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HHBSO 119: Joey Talks JustJoeyTravels · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hello, welcome to He's hot, but something's off.
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  Oh, we're recording this right after this week's special
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  episode of the Gay Cruise and Travel podcast.
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  I'm not sure this is going up on Thursday.
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  I think it's going to go up probably earlier than Thursday.
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  Whatever day I end up uploading this, it may not be the standard
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  Thursday that these go up on, but I wanted to wanted this
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  episode to go up at the same time as this week's episode of
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  the Gay Goose and travel podcast, because over there this
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  week you guys should actually hop over there listening.
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  I am formally launching just Joey Travels, which is my brand
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  new travel advisory business. One person shop over here and so
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  excited to get this off the ground.
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  So over on the gay Christian travel podcast this week, I
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  talked a little bit about what is just Joey travels, a little
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  about why I started it. But then I focus more on, you
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  know, the just Joey travels advantage, like why should you
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  use me for your travel needs? And also some of the things that
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  I can help you with travel wise. But I wanted this episode to
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  launch at the same time as that one because this one is where I
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  want to talk a little, kind of zoom out a little bit and talk
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  more about, you know, like why I started just joby travels, but
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  also more about just my own journey into like starting
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  businesses. For those people that are
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  curious, by the way, I've got this.
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  I've got this new arm. I just tapped it.
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  I got this arm boom arm mount for my mic, which makes me look
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  like a professional podcaster. Now, if you're not watching the
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  video version of the podcast, what are you doing?
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  Go over to my YouTube channel, Just Joey T and you can watch
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  me. Actually, it's not that
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  exciting. I got I rearrange a few things
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  in the background like I said it would.
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  I've got this backlight for the wall behind me now and I can
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  switch colours on it from my phone.
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  It's fancy. It's connected to the Internet.
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  That means I'm going to get hacked eventually by having this
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  stupid LED light. Yeah, but I, I cleaned up a
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  little bit. The vitamins are no longer on
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  this shelf behind me to the right.
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  I've moved them just for just for this FM podcast, just for
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  the video podcasting that I do because this was originally kind
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  of the temporary podcast location.
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  Now it's the permanent podcast location.
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  I've got everything like set up perfectly as is.
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  And this is officially the video podcast backdrop.
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  This wall and this plant and this shelf.
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  I mean, just vitamins in my prep, you know, like, you know,
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  prep is something you should, we should be talking more about
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  honestly. But yeah, I I need to put
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  something on that second shelf from the top where I used to put
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  my vitamins. They're now in a cabinet in my
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  kitchen, but I don't know what to put there yet.
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  I want to kind of put some. I was thinking I should maybe
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  get one of those tiny little lights.
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  What did they like? Like those like neon light up
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  lights that like, say something. I was on the Harmony cruise in
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  February and we're walking down some corridor past some
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  staterooms and some as part of the door decor, they had a small
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  sign. It was only maybe like 7 or 8
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  inches in length, but it was like a sign to have like some
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  word and it was done in that, in that what, what is it called?
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  It's like a like a, like a light up Dion sign.
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  The kinds that like shops have at like the front of their
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  storefront to say where they're like open or close.
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  Some sort of like neon tubing light thing.
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  Maybe if it's not super expensive, I can get something
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  that lights up that's like a light up sign for that shelf.
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  Anyways, as usual, we're getting very, very distracted.
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  I'm going to drink some water first.
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  OK, there we go. That's, that's a big you didn't
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  ask for, but water is important. Anyways.
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  I'm just very excited about finally launching the business.
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  I talked a little bit about on the other side why I started it.
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  And basically it's because, you know, like travel really has
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  changed my life and I wanted to be able to take that feeling and
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  also that desire to help others. And also with my kind of travel
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  skills and experience, I just feel like I can help other
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  people just have the same kind of positive transformative
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  experience that I've gotten from travelling that I met.
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  Sometimes I'll meet people that come up to me mostly on cruises,
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  sometimes at like events and they say, oh, are you Joey?
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  I've watched your YouTube videos and like, oh, I just bought my
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  first cruise because of you or like things like that.
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  So in some like small minute way, I feel like some of the
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  work I've been doing on YouTube over the years have had that
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  effect. And in a way, I'm this is kind
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  of sort of like a light bulb like dud, why didn't I think of
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  this before moment? So yeah, so here we are.
