way.

Fuck.

That's my guide.

And sometimes it'll just be like water.

You're like, I don't know how deep it goes.

Yeah, exactly.

And the guides were like,

oh, no, the bike can go through the water, no problem.

And then we flooded both bikes in the middle of nowhere.

And all we had was like our backpacks and a fucking crocodile.

And so we roll up to one of these pygmy villages and

there's no

advanced planning.

We show up and like, what can we give them as a gift to be able to spend the night with them because we have nowhere else to go?

And we gave them the crocodile.

We traded the crocodile for a bed in the village.

And this is, yeah, telling a bit of the story.

Jesus.

Oh, nice.

Nice output.

Yeah, those are are the there.

We go.

Yeah, so I'm kind of summarizing the trip so far.

And then I get into the details.

That's crazy.

So then they let you stay for that?

Yeah.

And then you were able to get some food.

So the next, the next, they'd already eaten that night, so the next morning we made the crocodile for breakfast.

But the problem was how was it?

It was good.

I wanted to put it on a stick and roast it, but they're like, no, no, no.

Listen, white boy.

Like, they call me.

Like, that's great.

Mdele is what?

Mdele is like white ghost.

What does that mean?

Go and catch up on your egg.

Yeah, exactly.

White ghost?

That's so great.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like

listen, Mdele.

M-dele.

How you cook a crocodile.

You have it for breakfast and you boil it.

So they boiled it first, and then they had some oil that they kind of roasted it in, and then we were eating like gator tail, like an apple

the next morning.

But the problem was still that

we were in the middle of nowhere, right?

And so what we had to do, and the bikes were still busted and flooded.

So what we had to do is we had to put the bikes in boats, and we took the boats through the rivers for like a day to eventually get to the closest village.

God damn.

It doesn't even end there.

And so, we got to another village and found a different tribe of pygmies and then went out for pygmies.

Little Midgies?

They're like the smallest people in the world.

So, they're the people of the

fully grown mans, like

five foot, five foot, yeah, something like that, yeah,

wow, yeah, and they live purely in the forest.

And they're a forest people.

The kids can climb fucking hundred-foot trees with a forest.

And they've always been in the forest.

Yeah.

Well, now the government's, because

people are taking land and want to cut shit down.

And the pygmies, it's like a borderline derogatory term for them, but it's still used, like the baca as a kind of pygmy.

But

they're being forced out of their jungle homes to live in compounds because then the government can organize them better, opposed to like a wild tribe living through the forest.

You You know what I mean?

Can't in Ecuador they had those and probably other places too, the uncontactables.

Yeah.

Where they're just like,

hey, we've decided they don't want to be contacted.

There is shit there, but they're so deep in, we just like lopped off a bunch of area and like, we just don't bother them.

Also, they'll probably kill you if you go too close.

Yeah, the pygmies are relatively friendly, but the governments still want them out of the forest.

Damn, we got to organize them.

They're organized.

They're handling it.

Yeah.

Do you know where else that's kind of like that?

The Mayans in Mexico.

There's still like a million Mayans living in the Yucatan, and the government's, because they're a wild people too.

And now the governments are incentivizing them: hey, if you build a crop and register to your crop, then we'll pay you money.

And so they become in the system.

Then eventually they're in the system, and they can tax them, and it becomes a whole thing.

That's so funny when you go to the Yucatan and you go somewhere like that or Guatemala, and they're like, what happened to the Mayans?

And like, we're here.

We're just wearing t-shirts now.

But we're here.

Exactly.

We're here and we're short.

There's millions.

And many still smoke.

And they're like, what?

They all disappear.

Like, oh, hello.

I drove you here.

We don't have sharpened teeth and like flattened floors anymore.

Do the pygmies, the ones who are there, this might be a super racist question, but it's just a question.

Are they shaped differently besides the height?

Like, do their feet, are they like more geared towards, are they like hobbity feet?

Whether it be

the genetics or just a lifetime of not wearing shoes, their feet splay out like almost flippers.

And there's a good like thumb space between, between their toes.

Wow.

Not racist, then.

Not a racist question.

Worked out.

Win.

It's a win, yeah.

It's okay.

Yeah, but it's cool to see a foot that's never been in a shoe.

It's like a whole different kind of foot, right?

All day, like climbing, all day, running through the forest.

And they say, sideways as they get up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But even as children, like

I watched a dude, like an eight-year-old boy, climb a vine all the way up into the canopy.

That's like over 100 feet.

Just like, no, no safety harness, nothing.

And they're really funny jokers.

And so as he was coming down and climbing a tree, another boy took a machete and started cutting down the tree he was climbing.

And they're like, no, no, no, no.

Like as a big joke.

They're a really fun tribe.

And they're always singing and playing.

And that evening, we all like...

The second Baca tribe we visited, we went hunting again.

And we

got attacked by a green mamba.

You familiar with mambas?

Besides like...

Kobe Bryant?

No, no.

Black mamba.

So one of the most dangerous snakes in the world.

So there's lots of dangerous snakes.

And these these snakes do not get on helicopters.

No.

Okay.

What do you mean, helicopters?

To fly over to beat traffic in the L.A.

area and then smash into a rock and die and kill your daughter.

Oh,

they'll get there.

Seven other people that no one bothered learning their names because they weren't celebrities.

You got you dad.

The mambas.

So I think why that was like the black mamba thing for Kobe, but like mambas are the most aggressive snake.

Like a rattlesnake, you get too close.

This snake will rear up, and they're like, they can raise their body a meter and a half off the ground.

So they can look at, yeah, look at like black mamba or uh yeah, black or green, but blacks are, yeah, green mamba, sure.

Black's the one, yeah.

So this, there's a black one in the middle there.

Um, but they, it's one of the most dangerous snakes in the world because it, it will just straight up attack you.

Like it, it will

race at you and it's faster than you.

It can rear up when it's sprinting to go.

Yeah, there we go.

It'll sprint after you.

It's faster than you and it can rear its body up, like 50% of its body, and look you in the eyes.

And it's got neurotoxin, which means that if it bites you, your nervous system shuts down.

So not just your brain, like your muscles,

your heart, your lungs, everything stops.

It's a kill you in.

Does that kill you or does that just stop you enough for it to kill you?

No, it kills you.

It's not going to eat you.

Well, not a human, but it kills things almost instantly because it stops their heart and their lungs.

And

look at that evil.

And see that photo beside it?

Yes.

That's like such a mamba.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they are scary snakes, man.

God.

Wow.

And it will chase you, right?

It'll come up and it will chase you.

Yeah.

We were in the river, huh?

What the hell is he doing?

I don't know.

Are you touching one?

You're in the river.

Sorry.

Go ahead.

And a green mamba, which is very similar to a black mamba, came out at me specifically out of a hole inside of the river.

Aggressive like that.

Like, I'm going to go ahead and get it.

Like a streak of green lightning.

To what, protect their young or something?

Or just territory?

They're just like a don't fuck with me snake.

It's like a rabid Rottweiler.

Like if you just, it just, it's just aggressive as fuck, and it's like, I will kill you.

Get out of my, get out of my face.

Yeah.

And so we're walking through the river looking for monkeys and shit to hunt hunt and this this green streak of lightning

bolts out of a hole and this the pygmy one of the pygmy guys comes up and just bonks it right on the head a meter in front of me.

Donk.

With what?

His machete.

Bonk.

And its head goes in the water, it pops up and then it's wait sideways with the machete?

Like the no, the like the flat part.

Yeah.

So like bumped it on the head with the flat part of the machete to whack it down.

It went into the water, came up, got it.

Did you just fucking kill it?

Just slice it.

Then it sprinted.

Then they killed it

then they killed it and uh

the the ironic thing is that's what we ate that night

should have been such a

should have been such a because you should have chilled with your little babies and then mole

uh and there's a there's a video of of this too um you still in touch with your mom i am what does she say about this shit i tell her after most

yeah well i mean it's hard to hide it hard to hide it it's all posted on youtube right that's my move it's like she she's not gonna want to know where i'm going I don't do anything like that, but well, I didn't try, I didn't make this happen.

Like, the snake decided to be a dick.

But I mean, you've put yourself in a position.

