Mexico City w/ Caitlin Peluffo | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir
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The transcript blends satire and personal narrative to explore cultural power dynamics and solo travel. It opens with a critique of "The Lemonati," a fictional force that has long promoted lemon over lime, suggesting that this bias is embedded in consumer culture—from sodas to music. The story shifts to 7UP's new lime-lemon soda, a symbolic "flip of the sip" that challenges the status quo. The narrative then pivots to comedian Caitlin Palufo’s solo trip to Mexico City, framed as a personal journey of self-assertion after a seven-year relationship ended. She describes her experience as a mix of excitement, anxiety, and cultural immersion, highlighting the freedom of solo travel—where one can choose experiences without compromise. Key moments include a heartfelt encounter with a kind-hearted Mexican man who pays for her meal, reinforcing the warmth of local hospitality. She also explores the vibrant, sometimes chaotic, taco culture of Mexico City, noting how recommendations from locals guide her through authentic experiences. The trip reflects broader themes: the value of cultural navigation, the importance of small gestures in building connections, and the power of travel as self-discovery. Amid humor and irony—such as jokes about truffle oil or "eat, pray, masturbate"—the episode emphasizes authenticity, independence, and the joy of traveling alone without fear of judgment. The tone is reflective, celebratory, and grounded in real-life experiences that highlight both vulnerability and resilience.
- For decades, a shadowy organization
called The Lemonati has kept lemon on top
and lime in the shadows.
Look around, lemon-forward sodas, even lemon-forward songs.
We ran the tracks, slowed them down, reversed them,
and squeezed out the truth.
♪ All hail the lemon ♪
- That's lemon propaganda right there.
But now, 7UP is fighting back
with their new lime-lemon soda.
Join the 7 uprising, flip the sip.
- Buddy. - That hot honey on that,
was that a thing growing up for you?
- No. - It was not for me at all.
- No, hot honey's-- - Is that just
a New York thing, or is it everywhere?
- The last five years, hot honey has really exploded.
It is everywhere.
- It's the truffle oil of pizza.
- It is, and I hate truffle oil.
I think it's gross. - So it's strong.
- It's strong, it's too much.
I got sick in Italy, I went to Italy.
I had something with truffle and it made me sick.
So now I can't even smell truffle oil.
- It's strong, you should line your puss with truffle oil
and when a guy goes down on you,
have him gag for the wrong reasons.
- How's my little truffle pig, huh?
- Truffle pig.
- Come on, truffle pig, get in there, dig it out.
- Make the noises, oinker.
- Yeah.
♪ Where you been and where you going ♪
♪ This is Ari's Travel Show, yeah ♪
♪ We're gonna talk about travel today ♪
♪ It's You'll Be Trippin', yeah ♪
- Oh, what a fun way to start.
- Welcome to You'll Be Trippin', everybody.
- Yes, we're not talking about Italy.
- It's a travel, we're not talking, yeah.
Travel podcast, we go, it's a different,
every week, Caitlin, I have a different place, trip.
- Okay.
- Sometimes it's more than one place on one trip
because people do longer trips with lots of places,
but generally it's one place.
- Okay.
- It's actually the only podcast in the podcast world,
that is in braille, it's in braille on Spotify.
YouTube is getting there.
- It's in braille?
- Yeah.
- Incredible.
- Yeah, for our heart of healing, death, retards.
- Do they just touch their screens, or?
- I don't really know how it works, I don't really care.
I thought they should all honestly be exterminated, but.
- Wow, Ari, can't say that with that shirt on.
- Remember, do you know Helen Keller?
- Do I know Helen Keller?
- You know, she thought--
- You heard of her?
- Down syndrome, people should be put down.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, she believed in eugenics.
I Googled it once--
- Eugenics?
What's the stuff that Frank Thomas is pimping?
- I have no idea.
- Eugenics.
- Eugenics, eugenics, very different.
- Very different.
- Yeah, no, I Googled it, I was like,
was Helen Keller really into eugenics?
And then go, it's an unfortunate period in her life.
- A period in her life, she got over it.
- Apparently it was just a phase.
You know, some people get into punk, some people--
- What a tough, the problem with eugenics is,
it sounds like all the words that deaf people say.
- Yeah.
- Are we?
- Okay, all right.
Caitlin Palufo is our guest today.
I'll do a whole thing for you when this comes out
and where your dates are and everything like that,
but I don't know when it's coming out.
Oh, no, I do know when it's coming out.
- Yeah.
- Your special is out right now.
- Yes, my special is out.
- I don't usually do this,
because it's like I bank 'em so much.
- Yes.
- I'm the king of banking episodes.
My people are great at banking.
- Yes, I really now get it.
I saw the socks, I got it, yeah, Jewish, okay.
- You have a special.
- I was just happy for you.
- Is this your first special?
No.
- This is my second album for a special, yes.
Self-produced on YouTube, June 11th it's coming out,
or it's out.
- It's already out, it's already out.
It came out on Wednesday.
- A little TV magic happening right now.
- Yeah, everybody check it out on YouTube.
It's on Caitlin Palufo YouTube.
- Yeah, it's just Caitlin Palufo.
- I'll see tons of clips up there, but congratulations.
- Thank you.
- First special is a humongous thing.
- Thank you, it's called Prosciutto Rose.
- Prosciutto Rose, tough to spell for my--
- For my fan base.
- Guys, I'm gonna give you a hint.
There's a C in there where you wouldn't think there would be.
There's also an I in there
where you wouldn't think there would be.
- Just do Caitlin Palufo Rose and it'll pop up.
If the publicist is doing any good, it should pop up.
- It's definitely a better title written down,
but searchable is like, fuck.
- I know.
- Who searches that one?
- Dude, talk to text, talk to text.
Prosciutto Rose. - Yeah, Prosciutto Rose.
- Yeah, no, but it's about--
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
- Tom Segura told me this when I did my first special,
and I understand it 'til later,
it's all downhill from here.
- Oh. - In a good way.
- Okay.
- It means once you've gotten,
your whole career's been getting up to albums great,
but to do a special, and now it's just more specials.
- Yeah.
- You'll do TV shit and whatever,
but it's just more specials, you've done it now.
- Okay. - Sick, it's sick.
It's so cool. - That is actually
nice to think about.
I wish I had known that when I taped it.
I would've maybe tried to be in the moment
a little bit more.
- That's a hard one.
Soda told me that once by the way.
It's like, enjoy this one, don't forget to do it.
- I did not enjoy it.
- Yeah.
- Put it on a show for people, it's cool.
- You know what Lisa Traeger said?
She said, "This is the reward, not the test."
Which is very good. - There you go.
- It's not bad. - It's beautiful.
- It's not bad. - Beautiful.
- It's sensei-ish.
- Yes.
- It sounds like, honestly, Lisa,
it sounds like cultural appropriation for Asian culture.
- Okay, you gotta stop.
- Or samurais.
- That's a bit of a stretch.
- It's a samurai thing.
This is the test, what? - Well, she's from Russia.
- This is the reward, not the test.
- That is Asia.
- Lisa.
The student has become the master.
-
- Love Lisa.
So, we go to a different place.
Where are we gonna go today?
- Today we're going to Mexico City!
- Okay.
This is a great trip.
I remember when you were going on it.
Let's give you some advice.
- Yes.
- Hmm, tips, I guess.
Travel.
- You gave me a lot of,
you gave me really helpful advice.
You said, "Pick one thing to do a day,
"and then just see what happens."
- Yeah.
- And that's kind of, I kind of held onto that.
- Really? - That's what I did.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I was alone.
So I literally didn't have anyone else's
input.
- What, have you, you haven't really traveled much?
Or you have?
- I've traveled a bit, yeah.
- Okay.
- A lot.
I haven't done, I've done a lot in Europe.
- Usually with people?
- Okay.
- Always with people.
This was my first solo trip.
- So we gotta get into why you went alone,
and then, but also, I guess we can start not in order.
The difference between traveling alone versus with people.
- Yeah.
- Just do a quick rundown of the difference.
- Okay, quick rundown.
You literally can do anything you want.
- God.
- It's the most freedom.
- It's the best that you, there's no compromising.
There's no, well, aw, shucks,
this guy doesn't wanna go to an art museum.
No, you go to the art museum, you do everything you want,
and if it sucks, it's your fault.
So there's no one to blame.
- But also, there's no blame there.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You're just like, meh, that sucked.
- Yeah, and you don't feel responsible
for someone else's happiness.
You eat whatever you want.
I used to date a picky eater, and that is tough.
Yeah, there were certain countries we couldn't go to,
'cause he was like--
- Countries?
- I don't think I could eat anything there.
Yeah, I wanted to go to Vietnam.
Couldn't, what?
- Yeah, he said he was like--
- That's one of the best food countries in the world.
- He said, "There's nothing there I can eat.
"I don't know what I'll do."
I mean, it is a thing that was said out loud.
- Okay, so--
- So we went to Costa Rica and said,
it doesn't matter, anyway, we figured it out, but--
- Louis used to say that about Joe Lester.
He was like, "Oh, dude, we've been to some of the, France."
He can find a chicken parm in any country in the world.
- Yes, whatever Vietnam's version of chicken parm is.
- He goes, "Can you take out the pate?
"Can you take out the seaweed?
"Now put chicken in there, now parm it up, now sauce."
- Yeah.
I admire that.
- Great.
- You like what you like.
- Love it, leave it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it really is.
I had a time where I was in Paris for a writing class,
and I remember, this is like, to me,
this is what solo travel is.
I sat down at a cafe to eat, a restaurant, whatever,
and I sat, you just walk around, you're like,
this feels good.
It's like walk around Manhattan.
- Yeah.
- Or Manhattan, you just kind of walk.
You can Google Maps it, but you just kind of walk.
It's good.
I'm going in.
- Yeah, mm-hmm.
- I sat there, and I noticed a sign with the menu,
and it was in English, and a waiter hadn't come over yet,
and it was like, oh, is this like a tourist one?
And I was like, I'm going, and I just got up and go.
- Yeah.
- There was no like, hey, do you wanna eat here?
Should we go somewhere else?
- Yeah.
- It's just, and if you had to have that discussion,
and the waiter comes over, well, now you're stuck.
- You're done, you're there.
- Oh, that's the best.
- You gotta order.
They put waters down, you're fucked.
- It's the best.
- You're eating a tourist trap escargot.
- If you decide you're not gonna eat somewhere,
you're with somebody, they have the waters down,
the soap are out, and you're like, we're leaving.
Do you leave any money?
- No.
- No.
Do you think you should?
- Now I think I should.
- I do too, and I don't leave money.
- Oh my gosh, okay.
- But I do think I should.
Like, you've done some service for me.
- Yeah, that's true.
But it's also, it's the time to take up the table.
That's the thing.
- Which I'm not, which you're not doing.
- Which you're not doing.
It's the time.
- Feel the waters get another going right now.
- Exactly.
- Literally, so that's why I don't think you have to,
because you're literally, you're giving the time back,
which is how they make their money.
