Greece w/ Milana Vayntrub | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

- Bro, I went to Australia for a month I didn't touch a single bill. - Like I didn't even handle more. - Did you just call me bro for the first time? Does that mean we're recording? Because you've been like a normal person this whole time and then all of a sudden you call me bro. - I'm listening up, but we're not recording. Yeah, I'm getting to know you. He brought a burning man of drugs and I'm like, "All right, we're going to get my guard down." (laughing) ♪ Where you been and where you going ♪ ♪ This is our race travel show ♪ ♪ Yeah, we're gonna talk about travel today ♪ ♪ It's you being driven, yeah ♪ - Hi everybody, welcome to UB Trippin. It's a travel podcast. I go to a new place every week with a guest. It's the only podcast that is endorsed by the communist regime of China. My guest today is an actress and sometimes comedian. - Yeah. - Yeah, all right. - Sometimes director. - Sometimes director, oh that's cool. - Yeah, it's way cooler. - It's way cooler. They're both cool. - Yeah, bad director. - It's not as street as being a comedian. Like if you tell people you're a comedian, there's so much cred that comes with it. - It's cooler now than it used to be. - Yeah. - It didn't used to be that cool. - Like when Jerry Seinfeld was doing it, it was-- - No, when I got to LA and I was like, they're like, you know, so like getting an apartment. Like, what if we're living on the comedian? Like, no. - I still think landlords don't think it's cool. But like, in terms of other people who make things, I'm like, oh, you write your own things and then you put them out there and then maybe you get to travel because of it. That's, I give you 10 street creds for that one. - All right, I'll take that. No, that is true. Just see what Gaffekin said at the Golden Globes, whatever. - What'd he say? - 'Cause they finally started doing like a stand-up award. - Oh. - And he goes, finally the people with talent. Here's this category, and you just see like Taylor Swift. They're like, yeah, we write and perform our own stuff and like bring up our own stools and stuff. So yeah, we're doing it all. - I mean, Taylor Swift does writing and performing your own stuff. - Yeah, she does. - But she's never moved to stool. So you're right, you get points for that. - Malana, Malana Veintrop? - It doesn't matter, you've already ruined it. - Malena? - Oh my God, no. - Malania? - It's getting worse. It's Malana Veintrop. - Veintrop. - And it's R.I. Shapir? - That's about right. - Okay. - Where are you from? - Right over here, the star. - In Toshkent? - Toshkent is Bechistan. - Is that the capital? - Yeah. Woop, woop. - You were born there? - I was born there. I left when I was really young, but I've been back. - Your decision, I assume? - Yeah, you know, just like a nice wave of. - Do you know what this lake is? - No, I didn't get to travel around it much, but I would really like to. - Yeah. - I hear it's like not so welcoming these days, but I would really like to go back. - What are the stands that are safe and what are the not ones? - I think it's Bechistan is safe. - Okay. - Toshkent? - I mean, Toshkent is safe. Kyrgyzstan is probably safe. - I mean, there's corruption everywhere. Like Russia isn't safe. Like Russia is corrupt. They're all corrupt. - No, but I mean like. - But so is America. They're just more open about it. Like cops are bribed here too, it's just different. - Yeah. - There, you can like do it when they pull you over. - Just like let's take it over. - I was once in Russia. This is not the story I'm gonna tell, but I was once in Russia. And I was like kind of dating a guy who live there. And he gets pulled over. And they just like stand on the corner there with a stick and like wave you down if they want to pull you over. They don't like have cars. They just wave you down to see if you've been drinking and driving. It's kind of like a random thing. But the randomization is like, "Do you have a nice car?" 'Cause then you're more likely to pay me off. Yeah. - Wow. - And so they started doing this breathalyzer test on the guy I was dating. And he's like, "How about this? "I could give you $100 now and you could let me go." Or I could do the breathalyzer. And if I don't have any alcohol in my system, you don't get any money. And I promise you, I have no alcohol in my system. So we can like take the time to do this or you can just take this money and let me go. - What? - Isn't that ball? - Wow. - Isn't that cool? That's kind of the only reason I was attracted to him. - I mean, that is cool. I'm a bit attracted to him. - That's so cool, and it's like how do you wanna play it? - Yeah. - What a fun, like what a fun game every moment. It's like you can walk away with nothing. - I know, that's like, you can walk away with nothing and waste our both of our time. Or you could just take this $100 and then shake down the next person. - Yeah, get as many, yeah, whatever. I'm much of a rebel before this year. Damn, that is so cool. I love a good shake down. My doctor told me that he was like, would always get like pulled over white tax in like Marida in the Yucatan. And he was like, oh, your head lights out. He's like, it's not. He's like, oh, I need $5, whatever. And then some way, he was like, it's just like a toll. It's every time I go here, it's the same cup. It's the same as paying a toll. - Yeah, a toll. - So what's the difference, really? - Yeah, that's cool. How long did you do that guy in Russia for? - Like three months. - What'd you meet him? - I met him in Moscow. - Is he right? Reported? - Yeah, I wish. I was there, my dad lives in Moscow. - Okay. - And so I was there visiting my dad for New Year's. New Year's is a really big deal in Moscow. So there was gonna be a big New Year's party and I met him like a week before that. And then New Year's was like our romantic moment. And then we dated for a little after that. - Damn, that's cool. - Yeah, and he like came back to LA and that's when I was like, oh, no, this doesn't work in America. (laughs) - The job of love is so weird. It's kind of like, you don't do anything. I mean, that was