There's so few green mambas in Manhattan.

Yeah, that's the truth.

Yeah, probably exactly zero.

Probably right around zero.

Dude, I saw a snake in

my first week in Myanmar in Bagan, and I saw a snake.

I was like, is that a Burmese python?

I think it was just a small snake, but I'm like, I'm not taking a chance.

I don't know.

But you don't see that many snakes traveling.

Like, for the amount we talk about snakes and worry about snakes, we don't see that many snakes.

Even in the jungles, I've only seen a very small handful of snakes.

You don't see them until it's kind of right on you.

Well, that's, I guess, what happened right there, right?

Yeah.

Even in, like, the southwest with the rattlesnakes or outside LA, where it's like,

it's like they're right there.

Yeah.

You just, like, don't know you're coming up towards one.

Yeah.

Rattlers will at least warn you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you got to be listening for it.

And they don't, like, they don't want generally.

They don't want trouble.

Yeah, most animals don't want trouble.

This guy wants trouble.

This guy will create trouble.

Wow.

Yeah, it's like when a dog just goes up,

it's like, just let's not do this.

Yeah.

Just go walk away.

Yeah, exactly.

Why, why instigate something?

Yeah, it's a scary snake, dude.

But yeah, so they bonked it.

Out there, everything's food.

We were eating like beetles and worms.

Are you at all thinking, like, well, what if I didn't get that black mama?

But then what are we eating?

Or you're just like, I'll figure it out.

I eat what they eat.

And they were not worried about it.

They find food all the time.

Maybe it's not always like a big monkey or like a wild boar, but they eat anything.

They do a really cool style of fishing, too, where they'll find a little small stream and they'll take mud and sticks and they'll block off a section.

So you come in and can't get out.

And then so they take like little

leaves, like big leaves, and they shovel all the water out.

And so the water goes down in that segment.

They pick out all the minnows, the fish, the shrimp, and crabs.

And they just kind of put that all up in a this is called an emboke but like a little leaf package and they put the leaf package in in the fire yeah well anyway so like they cook everything in little leaf packages so it's like steamed cooks yeah and so they put the green mamba in that and wow ate it on the fire you read monkey yep do they so like i've heard from not quite this far out people they're like oh we had to stop that it we're getting crazy with it what do you mean like uh the meat would turn them a little like the wild monkeys were no longer safe to eat.

Oh, I don't know.

I know, like, with the brains, there's

a prions, is that what it's called?

These little like virus-y-type things that miss

when I did hunting with the Hadza, they the guess, guess what the best part of the baboon is?

That everyone wants to eat first.

Ass?

Yeah!

Good job.

How did you know that?

Guess, guess?

Because that's what I always fantasize about.

Because you love to eat ass.

That's why I mean, I lick it for a while.

And they're like, you're doing it wrong.

I'm like, uh,

just get in there with babunas.

Yeah, babunas especially rank.

But yeah, it's the fattiest part.

You got a goat sea it and then you really get in there.

Yeah, yeah.

But they say monkey meat's like salty.

Like it's a, it's, it's the best meat because it's it's salty and therefore human must taste pretty good too, honestly.

So is it they just stopped eating the brain?

Human must be.

Yeah, a lot of tribes still eat monkeys a lot.

But I think that there has been problems with these brain prion things that don't, I don't even, I think it's like something even more basic than a virus, but it gets in there and just destroys your system.

I don't know.

Yeah, because it's like, why else would you stop a food source?

There has to be, it can't, either religion says no, no more, right?

Or and

the place where like they're animists or something, they're like, that's not the issue.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I don't know.

But yeah,

they'll eat anything, man.

Yeah, we didn't have any shorts of food.

It's just like, there's tier lists.

All right.

Getting like a pig or like a deer, top tier.

Eating grubs and stuff, it's still food.

Right.

But it's not, it's not the ideal.

If they bring back like a big thing,

there's a celebration.

I mean, this is like when you're at the airport, you're like, I'll have McDonald's because there's nothing else here.

But I would not have it in the wild.

Exactly.

McDonald's is like star buffs of work.

Yeah, right, right.

Where it's like, this will get me by.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Damn.

I mean, that makes sense, though, that they're eating, so like, we'll get something.

That's got to be invigorating.

Which part, getting like a

some shit like that.

they they were excited about that snake too because that's they're these they i think that they get almost two meters long the these big these big mambas and this one was close to that and it there's a lot of food in there and watching them take this extremely dangerous venomous snake cutting it all up showing me the head like they're all proud and then like gutting it and then preparing it cutting into segments they would take um once they cut the snake into segments and gutted it they'd take the back of the machete and they'd break all the the spinal bones yeah So it was, I guess, more tender, and they put it in these little green packages and then, yeah, cooked it with a little bit of salt.

And it was good.

Did they get salt and stuff there?

They would get spices.

They would probably have to trade for salt because out there there wouldn't be any salt.

They would have traded, they would bring some things from the forest, whether it be those leaves that the whole country uses to be able to make plates and to cook with, like the cooking leaves, or they'd bring honey or something and trade it for salt.

And then just up downriver to like get it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And some of these tribes, there's very few like purely unconcacted tribes in the world, maybe like Papua New Guinea, maybe like deep, deep Amazon.

But a lot of these tribes could have access to a motorcycle, whether they have, or they have a buddy with a friend who has a motorcycle and they would do some the Amazonian places I saw was like, okay, we have goods here.

We got to get it to the like Puyo or some main town, Mokoka or something in main town.

So it's like upriver, which is like harder, but they have like a little bit of gas that they've traded for to get a boat up there.

And they have all these goods, and like half of it just pays for the trip.

Right.

And then they trade for a little bit and then come back with like some concrete or whatever.

Yeah, whatever they need.

And they would travel days sometimes to be able to get it.

Yeah, right, exactly.

It's like, and those people are so tough.

They're like, I'll just sleep on the street.

No problem.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just like the pygmies just

make a little hole, make a little like, take a couple leaves, drape them over top and just sleep in a, like a, like a cat would in a cozy mattress.

Do you journal while you're out doing this?

Or is it all just video?

I j I used to journal a lot, but now it's mostly on video.

I mean, that's a way to record it in a way that doesn't slow you down.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

To describe using descriptive words is going to slow you down.

Yeah.

And part of it's to remember, right?

And so it's honestly pretty cool to have it all at all documented, right?

It's just being able to film the like, for example, when the Mamba attacked, I wasn't rolling.

So

once it got like bonked in the head, I grabbed my camera and pulled it out, and you can see the guys running off into into the woods in the video, and they bring back

the snake head.

So being able to capture it in total purity and authenticity is a bit tough sometimes because you can't always roll.

That's my biggest problem.

So I'm like in a world where I'm considered adventurous to comedians and then not so much to like real fucking out there travelers, you know?

And they're like...

They're like, why don't you like film this stuff?

And I'm like, if I film it, it goes away.

I can't run after a train with my buddy trying to get on while there's a film crew.

I can't talk to a, I don't know how you do it, talk to tribes members or just somebody local while there's somebody filming.

They're on it, even the baboons or whatever, in the grills in the mist.

Yeah, we're like, they change when you're filming them.

For sure.

In the beginning, it was a lot more formal, but over the years and doing this, it's just been becoming more informal because little GoPro, just like this, is just so much more comfortable for everybody.

And I don't want to be the like the BBC style presenter where it's like, I've got a videographer that comes, but I don't want to ever be the guy who's there, like, oh, look at the tribe eating

the monkey and to be so distanced from it.

It's so much better.

You got a little GoPro, you're there, you're interacting, you're talking, you're trying, you're helping stir the pot of corn porridge, joking around, and then you can open up a whole different experience.

But to what you just said,

it's hard to keep it purely authentic when you're making content.

Yeah, Sam Talent, I don't know if you've seen his.

I don't know.

Wide World.

He's a comedian.

So he'll go places and film, sorry, and then just there's no audio on that.

Or there's audio, but he's not doing anything.

And then later he goes in and narrates it.

But he goes, I'm not looking to slow down.

It's me and my buddies.

That is a real thing.

And if his buddy goes like this, he goes, here's Mike.

He throws up a lot.

Yeah.

