Mongolia w/ Tom Rhodes | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

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Speaker 1 Oh, you have the on your camera. I like that.
Is that from Peru? No, my close. Andean.

Speaker 1 My

Speaker 1 super, Mario, he's from El Trancal, La Trancal in Ecuador. When I met him, I was like, What's your accent? I had just gotten back, and he's like, Ecuador.
I was like, Oh, cool. I live there.

Speaker 1 He goes, What?

Speaker 1 I was like, Yeah, like, what city? He told me. He was like, It's a small city, you wouldn't have heard of it.
And then he finally got it out of him.

Speaker 1 I go, No, I stayed there overnight once on the weekend. He goes, What the fuck? So now every time he goes back to Ecuador, he brings this stuff.
Cool. He brought me that.
Yeah, it looks Peruvian.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Same kind of culture. Yeah, there was a guy outside the

Speaker 1 Whole Foods on

Speaker 1 Houston. Not Houston, 14th.
And he he was selling all the stuff, and it looked like that bag.

Speaker 1 And I was like, hey, is this from Ecuador? He goes, Peru. I was like, oh, look, he goes, it's the same.
He goes, we didn't make those borders.

Speaker 1 Someone else did. Yeah, same food, too.
Yeah, cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, did you try it?

Speaker 1 I didn't just try it. I thought it was a little rubbery.
I loved it. You loved it.
But I will tell you, sometimes you get something and you're like, this just wasn't done well.

Speaker 1 First time I had lobster was in the dining hall at the University of Maryland. I'm like, I don't like lobster.
My friends are like, I think you do. I think you just had it at a shitty place.
Well,

Speaker 1 I used to do a joke about going to Peru, and they eat guinea pig. Yeah, and I tried it, and I didn't like it.
Thank God, wouldn't that suck if you found out you loved guinea pig?

Speaker 1 You'd have to hang out at pet stores all the time. They keep dying.
Maybe the wheel is too tight. Give it to it.
Give it on the way out.

Speaker 1 Where you been and where are you going?

Speaker 1 This is Aries Travel Show. Yeah, we're gonna talk about travel today.
It's you'll be tripping. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Guys, welcome to UB Tripping. It's a travel podcast.
Every week, they have a different guest. People have been everywhere, you guys.
And

Speaker 1 I have them come in and tell them about a place. And so we all benefit from it.
I'm interested in these things. I've been to 30-something, 40-something countries.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's not a contest. It's really, everyone's exciting.
And today, I have a guest on that's a fucking hero in the comedy world on the Mount Rushmore of travel.

Speaker 1 I mean, top five, easily. but I say number one, but it doesn't matter.
It's not a concept. Tom Rhodes, I've been trying to get you on here since before the podcast even started.

Speaker 1 I love the, you say I belong on the Mount Rushmore of traveling comedians. I mean, yeah.
I don't know if I ever told you this. I saw you maybe the first time I met you or one of the times.

Speaker 1 It was at early Moontower. It could have been South, but I think it was Moontower in Austin.

Speaker 1 Everybody moved there. And Dom Arera came up to you and he goes, hey, Tom.
And it might not be Dom, but my memory is whatever. But he he goes,

Speaker 1 Tom, where are you living now? I go, In these shoes, man. And I was like, Who's this guy? Hey, I didn't live anywhere for 10 years.

Speaker 1 I put everything into storage and I just, you know, I lived in Amsterdam for five years. I put everything into storage when I went to Amsterdam.
And then I moved back to Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 And I was living in Koreatown and I was on the road half the time. And I was paying rent on a place that I, you know, was not in because I was really starting to get,

Speaker 1 you know, doing like a month month in Australia every year and like a month or two in Europe,

Speaker 1 a month in Asia. And so I thought, why live anywhere? So I put everything into storage.
And then back then,

Speaker 1 when people would ask me, where do you live? I would always say, in these shoes. That's such a good response.
Yeah. Henry Rollins had one where they go, like, what are you doing here?

Speaker 1 Because he'd go travel a lot. And he's like, I keep getting this question.
Same as you. I keep getting this question.
I had to have an answer. Something cool.
And he goes, I'm here to meet you.

Speaker 1 And it's kind of he what? That's why he's there to meet some guy who was willing to talk to him. But anyway, maybe one time we'll do a podcast about just full nomad life.

Speaker 1 I wanted to ask you some questions. Like,

Speaker 1 you know, because you know, I've wanted to do this since before you started it. You told me about the concept of the podcast.
And, you know, we've been friends for a long time.

Speaker 1 We ran into each other in Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is just mind-blowing. Wild.
I was going through a divorce December 2018, and I took my

Speaker 1 super Christian mother to Jerusalem for like two weeks. What better time to go to the Holy Land than when your life is falling apart?

Speaker 1 Yeah, got that Jesus thing where you said you are him. So where Jesus was crucified, they built a church around it, and it's called the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
And we go there.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we ran into you and your brother. It's nutty.
What are the chances? It's so nutty. I've got photos of us there.
Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, my phone.
If you want me to send it. Yeah, send it to me.

Speaker 1 Put them in there. We'll put it in there.
Oh, you have a fucking full photo. Do you want it right now or do you want to send it to you later? Because I can just go right back to

Speaker 1 December. Oh, my God.
Yeah, I was my brother, and he was going to this spot where Jesus was.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the spot. So it's under that table.
And the guys who look after it, I don't know what

Speaker 1 they

Speaker 1 are like, they've got these black robes and black hats and these long beards, and they are the biggest, like Jesus's whole message was kindness, and like the biggest. I'm not sure it is anymore.

Speaker 1 Not according to these. And they're swinging their fucking, their incense thing, and they hate tourists.
They go together, and they swing them extra hard to intentionally bash somebody.

Speaker 1 They come through, like, they're once or twice a day with some kind of procession, and they just, like, they elbow people out of the way, just total kindness. This thing.

Speaker 1 So, my brother was in line of this thing in the center there or whatever. And that's where, I don't know, you walk Jesus is in there or something.

Speaker 1 I don't know, he's giving out fucking candy on New Year's. But, but my brother was like, I went in yesterday, I went back to my old yeshiva, and he was, I went yesterday, I'll wait in line for you.

Speaker 1 Why don't you walk around and look at everything?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 because when we grew up, we were in Israel for a seminary. We're like, we never went to the Christian quarter.
And my brother was like, hey, we're adults now.

Speaker 1 Let's look at all the other three parts of Jerusalem. And so we're walking around.
You can't go too deep into the Arab, but like,

Speaker 1 we're walking around. It was so fucking cool.
And then I turned a corner, and who do I see but fucking the traveling man? Tommy, you're just like, Ari? I'm like, wait, what?

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 It doesn't even make sense.

Speaker 1 It's unbelievable. And, you know, we had a story about that.
We kept going back to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. You and your mama? My mom, yeah.
Because, you know, we did the tour.

Speaker 1 We saw, you know, where Jesus spent the night in jail and all these things, you know, where he drags the cross. And

Speaker 1 anywho. You got it.
You don't got it.

Speaker 1 We kept seeing this guy.

Speaker 1 So for years I had heard about the Jerusalem syndrome. The very faithful Christians often, when they go to Jerusalem, they're overcome with what is called the Jerusalem syndrome where

Speaker 1 they think they are a figure from the Bible. Because it's so spiritual.
And it's so powerful.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I might have to find this. Yeah, you sent it to me later.
Delay it in.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. So, you know, I remember when I first, there was a story I read years ago about

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 psychiatrists who treat these people that one day he had two Jesuses.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he said, look, I'm going to leave both of you in this room for an hour, and I'm going to come back, and then you need to decide which one's the real Savior.

Speaker 1 So when we were there at the Church of the Holy

Speaker 1 Sepulchre, we see this guy, and I knew he was an American guy. And

Speaker 1 he's wearing a robe. He's dressed like Jesus.
He had a beard. And I kept thinking, okay, this dude is one of the, he's got the Jerusalem syndrome.
He thinks he's Jesus.

Speaker 1 And I know it's an American guy. So, you know,

Speaker 1 the ancient city of Jerusalem is tiny. So we were staying right outside of

Speaker 1 the walls of the ancient city.

Speaker 1 You know, every day we would find ourselves going back there and every day we would see this guy. So I kept calling him fake Jesus.
Hey, mom, look, there's fake Jesus again.

Speaker 1 And then it was like kind of our joke, like, hey, look at this crazy guy, you know, fake Jesus. And then on the last day we were there,

Speaker 1 we had our flight was like 11 p.m. And we had like the one last day to stroll around Jerusalem.
So we go, let's go back to the, you know, Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Speaker 1 And it was really crowded with these like American church groups. And

Speaker 1 this fake Jesus is, he's got his back against the wall, he's sitting on the ground, and he's got his head down.

Speaker 1 And there's a American church group coming through, and this woman has got, like, you know, a stick with a little flag on it, like, you know, follow me, I'm the leader, right?

Speaker 1 And she's walking by, and she mocks the guy. No,

Speaker 1 she leans down. There's a little American church group.
Yeah. She goes, so can you do miracles too?

Speaker 1 Oh, what a dick. And fake Jesus guy, he lifts his head up and he says, only Jesus can do miracles.
The real miracle is when a bad person becomes a good person.

Speaker 1 And that was the most profound. And then the woman like shrugged and walked on.
Not shrugged. She should have been like, fuck.

Speaker 1 That was the most profound thing I heard the entire time I was in Jerusalem. And

Speaker 1 this guy wasn't. crazy at all.
And so like they go on and then I introduce myself to him. Hey man, we've seen you a few times.
We've been here for like 10 days. And the guy's name was Steve.

Speaker 1 He was from Detroit. He's like a

Speaker 1 investment banker type person. And

Speaker 1 his business has been very well.

Speaker 1 And he's really Christian. Yeah.
And every couple of years, he likes to go to Jerusalem and just walk in the steps and live like his hero.

Speaker 1 And live like his hero. Yeah, it's like

Speaker 1 I thought the guy was crazy. And he turned out to be probably the most sane person in all of Jerusalem.
Wow. Yeah, just

Speaker 1 like Jesus. He's like, I don't think I am.
The real miracle is when a bad person becomes a good person.

Speaker 1 Boom.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was wild.

Speaker 1 You know, I was going to buy a,

Speaker 1 well, I've never said it on here, but I've told you already. I was there and I was like, I got to go buy like a Steve Simone, our buddy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's my favorite Christian friend.

Speaker 1 No offense to Joe Rogan. Am I second? No, you're not Christian enough to be on there.

Speaker 1 You fucked.

Speaker 1 But you take the cross, because we did that too. I said, I'm going to get a bumper sticker for him or a fridge magnet for him.
And you're like, fridge magnet? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I was like, what's something for the, get him a cross. Yeah, get him across.
And then someone. Do they sell him around here? And you're like, bro.

Speaker 1 You're just like, I was such a rookie. And we heard about this when we were there.
And so we did it. And you got one for Steve also.
So

Speaker 1 you get a cross, and then in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, there's a stone slab on the ground. And it's actually where they took Jesus' body off of the cross, and they cleaned

Speaker 1 his body in like the Jewish rite when someone dies, right? So supposedly this stone slab has got real serious Jesus power on it.

Speaker 1 So when you go to Jerusalem, you buy a cross, and then you put it on this. It's like charging up your iPhone, basically.
That's what it is. These people are all doing that.
There's a cross on

Speaker 1 the slab where Jesus' body was cleaned. And I have one.
It's hanging on my wall. Greek Orthodox women in all the black, just weeping, just weeping, touching it, weeping.

Speaker 1 It's like, and there's no faking it. They're crying.
Yeah. And so I charged it up.
Yeah. And

Speaker 1 I've talked to Steve about it.

Speaker 1 It's not just a cross. You know, it's a cross that's got the energy of it.
There's a little piece of dirt that have that little window in the middle of it. So some have it, some don't.

