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Speaker 2: I am front and center and today's guest, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: the Tactical Traveler. His name is John Renkin, and welcome

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Speaker 2: to the show.

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Speaker 4: John, hey Man, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: It's a pleasure. Thanks for reaching out, having Rob reach out.

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Speaker 2: You know, Rob's great your publicis He's like, hey, rad,

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Speaker 2: I got one for you, and I was like, bring

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Speaker 3: Let's go. So, John, tell me something. How old are you, bro?

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Speaker 4: I am. Wait, you said don't say things you don't

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Speaker 4: want on the internet.

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Speaker 3: I did warn everybody. I say, don't say what you want.

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Speaker 4: Internet man about to be fifty three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you were gonna say forty seven like myself. Now, John,

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Speaker 2: what I like to do is kind of get to

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Speaker 2: know a little bit about you. Let my listener learn

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Speaker 2: a little bit about your space from you know, when

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Speaker 2: you were a young man to the military career. So

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Speaker 2: tell me how old were you when you decided that

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Speaker 2: joining the military was something that you wanted to do well.

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Speaker 4: I actually joined in high school and then got booted

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Speaker 4: to actually join the Air Force when I was seventeen.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to do pair of rescue and then they

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Speaker 4: ended up finding that I had a like a it's

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Speaker 4: not a disorder, but like a blood disorder. Blood condition

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Speaker 4: doesn't do anything except for when I'm sick and tired,

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Speaker 4: I get johndice. That's all he does. But the spelling

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Speaker 4: of it is the exact same word for another blood disorder,

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Speaker 4: which is terminal. So the Air Force thought I was

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Speaker 4: I can get you into the infantry and I was like, no,

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Speaker 2: So here we are so eleven bravos. So you went

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Fort Betting, Yeah, so did infantry. You know, I

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Speaker 4: had a good enough GT score to do other stuff,

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Speaker 4: but you know, I just wanted to do shoot people.

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Speaker 3: So what's a GT score do you read?

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Speaker 4: That's like, that's what you get on the as FAB.

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Speaker 2: just want to do what you said. I just want

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Speaker 4: That's right?

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Speaker 2: So so so, so you know now that you've joined

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Speaker 2: So here you are. I'm a junior in high school, okay,

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Speaker 4: I did not. I tried to Mike Jamie command shut

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and guys like your drive, you know,

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Speaker 2: And I mean my dad was a Green Beret, total

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Speaker 3: And same with my mom.

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Speaker 4: I went through a divorce, so I've kind of back

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Speaker 4: really bad divorce. So yeah, but yeah, but you still

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wasn't a Christian. My squad leader ended up

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Speaker 3: I just want to be open about it.

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Speaker 2: And uh, you know, you know so so so you

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Speaker 3: And I think that that's kind of what you found.

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Speaker 4: Well for me, I when I was a younger, younger guy,

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Speaker 4: actually got into witchcraft and Satanism, and so it was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's something that we can all hear and

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Speaker 3: You know, it's well, it's funny.

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Speaker 4: My grandfather used to get so mad. He's like, the

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Speaker 4: three things you don't talk about it sex, politics, and religion.

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Speaker 4: My response was, what the hell else would you talk about?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, like, what are we going to talk about? Okay,

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Speaker 3: What's my purpose? Why am I here? The three things?

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Speaker 4: My grandfather was a great guy, but he this like

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Speaker 4: I don't know, like I guess, and this was I

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Speaker 4: so it was always in my life. Really a great guy.

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Speaker 4: But for some reason he just thought that you don't

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Speaker 2: So he already knew, he already knew, he already had insight.

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Speaker 2: And here we are, John, just totally getting together having

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Speaker 4: I actually think it's because of my world travel that

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Speaker 4: But then I've been in places where it was almost comical.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed. You know, I love to travel.

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Speaker 4: Funny. Have you been to Ireland.

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Speaker 2: I've not been to Ireland, but I've had Ireland kind

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Speaker 2: for software at this boxing event. Oh nice, yeah, yeah

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Speaker 4: Well, it's just so when you listen to the TV, right,

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Speaker 4: The first thing is this Irish guy is like, so

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Speaker 3: An there's racism everywhere, right, I've seen it. I've seen it.

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Speaker 3: It's a Protestant Catholic thing. Oh okay, yeah, totally, just

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Speaker 4: There's some real strong like blood there, like yeah, not

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Speaker 2: But it was just I was right in the middle

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Speaker 4: It's funny because they're very outspoken about their political persuasion

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Speaker 2: Well, well, how does one veteran go to Ireland to

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Speaker 3: Is that what we're going to crack open here? You're

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't do a ton of the space A

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Speaker 4: But that's not really my expertise.

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Speaker 3: So well, let's talk about your expertise.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Let's say I'm a veteran and I am out

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Speaker 3: You know, how do I.

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Speaker 2: Use benefits with you know, a short time in yep

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Speaker 4: But it doesn't matter how long you were in for.

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Speaker 4: same way. So those are two travel benefits that have

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Speaker 4: I think is really good, but you have to know

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Speaker 4: think it does for the Air Force, but it's basically

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Speaker 4: where you can do travel accommodations and stuff like that.

435
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 4: I forget what it's called for the other branches. But

436
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 4: you have to be that at your local local or

437
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 4: not local, but the nearest post to you, okay, because

438
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 4: they have to verify your status.

439
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 3: Okay, So just reach out to that post.

440
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 2: So if you're someplace and there's an Air Force air

441
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,640
Speaker 2: Force base, you can just call up and say, hey,

442
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 2: I need to get the travel desk. I want to

443
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,719
Speaker 2: say it's at the rec Center here. I'm at Hill

444
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 2: Air Force Base and you taught myself. I want to

445
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 2: say that the Rec Center and next to it is

446
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,240
Speaker 2: the Office of Travel because you can buy your Disney

447
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 2: tickets there. You can get all of that put through

448
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 2: through there.

449
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me let me look at up youre real quick?

450
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 3: Just sure, just.

451
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 4: Because as people are listening. So for the Army and

452
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 4: that's the morale, well for our recreation. The Navy they

453
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 4: call it MWR a well, but it's the CNIC. And

454
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 4: then for the Air Force they call it Force Support Squadron,

455
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 4: and the Marine Corps calls it the Community service. Coast

456
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 4: Guard calls a MWR.

457
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: Okay, So three of the branches keep it with MWR.