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  Now sometimes people will DM or calling me and be like thinking
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  that I can help them with their Atlantis booking, but I can't
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  because not before anyways. But now that I'm like a proper
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  travel advisory with like everything set up, I can
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  actually help people with hey, booking and Atlantis cruise, for
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  example, or like, hey, I can get you like flights in the hotels
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  to go somewhere. But part of that is infused
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  with, you know, like the knowledge and experience that I
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  have going on all these gay cruises, visiting all these
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  different cities, going to all these events.
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  And that's my specialty. You know, travel advisors all
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  have kind of like the niche and specialty.
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  For example, there are travel advisors that focus on Disney
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  vacations, Disney vacations, like a really big thing and
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  Disney, the Disney theme parks, Disneyland, Disney World, Disney
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  cruises. They also have cruise lines.
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  You know, that's a niche because it takes like specialized
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  knowledge to know how all the Disney stuff works.
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  And so for me, it's like the Atlanta stuff.
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  It's one of my biggest niches for just joy travels because you
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  know, it takes, it takes. It's like a niche within a
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  niche. I feel like cruising is a niche
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  and Atlantis cruises are a niche within that niche.
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  So because I know so much about the Atlantis cruises, I feel
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  like very naturally it was a niche that I can leverage my
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  experience in to really help people.
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  Because for me, it's sometimes hard to picture how much of A
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  niche it is. Because for me, an Atlantis
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  cruise, if there's a lots crew sailing like in 24 hours and and
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  somehow I got booked onto it, which is like not realistic, but
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  like just hypothetically, if there's randomly a brand new
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  Atlantis cruise tomorrow that I could go on that I had like a
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  booking for, I can just like within 24 hours get myself ready
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  and go on and have a very enjoyable cruise.
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  But that's only because I've done so many cruises with them
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  before and I know exactly how it works.
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  The last, like when I go on to an Atlantis cruise, when I step
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  on board, especially if it's a ship that I have sailed before,
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  like the physical ship, it just feels like a second home.
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  Well, second home after Terminal 7 at LAX airport or the
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  international terminal at LAX airport because I go to those
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  terminals so often. The International terminal and
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  the Terminal 7 were united as those are like when I go to
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  those terminals, like I know where everything is.
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  I know where all the water refill stations are.
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  I know where all the lounges are.
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  I know everything because I just go there too much.
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  But yeah, like, you know, like whenever I go onto Orlandis
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  cruise, I step on board and it's like, yeah, just feels like
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  everything feels very fresh, but also very familiar and
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  comfortable at the same time. But because I'm so comfortable
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  familiar with cruising of Orlandis cruises, I sometimes
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  forget like how novel it is when it's like your first or even
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  like second or third time going on a cruise and how much of A
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  parallel alternate universe it is when you go onto a cruise and
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  especially a gay cruise and Atlantis cruise.
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  This cruising by itself already has its own like terminology,
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  like port, port size, starboard and like it has its own set of
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  procedures that is like very unique to cruising.
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  And like sometimes the circumstances are very
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  different, just the cruising experience.
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  They're very different from like another type of travel that you
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  do. It's just so special just for so
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  many different reasons, right? You know, like you're out in the
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  middle of the ocean kind of sort of like away from that in the
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  middle of nowhere. And obviously that's very
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  different, the ship itself and there's nothing like it on land.
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  So then you put on top of that all the gay gay cruising stuff,
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  which is all, you know, specialized for a cruise ship.
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  You know, some of the gay stuff on Atlantis cruise, yes, there's
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  a parallel to it on like on land, but some of it is very
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  specific to like the cruise format, if you will.
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  So I kind of almost take it for granted because I'm so used to
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  it, but that's really one area where I feel like I can help
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  people that are newer to the experience.
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  But I love, I go on so many Atlantis cruises, but I love
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  doing them. I really love doing them.
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  Like I wouldn't have given them so much money over all these
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  years and booked so many cruises if I didn't like it.
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  And you know, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of
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  people that go on their first Atlantis cruise, they tend to
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  want to go on another one because it's a really, it's a
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  really great experience. Nothing is perfect, obviously,
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  but you know, I, I definitely can see and have heard of some
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  feedback where not that the cruise is bad, but like, because
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  the cruise is such a different experience and you've never been
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  on a cruise before. And also a gay cruise is not
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  quite the same experience as a regular cruise.
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  That it could be overwhelming to go on your first gay cruise or
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  your first Atlantis cruise kind of, but you go into a kind of
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  blind, right, like sometimes, like, you know, sometimes you
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  kind of just have to dive right in.
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  There's, there's the first time for everything.
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  So for some people it could be a bit overwhelming.
