Speaker 1: Let's talk about who we build up and put on
Speaker 1: pedestals and idolize, because this ditty thing, you know, this
Speaker 1: is serious shit. This is a guy that people I
Speaker 1: DA lize. And when I tell you, if you only
Speaker 1: knew the celebrities that used to kiss his ass to
Speaker 1: get into that white party and the rich people and
Speaker 1: the Hampton's a flutter to go to that white party
Speaker 1: that I have never been to, by the way, but
Speaker 1: and would have gone because you know, I was a nobody.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you that there's so much bullshit
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. And someone on social media was talking about
Speaker 1: how celebrity is canceled because people want real and people
Speaker 1: are taking people.
Speaker 2: To the bottom.
Speaker 1: And I think that people have been burned so many
Speaker 1: times by these celebrities and people that are I mean
Speaker 1: the fact that they are these gods, these icons, these
Speaker 1: moguls that people worship. I mean, you spend more time
Speaker 1: thinking about what you're going to order for dinner than
Speaker 1: you do thinking about who the people really are that
Speaker 1: you decide are gods and that you blindly follow and
Speaker 1: buy and worship and build up and make rich buy planes.
Speaker 2: It's us we have the power.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's been what people have been
Speaker 1: talking about, saying the celebrity is done because these people
Speaker 1: have so much power, and we've been burned so many
Speaker 1: times by thinking that there's something that they're not and
Speaker 1: why would they why would we know?
Speaker 2: We don't know them, someone like Diddy has been completely idolized.
Speaker 1: But we have to not put people up on pedestals
Speaker 1: who we don't know, because then when they become something
Speaker 1: that is disappointed, we're shocked. We don't know Diddy from
Speaker 1: anybody from a hole in the wall.
Speaker 2: We don't know him any more than somebody walking past
Speaker 2: us on the street.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're listening to his songs, we're believing
Speaker 1: his bullshit, and now you know this is some serious shit.
Speaker 1: So for me, the cautionary tale is we cannot keep
Speaker 1: living this life where because someone you know can carry
Speaker 1: a tune or dresses really slick, or looks really hot,
Speaker 1: or filters themselves, we can't idolize them and put them
Speaker 1: in these positions. Because I'm sure many of you have
Speaker 1: spent money on his music, his clothing, his bullshit, watched
Speaker 1: his show, whatever it is. So I guess the cautionary
Speaker 1: tale is on us. These are just human beings that
Speaker 1: we don't fucking know. Everyone travels differently, and you need
Speaker 1: a baseline for the people that you're traveling with, or
Speaker 1: who might be booking travel for you, or who you
Speaker 1: might be getting recommendations from, so you can get on
Speaker 1: the same page. So for someone to say, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that place is amazing. So many people have recommendations, but
Speaker 1: so many people disagree and think other people are wrong
Speaker 1: about restaurants, hotels, spas, rooms.
Speaker 2: Vacation spots.
Speaker 1: So let's get a baseline, because it just means if
Speaker 1: you're talking to a tech travel agent, it'd be like
Speaker 1: going on a dating app and and someone else thinks
Speaker 1: that someone with dark hair and blue eyes who's five
Speaker 1: nine is for you, and you're like, wait, I like
Speaker 1: redheads that have green hair, Like you have to have
Speaker 1: a baseline. So for me, I was recently in Canada
Speaker 1: and I first stayed at what I think is a
Speaker 1: five star hotel and it was a little beat up,
Speaker 1: a little old. Stars are given out for different reasons.
Speaker 1: So stars are given out if a hotel has like
Speaker 1: a full service spa and a certain number of restaurants
Speaker 1: and X, Y and z, And it's the same thing
Speaker 1: with apartment buildings.
Speaker 2: I'm different with apartment buildings too.
Speaker 1: Some apartment buildings have dry cleaners and a full service
Speaker 1: doorman and a gym and a kids club and a
Speaker 1: TV room, And I don't want any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And at a hotel, I don't really need all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't need a big hotel. I'm nine interested in
Speaker 1: transacting with people. I don't need ninety two restaurants and
Speaker 1: the most giant spot. Ever, here's what I like at
Speaker 1: a hotel. I like a bathtub in my room. An
Speaker 1: outdoor moment would be fine. Looking at something is fine,
Speaker 1: it would not trump a bathtub. Like if you shut
Speaker 1: the windows and I never looked outside, I'd sooner take
Speaker 1: a bathtub.
Speaker 2: I would like.
Speaker 1: One separate space, Like we're not just sleep, you know,
Speaker 1: because there are five star hotels that you could go
Speaker 1: to and everyone says it's the best place and you
Speaker 1: have a bed and the bathroom there's no shower, but
Speaker 1: you're like the lobby amazing and it's hipping cool people
Speaker 1: go there, Like I don't give a shit about that
Speaker 1: at all. I give a shit about is there a
Speaker 1: microwave in there? Is there a little fridge that's not
Speaker 1: jam packed with like automatic magnetic fucking room service robots
Speaker 1: that the second you look at something, you get charged.
Speaker 1: Like I'd like my own refrigerator that's probably empty and
Speaker 1: I could put my own things in there. A coffee
Speaker 1: maker is great, it's a great thing. I'd like an
Speaker 1: ice machine, an ice machine on my floor, like that's
Speaker 1: sort of looked down upon. You know what I don't
Speaker 1: like being at a six thousand dollars a night hotel
Speaker 1: which I've been at and had to call and you're
Speaker 1: waiting twenty minutes for ice, and that same ice comes
Speaker 1: in a normal bucket and it's diluted and melted down
Speaker 1: in an hour because you're in a hot climate, and
Speaker 1: then you got to call again and wait another fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go get my own fucking ice or
Speaker 1: put it in a nice little cooler and bring it
Speaker 1: to the room. While we're complaining about stupid things that
Speaker 1: hotels do and don't do. But I was just at
Speaker 1: a hotel in Canada and everybody's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hate it there whatever, And here's what it was.
