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BONUS RADIO: The Impact of Global Events on Travel · That KEVIN Show

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Speaker 1: From the birthplace of radio's greatest era. Now from New
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome aboard. It's Travel Tuesday. Kevin mccull is.
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Speaker 2: My name, she's Linda Peril Hell, and it's good to
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Speaker 2: have you here. Hello, Lady, Linda, Hello, Sir Kevin. Someone
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Speaker 2: said recently, Master Kevin, I'm like, no, no, no, let's
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Speaker 2: not do that. We're not going that right, all right,
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Speaker 2: So I have a question for you and it's it's
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Speaker 2: an interesting one, I think, because I'm having conversations with
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Speaker 2: people and I'm seeing things. In fact, we've got some
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Speaker 2: stuff to talk about on the show tonight based on
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Speaker 2: global stuff. But right now you've got Russian Ukraine that's
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Speaker 2: still hot. You've got Iran which is on off every day.
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Speaker 2: It's something new different there, and neither one of those
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Speaker 2: are in like Europe per se proper like I guess
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Speaker 2: Ukraine is technically Europe, even though it's kind of moving
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Speaker 2: towards the middle of the Asian land mass. Iran is
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Speaker 2: certainly part of the distinct Middle East, But there's so
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Speaker 2: much traffic that goes in those partial directions. And come back,
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Speaker 2: do you think that this is having a negative impact
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Speaker 2: on the travel sector overall globally this year? What's your
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Speaker 2: temperature in terms of like what you think the global
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Speaker 2: appetite is for travel these days?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think you know, there's always a faction out
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Speaker 3: there that will travel no matter what, right, and so
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Speaker 3: then you have your middle of the roads that go,
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Speaker 3: uh gee, I don't know, should we go, should we
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Speaker 3: not go, should we stay domestic, should we go Europeans?
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Speaker 3: Should we say? Fuel costs and then there are the
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Speaker 3: people that are like, oh my god, can't do it
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Speaker 3: this year, forget it. So there's always Kevin. I find
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Speaker 3: every year an influence on the travel pulse, constantly, things
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Speaker 3: that make or break, things that change destinations. Right now,
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Speaker 3: I think because of let's let's start with the war,
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Speaker 3: right And I think more so the fuel costs. Some
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Speaker 3: people are financially like, oh my god, we can't do that,
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Speaker 3: because I guarantee you and I saw it. I have
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Speaker 3: to fly with my daughter today to Chicago overnight. And
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Speaker 3: I went to get tickets to Chicago. I said, we
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Speaker 3: could have gone to Hawaii. From what I paid, what.
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Speaker 2: Would you get per ticket for the round trip?
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, like almost seven hundred dollars in coach,
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Speaker 3: you know, And then what you're doing is your.
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Speaker 2: I had the same I had the same thing for
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Speaker 2: my lovely bride sheep had to go to a family wedding.
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Speaker 2: This is probably about four or five weeks ago now,
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Speaker 2: and we didn't get the tickets totally last minute, but
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Speaker 2: we didn't get them super early either. It was kind
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Speaker 2: of in betw and it was still like eight hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars round trip, and that's a ticket that two years
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Speaker 2: ago when we took the family to disney Land, we
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Speaker 2: got them for you know, four eighty nine each plus
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Speaker 2: tax round trip exact. So there's still there's something going
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Speaker 2: on because that is a significant difference at ticket price.
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Speaker 3: It's funny that you say that because I was talking
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Speaker 3: to Brent yesterday and we were discussing how, you know, okay,
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Speaker 3: fuel costs. So the air industry is going to use
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Speaker 3: these these added fuel costs as a catalyst to build
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Speaker 3: up their fares, raise prices. The other thing that became
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Speaker 3: an issue is Spirit Air because now you have gotten
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Speaker 3: rid of one of the low ballers that people don't
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Speaker 3: care about flying, they don't care about comfort, they don't
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Speaker 3: care about extras.
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Speaker 2: Just want to get they want to pay the ticket.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So what happens now now the industry and
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Speaker 3: the competitors, you know, they're like they're like salivating Doberman's
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Speaker 3: at a gas station. They're like, man, we caught that
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Speaker 3: one last night. What can we do tonight?
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Speaker 2: But isn't that going to ultimately hurt them? Because if
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Speaker 2: you don't, if the low baller doesn't get replaced, I
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Speaker 2: think the volume of traffic slows down in terms of travel.
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Speaker 3: Yes and no. But because people can Kevin or people
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Speaker 3: Kevin Kevin. People are always going to travel, whether it's
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Speaker 3: for business, whether it's for pleasure. Again, I told you
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Speaker 3: got those diehards out there that maybe save their whole
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Speaker 3: lives and are in retirement and don't care and want
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Speaker 3: to use their money and go away and say, well,
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Speaker 3: you know, we have the rest of our lives, We're
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Speaker 3: going to travel. We don't care. And I think that again,
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Speaker 3: the faction that is smaller, that's hesitant, that's cautious for
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Speaker 3: whatever reason, whether it be financial, whether it be safety,
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Speaker 3: because safety is an issue right now too. I think
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Speaker 3: that's smaller than the people that are going to travel. Now. Again,
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Speaker 3: that being said, there are influences on people's decisions. The war. Yes,
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Speaker 3: we go back to this airfare. We're talking about that
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Speaker 3: spirit leaving. You know, things make up this ball of
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Speaker 3: yarn that is quite complicated, and that ball of yarn
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Speaker 3: puts pressure on whatever the travel trend is. And also too,
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Speaker 3: we're talking about summer travel. It's a hot topic. What
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Speaker 3: are you doing this summer? So you know, I think
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Speaker 3: a lot of things combined, there's a whole there's a
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Speaker 3: myriad of things that are going on right now. I
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Speaker 3: think in the travel industry, I don't think there's a
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Speaker 3: trend one way or another. I think you can argue
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Speaker 3: different trends in different paths. Does that make sense?