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  And you know, most people, for most people, they still have
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  like a positive experience. But one of the very common
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  questions is the common question that when I used to do YouTube
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  videos of like David and Jeremy, you would have seen them in some
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  of my YouTube videos. And it's also sometimes
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  something we talk about with other people that are like new
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  cruisers that we get to hang out with every so often.
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  We all this, the question always comes up.
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  The topic discussion is always what's like the one tip that
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  seasoned Atlantis cruisers would give to new cruisers?
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  That comes up all the time with us for some reason, especially
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  with me. And I've got I can write an FM
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  book, OK. That's why I do so many advice
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  videos on my YouTube and that's why I have the the gay Cruise
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  and travel podcast because I've got so much advice.
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  But you know, one of the top advice I give is to pace
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  yourself because you go onto this cruise, you've never been
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  on a cruise before. So but every, everything's a
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  novelty. Everything is a novelty, even
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  the novelty of like going into a restaurant and not having a bill
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  to pay. It's like weird the first time
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  you do it. But there's going to be
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  restaurants that are complimentary that are free and
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  the restaurants that are specialty restaurants that are
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  most ships that are paid you can go into, you know, like the main
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  dining on a lot of ships. It's yeah, proper dining tables,
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  got tablecloth. You get like your proper 3
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  course meal. They're like waiters bring you
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  food. There's a menu you order from,
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  and then at the end, you just like, get up and leave.
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  It just feels weird. It feels like a diamond dash,
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  you know, sometimes little things like that.
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  Yeah. But I just think I have so much
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  to offer, especially for those new or newer cruisers, not just
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  in terms of like navigating them through the booking experience,
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  but also just like give them tips on, Hey, make sure you get
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  to the port city the at least a day before the ship set sail.
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  Because you know, like if your flight's delayed or cancelled or
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  like if just traffic or whatever, like and you like
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  missed the, you're late for the cruise, you might not get on.
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  And that's going to be like the bummer of all bummers.
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  So, so like, it's kind of like little things like that.
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  And it's great that I have a YouTube channel where I can
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  dispense videos and a lot of people watch them, but there's
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  nothing quite like having someone who can actually guide
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  you one-on-one through the process, right?
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  A lot of people, some of the videos that do particularly well
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  on my channel are like the advice videos.
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  People like to watch what I call the after movies, which is like
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  when I vlog, when I go on a cruise and you kind of get like
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  a, you get the highlights or like a summary of the cruise.
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  Those are like the after movies. Those are like the most popular
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  ones by far, but then the second most popular ones are the ones
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  where I talk about the cruise experience and I give some
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  advice on how to do a cruise. And that's those are the types
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  of comments and DMS I get the most.
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  It's people that want to go on a cruise or like our newer
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  cruisers and like they just don't know how everything works.
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  It's like it's such a weird kind of foreign concept to them.
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  They watch some of my videos or they read some stuff on the
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  West. It's like, Oh yeah, a gay cruise
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  sounds great. They know nothing about
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  cruising. They don't know how to book it.
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  They don't know how to choose a stateroom.
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  They don't know which cruise they should go on.
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  Even after that, they don't know like the how a cruise port
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  operates and like, you know, all that stuff, like the list goes
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  on and on. So that's where I think that's
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  going to be a advantage of, you know, booking with just Joey
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  Travels is yeah, someone can, you know, I've been, I've
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  actually booked Atlantis cruises with another travel agent
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  before. And this was like way, way, way
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  back. It was like for like my second
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  or third cruise and like I was going with friends and like, I,
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  I think they just said like, Oh yeah, book with this person.
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  So I, I did it back then, you couldn't book Atlantis cruise by
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  yourself on didn't have the online reservation system yet.
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  This was like years ago. And you have to call up Atlantis
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  or you have to like e-mail Atlantis or you can go to their
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  travel advisor. And this advisor like booked me
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  and like that was all I wanted from it.
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  But I just see potential for like, yes, I mean, if all you
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  wanted me to do is just to like book your room and like that's
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  all you needed, I can do that for you.
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  But like, like I said, the Atlantis website also has like
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  the reservation system, the online reservation system that
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  people can go on and book a room itself.
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  If you know exactly what cruise you want to go on.
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  And been you've been on tons of cruises before and you know you
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  want to go on this specific cruise and you know what the
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  type of room you want and you know which part of the ship you
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  want your room to be in and you just want to do it all yourself.