what you was attracted to you about me. - Yeah, but also like, you can't, you're like cool guy Russian Swagger does not translate here. It's actually quite embarrassing. Like when you go and like tip the band to play a certain song that like works in your like alligol culture, it doesn't work here, it's gross. - Your man's abrasive. - Yeah. - That's so funny. Also like in LA, like you're just Armenian here. It's like, nobody enjoys your culture. - There's, yeah, I wish that Russian and Armenian culture was and Uzbek culture and all that was more appreciated. But it is like, it's kind of the culture that's still okay to make fun of. Like, we can't make fun of, we can't even make fun of the Irish, honestly. And they're like, you know, white people. - Yeah. - But like, Russians are very okay to make fun of somehow. - Yeah, Polox used to be the joke. - Yeah. - Polox and blondes. It's like whichever way you want to go with it. It just means stupid person. I went to Romania. - You did, why? - Toured, but also my dad was from there. - Oh, and did you like get to meet any family or? - No, they're all pretty wiped out. But, how that happened to me in the history of the world. - My people aren't the best at fighting. We're good at squirreling away stuff, but not ourselves. (laughing) - Yeah, but it was so cool, but also very crooked, very shakedowny and stuff. - But don't you think that's kind of like what makes us resourceful? Like even in this studio, I'm like, this is resourceful. You have, you're operating three cameras, four lights, two mics, and a monitor all on your own. - Yeah. - Yeah. That's some Romanian, like what's the epigenetic? That's some Romanian epigenetics right there. - This is the podcast version of the guy that plays the accordion and does the thing with the drum and the specs. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's who I'm running here. All right, where do you want to tell me about? Where is this? - Well, I don't want to tell you the story, but this is a story you're kind of shaking me down to tell. - Yeah. - If you get serious, just so you know ahead of time though. I'm going to make jokes about it. - I encourage you to please make fun of me, 'cause I want to make fun of me. - Okay. - So in like 2015, how long of a story do you want this to be? Guess I'll just make it as long as possible. So like in 2015, something like that, I went camping with a bunch of my friends and there was like just a coincidence of like a few of the girls had lost their dad. Like a few of my friends had like lost their dads recently. And I was like, ooh, I guess that could happen to me at any moment, that could happen to any of us at any moment. I really want to get some quality time in with my dad who lives in Moscow. - Okay, fair. - So I don't want to go to Moscow. Have you been there? - No. - No, it's, I don't enjoy it. It's very expensive. It's unsafe. It's, there's like one good restaurant to eat at and it's my dad's restaurant. And that's not true. There are many good restaurants to eat at. My favorite is my dad's restaurant. I like it there every day. And then. - Expensive, rush is expensive. - Yeah, Moscow is really expensive. Moscow, if in London, I think, are some of the most expensive cities in the world. - What? And that's not all in Russia, that's just there. - I think it's mostly Moscow. I mean, there's a huge class disparity in Moscow. So there's also a lot of poverty, but they're not like in downtown Moscow, you know? - Right. - Or like in the center, as they call it. So there's, anyway, so I was like, let's hang out. You don't have to come all the way here. Let's meet in Greece. - Okay. - I'd never been, I really wanted to go. I was also at the time dating a guy who, like loosely dating, a guy who I was a real loose before I got married. So I was dating a guy who had his family had a house in the island, which is gorgeous and tiny, tiny, tiny, are you gonna pull it up? - Yeah. because it's so beautiful there's like you everyone parks their cars if you even have a car and then you just get by walking or donkey like I don't even want to publicize it because I don't want anyone to go there. It's over I won't I'll just delete it. Oh no it's okay. No I do it all the time. Oh okay. It infuriates people that are listening. Oh okay. But yeah I'm like I don't like to ruin places. Yeah. We'll have any apartment. Yeah this is a really really special little place. This guy's family had okay okay and yeah and so so I was like okay great I'll go like to this beautiful special little island and then I'll go meet my dad on another island and so then he he got his like Russian real estate agent to it is so pretty to but all the Greek islands are like you can't mess up on a Greek island in fact my only advice for Greek islands is go to the one that's least populated like don't go to Mekonos or Santorini and so anyway my dad what's that? It's good advice. Yeah yeah and so we stop was telling me I was going and he was like just comic suburbs and he goes there constantly and I'm like wish I go first it's like I'm like I'm not really in a tourist zone because oh yeah stay away. Yeah and then he was like I was a wizard where your people from is like my grandmother's from this like nothing island nothing's there I'm like yeah yeah that one yeah where's that one everybody I'm breaking in today's episode in a beautiful location to let you know about our guest the beautiful person she's actually a much nicer person than I am she this is an interesting episode about travel for philanthropy it's uh I don't think anyone else has done it I've tried to get Rain Wilson on he actually just fully said like he'll do it he does some like philanthropy work in Haiti and I was like oh you got to do my podcast he goes yeah I'd love to do any time and then sometimes guys when I talk to celebrities I'm like a little bit too scared to follow up on shit um other people are better at it other people are definitely better at it um anyway I'm terrible so Rain Wilson if you listen to this I didn't ignore you I just feel self-conscious but Malana um went to Greece to touch the help people it's a crazy I mean she didn't