458
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 4: Well MWR and then they have their specific designation for it,

459
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 4: like the Navy is the CNIC. So Okay, so that's

460
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 4: how you guys can find those tickets. And then now

461
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,879
Speaker 4: let me go down the next one. So here's another

462
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 4: one that most people don't know about. But it's only

463
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 4: available for one hundred percent PNT and it's only available

464
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:43,199
Speaker 4: in certain states. There's forty two airports. You're one hundred

465
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 4: percent PNT. You get free airport parking when you travel.

466
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, no, that's great because I mean, if you're

467
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 2: going to take a couple of days you need to

468
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 2: park your car, thirty six dollars a day adds up

469
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 2: to one hundred dollars in three days.

470
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Speaker 4: You know, in one of those states, Salt Lake does it?

471
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Speaker 4: I don't know, because you have what's the other one

472
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,199
Speaker 4: down in Provo, Provo. I don't think maybe it's Provo

473
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 4: that does it.

474
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 2: I have to Provos, some very small airport that's becoming

475
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger, right, and so we now have

476
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 2: like Breeze.

477
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 3: Airways, a region flies out of there.

478
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 2: Salt Lake though international, I know they do have the

479
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 2: veteran assistance.

480
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 4: Vegas has it, Nashville has it. Every airport in both

481
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 4: Florida and Texas has it. So doesn't matter where you're

482
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 4: at in Texas or where you're at in Florida. Every

483
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 4: airport has free parking.

484
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so how would somebody do you think go?

485
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 2: They just go to their local airport parking app and say, hey,

486
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: let me find to.

487
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 4: The airport, get the packet, fill out the packet, provide

488
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 4: proof that they're one hundred percent PNT, or show their

489
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 4: handicapped blacuard, and then that's how they do it.

490
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I hope somebody's listening that can take advantage

491
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 2: of this right now.

492
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've got a buddy that saves a

493
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 4: couple of grand a year doing it.

494
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 2: So, yeah, especially if you're trying to you know, coupon

495
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 2: your way through the world and try to travel internationally

496
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 2: for like two hundred bucks.

497
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 4: It is thirty six dollars a day. So if you

498
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 4: take a ten day trip, I mean you're at almost

499
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 4: four hundred bucks, right, I mean that that you know,

500
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 4: it's not like massive money, it's a significant savings.

501
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: So four hundred dollars towards food in Thailand or four

502
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 2: hundred dollars towards your car chilling.

503
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, just sitting there right, four.

504
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 4: Hundred thiland goes way further than food that's what I

505
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 4: saved Thailand for two weeks and it cost me five

506
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 4: hundred bucks. That was air conditioning, hotel.

507
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 3: Tank tops.

508
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, is like, yeah, this is cheap.

509
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 3: Oh, there's like a meme.

510
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 2: It's like one day in Thailand you're like completely tourist. Yeah,

511
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: three days into Thailand you're like flip flops and a

512
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:57,160
Speaker 2: tank top. Six days into Thailand, no shirt, bandana, riding

513
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 2: a mopen.

514
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 4: Now with that parking, there's also free RV and camping

515
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 4: sites all across the United States. So you just have

516
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 4: to be a veteran. So it doesn't matter if you're

517
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,120
Speaker 4: active hired the table, you just have to be a veteran.

518
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 2: Well, I have a story so young man, I was

519
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: probably ten eleven. My dad active duty Green Beery at

520
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 2: the time with mom booked us a beach tent stay

521
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 2: in California on the base. I can't remember the exact base,

522
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: but there was a beach there in the ocean. And

523
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 2: then we went to Disneyland and you know where you'd

524
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 2: have to pay huge amounts of money to stay on

525
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 2: a beach, like in Santa Monica or any of these

526
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 2: places to try to you know, have that beach view

527
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 2: and be right so close to it. The base I

528
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 2: think was like eight bucks a day and they gave

529
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 2: you ten spots or it was like yeah, maybe even

530
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: nothing like you're saying. I just remember Dad saying it

531
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 2: was like five or eight bucks a night.

532
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah. And similar to that, there are five resorts

533
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 4: around the world that you can stay at for your

534
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 4: either your disability rate or your rank in the military

535
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 4: to where you're coming out at about one hundred and

536
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 4: fifty dollars a night. They've got one in Hawaii, one

537
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 4: in Orlando, one in the Swiss Alps, one in Korea

538
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 4: in Seoul, and one in japanan in Tokyo. And they're

539
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 4: the Armed what do they call it, Armed Forces Resort

540
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 4: Center I think is what it is AFRC. But it's

541
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 4: available for anybody who's served, first come, first serve basis

542
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 4: based on active duty. First. They're high end, you know,

543
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 4: they're not like, you know, an all inclusive in Cancun,

544
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 4: but they're very nice properties.

545
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: So oh and it probably makes you feel just really nice,

546
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: very luxurious, and if you've never been to a property,

547
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 2: it's probably going to be like mind blowing to go

548
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 2: to the property.

549
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 4: I mean that one in the Swiss Alps man is

550
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 4: really nice.

551
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 2: Swiss Alps. Let me write that down Swish. There's an

552
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 2: ah arc in Swiss.

553
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's on the border of its it's on the

554
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 4: German side, in the Bavarian whatever it's called. It's called

555
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 4: Swiss Unburger Lodge or something like that. Uh, but it's

556
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 4: like it's in the Alps man and it's.

557
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 3: I'm writing it down right now, r C.

558
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're just joining the podcast and you're listening,

559
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 2: I'm talking with John Renkin, and he's the tactical traveler

560
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: and he's giving us insight, you know, just into all

561
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: of the different options out there that can uh, you know,

562
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 2: save us some money traveling around with that veteran status

563
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: that you earned that you.

564
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 3: Got elderwise elderwise elderwise.

565
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know it's right there on the on

566
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 4: the border, the border on the German side. But you know,

567
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 4: when you think about it, there's all these perks and

568
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 4: I haven't even got into the two best ones, Like

569
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 4: I'm just giving you the load right and tier ones. Right.

570
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 4: When you start thinking about the average American fifty it's

571
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 4: fifty four percent of Americans don't take vacation which contributes

572
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 4: They've done the math to over one hundred and fifty

573
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 4: billion dollars in medical procedures, stress, drugs, all that stuff, right,

574
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 4: because we get so burned out and then we're medicated

575
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 4: and suicide and all that stuff. The effect of just

576
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 4: one week of vacation a year on your healthcare costs

577
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 4: as well as your overall kind of health is staggering.

578
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 4: There's research on and the four weeks prior to vacation

579
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 4: and the eight weeks after vacation you are one hundred

580
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 4: and twenty percent more effective at your workplace.

581
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 3: Well, maybe you found a purpose.