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  Yeah, just go do that. I'm not trying to like get
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  everyone to book through me. That's not really the that's
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  never been the intent. And that's not the concept for
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  just Joey Travels is really focusing more on the people that
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  want or need or could benefit from like my expertise and
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  having that one-on-one experience.
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  That's where that those are the people that I want to reach out
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  and those are the people that I want to help.
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  So the frequent cruisers out there, like you've already done
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  the online self reservation, whatever thing, it's not my
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  target demographic, it's not my target client base, if you will.
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  So, but yeah, I'm super excited to be able to do this.
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  And I also wanted to make sure that I, but I, I do a lot of
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  travel outside of cruises. I think some people just think I
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  go on cruises all the time. I, I done more trips not for
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  cruises than for cruises in aggregate if I look over like my
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  travel history. So I love to also be able to
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  take the experience I have visiting so many different
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  cities and having attended all these different events, whether
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  that's like a music festival or like a pride event or whatever
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  it whatever it is. And also being able to help
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  people with that too. Except I use in the Gay Cruise
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  podcast was like go to Bangkok if you want to go to Bangkok
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  before Song Cram, which is like the Thai New Year that happens
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  in April or you've heard about White Party Bangkok, which is
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  the New Year's gay music festival that happens every
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  year. It's produced by Blue, which one
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  of our friends. But you know, maybe you've never
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  traveled internationally before or like you've never been to
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  Thailand before, you've never been to Bangkok and you don't
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  really know like the lay of the land over there.
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  Like I've been there. Like, so I don't even know how
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  many times I've been over there in Bangkok, obviously, but yeah,
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  someone can like call me and be like, hey, I'm interested in
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  going to Bangkok for like this event at this time.
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  And like that. That's where like really the
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  value add is. You know, any travel advisor can
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  log into a system and book you into a random hotel or put you
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  on a random flight or kind of reserve a stateroom on a random
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  cruise. But you know, you can do that
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  yourself like it's 2025, like you can do that yourself.
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  If if you knew exactly what you wanted to book, you can just go
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  online and book it. The value add in a travel
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  advisor is all the skills and experience and how they're
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  making your life easier, right? You know, if you are OK with
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  booking a room yourself at a hotel, let's say, but you're
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  going somewhere that you're not familiar with, you're going to
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  spend a lot of time looking up different hotels, which area you
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  should be staying in, but not really having like a good feel.
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  But you don't have, you've never been there, you know the area,
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  right? But you know, using that Bangkok
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  example, I know I've been there so many times, it's very easy
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  for me to say based on what you want to do and where you want to
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  go in Bangkok, I'd be like, OK, let's focus on these particular
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  neighborhoods. And I already know most likely
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  in these neighborhoods, these are some of the hotels that I
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  would recommend for your budget and for your needs and wants.
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  You could eventually get to that by yourself on Google or ChatGPT
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  or whatever. It's probably going to take you
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  some time. Right AI eventually might take
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  over the world. Maybe yes, maybe no, but until
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  AI does you have just Joey travels.
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  So there you go yeah, but I'm just so excited to get this one
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  like off the ground. I've been working on this for
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  the better part of a year. Actually a little bit of tea
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  when I I started the gay crews and travel podcast right around
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  the time that I was taking the right around the time I was
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  starting just Joey travels like the very beginnings of it
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  because the a lot of companies that have blogs.
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  Yeah, it's very common for a company to blog about things.
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  It's part it's marketing. It's part of the marketing
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  strategy. Let's just be straight up about
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  it. So instead of doing blogs like
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  written content, which I've tried to do before personally on
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  on on like just my own, having a own Just Joey T website that
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  just never stuck with me. But podcasting, I think I've
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  been podcasting for like 2 years now in some way, shape or form.
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  I'm very talkative. So podcasting was like the
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  perfect format for me to like replace a blog.
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  And when I decided to split off all the travel crew stuff into
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  its own podcast, that was actually part of the strategy to
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  be aligned with Just Joey Travel's the company because
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  that it just made more sense that way.
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  So that's why I kind of stopped talking about all the travel
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  stuff on this podcast and I just made it all into its own
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  separate travel specific podcast because that podcast was
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  supposed to be complimentary and go with the just Jolie Travels
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  website. The business.
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  But just to retravel is it's taken pretty much all year so
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  far, like the better part of the year so far to actually get
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  started and to actually like get everything set up.
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  There are quite a few states that have these called seller of
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  travel laws, California, Washington state, Florida and
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  also Hawaii. And I had to like do a lot of
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  work to like set up various financial things, you know, bank
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  accounts, the registration licenses, things like that.
