The Congo (the DRC) w/ Mike Corey | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Follow Mike on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/fearlessandfar/?hl=en SPONSORS: -Protect your online privacy TODAY by visiting https://ExpressVPN.com/TRIPPIN -Get $80 off your first month with promo code SPACE80 at http://talkspace.com/ Check out Mike’s awesome travel show Fearless and Far on YouTube On this episode of YBT, Mike Corey gets accused of being a spy and is attacked by an aggressive Green Mamba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the show, he and Ari talk about the Heart of Darkness, voodoo wrestling, and tribes not allowing gays. They also discuss pygmies, eating monkey meat, wiping with your hands, having to escape on a motorbike, and doing drugs to cast spells. Other topics include: Anthony Bourdain, boiled crocodiles, King Leopold, an old lady grabbing his dick, and the guy who invented BDSM. O zali motema na ngai! You Be Trippin' Ep. 67 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:37 - Intro Mike, Covid, & Homosexuality 00:06:20 - Being a Traveler 00:08:45 - Heart of Darkness Bar, Congo, Stephen King Book, & BDSM Statue 00:14:18 - Guides & Tribes 00:20:16 - Congo's Troubles & Fancy Dressers 00:25:26 - Voodoo Wrestling 00:34:20 - Bad Runways & Getting Accused of Being a Spy by the Governor 00:44:40 - Ran Out of Food, Pygmies, & Mayans 00:50:40 - Attacked by Green Mamba 00:55:43 - Weird Food & Trade 01:00:56 - Filming & Bourdain 01:05:33 - Bathrooms & Ancient Civilizations 01:08:12 - Heart of Darkness & Nice People 01:11:19 - The Sickest He's Been 01:13:59 - Food He'd Try Again & Wiping with Your Hands 01:17:10 - Not Looking Like a Foreigner 01:19:44 - Advice for the Congo & Guides 01:27:48 - Where Next & Travel Tips 01:32:20 - Drugs & Spells Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yeah, right. And then like updated. It's kind of like a bar stool. No, it's all right. Thank you.
0:04.8	Slippery slope, man. I know. Well, first of all, I know I'll get right back into smoke. And
0:08.5	if I do that. And then they're like, it's different. I'm like, it's similar. It's very similar.
0:12.7	Yeah. It's like those Kava people. But they're like, it's not of the same shit that I'm going to drink. I just moved to Maui.
0:21.5	Yeah.
0:21.7	My girlfriend.
0:22.4	I didn't know what Kava and Kratum were.
0:24.7	We went to a Kava bar.
0:25.7	They've got the big gourds, right?
0:27.6	We all shared one.
0:28.8	Got fucked up on that stuff.
0:30.3	It's not supposed to fuck you up, but it does.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.4	Yeah.
0:36.4	But it does.
0:39.0	And then you're like, well, as long as I'm fucked up.
0:44.5	But I don't know, can you, I don't think you're supposed to drive on it, but can you drive on him?
0:46.8	Dude, well, I mean, I've never been on Russia for driving.
0:47.7	Oh, I don't know.
0:49.5	I don't know if that's just like, I'm just so tired.
0:55.4	Here's what I found, at least in America. I don't know how it's in Canada, but if you're white, you can pretty much do whatever you want.
0:58.3	You can just say, I'm sorry, bro, I'm tired.
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