582
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 2: You're like, hey, you know, if I keep doing this,

583
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: I could take another vacation and then become back. Mental

584
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: health days are just as viable as a sick day

585
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,479
Speaker 2: to me, right, So if one of my guys at

586
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: my office is like, hey, rad today I'm taking a

587
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: mental health day because I.

588
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 3: Don't take them often, but I take.

589
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 2: Them right like a sick day, and I'm like, all right, Well,

590
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 2: and if I see you out on the snowboard, I'm

591
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: not gonna be upset about that because you're taking a

592
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 2: mental health day. And if being out in the mountains

593
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 2: or exploring or traveling is conducive to your health, Well,

594
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: why it would.

595
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 4: Actually prove them that it is, so that actually research

596
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 4: on veterans who spend time in nature, it significantly reduces

597
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 4: PTSD symptoms, significantly reduces the chance of suicide. And there's

598
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 4: a concept out there that they're starting to push, which

599
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 4: is called two to two to two. So every two

600
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 4: weeks you should take two days off. Every I think

601
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 4: it's every two months you should take a long weekend,

602
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 4: and then every two years you should take two weeks off.

603
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: Sure, a little bit of a sabbatical, yeah, right right.

604
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: I worked at a company where they're like, you've been

605
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 2: here five years rad. I'm like yeah, They're like, here's

606
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 2: a month off paid. Wow, We're not gonna call you,

607
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 2: someone's gonna handle your book of business. You're gonna come

608
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: back to your job. So you know, you know, shout

609
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: out to eBay. Let me just say that real quick.

610
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 2: I love working there, but you know, they'd give you

611
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: a sabbatical, and they also are very veteran friendly at eBay.

612
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: You go to toy, they're going to keep your job. Yeah,

613
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 2: and every five years you get that one month off.

614
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 2: So people are like just trenching along, dude, it's like

615
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 2: three years two months. Okay, it's like four years six months.

616
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dude, it's it's it's it's great. Yeah no,

617
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: it's it's time off. It's all paid and it's your salary.

618
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 4: Wow.

619
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 2: So if you're making twenty grand a month, there as

620
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: like somebody high up. You're getting that twenty grand and

621
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: you're on vacation and no one's calling you.

622
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: Yeah.

623
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 2: So I kind of stole that idea and implemented a

624
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 2: smaller version in my my tactical store. So I own

625
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 2: a couple of Airsoft wargame shops here in Salt Lake City,

626
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 2: and all my guys in there, you know, whether we're

627
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: trying to mentally boost them up with pizza almost every day,

628
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: or something to eat, Chick fil a, something different, like

629
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: just not pizza. You know, mental health and morale really

630
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: goes a long way. You feed your troops and they're

631
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 2: gonna want to fight, that's right, you know. And so

632
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 2: and they also know that I have the same opinion

633
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 2: of like, hey you need a mental health day or

634
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,959
Speaker 2: hey hey rat Every morning I'm out on the snowboard

635
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 2: with my wife at nine am, and I get back

636
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: to work by twelve.

637
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 4: You really like, I would encourage all of you guys

638
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 4: listening and you as well to go do just a

639
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 4: quick Google search on the actual pure reviewed research on

640
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 4: the effects of vacation for PTS.

641
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 3: Oh.

642
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 4: Yes, it's staggering.

643
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: And I guess what I'm trying to get at, John,

644
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: is that the place I go is where people travel

645
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: to from around the world, and it's in my backyard.

646
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: So I go to Brighton Ski Resort here in Utah,

647
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: and I mean me and my wife. We sit on

648
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: the chairlift hanging our snowboards and I look at it

649
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 2: and I'm like, we ride everybody's bucket list every day

650
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: like this is you know, people that we ride on

651
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 2: the lift.

652
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Speaker 4: With them about it all the time because we travel

653
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 4: here in Germany in Salt Lake. So I've done some

654
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 4: medical travel and I found a clinic that does deals

655
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 4: for veterans up in Salt Lake that does stem cell

656
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 4: for veterans who have sustained injuries.

657
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,719
Speaker 2: So sure, yeah, a friend of mine here, uh Kirkham,

658
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 2: Jeff Kirkham, Green Beret. He's in that medical field as

659
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: well of helping out with that. And I just have

660
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: to say his name because you know, he's an awesome

661
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: SFDA that's got thrown out there.

662
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 4: So the next two are the ones that everybody gives

663
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 4: me hate about until they take them and then they

664
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 4: figure out that I'm telling the truth, which is that

665
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 4: if you served, you don't have to be disabled, that

666
00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 4: retired or acted. If you are serving or have sure

667
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 4: as long as you got an honorable discharge or rather than.

668
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 3: Honorable, just right, just not dishonorable.

669
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 4: Not dishonorable, you get five days in the Bahamas at

670
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 4: Atlantis for just under five hundred bucks.

671
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 3: No kidding, no kidding.

672
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: How do you That explains why my buddy is always

673
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 2: down there once a year, probably jet Sorry, I have

674
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: COVID brain, so sometimes I forget what I'm talking about.

675
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 2: And so Dan, so excuse me. So Dan a buddy

676
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: of mine. Dan, he goes down there. He was just

677
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 2: down there with his wife on Jetski's And really, I

678
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: did have COVID like four weeks ago and ever since

679
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: I've had it. John, I just want to let you know.

680
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: I'll be talking and I'm really good at talking, and

681
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: then I just stop. I'm like, I'm old man, Rad,

682
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's going on with me?

683
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 3: Dude?

684
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: I'm like is this COVID brain? Do I have COVID fog?

685
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: I hate to go in that direction, but you know,

686
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 2: my listener you're listening to, I'm really just like hashing

687
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: this out with John right now, Like, you know, diagnose me.

688
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 3: Tell me I don't have COVID fog. Man.

689
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: Tell me it's like los A brain cells from high school,

690
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 2: you know, party days you come on, bro.

691
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 3: I mean, like, you know, but right, I'm hitting my

692
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 3: head too much.

693
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 4: You know.

694
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: It's like but again, yeah, I don't know yet using

695
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 2: that or not. But you just have.

696
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 4: Any Caesar Palace property, which is a casino, you do

697
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 4: not have to gamble. So they own Caesar's Palace, Harris Casino,

698
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 4: and there's one other one that's smaller. It's only got

699
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 4: a few locations. They got ninety locations around the country.

700
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 4: Show them your veteran ID card active DD retired car

701
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 4: or your DD two fourteen. They give you what's called

702
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 4: the salute guard. Takes about twenty four hours forty eight

703
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 4: hours to activate. Then you call them and you book

704
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,720
Speaker 4: your trip to Atlantis.

