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Uncovering Hidden Gems and Overrated Spots: Vacation Destinations on Ride Home Rants
Ever wondered what makes the perfect vacation destination? Join us on the Ride Home Rants podcast as we uncover the hidden gems and overrated spots with our lively guests Nicole, Andrea, Rusty, Drew, Wendy, and Jordan. From high school mascots to personal walk-in songs, we kick off with some light-hearted banter before diving headfirst into our favorite vacation memories. Nicole and Andrea share their love for Florida, Montreal, South Beach in Miami, and more, giving you plenty of inspiration for your next getaway.
Thinking about your dream destination? Our guests reveal their bucket list locations, spanning from the beaches of Mexico to the canals of Venice. Nicole's unique recommendation of "Crash My Playa" in Cancun is sure to pique your interest. We also tackle those destinations that don’t quite live up to the hype, like Nashville's crowded Broadway and the overwhelming streets of New York City. With honest insights, you'll get the lowdown on what to avoid and what’s worth the trip.
We round off the episode with a spirited debate on destination weddings, seaside versus countryside retreats, and the best months for vacationing. From Maine's coastal charm to Montana's sprawling landscapes, our guests share their personal anecdotes and travel tips to help you maximize relaxation and minimize stress. Whether you prefer flying or driving, this episode is packed with practical advice and entertaining stories to ignite your wanderlust. So sit back, relax, and let us whisk you away on a virtual vacation adventure!
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great and interesting episode for us today and a great panel of guests that are going to help me get through it. Today we're going to be talking about all things vacations, I figure. Since it is the summer, what better time to talk about vacations than during the summer? So I have a panel of guests that we're going to get through here today. I'm going to let them introduce themselves, as always, a little bit different of an intro for them today. But, guys, hello everyone. Your name, what your high school mascot was, and if a song were to play every time you walked into a room, what song would that be? And, nicole, we're going to start with you all right, I am nicole faith.
Speaker 2:Um, my high school mascot was a hickory hornet. I'm originally from hermitage pennsylvania, so if you're from that area, hornets was the mascot and song Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer.
Speaker 1:I'll throw it back to an old one. Old school, I like it All. Right, that's a vibe.
Speaker 2:That's a vibe for vacation, so I figured throw it out there.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, Andrea. What about you?
Speaker 3:So I'm Andrea. My high school mascot was the Fitch Falcons, and if a song played every time I came into a room, I would have to say let's Get Loud by Jennifer Lopez, just because that song hypes me up. But I'm also Italian. I'm very loud, so when I get into a room, naturally it gets louder, so yeah, yeah, it's my house Most, most paisans. When you go into a room naturally it gets louder, so it's my house song.
Speaker 1:Most Paisans. When you go into a room, it gets louder, for sure, Rusty. What about you?
Speaker 4:Hey, my name is Rusty Bliss. My high school mascot was a Viking and the way I feel today after a weekend of softball tournaments, is if I walked into a room, every time it's going be toby keys as good as I once was smoked man smoked.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you are drew, what about you?
Speaker 6:what's up y'all? Uh, drew mclaughlin here. My high school mascot was a low bill rocket and if a song was to play when I entered a room, it would probably be Guess who's Back by Eminem, okay, classic.
Speaker 1:Nice Wendy. Hey there Wendy Kunash, and my high school mascot was a beaver mascot was a beaver and song I'm gonna say don't tell me what to do by. I love me conan is the name, okay.
Speaker 5:And last but not least, jordan what's up, guys, jordan? Uh, my high school mascot. We were the river bend bears. There was School was actually supposed to be the Beavers, so it's funny that Wendy said that we were supposed to be the Beavers. They switched it last minute and it was Bears. If a song played every time I walked into a room, I feel pretty good right now so I'd probably say Sold Out by Hardy.
Speaker 1:Okay, solid choices there. I will actually go for this one one too, as well. As always, everyone knows Mike Bono, my high school mascot was a Bruin and, with how you know, I can't not go with this. It is the song that plays every time I walk up on stage and that is the Chicks Dig it by Kurt Skagel, by Chris Kickle. So typically, when I go into a room, I'm the only one on stage that plays country music and I love it. So that's, yeah, it's Chick's Ticket. So that's definitely my walk-in song, for sure. But we're going to talk all things vacations here. So, nicole, we're going to start with you here. What is one place you have visited on vacation that you absolutely had the best time?
Speaker 2:Oh, geez. Okay, Can I give a couple? Sure, all right. So Florida is definitely in the mix. Where I'm headed right now, I'm in an airport right now heading there, so all parts of Florida can't go wrong. It's always a good time. You know what can't you love with the beach, sunshine and the ocean and it's a constant party everywhere. But the other ones I would say Montreal, canada, which has a really good European feel to it, has a really good European feel to it. I've not been to Europe yet, but I have actually a trip scheduled for next month to go there for the first time to Europe. So I feel like Montreal was kind of a little dose of the European vibe and not too far away in our sister country. And then another one I would say is Boston. Boston, massachusetts, going to like Cape Cod and Salem was pretty cool. And then just the actual city of Boston is a smaller New York and Chicago, but very clean and has an awesome, awesome Italian culture, italian village, like a little Italy of New York. So those are my top threes.
Speaker 1:Okay, solid top three, andrea. What about you All?
Speaker 3:right. So I'm going to give two as well. Only because I'm normally a beach person. But we just got back from Gatlinburg, tennessee. So if you're looking for beach fun, vibe, I've been to a lot of parts of Florida and I'm not too much of a partier, but South Beach, miami, was spectacular. The food was great, the entertainment was great, a little bit more of a party scene, but a great time. And then Gatlinburg. I know it's the fad to go to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge now, but top notch, absolutely. We had a place with a pool. We only spent one day in the pool. There's so much to do, just walking, doing tastings, a little bit of that southern hospitality. Everybody was very nice.
Speaker 1:Okay, Absolutely Drew. What about you?
Speaker 6:Yeah, I agree with Andrea and Nicole. Florida has been my favorite place by far, going all the time. I'm actually going there in a few weeks. Buddy lives down there, we're going to visit him. But to compare Florida, I've been to Denver, colorado, which is a blast. That's a new upcoming city, I'd say Not as big yet, but it's still a lot to do. And then my top would have to be I went on, went to a wedding in the bahamas and that was, uh, that was unbelievable. So I gotta say nasa, nasa, bahamas was top notch for sure.