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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this. When you see the
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Speaker 2: types of violence that Paris had, you know, from Saturday, Sunday,
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Speaker 2: Monday nights, does that if you were thinking about a
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Speaker 2: trip to Paris. And I don't know if you're a
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Speaker 2: parasophile or not. I'm kind of a Paris at all,
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Speaker 2: but that when we were there several years ago, there
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Speaker 2: was one protest that came through one day while we
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Speaker 2: were out, and it was a little bit like we
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Speaker 2: were like on an adjacent street to where it was
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Speaker 2: going on, so we weren't like in the thick of it,
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Speaker 2: but we weren't far from it, and it was kind
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Speaker 2: of like a little disjointed to experience. But overall the
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Speaker 2: trip was phenomenal and we had a blast. If I
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Speaker 2: saw that stuff on the TV screen and it went on,
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Speaker 2: if it was extended for longer periods of time, I'd
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Speaker 2: be second guessing if it was going to be, you know,
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Speaker 2: the right time to go.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think too, you have to Remember, you know
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Speaker 3: the media, right, So the media takes these little chunks
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Speaker 3: of excitement and uses them as a platform so that
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Speaker 3: the average I don't like to use the word uneducated,
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Speaker 3: I'm putting that in quotes. Okay, the average uneducated traveler
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Speaker 3: in the public, you know, John Q. Public goes, oh
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Speaker 3: my god, did you see what was going on in Paris? Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: it's in a Paris ghetto, a Paris section where there's
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Speaker 3: Middle Easterners a lot. There are sections of Paris h
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Speaker 3: but Saint Germain.
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Speaker 2: We stayed in Saint Germain, and it's Jermaine. It's beautiful,
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Speaker 2: it's a nice area. And for them to be overrun
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Speaker 2: with Somali's and you know, they've got all kinds of
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Speaker 2: groups that were coming out. And I know it was
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Speaker 2: all about the soccer championship, which you would think, Okay,
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Speaker 2: they're celebrating their team doing well. I've never understood the
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Speaker 2: whole thing about hey, my team just won the championship,
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Speaker 2: let me burn stuff down. But that that happened in
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Speaker 2: Chicago the six years that I was there when they
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Speaker 2: won championships, and now it's happened in Saint Germain and
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Speaker 2: they've won Saint Jermain's won two major titles in just
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Speaker 2: the last you know, fifteen years or whatever.
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Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing too, I don't like to do.
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Speaker 3: I live five feet away from Morristown where I'm here,
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Speaker 3: So we got a lot going on. We got teams
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Speaker 3: practicing within three mile radius. We've got the World Cup
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Speaker 3: going on in you know, ten mile radius. Traffic is
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Speaker 3: going to kick up. Would this be the time to
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Speaker 3: visit New Jersey if you were coming, I would say no.
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Speaker 3: So you have to pay attention to those things. A
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Speaker 3: crowd control. Do you want to be anywhere right now
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Speaker 3: where there's like a World Cup anything going on? I
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Speaker 3: personally would not. Some people don't care. They like the excitement.
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Speaker 3: But again, Kevin, those riots that we're talking about do
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Speaker 3: tag on to these sports and soccer is no.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The soccer hooligans on Saturday Night.
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Speaker 3: Live, Oh my guy, they're real. Yeah, no, it happens
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Speaker 3: with soccer. They're insane. This isn't like, oh, the Baseball
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Speaker 3: World Series. If somebody was rioting because this World Series
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Speaker 3: was out, well there's a problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, the Yankees won the World Series and they
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Speaker 2: throw a parade down you know, Broadway. But when the
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Speaker 2: Bulls won their six championships, all the stores on Michigan
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Speaker 2: Avenue were scared for that mark because they were going
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Speaker 2: to be you know, broken into and burned down. And
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Speaker 2: they did it all six years, and you kept thinking,
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Speaker 2: why are you doing this to your own city, Like
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Speaker 2: you're so excited that your team won it all, but
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Speaker 2: this is the way you react to it, and it's
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's a little inconceivable. Hey, listen, We've
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Speaker 2: got a lot of stuff to get to tonight. Speaking
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Speaker 2: of traveling with some caution, the US government has updated
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Speaker 2: some travel risk advisories for some places. We'll tell you
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Speaker 2: about that, and we've got some We've got some updates
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Speaker 2: on that Air Canada. You heard about that Air Canada
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Speaker 2: crash where they ran into the It was just awful. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: the CEO for Air Canada had had some unfavorable appreciation
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Speaker 2: for his comments. We'll tell you about that more. It's
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Speaker 2: Travel Tuesday. Stay with us.
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Speaker 4: From New York. It's Radio Night Life with Kevin mccaullach.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, it's Travel Tuesday. She's Lenda, I'm
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Speaker 2: Kevin and speaking. We were just talking about the kind
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Speaker 2: of state of travel. As we are kicking off the summer.
