Ari Goes To Thailand (Full Moon Party) w/ Toby McMullen | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

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Hello, welcome to UB Trippin'.

I'm going to do it for the first time, it might not air for the first time.

If you don't know, there's a podcast about travel.

We talk about a different place all over the world.

And I've been to some places.

My name is Ari Shafir.

So I thought I got to get some people to interview me a little bit about some places I've been.

And let's try one with the fucking main man, the long-haired wonder.

Toby, everybody.

Toby,

the Scotch, what do we got to call you?

Who got to give you a nickname?

I got to get a good one.

Yeah, Scotch Egg.

Yeah.

Last name on the intro would also be pretty sick.

Toby McMullen.

Yeah, good point.

Toby McMullen, the Scotch Warrior.

How about that?

Scotch Warrior.

I'll take it.

Yeah, last name of the.

Okay.

Yeah, it's been a while since I've recorded an episode of anything.

Yeah, you know, people ask, like, how do you get into comedy?

How do you break into podcasting?

What you want to do is you want to really help someone build a studio

and then ruin the first episode in such a way that you now have to interview them.

It wasn't ruined.

It was good.

Yeah, well, we'll see if it comes out.

We'll see if it comes out.

We had some technical issues.

We had a lot of flooding in between that one and two months later and now.

All right, but let's get into it.

So, you're going to interview me.

And where do you want?

Where have you wondered?

This is an experiment.

I don't know if I should guide people or not.

So, I say, let's keep it open-ended.

Okay.

You ask me where, and then from now on, if it doesn't work out that way, maybe I can be like, hey, here's some questions you should ask me or whatever.

Yeah, we're really freeballing it here.

So, I've been everywhere.

I'll tell you countries.

China, Australia,

fucked a whole lot of boys through this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia.

Really run through some ladyboys down there.

East Timor,

Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden.

I might have stories for all these, but we'll try.

Austria, Hungary, now Romania.

Fuck it.

England, obviously.

Paris was just in Merida.

Man, I'm like excited when I make it out to Brooklyn.

I'm like, I really traveled today.

I made it all the way up there.

Where do you want to know about?

What's piqued your interest at all about anything?

Have you ever been to Russia?

Never been to Russia.

That's a good one.

It's all right.

It's a good place to start.

What this is really showing me is how illiterate I am geographically.

Well, the weirdest one that I think is Kazakhstan, how fucking huge it is.

That is massive.

I mean, it's almost and Mongolia, too.

If you had told me that India was further west or east than Afghanistan, I never would have believed you for one second.

Wow.

Yeah, maps are interesting.

Maps are interesting.

Yeah,

let's run through this area here.

Okay, okay.

Let's start in Thailand.

Okay.

Let's talk about Thailand.

Where'd you go in Thailand?

Let's see here.

We should narrow it down to, but

I went twice.

I went once for a full moon party.

My buddy Pete, my friend Sarah.

I met the Hong Kong comedy scene when I was out there.

They were all really cool and we're on a junk boat.

Just one guy.

What?

You said I met the Hong Kong comedy scene.

No, it's a lot of them.

It's a guy named Steve.

He's good.

He's killing.

It's crushing it.

My friend had a joke about that.

He goes, I grew up in West Virginia.

The black neighbor was called Bob's House.

Yeah, West Virginia.

Yeah, but she told me about a full moon party.

Have you ever heard of those?

No.

Okay.

And she was like, it's a wild place.

It's every full moon on Korong or Kosumui.

Oh, no, Kosumui or Kofenyang?

One of those two.

They're sister islands.

They're right next to each other.

Somewhere in Thailand.

Somewhere out here.

The Andaman Islands, by the way.

You know anything about those?

No, what's going on there?

Undiscovered people.

Are those the guys?

Cook Islands?

Shit like that?

Are they the guys who murked the dude who went out there?

Yeah.

Those guys ruled.

Jesus Protector me.

It turns out Jesus has no weaponry.

No defense against spears.

No, you're going to catch a couple stray frog jizz tips.

Darts.

I think they went once, and some British captain was like, here's what I'll do.

I'll capture a leader.

I'll show them a good time.

I'll return them.

Then they'll know, hey, these guys are cool.

Gave him smallpox, died.

And he goes, fah, that's the exact die.

I should have just sent a basket of fruit.

I should have sent a fucking something.

Something good from England.

Some biscuits and gravy, maybe, or something.

Yeah, but you can't really go there.

But anyway, it's all in here in these islands and every full moon.

It's all these backpackers come together.

She told me about it.

And she was like, you'd go.

You'd go well.

Because I was out there on this junk boat in the Hong Kong peninsula or whatever, and I was just like floating.

She was like, What are you on?

And I was like, I want to hit an asset.

I have a hit asset.

I found it at the comedy show.

I was like, I feel bad because I didn't, I only had one hit.

You know, you want to share?

Yeah, but it's better not to tell anybody.

Safety first and teamwork.

Yeah.

So she's like, You'd love a full moon party.

I went and you should go.

It's all these backpackers showing up and just

getting rowdy.

Just every

chlamydia variant from all over the world.

It's a little fucking.

It's really not about fucking.

Yeah, but just I feel like backpackers in general are

really carting some hurts.

Copen Yang.

It's on Copenhagen.

Yeah, I mean, for sure they are.

Oh, let me swap this out.

Now I know how to do it.

Nicely done.

Okay, okay.

So I went with my friend Pete.

We went first to, we were going to go to Phuket first,

and I booked a fucking horrible movie, and it overlapped.

I was supposed to go to Australia, and then right from Australia.

That's why we planned it.

To go from Australia right up to Vietnam.

I mean, to

Thailand.

Because right there.

My friends about did the same thing.

Yeah.

Booked a fucking movie.

It wasn't even as much money as it was going to make on the tour in Australia, but I was like, it's a movie.

I guess I got to do it.

Oh,

the allure.

Yeah.

They'll really lie right to your face.

Yeah.

But it was like, if you want to do this, you booked a movie.

It's fucking John Hammond, Zach, Alfanak.

Like, you're going to not do it?

I was like, no, I'll do it.

So I tried to get him to move it.

My scenes, they couldn't do it.

Anyway, so I caught up with Pete.

He had just been breaking up with a girl, and he was in sex prison for a while, which means like he had to live with somebody.

He couldn't fuck anybody.

Oh, like they were dating and broke up?

Yeah, but that's the ultimate nightmare.

She stayed living with him.

Oh

my God.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so I get there.

So I was like, well, he's like, well, I already got my ticket.

I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll fucking meet you.

I'm not going to cancel it.

I'll meet you.

He was in Phuket, finally free.

And I was, when I got there, just for the last night of Phuket, I was like, how's it going?

I go, I already fucked four whores.

What?

Shout out.

He was on a sex cation.

He said, I'm just, I'm making my money work for me.

Yeah.

I was like, how does it work?

It was so interesting.

He made my money work for me.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I mean, what's the point of traveling somewhere where your money's worth more than?

Do they wave you in?

It's nuts.

They're just like, come, come, come, come, come.

And it's a massage, but also it's not.

You know, it's hot.

Well, I i mean that's i mean all of new york now is just it's a turf war between rub and tug massage parlors and fake weed stores yeah so it's like we're not far off here uh

yeah the the the

the cultures where prostitution is so not a big deal blows my mind it's so refreshing yeah the cool thing is that i we met on in So I did a show in Bangkok.

My friend Childress, William Childress, set it up for me.

He He lived in Myanmar.

He gave me all this advice on Myanmar.

But he ran a show in Bangkok, and we hung out with some locals.

Was he there?

Yeah, he came to meet us at the airport, and we went and played video games at their house.

And

some white guy was dating a Thai lady, and he was like, oh, all the Thai ladies here are cool.

And I was like, how come?

He's like, there's just, there's hookers here.

Like, if they make you work for it, you'll just go get a very cheap hooker.

Oh, wow.

What an incredible side effect.

What an incredible side effect.

It's exactly right it's exactly right yes it's like it's like how construction sites will have food trucks next to them come on yeah yeah

which came first was like the construction came first they didn't go let's build around this fucking waffle waffle oh man yeah the the working girls really did

really laid the groundwork wow incredible yeah yeah so they're all really cool and normal and also into whatever they speak a lot of english there um that was the only place in asia that i played that had like half and half expats to locals.

Everyone speaks English, especially.

Otherwise, it was all expats.