Speaker 4:Okay rusty well, I mean, you know what I do for a living so I don't really get to go on vacation a lot. Everywhere I go is like a vacation destination. But you know, growing up I have family in Jersey and you know my vacations were always in Jersey, at the beach, and that was before the, the commercialized Jersey Shore nonsense. We were the OGs and it was. It was nice. And then as you got older, you know you saw what your, your parents, saw in that it's nice to get away from everything but, um, out of the country. There was always one because of work. Where I went and I ended up going back there to hang out just for a while, was grenada, which is way the hell down south, um, but we have a run that goes between st lucia and grenada and I wanted to just go hang out down there. So we I had a week off of work, I jump-seated down and we hung out on the beach in Grenada. It's crazy but it's just chill. You're 2,500 miles away from home and it's really nice.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. It sounds nice. And for the new listeners out there, Rusty is a pilot, so yeah, he's basically on the road a lot. So, uh, yeah, so he's, that's what he does, and you know he's constantly in the air and I'm always looking for you, just in case you end up flying over where I'm in in ohio. So just so you know I'm always looking out, I know, I'll wait. All right, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 7:um, all right, so I almost didn't say this one, but I'm just going to say it. I went to the Marble Ranch in Montana and I have to tell you, like I've traveled so many places Paris, I mean, just all these different places and I will still rank Montana as my number one favorite trip, because there's so much to do there. Everything is pretty much outside, but when I went it was like below 10 degrees and we were ice fishing on water. The Clyde Sail Horses were there. It was insane. We were snowmobiling down the sides of all of these mountains and you're taking these little tiny like prop planes everywhere, which is a little scary, but it's incredible. Just the scenery, the people. Yellowstone Park is there too, so we got an opportunity to check that out. But the wildlife, it was just incredible. There's more wildlife than actual people, which is kind of nice a little bit.
Speaker 1:That sounds awesome, that sounds awesome yeah, it's sweet as someone who's making his living as the angry white comic and just talking about the stupidity of the people in the world. Yeah, that sounds like a dream to me, but that is actually, uh, my wife's dream location to live is montana, so, uh, for, definitely want to go there. I haven't been there. That sounds amazing. But Jordan, what about you?
Speaker 5:I feel like everyone's given like real nice, like good answers, and I'm just going to go with the basic one, which is Mexico and an all-inclusive at Mexico, like something about going there knowing that you can have as much food and be fat as you want. Go swap to the pool bar, go to the beach if you want, swim in the ocean. You can do it all. To me it's easy. All I got to do is show up. I got to wake up every day, that's it. I got to wake up that I can pick X, y and Z to do Basic again. A Mexico trip is basic, but an all-inclusive down there I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1:I can't get enough. I don't think you can go wrong with an all-inclusive anywhere. That just sounds like right up anybody's alley. Yeah, all I got to do is wake up and everything else is done for me. Yeah, that's a vacation for me.
Speaker 5:I've got to wake up.
Speaker 1:That's it, I've just got to wake up. That's a vacation for me. Just wake up and everything's done. That's a vacation. So what I'm taking at the end of this month that I can't wait for? I'm going to be on a houseboat in a lake in West Virginia and I cannot wait. There you go. I don't care If it rains every day. I will be outside on the top deck of this just lounging. You're not going to get me out of this chair. That's exactly what's about to happen. I've warned everybody that's going on this trip. Don't bother me. I haven't had a vacation in six years. I'm not doing anything. So that is what I can't wait for. But, nicole, let's go back to you. Where is your bucket list vacation spot that you have not yet made it to but you want to go to?
Speaker 2:Okay. So one thing I want to throw out to Jordan, since he chimed in about Mexico if you haven't checked this out yet, look up, crash my playa in Cancun, mexico. And for you, mike, since you love country, it's a four-day all-inclusive country fest on the beach that's hosted by Luke Bryan. So it hits both of your styles right there. It's an absolute blast Experience, one-of-a kind thing. Put it on your bucket list, go do it. Anybody that loves country and the beach and an all inclusive, you can't beat it. But back to your question, um the trip that I have coming up at the end of August, um into September, going to Europe. We are flying to um Venice and then training to a couple places there and then flying over to Paris and hitting Paris. Sorry, I'm in an airport, you're in an airport.
Speaker 1:We're fine, we're good, we got it.
Speaker 2:Some feedback there. But Paris and then training to London and Amsterdam, that was on my bucket list. That's where I wanted to go. That's where I'm going, so I'll hit you back after that trip and let you know how it was.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, that sounds phenomenal. But Andrea, what about you?
Speaker 3:You've probably heard this from me before but definitely Italy. I have a strong Italian background, so got to make it there one day 100% Drew Drew.
Speaker 1:what about you?
Speaker 6:yeah, how fitting is it that we're doing a vacation podcast and Nicole's at the airport?
Speaker 1:yeah, she's gonna be leaving us here in like 5-10 minutes to get on a plane.
Speaker 6:I planned it.
Speaker 2:I planned it yeah right, just leave the phone on as you board?
Speaker 6:my last name is mclaughlin, so I have a strong, uh irish background. I have family in ireland living there right now, so definitely ireland would be my top. For sure to get there at some point in my life.
Speaker 1:I I think you just went to the top of my wife's favorite guest list. Uh, she has a list, but she is full Irish. That is her bucket list place. The problem is, she said, if I ever took her there, she's not leaving.
Speaker 2:So like, that's just.
Speaker 1:I can't go there. But yeah, I definitely that's a solid pick, but Rusty.
Speaker 4:Norway.
Speaker 1:Norway.
Speaker 4:Just yeah, norway. I got a cousin that travels a lot and now I mean I've been all over the planet and don't get to stay too much and that's a place that it's, dude, it's quiet, it's. I want to. I tell them I'm going to go for a week, I'm going to go to the highest mountain there, turn everything off and just take it in Um, it's, it's quiet, it's. You know, the airports are one thing, but to go and actually get out and get in the country, it's just, it's. It is a bucket list place. I even joked around with my cousin I go, that's where I'm going to die. Man, I'm going to go there, I'm not coming back.
Speaker 1:Leave me in the mountains, dude.
Speaker 7:I'm good, I'm good, but good, but um, yeah, norway's probably the top one.
Speaker 1:All right, wendy what I want to go to spain.
Speaker 7:Spain, all right, yeah, no particular area, just anything, spain. I've been fascinated with that whole space, just the people, the food, scenery, all of it.