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Speaker 2: By the way, I hope that all of you come
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Speaker 2: to New York for America two fifty because and this
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Speaker 2: is the one thing, Lenda, this really gets to me
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Speaker 2: because in the newsletter I've been writing about America two
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Speaker 2: fifty and all the destinations on the East Coast. Like,
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Speaker 2: if you really wanted to make a historical trip, you
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Speaker 2: could plan all of the major stops that the Revolutionary
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Speaker 2: War went to and end up in a city like
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Speaker 2: Boston or New York to kind of either kick things off,
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Speaker 2: are around the trip up with and have a really
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Speaker 2: nice time all of these places have you know, they're
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Speaker 2: they're throwing out the red carpet for everything related to
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Speaker 2: two point fifty, and especially New York with the boat
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Speaker 2: parade and everything else. It's going to be incredible. But
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Speaker 2: global travel, there's an advisory that's just been put out
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Speaker 2: by the United States government urging Americans to exercised increased
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Speaker 2: caution to crime and kidnapping risks, in part in parts
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Speaker 2: of Mexico. So it's funny, Linda, I was just talking
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Speaker 2: with I don't want to laugh, but Buddy, well, it's
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Speaker 2: not like it's funny ironic, not funny, haha. But I
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Speaker 2: was talking with someone over the weekend and I said,
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Speaker 2: you know what, what's you know, what are you looking
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Speaker 2: forward to? And they have a trip to Mexico coming up.
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, you're you're okay with that? And
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Speaker 2: he goes, well, we're going to stay in you know,
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Speaker 2: Cancun and the you know, the nicer resort places. I said,
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Speaker 2: well that's the way to do it. My bride and
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Speaker 2: I went to to Loom a few years ago. But
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Speaker 2: here's the thing. Even last year there were some of
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Speaker 2: those wealthy resorts in Cancun that got hit by marauders
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Speaker 2: on the on the sea ocean side of the resort.
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Speaker 2: Because you know, all of those resorts there have they
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Speaker 2: take a big swaths of beachfront property so that the
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Speaker 2: people can wander out into the ocean when they're staying
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Speaker 2: at the resort. And if you've got cartel guys coming
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Speaker 2: up via boat along the shore, that's a dangerous area
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Speaker 2: to be in as well. Now it's not as bad
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Speaker 2: as the underbrush and the jungles and all the stuff inland.
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Speaker 2: That's where if you are a young girl you are
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Speaker 2: going to probably get kidnapped and trafficked. But yeah, especially
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Speaker 2: for girls right now, I wouldn't travel like I hear
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Speaker 2: about these these girls strips like oh, let's go to
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Speaker 2: can Kun for the weekend and it's just three girls,
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Speaker 2: and like, no, why would you do that? You're eighteen nineteen,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five years old? No, you are. You are
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Speaker 2: prime material for kidnapping.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god. And those kids, you know, they think
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Speaker 3: there I have many of them. They think they're in
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Speaker 3: vincent and they think nothing's going to happen. You know,
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Speaker 3: Valentina's best friend from NYU just went back to Mexico
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Speaker 3: because he's from there. He's from Mexico City, and she said, Mom,
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Speaker 3: can I go visit him? And I'm like, you know,
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Speaker 3: Mexico City is just level two, which is increased caution,
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Speaker 3: but still it bothers me that she would be there,
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Speaker 3: except he's Mexican, so they're not really going to bother
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Speaker 3: him again, But are you in the wrong place at
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Speaker 3: the wrong time? So Mexico, Kevin, would you.
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Speaker 2: Ever get separated from him? Like would you two, oh
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Speaker 2: my god place at the same time?
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Speaker 3: Right exactly. I don't like it at all. And as
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Speaker 3: a matter of fact, so Mexico is huge, right, So
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Speaker 3: they go from the areas that are A four, which
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Speaker 3: are like, do not go there. We are warning you.
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Speaker 2: This is a circumstances stay out, right.
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Speaker 3: Then there's a level three, which is reconsider travel due
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Speaker 3: to terrorism, crime and kidnapping. Level two is where they stop, okay,
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Speaker 3: increase caution, terrorism and crime, which are most of the
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Speaker 3: tourist areas, right, Kintanaru, that was where I believe, if
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Speaker 3: I'm right, it's like Cankuon and uh, you know some of.
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Speaker 2: Those that whole swath from Cancun down to like Tuloom.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Vera Cruz like these are okay, Baja California, sir,
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Speaker 3: because Baja California itself, state of Baja California was listed
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Speaker 3: under a level three, which is reconsidered travel. So then
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Speaker 3: you have to question the individual Kevin, who wants to
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Speaker 3: go to Mexico and why are they going there? Like
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Speaker 3: do you want to go to the state of Chihuahua.
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Speaker 3: Why are you going to Chihuahua? Do you have business
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Speaker 3: in Chihuahua? I mean, what are you doing there? So
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Speaker 3: I don't think I would go at all. And I
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Speaker 3: hate to make a blanket statement but I probably wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: The resorts are gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: For people like your daughter. I think there's there's an
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Speaker 2: attraction to Mexico because it's so cheap, like what you
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Speaker 2: can do in the level resort, you can stay in
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Speaker 2: and that sort of thing. It costs much less than
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Speaker 2: if you were to go to the French riviera or
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Speaker 2: somewhere in Europe.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but pennies the payollar.