Speaker 1 You don't need it.

Speaker 1 Well, but it's it's symbolic. There's some dirt.

Speaker 1 There's these little windows on the,

Speaker 1 and it's got like herbs from

Speaker 1 the Holy Land, and there's like flour. There's some dirt in there, different ways in there.
There's some dirt, and yeah.

Speaker 1 So I gave it to him. He loved it.
You were 100% right. That was exactly what he'd want.
I'm like, I brought this some Jerusalem. So

Speaker 1 even more than Jerusalem. Yeah.
I put it on the slab, but then he was like, what? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I gave you the idea. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Gets better. So his mom and dad were living in Florida.
They got COVID, and they got it bad. This was 2020.
They got it bad.

Speaker 1 And it got to the point where the doctor was like, hey, tell your brother to come home from Pennsylvania and say goodbye. Like,

Speaker 1 they're not making it. Yep.
So right then, they had some new treatment called monoclonal antibodies, whatever, but Steve, and it was like, it's still like, it might be too late.

Speaker 1 She's, you know, they're old.

Speaker 1 And they love pasta.

Speaker 1 So two possible problems. So he gives him the cross.
He gives him the cross. Turned around.
Boom. Everything turned around.
She goes, Ari saved me.

Speaker 1 So it was. It was you.
I saved his parents. And I said, listen, if I'm the one who saved you, and if you're the one who saved you, then you got to give some credit to Jesus.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 If we're saved, you got to give some credit to Jesus. And that's interesting that you say that because,

Speaker 1 you know, I bought crosses for all the, you know, Christians in my life and put it on the slab. But I had an extra one.

Speaker 1 And of the beautiful cross that I got, the one that you're describing with the little windows and the elements of the Holy Land and the little holes,

Speaker 1 I had an extra one. And that woman I was telling you about earlier that had the mental breakdown, I gave her the extra one.
Kamala Harris. Yes.
When you were fucking her? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, it was. She was rebirth.
It was right after her and Willie Brown broke up. So she was in an emotional

Speaker 1 spot. But for real, it helped this one out.
She was like, that's cool. It is cool.
She was just grateful I didn't wear a hat. There's this book there, Souvenir, Rolf Potts.

Speaker 1 And he talks about how the difference between going to the Eiffel Tower and getting a little Eiffel, like something like this. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But getting that, it's made in China. So why can't you just order it when you get home from China?

Speaker 1 Like, it has to have been there. There's more power to it if you're an animist.
Well, and those crosses, to put it on the slab, that's our thing. Hi, everybody.

Speaker 1 Ari Shafir here to tell you a little bit about the guest on today's episode, Mr. Tom Rose, traveler number one in stand-up comedy.
I'm pretending I'm on my phone.

Speaker 1 I'm really not, only because it's embarrassing to do this in public, so I have to pretend like I'm on something. For a little while later, when I do Tom's dates, I'm going to take it away.

Speaker 1 He rules, guys.

Speaker 1 I know I've said this before on this podcast and probably the defunct Skeptic podcast, but the first time I ever saw him was at the Moontower Comedy Festival, and Dom Marreira went up to him, and he goes, I didn't know him.

Speaker 1 I just knew him from his old TV show. He goes, Tom, where are you living now?

Speaker 1 Tom goes, in these shoes, man.

Speaker 1 Who's that cool? I mean, legitimately, who's that cool?

Speaker 1 Let me tell you a little about Tom and his dates and everything he's got going on.

Speaker 1 So you can follow him and keep up with him because legitimately he is the number one traveler in comedy.

Speaker 1 His podcast, Tom Rhodes Smart Camp, is up right now. It's on YouTube at Tom Rhodes Comedy.
His new special, The Ripest Zebra, is out right now.

Speaker 1 And that album that we end up talking about in this episode, called Around the World, where he does bits about

Speaker 1 every single place he's been in those places, some multiple times. It's

Speaker 1 pretty interesting and hilarious, too. I've heard a lot of it.

Speaker 1 Don't know if I heard the whole thing, but I think I have. He's also on the road.
You get tickets at Tomroads.net. He's in Galway tonight.

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Let's get back to the episode.

Speaker 1 Mongolia is one of the coolest places I've always wanted to go, and I want to get back to it and hear more about it. This is a nominee for pictures of the year.

Speaker 1 Whatever nominees you have, please put them in the comments below everybody. Do your part.
Say, I think this should be, I don't even know what the categories are, so I need your help.

Speaker 1 Best food, worst sex, best sex, toilet situations, best trip, worst trip, best guest.

Speaker 1 And that's it. I don't know about you guys, but mi vota, es por.

Speaker 1 Jose ayala. Jose ayala.
Es por a tú. All right, let's get back to the episode.

Speaker 1 But the questions I wanted to ask you about traveling, because of, you know, thinking about, oh, one day you and I are going to finally sit down, it was something, like, do you have a brand of luggage that you use?

Speaker 1 It's a great question.

Speaker 1 I had.

Speaker 1 Because through the years,

Speaker 1 you know, I've a very studied, educated opinion

Speaker 1 of luggage. So I was wondering what your...

Speaker 1 I had in Asia and all, and since until now, it's breaking down, the Osprey Fairview or Far Point, I forget.

Speaker 1 It's got a detachable day bag okay so you like the backpack you like the backpack there's rollerbag people and there's backpack people and i'm well that's the thing i got going like this versus pulling a backpack yeah until you get to a cobblestone street and the

Speaker 1 or going up steps yeah oh it blows i'm a backpack person it's fine i'm a i i'm a garment bag with wheels on it yeah you dressed up i like two me too me it's very expensive okay two me luggage and they make one that's a garment bag that folds over and uh they're really expensive bags bags really so the first time

Speaker 1 because i used that's hard you can bring your vinyls back which is a big thing yeah i uh for years i used travel pro and they were great and those would last about five years and then something changed in them about 15 20 years ago and then their bags only lasted like two years uh and really cheap quality um so i would never get them again so

Speaker 1 it was about

Speaker 1 12 years ago. I was still married, and I got this Toomey bag.
And they'll put your name on it also. Oh, really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, there's just little tags

Speaker 1 that they'll put on it. Anyway,

Speaker 1 the bag was like this 12 years ago, it was like $1,000.

Speaker 1 And my wife, I'm now divorced, but she was like, there's no way you have $1,000 for luggage. That's

Speaker 1 crazy, right? That's crazy. So I actually bought the the bag in Canada, and for Canadian dollars, it was like $1,300.
So I was snowed in in Switzerland. I did this Switzerland tour,

Speaker 1 brilliant tour. It no longer exists, but I did it three times.
You would do Geneva, Lucon, Basel, and then Zurich. Oh, nice.
And I was snowed in in Basel for like three extra days.

Speaker 1 It was like a week before Christmas. Finally, I get out of there, fly back to Amsterdam,

Speaker 1 and the bag was ripped.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the airline KLM

Speaker 1 through Delta because I had bought it through Delta Delta is my airline

Speaker 1 they said if you will replace the bag if you have the receipt and I had the miraculously I had the receipt really big

Speaker 1 like a computer is like those kind of receipts I'll save you know

Speaker 1 that's great when they save you how to receive so it was 1300 Canadian I sent them the thing they must not have looked at it they sent me I so I had the bag

Speaker 1 for 10 years.

Speaker 1 And they sent you $1,300. They sent me $1,300.

Speaker 1 So my now ex-wife, I told her, I go, you know, not only was it smart,

Speaker 1 I had the bag for 10 years, and then I made $300.

Speaker 1 That's great. So I got a new one, and now they're like $1,500.

Speaker 1 Wow. But the bag will last you for 10 years.

Speaker 1 I mean, now you're on the Mount Rushmore of Jews.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 This day just keeps getting better.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they had this. It's detachable, but the new one, it doesn't zip up, it just sags.
So I got to get one right now, actually.

Speaker 1 Okay, since we're on the Christian tip, I got this in Rome, the Vatican gift shop.

Speaker 1 And then this is like the patron saint of comedians. No way.
Yeah, what's his name?

Speaker 1 It's really small on there.

Speaker 1 The silver one.

Speaker 1 He's the patron saint of comedians. And actors, I believe.
The silver one. Yeah.
What's it say? On the back? No, no, it's got his name on it. Pray for us.
Oh, does it really?

Speaker 1 Really small on the side. Can you see it? Saint Genius.
Saint Genius. Saint Genius.
That's it. Genesius.

Speaker 1 Genesius. Genesius.
That's it.

Speaker 1 That's cool. Damn, this came in handy now.

Speaker 1 All right, where are we going today, Tom? Okay, our last travel question. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 What are your favorite hotel pool swimming pools? Of all time.

Speaker 1 When I hear the word favorite, I've already decided get the word favorite out of your mind and just go name me something you like. Because I always get like, whoa, what's favorite?

Speaker 1 Okay, like, what's your top couple?

Speaker 1 There's a pool in

Speaker 1 Siam Reap

Speaker 1 that we got in at the hostel. It's a hostel pool, and everyone just was out, and I hadn't hung with other people in like a week or two.
And I get in there and everyone's chilling by the pool.

Speaker 1 And it was just sofa. It wasn't even a good deep one.
But man, it was so friendly and inviting. And it was like new people going, come on,

Speaker 1 and just hang. It was very, very nice.
Later that night, some fucking idiot German would just like turn the lights on of the hostel and wake everybody up.

Speaker 1 And just like, I'm like, hey, he goes, oh, where are you from? Like, shut up.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I like that one. I never stay in hostels.
That's funny that you do. I love them.

Speaker 1 So your favorite pools? One time in Thailand, me and Pete C stayed in one. We got like it was one of those, like, let's go four-star for like 40 bucks a night.

Speaker 1 And we had this great pool, and that was one day out of 12 in our place. Thailand has some great.
What do you got? My favorite hotel swimming pool is the Buenos Aires Marriott.

Speaker 1 So, the center of the city is the symbol of Buenos Aires, is the Obelisk.

Speaker 1 Okay. Obelisco in Espanol.
Okay. And

Speaker 1 on the roof of the Marriott, which overlooks the Obelisco,

Speaker 1 which is, you know, it's the Eiffel Tower of Buenos Aires.

Speaker 1 And it's half indoor.

Speaker 1 It's indoor, but there's like an outdoor section.

Speaker 1 There it is. Yeah.
Wow. This is my favorite.
That's the pool? This is it. Yeah,

Speaker 1 and this is perfect too, because to go up there at the end of the day, you see the light. This is like the sun's starting to go down.
Wow. This is the greatest hotels.

Speaker 1 That rule. Oh, you didn't.

Speaker 1 Does it go further? No.

Speaker 1 Okay. 15 seconds.
I'll go to another one.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 this is it.

Speaker 1 Wow. And then so to the right there is like an outdoor

Speaker 1 area, and there's kind of like a jacuzzi thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is it.

Speaker 1 This is my favorite.

Speaker 1 I'm marking this, buddy. So the first, so one of the first times I went to Buenos Aires, my mother's from Buenos Aires, and I have cousins there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like going down there in our winter. It's there summer.

Speaker 1 And I stayed at a really cool

Speaker 1 boutique hotel in

Speaker 1 Palermo, Soho.

Speaker 1 And it was so hot, and the place didn't have a pool. And I said,

Speaker 1 Is there anywhere where you can go swimming? And they said, Yeah, you can get a day pass at the Marriott for like 20 bucks. Now it's probably like 25 bucks.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you can go up, even if you're not staying there, you can spend the day there. Yeah, this is a better

Speaker 1 video. They're going in it of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And it's a, you know, it's also a spa.

Speaker 1 So you can. There's a bar there, and there's a little spa.
Can you go if you're not staying there? That's what I'm saying. You can buy a day pass.
Oh, you can. That's what I was just explaining.

Speaker 1 I had stayed at a. So focus on the pictures.
I wasn't looking for it. No, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 The first time I went there, I was staying at a different hotel.