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  So that's just one example. Obviously, whenever you start
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  any sort of business, there's like things in the back,
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  administrative, logistical things you have to set up.
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  So I did a lot of that. A lot of it was just doing a lot
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  of research for me. It's like, I know it's a new
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  industry that I'm going into and, and I am a frequent
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  cruiser, frequent traveller, but like, I also need to know like
• 22:57
  the travel advisory side, like that other side of the travel
• 23:00
  industry, which I'm new to. So I'm very like aware of that.
• 23:04
  I definitely want to be able to like walk before I run.
• 23:08
  So I do have a bunch of the accesses now.
• 23:12
  So that, that's great. And that took a bit of time to
• 23:15
  get set up. Yeah.
• 23:16
  But I'm just so, so excited about this.
• 23:18
  I'm so excited that I get to talk about it in public now.
• 23:22
  I was kind of talking about every so often on the podcast,
• 23:25
  I'll talk about, oh, like this thing I've been working on
• 23:28
  that's like, I, I can't talk about it yet because like, it's
• 23:30
  not finished, just like whatever secret thing.
• 23:34
  And I hate when people repeatedly talk about bringing
• 23:37
  up something that they can't talk about.
• 23:40
  I just find it annoying. And I, I noticed I've been doing
• 23:42
  it. So it's like, OK, it's, it's, we
• 23:45
  need to stop talking about it until we're launching.
• 23:47
  And now we're launching. So I'm calling this a soft
• 23:49
  launch because I know there are my podcasts don't get the most
• 23:56
  listeners. I'm fine with that, you know,
• 23:59
  But for the three of you that's listening, Just Joey Travels has
• 24:03
  launched. You can go to
• 24:04
  justjoeytravels.com. You still have the Just Joey
• 24:06
  Travels Instagram. I'll link things down below.
• 24:09
  Yeah. But later on, once I've kind of
• 24:13
  maybe like gone my first few clients, I'm going to do a
• 24:17
  proper YouTube video, not the video podcast episodes, but I'm
• 24:21
  going to do a proper YouTube video to do like I feel like
• 24:27
  launching a business like a bit like with just Joey Travels.
• 24:32
  I don't feel like it's not like the older days or it's not like
• 24:35
  a storefront. We're like, oh, on Monday we're
• 24:38
  going to open the doors for the first time and like you go from
• 24:41
  like zero to 100. I feel like with just Joey
• 24:45
  travels, there's not like one particular launch where we go
• 24:50
  from zero to 100. Yes, it is now publicized and
• 24:53
  out there and not kept in secret anymore.
• 24:56
  But you know, I feel like it's got gradual ramp for this.
• 25:01
  So in in the near future, I'm going to do like a proper
• 25:04
  YouTube video on my YouTube channel where I sit in front of
• 25:08
  camera and talk more about the business.
• 25:12
  And I'm going to start regularly posting on the gesture we
• 25:14
  travels Instagram channel as well.
• 25:19
  But yeah, I'm kind of like, fingers crossed.
• 25:21
  I this is like some brand new thing for me.
• 25:23
  I don't know how it's going to go.
• 25:25
  I'm very optimistic and I believe in myself.
• 25:28
  The amount of self belief it takes to start your own business
• 25:30
  is crazy. I'm trying to start 2 businesses
• 25:34
  at the same time. I talked about this briefly.
• 25:36
  I'm also trying to start the skin care line.
• 25:39
  I, I kind of sort of botched the initial launch, which wasn't
• 25:42
  really like done quite properly in the sense that I didn't know
• 25:45
  how to market a whole company by myself.
• 25:48
  But with the second go around, I have a marketing agency that
• 25:52
  I've hired to help me with that. And then we should hopefully see
• 25:55
  that later this year. So that that's the next thing.
• 25:58
  I must be crazy for trying to like launch two businesses at
• 26:00
  the same time. I was on AI and I was actually I
• 26:05
  was actually helping it. I was I've been having AID Co
• 26:09
  some of my dreams. So I always get this dream where
• 26:13
  I'm lost. It's like I'm in some sort of
• 26:15
  location. I'm in some sort of setting
• 26:18
  that's not like a complete unfamiliar type of setting.
• 26:22
  Like one time I was in like a hotel.
• 26:24
  I don't know what hotel it was, but like I was in like the hotel
• 26:27
  like a lobby or like a public areas of a whole, like a large
• 26:29
  hotel, like something in the Vegas or I'm in like a shopping
• 26:33
  mall, not places that I frequent, but it's like like a
• 26:37
  hotel, like hotels or a regular place, a shopping mall.
