Iran w/ Drew Binsky | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

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I mean, like, Dutch are kind of similar in some Western Europe, it's not Spain, not Portugal, but you go to Germany. It's like, well, if you're meeting at 9, and 8.55 is late. What I love about Germany is, you know, stupid American? Is that a show? It's a way of life. Yeah, I know, stupid American. What a weapon. Yeah. What a weapon when you're out there. Always played dumb. My friend said the only other one is Ditsy Blond. Yeah. We were like, "Oh, no. What?" And then people were like, "Horn." I played dumb all the time. It's easy legal everywhere, but I'd drawn everywhere for my content, and I always played like, I don't know the rules. I don't do this podcast, drones on all those times. The dumb pun. Yeah. But whatever I take the trains in Germany, I do not pay. And they go, because it's honor system, and I have that. Yeah. It's the honor system. Yeah. And then they go, I'm like, "Oh, I don't-- I don't-- They'll still charge you, though, if they catch you, right? Okay. So you have two options. They'll charge you. They won't charge you, or they'll find you. Two of those are fine." Two of those are totally fine. Two of those are totally fine. If it charged me, I was going to pay anyway. Yeah. So whatever I lost. Yeah. How you feeling today, Ari? What's going on? I feel pretty good. I've been drinking-- well, yesterday I took off, otherwise it was nine straight days. Really? Yeah. Hang out with Shane. He's a weapon. He's a problem. You were hanging out with Shane. Yeah. It was a problem in Austin, and George Orosa. It was like a real pig. I don't know if you're going to be pigs in your life. I'm good. I was with Shane last night, completely randomly. And Oliver Trees. And Oliver Trees. Oliver Trees. Great friend of mine, Traveler, just like a bull goofy guy. And he was like, "Yeah, come hang. We're hanging." And went to some bar around here. Some rock star bar. And it was Shane's after party after his event last night at the Hollywood Bull. Yeah. It was great. We hung for like 30 minutes and shouted. And he had seen some of my videos. So we were just talking about when I got detained on the board of North Korea and Russia and eating baboon in Tanzania. So he had some good stories to do. Sure. You've got a ton of stories. What is the problem with this podcast when you meet someone like you? It's picking a place because you've got too much and you want to get to all of them. Yeah. I've been traveling non-sought since 2012 when I was 20. I started. And I've been to every country in the world. Most of them twice. Actually, I'm only missing like 50 if I wanted to visit every country twice. I'm not really trying. But yeah, I'm obsessed with, I'm curious about the world and I'm obsessed with meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. Yeah. Run the music. Yeah. Where you been and where you going. This is our res travel show. Yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's you being driven. Yeah. Yeah. And we're back. Drew, Drew Benzky is the guest today at your stage name obviously. His real name was Draw Benzky and then he wanted to make it more updated to what's going on currently. I am the past tense of draw. Yeah. They must have killed you all night in high school. I got to bring my humor out because you're a comedian so I got to dig deeper and find it. You're actually a funny travel vlog. I don't even recall. Yeah. Video creator. Storyteller. There's like two. I have this writer friend, Ralph Potts and he's like there's no humor in travel. It's only I was arrested or it was so spiritual. Yeah. It's funny. Yeah. It's kind of true. In my content, I'm more serious because I'm in crazy places like Afghanistan. But in real life, I think I'm a little funnier and people that people meet me in real life are like, wait, you're like actually a little more loose than you are in your videos because I'm like locked in, man. I have like three days, four days to film something. I'm just like, I'm locked in like seven a.m. to 10 p.m. all I can think about is making the best story possible. Yeah. And there's a lot of components to that. Like, I do everything myself. I have a camera guy but I'm ideating, I'm figuring out what like scripting, I'm figuring out who I'm meeting, who's going to be in the video, what I'm doing, what seems like I shoot and I'm like, dude, this is not working out. You were just telling me that sometimes you film stuff and it's like, this isn't working. It's hot, so I'm just like, and then I go, what happened with that one? I'm like, I have to say, it's still coming. I go, no, I've been baking them for like over a year. It's in production. Yeah. Or I just avoid the subjects. Yeah. At one time somebody was like, was it so bad that you threw it out? And I'm like, like Jordan Johnson, everyone. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, it was terrible. You just showed me pictures of the Coliseum. You told them I was terrible. I was like, Jordan, it was really bad. And she was like, have I do another one? Like, yeah, let's do a different one with something fucking happened. You get laid anywhere? I don't want to hear about you with your mom going to fucking see sites. Wait, what happened in 2012 that made you go like, I'm out. I studied a broad and prog in college, best six months of my life. First time, my eyes and ears were opened up to new cultures, new people. I was, you know, 20 years old at the time in Europe. You can go to any bar you want. They don't give a shit in the US. You can't even legally drink so I was having the best time I heard prog's real like like EDM and like underground scenes. Yeah, I got into EDM What when I was living in Prague was when the song levels came out by a Vici and like he came and played out a club I don't know if you know that song or who a Vici is sing it sing time. No, there's no really not many lyrics. It's four minutes ago To the drums is that give me a beer and I'll do it. Okay, but yeah, then I just like got hooked on on that like music scene And that was just a great time in my life. Then I went back to college Wisconsin graduated and then I was like Yeah, I'm asking nice. I don't want nine to five. I'm getting out here So I moved to South Korea to teach English and that was like that was like saying fuck you to anything else Basically, and I just wanted to start a new life in Asia and get paid to live in Asia. That's what my buddy roped it He speaks Korean I can speak Korean. It's so funny. I'm doing the da bang up to me that you guys are so funny It's it's a so it's a language isolate. Yeah, so Nope, it relates to nothing nothing and it's such a dumb fucking language to learn unless you're gonna learn a lot of language It's useless anywhere. It's not like Spanish is the most. Yeah, or English or Arabic Russian those two languages can get you to like Basically 100 countries between those two. Yeah, and then yeah English Portuguese and French and Spanish those language and Mandarin But that's really just China. So those languages Yeah, Mandarin has a lot of people to speak up. Not a lot of places. Right. Yeah Koreans. Yeah, useless if you're not in Korea. You know, I speak Tonga fluently. You're like why? It's so fun, but then when we go to a Korean restaurant, he's like I'm my time to shine Exactly. Yeah, I get really excited and they're like, oh All I do is I if I remember. Thank you You got it then I say it like you're like. Yeah. Yeah. Oh me and my I was wait. Hold on. Jesuba. What's couple of cop? Coke and cob is tie. Oh that is in man my Burmese. It's Jesuba. It's just okay. I Pretty good at the thank you's around the world. I think I got almost all of them. It's enough, especially a redhead They'd be like, yeah, fuck yeah. I'm a rare breed although in places like Syria and Afghanistan. Yeah, they have like this redhead gene It's so freaking weird, bro Even in Pakistan northern Pakistan and like they'll start speaking to me in the local language because I'm I guess I got that Jewish Ashkenazi whatever Middle Eastern face and they'll like start speaking to me in Arabic. I'm like in Syria I'm like and then they'll tell me like you look like you're I'm telling you ask a Syrian and show them my face And I'll be like oh, he's probably Syrian. Wow weird, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think I understand what you're talking about though It's trippy picture of those people yeah with like a turban and the red yeah, the red beard Yeah, like did you cut bigger nose and like white European features? It's really odd. Yeah It's also interesting of how people got to a place. Right. We're talking about borders mean nothing. Yeah But it's like so like in Latin America like it cultural slowly change Occasionally there'll be a sharp change. Yeah, like when I left Guatemala for El Salvador all the indigenous outfits stopped Didn't slow down. They just stopped and I was like what's going on? I was like, oh, we had a bounty on their heads in the 30s I murdered all but like 50 of them crazy like oh, that's a reason I Were you alone? Yeah, yeah, how did you travel by bus bus mostly bus is a casual boats and trains? I applaud you for taking those buses man. Why brutal. I kidding me. Why that very right dumb question my first time in India I took a night bus from Udaipur to Jodhpur. Yeah, I was on that it was a double-decker. I was on the top top shelf Two in the morning. I was the only white person in the bus two in the morning bus drivers slams a break on the freeway Turns the wheel we fall over like a five-foot curb bus shatters two people died on the bus. This is like my worst Sorry, I might as well get into it. Yeah To so all the window shattered like everything shattered there was dirt dust flying kids were crying and I had all this glass I was in the bed that I was sitting and it was a sleeper bus I there was like this high in glass. I glass. I was bleeding all over my leg and foot Thankfully, I didn't get like cuts in my neck and then I was like I remember like I was holding on to the bar I was on the the lower level and I was looking through and these kids shoes were dangling right ahead of me because he the bus flipped Right, and I was on the bottom of the bus. So yeah, that was crazy and then I had to get I had people - Two people died. - Two people died. Yep, I had to get out of the bus, throw my bags. Actually, it's that same backpack you see right there if I had that bag. I mean, same kind of backpack. Throw it off the bus, and then I was stranded on the side of the road, two in the morning, all by myself, and then some people were stuck in the bus 'cause the bus kind of cracked, and then everyone was weeping and crying, and they were just like, they were doing this sign, like they can't get there, stuck in the bus, and they died. People were like, hurt, like, blood, I'd do this crazy. It was insane. The safety on these buses, and it's fun. I've ever been in here, but it's the same in like, kind of every third world. - Yeah, yeah. What's crazy is that if I died, like I don't know when that would have got reported. - Right. - Right? - Of course I would have been missing in my family. - They had a wallet, maybe, to identify you. - It should have been like a week into it. I would have been missing 'cause I wouldn't have-- - Who would you know who to call? - Exactly. It's super scary, man. - Yeah, they're not gonna be like, it's called Mom. - No. - What a call, too. Like, I'm not interested, like, no, no, this is not spam. Sun is dead. (laughing) - Yeah, but, you know, that stuff happens in India all the time, and it just goes unreported. One bus crash here, we can first pay you to CNN, like, if a bus crash and people died. Anyways, we can get into some brighter stories, but-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay, where are we gonna go today? Let's do Iran. - I think we should talk Iran because there's a war happening in Iran. - There's a war and it's in people's minds. - It's in people's minds. I've been four times. I love it. Two months combined in Iran. I'm an open-- - Before we get into it. - Okay, before we get into it, I wanna hear what happened in 20's of, so you went there and just kinda opened your eyes. - My first time to be a run? - No, just in general. So, you got to that. I'm trying to think like, what made you into what you are? - Oh, okay, guys, so go back to the story. So, studied abroad in Prague, taught English in Korea, started a travel blog. This is way before YouTube. I was like, it was called TheHungryPartier.com. Who didn't nightlife reviews around Asia, Europe, anywhere I was going? - Who didn't nightlife was perfect, 'cause that's what you want. - Yeah. And so, I was getting a lot of hits on my blog, and then that sort of evolved into making videos. I just, so I had a goal to travel to every country in the world. I met Diana, who's now my wife. I met her when I was at Country 49 in 2015, and I told her, I really like you. I really, but I wanna visit every country in the world. And then she's like, let's do it. So, right away, we traveled. We went to Vanuatu, Fiji, we lived in Hanoi, we lived in Bangkok, we lived in Manila, as a base, and then she traveled with me a lot. - Go from there. - Yeah. - So, I started making videos in 2017, 'cause Diana bought me a camera when we were in Vietnam, and she was like, you should start filming. Don't just go there and post it on Instagram or Snapchat, like you should actually make videos, and they'll live forever. So, my first viral video was in North Korea in 2017, and then basically, from then on, I've just taught myself how to do it. Now I have a team of 30. - What a goal, too, to like, I can just grab everyone. - Yep. - Do you ever have like, in the next 10 years, in Scotland, we'll be in New Country? - If it is. - Are you gonna go back? - I probably-- - Or do you not say already went when it was in New Country? - I'll probably go back just to be satisfied to enter the country when it's officially in New Country. - It's a different stamp. - But like, I've been, yeah. I've been to most of the unrecognized countries too. There's a few I haven't been to yet. - There are like, not officially countries. - Yeah, like Western Sahara, I've not been there yet. It's just South of Morocco. - Smallly land. - I've been to Somalia land. I've been to Kurdistan, I've been to-- - What Somalia land, like? - It's a much safer version of Somalia. - I met a Somali guy in, on like, Gothethan. - Like, Gothethan? - Yeah, and he was like, everyone here fucking sucks. They're all fucking pseudo. So what is a pseudo spiritual narcissist? - Yeah. - But he was telling about Somalia land a little bit and he goes, it's rules, there's music. - Safe, clean. There's a town called Hargaza, which is bustling and people are friendly and you don't, you have to look over your shoulder. It's like, they have their own flag, their own money, their own government stuff. - But they're not an official country. - They're not, like, they're not officially recognized by the UN. - That's what makes the 197, that's like the UN list. And then there's like a next tier. But yeah, Mogadishu, bro, that place is nuts, man. - Do you, okay, let's get to Iran. And actually, this will be my question