You know, but he doesn't have to like make jokes on the spot and disrupt his movements for that.

That's really good because that's it.

And then it takes the pressure off saying the perfect thing on camera.

And then you can go back and you can write some fun stuff.

And that's why Bourdain was, I think, so his show was so beautiful is because he would host a little bit.

But what he would write was always so elegant and clever.

And he'd go back to...

It's like he would explore it for a bit and then like, now let me take the crew to where these places are.

Exactly, yeah.

Yeah, he'd write stuff and he'd write, he'd narrate it later.

His voiceover was so, so good for

what he was doing.

And then you're not thinking of like, you're not acting in the moment.

You're not like, what do I say?

How do I say it?

Like, it's not done yet.

You have no idea what it's about to bring you.

And you don't know, in the thick of it, you can't even always put the emotion together.

So after a trip, you can sit there and be like, wow.

And you can kind of sort the feelings and thoughts of all the crazy things you saw.

And then you can find like a theme or a feeling to then go back and actually paint that feeling you had

through a story.

Henry Rollins said he doesn't try to write about stuff for six months after he travels somewhere because he's like, he's not sure where it fits.

Instead of just forcing it, instead, he could be like, I might be able to use one detail of this hostel in a big piece about hostels.

Or then I stayed in another hostel in China.

It reminded me of this place.

But it's like, I got to sit on that to be able to wait for it.

Yeah, I feel that for sure.

Yeah,

I do a bit of both, but I'm definitely inspired by Bourdain to go back and

the more heartfelt stuff is always done after when you've felt, you know, where the experience is going and you can reflect on it all.

Yeah.

And then also you get some, some, uh,

it's like the tough times become fun in hindsight.

You're like type two fun.

Heard that before.

Type two fun.

Uh-uh.

Type one fun is like, yeah, we're having fun, man.

Let's go.

And type two fun is like, I fucking hate this.

This sucks balls.

Yeah.

And then like a week later, like, that was actually pretty fucking dope.

That was so cool.

Remember that?

And we had to sleep outside and you were yelling at me because of this.

I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right.

I was so mad at you, but you're smiling as you say it.

This was type two fun.

This is like, are we even going to make it through this?

And then after, I was like, yeah, that's pretty fucking dope.

Are you?

What are the bathrooms like?

There's no bathrooms.

You shit in the woods.

But you go out.

Yeah.

There's generally some places have like a shitting area.

But out there, things decompose so fast.

Like a lot of the.

It's so fast in the jungle.

It's living and dying at all moments, all the time.

While you're shitting, the flies are already coming to eat your shit out there.

Like the circle of life is and like fast forward.

We went to

like a lodge or whatever in the Amazon right after COVID.

So no one had been there for five, six months and everything was broken down.

All the like the walks because like you're not stepping on it like wiping away the algae or whatever.

It was all breaking down.

Have you seen, are you much into Graham Hancock's work?

I've heard of him, but I don't really know enough about him.

No, it's like the ancient apocalypse stuff.

But one thing that people talk a lot about now that we're discovering is these ancient civilizations in the Amazon where we thought that nobody was really there except for some hodgepodge tribes.

But there's a document or a chronicle of some explorer hundreds of years ago that went through and came back and said, there's a mass of cities and villages and there's people and it's advanced.

And then they went back a couple hundred years later and there was nothing and they go, oh, the guy lied.

But what they think happened is when the first crew got lost and went through and they saw all of these amazing civilizations, they dropped off smallpox and bullshit.

And then the fact that everyone got infected, they had to leave the cities, and then everything just got consumed by the jungle.

Like a hundred years in the Amazon,

things go away.

And there's no stones there either, right?

There's no stones and steel, it's all just earth.

So it all got buried.

That's for sure going to break down.

But now, what they're finding with LiDAR, which is like how they got anchor watt places, yeah.

So this is the like LiDAR goes through the canopy, and they can see all of these.

I think they're called like mounds?

Mounds, yeah, exactly.

Wow.

And like

thousands of mounds.

So there was some gigantic civilization there that

we disregarded as fake, but now they're finding the proof.

Wow.

The first guy that discovered Anchor Watt for the story I heard was a Christian, and he was like, this is disgusting.

This is anti-God.

Tell no one.

And he told one guy, but he goes, don't go there.

It's disgusting.

It's not Christ there at all.

And then another guy was the discoverer of it because he was like, founder, this is rules.

It's one of the coolest places on earth.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the first guy was like, abomination.

Oh, my God.

Fucking Christ.

They really slow things down.

I think they filmed Tomb Raider there at one of the temples.

Yeah, it makes sense.

And when you see it, it feels like it's out of a video game, right?

Yeah, exactly.

With the trees growing up through the faces.

So you're in these.

How do you get out of the Congo?

Of the Heart of Darkness.

By the way, what was that book?

Was it Heart of Darkness?

It was called Heart of Darkness.

It was written like 1990.

And then they based what movie on that?

I think there was, I don't know, the same name.

A lot, but it was a Kubrick movie.

The book was written in like the 1900s.

I read it.

And I think it was about the atrocities that happened.

I haven't read it.

Apocalypse Now.

Oh, but that was in.

Wasn't that in.

It was based on Heart of Darkness, him going through in Vietnam or wherever in Phnom Penh.

Oh, I'm thinking of Apocalyptico.

That's the one that the Mayan went by.

Yeah, yeah.

And it was just based on that, like going deeper and deeper into this

dark area, dark with both terms, you know, and trying to take over.

Yeah, I mean, I make it sound dark.

It's just a very corrupt country, but the people there are beautiful men.

And another thing that...

Do they come at you?

No,

everyone was super friendly.

And in the big cities, people, like in all these travels I've gone to, like

in

Africa, especially, like I've been to DRC, Congo.

I've been to Angola just recently.

Yeah.

Zimbabwe, up in Mauritania as well.

That's considered quite dangerous.

We did a trip.

Yeah, there's tons of refugees here from Mauritania.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

There was a lot.

I was like,

broken French.

One guy spoke English.

It was Mauritania.

I was like, why are you here?

He goes, not my choice, bro.

Yeah.

I had to leave in the middle of the night.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a rough place.

So we did a video there.

I've been to like Turkmenistan and Pakistan, but in all those places, people are so fucking friendly.

So friendly.

Does your skin get you like a passport into conversations?

It's like this.

Let's picture we have like some Congolese pygmy walking down the street right now, and we see him out the window, and he's got like a paper map, and he looks very lost.

We wouldn't go jack his shit, right?

We'd be like, bro, like, how are you here?

Like, come in, have some tea, look, have a coffee.

That's the attitude.

Yeah.

Because they're like, why are, like, how did you get here?

It's funny because like, I always, whenever I'm like somewhere where I'm like, you know, the one white,

I'm like, it's dangerous.

They could take advantage.

But I'm like, I'm sure that guy and that image of like with a paper map is like, they could just rob me and kill me and I wouldn't get justice.

New York is so damn good.

We don't think of that, though.

We're just like, where are you from?

It's different.

Turns out not everyone's a murderer.

No, exactly.

And of all those countries, the things that

I've had happen have always been opportunistic.

Like, for example, my bag being broken into at the airport or my car being broken into.

It's a big city shit.

It's where the tourists are.

Big city shit every single time.

And it's been in like Montreal and it's been places like that.

In Congo, they tried tried to steal my bag.

Some guy, I don't know if it was on purpose or not, had my bag stacked up with a few others.

He was leaving, and luckily I had an AirTag, and I was like, the bag should be here.

And I saw it like going by.

I'm like, whoa, whoa, it's my bag.

And he took it off.

Oh, I'm so sorry, sir.

Oh, I played that game whenever I'm shoplifting.

It's like, what?

Oh, I thought she paid for it.

This shit.

Yeah, they almost got me there.

That's so great.

And you know the sickest I've been?

Like, I've eaten some pretty foul shit, man.

There's one in

maybe the most foul, two most foul are both in northern philippines yeah uh up in a place called sagada which is where they have um like they have you heard of wang odd the hundred and probably nine year old tattoo artist

so she used to tattoo headhunters so you'd bring a head back and they'd give you a tattoo to prove how much of a man you are oh And this woman is ancient, 109 probably now, and she still does these old school headhunter tattoos for tourists who go up there.