Speaker 1: It was, like I said, probably like any other like
Speaker 1: Maria Business executive suites whatever.
Speaker 2: It was clean. It had a little you know, you turn.
Speaker 1: The switch fireplace on, and had a couch in the
Speaker 1: living room with a TV and a bedroom. So let's
Speaker 1: say you're there for extended period of time as I was,
Speaker 1: you don't you don't feel like your whole life is
Speaker 1: in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: You go in that other living room and maybe watch
Speaker 2: TV in there.
Speaker 1: It had a washer dryer, Like washer dryer trumps many
Speaker 1: things like that means you go away, you don't feel
Speaker 1: like a gross pig, like you didn't bring enough underwear
Speaker 1: or you just you just want to go home with
Speaker 1: clean laundry.
Speaker 2: Like laundry is a big deal in life. I just
Speaker 2: think it's freedom.
Speaker 1: Laundry is freedom going away and being able to bring
Speaker 1: one set of clothes that you fly on the plane
Speaker 1: there and then wash it and bring it back. That
Speaker 1: means like freedom in your suitcase too, So that to
Speaker 1: me was huge.
Speaker 2: And then we had a full kitchen. You had a microwave.
Speaker 1: You could get some microwave popcorn, you can make some
Speaker 1: raw and you don't have to be a prisoner to
Speaker 1: other people and what they they you know, calling downstairs
Speaker 1: waiting like I don't like that. I want my own shit.
Speaker 1: So I think that it's important to get a baseline. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you want to be on a beach, you might
Speaker 1: not be a beach person.
Speaker 2: I want to walk out my room.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have a room that was a little bit inferior,
Speaker 1: with less no view obviously, to not have to go
Speaker 1: through a lobby and not have to go on an elevator,
Speaker 1: to walk into my room on the ground level and
Speaker 1: open the back door and walk right onto the sand.
Speaker 1: I don't like a lot of transacting, so to me
Speaker 1: that's killer, But other people same thing in apartment buildings.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be on an elevator and talk
Speaker 1: to Jane while she, you know, gets her mail and
Speaker 1: is walking her dogs. I'd rather be in a building.
Speaker 1: It's like a townhouse. We could just walk right in,
Speaker 1: and I would. I'm not a person that I like
Speaker 1: there to be like a little access to a little
Speaker 1: town near the hotel, because I'm not big on making
Speaker 1: a ton of plans, but like going to walk into
Speaker 1: a town is like a little activity or at night,
Speaker 1: deciding on the fly where you want to have I
Speaker 1: don't like to feel like I'm on an island, a
Speaker 1: prisoner of the hotel that's like a beautiful, private, gorgeous,
Speaker 1: five star, romantic, amazing, well rated hotel that you have
Speaker 1: to take golf carts everywhere on the property, and you
Speaker 1: have to get a car twenty minutes to go into
Speaker 1: a town to get a normal coffee that wasn't made
Speaker 1: in your little like weird room coffee machine that doesn't
Speaker 1: have milk, like and then you got to call down
Speaker 1: and get the milk. Like.
Speaker 2: I like that. So everybody has different preferences, is what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I don't care about the gym at a hotel,
Speaker 2: but I do care if it's on the sand, because
Speaker 2: then I can take a beach walk.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean just short sand where you're just
Speaker 1: on the rocks and there's a little sand and you
Speaker 1: get to swim in it. That's nice, but I mean
Speaker 1: walkable sand beaches are like a mile each way. These
Speaker 1: are things that people don't discuss enough. Like there are
Speaker 1: hotels that are five star in Mexico. They are gorgeous
Speaker 1: and they're on the beach and then there's like tons
Speaker 1: of seaweed. It's not really it's beach and it's beautiful,
Speaker 1: but like you're not really running in and out swimming
Speaker 1: all day because you're going through like the loch ness
Speaker 1: monster around your ankles every time you try to take
Speaker 1: a swim. So I just think it's important that you
Speaker 1: know what a hotel has. Some hotels have a cute
Speaker 1: little like Barista coffee shop, or they have a little
Speaker 1: deli we can go.
Speaker 2: Down and get something.
Speaker 1: I like that, or like a little coffee cart, because
Speaker 1: I don't like everything I do at a hotel to
Speaker 1: be like a massive transaction. You're like you're ordering in
Speaker 1: from a Michelin star restaurant to get a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: I just it's too fancy and too precious.
Speaker 1: So the hotel that I was at recently in Canada
Speaker 1: was perfect, and people were shocked because.
Speaker 2: It was easy and it had what I wanted, what
Speaker 2: I needed.
Speaker 1: So when you travel, or when you move into a
Speaker 1: building or however you roll, figure out exactly what you
Speaker 1: like and convey that because someone else will tell you
Speaker 1: that this amazing five star hotel that's twenty minutes from civilization,
Speaker 1: that has no little ca effe place, that you have
Speaker 1: a shower and a small room, that you have no microwave,
Speaker 1: that you have no refrigerator, that that is where you
Speaker 1: should stay because it's rated high and may not have
Speaker 1: the things that you want, and you may be spending
Speaker 1: money on the things you're not even going to use.
Speaker 1: I may be paying for a gym that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to use. I don't need a full service, so on.
Speaker 1: But some people want to get a blow dry every day.
Speaker 1: Everybody has different needs. What are yours