Speaker 1:From what I've seen, yeah, so just throw a dart at the country of Spain.
Speaker 7:Anywhere, like I'm good, that's where you're going. All right, I'd love to go, yep.
Speaker 5:Right Jordan what about you? Yeah, going off of um, going off of Andrew, I'd like to go see the home country and then go out to Calabria in Italy that's like a bucket list and see where the roots of my family are from, anywhere there in. Like the Mediterranean is like on my bucket list, like Italy, and then I like to go over and shoot over, like Greece maybe, but besides those two, like one that's off the ball. I heard Iceland's beautiful. That's another one Like, besides the Mediterranean area, like Italy, greece. Iceland's beautiful. That's another one Besides the Mediterranean area.
Speaker 4:Italy, greece, iceland's one that I love, iceland's on fire right now. Be careful. Not much ice left, never mind. Retract that, retract that. I feel like volcanoes, it's cool.
Speaker 5:I'm going to go to Norway with Rusty.
Speaker 1:Come on, man, they're going to be up in the mountains, jordan and Rusty, up in the mountains. One big beer, absolutely. For me, obviously, like Andrea and Jordan, the resident paisans on here, it's Italy for me. I still have family in Sicily. I am Sicilian, so I would love to go there, but obviously for my wife's sake and my sake. Ireland is on there too, as well as the bucket lift vacation. But I don't think you'll get either of us out of either of those countries if we go, so that's probably not going to happen. But, nicole, I know you got to go here soon, so here's another question for you what place do you think is an overrated place for a vacation?
Speaker 2:to siesta key um. So I'll throw that one out. And another one I'll throw out is, even though I've been there traverse city I feel like that's gotten a lot of um, like a lot of feedback, a lot of people like wanting to go there or they've been there. So I would say those two places are overrated, even though I've been there. I like them both. It's just a lot of people have gone there and you hear it all the time. I'll throw those two out.
Speaker 1:Florida's overrated for me. The heat and the humidity, they don't work well with me, that's just. I love going there, but, yeah, it's overrated for me, andrea. What about you?
Speaker 3:I'm assuming all of you guys are from ohio, if not pretty close. So I don't know if it's gonna be a good or a bad thing to say, but geneva on the lake, like it's not really a vacation place because it's in ohio, but, like I've grown up going there my entire life, my girlfriend is from ashribula, so like covid, I mean they were at yankees every night, but every time we go there, bachelor rep parties, bachelor parties out the wazoo I'm like you came to Geneva for a whole weekend to do this Like I feel bad saying it, I'm like laughing.
Speaker 3:But not Geneva, Ohio, that is overrated.
Speaker 1:Okay. Yeah, I've heard it's overrated there too.
Speaker 3:So you're not, you're not wrong there.
Speaker 1:Uh, no offense but yeah, I'm not originally from ohio. I'm a west virginia born and raised, so we're fine. Drew. What about you? What's overrated for you?
Speaker 6:yeah, so for mine, and it's. It's gonna be another one. That's contradictory. Um, I'm a big tennessee titan fan so I love going to national to see a game. But uh, I've been there three times After day two I'm like I've had enough. I love going to a game, but the Broadway is cool. You go there so many times, it's long lines and you get one drink every 45 minutes. I'm like this kind of sucks. I guess I'd say Nashville, even though I like going to see a Tennessee Titanessee titan game. But after two days you're like get me the hell out of here gotcha rusty.
Speaker 1:What about you? What's overrated?
Speaker 4:it's easy to echo the florida sentiment easily. Um, I mean, you see it a lot and it's just, it is overrated as far as vacations. But one interested that nobody brought up is new york, new york city in particular. Um, it plays well on tv, not in person, it's okay you know it's good. It's one of those that it's good for a quick weekend, man, unless you really really, really, really, really really like people. It's, it's insane, it's we're just ripping your destination.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nicole this should be good for you to get on a plane to Florida here in a couple minutes.
Speaker 7:It depends on where you're going in.
Speaker 2:Florida, though there's how many millions of people in the world. Some person is still going down there, so I'm okay that Airbnb will still work for them. Millions of people in the world. Some person is still going down there, so I'm okay that airbnb still works for them. And hey, I still got a junket to hop on when I want to get out of this winter cold, so I'm good with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, and you know, as we're talking about this, I know this is uh recorded well before this is gonna air, but my parents just got off a plane in florida, in south beach today. So, yeah, that we're all crappingpping on Florida and they're down there now.
Speaker 4:Not really, not really knocking it, but it is, it's over, I mean everything's. You know Uber commercialized so and I mean it is nice. Nobody's saying it's not nice, but you know some things, they can play it up as being this, this and this and it's. You know, it's Florida.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wendy, what about you? What's?
Speaker 7:overrated. To you. I'm going to say Myrtle Beach. The amount of people that are in Cleveland looking to go there as a destination and I'm not talking like once family vacay every year. They intentionally go like two or three times a year. I've been there and I'm not quite sure where they're staying or what they're doing there, but there's like not a whole lot going on in myrtle beach. It's the craziest thing to me, um, but I have to say something about the geneva and the lake that's's funny, I kid you not.
Speaker 7:My best girlfriend Mike knows her. She was on our show one time talking about patios when she's had too much to drink. Yeah, she went to Geneva on the lake. She made reservations for all of July 4th weekend for her fiance and her son and when she told me this, like those were the big plans, I'm like, what are you doing this weekend? She's like, oh, we're going to Geneva on the lake. I'm like, for what? Like, what are you doing there? She's like we're staying out of bed and breakfast. I'm like and then, what? What do you do there? There's like I went there. What do you do there? There's like I went there, you know. Like there's nothing. It's so funny, but anyway, it's just funny that you brought that up, because I have that same response. Like you're kidding, right?
Speaker 3:I'm glad you understand. Yeah, I totally get it yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I have to echo the myrtle beach. You know, as an adult, there's not much to do in myrtle beach as like I I took, like my senior year of high school vacation there with my friends. Yeah, as a senior in high school, as an 18 year old, yeah, that's a blast. It now in my 30s, no, that it's miserable, get, get go away. That doesn't sound like fun at all. But jordan, last but not least here what about you so?
Speaker 5:I'm. I hate to toot the florida thing. I agree with everything that, florida, we all just said about you. So I hate to toot the Florida thing. I agree with everything that Florida we all just said about Florida. I'm going to go specifics into Florida here. Okay, and this is some feathers, and it's one that I have an argument with my fiancee all the time. She says well, we have kids, we're going there and I promise to God we will not be going because it's a waste of money.