705
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 3: And that's called a salute card salute guard.

706
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 2: So if our listeners like, hey, what was that, how

707
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 2: do I maybe even call the operator say hey, how

708
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: do I get the salute card?

709
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 4: No, I actually have a free step by step PDF

710
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 4: to show you how to do it step by step.

711
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 3: Where can we find that?

712
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 4: You can do it on my website or in my

713
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 4: Facebook group.

714
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 3: What's the name of your website.

715
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 4: Tactical Traveler Club dot com And my Facebook group is

716
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 4: the Tactical.

717
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 2: Traveler right, And so I just want to make sure

718
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: that my listener knows Tactical Traveler Club dot com is

719
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: where they can find a good resource of information that

720
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: we're talking about right now?

721
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 3: Right's free?

722
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 4: Like I don't. I don't. I don't make any money

723
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 4: off of it. I'm not their affiliate. I do it

724
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 4: simply because I believe that you guys deserve.

725
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 3: To travel for a love of the game. Dude.

726
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 4: Yep. So now the next one is more unbelievable than

727
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 4: that one. But I do this one all the time

728
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 4: as well. So what is that you get up to

729
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 4: free ten day crews for just having served? Now this

730
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 4: one's a little more exclusive because you can only get

731
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 4: this card in Atlantic the at Ocean Casinos. Okay, the

732
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 4: cruise this year and following is on.

733
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 2: Virgin Oh that would be Rock star style. Yep, I

734
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 2: love to fly Virgin Airlines.

735
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 4: So you have to go to Atlantic City. You have

736
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 4: to go to Ocean Casino, show proof of service, you know,

737
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 4: veteran ID card, retired card, active card or d D

738
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: two fourteen. They give you what they call their Veterans

739
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 4: Player card. And once you get that card, it takes again, Uh,

740
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 4: they take a little bit longer because they actually validate

741
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 4: your info. It takes about two weeks for them to

742
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 4: put you into the system. After they put you in

743
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 4: the system, there's a one eight hundred number you call

744
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 4: and you book your cruise with Virgin.

745
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that they can find that info at

746
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: the Tactical Traveler Club dot com.

747
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 3: It's all right, practical traffic. We're going to lead you there.

748
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 2: You go. What's that one hundred number? Rad tell it

749
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 2: to me right now, right down. No, No, I'm not no,

750
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 2: go to Tactical Travelers.

751
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 4: They have the one eight hundred number if you don't

752
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 4: already have the car, because they look you up and

753
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 4: they're gonna go you don't have an account. So and

754
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 4: just so everybody clearly hears me, you do not have

755
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 4: to gamble to get these cards. You don't have to

756
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 4: gamble on the ship. You don't have to gamble on Atlantis.

757
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 4: It's just a it's basically a tax right off for them.

758
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 2: And Atlantis is the Bahamas, right right, And I mean

759
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: that's that's that's that's there's nice blue water that you

760
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: can put your feet in and and reconnect.

761
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 4: After every single day because all the money I saved

762
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 4: on the resort. Yeah, you can eat lobster.

763
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.

764
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 2: And I think that they're having like the world uh oh,

765
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: the slot machine tournament coming up. There's like a World

766
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 2: slot So if you do play a little slots, you know, yeah.

767
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 4: They have a big casino there, so.

768
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so they do got some slots, those

769
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 2: dirty slots.

770
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 3: Tell you what.

771
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 2: Careful with that though, that's a whole other addiction. I

772
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,479
Speaker 2: got to say, hey, watch out. If you have problem

773
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 2: with gambling, call those eight hundred numbers that you hear

774
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: about and talk to somebody. Okay, don't don't bet your mortgage,

775
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: do not do that, or your retirement bench and don't

776
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: do that. So so the the the key thing here

777
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: is what I'm picking up from you is the Tactical

778
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: Traveler Club dot com is a resource for us to

779
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: go and just to kind of.

780
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 4: Travel or Facebook group because that's.

781
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 2: Live right right, and you're right, and there's probably a

782
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 2: coalition of everybody in there that's got information like hey,

783
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 2: I just use this and that and look here with there.

784
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 4: You see that all the time. Every I have everybody

785
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 4: post their card or videos when they're in the lands

786
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 4: or on the careers.

787
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 2: So cool, that's so cool for veterans to know that

788
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: there's something to help, uh, you know, offset the cost

789
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 2: of travel, and you know it doesn't have to be

790
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 2: space a yeah.

791
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 3: You know, and that's really cool. So what else do

792
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 3: you have?

793
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 2: What kind of tips and tricks can you give us

794
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 2: for you know, trying to go to like, you know,

795
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 2: an airline, Is there an air line that you prefer?

796
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 3: That is just always was.

797
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 4: The choice just because you didn't have to pay baggage,

798
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 4: But all that's changing now. So there are a ton

799
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 4: of airflight hacks and there's a hotel hacks as well.

800
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 4: So on airlines, my favorite is what we call the

801
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 4: across the Pond hack. I flew to Iceland for four

802
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty one dollars, so that's good. Using the

803
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 4: what we called the across the pond haack, which is

804
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 4: where you book a round trip ticket to your layover

805
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 4: destination before you go Internashville. So in this case, I

806
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 4: went to Boston. So Nashville to Boston was one hundred bucks.

807
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 4: So I booked from Nashville to Boston. From Boston to

808
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 4: Iceland was three hundred and fifty one dollars.

809
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 2: Otherwise it probably would have been nine to one thousand

810
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: dollars from your direct flight from Nashville to icelan.

811
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 4: And I would have had a layover in Boston or.

812
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 3: New York or anyways, ID anyway.

813
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: So you basically just said, Okay, I'm going to book

814
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 2: a round trip to Ashville because you have to go

815
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 2: there and come back from there.

816
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 4: That's right.

817
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 3: So a little plotting though with your your calendar.

818
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you have to you have to pay attention

819
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 4: to when you're booking times, and you got to give

820
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 4: you enough time on the return flight to clear customs.

821
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 2: And don't forget the time changes, right like Zulu time,

822
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 2: GMT time. You're like, oh, today's the thirteenth, I'm flying

823
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 2: back on the fourteenth. But if you're in England on

824
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 2: the fourteenth, because the time shifts, you're coming back on

825
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 2: the fifth that changes your flight, so you got to

826
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 2: pay attention to those time frames.

827
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Speaker 4: But you know, I did a round trip ticket to

828
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 4: Norway and spend a day in England, and it cost

829
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 4: me six hundred bucks from Nashville.