So.
- I love in the old movies where they just get up
and throw some money down the walk.
You're like, hey, you didn't even get the fucking bill.
What a fake fucking movie this is.
- I know, I'm just assuming it's $40.
It's like, nah, it's probably not enough.
- So it's Mexico City is where we're headed.
- Mexico City!
- So now back up, 'cause you did one.
This is, I think Jay's, I told you yesterday, the day before,
this is the only other one I've had like that,
where it's the lead up to it, it's gonna be a lot of it.
Like why you travel to this place is bigger
than just like, I don't know, I had to pick for a map.
- No, no, so a few things.
I had to go on a little eat, pray, love journey.
Okay, you know, I had to, I went through a breakup.
- Went through a breakup.
- We were dating for, or in a relationship
for almost seven years, and we were engaged
for two of those years.
Yes.
- Long engagement.
Trouble, that's a long engagement.
- It's a bad sign.
If you're engaged for more than two years
and you haven't made a single plan, time to go to therapy.
- My rabbis in Israel
just said like, if you're engaged,
just get married next week.
Just do it, just do it.
Why wait?
Just start it, just go.
- Yeah, we literally, initially we hit the ground running.
yeah and we were like okay let's go look at venues and then we got the price tag and we were like
okay we are not going to be able to do this as easily as we thought so then we um we were like
well we'll just save some money but we then never saved money and then we never did the grown-up
things that you have to do in order to start planning a wedding like have a joint account
and do all that stuff we just kind of put our heads in the sand and kind of just continued on
with life you say you kind of knew it was over but you wouldn't face it you just booze up and
not face it yeah that happened like six months after the engagement if i overstepped by the way
none of this is live just tell me like hey don't just don't don't hear that i'm pretty i'm pretty
open about it because i don't feel weird about it yeah yeah my ex is a great person you know and
i think if we did get married he would uh have been a great partner you know but people say
that shit i know but it is a good father i'm like yeah you mean i want to be you know what the fuck
you think
talking about what's that to do with it what the fuck well we just weren't right for each other i
think eventually we would have just fallen out i think it would have happened this breakup was
gonna happen dude seven years is a good run it's a good run it was a great run we got cats we got
a peloton were you um already gonna go to mexico city with him no this came afterwards this came
afterwards and it came honestly it's probably from talking to you literally we would sit at
the table and you would talk about traveling and going and you had just come back from i think el
salvador
uh.
maybe not el salvador but south america you did like a long trip ecuador yeah thank you and um
you were talking about it and how much you just backpacked and you went and i was like i've always
wanted to do that and then you're like just do it just do it that's gonna be impression
what are you waiting for you can go alone it's fine just go just don't go to like
probably said el salvador but uh it probably that no it was safe then but it just gotten safe but
anyway yeah ecuador got worse oh no it got worse it got worse it got worse it got worse it got worse
oh no yeah but yeah it was like don't overthink it yeah don't overthink it just go and i had at
that time i had over like 500 000 miles and my favorite band is the yeah yeah yes and they were
playing in mexico city and i was like i should do that and then you and i was sitting at the table
with alex cumin and someone else and they're like you have to just do that just do it just do it
just do it and i was like no i don't know and they were like just do it you didn't want to see them
here in new york where they're from they were sold out and the tickets were like five hundred
crazy yeah and so i looked at mexico city because i was alone yeah it cost a hundred and ten dollars
and i was eight rows back center what yeah i have a picture i have a picture of where i was
jorge on the ones and twos come on baby show the one that's how close i like i was so close
it felt great i got a poster i got a shirt i sat there alone didn't speak any but i was
it was it was it was the concert was the reason i went okay okay part so by the way life hack if you
live in new york and tickets are too expensive go to philadelphia tickets are half the price and the
train or bus down there is almost nothing yeah yeah it that is true and then also it's not
expensive to stay overnight there yeah you can you can like make a thing of it which you did in
a crazy way so if you don't know um the people at home um caitlin was how do you want to describe it
what do you mean portly before you quit drinking oh that see that's how close it was wow isn't
that crazy wow what a fucking queen oh she's amazing karen oh i love you yeah it was and they
put on a great concert really wonderful i made me cry three times nice that's a sign of a good
concert oh i'm always crying at concerts yeah weeping so i go on this trip in order to you
know do a little eat pray love find myself be alone you know prove that i can travel alone
i don't need no man okay was that part of it that was oh a huge part of it i was so nervous
you had just got out of the relationship no in the last six months eight months before 10 months
maybe maybe 10 months 10 months to a year i think it was oh it was a year it was coming up on a year
and i was like i still i didn't have a boyfriend i was uh trying to you know really assert my
independence i had this apartment my career was going okay and i was like you know what just
prove this is the thing missing you think you can't do all these things because you don't have
someone prove that you can do it without yourself yeah yeah and so that's what so i was like you
have to do it you have to do it and i was so nervous this is what chelsea's always talking
about like not being a mom you can do stuff it's like it's like you just do it yeah just just prove
it to them just prove it prove it to yourself mostly because when i got back from back this
last one yeah eight months through south america latin america and i was just telling somebody how
it was one of my friends was she's my friend too her friend and and and uh and she was like
we're just talking about it like what was it like how was it relaxing was it was like
so great you know i would do all these fun stuff and then immediately
and she hits you with like well you know i have kids so i can't do that i'm like i wasn't saying
i'm just talking about my trip they all feel attacked because yeah so i think it's our job
to make them feel jealous yeah don't tell them about stuff just live it and have people your
your couple friends go oh i wish i could go to my city alone you could yeah you could you definitely
can you and it's so cheap and when you go by yourself it's so cheap hey guys real quick let me
tell you about caitlin she's a great person she's a great person she's a great person she's a great
comic she's a great new york city comic she's finally getting her due on that on that kevin
hart show funny af but she's open for me on the road before we had legitimate a blast in louisville
kentucky uh and she's like a tough follow the whole weekend it really helped me get my special
ready um you can find her on the road right now obviously get her special when a comedian puts out
a special it's the biggest thing really they do in like a two or three year gap um there's no better
way to support them then go to caitlin palufa on youtube right now and go see prosciutto rose leave a
comment saying you saw her from this episode uh tell us she's the real frida kahlo um and then put
in parentheses because we think you have one eyebrow um prosciutto rose right now everybody
legitimately it's exciting she's she's like she's like like if you've ever been in new york to watch
comedy like you just see these crushers and she's just like one of them it's great it's like really
great to see and that's how new york comics are the best because we have to follow murderers like
caitlin all the time people that you haven't heard of and they're just crushing like dude i just want
to work on it
a new bit they never let you slow down these new york comics so good luck to the other
scenes in the world but nothing there's like new york stand-up i'm moving to london uh caitlin's
also on the road uh and charlotte north carolina you get all tickets at caitlinpalufa.com charlotte
north carolina um atlanta georgia she'll be at helium denver colorado at the denver
uh comedy underground sacramento at the punchline that's a great club north carolina at wits end
north charleston south carolina guys she's gonna start selling out now because of this thing
raleigh um st petersburg austin uh cap city boise and lafayette and that's it new orleans um she's
also got a show called quiz bitch it's a web series do cosmo quizzes with other comedians
that's pretty cool and she's been the tempe and miami improvs guys check out caitlin and please
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get back to the episode caitlin in mexico city so you also what i was gonna say is you entered
you weren't fat but i was um
sturdy okay yeah yeah yeah um you were field hockey and now you're soccer
thank you well i was always soccer but i was either the enforcer and now i'm the forward
field hockey bitches are like tougher oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah they're they're mean but i was
i had a little jiggle on me yeah and now i am everybody was like jesus caitlin i guess she's
not drinking what the fuck no i quit drinking and then you broke up and then you're like but
then you're going to mexico city with this new bod yeah
but it was also in the time where it wasn't hot so i couldn't even wear a swimsuit oh yeah so i was
like god damn it but i mean there's a lot of pictures of my thin face in front of historic
things nice yeah that's always that's always nice it's like oh smelt face cute selfie you know so
you planned the whole trip around this concert around this concert yeah and i was just center
there's see look at that cute face it's thin it's a thin cute face and
went in front of their fucking opera house opera house yeah um it's uh like their version of radio
city here's the cool thing i'm just realizing about travel sometimes too is like so so if this
was in new york it kind of could be yeah we have similar style you know like art deco you'd walk
by it a thousand times yeah you know the new york city library how beautiful that is and you kind of
like now you walk by when you were a tourist you're like whoa yeah and then because you're out you're
like wow
look at this thing yeah it's like i'm sure the locals like oh whatever dude yeah but it just
hits different everything hits different i know
No, and it's so, I mean, it really was.
It was so grand.
It was massive.
I should have taken a picture of just it, but I had to put my dumb head in there.
It's better if you have.
Yeah, you got to have a little interest in there.
But it was, like, gorgeous.
I met this Israeli lady in Myanmar.
Her tip was, oh, guys, here's a travel tip.
Put yourself and anyone you're with in pictures with you.
Yeah.
Because a picture of this thing is, like, you just get that online.
Yeah, that's true.
But if you're with nobody, so it's different.
But it's, like, also if you're, like, even in a hostel and you have all the people in a hostel going out, like, yeah, these are the people I hung out with that week.
Yeah, that is nice.
It's, like, more of a stamp.
It's, like, a memory.
Yeah.
It's, like, now it's, like, oh, yeah, that guy's name was Patrick.
Yeah.
I went to a hostel once.
Actually, here's another pro tip.
Yeah.
Go to a hostel because then you can hook up with a guy named Patrick from Australia.
Wow.
What a guy.
It was nice.
Listen, if you're going to give a tip.
You've got to, like, do the chyron.
Oh, yeah?
Okay.
You've got to do the chyron.
There you go.
That's exactly how long he was.
I'll tell you that.
Really?
No.
Australians, bro.
I don't think we had sex.
I think we just made out.
Really?
Yeah.
We didn't.
Yeah.
I was sharing.
We were doing it so cheap, me and my friend, Tristy.
Yeah.
We were in Ireland, and we were staying in this hostel, and we were sharing bunk beds, you know, in the room of 14.
And then I snuck down, and he snuck down from his because it was men's and women's.
And we met on a pool table when we made out.
Wow.
It was so fun.
In the common room.
In the common room.
The lights were out.
It was dark.
It was forbidden.
It was great.
Wow.
It was so hot.
He was so hot.
Yeah.
That's the respectful way to do it.
Yeah.
You don't do it, like, in, I guess it was a separate room, so you couldn't, but, like.
No.
I couldn't do that to my friend, Tristy.
Yeah.
Have a tryst in front of Tristy.
I'm fucking on a bunk bed.
It's happened.
It sucks.
You're like, stop, guys.
I have an early hike tomorrow.
Yeah.
So, okay.
So you're doing it.
It's a school.
It's a school.
It's a, there's different ways I feel like people travel, and, like, some of the more
unique ones are, like, Melania, Melania, Vientraub, was to aid, human aid, whatever it's called.