Yeah, I mean, Hong Kong, plenty of locals, but

my.

But all through China, only expats.

I'm so ignorant when it comes to like the Asian side of the world.

Like, when you say Hong Kong,

I'm just instantly, it's a kung fu movie in my head.

Okay.

It's John.

No, that's totally fair.

That's totally fair.

So I forget sometimes I've been places I know what it's like.

You totally.

So when people are like, Chicago, did you get shot every day?

Like, that's a different part of Chicago.

No, no, it's over there.

Yeah.

yeah, no, no, no, no, no.

Like, you mean like 100 miles away?

Like, no, like, two.

Are you beefing with anyone in Oblock?

Like, you're gonna be fine.

Are you a gangster disciple?

Yeah.

Are you a disciple of a gangster?

I'm gonna be artists.

I always thought it was worrisome because in LA it was red and blue, but I'm like, I, those colors are both in my wardrobe.

Yeah.

I don't want that.

And I'm like, they know it.

They're not.

My skin tone really pops.

Hong Kong was sold, rented, like the Netflix deals to

the UK for 99 years quick little sneak disc yeah well not diss but like these are the new deals you get it for two years they get it two years it'll be off the air they can renew

99 years from eight

from 1900 to 1999 or maybe it was 1899 1999

at which point it would revert back but that point came and China was like well we're making hell of money off this it's a banking center so everybody speaks English the Chinese they speak there is not Mandarin like China.

It's Cantonese, which is like a different Chinese.

Okay.

I don't even think they understand each other.

My question was going to be, is it like our English versus British English?

Yeah.

Closer would be like Norway and Iceland.

I think Iceland was like the original Norwegian.

Okay.

So Norwegians can understand Icelandics or vice versa.

Denmark and Denmark and Norway is similar in that way.

This is different, I think.

I mean, this should be seven countries.

Right.

Look how fucking massive it is.

It's giant.

Yeah.

It's so dominant.

Yeah.

So

it's just very white.

It's just very like,

when I say white, that sounds racist.

I mean, like, it's just very upscale.

Tons of bankers.

Also, a bunch of misfits who were there for like a year on their like, I'll teach English, you know, running away.

My friend Sarah and her boyfriend at the time were both runaways like that.

They met teaching English in Korea.

They kept traveling.

She's called it like pretend life, which is what it was.

They drank every day.

Why not?

Yeah, that is, oh, God.

Is that the most freeing?

I had nothing to do.

Nothing to do.

I'm going to, let's get a buzz going.

Yeah.

Oh, I missed that.

Beer bay.

It was just, it was great.

And, and, and the relationships couldn't get going big.

This happens in Thailand too, because like we're both here on a contract.

You're here at five.

I'm here at three.

We're both here on threes.

I'm a year in.

You're two years in.

Every one of these relationships has an ending date.

I'm going to leave.

Or you're going to leave.

So it's fun.

Let's go hot and heavy.

But then that's it.

We're done.

Totally.

And then occasionally people got married.

Anyway.

Yeah, but that's what a great freeing thing.

It allows for

a heightened level of intimacy that you wouldn't get out of like casually dating someone.

Yeah.

Kiss me on the forehead.

What does this mean?

You know what I mean?

No games, too.

Everyone's on vacations.

Beach weekend always.

Amazing.

When I say white, I should say first world.

That's what I mean.

I should have said it that way.

Oh, now it definitely says.

Very first world.

Now it's definitely received.

You said white and you've been developed.

Yeah.

I lean on white too much because when you travel, there's just not a lot of black travelers.

There's some, definitely, but in hostels and stuff, it's just a lot of white people.

So when you come into a place in Asia, you're like, I'm a new white.

It's just a joke you make.

But the black people also are the whites.

The way I talk about the Philly scene, you know, and I'm like, I call them the Philly Blacks.

It was Monroe, Derek Gaines,

all these people.

And then Cassidy was also one of the Philly Blacks.

Oh, Tom Cassidy?

Yeah.

Oh, without question.

He's white, but he's one of the Philly Blacks.

No one loves Nas more than Tom Cassidy.

Shout out to the cat daddy Tom Cassidy.

Love him to death.

Anyway.

It's so much just Reggie Conquest and Tom Cassidy.

Yeah, they're all the Philly Blacks.

Hey guys, I'm going to break into today's episode and tell you a little bit about the guest, Toby McMullen.

Oh, actually, you know, he's not the guest.

I'm the guest.

I'm the guest.

Yeah, I should tell you about me.

Well, let me tell you really quickly about the interviewer who did a great job, Toby McMullen, at toby.mcmullen on Instagram.

Let him know he did a good job interviewing because I think he did.

He's into these kind of crazy parties.

That's why he started talking about it.

He did one, the most dangerous event in America, Swamp Fest.

Check him out on YouTube.

He's also got a podcast called Dynamite Rocket Ship.

We should check out.

I've been on there.

You can start with that episode.

And he's got a new special called Live from the Aladdin on YouTube right now.

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Also, in the comments,

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I put a comment up there on last week's with Mark Gagnon, for sure.

It's pronounced that way.

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I don't just want travel bloggers.

I mean, what I really want is like musicians who have been places.

I remember there was some like major league baseball player who got eliminated and then he went on a trip around Ireland with his buddies.

Shit like that.

The travel bloggers, Kirk Kaz, Baldwin Bankrupt's coming on.

That's all fine and dandy, you know?

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What a crazy time.

It really reminded me.

Toby did a good job.

He's into these crazy wild parties, and he did a good job of interviewing me on it.

So let's get back to it.

But I mean, it took me back.

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Let's get back to the episode.

Anyway, yeah, first world.

But she told me about Thailand because they had all traveled there and this full moon party.

So I was like, let's do it.

We We went there, went from there to Bangkok, did our show,

went to,

I mean, I just sent her on the full moon party.

I'll just say, real quick.

Yeah, yeah, I want to know about it.

This looks sick.

Yeah.

This is like

backpackers from all over the world coming together.

It's a full moon.

It's every full moon.

So it's, there's one this month.

There'll be another one the next month.

Another one the next month.

Yeah.

They all come together.

You party like crazy on Ko Samui.

Hold on.

How do they do this safely with all the gnarly drug laws they have over there?

Okay.

Full moon party.

It's on Kofen Yang.

Okay, they look away.

Really?

So there's on the north, so this is the Long Beach.

How do I even get?

You got to prepare.

You wear bright colored, like neon tank tops.

You neon face paint.

You don't have to, but everyone does.

You're a great guy for really diving in.

Wear a costume, bro.

Wear a costume.

If there's a couch,

you're getting after it.

Wear a fucking costume.

We're here for a limited amount of time.

Wear a fucking costume.

Totally.

You know, you're at a wedding.

Fucking go for it.

You're at a fucking thing.

You go to a Cowboys game.

You're not a fan.

Just fucking buy a Cowboys game.

I couldn't agree.

It's like getting in a swimming pool and being like, I don't want to get my hair wet.

It's like,

don't show up to the pool.

Fuck right off.

Trying to think if I have anything from Thailand back there.

I do.

I do.

Thai boxing.

Me and Pete went there in

Chiang Mai, Thai boxing.

It's so fucking cool.

Can I do the whole Thailand?

I'll just cover Full Moon Party.

I'll say the rest for later.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we gotta, we're both too ADD.

Yeah.

So you wear all this clothes.

You stay on

Ko Samui, which is also could be a party island, whatever.

It's like a hostile kind of place.

Pete Wen got a nicer spot.

I got my own room.

They're like, hey, if you mess up the towels, we're charging you.

And you're like, all right, relax.

What kind of hotel is this?

But everyone wipes off their fucking makeup and ruins it.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They're dealing with all these fucking angry, on-a-budget travelers.

They're like, we're not getting into this.

We're keeping a fucking deposit.

We're not giving it back.

Fuck it up.

I did fuck mine up.

Did not get a deposit back.

Was upset.

I have a great capacity to be able to like join in with what everybody's doing.

And if people, if I'm around a bunch of poor people, I feel poor.

And then I have to pull out of it and be like, oh, God, that was a dollar.

Yeah, that's so, you're, you're so outraged.

And you're like, all right, I got to get back to America on my tour bus.

You ever go to like a friend's poker game and you lose bad?

You're like, fucking fuck.

And they're like,

fuck every hand I fucking lost in the river.

But like, how much do you lose?

Like, well, it was a quarter and 50 cents.

