Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and well them to this addition to Zechgei's
Speaker 1: travel friends, because we get into some of the hottest
Speaker 1: friends in travel, which we will get to in our
Speaker 1: second act. But first, allow me to reintroduce myself. My
Speaker 1: name is Miles, and I'm here with beca How hard
Speaker 1: You do anything good.
Speaker 2: I went and saw Raw Dog Jamie's.
Speaker 1: Show to her, yeah, get your copy, get your copy.
Speaker 1: I got mine. I got mine. Uh yeah, Raw Dog
Speaker 1: Jamie Loftus's book, which is really it's she's such a
Speaker 1: great writer and like just with that cliched phrase from
Speaker 1: The Simpsons, it's like she writes the way she talks.
Speaker 1: It's very easy to read.
Speaker 3: I haven't started yet, but the show was super because
Speaker 3: if you go, the show comes with it a book.
Speaker 3: So I only got my book yesterday. But the show
Speaker 3: is not like a traditional I would say book like read.
Speaker 3: You know, it's going to have comedy bits, You're gonna
Speaker 3: meet some hot dogs celebs.
Speaker 2: Right, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: You have some hot dogs celebs and then yeah, the
Speaker 1: tour continues all over. You should check out Jamie's social
Speaker 1: media's so you can see those dates because it's it's
Speaker 1: it's heading all over the East coast? Yeah, do you do?
Speaker 1: You all right? Anyway? Where were we at?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What's trending? Florida or flow Rida is trending because
Speaker 1: flow Rida has just come out and said, look, you know,
Speaker 1: when people want me to do a private gig, the
Speaker 1: minimum is a million dollars for me to show up.
Speaker 1: And then he said, guess how many I do a year? Thirty?
Speaker 1: What at least? Do you think he's like, please that.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine thirty people willing to pay a million
Speaker 3: dollars of private time with flow Rider.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably done two for over a million,
Speaker 1: and then he's probably done other ones that are easily
Speaker 1: in the high six figures. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: hitting a milli every time, but I do believe that
Speaker 1: there are people who are trapped in like the oughts
Speaker 1: and tens teens who have way too much money and
Speaker 1: like are high on cocaine. They're like, you know'll be
Speaker 1: fucking wild. There's a flow Rider did in.
Speaker 3: That Superbruters of Brian says he really thinks so that
Speaker 3: thirty people are willing to pay him over a million dollars.
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised how many artists are making their money
Speaker 1: like that now, just doing private little gigs. And they're like, man,
Speaker 1: fuck an arena because I can just go to some
Speaker 1: you know, autocratic nation.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then they're like, I don't care. I'll take
Speaker 1: Mohammed Ben Salmon's money. I don't give a fuck. But yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: we have a friend who does like gigs like that,
Speaker 1: who's like, goes to do like I don't know, like
Speaker 1: you went to Mexico. I don't know who the people
Speaker 1: were that put it, who paid for this, but he's
Speaker 1: he's been many places with artists to do these private shows.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: So anyway, and then it's a thing. It's a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean the same way like didn't didn't fucking be
Speaker 1: honestly go to like Azerbide. People were like.
Speaker 2: And that was like, oh yeah, I mean we all know.
Speaker 1: But again she's like, I'm a capitalist baby exactly.
Speaker 2: She's never she's never lied, she was so you know,
Speaker 2: oh yeah.
Speaker 1: She's like I never said I was about anything else
Speaker 1: except these dollars. I mean, I give a fuck about people,
Speaker 1: but I give a fuck about this bad So yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently he just did a bar Mitzvah in Lincolnshire, Chicago,
Speaker 1: which is like wild because weit hold on. This kid
Speaker 1: is thirteen, but he wants flow Rider there.
Speaker 3: Some kids are really in a nostalgia right now. Like
Speaker 3: I saw a TikTok that was like the Black Eyed
Speaker 3: Peas had their rent to pay when they dropped this song,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, yea, yeah, all right, I guess so too. Like
Speaker 1: if you had so much money, you're like, what do
Speaker 1: you want? You're like, well, I want flow Rider to
Speaker 1: come to my bar mitzvah and sing low. Then I
Speaker 1: want Drake to do Passion Fruit and then uh Nicki
Speaker 1: Minaj to do I don't know whatever you know, but
Speaker 1: just make it happen, make it happen. And then somebody
Speaker 1: drops fucking five million dollars on a party. I guess
Speaker 1: it's just so wild too, because we'll never have million
Speaker 1: dollars flow right of money like that. No, but guess what.
