Speaker 1: Happy holidays everyone, It's Josh Johnson here. We're relaxing on
Speaker 1: our time off and whether you're on a trip or
Speaker 1: chilling at home, now is the perfect time for one
Speaker 1: of our favorite hold up episodes, Vacations versus Staycations. Have
Speaker 1: a listen. Hey, everybody, we are back with another episode
Speaker 1: to hold Up. I'm your host, Josh Johnson right for
Speaker 1: The Daily Show and joining me as my co host,
Speaker 1: dul Say Sloan, correspondent for The Daily Show. And we're
Speaker 1: getting right into it. You know, I know that there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on in the world. I know there's
Speaker 1: big things, there's wars, there's there's market crashes. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about any of that. We're talking about
Speaker 1: stuff that probably doesn't even matter at all to anybody
Speaker 1: but us. And we're talking about today, stay cation versus vacation.
Speaker 1: Where do you stand? Where do you land? What do
Speaker 1: you want to go on? More? And I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: put this on you. I'm just saying that it seems
Speaker 1: to me like you are a vacation kind of gal.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a I'm a stay cation dude. I'm a
Speaker 1: home body Because for me, this I'm just gonna throw
Speaker 1: this out there, and this is not pointed, but just
Speaker 1: just you're you're gonna you're gonna catch some base in
Speaker 1: my voice, right, You're gonna you're gonna catch some tone. Okay.
Speaker 1: I cannot stand the fact that a vacation includes a
Speaker 1: trip to the airport, a trip to a bus station,
Speaker 1: a trip like I like to already be places. I
Speaker 1: don't like to travel. People say they like traveling. You
Speaker 1: like to already be there. The airport is a nightmare, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you want to be able to teleport, that's what
Speaker 1: that sounds like. Yeah, I'm sick of attacks, like the
Speaker 1: actual social attacks at an airport that I have to
Speaker 1: go through to have a vacation. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Do you have clear and pre check? I have clear,
Speaker 1: I have pre checked, But you know what, sometimes those
Speaker 1: clothes I didn't even know those possible. Sometimes nobody close them.
Speaker 1: Not only will they be closed, they won't be open
Speaker 1: early enough. Then Customs also closes as if planes don't
Speaker 1: land daily. So it's like you should at least see
Speaker 1: like when's the earliest flight coming in from an international flight?
Speaker 1: Be open? When's the latest flight leaving? Be fucking open?
Speaker 1: Who invented this? Nonsense? We know who did it, but
Speaker 1: we won't have to talk about them. Um, we know
Speaker 1: who did this, We know who did it. Have you
Speaker 1: considered taking a vacation in a car, like try, Well,
Speaker 1: you don't drive. No, no, I can't drive, So no,
Speaker 1: I have not considered taking vacation in a car. That
Speaker 1: would be a car accident almost immediately. Okay, what I
Speaker 1: think you should try? Oh, you can do like the
Speaker 1: best of both worlds. Like you remember whenever I was
Speaker 1: like had left the city and was like just took
Speaker 1: over the mountains of New like upstate New York and
Speaker 1: all these other places like the Poconos, which full disclosure,
Speaker 1: for most of my life I thought was islands. I'm
Speaker 1: just finding out they're not islands right now, see the
Speaker 1: all they sound like islands. Yeah, yeah, they're sucking mountains.
Speaker 1: It also sounds like islands. We don't fully understand, right,
Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, we're going to the Poconos. So
Speaker 1: if you say that word to me, you're telling me
Speaker 1: it's a vacation. I'm hearing the word Poconos expecting mountains
Speaker 1: in New York. That sounds crazy. Um, just landlocked, just
Speaker 1: higher altitudes sounds nuts. Have you considered, because then you
Speaker 1: can get like the best of both worlds. You drive
Speaker 1: up to a cabin and then you're staying in a cabin.
Speaker 1: So you're getting your staycation, but you're just not at
Speaker 1: your house. No, because at my home, I know where
Speaker 1: everything is. This cabin, this, this cabin. You know, how
Speaker 1: do we know there's not murders? How do we know
Speaker 1: there's not somebody waiting? I mean, the cabin is where
Speaker 1: the stuff happens from the movie. You're right, That's why
Speaker 1: I don't like going up there. I'll say for me,
Speaker 1: it depends. But I think because we have been in
Speaker 1: a panorama, a panasonic Pondule's Day, Popeye's for the past
Speaker 1: two years. My desire because like I'm a beach person, right, so,
Speaker 1: like my family is from Miami. I was born there,
Speaker 1: we's lived there. So like for me, vacation means beach period.
Speaker 1: Don't look at me and go like, oh, we're going
Speaker 1: to like somewhere. There's not be any geographical place is
Speaker 1: not a beach for vacation. I'm gonna look at you
Speaker 1: like your nets. You don't want to go to Montana,
Speaker 1: you don't want to I mean, because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Look like, the other thing about vacations that I can't
Speaker 1: stand is that there's a pressure to like have fun
Speaker 1: and do activities and and and like really be out there.