go there for that but she like heard the calling and went um and she's just like fully as long as I've known about it she's always been about like uh helping the impoverished ending wars shit like that stuff I don't care about we also let me tell you what to find her online if you want to um her website we can find tons of places if you want to donate your time or our money um only philanthropy.com it's only philanthropy.com if you can't spell philanthropy then you're one of the people who she's probably gonna help um it's illiteracy I don't know if that's one of her things she's tackling but she should um Malana you know a lot of people can't read why you're ignoring them just because they can't read and spell philanthropy doesn't mean they don't deserve your help and respect um follow her on Instagram @mintmalana that's it everybody let's get back to the episode if you want to um do some philanthropy yourself for a wandering Jew get a t-shirt or 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for the nominees for trippy awards um I'll cover those at the end of the episode too uh but I put them in last week's episode all right that's it let's get back to the episode melana follower mint melana on instagram and uh that's it everybody uh dry grease yeah cuz the water is beautiful on all of them the food is amazing at like the tiniest little restaurant the coffee is incredible everywhere you go yeah what's greek coffee that's a specific thing right well I would have these like uh god I I think they were called frappe's but maybe I'm messing it up but it was like a frost instant coffee yeah that just made me so happy because it was like a creamy yum yum yeah um sugary yum yum yeah sorry go ahead yeah I think maybe it was called frappe greek frappe yeah it has it's just like a foamy milky sweet thing okay um oh there that does look good it's so good so um so I meet up with my dad his very Russian why did you choose this island this this tiny island uh-huh because the guy who was dating his family had a had a house there oh nice yeah and um and it's just what's that worth it relationship yeah and also short relationship wonderful little short relationship yeah if you can get a free every and be out of relationship that's the way that's like that's good memories yeah yeah I mean in my early 20s I definitely was like parking around my places really hard I'm gonna go stay at a guy's house I had a backyard in New York for a bit and it was all you could see like woman came over she's like oh yeah I'm gonna try to make this work with you oh yeah it's a nice outdoor space yeah oh my god there was a guy that I like dated just because he had like great beverages in his fridge I'm like oh over time I come over here I get a treat my standards were so low but it's not it's not low standards it's actually quality of life standards it's like these are my priorities so great everyone in their 20s is like we're all sort of failing so if you have any sort of nice thing like wow what a huge part what a wonderful addition to my life bubbly water and then in my 30s I'm like I have a figured out you really got to be a value add yeah you got to be better than me just hanging out with my friends yeah that's how I read an interview with one of the chicks from um um desperate housewives uh-huh the Latina one I forget her name but she was like I've never seen any of them but keep on okay but she was like um she was like I'm rich but a guy still's got to pay like fuck that just like you gotta like bring something to the table financially what do you think about that in 20s like maybe no but at 30s or something I get it it's like add to my life something or be way interesting well that for sure like definitely make me laugh be way interesting yeah but there is still something nice as much as I'm like a feminist there is something nice about just like feeling a little taken care of because also women probably Jewish women Latina women Italian black women do so much caretaking yeah that like oh if you can take care of me a little bit then it actually feels more equal right yeah it's like this is fight between like that seems like a gender norm versus like who cares maybe we're just like providing for each other and I I'll provide for you in so many ways and you provide for me in this one actually like more linear way yeah yeah I'm okay with it yeah I'm okay with it too I dated a chick once and she she had like she came from money like her dad was whatever and I was broke in L.A. never done anything and making no money tempering and then she was like hey we can just go to blockbuster and get a movie but like you you got to pay for like we can do less but you have to pay for it yeah and it's like yeah all right that makes sense but she was cool with just you know microwave popcorn and two dollar blockbuster these days that's like my favorite thing to do oh just popcorn I don't even need to watch anything just give me a hot bowl of popcorn so I met up with my dad yeah and he had like a plan like we were gonna go to this island for two days and this island for two days we did go to the island of Crete and I was told there my dad's like just a lay on the beach and like it's fall asleep person yeah that's the oldest island I maybe I'm not sure is it largest largest it's definitely the largest and it has this basically it's they have a giant hike like a six hour hike in a giant valley and I like looked it up on like lonely planet and I saw pictures of a waterfall at the end and I am so into a waterfall like I'll do anything for a waterfall yeah and so my dad didn't want to come because he's just asleep on the beach person okay and then I got damned this looks nice I thought Crete would be like the lame like Honolulu it is it's not like super touristy but it is very from what I experienced like it is the city like it's a very functioning city people live their year round where it's just like on a lot of the smaller islands people are just there for the summers yeah then go to Athens or something for the winter to work I have got rules yeah Athens is amazing so so I go on this I like leave it like 4 a.m. get on a bus I'm the first one