Speaker 1 And they said you can go there and get a day pass.

Speaker 1 And that was like 20 bucks at the time. There's a jacuzzi.
Yeah, that's the outcome. Oh, my God.
And then

Speaker 1 it looks out on the

Speaker 1 famous. It's like the Madison Square Garden of Buenos Aires.

Speaker 1 Teatro. So Messi fucking made a name for himself? Or indoor.
Yeah, anyway. So

Speaker 1 that's my favorite hotel swimming pool. My second, that's the Obelisco.
Okay.

Speaker 1 My second favorite hotel swimming pool. Yeah, let's look this one up.

Speaker 1 Is the Banyon Tree Hotel in Bangkok?

Speaker 1 I always tell everybody. That's the one you just told me about.
Yeah. But you didn't go.
It's my number one recommendation for,

Speaker 1 and I just stayed there for the first, like the Marriott too. The first time I went to this place, I had just gone

Speaker 1 on the roof, that's it. Wow.

Speaker 1 The one up there? On the roof. Down on the lower level is where the pool is.
Okay. But on the roof, it's got the greatest view of Bangkok.

Speaker 1 There's a restaurant and bar on the roof. And so I always tell people, go up there like an hour before sunset and then,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 get a bottle of wine or a meal. The restaurant's a little pricey.
Say before sunset. It's the greatest view.
Wow. It's the greatest view of Bangkok.

Speaker 1 And to watch the sunset there is great. So the pool is on a lower level

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 it's got two little waterfalls and it's, but it's on a roof itself.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the roof. That's the roof.
Bar restaurant. Jesus.

Speaker 1 The cool thing about Banka, we were leaving, we saw these like ads for like apartments and we were, me and Pete were like, dude, for 20 grand, we could have a sick place in like the 30th floor.

Speaker 1 I went to Chiang Mai for the first time last August. First time?

Speaker 1 You can't see this

Speaker 1 pool? The pool. It's going to get there.
It's going to have to, something for sure. You went to Chiang Mai? So there's a

Speaker 1 so I did shows. I played at the Marriott in Chiang Mai.
And there's a comedian that that's it. There's a comedian that opened up for me.
See on the left and the right,

Speaker 1 on the top, there's like little this

Speaker 1 kind of waterfall spout.

Speaker 1 It's such a lovely pool. And it's only like

Speaker 1 five feet deep, something like that.

Speaker 1 Enough to hop Bangkok. So Adam Palmond

Speaker 1 Palmeter. Okay.
He's a stand-up comedian. I met him in Seoul, Korea,

Speaker 1 like 15, 20 years ago.

Speaker 1 And he now lives in Chiang Mai. He's a muralist and a stand-up comedian.
And so I stayed up there for three extra days in Chiang Mai. I had never been, and he showed me around.

Speaker 1 And he took me, he has an apartment, beautiful two-bedroom place, and it's $800 a month. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Thailand, especially in Chiang Mai, you've got cow soy

Speaker 1 and all these curry noodle dishes that are not in the rest of Thailand. And because it's like, that's like, I went to Thailand.

Speaker 1 So it's like, it's up near China, it's up near Burma, and this is all near Malaysia. So it's like changes.
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Speaker 1 Okay, those were my questions. Okay.

Speaker 1 Good questions. Good leading questions.
I like it. Where are we going today? What are we doing? I was curious what your favorite hotel swimming pool was.
I mean, now it's reminding me of like

Speaker 1 the Temples of Ankor were amazing, but I did not, again, I stayed in a hotel. And like Bangkok, I was telling you, I had always done,

Speaker 1 I had always been on a budget.

Speaker 1 And so I had gone to the Banyon Tree Hotel, but the last time I went, I stayed an extra week and I thought I'm going to splurge

Speaker 1 and stay at the Banyon Tree. And same with the Marriott and Buenos Aires.
I like the sneak in.

Speaker 1 I like the going, acting like you're looking for someone and having a different hotel key and then just like just like, hold that there. And then just like kind of go in.

Speaker 1 I did it the other day at the, what's that park up past the stand, north of the stand, where all

Speaker 1 Gramercy Park, where you have to have a place around it. Oh, yeah, you got a key to get in.
Yeah, so I saw somebody coming out and I just took my keys and went like this and I was like, oh, hold it.

Speaker 1 It's just like as if I was about and they held it for me. It's like the bit you did on your last special about being able to steal because you're.
White. What privilege?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I look like I could have had a place. My dad could have had a place.
But different pools is good.

Speaker 1 It reminds me of other ones in Bangkok, too, that I was at with Pete, where it's like, just laying there in a pool in that kind of heat, and you're like, I'm going to go in, dry right off, go in, dry right off.

Speaker 1 Be a good theme. Well, you know, I grew up in Florida, so the first women I ever kissed was after swimming in pools.
So to this day, the smell of chlorine on a woman drives me crazy. Is it hot? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's funny. All right.
Mongolia.

Speaker 1 This is no one else I know has been there. It's also one of the most intriguing places.
Since you told me about it the first time, maybe a decade ago.

Speaker 1 I've been there twice. I've got to get there.
You do.

Speaker 1 Mongolia is so special. You're like, there's a gig.
It's so unique, and there's an amazing club in Ulaanbaatar.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 people

Speaker 1 in

Speaker 1 Ulaanbaatar

Speaker 1 refer to it as

Speaker 1 UB City.

Speaker 1 So the name of the comedy club in Ulaanbaatar is UB City Comedy Club.

Speaker 1 So there's one street in Ulaan, and I had heard about this gig.

Speaker 1 They had reached out to me, and, you know, there used to be great gig, English-language gigs in China. Now

Speaker 1 those were all murdered about seven, eight years ago. They drove out foreign businesses

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 shut down those English language comedy shows.

Speaker 1 But,

Speaker 1 you know, it's like a two or three hour flight from Beijing, and you can also get there from Korea. That's like a cool spot.
It is a proper

Speaker 1 brilliant comedy club. I mean, it's like, look, it's like Carolines on Broadway used to be.
Wow.

Speaker 1 So there's

Speaker 1 this, you know, every city has got like... Shut up.
Every city's got like the one cool street with like the great restaurants and bars on it.

Speaker 1 So this

Speaker 1 club, it's like a four-story. It's on that street.
It's like a four-story building. It's not what I picture when I hear Mongolia.
That outfit and this level.

Speaker 1 It's like a four-story building. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This guy, Bata,

Speaker 1 it's his club.

Speaker 1 His mother is a dentist. The club is like on the third floor of this building.
His mother's a dentist. And her dentist's office is on the.
Yeah, this is the building.

Speaker 1 Look at that wrought iron. It looks like it's in New Orleans.

Speaker 1 So the top floor is his mother's dentist's office.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 it's really like this family vibe. and

Speaker 1 they're so grateful and generous that you're there. I mean, just Mongolians in general, that if you would go there on vacation, people are just so kind and wonderful.

Speaker 1 But I've been there twice, and his mother has cleaned my teeth for free. No, what? Twice.
So, like, if you perform there,

Speaker 1 they'll also tell

Speaker 1 his mom will also take a look at you. That's like those old Alaska gigs.
Like, we'll take a fishing as long as you come up here. Like, okay.
Yeah. Or you're buying a festival gig where you're.

Speaker 1 It's such a cool gig. Like,

Speaker 1 you know, I remember people used to say to me when I would, you know, I played in China

Speaker 1 like, I don't know, 10 times. Yeah.
You know, I played in Beijing five times. I played in Shanghai eight or nine times.
I remember friends of mine used to ask me,

Speaker 1 you know, how is it possible for you to perform in China? Yeah. I said, well,

Speaker 1 it's difficult because I don't speak Mandarin. So what I do is I put a rake on the the stage and I walk out and I step on the rake and it hits me in the balls.

Speaker 1 And the Chinese people think it's hilarious. But I have to do it over and over.
It's a really long hour for me.

Speaker 1 I'm so stupid.

Speaker 1 But all jokes aside, when you play Beijing, when you play Tokyo, you've seen this.

Speaker 1 Paris, Berlin. is the same.
It'll be half the audience will be English-speaking expatriates, and then the other half will be locals like in China or Thailand or Japan

Speaker 1 and people that were either educated or grew up in English-speaking countries and they love English language comedy. So usually it's half and half.
Mongolia is not like this.

Speaker 1 Mongolia, it was like 100%

Speaker 1 Mongolian audience.

Speaker 1 I remember there was like one guy from Wisconsin and one woman from Australia. Who happened to be there?

Speaker 1 You know, I did like a weekend of shows twice. And there was only like a couple of non-Mongolians in the audience.
They speak English? They all speak English and just the greatest laughers.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what else they speak? Mongolian? Mongolian. And is that a mixture? Is that, I'm guessing here, mixture of Russian and Chinese?

Speaker 1 Or not even? Let me just say this. I think Mongolian people are among the most attractive people on the planet Earth.
Who's the least attractive? I have the right answer.

Speaker 1 Burmese. I've never been there.
Don't. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I loved it. Mongolian people.
You'll see this in a lot of Korean people, too.

Speaker 1 And I was in Vietnam

Speaker 1 in March.

Speaker 1 They really looked.

Speaker 1 There's the guy. If you scroll down,

Speaker 1 back up the other way. See, that's Bata on...
Oh, no, that's Bata

Speaker 1 on my right.

Speaker 1 The left in the white shirt. That's Bata.
He owns the club. He's the comic.
Yeah, he's really an awesome dude. And And he's really into shamanism and spiritualism.

Speaker 1 This is more what I picture about Mongolia. This is Zolo.
So Bata and Zolo. They're both comedians, and they're both great.

Speaker 1 So Mongolians have these really high cheekbones that I think make them really attractive. So Mongolia is between China and Russia.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I think the...

Speaker 1 You know, that's basically, you know, how Mongolian people look.

Speaker 1 They really have this striking, I mean, it's weird to say this when there's pictures of men on the screen, but

Speaker 1 the women I find strikingly beautiful. And if I owned a modeling agency, I think

Speaker 1 I would only have Mongolian models. It's funny because Mongol and Mongol Lloyd used to be the term for Down syndrome.
Yeah, and I think that they used to,

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 uneducated whites of Europe,

Speaker 1 one of the theories of Down syndrome was that one of your ancestors had been

Speaker 1 by a Mongolian soldier is where mongoloid comes from, if I'm not mistaken. I mean, you do have some hot ones.

Speaker 1 You do have some decent hot ones.

Speaker 1 Yeah, now I would,

Speaker 1 if I had a modeling agency, I think I would also hire women from Senegal and Cameroon.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're into the.

Speaker 1 NJ. They used to call it in college.
What'd you?

Speaker 1 They used to call it in college, NJ. What's it?

Speaker 1 Something juice. But it wasn't my term.
It was black people's term. I can't say it.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Interesting.
But you should do this gig.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, it's,

Speaker 1 as you can see,

Speaker 1 it's a proper comedy club. Okay.
A lot of, you know, a lot of those international gigs for years,

Speaker 1 a lot of them would just be in like bars or jazz clubs, music venue type places. But

Speaker 1 Bata loves comedy. They studied it.
They've really designed the perfect stage. It's this great intimate room.
I think it holds probably, you know, like 150. So you fly into Ulaumbatur.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And what's this compared to the rest of the country? It's like regular, big

Speaker 1 city. Yeah.
It's the biggest city. I'm saying, is it built up? Is it dingy? Is it poor?

Speaker 1 No, you know, it was under Russian occupation for years. Okay.
So they weren't even allowed to study their own history. The Russians wouldn't let them honor and celebrate Genghis Khan and

Speaker 1 the ancient Mongolian warriors. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they got

Speaker 1 their independence. And really,

Speaker 1 there's a beautiful history there.