anyway. - Sure. - So there's, I'm sure you talked to everybody, like, how can you go there? It's dangerous. It's not, it's not nearly as bad as you think. - Completely. - Or like, it was dangerous, but keep your widths up. I used to hate that. It was like, just be smart. I'm like, what does just be smart? Me, no. Stay in your hotel. - Yeah. - But then there's like, is it safe? And then it's like, is it safe for a Jew? Is that an example? - I always get the Jew, yeah. - Well, we can get into the Jew stuff. - 'Cause Iran especially. - So Iran is the most misconceived country in the world. - Boom. - Like, 100%. - Yeah. - The people in the government are different everywhere in the world, even in the US, right? But in Iran, I went there doing Ramadan the first time. Do you know what that is? - Yeah, it's just, it's just two days play basketball for the national team. - No, it's a holiday in Islam. It's okay, it lasts 30 days and they can't eat. When the sun is out. So you have to eat the fast, basically. - Okay, do you know I'm joking when I say things without a smile? - Oh, I didn't know you were joking. I've said many things today and you're like, "Yeah, what is that?" So I got a fair, I can't tell. - Okay, all right. - I can't read. We just met, bro. - We just met. - We just met. - Yeah. - I don't know your sense over. - Fuck, now I feel like an idiot, bro. - No, it's okay. - I know Ramadan is not a dude who played for the national team. - I don't know, man. - All right, I don't know what you know. - I should, I need to have like warnings of like, I'm joking. - Yeah. - All right, it's on me. - Wink it next time. - Okay, okay. - Is there doing Ramadan? Nobody was fasting. They just can't eat in public. Just for the government, like you can't eat in public. And the women have to cover their hair, bro. Immediately when they get in closed doors, like they. - Take it off. - Oh yeah, like I went to underground, like party and you're out there. I've never seen humans drink vodka faster than I've seen in Iran, period. - What city? - That was in Esfahan, which is a city in the south. - Big city? - Yeah. - Big city. So there's way to smuggling booze into Iran. It's expensive. It's like 300 bucks for like absolute bottle of vodka, but they go hard, hard. There was like 30 people in this underground party. I was in four handles of vodka and it was gone an hour and a half. - Wow. - Yeah. It's crazy. And Iranians, like, I mean, we're in Tehranjah. That's right. No, like, that's what they call it. He's like, shit. (laughing) - I like that. - You never heard that before? - No, that's not funny. - Okay, so we're in Tehranjah. There's a million Iranians in Southern California, which is the biggest diaspora in anywhere in the world in one concentrated place. But people in Iran, they're extremely welcoming and they love Americans. They always want to talk about America. They have an uncle in America. They watch American movies. They like wrestlers from America. They like music. They love the US. And that's something that you would never realize until you go. - The people. - The people. - That's the other thing that's separation of like official stance of a government and then the humans actually. - Right. Yeah, the government doesn't like Americans at all. And it's really hard to get the visa. And there was a spot on my first trip. They had sent a spy to watch me where what I was doing. - So, okay, I've heard about this. When you say spy, what do you mean? A shaperone or like someone hiding it? - I didn't see them. I don't know their name or I don't know their face. But as soon as I arrived in Iran the first time, my guide was taken in the back room before I had arrived by the officials. And we're like, we know he's here. We know everything about him. We're gonna be watching him the whole time. And I was on a group trip. The only way to get into Iran, my first time was on an organized group trip. - Well, it was in 2017. - 2018, there was 10 people on the group, including my wife, she came with me on that trip. And I felt so bad because we would be at these amazing sites and then my guide, his name is Amin. My guide's phone would be ringing and it would be the government calling him like, what is it you're doing? Who's he, what? Where'd he sleep last night? What bus, what seat is he on on the bus? The whole time. So for like a two week trip, he would get phone calls and they were checking in on me. And he informed me that they had sent someone to watch us but we didn't know where they were. But I was scared, shitless man. I was like, I don't wanna do something wrong. Like this country's amazing, the people are amazing but like, am I about to just get abducted? Am I gonna get like taken in a back room somewhere? - 'Cause it's hard enough like socially, I don't wanna like stick out. - Right. - And then to be like, no, it's illegal. - Right, exactly. I don't even think being Jewish is a problem. I think we can talk about Judaism, I'm happy to. But I think it's because I was on a tourist visa. But technically, I'm working. They know I'm a YouTuber, I was making videos, I was going viral. So, you know, I'm the same thing as like an undercover journalist from BBC that like got into Iran and like, who knows what story he's making. I could be exposing them in negative ways. In fact, I wasn't. - And you wouldn't be saying that's what you're doing there. - Of course, I would just say no, I wanna go on a pleasure trip to Iran. - Yeah. - And if you watch my videos in Iran, they're all pretty positive. Like there are awesome experiences in Iran. - Hey guys, quick break to tell you a little about the guest Drew Binsky, what a dude. He really challenges himself to go trip in all over the fucking world. Every country he's been to, every country he's been to. You can go to his website, drewbinsky.com right now. You can see his speaking reel, you can book him. You can go find him on YouTube where he makes tons of cool videos that we talk about in this episode. YouTube.com/@drewbinsky. Or his Instagram, Instagram.com/@drewbinsky. For myself, you can check out my Instagram @rishaffir. We can check out the Instagram for the "You Be Trippin' Pod" at "You Be Trippin' Pod." Please subscribe wherever you're watching and listening at "You Be Trippin' Pod." Tell a friend about it. And guys, if you're watching, please leave a comment for the algorithm. They help. They legitimately help and it helps me get guys that are wild like Drew Binsky. Yeah, I love talking to these guys. He's been to every country in the world most twice. So it's cool to be able to get 'em because you watch and tell me about people like this. 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So it's pretty it's pretty freaking cool I am also going to do a live you be tripping pod in New York in probably June The date is June 10th at the Brooklyn improv the plan is that do an episode about October fest dress up in your best German October fest gear I mean, it's on you if you want to do the one outfit that I think you might do I would say don't do it, but leader hoses probably a better idea. You know what I'm talking about guys You're gonna have to leave or come in with that and there's gonna be someone who's not gonna get the joke So I'm not gonna tell anybody what to do funny or not funny, but be careful on that Just it's kind of an electric guy so I'm saying I would not do it But I'm also not gonna get in the way that's it everybody and then that's it That's all it is I got watch Legion of Skanks every week on gas digital and Peace I'll talk to you later. Let's get back to the episode. This is a wild one But yeah, that first trip every day I would wake up and be like am I about to get a knock on my door in this hotel room? Yeah, damn for two weeks. What I've heard about the Jews is that they're like there's plenty there And they live alone as long as you don't talk about Israel. There's 10,000 Jews living in Iran. It's the third most populated Jewish country in the Middle East right now and They don't have a problem with Judaism that problem is real so I don't like rep Israel. I don't talk about Israel I don't really want to talk about Israel. It's like a conversation. I'm not looking to have but Judaism Did you say boring? It's kind of it's just boring. I mean, it's like excited enough right you're all saying the same shit exactly new people Exactly, but the religion of Judaism is part of their culture There's synagogues that are 2,000 years old that I went in and there's still like Hebrew writings on the walls and like I don't know and like that's cool and so when they I tell everyone I'm Jewish. I'm super open about it I like purposely will go into villages and be in like tell them yeah, I'm a Jewish traveler and I want to get their reactions Only only like twice have I had twice have had some say like you can't be here like get out of here like we don't want to be around you Where was that one was in Syria one was in Yemen. Sorry one was in Syria one was in Libya. Wow in Libya Recently like my second trip like eight months ago. I did this whole trip I took my wife there. We had a great time and my guide didn't know I was Jewish and on the last day I told him I was Jewish and he like freaked out He's like you can't be here right now I could go to prison if I know that I'm with you and and so that that was an interesting I was an interesting one, but yeah, most times they don't care dude like Jews and Muslims are pretty similar. Yeah, they are like actually like Food hospitality wearing small hats on your head reading from right to left, but Friday night prayer dude If you go on and on it's all the same shit interesting and it's also like Who is responsible for lawful and everyone's like us. It's us Yeah, it's starting right here in Syria. No, it's Libya. Yeah, it's Israel. Yeah, yeah, yeah Lebanon. Oh, man, but um, yeah, we can we can stay on Iran if you want to So you went there. I wonder what everyone else in your group must have been fucking mad Yeah, they're so I just felt so bad. I was like man, I'm the pro they paid all this money to go on a trip and I'm the problem on the asshole So what'd you get into while you were there? We just went by by bus from Tehran to Shiraz to Esfahan. I can if you pull up a map. I can show you it's fine Yeah, we just basically did a big a big circle Yeah, we're not it's just gonna run out of route. We did a big circle, but Iran's got Every type of climate you have desert you have beaches you have mountains. I went skiing in Iran. I played golf in Iran, dude Really you did both in the same trip the same day Well, I did both in the same day. Yeah, so the Caspian Sea is beautiful There's islands dude. It's like there's huge mountains small villages and it's also like The silk road right it went from China to Europe in the 1400s, which is what just for silk It was a trading route for goods and ideas and it's just like how things spread from east to west basically So Iran was like the epicenter of the silk road So you have all these little towns where there was like merchants and traders and they set up these little markets and and they built these beautiful like mosques and mausoleums and they're still there and they're these beautiful blue tiles and like It's so historic and you're walking around these cities and you're like This looks unchanged for 800 years. Damn. That's not a thing that you say in most places when you travel I mean Italy or whatever, but yeah, it's fucking Iran, dude Wow nobody a few people have smartphones. It's like Yeah, it's crazy man with a like Educated and Tehran they have smartphones and it's very modern But the moment you get out of the cities, it's very like traditional and very old school and very slow and and beautiful. Yeah, they're educated Um Most of them are they'll go to cities if they want education, but it's like different in the countryside. It's super different like what do you mean Just like it's just like Not flashy. They're like there's no like no buzz no honking horns no traffic like no one's no no one's there's no bars in the country It's a dry country. So there's no all the nightlife is in a house underground as I told you that how they still have it they have it But you can't publicly do it That crazy My friend went to Kabul when it was when it was um still in their US control And he was like can I bring anything they go liquor Bring two bottles of Jack Daniels and we can have a bar for a week They said that to him. Yeah But they were like because it was all those like US like people working there. Whatever. Yeah, sure Um Yeah, but they're getting it was so hard. They're like like you said they're like let's go. Yeah, let's go Yeah, if you water down coke and jacks because they're like we got to make it less Yeah, it's hard to just muggle things in but you can and it's possible So this tour took you on small towns too small towns um traditional villages big cities We went to a town called uh we went to a site called Persepolis which is This old ancient 2000 year old kingdom that was built for the old Kings and Queens there and it's like it look It's hard to explain it without looking at photos, but you want to yeah look up Persepolis Okay Oh, really? Yeah, because I love to reference things and show yeah, okay to explain hell. Yeah, should I wait? Well, yeah tell me how the skiing was Yeah, so me time. Yeah, we'll get the Persepolis Persepolis yeah, I never knew you could ski in Iran until I was there in February and there's Fucking huge mountains with snow on them and it's mountainous huge mountains like 15,000 feet high peaks like huge mountains. You wouldn't think you would have enough skiers there So like I saw the oasis in Sao Paulo nice and they went Santiago too and you're like well tickets are expensive And isn't this a poor country and you're like yeah, but not everybody right. Yeah, exactly. Not everybody Of course, you're skiers there. So um I went skiing. It was great. Oh nice. Uh, okay. Is this gonna be shown to your viewers? Okay, dude. This is incredibly helpful Um, I need like a laser pointer now Okay, so that's for honesty Yeah, I started into Iran and in the center. Okay, yeah, and then we yeah, then we went down to Yazd Lee nice. Yeah, we went down to Esfahan, then we went to Yazd, which is this really traditional beautiful city And then we went to Shiraz. I went to Kerman. These are all like how far away these they're like three four hour drives from each other I'm just explaining to you my first trip in Iran and then in my later trips I did like crazier road trips like deep into the Kurdish villages and stuff Um, and then I went to Bandar Abbas in the very south in the pink area It's actually right on the street of Hormuz, which is which is in every single Headline right now because it's closed and all the oil is being blocked right now. Can you swim in it? Yeah, you could swim in here. Nice. I thought about going back soon Like trying to go like hang out in the street of Hormuz Then I went to see where Pakistan is in the bottom right. There's a town called Chabahar right on the border It's see that it's right all the way down. It's called Chabahar. Yeah That place is awesome, dude. Why? There's black Iranians. They are black skinned. They speak Farsi But it's crazy. I had pictures of me and like and like black