So, I don't know, like, $18.

Yeah, but it's the principal.

Yeah.

And you're like, I guess it's not that bad.

But you let yourself feel it.

So you stay on Kosamoy, run over Kofen Yang.

They have round-trip boats.

Some people stay on Kofen Yang.

My friend Sean Aber did that.

He taught me about hostels.

Damn, and it's that popping every full moon.

Every full moon.

So the point is, you get out, you celebrate like crazy the full moon.

There's this long beach, okay, the north end of the beach, south end of the beach.

On the beach, there are multiple DJs playing different kinds of music, country, a lot of electronic,

80s, people are dancing.

I just found out.

I just found out, I didn't find out about dance music, but I've started to get served videos of it on social media yeah and i'm liking it more and more and i think it's just because i'm now i'm in my 30s and i don't want to learn any more lyrics oh you don't have to yeah exactly just feel it get on drugs and feel it exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah so as you walk down or north of the beach you go like there's like 20 meters where you can overlap and then it just becomes only that only that dj area and then only the next dj area and then only the next you know just like a little it's like bands at a festival okay you know where you can hear both and move closer to one but but it doesn't feel it doesn't feel like the type of place where they would have like barriers.

No, no, no, none.

None.

Is there security?

None.

When you have to go pee,

you just go out away from the beach to the water.

You go up to your ankles and you just piss.

Fun.

Fun.

Fun.

Standing next to somebody.

You're like, hey, how you doing?

It's crazy.

And then you look to your right and you look to your left and you realize there are hundreds of people pissing all around you.

And it's like, these are the environments that people need to get themselves into because it really, it's

so

refreshing and exhilarating to be surrounded by people whose only pursuit is a good time and they don't give a fuck about things like where you're going to piss.

Yep.

So this is the neon stuff.

Everyone paints themselves the country they're from because this is all travelers.

There's nothing tie about this.

It's one of the more interesting things about travel when there's nothing to do with the country it's hosted in.

Yes.

The Olympics, maybe, but they'll have a lot of overlap with that.

It's this.

It's just like, hey, we need a place to all meet up.

Yeah, hell yeah.

So you put where you're from on there.

A lot of Americans write Canada on their forehead.

Smart.

Yes.

Why get into it?

Why get into it?

Canada stinks, by the way.

So see all these neons and shit?

Canada stinks.

That's so great.

I forgot.

You just got back from there.

Yeah.

All dressed chips.

That's all you got up there.

Yeah.

They have usually they light up a fucking this guy.

They light up a

thing.

They set it on fire.

That's so tight.

They also have this thing called just buckets.

Let's just look at these side ones.

That's where the buckets are.

Oh, I I know what to do.

I'll just extend.

Nice.

So these guys are selling.

Come on, dude.

I got to learn how to do this.

Buckets of booze.

Remember that 7-Eleven Extreme Gulps?

Yes.

It's pretty much that size, which was, I figured out because I was drinking a lot of them when I was starting comedy.

Five and a third cans of Coke.

It's that.

They put in seven straws and they mix it with like eight or nine different kinds of alcohol.

Yes.

What they tell you is you have to ask them to break the seal.

Because what they'll do is like, oh, you want whiskey?

I got Jack Daniels.

Like, sweet.

And they turn around and then they pour something that they filled up a Jack Daniels bottle with.

Oh, shit.

Yeah.

Or they'll be like, no, bro, this is new.

I'm like, that's a Malibu rum.

That logo has been gone for 20 years.

That's not.

Get a new bottle, dude.

Oh, God.

Yeah, you're drinking Taiwanese Pruno?

No, thank you.

Everyone is so fucking lit up.

Everyone's so fucking lit up, dude.

It is so fun.

So you go there.

The moon's there.

You're not really worshiping the moon.

You're just getting fucked up.

On the north, north end of the island.

Yes.

You go up some steps.

There is a happy shake place, which is just ground up mushrooms in a milkshake.

Mushrooms are

so back, dude.

Mushrooms are back.

They're back.

They are.

They are abundant

and in all forms.

And these pills that people are making with them are the greatest.

I also feel like that people have.

The the mushroom pills so you get exact dosage you get exact doses and people fast and people have finally started to be honest about proper mushroom dosage right instead of just i don't know take some no instead of just like eat an eighth and you're like an eighth is way too much oh right unless you're like trying to fucking really confront your feelings about your dad or whatever

So this is it.

There's just so many people.

There's like a water slide in one of them.

You can jump through the fire in some.

There's like fire.

Let me see one of these where it's like you can really see.

This is incredible.

I want to go to this.

Dude, okay, so you're talking about doing these shows that I call about turn-ups, right?

Yeah, this is a good one.

Yeah, this is a turn-up.

Yes.

So this is just like not on fire, and they light it up on fire.

Amazing.

At some point.

Amazing.

Yeah.

Oh, here it is.

Better.

Okay.

Okay, but again, so this is like a Burning Man party in Thailand.

All night.

Now, at some point, 2 a.m., the shuttles start.

I think they don't stop, actually, because they take people over.

They go right back.

You can go back whenever you want.

Do you you have to buy a ticket or you just pull off yeah it's like four dollars of course yeah oh to the full moon party itself

do you have to buy a ticket I don't know I think it might just be hey you're coming here you're gonna buy a bunch of booze you don't have to buy yeah yeah

because there's no there's no gate to get in I'm not sure there might have been one that that would have been for two seconds so that's not my memory of it it's not the ticket of course um i was i i'm now just concerned about the minutiae of how this how this thing stays sustainable i mean there's there's some normals there oh look at me all in front of the fucking moon damn that's so awesome dude yeah

oh you're no no okay this is and this is like an environment for mdma and ketamine and cocaine yeah in a place where they will

they don't care life in jail here's the cool thing to okay so this idea that these countries are dangerous that these are the punishments for this or that or that it's like yeah okay sure but not really like okay what's what's the punishment for jaywalking it's a fine right Yes.

What's the punishment for jaywalking in New York?

No one's ever, no one knows.

Yeah, totally.

Right?

You see what I'm saying?

Okay.

So there's also pharmacies where you don't need a prescription for anything.

So,

yeah, you can just go in.

They ask you for a prescription to make sure they're getting the drug you want.

Like, did a doctor tell you what to get?

If you're like, it was like an ibuprofen or I, I, I bill, I bill, like, show me what he told you.

So I get you the right thing.

Yes.

But if you're like, I want Xanax, like, okay.

How many?

Uh, if you're seven years old, they might try to to stop you.

But if you're like, I'm getting this for my mom, she'll make it Xanax.

I'm like, okay.

Wow.

So anyway, I'm at this fucking happy shake place.

I go to the bathroom, which is just, I mean, you don't want to have to take a dump, but you have to take a dump.

Shit it out.

There's a bucket with a little, a big bucket of water with a little bucket in there.

And you just take that, put your hands in it, and just wipe out your ass.

Take it.

Wipe out your ass with water.

And these are the details that I think prevent people from

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Look, man, shit in the fucking bucket, okay?

It's not that bad.

No, no, you shit into a hole.

The bucket's to wipe your ass out with.

Okay, even better.

It's a hole.

We're not even shitting in the bucket.

You would be shocked at how quickly you will acclimate to shitting and pissing.

You will.

You absolutely will get it.

You're right.

Don't let that hold you back.

That's great advice.

That's great advice.

That's great advice.

You're going to die.

You're going to fully be dead.

I am remembering now.

Also saw multiple women shitting in the ocean.

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Here is

here is

fire rope dance jump rope.

Fun.

Wait, how do I move down in this?

Oh, man.

Just

whatever.

Society would collapse if everything was this, but I would much prefer.

You go in there.

I did it.

You just, they just fucking look two guys on either side.

They're fucking flipping them, flipping them, flipping.

You just jump.

Yeah.

At first, you're like, no fucking way.

And then it's like, oh, dude, I'm remembering so many fucking drugs now.

Okay.

So that's somewhere in the middle.

So you see, there's a DJ boot there.

All the way to the left.

It's a D, not DJ, but like music.

Yes.

Everyone, it's warm as shit out.

So everyone's having a blast.

There's no,

there wasn't any way in 20.

When did I go?

2014, 15?

There was no sexual leering.

There was no, like, there wasn't anything like that.

There was a, I mean, people were up for it if it happened, but it wasn't.

Backpacker culture is for the most part pretty cool about everything.