And one of the funny things she does as well is she's 109, and so she gives no fucks.

And so you get a tattoo from her, and she's got like face tattoos.

She's like all wrinkly and she's got arm tattoos.

And they're like, oh, do you want to get a photo with Wang Od?

And you're like, of course I do, right?

So you pose there with your new tattoo and you smile.

And then it's like three, two, one, and on cheese, she grabs your dick

because she loves seeing a photo of the tourists going, oh,

that's so great.

And if you want to put it in, there's probably hundreds of photos.

So put Wang on W-H-A-N-G

O-D and then put like dick or something.

I don't know.

There it is.

There she is.

Yeah, she's grabbing.

Boom.

Isn't she a beautiful little lady?

Oh, yeah, that's so funny.

Yeah, she loves it.

So up there is pretty, much like the Wild West.

They still,

they put,

when you die, it's the old, old, old way of doing things up there is if you die, you get put into a shack and they tie you to a chair, your dead body.

They smoke you for a week, and then the young men of the village pass you like a football from person to person, hoping that your dead body juices land on them as a blessing.

And then they put you in a cliff grave, like a hanging coffin on a cliff.

So it's super cool up there.

But they have some weird foods.

So for example, they smoke pork.

It's called itag.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

This is going to be for another episode.

One thing I'm good at, I'm like, wait, hold it, save it.

Way off Congo.

Would you go back to Congo?

Or are you done with plates once you feel like you've explored it?

The cap in that story is the sickest I've been is generally eating from 7-Elevens.

Like eating a shitty hot dog from a 7-Eleven has made me sick three or four times, like violent with diarrhea.

More than this eating black mama.

Usually it's like some convenience store bullshit at like a something like that.

That's how I've gotten the most sick, not eating the foul shit.

Is there any food you found in the Congo that you're like, I want that again?

I need to find it.

I need to find a Congolese restaurant and find it.

The snake, nope, the snake was

pretty tasteless, honestly.

But one thing that I got pretty fond of over there is you see it in a lot of African countries, but they call it fufu, they call it funge, they call it

a lot of different names.

Yeah, just foofu.

That looks, yeah, but that looks too commercial.

But basically, it's a corn porridge.

Yeah.

Yeah, like that.

And so you would eat with your hands and you dip that into whatever sauce or curry you got going on.

Yeah.

And that's a lot.

You could tear it apart and dip it.

Yeah.

Normally it's not in those nice, beautiful circles.

It's like a mound.

It looks like mashed potatoes, but it's really, really starchy.

And so that's like the staple.

That's like the potato,

the side.

Yeah, that would be a very, very common dish there at like a local restaurant in Cornwall.

So no forks.

All with your hands, baby.

Did you do this thing?

Yeah, you know, the thing.

You got to shovel it with a thumb.

Yeah, some chick, some Italian chick in Indonesia.

I was like, You ever get in awe of somebody?

I mean, you're pretty up there, but like, awe of someone else's like travel abilities.

Yeah, we're like, What?

You're just like this Italian chick.

She was just gone, she was lost.

You're just and you get a shovel.

I've got a question for you.

Have you ever wiped your ass with your hand before?

Yeah, yeah.

What was that like?

Bro, I'm

okay.

I'm going to tell you something.

I do it in society.

Like, I was on a hike in Runyon Canyon with my buddy Ryan O'Neal, and I just had to shit.

You know it.

There's times where I'm like, hey, the odds of me getting back to the car and then to a place is low.

It's just, let's deal with it now, you know?

Yeah, wipe with your hand.

I had a Pepsi Zero.

Dude, that.

As he was going, what the fuck are you doing?

Just behind a bush as people are walking by.

Oh, Jesus.

So I have, I'm more disgusting than most people.

It gets it.

You can find the crevices and get get it out of there.

You need some water.

Those fingertips are really sensitive, and you can much better understand what's happening back there if there's no paper.

Not by choice, though.

It's like you end up in a bathroom and you're like, oh, fuck, I'm in Congo.

Yeah.

And there's no toilet paper.

Do you even get the bucket of water there or not really?

I mean, not in the forest.

Right.

But in the restaurants.

How do you wipe in the forest?

These are questions I don't know how to ask.

How did you wipe in the forest?

I usually have wet naps.

But if I don't,

it's usually fingers.

I mean, if I was in Canada or in the States, I'd just...

Spit, spit on your finger and get the little that way.

I haven't tried that.

I haven't either.

I just thought of it.

It would work.

There's some fluid there.

Well, maybe after the show, I'll go give it a shot.

Yeah, let's wipe each other's ass with our hands and see who gets it.

Let's have a contest and see who is going to be.

Let's get the cleanest.

Yeah, we'll smell each other's assholes.

Shotovs.

Yeah.

And if it's not demonetized yet,

there we go.

It is.

If I was in Canada, I'd grab a leaf, you know, because there's nothing that's going to kill you.

If I'm in the Congo or in the Amazon, I'm not going to grab a random leaf.

I don't know.

So I just kind of go with the fingers and just

dip the fingers in the earth a little bit.

Clean them off.

Oh, the dirt will clean it off a lot.

Yeah, it will.

Is there a level where you are,

how do I phrase this?

Prissy and then at a point let go of the prissiness.

There's a luxury here where I'm like, if I, even if I see a dollar bill on the ground and I touch it, I'm like, my hand is disgusting now.

But then when you're like hiking in like rural somewhere, we're like, oh, my hands have been disgusting where I don't care anymore right now.

You know what I mean?

When you lose that like luxurious.

When I make the

films, the videos,

I'm very attentive to not looking like I'm not a local.

Like I don't want to look like I'm a white foreigner pureling my hands the whole time.

Right.

Because two things happen then.

If I'm going to stand on the sidelines, eat my granola bars and purel my hands, they're going to see me differently.

If I'm in the thick of it, you know, like eating with my fingers and like helping them climb trees and shit and eating their food, even if it's like weird or gross, then that opens up a really authentic experience for me,

but also the opportunity to show the viewers what it's really like.

Because you can't really show what a person's like or a tribe is like if you're not going to be in the thick of it, basically offering yourself to the experience.

Because then they'll show their true colors.

They allow you to get the camera in there.

Like, if you're on the sideline shooting the camera, it gets weird.

But if you're in there eating the worms with them and they've never seen a white guy eat worms before, everyone's giggling and laughing.

They're laughing how you're doing it.

Yeah, because you can't do it right.

I don't know how to eat fucking worms.

There's this thing that happens sometimes where you're like, meet children is always the best.

I don't know how it was there.

But

I mean, your French is fluent, so you probably talk to people, but like language is easier because they speak lower.

But then they go like, where you are, you know, know, like instead of like where you're from.

And then you're like, New York.

They go,

you just run off.

It's a fun feeling when they're like, look at him talk.

I'm like, you talk too, asshole.

But I'm just talking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, you're not a real, real thing.

Like, you're eating.

Like, wow, you're eating our food.

Yeah, yeah.

Or they all gather around and to watch you like eat, eat the fufu or the funs, whatever you want.

Like they'll watch, and you'll do it wrong, and you're not dipping in the right way you're supposed to dip.

And they all think it's hilarious.

But the same thing, if you know, you bring someone from there to try to eat a lobster, you know what I mean?

Like, how the hell would you ever know how to eat a lobster unless you were specifically shown how?

This is the same thing that happens if you go to somebody riches, like super rich, their place, and you're like, I'm gonna fuck it up.

Yeah, because the cutlery and which cutlery, they're like, What are you doing?

That's a butternut.

It worked, you filthy animal.

Um,

what advice would you give to someone going to the condo Congo?

Like, make sure to bring

or don't bring whatever.

Uh, well, it is

my, yeah, well, as a testament to how corrupt it is, I spent like 400 bucks on a visa before I arrived.

You have to do it in advance, right?

So I went to the embassy, all the kind of stuff, yada, yada.

Sent the money, got the stamp, got there.

Well, I had a piece of paper saying that I had done the process.

And so the idea is you go there, you show the paper, they give you the visa in your passport.

So I get there.

Of course, I haven't met my guide yet because he's already there.

