Ibiza, Spain w/ Sal Vulcano | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

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Speaker 1 Who's that? Who's that chick? That's what you can expect to see at the clubs there.

Speaker 1 Oh my god. Yeah, this was in the fucking 40s.
This was the year 2002, maybe?

Speaker 1 All right, let's start. Jesus Christ.
Yeah. I mean, those

Speaker 1 tits are unbelievable. She seems so casual.
Very casual with the tits.

Speaker 1 I mean, tits were very casual here in this place. Wow.

Speaker 1 All right. Where you been and where you going?

Speaker 1 This is Ari's Travel Show. Yeah.
We're going to talk about travel today. It's you'll be tripping.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hi, everybody. Welcome to Ubi Trippin'.
I'm Ari Shafera. I'm the host.
It's a travel podcast where me, myself, and a guest go to a different place of the world.

Speaker 1 Every episode, it's the only podcast that is endorsed by the Green Party. And today on the podcast, my friend Sal Volcano

Speaker 1 is on. First time on.
He's got a fucking first one. We got a fucking...

Speaker 1 Second time on, but I didn't like my first episode. So I told you to put it in the vault for now.
Yeah, it's in the vault. Because I came to you with

Speaker 1 the first one, with a vacation with

Speaker 1 my lady. Lover? Were you going to say my lover? I was going to say a loved one, but I was like, this is a lover.

Speaker 1 And then I was like, this should be a little bit more entertaining. Like, I was talking about the upgrade I got.
Yeah. And, you know, like, and the olives.
It's funny.

Speaker 1 a lot of i've had to bury a few and a lot of times people start talking about something and then it like hits us both halfway through like uh this is just a fun vacation yeah this really wasn't very interesting this had more entertaining stuff like going on like kind of crazy stuff where'd you go where are we going today we went to ibiza a bit i've never called it ibiza that's how the spaniards say they say it so i said it to be fun about it but yeah ibiza spain 2002 i believe 2002 22 years ago with a young 25 year old sal volcano was in his clubbing days That's when you were still volcano, right?

Speaker 1 Before you changed your name? That's right. To be different.
I was volcano. Yeah, I changed it from the O to the U.

Speaker 1 I was sick and tired of it.

Speaker 1 Joe versus the volcano was already taken.

Speaker 1 Do you know how many

Speaker 1 volcano things I've heard my whole life? Sal versus the volcano, don't erupt, Donna.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Volcano. Yeah.
Oh, volcano. Yeah, everything volcano.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just saw the thing you made for the special, or what's the name made for the special?

Speaker 1 A little trailer. Sal's special is out right now.
It's called Terrified. It's on youtube.com.

Speaker 1 And they made a little

Speaker 1 credits.

Speaker 1 YouTube.com.

Speaker 1 They made a little teaser thing

Speaker 1 of just like behind the scenes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and it's me starting, just already doing a terrible job. Oh, yeah, you butchered my name.
I saw volcano. Fucking volcano.
God damn it.

Speaker 1 Like, that's how I started. Literally one of my closest friends in the room.

Speaker 1 Volcano.

Speaker 1 You also,

Speaker 1 you executive produced it. I'm executive producer.
You're an executive producer on it.

Speaker 1 More importantly. More importantly, you had wore many hats.
You were a creative consultant.

Speaker 1 You were an opening comic. Opening comic, sure.

Speaker 1 You were in charge of the most important thing, ginger tea. Ginger tea.
Yeah, I'm in the credits as ginger tea.

Speaker 1 That was like very close to a cural. That was the most steeped.

Speaker 1 It was like a piece of money. I've never felt one of those before.

Speaker 1 It was a lemon, honey, and ginger

Speaker 1 times a billion. You were sick.
You got randomly sick. Oh my god, dude.
You remember what happened, right? What?

Speaker 1 So was it the first day? Yeah, it was the first day. Yeah.
We filmed two days. First day, I wake up that day with a cold.
I started getting it the night before. I wake up with a cold.

Speaker 1 My voice is raspy. I have a sore throat.
My energy is low. And literally, my throat hurts to swallow.
I'm like, what? Oh, my God. what am I gonna do?

Speaker 1 So you're like, all right, here's what you're gonna do. Don't speak.

Speaker 1 Yeah, boy.

Speaker 1 What's up, bandit?

Speaker 1 Wait a minute, way to move the camera around.

Speaker 1 Bandit, the whole crew's here. Can I come up? Oh, what about Salo?

Speaker 1 He needs it. He needs it.

Speaker 1 Miss you.

Speaker 1 She's so excited. She comes in so fucking excited.
Coming in, hot. Come with your ass.
Oh, get him. Get him, Bennett.
Get him.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. You licked my ass with that mouth.

Speaker 1 Remember when you licked my ass, buddy?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you're getting sick. You're getting sick.
It's the worst case scenario for a special. Right, because it's also like, not only is my energy hit, but you don't want a sick voice.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And so you're like, here's what you can do. Don't speak, and you get these Baroca tablets.
Yeah, Baroca, it's a cure all. It's great for hangovers.

Speaker 1 It's one of those dissolving tablets that has like a billion percent vitamin B and C and all the vitamins. And it dissolves, and you drink that, and you pound it.

Speaker 1 So the days going on, and you're telling me, take as many of those as I can.

Speaker 1 I didn't say take as many as you can. Keep taking them, is what you literally said.

Speaker 1 Take one out. You take it again.
I said, No, you're in. Take it again.
I said, All right. Then later on, you say, Did you take another one? I go, No.
You go, take another one. No way.

Speaker 1 I said, taking two. You go, take another one.
No, I wouldn't say that. that.
It's got caffeine in it. Yeah.
Yeah. I said you take one yet.
You're like, no, I'm like, no, take it. No, no.

Speaker 1 I would never.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have like 200 milligrams. It's a full cup of coffee.
Yeah, each one. Look, here's what happened.
So I'm doing those throws.

Speaker 1 There's no way I would understand you because I would never advise anyone to take more than one every day. You literally told me

Speaker 1 to keep taking them. Miscommunication.
I meant to keep taking them every day.

Speaker 1 But it was only the day before, the night before that you told me that. Keep taking.
I meant to keep taking the ginger tea.

Speaker 1 no ginger tea didn't come and play until the the venue yeah we were at the house the airbnb and you were like just keep taking them oh no no i know what it is now i know because there's you know you ever get those things where you're like that i wouldn't have said that thing yeah uh but i believe you've you you're receiving that i did say i think you drank like a third of it and i was like just keep drink go keep taking

Speaker 1 finished guzzle the fucking glass i think i remember you also saying did you take another one and i said no you're like what are you doing Take it again. Wow.
Well, anywho. Yeah, you're sick.
So

Speaker 1 I get to the venue. Taping's about to start.
And

Speaker 1 I already

Speaker 1 taken some ADHD medication. I'm trying all different medications and doses over the last couple of years, just see how they fare for me.

Speaker 1 And I started taking a brand new one only a couple of days before, so I might not have been fully regulated to it at that time. Anyway, I mean, it was actually fine.
But when you add

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 three tablets of the Baroca with the caffeine in it,

Speaker 1 and the adrenaline to go do the show, adrenaline for a special, and the, you know, whatever,

Speaker 1 the ADHD stuff, then they also got a doctor to come give me a B12 shot in the arm

Speaker 1 20 minutes before I went on stage. B12.
So before I was about to go on stage, I have

Speaker 1 three caffeine tablets,

Speaker 1 ADHD medication, a B12 shot in the arm, and just the adrenaline to go out and perform. We have one of those famous NFL doctors from any given Sunday to come in.

Speaker 1 It was like, who's this guy with no tie? They call him Rock Docs. Do you know that? Rock Docs to get you back ready to go.

Speaker 1 Is that what it is? You know who needed one of them? To get you rock docks? Tim Petty. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they'll get those like. I thought it was because they usually do rock band.

Speaker 1 Yeah, rock and roll guys. Yeah.
Yeah, to get you back on like. Oh, all right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway. Yeah.
The The point is, terrified is out now. It's fucking.
You would dress like Forrest Gump as well. Yeah, I dress like Forrest Gump.
Exactly like Forrest Gump.

Speaker 1 Like 1 million% like Forrest Gump.

Speaker 1 Just for no reason.

Speaker 1 All the pictures. I was out online in Chicago in December.
People are like, why are you wearing shorts?

Speaker 1 I'm like, every day is like a box of fucking shorts. You're like, what? Anyway, you guys are coming to the front.
You're short.

Speaker 1 You look like you just arrived from a cross-country job.

Speaker 1 I've gotten so much mileage out of that costume. Yeah.
Wore it Halloween. I wore it for your special.
I was like, all right, a couple months and a half out of it.

Speaker 1 And it's in the credits because there's a picture of us in the credits.

Speaker 1 And people go, it's so funny because

Speaker 1 we were for Burst 5K. No one noticed.
One person noticed. Oh, 5K is a perfect costume.
Like, thank you. Why is no one? Everyone understands I'm wearing shorts and a fucking polo shirt.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And your hair and everything was like the beard. But

Speaker 1 I'm surprised in all the comments, thousands of comments. Nobody was like, what the maybe I saw.
Like, what is Ari wearing?

Speaker 1 Anyway, great job. Congratulations.
Thank you very much. You were a tremendous help.
I appreciate you. Yeah, what a fun time.
It was. It was a really fun time.

Speaker 1 I went to Chicago days early. Actually, we went on the road before that.
Took a nice road. It was just really, really nice.
My family came with me, and the shows ended up being great.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people I love. That's one of the things I'll do as a producer.
It's like, let's get the experience right. Let's not let you fly in the day of.
Yeah, you got some money. Get a hotel.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Let's get ameliorated. Good word, too.
The time zone. Let's just chill.
What did you say? Listen. Ameliorated.
Oh, I don't know that one.

Speaker 1 Might be wrong. Acclimated? Acclimated? Cool.
Yeah. What's ameliorated? I might be misusing it.
You got.

Speaker 1 How do you know to spell it? Yeah. A-M-E-L.

Speaker 1 Okay. I-O-R.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're right. What is it? What does it mean? Make something.
Make something

Speaker 1 better.

Speaker 1 Just says make something bad or unsatisfactory better.

Speaker 1 Misuse. Yeah.
Misuse. Still, though, I spelled it right.
Not bad.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to a bizarre. Yeah, let's do it.
Let's get to a biza. So you're 2002.
You're in your 20s. Yeah, so I would call it 2000 to 2002.
I was in my club phase. Piece of shit.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It used to be a piece of shit. Yeah, no.
I used to be a shit. No, I know.
It's okay. I'm not.

Speaker 1 Same me. Water sticks.
Same me, but I fancied going to a disco tech and going, like, you know, yeah, like, and staying out like through the morning. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What an interesting lifestyle that is to be into that.

Speaker 1 I can't, you couldn't pay me to do it now, but I mean, everybody was on the same wavelength back, like, whatever was having a moment, like, that was having a moment.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm sure that still exists now. That is a beza, though, right? Yeah, that is.

Speaker 1 That's what you're doing. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
I had gone to Mykonos in Greece for the same reason two years earlier.

Speaker 1 And then Acapoco the year before, which I think now you can't go to. You'll just get chopped into pieces.
Acapoco? Yeah. Wow.
It's not a tourist destination anymore.

Speaker 1 And it was like a Cancun before Cancun was. Wow.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was doing.
It's overrun by gangs and,

Speaker 1 you know, just, what do you call those guys? Like El Chapos? Yeah, El Chapos. All right, buddy.
But no ins and outs. Aww.

Speaker 1 She always only gives you a taste. She gives you a taste to the attention.
Yeah. And then

Speaker 1 down.

Speaker 1 Hey, guys, just breaking in here real quick to let you know that Sal Valcano Volcano not only does have a new special out called Terrified on YouTube.

Speaker 1 That's a fucking great, great piece of fucking comedy. He's also got a new tour coming.
What?

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's crazy.
He's working. Everything's fine, tour.
Everything's fine. Do you want to check out a Sal Volcano Volcano? Volcano.
Volcano Comedy.com.

Speaker 1 So many people say Volcano. I just also accept.
I'll accept it. Yeah.
I think I've only called you Volcano.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like most. Give me some cities.

Speaker 1 Oh, Oh, you could have told me you were going to do that. Yeah, I should have.
I just thought it would have run down. Now you have to edit this out? Nah, I'll just run it.

Speaker 1 I have a special on YouTube right now.

Speaker 1 Greensville, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Knoxville, Torrington, Burlington, Portland, Red Bank, Huntington, San Antonio, Phoenix, Tucson, Indianapolis, Evansville, St.

Speaker 1 Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Jacksonville, Get to the Chopper, Tampa, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver, Seattle, Spokane, Fort Wayne, Columbus, Cleveland, and then that's just the first little leg.

Speaker 1 We're adding like 10 times that. So

Speaker 1 I'll see you. I'll see you.
Everybody, check out SalvolcanoComedy.com to check if your city has been added.

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Shroom fest shirts. Shroom Fest this year is July 20th, 21st, and 22nd.

Speaker 1 Wherever you are, celebrate Shroom Fest by taking shrooms. I'd like to do that again soon.
Yeah, well, that's a good excuse. July 20th, 21st.

Speaker 1 I don't know where I'll be then, but I'm just thinking, why don't we get a little

Speaker 1 bit? Why don't we put a little something together? I'm in. Yeah.
Shroom Fest.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get back to the episode. Back to Abida.
So, yeah, so that's where I was at. But it was having a moment.

Speaker 1 But you heard about it, and you're like, I want to do that. That's the club scene.
Yeah, well, we were going to New York to all the different clubs and everything.

Speaker 1 And the thing was, where are we going on vacation? And

Speaker 1 that was the, I mean,

Speaker 1 that was the golden goose. Was there a big DJ at the time you're going to see or anything? I mean,

Speaker 1 well, every night there is it. Every night is a different club that you get to choose from because it's all clubs.
And every night, a certain club has their thing.

Speaker 1 And every one of them are flying in like DJs that, you know, you know, these DJs that make hundreds of millions, like, you know what I mean? They, they were every night.