Speaker 1: Whereas a staycation. Now it's all up to you. Do
Speaker 1: you want Netflix, do you want to just relax, you
Speaker 1: want sleep? That's all happening. It's happening at home. I
Speaker 1: have been on vacation with people and it's been chilly
Speaker 1: ship and we're doing what whatever, we're doing whatever, we
Speaker 1: do it. And then there's other people that want to
Speaker 1: give you like a full itinerary and itemize and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is not relaxing because I don't like to do
Speaker 1: this in my life. So it's like also, like you'll
Speaker 1: go on vacation with people and they don't want to
Speaker 1: spend money on food. Wait what It's like, I've thrown
Speaker 1: on vacations with people and it's like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: want to spend a bunch of money on food. You're like, bitch,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Like I'm gonna It's like, well,
Speaker 1: we can just get make that. I am not eating
Speaker 1: anywhere where I can eat where I live. Do you
Speaker 1: want to know what that is, though, that's a staycation
Speaker 1: person going on a vacation. So there's a broke person
Speaker 1: going on vacation. There's a broke person go on vacation.
Speaker 1: You should have stayed home. Should stay home. It's like
Speaker 1: like I now like when I go on vacation, I
Speaker 1: want of like a hotel room that I was like,
Speaker 1: even it's a kitchen net or something, right, because like
Speaker 1: you want to be able to have like little snack ease,
Speaker 1: and so you have a place that has like a
Speaker 1: little kitchen area so you can keep cold cut cold. Okay,
Speaker 1: keeps cold cuts cold. Nobody's eating hot cold cuts. That's
Speaker 1: a get sick um. You get some nice fruits, you
Speaker 1: bring you some watermelon, nice little trees, get you some
Speaker 1: cold drinks, and then you have a nice thing on
Speaker 1: the beach. You are not about this, no, because you
Speaker 1: know what you're describing. It is home. No, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's that's home to me. I already got the cold cuts,
Speaker 1: already got them cold not warm, already got the fruits
Speaker 1: in the veg tries. I'm doing all of my my
Speaker 1: my things at home. And this is the other thing
Speaker 1: about vacations is that people always end up doing my
Speaker 1: stuff out there. So then to watch Netflix, to watch
Speaker 1: Columbia Netflix. I got my American Netflix listen once. It's
Speaker 1: like because like when I went to Turks and Cacos,
Speaker 1: like a lot of those resort alces, people have been
Speaker 1: at the beach all day long. They're probably gonna be exhausted,
Speaker 1: so like some places don't like so it didn't have
Speaker 1: like a lot of like a lot of nightlife because
Speaker 1: like a family place, like I didn't meet people that
Speaker 1: lived there. Remember I told you one on the date
Speaker 1: that was just end up being a family outing. Um
Speaker 1: yeah right, just wow, just for the listeners. Um. I
Speaker 1: went on a boat tour, was hanging out with like
Speaker 1: twenty middle aged white people from New Jersey because they
Speaker 1: were also on the boat. We had a great time. Uh.
Speaker 1: But one of the guys that was working on the boat,
Speaker 1: I think it was like this, he wasn't the captain.
Speaker 1: Captain was married. Because I would have gone for the captains,
Speaker 1: but because you know, you gotta go for the nigg
Speaker 1: in charge. Why would I go for the assistant. That
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, So but he was a nice man. We
Speaker 1: hung out. He's like, Okay, I want to take you
Speaker 1: out and I was like sure. He's like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: this far we all go to. I said, okay, cool
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to do some stuff where, which
Speaker 1: is just like being on the resort all day. So
Speaker 1: he comes and picks me up. And when I see him,
Speaker 1: he's there's a the older woman in the front seat
Speaker 1: drinking a corona and I was like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: a kid now, this is annoying. But I met some
Speaker 1: girls from Atlanta. Um, and you know, we don't play
Speaker 1: that game. So they took pictures of him when he
Speaker 1: wasn't looking, and then they took pictures of the car,
Speaker 1: and the girl, one of the girls was like, she's like,
Speaker 1: you're coming back, and I was like, thank you so much. Um, Look,
Speaker 1: once again, these are vacation things. I don't have to
Speaker 1: take pictures of anything anybody. But I used to do
Speaker 1: this in college, like when like the younger girls would
Speaker 1: have a guy like come and pick them up. Look
Speaker 1: where'd you meet him? Oh, we were met in something
Speaker 1: like this like early two thousands. They might have met
Speaker 1: like something like black player at the college clubs and
Speaker 1: stupid like that. So if none of our friends knew
Speaker 1: who he was, we took a picture of him, took
Speaker 1: a picture of the license plate. He's like, wow, why
Speaker 1: would y'all do this something? Because she's coming back. That's
Speaker 1: why we I know, casualties in here, and some of
Speaker 1: them would get so spooked. One dude just left the girl.
