Situational Awareness in Travel with Kenny G

Today, I am talking with Kenny G from R3 Contingencies about being prepared for travel, both by car and by plane, as well as developing situational awareness while planning your trips. Featured Event: Save the Date for the LFTN Workshop Ticket Sales, January 20, 2024 at 9am Central. Theme, “Back to the Basics.” Workshop is April 25-27. Sponsor 1: The WealthSteading Podcast, InvestableWealth.com Sponsor 2: Last change for the $35 Homesteading and Permaculture Bundle with a 17 episode podcast analysis of Toby Hemenway’s Gaia’s Garden and a whole HOST of other things! https://permies.com/w/bundle?f=495  Show Resources R3 Contingencies Website Main content of the show Kenny G started R3 contingencies in 2020, Since then he has helped expand their services. So they can help if you lost everything from your cell phone charger to a full suit, to giving you a plan after a break-in. Why should I prep for travel? I have a good travel agent isn't that enough? What should I be concerned with road trips I have AAA is'nt the best thing to have? What is the most common problem you see and what is the easiest way to prevent it? How about flying? What if I want to travel internationally? What if it's for business vs pleasure? Does it change my travel plans? Make it a great week GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link Transcript 00:03.643 --> 00:09.346 Howdy, everybody, and welcome to today's live interview with Kenny G. Kenny G, you going to play some music? 00:11.448 --> 00:12.228 Maybe a little later. 00:12.248 --> 00:14.569 I think I forgot my guitar at the show.   00:14.810 --> 00:16.230 Is Kenny G your real name?   00:17.231 --> 00:17.891 Close enough.   00:19.712 --> 00:20.293 That's right, guys.   00:20.833 --> 00:29.518 Kenny G's been on our podcast before on a different topic, but he reached out to me and said, hey, I want to talk about things people should know while traveling.   00:30.359 --> 00:30.519 And   00:31.329 --> 00:47.931 I kind of added because I know you're going to end up talking about this like situational awareness, something that has really struck me in the last couple of years that I've been on the road is so I was driving to Texas and you know how those alerts come over your phone that everybody turns off because they're annoying.   00:47.952 --> 00:48.873 Yep.   00:49.721 --> 00:51.261 Okay, so one of those alerts came over my phone.   00:51.301 --> 00:53.022 I'm like, I have Amber Alerts.   00:53.302 --> 00:53.742 Shut off.   00:53.782 --> 00:54.442 Like, what's up?   00:54.622 --> 00:56.982 And a convict had escaped prison.   00:57.022 --> 01:00.963 So it was a different kind of alert.   01:01.383 --> 01:03.223 And he had taken people hostage.   01:04.364 --> 01:07.384 And they said, this is going on in this area.   01:07.404 --> 01:14.246 Well, I had made the critical error of following my GPS instead of my map to get around, to route around a traffic issue.   01:14.886 --> 01:16.446 So I didn't actually know where I was.   01:18.511 --> 01:23.636 And so when it said where it was, I didn't know where I where I was, where it was in relationship to that.   01:23.756 --> 01:30.864 And luckily, I had more than half a tank because I usually top off about every half tank when I'm driving somewhere long distance.   01:31.364 --> 01:33.206 And I got all the way to my destination.   01:33.226 --> 01:35.829 And it turned out I was within a couple of miles.   01:36.029 --> 01:41.795 And the guy ended up taking a family hostage, driving to Ohio and killing them before he was caught.   01:42.905 --> 01:45.507 And so that's what I mean by situational awareness.   01:45.587 --> 01:53.572 Like we get so used to technology that sometimes it's a really bad idea to just put your faith in it.   01:53.672 --> 01:55.033 But there's a lot of stuff you can do.   01:55.053 --> 01:56.074 Oh, I lost the light.   01:56.454 --> 01:59.516 There's a lot of stuff you can do between now and then.   01:59.656 --> 02:02.038 But let's start with before we jump into that.   02:02.418 --> 02:03.939 I'm just giving everybody the overview.   02:06.021 --> 02:09.283 Tell us who you are and how you ended up on LFTN anyway.   02:11.467 --> 02:14.528 Um, Ken or Kenny G if you prefer.   02:14.608 --> 02:17.630 And yes, that is the real first initial for my last name.   02:18.650 --> 02:24.372 Um, I am working or I work for the emergency concierge service, our three contingencies.   02:24.953 --> 02:27.774 We see a lot of things happen up, down, left, right.   02:28.634 --> 02:31.595 And I thought it would be a great topic here.   02:31.715 --> 02:35.357 And not to mention, I've reached out to Nicole for several things regarding business.   02:35.477 --> 02:37.338 So pay it back, right?   02:37.858 --> 02:37.998 Yeah.   02:38.018 --> 02:40.759 So what is our three contingencies before we jump in there?   02:41.738 --> 02:46.003 They are, as far as I know, the world's only emergency concierge service that there is.   02:47.684 --> 02:50.528 What does an emergency concierge service do?   02:51.949 --> 02:57.795 For example, let's say you go on a flight and they lose your luggage and you have a business meeting.   02:58.656 --> 03:02.861 It would have been something that we prep for and we would have clothes delivered to your hotel room.   03:04.275 --> 03:05.236 Well, that's pretty cool.   03:05.316 --> 03:13.801 With, you know, a Visa gift card if you need it, a phone charger, standard stuff that you may have forgotten or gotten lost.   03:13.921 --> 03:16.883 Or example, you run out because your kid's in the hospital.   