Israel w/ Byron Bowers | You Be Trippin with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Follow Byron on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/byronbowers/ SPONSORS: -This holiday, give your loved ones the only gift that keeps on giving — health. Go to http://Superpower.com/gift to get a free $49 gift box with your gifted membership -Grab your own pair of The Dillon Freewaters flip-flops while supplies last at https://freewaters.comThanks to YMH's very own Katelyn for help with this flipflop ad!!!! On this week's episode of You Be Trippin', Byron Bowers tells Ari Shaffir about his travels to Israel with his girlfriend. He talks about drowning in endless hummus and insanely good food, and what it was like navigating Israel as a Black American traveler. Byron visits the Wailing Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, hits the desert for ATVs and scorching-hot Turkish coffee, and somehow finds the only special-needs guy working at a McDonald’s in the entire country. להתראות Vote for your favorite Trippy Nominees below!! https://forms.gle/g5VrsDRu5D5WwNii8 You Be Trippin' Ep. 97 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:26 - Byron Goes to Israel 00:18:31 - Arabic Food 00:22:21 - Protests & Racism 00:32:07 - Mandatory Military Service 00:34:12 - Wailing wall 00:43:22 - Sharing Your Meal 00:46:04 - Church of the Holy Sepulchre 00:51:59 - Rule Breakers & Segregation 00:54:46 - Going to the Desert 01:05:04 - McDonalds 01:08:17 - Israeli Argumentativeness 01:12:24 - Traveling Comic 01:30:00 - Trippy Nominations!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Come in, shoes off.
0:02.0	What's the Wi-Fi? Most stream the new series I'm binging. Please can we listen to something that isn't Christmas music? Can you, um... You can't have such a T-Froster ticket quickly? Everyone! We're gonna video call Auntie Audrey now. Mom, Joe's talking to telly again. Can we share a video with a dog in his outfit? Hosting this Christmas? You need the UK's best broadband technology. E.E. does more.
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0:22.5	EE does more. Full Fiber is the UK's most reliable broadband technology. Offcomes broadband terminology research March 223. Verify at e.e. dot at e.k.a. slash claims. Let's do the cultural Jewish thing. Okay. I mean, the show is about that. Yeah. I mean, also your experience in Israel it's going to be a way different experience than mine was in your seminary.
0:40.1	You know?
0:40.1	Agree, but you have a clue. Yeah, I mean, also your experience in Israel is going to be a way different experience than mine was in your seminary, you know.
0:40.1	Agree, but you have a closer connection to it.
0:42.5	No, no, no, yeah, I've been there too, so I can be like, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
0:45.8	You took certain classes and where you've been and where you're going.
0:49.8	This is our race travel show, yeah.
0:52.6	We're going to talk about travel today.
0:55.3	It's U.B. Tripping, yeah.
1:00.6	Hello, everybody.
1:01.7	Welcome to U.B. Tripping.
1:03.0	It's the only travel podcast that has both white people and black people on it.
1:07.7	Today, my guest is a hilarious comic.
1:12.0	Somebody I've known for a fucking long time.
1:15.1	The Spirit Airlines podcast.
1:20.9	No insurance, traveling, free toothbrushes.
1:30.9	Byrudebarrows is the guest today yeah clap at home everybody
1:32.3	buddy thanks for coming on
1:35.1	doing this
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