Speaker 1: I can play a YouTube clip of one of his
Speaker 1: live performances very loud and they could feel like that,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, And I got one too. We can link
Speaker 1: them up, you know what I mean? You bring your
Speaker 1: so nos, I'll bring my soas get the little ones,
Speaker 1: pair them up. We got three D audio. Check that out.
Speaker 1: Roman shirt is trending because everybody who was watching the
Speaker 1: Succession finale last night was loving Roman's shirt when he
Speaker 1: was hanging out of his mother's house in Turks and
Speaker 1: Caicos or Barbados, whoever the fuck that was supposed to
Speaker 1: be because apparently it's Walmart and everyone's like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: I'm getting that, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get on
Speaker 1: my fucking Roman Roy swag. So I didn't realize.
Speaker 2: Like this like turquoise blue with a yellow.
Speaker 1: Different paneling on the shoulder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, am I a hater? I hate the shirt.
Speaker 3: I think it's so ugly.
Speaker 1: I hate all the clothes these motherfuckers wearing.
Speaker 2: I hate there was.
Speaker 1: A whole thing. I was reading this article from a
Speaker 1: stylist who's like talking about how codd like so the
Speaker 1: I mean, not coded, but like how intentional the looks are.
Speaker 1: Like everything Kendle wears is like it's always like for
Speaker 1: people who know who are like up on shit, they're like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, that's like a that's like a fucking eight
Speaker 1: hundred dollars ta he got on. Oh that's a that's
Speaker 1: a that's a fifteen hundred dollars neckerchief or whatever.
Speaker 2: And he looks or it's it's quiet luxury. I think
Speaker 2: it's also the other and.
Speaker 1: You look like you have no fucking taste. You just
Speaker 1: look like a paint by numbers whatever kind of person.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so people were loving the fuck out of
Speaker 1: that shirt, I guess. But yeah, I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: whatever do you If that's your style, that's what you
Speaker 1: want to be, go and be that. But it won't
Speaker 1: be me next up, let's keep it in Florida. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Florida, Casey Deysantis is trending. Do you know why
Speaker 1: Casey DeSantis is trending?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 1: Well, allow me to enlighten you. Have you seen some
Speaker 1: of her looks, like how she will go to like
Speaker 1: a very non formal event but like wear things like.
Speaker 2: This, oh white like she's in England.
Speaker 1: Yes, or will wear like capes to other just non
Speaker 1: like high pollutant events, being like what the fuck? What
Speaker 1: what's with all the white gloves and what's with the capes?
Speaker 1: And shit?
Speaker 3: No, it literally looks like she's trying to be a
Speaker 3: part of the royal Party.
Speaker 1: Like oh yeah, yeah, exactly, and like she would say
Speaker 1: it like that too, like not knowing what she means,
Speaker 1: Like I'm part of the royal party. Is that like
Speaker 1: a party you're invited to? Is that like the royal family?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about political royalty? She looks like she's
Speaker 1: trying to do like I'm a Kennedy's type thing. She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Yell in this.
Speaker 3: It is giving, jack yo, but it also is giving,
Speaker 3: like I don't know what's her face William's wife Kate Middleton.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's definitely budget Kate Middleton. But anyway,
Speaker 1: all that to say is Ronda Santis is sick of
Speaker 1: the fucking hater because he's like, look at my wife.
Speaker 1: I was like, do you want to just hear this
Speaker 1: guy fucking just whine about this shit. It's actually kind
Speaker 1: of funny because it's so this take is so fucking bad.
Speaker 1: Just this doesn't know why Ronda Santis is tripping because
Speaker 1: we just just so you know, she dresses like how
Speaker 1: do I put this? Like shit?
Speaker 2: Is this like shit?
Speaker 1: She has no fuckings fastest sense, miss me with all
Speaker 1: the formal wear and here's Ronda Santis is what with
Speaker 1: why this is a fucking an abomination.
Speaker 4: We knew that this would happen because if she were
Speaker 4: a Democrat, she'd be on pre fashion magazine. They would
Speaker 4: be making her to be the biggest deal. But because
Speaker 4: we're conservative, we know that that's not what happen. In reality.
Speaker 4: It'll be the opposite where they try to really attack.
Speaker 1: I mean, we will attack the style. We will not
Speaker 1: attack the person although.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not crazy.
Speaker 1: I will attack her judge of character. She's married to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's just formalware.
