South Korea w/ Michael Malice | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir
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What does the podcast intro reveal about Michael Malice’s return and the focus on South Korea?
Hello trippers, welcome to a brand new episode of UB Trippin'. Today the guest making his return is Mr. Michael Malice, author and kinda anarchist. Michael Malice. Uh before he came on to talk about North Korea, now He's made his trip to South Korea. Guys, if you're new to this podcast, first do me a favor, please subscribe wherever you're watching, uh, or listening to Spotify or YouTube. I think those are the only places. Do me a favor, hit the subscribe button. Sometimes people are subscribed and they get unsubscribed for no real reason. Resubscribe. Um, it's also if you're new to this podcast, you should know this is experiential. It's just about a person's trip to a place. We get almost every fact completely wrong, and we like it that way.
It's just about how is your trip? We don't get into the history or the chief exports or anything like that. Now, if you're willing to do that, let's go with Michael Malice to South Korea, the free Korea, the one where all the boy bands that are so Luscious are from.
Is this gonna air in like twenty twenty eight sometime?
It'll be twenty si twenty six. Yeah. But yeah. Dude, I so I went traveling for a year and I'm like, I gotta bank episodes. Yeah, I know. I'm in no rush. But you're like when it came out we were like, What oh yeah I've had people like, Is my thing not coming out? I was like, No, it's
in the line. It's coming out during the Biden administration.
I wouldn't be able to just hold it if it was like Lenny Pot's uh about the upcoming Trump election. I'd be like, That's gotta come out right away. You think you think you think Biden's gonna win? Like, oh David.
Where you been and where you going. This is our East Travel Show, yeah. We're gonna talk about travel today. It's you be tripping yeah.
So cool you went to north and south, by the way. Yeah,
and I
went north first. Wow. Right? Yeah. Get the real shit. That's exactly it. I'm not kidding. Yeah, and then get the flavor. Yeah. It'd be like imagining meeting Ewoks before you meet the whatever Chewbacca is. Well they're
both an endorph. They're
both Endorians, yeah. He's a Wookiee. You know
he's a bookie.
Yeah. Yeah. That's it. I forgot it. Yeah, I hold him for a long time. But whatever. It was a great one. It didn't matter. I was like, Yeah, wait till I got a good run of good ones coming. I'll put it in there. Or I'll be like, I just had a bunch of Southeast Asia. I'm like, let me move away from the earth. Is that what it is? Sometimes I'm like three Middle East in a row. Like let's mix it up. Let's throw an Africa in there. But also sometimes I'll have like I've had three episodes about South Africa, let's say I'm like, I gotta split those up by a lot. But like whatever certain countries
Okay, sure, sure.
That's the only North Korea one I've had. Okay. And I and probably ever will.
You don't know that.
I don't. I'm open to it, but um
Do you only have Boon?
What's his name? Who's the leader?
Kim Jong
un. Kim Jong.
Please come on this podcast. Kim is his last name. Jong un's his first name.
Mr. Kim. There you go. Sounds racist. Do
you know what's really racist? What? When I was in North Korea, instead of saying cheese, because they don't have cheese, when you're taking a picture, they say Kim Chi, and I thought to myself, that's racist. I'm like, wait a minute, I'm here. Like, but I swear to God, my first thought was like that's racist.
They gave us some like thing about HM. They had these uh shirts they were selling in South Africa and it sh it showed or maybe or maybe a kid wearing the shirt and it goes, Not another um not just another monkey in the jungle. Yes. And they were like, That's so racist. And the people they're like, Why? Right. And they're like, Well, it's the monkey. I'm like, Wait, do you think we look like monkeys? We never thought that. There and that there was There was an
Ambercrombie shirt before them and one of them is is two Chinese with the hats. Uh huh. Uh two Wong brothers, two Wong's Make It White, dry cleaning. Uh-huh. And I got the shirts, they're in Redbubble now. And I've worn it. And Brian Callan wasn't too happy.
Why is his last name Wong?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the podcast intro reveal about Michael Malice’s return and the focus on South Korea?
0:00–4:06
2
How does Michael describe his overall impressions of food, fashion, and daily life in Seoul?
4:06–14:19
3
What did Michael and Ari learn at the Museum of War and Women’s Rights about “comfort women”?
14:19–29:05
4
Why does Michael compare his aquarium visit and the sting‑ray argument to cultural misunderstandings in Korea?
29:05–47:01
5
What is the water vs tea argument about in South Korea?
47:01–57:15
6
How do they discuss Asian country hierarchy and rankings?
57:15–1:10:00
7
What travel tips and destination rankings are suggested for future trips?
1:10:00–1:22:39
8
What are the final announcements about Patreon and upcoming episodes?
1:22:39–1:28:17
Speakers
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