And so I'm in the airport alone, but I got my paper.

We're good.

I speak a little bit of French.

And so I go to the immigration officer and I show him my paper for my visa.

And he's like, nope.

And I said,

what do you mean, no?

And he's like, no, no, good.

And I was like, well,

what happens?

And he points to a door.

And so I go in the door and there's an official there.

And he's like, you need a visa.

I'm like, I have a visa.

And he's like, no, it's the wrong visa, even though it's the only tourist visa there is.

Just shake down.

Shake down.

And like, so they, they made me buy the visa a second time so they could just pocket the money.

Right.

And what do you just know what's happening and then say, fuck it?

What do you do?

Right?

You're not even in the country yet.

You can't say no.

You'll be stuck in the airport for a month.

You can play dumb.

You can really go like, no, no, I did it.

I did it.

I don't understand what you're saying.

You can play dumb, but at some point, they might get aggressive.

I mean, I...

Dumb only works if you are dumb.

Yeah.

If you don't realize you're being shaken down.

Right.

And so I argued for 15 minutes.

And they're like, nope, got to pay.

Nope.

Got to pay.

Got to pay.

And so you just pay.

And so throughout the country, like I mentioned earlier, whenever I do these places, I just, my guide has all of the money.

Because the second I pull out a 20 or a one or whatever it is to pay, I am, yeah, all the

attention goes there.

So I just say, no money, talk to him.

And they're less likely to fuck with a local.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, then he just knows how to negotiate.

He knows what things cost.

He knows what's a shakedown, what's not.

And in a corrupt country like that, even we go into one of these smaller villages,

we get there, and immediately there's a guy who comes up and he's got a tape recorder.

And he starts asking all these questions in French.

Why are you here?

It's for the local newspaper and the radio.

And so we're being cool and answering the questions.

And then after like half an hour interview, he's like, okay, I'll publish it for $200.

And you're like, bitch,

I was doing you a favor.

I didn't want to publish it.

And so I guess the advice would be, number one,

finding a good guide.

And honestly, things like watching YouTube videos is good because you can find, generally people will tag who they've used and you can kind of see who they've used who they've used

as in like a content creator would go to like for example I've got a guy in in Tanzania named Gumbo

big like yeah guy

really great guide and who who knows how to find the real stuff so like when I hear guide I think tour group No, I know, it's different.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's like hiring one particular guy.

For me, generally, it's someone who has some TV experience.

So the same kind of person like BBC or NatGeo would use, because they know what you want.

They've worked in a production.

They know you want the real shit, not the painted shit.

And so you pay a premium for that, but they make things happen.

Doing well enough now that you're like, I have to.

That's fine.

Yeah, and I can't be on it in a group tour, man.

And you can't, yeah, exactly.

And you can't.

I don't, I'll do it actually once in a while when it really is a group toury kind of thing.

Right.

We're taking you on a tour of the canals in Amsterdam.

Okay.

I'll join everybody.

Yeah.

And it's fun.

You meet some kooky people from from around the world, drink some wine, whatever.

They have, I got a piss real quick, but but this is what they do.

The problem with like the guide sometimes is,

so in Ankara Watt, I'm like, I got told skip this, skip this, skip this.

Here are the four you want to go.

A guy who'd been there a bunch, William Childress.

And I'm like, okay, I want to go, but they have like the Ankarwatt tour, and it's the one good one, one okay, one, and three shitty ones.

And then they have the this tour, and it's one good one, one okay, one, three shitty ones.

And I'm like, no, no, I want all these four.

Fuck the shitty ones, take me from spot to spot on a TikTok.

And with the group, you can't do that, right?

Yeah, I'm like, wait, this isn't the one.

And he goes, no, you, but you said the number B tour.

And I'm like, no, fucking no.

Yeah, not the, not the plan.

You need a good one to be like, can you just do what I want?

Yeah.

And you pay for that, but sure.

With that, you have all of the flexibility.

So if you want to change plan or you find like a cool side route where there's a monk at the temple who says, come back to my monastery, you can just go do that, right?

You're right, though.

You do feel like when you're in somewhere, you're like, oh, this is the assigned group stop.

And every group will stop here.

It's not authentic.

It's a little bit of like, give me some money

vibe versus like, like, if I'm taking you around New York,

I don't take you to Times Square.

I'm like, oh, there's a good pizza place right here.

And they're not like treating you different.

Yeah.

You know, it's just a place I know.

Yeah.

Versus like the pizza place to go to.

I don't even know what that would be.

It's a tourist trip.

Yeah.

Like in Rome, for example, you go there, or I'm sure Paris too, where it's like, there's the great pizza spot in Rome that's like right by the

Coliseum.

And it might have all of these signs and shit, but it's not the real.

Yeah, yeah.

Sean Patton will do that for New Orleans.

He'll be like, oh, I mean, go to Bourbon Street once to see it, but then like, let me show you the part of town to hang out in.

And then it's just like real.

Or Paris.

It's just like cafes.

It's not the one to go to.

So for guys, like, there's one here.

They have good.

Monte Cristo's.

Yeah, you just follow the local's recommendation.

For the longest time, dude, before I was filming a lot, I would go on couchsurfing.

And then you'd couch surf.

And then whether...

find some tips.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because either they would come with you, which is how it used to be.

Before the Chad.

Was there

a child?

I think it got cleary.

I think like everything, dudes ruin everything.

Chad Roulette was cool for a bit, and then dudes are like, look at my dude.

Pretty quick.

Couchsurfing was cool.

And then any woman, they were like, let's see if I can fuck these travelers.

Yeah.

Not full, like, I'm sorry, Chad's, but like, uh, but like.

Well, I mean, let's say you're a host, right?

And you have two people looking for a night on your couch, and one's like a hot Japanese girl, one's like some dude from Kentucky.

It's like you're going to pick up.

Guys are always thinking there's a chance.

Even if you're not leery, you're still like, I don't know, she might try.

Yeah, exactly.

I might not

make the first move, but at the end of the day, it's like the opportunity is always appealing.

But that sounds, if you're the heyday, the prime of couch ripping, it sounds like a great way to like do that.

Yeah, because either they come with you and you go join the boys for a football game, or they say, oh, you got to go here, go here, go here, or I got this this friend they can take you and that that was the best way yeah we're going to a party at the or we're going to the local like burrito place in austria yeah i'm like okay and that's the fantasy like you don't want to go there and just feel like you're

detached from from the culture you want to be there the dream is to always be part of the culture but if you're not from there how do you do that but it's having that local to be the key yeah right this is what sean patton also said about new orleans it's a different country really but like um he goes there's all these people moving there they're they're gentrifying it to not to white but just to outsiders And he goes, but they don't get involved.

We're all marching down Bourbon Street with the Saints to go to the stadium.

You're sitting on the sidelines taking pictures of it.

Come in the parade.

Exactly.

Join us.

That's a great way to do it where you're not like, you're purelling your hands.

We're like separating yourself.

Yeah.

You're like, yeah, I'm with you guys.

I don't know.

For sure.

Louisiana is a whole

interesting place, isn't it?

Neil Gaiman said it's not really America.

He said it's like, it just happens to be in the border.

I

went there to meet this guy named Skeeter Ray,

who used to be a swamp rat hunter.

This like Cajun Santa Claus dude.

And we had a swamp rat roast out there about a year ago.

Damn.

Only, only there, bro.

Okay, two last questions, and then we'll get out of here.

One is

what else is calling you?

Where you've never been, do you want to go next?

And two is just any kind of travel tip about places, about in general.

Pack Light is obviously the most normal one I've gotten.

But like any, I mean, you've given a bunch without trying to, like the not pure L stuff, but that kind of thing.

Well, the next, the next plan is Mongolia.

Nice.

We're currently negotiating a nine-day cross-country winter 4x4 journey to visit.

Don't they have that from like here to there?

Yeah, what's that called?

Mongol Rally?

Maybe?

And you just got to like fix your car along the way and these people know that you're going through their countries.

I think it's Mongol Rally.

Yeah.

And then you sell your car there.

Yeah.

I don't know how long, how many days that is.

It'd be longer than nine days.

But this is like a nine-day four by four self-led.