Yeah, it's it's it's not to say it's not doesn't happen, but it they just they just turn down the volume on the insignificant

day-to-day stuff that people get hung up on and are concerned about.

Are we gonna fuck?

I don't know, man.

I don't know.

I don't know, dude.

I'm living off of $2 a day.

And, like,

this food is sick and these guys are swinging fire.

Let's jump in.

Let's jump it.

Yeah.

So, you got Happy Shake Place up top, up on a mountain too, so you can look down on the whole thing.

It's pretty cool.

You can also ask them, this is all coming back to me right now.

It was so fucking fun.

You can also ask them, like, hey, can you just leave out the shake part?

Because that's what gives you the shits, milk.

You're going for milk on a fucking Thai island.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, and it's not like a great shake.

Some suspect dairy.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, no thanks.

And then you're not positive they put the mushrooms in.

It's all elephant dung mushrooms, too.

Oh, man.

It's just some chick from California being like, Can you put mine in oat milk?

Like, no.

So we're going up and down the island.

Up and we got there daytime.

We got there hella early.

I went and took a dump, come back.

Sarah, um, and who else are you with?

Maybe

Sean, Abear, and maybe uh Pete, and then maybe another person.

She knew people around in Asia.

She was so cool.

I learned so much from her about travel and about just getting out there.

But like,

she,

you might have Martin Luther King.

I have Sarah.

So I come back.

She's chopping up something on a, chopping up a pill on a mirror.

And I was like, what are you doing?

She goes,

I'm chopping up Riddling.

And I was like, why are you chopping up Riddling?

Because we're snorting Riddlin.

I was like, damn, okay.

Right.

It was just every drug, up, down, up, down, having fun, having a blast.

We went back to Sean A.

Bear's hostel.

He was staying on Kofen Yang.

The elevator froze because he had more than two people in there.

So we're stuck on a fucking hot, getting hotter and hotter elevator.

We're like freaking out because we're like, we can't open this.

Terrifying.

Five full minutes.

Like probably six or seven of us on there.

We're like, we're fucked, dude.

It's sweltering hot.

We're not going to make it through the night in here.

Then it starts working.

Oh, man.

And those are the kind of sticky situations you got to get yourself into.

Yeah.

It was so fun.

You just got out of your element a little bit.

So we get towards the happy shake.

So happy shakes north.

Then a little bit south, you go inside.

There is

nitrous whippets.

I'm not really sure which one's which.

It's the big tanks.

Same thing.

Same thing.

Yeah.

Whippets are nitrous.

Oh, really?

Yes.

Okay.

Fully crazy.

What do you call it?

Let's see if we can find a picture of this.

Yeah, I've never did Nitrous.

I mean, there you go.

It's just never around.

Yeah, just whipped out.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, police arrest Teller of Laughing guys a full moon party like this is just a story because generally they don't fucking give a shit

yeah I'm not doing this this this guy didn't they didn't pay off the cop or whatever their their setup was or it was or it was someone well they did it exactly they didn't pay off the cop it was someone pay off the cop yeah that's not a real

bucket.

God damn, I got to learn how to do this better.

Yeah, it's all good, man.

We're learning it real time.

We're learning as we go.

Yeah, fuck you.

So those are the buckets.

You see them on the right?

Right here?

Yes.

Okay, so they'll just fill that up.

They have seven straws.

So people walk by you, and you just take sips of their bucket.

It's fine.

And you just get so fucked up.

So we go to, there's a nitrous area, and everyone's on there.

And we're like, how do you do it?

Even Sarah's like, I don't know about this.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll do it, but I don't know about it totally um

she was so good at finding drugs she was just so good at finding drugs what a what a hot lady we're in cambodia we're in cambodia and i want a weed

she's not a weed lady and she she went to this hostel and she was i was like i'm nervous how do you find stuff yeah and she's like i think this one's the one and uh and she was like all right yep they have it like but i'm not it's for you so come by and i and i i went in and and um

she's like yeah it's 10 bucks for a bag it's brown don't act like you're there's anything better.

That's what you're getting.

Brown weed.

And then I was like, how much?

He's like, $10 for a bag.

I was like, okay.

And he goes, oh, shit.

Are you Ari Shafir?

No.

Only twice I got recognized on a four-month trip to Asia.

No shot.

Yeah.

And I was like, yeah.

And he goes, what the fuck?

And she just goes, free weed.

Yeah, okay.

When mutants like us

find out people have drugs, they're like, ugh, he wants our drugs.

And then when a cute girl comes up, they're like, ooh, she wants our drugs.

Different reactions.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

So,

so anyway, so we're doing this.

So he's like, how does it work?

So some guy is there.

He goes, it's the best.

Because he pushed past us.

He goes, it's the best.

He's been going all night, this random dude.

We don't know him.

And we're like, how do you do it?

I want to be able to show you without standing up.

I want to go out of frame here.

So he is, he is, this will work, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So he's there.

Imagine I'm standing up.

You fill up a balloon.

They give you this balloon.

You squeeze it.

I mean, it's filled up to here, the size of your head.

Yes.

And you've done it ever?

No.

See it on Skank Fest.

I didn't see any there.

It was upstairs.

Me and Lil Sass did it for a while.

Oh, wait.

No, I did see a whole crew of people really doing it in the green room, but I was like, I was just gangsta.

It rules great.

It rules.

When it's around, it fucking rules.

It's fun.

It's a good addition.

And it lets you know it's a different type of person who gets stoked on nitrous.

Yeah.

And you're like, you're like,

you're like, oh, man, you've really been to Colorado, huh?

Fuck yeah,

oh yeah, it was fun.

Um, yeah,

so great.

Tony Hinchcliffe, fucking loser.

He was like, come on.

He's like, oh, I don't, I don't know.

He's made some excuse.

You ever give him an excuse is completely negated.

And people are like, I'm still not going to go.

Well, then, it's your excuse to lie.

He was like, I don't have time.

I have to do this thing.

I'm like, that's not for 40 minutes.

It's a 10-minute high.

It's a 20-second high.

He goes, nah.

I'm like, all right.

Anyway, this guy imagines standing up.

He's like, I'll show you how to do it.

And we're like, okay.

He gives the guy whatever it is,

holds it, goes,

then goes,

and then

dude, cement.

Cement, back of his head, conked.

Just

we're like, what the fuck?

Out.

And then sits up about four seconds later and goes,

yes.

And I bet he went right back for the balloon, too.

Yeah, he did another one.

Of course.

And we're like, that's how you do it.

Yeah.

That's why they call it hippie crack, man.

Wow.

We were like, and we were like, all right, well, let's take a knee before we do it.

So we don't do that.

I don't know why the guy didn't speak of that.

We're going to hit the floor.

All right.

Yeah.

Rule one of Nitrous.

Take a seat.

Take a seat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You want to see a real loser?

Go look up Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

And I'm on with Shane and Mark and Rogan.

i brought some whippets and uh didn't fill it up enough and i was like i'll show you guys how to do it and i did not enough and i faked it it was like it got me close and i was just like faked it what a fucking loser ah hey that's choppy baby yeah i couldn't be like it's not hitting me

um anyway so it's that it's all up and down it's just booze booze booze they light up this big fire And then at some point, you should stay till the sun comes up.

I mean, that's the goal.

And you're up.

Oh, on every bucket is a full can of Red Bull.

Great, so it will keep you up.

Full can of Red Bull, also a lot of Coca-Cola, drugs like Coke.

Yeah, you know, we went back to Sean's room, we'd smoked some weed.

I'm sure people did Coke and stuff, I wasn't doing it at the time.

Yeah, Coke was never my I still do it.

By the way, anybody watching, I'm not a Coke guy.

I have done it, I'll talk about it.

Don't offer me Coke, I don't want any.

Yeah, also, don't do Coke, don't do Coke, yeah.

It's God,

these fucking chicks having a blast.

That That chick is gone.

Yeah, I never did.

I'm not sure if I'm doing this cocaine.

Neurologist wants.

Fuck you, neurologist.

Quit trying to be on the fucking cover of anything.

Yeah, fuck right off.

I never did Nitrous.

I never did.

The ones that got away from me were Nitrous, Heroin,

and

Lean.

Lean?

What's lean?

Is that the

Scizerp, some might call it?

Purple Drink.

It's Promethazine and

Codeine's Cough syrup.

Yeah.

Like big, big

Houston rappers really popped it off.