Speaker 1 They had a DJ like DJ Tiesto, DJ Carl Cox, DJ.

Speaker 1 I mean, all the most famous DJs from back then were like there. Wow.
Yeah. I like, not that I even care or know about them now, but like it was a big friggin deal.

Speaker 1 Like these guys would fly in, get paid like a hundred million bucks, you know, and jet out.

Speaker 1 About you, they were getting a million dollars a set easy. Wow.
Yeah. I mean, you're bringing that much money, and it's like just to have their name.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 David Getter, whatever they have to those Vegas, David Getter residences.

Speaker 1 I'm like, who, but like, the people who know. Yeah.
And so we would go, like, I was in that phase where we'd go like out in New York, and are you on the list? Did you have?

Speaker 1 It's terrible. Now, I look at that now and I'm like, that is probably the, if we take my whole life in three-year blocks, that would be like the least thing I would ever want to do again.

Speaker 1 It's so funny too, because if you, if that fucking piece of shit back then could look forward to this celebrity who could bypass the line, you'd be like, that's all I want.

Speaker 1 How many nights I waited on the line and got rejected, even though you had to know someone.

Speaker 1 If you didn't go prepared, like on a list of knowing someone at the door and needing the drop, you were really rolling the dice. You know what I remember?

Speaker 1 You see me 12 people out. you see that i'm not wearing the right outfit just be like hey you no chance yeah

Speaker 1 no way no reason to waste your next hour of your life you're just not getting in it's okay exactly and going with guys in new york yeah

Speaker 1 all guys we'd all have to meet and split up in cars we'd meet in my house or whoever's house yeah and we'd be like four or five cars of guys and we'd all go park and then we'd all go to the corner right and then two at a time every like three to four minutes we would go none of us together none of us talking to each other online Because if they saw that many people knew each other, they wouldn't let you know.

Speaker 1 So we would all go up with two. How many? Just two.

Speaker 1 I mean, like, one time the guy's like, you can't wear those shoes in here. Like, they're not dressed shoes.

Speaker 1 And so, literally, my friend ran to like an Ace Hardware, bought a black electrical tape, and taped his entire shoes up in black electrical tape.

Speaker 1 And then, like, it didn't draw the guy's attention down. And he got in with black, wearing black electrical tape.
Wow. Yeah, yeah.
But it was like the big thing.

Speaker 1 So this was like the Super Bowl of destinations for clubbing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I got to tell you that, like, it sounds horrible, and it is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But this was when ecstasy first, like...

Speaker 1 Oh. This was ecstasy.
Oh, wait, 2002. 2002.
Wow. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 This was that. Wow.
Pills. Pills.
With different stamps on them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you remember any of them? And I do not condone this, especially now.

Speaker 1 No freaking way. I would never do it again.
In this day and age now, you don't know who's cutting what. And that was like that back then, too.
But now with the FET. With the FET.

Speaker 1 you can't mess with that Fetty Wap now.

Speaker 1 Really ruins everything. I wonder if Fetty Wap is sure for Fentanyl Wap.

Speaker 1 I'd feel like it'd be Fenty Wap. Oh, is it Fenty? Yeah.
Oh, why did I say Fetty? He's Fitty.

Speaker 1 Fiddy. That's different than Fetty.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Fetty Wap is a different.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's different than Fenty Wap? No, there is no Fenty Wap. There is none.
No, but. Oh, because Fenty of Fentanyl.
Yeah, he was. Oh, I thought Fenty was a thing.
Isn't that a brand?

Speaker 1 Fendi.

Speaker 1 Fendy. Yeah.
You think Shad Short for Fend and all? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Who's that guy's name?

Speaker 1 Lafendo? No, it's all these guys, like Lil Lil. Lil Zan? No, not Zan.
So like those guys, like Lil Uzi Vert.

Speaker 1 What's that one guy?

Speaker 1 Lil.

Speaker 1 This is a really, really popular one. No, no,

Speaker 1 those guys.

Speaker 1 Little thug. Little young thug.

Speaker 1 No, man, it's going to come. Nah.
Not a light. If it comes to me.
There should be a rapper named Naughty Light.

Speaker 1 I had this silly dad joke about one of them. Damn.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to waste time here. Okay.
Anyway. So, yeah, pre-fentanyl.
I remember the Buddhas was a thing, and the dolphins. I remember those.
Oh, I don't remember.

Speaker 1 There was something different all the time. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Again, I don't condone it. I do, especially in Europe, because in Europe, they don't have the fentanyl.

Speaker 1 Worry-free. What do you mean they don't have it? Doesn't it? They don't have it.
They don't say that. They don't.
They got it. Nope.
They got pure pills. They don't got it.

Speaker 1 Europe on the whole has pure pills. You're going to cosign that? Yeah, cosign.
That's wild. They don't have fentanyl yet.
I think fentanyl is every way. You don't know where it's going to be.

Speaker 1 You're going to be the guy that turns up with like, we got it now. Oh, yeah, dude.
No. No.

Speaker 1 If you're in Berlin, no need to test.

Speaker 1 Stop. Go.
Don't say that. Take it.

Speaker 1 I mean, look, I'm preaching to. I mean, I took my risks with these things.
Yeah. And I.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for all the kids today,

Speaker 1 I'm now interviewing a guy who survived all this just fine.

Speaker 1 It's Molly, basically. Yeah.
And

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 everyone who goes to this place is looking for the same party.

Speaker 1 It's just beaches and party. And with that, this kind of stuff, you go out and you go out like we used to be like, all right, we'll get to the place at 12, meaning midnight.
Midnight. We'll get there.

Speaker 1 And then we would come out sometime 7, 8, 10 in the morning.

Speaker 1 And everybody in those clubs is on the exact same same page. There was never a fight, there was never a fight.
No, no, as a matter of fact, it's the wildest thing when everyone is on that.

Speaker 1 You just walk through the club, and everybody is like your best friend. You could break away from your group,

Speaker 1 break away from your group. You could literally walk into a circle of people having a conversation.
They'd be like, What's up, brother? This is what we're talking about. Where are you from? Cool.

Speaker 1 Can I get you something? And they just start massaging your back or something. Just really nice people.
Wow. I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 Literally on their best behavior. I mean, just like, this is the greatest night of my life.
You? Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 And that's everybody. So you don't even have to, like, there was no even, like, feeling like weird.
Like, oh, it's a huge club. It's cavernous.
It's dark. There's a lot of people here.

Speaker 1 Who knows who these people are? Wait, there's like one club or are you going hot? No, no, there's tons. But like, I'm saying wherever you were.

Speaker 1 But even like in New York, like, if you used to frequent, like, if you went to the same club, then you'd see like regulars at the clubs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so there were people that would go to nightclubs alone. Because they knew that they were going to know like 50 people in the nightclub.
Almost like a neighborhood bar. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.
Right. Right.
Right.

Speaker 1 And they'd be like, oh, dude, come here. I want you to meet my group.
I want you to meet my group. By the end of the night, the club is walking out.
Everybody knows each other.

Speaker 1 It was the wildest thing. Everyone's going to eat breakfast.
That's like wholesome.

Speaker 1 It is pretty wild, you know. Everyone's just chugging water.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So there's no drunk. So there's no problems.
There's no issues.

Speaker 1 There's no drunk contingent in the club. Wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Even if it was like, wow, nice podge. Networking.
That's a great podge. Where'd you learn that? Show me.

Speaker 1 Or would I be like, dude, you're drunk. What can we do to help you? Oh, wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you and your douchebag friends.
You mean my douchebags? Yeah. Did I decide like seven of us maybe?

Speaker 1 Let's all go. Let's all go.
And this is back.

Speaker 1 No money.

Speaker 1 So I didn't even, like, I mean, what was I like?

Speaker 1 I was just out of college. Yeah.
No, no. I went to college in 98.
But I was in the workforce, but it's still, I was only making like. What do you think of this? Uncomfortable, right?

Speaker 1 It won't work for a podcast. It's awkward.
It's awkward. Yeah.
Yeah. We're going to be readjusting a lot.
I don't understand

Speaker 1 what my place is here. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it's okay. It's fine.
Yeah, I gotta go to chairs.

Speaker 1 But yeah, so we're like, let's go down there and like, it'll be great.

Speaker 1 Also, that's where everyone talks about. You got to go to this club.
You got to

Speaker 1 world things. The clubs had reputations.
Yeah. Like, just like anything else.
Like, like a restaurant. Yeah.
You go, like, you have to go here on this night. You have to go here on this night.

Speaker 1 Oh, right.

Speaker 1 And this person's going to be here.

Speaker 1 And it's like everyone went with like the same vibe.

Speaker 1 And I'm telling you, man, it was like a... I don't think there's ever been really a time.
I don't know maybe Studio 50. I don't know what was happening at Studio 54, but it felt like

Speaker 1 the best. And you would really seriously actually network.
Because these people are all real people with regular jobs. Did you?

Speaker 1 Did you dance back then? Are you a dancer? Yeah. I danced all night.
Wow. Yeah.
I danced before ecstasy. Right.
And then ecstasy made you dance more.

Speaker 1 And then, then somewhere in the middle, and I can't explain this, but it happens to everyone.

Speaker 1 You go from wanting to dance your heart out all night long after some type of acclimation period, you go to not just wanting to sit and just talk.

Speaker 1 And just, you're sitting, but it's still the greatest. I'm not trying to romanticize this thing.
I wouldn't take it.

Speaker 1 I stopped taking it after like a while because I literally felt my sharpness going away. Like at work.
Like people would ask me to do something. I'd be like, okay.

Speaker 1 And then they'd walk away. Every Every weekend, Molly.
Every weekend, no, ecstasy.

Speaker 1 It's speed. It's speed and Molly together.
It's not like, it wasn't like every single weekend, but there were pretty...

Speaker 1 There were pretty big, like, what do you call it?

Speaker 1 Streaks of... Yeah, I would do.

Speaker 1 First time I took it, Duncan gave it to me. Yeah.
It was new comic. Is that when you made out at UFC? No.
Okay. Well,

Speaker 1 before.

Speaker 1 And that was, that did roll.

Speaker 1 And took some, it was like not hitting. It was was a pill.
And I was like, for sure. I'm like, maybe.
It's like, I sort of feel like it's no, there's no maybe. There's no maybe.

Speaker 1 Same thing happened to me. And then he goes, take another half, took another half.
And I was like, oh, sorry about before. Definitely didn't.
Now, definitely, yes. You waited.

Speaker 1 You didn't wait long enough. No, I waited like an hour.
He dosed me right. Okay.
He was really good about it. He goes, you just didn't take it.
It just didn't.

Speaker 1 But then one and a half was like

Speaker 1 game on. And then the next day, I was like, dude, we got to do that again.
It's like, all right. I know where you're at.
You got to relax. Take a month off.
Yeah. Well, back then,

Speaker 1 everyone even people that don't do any drugs otherwise or don't yeah it was just what was going on and and everyone was doing it and like you would do it and have the best time of your life and like make all these friends and then like you'd like let's do that again yeah um and i remember the first time ever i was in cancun and my friend gave me something and i was so nervous to take it and then nothing happened at all yeah and i was like oh this is bullshit and like another time oh right the next time i got something that was i guess real real or whatever it was.

Speaker 1 And I'll never forget the moment. Because everybody was like, everyone had felt it before, but me.
And then I remember they're like, you'll feel it. Don't worry, you'll feel it.

Speaker 1 And I remember the moment we were on the dance floor, and it just a wave came over my body. And I was like, and they looked at me and I go, you feel it? I go,

Speaker 1 I feel it. And everyone's just like, yeah.
Everyone's just jumping up and down. It feels it.
It feels it. I was like, oh my God, this is what it feels like.

Speaker 1 I was like, I just, it just, I was like,

Speaker 1 it was like, I had been feeling it for 10 seconds. I was like, the best day of my life.
Oh, my God. Don't do it.

Speaker 1 I do not encourage it. It was a mistake in hindsight.
You can die. You can get laced with fennel.
You never know who's cutting what in this day and age. You would be bonkers.

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Speaker 1 So, so you, but this is a Super Bowl for you. A Bees is a Super Bowl.
Super Bowl, dude. So, it's like $1,500 for an airplane ticket, which is like, come on.

Speaker 1 And then, like, whatever. It was like, it probably cost us $2,500 to go there.
Yeah. And

Speaker 1 that's like my life savings.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? It's like, that's every

Speaker 1 we're like, all right, we're going in a year. And then we saved the money.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Wow, yeah, saved up for it. Yeah.
Every year we take one big trip like that. Do you ever? And so we had one year to save the money.
Yeah, bad, bad. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're all right, buddy. Back in biz.

Speaker 1 Wow. What good times.
Yeah. Imagine that, though, being like, in one year, we're going to do this, and I need to start saving the money for the plane ticket and the spending money right now.
Wow.

Speaker 1 What were you doing at the time, bartender?

Speaker 1 I was working at Prudential Securities. Wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I worked there like four years out of college before I was there. I was talking to Bird about this during COVID.
It was just like,

Speaker 1 we'll get back to the thing in a second, but like the difference between partying

Speaker 1 with quote-unquote linens on the table, which means like high-level, like, you know, well-to-do things,

Speaker 1 versus like scrounging up, well, how much do you got? $1.60? Bob's got 70 cents. You've got $3.
Let's get a 24-pack. Let's all just drink together.

Speaker 1 And it's like, we both agree that the latter is the better

Speaker 1 party. I'll tell you, I'll prove it to you.
We get there, right? Yeah. And it was like seven of us, and and we were divided into only two rooms.

Speaker 1 That's another thing. That's not even a thought, like, oh, this sucks.
What am I? I'm like, I gotta, I call under the table.

Speaker 1 Yeah, my well, my first like 10 vacations, I would sleep in the bed with another guy, but like my friend, but it was like a queen-size bed. Yeah, we didn't go near each other.
It wasn't like anything.

Speaker 1 It didn't bother anyone. It would be weird for us.
I mean, we, we, it was the only move. You had to save money.
And, you know, it didn't, it was the norm.