So you're driving around your 4x4 to visit over the desert and stuff.

Well, assume it's winter, so it's like snow.

And these these tribes, they've got reindeer.

They live in

yurts.

And so, and I'm imagining it's going to be dark as fuck the whole time.

Oh, that'll be cool.

Very cool.

Yeah, that'll be really cool.

You'll see them hunt with like eagles and shit.

Yeah.

Well, what I hope to find is

there's all these stories of how

the shaman of some of these tribes in Siberia, and especially up north, the reindeer eat amanita mushrooms and the shamans drink the piss.

Oh.

And you can trip on that.

And I've been trying, I was going to go up here, there's a tribe called the Nanet that live up like northern Russia.

And my plan was to go ASAP, but you can't, like, I was even looking at flights.

You can't even fly to Russia right now.

I couldn't find any flights.

I couldn't find any flights to Moscow.

So on Expedia when I was scoping it out.

And one thing people don't understand about the world is like, okay, we can say, you know, Russia's in a war.

It's dangerous.

But if there was a,

like, for example, in New Orleans, that dude drove the truck through

Bourbon Street, would you still go to Seattle?

Yeah.

Yeah, because it's like...

I saw an interview recently.

There was like a man on the street.

They just interviewed some men on the street, like people passing by and this guy, like any travel tips.

And he goes, oh, yeah, go directly after.

Have you seen this one?

No.

Go directly after

natural disaster or terrorist attacks.

He goes, security is never as high.

No one's there.

So you get plenty of deals.

He goes, they don't do terrorist attacks two days in a row.

Yeah, yeah.

That is the truth, though.

You're the furthest away from another terrorist attack.

And then you have your run of every hotel.

And security is so high.

So you're so safe.

You get deals.

I love that.

You're right.

There's never a terrorist attack two days in a row.

Yeah.

Who would do that?

What a hack.

Yeah, yeah.

So just like you, you'd still go to Seattle if there was something happened in New Orleans, right?

Yeah.

Would you still go like here if there was something happening?

It's a whole, it's like it's the same country, but not really.

People say that Israel too, where they're like, it's dangerous now.

I'm like, no, Gaza.

Yeah.

If you're in Jerusalem, you're fine.

Yeah.

And I guess that could be the segue into the travel tip is that if you want to go to some of these

countries that are marked red, like we saw on Google Maps with travel advisories, just understand that, that not necessarily the whole country is dangerous.

And if you have a local guide who understands the political climate, where there could be unrest, what areas to go in, you don't really have to worry that much because they've got your back.

And generally, everyone's there just to help you.

And it's the most unfriendly places are

the most tourist-friendly destinations.

Like you go stand in the bike lane in Amsterdam.

You know what I mean?

Screaming at you.

Versus going to like Nuadibu in...

Mauritania, and then they walk down the street, and I had to turn down like 20 different opportunities for tea at guys' houses because they just are so excited to see you.

So, again,

there's sketchy spots in the world, but if you just find someone who can help you, dude, the whole world is your oyster.

Yeah, that's good.

Oh, wait, that's not it.

Is Chicago safe for tourists?

Here.

Damn.

What's it?

What's the fact?

Anyway, it says Chicago Safe.

It's like, yeah, there's higher crime, but

where the crime is the worst is not where tourists go.

Yeah.

So they're like, so really don't worry about it.

Exactly.

And again, you're not going to

find yourself.

Streets.

You're going to be on some kind of itinerary, even if it's through a friend.

Do you do drugs when you're in these tribes?

I do.

Just whatever they give you?

Or are you like a no, I can't right now?

I'm in, I'm always in 100%.

I might not

well, no, I've tripped balls quite a few times.

But I mean at the end of the day, we still have to get shit done, right?

But often, for example, one we just did in the Amazon with the Yanomami tribe.

We were in Venezuela, went down to the far, far south,

flew in with like a

chartered plane and then did like five hours up the river.

And they do something called yopo, which is, you know, like rappe, where they blow the

it's like uh tobacco and and plants and stuff, but generally it's like an eagle bone, like

a hollow bone or a hollow reed, and they pack it full of all kinds of plants, definitely tobacco,

and they just go and they blow it into your nose like a powder.

But

Yopo is done with a certain kind of plant that has, I think, bufotinine and DMT.

And these boys, the coolest thing ever, man, is they don't just do it to trip necessarily

for like recreation.

They do it to cast spells.

And so, what I mean by that is, we were out hunting with these guys, and they were finding all kinds of stuff.

And we got honey, we got like SIE berries, all these really cool things from the Amazon.

And then, all of a sudden, rain clouds started to come in.

And

they all got really serious and made a little huddle, all the elders.

And I thought they were just trying to call off the hunt and deciding, oh, is it too much rain?

But no, they were trying to figure out which tribe had sent a magical spell, a rainstorm, at them.

And so the the council of elders got together and like, oh shit, it's probably those boys over up behind the mountain.

We got to get back to the village to cast our own spells back at those guys because they're a bunch of bitches and this isn't fair.

So

cool.

Yeah, we went back to the village and they do this every single day.

Either to

so they do it every day to wage war on, like they're a warring tribe, but not with spears and arrows.

With spells.

With spells.

And if they're not fighting the other tribes, they're fighting, they say, the demons within themselves.

And so they blow this hallucinic powder up each other's noses.

Like, it's always two hits.

One, and then you kind of, you see, like, an explosion in your brain.

And the pores open.

Yeah, for sure it does.

And they do a second hit in the second nostril.

And you sit back and you see this, like DMT, or you see the spirals, you have the feelings, and they start singing and chanting and like dancing, and they cast spells.

so again man I always I always want to prove that I'm one of the boys because I mean I want the experience but also I want the people to have the full experience and so I did those guys did three rounds I I couldn't handle more than two because it's like it'd be like it's like sniffering sniffing snuss is like that too like battery acid

especially if you're not used to it they must be like it's no big deal yeah and it goes down the back of your throat and it like drips out of your nose these big black snot cannons

but you you trip Wow.

You trip.

Yeah.

And it was so fucking cool to sit there with those guys.

And I was trying to cast spells.

I didn't really know how.

I was just like, eh.

Go to white chick.

White chicks can make their own religion on the spot.

They just sit there and they're like, actually, I think you're supposed to do this.

Yeah, one of these things.

I'm just making shit up.

Nobody wakes up religions like white chicks.

Just like any sunset, they're like, I beseech thee, Lord.

I used to live in Playadel Carmen, so like an hour north of Tulum, and Tulum is

filled with that.

Conspirituality, I think is a word I heard to describe it.

I like that.

Yeah.

So that was a good one that we did just

last year, man.

But I love that because like I said earlier, every tribe, every group of people on this planet has some way to tune the antenna.

Now, do they say, like, hey, we're like, do they present it as, hey, we're going to do some drugs right now?

Like, okay, if I offer you a beer, I'm not like, whatever.

If I'm saying, if I'm offering you mushrooms, I'm like, hey, do you want some?

It's more of a different push to you, you know, than that or coffee for sure.

It's like,

who cares?

Are they pushing this?

Like, you want to do some drugs?

If you hang, yeah.

If you don't, they won't.

If they feel like you are one of them,

they will, from my experience, pretty much always offer.

And in the Congo, now that I think about it,

with the second tribe, they pulled out a bamboo bong.

on the second day and they had some fucking bushweed that they I'm assuming grew, and we smoked, uh, we smoked out there with them, too.

Don't throw those seeds away.

Exactly, precious press cards.

Yes, we need them.

Damn.

All right, Mike.

This is fucking great.

It's been great, dude.

I'm really happy we can make it happen.

Yeah, for sure.

I don't know when you're back in New York, but let's do it again.

Hell yeah, buddy.

I'll put all your stuff in the beginning later.

But once again, Fearless and Far is the YouTube channel and the Instagram.

Yep.

You're doing cool shit.

It's like.

Thanks, man.

You too.

Just seems fun.

It is fun.

Yeah.

I mean,

I'm hoping for you to do this for a lot longer and then disappear in a jungle.

Just die.

Just die.

Marry a pygmy woman and just become

like blue eyes.

Well, you don't have blue eyes.