Speaker 5:Some of you know what's coming it's Disney.
Speaker 4:It's Disney. Oh yeah, I'm not taking out the loan to go to Disney.
Speaker 5:It won't happen. I don't care to see it. I will get Disney Plus and watch every single movie on Disney Plus before I ever go there. I don't need to go there. I don't need to go get a souvenir. I don't need to go wait in line for an hour to get on a stupid ride that lasts 30 seconds. I don't need to do it. I don't need to go get drinks around the world. I'll go get beer from every different country before I go there to get drinks around the world in Florida.
Speaker 5:I'm not doing that, ok. The best thing about Disney here's a little insider for you. I don't know if any of you fish or any of you are a little bit country like me, but there's a bass pond, okay, next to Disney that has cabins for the cheap that they stock with huge bass. You're better to go get a cabin with your family there for cheap right outside Disney World. Okay, and say you went to Disney and you can just go fish every day in the peace and quiet instead of standing there sweating your butt off and wasting money. God, I love it. I had to get that off my chest.
Speaker 5:I'm so glad we did that and I think my fiance is in the other room right now.
Speaker 4:She probably hears me talking about Disney, and that will never go. You can't be done.
Speaker 5:Keep going, that's it, we're good. She definitely heard me.
Speaker 1:So you're on the rant show. So like I mean we're okay with long. You know, heartfelt, like I can feel that through the computer screen here it's not happening. It won't happen.
Speaker 5:He's an adamant.
Speaker 1:You have the same. He's opening the door.
Speaker 5:You heard what I just said we're not going to Disney. We're talking about overrated places. It's Disney. We're not going. Waste of money, get all you want, we're not going, all right. Back off, we're not going all right back off I'm on a podcast.
Speaker 1:Watch for stuff flying through the air, I don't know.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm glad this isn't in person now, now that we're waiting together to do this how it's so good. No, george, don't understand. It's so much fun, it's so fun. Oh my god, I'm like oh no, it's not happening no see, I used to go as a kid.
Speaker 1:My parents would take us down there. My wife has taken our son. He's my stepson, I don't need you, but yeah, she's taken him and she can't ride any of the rides. Anyway, she has a heart condition, she can't ride any of the rides. So what's the point of Disney for us? I'm going to go and sit there and sweat in the heat in the community. No, I'm sweating in my house in the air conditioning, recording this show right now, like there's no need for me to go out.
Speaker 4:You better enjoy the Disney vacation, because the money is going to set you back for about two years before you can go on another vacation.
Speaker 5:Right, it's a second mortgage. Yeah, waste of time.
Speaker 1:I still remember, and I don't know how I remember this. It was one of the few family vacations that my parents and my sisters took together when I was younger and I remember my dad getting the Disney passes and they told him the price and the ghost white came over his face and I just remember my mom grabbing us kids and going come on, let's go to the car, Dad's going to lose his shit here in a minute.
Speaker 1:And I could just see him just trying rip off money Like this was back in the 90s, like he was just like holding on to it for dear life, like it was yeah, so not for me.
Speaker 6:Yeah, you can make Mickey Mouse waffles at home, yeah, right.
Speaker 5:We'll designate a whole night at Disney guys.
Speaker 1:Don't worry, we'll watch whatever. I really don't know where you can go from here. That should have been the last question with George.
Speaker 5:I would have known that.
Speaker 1:I'd have saved that for the end.
Speaker 7:It's the happiest place on earth. Maybe you should.
Speaker 4:We're going to need a whole other roundtable to discuss we're going to have to.
Speaker 1:The repercussions were for Jordan.
Speaker 4:I'm going to need a whole other round table to discuss what the repercussions were for Jordan.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to talk to Fetty. We need a Disney round table, and it's just Jordan, it's just Jordan.
Speaker 5:I love classic Disney movies, but I don't need to go to this park. What's there for me to do? I don't want to drink around the world. What a scam.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love this, I love this show and I love my job.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, it's an international buyer crawl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nicole, since you're still with us, you got a minute to answer another question. I know you're going to get on a plate here soon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're starting to board, but I got time for one more.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. If you are going to a wedding that is out of town, let's say, more than an hour away, are you using that weekend as a mini vacation or no?
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, yes and no. So I love like little mini trips, like staycations. I actually just booked one before coming to the airport because we're going to see a concert in December. So I figured, play on that and also find out if there's anything else going on that same weekend. And then there's like a Broadway musical that same weekend. So making that a staycation. So if there's something happening in the area that's worthwhile, where you're going to a wedding, kind of playing on that, making a little mini trip out of it. Plus two, if you have the finances to do it right. Some people don't have the means to hop on a plane and go somewhere, so the smaller trips like that go a long way for certain people. Those little mini trips go a long way for certain people because they might not have the opportunities, like some of us, to hop on a plane and go, you know, to Disney.
Speaker 4:Oh God and spend the.
Speaker 1:Disney funds don't even say that word anymore so.
Speaker 2:So I think that I think that if that's your means, those are the opportunities that you can do and you can make little trips out of that. It goes a long way for certain people that that's where their funds can be placed. So yes and no um looking again what's going on in the area for going for a wedding and book a little trip out of it and make it worthwhile.
Speaker 1:Not a bad idea, Andrea. What about you?
Speaker 3:I agree with the yes and no. I just went to a wedding last week and it was like an hour and 40 minutes away but there was nothing to do there and I drove home at the end of the night. But I'm in a wedding which is a little different, but it's an hour away in Portage Lakes and it's right on the water. We're renting cabins, Like that's different. So, yeah, I'm going to make a whole weekend out of that, but it depends on what you can do there. Um, yeah, that's my answer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, a couple of years ago a buddy of mine. I was in the wedding and it was at South Bend, indiana. His wife was from Notre Dame. They got married right outside of Notre Dame College. You know, I made a weekend out of it. I made it worthwhile. I was leaving from West Virginia so it was like, okay, I've got to make the most of this. I'm'm driving like four plus hours at this point in time to South Bend Indiana. I'm going to make it worth my while. So I get it. But not everybody can do that. But, drew, I know you've done these destination weddings before, so what about you?