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Speaker 1 So they've really embraced it.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 greenish. I mean, some of the areas are

Speaker 1 under development, like the bottom of the screen there. But

Speaker 1 no, man, it's it's wonderful, and the monuments will make you tingle.

Speaker 1 Like look like this guy goes, What are they monuments to?

Speaker 1 These warriors, ancient Mongolian warriors, look at the difference between the old and I told you I read Genghis Khan's, and it's it's Chengis.

Speaker 1 Changis Khan? Chengis is how they pronounce it. You read his book there, or not his book, but his

Speaker 1 it's basically his autobiography. And

Speaker 1 you want me to read you that? Yeah, that thing? Yeah, can you read it from there? Because this is from I highlight all the books that I read. Oh, yeah, yeah, this is better.

Speaker 1 So, this is from Chengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Page 91, if you're looking at home.

Speaker 1 Warriors everywhere have been taught to die for their leader, but Chengis Khan never asked his men to die for him.

Speaker 1 Above all else, he waged war with this strategic purpose in mind, to preserve Mongol life.

Speaker 1 Unlike other generals and emperors in history, who easily ordered hundreds of thousands of soldiers to their death, Chengis Khan never willingly sacrificed a single one.

Speaker 1 The most important rules that he created for his army concerned the loss of soldiers.

Speaker 1 On and off the battlefield, the Mongol warrior was forbidden to speak of death, injury, or defeat. Just to think of it might make it happen.

Speaker 1 Even mentioning the name of a fallen comrade or other dead warrior constituted a serious taboo. Every Mongol soldier had to live his life as a warrior with the assumption that he was immortal.
What?

Speaker 1 That no one could defeat him or harm him. That nothing could kill him.

Speaker 1 At the last moment of life, when all had failed and no hope remained, the Mongol warrior was supposed to look upward and beckon his fate by calling out the name of the eternal blue sky.

Speaker 1 The eternal blue sky is what they called heaven or God, the spiritual nature, God energy.

Speaker 1 Call out the name of the eternal blue sky as his final earthly words.

Speaker 1 In fighting on the steppe, the nomads left the corpses of fallen soldiers and their possessions on the field to be disposed of by animals and to decompose naturally. They wouldn't even bury people.

Speaker 1 Just out of respect that that's the elements, you know?

Speaker 1 That you

Speaker 1 It's it's it's almost sacred to leave someone like that instead of like hey man, it's he had a nice watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and scroll down that last the Mongols did not find honor in fighting, they found honor in winning. Whoa, they had a single goal in every campaign: total victory.

Speaker 1 Wow, you're right, that can be applied to comedy. Yeah, to never talk about bombing or dying or something not working, working.
Never. To see yourself as immortal.
And,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 you're sacred. Total victory.
And even when they didn't get it, someone, they did die, they're saying, but it's just like, we don't really prepare for that. I don't even acknowledge it.
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 1 So is he everywhere? Yeah. Like the spirit of him? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think it's...

Speaker 1 Chenghiz Khan International Airport. You see a big mural of him when you arrive.
It's so cool. Because when you grow up as a kid in America, you hear about Genghis Khan.

Speaker 1 You're like, just some badass old warrior on a horseback. Well, then you find out about the

Speaker 1 Genghis Khan was the extracurriculars.

Speaker 1 Incredible. So his wife, his mom.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You want to learn? You ready to learn some stuff? Sure, yeah, absolutely. So

Speaker 1 they call it the steps. Those are like kind of the plateaus leading up to the mountains, which

Speaker 1 when you go to Mongolia and you go out into the country, you can see see the you know it's the kind of the the so he grew up way out in the steps his mother

Speaker 1 had been kidnapped at one point he had an older brother I think from a different father it's been a long time since I read the book but

Speaker 1 and then his mom came back

Speaker 1 blah blah but you know the oldest son was the one that got everything

Speaker 1 and his his older brother was

Speaker 1 an asshole

Speaker 1 and treated him like shit. Like if he was fishing, he's a little kid.
And his asshole older brother would come and take his fish from him.

Speaker 1 And just

Speaker 1 was an asshole older brother. Yeah, another type.
I'm that type.

Speaker 1 Chengis Khan, when he was like 12,

Speaker 1 hunted his brother. No.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Snuck up on him. Unlike me, hunted him and came on him and killed him with an arrow.

Speaker 1 And this is an important thing in Genghis Khan's life because the thing with Genghis Khan and his history was he never recognized titles because the oldest brother got everything, right?

Speaker 1 And that's just the way many cultures were. The oldest brother, the oldest boy is honored.

Speaker 1 You had to have,

Speaker 1 it was a meritocracy with him. So if you were like a religious leader or like a king, he recognized none of that.

Speaker 1 He only recognized people for the talent that they had to give, their own personal value. And that's why anyone,

Speaker 1 and then they, you know, they would conquer nations and they would incorporate the technology.

Speaker 1 Like, they were probably the first people to, I think they were the first to invent handguns because in conquering different parts of China, they had that, you know, little cannons were used.

Speaker 1 So then they they took these people who knew

Speaker 1 whoever they conquered they would take all their experts all their artisans and like they would learn from them and study so like they were like the first ones I think to to invent like kind of you know handheld uh cannons little handguns and stuff so

Speaker 1 I think that's a really cool interesting fact about him that he didn't recognize like that's it they'd conquer like a they'd conquer a kingdom and like the religious people because it was just the etiquette.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, we're the top religious people or hey, we're the royalty. We're the nobility.
They're supposed to leave us alone. They're supposed to leave us alone.
And he was just like, no, fuck that.

Speaker 1 Kill them all. And

Speaker 1 he would only keep

Speaker 1 the ones that...

Speaker 1 Had personal value that could teach them something. Dude, when you hear about something like that, like when he was old, when he was 12, he killed his brother.

Speaker 1 That sounds like a made-up story about a fake character, you know, that doesn't exist. It's like the scorpion and the frog kind of shit.
But you're like, no, no, this guy existed and he did this.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's just like hard.
No, it's remarkable. And then they were the first to invent a passport because they had conquered so much land.

Speaker 1 He would give out these,

Speaker 1 it was kind of a slab with his stamp on it. And if you were,

Speaker 1 you know, and so if you didn't recognize someone he had given the passport to

Speaker 1 and give them safe passage, you would be in trouble. They got all the way to Germany.
Yeah, and then they turned around. They could have conquered.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm just going to keep going back here until we see him. So, I mean, I might be slightly wrong, but the thing that I always say, you know, people are, oh, Genghis Khan,

Speaker 1 like, it's funny. I posted a photo.
Wow.

Speaker 1 They conquered, look at that, all the way to Germany. Did they go east also? And

Speaker 1 the Europeans lived in terror. At just the thought of him coming across.
And, you know, they heard stories that were probably like 20 years behind of shit that they had done. Like, there was one,

Speaker 1 they conquered, I forget where it was, but they conquered some area. Maybe it was in, uh, maybe it was in China.
And

Speaker 1 I think they got all they got to Iran and Pakistan.

Speaker 1 There was some woman, some old woman who like swallowed her pearls or a pearl.

Speaker 1 like kind of in defiance

Speaker 1 and they cut her open to pull the pearl out. And then they decided to cut open everyone else in this village to see if they had like

Speaker 1 caught them all. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So they're like, damn it. They didn't fuck around.
But it's funny.

Speaker 1 He created a lot of civilization.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you what I think is the best thing about him in a minute, but I mean, he was a pretty ruthless killer. I had posted something,

Speaker 1 oh, during the pandemic, I was making these LA history videos. So I did one on Tupac Shakur.
Okay. And some guy commented, he said,

Speaker 1 Tupac Shakur was a killer.

Speaker 1 Who else are your heroes? Genghis Khan?

Speaker 1 I was like, what? Yeah. I didn't answer the guy.
Bro, oh my God. You know about Genghis? Yeah, I know about this guy.
Yeah, there you go. See, I did one on Bukowski, one on.
What'd you go to Bukowski?

Speaker 1 What's that place called just south of the comedy store? That Barney's Beanery, where they won't service you in any way.

Speaker 1 And Bukowski is to to hang out there, and he would complain about the service of Barney's Beanery. And then 30 years later, it's knockout.

Speaker 1 Jim Morrison used to hang out there, too. Really? Yeah, and I did one in the lowrider culture of Los Angeles

Speaker 1 and one on Tupac.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 wow. Anyway,

Speaker 1 I might be slightly wrong on this, but

Speaker 1 so people say, you know, Genghis Khan was this ruthless killer, which, you know, you can't argue that. But he did

Speaker 1 introduce many incredible things to the civilized world. And I personally, I might be wrong,

Speaker 1 I think Genghis Khan gave the world pants and ice cream.

Speaker 1 Ice cream.

Speaker 1 Because before Genghis Khan, European men all wore robes. And they didn't have pockets.
All men had like little satchels.

Speaker 1 And like if you were a map guy or whatever, you had like a special map purse or whatever your thing is. You had like special bags and you know, you had a robe and your balls were flopping around.

Speaker 1 The Mongolian warriors were on horseback and wore pants. And so I personally think that it was they

Speaker 1 introduced pants to the Western world. And then Marco Polo took back to Italy the recipe for ice cream.
So the

Speaker 1 ration,

Speaker 1 the daily ration for the Mongol warrior was this kind of dairy curd.

Speaker 1 And they would put it underneath their

Speaker 1 saddles of their horses. And so it's freezing, extreme temperatures.
So the riding and the constant pounding of the saddle and the freezing temperatures made something kind of like ice cream.

Speaker 1 And then there was another element to it that Marco Polo took this recipe back to Italy. And that's how

Speaker 1 the world got ice cream.

Speaker 1 So, this is my,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 I might be slightly off, but in my opinion,

Speaker 1 Mongolia

Speaker 1 gave the world pants and ice cream. And you know what?

Speaker 1 You can forgive them for cutting open a village looking for pearls in their stomachs because ice cream is pretty wonderful.

Speaker 1 When was he?

Speaker 1 1300s? Okay.

Speaker 1 So there's one photo of me like sipping out of some wooden bowl. Yeah, that's that.

Speaker 1 I've not drank alcohol in 11 years. Is it one of these? No.
No, no, there you go. No, boom.

Speaker 1 I've not drank alcohol in 11 years.

Speaker 1 Busted my head open in Philadelphia. You know that story.
I got this

Speaker 1 beautiful scar.

Speaker 1 It blends in with my wrinkles nicely. And this is alcoholic?

Speaker 1 So this was...

Speaker 1 This the,

Speaker 1 I have only had one sip of alcohol

Speaker 1 in 11 years.

Speaker 1 And this was the moment. I just wanted to try it

Speaker 1 because Chengis Khan's favorite beverage

Speaker 1 was fermented mare's milk.

Speaker 1 This is milk.

Speaker 1 Fermented mare's milk. Fermented mare's milk.
What's the mare? A horse. But what's the milk?

Speaker 1 Oh, just milk from a horse.

Speaker 1 yeah fermented okay so this was his favorite beverage so while i was in mongolia i wanted to try it yeah but i haven't this is so i haven't drank and i still have no desire to drink but i so i just and i just took

Speaker 1 this little

Speaker 1 light little sip off of the top of it yeah just to see what it tastes like and it tastes like if you dropped a shot of scotch into a glass of milk it's disgusting

Speaker 1 But I tried it.

Speaker 1 But I tried it. Wow.
And they just serve this in bars? No, this is in a restaurant. So it's just in a restaurant.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a, it's a. Right, it's not like some village.
Like, let me show you some Malorts or, like, you know, that fucking version. It's on the menu.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, and let me just say, like, when you go to Chinese restaurants in America and it says Mongolian beef, it's nothing like Mongolian beef it is incredible. I mean, it's worth flying there

Speaker 1 just to

Speaker 1 when you get Mongolian beef in Mongolia, you're like, those people.