Speaker 1 You know, like, it wasn't like, but now sometimes people are like, really? You slept on a bed with a guy? I'm like, what's the vacation?

Speaker 1 It'd be weird, even if, like, you had this bed and I had that bed and we're in the same room and be like, what are we doing? Let's get to that room.

Speaker 1 We're going to fall into a slumber together. Me and Bert had a, we shared a room before

Speaker 1 last day of Sober October for Practical Joker's Cruise. No.
We were like, let's just split a room. Uh-huh.
Let's just split a room. What are we going to spend two for it? And he was like, all right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I threw up while he was asleep. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 So I'll prove it to you. So we get there and there's like these mini beds.
There's like, they're like twin beds.

Speaker 1 They're beds. But then there's one, two, three, and a cot.

Speaker 1 So one of us had to sleep in the cot. And so it was like, well, who gets the cot? And it's like, well, how do we decide what's fair of that? And then I was like, I'll take the cot for a price.

Speaker 1 And then every single guy was like, all right, three. Every guy was like, all right, I'll give you three mixed drinks.

Speaker 1 I got

Speaker 1 12 mixed drinks. So I slept in the cot.

Speaker 1 Or whatever it was. They might have been like five.
I might have got 20 mixed drinks over the course of nine days, though.

Speaker 1 And I just, I slept in the cot because I got I got the mixed drinks on the tab like a tab

Speaker 1 so that's where you know that's where you're at you know what I'm saying yeah okay I can picture now yeah it was like all right we're going we can go to dinner two nights yeah you know what I mean other than that spend for yourself kind of thing you know what'd you eat while you were there I don't really remember I it wasn't like we didn't go out to like nice dinners maybe once I assume no whatever whatever nice was for us at the time it was run and gun poolside

Speaker 1 just burgers

Speaker 1 yeah poolside yeah or they had fast food there you had McDonald's

Speaker 1 Spanish, like, paella. No, not that, not that.
That wasn't what it was about. Yeah.
No, I understand. It was all biz.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, um,

Speaker 1 yeah, so we get there and, you know, we get settled in, and it's, like, night number one,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 the anticipation's insane. And that, like, everyone's like, it was like when outfits mattered.
You know what I mean? It's like,

Speaker 1 yeah, like, like, we would give each other, like, can I borrow your shit? Oh, that goes good. Like, it was like, you put a little thought into it.

Speaker 1 Because people go to that place to, you know, the the whole thing. Because back then, when you had the belt, it was way too long that you would then double over and it would come down.

Speaker 1 No, I don't remember that belt, yeah. That was, yeah, that was like eighth grade.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was like a it was all weaved, yeah, it was a braided belt, yeah, but you took all the way through it, then up and

Speaker 1 put it, but the knot wasn't too tight, it was like kind of a loose, so it's like almost like a tie. Maybe, maybe it even had a silver tip

Speaker 1 at the end, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had that in eighth grade.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I remember the first night we went to a club called Space. I don't know if any of these are still there, Cologne, Space, you,

Speaker 1 No. Oh, back then, yeah.
Okay. But it wasn't intrusive.
Okay. I've stopped wearing cologne maybe 20 plus.

Speaker 1 That was probably the end of it.

Speaker 1 I get a headache and nauseous from any perfume of cologne. But then you were okay with it.

Speaker 1 I wore this one cologne that was fine. What was it? Clinique Happy.
Interesting. It was a USS cologne with a citrus scent that everybody loved.
USS Cologne. Yeah, it was just a scent.

Speaker 1 In moderation, though. So it wasn't cloying.
No, no.

Speaker 1 You know that word? What? Cloying? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. Why?

Speaker 1 I thought I was going to get you with another word. Yeah, no, it wasn't cloying.
It was just subtle. And it didn't bother anybody.
Okay.

Speaker 1 First night, club called Space. That was the DJ called Cox.
I'm not going to remember many other DJs, but I remember Space Call Cox. What was it called? Carl Cox is the DJ.
Space was the club. Okay.

Speaker 1 And first of all, these clubs are all insane. You understand?

Speaker 1 These are like the clubs of the world. Okay?

Speaker 1 So they are, every one of them is completely unique. And wait till I tell you about some of these things.
That night, great.

Speaker 1 Got,

Speaker 1 had fun, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Out all night.

Speaker 1 We actually, on night one,

Speaker 1 we run into in Ibiza. I can't even say Ibiza with a straight face.
In Ibiza, Spain.

Speaker 1 Hold on, hold on.

Speaker 1 Your mom. Nope, nope.
No, close. Barack.
No.

Speaker 1 Closer.

Speaker 1 Closer?

Speaker 1 Some friends we knew from back home. Oh.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 We met them out at a club in the city, and

Speaker 1 on the way home from this club, we were at a bus stop, and

Speaker 1 one of them pulled up in a moped. A guy was driving a moped, and this girl pulled up on the back of a moped.
And they stopped at the bus stop, and she goes, oh my God. And we went, oh, my God.

Speaker 1 And we knew this girl and we were just, we saw her at a bus stop at like 8 a.m. in the visa.
And then the rest of our friends were there and we were like, holy shit.

Speaker 1 And then we hung out with a whole nother group that we knew for the whole week. Wow.
Which was wild. That's fun.
That was wild. That first night.

Speaker 1 So a lot of what happens when you're on this, like on this stuff is you need to be hydrated. Yeah.
And you, you, usually want to like a lozenge or a or a

Speaker 1 what do you call this? You need to be hydrated. Lollipop.

Speaker 1 Lollipop. Yeah.
Lollipops were like currency. They were like currency.
And if you had them, you could walk up to a group. People will go around, like, like you asked someone for like a cigarette.

Speaker 1 Yeah. People will go around like, yo, you got a lollipop? Really? Yeah, and they used to have them at the club.

Speaker 1 Because you got to do something with your mouth. You suck.

Speaker 1 Or you just smoke a thousand cigarettes. It's just fun.
You know, you don't get drunk. It's just, yeah, you can smoke a thousand cigarettes, right? And, dude, the bar probably made no money.

Speaker 1 They used to charge like $10 for a water because, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 So I go into the restroom at one point in that first night, and it's one of those ones where the guy's an attendant. you know what I mean? And you could, like, take a gum or

Speaker 1 hate those guys. And there is, you ever go, you ever get uh,

Speaker 1 you ever get um, like flowers from a florist? There's like that green foam that they stick it in that it holds the water.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like if you push it, it's kind of like texturey, kind of run out with water if you push it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So there's this like cylinder, like this, like, kind of like almost like you know how you spin glasses and look at them.

Speaker 1 There's like this cylinder that spins, and it's all made of that, and in it is just

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 just Tootsie Pops. It's a Tootsie Pop tree.
Oh, wow. And it's in the bathrooms.
You can take a Tootsie Pop if you want. But for some reason, though,

Speaker 1 they charged you. There were some things they didn't charge you for, but a Tootsie Pop was like whatever it was.

Speaker 1 And I looked at this thing, and I go, no one had any that night. And I don't think anyone saw it.
And I was like,

Speaker 1 I will be.

Speaker 1 It would be the most fun thing if I walk out onto the dance floor right now with a Tootsie Pop tree.

Speaker 1 you'd be a hero like I walk out it was about this big and like this wide and it was Tootsie Pops all through the whole thing all the way up so there might have been like I would say like a hundred Tootsie Pops on it and I said to the guy I said how much and he says one I go how much for the whole tree and the guy goes

Speaker 1 Give me $95.

Speaker 1 Now this is from someone who is trying to get free drinks. Yeah, you're selling I'm sleeping with a bar in my back for a fucking Exactly right.

Speaker 1 There was a bar in my back and but in that moment it doesn't matter. And so I gave this guy $95,

Speaker 1 which believe me, I did not have. Wow.
You felt it.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean,

Speaker 1 I had vacation money. It was just then it would cause me to budget the vacation more as I went along.

Speaker 1 But I was looking for a moment, man. And here I am 22 years later, and I remember it.
So I walked out and I just stood at the top and I held it in the air.

Speaker 1 And everyone on the dance roll looked, they were like, everyone just started cheering. And I just tucked it under my arm, took it, and I was throwing them out.

Speaker 1 Wow. Just throwing them out to the crowd like a hundred everyone was just cheering and everything it was great

Speaker 1 it was great and everyone loved it and everyone was friendly and everything it's just it was just wild 90 that's what it'll do to you 95 in tootsie pops

Speaker 1 what a fucking fun time though you're like nah nah this is a moment it's the right move

Speaker 1 it's it's it doesn't make any sense but it was the right move i mean i mean the joy because you're experiencing pure joy so if somebody wanted a tootsie pop or just saw like it's fun this guy just came out with a tree of 100 Tootsie Pops, and he's throwing it to the ground.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What they're feeling is they're already feeling elated.

Speaker 1 So, just to get thrown a Tootsie Pop after that and see everybody else, and everyone's cheering together. It's like this communal experience was wild.
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. So, what'd you do before midnight? Like, before you go out? By the way, I'm looking at these pictures.
I'm just looking at your photo book. This is you at the plane, right?

Speaker 1 This is you getting there. Yeah.
Wow.

Speaker 1 I look at this. This is you, just you having a good time in front of the bathroom.

Speaker 1 This is before smartphones. Yeah, you're looking at.
That's you? No, that's my friend. Okay.
You're looking at basically developed 110 millimeter film. Wow.

Speaker 1 Or like 35 millimeter film, whatever. You got a glassman in here.

Speaker 1 So the next night, night two. Yeah.
Night two, we go to a cult called Pasha Pasha. Pasha.
Pacha, Pacha. P-A-C-A.
These names are so dumb.

Speaker 1 We have one here. It's like world famous.

Speaker 1 Pasha. Yeah.
And the symbol's two cherries.

Speaker 1 We get in there. This is a totally different club.
Two cherries. I just saw it in your photos.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Totally different type of club. Boom.
Yeah. Totally different type of club.

Speaker 1 This one was like built into like the side of a mountain, and it had all different rooms that were like done up, but they were like cave rooms in a way. Whoa, cool.

Speaker 1 So it was like the wall and the walls and the ceiling were all just natural stone. Whoa.

Speaker 1 And it was all different rooms. It was smaller.
And different rooms had different music. So we went to this one.
Now, what happens at this one?

Speaker 1 We sit down with a table of girls from Germany. Jesus.

Speaker 1 And like we're talking and laughing and this and that.

Speaker 1 And about

Speaker 1 sometime in the conversation with them at some point, one of them said something really racist.

Speaker 1 And we were just like, oh my God. Like, we were like, did you hear that?

Speaker 1 Like, we were just like, oh, my God, this is fucking insane that you, I don't remember what it was, but we all just started cracking up. And then we were just like, oh, the racists.

Speaker 1 And then my buddy from work, he was,

Speaker 1 this is a bold move by my buddy Andy. Yeah.
He worked with me and didn't know anyone else on the trip. But he like, he, we were really tight at work and he was a cool.
He was like, I'll come with you.

Speaker 1 It was a great hang and everything. I would never do that in a minute.
He was going through a breakup. And I'm like, yo, I'm going to be come with me.
And he's like, I'm coming. Wow.

Speaker 1 And they and they all clicked immediately. Like it was a love fest, you know.
And so that was a pal move. I wouldn't have done that.
I wouldn't have done that. Yeah.
You would do that. No?

Speaker 1 No, it's a bunch of people I don't know. Yeah.
They'd have to also not know each other. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was a good time. I love it.
The idea I'm coming. I'll do it when I'm already gone, like out at a hostel or something.
People are like, when I go, I was like, yep.

Speaker 1 I mean, this is, I mean, that's big. That's bald.
Big. And a big fucking money trip like that, too.
Yeah. With people.
Am I going to get along? Exactly. It's a different time, I think.

Speaker 1 I knew him and I knew them, and I vouched to the both of them. And he'd be like, he'll go.
I trust me. I know you all.
It's going to be good. And it was immediate.

Speaker 1 It was a different before smartphones. It was a different time.
Oh, yeah. You could just meet meet someone and start becoming friends pretty fast.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was so different. It was better.
Yeah. So that night, so then, you know, we all know, you get split up, you meet back up, you split up, you meet back up.

Speaker 1 So towards the end of the night, we go into this room, and I two of my friends are like on a speaker. Their shirts are off.
They're dancing on a speaker, right? And my buddy is dancing with this girl.

Speaker 1 She was pretty hot. And

Speaker 1 the German? No. No, just another girl, tights, like long tight skirt, really hot.
And like, they're like grinding

Speaker 1 and then uh and then he felt a dick

Speaker 1 yes

Speaker 1 he didn't feel so so my friend came up to me and said i think andy's dancing with a guy and we were like really but she's really pretty but is it a guy we couldn't tell or whatever and then we like told him and he's like yo and he's like what and then you look at his soul like a little bit of a

Speaker 1 boulder and he's like yeah

Speaker 1 we were just laughing it was like he's like she's so hot though

Speaker 1 that was also a different time for trans. Yeah, yeah.
Because it was

Speaker 1 now a lot of these trans don't try hard enough. I mean, this was Europe and club scene.
So there was no like batting an eyelash at it, really.

Speaker 1 Yeah. A lot of these New York trans, like,

Speaker 1 I'm a chick. You're like, no, that's not enough.
You got to really go for it. Like, the fucking 80s.
Live the lives. Yeah.
2000 trans. She's like, what? That's a guy? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We couldn't believe it. She was really pretty.

Speaker 1 The run DeRosa hooked up with at Skank Fest, that's how they all were back then.

Speaker 1 I never got to lay eyes on her.

Speaker 1 She was hot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So this is night two, and we're already making, like, it's just, it's just crazy. Are these the Germans? Let me see.
Yeah, I mean, I won't show that one.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to show a bunch of racist people in their youth. They're all grandmothers now.
Those are the Germans. Wow, really? Yep.
And this was on the other side of that table.

Speaker 1 So she was with them as well. Let me see how this was the bartender.
That was the bartender. Fuck you, you fucking fuck shirt.
Yeah, wearing a shirt that says, fuck you, you fucking fuck.

Speaker 1 These Germans are hot. Especially that one.

