Ari Shaffir’s Craziest Travel Stories: Exorcisms, Prostitutes, and Magic Mushrooms | #697

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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 184 minutes

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YERRR – Ari is BACK from his no phone vagabond travels. From Brazilian bathhouses to Bukele’s El Salvador purge, this one’s half adventure, half insanity and all great stories. – Machu Picchu, Bolivia & winging life with no plan – Gangs, soccer, and whether people even understand evil – Joey Diaz, Ali Siddiq & comedy industry greed – Crying, fathers, freedom, and missing the road already – Witches, curses, food poisoning & packing way too light for someone's comfort All that and more on this week’s episode of FLAGRANT. INDULGE. 0:00 Ari is BACK + Nothing really changes 2:50 1st week away + Mind exploded 7:07 meet people, “Theories” + Bath-houses 11:10 Brazil’s the 94yest + Mexican baseball 12:44 Reading, + Aussie Drogas 15:45 Interrogation, El Salvador + Bukele’s purge 25:24 Gangs LOVE soccer + don’t know evil 28:07 Bukele + Ger v Japan 34:30 Making friends, Hostels + Salt 37:30 Bolivia + People have power 42:30 Shaving it off, Touristy stuff + The Chinese 46:54 Machu Picchu 56:27 Winging it, BAGELs+ Solstice to solstice 1:06:52 Colombia, “The End” + Stories 1:25:40 Joey Diaz + Ali Siddiq + Comedy Central greed 1:42:01 “I love wrong” 1:$3:48 The Show must go on + Setting tone 1:52:05 Ari’s MSG prediction, SUPPORT + Need real stories 2:00:37 Dream guest + Importance of Sound 2:08:27 Crying + Relationship with father 2:12:40 Soccer, Sack liquor + Mexican Baseball 2:18:29 Missing the freedom + Sliding Doors moment 2:21:42 Consumed with politics 2:23:27 Food poisoning + Pack super light 2:29:42 Witches, The Curse + Black guinea pigs 2:47:02 World Cup predictions 2:49:11 Charms 2:51:37 Joy in seeing friends + Oasis 2:55:01 Famous comedians + Patagonia 2:57:41 Homesick, Pet tricks + Mexican popcorn 3:00:42 Don’t look at pictures + Support Ari This episode is sponsored by Kalshi. This episode is sponsored by Sesh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to Flaigrants and today we are joined by our dear friend, Ari Shafir.
0:08.3	He is back.
0:09.0	Bye, thank you.
0:10.6	Oh, thanks everybody.
0:11.6	Ari's back.
0:13.4	You got dressed up for you.
0:14.9	You got dressed up for us.
0:16.2	You're going for eight months.
0:17.4	For people who don't know, you do this very cool thing where you tour
0:21.4	stand up for a while. That is cool. That's, you should try it. You should try it. My manager
0:29.3	would like that. So would my age. These basketball teams are like, we have off nights.
0:36.4	But yeah, you go for like a year or two. They put us something out and then you, you don't just go away. are like, we have off nights. Yeah. But yeah, you go for like a year or two.
0:56.7	They put us something out and then you don't just go away. You like go away away. I go away. No phone. Yeah, no phone. Or I got a new number so I can like deal with stuff while I'm going. Do you not do like the, what is it called? You got locked myself out of email. No, no, no. There's like a, it's called a stupid phone or something.
0:56.9	A dumb phone, yeah, dumb phone. Yeah, yeah. Where you can just text and... No, but I mean, I gave up all my numbers. I didn't like take any of my numbers. So nobody could message you. Nobody can message me. Okay. And you go away for eight months. Yeah, I didn't want any of the...
1:09.1	People are like, well, I want to build a text you.
1:10.5	I'm like, for what?
1:12.6	What are you going to tell me?
1:14.3	How do you... for eight months. Yeah, I didn't want any of the... People are like, well, I want to be able to text you. I'm like, well, for what? What are you going to tell me? How DEI hires are ruining America? You'll cover everything so I'm back. I want to know. I don't need to know any of this. We need to fill you in on so many of some people know, that's so 2023 right now.
1:29.3	Okay, okay, hold on.
1:30.1	Let me just tell you.
1:32.6	I've been off the news before I left.
1:37.2	But for real, since July, I don't know anything.
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