But it's just

liquid heroin.

But the thing about it now is that like all these rappers, the way they make it is you have

a cup, pour your cough syrup into it, and then they put in like a Jolly Rancher and like Sprite.

And it just seems like a lot of sugar to me.

It just seems like there has to be a better way.

So these are the buckets.

Okay.

You've got a can of whatever soda, Coca-Cola Light, regular Coca-Cola Sprite, and then a full bottle of whatever this fucking whiskey is.

And then they're going to put other shit in there too.

Oh, there's other bottles.

There's other, you can see other, like down here, there's more.

There's another bottle of something.

And these are the prices.

These are all bought.

180 baht, 150 baht, 120 baht.

It's nothing.

It's just free.

It's free.

It's free.

100 baht is probably like, I think it was like $3 was for a hundred baht so way so this is 350

five dollars for for like

three full bottles of liquor and a Coca-Cola

it's like nobody was like well I don't I can't afford it and it's too much for one person yes

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So you just walk up and down this beach and you just get fucking just fucked up.

There are these like slides, there's fun games.

And it's also, if you're willing to go to one of the choir places, everybody there there is one of the coolest people to ever meet.

Because they're willing.

They're there.

They're there.

They're backpackers.

Nobody's helicoptering in.

No.

No.

No.

You're not going to.

I mean, maybe you would, but it's not like a music festival, especially one in a city like Lollapalooza or

what they have Governor's Ball here where it's just going to be some chick going around.

Where's Sarah?

They're like, Sarah, we'll find her.

She'll be fine.

Yeah, this guy's jumping, jumping over.

Yeah, everyone has their full moon party things.

Yeah, Sarah's going to be fine.

Yeah, I love the guys whose job it is is to swing the rope.

Those guys are just at work.

They're not partying.

They're like, oh, by the way, they're hitting people.

People get hit with the rope all the time.

Oh, how could you not?

Because sometimes people try to dive over it.

You're like, I did it.

And then it's still fucking coming at you.

Have fun.

I tell you, I jumped out of a plane.

Oh, I saw pictures of that.

It's so fucking cool.

It was sick.

What was really comforting about it was it was a similar thing of like the guys who were doing the fire rope are just like, whatever.

The guys who I jumped with, it was their 16th jump of the day.

Yeah.

They couldn't care less.

It was

so reassuring in that you're just like, oh, you're just chilling.

Yeah.

Oh, right.

They're like, this isn't an issue at all.

No, they're like, this is Tuesday.

I do this.

People are zooming.

Yeah, you can like rest in places.

You can just like go to sleep, you know, like this over here, where they're just like, I got to take a load off.

And and for an hour, no one will bother you.

Shroom shakes because they get it.

Because everyone there is like, oh, I've been too fucked up.

I know where this guy's at.

I'm not gonna fuck with him.

I don't want to say the name of the bar, but it says right here, special shake.

That's it, dude.

That's it.

Okay.

That's the spot.

Wow, I haven't seen this in so fucking long.

Damn, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go to this.

I'm gonna just open this up because I gotta, come on.

That's it.

So, this is it, bro.

So, this is the happy shake place.

You go up there.

The bathroom is right here.

The bucket's there.

You go up.

Oh, my God.

This is, I mean, this is 100% it.

Amazing.

This looks.

2015.

Is that 2015?

2016.

So, I mean, almost nothing's going to happen.

Just you pissing in the ocean.

So, yeah, everyone goes out there to piss.

I'll show you.

There's a rock

right like about there, and that's where we saw a lady just full dumping.

Full dump.

What kind of dump?

I mean, it wasn't.

Listen, that's not one you could hold till later.

You know

it's not, it's not, it's not what you present for the county fair.

It's like a quality dump.

It's not a, it's no blue ribbon.

Yeah.

All right.

I think the family probably lives up there who runs it, but you get these happy shakes here.

Fuck yeah.

Um

and then and then yeah, all we went swimming because we went daytime.

It was hot as fuck.

You'll just dry off.

And we went swimming here in the ocean, me and Pete.

And at some point, we're like, like, I was feeling like, I was like, like, are you feeling stinging?

He was like, yeah, all over.

Little fucking tiny, those, I don't know what it was.

I think those little tiny jellyfish.

And we're like, get the fuck out of here.

And we're like, ow, ow, ow.

But it went away.

Oh, that's good.

That's scary.

He's getting worse and worse.

I'm scared about a parasite in the, I think, like, like the Congo or the Amazon that swims up your dickhole.

Yeah.

Oh, I think about that, man.

Yeah.

A concern I'll never have.

Swims up your dickhole when you pee?

Yeah.

When I think about that right now, I bet it's only when you're swimming.

No way you can swim upstream that fucking fast.

I don't know.

Nature's powerful, man.

Nature's powerful.

So you got to keep chopping off your stream.

What hubris for us to possess of like, no, no, no, my stream is so powerful.

No being known to man could swim up it.

No, dude.

Dude, this place was so fucking cool.

So the Nitris place was just...

So see how it curves over here?

Yes.

It was just over here.

Amazing.

And this was the daytime.

So you can go not full moon party.

They They also, I think, do like...

Yeah, but why would you?

Why would you?

Oh, that's it.

You get it right here.

So what's the.

Yeah,

you're saying they're all cow shit mushrooms.

And that's the view.

Wow.

That's my hat for real.

And that's the whole beach right there.

So they're all setting up now, probably.

Yeah, there was no

sea dews there then.

What time is it?

I was about to check what time it is.

Five.

There's a pharmacy out there.

It's just like, I don't know, man.

It's just, it was so fucking cool.

Yeah, you want to do it?

I mean, I should not mention it or mention it, but like.

I would keep it vague.

I just want to make any promises that I don't fulfill.

You like these things.

I love these things.

And I am in pursuit of

this.

The type of environment where

people's, where some people say, wow, that's incredible.

I have to be there.

And other people say, I could never do that.

I could never do it.

It's so fun.

And it's like, you can, dude.

All you have to do is pull up.

It'll have you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I wanted to tell you about that.

I don't want to tell on air, but I heard about one.

I'll tell you about it.

Sick.

Yeah.

Sick.

Yeah, but

I have a very cool plan, and

I'm highly motivated to execute.

So,

regardless of outcome, I'm going to get myself into some very fun, very sticky situations.

That's what you want.

I mean, so when you hear about this, what do you think of?

I think of

that up until oh, that's it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, hell yeah.

Uh, that up until right now, yeah, my thoughts of Thailand were lady boys and noodles, and that this is so sick, and now I'm highly motivated to go to Thailand because this seems amazing

and like these are the pockets that you want to get yourself into where you're the

kind of like what I was saying before where the rabble rousers yeah and and

where the

the the day-to-day

confines that we all kind of have to operate in so that it's not just bedlam and pandemonium get the those walls get taken down a little bit and people get to just sort of exist outside of a world of pressure of like earn money

to live.

And they're actually just living.

They are just living.

And money means almost nothing.

It means like very little.

They have it, but they have very little.

And it's like, that's not, they're not trying to like make any money.

Oh, dude.

Should we do a video on this?

I don't even know.

I mean, I filled it up to say.

Okay, is this the best party you've ever been to?

Is my next question.

Is it the best party I've ever been to?

Hold on.

It's possible.

That is possible.

It might be the best party I've ever been to.

I mean, beach, foreign country, people from all over.

So warm out, but not hot.

So warm out.

So it's like, you know, you're just like the teeth just hugging you.

Yeah.

And it's pitch black.

I mean, it's night.

Plus, you had a pretty strong liquor blanket on.

And the thing is, the moon is

lighting everybody up.

I just could.

Yeah, you're hammered drunk, dude.

I bet it's not as cool now with all these vloggers.

I bet there's going to be a lot of people screaming into their cell phones like this lady.

Yeah, that's tough.

Yeah, we didn't have that.

You went.

And then everyone has to turn it on at the exact right time.

Yeah, but it's also like, I'm trying to go there with a camera, so it's like, I'm not one to judge.

That's a good point.

But my shit's going to be tight.

These guys suck.

Because I'm going to bring a crew crew of real fucking dirtbags with me.

How would you do it where you were young?

Yeah, that's.

Yes.

Yes, dude.

Yeah, give me your snake piss liquor.

Give me your snake piss, please.

One snake piss, please.

I'll have a jumbo snake piss, please.

It was just fucking wild.