Speaker 1: He was like, I don't want to deal with this.
Speaker 1: And I was like, see you would ended up on
Speaker 1: the news. You're welcome, but I mean I mean maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah that Why are you so upset? Why are you
Speaker 1: so bothered by this? Right? So we go, I go
Speaker 1: hang so like it's it's it's his auntie in the
Speaker 1: car and then his cousins in the back seat. And
Speaker 1: then come to find out later the reason all of
Speaker 1: the auntie and the cousin we're in the car because
Speaker 1: it was the auntie's car, right, So either it. But
Speaker 1: I still had a fun time. I had an experience.
Speaker 1: He tried to calm me and starting a jet skiing business.
Speaker 1: I was like, absolutely not. I don't know your last name,
Speaker 1: but it was a nice man. God I didn't give
Speaker 1: him the cookies because he was poored. But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, you go on vacations, I have adventures, right,
Speaker 1: But the other girls I was hanging out with. They
Speaker 1: stayed at the resort the entire time because it's an
Speaker 1: all inclusive resort. And when the girls was like, She's like,
Speaker 1: I get my money's worth. I'm drinking everything, I'm eating
Speaker 1: all of the food. I am not leaving this resort
Speaker 1: because I paid the money. Me on the other hand,
Speaker 1: I was just like, I've been on this resort for
Speaker 1: three day. I had because I got I was there
Speaker 1: from a Wednesday to a Sunday. Yeah. Yeah, Now maybe
Speaker 1: I just haven't been to as many places as you,
Speaker 1: so then maybe that's part of what's happening. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you right now, there are adventurers at home. They're
Speaker 1: adventures that you can have that you would have never
Speaker 1: One time I lost my remote and I genuinely I
Speaker 1: couldn't find it. I couldn't find it anywhere, and I
Speaker 1: looked up and down, I was tossing cushions, I was
Speaker 1: everything right, And eventually I just started walking up to
Speaker 1: the TV every time that had changed the channel. Right.
Speaker 1: And then one day in my staycation, three day staycation,
Speaker 1: then on the third day, I opened one of the
Speaker 1: drawers in my kitchen boom remotes right there all right. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it got there. Now I got
Speaker 1: an adventure and history. I don't even have to leave home.
Speaker 1: That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. Also, you must
Speaker 1: have had cable because you can't change the stream of
Speaker 1: service without it control. I don't know why my thing
Speaker 1: is sad and your thing is normal, all right, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that happened at all. Listen. I
Speaker 1: went on an adventure with strangers, Okay. I found out
Speaker 1: that about the little dogs that have on the island.
Speaker 1: I saw all the all the islands. I was parasailing, Okay.
Speaker 1: I found out that I could not ride a horse
Speaker 1: on the beach because as a weight limit on these horses.
Speaker 1: And now I have a joke about it because I
Speaker 1: was like, where did you get these weak ass horses from?
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, Like horses used to be
Speaker 1: able to put armor on people, and then armor on horses,
Speaker 1: and then we go to war. So I'm like, where
Speaker 1: did you get these horses from? Look, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now. I also have had some riveting staycations. One
Speaker 1: time I had a dream about a turtle and it
Speaker 1: was wild. Woke up sweating everything? How do I hang up?
Speaker 1: How do I hang up? How do I what? Why
Speaker 1: would you know? Why would you? Why would you hang up?
Speaker 1: I'm making good points. I would to hang up. You
Speaker 1: cannot tell me about a dream about a turtle and
Speaker 1: compare that to me and another girl swag surfing in
Speaker 1: the sky. It doesn't work that way. Now it worked
Speaker 1: that way for me. I had powered absolutely not listen.
Speaker 1: This money you can't take it with you. Okay, first
Speaker 1: and foremost, I can't take this money with you. You
Speaker 1: work hard, you might as well spend it. This is
Speaker 1: the thing about vacation though, It's like sometimes it's like
Speaker 1: like vacations come to an end, so stay even like
Speaker 1: cations come to in end because you have to take
Speaker 1: you as back to work. Right, So that's the hardest
Speaker 1: part of either being on a vacation or a staycation.
Speaker 1: You know you have to now go back. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess you're a stay cation and you just wake up.
Speaker 1: I guess boom, thank you. That's what I was going
Speaker 1: to say. That's what I was going to say, exactly
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. Did you just go to
Speaker 1: work like that's it? You just got every weekend stressing,
Speaker 1: stressings and flights. You know, how do I get back?
Speaker 1: I get back on the train, sir, excuse me? Why
Speaker 1: I blow my dolls? I did not expect this to happen.