Helping humans.
What's that called?
This whole sentence is a myth.
I gotta tell you.
It's called, you're helping refugees.
The name is bad.
Melania, Melania, Melania.
Everything's bad.
Something, refugees, blah.
Yeah.
But that's, like, one.
Small, unique one.
Or, like, Rainn Wilson goes to Haiti to do outreach.
Oh, like, yeah, like, doing charity work.
Charity, yeah.
There's missionary, I guess.
I haven't had one of those.
No.
But, although the owner of Wise Guys in Salt Lake City, he's Mormon.
He went on a mission to Ecuador.
Wow.
To do outreach.
So it was like, that's a unique way to go.
Did it work?
No.
Did they save anybody?
I think you're only, yeah, you gotta coveal back into Christ.
All right.
To save the mortal souls.
I mean, no.
None of them.
Where was that?
But then one of them is, is breakup travel.
Yeah.
Which I've met a lot of people over the years.
Yeah.
When you're out, like, what are you, so what are you, I was gonna do this trip with my
boyfriend, we broke up, and then I was like, you know what, fuck it, I'm going anywhere.
Yeah.
You can't tell me what to do.
Yeah.
You know?
Like, this seemed like a, this seemed like that for you.
I don't know.
Yeah.
It was.
A proof to yourself I can do it.
Yeah.
And it was a proof.
My sister, my older sister was so worried.
Worried, yeah.
She was like, put on your location, I need to know where you are at all times, text me
every time you get home, back to the Airbnb.
And honestly, I've never felt safer.
Mexico City is so safe.
Yeah.
Or at least, you know, for a white woman walking around, you know, but it was, it was.
Stayed in one of the two neighborhoods.
Yeah, I stayed at the neighborhood that you recommended.
Okay.
Roma, I believe it was.
Okay.
Yeah, and I had a plan.
I kept my location on.
As if that's going to help, by the way.
I mean, it's like, come and find me.
You're just going to be, she's going to know where you've been taken.
Yeah.
The amount of time it'll take to get to Mexico City to find you, you're just finding a head.
Yeah.
It's like, there's no way.
There's no way.
There's no way.
It's not enough time to get you.
You have to be, you have to be on this block.
Yeah.
In order to save me.
Yeah.
And you have to get a text notification saying, hey, I need help.
Yeah, that's true.
Not a club over the head.
It'll be a good place to start when they look for the body.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's.
Actually, it'll help survivors cope.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, she died doing what she loved.
Fucking a stranger.
Yeah, fucking a stranger.
Well, that, I did get approached by a few men while I was on the trip.
I was going to ask.
But I didn't do anything because I was like.
Did you even make out?
It was my eat, pray, love.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not a girl.
You don't know?
Eat, pray, love?
The Julia Roberts movie?
I don't.
It's a book and then it's a movie.
Yeah.
But Julia Roberts, she goes through a divorce and she goes on, she's also a writer.
And so she goes on this journey.
She goes to.
She goes to Italy, she goes to Bali, and she goes to India.
Those aren't close.
Yeah.
So she does like three months in each place.
Wow.
And she learns about herself, you know.
She wants to eat, she wants to pray, she wants to love.
Yes, yes.
She finds a boyfriend at the end.
At the end, yes.
Lame.
I know.
I was like, don't end up with the boyfriend.
End up with yourself.
Yeah.
So that's what I did.
I was like changing the, changing the narrative of the movie.
It was eat, pray, masturbate alone.
Yeah.
And the other way to travel is around one event and you stay longer.
So that's how.
Vegas pretty much exists.
Yeah.
You come for the sphere, you stay for three days.
Yeah.
You know.
So I guess I kind of did that too.
I was a little, little A, little B.
Or a little B, little C.
But this is what happened at the concert.
Okay.
So I'm going to the concert.
Back up.
Back up.
We're at the concert.
I love the yayayas.
Loved them since college.
Like.
God, they're cool.
I have them on vinyl.
They're so good.
Yeah.
And so I'm there.
I'm so excited.
And everybody's so excited.
It's sold out.
I don't speak any English.
Or excuse me.
I don't speak any Spanish.
I speak a little bit of Spanish.
But everybody around me spoke Spanish.
So I was truly isolated.
At the concert you're saying?
At the concert.
Okay.
And then they start playing.
Which is great because you're alone and you actually don't really want to talk to anybody.
So you have like a, I don't, sorry, I don't speak it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I go, sorry.
Like she, the woman next to me, she drank from my beer.
And I go, oh, that's my beer.
And she goes, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
In Spanish.
And I go, I'm sorry.
And she goes, ah, okay.
And then I think she made a joke and I just didn't get it.
And I was like, I'm so sorry.
As a person who loves jokes, I really wish I got it too.
I love it too.
It's like, oh, sorry, I don't speak Spanish.
And then they're like, well, let me explain this to you why it's funny still in Spanish.
Yeah.
And you're like, I'm not getting it.
You're like, fuck.
All right.
Annoying.
Yeah.
But, okay, so then.
Jorge speaks Spanish.
Hey, Jorge.
Anyway.
So we're watching the concert.
Yeah.
It goes.
They grow for 110 bucks.
I mean, I swear to God, it was amazing.
Wow.
And then they start playing an acoustic version of Map.
Maps.
Yes.
One of the best videos maybe of all time.
Yeah.
One of the best songs.
I mean, it's just truly, it's like they're hit.
People are recording.
People are crying.
And then I look to my right, the couple directly next to me, he proposes.
What?
What do you mean?
Gets down on one knee and proposes to this bitch.
During Maps?
During Maps, right next to me.
I look down.
You know that's her favorite song.
And I go, fuck you.
Oh, you're trying to be a single bitch.
Trying to be a single bitch.
Get over my engagement.
And they're literally.
I don't need it, man.
It'd make me happy.
This lady looks so happy right now.
Never looked happier in her life.
She's crying tears of joy.
He's crying tears of joy.
They put the ring on.
They kissed during the song.
You guys are really ruining this for me on my solo thing.
It made me so upset.
I was like, no, they're happy.
Whatever.
I was like, it's a mistake.
Find yourself first.
You're going to wait seven years.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Wow.
Right next to you?
Right next to me.
The couple directly next to me.
You can't write that.
What a romantic way to do it.
But I never considered when you picture that as a proposal thing,
that the people are also around you.
You're picturing them singing Me Here With The Chick
or Me Here With The Dude.
Nope, everybody's around.
Everybody was around.
He asked someone to film it behind them,
so they were filming it.
And then everybody cheered.
And it was a big moment for them.
And I literally was like, oh, shit.
Did you film it?
Fuck you.
Did you record it?
No, I was filming them.
And I just went to the side.
And I think you could audibly hear me say, oh, shit.
I was so upset.
Oh, but yeah.
Which day of the trip was?
Yeah, yeah.
It was directly in the middle.
So I did two days before and two days after.
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How was that? Perfect? Earlier? Later? If you had to do it over again? If I had to do it over again?
Um, I think it was, it was,
I don't think it would have mattered because I was so excited to do everything else.
I like getting used to a city before you do with things where you're like, okay, I can,
you weren't drinking that or we were, I had like a beer. Okay. But you're like,
all right, I'm feel safe. I can wander out afterwards. I know. That's true. Like, yeah.
Oh yeah. So maybe, okay. I get that. If I had done a day one, that would have been bad
because I was so anxious. So I think like, were you, I was anxious because it was my first time
alone. Getting from any airport in any city is annoying. And then doing it in another language
is even more annoying. And you're afraid they're going to charge you too much. Yeah. You're going
to get duped and you want to seem like a local, but it's like, you're not, okay. I'm not a local.
Just embrace the fact that you're not a local. Yeah. Okay. I am the Chica Blanca. Okay. I am
gringa. That's me. Nice. And that's fine. Okay. You just got to play to your strengths, which is
hola. I try, I will try and speak the language. Did you learn anything?
Um, at the time I was trying to learn Italian. And so I had taken Spanish in high school for
six years.
And, uh, I also dated a bunch of guys who spoke Spanish line cooks. And, um, so I knew enough
Spanish to get by and I was trying to learn Italian. So I kept mixing up my Italian and my
Spanish, but then I hadn't tried Spanish in so long and then immediately started speaking Spanish
with someone. And I was like, why am I trying to learn Italian? This is so stupid. Spanish is going
to come back so much easier. So I, uh, I was able to get by, but when I go back, cause I do definitely
want to go back, I will do the Duolingo.
I probably have a tutor, like an italki tutor, just to make life a little bit easier.
There, there are some like, um, it's easier now with Google Translate. You can just show
it like a sign that tells you what it is or just speak into it. I try to get cheese and
wine or whatever, something in Paris. I'm trying to, and I don't know, French. And then
eventually I'm like, Oh doc. And then it just says it and he goes, yeah, we gotcha. I'll
be like, give me that. They'll say it. Go back to English.
I did that for one of my rounds of tacos. I was there and I was by myself.
And there was a soccer game playing and so they couldn't really hear me. And then they
were like, they, three of them came over and was like, da, da, da, da, da, da. And I went,
I was like, ah, and I put up the thing and then they read it and they go, ah, okay. They
went and did it. Yeah. Oh, this place.
Okay. We got to talk about tacos. It's such a part of Mexico city. And by the way, I'll
tell you too, just so you feel okay. My first time in Mexico city, I was frightened.
Frightened?
My first day.
Yeah. Okay.
I'm very nervous. I'm not like, yeah, I know I travel a lot, but I'm also like, uh, probably
more than healthy, um, self-preservation. Like everyone's an other.
Yeah.
And so I'm scared of others.
Yeah.
And so I'm like, ways are crime everywhere. And so you eventually like, oh, it's fine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the first night, first day is like right to the, wherever you're staying and stay there.
Yeah.
You know.
I stayed at the neighborhood. I went right there. Uh, I had a very cute Airbnb, um, took
a nap and then found, uh, a friend of mine gave me a whole list of restaurants. And so
I went and I got fish tacos.
Uh,
at a place that was walkable near a park. So I was like, that's what I'm going to do
today. That's all I have to do today.
And how'd you find it?
Um.
Somebody told you about the tacos?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Someone sent me, like, I, I still have it. I'll send it to you if you ever go back.
Yeah.
But he used to live there and he was a chef there.
So he's like, these are the spots?
It was.
Oh, what a good fucking weapon.
Oh, it was great.
A guy telling you the actual good stuff.
Mm-hmm.
And so I had the best fish taco of my life.
Was it this? No.
No, no, no. This was another place, um, that was recommended to me that I can't wait to
go back to.
Blue tortillas.
Blue tortillas. Uh, French fries over there.
French fries.
It was, it's literally.
What's the one on the top? Steak and French fries?
Steak and French fries in a taco. It's the best thing I've ever had. It's truly, I, I
should find the place of what it's called because it's kind of famous.
No, no, we don't really do that.