• 26:41
  It's like a very regular place. Or maybe it's like a school or
• 26:43
  some school I've been to before, some sort of like large, huge
• 26:47
  building. I'm inside that building and I'm
• 26:50
  always like, OK, I need to go to this place.
• 26:55
  And like in the dream I'll be like trying to get to the place,
• 26:58
  but like that direction I'm going in.
• 27:02
  Like I think it's the right direction, but like, it's almost
• 27:06
  like the building. I should know the building, but
• 27:10
  it's like I've been to this mall or I've been to this hotel or
• 27:12
  I've been to this school, but like things are not in the
• 27:17
  location that they're supposed to be or where I expect.
• 27:20
  And I keep trying to find my way to the destination and it's
• 27:26
  almost like a, it's almost like a maze in the sense that like I
• 27:29
  thought I was going the right direction, but I'm not.
• 27:31
  And I never get to the destination.
• 27:34
  I had this other dream more recently where I was a passenger
• 27:38
  on a plane. OK.
• 27:40
  And I'm like looking left and like I can see out the window
• 27:43
  and we're like taking off. And when you're taking off, you
• 27:46
  can see like the plane out the window, like lifting off the
• 27:49
  ground. And you're like, you're pointing
• 27:51
  up and like you're moving away from the ground.
• 27:53
  But just like a few seconds later the plane starts like
• 27:57
  going down in the sense that out the window I can see, oh, we're
• 28:01
  not climbing away from the ground.
• 28:03
  We're like we're descending into the ground.
• 28:07
  There's no noise or no, no whatever.
• 28:10
  It's just like we're going up, but now we're going down and the
• 28:14
  plane goes down. And it's also like swerving to
• 28:17
  the right as if like it's trying to do like an evasive maneuver,
• 28:21
  but then it's going towards the ground, but it doesn't hit the
• 28:24
  ground. And then we start climbing
• 28:25
  again. We start climbing and then we
• 28:28
  start going back down. And then the Dreamcast sort of
• 28:30
  ends after that. So I plugged that into the AI
• 28:35
  and the AI said, yeah, it, it, it looks like it's, I forgot
• 28:40
  exactly. Because like when you type
• 28:41
  something, AI gives you like fucking 10 paragraphs,
• 28:44
  basically. Long story short, it's all
• 28:46
  connected. You'll be according to AI, it's
• 28:49
  all connected to me trying to like launch these new
• 28:53
  businesses. It's like, and the, and the
• 28:58
  symbolism is the plane climbing and taking off from the ground.
• 29:02
  It's like my vision and hope for the businesses.
• 29:06
  And the fact that it descends means that I have a fear that
• 29:11
  the business won't work out. And the fact that it's like a
• 29:15
  repeating oscillating thing. It's like, oh, it's climbing one
• 29:18
  moment, then it's like about the crash in the ground, then it's
• 29:21
  climbing, then it's descending. I think it's that that means
• 29:26
  it's, I forget exactly what I'm saying, but it made a lot of
• 29:31
  sense. It made a lot of sense to AI
• 29:33
  somehow. So yeah, I'm trying to start to
• 29:36
  these two businesses. One of the suggestions to AI
• 29:39
  that was like, could you maybe like, you know, put one of them
• 29:43
  on a hold and like while you launch the other one?
• 29:46
  And in my head, I'm like, no, I don't think I'm going to do that
• 29:50
  In in retrospect, I probably should have staggered the
• 29:51
  launches of the thing. But with the skin care thing,
• 29:54
  it's kind of on a timeline that I don't have full control over
• 29:59
  for like weird reasons. And with just Joey Travels, it
• 30:02
  just happens that it was like, now that I got everything set up
• 30:09
  to the point where like, OK, we're actually ready for launch
• 30:12
  now. So I didn't necessarily want to
• 30:16
  just like have the travel business just like sit there not
• 30:20
  doing anything. So I thought, yeah, we'll, we'll
• 30:23
  launch the travel business now. And then the skin care, it's on
• 30:27
  like a more rigid, less flexible timeline.
• 30:30
  It's probably going to come in like November or December.
• 30:33
  So there you go. A lot of businesses starting up.
• 30:37
  That means there will be more ads.
• 30:39
  That means going forward, there'll be more ads on this
• 30:42
  podcast for just Joey Travels, so get ready for that.
• 30:48
  All right, until the next time, bye y'all.