Speaker 1 But also all of them. And now that I know they're racist,

Speaker 1 hotter? Hotter.

Speaker 1 Hotter.

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Speaker 1 All right, I'll take you through. Actually, I probably tried to put this book I made then.
Okay. So it's a 20-year-old book, so it's probably in order.
In order of the trip. Wow.

Speaker 1 Like these types of people, like, like crazy. He's a guy juggling.
Full leather, shaded head,

Speaker 1 glasses.

Speaker 1 They look like they were just all costumes. And every club, every club had...
That's how you get in. You wear all leather.
You're getting in.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, this probably, yeah, every club had their own dancers and people walking around like that. Every club.
Party starters. Every single club.

Speaker 1 Like, I mean, like, to the umpteenth, like, just, like, just fascinating. Like, they had dancers, they had wacko people, they had people in costumes.
Shaved head,

Speaker 1 hard black sunglasses, black leather with a long V-neck. And then, whatever's glued to that person's head, it's a, it's a, it's a, whatchamacallit? It's a thing that comes out of a submarine.

Speaker 1 You know, the thing that comes out of a submarine that was a periscope. It's a periscope on their head, glued to it.
Why? Oh, yeah. Because why not, I guess? I don't know.
Why not? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's what it was. I mean, walking the streets when the clubs let out, it looked like literally the backstage at the Muppet Show.
It was insane. Okay.
Yeah. So third night comes.

Speaker 1 God, this makes me want to go clubbing so bad.

Speaker 1 It's the same. You know, the thing is, is there,

Speaker 1 you get tickets in advance. Like, they're not turning anyone away because you're not flying to Ibiza.
And then they're going to say, no, you can't get in. No one would come.

Speaker 1 So you just had to buy tickets. So there's no line.
How do they ensure that? There could be a line, but there's tickets. How do they ensure it's going to be hot people?

Speaker 1 It just is. Yeah.
It just is. That was the scene.
Wow. So everyone's getting in, you know.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you could get a table or like bottle service back then, too. And so a couple of nights here and there we did that, which was pretty good.
Bottle service.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, well, they give you your own section. So, like, in the next night, I forget what the name of the club was, but DJ Tiesto was there.

Speaker 1 He's a big one. Huge.
She's big. Yeah.
And so we got, they had these little like... He's still going to be DJ Tiesto? I think he just goes Tiesto.
Well, Tiesto, yeah. Just Tiesto.

Speaker 1 And we got these little, like, it was like a. Can I just say looking at this guy dancing with his button-down shirt open? So it's just his chest the whole way.
Yeah. He's dancing all clothes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's so evocative of that. It is, right? Was it hot in there? Was this outdoors? Was it indoor or outdoor? This is the, I think this is the.
The transaction. Yeah.
Well, first of all, she looks Thai.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.
Total.

Speaker 1 That's not just somebody who you would hook up with if you were drunk. That's someone who you're like, can I buy you a drink? Yeah.
And you'd work for it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Back then it was such a thing. It's like, I think that's a dude, man.
Yeah. And no one knew.
It was like, and do you ask? I don't know. I think we're just over and just like, whatever.
Yeah. You know?

Speaker 1 Now it's different. So we wanted to get this little section.
Like, they have these little, like, you know how they have

Speaker 1 the balcony or a mezzanine or whatever? People are so happy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And we got this little like section to ourselves. Let's see if it has a picture in here.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it was a balcony. It was like it just had a table.
The thing I remember about these old pictures now is that anything right behind the subject is completely black. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so we got to. So you'd hang out all day at the beach.

Speaker 1 Drink, and it was drinking all day.

Speaker 1 All day drinking. And then you go back, crash, eat something, crash at like 5, 6 o'clock.

Speaker 1 Get up around 10, 11, start showering, get out the door by like 12, and be out from like 6 to 10 a.m.

Speaker 1 Be out by what? Like get out the door at 12 and come back like 6 to 10 a.m.

Speaker 1 Like maybe even something. And then sleep from like 10 a.m.
till 4.

Speaker 1 No, no.

Speaker 1 No, you'd get up actually.

Speaker 1 You come home and either not go to sleep or go to sleep at like 6, 7, get up at like 10, 11, and then go to the beach for four or five hours. The beach was a whole nother thing.

Speaker 1 Everybody, half the people at the beach were naked. What? It's just the way.
I mean, beautiful girls, topless, thongs, even guys. There was some new guys walking around.

Speaker 1 But not, I only saw like two nude guys, but there was like topless was like every fifth woman. Wow.
And, dude,

Speaker 1 the beach party.

Speaker 1 It's no different. They want to bring it to you on the beach, too.
So there was DJs on the beach, dance floors on the beach.

Speaker 1 People, I mean, you would go and lay in a chair, but there was a whole club on the beach. There was a whole section for dancing.
And people are going as hard on the beach as they did in the club.

Speaker 1 Expensive? What are do you remember? Our beers, like, what the fuck? Are they just like, that's fine? Or is it like, wow, cheap? I don't remember, which means it probably wasn't that expensive. Right.

Speaker 1 Okay. You know, but I will tell you one thing they did that I was like, I'm not going to do this.
But, like, so the DJ, so for example, at one beach, there's his beach party, right?

Speaker 1 And there's people dancing, and there's topless people dancing, and there's groups, and everyone's having fun.

Speaker 1 And every time the DJ would build, like, like build up to like a big, like, you know, release, yeah, like a big thing, every time that he would build, the second he dropped it no matter what drink you were holding no matter how full it was everyone just threw it in the air and got rid of all their drinks so like every like 10 minutes you would get like hundreds of drinks just being thrown here all over you you have to and this is me

Speaker 1 which i'm like a neat clean kind of guy i don't like that stuff but like you have to just give into it wow

Speaker 1 i wouldn't throw my drink i just i was on a limited budget so i wouldn't throw it i'd like capping

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 or i'd be like are you gonna throw that like you ever see odessa live no oh oh wait edbrook told me to go see him maybe i have actually and uh

Speaker 1 thousands and thousands of those of those neon uh like you can make a necklace into them but it's just like these strings about like a foot long each and you can like attach them all like a necklace and every bass drop they all just throw so you just see thousands of neon stuff go up and then done then everyone scrambles to pick them up absolutely i love that yeah Oh, oh, you know what they did too?

Speaker 1 I don't know if you've really gone to nightclubs, but this is kind of common.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 they invest, I mean, tens of millions into these clubs. The sound, the lighting, everything.

Speaker 1 They have this thing where it's like...

Speaker 1 like freezing cold air. Like it's a, it was like, not nitrous, but it was like

Speaker 1 whatever it was, white, cloudy, freezing cold air. I guess Freon or whatever.
I don't know what the, like whatever that is, would they'd have like

Speaker 1 cannons on the floor or on the ceiling, depending on what club you were in. And they'd hit it because these places got really hot, dude.
Oh, wow. Really hot.

Speaker 1 And that's why you have to stay hydrated and people taking care of each other. You'd see sometimes people pass out because you're like dancing.
They would just chill everybody out.

Speaker 1 They would hit that thing and it would be like literally like 50-degree air, like a mini El Niño, like a tornado. And it would literally go through your body.
And you're already feeling tingly.

Speaker 1 And you go from sweating and

Speaker 1 you're excited

Speaker 1 it not only does it the sweat goes away instantly your whole body gets chills and you get just like revitalized it's freezing cold against your skin it feels like

Speaker 1 i can't even explain the feeling everybody gets it at once and the whole club you can't even see a person in front of you it just gets full of white smoke that's blasting out almost like um a fire extinguisher and everyone's just like yes and then it goes away and you are not sweating you are your skin's tingling and you're like rejuvenated and they did it all night long and i i read a stat, like, every time they did that, it was like something like every time they like hit that button, it was like $25,000.

Speaker 1 Wow. Something like that.
But it's like, whatever. It's part of that.
It's whatever. Those two clubs are making millions.
You can't cheap out on that shit. No.

Speaker 1 And then, so the third night, that's happening. And so the third night, one of our friends who's known to be the guy that gets sloppy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He has good intentions, but he gets sloppy drunk, right?

Speaker 1 And there is.

Speaker 1 There is a a

Speaker 1 bachelorette party there right

Speaker 1 and so we end up talking to them and nice enough we're all talking laughing you know just being

Speaker 1 and my friend is drunk not I don't think it was I think it was drunk I don't think it was ecstasy at this point and he he's talking to her and then as just like to fool around he like grabs her by like the two arms and he like shakes her and he goes why are you getting married

Speaker 1 but he was like completely joking, but like he did, like, she didn't want him to do that. And she, like, shook, and she's like, yo, what the fuck? Like, don't touch me like that.

Speaker 1 He's like, oh, I'm just, I'm just making it. He's like, she's like, no, fuck that.
And then, like, a

Speaker 1 security guard saw it and it came over and literally threw him out. So, this was like towards the beginning of the night.
Oh, right. So, he gets thrown out.

Speaker 1 What's the etiquette there, friendship-wise?

Speaker 1 Yeah, like you shouldn't have done that, buddy. Yeah.
Like, we all paid $100 to get in here. It's the beginning of the night.
You don't shake someone and say, don't get married. Why are you?

Speaker 1 You know, like, it wasn't like that. It wasn't, she didn't feel assaulted or anything, but it was just like, it was, that was way too much for just meeting you like five minutes ago.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, you're drunk, you know, it's just you're not, you're not judging correctly. So they, they, these two, these guys came over, they got him by, they held him, four guys, all four limbs.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah. And they, and they take him, and there was an escalator to go down, and they just placed him on the escalator.
And we're like, all right. So, like,

Speaker 1 he's either got to try and get back in. No cell phones.
No cell phones. No cell phones.
So we're just like, all right. I mean, hopefully he gets back in.
If not,

Speaker 1 you know, but it wasn't like, oh, my God, he's in danger. Because the vibe was, you got kicked out.
Like, are you alone? Come on with us. He'll be in a beat though.
Yeah. He'll be fine.
He'll be.

Speaker 1 But there also was still like, all right, you know, I hope he's okay. I hope he doesn't get to the point where he gets blackout.

Speaker 1 And then someone, there's still bad people, you know, like, oh, but mind you, you, the entire time it was the World Cup for soccer, and Brazil was in the World Cup, and there's a lot of Brazilians there for some reason, and because they all were in the jerseys, yeah, and they all were in like jeeps with the top down, like driving around with a flag, like just all along the beach, all along the streets, screaming.

Speaker 1 I think they won that year, Brazil. And we were there when they won.
So, you know, like when the Yankees won, and like what happened in the streets, that happened there.

Speaker 1 No, they've not been good since I've been here. Well, do you remember like, oh, you don't remember like 96 and 98 and all that stuff? Yeah, I was, but I was not here.
I was in Maryland.

Speaker 1 Oh, and then the other years I was in L.A. It was like basically.

Speaker 1 They have not done their part of the bargain since I moved here as a fan.

Speaker 1 So when did you come?

Speaker 1 Because they won in 2000, what?

Speaker 1 When did they beat? I came in 2012, I think. 2012, 2013.
Okay. Not been to a series.
The streets were. Because also, even if you're not Brazil, like this, everyone's partying.

Speaker 1 Also, these Brazilian people are super happy yeah you're also watching the world cup and you're just rooting for it because it's the world cup yeah and so when they won and there wasn't there was like a winner of the like the streets just went completely wild as if it wasn't wild already yeah am i not on cam no you are i'm just wondering how low you are yeah go ahead and so that was a whole nother level like people would just like screech up in a jeep and like other people would just be cheering and then jump in the jeep with them and they'd peel out and drive away and like those people didn't know each other.

Speaker 1 Wow. Wow.
Yeah. So my friend, so he leaves.
So this night ends. So we get back to our hotel room.
It's 8 a.m. Okay.

Speaker 1 And he was in our room. Oh, he was two rooms.

Speaker 1 He wasn't in our room, actually, but we were next to each other. So we get there at 8 a.m.
And it's the other six of us. And he's not there.
So we're like,

Speaker 1 okay, like we lost him around 1 a.m.

Speaker 1 He was alone. Like, like, I guess he could be at another club, but he really should be back by now.

Speaker 1 And so we didn't go to sleep. And so we just were like, we had no way to contact him.
So we're like, should we be calling hospitals? Like, you know, even though

Speaker 1 you didn't want to just assume he was totally fine, you know, you know, because he was drunk at that time. So we stayed up.

Speaker 1 And we just sat there and was waiting, waiting, and we didn't know what to do. At eight o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, 11:30 in the morning.
morning.

Speaker 1 He walks in the door, 11.30 in the morning. Just walks in nonchalant.

Speaker 1 We go, dude, like, what the hell? What the hell happened to you? Where were you? He's like, oh, no, it's fine. 10 hours later.
It was 10 hours later. We're like, what did you do this whole time?

Speaker 1 Where were you? Like, dude, you should have came back here.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, we didn't know you were. He goes, nah, it's fine.
It's fine. It's fine.
We go, what did you do? He goes, well, when they threw me out, I was hungry. So I went to McDonald's.

Speaker 1 So we're like, okay, and what about the other 10 hours? What about the 15 minutes? No. 10 hours and 15 minutes.
No, the McDonald's wasn't open.

Speaker 1 It wasn't open. So I sat in front of it.
And he goes, We go, well, when did it open? He goes, it never did.

Speaker 1 So we go, where are you coming from? He goes, the McDonald's. What? He sat in front of the McDonald's for nine and a half hours.
Andrew. Waiting for it to open and it never opened.
And he goes, What?

Speaker 1 Dude, we lost our shit. When he's like, he goes, no,

Speaker 1 imagine him telling us. What a fucking idiot.
Yeah, yeah. He just went to a McDonald's.
It wasn't open. So he just sat there because he was too drunk to understand why it wasn't open.

Speaker 1 He goes, it'll open soon. And then

Speaker 1 I guess he was like, it'll open in the morning for breakfast. And then it still didn't open.
And then at one point, he just gave up and walked back.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. It was so insane.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Next night. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Oh, and also

Speaker 1 at the beach, it's pretty, pretty crazy. Like, there's a there's a in-ground pool in the beach.
Yeah. Like, in the sand at the beach,

Speaker 1 there's a full, like, like, in-ground pool. Like, in just in the sand at the beach.