830
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good fair, you know, And and

831
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 2: that's probably was internet provided on that plane.

832
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 4: Uh well, I don't think you give internet once you

833
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 4: hit international waters.

834
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 3: Okay.

835
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 4: Now now I know that's changing now because of Starlink,

836
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 4: but when I did that trip, I don't think you

837
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 4: could have internet in an international.

838
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: Because I remember flying to London on this WAMU and

839
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: I was like, oh wow, they're all Spanish from like Spain,

840
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 2: and I was I was like, okay, everybody's speaking Spanish

841
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: on this flight and I'm flying to England.

842
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 3: I'm like okay.

843
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: But I had a basically raw dog the flight because

844
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 2: my phone was just stuck on whatever game I had

845
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: and there was no service or anything like that. And

846
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: then when I got off the plane, I was told, oh,

847
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 2: next time, download the app before you get on the flight,

848
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 2: so you have connectivity.

849
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 3: And I said, oh, oh yeah.

850
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 4: You know, there's probably some of that overseas, but you know,

851
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 4: because in Europe it's a little bit different than here.

852
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 2: So my advice is, if you are traveling internationally and

853
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: you're not sure if you have it, you should ask

854
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 2: the representative at the gate, do I need to download anything.

855
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 3: Before I fly?

856
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 4: Sure?

857
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 2: You know, because what I did is I learned on

858
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: my way home about that trick, and then there was

859
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 2: this young family that was getting ready to fly on

860
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 2: it for the first time. I was like, hey, make

861
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: sure you go download the app before you get on

862
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 2: this flight, because once we get on the plane, you're

863
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to download it.

864
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 3: No, no, because.

865
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: It's like, no, there's nothing, and even right there at

866
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 2: the terminal you can't get it. It's just like, so

867
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 2: screwed that I learned. And they got on the plane

868
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 2: and like halfway through they looked over at me, they're like, yeah,

869
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 2: good job, dude. You know, nine hour flight.

870
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 4: So there's a ton of really good and I have

871
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 4: again it is on the website as well as in

872
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 4: the Facebook group, but I have a free pdf on

873
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 4: the top five airflight hacks on how to save money

874
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 4: on airfare, and that across the Pond technique is my

875
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 4: favorite though, because you really do save the most amount

876
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 4: of money when you're doing international flights.

877
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, and if you want to be treated

878
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: kind of like a rock star and you don't have

879
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 2: the rock star budget of first class.

880
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: You know.

881
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 2: What I've learned is I was flying back from London.

882
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 2: This is like maybe a couple of trips.

883
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 3: Now. I went to the international airport. There's that plate.

884
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, he threw up, and there's a Herod's,

885
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: which is this store, very expensive, high end. I didn't know,

886
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: and I'm just walking through and I'm like, well, I'm

887
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 2: going to buy the crew some.

888
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 3: Chocolate that I'm flying home with.

889
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 2: Okay, So I just got something that was like individually wrapped,

890
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 2: it was like thirty bucks, you know, and put it

891
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 2: in this little green Herod's bag. So I'm walking through

892
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: and I get on the plane and as I bored,

893
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, this is for the crew, and the

894
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 2: crew member took it from me and she was so happy.

895
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 3: She's like, thanks so much. Man.

896
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: Every single one of them came up to my seat

897
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 2: that flight and just want to say thank you for

898
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 2: the treats. Think if do you need anything, And people

899
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 2: next to me flying back from Paris are like, why

900
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: are they talking to you? Some why did they come up?

901
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 2: Why did they give you your food first? Yeah, I

902
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 2: was the first one to get my food. Which is

903
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 2: another travel hack too, by the way, which you can

904
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 2: go into your flight and choose vegetarian or alternate option,

905
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 2: and then they when you sit down on your flight.

906
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 2: You don't know this, but they put a piece of

907
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 2: tape on the back of your seat so when the

908
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: service comes through, they know to take you your special entrede.

909
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 2: And so I would get like Indian food, you know,

910
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: because a vegetarian, I'd be like, oh, give me some curry,

911
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: give me some of this. Didn't know how it worked.

912
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 2: I got fed first. People were like what, I like,

913
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 2: can I go sit up at the front bar and

914
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 2: the Virgin airplane and they're like, yes, rad you can.

915
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 2: I was like, thanks, chocolate, A little bit of chocolate

916
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 2: goes a long way to these, you know.

917
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: The pilot came. I mean, everybody said thank you to

918
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 3: my seat and that's in the back.

919
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 4: That's funny. Yeah, you definitely. You know, you catch more

920
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 4: flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

921
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 2: So well, let me let let me, let me let

922
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 2: me tell you one more thing. My wife and I

923
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 2: were flying back to London maybe a year later or so,

924
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 2: and we're going through Salt Lake International Direct flight Delta

925
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 2: and that's how I came home on that flight was

926
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 2: a delta and I said, honey, that that crew member

927
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 2: is getting ready to be the gate guy. And he

928
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 2: has the little bag I gave him when I came

929
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: back from England and she's like no, and I was like, yeah,

930
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 2: it's the small, little green Herod's bag and it was

931
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 2: taped like he did not ever want to get like lost,

932
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 2: and he was just carrying his little stuff in it

933
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 2: and he set it down. I walked over to him

934
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: and I said, is that the bag that I gave

935
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,240
Speaker 2: you with the chocolates from years.

936
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 3: And he said it's you and it's like it's me.

937
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 2: Dude boarded first plane. Okay, one hundred percent, like rekindled

938
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: that relationship. My wife is like blown away that that's

939
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 2: the bag. I told her a story and then yeah,

940
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 2: and he was still holding onto that Herod's bag as

941
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 2: a gift that I had given the crew. And now

942
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: I found out that Harods was Princess Diana's soon to

943
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: be husband that died in that crash with her Dody

944
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: that was his stores so Herod's is a very fancy

945
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 2: They got one hundred thousand dollars plates that you buy

946
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 2: for ten times plate.

947
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

948
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 2: The silverware of the flotwer is like gold, and like

949
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 2: everything in there is like they got It's crazy. If

950
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 2: you ever get a chance to go to England, go

951
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 2: check out Herod's right right downtown London. Just go eat there.

952
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: They have a huge, massive, like banquet of food. Man,

953
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 2: like you got seafood, you got fresh every I mean,

954
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 2: it's just like it's five stars. I definitely recommend going

955
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 2: to Herod's. And after going through the gift shop, I

956
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: took my wife to the actual Herods and it's like

957
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: four or five stores, old school brick building. It's just

958
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 2: like this huge, fancy mall. I really only bought food

959
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 2: there because everything else is just like so expensive.