Okay, great. Just kidding.
Yeah.
Fuck off. Um, but I was there. It's a standup bar. So there was no sitting. You had to stand
and then you order the tacos and they come and they give it to you.
Yeah.
So you're just standing outside on the bar.
Yeah.
And, uh, these two older men were there and they were eating and eating and they, they
spoke Spanish. I did not. And, uh, they're, they were very sweet. They were very like,
oh, she needs to, cause I was being a little shy, you know, and they were like, oh no,
she needs to order. And like, they were very helpful.
Yeah. And they were very sweet. And, um, they helped me like, I didn't know how the line
worked. And so then they asked and I was like, I actually don't know. And then they're like,
we asked for you. And then they asked and then we all figured it out together. And then
he ended up paying for my whole meal.
No.
Yes. He paid for my whole meal. I was like, and it was just like an older guy, not trying
to fuck, just like a nice guy.
Wow.
And he was like, I, I pay for it. It's okay. Welcome to our city. Thank you for coming.
If that was the Middle East, you would be his now.
Just cultural differences, you know?
I mean, I would have let him. That was so nice. I'd be like, all right.
Yeah. Where do you live? Let's go. But I'll never forget that man. He was so sweet.
Wow.
Because I was, I was alone. I was a little shy. I didn't want to, you know, you could,
you could tell that I was a little uncomfortable and he just like, I buy it for you.
That's another thing with travel going to new cultures or something is the small difference
they'll never put in a lonely planet or something like that, where like the lines work different.
Like if you're coming to America and you don't know it, take a number.
Yeah.
You know?
Oh my God.
You'd just be standing there like, where do I wait?
You're never getting a Katz's deli sandwich.
Yeah. And you'd just be waiting and waiting and have no clue until eventually maybe figure
it out. And it's those little things that you're like, no one would think to tell you.
No, no.
Because I.
Maybe I'd go to Katz's.
Yeah.
But they wouldn't go.
Make sure to grab a note.
You would just see it.
Go to Katz's.
You have to stand in one of the 18 lines and then you have to order and then you have to
pay down.
So you can both go and see whoever's line is faster.
And then you have to pay at the end.
No one would have thought.
Have cash.
I mean, so yeah.
The taco culture in Mexico City is, is nuts.
It's nuts.
It's, it's everywhere.
Everybody's doing it.
Yeah.
Did you just like stop it anywhere?
It's kind of like the slice here.
Yeah.
I mean, I went to, I pretty much went to everywhere that this guy recommended.
And I mean, look at that.
Whoa.
That was my fancy.
That was a nice one.
Yeah.
Because it's a fork.
And then it was birria tacos were everywhere.
And I, this was my fancy last night meal.
Oh yeah, birria's big there, right?
So good.
And so I, I really outdid myself.
Drink the consomme.
Oh my God.
Slurp, slurp.
It's so good.
It's so good.
And yeah, I spent like, I dropped the most money I ever spent.
Uh, of all of Mexico, my whole trip was spent on that meal.
It was so good.
This was a.
Sit down, fancy, fine dining, kind of.
Fine dining, pool.
Yeah.
Uh, what was that?
Pujol.
Pool.
Pujol.
Pujol.
P-U-J-O-L.
Was that the place?
Was that a place?
It's like they're like Michelin.
No, no, there was no Michelin.
I tried to get a reservation to that, but I couldn't.
Overrated.
Overrated.
Yeah.
It wasn't the best restaurant I ate at when I went there.
Oh, okay.
I mean.
And it was the only one.
It was the only one that was like.
The last tacos were the best thing I've, I think I've had in two years.
Good.
Just overrated.
Yeah.
Um, really?
It was.
It was that good?
It was.
And I.
Look how juicy it looks.
I stood there and.
Fucking hell.
I was standing there with that old man who bought me the tacos.
I ordered more before I knew that he was going to pay for my tacos.
And I was like, I need two more of those.
Well played, Jew.
Thank you.
Well played.
And he got more.
And then he was like, I will pay you.
And I was like, oh, I just ordered more.
And he goes, that's okay.
They also only cost like $3.
You know, they were so cheap.
And that's the expensive place.
And that's, uh, no, that was the, the cheap standing up place with the, that was the best
taco I've ever had.
I mean, ever had.
What's in the, what's in the little like, uh, cast iron?
I don't know.
I think it was some kind of fried cornbread situation.
Oh, it's not stuffed or is it stuffed?
Honestly, I don't know.
I just remember the tacos.
You know it?
I think that's a quesadilla.
Oh, it's a quesadilla?
Say it again your way.
It's a quesadilla.
I thought you said it more like Mexican.
Quesadilla.
Yay.
There it is.
You went from George to Jorge on that one.
No, it was, it was so good.
I mean, and then all the servers and all the, everyone was so nice.
I was expecting, cause I had, I think maybe like a week later in Mexico city, they had
the, um, you know, that the, not the riots, but the protests in the street about, um,
uh, Americans coming down and staying and working remotely.
Oh, really?
Yes.
There was a whole thing where they were, people would be working in coffee shops and they
would come in and they would just shout at them.
They would take over the coffee shop and shout at them until they would leave.
Yeah.
Because I mean, I, I get it.
Like the Airbnbs are taking up all the, making everything more expensive.
So that neighborhood, I don't even, I don't know, I'm not even going to say believe it
out cause it's already kind of ruined.
You tell me how, how touristy was it?
It was pretty touristy.
Yeah.
So that was in the beginning, there was a period where it was like, Hey, this is the
artsy place.
Yeah.
Come here.
Then Airbnb, which really kills a lot of places.
Yeah.
In Spain, they fight back.
There's all these signs, no Airbnbs.
Yeah.
Like people like hang out their balcony, like Airbnb go away.
Yeah.
Cause it's like destroying the.
the realness of a neighborhood
and so that neighborhood now is like
you can't afford it if you're a local
because hey we can get more out of these whites
and so then the price of food
goes up the price of whatever goes up and it goes
from artsy and like
not urban but like
you know parts of the east village
are like trendier
it's like alright a little more expensive
than Avenue D
but then it's like everywhere so when I was
traveling from Mexico to
bottom of Argentina back up
the top parts Guatemala
and Mexico it was
the graffiti the anti-American graffiti was
was
kind of like a gringos go home
and then when you got to the
south it was Yankees get out because then it was
it was less about
like tourists fucking up their economy
and more about like American
like government fucking up their politics
one I would say is much worse
yeah but like
we're not worried about tourists in Buenos Aires like we're actually
pretty rich we don't care about that
but like why are you trying to overthrow our elections
but up there it's like you guys are fucking up
the economy the way you're coming here
in droves and it went from I'm sure
at first like nice to have you
oh we can make a little money
and then like we've ruined it
so there were protests there
like a week later so I had heard that
they had protests there maybe a few months
before and then
I was like oh so I was on the lookout
so that's why I tried to speak Spanish everywhere
I would try people knew me
you know I was like
lo siento hablo ingles
yeah it's not bad
I can get by but
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but yeah but then nothing's going to happen
everyone was so nice everyone was so sweet
and then they would apologize
to me for their bad English I was like
no no no I'm bad
I'm the wrong one you are right
wow oh yeah they do
that too it's so I'm sorry I don't speak
no you're not supposed to
and you're like no it's okay
but I was like no it's beyond okay
what are we even talking about it's expected
there's no reason for you to speak a language
it's not yours yes I'm unprepared
I'm the piece of shit yeah
but they were but it was
it was so great yeah but those tacos
were I mean I dream about those
did you like get fat off that shit
I would fill up so then
I had to like learn how to like get one and move
one and move one and move because I'll just like
this was so good I'm going to get five and then I'm like
I'm stuffed and then I pass another good
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fuck I wish I had space
no I was pretty regimented like I
I like a plan I like to plan
okay so I was like okay I know
I'm going to pick the one activity I'm going to do
and then I'm going to use this guy's
I'm going to use this guy's
cool ass map and find
a place near around whatever
that is and that's where I'm going to eat
and so that's what I planned every day
how do you give you the map it was on google maps
google maps with his recommendations
all these pins this guy yeah
I'm going to start doing that for people you should
you should definitely keep track
I try to try to like write
lists of like what to do in different places
I don't like to
put it in writing out because I don't want to
ruin it yeah you know but like to a
friend that's going I'm like oh check out this one's
spot yeah I mean he just
gave me like a bunch of pins
here I'll show
you it was
like here so
all of these little flags
those were all his recommendations and there
were so many he marked them with a special
marker yeah I know
I mean that's everywhere I mean
so it's really like wow that's what you
really want yeah you want like
these are definites but like here's
like if I'm giving you a tour
of the East Village or whatever like it was with Shane Moss
a few weeks ago and he's like
we want to do something and then we're like
let's go to a bar what's a cool bar
what do I feel like what do I want to show you
obviously there's a hundred
yeah and then we ended up on like
the one next to
New York Comedy Club on 4th
that which one
upstairs it's so cool oh yes KGB
yeah
it's so cool I'm like let's go there we ended up
seeing like a bunch of his
friends at State of New York
Norman and Ronnie Chang and like
where we're like oh and we ended up just
drinking there yeah but like
you want like hey here's
50 depends what you're next to
yeah how far you want to walk what you're into
what your price point is it was great
what a weapon to have yeah
I didn't Laura
Sogar Matthew Broussard's
wife and comedian oh yeah
she
she was like oh she
knew it from him back from when she was
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when I was I went to similar
I guess I went to Sao Paulo for Oasis
very cool
from Santiago where they actually played
the night before I was like well I'm
gonna meet somebody so yeah I'm not gonna go in
Santiago but I was like fuck everybody this
hostel filled up with black t-shirts yeah
it was so cool it was so cool the city
was alive with Oasis yeah I think they
did two days it might be just one but
flew over there uh-huh and then I was
like hey I've never been to Sao Paulo
I managed to find I didn't have any
numbers with me I had a couple on paper
but so that I had right or Neil's number
he was gonna come meet me from Machu
Picchu I was like hey can you you know
Mark Norman's number can you write to
Mark Norman and ask him to find Javi
Bastos's number and I need tips for Sao
Paulo uh-huh and he goes you were trying
to tweak you know what's that begun
touching these like what kind of place
you want to live like East Village
whatever that is yeah yeah gotcha this
neighborhood of this neighborhood and he
goes I'll give you some recs the same
shit and it was like seven pages long
and I'm like bro it made my trip so much
better it does it takes away the tourist
trap it takes away the cool shit yes
it's like and and good you know it's
gonna be good there is some overlap
between tourist shit and good yeah like
like that beer bar that's like right
next to new school they're not new
school it's old old old beer bar and all
they have is light or dark Oh McSwirly's
yeah yeah but that's tourist trap but
also it's actually a cool bar yeah yeah
it's cool has a lot of history yeah I
would say it's the same when I was in
Mexico City people kept recommending the
churro place whatever the class the
first churro okay whatever and so you
go to that and you're like yeah this is
fantastic yeah this is so good I think
I have a picture of that where I got a
churro and they're like cinnamon hot
chocolate and then you just dip it and
you're like yeah yeah there it is oh
true area yeah I went there yeah that's
a tourist trap yeah but the line's not
crazy oh good 1935 to 2025 yeah it's
crazy wow yeah yeah yeah so uh but that
one you were like yeah well
I'll do I'll wait in line how was it
delicious who's that churros are
overrated what it's literally it's like
a dough boy have you ever had a dough
boy it's like funnel plan no it's not
definitely not funnel funnel cake doesn't
have any cinnamon and sugar on it it's
just bright dough this is a lighter dough
it's crispier and it's and it's hard can
you Google um is churro just a long
funnel cake um it is not it's a
completely different dough and consistency
it's a different dough and I am a
trash bird who has had yeah because
funnel cake is
isn't just a chewy funnel cake.