Yeah, it might have been the best part I've ever been to.

I'm trying to think of all the parties I've been to.

That one's hard to define as a party.

Yeah.

Because it's more of an event.

It's like more of a festival.

But I mean,

that certainly is the most.

It's been a while since someone was like, outside of a music festival and someone was like, there's this event.

Yeah.

That I'm like, that's heck.

I'm trying to go to that.

My friends from the stand just went.

I was like, oh, to Thailand.

And they're like, I think they were just going to Chiang Mai, which is also cool.

Save for another episode.

But like,

I was like, you should check the wet, the calendar.

If you're there in a full moon you'd be crazy not to hop over and hop over it by the way it's not a hop over you got to take a boat to kosamui and then the ferry over to cofiny it's a mission yeah you could there's a way to take a plane to kosamui but it's still hard so you got to get to the port get to whatever but like once you're there it's a it's less than a day's journey to get to the fucking you know kosamui yes um

God, it was so fun.

I know there's things I'm forgetting.

I know there's so many things I'm forgetting.

But, like, that's what you got to make that trip in the pursuit of a time.

That's such a good time.

Yeah.

It's such a good time.

And everyone was just so positive.

Everyone was just so happy.

That guy with the, wasn't like, are you guys going or not?

You know, the nitrous guy, he was just like,

I'm going.

You guys, do you mind?

He was just like happy, you know?

Yeah.

Everyone's on board.

Everyone's chill.

They're all there.

When I went to Southeast Asia, I was dating a girl, Jackie, and she goes, I was worried.

I was like, how am I going to meet people?

She goes, hey,

anything you do, like

activity-wise, you're going to be with people who are also interested in that activity.

It's not on the subway.

It's if you're going to an elephant sanctuary, it's other people that are into the elephant sanctuary.

If you're looking for a Thai cooking class, it's going to be people that are like, I want to learn Thai cooking.

If I want to go on a fucking,

anything, they're going to be people that, at least you have that much in common.

Plus, you're all backpackers.

Yes.

You know where the the most shocking place i've ever been that had that same vibe of just like everyone's in a great mood yeah and everyone's so stoked was the indy 500.

wow the i expected the indy 500 to be a bunch of drunk redneck assholes and it is just an unstoppable sea of people in the pursuit of the having the most fun it was so cool it was so it was

oh i love that shit shane said this once like you look at you look at like republicans partying and Democrats partying and who's having more fun.

I'm almost like, who's right or wrong, whatever?

Like, who's having more fun?

It's like, well, Republicans.

Like, Kid Rock concert goers are having a fucking blast.

You know, Ani DeFranco concert goers are enjoying themselves.

Yeah, dude.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was so cool.

So let me ask me some questions about it.

What did you want to know?

What am I missing?

What do you want to know about

that I haven't told you?

I thought of a few things I should ask in general people, but let me hear if you hit me with anything.

No right or wrong here.

About

the full moon party?

Uh-huh.

Okay.

Nitro's everywhere.

Ticket price is a solid question.

Yeah.

Is there a ticket price?

The security.

Oh, here.

Okay.

While we left on the way out, we're all pouring.

So you go through, through back to the beach and kind of over the island to get to the ferries.

Bunch of people that have been doing drugs and alcohol all night.

No No one got there

past midnight, you know.

So you get there earlier or whatever.

We're going through, there was one of these babies and you know those like walker strollers around and so the baby sits there with his legs and he can move.

He can kind of walk.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's pretty much like a whole tray for shit.

Yeah.

You know?

And so there's one of those on this, on this, on the street somewhere.

Well, it's a small cobblestoney kind of street, like uninhabited by cars or whatever.

And some bro dude is like, whose baby is this?

It's just some baby out?

You got to take care of your baby.

Whose is this?

And it was, I mean, I kept walking just like we did for that guy who was stealing Coco from 7-Eleven.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

It was like, hey, bro,

you're fucked up.

Don't try to solve third world right now.

Hammered, drunk.

They know where their baby is.

God, that is my least favorite thing in life.

Let me fix the shit.

Is a drunk person

unwilling to accept the reality that they are hammered.

I'm hammered.

I'm not going to give anybody advice on anything.

Dude, my entire drinking career,

if I saw a baby, I'd be like, I'm hammered drunk.

I'm staying away from that baby.

Yeah, it's like, whoa, cool.

Meanwhile, it's probably like, oh, yeah, we don't have fucking baby theft in my country.

So, yeah, the baby's fine out there.

The whole neighborhood knows the baby.

It's fine.

If he falls, one of my neighbors will pick it up.

It's being watched.

Fucking asshole.

Your only concern should be like hydration and logic.

Yeah.

And you need hydration.

On that boat back, two different people threw up over the edge.

Oh, I bet.

Yeah.

I bet.

Lack of sleep, booze, and whatever.

What were we going to ask?

I forget.

What would you say?

Oh,

I had something.

Still shaking your memory.

Okay.

I was like, I'm like what the fuck does that move, team?

I mean, you did a great, you did a great job of

food.

Oh, what do you get for food there?

That's a good question.

We must have eaten.

You have to.

No way we couldn't eat.

You can't supply that much alcohol without.

I have no memory of there being food, but there had to be food.

I'm sure

there were stands.

If you get booze everywhere,

so when you go off the beach a little bit, that's where you get all the buckets.

And then there were streets down towards into where the town would have been.

And then those are just lined with stalls.

They must have had food stalls.

Definitely.

Drugs, booze.

Just the fuck.

Just so

bad, it might have been the best party I've ever been to.

No tie, people, right?

The ties are just like, it's just something we do here.

We don't care.

Yeah.

It's just money comes in.

Over there.

Yeah, they buy a bunch of shit.

Everybody's cool.

No one's a dick.

That is an environment, though, where it's like, okay,

it's not a place I want to bring my passport.

Just because I would be concerned of losing it.

You leave your passport at the hotel in Costa Moy.

Yeah, totally.

You don't take that to Copenhagen.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, no way.

Little bit of cat, no phone.

They all have their um

they all have those little uh lockbox in the hotel rooms.

Sure.

We had a we had a it's another story from another time, but um

a lady in Thailand somewhere else and and she left her passport on her.

But it's like, is your passport in your bed?

And she's like, that's fine.

I'm like, no, you got to lock it up.

She goes, Asians don't steal.

I was like, that's a mass generalization for a billion PDF.

Yeah, that's wild.

I mean,

lady, it just takes one.

Put your passport away, lady.

It's such a

huge portion of the population.

Yeah, it's like your heart's in the right place, but you're factually incorrect.

Here's a question I thought of that I have to ask everybody in these podcasts.

What regrets do you have?

And what would you have told yourself?

Hey, make sure to do this?

Like on the way to China, I'd be like, to anybody who goes, and I'll still say it, take one of those travel things of tissue paper with you wherever you go.

Yes.

Don't ever not.

Chapstick, have some with you.

Sure, that's a good one.

So for this, I'm trying to think, what would I say, make sure to do?

Okay.

I'm just thinking about this right now in the moment.

Take a dump before you hit Gofing Yang.

Yeah.

Take a full, force yourself to take a dump before.

I'm trying to, I take long, arduous dumps.

Nice.

Arduous.

So

I try to pre-dump before I go anywhere.

It's why I'm late often.

Yeah.

So that's.

I would say lean in and just drink and do everything, but like everyone does.

That's not even a thing you got to tell anybody.

Yeah.

Anyone who's there, they're going to be down.

Yeah.

Nap it off.

Don't go home.

If the thought comes at you, I didn't.

So this isn't even a regret.

They're like, you know how we're like, I'm getting tired of my party.

I'm getting tired.

But you know, sometimes you have like rallied.

Yes.

But if you're like, I'm just going to like Irish goodbye.

Oh, yeah.

Go home.

This one, don't do that.

Stay.

Say, take a nap on the beach somewhere.

It's warm enough.

No one will fuck with you.

Just sleep.

And then wake up in 30 minutes and get going again.

You'll never be back there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

That's great.

Yep.

Yeah.

You want to see that sun come up.

And you feel so accomplished.

There was a night in New York, and it's one of my best memories.

It was me and Normand.

I was pretty new here.

And we were drinking at the Fat Black.

And,

you know, then eventually the customers left.

They just let us stay, you know.

And we just, I'll get this round.

Oh, you got the last one.

Okay.

Last round.

Last one.

Another one.

Another one.

Another one.

