1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Well, Americans may not take all their vacation days. Everybody 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: on this show can can agree to that, except for 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: one person. I'm not talking about you this time. Okay, 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: oh no, here we take in summer. 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 2: Yeah, you ain't doing that with your little dad. 6 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: Let me have it a week or whatever, vacation days, 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: sick days. 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 3: Whatever he could take off. 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: He does it? Is he sick on the sick days? 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 3: Uh huh? No this golf week? Yeah? Are you talking 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 3: to me, No, we're talking about you. 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: Americans may not take all their vacation days, but that 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: does not mean that we don't spend a lot of 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: time thinking about those vacation days. New research revealed that 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: Americans spend about two hundred and eighty four days of 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: their life dreaming about being on vacation. And we spend 17 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: more than that's a lot of time. 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 3: Then we spend more than. 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: One hundred and thirteen hours every year thinking about being 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: on a beach somewhere and your vacation picks on social media. 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: People don't like those. They do not stop that base up. Yes, yes, yes, 22 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: they make people jealous. They bring out that one of 23 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: their food. The study found that every day, the average 24 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: person sees vacation pictures on social media. That makes them mad. Okay, 25 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: that's probably why thirty. 26 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, huh, nobody cares. 27 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: That's probably why thirty six percent of Americans admit they 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: put those vacation picks on social media to show people 29 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: just how great. 30 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 3: Their lives are. 31 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: So, Steve, you and your wife Marjorie take wonderful vacation. Yeah, 32 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: and we know you guys ball till you fall when 33 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: you go on vacation. But we what we want to 34 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: know is how do you vacation on a budget? Before 35 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: you got to where you are now, how did you. 36 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 3: Well, I just need to know, you know how much 37 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 3: we're talking about. 38 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: If you tell me what the budget is, there are 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: things I can recommend. Let's do two thousand dollars okay, 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: two thousand dollars for a. 41 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: Family of four four okay. 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 3: That's. 43 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, we ain't going nowhere? What are you? Something 44 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: like that? 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: Okay, all right here, let me change that. 46 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have to drive somewhere. We have to 47 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: make the gas budget be the how much? 48 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 3: Okay? 49 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 2: Let me ask you how much it costs fill up 50 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 2: for the average tank right now? Okay, So we need 51 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: we need to stay one gas tank going and one 52 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: gas tank coming. We're talking about one hundred and twenty 53 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: dollars out the budget. Okay, there you know, man, we 54 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 2: gotta stay within one tank. So we're talking about it's 55 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 2: gotta be within three hundred miles. Now, if we're gonna 56 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 2: stay overnight, we gotta get in economically feasible accommodation. 57 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: Okay. These are stuff like comfort In sweets. 58 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 2: Now, reason you I would recommend comfort In because they 59 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: had a free breakfast. See that's saved money now, you know. 60 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 2: And they got free Wi Fi. So you gotta gotta 61 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: take this consideration. And if you stay at comfort In, 62 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 2: you get points. I'm just working with this two thousand. 63 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: So everybody room at fifty dollars a night, would you 64 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: say that's fast sixty? 65 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 3: So you need just two ruins, one for the kid, you. 66 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 2: And the wife and one for the kids with a 67 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: connected dough and lead a damn. 68 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 3: Dough yeah, I like yeah, so they don't burn that 69 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 3: damn hotel down. And then you got other issues. 70 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: So we got two rooms at let's say seventy dollars 71 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: five dollars a night. That's one hundred and fifty two nights. 72 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,839 Speaker 2: Were looking at three hundred dollars in room. 73 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 3: How many nights we're gonna do three nights homes? 74 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 2: Well, I'm trying to I'm trying to get it together. First, 75 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: we got to stay somewhere. We're gonna do three fifty 76 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: four rooms, and we got one hundred and twenty on gas, 77 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: about five fifty fifty something like that. Hey, all right, 78 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: now we got let's just say we got fifteen hundred left. 79 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's a nice amount of money. Did we 80 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: eat a damn thing? 81 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 3: We We should make some sandwiches. Yeah, Yeah, a pack 82 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 3: of cooler full of sandwiches because you're driving. 83 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 2: But make sandwiches that stick, peanut butter and jelly. Ain't 84 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 2: gonna been a whole lot of ham now right, Peanut 85 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 2: but and jelly sandwiches, perment us bread sandwichesverbody to give 86 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 2: damn what you don't want. 87 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 3: Just all we got. 88 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: Eat pork skins and water. You gotta get something in 89 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 2: you that swim punk skins and water. I'm familiar with 90 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: all this. Just what we got blood, We take bagging 91 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 2: and porch steins and drink a bottle of water. 92 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 3: You ain't even gonna know your hum damn not. But 93 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 3: at least they quit crying. All right. 94 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 2: Now when it got us a little something to eat. 95 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 3: The kids have stopped up the hospital on the way. Yeah, 96 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 3: we gotta have some activities. Now. 97 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: We going to six Flags where the day passed everybody, okay? 98 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 2: Or were going to the zoo where you can really 99 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 2: entertain kids and keep it on the budget. All were 100 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 2: going to a state park. Pull up at it where 101 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: we can barbecue out there and then let the kids 102 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,799 Speaker 2: run till they drop in an open field. 103 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 3: And you gotta put your grill. 104 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 2: What you only gonna stay there and watch well on 105 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 2: the other side, away from the car. Then you run 106 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 2: your kids to the car to get stuff that helps 107 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: zap the energy out of their hands, okay, and give. 108 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 3: Them something to do. 109 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: You can see the car from your barbecue grille, but 110 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: its way across the field, sitting the ass back and 111 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: forth across that field about six trips. 112 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 3: And every time you send them say hair up, you 113 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 3: wrong for this, Oh dog, I know how you think 114 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 3: you having fun because you're running in that field. All 115 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 3: about that third trip back, they asked walking, I shot 116 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:43,239 Speaker 3: her up shut walking through this met put some responsibilities 117 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 3: on the we gotta go. 118 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: You're listening morning show