It's a distinct pastry with a
different dough. Okay, and it's signature
on the outside, tender on the inside.
Thank you! Why did a man explain me?
Remember when I used to be fat?
Yeah.
You're right. Remember that?
Mouth feel. They differ in preparation
and mouth feel. I've never seen that word before.
Mouth feel. I mean, I'll give you
a mouth feel.
Oh, and the texture's different. Okay.
Thank you. Flavor. Okay.
I appreciate this, Jorge. Thank you.
I'll give it another chance.
Churros are fantastic.
But the place at that place
particularly was very good.
Well, hold on. Along with a popular mashup
is Disneyland's copycat
churro funnel cake.
Click on that. Okay.
You're cherry picking! No, no, I know.
It's different. They're definitely mashing it up. It's fusion.
It's like a fucking Kung Pao burrito.
I know they're different.
Interesting. So it's a funnel cake made out
of churro. I mean, that's wild.
I mean, that's wild. That is why
this country has a lot of diabetes.
Diabetes?
The diabetes is strong
in the Americas.
Wow. Yeah. Hey, I want to tell you
a story about YAYA's. Oh, tell me,
please. But not a story exactly, but
like, so I was over at Jay's.
Okay. Me and his chick were watching
like videos, and we're like, and I go,
we'll pull up maps.
I haven't seen it in forever.
And then Jay goes, no, I like another one
better. Lion? A gold lion.
Gold lion. Okay.
Because I got
probably too locked in on maps as a video,
and I probably didn't give anything else a chance
enough. So I was like, sure. I remember watching,
I think there's images, and then
Christine was like,
look at her. She's just like, and it's in her youth
days-ish, and she's like, she's just some,
what's the term? It was respectful,
but not on paper. It was like
just an East Village slut.
You know? But it wasn't
slut. It was like an East Village. Trollop? Yeah, something like that.
But it was like, I know what she meant. It was like,
one of the cool chicks in the East Village, in the aughts.
Yeah. And she probably hit
in, when was that first big album?
The first big album. 2004, 5, 6, 7?
2004, 2003, because I was in high school.
Okay. So that means in 2001,
she's probably a waitress.
Yeah. Give or take,
depending on what the job was, but that type of thing.
Just getting by. You know? I always like
to think of, like, Patti Smith, when she was
living with all those people, was like,
she's a TGI Friday's waitress. And somebody
was like, this bitch is the worst waitress.
I've ever had. Where's my Pepsi?
Yeah. I love. I've been waiting for hot sauce for so long.
If you don't care, don't do this.
If you don't even. can't remember my ketchup, you're
never gonna make it.
And then they probably, like, saw her. I'm like, wow.
If I ever saw her in real life, I'd remember.
Like, you did see her in real life. You shit on her
and gave her a bad tip. Yeah. But anyway,
I was just thinking about her in
the aughts, like, early aughts, before she made
it. And all those people from, like,
Meet Me in the Bathroom. Yeah. Meet Me in the. Meet Me in the. Yeah, I think. Or Meet Me in the Stall? Meet Me. No. Meet Me in the Bathroom? Yep.
Yeah, Meet Me in the Bathroom. Okay.
And I was like, hey,
I'm an East Village guy. And I was
like, yeah, these are the type of people that are around
now, but it's, like, kind of, like, over the hump.
Like, in the 80s was a different thing.
70s, 80s. And then
the aughts was like. I mean, it's always gonna
be that, like,
Moonlight in Paris. What's the one where he
goes back in time to another time? Yes.
And then. Moonlight in Paris, the Woody Allen
movie? Yeah, and then they go back in time from there. It's like, no, this
time is the best. And she's like, no, no, I would have
liked to have been born 60 years ago. That's
better. But anyway, I was like, it's so cool. And
Christine was. I was like, I think I would have known her. And Christine's
like, yeah, you would have. Yeah, that's
who you would have hung with. Yeah. You would have
been. Started in 1999. You would have been
around these. The wannabe musicians,
wannabe comics, wannabe writers,
wannabe artists. Yeah.
And just known them. But I started
in L.A. Yeah. And so I didn't get
to know them. And then I was talking to
David Cross. And I. Then it hit me. This was, like, two days later. I was
like, oh, hold on a second.
You were here in the
aughts. Yeah. You were, like,
the comedian of
that group of artists.
And you would have. I don't know if you knew
her, but, like, you knew all. Yeah. Like, you knew those people, the cool ones.
It was like, yeah, dude, it was a wild time.
Did he know them?
I don't think he knew her. Uh-huh. But it was like,
I bet he had talked
to her at a bar without realizing. Yeah.
You know? Yeah.
And it was like, he was, like,
ten years ahead. I remember starting and seeing him on
TV. Yeah. And going, it was you and Janine.
He goes, it was just Janine. Really?
He goes, we were all in her shadow. The way
in that book, they were like, it's the Strokes,
and we were all trying to buy for a second.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm like, man, it was so cool, but it was just
too expensive. I couldn't start here. Yeah.
That is very true.
But, man, it would have been cool. That would have been so
cool. I mean, I love her. I saw
her in
college, or I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
in a very small,
like, indie rock. They had just
exploded. Wow. So they were doing
underplays based on their new size. Basically.
So pretty much Shane did his whole career. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
By the time it came around to doing the gig, it's too small.
Yeah. And so it was full.
She was running around in a leotard,
spitting on everybody. What do you mean? It was fantastic.
Really? Like, spitting on them? Oh, yeah. She spits on people.
That's what she would do. She would stand up, and she'd go
No way! She'd spit.
Yeah. Tim Duffy, who
is friends with Peter Ravello,
who also used to do comedy out in
Staten Island, he said that
he saw her at a concert, and she
spit in his face. Yeah.
That's her thing? That's her thing.
Damn, that's cool. She rules! Karen O,
spit her! Hey, get a shot of, get a picture of her spitting
on her videos for spitting on somebody. I mean, she, I mean, she, yeah,
I'm sure there's plenty. I feel like that, I thought you meant like she was
talking and spitting, like a gym teacher. No, no, no, Tua!
Hock Tua. That's
so hot. That used to be her thing.
Really? You think that's hot? Sort of.
I mean, sure. She gets it right in your mouth, yeah.
I mean, in your mouth.
I don't know if it was meant to be in his mouth.
That's a cross line. My pants are tight.
Yeah.
Karen O,
spitting. Wow. Is there anything?
Is anything happening? So, I'll call it
up in a second. So, you just hit
me with it when you get it, but, um, so
you get there. Okay, yes.
You get an Airbnb. How cheap is that?
It was pretty cheap. Yeah.
It was, um,
I can't remember, but I remember
it was under, like, for the five days, it was
under, like, 500 American dollars.
Wow. Five, maybe 600, you know?
Wow.
It really does go far into place. It goes pretty far.
And that's overpriced to them. Yeah.
So, that means, like, ten years ago.
And it was a nice building. It had a gym in it.
Oh. And it was on, like, the second floor.
It had a living room and a bedroom
and a full kitchen, which I never
used. But, yeah, it wasn't just, like, a room,
you know? It was awesome.
It was, it was,
it was so cool. And it was in the heart of
everything. I walked everywhere.
I took a cab every once in a while.
No way. Oh, there you go. Here.
She's good.
Oh, she spits up like that.
No, but she'll, like,
there's, I believe there's a video of her just
spitting on. That's different. That's like a
Luis Gomez, like. No, no, no. She, like,
would spit at people.
It was great. Wow. I mean,
yeah, you, I mean, you.
It wouldn't make me hard. This would have been your chick.
I would get turned on with the confidence. That kind of confidence
would turn me on. Yeah, she was a bad bitch.
And still is. She was, she put on a great
show. Didn't spit on anybody. She's a mom now.
She's a mom now. She's a mom.
She was kind of.
Twirling around. It's so hard for those people
who have gone on to, like, life to, like, still
bring it. Yeah. But you have to make a decision.
Like, hey, these people come to see a show, that Lou Gehrig
thing. What's that?
Was it Lou Gehrig or somebody else?
I have no idea.
No, Lou Gehrig had to retire
because of a disease, I think. Oh.
Yeah, Lou Gehrig's disease? Yeah.
Yeah. But let's say it was him.
Okay, sure. Let's say Mickey Mantle.
Fuck it. Okay. And he was
older. He was, like, nearing 40.
He was already going to be a Hall of Famer.
And he was, like,
legged out, just slid head
first, and I cut up his lip or whatever
in the second, and, like,
still got out, whatever. And I was like, dude, you don't have
to try this hard. Like, you're already a
Hall of Famer. You're out. Like,
why do this? Because there's some kid
in here who's never seen me play before.
That's true. Yeah. And it's so
excited. Yeah, I'm not going to fucking just
jog a second and take the out. Yeah.
I mean, if you think about that, that's every
show that we have.
We have no. People come to
your show.
We have no shows, but some people have been listening to you for years.
And then you put on not a good show, and you know
it's an off day trying new stuff. I mean, that's mortifying.
Like, I came from Minnesota to see you, and you're like, damn it.
Yeah. Yeah, that's. I would feel terrible. Yeah.
I mean, I don't. I mean, I'm not as established
as you, but you should feel terrible.
I mean, I hate it when it's, like, I'll
like, hey, I'm sorry, I'm at the stand of the cellar
in New York Comedy Club. It's like, I'm working on something.
Yeah. But there are those
nights when you're on the road where it's your show,
and then you're just not as on. There's
better and worse shows. Yeah.
Or I didn't get enough sleep, or whatever. And then it's like,
damn, that sucked. They actually came to see me,
and it wasn't as good as it should have been.
This last Thursday, I was in Portsmouth,
and this is the first time I've, because of the
Funny AF show, this is the first time I've been
able to
fill a room.
I think it was on that Funny AF
Kevin Hart show.
Kevin Hart show, yeah. Where him and
Kumail Nanjiani and
Chelsea Handler
shot a thing pretending to be old
friends around a table.
Promoted. It's so lame, but the show
itself, great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I don't know. Do they have beef? No.
It was just like, they're just not friends. Oh, okay.