And you start seeing the light come through the cracks because they pulled the shades down over those windows.

Yeah.

I'm like, no way.

And when you walk home at 6, 7 a.m.

It's the best.

You feel so accomplished.

Yes.

It's degenerate accomplishment.

Yes.

There's something so, it's like the best,

the best feel of watching people who have just gotten a good night's sleep and are on their way to work or going for a jog.

And you're like, my existence flies in the face of this fucking, of this thing you are beholden to.

Yeah.

And I just had the

best night.

I'm going to go.

I'm going to sleep.

Your day is starting.

My day is ending.

Right, exactly.

Like, oh my god,

right now I'm remembering an old Rogan bit when I used to open for him where he would like, I think I might have been staying up all night and people looking down on you and like these old men like looking down you in their suits.

And his line was, I don't know how the setup was, but his line was, um, if I let you smell my finger, it would, it would change the course of your life.

Uh,

yeah, it feels so good.

And when you're on that island and that sun comes up, and you keep going still for a while, it's like, wow, man, yeah, those and the like

and those moments are the ones that you look back on and they're like, that was so worth it.

So worth it.

That was so worth it.

So I haven't thought about the full moon party in so long.

I'm glad you chose Thailand.

I'm glad we got on that.

This podcast is an excuse to fucking relive shit.

You know what I mean?

It's like when they say when you're like old and like you're not going to think about the money you have, but you're going to remember all the fun things you did.

Yes.

Unless your memory goes, which mine is.

Mine's getting bad, dude.

I was looking my friend dead in the face that I've known for six years the other night, and I went to say his name and I wasn't confident in it.

Toby McMullen.

I can't believe I didn't say your name and he didn't show up.

My last name would be nice.

Yep.

True.

And you couldn't say his name.

That's hilarious.

I could.

But for what names especially for me are really slippery.

So it was like, that's just a short out though.

Yeah.

It's just shorted.

That's how I don't remember.

I was on the Fritz.

Yeah.

It was like, why there wasn't the recall there?

Yeah.

That's funny, too, because it's not like you didn't learn my name.

It's just like, what happened happened to you?

Yeah.

It's like if you forget the word for grape, you're not forgetful.

Something's wrong with you.

Yes.

Yeah.

I'm like, my shit's broken.

Yeah.

I blame it on all the head trauma.

Yeah, where did I eat?

It must have been...

They must have had food places.

Let's assume they did.

Yeah.

It's a rat on a stick or whatever.

It gives a shit.

They have better food than that.

I mean, noodles and fucking all that shit.

Probably a little box of it.

God damn, it's fun.

It must be ruined, I bet, with influencers

everyone taking pictures.

I don't know.

The barrier to entry for that is really fucking high.

The barrier to what?

The barrier for entry to that party is very high.

You have to get to Thailand, and then it's a mission once you're in Thailand.

So it's not high-level influencers, it's everybody going, I'm recording this for me and my friends.

Like, hey, we're here.

Yeah, all kind of shit.

Not necessarily influencer, but social media you should.

Yeah, my friend went to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland.

It's in between the airport and Reykjavik.

so you you can go it's expensive it's like 250 bucks um not worth it and already not worth it because it's not where it was a hot hot spring you know whatever they moved it so they just funneled the water in um

but it's volcanic water but it's everybody they they rent these pouches waterproof clear pouches and everyone's just looking at themselves and my friend said when he went seven eight years ago it was just people putting mud on their face and like and like doing it and now it's everyone just talking to their phones in there yeah so that you know what i mean it's like i i don't know but i bet you can still have a good time i just hate when you're talking to someone and someone's like hey oh hey woo it's like that's not natural i wasn't doing that i'm only doing that for the camera oh my that's the worst when you when you see it out of the corner of your eye and you're coming to you and you're like i'm gonna be a liar now

yeah oh dude i'm so guilty of that uh i'm just i'm just like i don't want to be in a clip looking like i'm fucking looking like I'm lame when I'm just chilling.

And I get it.

Like, I remember jumping over that jump rope, that fire jump rope,

was fun.

It was cool.

I wish I had a video of it.

I don't.

So I would have taped it.

I'm glad I didn't tape it, but I'm also upset I don't have a video of it.

Totally.

You know, it would be cool to show you look at me jumping over this, but also to stop like, hey, take this video while I do this.

Yeah.

But whatever, whatever.

I don't want to focus on negative.

It was great.

Because my intention is now fully to go make a sick video there

Then film it off I mean you just got you got to learn how to like not bother people There's an art to it.

Yeah, there's a it's like everything it's like um

it

in the same way that I don't drink anymore But none of my friends view me as like a drag because I know how to hang because I still know how to hang I smoke weed or whatever but the

vast majority of people who don't drink fuck suck it's like vegans.

They're just so goddamn annoying about it.

It's like just shut the fuck up and kick it.

Kick it.

Yeah, so a similar vibe of that.

There's a way to go about it where it's less intrusive and can still be a fun vibe.

I'm now wondering if I actually have pictures from Thailand.

2017, that's me and Marr.

I don't.

Great.

I have them somewhere on a hard drive.

Totally.

This is you taking a selfie, holding some

castrated ladyboys' balls in a jar.

Yeah, here's me in China.

That would have been when I heard about it.

And then I don't know when that was.

Yeah, exactly.

Castrated balls.

Boar balls?

Ooh, this is an incident.

This is ficer.

Yeah, it was great.

It was great.

And then the rest of it, we just kind of hung out.

The annoying thing was back in Costa Moy the next day, they're like, we have a DJ boo set up.

I was like, no, come on, man.

This is for resting today.

Yeah.

Last memory that I have of it is

the next, we stayed for a couple more days or went for a couple days before.

We'll just hang by the pool, drink Thai beer.

That's when I got the idea.

I was trying to do the math convert see in my head of the 20-ouncer, like

whatever the Thai beer was.

And I was like, wait, this is.

And then Sarah was like, it's free, Ari.

It's free.

Everything's free.

And you're like, yeah, it was like 40 cents or 60 cents for a 20 ouncer.

It's free.

It's free, dude.

They pirated the Pacquiao Mayweather fight, and we watched it on a beach bar with the beach right there, daytime, looking back between rounds, and then just having this beautiful Thai

beach that we're all watching.

They all rooted for Pacquiao because it's from the Philippines.

Of course.

And it was pretty awesome.

It was probably the coolest way I've ever watched a fight.

It's funny.

It's fun to be in a real established business

and there's like the fights on the TV and then there's a guy still having to fight the pop-ups that are coming up.

Exactly.

Like the incredibly racist live chat that's going.

It wasn't even paid to watch.

It was like, drink something, you know, but we'll have it.

So you'll have an incentive to wake up at 11 a.m.

and watch.

Yeah, totally.

Yeah, good time.

You should go.

I will go.

I will.

Yeah.

And hopefully I'll get to see some illegally streamed sporting event.

Man, I miss illegal streams in BitTorrent.

Those are the days.

They're still there.

That's all I do.

Another episode for another thing.

It would be great if I did have a VPN sponsor.

This would be the time to put it in.

All right.

Well, I don't know when this will come out, but I will say, I think we're wrapped up, right?

Great.

I pretty much did a decent job of telling you about the full moon party.

You did a great job.

Yeah.

Thanks for guiding me and playing along.

I will say there should be a Patreon right now.

I have no idea what it is.

Patreon.com slash you be tripping.

Maybe Ari Shafir.

Probably you'd be tripping.

Let's call it that.

Yeah, I think you be.

You'll be tripping.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My goal is, I told you this, to hit a certain amount.

I don't know.

I forget.

And then we're going to send someone around the world.

We're going to send some fucking backpacker around the world, or at least through Southeast Asia or something for a year.

I don't know about around the world, but they could do that for a year for sure.

They go from there over to there.

Anywhere.

So when we hit, what is that number be?

I don't know, man.

2,000 people?

Depends on how sick you want this drip to be for the skin.

I mean, it's not going to be luxurious.

You're going to stay in hostels.

You know?

Oh, of course.

It's like going on a budget, but...

You have to do it right.

Yeah, and you got to apply.

We'll find who it is.

You got to apply in some way and make your case, but we're going to have to say, like, I don't want you writing in every day because I want you being lost out there.

I want you to get lost, you know, mentally.

But, like, once a month or so,

find a computer, register at the hostels, like, computer area, register a Gmail account and send me an update of what you're doing.