Speaker 1 Like, you, you walk in the sand going to the ocean, then there's a pool, and then there's the beach.

Speaker 1 And people are in the pool going nuts.

Speaker 1 And no one there is really, like, in their regular life. No.
Like, if you go to a club in New York, you come out, you're meeting Wall Street people. Yes.
There's no overlap.

Speaker 1 No overlap. Meanwhile, we ran into people we knew, but no overlap.
Everybody's in the same mood. It's all different countries.
Like all different countries.

Speaker 1 And everybody is there for the same reason and it's an extended vacation. And it's like everybody has these different identities.
I mean, we're each other, but it's like this whole like,

Speaker 1 it's, it's a, you, like you just said, you could never be like this at any other time anywhere else. Different ideas.
You're the party of you. Yeah, I was meeting professionals.
I'll get to that too.

Speaker 1 So so the clubs had pools in them and everyone's, I mean, you'll see topless photos in there, people dancing and everything. These chicks are so fucking hot.
What is it?

Speaker 1 Is that a professional worker girl? Or is that just like somebody you like. No, that was a club.

Speaker 1 They all dance at the clubs. What do you mean, dance? For the club? Yeah.
Oh, that's what I mean. So she's working.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's just so, oh, she's having a blast.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then this girl is the one. So she works at the club? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, she is.

Speaker 1 What do you think she's doing now?

Speaker 1 It can't be that, right? I mean, like,

Speaker 1 22 years later. It can't be that.
I mean, she's got to be a, maybe even a,

Speaker 1 no, not a grandma. How old do you think she is?

Speaker 1 Young 20s? 20s, yeah.

Speaker 1 Would she be like 45 now? Yeah. 50.
Like us. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So. Wow.
And I bet if she has normal life,

Speaker 1 if she has like a 13-year-old kid,

Speaker 1 he has no idea how cool his mom was. Yeah.
I used to work at a nightclub and be like, yeah, sure. What'd you do, mom? Yeah.
Would you take tickets?

Speaker 1 Kid, you don't understand. You didn't even know.
She looks like a genie. She looks like a genie.
I fucked a different dude every three days. And it was fine.
Well, we're extrapolating, but yeah.

Speaker 1 Bro, I came home. Side note, I came home

Speaker 1 still touch jet lag from Australia. Yeah.
Got back three days ago, two days ago. First night, fine.
Managed to stay up till 10 p.m. And then like, I mean, I should have been asleep at 9 a.m.

Speaker 1 when I landed and then stayed up all the time, whatever. Slept, woke up at 4.
That's better. And then like, no, I'm going back to sleep.
stayed in bed till 10. Great.
I'm caught up.

Speaker 1 Next day, three hours of sleep, wide awake. I'm like, fuck.

Speaker 1 Woke up at four, and I was like, all right. Like, let me go watch a sunrise.

Speaker 1 Went to the East River Park. I'm never up this early.
And wide awake. Yeah.
So I did. Sometimes when I'm having insomnia, that's my little treat.
Yeah, if you're up, it's great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway, walking back, the sunrise was at 5:25. Left the East River Park, what's left of it, at

Speaker 1 6:10. Walked by.
Some chick with like

Speaker 1 Kelly Bundy black mini skirt dress, black shoes. And I was like, What club is letting out right now? Yeah, it's like, oh, she fucked.
It's Sunday morning. Oh, it's a walk.

Speaker 1 And then I realized, like, oh, it's Walk of Shame time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I just went out just looking for, and I saw probably three, one, the sloppiest fucking dressed up chick trying to ride an e-bike home, still drug.

Speaker 1 It's just so fun watching them in their high heels at 6:30 a.m 7 a.m riding an e-bike is hysterical it really was because i get it six inches saw some old lady walking by just like she like rolled her eyes and looked at me and smiled you gotta love it harmless oh yeah harm that's new and that's that's what's so great yeah some couple dudes dressed like your friends you know with like their belts open just eating pizza on them asleep oh i'm so over that dude yeah i i and i think about that those days now and i cringe it's like could you imagine getting there at midnight not knowing if you're gonna get in do a whole fan song and dance, but you only know.

Speaker 1 You take drugs, yeah. And some guys would get in, some guys wouldn't.
They go to another club, you try to meet up later, whatever. But then you get in there, it's loud as fuck.

Speaker 1 You have to wait 20 minutes to pay $15 for a drink. Wow.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, it's just like, it's just, what is going on? It's just, everybody wanted to hook up.

Speaker 1 Like, it was like everybody, that was the social, that was it. Were people fucking at this time? Or was it just dancing? What do you mean? Misconception about ecstasy back when I was doing it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is that it makes you horny.

Speaker 1 and I'd say, no, once you did it, it's like this, it makes you want to touch people, yeah, but it wasn't horny as much as the touch felt good, it kind of made you more autistic, to be honest, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Um, I'm like, oh, it feels so good.

Speaker 1 But if a guy did that, you're like, oh, it just looked like you're yeah, no, I don't think it was, uh, I mean, people probably had sex on it, but like, it wasn't like that in the club, it wasn't like everybody wants to have sex, it was just like exactly that.

Speaker 1 Like, someone would be so kind, they'd sit down next to you and then literally just massage your shoulders, and it felt so good, and they were cool about it.

Speaker 1 And you turn, you're like, Thank you so much. Like, no problem, man.
I'll be over there. Have a good night.
Like, it just was like,

Speaker 1 it's crazy. Don't do it.
Don't do this. I'm telling you, I am 100% against it.
Oh my gosh. It was a different time.
I shouldn't have even done it then. I took a big risk.
The fentanyl.

Speaker 1 Dude, we found. I have a

Speaker 1 friend who is,

Speaker 1 he found some pre, pre uh pre-fentanyl coke, and we all did it. Pre?

Speaker 1 Yeah. How do you know it's pre? He was like a stash that I found in the bottom drawer of something he was like oh this is from like it was like like 20

Speaker 1 like 18 when fentanyl just wasn't rampant and he was like oh sick no doesn't it have an expiration date on that it didn't it did it didn't yeah it's great yeah

Speaker 1 I don't know, I can't do it. I could never do that.
Yeah. But so the next night we go out.
Okay. Now, so we get out of the club this night.
Every, every day, a night had a story. It was wild.

Speaker 1 You didn't have to find it. It would just find you.
So we get out, and I think there's like three of us. I don't know where the other guys are.
Yeah. And we get out of this club.

Speaker 1 And the clubs aren't just like all on the same block or anything. They're all over the island in different places.
Oh, really?

Speaker 1 There's like, you know, there's areas that have condensed more than others. But you'd also take a ride to like the end of the island in a taxi for like 30 minutes to go to a club that's over there.

Speaker 1 You know? Oh, really? Yeah. okay.

Speaker 1 So this was one of those nights. So we get out of the club and it's like pure daylight and it's like in the middle of, like, we're just like, where the hell are we?

Speaker 1 So we're waiting, we're waiting, we're waiting to get like a cab and there's just no cabs. And we're just like, it's like pure daylight.
It's a weekday. And we're like, well, let's just...

Speaker 1 We just got to draw. I mean, we're not just going to keep standing here.
So let's start just walking. And then when we finally come across a cab, we'll get a cab.
Yeah, sure. That's a smart move.

Speaker 1 Right. And then.

Speaker 1 so we just start walking. And there's other people doing that, you know.
And there's cars whizzing by us. It's a two-lane road.
And it's one road only, two-lane road.

Speaker 1 And every on both sides of the road is just like planes.

Speaker 1 Like, like, like, like planes like

Speaker 1 grass, like, just like, you know what I mean? Just fields. Yeah.
So it's this road with fields on both sides. And you don't see anything to the left or right but fields.

Speaker 1 So we're like, all right, let's walk. So we start, we're walking for about a half hour, and we're like

Speaker 1 this doesn't seem right like we've been walking for a half hour we still see nothing but planes like just open grass fields and this is the same single road and there's cars mostly just going this way and so we're like

Speaker 1 do we go the wrong way

Speaker 1 We walked to the airport.

Speaker 1 This was one road from the airport. There's nothing else by the airport.
We walked, we got so far close to the airport that it would, the only way to get a cab was to go to the airport.

Speaker 1 Oh my god, and it's a small airport. It was a small airport.
You take like a puddle jump, like a you know, you take a smaller plane into it, I believe.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I, yes, because we it was Barcelona or Madrid where we had our layover. So, um,

Speaker 1 so, and at some point, you just see like other people too, like, and we're all dressed like that, and everyone's going to work because there's people that live there, and the cars that are passing us are just people going to work.

Speaker 1 And we're literally walking at like nine in the morning to

Speaker 1 like an hour to the airport,

Speaker 1 And then we got to the airport and there was no cabs. It took like 15 minutes to get a cab at the airport.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's just a small lab. I thought it was one guy's like, guys, let's start walking.
It's like it'll save us time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was so, I mean, and then we're talking and laughing and time's passing, and it's like,

Speaker 1 we should see something by now.

Speaker 1 And then we just, and then finally, we're just like, it's the airport. We're walking, we're going the wrong way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Next night,

Speaker 1 we take a cab to this, like to a boat. We take a cab to a boat and a boat across another little place.
And we go to this club and it's great, whatever. It's fun.
We get out and we take a cab back.

Speaker 1 And right now, it's three of us only.

Speaker 1 I think we split up into different cabs. And we're starving.
And we get out of this club. And there's a guy standing right outside the club holding like a plat, like a platter.

Speaker 1 And he's got hero sandwiches that he made at home wrapped in saran wrap. Like, I mean, literally, like,

Speaker 1 he just made hero sandwiches in his house. He wrapped them in saran.
He wasn't trying to say otherwise. Yeah.
And he just was selling them. Oh.

Speaker 1 And there's nobody there, but it's like he had, and he had them like on a platter and they were like in a pyramid shape. And we were like, we're so hungry.
We're so hungry. And so

Speaker 1 we didn't know. And we went, where are we going to get food? And we walked out, and the guy was just standing there with a silver platter.
I was like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 And they were like, it's his house food, though. And we're like, and we're like, fuck, like, I don't care.
We bought like five sandwiches from him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 and then we hail this cab down we hail this cab down and we get in the cab and my friend's drunk in the front or whatever he's gone and we're in the back seat right and

Speaker 1 so the the guy we get in with the things and the guy goes no eating in my cab but we had like a 40 minute ride in this cab and we just got out and just bought the sandwiches so

Speaker 1 My friend tried to eat in the front. He goes, no eating in my cab.
I told you that. He's like, no, no, I'm sorry.
Sorry. And he tried to eat it again.
He's like, dude, no eating in my cab.

Speaker 1 So then he goes, give them the sandwiches back there. So he gave it, he was holding on the sandwich.
He gives us the sandwiches. Now we're in the back.

Speaker 1 And my friend is just drunk in the front, like just being like an idiot. He's not being disrespectful, but this guy had zero tolerance.

Speaker 1 And it almost felt like when you're a kid, you're not allowed to laugh and you start laughing more. Yeah.
He's like, you're at church or like your parents were yelling at you or something.

Speaker 1 He was like, and so we're driving and it's pitch black. And we're driving, it's like, it's like so much pitch.
There was no street lights.

Speaker 1 And we're driving along the water and it's all trees and everything, and there's no lights. And this guy's driving us, and now my other friend starts to eat the sandwich in the back and hide it.

Speaker 1 And he's hiding, he's trying to get out of the way of the rear view.

Speaker 1 And like, I'm punching him, he's trying to chew. Like, and then my friend in the back saw that we were eating.
He's like, Oh, not fair. This is a sandwich.
Is that one of them? Is that a sandwich?

Speaker 1 It looks like it.

Speaker 1 He's so excited in the front seat. So it's

Speaker 1 yelled at. These homemade sandwiches, right?

Speaker 1 And so we're ducking low trying to eat so he doesn't see us in the rear view.

Speaker 1 And then my friend in the front sees it and he's going to tell on us. And we're like, no, don't, don't, don't, don't, fuck, don't tell.
And so, like,

Speaker 1 we're just cracking up. And my friend starts laughing, and he gets the dashboard laughing.

Speaker 1 And then the guy.

Speaker 1 We're driving for like 20 minutes, so we've been in the middle of nothing for a good 15 minutes. So there's nothing in front of us, nothing behind us.

Speaker 1 And he just puts his blinker on, and he just slowly slows down. He pulls to the side of the road

Speaker 1 and he goes,

Speaker 1 he adjusts his rear view to look at both of us and he goes, I am not liking your friend.

Speaker 1 The guy in the kid in the front. He goes, I am not liking your friend.
I am thinking. He will be getting out of my cab.
He said it just like that. To this day, we say it to each other all the time.

Speaker 1 The cadence. I am thinking.

Speaker 1 That is a verbatim what he said.

Speaker 1 He was like rushing or whatever. I don't know what he was.
And he just pulled a blinker, slowed down, and we're like, we don't say anything. We're like, what is this guy doing?

Speaker 1 Is he going to piss? Is he going to kick us out? And then he just looked at us in the rearview and he goes, I am not liking your friend. I am thinking he will be getting out of my cab.

Speaker 1 And then we were like, no, please, please, please, no, no, no, no, no. And then literally, like, he let him stay in.

Speaker 1 And we sat with like our hands folded in pure silence for like the rest of it because we could have been just stranded out there. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It was

Speaker 1 so funny.

Speaker 1 That's so funny. Wait, let me find you.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 what a fucking time.

Speaker 1 You guys look like you're having so much fun. So you did some sightseeing too? Yeah, we did a little bit.
But who cares? One day. We're like, we have to do at least one day.

Speaker 1 But so we're all leading up to the last night. Okay.
And the last night we're there, we're going to, I think, what was called the You know what I like about some of these pictures? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're just taking pictures of chicks' bellies and butts. But they were all dancing and

Speaker 1 flashing. Like everyone was like, but like,

Speaker 1 wait, where's that one? Here. It's just like, I'm just taking a picture of a butt.
It's a different time. Just like, here's the last she knows.