Speaker 1: While we were recorded, I think about all the places
Speaker 1: that I wanted to go as like a kid, Like recently,
Speaker 1: I like, wait, didn't you go to Hawaii with your mom?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm for them? That on wasn't for me. That
Speaker 1: that's I'm trying to give my mom and my aunt
Speaker 1: a better life, so that that's just something that I
Speaker 1: thought that they would enjoy. I on the other hand,
Speaker 1: I could have stayed home. I could have watched all
Speaker 1: the NET I was binging at the time, so that
Speaker 1: I had to quit binging and then and then get
Speaker 1: on a plane and watch it on a plane on
Speaker 1: a tiny screen. And then I had to get to Hawaii,
Speaker 1: which is beautiful. Don't get me wrong. It's beautiful. There's beaches,
Speaker 1: there's like, you know, scantily clad people, and there's their
Speaker 1: son and all the stuff. As somebody who doesn't like
Speaker 1: the beach, like you make me think you're someone who
Speaker 1: doesn't like the beach. It's just itchy dirt, It's just
Speaker 1: it's just when you have you have you heard Jay
Speaker 1: Jordan's joke m where he says, uh, sand is just
Speaker 1: gay dirt. Wow, I've never heard from saying he said
Speaker 1: it out. He's so funny. Don't have to look at
Speaker 1: my up. But it's like I went to Hawaii back
Speaker 1: in March because like we have some um we had
Speaker 1: some off time from the show, and I wanted to go,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I don't know anybody in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: I don't I want to go. I want to go
Speaker 1: just because it's like I grew up in then nineties
Speaker 1: they said everybody on every TV show to Hawaii, so
Speaker 1: it's been like propped up to us for generations. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to go, but I want
Speaker 1: to go by myself, because I definitely went the Turs
Speaker 1: and Cakes by myself. But I was like, there's black
Speaker 1: people here, I'll be fine, but Hawaii, I don't know
Speaker 1: the cats and his way on the other side of
Speaker 1: the planet is literally right in the middle of the
Speaker 1: specific Pacific Ocean. You have no backup, So it's like
Speaker 1: I don't know body know nobody out here. And then
Speaker 1: my big brother Tom Bell, an amazing comic uh and
Speaker 1: stays on TV show. He was doing shows out there.
Speaker 1: So I was like, my brother going, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with him. I go out there, we have fun, I
Speaker 1: meet a young man. I come back, you know, uh
Speaker 1: in April um and then I hung out with him.
Speaker 1: But then I got to go like to more of
Speaker 1: the beaches and see, you know, he took me all
Speaker 1: around and see the island because we were on uh
Speaker 1: it was Oahu. When you went where were you? Who
Speaker 1: are Malloi? I was in Maui. And I'll say this
Speaker 1: even you know, you mentioned, you know, the the what
Speaker 1: what's the best way to put it? The brief and
Speaker 1: exciting romance on a vacation? You know, there's something about
Speaker 1: meaning a person on vacation, and you know it's it's
Speaker 1: it's like new and it's fresh, and then it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to leave soon. So how far is
Speaker 1: it's gonna go. I'm I'm into the whole romance novel
Speaker 1: aspects of romance vacations. But you know what a stay cation. Hey,
Speaker 1: you can come back anytime, all right, you can come
Speaker 1: back whenever you want, I hear you. But for that
Speaker 1: to work, you already have to have somebody on the
Speaker 1: hook before your staycation starts. And also I thought this
Speaker 1: was gonna be a brief moment. And then this man
Speaker 1: was trying to marry me um, which I did not
Speaker 1: see coming um, And I was like, hey, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to be like a fun, casual thing, trying to
Speaker 1: make it a stay cation. He was trying to make
Speaker 1: it a steakcake because then if you would if he
Speaker 1: had married you, and you would move. My man is
Speaker 1: doing the same things that I'm talking about doing. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like you meet someone on vacation and you make
Speaker 1: it a stay cation because you fall for him. I
Speaker 1: was not going to move to Oh, I have so
Speaker 1: much work to do. Like you said, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get my mom a better life. I can't do that
Speaker 1: in Hawaiian I can't. I don't know the job I
Speaker 1: was supposed to have. I was gonna keep marrying hill
Speaker 1: from working, but it did not exist on that particular island.
Speaker 1: But like, because like I was just in Okay, here's
Speaker 1: the best example of the staycation. I was just in
Speaker 1: London for the past months shooting a TV show m HM.
Speaker 1: So it was a work trip, but I wasn't working
Speaker 1: all the time. And then for me sometimes that I'm
Speaker 1: in a new place because like I waited to do
Speaker 1: all the rod touristy towards the stuff. So my mom
Speaker 1: came the first week we were with Wait, you were there,
Speaker 1: I was there. I was waiting for you to remember
Speaker 1: that I was also there, but I was waiting for
Speaker 1: you to mention that you were also there. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to interrupt. You know, I know that we would
Speaker 1: argue on this show, but I won't be rude. Okay,
Speaker 1: I hear it, I get you. Um, But like we
Speaker 1: were there for like I was there for a month,
Speaker 1: you were there for a week, and so there were
Speaker 1: days we weren't working. But there were days we weren't working.