Speaker 3: Is this formalware where you don't need formal wear sometimes? Yeah,
Speaker 3: some of these events, it's like it's like.
Speaker 1: When you do the most because you don't know how
Speaker 1: to dress, so you think doing the most is a
Speaker 1: fucking style. It is not. It's just doing the most,
Speaker 1: that's all that is. And that's what people are going
Speaker 1: to say. They're like, well, she's doing the most with that.
Speaker 1: Put the gloves and Kate, what the fuck is this girl?
Speaker 1: We have the fucking Panthers hockey game anyway, So yeah,
Speaker 1: like Brian Very, I mean, yes, we know. Just remember
Speaker 1: when Michelle Obama she had bare arms and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: so she has the right to bear arms clearly and
Speaker 1: it's like, what the fuck? But anyway, I think it's
Speaker 1: okay because we don't have time to pay attention to
Speaker 1: her contrived her contrived outfits, as I would say, they're contrived,
Speaker 1: they're contrived completely. All right, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be back with some travel trends after this
Speaker 1: and we're back. You heard of skip lagging, Becca, I?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So when we were talking about this off Mike, originally
Speaker 3: the title of it no, but then as we got
Speaker 3: into it, I was like, oh, I have heard of
Speaker 3: this on TikTok and I remember saving it and sending
Speaker 3: it to my partner being like never.
Speaker 1: We skip lagging. So this is what it is. It's
Speaker 1: also known as quote hidden city or throwaway ticketing, or
Speaker 1: what you do is you book a flight with a
Speaker 1: layover in the city you want to go to, and
Speaker 1: then you bail on that second leg of the journey.
Speaker 1: So it's like how you save Like apparently a lot
Speaker 1: of people been like swaring up and down, like you
Speaker 1: can save all this money. So like let's say you
Speaker 1: know you got a trip wherever like this this is
Speaker 1: the thing, and people do like, yeah, cancel that next trip.
Speaker 1: And then you and the city you want to be
Speaker 1: and you got it made in the shade. But apparently
Speaker 1: now the airlines they hate it and they say they
Speaker 1: are cracking the fuck down on it because they're like, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: don't take advantage of our arbitrary pricing systems. You fucking you,
Speaker 1: clever motherfuckers. We don't like that. But again, yeah, they
Speaker 1: said they are really going to they have like tools
Speaker 1: and shit to like flag these types of travelers because
Speaker 1: they are costing the airlines. I guess a pretty penny,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, miss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems very silly. Skip blagged is its own
Speaker 2: company and why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who are who? They were like being like, yo,
Speaker 1: do it like us? They're like, we'll book your like
Speaker 1: just make sure you cancel this shit.
Speaker 2: We'll book through them versus like an orbits.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but hear that, I think with the view
Speaker 1: and to me, like, where are you trying to go? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should skip lag it over there to get the
Speaker 1: best price on your ticket to Kuala Lumpur or Amsterdam sting.
Speaker 3: So anyway, skip blagged The company got sued by United's
Speaker 3: in Orbits for seventy five thousand dollars in lost revenue,
Speaker 3: which is truly not a lot of money when you
Speaker 3: think about how much each plane ticket costs and how
Speaker 3: many people are on a plane. It's like maybe one
Speaker 3: to two planes worth of people for the year.
Speaker 1: That's like half of first class on a transatlantic flight
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: So it seems petty as shit.
Speaker 3: But I did see this go viral on TikTok a
Speaker 3: little bit ago that was very much like you are
Speaker 3: being warned. These were people that were stitching these hack
Speaker 3: travel hackers, you know that are like, this is what
Speaker 3: you do to save a buck, you know, telling them
Speaker 3: about skip lagging. They were being stitched by airline workers
Speaker 3: that were like, you will get blacklisted from airlines if
Speaker 3: you do this, So like, at your own risk to
Speaker 3: save a ndred couple hundred bucks, go for it, but
Speaker 3: be warned that you may become on a light risk,
Speaker 3: like people.
Speaker 1: Will warn if that somehow a corporate will put you
Speaker 1: in the same category as someone who's trying to take
Speaker 1: down an airplane, Which is good because you fucking you
Speaker 1: found a loophole. Man, fuck called man, I'm the skip
Speaker 1: lag like a motherfucker, you know, what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 1: I will not do that, because we will.
Speaker 3: Not be doing that. I'm a loyal We have to
Speaker 3: stand up.
