New Zealand w/ Earle Birney | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments of the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:20.3	Oh, there's my grandpa.
0:21.7	Oh, really? Yeah, he was a famous Canadian poet as much as you can be a famous Canadian and poet. Yeah. Who's the most famous Canadian? I think it's that guy who ran across the country. What is his name? Terry Fox. Terry Fox. Yeah. My friend gave me a Terry Fox shirt and people like, like every 30th person, like, what the, how do you know? Like, clearly you're from Canada. That's the only way to be like, stop with that. Is David by Earl Bernie a true story? Do you want me to spill the beans? Yeah, I mean, there is proof of this. This was no fictional story. Bernie's companion on that fatal mountain climb was a real David.
0:56.7	Damn.
0:57.3	Wait, so you're saying it was like, proof of this was no fictional story Bernie's companion on that fatal mountain climb was a real David.
0:56.6	Damn.
0:57.3	Wait, so you're saying it was a lie?
0:59.1	I'm saying I'm not saying.
1:00.5	Okay.
1:01.5	I've just heard of this book.
1:05.0	Where you've been and where you're going?
1:08.0	This is our race travel show.
1:10.5	Yeah. We're going to talk about travel today.
1:13.6	It's U.
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