Italy w/ Paul Virzi | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Follow Paul on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/paulvirzi/ SPONSORS: - Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/trippin - Upgrade your wallet today! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code ARI at https://www.Ridge.com/ARI #ridgepod - Stop paying full-price for streaming services and only getting access to a fraction of their content. Get your money’s worth at https://expressvpn.com/trippin. On this week’s You Be Trippin’, Paul Virzi takes Ari back to Italy, 1989—when a family trip with his dad, grandma, and little brother became one for the books. From eating at a café across from the Colosseum to near-misses with Fiats, Paul reflects on how Jews and Italians might be more alike than you’d think—until things get violent. And when his dad goes full mob boss on a travel agent, the whole family ends up booked in the nicest hotel in Venice. Ciao! You Be Trippin' Ep. 77 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:55 - Wop Nation 00:06:41 - First Time In The Boot 00:09:19 - Pizza Built Different 00:18:18 - You Will Die 00:30:10 - Paul's Fav Place 00:32:18 - Pink Floyd 00:36:56 - The Blue Grotto 00:49:16 - Different Kind Of Italian 01:01:30 - Family Tree Surprise 01:07:43 - New To Capitalism 01:14:35 - Paul's Italy Advice 01:20:19 - Where To Next? 01:23:17 - Australia is Calling 01:26:44 - Romeo And Juliet Balcony 01:33:05 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.5	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
0:05.7	I've ruled out uni because of my grades.
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0:23.6	future with the degree you didn't think was possible. The Open University. The future is open.
0:29.9	How long are you in LA for? First 12 years of comedy. Okay. And then here for another 12.
0:37.1	I remember, why are you been here for 12 now? It's crazy. I then here for another 12. I remember,
0:37.7	why are you been here for 12 now?
0:38.8	It's crazy.
0:39.3	I still feel new, right?
0:40.4	I remember like the first weekend I met you at the stand. You were like, hey, and yeah, dude, that was, you've been here 12 years, dude, yeah. It adds up. You actually did it smart. You came at the best time. You came like, I feel like L.A. was starting to, not that it was like dipping.
0:38.0	It's still L.A.
0:38.7	It still has the comedy store and stuff.
0:40.2	But New York feel like L.A. was starting to, not that it was like dipping.
0:54.4	It's still L.A. It still has the comedy store and stuff. But New York was like popping off with like the seller, the stand had opened. The stand became hot. I came like a month after the stand over, maybe two months after. Like and the stand popped. Like they didn't think the stand was going to become like the east side seller, which it is. Oh my God. It was like the preeminent.
0:51.6	I mean, you talk to anybody, especially the old, like, didn't think the stand was going to become like the east side seller, which it is. Oh my God. It was like the preeminent.
1:12.1	I mean, you talked to anybody, especially the old like third street stand and it was like,
1:16.3	I've talked to people through other people that didn't know me.
1:18.4	Like, oh no, we've been there like four or five times.
1:19.9	It's just like a thing to do with New York.
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