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Speaker 2: The other side, the downside is you got to deal
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Speaker 2: with this stuff.
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Speaker 3: You do now? Do you remember when? Was it back
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Speaker 3: in April? Maybe spring break? Those people were at decent
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Speaker 3: resorts and this whole thing happened at the gas stations,
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Speaker 3: the cartels were there. I mean, it's not a safe place.
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Speaker 3: Here's the kicker. It's a beautiful country. The resorts are
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Speaker 3: top notch, gorgeous. I mean, the service is impeccable, bang
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Speaker 3: for your buck, food all good. But can I tell
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Speaker 3: you something, Kevin, like I would almost be afraid to
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Speaker 3: have a glass of wine there, to eat anything like
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Speaker 3: what is going into my food? What are they doing?
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Speaker 3: It takes one end of at that resort, a great
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Speaker 3: resort to roof for you. Do you remember the Dominican
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Speaker 3: Republic what they did with the stuff in the American
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Speaker 3: in the refrigerator, Yeah, replacing the alcohol with poison. I
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Speaker 3: mean it is what they can do is incredible and
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Speaker 3: why they want to do it, what's the motivation? You know, Americans? Unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of envy out there for Americans. They
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Speaker 3: come to these third world country resorts and we're envied
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Speaker 3: because they think we have money and they're they have
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Speaker 3: They make nothing, these workers, right, and.
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Speaker 2: Well, compared to those workers, we do have money, like
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Speaker 2: even even a middle class Americans rich compared to their states.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's sad because back in the day, you know,
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Speaker 3: we went to Mexico for like family vacations and things like,
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Speaker 3: you know, like Mexico for another destination. Right, it's a
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Speaker 3: shame what has happened over the last like thirty years
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Speaker 3: to detract from that. I mean it's really and it's
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Speaker 3: serious stuff. We're not we're talking like oh gee, maybe
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Speaker 3: not because like you said, an occasional riot or something.
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Speaker 2: I mean, kiddings are these are cartels that are more
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Speaker 2: well armed than their military. Like the cartels are more
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Speaker 2: firepower than the Mexican military.
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Speaker 3: Oh, because they don't care. They are martyrs for their
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Speaker 3: cause and money driven and just they're animals. And so
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Speaker 3: here's the other thing too. So we just went on
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Speaker 3: that cruise. We made two stops in Mexico, which we're fine,
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Speaker 3: but it was like, okay, we visited, get back on
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Speaker 3: the boat. I didn't let the kids eat anything. And
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Speaker 3: let me tell you, the food smelt great. Their street
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Speaker 3: food is probably fabulous. Don't eat it. I don't even
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Speaker 3: want you to have bottled water here. I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: where my mindset was, Yes, let's go visit. We did
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Speaker 3: some shopping on the beach, went home. They are real hustlers,
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Speaker 3: those Mexicans, let me tell you, after you beautiful. Here's
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Speaker 3: the thing, artisans. They they do some beautiful work and
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Speaker 3: it's a shame. And I'm sure that they are hard
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Speaker 3: workers too. So you know, we can't Kevin generalize a
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Speaker 3: country by the violence that they have and label every
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Speaker 3: single one of their citizens as a rogue. However, however,
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Speaker 3: we know what we know, and it takes a faction
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Speaker 3: of rogues to kill you. And that's the bottom line.
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Speaker 2: Well, and if the government itself doesn't have control over
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Speaker 2: its violent crime element, like I wouldn't go to an
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Speaker 2: American city. Like, there are cities I don't want to
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Speaker 2: spend a lot of time in right now. Baltimore is
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Speaker 2: one of them. Detroit's another. There are times when I
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Speaker 2: don't want to be, you know, in and around Chicago,
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Speaker 2: and the reason has to do with if the criminal
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Speaker 2: element has the upper hand or they are they are
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Speaker 2: such a problem. You know, there are more people killed
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Speaker 2: every weekend in Chicago than some other states have killed
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Speaker 2: an entire year, and that's in one weekend. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think that, you know, the places that are going
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Speaker 2: to be more attractive to me and my family especially
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Speaker 2: are going to be places where, you know, we don't
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Speaker 2: feel like that's out of balance. All right, she's Lenda
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Speaker 2: and Kevin. We're coming right back to uncle Way.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm from New York, back to radio night life.
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Speaker 1: You're Kevin Mudcolor.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. It's travel night and we're talking
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Speaker 2: all things related to the headlines related to travel. And Linda,
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Speaker 2: I was just noticing that Kuanas Airlines, Now Kuanas is
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Speaker 2: that is that New Zealand or is that Australian.
19:42
Speaker 3: I think it's Australia.
19:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well they're they're touting these new twenty two hour
19:48
Speaker 2: nonstops that are supposedly going to be record breaking. Is
19:52
Speaker 2: it what is the length of time? What's the longest
19:55
Speaker 2: flight on the planet that we know of? Like, if
19:57
Speaker 2: you get a regular commercial flight, which one is the
20:00
Speaker 2: longest one? Is it New York to Sydney? Is it
20:04
Speaker 2: Paris to you know, Beijing? What I don't I don't
20:07
Speaker 2: know what long flights look like.
20:09
Speaker 3: Well, according to this, twenty two hours would be flights
20:15
Speaker 3: from Sydney to London.
20:17
Speaker 4: And New York.