Speaker 1: But like I didn't feel like running around London. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure there was some days where you didn't want
Speaker 1: running around London. So I didn't feel like running around
Speaker 1: London because I my chest popped off. Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: happened with that? Could you have to get there? Russian?
Speaker 1: ID be profit? This is this is why staycations are better.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. So I'm in London and
Speaker 1: I'm just doing a regular bench press. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not doing I'm not trying to be a hero. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to save any lives. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: lift a car off a baby or anything. I'm doing
Speaker 1: a regular bench press that I normally do, and I
Speaker 1: just hear a pop and I feel I feel a
Speaker 1: tear and I re rack the bar and my arm
Speaker 1: is not co operating. I'm sitting there swelling like you
Speaker 1: like you saw me. I can't believe I went to
Speaker 1: the museum. You saw me like two hours after it happened.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know what to do because I
Speaker 1: just got this like bolder on the left side of
Speaker 1: my chest. And if I had been home doing a
Speaker 1: stay cation doing a bench press, I would have known
Speaker 1: what doctor to go to. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: they'll see me because I'm not from here. And apparently
Speaker 1: the health care is free, but is it free for everybody?
Speaker 1: Do they just have like healthcare spilling out the back
Speaker 1: of trucks or do I need to go fill out
Speaker 1: a form? So you know, stay cation is even better
Speaker 1: for getting to hurt. Yeah, I mean one, that's your
Speaker 1: fault for working out while he was on vacation. That's
Speaker 1: on you. I mean, wow, Okay, you wasn't going to
Speaker 1: get out of shape in a week. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: the shape wasn't gonna change, Like you wasn't gonna stop
Speaker 1: being a trappings when all of a sudden it's going
Speaker 1: to be like a huge I want to be one
Speaker 1: of those you know what, I'll go on vacation when
Speaker 1: I'm torn in ripped like Michael B. Jordan's I want
Speaker 1: this for you. You've been talking about it for years,
Speaker 1: and well you don't have to remind me how long
Speaker 1: I've been trying. I mean, listen, we know that I've
Speaker 1: been trying to do various things with my body and
Speaker 1: they have not been coming to fruition. But it's just
Speaker 1: like I hear you on this because I was really
Speaker 1: trying to figure out because it was like because for
Speaker 1: my birthday, I was like, oh, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: l A for a couple of days, but then literally
Speaker 1: this morning, I was just like, what if I didn't
Speaker 1: mm hmm, Well if you had a staycation with all
Speaker 1: the people you already know in New York to come
Speaker 1: through because but but I did that. The last two
Speaker 1: years for my birthday was everybody in New York, and
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to see my l A friends.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's like, you know, getting reacquainted with people.
Speaker 1: And also like I've been in l A a a few times,
Speaker 1: it's like it's always been for work. So then you
Speaker 1: can't be around anybody because you gotta make sure you
Speaker 1: don't catch ronny. So I've done a staycation before and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that. I'm gonna do this my crafting, and then
Speaker 1: I just really give myself permission to just lay down,
Speaker 1: which is the best. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: why people are trying to have ambitious stay cations. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was made for you to lay where you lay,
Speaker 1: for you to eat where you eat. It. It's absolutely perfect,
Speaker 1: all right. The people that are out here trying to
Speaker 1: go to other countries and like see other cultures and stuff,
Speaker 1: it's like what you're trying to prove alright, So you
Speaker 1: don't want to travel worldly So wait, so you don't
Speaker 1: want to travel at all, You don't want to go
Speaker 1: to another place. All I'll say is this, I go places.
Speaker 1: I do things like I went to London, go to Canada,
Speaker 1: I go play this for shows. I'm I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a person that goes out. I'm just saying I would
Speaker 1: rather st at home all right, with a good book,
Speaker 1: because that's the other thing I do on vacation. Vacations,
Speaker 1: I end up buying books that then I just wish
Speaker 1: I was home reading because then you buy a book
Speaker 1: on vacation and then everybody's like, no, I come to
Speaker 1: the beach with us, everything like that, and then then
Speaker 1: after a one reading looks on the beach all the time.
Speaker 1: I don't want saying in my pages. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want the binding of my book to be dirtied
Speaker 1: with the soiled sweat of the earth. Wow. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you can sit by the pool, because most hotels have pools.
Speaker 1: You can sit by the pool and read a book
Speaker 1: and get splashed with chlorine on my pristine new book.
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't want this for you. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. I guess I understand, like there's
Speaker 1: times that I really want to be right, and then
Speaker 1: there's times from just like I think. The other thing
Speaker 1: for me is like I'm single. Mm hmm, So being
Speaker 1: in my house by myself for an extended period of
Speaker 1: time just makes me sad like if there was another
Speaker 1: human being in my house, or maybe even a cat.