Speaker 1 I mean, everybody was taking, like, they didn't, like, they were posing for those things. Yeah.
Like, a girl would walk up to us and literally pull our top down and be like, take a picture. Wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. This one's with it with the tits out was fucking nuts.
There was one, I think it might be in there. She just pulled it down.
I was like, hey, everybody. Wow.

Speaker 1 So it's all leading up to the last night, right? Okay. And there's a club there called Privilege.

Speaker 1 And what I'm told is, it's, I think, and if I'm remembering correctly, it's the biggest club in the world. Okay.

Speaker 1 So everyone's like, oh, my God. Like, you could buy a ticket, but you could buy a ticket for an express line.
Because it's like, it holds like thousands of people. And

Speaker 1 again, like, even the people that we found that we knew and the new people we met and then they would like go to the same club as you the next night so now we're friends with like 25 people you got a crew you got a crew or Eden and and so everyone's like so excited because this is the night for this club particularly right or whatever it is don't know what to expect and we get to this place and it is it's just like from the outside you're like this is

Speaker 1 you know like in when in like in the city, like a warehouse, and it's like you hear the music outside and you're like, oh my God, it sounds like like it's crazy in there like imagine that times like a hundred right

Speaker 1 yeah we get online

Speaker 1 we're waiting we're going through these stanchions waiting to get in as soon as you get in they give you a map that's how big the club was wow they give you a map what it was like this big almost like um like a like like like a baseball card size and it like opened up like four or five accordion times over what and it was like it was a map it was things you needed to know it was like whatever and you needed the map what to get around yeah dude it was that fucking big i hope i still have it somewhere i might have saved that it was that big so we finally get in and we get to there's all the there's the main entrance like the main area and then it's just you could just never get lost so we get to the main area okay there's two two

Speaker 1 Olympic size swimming pools inside next to each other in like inside

Speaker 1 at a club in a club. And above those.
What's it called? I think it was. Yeah, what's the last? It's the last day.
What does that say? Does that say privilege? Privilege. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it's two Olympic-sized swimming pools, right? This is what we walk into, okay?

Speaker 1 There's trapeze artists above the pools going back and forth, just flipping.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she's just showing her tails. Yeah.
So there's people on trapeze above the pool. Like, just, I mean, literally, like a free form, by the way.

Speaker 1 Like, there's not a net under them like the pools under them but like they're not like you know what i mean they're just going for it wow

Speaker 1 uh at the exact same time there's a huge stage and on the stage is a sex show

Speaker 1 people are having sex on the stage

Speaker 1 it was and and and let me tell you something that's what you walk every scene i don't know if everybody was trying to play it cool or people there are numb to it but i walked in like oh my god and i'm looking around and people didn't even blink and i was like i have to like maintain my composure because i cannot believe what i'm i can't believe what they're doing here like it's not illegal they're fucking up on the wires no no no no on the stage what the trapeze artists are going who's fucking what position like

Speaker 1 i i it was a it was a uh the it was a doggy position

Speaker 1 And like, and then he's, the guy is like, how it's like two girls up there.

Speaker 1 Just just crazy. Dude, it's just crazy.
And he was. And I'm talking with talking.
It wasn't just some guy who got up there and started fucking. No, no, it was just shell.

Speaker 1 But like, I'm talking to these girls, like beautiful girls, you know, like I'm talking to them. And like, on the stage, people are just having sex.
It's just like,

Speaker 1 you try to stay in the conversation, but it was like nobody cared. It was like, it was just wild, dude.
Wow. There was, it was before cell phones, right? So.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you could loot. You could be uninhibited.
So it was. So.

Speaker 1 There was,

Speaker 1 no, but wait, it was definitely before cell phones. No, no, was it? Wait, Wait, when did I get a cell phone? No, I think, but okay, first of all, it was new.

Speaker 1 The cameras weren't anything on the phone. No, no, no, no, it was flip phone.
It wasn't flip phones, it was flip phones. It wasn't even flip phones.
2002 was flip phones or just a block.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I got my first cell phone, I think, in 98. But they didn't have cameras on them until like later.
No, no, these weren't. And also, you were in another country.

Speaker 1 The cell phone service, other countries, you couldn't get that. Not only was the service was not good, but if you got someone, you couldn't hear anybody.
So they were useless.

Speaker 1 But check this out. They had

Speaker 1 on the wall, like I'm telling you, like 60 feet in the air, there was a huge billboard. Picture like a scoreboard

Speaker 1 at a ball game. It was this black scoreboard that only had like lit up like

Speaker 1 light, like yellow bulbs. And there was a number on the bottom of it.
And you could text that number and your message would go on the billboard.

Speaker 1 So if you needed to find your friend, like all you saw was like, like, like, guys, it's like, it's like, Vinny, I'm at like this room. Come find me.

Speaker 1 So like people would text that to find their friends.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know why they weren't in the phone. Moja texts right now.
Moja texts right now.

Speaker 1 What would I text up there? Yeah, right now.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I know.
What? This is one of the greatest fights.

Speaker 1 This may be the greatest nightclub Fat Joe has ever seen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it begs the reason.

Speaker 1 It begs the question because I'm remembering. I think you were paying for text back then.
22 years ago. I think you had to pay for a text back.

Speaker 1 It begs the question, why wouldn't they just text their friends? Because I couldn't find.

Speaker 1 i i probably had i probably didn't use my cell phone because of roaming charges roaming charges back then were wild yeah it's four days in in montreal your bill will be six hundred dollars yeah so i don't know but it was this extension this number and you could put your message up there and that's how people were getting in touch with each other so maybe it was for the people who had cell phones and i didn't i don't remember interesting but but that was crazy and then all of a sudden yeah i get removed from my friends alone oh

Speaker 1 fully alone and it's not far after getting in there we get there we see the swimming pool the trapeze the sex show the thing meet a couple people i mean maybe we're like an hour and not even it's the beginning of the night and i lose them and i spend like

Speaker 1 at least an hour like going just walking looking at them well there's a fucking map you're never gonna find couldn't find him i spent an hour walking around trying to find him i couldn't find him

Speaker 1 I get outside, this outdoor area, I get outside. They got this like, it's almost like the World's Fair had been there.
You know that stuff over in like flushing? Like those like big orbs?

Speaker 1 Like outside it's like this big grassy hill near water and there are these like hexagon shaped orbs like artwork, but they're like these big spheres and like it looks like an installation you'd see at like a world fair or like a mall or I don't know what it was.

Speaker 1 And they're like it's basically looks like you can like they're like they cover you. And so everyone outside is just sitting on the floor talking.
It looks like a concert, but it's not a concert.

Speaker 1 And everyone out there is just groups of people just sitting on the floor just bullshitting.

Speaker 1 Recuperating from their fucking molly dancing. Yeah.
Or just like you want to take a break and you want to end up go talking. Oh, that's cool.
It could be cool. That's really cool.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so I'm walking. It sounds like all this stuff is set up so intentionally for the party.
Yeah. To like, we have places for you to relax in between.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Yeah.
So I'm looking for my friends. Can't find them.
And then some guy... It's like, yo, you want a drink or whatever? I'm like, yeah, he gives me like whatever, water.
And we start talking.

Speaker 1 And he's like, I'm with my friends over here.

Speaker 1 You want to come hang out with us i'm like all right so i go outside i sit down with like three other people and every one of them was an australian architect

Speaker 1 what yeah they were all architects from australia and they were the coolest people and i sat with them and spoke to them for hours

Speaker 1 hours these guys and then at some point hours later one of my friends walked by and saw me outside and i i got i met back up with him

Speaker 1 but i'm with these guys what's your talk channel?

Speaker 1 I took a picture with these guys. Who's the chickwinner? I love Sal's shirt.

Speaker 1 People we met that we knew. They're all wearing, it's like a bachelor party.
They're all wearing a picture of it. I guess they could change their words on their shirt or whatever.
Oh. Let me see.

Speaker 1 I thought I took a picture with these fellas. The last day is still coming up.

Speaker 1 Is that you? No. No, that's my buddy.
God, what a fucking outfit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's one of them. One of the Australians? That's the first guy I met.
That's the first architect I met. And then he took me back to the other architects.

Speaker 1 Just to be cool? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I can't find my friends. Come hang with us.
I just went and sat down.

Speaker 1 Who's this? Oh, he can't find his friends. Oh, hey.
Hey, what's up, dude?

Speaker 1 Oh, you know, it's not even like it because that was the culture. So it wasn't like, do you mind if he sits with us? Just sat down.
What's up? And they would just say their name. Cool.

Speaker 1 And you'd immediately get the pleasantries out of the way and then just hang out.

Speaker 1 I would never do that now. You know what I'm saying? It was just wild.
It really was wild.

Speaker 1 That sounds fucking badass.

Speaker 1 Coming home,

Speaker 1 this kid

Speaker 1 shit his pants so bad on the plane

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 there was no hiding it. What? There was no hiding it.
And it was during food service.

Speaker 1 And it was so bad

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 the flight attendants decided not to collect everybody's food. What do you mean, not to just collect?

Speaker 1 When it was time to collect food and throw the garbage out, they just didn't come to do it.

Speaker 1 People sat with their food for like two hours before they came back in that area. And he was beat red.
And we all were like, he did it. And it was mortifying.
But it smelled so bad.

Speaker 1 And it was on a plane, so you couldn't escape it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow. At the time, I was working for Prudential Securities, and I just, I forgot this, but I just saw that picture.
At the end, we went to get henna tattoos. Yeah, that's that was awesome.

Speaker 1 And that was a full sleeve, like a full forearm henna tattoo.

Speaker 1 And basically, what happens is they do it, and you let it dry, and then it's supposed to last, like, I forget, but it was supposed to last.

Speaker 1 It's a Chris Angel tattoo. It's supposed to last, like, four or five weeks.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I get one. My friend gets one on his leg.
I was like, do I get it? Because back then, I don't think I have, did I I have a tattoo yet? I did, but it wasn't anything visible.

Speaker 1 And I was thinking of getting an arm one. And I didn't know.
Believe it or not, back then in the workforce, it was like frowned upon to have like a tattoo showing on your arm.

Speaker 1 So I was like, well, F them. I'm going to get this Henna one.
It's temporary. They can't say shit.
I'll say, got it on vacation. It's going to go away soon.
Just see

Speaker 1 what the reaction was.

Speaker 1 Test it for Will Smith's son. What? Test it for when you want to go Will Smith's son.
Exactly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, multiple. Will Smith's son.
So I did that. So I took it back, and I remember having that for weeks at my job.
My buddy, Donato, he got it, and he had an allergic reaction to the...

Speaker 1 What's it called again? Henna? Yeah. He had an allergic reaction to it.
By the time we got home, it was on his leg. It was burning his skin, burning through his skin, like festering.
No.

Speaker 1 He had to go rush off and get antibiotics, get creams, everything.

Speaker 1 And like, dude, he had, it looked like he had

Speaker 1 burns from a fire on his leg.

Speaker 1 In

Speaker 1 tattoo. Of that? Yeah.
And eventually when the henna died off, he still had like the scarring and like redness. Wow.
And so he had it. He was Donato.
He had it red. You know Donato.
I know Donato.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I got better, but it was like, it was crazy. He had an allergic reaction to it.

Speaker 1 What's this bus right here?

Speaker 1 You're on a bus.

Speaker 1 Some places, no. Some places would, there'd be buses to get to clubs.
Dude, these girls, and then up here too, but these, just, everyone looks like they're having such a fucking fun time.

Speaker 1 Everyone is. No, not like no inhibitions where like, oh, I'm licking my tit.
Not that, just like, just like happiness. Happiness.
Without thinking about what do I look like.

Speaker 1 Just like, we're having a good time. Ah, look at.
She's like, yeah, whatever she's looking at. It's like, go.
And happy for whoever she's looking at. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, so just remember, like, anybody involved in this scene,

Speaker 1 there was no early bucket hat, no hate, no animosity, no hate, no fighting, no nothing. So it was just everyone was really cool everywhere.
And so

Speaker 1 that's what you get. That's what that equals.
Like you just feel great. Like you just feel like everyone's having a great time.
Anybody will help you out. You're meeting new people.

Speaker 1 You know, everyone's on the same exact page.

Speaker 1 That's you.

Speaker 1 I can't see, but could be.

Speaker 1 Did you have any like realizations of like, you look better and worse in these pictures depending on your pick

Speaker 1 about yourself?

Speaker 1 Sometimes after music festivals, people are like, I just want to stay here and keep, and you're like, well, it's closing on Sunday, so you can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 By Monday morning, it's all going to be. Yeah, I mean, there are plenty of times where the clubs turn the lights on.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like 10. Even here in Manhattan, like going to Sound Factory or

Speaker 1 like Tunnel or those places, like, you'd stay and then turn the lights on. It's so funny.

Speaker 1 It looks like the Walking Dead, like just everyone in their nighttime outfits just pouring out into a hot, sunny morning. People are going to get breakfast and things.

Speaker 1 My buddy, we used to deliver mail, and he was the guy that used to get it for everybody.

Speaker 1 And he would go out, and he knew everyone at all the clubs. And we'd go out.
He'd always drive everyone. He had a big expedition or whatever.
So we'd take like seven, eight people. And

Speaker 1 he drove. So he, when he when he had work in the morning to go deliver the mail, sometimes he'd be like, all right, this is my time.
I got to leave now. And everybody was like,

Speaker 1 we want to stay. Like, don't leave.
And he used to be like, I will stay. And I will stay.
And I will not go home. I will stay out the whole night and not go to sleep if you deliver the mail with me.

Speaker 1 And I used to go deliver the mail with him. I used to go in the mail truck, which is literally illegal.
So I'm just joking about it.

Speaker 1 And I used to like, we used to, I'm joking about this.

Speaker 1 We used to deliver, I used to deliver mail. He'd park it.
I'd get a bag, get a bag, and we'd go up and down the opposite sides of the block.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm like, I got you.

