Syria w/ Rolf Potts | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

[@youbetrippinpod]

The Farewell tour Presale Wednesday Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Tahoe, Anchorage, Austin, Brea, Denver, Dania, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Providence, SLC, San Antonio, San Jose, Schaumburg, Tampa, arishaffir.com (code: Ari) 10am No added cities. That's my whole tour and then off the road for 2 full years.

[@erikjanthes]

Can you leave Shane in charge of controlling the weather while you're on hiatus?

[@newtondescartes2122]

YOU NEVER COME TO MONTREAL THAT'S INTEGRATED RACISM. WE ARE A SACRED CITY FOR STAND UP, PUT SOME RESPEK ON US.

[@newtondescartes2122]

WHO CARES ABOUT SCHAUMBURG WTF

[@newtondescartes2122]

YOU LIVE IN THE EAST COAST AND YOU DO WEST COAST CANADA?? WTF MAN WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU OR YOUR MANAGER

[@YesNo-qb9vl]

YEA BRO YOU LIVE IN FKG NYC AND YOU ALWAYS DODGE MONTREAL AND NOW YOU'RE DOING THE WHOLE WEST COAST CANADA? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU OR YOUR MANAGER?? DID GILBERT ROZON R* YOU TOO?

[@RobertoWCruz]

This has become my favourite podcast and a must-listen for me every week. I definitely prefer the travellers with real stories than comedians who just fuck around at a resort or go to some touristy place. Awesome work ari !

[@jasons7854]

Why don't you get down on your knees and glaze the whole world?????

[@jsprung8548]

I love this pod. Love that they’re getting longer too. Who would’ve thought Ari would be such a great interviewer

[@youbetrippinpod]

Not me

[@crh4878]

Skeptic Tank was the best podcast of its time and it was all interviews

[@beliVolidisko]

This is turning out to be one of the best podcasts out there.. Also, you should have Jim Norton or Bob Kelly to talk about their trips to Brazil with Patrice Oneal

[@Cody---]

Bobby the slug would come on with a made up story

[@nickpaul3623]

Bro that's a great idea. I second this request.

[@youbetrippinpod]

Oh yeah. Trying to get them in for sure.

[@BBANGELL]

@@Cody---lmfao 🤣

[@swalton98]

I remember a Monday Morning Podcast episode where Bill Burr mentioned his digenerate friends would go down to Brazil for the whoas. I think I know who those friends are now.

[@s3cr3tsquar333]

i live vicariously thru Ari and his guests

[@ryanromero5803]

U b trippin

[@youbetrippinpod]

Me too!

[@s3cr3tsquar333]

@@youbetrippinpod that's meta

[@1992lololala]

It's beautiful to hear Syria talked about like this. i've been 3 times and I fell in love with it more and more each time I went and i can't wait to go back one day.

[@brandonrodriguez626]

The skeptic tank episodes with Rolf Potts had such an influence in my life. It really inspired me to be open to local experiences while traveling.

[@maherhussein1999]

Ari, this has by far been the best episode!

[@youbetrippinpod]

What's your top 5?

[@Brimbino]

​@youbetrippinpod 1. This podcast. 2. Shane Gillis 3. Mark Normand 4. Your Thailand one 5. Starvos or Matts Brazil trip

[@jordancosgrove6892]

@@youbetrippinpod harland blew the roof off!

[@johnoshana2772]

I'm from Syria and you can visit now, Damascus and the tourists sites around Damascus, Homs, Latakia and Aleppo are all active and tourists visit.

[@youbetrippinpod]

I really want to go

[@youbetrippinpod]

The pita drying in the sun is my jam

[@cbmathews0440]

@youbetrippinpod I mean probably you shouldn’t go Ari, but like other people can 😅😅

[@Brimbino]

​@@youbetrippinpodr.i.p ari 😢

[@comicthrill]

@cbmathews0440 oof lol

[@alieninstallation50]

It'd be interesting to see Bald and Bankrupt on here. That man is wild.

[@VagabondingVagrant]

I could listen to Ari and Rolf talk about travel for hours. So therapeutic

[@bobySLO]

Love it. Just funny hearing "don't rush, those countries will still be there" on an episode about Syria in the 2000s 😅🤙

[@FactsYall]

Hearing a travel story from before smartphones in the early 2000s is the same as hearing one from the 1920s. Caboose!

[@Mace91]

I love this show, thanks for all you do Ari. And big thanks to Rolf for sharing his stories as well as being sort of an inspiration and mentor to your travels.