960
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 3: Bro.

961
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 2: But that's that's a good place to go. And I

962
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: love traveling. And listen to how excited I am talking

963
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: about it.

964
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 4: Yeah no, that's great.

965
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 3: And you're just like letting me bounce it off of you.

966
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 4: I think all those are you know. So again, to

967
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 4: circle back to what we first started talking about, if

968
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,760
Speaker 4: we were just decent people and treated people decently. Yes,

969
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 4: we would get a lot further, we would get treatment. Yes,

970
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter if it's traveling oriented or sitting at

971
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 4: the restaurant. Just be nice, Right, didn't cost you anything.

972
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I know it doesn't cost you anything to

973
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 4: be an asshole either.

974
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 2: But you know, I mean, like you said, flies with

975
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 2: you get more, you get more with honey used honey, Yeah,

976
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: you know.

977
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 4: You know. So we have tons like how to write

978
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 4: your travel off, how to get up to seventy percent

979
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 4: off your hotel space. Like, there's a ton of stuff

980
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 4: in that group, depending on which way you want to go.

981
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 4: There's there's a lot of tips and tricks in there

982
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 4: that and for me, I've made everything about the military community.

983
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 2: So yeah, of course, and so that's a really good

984
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 2: focus because you know, there's another program that I got

985
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:25,479
Speaker 2: vetted through. I was shopping at my local Lows and

986
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: they were like, okay, we don't take veteran idea up

987
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: front anymore.

988
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 3: At the checkout.

989
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: You have to go through this vetting process called ID

990
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: dot me, right, And I was like, oh, just another

991
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 2: thing just to get percent off on my screws today.

992
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 2: So I went through the process ID ME, and you know,

993
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 2: they send me a slew of things in my email, like, Hey,

994
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 2: did you know that veterans are getting forty fifty percent

995
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 2: off all this stuff from all these major brands, all

996
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 2: of these discounts on flights, So that would be a

997
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: good place.

998
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,760
Speaker 3: And I bet you some of these companies.

999
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 2: Aren't adhering to the our adopt the ID dot me.

1000
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 2: More and more companies are just like, let's just use

1001
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 2: this aspect to vet them and then they're vetted. Takes

1002
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 2: one one extra step away from them having.

1003
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 3: To do it.

1004
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 4: Yep, yep. So I have id me. They've got a

1005
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 4: different stuff on there. Some stuff is better than others.

1006
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 4: But I mean, at the end of the day, and

1007
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 4: there's a lot in there.

1008
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: There is a lot in there, and what might be,

1009
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 2: you know, not so hot for you, might be so

1010
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: hot for me.

1011
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 3: And so if you just take yourself to id dot me.

1012
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: Not that they are paying me to.

1013
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 2: Say this, but it's a veteran service where you can

1014
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 2: check out, get vetted, and then you can see all

1015
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 2: the benefits they have and try to help save on

1016
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 2: everything else, including your travel, which you can go to

1017
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 2: you know, Tactical Traveler Club dot com, which John runs

1018
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 2: and check out his Facebook group too, because I'm gonna go.

1019
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. Let me do it right now

1020
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 2: while we're talking. Go ahead, I can multitask John. You know,

1021
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 2: it's just that simple. So here I am Facebook. Uh, oh,

1022
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: it's a thumb print. Here we go. Let's see.

1023
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 3: So we're looking up Tactical travel Tactical t Traveler.

1024
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 4: Yeap, just put a Technical Traveler should be a group

1025
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 4: that comes up right away.

1026
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 2: Tactical Traveler. Me and my fat thumbs. No, I want

1027
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 2: an E not a y travel or. Let's sound it

1028
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 2: out and we're going to join. You have seven point

1029
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 2: two thousand members average of two posts a day.

1030
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 3: Tactical Traveler join. So now I'm pending.

1031
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 2: So I'm sure that once your admins get through you know,

1032
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 2: pending me, I'll be able to go into the group

1033
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 2: and say, hey, what's up.

1034
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 3: It's rad.

1035
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,479
Speaker 4: There you go. Well, I am the admin of the group,

1036
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 4: so let me just go and ad you.

1037
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 3: Oh, let's just see, oh this is this is Oh

1038
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 3: I feel so yes, that's great. I love that.

1039
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 2: Give me one second and then any of our listeners

1040
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: right now go check out Tactical Traveler on Facebook. Tactical

1041
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 2: Traveler is a group dedicated to helping our military men

1042
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 2: and women and their spouses travel more.

1043
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 3: You really, I can.

1044
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 4: Ada, so you can hop in and you'll be able

1045
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 4: to see right away, you know.

1046
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 2: And now I'm in and oh yeah, and you see

1047
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 2: you see, I know active duty military veterans and their

1048
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 2: dependence military stay at Atlantis and the Bahamas.

1049
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 3: That's like your headliner.

1050
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 2: You're just like just preapproved an active duty airmen pcsing

1051
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 2: from Germany. I mean, there's just so much going on

1052
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 2: inside your group. This is a cool group.

1053
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 3: Yup here, I'll put hey, thanks for the ad. Let's

1054
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 3: put thanks for allowing me in the group?

1055
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 2: Love Rad cause you know Facebook, bro, Yep, there we go.

1056
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 2: So you'll get that.

1057
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 3: And and I encourage you know, anybody else.

1058
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 2: You know, even if I get one or two people

1059
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: from here to join your group and that can take

1060
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 2: advantage of it, that's sweet.

1061
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 3: Bro.

1062
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 2: I love to reach out to that one person who

1063
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 2: emails me or the one person who's like thanks Rad.

1064
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:56,240
Speaker 4: Right, it's literally you know, you go in there, there's

1065
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 4: all these guides where you can get all the PDPs

1066
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 4: you want for free. Do you ask for you? I

1067
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 4: didn't do it for you, but I do ask you

1068
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 4: for your email. Part of that's to keep scammers out.

1069
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 4: Part of that's because I also email those ebooks to

1070
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 4: you for free, so like.

1071
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: You know, and yeah, people, and you want to keep

1072
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 2: it from bots, you know, and same. I'm a part

1073
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 2: of a group and an admin as well. I'm really

1074
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,919
Speaker 2: kind of hands off on approvals. But the reason why

1075
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 2: we do it is because we want everybody to be

1076
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 2: kind of like a local person.

1077
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be real, you know, right, yeah, exactly.

1078
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 4: When I asked three questions, are you a military person? Man?