Or maybe

blue-eyed fucking pygmies.

And you're like, what?

Like, this guy, Mike Corbyn.

You'll be traveling in the Congo and you'll see like a half-white, half-black baby, and you'll be like, ah, Mike was here.

Mike was here.

Something's up.

Yeah.

All right, buddy.

Thank you very much.

Bye, everybody.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

Thank you.

Subscribe to his stuff.

You guys are going to follow it.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

Well, that's it, everybody.

That's...

Oh, I have this shirt, too, but it's not available.

Oh, shit.

It's not available anymore.

The Feidelberg shirt for my special, America's Sweetheart, now streaming on Netflix.

Anyone who's here or doesn't know me as a comic, who's just a fan of

Fearless and Far, I'm a stand-up comedian.

I guess I should tell you that.

I have a special called Jew that's on YouTube.

That's really good.

And my latest special

called America Sweetheart on Netflix, also really good.

And then there's other ones out there too that are not as good.

So I'd start with those two.

Also, still funny, but not as good.

You get what I'm saying.

Thank you very much.

Don't forget to check out Fearless and Far on Instagram.

Please follow him.

Reach out to him.

Tell him you had a good time on the episode.

And go to one of his travel excursions.

It seems so cool.

Tribal rights.

Toronto, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

Toronto at the end of July.

Costa Rica end of October.

And Mexico, beginning of March.

I mean, it just seems fucking badass.

The Temezcal, to me, is the jam.

I mean, I

did.

I say this, and I don't think I said this.

So there was a Temezcal in this hostel I stayed in in Guatemala,

in this hostel.

I mean, I got to cover the episode.

It's coming, actually.

It's coming with my Australian friend.

We did it in.

I should put this out relatively soon.

We did it on Gold Coast,

Australia, but it was about the trip he and I took to the small town in Guatemala.

But he told me about a hostel in this mountain.

I'm sorry, in this volcano town.

I mean, a lake town

that was so fun.

They had an open mic.

I guess I'll get into it another time.

But if you did a talent, you get free shot, free shot of vodka.

People were juggling.

People were doing everything.

I told a story that I put on my first album.

And they didn't know I was a comedian.

It was pretty fucking great.

Anyway, go to fearlessofar.com slash.

No, let me finish up with this.

And so at this hostel, yeah, it was like two minutes in.

They were like, oh, is this supposed to be funny?

Cause there was no context.

And then they started giggling.

I'm like, I don't know if I should be giggling.

He sounds like it was really distressing.

Because not on a comedy show.

And then they just started dying laughing.

And then, like, 30 minutes later, they were like, Do you have any more stories?

And I was like, I could tell another story.

They didn't know I'm a high-level comedian.

I think we talked about this on an episode of Skeptic Tank with the deep diver,

free diver.

Skeptic is my old podcast.

Anyway, but they had a Temezcal on the property of this hostel, of my friend's favorite hostel.

And

it was out of service.

But that was okay because I was on the hunt.

Had I already been?

And maybe it had already been.

I had already been

to a thing called a Shuch.

Shuch.

It's another type of Temezcal, which is like a sauna, but they only use it in a very small region.

It's not even like...

Temezcals in general, I think, are like, where are they?

Like

maybe Chapas and Guatemala.

I don't know if they even go down into El Salvador.

I don't know if they go up to Belize.

I don't think they go up to, I don't know, I don't know how far they reached, but this chuk is very regional.

So it was like the north

in like a mountain town in Guatemala, in a town that like nobody really goes.

They had some tourism.

It kind of dropped off when

some tourists was taking pictures of kids, and then the

townspeople thought they were trying to like fuck these kids and like take pictures of them for back home to see which ones to take.

So they killed them and then they burned the Guatemalan driver alive really if you're gonna burn someone you want to do it alive if you just burn the body we're not even talking about that it's like saying he drugged him against his will yeah he drugged him you don't have to say the against the will I know I'm aware who's wrong by the way um

anyway yeah I had to go find this I'll do it in a whole episode but it's like it's the middle of nowhere there's no there's a hotel I think the hotel costs like seven dollars a night and it was overpriced the bathroom was deep outside into the hallway.

There was no lights.

So you had to, in the dark, dodge like piles of dog shit on your way to the bathroom with like a trickle shower.

And dumping was like, ugh, forget it.

And you dumped.

You dumped if you're eating that fried chicken every day.

But that shook was very interesting.

I was about to leave as soon as I got it.

I was like, I could get the last bus home.

And then I'm like, no, I'm in a town where nobody is.

It was so fucking wild.

I mean, it's like nobody, I mean, only whites.

And I was there during the World Cup, and we're like, everyone was inviting me in.

As you pass by, like, any kind of store, look, come on in.

You're watching.

Come on in.

They all love Messi, even though they were Guatemalan.

I got a postcard from Derek P.

Have so far.

Oh, I know what this one is.

You put some more shit in here.

Hold on.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Here's one.

Ari Shafir, you be tripping.

151 First Avenue, number 49, New York, New York, 10003.

No return address.

Smart.

Ooh, so I see why.

There's no.

What is this?

Is this a postcard?

Or is this your actual family?

Dear Ari.

where to bloody start.

Oh my god, I'm gonna need a fucking whatever for this.

He put some money in here, which is crazy.

Let's see if I can see what this is.

It's a coin.

Monaco.

Oh, that's the royal family of Monaco.

Check this out.

Oh, I've never gotten coins worth.

Don't send coins.

It's too much, but check that out.

Wow.

Pretty cool

Don't send coins send bills like this guy did.

A Saudi Arabian monetary agency one.

Don't know what that's worth.

I think one

Filipino slave.

Dear Ari,

where to bloody start?

So here's the postcard.

I think that's got to be that's not his family, right?

That's got to be the royal family of Monaco.

I know what I'll do.

This is probably a mistake, but let's do it.

You were so fucking small, bro.

Well,

full card,

suppose.

I'm a 27-year-old British bloke working as a officer on board a

dude.

This is too small.

Super boat called Zenobia, the Syrian princess.

Basio are here in Monaco, based here in Monaco, Monte Carlo.

I've listened to you and skeptic tanks since I was around 16.

Nice.

I raised you.

I raised you.

And I fucked your mom.

Meantime, you have been playing in my AirPods.

And I traveled from Columbia to California over a year.

Callie was.

I don't know.

You've been...

Dude, I know you want to push stuff in, but like,

you got to make it big enough.

You've been with me when I did a ski season in Val de Ser

and when I started my career in yachting, and you're with me now as I start my journey to becoming a yacht broker.

Oh, one percenters.

Hit me up if you want to buy a yacht or charter a yacht.

Come to Monaco or Nice or

Collentry, Europe rules, America drools.

All right, very nice.

Yeah, that's got to be the royal family, right?

Bert is a fat fuck.

Okay.

God damn, dude, that was too small.

Legitimately, that was too small.

Okay, here we go.

Here's another one.

This will be fun.

Oh, more.

Oh, oh, okay.

Note on back.

Okay, so this is a letter, but he wrote some.

Check that out.

My friends and I have been going on surf vacations to Central America for a couple years.

We have been to Nicaragua.

Nice.

Isn't that

dangerous?

It's dangerous to say quickly around.

Reverend

Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico.

I have been collecting bits from these trips, bills from these trips, and I think your show is a perfect place to send a few.

Thank you for introducing me to Rolf Potts, The Vagabond's Way.

Huh?

I wonder if it's in the frame.

The other one, too.

Souvenirs up there.

I've been...

Done my way to implement his teachings on my trips.

It has changed how I view travel.

Yours truly, Charles.

P.S.

I am the bald one.

Okay, very nice.

And you sent some fucking cash.

Oh, wow.

De la Sol Huelos.

Look at that.

What a fun time they're having.

I mean, it's the middle of nowhere.

Oh, God.

I'm so jealous of you guys.

I'm so fucking jealous of you guys.

And he sent cash.

Costa Rican money?

A one meal?

Actually,

do I have one of those up there?

I do.

I have this exact bill up there.

So I'm not going to put that up.

But check this out.

A 200 Bank of Nicaragua.

Definitely don't have that.

It's going on the wall.