Yeah, hell yeah.

And that'll read on the Patreon.

That rolls.

Let's say 2,000 people.

2,000 seems good.

Yeah.

That'll be fun.

Anyway.

Toby again, McMullen, if you don't know, helped me design and set up the studio

with these.

We conceived it.

What do you think?

It's fucking great.

It's awesome.

We had two months lost because of fucking

act of God.

It's an act of God.

A true

so much effort to meet a deadline that we set.

That was then shown to be completely ludicrous by the acts of God.

I mean, let's get it.

So it's you go out tour.

We're going to be done.

I've not recorded two in here over two and a half months, and they're both with you.

Toby, what's your email?

I mean, uh, what's your home phone number?

What's your uh Instagram home phone number, dude?

What's your Instagram?

Home.

I'm joking.

I'm joking.

How fucking old are you, bro?

Oh, yeah.

Uh, Instagram at Toby.mcmullen on the old Instagram there.

Uh,

hit me up.

It's my only social media.

It's his only social media.

Here he is.

Hey, Suceve out.

Ah, damn it.

Uh, not logged in.

Well, you pretty much get it.

Yeah.

Whoever's editing this, freeze frame on that.

Say it again.

I was distracted.

I learned how to not be distracted while I'm doing this.

Toby.McMullen on Instagram.

Toby.McMullen.

All right, everybody, follow him.

Tell him about a place he should go.

Yeah.

If you have any, if you've ever been to any, I would say, I would define it as next level.

I don't want to say event because I don't want to skew it that hard.

Turnups are just parties.

So there's got to be a better term for that.

Yes.

skydiving festival a place where

people are sword fighting with severed dog dicks i don't know like some some some something outside uh this of the standard societal norms yeah and not just ones based in america but everywhere like where people are really letting it fly you want to see them i'm trying to go

and bring a whole bunch of my mommy bring And bring my gnarliest friends.

Yeah, who are willing.

Who are willing and have...

who will shit in the hole?

Yeah, Sean Aber stayed in a hostel on Confining with no AC, and you're like, damn, dude.

Like, I was like, I got to stay on the island over there with a pool and an AC.

He's like, I'm not looking for that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, the guys who just fucking go for it.

Yes.

They're nice to have around.

They are.

It's refreshing.

I'm trying to be one of those guys.

That's why whenever I

have like my mantra is like, be gnarly.

Whenever I get intimidated by something, I'm just like, no, no, no.

Be gnarly or not?

Your whole life you've looked up to these dudes because they're gnarly.

Yeah.

Fucking go be gnarly, man.

I'll leave you with this.

This memory of me and Pete, we're in on Phuket, I think, in Phuket.

And we're looking down this alley.

We're on main streets.

We're looking at this alley.

Like, some green light down there.

We're like, I wonder what it is.

It's like, I was thinking falafel stand, but it's like, I don't know, 50, 100, 100 yards away.

I'm like, I'm looking at it.

We're like, should we go down there?

And then some random, I think an Argentinian, maybe an Israeli, some accent, comes by, and he just,

from our back, just goes, you regret only the things you do not do.

And we're like, what the fuck was this guy?

And he walked on.

We're like, dude, let's go.

And it wasn't even anything that we really had to like be at.

It's like being haunted by the ghost of vibes to come.

Yeah.

What, dude?

He fucking clocked us for sure.

Too worried to go down an alley.

He's two fucking strapping dudes.

It's fine.

And then just made us do it.

There was nothing even there.

It wasn't anything amazing.

So it's just that we weren't later going, fuck, we should have seen what was there.

Did that philosopher just call us a pussy?

What a great philosopher, a Shane Gillis philosopher.

Fucking gay.

You're a fucking pussy.

All right, Tob McMullen.

Everybody follow him.

Next time you're back, you'll tell me about another place that you've been.

I will.

Love you to death, bro.

Thanks for having me.

Peace.

Okay,

that's the episode edited by Alan Caffey, produced by the Your Mom's House Network, who also produced my new storytelling show, The End, coming at some point.

What a taping.

Three days of taping at

the box.

What a place.

What a wild crowd.

What a lineup.

Oh my God.

Guys, the show's back.

Ari Shafir's renamed storytelling show.

It's coming.

If you were there, you know how great it was.

Now let's do the last thing that I should say.

Well, let me tell you a little bit about the Full Moon Party.

And if you were there, let me know.

It just took me back.

These podcasts, ideally, now I'm I'm the guest on like three of them.

Do you guys, by the way, if you're not listening to the ones I'm the guest on more than like anybody else, you're crazy.

I'm like one of the top travelers in comedy and the least prepared.

I'm like you.

But I go in places, but I'm not better off.

I got scared everywhere I go.

And I was frightened as shit for this one.

Anyway, that's it.

If you want to win, what I'm doing is a trip.

kind of around the world.

We got a lot of

applications before.

We narrowed down to about 13 of the best applicants that I will say, but this is my last time putting it out there.

The patrons of UB Trippin' Patreon, that is now defunct, have raised enough money to send one applicant around the world.

10 months of travel, a la ari.

You're going to do it my way.

You're going to put away your phone.

You're going to leave it at home.

You can get another one.

You can go around me.

But I suggest you do it my way.

You're going to journal.

Once in a while, once we get this, I'll talk to you on the air and stuff.

Or not on air, but I'll talk to you about the talk.

Once in a while, find a computer and tell us where you've been.

We're going to travel through you.

I'm going to change your name.

We're not going to use your real name.

We're not going to use your real face.

I'll just get in there.

Apply it.

You be trippin'podcast at gmail.com.

That's ube trippinpodcast at gmail.com.

Tell me why you should go.

Maybe a video.

Tell me why it should be you, why you can give up a year of your life to go travel.

You should let me know all these things.

Tell me why you deserve it over anybody

I don't know, maybe a little song and dance.

Do whatever.

Maybe do an artist program.

I don't know.

Whatever you want to do, let me know why it should be you.

Serious applications only, because you're going to have to go for a while.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to keep putting money on your card little by little as you're out there.

I'm not going to give it all to you at once.

I'm just going to keep putting it on your card little by little.

No other podcast is doing this.

I'm sending you a trip around the world.

Please apply at you be trippingpodcast at gmail.com.

That's it, guys.

This took me back from the crack of the fucking

whatever, you know, the liquor bottles that are like refilled to, I mean, the pissing and the water next to everybody, to the fire dancing.

I got to go send all my pictures right now to Alan so he has them.

But man, oh man, what a trip it was.

Boom, boom, party.

Who've ever been there?

Leave your comments.

Leave what you did in there.

Tell me what you did.

Did I cover the part about the we did this so long ago?

Toby, this is the I think this is the first one we did actually in the new studio.

Toby helped me set it up, really designed it with me and set it up, and then we did one where he interviewed me.

So that'll give you a sense of how banked I am.

If I ever go away, don't worry.

This shit's coming out for quite some time.

These are all evergreen.

It doesn't really matter when it's recorded.

Well, that's it, you guys.

Please subscribe to my stuff at Ari Shafir on Instagram.

Please subscribe to the podcast.

You'll be tripping and leaving the comments whatever you like, whatever you don't like.

I don't know, whatever, guys.

Stay positive.

Get out there.

Go for a hike.

See you next week.

Next week, it's

who's next week?

Dragos

on a Japan episode.

Who's been waiting for the Japan episode?

Dragos recorded live in Clujnapoca, Romania.

Yeah, we did one from Clujnapoca.

Are there a lot of, I'm sure, I'm trying to think.

Are there a lot of podcasts that record live in a Times Square, Town Square, in Cluj-Napoca, about Tokyo?

I don't think there are.

But it's a good one.

Subscribe so you see it.

We did it right in a Times Square.

All these fucking gypsies walking by.

That's a word that would get this podcast demonetized in Romania.

But here in America, gypsies is not a bad word.

You say that in Romania, people get real weirded out.

We talk about it all next week on UB Tripping.

Wait, how do you say thank you?

I don't say goodbye, but how do you say thank you?

Cop, cop, cop.

In Thai.

Oh, I remember something.

See you next week, everybody.

Where you been and where you going?

This is our race travel show.

Yeah, we're gonna go on a journey today and see what there's to see in this big world.

We're exploring different places,

seeing all different types of faces.

We're gonna talk about travel today.

It's you'll be

tripped,

you'll be

tripped,

you'll be

tripped, yeah.