20:18
Speaker 3: So I'm assuming that London and New York have the
20:22
Speaker 3: same flight time to get to get That's crazy.
20:26
Speaker 2: If you think about it. But they're probably just taking
20:29
Speaker 2: another angle over the over the North Pole. They're probably
20:31
Speaker 2: flying out and over Canada and then all the way
20:33
Speaker 2: down as opposed to going around the circumference, because getting
20:36
Speaker 2: around the equator takes a lot longer.
20:38
Speaker 3: Now, could you imagine Kevin being on a Standard seven
20:42
Speaker 3: forty seven and being in coach. I can't take coach
20:46
Speaker 3: for Italy. I cannot imagine twenty two hours and this
20:52
Speaker 3: is going to be a NonStop, which you know a
20:54
Speaker 3: lot of these flights stuff. But I think Quantus has
20:56
Speaker 3: kind of cornered the market. Obviously they are Australia on
20:59
Speaker 3: the NonStop flight. So this is about making it a better,
21:03
Speaker 3: more palatable experience the traveler.
21:06
Speaker 2: Because if you go New York to Sydney a lot
21:08
Speaker 2: of times and you do stop in LA, you'll have
21:11
Speaker 2: five and a half hours if the winds are good
21:13
Speaker 2: to LA. If they're in your face, you may have
21:16
Speaker 2: six hours to LA. But then you get on another
21:19
Speaker 2: flight and it's still a twenty hour flight from LA
21:21
Speaker 2: to Sydney. So it's like twenty six hours with a
21:25
Speaker 2: with a stop or twenty two hours without one. I'm
21:28
Speaker 2: kind of leaning towards save me the four hours.
21:30
Speaker 3: I mean, oh my god, save me four hours on
21:33
Speaker 3: a flight to Italy, which is you know, eight hours.
21:35
Speaker 2: That would be awesome because then it would just be
21:37
Speaker 2: a four hour flight.
21:38
Speaker 3: That it would just be a four hour flight, is right,
21:41
Speaker 3: you know. So here's the thing. So now they have
21:44
Speaker 3: this new concept for twenty twenty seven. They're gonna have
21:48
Speaker 3: they what they call chay'se lounges, okay, and they're gonna
21:52
Speaker 3: be almost a double decker. And if you saw, it's
21:55
Speaker 3: a double level airplane seat. So Kevin, if you have
21:57
Speaker 3: the piece in front of you. It's going to show
21:59
Speaker 3: you how it's going to work. Now, forty percent of
22:03
Speaker 3: the seats will be in premium cabins, okay, with the
22:06
Speaker 3: top class amenities ready flatbeds of course right, because they're coming.
22:12
Speaker 3: They're not so new anymore. Full length wardrobes because why
22:17
Speaker 3: keV because you want to change like.
22:20
Speaker 2: Cocktail hour, I want to put my smoking jacket on
22:24
Speaker 2: before I come down from my martini.
22:27
Speaker 3: I guess at a well being zoned. Of course they
22:31
Speaker 3: have to have the well being zone or this flight
22:33
Speaker 3: would not be complete.
22:34
Speaker 2: Well, if they're going to give me a massage in
22:36
Speaker 2: the well being zone, then I might just take it.
22:39
Speaker 3: Emirates, there you go, go, fly Emerts and a well
22:42
Speaker 3: being zone in the center of the plane will allow
22:44
Speaker 3: travelers to stretch their legs well, I hope so, and
22:48
Speaker 3: stock up on refreshments for the long hours ahead. They
22:51
Speaker 3: would be rating the ladder, as we say on British Air.
22:55
Speaker 2: You know you know that they're going to charge you
23:00
Speaker 2: through the nose for everything.
23:01
Speaker 3: Right, I can't wait to hear.
23:04
Speaker 2: I am so curious, like your one little travel bottle,
23:07
Speaker 2: like when you're when you order the alcohol from the
23:13
Speaker 2: the flight attendant as she comes up and down the aisle.
23:15
Speaker 2: You know, just that little one and a half or
23:17
Speaker 2: two ounce vodka or whatever that that's what five six,
23:21
Speaker 2: ten dollars, twelve dollars. I've seen fifty dollars at times.
23:25
Speaker 3: Easily for just a.
23:27
Speaker 2: Little shot of alcohol on this it's going to be
23:31
Speaker 2: thirty dollars. Same thing.
23:33
Speaker 3: That's if you're in coach. So here, I think my
23:35
Speaker 3: question is I'd love to speak to somebody quantas are
23:38
Speaker 3: they going to be including I mean, you can't just
23:41
Speaker 3: put somebody back in coach for twenty two hours and
23:44
Speaker 3: say here are your pretzels, Like, there's got to be
23:47
Speaker 3: something else even for coach passengers. And are these seats
23:53
Speaker 3: in coach going to be even better now they've cut
23:55
Speaker 3: down the amount of people, right, So we said just
23:59
Speaker 3: two hundred thirty eight which includes business, which is as opposed.
24:03
Speaker 2: To the four hundred that normal one hundred.
24:05
Speaker 3: Yeah on other a three fifties. So this is definitely gonna.
24:11
Speaker 2: But they're going to get the skysh kind of bunk
24:14
Speaker 2: bed thing where you're going to be able to lay
24:15
Speaker 2: across the seats and they're going to be alternated. So
24:19
Speaker 2: the back row will be up, the next row in
24:21
Speaker 2: front of it will be lower, the next row in
24:23
Speaker 2: front of that one will be up again. It'll have
24:26
Speaker 2: some inherent room in the in the seating area like that.