people and they're Iranian can you imagine if you met a black dude on the street He's like, yeah, I'm from Iran Not insane blows. How do they From like mores look like from out like African black. Oh, I guess it's right there. It's not that. Well, that's that's yeah They worked their way up. Yeah. I guess they just settled there. I mean over the years. It's crazy But it's really cool to see me a little village was they didn't have slavery did they or did they? I don't know the answer for that Yeah, but it's really really cool to to be in these places that you know that nobody has Ever been to and no one you know has been to Yeah, one experience I want to highlight was um in between Esfahan and Shiraz. Yeah, those two kind of bigger red dots This is on my second trip to Iran, but I I was with my guy to mean and We were driving and I saw these nomads living like on the freeway. I just say these little huts and I'm like dude Let's let's go back. Let's let's go in So we go in and they've never seen an outsider the first thing I said is we've never seen A non-farsi speaking person we've never seen a non-Iranian in our life. They're speaking through the gut Yeah, speaking through the gut. They were super happy to see us Bring us and give tea sit on the floor. They have their camels or goats. They have their cows and then they have the the woman have these beautiful blue eyes like Shockingly blue eyes these nomads They're living in the middle of the desert. They move but depending on the season wherever the cattle can get Food and water and they live in these like little shacks with like no electricity It gets cold at night there in the winter and hot in the summer and they just make their own food They cultivate their own rice and they just get vegetables from markets and they they just move around and so we end up sleeping the night with them Unbelievable like I didn't even ask for anything and they they provided this like they sacrifice to go which is a big deal And those are you know sacrifice it or kill the for food they kill the for food. Okay, we call it sacrifice No, I'm sacrifices like Maybe there was some of that involved too. Yeah, and then they I wasn't expecting this But then they like laid out like this whole presentation of like all the different ways that can prepare the meat And they got the onions and they get the tomatoes and like they weren't even expecting it. No, they weren't expecting us and like I and I tried to give them money. Yeah, or I'm telling you they were like they slapped it out of my hand like aggressively like I I get my friend and talk to me for a few years. I thought about hiding money like, you know One of those tricks we hide it and then my guide. I mean was like dude. That's just a culture like though Like you can't better when shit where it's like if you're out in the desert. It's like Abrahamic It's our it's our like you're on the desert. We need to be on their turf. Yeah, and like it was so awesome, man Wow, I couldn't even expecting you. Yeah, it was right. It was like it's in that little orangey area There's no it's not even a town. Yeah, somewhere right around there where the mouse is there's everything I'm explaining there's videos on YouTube So if you were viewers are interested you could just type in Drew Binsky Iran and find these stories, but okay Yeah, we spent the whole day with them put up some of your clips in this. Yeah, sure. Okay. Let me tell me off air Yeah, no, I can actually find it immediately. Do you want to I can tell you exactly where it is? Yeah, it'll take me like 30 seconds To put up. Yeah, should we reference just go to go to YouTube? To have in Drew Binsky Iran. It's you to for the listeners home. That's youtube.com. If you think you to have you heard of that one Yes slash slash Drew Binsky Iran I have a theory. Sorry, go ahead. Not one here. There's there's I rate the women of a of a of a place. So Myanmar. I I believe is the ugliest one using Myanmar's ugly For the women and shortest country in the world is Guatemala. I've ever been to that from my life so you see more sure I and then it's that second video down just click it and turn off the volume and then so as we're talking. Yeah, yeah Wow, so well, this is just like the intro of the video. So the but the range of hot to hot to not is the widest of Iranians Yeah, yeah Princesses to like get the fuck shave your nose. Here you go. I'm giving this to you, but I am are you sure fair? It's a fucking crazy night we're gonna have here. Shit's about to go down We're gonna talk. This is a love story media. Herbie's got a real age. I'm desperate. I'll stab you with your bum. One of the worst things that could happen What's your favorite Bible verse? I'm like, I don't know any. I'm Catholic. Did you just see your pants? It's not my shit. If you're up there, lady, don't call me I'm the bad guy in the story. I know that I'll be a better person tomorrow. At least he's consistent. Finally something we can agree on. I'll discuss it in heart. 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I couldn't believe her eyes. Well, uh, she that was so hot and like a face like weathered but right and I just look where they're living They're living in that little tent on the side of the road. Wow Look at that man. I just showed up and they started making bread to bring in us tea. That's my god of mean. We slept there There's you didn't even know you were going. They didn't even know we were coming, bro Like look at that feast that they made. Did they mention all why they do this that you said this is like Birthday, so I was saying I was like happy birthday, man. Like this is gonna be a memorable birthday Look at that feast Insane remember when you were 10 and that white came. Yeah I always think about what they think about this experience. I'm having a great time It seems like they're having a great time too, but I always say from what was the food like? What was like? Oh, it's it's just so good man There's so many flavors like it's it's kind of like Mediterranean food a little bit. Yeah A lot of different colors on your plate like a lot of vegetables a lot of kabab meats, you know You already eat with your hands at that point. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'll eat with hands is yeah like this thing Oh, yeah, cradle up the ball like if I asked for a fork, honestly, they would be like I like what what is that really they probably never eat with with utensils I want to say that ladies eyes again. She was so hot. Yeah, I know. I don't know where like it was and it was such a weather face I can't yeah, it's somewhere right in there Like yeah play there where I'm like feeding with feeding the goats and shit. Yeah, look at this man. That's like all like What a life and they have cars. That's your car No, that was our car that we rolled in look at this dude I was just like like kind of what can I do to help you guys right now? I just look like an idiot true It's so funny that everyone else is like where the resort's where can I go and you're just like yeah Let's live dingy. That's far. This is what shapes you like when you when you're old and you look back at travel stories and your life adventures Like these are the things that are going to be the most impactful. Yeah, every resort looks the same dude Every resort does look the same wow. I mean, I I could talk. I mean, yeah, he's super nice. So they just took you and they seem normal about it Yeah, we're like spend a whole day to get like they're like so I'm look at like handsome these young men are like dude You know, you're a brown Unfortunately the one on the right is having major problems in life, but the one on the left has a chance And then that guy looks like he could just be a club dude. Yeah for sure like a problem at a club It's really cool to read Anyways, um Dude the scenery there is just gorgeous too. Oh, there she is. Wow Can you believe that dude? Were you were you with the chick at that point? Yeah, I was married Were you like? I should have been every four. I could have taken you away from all this Yeah, they're really really pretty faces God damn and then the other one was pretty grody. Yeah The mom or whatever was like oh, you're a papusa Uh, that's El Salvadorian spirit food All right, skip forward a little bit more. We slept that night like in this you stayed with them. Yeah, I slept there Wow, like where were you planning on going? We're planning to sleep in a little guest house and and then they were like no just stay here with us Woke up in like a beautiful stars at night like dude. Oh, you must have been out in the middle of nowhere out in the middle desert Like I these are the experiences that I want to have more of and like Like that's the morning shot right there. It's like There are so many of these experiences in the world you just have to go out there and find them like it's it seems so bad It's super farming. There's nothing out there, but they're super happy like They're just living life man Wow, here we are worried about getting the latest iPhone and shit and like maybe not you. I saw your phone You don't have the latest iPhone But these people are just every day the same and just just got just hurting and doing whatever And they can get access to like glasses or shirts or shit like that the need. Yeah, yeah, they trade some chickens for food Yeah, exactly. They barter animals For it's a little shotgun and that's for what wolves Um, I don't really know what he uses that for I don't know if it's for protection. I don't think he hunts. Maybe he hunts Did you get a sense from any of them that they're that anything would do? Yeah, you need my dentist. Yeah, gnarly. Oh But yeah, I'm glad that you Like these stories because I mean, this is just I live for this stuff. Yeah, yeah, so you how many times you go there for four times because you loved it Love it. I'm glad. I'm hoping to go back soon. I'm getting my Lithuanian passport through my Jewish ancestry. I'm getting Romanian good for you Yeah, so mine should be coming soon So both took on timed SATs from our Jewish interests You just you just claim you have learning disabilities You don't have a clock Yeah, my brother did that for real. Really? Yeah, it was like I don't know. I qualify Take him again. Yeah, well, whatever works. Yeah, yeah, as soon as I get Lithuania, I don't need a visa. I can just go to Iran. So hoping to go back I'm remembering now I met a chicken in East Timor nice do you want to East Timor? Yeah, did you know that East Timor means East East because the word Timor means East The country's East East. Okay, so how was how was daily daily was very cool. There's some cock fights. Yeah, there's weird man Some cock fights that were like pretty bomb That was my standout, but also just like The way they go like coffee like no like teamwork coffee. Yeah, you know like cover. I'm supposed to okay. I'll have some was a kava No, it just meant like while growing versus like powdered. - Have you tried kava in the Pacific Islands? You know what? - You don't have stores all over New York now. - No, it's different. Here, no. Kava is this drink. Sorry, while we're out. Can you go to the YouTube and just type in Drew Binsky Kava? It's, my whole life is on the internet, it's crazy. So it's made from this like tree roots and they like, they get like the sap of the tree and then you drink it. It's a ceremonial drink, but it fucks you up, dude. It makes your whole face numb. It's like, it's like, you're just, yeah. K-A-V-A. Yeah, all good. So they drink it all across the Pacific. Yeah, that one. So this is me trying it, like it's, it's really intense. It's like. - Whoa, out of a gourd? - Yeah, and it makes, it's just like really, yeah, you're tingling and you can't, you can't fit your mouth base, that's what it is. So it's-- - Ooh, yeah. - I'm asking them, how do you, when you smoke weed, is it the same feeling? And he's like, yeah, it's good. It makes me feel numb. - They say you're supposed to get a little high up. - Yeah, it makes you, definitely makes you high. - Yeah, it makes you really light-headed and super giggly. But only lasts like 20 minutes. - That's good. - Yeah. - Can you come to, like, get into that? - Yeah. - It's when they're trying to get so much mushrooms, like, how long does that, like, six out of them, nah. - Yeah. - I don't have that on me. - Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, so now there's all these cova bars in the US and I'm like, they're, like, extracting it and making it a powder. - Make it barely any more. - The real cova, they have it in East Timber. That's why I asked you if you tried it. - Well, what I had is they were super into their coffee. It was the last, one of the last, like, finished coffee. That's what I'll, like, touch a Portuguese river was there. It was, like-- - Yeah, sure. - Sure. - And so that, but it's also, I don't know, why would we expense it? But they have so much powder coffee and then so much also teamwork coffee. - Right. - And they took pride in the teamwork coffee. - Why did you go to East Timber? - I was to Southeast Asia and-- - Yeah. - And ended up there at the end. - Yeah, started in Myanmar and did in East Timber. Timber less day. - Did you hike-- - Timber less days. - Timber less days. - Yeah, sorry. Did you hike to Jesus? - Yeah. - Nice. - In Delhi. - In Delhi, yeah. - Yeah, these guys took me in. I went to, I took a moped, I kind of around the cold country. - Nice. - And everywhere I went, people like, dude, you can't, you shouldn't be on that. You need to have a bigger wheel. - On the moped? - Oh, okay. - That's a city bike. And I was like, well, I'm here, bro. I'm already way out. Like, it's, I know, but I'm doing it. - That's funny. - Yeah, everyone's nice. I just remember Fatim Disganta, like, do you have a place to sleep? That's still stuck in my head. Just get through a place. But like, Fatim Disganta and I go, and then you get to use the ass for mayor and they go, whether you just find it, but then the bunch is like, come with me. - So it seems like both of us have that same drive, like that instinct to just go out in the middle of nowhere and meet people and figure it out. - Dude, there's nothing else like, I have trouble, I have trouble expressing it. How sick it is. And it's like through like, 150 podcasts episodes, maybe you can start getting it. But really, it's your nowhere. Your bucket washing, your shower, you're kind of laughing, but you already know you're used to it. The first day's tough on a trip 'cause you're used to like an American bed and the second day, still to, by the 10th day, you're like, it's barely any blood in these sheets. That's like not actually that bad. - I completely agree. - Yeah, it's just like, yeah, you get it. That shit, the better one, whatever, is so cool. No, Matt, I guess, I don't know if there are better ones or not. - Mixing feel alive, man. I always want to be doing stuff like that. - Do you ever feel worried that you're like zoolifying people? I definitely have a part of me. They're doing it, but I don't care. - There are times where, well, first of all, anytime I film someone, they know I'm filming. So like, I tell them what I'm doing and I'm holding a camera in their face. And if someone doesn't want to be filmed, I don't film them. So I brief them. They don't know that