Speaker 6:Yeah, I kind of agree. It's kind of crazy now this day and age. I just turned 30. So kind of all your people around you are starting to get married or have gotten married or they're in the same boat of getting married. Most of the weddings I go to now are out of town. It's very few and far between. Now do I go to a wedding. That's actually where I'm from. So it kind of depends.
Speaker 6:When we went to the Bahamas, you had to make that a. That's not just a. You're going there and coming back. You know what I mean. You're staying there for five days. I've been to Colorado for a wedding. I've been to Savannah for a wedding. I've been to Florida for a wedding. I've been to New York for a wedding. I mean it's insane what it is like now, pentwater Michigan, for a wedding. So kind of my philosophy. My philosophy and policy is if I've got to fly to it, I'm staying for a long time. But if it's drivable I'll probably make it, maybe a day after. But I'll come home at that point. It's getting crazy now, so much. So yeah, if I've got to fly, I'll stay. Make it a week or whatever, four or five days.
Speaker 1:But, if it's drivable, maybe a day after I'm out of there. Yeah, that's a solid plan.
Speaker 4:But, rusty, what about you? Echoing a lot of the stuff everybody said, it's yes and no. If it's someplace you haven't been before, I mean it might be neat to, and you want to really check it out. You know, get the wedding done, get the reception done. If you survived the reception, go explore for a couple days and then head home. But if it's something that's just an hour or two hours away, dude, I'm hit and run. Hey, congratulations, let me eat my dinner. Here's your food, I'm out. That's just. I mean hit and run man. But if it's someplace you haven't been or that I haven't been, that's you know. I want to check it out. Yeah, I'll make a weekend or four-day deal out of it.
Speaker 1:Okay, wendy, what about you? I it.
Speaker 7:Okay, wendy, what about you? I mean, I'm writing on the same thing everyone else is saying it just kind of depends on where it's at. You know, if it's out of the state or somewhere fun like the Bahamas, then hell yeah, I'm there for the week, you know. But if it's an hour and it's in the middle of nowhere like Geneva, and there's really nothing to do, poor Geneva. Like Geneva, and there's really nothing to do, poor Geneva. I'm driving home. I'll probably make it home in 45 minutes, but that's it.
Speaker 7:Yeah, it really depends, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, jordan, what about you? Destination wedding to Disney you going or no?
Speaker 4:Yeah, mickey Mouse thing.
Speaker 5:Absolutely not I do. I mean I'm going to keep beating the same drum. Yes and no Location. I like what Rusty said If you've never been there before, even if it's somewhere small, it might be cool to check out the town a little bit. If you're flying, it's a definite yes. For me, it doesn't matter where it's at. If I'm flying I'm going to make at least an extra day out of it to check out wherever it's at, especially if it's the Bahamas where Drew went. That's a stay for a while type of thing. Yeah, not doing it. A Disney wedding just sounds like the worst day of my life I had to. I mean I'm thankful that my fiance didn't get married there.
Speaker 4:I mean that would have just been you know what she's doing right now she's booking that. She's, she's booking and planning the wedding in disney as we speak like that's happening, no shot.
Speaker 5:I'll go to kennywood a 30 times. We want to run kennywood's awesome. Yep, and I already wait 45 minute lines there, so why would I go wait, oh man. But yeah, I'll be the same job. Yes and no, depends flying definite. Yes, if it's more than an hour away. If it's a town you never been to, stay for a little bit yeah, I feel like that was that's.
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Speaker 3:Montana or Maine um, okay, so I've never been to either of them, but I've wanted to go to Acadia and Maine and I have friends that have a lot of family in Montana and say great things. Because I've never been to them and because I discovered Acadia and I just heard about Montana from others, I'm going to stay Maine. Okay, I don't know, I don't have experience so I can't give like a valid answer on that. That's just my mindset.
Speaker 1:All right, no worries, drew, what about you?
Speaker 6:Yeah, to piggyback off, andrew, I never been to either one of them. Um, typically in the summer I enjoy being around water, any source of water. So maine for the I can at least find the coast of maine on, you know, lennig ocean and do something there. So I'd probably have to say maine for me, okay rusty what about you been to both?
Speaker 4:and there is a lot of water in montana but big lakes. But um, montana, just just because it's it's wide open, I mean there's, and there's actually a lot of stuff to do. Um, you know, we actually do a lot of airsport stuff up there with some warbirds. There's a lot of flying up there. So montana's, it's just like I said, it's wide open, beautiful at night, it's clear, it's. It's just it's it's quiet and it's so far removed from cities. I mean it's really nice. I mean they have their share of big cities but, um, it's nothing like here out east, it's's just gorgeous.
Speaker 1:All right, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 7:I'm going to say Maine. I want to be as close to the water as possible. In the summertime patios I'm dying to try some of that seafood that they have over there too. I haven't specialized in learning anything about any any of the cities or anything like that, but it's definitely on my list of somewhere to go.
Speaker 4:Portland's real nice. Portland's real nice. A lot of seafood, good seafood there, good lobster.
Speaker 7:Lobster.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 5:Jordan.
Speaker 1:Montana or Maine.
Speaker 5:This is the toughest question of the day so far, I think Montana I've never been to either. My parents have been to Maine, so this is kind of giving me a slight edge visually, even though I've seen tons of videos, I guess, on Montana Beautiful out there, rusty was really selling it, but I'm the same way. I'm drawn to water. My parents went to Bar Harbor, I think in Maine, which was a nice little town it looked like on the coast. I bet you there's just tons of hidden gem little towns on the coast of Maine that I'd like to visit and stay in. So I'd have to pick Maine.
Speaker 1:Okay, didn't Jordan have a third choice.
Speaker 4:It was Disney that was the third choice.
Speaker 1:It was Disney. That was the third choice. We just got him calmed down, rusty.
Speaker 4:This is good this is good for ratings.
Speaker 5:You almost need to have a show dedicated To where you bring my fiance on it. It'll just be a debate, it's a game show Me versus her On the selling points of.
Speaker 1:Disney. I will literally, just I will come on, I will post that debate and I would just say disney and go go and I would just leave the room for an hour.
Speaker 5:You have to be the moderate. It's like a presidential debate and like ask a question oh, that would be awesome I'll put a suit on it and really sell it. Trust me, I'll sell it. All right, we're gonna. We're gonna talk to fitty about that one because now you're you're peaking the comedian's interest.