24:31
Speaker 2: And still here's the thing. They're going to price these
24:33
Speaker 2: flights starting at four ninety five per per session. So
24:38
Speaker 2: if that's one way, if that's one way to Australia,
24:42
Speaker 2: and so your round trip is nine hundred bucks, that's
24:44
Speaker 2: probably not a bad deal in this current climate. I mean,
24:46
Speaker 2: it costs me eight hundred dollars to send the bride
24:48
Speaker 2: to California five weeks ago.
24:51
Speaker 3: So here, So bookings of mayteam for a now Air
24:54
Speaker 3: New Zealand is going to have economy, skyness, bunk beds. Okay, economy.
25:01
Speaker 3: So is that going to be an economy with each
25:03
Speaker 3: individual space coming with a mattress, embedding, a privacy curtain,
25:07
Speaker 3: reading light and charging boards.
25:11
Speaker 2: You give me a phone and a pillow. You give
25:13
Speaker 2: me a phone and a pillow, and I'm happy for hours.
25:16
Speaker 2: All right, stay with us. She's Linda, I'm Kevin. We're
25:18
Speaker 2: coming right back.
25:23
Speaker 3: What a little moonlight can do.
25:25
Speaker 4: It's radio night life. Here's Kevin McCullough.
25:29
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. It's Travel Tuesday. She's Lynda Parillo.
25:32
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin McCullough and we were just talking about before
25:36
Speaker 2: we went to break what's in those sky nest beds.
25:40
Speaker 2: If I do get a mattress with a pillow and
25:43
Speaker 2: a port and Wi Fi, I can probably survive a
25:47
Speaker 2: twenty two hour flight because what I will do, Linda,
25:51
Speaker 2: is I will read, I will edit video, I will
25:54
Speaker 2: listen to music. I will do because if I have
25:57
Speaker 2: my pocket friend with me everywhere, I can probably pass
26:02
Speaker 2: the time. But you know what would be the worst
26:04
Speaker 2: is if I got stuck on one of those things
26:06
Speaker 2: without internet.
26:08
Speaker 3: Oh my god, could you imagine there'd be a riot.
26:11
Speaker 2: I have a hard time going to California without internet,
26:14
Speaker 2: and I've had several rights recently that started with internet
26:18
Speaker 2: and then it went off like thirty minutes into the flight,
26:20
Speaker 2: and you're like, uh.
26:22
Speaker 3: I'm surprised they have not perfected the best Internet I've had.
26:26
Speaker 2: They have United, which get Blue. United's getting Elon Musk's
26:30
Speaker 2: What's what? What does he provide?
26:32
Speaker 3: The Skylink Skylink.
26:34
Speaker 2: United's moving to Skylink, and I think it's going to
26:36
Speaker 2: be a world apart from everybody else in terms of
26:39
Speaker 2: what they.
26:40
Speaker 3: Have, yes, because we all function. You know, back in
26:45
Speaker 3: the day, you know that Wi Fi was like a luxury, like,
26:48
Speaker 3: oh my god, the plane has Wi Fi. Oh my god,
26:50
Speaker 3: that's great.
26:50
Speaker 2: Now you had to pay like forty five dollars.
26:52
Speaker 3: To use it to remember remember that, Yeah.
26:56
Speaker 2: You got fifteen minutes for twenty five dollars.
27:00
Speaker 3: First class you get it for free. But then you know,
27:02
Speaker 3: steerage in the back, you have to pay forty five
27:05
Speaker 3: dollars if you want to entertain yourself. Oh and your
27:07
Speaker 3: kids too. Do you want your kids to be entertained? Kevin,
27:10
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you know there's another two hundred and
27:12
Speaker 3: fifty dollars to use the internet and the TV and
27:14
Speaker 3: everything else. But again, you know, we live for it
27:19
Speaker 3: and where we can't function without it, so they.
27:21
Speaker 2: Know, you know, you know what I do, and this
27:23
Speaker 2: is this is my little hot tip for the night.
27:26
Speaker 2: I don't ever accumulate enough miles to actually like get
27:30
Speaker 2: a ticket or anything. So what I do is I
27:32
Speaker 2: use my miles to pay for all my internet. And
27:35
Speaker 2: it actually turns out not to be too bad of
27:38
Speaker 2: a deal because you know, for a few miles you
27:41
Speaker 2: get the you know, the entire flight covered, and I
27:43
Speaker 2: usually get enough miles in every if I if I
27:46
Speaker 2: travel to you know, Florida or California or Texas or
27:49
Speaker 2: somewhere that takes a little longer to get there, the
27:52
Speaker 2: round trip will usually give me enough Internet mileage in
27:56
Speaker 2: miles for my next trip. So if I get you know,
28:00
Speaker 2: three four or five thousand miles under the belt, you know,
28:03
Speaker 2: and it cost you eight hundred miles to use the
28:07
Speaker 2: Internet one way, then you know, I've got sixteen hundred
28:10
Speaker 2: miles banked and ready to go right.
28:13
Speaker 3: Exactly, easy, exactly, So it's easy, yep.