Speaker 1: There was another living creature in my house, well, another mammal.
Speaker 1: There was another mammal in my house, another more and
Speaker 1: more specific every time, UH something I could hug an
Speaker 1: ere that I might be more inclined to be home more.
Speaker 1: But like I remember, I was like out like a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago, and one of my friends were like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's like one in the morning, are you going home?
Speaker 1: And I was like, why, there's nobody at my house
Speaker 1: and he just started laughing. I was like, what he's
Speaker 1: making it's very I've no one to go home too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in the house. When I left, it
Speaker 1: was just me. When I got home, it was just me,
Speaker 1: these dishes only getting washed when I feel like doing them.
Speaker 1: And I never felt like so I think for me,
Speaker 1: like going on trips and stuff, it's like it's really
Speaker 1: just me trying to get to the beach. But I
Speaker 1: think it's that's like the beaches like a relaxing place
Speaker 1: for me. Okay, so how about this. I'll pitch you this.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this. If you live somewhere with a beach,
Speaker 1: would you go on vacations if the beach was already there,
Speaker 1: It's already outside the window. You can see it. You
Speaker 1: can just peek out your blinds and see the beach.
Speaker 1: You know, you can just stare at it out your
Speaker 1: window like a pervert. Right, You're still going on vacations now,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because that's my thing is that if
Speaker 1: you've got the right environment, a staycation is better than
Speaker 1: a vacation because you already know you want to be
Speaker 1: at the place that you are. Well, I guess like
Speaker 1: that's why I started buying better speak seats on planes
Speaker 1: because the hardest part was just like just being hemmed up,
Speaker 1: just trapped in this tube in the sky m hm um,
Speaker 1: trying not to pee because I'm in a window seat
Speaker 1: and I had to climb out with two other adults.
Speaker 1: What all I'm just trying to do. He's just you know,
Speaker 1: look for the latrine. So just that, So like just
Speaker 1: traveling in a different way, and like I remember there
Speaker 1: was one time I was in l a X And
Speaker 1: I don't know if some flights that got canceled or
Speaker 1: what happened, but there were people fucking everywhere. I was like,
Speaker 1: is this a bus station? What the hell happening here?
Speaker 1: Because I was like, I was, you know, because like
Speaker 1: Costa was telling me, He's like, oh, you should get
Speaker 1: a membership in the Delta Lounge in the American Lines.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I don't think I need that. And
Speaker 1: there was a thousand humans, truly thousands of people, and
Speaker 1: it was stressing me out. So I was like, let
Speaker 1: me go in the Delta sky Club. And I walked
Speaker 1: in there and I was like, is the air different
Speaker 1: in here? Like it was just a different vibe because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a million people stressed out about getting on
Speaker 1: a plane. Very interesting, very interesting. So you went to
Speaker 1: an airport and you were getting overwhelmed by the amount
Speaker 1: of people around you and and their franticness, their chaos
Speaker 1: was was it was coming at you funny. So you
Speaker 1: wanted to get away from that, so you went to
Speaker 1: a sky lounge, which is only replicating a staycation. A
Speaker 1: sky lounge is not representing a staycation. And you know,
Speaker 1: good and damn well, it's not it's a whole bar
Speaker 1: in here, because you're still try it's a lounge, Josh,
Speaker 1: it's not. I'm currently in the green room of the show.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm in a living room. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm in a room that is designated for people to
Speaker 1: wait in. It's not a lounge that moves. It's a
Speaker 1: lounge that stays right where it is. You know, the
Speaker 1: whole airport doesn't move. I started to leave this lounge
Speaker 1: to go some flight. No, this this is a I
Speaker 1: am not making a point for you, because how about this.
Speaker 1: They could make the whole airport. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: to make it exclusive. Like you get a first class
Speaker 1: teach you automatically get it right. When you are paying
Speaker 1: to have a different type of experience, then there is
Speaker 1: going to be food and drinks because I paid you
Speaker 1: more to not be in the franticness of the people
Speaker 1: who are getting on a Spirit Airline flight or whatever,
Speaker 1: or group nine. Like, that's why it's gonna sound very least.
Speaker 1: Some people are gonna be upset, But that's not my problem.
Speaker 1: And I do not know what you really for group nine.
Speaker 1: That's listen. You think I wasn't in group nine. You
Speaker 1: think when I started trapp we've all been a group nine.
Speaker 1: When you start going on the road, you are a
Speaker 1: group eight, group nine, group six, And then when you
Speaker 1: start packing up these frequent flyer miles because you work.