Speaker 1: We have to stand up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You know, because like airline flights are getting so ridiculous,
Speaker 1: the seats get smaller. They're trying to yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: also just trying to nudge everybody into like paying more.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, man, you could say you could get
Speaker 1: our regular seat. Uh, but if you're if you over
Speaker 1: five seven, you're gonna break your kneecaps in here.
Speaker 3: Literally the way you've broken up business and economy and
Speaker 3: the up charges between business and economy, and like, I
Speaker 3: feel like even economy there's an economy and economy plus now,
Speaker 3: and like that's stupid. Like the difference between economy and
Speaker 3: economy plus is like you get to choose your seat
Speaker 3: in economy plus like a couple of inches.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like and also like what's wild though, two And
Speaker 1: it's like or you get our moffuck credit card and
Speaker 1: then we'll look the other way, but we'll get you
Speaker 1: into our own like debt cycle. But you know you
Speaker 1: get your credit card through us anyway. All that to say,
Speaker 1: let us know your tips and Also, if you work
Speaker 1: at an airline, holler at u zech and what's the deal?
Speaker 1: Can I really be put on a fucking no fly list?
Speaker 1: Skip lagging? And I'm sure they say, like, well, it's
Speaker 1: hard to know, like what your intentions are if you
Speaker 1: are you ticketed to there? Like whatever? Miss me with
Speaker 1: that like national security shit when I'm trying to just
Speaker 1: secure my financial baggage. Okay. Next thing up is bed rotting,
Speaker 1: which like which sounds a lot like the like live
Speaker 1: flat movement in China, but bed rotting apparently is like
Speaker 1: according to the New York Post and like, let me know,
Speaker 1: gen Z listeners if this is a real thing. But
Speaker 1: it's a new self care trend of basically saying just
Speaker 1: lie in bed, you know what I mean, as long
Speaker 1: as you need to to kind of get your shit
Speaker 1: right and then get out when it's right for you.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 3: I mean, as I'm reading the article here, some people
Speaker 3: are bed rotting while binge watching Netflix, stuffing their faces
Speaker 3: with sugary snacks, or simply staring at the ceiling, while
Speaker 3: others are falling a bit more into the clean girl athetic,
Speaker 3: doing face masks, sleeping on silk pillow cases, and meditating
Speaker 3: in bed personally as someone who gets the Sunday scaries,
Speaker 3: and I guess in theory bedrots, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I recommend.
Speaker 2: This for your mental health, how great time I do it.
Speaker 1: I'm on, well, yeah, this sounds like me in a
Speaker 1: depressive state when.
Speaker 2: Episode.
Speaker 1: That's me being like, man, I don't even got the
Speaker 1: will to get about this motherfucking bed. I get though too,
Speaker 1: if you are so. Like the more sort of charitable
Speaker 1: explanation is one where it's like it helps you reclaim
Speaker 1: some physical time that isn't tied to like toiling or whatever.
Speaker 1: So like, yeah, just fucking do you whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: you need to don't get out that bed, Like I
Speaker 1: get that, Like I see that. I thought it might
Speaker 1: be more of like a protest to it, being like,
Speaker 1: why the fuck should I get up to participate in
Speaker 1: this motherfucking society. I get them, and I believe.
Speaker 3: Is very important. But as someone who has suffered a
Speaker 3: lot of mental health crisis, I just make a man
Speaker 3: be talking. If you can get a therapist, talk to
Speaker 3: a therapist and get in the sun as early as
Speaker 3: possible in the day, if you can wake up, not
Speaker 3: look at your phone, go for a walk, or at
Speaker 3: least you don't even.
Speaker 2: Have to walk too much.
Speaker 3: Just like sit outside in the sun. You'll feel so
Speaker 3: much better.
Speaker 1: All the part of me like low kis like man
Speaker 1: with a bed ride and feel good as a motherfucker.
Speaker 3: I know it feels good in the short term, and
Speaker 3: then in the long term you're like, I'll.
Speaker 1: Tell you this as as a new parent, I'm like
Speaker 1: reading about these like gen Z people like, yeah, I just.
Speaker 5: Get in bed and I just fucking just lay there,
Speaker 5: watch TV, eat ice cream, and I'm like, man, I
Speaker 5: wish I did that, But then my baby, I'm trying
Speaker 5: to get the baby to bed rot too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, you need to do that.
Speaker 2: That is that's RESTful, that's important.
Speaker 1: No, but it's you know, it's all right. I think, look,
Speaker 1: getting me walking, I'm getting more steps. You know this,
Speaker 1: this little thing has improved my life for the best.