Speaker 1 What is it? What do you mean? What's the difference? It's just same recipe? No,

Speaker 1 it's nothing like you see on the menu in Chinese restaurants in America when it says Mongolian beef.

Speaker 1 It's like, they're like,

Speaker 1 it's like just succulent and delicious. Oh, really? Um,

Speaker 1 top quality. Is it the same type of recipe?

Speaker 1 I mean, there's no recipe. It's, um.
But so why do they call Montgomery and beef and say? I don't know. I mean, like, you know, they've,

Speaker 1 you know, I don't think they're eating orange chicken in China either, you know? It's just

Speaker 1 covered with some kind of

Speaker 1 the American ones are always like sweetened up. Yeah.
Tom Sawyer from,

Speaker 1 what's it called? The

Speaker 1 San Francisco took us out once to Diaz was like, I want some authentic Chinese food, but I want the authentic kind. And he goes, okay.
And then we're sitting there. He's like, I know the plate.

Speaker 1 And then Diaz just sitting there kind of playing with his food. I'm like, what's the matter? He goes, it's just too authentic.
It's just looking back at me. And

Speaker 1 I don't want these eyeballs and this crawfish. That reminds me, when you were playing at Cobbs one time in San Francisco, and I remember I was playing at the punchline, and I went over to meet you.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it was after your show, and all these people were, this is years ago it's like right when you were you were starting to get like

Speaker 1 going you were starting to start like a big following okay and and you and i were outside and all these like fans of yours came up and gave you were giving you weed and i was like holy shit ari this is that's beautiful and you go yeah i keep saying on my podcast i love weed so people will keep coming up giving me weed and you go great you go maybe i should say i love mercedes i thought that was so funny but i found this in my um apartment before we came.

Speaker 1 And back then. Grinder.
That's the big one. That's the original one.

Speaker 1 Wow. Do you still sell these? Yeah, I've got smaller ones

Speaker 1 with different logos on it. Is the original? That's the original.
Let me see how big that one is. No, that's the right size.
Yeah, and it's been used.

Speaker 1 I still use it. Oh, I love that.
It's been places. Look how burned out it is and everything.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had to make these in India because nobody in fucking America, they just go, we can make you Bob Marley ones. I'm like, I don't want a Bob Marley one.
I want want a personalized one.

Speaker 1 They go, nah.

Speaker 1 They're great. That's all I use, too, is my own grinder.
That's awesome. So I think of you every day, is what I'm saying.
That's nice.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 back to Mongolia. So these guys,

Speaker 1 Bata and Zolo, and the local comedy scene. Yeah.
I mean, and these people are that, you know,

Speaker 1 they study comedy.

Speaker 1 They really have this like huge

Speaker 1 stamps. Oh, my God.
Mongolia has the greatest stamps.

Speaker 1 um oh my god cool

Speaker 1 come on

Speaker 1 mongolia mexico 1970 there's the mongolian stamp from the world cup in 1970 yeah and so they've done all these come they had muhammad ali stamps they had pele stamps they had elvis stamps maryland monroe stamps um a dorky thing about me is um i like stamps so there's a the main old post office in downtown ulaan batar You can go there and

Speaker 1 they still sell all these classic sheets of

Speaker 1 stamps.

Speaker 1 So I bought all these great Mongolian stamps. That's so cool.
So yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 if you're into stamps. I am now.
I think Mongolia makes the coolest stamps on the planet. It's so cool.
So you can put your pants on and eat some ice cream and look through all your great stamps.

Speaker 1 The newspaper did this story on me.

Speaker 1 Is that Rhodes in their language? Tom is Tom? Yeah. Polklich is Rhodes? Yeah.

Speaker 1 How cool is that? None of this is English, right? No, it's all Mongolian. Wow.

Speaker 1 You got a copy, a hard copy of it. You know, it's the great thing about traveling as a comedian.
You know, when you travel as a normal person, you got to check things out on your own.

Speaker 1 But especially as a comedian, when you go somewhere,

Speaker 1 the people want you to have the greatest experience the local comedians so they want to show you what's great about their places you know i call it boots on the ground for comedy because like if you were just coming to new york and you're like what's there to do it's gonna be um set your liberty go up to the world go up to the fucking uh empire state building whatever but it's like that's not what new york life is it's what's the cool bar in your neighborhood and that's what the local would show a visitor yeah it's like oh let me this place on fucking thursdays has the fucking you know has a great happy hour yeah and And that's what you want to see, and that's what they do when other comedians are like, let's take you out.

Speaker 1 So what else did you get into? So

Speaker 1 Bata and Zolo took me out, and that's this picture there. Well, you can see

Speaker 1 they took me to

Speaker 1 Chengis Khan's 13th century campsite. So look at that.
So see that big statue behind me?

Speaker 1 That's the largest Chengis Khan statue in the world. And I actually bought a statue of it.
And so there's a museum. So this is two hours outside of Ulaanbaatar.

Speaker 1 You're driving two hours outside, and then it's this massive statue. And then you can actually go up in the statue and then you come out.
In the actual statue? Yeah, and then you can.

Speaker 1 There's a walking platform up on top of the horse's head,

Speaker 1 which is the other photo you can see where I'm.

Speaker 1 Who are these homos?

Speaker 1 They're just

Speaker 1 These dorks with their fucking fishing vest on.

Speaker 1 So there's another photo where you can see his head is right behind me. Yeah.
And that's it. So that's, I'm standing on top of the horse's head, right? Oh, you're up there.
Wow. That's the horse.

Speaker 1 That's the view from on top of the head of the horse. Wherever you go in the world, there will be a Chinese man behind you with a camera.

Speaker 1 There's no way around that. Wow, that's so cool.

Speaker 1 So this is two hours outside of Ulaana. Is that guy?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, a different perspective. Two hours outside of.
Two hours outside of Ulaanbaatar. And then we drove further for one hour.
One hour. So three hours.

Speaker 1 Look at those braids. And he had hair braids.

Speaker 1 Did you see the Marco Polo on Netflix? Did you see that? That was like 10 years ago. It was a brilliant series.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they showed a lot of the Mongol Empire. What a fucking how they did that.
Baddie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, really

Speaker 1 true, bad motherfucker.

Speaker 1 So we go three hours out. So this was just a pit stop.
And then they'll see where the horses are.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So this is Chengis Khan's 13th century campsite.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, wait. They know where he camped? And they're like, let's go back there.
Yeah, and you can go and stay there. So the round white tents, they call them Gurs.

Speaker 1 For some reason,

Speaker 1 in our

Speaker 1 world, we call them yurts, which I don't know where the name yurt comes from. I bet I know.

Speaker 1 So, you know how everything's like Ellis Island, like we mispronounce your name, so we're gonna write it down differently. And all the J's and Y's come, whatever.

Speaker 1 I bet they saw Gur, somebody Latino called it Yur, must be Yur, and then I go, then they just like changed it.

Speaker 1 So, they call it, so they call those kind of tents Gurs. I bet they invented them, They definitely invented them.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is where

Speaker 1 Cheng Is Khan liked to camp with his army. This massive, and these are the steps.

Speaker 1 You see the

Speaker 1 terrain.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 and you can stay there overnight in these.

Speaker 1 I'm just trying to think the latitude. I know it's different, but it's about Winnipeg.
Yeah. Ulumbatur.
And then the bottom Mongolia is about Minneapolis. Yeah, I guess it's, you know, it's Winnipeg.

Speaker 1 They get Winnipeg-type weather. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Toronto is south. That's a good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's nice. And I had never considered that.
That's interesting.

Speaker 1 So you can see there's another photo of me. So this is, I woke up.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 I woke up and watched the sunrise, and I climbed up to get this shot of like the so you can stay in these. These are the years.
Gurs. Gurz, yeah.

Speaker 1 And we got there, and it was, it was cold at night, And

Speaker 1 there's a little fireplace in the center, and that's why the shape lets out.

Speaker 1 Smoke goes up. That's like a chimney.

Speaker 1 What's this for fucking lookout for enemies?

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that was part of the ancient thing, but

Speaker 1 wow. So, like, they make a little fire for you at night.

Speaker 1 And that was further further out in the countryside these were people living like this so there's a lot of mongolian people are still nomadic and they move with the seasons so we were just driving by so bata we drive out to this campsite and the there's a dirt road and it disappears and then he's we're just driving on grass And I'm thinking,

Speaker 1 we're just like, just driving on grass. And like, I'm like, okay, well, you know.
Is that the mountain you walked up? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those photos, I had walked up

Speaker 1 as far as I could up on about halfway up that hill

Speaker 1 to take that photo. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So you got to go there, man. It's incredible.
I got to go. So

Speaker 1 we're driving on grass.

Speaker 1 And it's funny. You know, it's funny how music can be like a time machine for you and transport you back to a time in your life.
Yeah, see what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 This isn't rollerback terrain. Yes, it is.
Fuck off. Yes, it is.
This is is backpack terrain.

Speaker 1 That's the Toomey bag I had for 10 years.

Speaker 1 And look, and that's my Toomey carry-on.

Speaker 1 And if you look, if you zoom in, it says Rhodes on the tab right there. It was kind of worn off.

Speaker 1 And then if you go up on the backpack,

Speaker 1 you can see it says Rhodes on it. Oh, on that thing? Yeah, it's light on the photo.

Speaker 1 So anyway, so we're driving. This feels right.

Speaker 1 So we're driving. Oh, that's funny.
Because I still have that

Speaker 1 World Cup

Speaker 1 trophy is still

Speaker 1 on my bag. Oh, wow, really? It's a different bag, but it's the same.
You transferred it. It's the same World Cup.
Which World Cup is that?

Speaker 1 I probably bought that in Malaysia

Speaker 1 three or four World Cups ago. Wow.

Speaker 1 So we're driving on grass, and

Speaker 1 this is what it looks like. There's no roads.

Speaker 1 You're the road. I'm the roads.
You're the the roads, yeah.

Speaker 1 And bad companies.

Speaker 1 Tom Rhodes, you're a traveler.

Speaker 1 Bad companies

Speaker 1 song

Speaker 1 bad company.

Speaker 1 And like, and we're driving on grass, and I'm like, okay, well, who knows? Who knows? There's no roads. I'm sure he knows where he's going.

Speaker 1 You just, a lot of times in travel, you just got to trust the moment, you know?

Speaker 1 And you think, either this is going to be the greatest experience of my life, or I'm going to be murdered somehow.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I trusted the moment. And now,

Speaker 1 whenever I hear bad companies, bad company, it takes me back to driving.

Speaker 1 I think it was like, I forgot what it was. I forget what kind of vehicle he had.

Speaker 1 But it takes me back to this SUV driving across over this green grass with no roads in Mongolia whenever I hear bad company.

Speaker 1 six guns sound. Isn't that weird? It's our claim to fame.

Speaker 1 You can associate that with that. I was in

Speaker 1 Kupong, Thailand. I was getting ready to go over to

Speaker 1 East Timor. Landed there, got a ride, cab from the airport, and I hadn't been seen anyone in months.
And the cab driver, Guns N' Roses, came on in the car. I was like, oh, hell yes.

Speaker 1 And I'm just like, listen, couldn't communicate with that. That song takes you back to that moment.
Then that song ended. It was like a 30-minute ride from the airport.

Speaker 1 Another Guns N' Roses song came on, and I was like, wait. And then a third.
I'm like, oh, this is the album. Oh, he's playing the album.
Yeah, on tape. That's great, wow.

Speaker 1 And it's just like, now that's

Speaker 1 been dancing with Paula Poundstone.

Speaker 1 She won't leave me alone.

Speaker 1 Mongolia in the summertime.

Speaker 1 Wow, look at all those horses fucking just eat, drinking.

Speaker 1 It's so beautiful. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can associate a song so well with

Speaker 1 something like that. Yeah, different times in your life, just for a relationship.
Having company on those roads would be so fucking sick.

Speaker 1 So let me tell you about

Speaker 1 this 13th century campsite. Okay.