on the bus I fall asleep at the very back of the bus you know because like that's like a long bench seat on like these tourist And I wake up like an hour later. and the bus is full, like I'm being asked to move. It was so trippy. - He was like, what the fuck happened, what happened? - Yeah, what happened? And how long have I been in the sleep for, and where are we, and then we get to this place. - Do you feel safe as a solo woman? - I did. Yeah, I think maybe 'cause it was early in the morning, there was so many people, so many different kinds of people, different ages and ethnicities. And so I didn't, yeah, I didn't cross my mind. - Cool. - And so then I find out that this hike isn't like three hours, it's actually six hours. I'm not equi, I'm wearing like my bikini on like what shorts, like it's not a, and I didn't like, think about the entertainment I would need for six hours of walking by myself, and I tried to like make small talk with people along the way, but everyone was kind of going on their own paths, and I was like, it's gonna be great, because at the end of this, it's gonna be a waterfall. Oh, whatever, just keep going, 'cause it's gonna be a waterfall, and you're gonna get in water, and it doesn't matter how much you feed her. And it's like all rocky, too, it's like not a path. And then I see signs for like a food shop, like a little pop-up little thing, and they have like beer and orange juice, and so I like get an orange juice, and I'm like, that's weird to have a shop on the way to a waterfall, and then I keep walking, and then I'm just like in a town, and I realize that there's no waterfall, that I looked at pictures for a totally different place, like Lonely Island is not to be trusted, and Lonely Planet, Lonely Island is breaking news here. Also, not great, yeah, not factual advice from Lonely Island. But like, Lonely Planet showed me different photos of a different place, and there was never a waterfall, and I did this long pass. Lonely, I was Lonely Planet. I was so lonely on this hike by myself for hours and hours, and I'm not a person, like, you know, there are some people that like go for jogs, without headphones, or a podcast, or an audiobook. I'm not that person. Damn. And anyway, it was-- You missed this. I know I could have been standing underneath that. You just went on high. You just like zoom in, and there's just like a little-- But yeah, so yeah, I just went on like a huge ass hike by myself for no reason, and drove hours there, and hours back, and was in pain, in a bathing suit, like just terrible. So anyway, I'm sure with a different mindset, I could have enjoyed it more. Well, yeah, it's hard to be like to rearrange in your head what you wanted. Yes, the expectations. Adjusting the expectations was hard. If you're like, if they were like, hey, this is cool hike to a small town. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Yeah, wear socks. Right, right, right, yeah. So anyway, that was my little creed experience, and then kind of when we were around on some island, I found-- I started really understanding what the refugee crisis was that was happening there. In Greece? In Greece. So there was a Syrian war, where the government is attacking its people. OK. So all of these families, I mean, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Syria. OK, so you know about this. There's some words I don't ever quite wrap my head around. So is it just a decision like, hey, we had a guy out of here. Pack your shit, let's go. A refugee is a specifically a person fleeing war, but you can be like a religiously prosecuted refugee. But is it just a person fleeing for their safety, I should say? Right. So it's not like you're not kicked out. Like, you're like talking to your wife or husband and the kids were like, hey, we're not safe here. This is getting worse. Let's go. Yes. But we don't have any money, so-- It's very dangerous to leave, but it's more dangerous to stay. Wow. OK. Or if your home was blown up, probably helps the decision. Yeah, or if the people around you are getting assassinated by the government or your kid can't go to school anymore, because there's-- Yeah. It's around the time-- I don't know if you remember this, but there was like an image that's burned in my head of this little boy that washed ashore. This is sad. No. Sorry. I mean, we're going to talk about refugee-- Yeah, it's OK. So is this-- Yeah. And then-- Don't keep talking. It's OK. OK. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a-- Yeah, so there was a picture of his body on the shore. And this is in Greece. People were-- That was in-- Oh, this was in Turkey. So what people were doing was traveling from Syria to Turkey and then crossing the Aegean Sea to get to Greece. There, that's the photo I saw. Damn. Yeah. And that photo just fucked me up so hard. 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If not for some that there goes I if not for the grace of God there goes I Okay, you see the same shit like you can get to the same shit That's why I do a drug sometimes when I'm on mushrooms and I see like a method I'm like I just caught a different drug I got kind of lucky my friends didn't show me weed instead of math right, you know, yeah Oh, I think about that all the time. There is no difference between me and a homeless person. Honestly like maybe My chemical disposition in some ways the way my neuropath way is formed as opposed to somebody else's yeah Yeah, like a little but it's just like the nurture you're talking about before he started. Yeah, it's like someone just didn't watch him or something Or they did and they have such mental illness. I have a friend now who's dealing with borderline personality disorder and she is Not borderline. I'm sorry bipolar and She has basically burned every bridge in her life to the point where even her parents are like She we cannot have her here. Wow, and that's and people And because we live in such a fucked up medical institution country or you know because our country provides no actual free health care that's accessible She's like on a long way to see a psychiatrist so hard to even get her to see a psychiatrist because she's