1079
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 4: What branch did you or your spouse serve in? And

1080
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 4: then the second question is what your email? This is

1081
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 4: to keep spammers out? And the third is do you

1082
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 4: want me to send you the email on the free trip,

1083
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 4: the free crews or the trip to Atlantis?

1084
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 3: Sure?

1085
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 2: Sure, And that makes total sense because now you're vetting them,

1086
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 2: You're like, Okay, I've got seven thousand people in here.

1087
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 2: Let's take away the two hundred. Let's just say they

1088
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 2: got through the net. Okay, but you got seven thousand

1089
00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 2: that are just probably a good.

1090
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 4: Pretty I've my group has actually trained really well. As

1091
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 4: soon as somebody posts something that's like bitcoin or you

1092
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 4: know whatever, they I'll get five or ten notifications, report reporting.

1093
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:17,280
Speaker 3: It and admin report ad and report a report report.

1094
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 3: I love that.

1095
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 4: So if you're in my group and you see something

1096
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,720
Speaker 4: that's not supposed to be in there, don't ever hesitate

1097
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 4: because I get rid of those people fast.

1098
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,320
Speaker 3: We try real quick. The community, Yeah, because there's trolls,

1099
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:29,280
Speaker 3: that's what we call.

1100
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 2: Them, those of you on social media. Now through all

1101
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 2: the excite that of talking to you about travel, which

1102
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 2: has probably made me healthy in my head right now

1103
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 2: thinking all I want to do is take my wife

1104
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 2: onto the trip, maybe my kids.

1105
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 4: We're going to Georgiautahn, no matter how much money you make.

1106
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know I'm gonna hit this up and

1107
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 2: just investigate more about the Tactical Traveler Club dot com

1108
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 2: and just learn more about you, John By, and I

1109
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 2: want my listener to go do the same thing. And

1110
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,919
Speaker 2: if you're watching, Hi, we're waving at you. If you're watching,

1111
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 2: come check it out out now. Rob sent you over.

1112
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 2: Did Did I miss a book? Is there a book?

1113
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 4: There is a book coming out completely separate from travel.

1114
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 4: The book is divorce. According to Sun Sue, so I

1115
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 4: went through really bad divorce.

1116
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 2: Those divorce, according to sun Suit like the art of

1117
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 2: war of war.

1118
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 4: And during the divorce, I want the divorce, won my

1119
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 4: kids in the divorce and tried to do things as

1120
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 4: ethically as possible. But I have a lot of people

1121
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 4: on my network, because my network is all military, that

1122
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 4: are going through these things and don't get to see

1123
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 4: their kids. So that's where really where this book is

1124
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 4: coming from.

1125
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 2: Completely separate, sure, but still we want to put it

1126
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 2: out there, you know, and let everybody know that that

1127
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 2: book's coming out, and maybe there's probably some antidotes in

1128
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 2: there that can help you stay saying, I bet you.

1129
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 4: Yeah. So if you're listening and this is something that

1130
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 4: you see coming on your horizon, reach out to me

1131
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 4: to shoot me a message. I'd love to be a

1132
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 4: support system for you, for your father, and you're not

1133
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 4: getting to see your children. I'm the guy that's going

1134
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 4: to encourage you to stand up, spend the money you

1135
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 4: need to spend, and fight to stay in their life.

1136
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 3: So yeah, because they'll appreciate it. They'll be like, how

1137
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 3: come we didn't fight for me?

1138
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 4: Yep?

1139
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 3: But I did? But how come I did never come

1140
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 3: to see you didn't fight hard enough?

1141
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1142
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 2: Right?

1143
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 3: I mean, and now I'm twenty two years old and

1144
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:24,399
Speaker 3: pissed off.

1145
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 4: I mean, they eventually will get it. So yeah, you know,

1146
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 4: take take take art.

1147
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 2: So yeah, just stay stay focused, just tell them that

1148
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 2: you love them, and just tell them that you'll you'll

1149
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 2: you'll see him soon, and keep it up. And yeah,

1150
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, I know people who have been in

1151
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 2: your position as well, you know. And yeah, a good

1152
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 2: friend of mine didn't see his kid for like seventeen years,

1153
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 2: like maybe once. They're every now and then, but never custody,

1154
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,359
Speaker 2: always doing the payments, always try to you know, never

1155
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 2: able to travel, always try to hopefully get his kid.

1156
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 4: I have exty and have to make payments.

1157
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 2: So oh well, hey, I mean, you know, at least

1158
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 2: at least she's not putting the child dates on things.

1159
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 3: That you're doing that are important when she finds out

1160
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 3: about them. Oh you know what, Oh yes, you know

1161
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I just like that's for my friends.

1162
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, just from what they're like, Dude, they find out

1163
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 2: the go do war games on a weekend and they're like, oh,

1164
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 2: you have your kid on that weekend.

1165
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, bring your kid, bring your kid to

1166
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 3: the wargames.

1167
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 4: Baby, and listen to We've got quite a few people

1168
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 4: from Utah in the group that are military, So make

1169
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 4: sure you post your wargame stuff because we're all about

1170
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 4: the travel experience, right. Oh so I don't care if

1171
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 4: it's local whitewater rafting for all of that stuff has

1172
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 4: approved promote as much as you want to promote.

1173
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 3: I'll drop a link into that post.

1174
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 2: I'll say, hey, check out eight oh one airsoft dot com,

1175
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 2: which is my indoor kill house I have here in Layton,

1176
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 2: Utah outside Hill Air Force Space.

1177
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 4: You know.

1178
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 2: And if you're listening to this and you want to

1179
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 2: come and check that out, you know, and you heard

1180
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 2: it through this podcast, just reach out to me through

1181
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 2: instant I'll help square you away if you're making plans

1182
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 2: to come here, or if you're already in Utah and.

1183
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 3: You just you're like, rad what indoor air stots.

1184
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 4: Anything, outdoor hunting, Like we have safaris in the group,

1185
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 4: we have honeting fishing trips in the group. We have

1186
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 4: all of that because all of that to me is

1187
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 4: a part of the outdoor travel experience, and so I

1188
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 4: want as much of that as possible.

1189
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because Brighton Ski Resort has a discount for

1190
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 2: veterans to come up there, and they have a huge

1191
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 2: adaptive program for skiers and snowboarders alike or people that

1192
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 2: want to get back on the mountain who maybe are

1193
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 2: missing some limbs, you know, that type of thing.

1194
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 3: They're in the bucket seat and they're skiing and wow.

1195
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 3: You know.