Speaker 1 So it's so cool.

Speaker 1 Back to it, yeah.

Speaker 1 You stay in there

Speaker 1 and, you know, they made a little fire.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 you know, I woke up before sunrise and I watched

Speaker 1 the sunrise over these steppe mountains. Wow.

Speaker 1 So what you can't see in this photo. Oh, no.
And it took us maybe 30 minutes to hike around the side of this mountain. Okay.
So this is the spot that they know

Speaker 1 was Chengis Khan's favorite place in the homeland where he liked to. You hiked around this mountain.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you so much. So if you go

Speaker 1 around the right side, we went and hiked around the right side. And then there was, it was this really interesting.

Speaker 1 No, no, it was just a little further. Further to the right.
Okay. Further to the right.

Speaker 1 There was this

Speaker 1 kind of alcove around the.

Speaker 1 There was like maybe 12

Speaker 1 Gurs.

Speaker 1 It was a spiritual area. And there was, you could tell that it was a place for ceremonies.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 there were like 12, 10 or 12 Gurs that

Speaker 1 were kind of like in half moon circular around this

Speaker 1 spiritual ceremonial place.

Speaker 1 And Batta

Speaker 1 is really into mysticism and shamanism. Apparently,

Speaker 1 there are shaman in Mongolia.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 once a year, they converge on this place to meet.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the different tents

Speaker 1 were for different shamans from different areas.

Speaker 1 So we go there and you could feel this presence that this is like a really special place. Once a year, these,

Speaker 1 you know, these shaman come for whatever ceremony, like the center, like there was some wooden structures and some kind of

Speaker 1 not flag things, but like kind of banner

Speaker 1 poles,

Speaker 1 you know, like you're seeing behind me, but with with waving cloths, cloths on them. Okay.
So

Speaker 1 we, so, so, so, Bata goes, uh, there, you know, we go over, we're looking at this area, and he goes, This is the

Speaker 1 Gur

Speaker 1 of

Speaker 1 the Warrior Shaman. Something to do with the, the, the, the, the, the warrior, mystique, energy, shaman, whatever.
So, so I'm following them. They go in,

Speaker 1 and I felt this really strong presence

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 I wasn't invited I've I thought to myself

Speaker 1 I was not invited into this space this is the warrior shaman's tent Gur thing

Speaker 1 and and my first thought was oh

Speaker 1 And I don't know how to describe it. It was like kind of cold,

Speaker 1 really heavy presence. And I thought, oh I wasn't invited into this space

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 out of respect I need to step out and I just stepped out of it

Speaker 1 and when I got out

Speaker 1 there was a super hot 30 year old

Speaker 1 Mongolian woman standing there not far And she says, hello. And I said, hi.
And then Bata and Zolo come out, and then they're speaking Mongolian. And then Bata tells me she's a shaman.

Speaker 1 And he's asked her if she would give us a little tour, you know, because I'm from

Speaker 1 wherever.

Speaker 1 And so then the woman takes us. She takes us into this.
She goes, please come in.

Speaker 1 And then so she

Speaker 1 invites me in to the warriors' tent, Gur.

Speaker 1 And that cold,

Speaker 1 heavy,

Speaker 1 imposing feeling was gone. No.

Speaker 1 And then I felt kind of this warmth, like I was welcomed into this space. And I actually feel that some kind of spirit of Mongolian warrior entered me

Speaker 1 while I was there.

Speaker 1 And then she shows us around to the other ones, and they were all cool and had different, you know,

Speaker 1 shamanistic items in them, but none were as fascinating or as powerful feeling for me as the warriors shaman's gur.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 we come out,

Speaker 1 it's starting to get a little dark, and

Speaker 1 um,

Speaker 1 I thought about it.

Speaker 1 How can this woman,

Speaker 1 very attractive, 30-year-old Mongolian woman who's a shaman, just magically appears in this. There's like, there's no roads for miles.
Maybe she was living somewhere around some other mountain.

Speaker 1 I don't know. But here's the thing:

Speaker 1 was it really like an 80-year-old man shaman who shape-shifted and transformed himself into a hot 30-year-old woman because he knew I would be trusting and feel safe. That's the thing.

Speaker 1 That's contact. I was like, was your fucking dad the whole time?

Speaker 1 But I don't know. And you legit felt

Speaker 1 invited. It's funny.
I remember years ago when I was young, I went into a voodoo shop in New Orleans and I felt like it felt like a blast of a furnace on my face and I had to turn around and walk out.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't compare it to that, but that's the only time I could ever compare

Speaker 1 where the energy of a place made me go, oh, I'm not welcome here and turn around. Wow.
But then when the woman, shaman, invited me in,

Speaker 1 that cold and imposing feeling was gone. And then I felt like a warmth, like I was invited into some grandmother's home and she wanted me to have her freshly baked apple pie.

Speaker 1 I felt completely

Speaker 1 welcomed. What's the religion there?

Speaker 1 Good question.

Speaker 1 I didn't talk to too many people about religion. What was it then? It was just some local shaman shit.
I don't even know what that is. Animism.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but then that's the

Speaker 1 roadside

Speaker 1 thing.

Speaker 1 You could shoot arrows.

Speaker 1 There's a video.

Speaker 1 I didn't send it but it after yeah it's

Speaker 1 I can show you I can send you this this this video okay where I got to shoot an arrow and my my arm was like really shaky

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 they're big into that shit huh I magically

Speaker 1 here we go

Speaker 1 when did I go there

Speaker 1 I magically accidentally hit the target. What?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Cool.

Speaker 1 Get back to Mongolia.

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It's nice.

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Speaker 1 So, um,

Speaker 1 send it, yeah, it's 30 seconds. Okay, so

Speaker 1 I mean, I

Speaker 1 may have shot a bow and arrow once

Speaker 1 or twice in my life before, and so I'm like really shaky when I'm pulling this bow and arrow, and I let it go, and like somehow I hit the target. No fucking way, yeah, boom, there it is, there it is,

Speaker 1 Boom. Wait.
Nailed it. What? Yeah, and the target.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 Wait. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The target is like some animal skin that's spread out there.

Speaker 1 Boom. It's so far away.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was far.

Speaker 1 You should be way happier than a hooray.

Speaker 1 I'm a shooter.

Speaker 1 Pretty cool.

Speaker 1 So far. Okay, so my favorite word, my favorite word in the English language is horay.

Speaker 1 And hooray comes from ancient Mongolia. No, really?

Speaker 1 Hurry.

Speaker 1 H-U-R-R-E-H, I believe is how they spelled it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 hurry means like amen.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 Or great.

Speaker 1 So we get in the English language, the word huray comes from ancient Mongolia. Huri.
That's cool. Which is amen.

Speaker 1 Amen, which is like just an exclamation. Amen.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like Gaudi. You know where Gaudi comes from?

Speaker 1 Gaudi from Spain, from Barcelona. Are you kidding? Really? And then fucking dumbass Vegas took it to changed it.
And so they're like, no, no, it's not Gaudi-esque. It's just Gaudi.

Speaker 1 And then it's like, and then it's lame and Vegas-like.

Speaker 1 What, okay. This is such a fun trip.
So how long are you going to go? I think you and I should go there. And we should play the Ola and Batar Comedy Club.
I would love to go back.

Speaker 1 Oh, and then on the side of the road where I shot the arrow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is this a falcon? What?

Speaker 1 So you can, well, that's a falcon but the one i think it was it was it a buzzard that was on my arm oh yeah that's how you

Speaker 1 condor buzzard yeah jesus so bro okay so okay you can you can have your photo taken with it right and it's on your it's on your arm and they give you the you know whatever falconer you know safety stuff for your arm yeah this photo

Speaker 1 It's on, you know, I take the photo and then it takes off.

Speaker 1 And it was so strong, I thought it was going to pull my arm out of the socket. I mean, like, it was like big, it's so big, and I had to, like, it's the size of your whole torso.
Yeah, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 Oh, you know what? I like about places like this sometimes? It's interesting.

Speaker 1 I don't actually like it, but that you'll have, you're in the middle of nowhere in Mongolia, and then capitalism will just rear its head.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it just, you can't. You gotta go

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Speaker 1 They took me to some place

Speaker 1 where they sold authentic Mongolian stuff. Like

Speaker 1 there was

Speaker 1 all kinds of animal furs and things like that. But look, I got this belt 15 years ago.

Speaker 1 In Mongolia. No.
It's my, I have many belts, but this is my

Speaker 1 Look at that. Look at the craftsmanship.
Craftsmanship. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's my everyday belt, and I bought that in Ulaanbaatar.

Speaker 1 Now, I've been wearing that belt for 15 years. Really? And it's still maintained.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's quality. Yeah, it's quality.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 So I told you, I got some Mongolian warrior

Speaker 1 spirit. Wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they stammered. And they great.
They punched it in and everything.

Speaker 1 Damn. Hey, man, this is a really good episode.
It really is.

Speaker 1 I mean, it really is. I didn't realize that.
I got this in Guatemala. Really? That's great.
In one of the local markets in the north, and it's also very, very good.

Speaker 1 Great quality. Yeah, it's just like good quality craftsmanship.
But like, it's one of those where, like, I'm selling it to another Guatemalan.

Speaker 1 It's like far enough out where you're like, yeah, it's my neighbor. I'm not going to make something shitty.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just needed a belt, too. It wasn't like I'm, you know, I was like, oh, fuck, my other belt broke.

Speaker 1 Wow. So, how long do you go for when you go?

Speaker 1 I think I was there for

Speaker 1 a week. Did you ever get laid out there? No, when I went, I was married.

Speaker 1 So, I would love to go back now that I'm single. Were the chicks coming on to you at all?

Speaker 1 There was,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 there was one moment after the show that

Speaker 1 was a possibility, but I uh I was married at the time. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is my favorite one of my favorite photos traveling traveling. Bach.

Speaker 1 Bata on the right and Zolo on and Zolo is from

Speaker 1 somebody who works on this podcast. Zolo's on that's Bata.
Oh, that's Bata, okay. And then that's Zolo on the on the left.
And he's from the Gobi Desert area

Speaker 1 of Mongolia. Photoshop for And I forgot he had lived in Poland.
I think he went to university in Poland.

Speaker 1 Really, really cool guy. Wonderful, beautiful men.

Speaker 1 And even though I didn't understand their language, they

Speaker 1 were murderous comedians who made the crowd laugh. I mean, if you murder in...
Can you even use the word murdered in Mongolia? I think you can only use the word.

Speaker 1 If you did not kill whatever. If you got opened that old woman's stomach and took her pearl.
That's probably.

Speaker 1 Did you get sick at all out there?

Speaker 1 Whatever. Where the bathroom was like, full toilets, small, like squats? What are we talking about? No, no, no, no.
No, no, that's

Speaker 1 Southeast Asia is the squatting toilet. No, they're proper toilet people.

Speaker 1 They didn't conquer half the world to squat when they go to the bathroom. And then that Beatles

Speaker 1 monument is in Ulaanbaatar. No, really? Yeah, that's an Ulaan Batar.
On top of an apple?

Speaker 1 No, it's like in a park. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's an apple shape. Isn't that cool, too? Such cool stuff.

Speaker 1 Where like the Beatles made it all the way to Ulaanbaatar, their influence to the point where somebody's like, they rule. I like how they respect, like, look at those commemorative stamps that they

Speaker 1 were just amazing, cool things that they like. World Cup soccer,

Speaker 1 Elvis,

Speaker 1 you know, Muhammad Ali.

Speaker 1 When I was in the Great Wall, I was coming down. I was talking to the guy, the advice I got, maybe from you, maybe from Turner Sparks, was

Speaker 1 before

Speaker 1 you get on that ride, the slide, you want the guy in front of you to get going.

Speaker 1 I'm sure I told you. Okay.
Because I've been there three times. Yeah.
And it's one of my favorite things on the planet Earth to go on that slide down the gray wall. And

Speaker 1 I did it once and then with someone

Speaker 1 slow and like stop to take photos or some shit.