28:16
Speaker 2: All right. So there's this other headline that caught my
28:20
Speaker 2: eye seeing n travel saying fed up with bad behavior,
28:23
Speaker 2: Thailand is reducing visa free lengths for over ninety countries,
28:29
Speaker 2: and the US is included among them. Now, first of all,
28:34
Speaker 2: I think that bad behavior in Thailand is kind of
28:38
Speaker 2: self evident. I think people go to Thailand to do
28:41
Speaker 2: a lot of bad things. Yes, they do, and so
28:45
Speaker 2: you're attracting what you're getting. I don't know what your
28:48
Speaker 2: problem is, but I didn't know that they had ninety
28:51
Speaker 2: countries that they allowed to visit visa free, Like that's
28:55
Speaker 2: a little unusual, don't you think.
28:58
Speaker 3: I do? Again, know, Kevin, A lot of things are
29:01
Speaker 3: based on what we don't know. Why are they letting
29:04
Speaker 3: this country in and that country not in or whatever.
29:07
Speaker 3: I'm surprised at the United States though, because people from
29:10
Speaker 3: the US that go to Thailand go for the reasons
29:13
Speaker 3: that you're saying. Another thing is Americans will spend money there, right,
29:17
Speaker 3: So I don't know why they're so hesitant, but they
29:21
Speaker 3: think that we're scoundrels and that we're slobs and because problems.
29:26
Speaker 3: But Thailand is probably one of the most liberal areas. However, apparently,
29:33
Speaker 3: from what I understand, it is impeccably clean, and I
29:39
Speaker 3: think that maybe that's it. Americans are slobby and when.
29:42
Speaker 2: They allow kids to be molested, they want it to
29:45
Speaker 2: be done in pristine places.
29:47
Speaker 3: That's right, and I don't think I think that's part
29:50
Speaker 3: of their culture. But I also know that I think
29:53
Speaker 3: my son has been there, my brother has been there.
29:56
Speaker 3: It's absolutely Yeah, a I'm Cambodia too, Kevin. Don't you
30:04
Speaker 3: want to go to Cambodia.
30:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's relive. Let's relive the night of the massacre. Now,
30:13
Speaker 2: these are some of the places that to be honest,
30:17
Speaker 2: and my my, my daughter so badly wants to go
30:20
Speaker 2: to Japan. She wants to go to Japan. Like so
30:24
Speaker 2: it's like the one thing in her whole life she
30:26
Speaker 2: wants to do. She wants to go to Japan and
30:28
Speaker 2: see Japan. But there's nowhere else in Asia that I'm
30:31
Speaker 2: really just like, hey, let's go. China doesn't do it
30:35
Speaker 2: for me. These countries don't do it for me. I
30:39
Speaker 2: just I don't. There's there's you know, where I would
30:42
Speaker 2: go is Singapore because it is pristine and you can't
30:47
Speaker 2: even chew chewing gum in public there. They don't. They
30:50
Speaker 2: don't allow you to be chewed in Singapore. That's how
30:53
Speaker 2: pristine like, there's there is nothing out of place there,
30:56
Speaker 2: but it doesn't have the reputation that Thailand has.
31:00
Speaker 3: So here's the thing. My son was there. He did Korea,
31:03
Speaker 3: he did Japan, and he.
31:05
Speaker 2: North or South, he did South South.
31:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they but they went on the line. What
31:12
Speaker 3: is that line called. There's a name for that line.
31:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, the line is, Yes, it's.
31:16
Speaker 3: The I forget. I forget.
31:19
Speaker 2: It'll come to me as soon as we stop.
31:20
Speaker 3: Talking about it, of course, it will. Two o'clock in
31:22
Speaker 3: the morning, you can text me. That's right, he said.
31:25
Speaker 3: Out of all those countries, and he said, Singapore was beautiful,
31:29
Speaker 3: he would not go back to Japan. He would go
31:31
Speaker 3: back to Korea.
31:34
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, well was probably the most westernized.
31:38
Speaker 3: Yes, very westernized.
31:40
Speaker 2: But Japan, you know, they're a good ally and at
31:44
Speaker 2: least they have normal freedoms, and you know, they're they're
31:47
Speaker 2: a fairly deeply entrenched, you know, Asian country with their
31:53
Speaker 2: traditions and thing, but they think like Westerners, so there's
31:56
Speaker 2: a there's a little more of a modern take there
31:59
Speaker 2: than say China or some of these other places. My
32:02
Speaker 2: brother in law three carrier tours and they all stopped
32:06
Speaker 2: in Singapore. He got he got custom suits made there,
32:10
Speaker 2: like oh pennies compared to what they call fear and
32:14
Speaker 2: they're the finest suits that you know, you'll ever wear.
32:18
Speaker 2: But it's just it's just a fascinating, fascinating city state,
32:22
Speaker 2: is what it is. And then you know those three
32:24
Speaker 2: buildings that they have that you know, they have the
32:26
Speaker 2: pools and stuff up on the top. You're like literally
32:29
Speaker 2: in the heavens at the top of those things that
32:32
Speaker 2: are that are connected. But it just looks like you know,
32:36
Speaker 2: a fascinating place, Crazy Rich Asians. I think was filmed there.
32:39
Speaker 3: Crazy Asians.
32:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a good movie. I was. I
32:44
Speaker 2: was a little impressed with that movie.
32:45
Speaker 3: I was.
32:46
Speaker 2: It was better than When we come back, Linda's got
32:50
Speaker 2: some Perrillos pointers for your week.