Speaker 1 I delivered the United States post. I'm joking, but yeah.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Wow. On Staten Island.
But you did take drugs. No, I'm joking about that.
Which was more illegal? Helping a mailman deliver the mail or taking Molly?

Speaker 1 I think it might be the mailman. I think it might be the mailman.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Assisting one. Yeah.
It might be more illegal than just. I mean, everything was on the up and up aside for the fact that I had no jurisdiction to do that.
Right, right. Yeah, you did it.

Speaker 1 I didn't take anything. I think if you open or take something, it's a federal offense.
I just delivered it.

Speaker 1 And also,

Speaker 1 if someone saw me, he would have been fired immediately.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.
No, when I said realizations,

Speaker 1 I meant like life realizations where like, I want to be something. Like a drugged ant.
When I'm on vacation, I think clearly. That's usually when I get in trouble on podcasts, my first week back.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm coming back with a clear head. A clear head, and I'll just say something.
I haven't seen anybody, so I don't feel like I'm about to run into that guy. So I'll put my foot in my mouth pretty bad.

Speaker 1 That's when you can can get me in real trouble.

Speaker 1 I bet you I could tell you the times you just got home from vacation.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it's just like you're thinking clearly about the whole world and your life on the planet. Just like, you know what I mean? Yeah, but you've turned off a little bit.
I want to talk to my mom more.

Speaker 1 That's what meditating is about, you know? You shut off and then you let everything reset and then kind of things can just come to the forefront of your mind. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But no, I didn't have have any realizations. The only realization I had is that I need to stop doing it.

Speaker 1 Because I'd go to work and there was a time, like I said, like people would be like, oh, I need you to do this.

Speaker 1 And I'd be like, okay. And then they'd walk away.
And I'd literally be like, wait, what did they just say? And I was never like that.

Speaker 1 And as soon as that happened,

Speaker 1 immediately I was like, 100% done.

Speaker 1 It wasn't like hard to stop.

Speaker 1 That happened, and I was like, I feel just like a little more dull around the edge. Like, I'm not as quick.

Speaker 1 And as soon as I felt like I was a little less quick, I never did it again, ever again.

Speaker 1 Is this drug crocodil? You know anything about it? Crocodil? Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's a Russian, I think, I don't know. I think it's pronounced crocodile.
It's no E at the end. I know.

Speaker 1 It's a Russian, like, kind of meth hybrid or something. And anyway, negative side effects.
Russian kind of meth hybrid is the scariest collection of words I've ever heard in my life.

Speaker 1 Eats away at your skin. as a byproduct or as a side effect.
But I'm like, how good must it be if you start seeing exposed bone and you don't go, oh, well, like, I mean, that's it.

Speaker 1 I have to stop doing crap. You're like, no, I'm going to keep doing it.
You were like, I couldn't follow directions at work. I better stop doing this.
Yeah. But they have exposed bones.

Speaker 1 And they're like,

Speaker 1 maybe it's something else. Could be the sun.
The ozone I heard. Oh, it's pretty bad.
Oh, I feel so bad from

Speaker 1 they caught that as a disease. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that sounds fucking epic. Clearly, this is the better podcast to do.
Yeah. Yeah.com right now.
What's that? Oh, I know what it was.

Speaker 1 Than what we did before.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is. What a fucking black.

Speaker 1 When I was doing the other one, when we do another one, like, I don't know, adoring it. I'm like, I don't know.
I just remember you showing me pictures. Like, what a cool place.

Speaker 1 It was the Amalfi coast in Italy. It was beautiful.
And it was a whole story getting upgraded and something fucking up. And the food and like just the town and all the pictures and stuff.

Speaker 1 But it was like a very beautiful, pleasant, fun vacation with my lady. This was just debauchery.
Yeah. This is what was just.
What are the drugs you take? Just exit. Also, you'd be tripping.

Speaker 1 You'd be tripping. Yeah.
That's all I took.

Speaker 1 Just exit. That's it.
Literally. And booze.
Yeah. But no, I wouldn't drink when I took it.
Yeah, you don't drink. No.
You don't want to, and you shouldn't. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It kills. It actually works against it.
When I was in Berlin, I got into some nightclub and it was sort of similar. It's like, what the overwhelming, you know? And then I was like, waiting.

Speaker 1 I didn't find drugs yet. And I was like, uh, I'll have a beer.
My buddy, like, want a beer? He's like, sure. And the bartender's like, uh, okay.
And was like, I had a bottle of water.

Speaker 1 He was like, bottle of water. Okay.

Speaker 1 And then, and then, um,

Speaker 1 just like, what dorks? He's just looking at us. I didn't realize.
I'm like, what, what? What? Why can't you get a bunch of people? Why was he going to be getting a beer?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 so then I looked to my left, everyone in the bathroom, just faucet, head under, just drinking water. And like, who would get beers when everyone's on drugs? Right.
Who would bother getting an alcohol?

Speaker 1 Right, right. And and then he turned and walked away he had a smile like an apron turned to walk away and just like naked just butt exposed he had butt exposed i was like oh what the fuck

Speaker 1 just shoes and an apron that's hysterical yeah

Speaker 1 this sounds what a fucking fun trip yeah man i haven't i have

Speaker 1 spoken about that or thought about it or told those stories like

Speaker 1 i mean it's since like i it i don't remember like i haven't how many days did you go for it was nine days i think wow

Speaker 1 It bees. And I think it's still that.
It's still that. I think it is.
I don't know. Who the hell knows what it would be like now? Dude, that would be a funny dock.

Speaker 1 Like, it's a 22-year-look-your anniversary of whoever's epic. Go back and go do it.
Like, try to do it again.

Speaker 1 I could. Would you be even

Speaker 1 allowed on the dance floor now as an older man to be like, what the fuck, creep?

Speaker 1 I don't even know what they do. I wonder what they do with cell phones now.

Speaker 1 In Berlin, it's either they put a sticker on your phone,

Speaker 1 on the lens, say this comes out. Not only do you kick that out, you'll never have Ruby back in.

Speaker 1 Is that right?

Speaker 1 Just in regular clubs? In a high-level club. Oh, yeah.
And the other clubs, it's just no one takes their phone out. It's just an etiquette of like, hey, we're all getting loose here.
Just don't do it.

Speaker 1 It always...

Speaker 1 Like, amazes me. It makes me hopeful and angry

Speaker 1 when other cultures collectively agree to do something that's the right thing. That's the right thing.
And that means, oh, so it can be done. Yeah, it can be done.
So we're just selfish assholes here.

Speaker 1 We're just cunts. I get it.
If there's a cop fucking meing someone to death on their neck, sure, pull out your phone and get this on camera. Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 But we're all partying, bro. Right, right.
Or that guy's drunk throwing up on the street. You don't need to record it.
Yeah. And I was saying, as a guy who's recorded that plenty.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just, we're a trash.

Speaker 1 There is, um, there's other instances, because that's not all I was thinking about.

Speaker 1 But just, you know, just etiquette that's, you know, you ever see that show on Netflix where it's like somewhere in Asia, and uh, when a kid's like two or three, they just let them be literally autonomous and go into town.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow, and they film it, like they so they made a show of it because it's like insane. So, the culture is such that there is no crime, and every single person

Speaker 1 if they see a kid, every single person knows to take care of the kid, you know, to care about it.

Speaker 1 Hey, where's the return? Dude, they showed a three-year-old kid leave a house and walk 10 minutes into town to go to the grocery store for their parents and come back three.

Speaker 1 Wow. I'm like,

Speaker 1 that is possible? Like that would never happen here.

Speaker 1 Even if I went there, I wouldn't have to. I remember my uncle sending me for beers for the family to the corner store.

Speaker 1 So it was like half

Speaker 1 old?

Speaker 1 Eight. Eight corner store.
But yeah, it's not the same thing. But I'm saying they allowed me to buy a 12-pack of beers.
Oh, really? An eight-year-old. Okay.
It wasn't like, right, right, right.

Speaker 1 It was like, well, you don't have $30, so this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not for you. Yeah, but you've been sent on an errand.
Yeah. But I'm saying over there, even though there's still like the bad apple.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, like, so you're still sending a kid out and be like, all right, everyone take a look at it. But there's got to be a guy that's like not.

Speaker 1 It's got to be some eight-year-olds like boozing. Yeah.
Just in Paradise Israel. So it's like, we wouldn't do it here.
You remember we came out of

Speaker 1 Flaming Lips? Yes.

Speaker 1 I have video of us. I don't know if you probably have it because you probably shared it, but we are hysterical laughing, can't keep, just cannot stop laughing over like probably nothing.

Speaker 1 I probably said something,

Speaker 1 because remember we came out and there was balloons, people gave us those balloons. All I heard was

Speaker 1 one for 10, 3 for 20. And I was like, I'll be right back, you guys.
Yeah. And everybody was like, what is that? What? I'm like, I know what it is.
It's 1 for 10, 3 for 20. It's balloons.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 Well, nobody told me what it was. And I thought I was breathing.
I thought someone handed me a party balloon. And I was breathing in helium.
I'm on the floor fucking

Speaker 1 with the womp womps and just dying laughing.

Speaker 1 And then you're like,

Speaker 1 Sal Volcano. It's not working.

Speaker 1 My name is Sal Volcano. It's not working.
And I'm like, what? Do the whole thing. Like,

Speaker 1 half of it, like, my name is Sal Volcano. It's not working.
I'm like,

Speaker 1 what's

Speaker 1 not working? I'm like, my voice isn't getting fine.

Speaker 1 Everyone's like, that's not helium. I'm like, so I'm just sucking in air? Like, I thought you guys pranked me? And then you're like, no, it's nitrous oxide.

Speaker 1 I was like, what do you mean it's nitrous oxide?

Speaker 1 It's not a bar. Granted you get it.
And it's like the guy holding the balloons. I'm like, that guy is standing in the middle of the street.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 not worried of any repercussion, selling balloons filled with nitrous oxide to people. Yeah.
And then it just like hit me. And then I started like, like, and then I actually.

Speaker 1 You took one. You got one.
Down. I sucked the whole fucking gun.
Yeah. And before I knew what it was.
How much did it roll nitrous? It was like very fast. It's fast.
But also, I fell and cut my leg.

Speaker 1 It was the first time I had one of those.

Speaker 1 You got to take a knee. It was fun.

Speaker 1 First time I had one of those like childhood knee abrasions that are just like this big and you wait like six weeks for them to heal.

Speaker 1 Literally under my pants was bleeding.

Speaker 1 And then we went to that. Then we went to that diner and I don't remember, but there was like a fly.
Do you remember this? The waiter hated us right away. Hated us, yeah.
Hated us. That Flaming Lips.

Speaker 1 Coming right out of the pandemic. They were playing, I think, Brooklyn Steel, too small a place for their fucking giant balloons.
But what a fun time to be out with people.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And out at Flaming Lips.
Yeah. Where it's just feel-good.
We must have been on. Did we take any? Weed.
Weed. Just weed.
Yeah. What a blast it was, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I gotta tell you, if Brooklyn Steel's watching,

Speaker 1 just a couple more seats. There's no seats.
Right. Yeah.
Just a couple. It's not a

Speaker 1 hallway. Find Brooklyn Steel retorting.
Yeah. Hey, but Eck, and I recommend you some other places you should go.
I know, but honestly, who can stand without because it's so crowded.

Speaker 1 Out in the lobby, there should be seats. Yeah.
The recuperate place. There's like two benches out there.
There's two benches. That's it.
You're not going to take it.

Speaker 1 Give me something.

Speaker 1 I mean, I felt like my feet were completely numb. I didn't feel them.
Just felt like I had two stumps. It's a good thing we fucking whipped you down onto the street.

Speaker 1 Oh, those are so fun. fun.

Speaker 1 Those nitros were so fun.

Speaker 1 I never did that before, and I probably won't do it again. You will do it again.
No, I feel like

Speaker 1 I don't want to breathe in gases that are like not to be breathed in.

Speaker 1 I don't need to do it.

Speaker 1 I laugh.

Speaker 1 I laugh. I'm a laugh.

Speaker 1 You drink.

Speaker 1 I just feel like it's going to kill my brain or something like that. Yeah, it kills your brain cells.
They come back. No, I don't know if they do.
I think they recuperate. They regenerate.

Speaker 1 It's like giving blood. They're not out of blood.
I know, but I don't think they recuperate. I think that's a common misconception.

Speaker 1 The common misconception is they don't recuperate. I think we have tons of them.
And so you think they recuperate, but at the end of the day, they do not recuperate. Interesting.
Well,

Speaker 1 why was I reacting slower to things people told me and not remembering things?

Speaker 1 You were doing all the time. You never had time to recuperate.
What do you mean? After whippets? No. After all those jobs.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
At some point they can shoot a hole in your.

Speaker 1 I mean, they can destroy your liver on booze. I just feel like gas, like, I don't know, like, how, what the ceiling is there.
Like, what if you suck in too much?

Speaker 1 You have like a freaking stroke or something. First one I ever saw on those, I tell you.
No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 It was in Thailand at a full moon party, and we wandered away in between the mushroom shake place, the happy shake place, and like, and like one of the DJ dance parties.

Speaker 1 There's a sort of an indoor giant canister. Some guys,

Speaker 1 what do I do? My buddy Sarah's like, I'll show, I'll show you. Some guy was like, hey, you going up next? I'm like, I'm still worried.
Let me get. And he goes, do you mind? I'm like, yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 Gives the guy the fucking dollar or whatever it was. Way cheaper there.

Speaker 1 Breathes it in, goes,

Speaker 1 he holds it, and he just goes,

Speaker 1 starts laughing, conks over on just a cement floor, just a cement Thailand floor.

Speaker 1 Conks busts his head, and we're like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 Like, two seconds later, he goes, oh,

Speaker 1 yes.

Speaker 1 No, not for me. And we're like, all right.
But then we took knees. Like, we're like, I'm taking it.
I don't need to fall from straight up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I want to know that guy, though. Like,

Speaker 1 he was. Cops just turned the corner.
He's there selling balloons. What did he just let him go and run?

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 it was a black dude

Speaker 1 in Black Lives Matter time, so they wouldn't have been arrested.