1196
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 2: So if you're I got a shout out Brighton Ski

1197
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: Resort right, love that that's like my get away from home.

1198
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 4: That's awesome. See, and here's here's my issue. I would

1199
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 4: have And so I'm not a skier, so I would

1200
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 4: have never known that to start with, right, right, But

1201
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 4: people don't know what's actually out there and actually available,

1202
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 4: right And so maybe Brighton is on your list and

1203
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 4: you want to go do some of those kind of things,

1204
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 4: you would have never known that there's that discount. So

1205
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 4: I encourage my people as they're traveling around the world

1206
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 4: in the group and they find veteran discounts to post

1207
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 4: them into group so that we as a collective community

1208
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 4: can grow and figure out what's available. Because you know,

1209
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 4: in twenty sixteen, when I found out about this Atlantas thing,

1210
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 4: my buddy told me and I was like, yeah, bsd right,

1211
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 4: He's like, go up and verify it. So I did

1212
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 4: and then I went and I was like, Holy cow,

1213
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 4: it Israel.

1214
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 2: So now you keep going, Yeah, you get to go

1215
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 2: every year. Why why not not?

1216
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 3: Yeah? Why would you not? Now I'm going to look

1217
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 3: into that. I'm going to go to Tactical Traveler Club

1218
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 3: dot com. That's so funny. I love saying it, and

1219
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 3: I'm going to check it out.

1220
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 2: I really will, and I'll say, hey, babe, you know

1221
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 2: you know this is I just had this great interview

1222
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 2: with John and there's these options for veterans.

1223
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 3: Let's see what I can explore.

1224
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's fairly close for you. The closest one

1225
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 4: to you, they probably got some in Utah, but you

1226
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 4: can go to Vegas four hour drive or whatever it is,

1227
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 4: three hour drive and just get your card. The closest

1228
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 4: one to me is an hour and hour and fifteen

1229
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 4: minutes away.

1230
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 2: I think I am with Caesars already because I do

1231
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 2: frequent down there for concerts and events, and so I'm

1232
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 2: a big points guy.

1233
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 3: So if I'm going to spend anything inside of the establishment,

1234
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 3: even if.

1235
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,439
Speaker 2: It's buying my hotel room or if it's buying food

1236
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 2: at the buffet, I just use my card and say

1237
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 2: here you go, and then they add those points even

1238
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 2: if you're not gambling. You know. We mentioned like you

1239
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 2: don't have to always gamble, you know, and those points

1240
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 2: come back to you and they're like, hey, come stay

1241
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 2: down here for free now.

1242
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And here's buddy.

1243
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 4: I have a buddy man and he's a gambler but

1244
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 4: like he's not a professional, but he does really well

1245
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 4: and he's always laughing because they flew him. They gave

1246
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 4: him free playing to his free stay to come out

1247
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 4: for some like amateur tournament.

1248
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 3: Right, just to come out, just to come there.

1249
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1250
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I'm that's why it's like, you know,

1251
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 3: I heard the world.

1252
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 4: Everybody's always like what's the catch, and I'm like, well,

1253
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 4: there is no catch really except for you have to

1254
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 4: prove you served. But they want you in their property

1255
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 4: even if you don't gamble if you stay at Caesar's right, Yes, yes,

1256
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:09,919
Speaker 4: there's there's a market.

1257
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 3: You're gonna buy something to this.

1258
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 4: And it's the same for Atlantas, Like even if you

1259
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 4: don't gamble, the benefit to the economy, you're gonna be there.

1260
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 4: You're gonna spend money on food, you're gonna spend money

1261
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 4: on the local economy, you know, so it makes sense

1262
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 4: on so many different levels.

1263
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 2: Right right, You're gonna take social media pictures maybe and

1264
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 2: post them up saying tag them at you know, Caesars.

1265
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 4: Don't understand that piece of the travel industry.

1266
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love that, And I love this conversation.

1267
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 2: And I can't believe you've been talking for a solid

1268
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,959
Speaker 2: hour bro about this. It's just going back and forth.

1269
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 2: And again, what I want to teach my listener is

1270
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 2: that you can have a casual conversation with someone you

1271
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 2: never met and not get at their throats and not

1272
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 2: get crazy. We talked about three sensitive topics at the

1273
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 2: very beginning of it, when none of us were yelling

1274
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 2: at each other. We talked about how you can take

1275
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 2: advantage of your veterans benefits and how you can take

1276
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 2: advantage of different you know, opportunities for discounts to help

1277
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 2: save you some cash. And you know, I just want

1278
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 2: to see veterans thrive, survive and stay excited for life

1279
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 2: and continue to move forward, you know, gaining ground. Okay, always,

1280
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 2: that's great, man, No, you've been great, dude. Hey, And

1281
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 2: I want to say, you know, I'm gonna wind us

1282
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 2: down here. I want to invite you back with more

1283
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 2: tips and tricks from the any time. Yeah, a hundred

1284
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 2: per se. And I want to say thanks to Rob

1285
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 2: for you know, leaking us all up together. He's great,

1286
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 2: you know, thanks for bringing me solid people, Rob.

1287
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 3: I appreciate the talent. How about that? Let me put

1288
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 3: it out there.

1289
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 2: And then thanks for going infantry, thanks for going aerosol,

1290
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 2: thanks for going airborne, thanks for going ranger, thanks for

1291
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 2: going through rip you know, okay, you know, so I'm

1292
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 2: saying thank you for being selfless and continuing to do

1293
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 2: so and trying to help your neighbor and your fellow

1294
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 2: brother and sister in arms. So that's a big, a

1295
01:00:58,320 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: big salute from us here at Software.

1296
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 4: You appreciate it.

1297
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so on behalf of this.

1298
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: If you have any inclination to go travel, go check

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Speaker 2: out Atlantis, Go check out Ireland, go check out wherever

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Speaker 2: you want, but first check out Tactical Traveler Club dot

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Speaker 2: benefits and if you need any real advice tips and tricks.

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Speaker 3: Like Hey, I'm in the middle of Prague.

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Speaker 2: Anybody know where the best food to eat between Street

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Speaker 2: A and Street b is. I'm here right now in

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Speaker 2: the Facebook group.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they're gonna be like you can get.

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Speaker 2: They bag at and an espresso O Aziah was the cigarette. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I look forward to being in the group and on

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Speaker 2: behalf of myself Brandon Webb, who runs softwarep dot com,

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Speaker 2: and John Renkinuh who joined us today to talk about

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Speaker 2: some discounts that you can get traveling.

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Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you and peace.

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Speaker 1: You've been listening to self red Radia