Speaker 1: The more freaquent flyer miles you get, the earlier you
Speaker 1: can get on a plane. So I'm always gonna be
Speaker 1: Sky priority no matter where I sit on this plane,
Speaker 1: because I have four hundred thousand miles with Delta. I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, we should also point out that
Speaker 1: Group nine if if you're not aware, if you're a
Speaker 1: listener and you're not actually someone who's had the misfortunate
Speaker 1: being in group nine, you're basically outside the plane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're holding on the way on the wing. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: that monster on that episode of Twilight Zone who is
Speaker 1: terrorizing a very young William Channer. Like you're holding onto
Speaker 1: the plane for dear life. Also, by the time they
Speaker 1: get to group nine, if you don't have a backpack
Speaker 1: that rolling, you're rolling bags, not getting on the plane.
Speaker 1: Group now, it's just not It didn't tell you ahead
Speaker 1: of time. They tell you don't even try. Don't even try.
Speaker 1: You are in group nine, go ahead and gate check this.
Speaker 1: Stop playing with people. So you start traveling. It's you,
Speaker 1: So you work your way up. So can I throw
Speaker 1: this out there to you? Um, you know what type
Speaker 1: of place does not have this sort of hierarchy where
Speaker 1: you have to work your way up through money and
Speaker 1: time and expenses. Is a home, you know? I don't
Speaker 1: know that's that's my basement. I want to send in
Speaker 1: my basement for you know, thirty extra minutes because I'm
Speaker 1: in group nine. First of all, you don't have a basement.
Speaker 1: You don't know my life like that. I do know
Speaker 1: your life like that. I know you don't have to
Speaker 1: put my business out there, But you don't have a basement.
Speaker 1: You never heard of. Maybe there's a basement, look base
Speaker 1: I you don't have a basement. The building you're in
Speaker 1: might have a basement, but where you stay ain't got
Speaker 1: no basement. So let's I play this game. We're only
Speaker 1: dealing with true facts and experiences, and in your experience,
Speaker 1: your black ass ain't got no basement. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to play this game. Okay. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: because of time and experience it spent. Don't you live
Speaker 1: in a better apartment now than you did when you
Speaker 1: first moved to New York? Mmmm? See, I want to
Speaker 1: give it to you, but those are leases. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, it's not about e lease. You're talking about
Speaker 1: a stay cation. So where you stay is going to
Speaker 1: determine how your cation goes, Right, So when you were there,
Speaker 1: your very first department in New York, with whoever you
Speaker 1: were staying with, would you want because you're so when
Speaker 1: you're doing stay cation, you're like a solid week at
Speaker 1: home doing nothing. So your first apartment when you first
Speaker 1: moved to New York, would you have wanted to do
Speaker 1: a stay cation in that apartment? I don't even know
Speaker 1: if I want to talk about it, you know, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean my first department in New York was a hallway.
Speaker 1: So that's that to to your point, I see what
Speaker 1: you mean that is that you work your way up eventually.
Speaker 1: I guess I just feel like since I've lived in
Speaker 1: the same apartment for years now, I don't But but
Speaker 1: you had to work, and that's time to get to
Speaker 1: the plant where you could afford to live in an
Speaker 1: apartment that you would stay in for a week because
Speaker 1: your other apartment was a tornado Drew Sure, Yeah, see
Speaker 1: that's not a place you wanted to stay cation. No,
Speaker 1: where you stay now with someplace you want to stay cation.
Speaker 1: So if you're living in a situation like that, you
Speaker 1: would not want to stay there, you would put your
Speaker 1: coins together, feel them apart. If you got to you
Speaker 1: would collect your coins together and get on that jet
Speaker 1: food light because you can get eighty dollar tickets at
Speaker 1: the Caribbean on Jet Blue and being a nice seat
Speaker 1: and take luggage with you. I didn't know those things.
Speaker 1: The guys, Listen, it's not that expensive to get to
Speaker 1: the Bahamas. It's really not. That's why people always go.
Speaker 1: But I was not expensive to that's I was like, listen,
Speaker 1: if I can't do with a man who can at
Speaker 1: least give me to the Bahamas, brout we, why would
Speaker 1: let you see my tapes? It's stupid. Look peak staycation
Speaker 1: versus peak vacation. I'm trying to stay cation every time.
Speaker 1: I want to get enough money to have a nice
Speaker 1: enough house to where I never want to leave, and
Speaker 1: that's the ultimate staycation experience. But do you not want
Speaker 1: to leave because your house is expensive? Yeah, I probably
Speaker 1: can't afford to leave now, Like, well that was a
Speaker 1: crazy thing, Like this is what kind of happened, like
Speaker 1: because of the Rowney where it was like that's why
Speaker 1: we ran into furniture because everybody was in their apartments
Speaker 1: being like, oh wait, a minute. I gotta be in
Speaker 1: here all day, every day for months. Oh we need
Speaker 1: to change this. Shut up and losing my mind in here,
Speaker 1: because that was the thing I think I got, like
Speaker 1: a lot of That's why so many people like left
Speaker 1: New York because it's like you leave for work at
Speaker 1: eight in the morning, you might not come and then
Speaker 1: over you go, you might not come back until eight
Speaker 1: ten o'clock at night or even later, and then you
Speaker 1: just go to sleep. So you weren't even in your
Speaker 1: apartment that long. So you're like, I can handle this.