Speaker 1:We're gonna talk to fitty about that, one for sure, especially after he hears that rant that you went on about disney, uh, but uh, to answer this question myself, uh, it's Montana for me. Uh, I like the country, I like the openness, I like to be able to sit and look at the stars, uh, at night, and just, you know, give me a mountainside and an open field and an open beer and just let me be at peace. That that sounds amazing to me. So, montana for me, and Rusty russie, you, you definitely sold it for for sure on that one well, it's, it's, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4:I mean, when they don't call it big sky country for nothing, I mean it's. It's beautiful at night. I mean stars, clear air, um, and you know, it's just, it's. It's kind of it's kind of scary the first time you're out there and you're on a trip and you're by yourself working, but man, it's awesome. You just take that all in, it's great. Everybody's been to the beach, so you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's definitely Montana, for me for sure. But, Andrew, let's go back to you. What are your thoughts on staying at a on a resort if you go on international vacation?
Speaker 3:well, um, first I want to say that I'm mad at nicole for getting off, because I like a second to have time to think about these questions. So I know she's going to listen to this, so I know she's going to hear that. You know, I've been to one international vacation.
Speaker 3:I went to Jamaica and we it was like a mission trip, so we were staying with like house mothers and whatnot, and I see that there can be danger in other countries, but the exploring that we got to do with the families that that was their community was different, because obviously you're with the people who lived there. I mean, I think resorts can be good, like somebody said earlier I think it might've been, it was either Jordan or Drew about like the all inclusiveness. I think that is very nice, but I do think it's important that if you can, in a safe way, go in and really dive in-depth into those cultures, I think it's something that you can't miss out on, that's for sure. There are so many things in Jamaica that are amazing that you have to go with tour guides to do, and I don't think, uh, anybody should mess out on those, that's for sure okay, drew.
Speaker 1:What about you?
Speaker 6:yeah, um, the only resort I've really been on was the trip to the bahamas. Um, and, just like andrea said, I wish I would have more time to kind of get off the resort a little bit and check out like what the actual bahamas is all about. I, we were only there for five days and one day was a wedding, one day was a rehearsal dinner and the day after they had like a party, like an after party. So you really had like two days to yourself essentially, but I would say, for I mean, I had a blast. It was all inclusive as well. So you know, time was not a factor. You just kind of walked out of your hotel rooms like all right, what am I doing out today? You know it was, it was a blast. So I would say resorts are cool for sure. I would definitely go to one again and, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:All right, Rusty, what about you?
Speaker 4:The the resort idea is is pretty good because you don't. You don't have to clean a whole lot up when you're done. The food options are great, especially the all-inclusive side. You know I mentioned St Lucia before. The place they put us up at work is one of those all-inclusive and they give us four meals a day and if we don't use them the company yells at us. So I ate that place out of steak. For two weeks I was like tap me with a good time.
Speaker 4:You know, four meals. Drinks are a different story, but I think just the convenience of the resorts make it a little bit easier. It depends if it's just you or it's just a couple, or if it's your family with you. The resort might be the easiest way, but sometimes, depending on where you're going and the locale, it might be cooler to rent a house, you know, to rent a place for if it's a week or two weeks.
Speaker 1:Okay, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 7:I do like staying at resorts, Um, especially if it's international. You know there's that convenience factor Everything's already kind of planned out for you, or at least there's a menu of items that just already kind of choose from. There's no guesswork. You know you're going into kind of foreign territory and a little bit on the vulnerable side too and not really knowing what their safety is like or, you know, can you even trust certain people and things like that? I had. We had a situation. There was a group of us in Jamaica and we went through a resort but even just the taxi drivers were trying to co-hurst us into purchasing drugs from them directly and then trying to take us off the path of where we were supposed to go, into this other area. I mean, that is a very high crime place, Beautiful but very high crime crime place, beautiful but very high crime. Um, so there's that, that part of that resort, I guess planning, where you feel like you have a sense of security too, right, and this particular one in jamaica that we stayed at, there were armed guards with rifles, 24 hours a day outside of the resort, completely gated, and everything. And you have to beg the question of like why? Why is it like that, you know. But they say the crime is is that high? So I don't know that. I would probably travel without booking, at least through a travel agent where they specialize in at least giving us that kind of information, If not staying at a resort.
Speaker 7:I just did a trip to Korea. I think we may have talked about it before on another show and I don't speak the language anymore, even though I was born there. But this is also, you know, 40 years ago and for me I felt, even though I was born there, like a complete tourist stranger. I wasn't able to speak to anybody. I couldn't find anyone that spoke English, that understood a word. I was saying I wasn't able to speak to anybody. I couldn't find anyone that spoke English that understood a word. I was saying I couldn't find peanut butter for five days at any store, no American food anywhere.
Speaker 7:It was insane, insane. So you know, I had to then look to my mother and say next time we try to come back here, I am going to plan it with a travel agent and it's going to be like this, because unless you know someone there and you're staying with them, it's, it's a free for all. We didn't even know, like any of the areas, the streets, nothing, the hotel we couldn't find anything. It was. It was annoying and frustrating, to say the least. So that's not how you want to spend a trip when you're away either, you know that doesn't sound fun at all and that escalated really quickly with the armed guards.
Speaker 1:Yeah definitely yeah. How do you?
Speaker 4:relax. How do you relax like that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that doesn't sound relaxing at all.
Speaker 7:I didn't. I was gone for two weeks. I lost pounds in the first week. Cause I was gone for two weeks, I lost pounds in the first week because I was starving.
Speaker 1:I would need a vacation from the vacation.
Speaker 7:I was so stressful, you know, and I was like this is crazy, I can't find anyone that speaks English here Like that is crazy to me. But it happened, you know, not even at the airport. It was rough, it was rough.
Speaker 1:All right, jordan, go on to that again Round us out here. Round us out here.
Speaker 5:Yeah, a vacation from a vacation is called Disney, by the way.
Speaker 7:Anyway, moving on, I went there too. I actually had a great time.
Speaker 5:Oh my God, okay, you don't have to laugh. I think about 90% of the time I would say you know, international for sure, a resort, uh, I like going last because you guys all give me great ideas to think. Um, rusty made it hit it on the head like if you have a family, then it's 100 chance. If we're going international, I'm staying at a resort, you know, with the kid.