Speaker 1 I think they'd be like, guys, get out of here. I think they'd be like, guys, get out of here.
You do it that openly. It's not punishable.
Okay. Or you wouldn't do it that openly.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Right? I don't know. So he's got a tank.
You can buy nitrous. You can buy balloons.
Yeah. You can buy them in a headshot.
You just can't do them all together. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. You know? It's like before weed was legal, you could buy a fucking weed pipe.
Right. And a grinder.
Right, right. And it was like, okay.
I'm not telling you what to use this for.

Speaker 1 My tour is also on sale right now. Okay.
I went on sale and days of special, which is special, like you said, youtube.com. WWW.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm going to do this as an insert.

Speaker 1 This is way too late in this. Okay.

Speaker 1 But anyway, guys, everybody, go watch the special terrified. Yes.

Speaker 1 It's free on YouTube. I've only produced ever would I bother doing this for two, now, three people.

Speaker 1 So it is of super high quality. It's on youtube.com.

Speaker 1 Terrified, Salval Cano's amazing special, his debut special. Go leave a comment.

Speaker 1 What kind of comments should I leave just based on this fucking thing?

Speaker 1 They came from this.

Speaker 1 Start a conversation.

Speaker 1 Sounds like a douche. It's something like that.
No, don't give me that. No, no, that'll get misconstrued.

Speaker 1 Bird had to stop doing, like, hey, stop saying I'm racist. It's getting past our little circle.
And people don't understand it.

Speaker 1 Wait, so this is, is this inserted? No, no, no. This is wrapping up now.
Okay, we'll insert for the future. Yeah, yeah, leave a comment.
But anyway, leave a comment. It's something.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, honestly, if you do like it, if you could hit like and leave a comment. Leave a comment.
It'll help the algorithm. Share it.
It'll help you. Share it with your friends.

Speaker 1 Yeah, do that too, by the way. If you're on Instagram or Twitter,

Speaker 1 get off Twitter. But if you're before you get off, fucking post this about this.
Post story on your Instagram page and just fucking, I don't know, post a little video. Steal a video.

Speaker 1 Take 10 seconds, 8, no, 60 seconds of video of his special.

Speaker 1 Post it up on fucking, on your Instagram page. Your favorite thing.
40 to 60 seconds.

Speaker 1 Whatever. Just share it any way you can.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 But yeah. Do you have any travel tips, general travel tips? We don't need one.
We're pretty far in now. I'm just saying this because I've done it to myself too many times.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Pack light. Pack lighter than you think.

Speaker 1 When you think you've packed, you've done and you said, all right, I packed light, take away another 10% at least. Wow.
Another 10, 15%.

Speaker 1 Here's what I find with that. Just deal with it if it ends up happening that you need it.
Almost anywhere you go, you can get the thing you're going to need.

Speaker 1 If it's like toothpaste

Speaker 1 or bug spray or fucking sunblock, you'll find it. If it's...

Speaker 1 hiking boots, all right, you might need to find those where you are and really shop for those. But anything, a tent, you could find it.

Speaker 1 But if you're if you really achieve it and you're traveling lean, it's such a better feeling. You can buy shirts, you can buy underwear, whatever.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you don't have to.

Speaker 1 Okay, good one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Sal Volcano.
Thank you very much. And where are you touring? When does the tour start? Tour starts in September, but it's on sale right now.
Everything's fine. Tour.

Speaker 1 30 cities are up right now, but we're adding probably every city in the United States. So if you don't see it, don't yell at me why I hate it and why I hate your city and why you're not coming there.

Speaker 1 30 cities are right now for the salvolcano.com.

Speaker 1 Salvolcanocomedy.com tours. Everything's fine.
And then I'm actually finishing my tour with the Jokers through August. You can get those tickets on my website as well.

Speaker 1 And then September starts my solo tour. Your solo tour.
That's really good. I've seen new material.
Nothing from the special and nothing if you've seen me in the past. Wow, it's exciting, buddy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's your first big solo tour. Yeah.
Well, no, I've toured solo tour. I finished a big one to get to this special.
Oh, yeah. But it is my first, like, really, like, overhaul of a new hour.

Speaker 1 You know, I had a couple of things. Hey, I'll tell you what, buddy.

Speaker 1 This is what I've noticed. Everybody levels up after a special.

Speaker 1 You see the things you wish you would have done, or it's just like there's no reason to move past your material because it's like, I've been doing this joke for 10 years. It works.

Speaker 1 There's no reason to write another one, but you're a better comic now. Right.
And so then you're like, well, it's done now. Now you write a new joke and it's like, wow, even better.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Everybody says, even Jordan and Colin put out the half. They were like, oh, I wish I could have done it now.

Speaker 1 Everybody levels up. Yeah, in this special, I have jokes as old as eight years and jokes as new as four months.
Wow. Yeah.
Wow.

Speaker 1 But yeah, man, thank you. Thank you, really,

Speaker 1 for guiding me through that whole thing, man. It was fun to do.
You wore many hats for real, for a moment of sincerity. And, you know, you were very, very generous with everything.

Speaker 1 You still are right now because it just is being released. So

Speaker 1 I'm glad I had someone that I was that close to to bounce everything off of. Otherwise, I kind of would have been kind of just navigating it.
You're flying blind. You don't quite know how to do it.

Speaker 1 You need someone, another comic also instead of just some guy or one of your Jews to tell you, like, you know, like, oh, you should do this.

Speaker 1 Like, I guess the Jews have a great way of talking about talking you into an idea that you wouldn't quite be right on. That's, you know, like, oh, I was just in Salt Lake like eight months ago.

Speaker 1 Like, ah, it's a new crowd. They'll forget.
I'm like, really?

Speaker 1 You know, so it won't be the same. People are like, okay.

Speaker 1 And then people are like, we all saw all this stuff. I'm like, yeah, I knew it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Kanye was right, is my point.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, you just need somebody, even the seating, and how to get that done. And she's like, You got better shit to worry about.

Speaker 1 There's so much, so many little details, much that people have no idea. I mean, it was months of work, yeah.
I'm even talking about the material, and then going right the material too.

Speaker 1 It's like, well, why do you want to start with this? What are you starting with? Why? Let's talk about this. Why is this joke the same as that joke? Like, oh, maybe I'll lose one.

Speaker 1 I mean, we were, I mean, I was editing and changing jokes and punching them up and cutting stuff out up to the minute before every single show. Yeah,

Speaker 1 there's a bunch of stuff in this, in this

Speaker 1 special that I've said for the first time right then. Like, you know, I just kind of went for it.
And that's how she was. It's like, you can't be too glossy.
Like, here's the routine.

Speaker 1 It's like, still, like, just you're having fun. Yeah, you got it.
It should be like the week before, where you're still, like, if something happens, like, I'll just come.

Speaker 1 I thought you should be able to go in and out, but have a good time. Yeah, that's the one thing you said to me.
Cause like the first night, I was like, I didn't like the first show.

Speaker 1 And the second one, I... It wasn't as full, it wasn't as full, but it was good.
Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 1 Like, I thought I got it after that one, but then the one after that, like, I was like, oh my god, if I thought I got on that one, this is that one with the water, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then the next one was like, it was just, it was just unrealistic. The crowd started,

Speaker 1 you got thirsty and drank some water, and then they were just like, somebody was like, I don't even know if somebody said anything, like, nice drink of water.

Speaker 1 But then they started like, every time you drank, the crowd would go nuts. They just, as a group, it was a whole thing.
I'm on 10 times. And then you're like,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're like, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was so great. There was so many people.
Like, is that, why isn't it, is it in? Is it in?

Speaker 1 It's like, I looked at it, but it was like, it just detracted too much time, detracted from like the stuff and comedy and stuff. It was so wild, though.
But then you got it.

Speaker 1 Even that, even that, it was like, wait, why am I doing four shows? I'm paying nearly double to do two extra shows. I'm like, yeah.
For your peace of mind, you're going to watch.

Speaker 1 I am so happy I did that. Yeah, then you woke up the second day, like going, I've already got a B B plus ready to go.

Speaker 1 So there's there's no pressure here and you know the thing that was happening with me was because i was editing and adding and everything up to the minute of every show and even before that i did a run of like 15 cities right before that and every single night i recorded and i have the shows recorded and i watched every single one of those and i was like just cutting stuff and this and that and The crazy thing is, is like when you start making changes each night, it's almost like, wait, I made changes three nights ago, but then I changed that back.

Speaker 1 And like,

Speaker 1 I'm remembering tonight's changes, but I have to remember those nights' changes. And I'm changing jokes that I, some of the jokes I've been saying for years.
So your brain, you have to like,

Speaker 1 so going into the first night, it wasn't nerves. Like, if I just did my set,

Speaker 1 it would, you know, just maybe nerves, just excitement that it was, but it was like, oh my God, I was so overthinking to make sure that I got every single little tweak, punch-up, edit.

Speaker 1 I got it exactly right. So I wanted to make sure that it was, because that was its best form.
And so I was so hyper-focused on that the first night.

Speaker 1 And then the second night, I was more of a fucking attitude. I was like, if I get it, I get it.
If I don't, I don't. And you were like, just have fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm going to go out there and just have fun. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because that's what we're doing here. Yeah.
And I did. I really, I had a bullet.
You really did. I had a blast on those two shows.
Your button popped off your shirt. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you were like, I was sitting in the back with Eric at the time. Yeah.
I was constantly like, okay, how's this sitting down? Moving around. I'm like, hey, the smoke machine's fucked up.

Speaker 1 The smoke machine fucked up. Did it? I'm getting done with these smoke machines.
Yeah. They fuck up every time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I went back there. I'm like, hey, this ain't on.
And he's like, did you mess up? I'm like, no. And then I said somebody's like, wait, what? I'm like,

Speaker 1 it's not going to match. With Jay's at some point, it looked like a cigarette went out with a fucking bale of hay behind him.
And it just started like,

Speaker 1 and it was like, I didn't even know that. Yeah, and I was like, get it.
And it's like, what the fuck? And I'm like, but if no one's running around, it's just anyway, whatever. But

Speaker 1 the button pops up. He was like, somebody did something.
And I was like, and I'm starting to scramble. And you're like, should I? You broke, which is nice.
You're like, should I keep going?

Speaker 1 I'm like, hang on. I'm like, all right, it's already interrupted, so I can interrupt you now.

Speaker 1 I'm getting it. I get the other shirt.
Yeah, the second shirt.

Speaker 1 I was like, holy shit, my button just stopped right in the middle of that. And I was in the groove.
We just thought, everyone started laughing. I'm just like, this is why I bought two shirts.

Speaker 1 All right, well, guys, that's the episode. I'm not going to do an outro over this one.
I'll just do it now.

Speaker 1 Watch Siles Special. Watch My Special, Jew.
It's on YouTube right now. My vinyl is available for sale of Jew.
Oh, I love that. Only a thousand copies.
So.

Speaker 1 Do you have any in stock right here that I could buy? I don't. It's I'm tomorrow I'm going to.
Do you want to sign for me? Yeah, I can. You were at the taping.

Speaker 1 You're in the

Speaker 1 booklet. I am? Yeah, it's a picture of you at the special.
Oh, shit. Which was hanging out talking.
Oh, that's dope. Yeah, I think you were in a Zi Santino O'Connor.
I forget.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm hoping to press one of this as well. You should.

Speaker 1 And that's it. Grinders and shirts, all available at RSVFear.com.
And the Patreon is going strong. New episode pretty much every week.

Speaker 1 But the real thing is, I'm trying to, did I tell you what I want to do? Patreon? What?

Speaker 1 As soon as I get to maybe 2,000 subscribers, whatever it is, it's just building right now. I'm going to send somebody around the world.
What do you mean? Year. Of the Patreon? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not necessarily a patron, but like somebody.

Speaker 1 Around the world to do what?

Speaker 1 Around the world meaning what? Just go to Southeast Asia for a year. Go to South America for a year.
Around the world meaning go where it takes you.

Speaker 1 You know, stay in hostels.

Speaker 1 What do you mean, you're sending someone? You mean voluntarily, you're fronting them? Yeah, find a candidate. How much is that? Probably 10 to 20 grand.
No, not that. What do you mean?

Speaker 1 It's honestly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's too much. Do you think I can do it for cheaper? I just, yeah.

Speaker 1 Just like, send them away for a week. Nah, nah, that's what we're doing.
10 to 20 grand. You know what you have to make

Speaker 1 before commissions and taxes? Yeah, yeah. Patreon takes some.
I know.

Speaker 1 oh my god yeah and so then we're gonna and so i don't want them like fucking writing in all the time instead i want them like having their own experience but like find uh uh uh like an internet not an internet cafe but like if a hostel has a fucking computer register a new account once a month or so let us know what you're up to okay

Speaker 1 but just have a blast and then the idea being that's it or the idea being they come back and sit here and they well maybe we'll do an episode when they come back

Speaker 1 how was your year abroad based based on the patrons wow yeah

Speaker 1 yeah i'm I'm excited about that one. I mean, who do you even bestow that to? Also, so we got to take candidates.
Is it a solo person? You're not paying for two people. Nope, not paying for two.

Speaker 1 They'll meet people, but also, and then I thought it out. I'm not just going to pay, here's 15 grand on a credit card.
It's I'm going to keep putting a thousand on there every three weeks.

Speaker 1 Budget yourself. Yeah.
You know, I don't want you just blowing it all in three weeks. Yeah, you got it.
You have to do it that way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I could easily see a world like, sweet, scuba diving four times a day for a bucket, one month, see you later, back home, five-star resorts. And they're allowed to just go wherever.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 It's like those kids, it's all the fucking Gapio kids. Or somebody wants to quit their job at 30 years old or just like got a divorce.
Or like someone like me. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you want to escape your life. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway,

Speaker 1 that's Patreon. So guys, thank you very much for joining it.
Until next week, I think, I believe it's Ian Laura next week.

Speaker 1 Talking about Dominican Republic. I have nothing here from there.

Speaker 1 Today's episode was produced by Your Mom's House Network. It was edited by Alan Caffey.

Speaker 1 And that is it.

Speaker 1 Have a good night. Appreciate it.
Yeah.