WEBVTT - Lounge Dean: This is Your Captain Speaking 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.840 This is Suckers. I'm Bell, I'm Dean Bell, and I'm 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:06.000 Jared haven An. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:07.280 iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:15.080 Hello world, Hello Nation, Hello Kaitlin, Hello listener. Thank you 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.279 so much for joining us on this very first the 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.319 inaugural episode of what I think I'm going to call 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.439 Dean's Lounge. Oh, lounge Dean. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:28.639 I like Dean's lounge. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.880 What what? I was kind of trying to play with 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.120 some ideas of what I could call this, but I don't. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.400 I don't know if I really like either of those enough. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:37.639 But they were the two best that I came up with. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.519 That's all. That's what you came up with. Those are 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.680 the only two lounge Dean or Dean Slug. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:43.760 I've been working hard on this. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:45.640 What I'm just kidding. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.360 I love this because it's you're at an airport, you 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.040 go to the Centurion Lounge or the Capital one loge. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:50.959 Oh oh interesting? 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.440 Did you not put that together? 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:52.680 No? 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.000 Oh my wait you must have. Oh so what did 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:56.880 you think it was? Then? 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.360 I don't know. I'm just in your cute little asses 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.360 lounge and yeah, this like velvety voice so on, So 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:04.920 I'm like, oh, I'm in Dean's Lounge. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.679 Well, it's nice recorded to play, you know. It is 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.280 currently eight pm in Colorado and normally recorded in the morning, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.039 and i'd just a little grumpy goose in the morning 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.480 so I can turn on my sultry voice at night. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.760 At least you always turn on your soultry voice, but 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.280 you do have more energy at night. You're a little Yeah, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:21.959 grumpy Goose is correct. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.959 Yeah, thank you? So So Lounge Dean is the is 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.200 the working title of this spinoff. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.680 I like Dean's Lounge podcast. Now that I get it, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.320 I guess I Lounge Dean is good. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.760 Lounge Dean. It's just there's It leaves something to be 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.920 desired and I don't know what yet, and I haven't 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.400 cleared this with iHeartRadio, so none of this is official. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.479 It's just me and my thoughts mostly. But you might 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.600 be asking yourself, what am I even listening to right now? 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.639 Why am I here? And that's a really good question. 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.600 So what we've done. If you haven't already gone back 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.960 and listened to Kaylen's podcast, the pop culture podcast Kaylen's 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:00.080 Pop I love it. If you haven't listened to that, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.560 go back and give that a listen. She's going to 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.680 be updating the pop culture every single week on our 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.440 own episode separate from our main podcast with Jared and 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.000 Jared's gonna be doing his daddy talk talk Daddy to me. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.120 Great, you're really good at this. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:15.720 I'm good at you guys. I'm not good at myself. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.160 I guess I like Launchdeen and my thing. It was 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.080 hard harder for me to think of something for me 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.160 to do because Jared's great father, Caylen, she's got her 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.120 she's got her hand of the pulse of pop culture, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:29.440 so she's pretty perfect for that. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.959 I have more interesting things about me than just being 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.000 obsessed with pop culture. It makes me sound a little uninteresting, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.040 so I know, I know you weren't trying to say that. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.160 It's just you know, my own insecurity. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.440 No, you do have very many amazing things that you 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.160 could have talked about, but you chose to talk about that. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:47.880 Yeah, it's just fun to talk about. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:49.720 It's good and it's it's it's not I don't want 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.240 to say easy. Easy is not the right word, but 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.919 it keep you always have something to talk about, which 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.480 is good. That's true some weeks more than others, obviously, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.400 but you know, you're always gonna have topics and you're 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.640 always gonna have to touchdown. So if you haven't listened yet, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.680 go listen to Kaylin's episode on under the same podcast 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.000 Umbrella Suckers. Is that what we are now? Suckers? 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:10.760 We are suckers? 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.200 Yes, And I wanted to do travel and it took 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.240 a lot of It took a lot of convincing to 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.320 the higher ups ade iHeartRadio to let me do travel, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.360 because they're like, Dean, what are you gonna what do 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.080 you have to offer here? And I was like, just 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.360 give me something, just give me one thing, and that 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.320 one thing can be travel, and they graciously accepted that idea, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.799 and so now here we are. So what I'm gonna 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.880 do this first episode, We're just going to kind of 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.720 lay a baseline, lay a little of a foundation for 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.320 the future episodes, and just kind of see where it goes. 