it's going on a huge YouTube channel. It's going to be viewed by millions of people. But, you know, I'm okay with that. Like, it's hard to explain to these people what YouTube are. How can you even explain to them what YouTube are? - Find a nice funnel and look up your channel. - Well, they don't have a phone, these people. So it's, yeah, I'm aware of it and I try to just, I'm just trying to share the good side of humanity. So I feel like I'm doing a good deed for society and I'm just, I believe in that. It's like you believe in your humor. I say, why are you moving to London? You're like, well, I'm going to keep my humor even if they don't agree with it. Like, you think you're doing something that's like making people laugh. So he just, if I thought I was doing something wrong or I wouldn't do it, but I just try to believe in what my work essentially. - Yeah. - But some people do ask me that. They're like, yeah, aren't you manipulating people or putting people like? - The manipulate, I don't think, put it right at risk. What are you gonna say? - I don't know. - No, I wouldn't worry about that. It's just sometimes in me, I'm like, which I was conversing more and viewing people less. It's not like it's a terrible thing, but like, so a fine has, it's not like, I'm looking at your culture, but somebody's like, hey, I'm a person and come party. Come like, hang and talk about nothing. - Gotcha. - And then I'm still like, in observing mode, but language is a big barrier. So it's like, I really can't get that close. And also, I don't know how you, you don't seem like an introvert, but I am. So even if I'm in Chicago or even across town or New York, I'm at a party, it takes me a while to open up. - Yeah. - So I'm just kind of observing for a while. But then when you're observing another culture, I don't know, it's like bad word to it. But I don't, yeah. It's not like it's the negative of a zooification, but it's more like, I wish I could get in there and actually be hanging. - Sometimes I just have this something in my brain. It's like, okay, just go strike up a conversation, go do something. What I've realized from traveling is that people are dying to share their culture with you. Why would you do that? - I did this thing with my hand and you're like, - Illuminati. - Illuminati, show it. Obviously he's telling you right now. - Yeah, what the fuck is that? - Dude, obviously you can't hide this shit anymore whenever you are. - Let me just hold my color, yeah. People are dying to share their culture with you. You just have to be in a position to let them share their culture with you. They want to meet-- - They do. - In the same way that like, if you had a friend of a friend visiting L.A. or New York, you'd like, yeah, I'll show you a cool bar in town, like it's the same concept. People want to hang out with you and they want to have a cultural exchange, but oftentimes they're too shy. Most of the world is shy. I had an Uber job yesterday and he was like, he's good, you know, music okay, whatever. It's like temperature okay. I was like, music, whatever you want, but he's like, whatever I want. I'm like, yeah, he goes, can I play your Armenian music? - I'm like sure. - Sure, yeah. - Let me tell my Armenian rapper and I was like, this is cool. He goes, he's really big. Let me play another song. And he really did. It was that same thing. - Yeah. - I would love to show you. - Exactly. But he didn't know that you had interest in it. So he was too shy to play it. - He picked the right guy. - Yeah, he picked the right fucking guy. - Yeah. - So I believe in that a lot. So I just try to have the courage and just, what's the worst that happens? They're just like, they don't want to talk. Okay, cool. Have a good day. Later, bro. - Right. - That's the worst that happens. No one's aggressive. No one gets in your face. No one's going to punch you. I've never been robbed, mugged, kidnapped, nothing like that. - So funny. I had to explain to people now because in the comedy world, even little trips, like the South America stuff or whatever with people like, what the fuck? - Yeah. - You're so foreign to, I'm sure your friends are in high school like that. Like what do you mean? You're going to do this. You've made a business of it so they probably couldn't understand it, but like. - But still, yeah. - But then like, they want to hear about the dangerous times and I'm just getting to this. Now I'm like, hey, this is going to be clip friendly. He really wasn't dangerous. I know you want me to be able to see how I got arrested by Russian troops or something. But like, nah, none of that should happen. It was almost, it was safer about the same safe as New York. - The world is mostly really safe. - Yeah. - So let's get back to Iraq. - Yeah, sure. - So the mountains? Oh yeah, what was the skiing like? How good was the skiing? - The skiing, I mean, it wasn't like top tier skiing, but I was great. I mean, yeah, I was like a black diamond. Like, it wasn't like a little bunny slope. - Challenging? - Yeah, it's challenging. And then I'm also a big golfer. I grew up playing golf so like after I skied, I just went down to the golf course and played Tehran Country Club. - The temperature difference was big enough? - Yeah, it's kind of like in California. You can drive two hours inland. - You have surfant, surfant, surfant, - It's actually similar in that regard, yeah. - Oh wow. - So yeah, I went, yeah, skiing and playing golf on the same day. And yeah, Eron, like, it's very basic. They don't have like glamorous, fancy like, they have nice restaurants, but it's not like, what's the most rugged place you've ever been? You've been in some places. - Yeah, like you mean like a country? - Yeah. - I'm not trying to think, I mean. - I'm trying to explain Eron to you. Like I've been to Turkey. - But apparently just to the big city. - Okay. - Eron is like Turkey, similar culturally, but they just don't, like, it's just. - Egypt. - Yeah, you've been Egypt? - Yeah. - I'm trying to think. - It's not as chaotic. Cairo is insane, dude. You went to Cairo? - No, I went to Giza in the south. I just went to Giza in the east. I went to Giza in the south. I went to Skip Cairo. - Okay, good, Cairo is crazy. - Yeah, what's like rugged, I'm trying to think. I mean, I know like, yeah, the better ones of Israel, you stayed with them when we were like, yeah, that was like a for hire. - Yeah. - Show these kids what life is like. - Yeah, nothing with you. - Nothing in Iran, like there's no tourism in Iran. So that's another thing. Everything is pure authentic. Even in the markets, you just brought up a really good point. Even in the markets, they don't nickel and dime you. They don't try to negotiate. - They don't, that's not part of a culture. - Nothing, man. - Well, there's white nickel and dime, and there's standard nickel in there. Where they're like, bargaining's part of it. - No, but they didn't have that. - No, and prices are so honest. And it's almost like, I want to give you more for this. Like, this is like super cheap in Iran. It's among the five cheapest countries in the world. If you have dollars and you convert it, it's like, this would be like 10 cents in Iran. It's like, I want to give you three dollars for this, just to make you happy. And if you try to get them three dollars, they will hand you back the money. It's the only place it's like that. - It's funny when you go to a market in Latin America and you're like buy some vegetables or whatever, and then at the end they go, "Here's like three oranges." - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Doing well, I don't know, it takes so much to shit. - It's an extra banana. - Yeah. - But yeah, so markets in Iran, very honest. - Other people weren't bargaining also? - It's not a bargaining culture. Fun fact, they have the best fruit they've ever had in Iran. Really, really good. Like apples, oranges, cantaloupe, plums. They have the climate, like higher elevation climate to grow it, and they have an abundance of those fruits. But all the markets, strawberries, blueberries. - Are they GMOing it, or are they? - No, it's just growing it. - It's just growing it, man. - Yeah. So, I mean. - So what'd you get into? - Oh, oh, Persepolis. This is why we brought up the screen at the beginning. Can you just type in a Persepolis on Google, please? So, this is this is beautiful 2000, sorry, P-E-R. You're good, homie. P-E-R-S-E-P-O-L-I-S. We used to be fat, we had fat fingers, we were learning how to type. - Go to images. - Okay, so. - Wow. - Yeah, click, just click one of those at the top and you can scroll right as you make them bigger. - Per. - Yeah, that's like Wikipedia, so I don't wanna like put something like one of these. - Yeah, so. - What is the focus? - It's just like, it's this ancient city that was built 2000 years ago for like, old Iranian- - How far does this image of? This is exactly like-- - I know, right? - I've even heard of this before. It's a UNESCO site. It's not far from Shiraz, the city of Shiraz. It's like 30 minutes drive, but-- - Shiraz, the wine? - Yeah, exactly. - Is that where it's from? - They make Shiraz wine and Shiraz. Yeah, exactly what Shiraz, that's the city in Iran. That's so funny. So, this is 30 minutes from Shiraz. So, I've been here twice, there's nobody there. I mean, and the ticket is like, there's a little booth, some guy, it's like a dollar or two dollars to enter. Dude, if this was an Italy, it'd be like a hundred bucks. - I'm packed. - And there'd be like a line. - You have one hour to get out. - You'd be like the Vatican. These are wild. - And you'd have Chinese people blocking the fucking view with their iPads, taking pictures. - Yeah. - It's not an outside instrument. - A lot of Chinese to talk about. - Take the picture with your phone and put it on your iPad to show. I'm watching the sunset. - God, worst travelers. - Yeah, Chinese have-- - Chinese. - Probably the worst. - Yeah. - They also spit and they have bad manners and they just push you around and it's like, hello, I'm a human, like say hi or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Wait, I'll go to the sidebar. Let's just find, in no order, top five worst travelers that you wanna run into, that you know, Chinese. - Chinese, maybe Indian, it depends. - Ooh, okay. - There's a wide variety of Indians. - We're not talking about the highest level ones. We're not talking about the full ones, just like, if you're like, oh shit. - Yeah. - You see four of them anywhere, which one do you avoid most? - Yeah, Chinese, it's funny. - I actually avoid Americans when I travel. - Yeah, because it takes you out of it. - I just think that, but sometimes they're obnoxious and they don't respect cultures and they're just like, you see this all the time. And they're just like, you're in a quiet space on a metro or in a restaurant. They're like, oh my God, this morning. And they're just like, girl, like, we are a lab. - What's wrong with you? Like, social awareness, we were talking, like, understand that people are whispering or just not screaming. Why are you being an asshole? Yeah, I don't understand. - It's a lot of like, they don't matter. We matter, I'm doing my way. - Exactly, and I don't like that mentality, especially in Europe. You see Americans just like trashing places and it's like, okay, go out and have fun with your friends, but you don't have to be an idiot doing it. - Okay, Americans, Chinese. - Yeah, Americans, Chinese. - Where's Russian on there? - Russians really mind themselves. I mean, in Dubai, they're kind of more flashy and more annoying, so in some places. - 'Cause those are the rich Russians. - Yeah, the rich Russians, yes. But regular Russian travelers, I think that they're fine. - I heard hotels won't run to them in some places 'cause they will be fighting. (laughing) So they're like, it's gonna be an issue. It's gonna get broken out. So we just say we're full. - I'm trying to think of other-- - Australians go high and low. - Yeah, they go to the utmost high and the utmost low. They'll be most likely to take a blowjob and barf outside like a place that people are at. - Yeah. - And then the most likely to be like, I don't know if you're like going out like, we're going out. - We're going out. - They are really friendly, but they're just very much like in your face. Like, very, it's just like, what's the word I'm thinking of? Like, I got red hair, right? I'll be in an Aussie and they'll be like, oh, you're a ranga. That's what they're word for, for ginger. And they're like, you're a ginger. I'm like, okay, nice to meet you too. Like, if we're friends, maybe. Yeah, you can throw that, but like, I don't even know you, bro. - Yeah. - So it's like, there are the kind of people that will just like, a very sarcastic, extremely sarcastic. - Oh well. - Like you. - Yeah. - Oh, oh, I think it's Israelis. - Oh, definitely the most annoying. - They're my friend, my friend Gamiya. - They're always bargaining over everything. They take this level of comfort to be like, I'll go in the kitchen and make myself something. And they're like, no, no, this isn't like an open kitchen. This is like, only for the staff. - And they're very positive. - And Israelis will congregate with other Israelis when they travel, and they'll find a khabbat house and they'll eat, and it's like, go out and like see something. You don't have to like, hang out with like 10 other Israelis. - I found a town on Aussie's lawn that was really taken over. Like half of it was like the board of that's Israeli. That's backpackers. - There's this, I don't know. The Philippines got Shierga, which is a great vacation spot. It's beautiful. It's like very rural. And the Israelis have found it. And now they're like making a synagogue and like, and all that weird home. - All the locals are, there's articles right now. And all the locals are like, we don't want them here. Like they're being super disrespectful and like, so yeah, it's weird. So I think we got to five. - Okay, that's good. - Oh, sometimes French, like, they're. - English can be a problem too sometimes. - Yeah, it's like, French people like, they are nice in some, but something they don't show it. And sometimes they're just like a little close-minded. It's hard to generalize a country of 80 million people, but yeah, I would say. - All the French people I ever met were like, couldn't get over how cheap cigarettes were, wherever we were, and they were just on cloud nine. - They do smoke a lot of things. - Yeah, and they were like, they're like, nothing here. - They smoke a lot of things, but no one smokes more things than Russians and Chinese and North Koreans for us. - Russians also have the best stance for smoke. - Do they? - Well, I mean, it's-- - Show me this. - Wait, hold on. - Oh, the squat? - Oh, there's the-- - Chinese bikini. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah, for sure. Yes, yes. The squat. - The squat. And they just sit there all day. It's hard on my knees right now. - Yeah. - And they're just a standard. - Yeah. - It's pretty cool. - I love that, dude. - Yeah, back to Persepolis. I mean, I don't know. What do you want to talk about? I can talk about anything, bro. - Just kind of everything you saw there, and the people you met, that kind of thing, hanging with the nomads is exactly what I want to hear. More of your trip than like the history of the place. - Yeah. - Even though it's part of-- - It's hard to ignore amazing history when you travel. And I always say travel is the best education you can have because it's not like I'm like wanting to read about Persepolis when I'm home. Who cares? But when you're there and you're looking at it, you want to know everything about this place. - So you touch this shit? - Yeah, you can touch it, yeah. You can do whatever, you can just take rocks from there, you can do whatever you want. There's no-- - Who are these people? - I don't want to, yeah, I don't want to like, I don't know so much about the history, so I can't-- - No, this podcast is pretty standard, gets it wrong. - Okay, cool. - Yeah, we're not experts, we're just, I went there. - 2000 years old, built for old Iranian kings that used to live in the area. They used to have huge parties here. They used to host gatherings for other world leaders of old empires. And yeah, I mean, it looks like something you see in Egypt or Greece. And what's amazing is the structures are still standing after all these earthquakes, all these wars, you would think this would be the first place that they would want to like destroy. But there's another place, can you open up? - Can you bring up the map of like the whole Middle East? - I want to see where this is, where Iran is, like in terms of like trade routes of like-- - Yeah, sure. - You spelled that one right, perfect. - Middle East, the 2Ds was where it was gonna get you. If you got over the 2Ds, you're fine. - So it's gonna be in Iran in that yellow country. - So that's the border to the far east. - Yeah, and Shiraz, you can see Shiraz, it's in Iran, it's in the southern, is that city. So the Persepolis is right near Shiraz. - Were they at all the ones that people who met, were they at all like taken with Afghanistan? - What have you been taken? - Like mentally taken with Afghanistan. Could they were a war for forever? - They were, I think they, there's not a huge conflict now. - Or was it Iran and Iraq? - Well, all, Iran and Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan. Iran and Afghanistan speak the same language, Farsi. Iran and Iraq speak different language, but there's been many wars between these countries. They're all brothers, I mean, it's, when you talk to people face to face, they're like, yeah, they'll make a joke about Iraq. Like, no, that's our land, or in Afghanistan. Like, no, they speak our language, it's a Persian empire, but I don't think they're not so nationalistic where they're like, no, Afghanistan is ours, we own that. They don't have that, that's not the sense. I'm gonna show you two really other cool sites, like Persepolis, it's gonna blow your mind. So go, open up a new tab, type in Palmyra, Syria, P-A-L. - Oh. - Y-M-R-A. - Wait, before you type it in, so here's what I know about it, there is, in Edinburgh, I wanna do the festival there, there's a place called Palmyra. - Yeah, that's Syria. - And it's a late night place, and we'd all go get drunk there, and then someone who was like, they destroyed this place. - Yeah, they destroyed it, but ISIS destroyed it. So this place is insane. I was here recently, it's crazy dude, it's like, yeah, ISIS came in in 2015, 2016 and '17, and if you ever, did you watch the videos where they would be head people? - I watched one. - Yeah. - So those beheadings mostly took place in Palmyra. They would do a beautiful place to die. - It's not a very interesting thing. - Yeah, they were like in the orange uniforms and stuff, so yeah. - Like outside in this? - Yeah, no, they would, right there, like right in the main amphitheater area, they would sit you down and they would be head, if the videos are still online, you can watch 'em. - I suggest not, that's the one. I would watch everything back then, and that was it. was the one that got the like when they beheaded that journalist. Yeah. And it was wearing an orange. Yeah. Yeah. And it was like you watch it once. And then like, oh, there it is. Right, my stomach. Yeah. I know. It wasn't fast enough to beheadings. Yeah. No, if it was just chop and roll, like we thought up when we were a little, it'd be like, fine. It was like, oh, they just kept like slicing at it and stuff. So there's that. And that's one more. I want to show you. Type in one more tab. S H I B A M. So and they destroyed Palmyra. What do you mean? They just like went in and bombed the show ever. Yeah. Just to just to have pride. Yeah. Just to make this is 2000 years old. Yeah. It's Shibami Yemen. Let me just show you this one more. So this is called the Manhattan of the desert. 15th century, they built skyscrapers made out of mud bricks. So there's 15 to 20 floor skyscrapers in the middle of the Yemeni desert. It's been it's been around for six, seven hundred years. How did they do it? They just built one floor. They built it with mud bricks. Is that air conditioning one? I don't know if there's AC. I didn't see that. But this is in mainland Yemen. And it's really hard to access. And they're the checkpoint. What? The checkpoint that we were at. We only had 10 minutes here because they were like, the checkpoint just got bombed that we went through. We need to get out of here right away. So we had to we had to go out of different different. But yeah. So my point is like traveling like you find places like this that you never knew of. And they're freaking amazing. And like, wow. Could you answer? Yeah. It's just insane. Did you check? You went with your check. And not in Yemen. Not in Yemen. But in Iran. In Iran, yes. Did she have to cover up? She had to cover up. Always. Always. Yeah. Was there even like if you went on a hike? The one lady. Oh, I was gonna say in his team where I met a lady who had been there to Swedish girls. They were really, you know, a better travel than me. And she was like, oh, only in the big towns. You got to cover up when you're hiking. You're fine. No, if you're in public, you got to cover. It's funny. Like on the flight to Iran from Turkey. Yeah. No women is covered up. I mean, like none. It's just like a flight you take here. The moment that plane lands in Tehran. Oh, scarfs on. Is that Qatar Airlines when they're like, let's go up. Yeah. We're about to land. I have a vivid memory bro. We're going to take it off. We're out of airspace. It's like, boom. Yes. I have a vivid memory of arriving and around the first time and just seeing all the women scrambling to find their scarves in there. And the bags in here and like, because they have to put it on. And the plane is mostly women. I mean, there's a lot of women there. So. And then, yeah, it's so messed up, dude. It's the only country in the world where it's mandatory for women to not even Saudi, not even Syria, not even Afghanistan. It's mandatory for women by law to cover the harem public. It's the only country in the world. Iran. What were the toilet situation? I love the toilet question. Ooh, toilet toilets. In Iran, a lot of holes in the ground, like literal holes. Literal holes. In the countryside, literally like. Not even like, like, like no door. No door to opening clothes, but there'll be like a structure for a bathroom. Like at a gas station or at a restaurant. And it's like the size of a golf hole in the ground. And there's like shit all over next to it and stuff. Because yeah, you make it too small. People are going to miss. I prefer, this is a hot tick. I prefer never to use a toilet in a country like that. And I will always go out there. Hold it. No, I'll just go outside. Just like find a bush. Oh, why? Because it's more enjoyable. And I don't know if this time would be stepping on human feces when I go. I was in Patagonia and I was like, traveling by, um, um, camper van. And so if you get to some places that are just like, like, like that, but like not even nomads. It is nice to shit out there. You just go behind a bush. Yeah, it's great. Take your shit. You don't let the toilet people run away. You got to take a rock and put this. Nothing like a good nature poop. Oh, seriously. It's the best. I mean, that's what humans did until. And then you're like, look at your eyes or shitting and just kind of like staring at everything. Oh, it's great. It's really great because you don't get it that much. And you do it in the city and people look at you where. Yeah, right. My, just random thing just popped in my head. My first time in India on that backpacking trip when I got on the bus crash on that trip. I remember first time I ever saw a guy openly pooping. It totally middle of the day, 2 p.m. And he was pooping on the edge of this little, like, lake, right? It's kind of like a longer lake. And he was pooping in the lake, okay, on the edge of the lake. And then on the other edge of the lake, which is in vision, there's kids swimming in the water and it got fishing. In the same lake that a guy was pooping in. And I remember I was 23 years old and I was like, okay, the world is not like it is an Arizona where I grew up. Yeah. Yeah, right, right, right. That is a sign of like, I didn't even consider that none of my shoots as well. You don't know until you see, right? Like, you probably seen stuff like that, too. But some things just stick with you and you're like, wow, I can't believe that that's happening. Does any part of you want it? Like, if you see, I don't know, like, okay, okay, in New York. I saw somebody, we had a bunch of like outdoor seating for a while. It might be gone now, but because of COVID. And then it was like late night in the East Village. And someone was going into one that they taking the chairs that I've went to pee. And I was like, dude, there's a park across the street. Don't piss in this fucking structure that I'm going to be eating in. He's like, I wasn't. I was just like, no, you were, dude, but there's a fucking bushes there. Yeah, yeah. I get it. Yeah, I've been drunk in public before, but find a bush. Find a bush. And, uh, but like that, like, hey, you're doing this wrong? When I go to another place, I'm like, you actually might be doing it right. I don't know. Part of me goes, don't, but then another part of me is like, maybe I don't. It's kind of situational in modern day life. And go back a few hundred years like, there were no toilets, bro. There were no toilets. Well, there was probably something to do your business. But not like a flushable nice toilet with, with a nice water system. Yeah. So I had the toilet situation. I mean, I've had so I mean, the worst is, I've had food poisoning about 30 to 40 times. Like pretty bad. So the worst is when you're, you're shitting your brains out, like constantly throughout the day. And then you're on this road trip on long dirt roads. And then you have to just continuously stop. And that's the worst because it's like 10 times a day. It keeps going. Yeah, you're like, it's Ethiopia. It comes to mind. There's been some times there where it's like, I'm like driver. Like, I got to stop. Like, and then eventually he just, I was like, stop. Like, he could even go, no, no, five minutes. There's a time. I'm like, I don't got five minutes, bro. I got five seconds. Like, you got to stop. And so then he then he starts laughing. And I'm just like, I love that when it's like rock in a hard place or like a movable force and whatever they both. And then you're like, no, I get that we're going to that town. But I have a Jewish bladder. Yeah, exactly. Obviously I shouldn't have to make the whole bus stop again. But I'm going to piss my pants. Yeah. Yeah. The Ashkenazi bladder system is a real thing. Yeah. It was somewhere where they were like Brazil. And they were just like, I was like, hey, the door's not open. It was just, don't shit in there. I'm like, dude, you cannot lock the bathroom door on an overnight bus. That's crazy. I know I'm not the wrong one here. I just bring a bottle and pee in the bottle. Stuff around people. People are sleeping on the bus. Listen, if I could tell you I haven't done it, I'd be lying. By the way, what? Pause for a second. Is it everything going great? Yeah. Yeah. I think this is awesome. I know you wanted to dig deeper into Iran. But we're kind of going everywhere. But it's like this. Are you cool? Yeah. Yeah. Just wanted to make sure. Okay, so I had this travel. Yeah. I did Wolfpots' podcast in Paris took us writing class. Nice. And then we started. We've been friends for a while. And he used his writing exercise now. Like he was like one time in, I don't know this. I took it in London. I took a train up to Leeds and did that. I'm like, oh, yeah, do one time in Cairo. I took a train at overnight training. It was like the windows of surgery you couldn't see out. And he goes, oh, bro, I went to Cairo or Egypt. And I did this. And I met a woman. And I was like, dude, I met a woman in some. It just like reminds you of other things. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You just spiral out from there. That's kind of what's happening right now. Yeah, actually. Yeah. I'm reminded of things and experiences that. I've had so much in the last 15 years, so many things and so much simulation. And sometimes I just slips my mind. Do you feel like you're not slowing down enough to enjoy a place? Are you just checking off a list? A few countries. I feel like I went fast. In South Africa, we roadtrip from me and my buddy mine from Nigeria to Senegal. And all those small countries are like 12 countries in there. And we kind of just did like one or two days. But there's not a lot of events happening in those places. So that we got stuck in a coup in Guinea. That wasn't that wasn't fine. All these police came out with shields and like freaking helmets on. And we're like, what is going on? And they're like, get out of here. So that was in Guinea. Oh, yeah. So we started in Nigeria. And yeah, we just went through all those little countries. And since been back to most of these countries, more than one, the coup was in Guinea. But I could tell you some. Guinea and Guinea Bessau are not the most enjoyable countries to visit. So I was scammed on the border of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This is a great story. I exited Liberia no problem. Get into Sierra Leone immigration. And before we got to the passport check, these two guys in police uniforms, in police uniforms. Grab us and go, you got to come down here first before you go to the immigration checkpoint. Okay. They take us in a room about this size. And we sit down and they go, give me a yellow fever vaccine. We go, okay, yellow fever, which is mandatory. And they say, give me your color of vaccine. Color is like a water bacteria disease that you can get. They go, give me a, show me your color of vaccine. We go, we don't need a color of vaccine to enter Sierra Leone. They had printed out on the wall, like in really bad, in bad writing. They printed out, like must, must have color of vaccine to enter Sierra Leone. And it's clearly, we're getting scanned. And me and my buddy were like, what do we do? The guy goes, you need, we need $500 each for you to enter Sierra Leone. We cannot enter unless he's. First of all, even if I didn't need a color of vaccine, the $500 would not stop me from getting color. Yeah, it's like nothing to do with what you're talking point. Yeah, so they go