[@laurenhjones]

Awesome video Ari! I appreciate how you have a guest that’s not a comedian, but still very entertaining and obviously devoted to travel. Keep it up. I love seeing you succeed!

[@joechiminh8725]

if Benjamin AKA. Bald and Bankrupt ever comes to the US, you should have him on, absolute travel legend.

[@youbetrippinpod]

I want to get him on!

[@mistercath]

The "Slow Down" tip is so true. Well said.

[@josephdurham4950]

My wife is taking me to guatemala 2025. 1st time out of the country, so im nervous but excited.

[@youbetrippinpod]

I just went. It's great. Just leave Guatemala City directly from the airport. Get to Antigua and then breath and collect your thoughts. There's a great cigar bar there too.

[@devoptimist]

​@@youbetrippinpod Did you eat a lot of guatemelon?

[@pibgorn]

Wow Rolf is riveting. I ordered his book. Thank you for bringing him to us.

[@youbetrippinpod]

Which one

[@devoptimist]

​@@youbetrippinpod He's the one sitting on the right, next to Ari

[@comicthrill]

The guest would like to think the local people that he met on his trip are hanging on. Amen to that 💓💪🏼

[@00Katie00]

Ari would probably hate me. I have no urge to travel. Going to Skankfest in Vegas felt like a big todo for me, but I still enjoy all these stories and insights. This concept is a winner.

[@CinesterCharlie]

This podcast is great. It brings me back to my time in the navy traveling. Keep it up Ari.

[@ooooliveiraaaa]

I was 9 years old watching Coming To America nearly everyday in a small portugal town (Ílhavo) while visiting my grandparents for 5 weeks over a summer… it was the only English movie at the rental shop

[@ironman4122]

We be trippin yea!!🖤💛✈️✌️

[@xxCD7xx]

I hitchhiked from Budapest to Varna and offered to pay for the toll roads to one guy. In the last gas station where he was filling up, he said he put his last money worth of gas into his car - he wouldn't have made it home if I hadn't approached him in a gas station in Serbia to ask for a ride and he accepted.

[@DawggyBagz]

Rolf is the 🐐

[@youbetrippinpod]

Goat traveller for sure!

[@crh4878]

​@@youbetrippinpodHe's his own GOAT😂

[@BorisBidjanSaberi11]

Great episode. As someone who will ever visit there, nice to hear

[@johnbaugh1122]

Sir Rolf! I've been waiting for this

[@dominicmapstone]

The movie 'Ground Hog Day' was called 'Ground Hog Day' in Australia, even though we don't have that animal or holiday. As soon as Andie MacDowell came on the screen, we forgot there was a Ground Hog in the movie.

[@Luchadorwithwhitebeard]

Ari next time you’re in Denver check out the restaurant Luchador. Best Latin-American food in Colorado. Great episode! This is one of my new favorite podcasts.

[@siIIysnake]

Okay wait, why is this podcast actually really good?! Good job Ari I love it

[@BBANGELL]

Other good Syria stories would be the YesTheory guys or other US travel KZbinrs based in Europe now! PPPeter, Timmy Karter, Kurt Caz, Drew Binsky, Arab. It’s a good number of travel minded people that would love this show following all their stuff🙌🎊 Love the show Ari, go up!!

[@mkieley763]

Thank you for these Ari, keep them coming!

[@Smiley-Coyote]

Excellent episode! I'm gonna have to watch this again later, there's a few I've watched a couple of times already, I sincerely fucking LOVE this podcast! Thank you Ari, and Rolf! Man I'd love to talk to him in person, definitely going to check out his podcast! 😎🙏✌️🍄💚

[@adivstoler9714]

Hey Ari, these podcasts are helping me get through a shitty college semester. love ya man

[@youbetrippinpod]

Take a gap year before you start your job. The new employer will understand if you tell them right when you get the job offer.

[@bdogs9610]

Excellent! right before my shift lets goooooo thanks Ari!

[@CarlParisien]

I’m first in line to buy a Shaffir/YBT backpack.

[@BBANGELL]

Please lord let it be comfortable

[@KJ2799]

If you like this ep, I highly recommend going back to the first Rolf Potts skeptic tank episode and also the Tim Ferriss skeptic tank episode called Modern Hippie

[@youbetrippinpod]

Both great ones!

[@Smiley-Coyote]

So happy when the new episode pops up! So excited for this one! Mush love y'all 😁🙏✌️🍄💚

[@penthehuman]

i became a fan of Rolf back when he did his no luggage series!