Speaker 5:Uh, if it's one of those things where you know andrew is talking about and I'm talking about and she's kind of the same, where, hey, I want to go to the motherland out in italy and go see my roots, you know, then you kind of have to try to find somewhere out in the middle of there, where where's close to home, where your roots are from, and try to explore a little bit and pick up on the culture, learn the culture and really take it in. But if you're doing that, it's kind of got to be like a you in one other person trip. I feel, um, if it's more than two going and you got family in, yeah, I'm doing the resort every time makes it convenient, you would have a fun time, um, and it's just a lot less stress on it, um, unless you're in jamaica, with, with the guards. So you want to feel safe is what I'm saying. At a resort, you want to feel enclosed, you want to feel safe. That way you don't have to think about much.
Speaker 1:But if you are going on that trip for your, for your roots, then that's a different story right, yeah, absolutely, uh, yeah, I mean, and Jordan, I should make you go first for this, just for that comment. Keep it here, I love it we're going to keep the same order, just to keep things rolling smoothly here. So, andrea, this might be a nice toss up question for you here, to get you back into the swing of things. What is the best month to go on a vacation? I?
Speaker 3:guess it depends on what you like, but I'm going to say August, august Okay. Yeah, Cause I mean of course, everybody now, and that's that's funny that I say that, because a lot of my vacations have been in June. But I've had a lot of like bad vacations, especially to Florida, Like a lot of rain during that time. We went to Destin last year and it was like there was a tornado 15 minutes from where we were Like we were driving away from the area that it had just been um.
Speaker 1:So I don't know. I want to say august, that's a hot month, but I think it's a more secure month. Yeah, I've been to florida in august never again. I'll tell you that right now yeah, that's not no, uh drew, what about you?
Speaker 6:yeah, um, I kind of feel bad anyone who's associated with me, because I am a teacher and a football coach, so I have like a six-week gap where I can go somewhere, and if I don't don't go during that time, I just don't go anywhere. Um, so for me it's like june till like pushing the last week of july for me, uh, probably, I'd probably say june as a month, but but other than that, I'm a teacher and a football coach, so it's kind of hard for me to take off or, you know, go in August or something like that. So I got to say June.
Speaker 1:Try being a comedian with no set schedule when you can you go out and rely on bookers and agents and people will be like.
Speaker 6:I don't know how you do it dude, are you free this day?
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess, yeah, yeah, uh, now I, I I've told all of them that 22nd through the 28th of July. If you call me, I'm screaming no into the phone and I'm hanging up. That is. That is going to be your response. No, I'm not free. I'm incognito that week, so yeah, Uh, well, week, so yeah for sure. Well rusty, what about you?
Speaker 4:september. You know you, yeah, it depends on and this is another thing too. I mean it depends on, like drew said, his schedule and I've gone through the whole coaching thing and you know you're set on what your job has for you. But, um, if you don't have that and it's not based on because I'm I can't go anywhere in the summertime. I've got travel softball to coach, so I'm locked in with them. A lot of those trips turn out to be like vacations, but it's, you're still, you're busy. But if it's just to get away, I think September, because you're just getting into right before the season changes and you know it's not as crowded because kids are back in school. You know it's not as crowded because kids are back in school, colleges are starting to fill up and and you know it depends on what you want to do and where you want to go. But it's a. It's a nice spool down from from the high of summer to that kind of mellow right into autumn. It's, it's not bad, but it depends on where you want to go. You know we use I think we talked on one of the shows about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4:It was a Thanksgiving show and my weirdest Thanksgiving and this was kind of neat was. You know, I took a vacation in November. I went back to Jersey and we didn't have Turkey for Thanksgiving. We had frigging lobster, so it was. It's just one of those. You know what time of year is it and what do you feel like doing, but I like September. September is one of my favorite months, and it's just. You know, it's nice. I can be on vacation week and nobody's really going to fight for it. In September I can go pretty much anywhere I want.
Speaker 1:Gotcha In the spirit of vacation All right, there you go. Wendy, what about you?
Speaker 7:Yeah, so my vacation times it's really driven by work too.
Speaker 7:Similar to what they said, it's the work schedule I like to take off in November, the beginning of November, usually into the middle of November, and it's really just before the holiday season really kicks off.
Speaker 7:Here, especially in Ohio, there's a lot of people that celebrate the holidays Thanksgiving and Christmas and every year Christmas starts to get celebrated earlier and earlier and I understand that many people don't celebrate holidays myself really included, because I really don't care to celebrate them, to be honest with you. And there's all these other holidays too, but in our area here there's a heavy push, marketing push and everything Everyone's in that holiday season of entertaining, cooking, buying presents and things like that, and I like to take off. My busy season really really slows down for work at that time, so I can finally get away and just completely check out, not have to worry about responding to anybody, seeing anybody for a while, and I can just kind of regroup and plan for my next year. That's usually when I do my planning and goal setting for myself and my team for the next year. So yeah, I'm going to say November.
Speaker 1:Not a bad month. Jordan, what about you?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm going to. I'm in the same exact boat as Drew. I'm a teacher and a football coach, so you're pretty much, you know, limited to that summer. But let's just go ahead and live in fantasy land and say I wasn't a football coach or a teacher.
Speaker 5:Um, I have family from up here in pa that live in the outer banks. They've lived there for a while now and I used to go live with them in the summers and work at a restaurant and stuff and when I was down there and living, like it's so crazy during the summer and they used to always say, you know, well, tourist or, uh, local summer starts in september and I've been down there before in september and october and it is like being at the coast of anywhere on the coast, I think, from north carolina up, because it gets real hot south of that right north carolina and up on the coast september and october. It's beautiful, the beaches are empty, it's it's usually still fairly warm, depending on where you're at like down there I know like in October it's still 70, 75 degrees. The water is still good enough that you can go in, it's warm enough and it was just. It's so much more peaceful to be there when no one's there, the leaves are changing, so fall at the coast is a really good time, in my opinion. Um, so that's that's kind of what I say.
Speaker 5:September, october all right.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, I don't really have a month in mind. Pretty much me is whenever I could take a vacation, I'm, I'm taking it. Uh, I'm not limited like uh, drew and jordan with the teacher and football schedule, but I don't have a set schedule. I don't have. It's pretty much whenever shows tend to slow down, it's like all right, let's take a vacation and let's get out for a for a little bit. But we are running a little bit short on time here, so I'm going to get two more quick questions in here. Andrew, we're going to start with you flying or driving. Which is better to travel?