32:52
Speaker 1: We were.
32:58
Speaker 4: Once again from New Hears Radio Night Life and Kevin
33:03
Speaker 4: McCullough welcome back.
33:05
Speaker 2: It's travel Tuesday. Final few minutes, just three minutes or so.
33:09
Speaker 2: We call this the Perillos Pointers segment. And here's the pointer.
33:13
Speaker 2: If you're going to come to the US for the
33:15
Speaker 2: World Cup, don't fly into sanctuary locales because if you're
33:18
Speaker 2: coming from I don't know, Honduras or El Salvador or
33:23
Speaker 2: Mexico or Brazil, you may not get to land in
33:27
Speaker 2: those sanctuary cities because DHS is saying, because those cities
33:31
Speaker 2: won't observe federal protocol in terms of trying to keep
33:34
Speaker 2: Americans safe, we're not going to allow those international travelers
33:37
Speaker 2: to come in through those ports. Linda, what do you
33:39
Speaker 2: think of this?
33:40
Speaker 3: Well, I think maybe that you know, they bring up
33:43
Speaker 3: a good point here. I mean, this World Cup and
33:45
Speaker 3: we spoke about this before, right, is really causing an
33:48
Speaker 3: influx into the United States, and you're going to end
33:53
Speaker 3: up with the you know, the not so desirables here,
33:55
Speaker 3: and how are they They're always going to find a
33:58
Speaker 3: way to get in an inflace.
34:00
Speaker 2: We just spent a year and a half getting it all.
34:01
Speaker 3: Fixed, we did. And here's the kicker too. It's not
34:05
Speaker 3: like they're cluming because they're big soccer fans. They're using
34:10
Speaker 3: this as a platform to kind of like be incognito
34:14
Speaker 3: and get in under the wire with like, you know, Okay,
34:19
Speaker 3: if I get into this throng of people, they won't
34:21
Speaker 3: notice me. I'll just put on the hat and glasses
34:23
Speaker 3: and I'll maneuver myself in. And that's that's pretty much
34:28
Speaker 3: the concept and the most in the simplest terms possible
34:31
Speaker 3: of what they're trying to do. So, what are Kevin
34:34
Speaker 3: some of the sanctuary cities? I would like to know
34:38
Speaker 3: because I don't know. And Newark there's one of them.
34:42
Speaker 2: Well, and what's interesting is New York and Newark we're
34:45
Speaker 2: both going to have, you know, something to say about this.
34:48
Speaker 2: You got San Francisco and Los Angeles, which are going
34:51
Speaker 2: to be big ports of entry, and they're both they
34:53
Speaker 2: both consider themselves sanctuary cities. I mean, the federal government
34:57
Speaker 2: could actually make this kind of difficult for the cities themselves,
35:01
Speaker 2: and that the cities kind of have no one to
35:03
Speaker 2: blame but themselves for having the policies that they have.
35:07
Speaker 2: Like if you were just on the record as saying
35:09
Speaker 2: we will help enforce federal immigration standards, you wouldn't you
35:14
Speaker 2: wouldn't have this this tension writing up. And in fact,
35:17
Speaker 2: you know, everybody's been upset about the Delaney uh delayed
35:21
Speaker 2: Ice center the last few days. All all Governor what's
35:25
Speaker 2: her name, has to do is say, you know what,
35:28
Speaker 2: we're just gonna abide by and work with the federal
35:30
Speaker 2: authorities to make sure to do it. And all she'd
35:33
Speaker 2: have to do is do that, and the whole thing
35:34
Speaker 2: would die down tomorrow, right, just like they want. It's
35:38
Speaker 2: like they want the tension.
35:40
Speaker 3: Yes, they you know part of it. Kevin is with her.
35:45
Speaker 3: Obviously I did not vote for her. Sure, she doesn't
35:49
Speaker 3: want to back off, you know, Mikey, you call Mickey,
35:52
Speaker 3: Mickey Cheryl. She won't doesn't want to back down and say,
35:57
Speaker 3: you know what, we got to stop this because it's
36:00
Speaker 3: going to take away from her profile as a liberal
36:06
Speaker 3: Democratic governor in the state of New Jersey where everything goes.
36:10
Speaker 3: Let's fight against ICE's authority and let these other people
36:15
Speaker 3: like do whatever. She's never go rather, you know what, No.
36:18
Speaker 2: And that's the fact that I think she is. She
36:20
Speaker 2: does this stuff because she wants to have a platform
36:24
Speaker 2: to be able to do bigger things, and like this
36:26
Speaker 2: is it. She's never going to be anything beyond governor.
36:29
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I think she's rather dumb.
36:32
Speaker 3: I think she yeah, really dumb. I don't think she
36:35
Speaker 3: speaks well. She can't even answer a question eloquently. You
36:39
Speaker 3: want to get mad at Donald Trump, go he always
36:42
Speaker 3: has an answer, no matter what he sounds.
36:44
Speaker 2: Like the answer, but he's got out.
36:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, she can't even get the words out of Like
36:48
Speaker 3: what do you go back and freaking get your hair
36:50
Speaker 3: done and get some boatops, clear up your under eyebags,
36:54
Speaker 3: and go figure yourself out.
36:55
Speaker 2: Girls are so we do each other all right? On
36:58
Speaker 2: that note, clean up Delaney of Governor Chryl. We'll talk
37:02
Speaker 2: to you next time.