Speaker 1: It turns out I'm not bedrotten anymore. And then finally,
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid one hundred and seventeen and I have a
Speaker 1: million dollars. Over a Memorial Day weekend. On the other
Speaker 1: side of the internet, I saw people who are big
Speaker 1: fans of Bert Kreischer, that stand up comedian I'm not
Speaker 1: particularly big fan of He had a movie come out
Speaker 1: and like everyone's like, everybody got to go see Burt
Speaker 1: Kreischer's movie, and they did not do well at all.
Speaker 1: It's just thinking like a motherfucker and anyway, and they
Speaker 1: were like, what the fuck are people gonna go see
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid when they're just a genius film by burre
Speaker 1: the Machine. Yeah, I'm like, Okay, maybe because it's a
Speaker 1: film that's like taking place in Russia and not very
Speaker 1: critical of Russia, right when they just unilaterally decided to
Speaker 1: invade another nation. I don't know, maybe that part Schoolboy Q.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Little Mermaid fifth highest Memorial Day weekend of
Speaker 1: all time. But you know you already know the follow
Speaker 1: up because there's because there's black people. Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: people either like you could do the non racist thing
Speaker 1: and be like, oh my god, Ursula's makeup was foul,
Speaker 1: that shit was trife, or you could be like full
Speaker 1: on mask off racist and get mad at Halle Bailey.
Speaker 1: But either way, they're laughing their way to the box office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, doing bof phone numbers. So I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I will. I'll probably see it.
Speaker 1: I'll catch it on the airplane. I just can't. As
Speaker 1: much as I love like, I love Little Murmot, Little
Speaker 1: Mermaid is like the first one I really fucked with
Speaker 1: as a kid, because that shit came out like right
Speaker 1: as I was able to like be old enough to
Speaker 1: go to a movie theater and be like, oh this ship, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm rocking with a Little Mermaid. But the remakes, I
Speaker 1: just every time there's been like a live action one,
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm in noah lad No.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate what this like Little Mermaid stands for.
Speaker 3: And the reactions I've seen from uh, you know, young
Speaker 3: black girls on the internet has been so sweet, so wholesome.
Speaker 3: I am excited for all of those young kids to
Speaker 3: be experiencing a princess that looks a lot more like them.
Speaker 3: But I have actually a hot take. Always hated The
Speaker 3: Little Mermaid before Halley Bailey, not not how I hated
Speaker 3: White Little Mermaid. Like I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: I have a thing with underwater seed creatures. I don't
Speaker 3: like their movies. I didn't like Finding Nemo, I didn't
Speaker 3: like Dory.
Speaker 1: I like how you said it, like we're on some
Speaker 1: like problematic right, Wing podcast. You're like, I don't like
Speaker 1: their movies. I just the underwater people.
Speaker 3: My mom like laughs, I mean she's like, yeah, that
Speaker 3: has been a theme in your life, Like you.
Speaker 1: Just don't like higab or something like I.
Speaker 2: Am very afraid of the ocean and.
Speaker 3: Because it's so big, yes, and we don't know, like
Speaker 3: there's like we only have discovered like five percent of
Speaker 3: the ocean.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, you really do.
Speaker 3: We're gonna wear shoes at the beach, like in the
Speaker 3: water because like I will freak out touching the sand.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, person wearing water for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it when it's rocky, but like
Speaker 1: I go so it's because you got the he b
Speaker 1: g B.
Speaker 3: You're like no, no, I'm like I'm gonna die, like
Speaker 3: something is gonna sting me, Like I'm gonna go down,
Speaker 3: like okay, crocodile, dundee.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like it's just scared.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, look, uh that's that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: But I'll probably watch it on a plane.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, plane movies, that's that's all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's at altitude. We have so much time to plane
Speaker 1: rot as we do. All right, y'all. Well, that is
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us today. We're gonna be back tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you already know with the whole episode. So until then,
Speaker 1: take care yourselves, take care of each other, you know,
Speaker 1: do all that safety shit, because this world is a
Speaker 1: fucking mess. Take care of each other, especially if you
Speaker 1: see people trying to discriminate against some fucking marginalized group.
Speaker 1: We don't have time for this shit anymore. Please, There's
Speaker 1: too many of us that know this bullshit, too many
Speaker 1: of us, so you know, just let them know they're outnumbered.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, We'll see you tomorrow. Take care, Bye bye,