they demand $500 each and we go absolutely not Then the officer say rocking a hard place You're Jew and a fucking shake down. It's gonna be a fucking bad royal and then Aggressively the officer takes out opens the drawer takes out a freaking syringe and flicks it And I remember when he flipped it I remember seeing the water droplets flying off of the syringe and he goes give me your arm What as if he was gonna inject me with something? Some vaccine that I needed and it was his way he knew we were gonna say no But it was his way of being like trying to get more money. So long story short We ended up getting him down to $300 each so we both paid $300 then after we paid He worked with the immigration officer. He walked us he after those guys walked us to get our passport stamped and they said have a good time and Seriously, oh That happened So those guys are trying to wrap my head around yeah bro if you're the immigration Those guys like hey, I'm gonna shake down people they worked together don't stop me and goes well, you got to cut me Yeah, all right, so you do I'm not gonna shake him down. You're really gonna shake him down Yeah, so you shake down giving my hundred you keep whatever extra. Yep, and then tell me who's good absolutely I had a hidden camera. I it's on YouTube. I was filming this whole thing and then I posted that thing Yeah, yeah, go to YouTube and type in Drupesky Serially on and then I made a video about these three scammers three guys scammers and then I got an email from the government the next morning and said Hey, we've gone down and arrested these guys in their imprison because we don't want tourism to be scared to enter We don't want any bribery happening or anybody getting scammed Do you think they did check this out. Yeah, I think so Yeah, click that one and we spoke French That's me and my buddy just skip skip forward. What a dark nice shirt. I know brother Classic white man in Africa shirt. Is that a question? Wait, so we're telling the story as as I'm showing footage So yeah, you can kind of cut through kind of that was our driver. I think I had a hidden camera keep going Yeah Or you can't see the we were just telling the story here what happened I thought I was filming the guy at some point anyways Maybe it's the other one. Yeah, this camera's over. Yeah, I made another video talking about how this camera's got arrested I will tell you we used to get here when I worked the for the comedy store work worked We would get a complaint letters. This is like 99 2,000 about Paul Mooney Mm-hmm, and and they said we were offended. He was like really racist. He is but it's so funny and And then I was like what am I supposed to do she goes call those people Tell them they have to tell them that we're giving you two free tickets to show and we're gonna ban that guy that was so racist for a month And I was like you're banning Mooney. She goes no No, call those people and tell them that Paul Mooney is banned. Yeah, then call Paul Mooney and read him the letter because he loves hearing these and Tell him here's his spots for the week So I wonder if they were like we arrested them and they're just like there. Just tell this guy Yeah, I actually don't know everything that happened I don't and I also don't know why the footage is not showing but I think I maybe I didn't get enough footage. You're chill for the Sierra Leone's But you know also like I don't know man like there's not many tourists enter does it with the roads look like bro Can you imagine that like team or was bad? Yeah, there's not many tourists entering these borders. So Putting oh the go back to that. That's a shot. See I had a head I put my GoPro on the desk and he didn't see it and so I was filming it I blurred his face but that this is him interrogating us and saying like you need to get this vaccine to enter and we're like bro We don't need this vaccine. How young you look there. Do I look in the shit? Yeah Yeah, I mean it was like eight years ago nine years ago. It's a good difference Wow, so are there places in any run that you're like I didn't get to go there. I would have loved Yeah, I'm shot if you pull up the map of Iran is in North East. There's a huge pilgrimage happening It's near Turkmenistan border at North East Mashaad yeah, there's like a huge Mosque in a big it's one of the biggest pilgrimages in the world where people like walk for days to enter The year it's really holy traditional city for Shia Islam Islam has this sunny and Shia. Oh, yeah, we got to get to that Yeah, so Iran is Shia and Iraq is Shia But almost all other Muslim countries are Sunni they're two different branches of Islam and Iran is very Shia and so this is a very important site for Shia I have a relative who was a captain in the army at the time and his job was a set of provisional government in I believe Iraq could have been Afghanistan. It doesn't really matter for the story But he had to they spent a year negotiating on what percentages of the Congress should be Muslim Sunni Shia and maybe one other. I don't know And after a year of negotiates they figure out the right percentages like yeah, okay Fine, are we good? That was so frustrated and they was like leaving his his posts You know in another two weeks or three weeks and they go yeah, sure it goes great Tomorrow we'll meet we'll have our first session and they're like I'm not sitting in a room with a Sunni And he goes oh fuck And he was like square one That's pretty funny. Yeah So did it change from region to region in Iran or they all kind of a thing they're mostly Shia There's a small amount of Sunni in Iran, but no they are they persecuted I Don't think so. I know that Baha'i Baha'i is a religion. It started in Iran. Have you heard of the Baha'i faith? I started to start a Haifa. No, it started in Iran. 100% started. There's a Baha'i temple in Haifa. Okay. Yeah, but that's what rain Wilson Yeah, yeah, I met him through a Baha'i video. I did so Baha'i Faith started in Iran But Baha'is are persecuted and they're not able to be Baha'i in public and all the Baha'i temples There's still a lot of Baha'i there But they're all in households and if you're an openly a Baha'i in Iran, they could take you in prison and wow So they're okay with Jews Yeah, not Baha'i. Yeah Isn't that crazy? I think Baha'i is one of the most interesting religion. They're super interesting They believe in all religions and they think they were all one. I think it's beautiful actually Yeah, I mean that's nerdy enough to like beat that motherfucker up that guy ain't fighting back. Right No, Baha'i's faith is super interesting From what I understand if it was just like what is similar between many? There's like certain ones are just one religion and that might have been like man like obfuscating the word of God over playing telephone game. Yes, yes Yes, like Moses Muhammad Jesus Buddha like all these are like real people I get it's like a lineage that all led to the one he won human race basically and also all religions are kind of similar They all tell you to do good for society on your father mother. Yeah pretty much everyone. Yeah, so they go that's a real one then. Yes Don't mix linen and cottons like that's just Jews that might have been a fuck up. Let's ignore that one Don't kill Don't steal so like those are probably straight word of God. Yeah Um be a good person. Yeah. No fish for 40 days like that's just Christians. That's probably not or whatever I don't know whatever they do in life. Yeah, it's dumb. They give up something. Yeah I don't know what they give you something. Yeah, I'll stop gambling. They choose what they give up daytime's for three weeks Yeah, so all these religions are connected and I'm not that religious, but I do think it's cool that What was the what was the get around system? Did you just use cars with guides or did you where their buses first trip took a bus the next three trips I just was in a car with my local friend just me and I mean the guy that you saw in the video He's my good friend and tour guide and you know we just gotten like a shitty Toyota Corolla and just drove around could you get weed there? I didn't try but I got hash in Afghanistan. It's pretty good You could get weed everywhere like every single country in the world Even in like Singapore where when you enter the country you sign a paper that says if you're caught with any drugs You will be killed by death penalty. Have you been to Singapore? No when you enter and you sign that paper It's like any drug use it is enforced by death penalty, but dude people are there's drugs everywhere There's there's weed everywhere. There's weed everywhere Yeah, no one really cares I mean, it's like it's like it's like a shakedown offense in a lot of places But like we don't give a shit, but we can get a hundred bucks out of you. Yeah, true. So it's like broken tail. Have you ever given bribes? Um, tell the America. I've done it in North America Interesting. You want to get in the front of the line somewhere It goes a long way. I'm a little embarrassed But if I'm Swiss somebody I'm like I will give the 20 bucks if you give it to that guy and ask What about with like police officers or government officials in Ecuador? We got shaken down because it was like I didn't I'm not ready a lot, but then it was like some cop Just a checkpoint and he was like whoa your licenses You're always supposed to be over three months you're four And I was like no, I know I went back to the consulate because it's covid. We renewed Here's our paperwork and they go, it's not good And it's like and they'll hold you yeah, they keep holding yeah, that's why I played dumb American I just keep going like I understand it went to the consulate. Yeah, that's only only three months like none of these set six months And then I'll also like my Spanish wasn't perfect. So then it was like Eventually like get out of here. You didn't he didn't take money He wanted it. Well, the thing is like they have all day to sit there and talk and you don't you got plays to be So a lot of times when that happens to me in Africa if we could pull over just Give him some money. Give my entire land. It was like went the wrong way on a mope But it was like pull out of a place like oh, it's wrong way and then immediately turn around I mean within like 10 feet That's enough It goes all right you can go get a ticket or you can give me whatever 100 bought right now And I'll just handle it for you 100 bucks like three dollars. Yeah, yeah, and it is that thing. I'm like no do not get over on me. Yeah, but also just do it One time I was in Afghanistan with my guide Noor and we were on the freeway And it was just me and him driving He hit a dog across the freeway a big dog like like a big dog up to my waist We killed the dog sadly dog flew like flew into the bushes and we were like really shaking up. And we couldn't believe that he just killed the dog and we really said, they fucked up the bumper. So the bumper of the car was like down and it wasn't dragging on the street but it was almost dragging on the street. So we get to, there's checkpoints every 20 minutes in Afghanistan, there's like a checkpoint, Taliban checkpoint or just a checkpoint. We get to the checkpoint and immediately they take my, they take my password, they take my guide in the backroom, I'm sitting in the car. So then my guide comes to me, his name's Nora, he goes, they're accusing us of killing someone like a hit and run. They wanted, it was like a bribery situation that like they're accusing us of killing someone. Like because he said, why didn't you fix your car? The car's on that stuff. Why would you be driving like this? You would have taken it to a shop to fix it and they didn't believe that we had killed a dog. And so we're, how did this checkpoint for two? - It's like, who's even dead though, bro? - They're just making up stuff. So we're told, and also I'm American and they were like, oh, why is he here? And like the race question. So. - What question is this? - Afghanistan. - Okay. - So I'm stuck in this car for like an hour and a half with my phone not working, me like literally shaking. Like, don't know what to do. My passport is not with me, which is basically my whole identity, I'm sure you know when they, someone how has your passport, you're like, - That's it. - You're like, give me the passport. - The only thing that you can't lose. Take everything. - You can recover if they get your wallet. - Anything. - Anything. - Phone broke, figure it out. Passport is like, yeah. So they had my passport hour and a half and like my guide knows on the phone with all of his contacts. He knows the police and eventually he ended up paying something and they let us go. But that hour and a half, I was so scared, man. I couldn't leave the car, I couldn't just go. I couldn't even take a piss. They were like, look, they were eagle eye hawking. Like, who is this guy in the car? What are you guys doing? I had no contacts and every like 20 minutes he would come and be like, okay, I'm working on it. Like they think that, and I'm worried that like, they're just gonna be like, no, we're taking this guy. Like you guys are, we're skeptical of what you're doing and I'm taking you to prison. Like, they can do whatever they want. Kidnapping is my biggest fear. Kid, like straight up, like anything can happen. You can, like, but kidnapping would be the worst. Kissing area. - Have you heard of anyone getting kidnapped? - Yeah. - Like that heard of new story, but I may like, heard of someone who's-- - Yeah, my guide in Haiti, his name was Sean. He's a Haitian guy. He took me in the biggest gang in Port-au-Prince, which I did a story. It's one of my most viral videos on YouTube. Crazy, crazy, crazy, like, unbelievable scary place. Yeah, type in Drew Binsky Haiti. - Okay, go ahead. - And then he ended up getting kidnapped a few months later with another YouTuber, who I know where that video, I spent a day in Haiti's most dangerous slump. This video is insane, you can just click around. So, they got kidnapped. - Not good for me. - It's crazy. - They got kidnapped for, like, a few weeks, and they pay a ransom to get out, but that's that's Sean. So, he's a great guy, speak English. It's a French-speaking English. - He got kidnapped? - Yeah, he got kidnapped with another YouTuber. Someone just like me, who went to Haiti. His name is Eric, but that's his actual channel name. He's a Lebanese-American guy. - Okay. - Cool guy. I mean, he makes cool stories, but-- - Are you seeking out danger in these places? - Are you trying to avoid it? - I try to go places that are scary, and just try to find, like, what's actually happening here, like, no one knows, like, there's 20,000 people living in this community, and like, not a single person knows what's happening. So, I try to, like, if you scroll through, like this, if you ever want to see me, like, really scared, this is, like, this is probably the experience. But, I mean, there's people living their life, like this, like, I'm just like, what's going on? Like, I'm just-- - In Solchen, Gabbana. - I'm really curious to see-- - In Solchen, Gabbana. I'm just, yeah, I went inside this lady's house, go back a little bit. Her house is covered in water, because it was just a flood. Yeah, look, no, that's not this woman's house. Anyways, this is another woman. But, I'm just really curious, and I try to share the good side of humanity, even if it's in this, like, scary, dangerous, bombs, kidnap. If that's all happening on the outside, but what is, who's living here, and, like, what's actually happening here? And that's, I like to be the messenger to go find those stories. That's what it comes down to. - Okay, well, unless there's anything more in Iran, that you can remember of, like, interesting stuff, 'cause those were all very interesting. - Iran. Okay, so, yeah, I missed this whole thing. So, my most recent trip to Iran, which was a year ago, I started in Shiraaz, and then I road tripped-- - Do they have the wine there? - They still have the wine, but it's illegal. But they still do it underground. Yeah, there's a big, a lot of grapes in Shiraaz. I started in Shiraaz, and I road tripped all the way west, all the way along the border of Iraq, all the way up. So, this is, it's Kurdish. So, the Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a country. There's 40 million Kurds. They don't have their own country. There's split between Iran-- - 40 million. - 40 million. Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. And so, they-- - Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. - Yeah, there's 40 million Kurds. But in Iran, so, I went through all these Kurdish villages and they have their own language, they have their own customs, they have their own traditions, they're like a different ethnic group. Yeah, pretty cool, right? And so-- - What do they do different? - What do they do different? I mean, they're similar lives to other people in Iran. They dress differently. They have these, like, the men have these big, it looks like like a robe that they wear with a big belt, and they wear these little different hats. And they, but there's still like Shia Muslims, like, they don't have different religion, but-- - The ethnic? - They're different ethnic groups. - Oh, okay. - They're called Kurdish, yeah. I'm sure you've heard of them before. - Yeah, for sure. - Yeah, I mean-- - Kurdistan. - Yeah, what is Kurdistan? - Kurdistan is this de facto state. Like, press that, yes, that's Kurdistan. So, it spreads between Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, and a little bit of Armenia. So, that's where the Kurds live. - So, if there was like a natural actual border, that would be a country. - Yes, yes. Like, in those, in that border are all Kurds. Like 90-something percent Kurds living there. 40 million people, that's a lot of people. - And Turkey doesn't want to give up that land. Or mean, he does want to give up a lot of part. Iran does want to give us that. - So, exactly. All the countries are like, no, we want this to be ours. Like, we don't want to give you all those natural resources in all that land. So, Turkey and the Kurds have the biggest conflict. Iraq, Iraq is the most lenient. Whereas, the Iraqi government, they recognize Iraqi Kurdistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan has their own flag in their own currency and stuff. But in Turkey, like, no, you cannot say that you have like Turkish Kurdistan, because they'll want to kill you. So, I road-tripped all of that Iran, all of that red orange in Iran, and it was so beautiful. I met the world's shortest man. He has a Guinness Book of World Records certificate. He's a Kurd. I went to his house. Yeah, I made a video about his life. He's a-- - How tall was he? - He's less than two feet tall. Look what? Yeah, he's 26 years old. - I was thinking like five. - I think world shortest man, Iran, I broke the story. I broke the story international and like, yeah, that's him. Yeah, that's my video. All that's my video that they're clipping. - Look at him in his little suit. - Yeah, I took him to go to a suit shopper, or whatever it's called. People that make suits. And I took him to get in a haircut. He's a cutest geek. - Is this an adult? - Yeah, he's 26. Yeah, he also has the world's smallest hands. - He's sitting on a watermelon. - Oh, you'll like this story. I'm sorry to keep referencing my channel, but it just makes sense. - Yeah, that's right. You have the videos of it, too. - Yeah. Go to, just type in Drubenski shortest man, 'cause I went to his house in another story of like, his family just-- - Did you drown in a toilet? - No, they're so amazingly nice, man. - What's he got? - A day in the life of the world shortest man. So that's him. He's the cutest kid ever. Like, he's got wrinkles. - How old is he? - He's 26, I think. - And he knows his value to the world. He knows why he's-- - Like, he doesn't-- - Oh, that's tough, dude. - So it's hard for him to walk. He has a good cognitive ability. He's like, he's smart. He's praising in the mosque. Got him go look at a haircut there. That's where I got him to get a suit. - So he does not mind you measuring people in the studio? - No, he's super proud of it. Like, he's got two Guinness World Records in the middle of Iran. But once again, when to his family's house, if he scroll through, they cook me an amazing dinner. I think that was towards the end. And just like, unannounced. There's no other country where you just show up unannounced and they will just like roll out the red carpet for you, except for Iran. This is in a restaurant. If you keep going later, it's tough. But yeah, that's his father. It's funny, he has siblings and stuff and they're both, they're all like normal sized. And he just, he just got this really rare disease. - What, yeah, what is it? - I don't know. It's like a one in billion disease. - He just looks like a kid. - Keep going to the right. Yeah, this is the dinner scene where his parents were like, oh, all night cooking for, I didn't even know they were cooking for us. We were out shooting and then we came home. That's the world's shortest woman who I also met. And he knows her too. So we sent a selfie to her. - Is he trying to, is he trying to smell it? - I'm trying to, I'm trying to set them up. I thought about making another video called, I set up the world's shortest people. And so yeah, his family like made this whole meal for us while we were out shooting and we got back. I went back to his house to drop this his mom. I went back to his house to drop him off and say like, thanks for an amazing day. And I come home to this feast, unannounced, unannounced man. And they wouldn't take any money. That's his father. - Because if he'd pay him, we're not. - They're just, they're so offended if you pay them. They're so offended. Like, no other place I'm telling you man, like. I mean, people are nice. Like if you went into the country side of Kentucky, I'm sure people would be like, hey, come on in. Like we're having like a little like mashed potatoes and like they'd probably invite you to dinner, right? But these people went out of their way to go shopping to go buying ingredients to put on this huge thing for a stranger, basically. So yeah, I mean. - I mean, paying them too is like if somebody's like, I'll get you drank and they're like here, take five dollars. Like, yeah, it's like I got this round. And like, come on take it and like, dude, stop. Get around. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, but on a much higher level. - Yeah, man. So Iran-- - Is he trying to bang that chick? I would. - I think that I'm gonna set them up. Yeah. - I'm actually gonna-- - I'm working on it. - Yeah. - I'm working on it. Seriously, I wanna like find a meeting place. She lives in India and he lives in Iran. So. Turkey could be like the actually the right middle country and like just get them there and then just kind of spend a couple days with them And then she'd be like enjoy. I want yeah, you want them to hit it off. I wonder man. What if she was like Matters were awful. They would have to have the smallest kids in the world One would think they'd lose the record Yeah, do you have smaller kids or taller kids? How you three feet tall like I know my dad was my dad was two six Way better But I think you're starting to see the thread line of Iran is like anywhere you go They're very nice. They're so nice, and like it pains me that yes, there's war and you could think whatever you want about that But people just have this negative Stereotype about Iran. They're like oh Iran dangerous. Why I would never go there like the people whatever They're all the oh I know an Iranian American. He's nice But he's American eyes like people in Iran are no like Iran is beautiful and like it's I can't wait to go back Yeah, did you have like kebab and stuff like that? Is that a big there? It's like all the Middle Eastern standards. Yeah, all of the Eastern standards They have the best like kebabs. Yeah, saffron. They have a lot of kebabs They'll come out on like sometimes it comes on a literally a sword like a pointed tip and it's like the freshest meat that you've ever seen A lot of rice a lot of like the way they cook their tomatoes. It's the same in you'll find in like the mid it's Middle Eastern food But yeah, they got a lot of good restaurant Iranian restaurants. See that's the tomatoes how they cook them That's like that's the standard kebabs right there wait stop don't move off that for a second I look so I'm so hungry right now. That looks so good. I might have a little bit of time if you want to get some food up to them. Yeah, I'm down Yeah, so yeah, let's see if there's a Persian place. Oh, that's the other thing I heard Persia Well, I just thought that was a new way to say Iran and then somebody's like it's not just Iran It's like a couple of multi-Countries and it's not all of Iran Yeah, so I don't know the exact answer, but I know that some Iranians like to be called Iranians and some Iranians like to be called Persians So let's see Persian Just for wait, wait go back to the This is all Persia No, that's the Persian Empire, which was huge Wait go back to what what okay, hold on there Persia's historical Western name for the region course, but modern day run. Okay, Center in the South was Iran officially adopted his native name in 1935. So they're kind of interchangeable, but if you talk to Iranians that are very Like passionate about it. They'll Persepolis was the capital. Yeah, there we go Persepolis. Yeah, oh Zerostrianism. That's interesting. That's a religion Freddie Mercury was Zerostrian It's they have this like Burning fire temple the fire never goes out. It's an Iranian religion and it's still popular Zerostrian, I don't know if you're a Zerostrianism. Yeah It's a dying religion, but it was born in Iran That I'm telling you that they have the I went to the original fire temple of where it the fires the fire hasn't gone out in like thousands of years really like literally. Yeah It's a I mean Freddie Mercury was like always talking about Zerostrianism. Yeah, that's the I mean that's maybe one of the fire temples They did they worship fire. I honestly do I can't tell you It's a it's a it's a thriving religion in Iran 4,000 years of faith fire see fire in the battle between good and evil It's crazy man like this is a weird element fire where it's like not there. Yeah, right that it gets going. Yeah, it's on Also all humans have primitive instincts to fire like whenever you sit around a campfire Everybody just locks in lock and and they just stare at the fire and it's crazy like all of us like fire has been All he meant all humans have had fires like to cook food and just yeah, I mean, you just like not like everyone in the circle We'll just be like staring at it and it's like a weird subconscious subconscious thing with fire Yeah, Zerostrianism's really interesting. Oh The worshipping with it right there. That's yeah, do they love fire? They're all about the fire That seems like Indiana Jones kind of thing kind of yeah Yeah, when I was doing like Ayahuasca those like fires gonna be key here let it like keep staring into it We'll keep throwing shit in there like I've tried a lot of drugs, but Zerostrian I mean Therostrian, but Ayahuasca like you did you resets you for like a week or like three days? Reset you for quite some time. Are you still reset? Yeah, you just change You think you're different now than you were okay Well, there's like a reset of like okay, I feel clean and whatever and it's like just like mushrooms like feel good for like Well, then slowly kind of goes away And then this one's like that, but then also just like a like a shift change You know like if you lost your arm we'd be like all right, that's not coming up and you still feel that shift change It's not so much feeling it. It's just like they're just like you're a little different Like these people that got their rods through the brain and it came out but they lived and then now they're like Weirdly like you know, they just like different person. How many days were you high for? Just one, but they say it keeps working on you for eight They said you should if you want like do the full cycle If you go four days in a row, but they didn't hit me with that till after I woke up on day two and I was like No, no, you would have had to tell me I'm already so worn out and you remember everything of what happened Yeah, I mostly was just me sitting there puking and yeah, yeah, everybody pukes, right? Yeah, you can't not puking You can't not puking. Honestly, I was like not puking. There was another person there. They were puking way fast And I was kind of like just had like a mushroomy trip for a bit Then I was not and then I was like whoa starting to get nauseous, but like an hour and a half in and then I was like Trying not to barf and then I was like oh, maybe I should barf Maybe this is like it's what he's supposed to do. I guess so My theory. I don't know. It's just like once you cleanse them the shit works So you barfed and then I barfed and then I was like boom, and how does it hit you different than mushroom trip? It starts there and then you're it's much more like oh, you're kind of not here for a bit You know like you just thoughts are there and your body doesn't even kind of matter And then and then with the waves of mushroom, you know waves go up and then down back up I mean like I think I'm done. You're like no, no, no. Are they positive thoughts mostly or are they scary negative thoughts? All of them sad thoughts scary Clear thoughts. I think it takes you where it wants to take you So it's up to it or what's inside you that you need to deal with So he was telling us about one guy that had gone there and it was a it was a cicareo And he was he was realized What he did for a living was take lives And and he just was screaming and he was punching the ground as he said he kept punching the ground It was what the fuck what am I? What have I done like it hit like you know, you internalize something for the first time you're like I was a bad person So that guy had to face that I didn't have are you in the room with them? No, okay, tell me about another up about the outstanding one. Are you alone? There's one of the person there. Okay, it was because right after COVID it could have been 15 got it Um, I don't know too scared to do that. Yeah, shaman beating a little drum to get you focused and throwing like wax into the fire So it makes like sort of shapes You fall and hallucinate right like yeah, yeah, but yeah, then you're seeing like you're looking up at the top of the hut