[@lostflannel]

Best guest yet! Wow Ali! Nice get

[@adamausaw1573]

I love the “movies I watched in another country” concept. I saw salt in Russia and the Kingsmen in HK. Definitely interesting to watch a movie and have no closed captions to understand what’s going on.

[@RobertoWCruz]

Back to back great episodes

[@OoSoO238]

I love you Ari. You give me love for life. 😊

[@JadSleimanComedy]

Yo whoever producers this get me on the show, I'm former war correspondent now running a Brooklyn comedy club. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Uganda, Mozambique, Benin, South Africa, Djibouti, Kenya, I dont even remember the rest. I've been everywhere

[@baronvonsauna]

I read the art of vagabonding in like 07 during my travel 20’s. Sick Ari is friends with him he’s a LEGEND.

[@youbetrippinpod]

I read it on a beach in Cambodia.

[@Tomas-vg9ww]

yoo Ari! this pod inspired me to backpack through Central/South America. love from Nicaragua 🫶

[@youbetrippinpod]

Love it! Hook up with a coke grower

[@swalton98]

It was brought up in this episode once, but a great travel book of Rolf Potts is "Marco Polo Didn't Go There".

[@Dynamic0NE]

Loved listening to you read that book during the ad read........it was legit ASMR. Thanks homie! Oh and great poddy like usual

[@evil3570]

Good episode and I’m only halfway through , might be the best one so far

[@Nerflover10097]

Really appreciate that you use a microphone for the ad reads instead of the potato Normand uses for Tuesday with Stories.

[@DoobNooby]

Just got back from my first trip to Paris and made sure to go to a cafe and smoke hand rolled cigarettes. Thanks Ari

[@youbetrippinpod]

It's the best!!!

[@enk4s3d77]

Detachable day pack just big enough for a legit camera and day kit is such a good idea. Also, dudes girl is right, the salads and soups in Moldova are so good. Spent 5 weeks and Chisinau and the food was amazing, but the city is gritty and raw, if you like that kind of thing.

[@comicthrill]

MAYA, Make America Yummy Again. As a parent I'm desperate for real food free of impurities (that also doesn't cost dearly)

[@cradleofthieves1922]

Best one yet

[@indianfyre]

This was such a good freaking ep!! I need to get this book in my osprey as well.

[@youbetrippinpod]

Great idea. Just leave a copy in there so it's always with you when you travel.

[@andrewcook2573]

Rolf needs to get on Rogan his books are great

[@forrestnutter]

Great episode! So jealous we can't go there actively. These are the places I wanna go to the most. Kazakhstan would be awesome. Really any of the stans

[@EOCA]

More guests like Rolf.

[@youbetrippinpod]

Yes! The celebrities are great but I like hearing about people who got their hands dirty.

[@alfacey804]

as always a great pod. thank you.

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Classic guest🎉 I wanna see someone talk about Bhutan or Nepal

[@youbetrippinpod]

Nepal I'm sure we'll get. Is that where Everest is? But Bhutan is gonna be hard to find somebody for.

[@pauliseri935]

I think I remember the last time you had Rolf on. You were sitting outside doing the podcast. "Algo"

[@youbetrippinpod]

That one was from Paris

[@NobleVagabond2552]

Hell yeah, bout damn time

[@jwrightphoto]

Hell yeah. We're gonna talk about travel today

[@ghosttoast8174]

Sounds like Ari just wants the Osprey Farpoint 55. Just did Spain, France and Germany with it. Great bag.

[@johnbennett6625]

39:25 They are called suicide doors because if one got out of the backseat and was passed, much too closely, by flowing traffic it would smush the person in between the door and frame rather than ripping the door off.

[@TreCayUltimateLife]

Please have him back to talk about Vanuatu

[@jake6766]

We love Rolf

[@stinkmunky1]

Tremendous episode.

[@ArtsyFartsyLovers]

No itinerary is the best 💜

[@DemocracyJones]

Amazing episode Ari! I don't have much to add except the forgettable movie you were thinking of was Assassin's Creed I believe lol

[@youbetrippinpod]

That's it

[@cristianarredondo4591]

Louis Katz trip to India. Thats the one your mom didn't like. I'm calling it. Love ya Ari!

[@youbetrippinpod]

Nope. Whiter country

[@dakota5432]

​@@youbetrippinpodAmsterdam pod for sure

[@youbetrippinpod]

@@dakota5432nein

[@swalton98]

I've been around the world and if a local wants to talk about US sport, it will be the NBA 9 times out of 10. I also met a Hungarian Minnesota Viking fan. Poor bastard. He lives my pain.