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.200 You know, I'm not expecting much. I hope you don't 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.840 expect much out of me either. Not you, Kaitlin, you 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.840 the listener. I hope the listener doesn't expect much out 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.200 of me. I'm going to do my best, but we'll 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:49.760 see how it goes. I feel like sometimes on our 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.400 main pod, I don't get to talk enough about my experiences. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.360 And I'm not saying that's a bad thing because I 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.720 don't really like to talk about my experiences all that 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.560 much anyways, but this could be a good a outlet 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:00.880 for that. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.680 I think it'll be great for you. Having three hosts 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.520 is a challenge, and well maybe not so much so 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.200 for me because I don't speak a ton anyways. You 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.600 started it up, but it's good for us to each 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.560 have our own outlets, you know, because we do get 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.839 cut off their three co hosts. So it's great for 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.440 us to be able to have this and talk about 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:20.640 things that we're passionate about. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.520 Yeah, and I often would rather have someone I'd rather 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.920 ask a question than answer someone's question, you know. I'd 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.000 rather kind of put the topic somewhere else and get 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.760 someone else involved in a conversation than me take the reins. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.919 Self promotion has never really been my big thing. So 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.279 whenever I go somewhere and do something really cool and 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.800 I come back and like, I kind of want to 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.599 talk about it, but if no one like brings it up, naturally, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:41.719 I'm not going to go out of my way to 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:42.520 bring it up. You know. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.440 Well, I'm excited to hear what you have on today's agenda. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.080 Yeah, there's there's not much. Like I said, this first 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.240 episode is going to be a foundation builder. I've done 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:57.000 enough trips internationally separately to probably have about a year's 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.760 worth of content of trips to talk about. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.400 Way more than a year a year to. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.240 Start, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe a year 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.760 might be kind of like where I'm at right now. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.800 Hopefully we can keep adding to that as time goes on. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.120 But that's just trips alone. I also want to be 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.000 able to touch on things like traveling on a budget, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.359 traveling affordably, because that's kind of what I like to 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:18.000 do personally. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.839 And then he married me, and then huge mistake and then. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.240 That was a big mistake. And I don't regret it 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:24.720 one bit, but it was a big mistake. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.799 I think that's going to be really popular because everyone 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.240 wants to know how to travel on a budget. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.400 Yeah. I did compile some stats about traveling and some 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.200 barriers to entry. We'll get to that later, but but yeah, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:37.960 so I want to touch on some things like budgeting 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.320 and traveling and maybe even like some photography tips and 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.200 stuff like that, because I hope by now you all 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.080 know that at least I'm interested in photography. I know 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:47.720 I'm not very good at it yet, but I'm still 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.520 working on it. And it's good to have you here too, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.279 because I like to gas myself down, and you're pretty 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.120 good at get me gassed back up. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.440 So it's my job as your wife. I also think 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.880 we should talk you, because this is your lounge, talk about, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.080 you know, recovering from jet lag, how not to get sick, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.880 because we do travel quite a bit and those are 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.679 things that we have to overcome, and we are heading 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.000 to Australia tomorrow, so we're gonna have to fight that 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:12.679 jet lag real hard. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.080 Yeah that I mean, that's just like a standalone episode 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.240 of how maybe, or even just like one subject on 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:18.920 a standalone episode of how to Fight jet lag. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.680 But we can we can do something to give you 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.120 more ideas. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:25.120 No, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. So I just 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.320 wanted to go back to the very beginning, to the 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.919 very beginning of time, I e. When I was born. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.240 And I've talked about this on our main podcast a 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.159 little bit, not too in depth, but I was born 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.080 in Jersey and then this might get a little boring 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.760 and monotonous, but I'm just gonna go through. I just 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.760 want to. We got a walk before we can run here. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.440 So it's born in Jersey. When I was a year old, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.840 my family moved into a converted Greyhound bus. So there 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.960 are six of us in a bus and we drove 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.279 all throughout the US. I always used to tell people 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.520 we hit every single state in the US, But to 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.440 be totally honest, I have absolute no idea. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:06:59.120 I don't think you did. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:00.880 I'm sure we didn't obviously. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.200 Especially because you landed in Colorado. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.279 Yeah, like we didn't go to Washington or Oregon. We're 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.120 go any further west than the here. But it's just 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.040 it's a fun anecdote to add, like, yeah, I've been 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.560 to every state in the US. Surely I have not, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.040 And even if I have, I was too young to remember. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.320 But it did. I think it did instill a bit 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.720 of a wanderlust, if you will, because it was me, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.080 my two brothers, and my sister and my two parents. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.600 So there were six of us on this like forty 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.280 foot long greyhound bus with bunk beds and a master 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.680 bedroom in the back, and we were doing it on 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.720 a budget. Back then, my dad was like selling temporary tattoos, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.480 doing odd jobs just to be able to afford gas 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.840 for the bus that we were living in, And then 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.800 we eventually settled in Colorado, and Caitlin and I just 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.960 moved to Colorado actually, funny enough, just ten minutes down 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.920 the road from where I grew up. So a lot 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.280 of this might be interesting for you to hear, but 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.160 I don't think it'll become as a surprise for any 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.400 of it. So growing up here in this area specifically, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.480 and Colorado as a whole, I feel like, is not 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.480 very diverse. It's actually in the Roaring Fork Valley, it's 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:06.520 almost exclusively Caucasian and Hispanic, like fifty to fifty split, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.720 maybe with like a couple other ethnicities sprinkled in there. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.480 But you're not going to get much diversity out here. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.920 So growing up here, you don't get to see much, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.480 and I think I always wanted to have the chance 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.080 to kind of get out and see more things. Calen, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:21.760 how's it going over. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.720 There, I'm just listening. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.640 Yeah, okay, Well, I just want to make sure. I 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.200 feel like, if you're not paying attention to me, then 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.600 they're not going to be paying attention to me. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.080 I know all this stuff. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:35.199 Oh, but I feet like pretend to be interested thanks, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.439 and so so that's where I think a lot of 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.440 the curiosity came from. We were also very poor, so 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.400 I didn't travel out of the state even until I 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.480 was seventeen. I went to Mexico with my friends in 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.280 high school, and I had to get a passport for that, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.920 but obviously you have to get a passport at some point. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:55.480 And then I went to college and it was kind 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.200 of more the same. I think what it really comes 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.800 down to for people at the end of the day 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.840 is you need to have time or money. If you 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.040 don't have time but you have money, you don't have 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.439 time to go travel. If you have time but you 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.080 don't have money, you can't afford to go travel. And 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.480 that's I feel like encompasses most of Americans or just 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.000 people in general that want to travel but can't. And 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.160 so I went to college, didn't have any money. Obviously, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.280 graduated college, worked for a couple of years, didn't have 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.959 any money, but I didn't have any time either. I 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.240 guess I didn't have either of those things. Then we 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.360 went on The Bachelor, and then we were granted this 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.520 luxury of having a lot of time, and people started 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.720 paying us money for not doing really much, and so 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.480 it kind of gave us money and time. It was 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.280 a good thing, and that's kind of when traveling took 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.760 off for me personally. I know it was kind of 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.080 the same for you, right, Like you had always wanted 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.080 to travel. You traveled with your boyfriend to Japan, but 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.560 other than that, you hadn't really done much before the Bachelor, 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:45.160 I don't think. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.439 Yeah, I had gone to the Bahamas. Was when I 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:53.719 got my first passport, Bahamas, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, and that was. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.520 It, And that was all with the ex boyfriends. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.240 And that was all when you were like twenty three probably, Yeah, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:09:59.640 that's when I. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.520 Went on the sho twenty two. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.760 Right, So now that of us really did any traveling 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.040 until we were in our twenties. I hadn't even been 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.880 on an air. I didn't even see a skyscraper until 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:21.280 I was eighteen years old, probably, So then eventually I 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.280 had the ability and the luxury to start doing that. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.679 And I never really thought it would be any kind 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.600 of thing, but it was really nice when I started 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.880 traveling semi frequently and I would get back from trips 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.520 and I would have friends, I would have friends reach 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.240 out to me and ask me like traveling tips or 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.640 like destinations that they should go, or just things like 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.520 that where they started to kind of see you as 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.880 someone that maybe could give them good advice on those things. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:46.720 I remember I did a trip once and I got 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.920 back and one of my friends who I really admired, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.079 was like asking me a bunch of questions about his 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.880 potential trip going out there, and I was like, oh, wow, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.600 this is cool to like actually have something to talk 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.760 about because I don't. I don't know, having experiences to 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.000 talk about is so much easier than so many other 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.200 things where you're just basically recounting your experience versus like 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.880 trying to say something thought provoking. Does that make sense? 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.880 So so then I started traveling obviously, and eventually I 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.000 bought my first camera, and then it kind of just 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.520 snoballed into this big thing. I still think that I 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.760 have not traveled nearly as much as a lot of 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.760 my peers, people that I consider peers in this space, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.760 at least do people that are like living permanently on 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.720 the road. And obviously those days are kind of behind me. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:38.520 Now that you know, married dog house wife that kind 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.160 of falls onto the umbrella of married, but but I 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.959 hope it doesn't slow down too much. You know, we're 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.640 going to Australia tomorrow. As Klein said, I have like 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.400 kind of talking about some trips later on in the 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.559 year two. But it just has to be a lot 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.840 more thoughtful now, whereas before I could just pick up 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.839 and go for a week or two, but now you 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.160 kind of have to like take a lot more is 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.760 into consideration, you know. So that's where we're at. The 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.440 foundation of this podcast is I want to recount some 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.000 of those experiences. I want to be able to hopefully 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.520 help people understand things that maybe they hadn't had the 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.360 chance to understand before listening to this podcast. You know, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.880 Like I spun off that travel blog and it was 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.240 kind of the same thing. I felt like I didn't 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.560 really have much to offer, but I wanted to be 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.000 able to give someone something, and so the only thing 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.560 that I could really think of was like, well, I 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.080 just can outline everything that I spent because that's what 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:32.360 I did, and that's all I have to do is 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:33.480 just go back and talk about the things that I 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.200 had already done. And what I hate when you see 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.560 you see all these people posting on Instagram of all 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.800 these amazing trips and amazing photos and like incredibly corny captions, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.000 but you always in the back of my head, at least, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.800 I'm always wondering, like how much did that trip cost? 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.840 Like where are they getting this money? How could you 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.520 go all the way halfway across the world and fly 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.240 back and not even miss a beat? And so that's 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.280 kind of where that whole travel blog thing came about. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.439 I wasn't really very motivated to write very I'm not 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.840 very good at it, and or motivated too, I guess, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.200 And I still write sometimes, but not as often as 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:12.160 I should. But that's where we're at now. And so 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:14.599 I have a couple of stats that I want to 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.040 ask you real quick. So I look these up just 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.600 before we recorded the podcast, and they're kind of trivia. No, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.240 it's not really trivia, but just kind of interesting stats 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.280 of Americans and traveling. And it's not like super well 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.040 researched or that in depth or anything. It's kind of 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.160 just shout surface level. But if you were to guess 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.439 between men and women, who do you think travels more 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.480 men or women outside of the country, Women you do. Yeah, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.880 I was surprised to learn that women do thirty two 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.120 percent of women. Thirty two percent of women are more 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.199 likely to travel out of the country than men, which 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.680 is only twenty two percent of men. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.200 I think women are more curious than men. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.840 Yeah, I could see that. I've always just kind of 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.960 like through through my perspective of seeing your experience with travel, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:59.199 like it's just a little safer for men to travel, definitely. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.120 And and I've it's funny that you say that because 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.200 when we first started dating, you didn't totally grasp that 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.480 that it's safer for men to travel solo than it 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.240 is for women. But I also grew up with a 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.240 mom who's like scared of everything, and so I was 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.240 scared of everything, and then going out into world, I'm like, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.520 the world, isn't that scary? 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.520 Yeah? And do you still feel that way that the. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:19.320 World isn't scary? 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.760 Yeah? Yeah, yeah. And that's one thing I've always encouraged too, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.640 is solo trips. I think are maybe the most important 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:26.840 thing someone can do for themselves. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.720 Book to trip to Paris in May or July is something. Yeah, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.360 you didn't tell me that I did because I had 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.320 that credit that was excired. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:33.480 He said, you were thinking about it. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:34.760 Yeah, that's great. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.680 Yeah, yeah, so women on average are more like almost 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.680 one and a half times more likely to travel than men, 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.480 which I thought was really interesting. And then another thing 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.000 that I thought was interesting what we touched on this 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.000 a little bit earlier about price or I guess finances. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.000 Survey results showed seventy six percent of the respondents wanted 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.560 to travel more than they do, but they can't because 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.360 of a lack of finances or just feeling underprepared or 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.720 ill equipped to travel. And more specifically, sixty three percent 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.120 of Americans who have never left the country said an 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.200 international trip would be out of their price range. And 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:11.000 for me, that totally strikes home because before going on 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.720 on television, I couldn't even dream of spending an extra 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.400 couple thousand dollars to go on a trip because I 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.360 needed that money to eat and to pay my rent 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.200 and all that stuff. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.160 I think that's something you could touch on too in 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.520 future episodes, is like, I am such a planner, and 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.720 since being married to you and being with you for 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.120 five years, it's made me have to be more lax. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.600 Like I thought. You have to travel, you have to 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.360 book your flights, you have to book every hotel, you 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.520 have to plan every single thing out and you kind 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.000 of fly by the seat of your pants in the 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:43.840 best way. And that's like a topic in affordable traveling too. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.920 It's like, if you block these dates off for work, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.400 you can buy a cheap flight like the day before, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.800 a week before, you know, and there's ways to cut 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.840 around that, and you can just go somewhere and not 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.640 have anything booked and it becomes the best trip ever, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:57.280 like we've done. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.560 Yeah, and there's certain areas that obviously that's better, and 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.320 like these d Asia you can get away with that 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.040 a lot more South America, it's harder to do that 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.240 in like a lot of the Western European countries. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.280 I was thinking it's pretty easy in Europe. Oh yeah, 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.680 I did it in Europe this past summer with MK. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.000 Yeah, that's true. I guess you could always find cheapccommodations, but 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.280 I also think that there are options to have very 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.320 lavish accommodations, which that's kind of what I associate at 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:19.840 Western Europe with. But you're absolutely right. I think you 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.080 could find hostiles for twenty thirty bucks at night, and 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.000 just a matter of getting there is the biggest thing. So, like, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.440 if you book out a flight even like five or 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.760 six months in advance, just get it super cheap, and 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.720 then just block those days off just getting there. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.760 Because MK was back to MKA was telling me she 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.360 just flew to Paris, and she's like, if you book 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.280 a flight like the week of or a few days before, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.240 it's actually really cheap. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.920 Yeah, you can get lucky with that, But I would 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.320 never bank on that. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.040 No, I'm saying, if you block those dates off and 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.040 you get lucky, yeah, it's a good way to travel cheaply. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.080 Got to get lucky, though, which is fine. If you're 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:52.920 willing to take that risk, that's totally fine. I remember 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.640 I did a trip once where I flew I circumnavigated 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.760 the world as my plan, I flew west. I just 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.960 kept flying west until I got back to Los Angeles, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.680 and the only flights that I had really booked were 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.600 LA to Japan and then Japan to Indonesia, and then 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.000 from there I would just like two days before I 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.680 wanted to leave Indonesia, I'd book a flight, book to 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.760