And they're like, let's all talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was like Madonna and Schumer and all those people
sitting around playing Truth or Dare.
Okay, I dare you to do a tour
of all your old hits. Like, bitch, I'll do it.
I'm like, this is set up.
Oh, I hate it when you see through
phoniness. Yeah. Anyway.
Well, they. But you did the stand-up part.
Yeah, I did the stand-up part. I had nothing to do with the
- Round table.
I did the stand-up part.
And, um, so I came on Thursday and on the way to the show on Thursday, my opener and dear friend, Jill Wiener, we got into a car accident. Uh, we, it was like a six or seven car pile up basically. It was a fender bender, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And her car got wrecked. Like front just completely smashed in rear smashed in. Yeah, it was awful. And it took a few hours to sort out and then we had to rent a car and then we had to drive and it became a whole ordeal.
Yeah. And then we get to the show, we have to do a show and I'm trying my hardest, but I'm wiped out. I'm so tired. I think I got whiplash in my neck, you know, cause it was like, it hurt like three days later, but it was, um, I mean, I, I, it wasn't my best. It was like a B minus game and I felt terrible.
And they're just now coming to see you. And they're just now coming to see me. And I was like, this is, I can do better, but my head hurts and I'm tired and I didn't get to sleep and I didn't get to go over my notes beforehand.
I felt terrible, but they were lovely. They were perfectly lovely. Uh, but God, yeah, you'll never get it back. I'll never get it back. It always feels like this is the time where I'm like, okay, I have to prove to you that you'd made the right decision to come out live. And I want you to come back the next time I'm in town. And I feel like on Thursday I got the yell on that one.
You'd be like, ah, sorry.
Yeah. Yeah. It was fine. You know, there's a reason she didn't win. Spoiler alert.
Yeah, you see the reviews of like Paul Simon, this new tour and people are like, eh.
Really?
His voice is gone. So he's just doing like the quietest songs and it's like, meh. I wanted him to play Graceland. I didn't do it.
Or fucking Lily Allen, which her new album was Rules, but like, they're like, she's just doing the album. So she's on stage for about 48 minutes.
Really? She's not doing the other stuff?
Uh-huh.
Oh.
Yeah. Her opening band is a, is a, yeah, through all those.
Yeah.
LDN. But.
It seems like that should be the song she should open with.
Yeah. Do all that and then play the album.
Yeah.
Or vice versa. Anyway.
But, so let me ask you about this, about Mexico City.
Okay. Great.
The bathroom situation and what came out of you in those bathrooms. Jorge, can you look up Mexico City diarrhea? Okay. Go ahead.
I was warned about.
That's an image search.
Drinking the water.
Yeah.
And so I brought bottled water everywhere.
Yeah.
And that was fine. I never got sick.
Images. What? You never got sick?
I never got sick. Never got sick.
Did you have any loose? What the fuck?
Not one. That's what came up.
Wow. What a cute little image.
Not one poop picture came up in Mexico City diarrhea.
Oh, thank God.
Take off the safety searches, please.
No. Leave them on. I don't want to see it.
That's crazy.
Why do you have safety searches at Gas Digital?
By the way, today's episode is being recorded at Gas Digital.
Okay. Wow. Still nothing. There's more fucking diarrhea pics in me and Jill's text threads.
I mean, you guys are nasty.
Yeah.
Yeah. No, no. I never got sick.
All right. Forget it.
I know. And I, but I was like truly warned.
Yeah. You stayed away from the water.
Yeah. So I stayed away from the water. I stayed away from the ice. I had beer.
You were worried about it.
It was just something because I travel alone and I don't speak the language. I was like,
bitch, you can't get diarrhea and be like, don't dance to Albanyo, you know?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I didn't have the confidence to, so I just, and then also the recommendations I got, I
only ate at the recommendations. So I, I literally, I had no issues. I think I maybe had a tummy
rumble once, but I was home.
Did you have any of those midterms?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
was where she would write they had the few desks there and then um yeah that was so pretty um that's
outside of the and then all the light that came in and then you could just see like you could
actually see the writing you know you see her penmanship and stuff like that it was very cool
i'm kind of a if i had to pick a religion it's maybe um an animist what does that mean
what is it i haven't really researched enough they call it the world's oldest religion where
it's just like everything has i'm just gonna half-ass this but like kind of everything has a
soul okay so trees people but even rocks are like yeah they've so like so then like if you touch the
pyramids like they've been here for a few thousand years yeah depending on who you ask you know
between like two and like 50 yeah um i don't know somewhere in the middle there and so they've seen
stuff they've seen civilizations come and go yeah you know when you're in jerusalem
and you like lean on a wall you're like oh a roman soldier leaned on this not a redone wall
this exact stone while he's like taking a break from carrying jesus to his resting spot yeah
and it's just like it just takes you back and when i see some of these places naruta's house in in
is that santiago no i know some city in chile um and you see where he writes
and you see some of his words you're like i can just imagine
yeah this this guy or this chick like doing it and you're like it's just so cool you just like
transported for a second you know with the light coming in you can imagine yourself sitting there
writing and then you see your bed and you imagine being bedridden yeah you know and you're like
husband fucker sister downstairs i mean insane and then also i just love the like they would
have a bunch of salons you know and so i just had one picture of her just fucking smoking that was
in the room
where she was like yeah i had a bunch of friends over and we were just fucking shooting the shit
and uh and it was all like the top level communist of the time yeah exactly just hanging out and all
different mediums too it was like it was so cool that's how berlin is every time i'm there really
we're all just going to a deep discussion about graffiti with a graffiti artist and who the top
graffiti guys are and someone else is doing some other crazy artistic thing and maybe it's not but
this has just been my experience everyone's into what they're doing and accomplishing and not like
what someone else should
be doing yeah you know where it's like let's say it was after the roast all the discussion would
be about like how big j did it for different style yeah and then and then and then cheryl
underwood did a different style than him and then tony was more rapid fire and be like wow they're
doing these things yeah and and it wouldn't any none of it would be about like what they didn't
care for yeah it would just be focused on what they did and man it must have been so cool to be
like so how are you gonna overthrow your government where you're living i'm doing it through paint
yeah remember how we're we're talking and we could get arrested for just having this conversation
that's crazy you know what else do you like about frida's house it's it's the i went twice the second
time i didn't get reservations in time and i was like regretful that i didn't go back yeah but at
least i went once yeah i went just yeah obviously i just went the one time but yeah i really just
loved and then and then you actually see the paintings yeah you know it's her wardrobe that
was there she's incredibly and how small she was she was so little you know she was so small and
it was just really really cool i'm with that relationship with diego rivera yeah and her hey
can you find the like famous giant diego it's like the guernica yeah i guess that's like the entire
down no then it's something in mexico city um oh is it possible yeah i think it was further
downtown but it was like every detail is like a different type of like and here the priests and
here this and here's a crooked cop and here's this there's um a picture that i had of uh i believe it
was a stairwell yeah um and that is not that one um another stairwell sorry uh and keep leaving
through it it's okay we'll see like flip it'll call it yeah that wow that was the i mean this
is the coolest thing i mean and so someone had to commission that that's a rich person going
i'm gonna pay for this that's the library that's the public library so who commissioned the
government the government commission zoom zoom if you can and it's just an entire detail on that
i mean isn't it crazy okay so like stay yeah stay right there so like in the one i was talking about
they had a code where it's like it shows you the outlines of each one and shows you what each
person represents or is yeah and so you go like oh that's that like one hey you know oh nice yeah
that's cool because it's all meaningful yeah and so like the cactus plant is probably meaningful
and like wow so you're just going up the steps yeah it's just a transport you know the floor
this was just yeah this is just the stairs nice nice pace i mean it's wow you got a
zapatista over there it's it was wild and then every floor it was like a different theme really
yeah on the stairwell it was where's this it's a public library it's um it's like a government
building the art in mexico city is is bar none it's just like god they lean into it do you record
any um galleries or anything i went to their contemporary art museum and then their and then
the um the history of mexico museum or the
americas i forget what that's called agriculture museum okay i i'm blanking on the name but yeah
it was uh it was the museum i told you about still there or is it gone which one was that
i think it was i don't know the name of it i think it might be traveling it's it's the museum
of broken relationships or something like that oh no that wasn't there this one um the one with
all the skulls on it the picture that i have the problem all the skulls yeah that is from um
the history of mexico museum and so they had that huge wall of just and those were carved out of
stone from like oh what the aztecs you know so long ago um and it's probably not please don't
quote me on the aztecs i am a lot of times we get comments on this and guys please by the way do
leave a comment whatever if you've been to mexico city or anywhere else in mexico and you liked it
like leave a something you did or just or just leave a comment of any kind for the algorithm
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really does help uh even if but please don't be mean to me but yeah please god i'm a nice lady
it'll be mean to her but something i don't know you didn't do anything lame just say you came
from you'll be tripping yeah okay that's fair that's that's totally that's fair came came
because of our
sorry yeah put his throw his name in there come on let's have fun um the thing i remember from
frida's house that got me was so it's that vibe same thing with naruta's house
he's two i think he's one in santiago also they didn't get to but like and then sounds like this
or whatever i kind of remember that too and like staring up she's bedridden and she fucked up with
the ceiling so she could like look at stuff and like yeah but like going to the courtyard i was
there with four friends
five and um dumb fucking detail to stop a story for so four of my friends sound like my aunt
no it was five no it was five friends because susan came and susan really wanted to come
it doesn't matter this part doesn't matter you know susan called me the other day
yeah and not stop mom just say it um we're in the courtyard a couple of them went to the bathroom
and i'm sitting there i had a little notebook on me yeah and i was just like oh i'm waiting for them
to come out of the bathroom when i started writing just like thoughts were coming out and like hey
what are we going next and i was like guys i'm gonna catch up with you yeah i'm feeling so
creative here yeah and it it just felt like she designed this courtyard for creativity
and i was i don't know maybe i'm putting it on her but i was like this is it's just coming out
of me now yeah and i just sat there for hours and just wrote which i never do yeah
that's so cool i mean yeah what a she hand built it it wasn't just like she moved in
well it was her family's building and then she filtered it yeah she created the blue it wasn't
blue and she's a little walkways and like yeah you go to a different part of it so like all right
i'm out of ideas here let me go over here get a different view yeah it's i mean it was it was so
beautiful i hung out there for a while um and then i went to near down the block they had like a
marketplace and that's where i got lunch and i just sat it was like a huge like quote-unquote
mess hall yeah with a bunch of different um vendors and so i just picked one with crickets
crickets yeah because i was like i didn't eat the crickets but i was like if they're selling
crickets then it's probably going to be more authentic yeah you didn't have the crickets
no i didn't have the crickets i was already afraid of diarrhea i'm not going to throw crickets on
there you know they come in a bag too it's like this isn't i don't know where this came from when