Speaker 1 And so you checked it out. And then you stop and then you got to wait for them.
And it's not as thrilling as when you're just shooting like a bullet.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But you were like, talk to the guy.
He's willing to talk to you because he's like, talk some English. And then that's the way you can slow down.
We're like, hi, what's your name?

Speaker 1 And they're like, oh, let's talk. And now you're not just like pausing.

Speaker 1 And he was like, where are you from? He's like, America. He goes, Schwarzenegger.

Speaker 1 I don't want to be like, I mean, that's not. Did you call me?

Speaker 1 That's funny. Schwarzenegger is Schwartz is black.

Speaker 1 And he's German, right?

Speaker 1 Interesting. Interesting.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What a fucking time.

Speaker 1 So you and I should go to Ulaanbaatar together. 100%.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 100%. We can shoot arrows.
We can hold.

Speaker 1 Because they're big into arrow shooting and horseback riding and stuff, right? That's all lineage. It's their culture, you know, and

Speaker 1 they're a nomadic people. So it is really beautiful when you go out to the countryside and you see that the people are still living like that.

Speaker 1 But, you know, instead of horses they'll have like a tokota toyota tacoma and a couple of horses and you know they move their girs around with the seasons

Speaker 1 my buddy um did a here world nomad games he went out there and and and went into them and it's all like mongolian some cowboys who just want the rush who go out there to be like i want to compete with these mongolians and it's just it's just all that shit

Speaker 1 no that's a cowboy that's a crazy one american cowboy But it's all this. It's hunting with peregrine falcons.
Nice. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then I guess it's history of it too, but like, where is it? And this is like that Mongol. Yeah, look at that.
That's some manly shit right there, man. That's crazy.
Look at that.

Speaker 1 We're going to wrestle on horseback. This is ancient Mongolian shit at its finest.

Speaker 1 And they're still deep into it. People are still into it and that they have these games every year.
And

Speaker 1 this ain't like well known enough to be. But why isn't this on ESPN?

Speaker 1 It would rule. I would bet on this.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, bro.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, get away. They're going to get trampled, you idiots.

Speaker 1 Call your mother.

Speaker 1 I don't know why more people don't go to Mongolia. Because it's such a cool.

Speaker 1 I think because it's

Speaker 1 Winnipeg temperatures for half the year. I think because it gets so freaking cold.
Yeah, because when I I ask you when you go, you're like, summer, deep summer.

Speaker 1 I think because it's so friggin' cold, you know.

Speaker 1 Have you been in the when it gets cold out in the countryside? I guess it was a little bit more. I was there in autumn when it was like half cold, and then I went back the next year in summer.

Speaker 1 That this photos you're seeing are from summer.

Speaker 1 I bet that's that milk.

Speaker 1 Well, that's how that stands. So I bet their influence spread

Speaker 1 anyway.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Man, that's fucking crazy. Did you, you put out that special of or album of local bits, right?

Speaker 1 Well, I put out an album called Around the World. Around the World.
And I recorded it in

Speaker 1 24 cities around the world, and it's all jokes and stories mostly about those places.

Speaker 1 So comics, if you've ever seen a comic on the road, if you go to local comedy clubs, you're in Denver and you go to the Comedy Works, best club in the world, or Kansas City, well, that one's maybe, whatever, you'll see comics come in, and they'll all do a joke about Kansas City.

Speaker 1 It's because we're suddenly our minds are open up about Kansas City. We've never been there before, you know, like,

Speaker 1 but like Paris and Dublin and Amsterdam, like places like that have been playing for years. Yeah, so I'll have like a hunk of material on it.
So you keep on doing that.

Speaker 1 I think it was 2019 I put out this album, Around the World. Yeah, it starts in Paris, ends in Jerusalem, and every track is a different city around the world.
It was supposed to be

Speaker 1 25

Speaker 1 tracks, or 25 cities.

Speaker 1 And then I made a clean version of the same album. So you could put it up.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I was recording in Tokyo. There we go.
And I had this killer set, and I made all this brilliant

Speaker 1 material about Japan, because Japan is such a fascinating place.

Speaker 1 It was a small club, and I had my little Zoom recorder on the ledge behind behind me.

Speaker 1 And I finished my set, and I turned around to grab the Zoom recorder, and I knocked it on the ground, and I lost the recording. The Zooms are great.

Speaker 1 You stop a recording without having it finalized, and everything's lost. That's why there's 24 tracks instead of 25.
It was supposed to be, or 24 cities instead of 24.

Speaker 1 Damn, so you did bits about Hanoi. Yeah.
To a Hanoi crowd. Yeah, my father fought in the Vietnam War, so I like to go to Vietnam and see if there's anyone there

Speaker 1 who looks half like me. That's the one we tied.

Speaker 1 We tied. That's what they told us as kids.

Speaker 1 We won every war, we tied that one. That's hilarious.
I never heard that.

Speaker 1 Never heard that. Will I bajor?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Can I play a second? Sure.
You think it'll come?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 You can always put aristocrats and noblemen into catapults and shoot them against the palace walls

Speaker 1 because that never fails to make the Mongolian laugh. Oh, you should back that up.
I forgot about that. That was a really good, that's a great line.

Speaker 1 Mongolian.

Speaker 1 Oh, but damn it.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no. Because I was reading

Speaker 1 that Genghis Cohn's. You know what they used to do to the noblemen?

Speaker 1 Because that never fails to make the Mongolian laugh.

Speaker 1 He used to shoot noblemen in a wrist

Speaker 1 and shoot them against the palace walls. And I know that the Great Wall of China was built to keep the Mongolians out.

Speaker 1 So while I'm here, I want to see the great ladder of Mongolia.

Speaker 1 I forgot about these jokes.

Speaker 1 Mongolia gave the world pants.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Well, we learned that earlier.
Oh, my God, my favorite piece of cloth.

Speaker 1 Before Mongolia conquered the world, Europeans wore robes and their balls and their dick was flopping around and shit.

Speaker 1 But you people gave the world pants. It's a real crowd.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All Mongolians. Wow.
All Mongolians. Yeah, and so like if you, you know,

Speaker 1 you've learned a little bit about their culture, you know?

Speaker 1 And they like back again, tweak it, go back, tweak it, think about it over time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, my opening line there was.

Speaker 1 This is such a cool idea for an album, especially for people from listening to this podcast. Yeah, man, and it's still

Speaker 1 timeless material because it's stuff about these places. And then a lot of experiences I had, you know, I lived in Amsterdam.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you lived in Amsterdam.

Speaker 1 I had a fucking bike wreck.

Speaker 1 You know, I had a late-night talk show on Dutch television. I was maced in Paris.
I almost drowned in Thailand.

Speaker 1 There's really great

Speaker 1 a lot of my greatest travel stories

Speaker 1 is in

Speaker 1 this album. Wow.
And you got a new special out, too? Yeah, I just self-produced a new special. Ripest Zebras? The Ripest Zebras.
Acme Con. I heard it.
I filmed it at Acme Component.

Speaker 1 I was just there last week. That's one of my favorite clubs on the planet Earth.
Look at that. Even when you follow the fucking plane.
See the plane? Nice, huh? That's a cool feature.

Speaker 1 And a nice touch? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, Tom, buddy, this was fucking great. I'm so sad.
This podcast had a lack,

Speaker 1 had just like a missing piece that was like, I'm having fun, but until I get Tom Boy on here,

Speaker 1 it's just not, it's just that we haven't done it right. So now it's a real podcast.
I love you so much, Ari. I love you too.

Speaker 1 And obviously, God loves us, or else he wouldn't have put us together at the church of the

Speaker 1 holy fucking cellar in Jerusalem. Steve Simone's family

Speaker 1 would have all perished

Speaker 1 during the pandemic had it not been for that cross

Speaker 1 angels.

Speaker 1 Okay, before we go, this is two things I ask everybody.

Speaker 1 I'll ask you two and then you can answer one at a time. What's a country that you haven't been to that's calling you? This will be interesting for you because not everywhere you've been.

Speaker 1 And then another one is a travel tip of any kind, either specific or general or anything.

Speaker 1 I'm going to hit you with a travel tip first because I just remembered one and I wrote it down there.

Speaker 1 When you're in another country, get an album and listen to that whole album on loop, and you will associate that album with that place.

Speaker 1 And so every time you hear that album or any song from it, you're going to remember that fucking trip. That's good.
Remember how I told you to find weed when you went to Europe?

Speaker 1 Go to the local statue.

Speaker 1 Go to the main square.

Speaker 1 Every main square has got a statue. I have you.
And just sit on the steps by the statue and just wait. And normally,

Speaker 1 some Arabic guy will come up to you and ask you if you want any small. That is a great travel tip that I have used and passed on multiple times.
I can't believe I didn't think of what I asked you.

Speaker 1 That is. If you want to score weed in a foreign country, go to the square, go to the statue, and wait.
Sit by the statue and wait. Weed? Like, yes, thank you, Tom.
How much?

Speaker 1 For countries,

Speaker 1 yeah, where's always called you? That you're like, I still haven't made it there. I really want to.
I would love to go to Peru.

Speaker 1 I'd go back. That's one of my favorite trips I ever took in my life.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 would like to.

Speaker 1 New Zealand's amazing. I've been there.
I'd love to go back. But you're saying where I've never been.
Where have you never been? I have performed on every continent except for Antarctica.

Speaker 1 And I performed on the Seychelles Islands of Africa. Who owns those? Spain? It's technically part of Africa.
Those.

Speaker 1 Right there.

Speaker 1 Who owns those? That was a strange gig. It was for a Saudi prince in his harem.
Wow.

Speaker 1 I'm sure you've heard of that. That must not have been a good crowd.
It was all white women from England and America.

Speaker 1 You're picturing like Arabic beauties, but

Speaker 1 it was all white women from

Speaker 1 England, Australia, and America.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 I would say Kenya. You've never been?

Speaker 1 Senegal, Cameroon. I would.

Speaker 1 I've never been to Morocco.

Speaker 1 Me neither, and that's high on my list.

Speaker 1 I would like to see places in

Speaker 1 Africa.

Speaker 1 I would love to go to Morocco. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This would all be really cool. I was in there and I saw ads for

Speaker 1 like one-way 79% for nothing, yeah.

Speaker 1 Seven different cities, and I'm like, oh, I couldn't switch. Because when I lived in Amsterdam, you you know, they would have a lot of them disappeared, but they had travel agencies.

Speaker 1 And, you know, they would have on the wall their, you know, the packages. Yeah.
And so, you know, you could fly to Greece

Speaker 1 and have seven nights in a hotel, like a package for like, you know, six, seven hundred euros or whatever.

Speaker 1 I miss that. Well, where, okay, so then forget.
I don't want to get bogged down with like some place you have, but where's calling you to go back to?

Speaker 1 Like, for me right now, Southeast Asia is like pulling at me so hard for years. And I'm like, come back.
Come back. I love Southeast Asia.

Speaker 1 I just went back to Vietnam in March. Did you love it? I love it.
Vietnam is so amazing. What do you like better? Pho or the Bonhames?

Speaker 1 Or what? Bonh Mi.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh,

Speaker 1 I'm a Bonhami guy when I'm there. It's so fast and so easy.
And it's so fresh. Yeah.
And you're just like, and everybody's like, no, you got to get this and this. I'm like, great, great.

Speaker 1 But I love that. Get and go.

Speaker 1 It's like pizza here. Yeah.

Speaker 1 you're right.

Speaker 1 Vietnam, Thailand, you just can't get enough of it.

Speaker 1 Everything's a dollar. Everything's delicious.
What the French did with art and literature, the Vietnamese and Thai people have done with food.

Speaker 1 It is just, it's elevated to spiritual artistic creations. That's the way I look at it.
What the French did with art and literature, that's what the Thai and Vietnamese have done with food. Wow.