sick all that kind of stuff So yes, it's like you just are you sick enough to end up that way or are you privileged enough or like there's so many variables, but yes I'm constantly thinking about the hand I was dealt. Yeah, and then you talk to them and it's like I think this is like negative We got back to the travel stuff. Okay, no one is negative of like will you privilege of this and it's like it's not a negative. It's a positive It's like that's sweet. Yeah, that's awesome. I can yeah, I wish for everyone to have more privilege. Yeah Yeah, except Latinos Okay, just end it right there. We got to have someone to plug and push down. Yeah, you want to you want to talk more about that? I don't know or maybe turd up. Yeah, yeah pick someone less of the population at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just just just Ecuadorians anyway, anyway So okay, so you see what do you see there? So I'm just like getting the news in a different way and I'm realizing that like kind of everywhere in the world Is more educated about everywhere in the world except for Americans like we are so centric on our own country We really only know what's happening in other states never actually do we read about world news? I mean now people are really paying attention to the Middle East, but like she'd be going on for a long time over there Nobody has known anything. I love these new experts there brand new experts. I'm like you just got into this two weeks ago I know there have been times where I've tried to talk to people about Israel Palestine for I mean for so long And people like I just don't know enough and I'm like, well, that's a great answer actually. I love that answer So anyway, we I start like basically looking up ways to be like can I volunteer? can I like I don't know drive drive somebody somewhere Because I saw this image because I saw that image and then I started doing more research and you know Just I saw young volunteers Handing food to people on trains and the trains also I mean talk about epigenetics like yeah, I'm also a Jew and I saw Was that word epigenetics. It's like the information in our genes like Like our anxiety is an epigenetic factor. It's like our grandmother had this Fear around famine and it was passed down to our mom and it's passed down to us and some for some reason I need to always if you're hungry that really affects me Interesting, okay, I'm sure there's a better definition for it impact. I like it. Okay But yeah, so I saw this image of like a woman handing people food on a train and I was like Maybe I could do that like I don't know what I could do Cells control gene activity without changing the DNA sequence No, tell you using it English language is pretty open Change meanings whenever you want But now then like type in this is just like racial yeah, this is just like racial characteristics Maybe it's nothing maybe I've just been using the word jeans get lost a lot Except for everyone in your comments Who now has access to the internet while they're listening to the yeah, and and you literally wrong about everything hashtag new experts That's gonna be the theme of this podcast anyway, so Same people doing something about it. Yeah, like just it just on the news and I'm like I would really like to be one of those people because this feels so so painful and And our last step on our trip is Athens Okay, and I find out about a volunteer meeting in A city in Athens called Exarchia. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong too And we yeah, we we took mostly boats to oh create to no But that's not how they went they went from Syria yeah to Turkey and then Turkey overland to an island called Lesbos LES VOS Okay Lesbos, yeah, and that's where whatever was invented scissorine Pretty sure so see how they they start off in in Syria. They travel all the way through Turkey with like they've already spent I mean any cash they have they've like spent on that commute and then They've washed up like here. Um, no on that on like I think he was on the Turkish shore. Yeah, so So probably on that sea if you want to zoom in there god damn Yeah, I was like somewhere around there. Okay And I got to get out of Turkey and into the EU. Yes, and then once they land in Lesbos, there's there were all of these like the UNHCR and other refugee aid programs that would help them with their paperwork and Then be they would go on to a giant ship that would take them to Athens and then through Athens They would work their way through Europe once they were on the mainland. Okay. So anyway, I was like I got to do something about it So I went to this meeting. It was all Greek. That's where the expression comes from didn't understand a thing They were saying. Yeah, also Xarhia is a really cool neighborhood in Athens. I that's a wonderful place to go check out because it's kind of like The punk rock Yeah, it's very um, I mean like super graffiti What's the word for the it's not punk. It's um It's a fucking fuck It's like the anti-people Anarchist anarchist is very anarchist. Yes. I think that is maybe the exact perfect word for yeah What what's the neighborhood Xarhia? Damn. Yeah, look we're feedies everywhere. Oh fucking loved it. It was I had actually joined on me when I left and I just saw some like I Mean more or less gypsy Mm-hmm, and I was like yeah, I was on a balcony and I was like, hey, I was like here's both that and he's like yeah You said it in Spanish. I think I said it in Spanish. Yeah I don't know why yeah, I think I don't know why I just go to Spanish when I'm anywhere but America I spoke in like Spanish. There's so many Asians around here But he was like you for sure and I was just threw it down to him just punkers Yeah, it is is very cool. So it makes sense that that's where the meeting was okay And and there I met a British photo journalist and his friend who was a a An Egyptian guy by living in London. 