you made these yeah i don't know where this came from when you made these yeah i don't know where
it just tastes like corn chips yeah barbecue corn chips the the food was great i had a coca-cola
and then i went home mexican coke mexican coke when they try to sell that as more healthy than
water it's like mexico it's with real sugar i'm like sugar's bad yeah what also bad yeah
so so then so that's pretty much a trip or was there other stuff um the museums uh oh i went to
like in the middle of the year i went to the museum i went to the museum i went to the museum
Of the big square, there was, like,
they're uh the aztec ruins yeah and so i was just walking around looking at the big church
you know the basilica or whatever and then uh they were having a mass so i couldn't go inside
um it's cool to see though it was cool to see but i'm also catholic and so i was like i respect it
i you know and then also i have no interest so yeah uh but right next door was like this
um was the ruins and so i you pay like six or whatever pesos and then i went in
and it was cool to see something that old it's just so old yeah we think we're we got old shit
no that's old shit and uh just walking around and then they were like and this is where they
did human sacrifices and you're like well okay yeah you see the carving in the fucking block
and you're like oh it's kind of sad human sacrifice shit was like
nuts
all over everywhere all the old mayan ruins too like and like it was like oh putting them on a
giant like like concrete block and like rolling them down and you see how far the steps go like
by the way that's only like two-thirds uncovered so it goes for like what the fuck i mean yeah
yeah so that was that was i think the last thing that i did and then i took myself out to a nice
meal did you have a good time just walking around yeah i just wandered i just wandered i picked up
uh you know i had a bunch of pastries
you know i just went to different places that everybody recommended and it was just like you're
like oh let me stop in here yeah let me just wander a lot of vintage walked around a lot of
vintage but then i would go to a vintage shop and they're selling stuff from like wisconsin
that's so funny that's so funny like no yeah it's like that's foreign here
yeah so whenever i was trying to get local beers wherever i would go and then in mexico it was like
no i want like a local and they're like yeah modelo dude yeah i'm like oh it feels like so
it just traveled less everything else like corona i'm like bro yeah um but yeah it was it was
honestly i'll never forget that trip it was so and i did it alone didn't have any problem never
got robbed never got never felt never felt unsafe close no it was really like it was wonderful i had
a great time and i would do it again in a second now i'm like what other band do i want to see in
what country you know where can i find that venn diagram again
queens of the stone age in iceland i think wow that's cool that's cool yeah or he stopped in
iceland and went to sweden i forget which one but yeah it's like they were these comedy sisters
two tall like like six feet six one and kind of big wow i think they're from austin and they
would would do this but for comedy make an excuse to take a trip i remember getting off stage in
reykjavik and they were there i'm like what yeah like when we wanted to go to iceland we'd do it
around this but then we're here for another week that's great and you're like oh wow see that that's
the that's that's the move yeah that's the move a music show and just go did you learn anything
about yourself from all this i learned that i like being alone i actually enjoy it that's like a huge
realization yeah i do want a partner and i want but i will always have to carve out alone time
because if i can do that and enjoy myself and i was like having a nice time and people
would come up and talk to me and i'd be like no you know i just like i'm having nice thoughts i'm
having a nice time i'm experiencing everything i want to i would go home in the middle of the
day and take a nap it was great it was honestly and i didn't feel the need because my family is
a family of doers you know if we're going to go somewhere we're going to do every single thing
you picked one thing a day and then just one thing a day and then just wandered and wandered and ate
yeah it was great it was truly it was like it was how i was like oh this is how i want to take
vacations now and i'm and if i want to go somewhere being alone it's not going to stop me
i can do this now and now i'm also not going to settle for a partner there's an emotional
leverage you have where you're like if you if you need to be with somebody you're like i'll settle
yeah but if you're like hey i'm good on my own so bring it yeah and then i'll be with you but
if not it's not a fallback it's not a far fall it's just like i actually like being on my own so
like take if you want to take me out of it win me out of it you have to add to my life yeah
you have to add before you take what a good thing to learn yeah i mean truly towns in the world it
was my eat pray love it was my eat pray love okay and then i changed the narrative at the end i did
not end up with javier bardem okay i ended up alone and that's and that's way better i don't
think women were ready for that real message of what it should have been for you pray love back
then yeah no no no that was definitely it was not ready it was like she's ready to fall in love
again it's like no just be alone you just spent all this time in this bad marriage and you're not
gonna end up cheating on you just be alone if not for stand-up um mexico city's in a five city
list of where i would live yeah yeah it's tough they don't i didn't look it up at all which is
probably why i liked it so much i didn't look up any comedy i was like i don't want to know what
the scene is i don't want to know if there's an english scene i just want to live my life i did
go to um i was taking spanish classes in a city outside medellin um with the best teacher own
um um but i saw i was there for two plus weeks and so on weekends i was off and i was like oh let
me go into medellin i was like there's a comedy show am i gonna check it out but it was in spanish
yeah i tried like i'm a comedian kind of like tickets are yeah i was like actually yeah yeah
fucking nickel you know whatever it was yeah you're oh i can't just stand in the back yeah
yeah i don't pay for stand-up but yeah but i was like i did and it was just cool to see it in
spanish yeah and then and you know i was like oh my god i'm gonna go to medellin i'm gonna go to
like oh he's doing a joke about his mom i think and i was just learning spanish so i didn't really
have much of anything yeah yeah i did in norway too or like let me pop into a norwegian yeah why
not yeah and it was like it was just cool it's cool to see what the vibe is yeah but not to go
up or not to seek out english speaking yeah like that's a different that's a different thing it's
also interesting to watch people bomb in different languages really karamba
um
wow it's
sounds like a great trip it was a wonderful it was wonderful and i can't wait to do it again
i think the spice girls are going on tour so i might take a look oh yeah but that one might be
we might get some gals together for the spice girls beckham miss beckham was doing it no she's
not doing she's like i'm done with it yeah she's done with it i mean it was
okay i'm gonna get some hate from this but taylor swift i never got to go to the tour yeah i was
gonna with adrian i was like let's pick a date let's just go yeah it's um my biggest regret is
not spending the money to go see the spice girls i'm not spending the money to go see the spice girls
because i've followed her i've been a fan for a long time i'm not like crazy hardcore but like i've
been a fan since she was doing country and yeah i remember her being a country star yeah and i was
like oh i wish i had done what i did for the yayas with her there comes a time we're like well that's
just too much money i do want to see it but actually nah it's too much money um it's like a
grand it took over the whole city like i was opening for jeffrey curie in vancouver on the
last weekend of her tour and the city of vancouver was like oh my god i'm gonna go to the spice girls
all tailored out all tailored out themed uh hotels everything like we were staying in the
lover hotel you know it was just she put on a hell of a show that's what everybody says yeah
and so i'm like which i would love to see is i i really wish i was like i'm not even into it but
i was like i don't want to bring a date i want to bring adrian i'm like let's just go yeah she's
like i'm not that into it either i'm like i know but let's go see a great performer i mean a great
performer who really makes who can make a arena seem small you know like that's gonna that's
so united i heard the vibe was just very positive yeah so i'm sure it's all that and beyonce it's all
about like sisterhood and yeah if you had to do this over again or if someone else was going to
mexico city yeah what what advice would you give them um what advice would i would give them my
list okay first off i would share that list yeah um i would tell them you already said don't drink
the water don't drink the water but also you don't you didn't learn the hard way so no i didn't learn
um i would i would give them the pick one thing a day and then just stay for an extra day you know
is there anything you wish you had done that you didn't do um i think i like if you had to do over
again you would have done this i had to do it over again honestly probably go to the luce libre show
you know situation and probably have a little bit more fun like maybe go to a concert or i mean not
yeah uh like um mariachi type concert or no like a bar you know go to a bar you know i know how to be
safe you know try and meet people talk to people you know yeah maybe it'd be a little bit more
adventurous but you were there to happen to yourself you weren't there to meet anybody
yeah derosa would be like let's go to a bar and meet some locals yeah but he's very he's social
yeah i wasn't trying to be social this trip so i think i would try to be a little bit more social
next trip yeah yeah but uh honestly
i have no regrets with this trip i left feeling like i had done enough and i was ready to get back
you know because i was also anxious about money oh yeah you know because i was living alone for
the first time and responsible for all my bills and you're doing good now though i'm doing okay
knock on wood it's going okay i don't know where wood is but anyway um but we'll see hopefully it
lasts um i couldn't afford the metal yeah i think it'll last you're always been crazy funny oh thanks
with everybody you just need to like show people what you can do and it seems like this funny af
did that yeah yeah i mean i'm i'm grateful that
For reality TV, they made everybody look good.
They didn't try and make it.
They didn't try to fuck with it.
Thank God Kevin Hart is a man.
Yeah.
Yeah, they didn't try.
In the body of a boy.
Yeah, they didn't try and do the drama, you know.
It was like, no, this is what stand-up is,
and this is how hard people work.
Yeah, you can see him, like, talking about it now
on Breakfast Club, whenever he saw that.
He's like, guys, shut up.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
He was like, I'm not going to sell anybody out now
without saying it like that.
Yeah.
He was like, yeah, I booked these guys to do that.
They did that.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was just like, he could easily sell people out,
and so it sounds like this.
He could easily make it more drama.
He goes, no, I'm a comic.
I want these guys to shine.
We're going to have a contest.
Because there was drama, and he just,
they decided, Bill Dixon, who was the lead guy on it,
he was like, no, no, no, we're just trying to.
We're not doing that.
We're doing jokes.
We're showing jokes.
Okay, these are two things I asked people before we go.
By the way, follower at Caitlin Palufo on Instagram.
Instagram.
C-A-I-T-L-I-N.
Wow.
P-E-L-U-N.
F-F-O.
Incredible, Ari.
What a mind and a bucket hat.
I-N-T-G-R-M.
Wait.
Oh, I messed that one up.
I-N-S-G-R-M.
What are you trying to spell?
Instagram?
Yeah.
I-N-S-T-A-G.
It's a joke.
I got your name right, but I can't get that one.
You're a good actor, because I was like,
he's having a stroke right now.
I was both.
I was acting and a stroke.
Yeah.
What?
I was easily able to act through strokes.
He can do it all, people.
Two questions I ask him before they go.
I'll ask them both.
You can decide which one to do.
It's give me a travel tip.
It could be broad or minor.
Okay.
It could be like, when you're in this town,
try to do this.
Or it could be see sports.
It could be pack light.
We get a lot.
Yeah.
And then where do you want to go next?
Or what's calling you?
Not next, necessarily.
Okay.
Travel tip.
Pack light.
No, I over pack.
You never know what you're going to need.
Pack too much, okay?
I'm not hiking, okay?
I'm literally going to an Airbnb that has a closet,
so I plan to fill it.
That's actually not a bad one.
No, I mean.
If you're going for a short time,
fill the fuck out of your suitcase.
And give yourself options later.
And bring a little, an extra bag for your,
if you bring anything else.
If you buy stuff there, then you bring,
it's literally, this is my tip.
It's a foldable, cushiony bag, plastic bag,
that you can check.
It rolls up into a little carrier like this.