Speaker 1: You know. Yes, the door, the bathroom door hits the
Speaker 1: toilet when I opened the door, but I'm not either
Speaker 1: off to anywhere, don't matter. And then now you're in
Speaker 1: there because the RONI and it's like, oh ship this
Speaker 1: is and I get the hell a bad here. You're
Speaker 1: like feeling that you get when you're on vacation, like
Speaker 1: you don't have and in response, like you don't like
Speaker 1: you don't like that feeling. Um, I have that feeling
Speaker 1: at home. Uh And and here's there's no oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there's no way I get that feeling hard
Speaker 1: at home your home. Yeah, I don't I don't care
Speaker 1: about anything. I'm like, oh, you know, you know it's
Speaker 1: about to get read this book. You know what I
Speaker 1: was about to get watched this show. Oh I'm in it.
Speaker 1: I seamless to my apartment because I know what's near me.
Speaker 1: Oh I I don't. I don't even think. I don't
Speaker 1: even think you'd be ready for the level of staycation
Speaker 1: experience that I experienced. I think I think your mind
Speaker 1: would be blown. It's others just reading a book in
Speaker 1: order and foods you eat all the time. What can
Speaker 1: I say? I got a good life. I can't stand you.
Speaker 1: I will say, though, Um, the thing that you mentioned
Speaker 1: about vacations and how especially in the pandemic, people want
Speaker 1: to get out there and have new experiences. I understand that,
Speaker 1: Like I I get that I'm not new experiences. It's
Speaker 1: just like leaving. You aren't in your house shaking and
Speaker 1: fear for a year and a half. It's like, I'm
Speaker 1: finally not mortified to step outside my house. What if
Speaker 1: we got on the plane. M h. I think that's
Speaker 1: the campaign. It's like that makes sense, and I do
Speaker 1: understand the feeling. I'm just like being in your house
Speaker 1: and not having to do anything. But I think a
Speaker 1: staycation is just a weekend. Oh that that's that's where
Speaker 1: I have to slow you down. That's where I have
Speaker 1: to back you up. That's where I have to stop.
Speaker 1: You have never talked to me like this before. A
Speaker 1: staycation is as long as the imagination lets it go.
Speaker 1: A staycation is fear as long as you are on
Speaker 1: vacation and the next thing you wake up and gotta work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you you can be on staycation until the minute
Speaker 1: you leave that apartment at that house, that condo, that trailer,
Speaker 1: that car. It's about the mind. You know, You're You're
Speaker 1: the one that that's like hooked on the parameters of
Speaker 1: an itinerary. You have to be on that flight by
Speaker 1: a certain time or else you're not coming back planes
Speaker 1: five daily. You can always get a plane back. You're
Speaker 1: always baby fair fair enough that that makes sense. I
Speaker 1: see what you mean now of how vacations can be
Speaker 1: great and why people want to go on them. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm with you, and I and I also can understand
Speaker 1: because like everything like this thing started to open back up.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I don't it feels too open,
Speaker 1: Like I don't, I don't know. Some people are nasty.
Speaker 1: Some people you. You're like, oh, you should still be
Speaker 1: in lockdown. Yeah, you're still be in lockdown. You should
Speaker 1: be in handcuffs. So yeah, it's like I understand. But
Speaker 1: what I do also like this is what I like
Speaker 1: when I'm on vacation. I don't like run around and
Speaker 1: doing a bunch of ships because, like, guess why, I
Speaker 1: like getting like a hotel, like a balcony or like
Speaker 1: an airb like a balcony, like I'm gonna be able
Speaker 1: to just sit outside and enjoy the air of another place.
Speaker 1: I don't like running around having a full ituner ry.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I guess sometimes I'll do a staycation
Speaker 1: while I'm on a vacation. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I I want to get not only just
Speaker 1: your thoughts, but the thoughts of the listeners. Let us
Speaker 1: know what you think. You know, are you a vacation
Speaker 1: person and staycation person? Do you think one of us
Speaker 1: is absolutely crazy? It's probably me. I understand that I
Speaker 1: have very unpopular opinions about things. A lot of people
Speaker 1: probably agree with you. They're like, no, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: stay in the house, you know, because sometimes I feel
Speaker 1: like a rich person agrees with me. I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like anybody with money is probably going to
Speaker 1: agree with me. I'm just glad that we could find
Speaker 1: some common ground, you know. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: dul Safe for being a co host with me. I
Speaker 1: want to thank you the listener for listening to the episode.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna be back next week with an all
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