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No, I'm saying if you don't eat for a day it's fucked up but like you get a good night's sleep you're okay the next day. You can be okay. Yeah. You can be okay. It's not easy. But you don't sleep the whole night. Yeah. You are not a okay person the next day. You don't sleep for two nights. Yeah, you're hallucinating. You're a crazy person. You don't sleep for three nights. You're like basically dead. Yeah. Then you just fall asleep on the side of the road. Then you're just on the side of the road. And it's like but then we're like putting up everything we can to make sure that homeless people don't sleep places. It's like we're taking that away from them and then we're sending them to jail to sleep. I don't vote but it does seem interesting that no politician is ever talking about the homeless crisis in America in every fucking you don't vote. Let's talk about this place. Okay, so this place. So you went to Lesbos so what are you planning on doing there? I had no idea. I didn't know anybody and help them. I somehow got in touch with this nurse on the island. I don't even remember how. I mean, I was messaging everybody. Yeah, I was what's your dad doing at this point? Oh, my dad went back home. I didn't tell him that I was going. It was like the end of our trip. I was like, Hey, I'm just going to stick around Athens for a bit. You go home because I couldn't tell him I was going to do this. Also, you know, my dad is like a basically a racist. I love I love him. But like if I was like, Hey, I'm going to go help these Arabs. And he would be like, but you know, they hate you, right? Like do you know they they wouldn't do this for you, right? Which I now that I have like so many wonderful Muslim Arab friends, I know that they would do that for me. Yeah, I've seen it alone survivor. No, what's that? Some war movie with Marky Mark. But this guy's running away from the Taliban, this soldier and then runs into a town and they're like, well, we're supposed to take care of you. You're a traveler. And so like Taliban beat it. He's our fucking ward. Yeah, which is not the main story they show you. They wouldn't do it for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, and also that kind of thinking of like they wouldn't do it for you is not helpful. What continues to separate us. Yeah. So yeah, so I was out there with my friend who spoke Arabic, my new friend who and that was like he was an incredible translator and we basically just drove people from the shore to like hospitals or we just got a car and we just rented a car. Yeah, there was so many. There was so much walking that they had to do and they were just getting out of the ocean. We were driving them to processing centers or just like honestly picking them up from the beach and it's like a two mile walk. Wait, what do you mean? They would like get you know in a in a from a raft onto the water. Yeah. Where they would just be sitting there. They would they would take a raft. They would see them coming in. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And a lot of because there's also the Coast Guard out there that was stopping them a lot of people would go at night or super early in the morning. So we would yeah, we would be waiting out there with binoculars. Seeing if we could see a little raft and trying to predict where they would land so that we could greet them. Yeah. With like you know emergency blankets or just walk them onto shore. Like help them off elderly people, injured people, kids, so many kids. What was the law like about them landing there? I mean, Lesbos knew, but I think the Coast Guard had different laws like the Coast Guard's job was to send them back to not let them get a shore. Yes, but I think once they were a shore because there were so many processing centers. There was so much. Yeah. You know, I wouldn't even fully call it refugee aid. I don't know what it was, but there was so many nonprofits set up there that were helping people. So yeah, we would just put them in our car and you know if there was like families or injured people, we would just try to drive them somewhere. And then there we could like give their places where I could just volunteer to like help give other people food or we had drive shoes for people that was a big thing. How did you find these people to like not the people of the voluntary places? Oh, I would just walk up to them and be like do you need an extra hand? Okay. Yeah. And they were all receptive. Oh yeah, I mean like can you make an extra sandwich? You know? Wow. And there were a lot of English speaking people, a lot of people from like Amsterdam or the UK. How are the Greeks there? They, I'm sure, were really frustrated with like their beautiful little Mamamia Island have, you know, tripling in population and two to three thousand people landing every day. Yeah, I imagine this with like beach chairs and stuff like that. And then it's like two to three thousand people landing every day. Yeah. Yeah. And so like if you go to that second picture, that's like, it's basically, I don't know like in LA, it's like the grove. It's like. Damn. Or like it's scored. That's like a little town village. And then there are people who are just sitting there and waiting to be admitted onto this boat that takes them to Athens. What, um, wow. I mean, I got questions about it. Yeah. What were the people when they watched in short like, so you spoke through your friend? Um, yeah, I mean, yeah, my friend did a lot of the trans, did all the translating. Yeah. Um, there were some people that spoke English. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were like, you know, people that were lawyers and doctors. A lot of young people spoke English because they watched like American movies and TV. Yeah. We went to small towns in Israel every like nine year old spoke fluent English and the adults couldn't say hello. Yeah. Yeah. Um, how long did you stay here for? I was there for about like two and a half weeks, maybe something like that. I don't, I don't. I stayed at like the cheapest hotel. I could find those like $40 a night. Yeah. Yeah. And I shared it with my friend. And, um, and he had to leave early. So then I like, I can't remember because again, I'm so long ago, but I think he had to leave before me. And so I ended up just like not going back to the beach because it was like kind of on the other part of town and going to the refugee camps. So I would go to the grocery store and like get a bunch of things to make sandwiches and then go to the refugee camps and pass out like fruits and sandwiches. And there's so many kids there. Did you have any like trouble? Um, like thinking about your position in the world versus there's like, was there, I mean like, was there any like, I was just giving more money to give them all my money. Yeah. Did you have any like part of you was like, what, what I'm going to go back to America to my nice house? Well, I was what I thought I would do first is like make like a video journal for myself. And I ended up documenting it as like a little mini documentary that I used as a fundraising tool. Uh-huh. And then I was able to raise money for buses, which was like the original idea. And then enough till like one of the places that I ended up, I like formed this kind of, it wasn't a non-profit, but it was just like a fundraising tool called can't do nothing. And it would help people share their time, their money, or their voice specifically for the refugee crisis. And one of the places is like this school in Jordan. So a bunch of refugees ended up going to Jordan. - Okay. At the time Syrian refugee kids couldn't go to the Jordanian public schools, so we like fundraised to build a school there for refugee kids. And you know, different things, different things like that that we were able to help out. Remember that Parton Shinler's list where he was like, I could have sold the car, I could have done more, and he did a lot, you know, but he was like that overwhelming, like I got to like, humans been killed, I got to do something, I should have done more. Yeah, it's interesting, I definitely like, yeah, I talked to my therapist about that a lot because I have like thrown myself under the, I was definitely like, you know, I started, I tried to like start a company, I like made it in hell, I like, you know, made it a whole thing, I like trademarked it and got lawyers and like hired a team, I like, I invested a lot into it. I also at one point had like a refugee come live with me, which was like a really bad situation, and that was kind of when I was like, okay, maybe I don't need to be putting all of my, maybe I could have some boundaries around this. Right, yeah, you got to, or you'll burn out. Yeah. It's hard. I did think I burned out. Really? Yeah. Yeah, how do you decide to leave? I had to leave, I think I had to go to work. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But it did become like my, my passion for, I think maybe like two years afterwards. I'm just, refugees all over or here specifically or Syrian, specifically like Syrian refugee advocacy. I'm kind of kind of half reading something about you with it and I just, it was like, you know, like headline reading, like making a story in your head and I thought it was like, I might get you mixed up with a checkmate 70 show too, because it's like passing reads, you know, I thought it was like somewhere you were from and like, oh, so you were connected to it in a way. Oh, yeah, me look who this was doing work for Ukraine, that's where she's from and she did like raise $30 million or something. And then you would just like unrelated to these people. Yeah. Just saw some bad. Yeah, and you know, we are like, like you said, we just got to pick something and do something about it. Yeah. I could have picked any and that's what people gave me a ship for. They're like, well, there's so much somebody on house people here, like you could be doing something about that. And I was like, I could, but doesn't matter, like I'm doing something for somebody. No, that's annoying. That's like, get the fuck out of here. Just pick a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah, but I did, I totally burned out. Yeah. Yeah. Two and a half weeks of just. Oh, not, not being there burned me out. Being there was actually quite energizing for me and I wish I had stayed longer doing the work afterwards. Like all of the fucking legal work and fundraising and schmoozing and all that stuff was burning me out. Yeah. Cause I, I am just like an in person person. Yeah. Do these people, when they landed, do they trust you? Yeah. They do. I think so. Do they feel like I got where I'm going? I think they felt very grateful to not have drowned. Wow. That kid's fucking horrified. Yeah. And they all saw that image too. You know, they all have smartphones. And they all knew what was possible for them. Yeah. So, you realize about these, you're like, you picture refugee and you're like, you get an image in your head and you're like, they're talking to their mom and you're like, what? And you're like, yeah, I'm going to try to get on the wifi and you call your mom. Yeah. They were a lawyer in their previous country. Right. They just don't speak the language here. That's one of the things when we moved here, my dad moved back to Moscow because he's like such a people person and he, when you don't speak the language, people will never know how smart or funny you are. How charismatic you are. Yeah. And even though I speak Russian like pretty fluently, I can have a conversation. I can't be super smart or super funny or super charismatic in Russian. I just sound a little dumb. Right. They're like, your grandma's off. You're uneducated. And you're like, well, it's just here. Or I don't have like the vocabulary, you know? Louis had a joke about dating a French lady and then she was like a part of the like the academia. And so she had all these really smart like professor friends and like writers and like that. But their English was pretty basic. So he was like, we were just like second graders talking to like the professor like the head of whatever research like the Sorbonne and they're like, my day is good. How your day also is good. Yeah, exactly. And he was like, fuck. Yeah. Yeah. What do you eat while you're here? Oh my God. Like the best cheese and like puff pastries and I don't, I don't remember. A weird place, what a weird way to go to Greece. Yeah. But after that, I was like, oh, I want every trip to be one that has perfect purpose. Like, I want, I want to go