Speaker 3:in your opinion? God flying, absolutely flying. I was just kind of I don't want to make this a longer answer than it needs to be, but I was just discussing this because we drove to Gatlinburg and it was a little over eight hours from where I'm at in Youngstown and I'm like that wasn't bad. We left at midnight. I was super excited. I drove five hours like it was nothing. I drove till five in the morning and I was super excited. But if that drive would have been to Florida and it was like a 16-hour drive, I would have been pissed, I would have hated the drive. So I would absolutely prefer to fly over, drive anytime.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 6:Drew, what about you? Yeah, I agree a thousand percent. I'm flying anytime anywhere. I hate driving. I hate driving to cleveland. If I could fly to cleveland, I'd fly to cleveland.
Speaker 1:So flying all day, every day all right, our resident pilot, uh rusty flying or driving.
Speaker 4:Driving Train's not an option. No Flying. It's a no-brainer. I think that's the thing too. That comes with age. You know, when we're younger we like getting out. You know you're driving, you want to go all over the place, but just because it's so easier, it's easier for me to do it would be flying. But I mean just for the saving of time, you know, I mean it is.
Speaker 1:All right, wendy.
Speaker 7:I'm going to say flying as well. I want to hurry up and get to where we're going and I just want to start relaxing from that moment on and not worrying about anything. You know, and driving again foreign territory whether it's just a different state or not like I don't want to, I don't want to be stressed about that at all yeah jordan.
Speaker 5:Uh, it's simple for me. I have a cut line. If it's below seven hours, I'll do it, no problem, get behind the wheel, let's go. If it's above seven, I'm not doing. I'm buying a ticket to fly, for whatever reason. I've drove so much in my life. I used to live in Virginia. We'd come back home and visit PA, so I'm used to the five-hour drives. When I'm behind the wheel I feel like I think better and I get a lot of football ideas behind the wheel. But seven hours is the max I'll go. I did nine hours one time and that sounds like nothing, I guess, but I did nine hours and never did it again and wanted to punch myself in the face when I got out as someone who drives pretty much almost exclusively to all of my shows, uh, whether they're in state or out of state, um, flying would definitely have to be it for me.
Speaker 1:Uh. Last out of state show I had, uh, in Sanford, michigan, back in March and it was only five and a half hours one way, but the wonderful booker of the show knew I was going that far, didn't have lodging or anything like that for me, so I had to turn around right after the show and drive back to basically Columbus, ohio, and so I was in the car for 11 and a half hours total and never again, like it was the most brutal trip. I left my house at like noon to be up there in time for the show and I didn't get home until about four or five in the morning. And, yeah, fly, I will fly to Michigan. I don't even care at this point. Like I know it's right there from where I'm at now. Yeah, flying all the way for this question here. And last but not least, since we are running short on time, andrea, best food you've had on a vacation is.
Speaker 3:Um, I so I hate to eat at the same place twice, like when I go somewhere, because I want to try stuff that's not franchised and I can't remember the name of it now, but I'll get back to you. In South Beach, miami, there is this place and they have, like this, guacamole mozzarella, like quesadillas, I don't know. There was this one restaurant that was great, but we went to it like three or four times while we were down there and I got the same thing every single time I went there. So I'm going to say, like some southern South Beach Miami food, they had a lot of great restaurants there. All right, south Beach Miami food, it was they had a lot of great restaurants there, so All right.
Speaker 6:Drew, what about you? Yeah, To add something real quick to the last question, the best thing I ever did in my life is get drunk at an airport too, so that's why flying is so much better. The airport beer is top notch. I freaking love it. But to talk about food, wise Nashville the barbecue there was unbelievable. It was the best I've ever had. I've been there three times and I get the same thing every single time. It's a little place on Broadway, I forget what it's called, but they have like anything you want. It's top-notch, and every time I go there I definitely get it.
Speaker 1:All right, rusty, what about you?
Speaker 4:The Shore over in Jersey, man, there were all kinds of little small mom and pop places on the island and you know they would come up with something. I mean it would be similar to what we have here. But it wasn't commercialized, like Andrea said. It was just, it was their local stuff. It could be a burger, it could be a sandwich, it could be a burger, it could be a sandwich, it could be breakfast sandwich, you know whatever it was. And you, just, you know that was you look forward to going there and hey, we're going to so-and-so's for breakfast tomorrow, okay, and we're going to hit so-and-so's for lunch and you know, you, you kind of had that because you're, you know, just something you had, you had heard about and never tried, or something you tried before, and you really, really liked it and you were going back for it.
Speaker 1:All right, wendy, what about you?
Speaker 7:I'm going to say Black and Grouper, and anywhere in the Keys of Florida for sure. So Siesta Key, lido Key, longboat Key, all through there, st Armand Circle, I kid you, not all those restaurants, because they're all just pulling it right off of the gulf. Right there they have the absolute best grouper you could ever have ever and it's best blackened all right, jordan round us out here uh, back down in the outer banks where I lived, um in nags head, there's a place that serves fresh poke.
Speaker 5:I don't know if anyone is familiar with poke, which is pretty much like it's going to sound nasty, but a fresh, raw fish, and it's in a bowl, like you get in a bowl with certain different types of sauces, whatever veggies you want. They kind of mix it all together. At first I was like there's no way I'll eat raw fish. At first I was like there's no way I'll eat raw fish. But when it's fresh and it comes in that day, um, I don't know man, something about it is, it's my favorite thing on earth, probably. I I every time I go back down there to visit family. I go there probably once a day and I get the same order every single time and it's just my favorite.
Speaker 1:All right, I don't think I have a favorite. You know, as someone who's pretty much been all over the East coast and a little bit of the Midwest with comedy shows and all that, I don't really have I don't think I have a favorite. You know what I mean. But like, uh, rusty said I, you know I've been to Jersey, the little mom and pop shops. I'd have to go there Anything mom, and pop.
Speaker 1:I think anywhere you go is going to be phenomenal because you know they put the time and the effort into whatever they're making. But yeah, I don't. I don't really have a favorite that I go. I'm a pretty simple guy. You know burger and fries anywhere I go. Really you know I'm upset. You know. That's it for our vacation roundtable. I want to thank all of our guests Nicole, who had to leave us early, andrea, jordan, rusty, drew and Wendy for being on. This was a lot of fun. Get to know a little bit about everyone's vacations and everything like that. Hope everyone is having a safe and fun summer here and enjoying yourselves on vacations. If you're able to take one, that is going to do it for me, as always. If you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell them anyways, they might like it just because you did. That's going to do it for me and I will see y'all next week.