[@AutumnsDad1200]

Get Sam Tallent on… dueling travelers podcasts… be like Anchorman fight scene… YBT vs Wide world

[@casualwater698]

1:18:00 Patagonia stuff was made so much better back then. Same with North Face. I have three year old Patagonia shorts that have a hole in the butt because the fabric is so thin it wore through. Used to be about function, now it's about fashion.

[@estBradley]

I definitely prefer episodes with real travelers like this, rather than comedians talking about their dumb vacations. This episode was awesome

[@jibba1681]

Thanks for telling the world your opinion, that being said I think it’s better with comedians, too much of this world is serious like this guy. I mean yeah we get it traveling is your personality.

[@jordanp5469]

@@jibba1681Thanks for telling the world your opinion bud

[@estBradley]

@jibba1681 Traveling is a pretty cool personality

[@jibba1681]

@@jordanp5469 RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD HAHA

[@billypilgrim1]

I agree, check out Rolf's podcast for more of this, he actually has a ton of episodes with Ari.

[@ElJatinero]

This guy is cool af. I want to go to syria… iran sounds great too.

[@dankery1]

I was hooked on this episode as soon as he mentioned Qamislo (Qamishli). And props for explaining how Kurdistan got fucked when the Brits and French planned the Middle East post WW1.

[@OoSoO238]

Come to northwest FL. Ari! panama city is your love!

[@BrennonGoforthComedy]

Another great episode

[@chrisrigoni]

Great episode !!

[@youbetrippinpod]

Thanks yup

[@jamesmiedema7229]

Wonton Don from Barstool dropped a Syria episode today too. You guys need to do an ep together!

[@youbetrippinpod]

It's coming. Laos

[@jasonshaffer255]

The name of the movie you saw with the Knights Templar is Assassin's Creed.

[@BlueKnows]

Something for the ears while I'm cycling about Edinburgh 🚲

[@Tanaka1943]

Cycling to work, or to the next fix?

[@Man_Doody]

I'd totally buy an Ari travel packpack

[@md11b64]

Kurt Caz would be a crazy episode!!

[@GalaxyNewsRadio_]

Fr

[@md11b64]

@@GalaxyNewsRadio_ I’d love to see him on here, Kurt’s whitt and Ari’s humor would be an awesome match!

[@mgpBLARG]

Almost skipped this one but saw the short 👍 It convinced me to watch it.

[@crh4878]

Your loss, bud

[@mgpBLARG]

@@crh4878 it's interesting so far. I enjoy Ari's pods

[@youbetrippinpod]

@@mgpBLARGwhy would you have skipped it?

[@mgpBLARG]

@@youbetrippinpod was unfamiliar with him and not in the mood for it until I saw the clip. Very interesting and an enjoyable guy to listen to.

[@aj123456789101112131]

@@youbetrippinpod he’s not a true fan obviously, just watches the episodes with familiar guests 😂

[@Kroesprtobaggan]

Time for trippin w/ ari #arisheffarisafari love ya ❤️

[@diegogarcia4255]

I'd love to see Sam Morrill on here. We Might Be Drunk is one of my favorite podcasts. Adam Ray would be another great guest, though I don't know if he's much of a world traveler.

[@ryanmurphy2089]

Can you guys imagine how confused the crowd was when Ari was trying to tell Tennessee their only team is Tennessee women’s basketball 😂😂

[@youbetrippinpod]

Knoxville

[@lifesurvivors]

This is a great story

[@Dirtyjoe_13]

It’s called suicide doors because they open backwards so if you open the door while the car is driving the wind will rip the door open and you’ll fall out and die😂

[@Shaftscarpenters]

Thanks Ari!! Love our voyages

[@billd7120]

Wish you were coming back to Arizona in 2025. Saw you in Tucson earlier this year. See you in 2027 I hope.

[@elliotz15]

FINALLY, bandit got a bed

[@iam_jayvinson]

Bangs bro! 🤘😎🤘

[@Tech__Tom]

How about a long ballsack backpack design Ari? 🎒-->🥚 Big international brands won't produce it. Chinese manufacturers however can do stuff like that for sure, even custom design in limited quantity.

[@DieselDave359]

Suicide doors are when the hinge is behind you and the door opens from the front. If the door opens when your driving and you grab it to keep it closed, it will rip you out of the car.

[@1wallymack]

10 out of 10.

[@papagrim9777]

You should have ari matti on. I want to hear you two talk about meeting randomly in cambodia before he was known.

[@Gnarloo]

JAPAN PLEASE ARI!