somewhere, have an experience with nature, bond with my family or friends and do something valuable, do something that I was actually contributing something. Yeah. Cause it does feed me a lot. It's selfish. It's selfish. Black lives matter rallies. Did I have I? Yeah, did you go to any of them? I mean, when they were like happening in 2020? They were really kicking off, yeah. No, I had like, twisted my ankle and I couldn't walk during those times. And then they was like, co-opted by an environmental one. I didn't know that. I was like, ah, I don't want to go to a real one. But anyway, just seeing them, it was like, this is cool. This feels good. Yeah. To just be out there like chanting for something. That felt good to you. Yeah, or a fucking anonymous march or something like that. It just feels good to take apart some, you know, this kind of shit. Yeah. But this is higher level. But like working in a soup kitchen is like, yes, working in a soup kitchen is a thing that I sometimes do to like fix my soul. Really? Yeah. Yeah. If I have like an icky something, I'm like, let's just remember what matters. It's people. Yeah. Sorry. This podcast is not funny at all. Yeah. It's too, we were like way funnier when we were getting coffee. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you. What do you have to promote or anything? Yeah. I'm in this movie in Tribeca right now called Bad Shabbos. Oh, really? Yeah. It's pretty funny. I think you would. Is that a good Shabbos? Yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. It's got a lot of Jewish comedy. Where is that the film festival? It's at the film festival right now. Oh, see it. Oh, yeah. It's playing tonight, I think. Okay. And then, yeah, I got a couple acting things come out. Just follow me on Instagram at Mitt Malana. Mitt Malana? Yeah, like Mitt Malano Cookies, but Mitt Malana. Okay. Oh, that's smart. Great plan words. Love a good plan words. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Okay. That came Mitt Malana. Do you want to hold hands again? Yeah. Well, I just wet my eye. I can give you that one. Thank you. Well, that's the episode everybody. I hope you enjoyed it. That's um, yeah. That is an interesting type of travel. There's all these different types of travel I figured out. Well, I guess it's my theory. It's now a new one, Philanthropic travel. So it's like going somewhere to help people. Actually, Steve Simone should come on this podcast. I'll shake his head. Because that's better, maybe, because he went to Haiti for USO right after it was, right after there was a tsunami or a hurricane or some shit. And I remember him going like how was he goes do those to smell of death was everywhere. He couldn't escape it. He were piling up bodies in the sound. It was one of the most horrific scenes I've ever seen. And I was like, oh my god. That's crazy. How was the weather? It goes. Oh, beautiful. Every day. 75 in sunny for sure. Anyway, Melana, same thing. What an unabashed, great way, no critique way to see a place. I mean, you'd have to be nuts to what's in the cave. Is that Puma? Seems like a fucking Puma cave, doesn't it? Yeah, not a critique way of just helping people, just like see the college, like I want to help people. And that's why our website is only philanthropy.com. Check her out on Instagram. If you'd like the episode, make sure to go tell her on Instagram, mint Melana, M-I-N-T-M-I-L-A-N-A. Man, what an interesting way to see Greece. I mean, so much different than getting a bunch of Saganaki, the way I did it, following Stavros' Rex and just eating Saganaki and trying to find the elusive Saganaki with lamb topping. Well, that's it, everybody, until next week, next week's episode, who do we got? Rolf Pots, episode 99, the final episode of next year, this will be a redo from the skeptic tank. Yeah, we say at YMH, they say that the week in between Christmas and New Year is the dead week. And I was like, all right, well, if it's a dead week, I don't know, last year I just said the Trippie Award nominations. This year, the nomination is already in. Look at this, it's like a salt, salt river. So this year I'm going to start redoing, I took out all the skeptic tank episodes, they're gone. Maybe I'll put them up on somewhere, I don't know, but they're gone, I don't know, whatever, not to go into why. Oops, somebody's coming. Let me get out of the way. This is odd. This is odd. I'm gonna hear you baby coming down here. 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It makes Ecuador seems so cool um me and uh palm orracy ever in our two trips two new countries a year Contest we didn't Switzerland Hardly Williams Africa doesn't make you want to go do it do it do it one of those one of those uh what's the cults So faries Julia Galerade Afghanistan seems like a cool place actually Uh Tom Rhodes my goalie. I mean, I want to go Burk christian Vietnam damn. I want to do that the way he did it other fucking Motorcycle just out there by himself Small brand American Myanmar. Yeah, I'll be reminding anything that Kenzie Uh Guatemalan. I mean, it reminded me of arch me and his trip to Guatemala. So it's like It may be like reminisce. I don't know Uh best travel buddy. I need your help for that one. Please please comment Most dangerous Please comment. I need your help for that one most disgusting I should this be one Adam Rowe for stepping over puddles of urine and dry days in India Joe lists Tour of gas stations and In uh Ecuador Berk-Kraisher cleaning out years and being um each fully shitting himself That's it. Thanks again Alana go tech to her on Instagram and uh go visit a website only philanthropy and uh give a little bit yourself She can do that really help refugees getting off the boat trying to like, you know, get medical care and shelter and you know, I can't you I know why I can't. I'm a piece of shit. I should be it. I should have a combination of biggest pieces shit Anyway, that's the episode of the way. Thank you very much. Until next week. Please subscribe. I'm always your favorite saying Get out there and travel. You say I don't know how to say goodbye. I forgot. I did know what's in Greek. Okay. That's it. Goodbye