You guys might see it starting,

well, next week is before that wall was that finished, so you won't see it next week.

Ooh, that's cool.

Let me do one postcard postcard.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Good writing here.

You be tripping.

151 First Avenue.

Oops.

Number 49, New York, New York, 10003, United States of America.

This was sent from Finland.

Interesting.

Check out the stamp.

Love these.

Okay.

So by the way, you guys.

I've narrowed it down to a list of about 15 people that I'm sending on a trip around the world.

Ooh, 11 minutes.

I got to wrap this up.

I am reaching out.

You can stop submitting.

We've gotten a few.

I'm going to then now talk to you guys.

I'm going to be following up.

So look for it.

By the way, subscribe wherever you're watching or listening.

Just hit subscribe right now.

Do me a favor.

If everyone just subscribed, I would get to my 200,000 right now.

Even the people that are barely listening still.

I'd be right there.

Just do it.

A boom.

I'm going to start talking to them and seeing who's actually available to do this and who can do it the right way and then like

choose from there.

Hi Ari, writing you from Finland.

My journey so far has been

that's pretty cool.

Oh I didn't show you the postcard.

It's gotta be a town square.

Reminds me of an Ottawa town square where I came in from the bottom up,

saw these a couple right there.

And then I was like, oh shit, like I'm scared.

And then I realized I was actually on mushrooms and I was the drug addict and they should be scared of me.

And it reassured me.

Hi, Ari, writing you from Finland.

My journey so far has been Berlin, Krakow, Warsaw.

Kansas?

Almost definitely not.

Riga, Tulum, Helsinki over the past three weeks.

Jesus.

Heading now to Pittsburgh tomorrow, where I saw you

live last year.

Pittsburgh is fucking rules.

Not Pittsburgh.

It's Homestead or something.

It's one of those improvs that are like right outside of a town.

It's at least closer, but God, I want to be in towns.

They put me in Berlin in a place that was like 35 minutes away.

Berlin is the coolest city in the world.

And they stuck me in a place where all the Turks live by a lake.

I mean, miles out of town.

Put me in fucking Franksburg.

Thank you for the laughs and the pod to get me excited to travel.

Yours truly, Abigail.

Oh, it's female writing.

Interesting.

I've never been to Finland.

I would like to go to Finland.

It seems cool.

I got to do this one.

Where did that one go?

I mean, I can't be this fucking scatter-brained.

All right, guys, I guess we got to stop.

Next week.

Oh, wait, today's episode of You Be Tripping is produced by Your Mom's House Network.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

And where is my pen, my knife?

But it's by your mom's house now.

Where is edited by Adam Caffey, who's an expert editor?

God, this looks like such a fucking cool surf trip.

Look at these guys.

Look at these guys.

Just buds having a fucking blast on the beach.

Look at them.

Just going surfing.

Going surfing.

Going surfing.

You'll take your car to work.

I'll take my board.

And when you're out of fuel, I'm still afloat.

All along the undertow.

I know I don't know the layers.

Strength beneath my

something.

He taped this up.

There's shit in here.

Now I can never go home.

You'll take your board.

Oh, if there was drugs in here.

Woo, Nelly.

Please do not send drugs.

Wow.

There is money.

There is.

I mean, dude, you taped this up so much.

Pretty good job, though.

Pretty fucking cool.

Who sent this?

And what is this?

Indonesia.

I mean, that's for sure going on the wall.

Dear Ari,

go fuck yourself.

I'll allow it.

Great start feeling the

love now.

Great start.

Feeling the love now.

No going back.

My wife and I, shocked you're married.

Are

on open-ended adventure in February and this year.

Selling our cars, possession.

Oh, going on a, selling our cars, possession, eventually.

Wow, our house.

Wow, bro, that's so fucking cool.

I mean, then you're committed to it.

By the way, can I just say some advice?

If you're like wondering if you should go on a trip, forget Mike Corey's.

Forget Fearless and Far.

You're not doing a trip like that.

You're just not going to.

But maybe his travel excursion, his tribe stuff, whatever it's called.

Tribal rights.

Or maybe it's just like my friend Alexandro from Romania who said, it's like, I want to go to Thailand.

I'm like, get the ticket.

And he just got the ticket.

He goes, well, now I'm going.

I got the ticket.

Now I'm going to go because I have the ticket.

Sailor and cards eventually are a house searching for a new home and traveling around the world.

We are wrapping up in a couple weeks.

A seven-month trip.

Jesus, this guy goes.

That ends in South.

They stamp this stuff.

South Luraya start in Iceland for a

South Korea.

and starts in Iceland for a friend's birthday.

Can't write over the fucking what's on there?

Four in Southeast Asia, merch to Japan.

We're going to

Florida for a couple weeks,

then off to Central and South America for seven more months.

This guy's living it.

What a cool wife, too, to go with him.

Behind every good man.

Someone to drain that cuck.

Bing middle-aged dinks and

long-term travel since we're young.

We're fucking...

Yeah, exactly.

You're young.

Go for it.

Uncomfortable, challenging, and rough.

It has been.

It's so

to experience what we...

Something so interesting, challenging to experience what we have so far.

I'd love to share some stories with you sometime.

Ubi Trippin' has been

a slight inspiration for me.

Here's some money for you.

P.S.

I gave you COVID in Orlando.

I did get COVID in Orlando.

I did get COVID in Orlando.

I mean, better than fucking what happened to Sagitt in Orlando.

Buddy.

Oh, oh, there's four bills.

Look at this postcard.

Indonesia

and Japan.

So this is like Japanese yen currency.

Fucking cool postcard.

If you want to send us into 151 First Avenue, number 49.

New York, New York, 10003.

And

here's the fucking Indonesia one.

I've been to Indonesia.

I don't remember that.

Nippon stamp.

Fucking full-on Nippon stamp.

There's the address.

Let's see what we got.

And then we'll call it.

Indonesia.

Definitely don't have that.

I definitely do not have any Indonesian money.

Wow.

Okay.

Malaysia.

I definitely don't have Malaysian money.

Fucking cool.

This, why does it look a dong?

Vietnam.

Do I have any dong?

I may or may not have dong.

And then Thai baht, I definitely have.

Yeah.

20 Thai baht.

I recognize.

I recognize that.

So this 20 Thai baht, you could get.

It's pretty nothing.

Fair enough.

Don't send me something good.

You could definitely get a beer with that.

0.60 United States.

Oh, yeah, you could get a beer with a fucking 20.

Dude, you just sent me a fucking, you know what?

I'm going to go have a,

I'm going to go have, maybe, maybe I'll get a, what's the Thai beer?

Meh.

Anyway.

Guys, that's the episode.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Next week.

Carmen Lynch comes on to tell us about traveling into the jungles of Peru to try ayahuasca for the first and only time.

It was a crazy experience.

It's crazy getting there.

It was so fucking authentic and weird.

And if you've ever wanted to know about trying ayahuasca, she shares as much of the process as possible,

hides what she needed to hide,

and it was just so fucking cool.

That's it.

I'll see you guys next week.

Yeah, this fucking podcast is great.

I love it so much.

If also, if you have any suggestions on who to bring in, like I said, people have suggested Patrick Beverly.

He's coming in.

They suggested John Ronson,

a well-known writer that I've followed.

I've read his book, one of his books.

I've listened to his podcast series.

He came in already.

He was great.

Other guys are doing it, trying to reach out.

Anyone you suggest, I'm reaching out to them.

Like, that could be cool.

I don't do politics.

So anyone who's political, they can come in and we just don't talk about politics.

Look at the Tucker Carlson episode we did.

Yeah, anybody you suggest that you know, so Patrick Beverly, somebody's like, he played in Israel, played in Greece, he played in the World War II.

Oh, Oh, okay, so he's traveled.

Great, you know, that leave it in the comments on YouTube.

This guy's been here, this guy's been here.

And then, listen, most guys, I'm mid-level fame, so most guys don't know me, but sometimes they do.

And when they do, it's like sick.

They're like, oh, yeah, I know you.

I'd love to come in if they're coming to New York.

So leave suggestions.

You guys have been helping this podcast along.

That's it, everybody.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Fearless and far.

Thank you again.

Please come back.

See you guys on the road.

Safe travels.