I throw that in my bag, so I have my carry-on.
And then if I bought, I bought a bunch of stuff.
Fill it up.
Fill it up.
And then you have a,
and now you don't have to buy a bag there.
That's not bad.
I always think like pack light
so you can fill it up with souvenirs, but.
Just bring a little bag.
Just have safe, double your space.
And I unpack in the apartment.
What?
So if I'm there for five days.
Lunatic.
I unpack everything.
Psycho.
No, I like it.
And there, and it's almost like you're living there.
This is your apartment.
I loved it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do that if I stay,
even if I stay in a hotel for more than three nights,
I'll unpack everything.
I mean, that is a better way to live, but like.
Yeah, do it.
Do it.
Any woman I've ever lived with,
when they like doll it up, make it nice,
or even when I'm dating them,
and they want like, let me fix everything.
And then they go, isn't this nicer?
And you're like, no, it's nicer.
It's just not worth my time to do it.
I'm glad that you did it.
It's like first class.
I like first class, but it's not worth the money.
Yeah.
But I mean, if I get bumped up, I'm not going to go, no.
That's crazy because you're so tall.
Whatever.
Okay.
I take fucking 14 hour overnight buses
and people puking on the fucking, you know,
Peruvian, Andes, whiny roads.
I'm fucking fine.
Yeah, you don't want to get too comfortable.
I'm fine in Delta Coach.
Yeah.
Some lady serving you water.
Yeah.
Oh, it's luxurious.
And then where do you want to go?
Where's, where's, not next, not next.
Just like, what do you like?
Like, I really want to do this thing.
I want to go to Vietnam.
I want to go to Hanoi.
I want to.
Great.
Yeah.
I want to do that.
Yeah.
Asia.
I've never been to Asia.
So if I ever get lucky enough to do a tour in Australia.
It's, it's, there's nothing that exudes the word foreign like Asia.
Yeah.
It's different in every way.
Yeah.
It just seems so cool and so exciting.
And the food seems amazing and it's cheap from what I understand.
So if I ever, if I ever get to go to Australia,
I'm literally tacking on two weeks and going to Asia.
Direct flights to Bali.
Yeah.
There we go.
That's the final leg of the e-pray love.
I got to fall back in love.
There's also, I tell this to, you're probably more developed than this,
but maybe you don't know.
When someone flies you out for a gig to Europe,
you can fly back whenever you want.
You just have to let them know.
Oh.
So if they're like, like I said, like,
or there's someone else, but like five days in Montreux, Switzerland,
like we'll fly you back on the sixth day.
I'm like, hey, can you actually fly me back from Amsterdam?
Like, like nine days later.
And they're like, sure, whatever.
Really?
Yeah.
That is good to know.
So you're on your own up till there.
But if you do a tour of anywhere.
Yeah.
Say, I'll get to Vietnam.
Don't worry about that.
Yeah.
I'm going to go to Ho Chi Minh to Hanoi or just what Hanoi.
Yeah.
Fly me out of there.
And then just, you know, you fill your own time.
And if you can get like a gig.
Yeah.
You got two free hotel days.
Nice.
And then the whole thing's tax deductible too.
But like anyway.
Yeah.
Get there.
I've only been to Southern Vietnam.
It's so cool.
Yeah.
And the Northern I heard was way more French.
Really?
Yeah.
Interesting.
From the.
Colonization.
Yeah.
Oopsie poopsie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What a bummer.
But yeah.
They don't call it the Vietnam War.
What do they call it?
They call it the American War.
God, our asses.
Yeah.
They're like, well, we just got finished with the war with France.
They left.
Two years later or less, America comes in.
It's like, oh, sweet.
You guys are weak.
We'll take over.
Yeah.
It's not the Vietnam War.
We've had war after war.
Yeah.
It's just another invasion.
That's so funny.
Oh, God.
All right, buddy.
Well, guys.
Prosciutto Rose.
Prosciutto Rose.
Caitlin fucking kills.
We worked together on the road.
Yes.
Crusher.
Kentucky.
Kentucky.
That was a blast.
That was so fun.
Yeah.
I'll check you for ticks any day, Ari.
What a fun time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice hikes and just like, oh, yeah.
That hot tub was crazy.
Yeah.
It was so big.
I got to find that picture of you just looking like death.
Oh, probably.
Yeah.
We managed to fill up the time.
It was pretty great.
Yeah.
It was great.
We did a hike in a rain.
Yeah.
Check her out and check her on Instagram.
And if you like this podcast.
If you like this podcast, reach out to her.
Let her know you had a good time.
But check out the special and tell your friends about it.
Yes.
Please.
Then I'll do a little thing where you like cut a little clip on your own and put it on
your stories or your reels yourself.
A part you like, you know, just like a 20 second part.
Just fucking screen record it.
Put it up.
Thanks, bud.
Yeah.
That would be so nice.
Yeah.
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Next week.
Well, I'll do an outro.
I don't know.
Next week.
Next week is anyway, but I'm going to record some more while I'm here.
Okay.
Bye.
Thank you.
That's the episode, everybody.
Thank you very much for tuning in.
Next week, I got Yoshi Obayashi or Luke Heggy.
Those are going to be the next two weeks, I think.
One on Afghanistan.
One on biking through New Zealand.
Luke Heggy biking through New Zealand.
That one we did on location in Melbourne.
In front of a mural of a local Melbourne.
They had a big mural to him.
And we recorded the podcast out in the street right in front of it.
I like to have fun.
Anyway, today's episode is edited by the Your Mom's House Network.
It's produced by, no, it's produced by Your Mom's House Network, edited by Alan Caffey
and shot expertly by Jorge Malvedano.
What's your last name?
You don't say it.
That's pretty smart.
Some guy named Jorge.
He's an escapee from New Zealand.
Jorge, maybe you interview me about my Nicaragua trip.
We can do that.
Yeah, it's the shortest.
Well.
Yeah, you tell me the story.
Okay, yeah.
Everybody want to get no ads on an episode.
And I don't have to reach an hour.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
Thanks for the help, Jorge.
All these episodes you see shot here are going to be shot by Jorge.
He's a small Nicaraguan dog.
He put on a child costume to get in.
He used the Biden-lax immigration policies to get in here.
And then Trump's been on the lookout for him ever since.
And that's why we're at the RU Garbage Studios.
Come find us there, Ice.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Everybody, go see Caitlin Palufo's special, Prosciutto Rose.
Legitimately, she's a great, funny comic, and you guys will love her.
She's just like a, she does comedy like a man.
That's it.
Man, why do they have trans?
Trans comics.
Like, the real trans comedy is about the comedy and not about the gender of the,
not what's between the dick of the person who's on stage.
Because when you think about it, that's got nothing to do with it.
We can move the mic stand up and down.
So, what's boy or girl got to do with it?
But the style of a man in comedy, or the style of a woman in comedy,
those are kind of different things.
Caitlin Palufo is a trans comic.
Anyway, go see Prosciutto Rose right now.
Tell her she's your favorite trans comic.
And she's the real Frida of, uh. Stand-up.
One of those things.
She's on the road right now.
Get tickets at CaitlinPalufo.com.
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Atlanta, Georgia.
Denver, Colorado.
Sacramento.
North Charleston, South Carolina.
Raleigh, North Carolina.
St. Petersburg.
Austin, Texas.
Boise.
Lafayette, Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Okay, that's pretty good.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She's got a whole tour coming, and she's more popular than ever, so get tickets right now.
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I get it.
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So start with one episode.
Start with the, let's see, start with the Big Jay Oakerson episode, episode seven.
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Guys, go out and visit a country by yourself.
Do what Caitlyn did.
Take a risk.
Go out alone.
She's a fucking woman.
You know, go out and take a chance and go see something.
Most places are pretty safe.
I was on Harlow Williams' podcast asking about what danger I was in while I was traveling through Latin America.
And I was like, dude, the reality is not none, really.
It's not clickable.
That's not clickbait stuff, but really not much.
So it's all pretty safe out there.
Go out.
You can find some danger if you want, you know.
But that's not what I'm looking for.
Sabbatical.
Tommy's sabbatical.
That's what he's looking for.
But that's for him.
You and I, we're going to take safe trips.
Mexico City.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What a fun time.
All right.
Guys, adios.
No, nobody says adios.
That's the only fucking Argentinian that says that shit.
You know why?
It means with God.
Adios.
It said, hasta luego.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The Lemonati, a shadowy organization, has long dominated the market by promoting lemon over lime in sodas, music, and culture.
In response, 7UP launches a new lime-lemon soda to challenge the status quo, symbolizing a shift in flavor and consumer preference.
Traveler Caitlin Palufo shares her solo trip to Mexico City as a journey of self-discovery, independence, and emotional healing following a long-term relationship breakup.
Summary:
The transcript blends satire and personal narrative to explore cultural power dynamics and solo travel. It opens with a critique of "The Lemonati," a fictional force that has long promoted lemon over lime, suggesting that this bias is embedded in consumer culture—from sodas to music. The story shifts to 7UP's new lime-lemon soda, a symbolic "flip of the sip" that challenges the status quo.
The narrative then pivots to comedian Caitlin Palufo’s solo trip to Mexico City, framed as a personal journey of self-assertion after a seven-year relationship ended. She describes her experience as a mix of excitement, anxiety, and cultural immersion, highlighting the freedom of solo travel—where one can choose experiences without compromise. Key moments include a heartfelt encounter with a kind-hearted Mexican man who pays for her meal, reinforcing the warmth of local hospitality.
She also explores the vibrant, sometimes chaotic, taco culture of Mexico City, noting how recommendations from locals guide her through authentic experiences. The trip reflects broader themes: the value of cultural navigation, the importance of small gestures in building connections, and the power of travel as self-discovery. Amid humor and irony—such as jokes about truffle oil or "eat, pray, masturbate"—the episode emphasizes authenticity, independence, and the joy of traveling alone without fear of judgment.
The tone is reflective, celebratory, and grounded in real-life experiences that highlight both vulnerability and resilience.
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The Lemonati is a shadowy organization that has spent decades promoting lemon over lime in beverages and culture. Their influence is evident in products and music, where lemon is dominant, suggesting a long-standing industry bias.
7UP is countering the lemon-centric agenda with a new lime-lemon soda that features lime first, symbolizing a shift in flavor preferences and a 'flip of the sip' to challenge the long-standing lemon dominance.
The journey represents a personal transformation, where the traveler seeks self-discovery, independence, and emotional healing after a breakup, proving their ability to thrive alone without relying on others.
The traveler went to Mexico City to prove their independence after a long relationship ended, to experience solo travel, and to embrace a self-reliant lifestyle, including attending a concert and exploring independently.
A key tip is to embrace being unfamiliar—don’t feel pressured to speak the language or follow social norms, and instead, use local guidance or translation tools to navigate and connect meaningfully.
A couple directly next to the traveler proposed during a song, which disrupted the solo experience and made the traveler feel left out, highlighting how unexpected romantic moments can impact a solo journey.
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