and it's just like That kind of it's like a movie version that kind of fades away now you're looking to sky and the stars and just beyond you do it again I have not I would I feel like kind of has to call to you yeah So we met a guy and in somewhere and he was like I found a good guy and I was like I'll tell you about it because I did it once badly Okay, and then it was like a tourist thing and then I found this guy here There's Ecuador. Oh, they do it here too, but it's better to do that in Ecuador Yeah, I mean it was definitely felt more authentic. Yeah, you know, for sure. There's some guys like I'm not He did it for like 40 bucks You know plus the stifes of steep and breakfast. It wasn't even like anything crazy, but like Yeah, but like you're you hear the jungle sounds around you. That's so cool And he's like let me show you where I got the ayahuasca from he's like yeah, this was planted about 80 years ago Cut that off just that's your portion That tree was planted years ago. Yeah, it's like my grandfather planted that Right here. So you're like we're getting from right here. You're doing it right there you put it in a tea and drink it Grind it up in a way I met somebody else some other Chamali who's making the guy who was gonna do it Prepare his own ayahuasca. So I think it's every tribe is different how they handle it - can it kill you? Nothing I know of. I haven't really heard of that in being a possibility So bizarre. Yeah, but then they said like so you're done He goes hey, you still can't have sex or drink or eat certain types of meat for the next eight days Because he said it's still working in you. You're not tripping out, but it's still doing something to you So don't fuck with it because if you have sex and it'll never be that good again or what? No, no That's if you have sex with a black chick That's crazy, man. Oh no, it's because Some sort of purity. I don't know, but he told us about a couple that like We're there. It's fine. And then they were like got whatever they got out of it and six days out They're like we're it's over the trips over. Yeah Let's look we can have sex And then they started fighting and broke up like a month later damn. Yeah There's a drug called e-bow guides in west Africa I tried it, but I didn't take enough to like get so our ibugins room It's it's like ayukasca ayuasca. It's comes from the route of a tree And then they just put it in the drink and you drink it. I I only took like you're supposed to take eight pieces of it I only took two because I was too scared. I felt like a little bit just like little hive But people but people like To go there to reset. It's exactly like ayuasca, but it's only in Gabon, Cameroon and I think it's in central Africa and Republic or it's in like three countries. Do you know heard of it? I be OGA E-Boga yeah, I did a story on a long time ago and then since then every I be OGA Everyone hits me up and they're like how can I try E-Boga? I'm like, I don't know man. E-Boga plant. There it is. It's it's yeah How you trust like yeah, evergreen rain first into central yeah, totally so it's Everyone says it's just like ayuasca But people-- - Yeah, probably. - This woman that she's taking it all the time and she just lives out in the jungle. - It's funny too, 'cause these aren't like, acid was the creation. You know, like figured out what-- - Humans made it. - Yeah, Tylenol was a creation. - Yeah, right. - But then ayahuasca is like, it was just, did it just do it? And so you had to discover-- - Yeah, someone just ate it. - And it's not just eating it. You had to grind it down, making it much, and then combine it with another plant. 'Cause I think what the ayahuasca does is take all your blocks away from you, and then a little DMT that's in grass or anything that it hits you better. The ayahuasca is like a cleanser. So that's not what's making you, it's just making you, maybe it's that too. But it's like-- - Yeah. - Was this shit planted everywhere? - Yeah. - That kinda stuff that needs you. So this one guy that was like, and like a lodge in the Amazon, we were like, oh, we can't eat the meat. I don't know what pork, and he's like, why? And we're like embarrassed to tell him, 'cause it wasn't doing it with him. And then eventually I was like, taking ayahuasca's, okay, now you're good on pork. But he was so casual about it, and he was like, have you done it? He goes, yeah, like 70 times. - 70? - 70 or eight? - Oh, seven or eight. - And like, when? Why? And he goes, no, it's just like-- - It's normal. - It's normal. It goes, your shaman calls you in. - Yeah. - He treated it like a principal. - That's crazy. - Going like, "Honey to see you tomorrow." - It's your time. - You're not, I've noticed your grades are slipping. You know, like a principal might, like I wanna talk to you, I don't wanna, is everything okay at home? That kind of thing, he goes, he talks to you, tell your mom to stop making beef for you. - Wow. - And I'll, you know, I'll call you when he's like, "Mom, the shaman told me that it was like, all right." - What a different world out there. - It was just like, I need to keep up on you. Yeah, it's just so different. And so he's like, it was so casual as a part of their upbringing. The shaman was like the spirit cop. You know, who could tell you what to do? Okay, so this is what I tell everybody at the ends, but this is gonna be weird for you. I asked two questions. A travel tip, general or specific. Like, when going to Gabon, don't pay the fuck at me. Sierra, don't pay the guy. Give him a third of what he wants. Or, pack light is like a big broad one. And also, I asked, what place is calling you next? But this is the wearer because you've been to all of them. - Tell the travel tip, bring half the clothes and twice the money. And what I mean by that is like, no one cares what you wear. Like, rewear shirts and you can always do laundry. People don't understand. The whole world does laundry. - Yeah. - People do laundry. They hand wash it. There's washing machines. - There's larger mats everywhere. - You literally need three shirts, one pair of underwear and like a pair of pants and a pair of shoes. Like, I mean, and you're weighed down by all of them. - Yeah, do you like, who wants to carry with all these shirts? Like, who cares man? So, and then the money, like, you wanna have a U.S. cash 'cause U.S. cash is king and it's accepted everywhere. And if you ever get a situation where you need to give money, if you take out Thai bot, no one's gonna take it. So, and I usually keep money like in different parts of my bag. Just in case I get-- - I do that. - Yeah. - A book, another book. - Yeah, just have a couple of different stuff 'cause also, like, if you are getting, let's say someone comes to you with a gun or, and then you open up one space, they're gonna think all your money's there. And so, you need to have other money. Also, like, if you lose your credit card or something, you wanna have-- - Cash. - I always travel with like $2,000 to $5,000 a cash on me just to have it. - Wow, you don't think that makes your target? - You don't think that makes me a target? Well, now people know I carry that with me. So, I've never said that publicly. - No, I think it's fine. Like, I wanna be prepared in case I'm too-- - Yeah, how would they know you have it? Yeah, so it's not-- They would have to see it, to be like that. - So, have to close twice the money and then a place that's calling me, that's a great freaking question, my man. - Like, right now, I'm called back to Southeast Asia and it's been so long it's been calling for like two or three years, and I'm like, I gotta get the fucking back. - Yeah, yeah, that's-- - You've been everywhere. - I'm happy to give you a lot of advice. I've lived there for many years and I've been to all those countries and many times. What's calling me right now? More China. I did a China trip a couple of years ago and I loved it. I was in Western China, but I wanna go to Central China. I wanna go to Southern. - So, whenever I look at a map, this is old-style map. - Yeah. - So, you have like most of the cities-- - Yeah, in the East Coast. - Right, and then, if you look at a map, then there's huge dots here. - No, dude. - It's huge. - Yeah, it's a bad, yeah. - I wanna go to Tibet and I've been there. Like, that sounds super interesting. I have a calling to those kind of cultures. So, and more central Asia. Like, all the Stan countries do, they're so good. Like, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan. - It's actually good. You mean, like, you had good times or you're just pretty-- - They're clean, safe, cheap, nice people, amazing food, nature, unbelievable. Good, like, so it's everything you possibly want, basically. No tourists. - Do you bring everywhere? No tourists is such a fun place. - It's a man. - Because then the experience is more real. They're actually asking you instead of trying to shake you down. - Yeah, exactly. - Because why would they shake you down? There's no people there waiting for tourists. They aren't on, so that's not an industry. - Like, what I said in your run, they don't even try to, like, negotiate. - Yeah, right. - It's crazy, man. So yeah, I have a calling to that whole central Asian region. - Oh. - Do you ever say something? Do you remember? - It was, but I don't. It definitely wasn't important. - Also, Africa too. Like, African tribes, I mean, I love-- - Oh, I know what I was gonna say. So you've been everywhere now. Are you researching ahead of time? What to avoid? What's safe? What's not? - I just try to find the best story. I don't even think about current situation in countries or what to avoid. I just try to find the best story. And then I find a local guide, or if we call them fixers, they will help me tell the story. - How do you find those? - Friends of friends, websites, YouTube, Google, yeah, they were called fixers. So it's like a local person who's okay to be on camera to be the person to show me the culture. I pay them for their time. They're like a tour guide, but they like, they know shit. They're not just like a random Joe Shmo, like, hey, let me show you around my town. They like work in tourism. Like, they're used to taking people around to show them interesting things. Those are fixers. So if I find a story and let's say like the Congo, I'll have to find a good fixer who speaks English, they'll speak English, and then he'll kind of be my resource to kind of get in there and make the story. But I'm not looking at, like, I told you, I'll go to Iran right now. I have no fear, yeah. - Yeah, right. Nice. - Okay. - So you're gonna tell me a joke to end this or what? - No. - No? - No, really. - Okay. - Yeah. - That was fun. - I was thinking of, like, what else? Dude, I took so long off, I haven't done, I haven't recorded a podcast in a long time. - You're good, man. I think it went pretty well. - Yeah, I think so. It was interesting. - Yeah, I loved, I could talk to, I mean, we'll be friends for a while so I can talk about a lot of shit. - Yeah, you'll do it again at some point. - Sure. - This is the fun thing about this pod is like, it's not just like, it's like, "Well, no, cover it, let's cover another country.", so you go over there, and you've been to all of them. - Been to all of them, you know? - Has anyone else? - There's about 250 people that have been to every country. - And you try to have to kill them all to become the one? - It's an interesting thought. When I did, I think-- - Yeah, but it didn't get a hard movie. - I finished that 30. - Yeah, I'm the only one. And at the time, I was one of the top five youngest to visit. I think there's been a few more since then, but-- - Wow. - But I'm definitely the only one to properly document everything. Like, from the early days, I was like filming, so I got good stuff. - You must get a lot of the same typical questions. Like, not typical, but the same was over and over again. - Same three questions. - Your favorite country? What surprised you the most? - Yeah, how was North Korea? - How was North Korea? - Yeah. - We'll save it for the next pod. - North Korea. - All right, Jubinsky. - Dude, great, I really enjoyed that. - Yeah, that was awesome, that was. It's so fun to just talk it over with people. Like, when you get to a hostel, and everyone's just sharing where they've been, oh, I love it. Well, everybody, that's the episode. What a great episode. Goddamn, that guy's interesting. This was-- Let me tell you my weaknesses as an interviewer. Number one, I should have gone more into that nomad village you lived in. I mean, I had more questions than I thought of later. Like, what were their names? What were the differences between the people? It was just like, whoa, it's my first interview back. Really, my first interview back, since the kind of sense I got back. You know, I let Tom interview me for you to be tripping. Did I do any? I think I must have, but it is really my first one. So, it was a little off, but I didn't interrupt too much, so I'm pretty happy about it. But, man, that what a cool, interesting trip. I guess trip you wore for most makes you want to go. To Iran. I'm happy about these parts. You stay away from politics. Nothing to do with this trip. This trip happened a while ago, and there's nothing to do with what's going on now. I haven't thought what's going on now. I've heard of Hormuz Rashidi, popular comedian in Los Angeles, but I don't know anything about it, and I really don't want to know. And this is the kind of the joy of this podcast is we get to just look at the joy of a place without having to worry about the hatred associated with anything going on. I don't know what's going on. I don't actually know who's involved. I don't know what they're doing. I've stayed away completely on purpose, and it's been pretty great. But Jubitsky's got to come back. Check him out at www.jubitsky.com and all his Jubitsky YouTube and Instagram and stuff like that. I would have to have that guy back and do another. It's so funny. I asked him, "Which country do you want to go to? "Which one do you've been to?" And he goes, "All of them." I'm like, "What?" Yeah, all of them, most of the multiple times. You got to check out this guy. He's been everywhere. It's pretty fucking wild. And man, I'll put that up there. Iranian chicks, top to bottom, hottest to worst. So like me and Mark, the best are really not. It's funny on a podcast with small brain American. I said that Burmese women are the ugliest in the world. And then it got out and they started telling me how like they're wrong and they sent me this video. Some of them were like cartoons. 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I don't know who's on the episode I was trying to get Joderosa recorded so but I did not so maybe big Jay if I can get him in maybe Michael Malis did one of North Korea maybe go from Iran to North Korea dangerous to dangerous I'm trying to think who else is around for him Tommy Pope Kuba, maybe we do that leave in the comments who you want to see leave in the comments just for the algorithm in general and guys That's it. This is a fucking fun episode in Iran. This guy travels like we all want to travel All right, bye everybody till next week. Wait. How do you say goodbye? And not a salam alaikum. Say good bye and Salam. I Don't know. All right. Bye