Speaker 1 And you get that French influence on the food in Vietnam. Vietnam makes amazing breads.

Speaker 1 And that's from the French influence. That's from the banh Mi.

Speaker 1 The bread is amazing. I remember during this period of revolution in America where people were waking up to

Speaker 1 problems, you know, with our history. And so then there was this protest in college that white kids shouldn't be eating bonhes because it's like it's a, it's a, they're doing it wrong.

Speaker 1 And somebody had to be like, hey, you know, the baguette that it's made on it's not authentically vietnamese just shh

Speaker 1 my mom because my father flew helicopters in vietnam and he was shot down yeah and every time everyone in the helicopter died except for him and his co-pilot who uh he uh dragged across a field and um

Speaker 1 uh

Speaker 1 my dad got like six seven medals for that and he's buried in arlington now he wasn't killed in the thing but i worked my mom

Speaker 1 you worked at arlington national cemetery

Speaker 1 first job 16. My father's in section 69 appropriately enough

Speaker 1 I for sure have been my father's a my father was a

Speaker 1 legit bona fide war hero wow and and my family's from DC you know I lived in Silver Spring till I was 12. Oh you knew that you forgot it.

Speaker 1 But my mom She doesn't understand why I would go to Vietnam on vacation. She said they killed all of our friends friends there, honey.

Speaker 1 But you go there and

Speaker 1 the young generation, they have no memory of the Vietnam War. And they don't hate us.
No. They hate the Chinese now.
Yeah. They've given up on it.
They've had three wars with China since we left. So.

Speaker 1 It was the funnest thing about the go to the War Remnants Museum, I think it's whatever, and they call it the American. The American War Crimes Museum is what it's called.
And you're like, well, what?

Speaker 1 What's the American War? Oh, right. Like, we just had the French War.
They left. Ten years later, you guys got here.
It's not called the Vietnamese War. You guys just keep coming at us, you whites.

Speaker 1 Buddy, this is amazing. It's amazing.
What a great chat. Yeah, what a great chat.
I do love just talking about places. That's why this podcast is, and you're the man.
Okay, so you're going.

Speaker 1 When can we plan on going to Mongolia? I'd like to go back next year. Okay, so I'll be.

Speaker 1 When are you going back to Asia? I'm going traveling. Gonna take a different region.

Speaker 1 So when I'm back in March, I have this, I have one thing to promote in March that I'm headed. Boom.

Speaker 1 Over there. And at that point, I got to be there for four months or so and get settled.

Speaker 1 And then, I mean, then this is all open.

Speaker 1 Okay, so end of next summer?

Speaker 1 For a week. Maybe.
Maybe. Because I'm going to get there early.

Speaker 1 I'll have to see. But I would like to.

Speaker 1 When are those games on? That would be cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah, one of the ways. That would be cool.
Because that's got to be. It's a summer thing, obviously, because they're wrestling on horseback with no.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I remember

Speaker 1 there was a documentary movie about

Speaker 1 a young woman who was a falconer. Wow.
And they do that. In Mongolia.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you got to climb the mountains and scale down to get to the falcon's nest

Speaker 1 and like steal a baby falcon from

Speaker 1 it and raise it on your own. That the falcon knows no other

Speaker 1 master but you. Wow.
And that's how they train it. There was some documentary about, I don't know, five, six years ago, ten years ago that I saw.
Because it wasn't cool for women to do it.

Speaker 1 And then this girl becomes like a badass in the sport of falconry. That's what the documentary was about.
That's interesting.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 1 Are you impressed with how much I know about Mongolia? Yeah, I am.

Speaker 1 I am.

Speaker 1 All right, buddy. Well, this is awesome.
This is awesome. Yeah, we got to go together.

Speaker 1 So, here's my idea when I end this. My mom said what she likes about these podcasts: she goes, I like the ones that make me want to go to a place afterwards.
Oh, good. And some don't, and some do.

Speaker 1 What I get is what I just like finish, we're done now, and I just get this like

Speaker 1 wistful feeling of just like, oh, I gotta get there. I wanted like that.
I'm craving that because it comes in like kind of a wooden

Speaker 1 half bucket, like a, not a bucket, like

Speaker 1 not a bowl, but you know, like the barrels, wooden barrels, a smaller version of that. That's like half cut off.
And that's got all the Mongolian beef in it with carrots and you know, potatoes.

Speaker 1 And it's like that's in Ulampar. Yeah, and it's so actual Mongolian beef is so succulent, and it's not covered in some sweet, disgusting sauce like we have been conditioned in these

Speaker 1 Americanized Chinese restaurants.

Speaker 1 Where is it? That's it. Look at that.
That's it. That's what Mongolian beef looks like.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And it's a bucket of beef.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look, compared to

Speaker 1 the slathery

Speaker 1 disgusting. You're right.
But look, there's no sauce on the. It's just perfectly cooked, and it's so soft and tender, the actual meat.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah, so talking with you about this going to Mongolia,

Speaker 1 I can taste it in the back of my mouth. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, that looks amazing. Yeah, dry and well, I hope your mother

Speaker 1 enjoys the fact that you and I have a story connected with my mother. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because my mother knows you instantly. When I go, mom, you remember my friend Ari.

Speaker 1 He's a nice boy I met. Oh, he did.

Speaker 1 The one we ran into in Jerusalem, honey. Yeah, it's the one.
What have I got? America, Canada, Israel, and then we'll go there.

Speaker 1 I would love it. Yeah.
I'll buy you a belt. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Who wants to go to Mongolia now? I know I do.

Speaker 1 I mean, I legitimately have to go.

Speaker 1 I don't know when. I mean, I'm out touring in 2026.

Speaker 1 2027. Begin my tour of Mongolia.
No way I'm going there in January. But maybe I'll work it in

Speaker 1 sometime in 2027. What an episode.
Thank you, Tom Rhodes. I would say this is a nominee for Pictures of the Year

Speaker 1 because of all the ones he has.

Speaker 1 Because they're very interesting and he got out there and did it. Maybe trip of the year.

Speaker 1 Guys, if you're watching watching on YouTube, please subscribe wherever you're watching.

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Speaker 1 Next week, the Puerto Rican Radosnake himself, Louis J.

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Speaker 1 Today's episode is edited by Alan Cathy. It's produced by your mom's house network.

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Speaker 1 If you're wondering, it's a statue.

Speaker 1 Valle de Eterna Primera.

Speaker 1 What's your empir?

Speaker 1 Michaela Bastidas.

Speaker 1 She's a revolutionary. Married, interestingly, to

Speaker 1 Trupac Amaru II,

Speaker 1 which is

Speaker 1 a descendant of the last Incan ruler, Trupac Amaru I, last Incan ruler.

Speaker 1 Years later, a woman named

Speaker 1 Afenj, Afenji,

Speaker 1 named her child after him, Trupac Shakur.

Speaker 1 Hmm. He led an uprising against the Spanish.

Speaker 1 Anyway, yeah. What else do I have to tell you about Tom Rhodes? I guess nothing.
Oh, that album you want to hear about is called Around the World.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 yeah, get it and listen to it. It's about a new

Speaker 1 bit.

Speaker 1 Every track is a new bit about a place he's been. It's pretty fucking wild.

Speaker 1 For myself, you can.

Speaker 1 There's too many people around, or I put a sticker up right here.

Speaker 1 But yeah, there's just too many people around. I just can't do it.

Speaker 1 I mean, no way, right? No way.

Speaker 1 No way.

Speaker 1 Literally no way.

Speaker 1 They're setting up a, what is this?

Speaker 1 Direction Regional Agraria. No, there's like cops everywhere.
I'm not putting up sticker. It would be fucking cool though.
Put it up right on it.

Speaker 1 Could I put it up behind?

Speaker 1 No way. It'll be seen.
It'll be taken down.

Speaker 1 But what about these flower beds? Get your Yubi Trippin' sticker pack right now, available at rsphere.com. Or this Go for a Hike shirt, which I love.
I wear them on my hikes.

Speaker 1 You can also wear them in the city to remind you that you also should be going for more hikes and getting out of your cities. Get your Yubi Trippin'

Speaker 1 t-shirt that you could wear in any hostel anywhere on the road or back at home where you just remind yourself you got to be you got to get gone.

Speaker 1 It's important.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what else?

Speaker 1 I think that's it, guys.

Speaker 1 Yeah, throw in your nominees in the comment section for

Speaker 1 Trippy Awards. Same awards as last year.
And then if you have any other idea for awards, like a worst, like best meal, what do we have? Best meal, sexual experience, or worst.

Speaker 1 Last year was Joe List trying to get laid with a woman in diarrhea on the Salconthai Trail in

Speaker 1 Peru.

Speaker 1 Wish I could go there one day.

Speaker 1 Best trip, worst trip, most depressing, gotta be Chris O'Connor, a nominee for that. And guys, it's every, it's not since the beginning of the podcast.

Speaker 1 It's at the beginning of the year, since the Paul Morrissey episode onwards.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 1 Let's, on the way out, hey, Alan, can we get a Tupac Shakor song to put in?

Speaker 1 Alan?

Speaker 1 If we get a two box Shakur song to put in, we get the rights to that. Can you ask Zolo if we can get that?

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't have that kind of money.

Speaker 1 All right, that's it, guys. And get a psychedelic playing cards pack.
They're available on my website, rsfair.com. Guys, that's it.
Get out there and travel yourselves. I hope you had a good time.

Speaker 1 I don't know how to say goodbye in Mongolian, but man, I want to go now. Until next week, everybody.

Speaker 1 No, no, don't. Come on, Ari.
Come on, come on, keep it above board. Guys, in Mongolia, by the way, if you're watching this for the Comedy Club, you're running a cool thing out there.

Speaker 1 Tom, you'll definitely be back on this episode.

Speaker 1 And guys, like I said, if you want to be back, and if you just, any of the guests, if you want to tell them you appreciate it, Tom's on Instagram at underscore Tom Rhodes.

Speaker 1 Let him know you had a great time in the episode. He's, I mean, he's the guy.
He's going to come back. So, hope you had a good time.
I know I did.

Speaker 1 Until next week, everybody, go out there, live your lives, travel, enjoy. Goodbye.

Speaker 1 What are the odds that this actually recorded? I mean, I'm doing it. There's some old Kichua lady staring at me right there the whole time.
You know how embarrassing this is to do out in public?

Speaker 1 I don't think you guys understand how fucking embarrassing this is to do out in public.

Speaker 1 I want to do it out in the woods with nobody there. Yeah, oh, oh, start a podcast.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're gonna have a Kichua lady staring at you and a fucking local cop fucking whistling at you when you stand on a clearly air safe.

Speaker 1 hi everybody Luis Gomez next week on a travel with children interesting theme episode

Speaker 1 and then the week after that what do we got the week after that

Speaker 1 live from skankfest and then after that Danny Brown oh it's a lot of good ones coming

Speaker 1 all right bye

Speaker 1 oh and do you have any ideas for guests please leave them in the comments I read them and sort of heather and oh, and by the way, if you have the stickers, stick them up, by the way, guys.

Speaker 1 Wherever you are, stick them up. Take a picture of it, like

Speaker 1 from afar, you know, and then like a close one. If I could stick it on the end, it'd be like the whole thing, and then right on the end there.

Speaker 1 You get it? And then tag Ubi Trippin' Pod. And then Heather and Caitlin, they're devout box punchers.
They just like... you know, slurping the juice on each other.

Speaker 1 And they take breaks once in a while to check the Instagram account.

Speaker 1 Nobody does wipe their face off, and then they go, like, oh, somebody posted a UV tripping sticker out in the wild.

Speaker 1 And if you see one of my stickers that I put out in the wild, again, two free tickets to any show you want of mine in 2027.

Speaker 1 Is that the next time I'm touring? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 1 Okay, bye.