03:17.343 --> 03:23.247 We deliver a phone charger to you, food, basic necessities, toothbrush, toothpaste, stuff like that.   03:24.226 --> 03:24.406 Wow.   03:24.426 --> 03:25.207 That sounds really good.   03:25.227 --> 03:25.547 Yeah.   03:26.588 --> 03:26.748 Yeah.   03:26.928 --> 03:27.829 I found your website.   03:27.929 --> 03:30.111 So I thought I had to, you know, show it.   03:30.972 --> 03:33.234 Cause we have that capacity here.   03:33.374 --> 03:33.694 Okay.   03:33.774 --> 03:35.936 So let's go back to traveling though.   03:35.996 --> 03:39.779 Cause traveling has probably taught me more about prepping than anything else.   03:40.540 --> 03:45.164 One thing I learned is you never leave the house without a snack in your bag.   03:46.414 --> 03:53.399 Because you're going to end up on a train somewhere in the middle of the night in Eastern Germany and you didn't have time to get dinner.   03:53.479 --> 03:55.560 And luckily you have that snack in your bag.   03:56.120 --> 03:59.102 But why should I prep for travel?   04:00.203 --> 04:05.526 And if I'm like with a tour group, should I still should I still prep for travel?   04:05.546 --> 04:06.167 And if so, why?   04:08.505 --> 04:10.647 Absolutely, you should still prep for travel.   04:10.907 --> 04:14.550 And prepping for travel is essential because let's face it, you never know.   04:16.311 --> 04:18.452 I live in New Hampshire, I'm really close to Boston.   04:18.833 --> 04:26.278 When the big dig was happened, I have literally driven into Boston and had the road closed that I drove in on, on the way out.   04:28.099 --> 04:29.200 Yeah, what's that mean?   04:29.220 --> 04:30.281 Do you just get stuck on the road?   04:31.901 --> 05:00.958 uh yeah i had to get rerouted and i was stuck in a traffic jam for about four hours what should have been an hour and a half trip literally took me all day and had i not done things like you know make sure my gas tank is kept half topped off bare minimum i keep a gallon of water in the car i keep cliff bars in the car i mean i know they're not the healthiest thing for you but they do help satisfy your hunger and there is such a thing as driving hangry and i would not recommend it   05:01.869 --> 05:02.469 Well, why not?   05:02.489 --> 05:06.971 Because you make stupid choices when you're hangry.   05:08.592 --> 05:11.893 I mean, I know it says no U-turn, but I don't see anyone here and I'm starving.   05:14.334 --> 05:22.897 Yeah, I took a wrong turn on my way from Oklahoma City to Tennessee, which literally all you need to do is stay on the stupid freeway, which is I-40, right?   05:23.958 --> 05:24.198 Right.   05:25.126 --> 05:27.688 But I got on the freeway going the wrong direction after getting gas.   05:27.728 --> 05:30.391 And then I took the next exit, which was a terrible idea.   05:30.511 --> 05:36.896 Ended up driving 28 miles one direction to where I could finally turn around after paying a toll and 28 miles back.   05:36.916 --> 05:41.680 And I kept looking at the gaps every so often that said, don't drive through here.   05:42.741 --> 05:45.922 And I finally like I was like, well, there's so many cars coming.   05:45.962 --> 05:47.063 I'm not going to do it right.   05:47.143 --> 05:52.685 But I was really tempted and I got to the toll booth and I asked about those things like, oh, yeah, we actually have cameras up.   05:52.705 --> 05:56.226 We would have busted your ass because people get into accidents when they do that.   05:56.826 --> 06:00.828 So I made the right choice in that turn and in that situation.   06:00.968 --> 06:06.470 But what does what does prepping for travel look like?   06:08.410 --> 06:08.970 Depends.   06:09.070 --> 06:10.551 Are you flying or driving?   06:10.951 --> 06:13.631 I mean, we're talking about driving, so let's go with that.   06:13.651 --> 06:16.772 A simple low-hanging fruit is get AAA.   06:17.632 --> 06:23.974 It doesn't cost much, and if you get one tow, just one in like four years, it pays for itself.   06:24.994 --> 06:30.875 I used to work for a towing company back when I was younger and had hair, and it started out like $150 to pick you up plus $15 a mile.   06:30.915 --> 06:32.256 That adds up really, really fast.   06:38.846 --> 06:39.186 Yeah.   06:39.747 --> 06:46.232 So I have AAA for this reason and the poor people have had to tow me at least twice a year since I got it.   06:47.933 --> 06:52.417 And except for this year, because it's the second or third or something.   06:54.379 --> 06:59.102 What happened in 2020 with AAA is they would pick your car up, but not you.   06:59.122 --> 07:03.006 Yeah, that sounds about right.   07:03.326 --> 07:06.048 And they said they didn't want to risk giving the drivers COVID.   07:06.108 --> 07:07.129 So I was in 2020.   07:09.451 --> 07:10.411 Maybe it was 2021.   07:10.471 --> 07:11.932 It was still in effect.   07:12.092 --> 07:19.073 I get caught in the middle of the wilderness, basically, between Chattanooga and Sparta.   07:19.893 --> 07:21.714 So I'm like literally on the side of the road.   07:21.734 --> 07:22.874 There's nothing around.   07:22.914 --> 07:26.115 And they're like, well, you can't ride with the driver because of our policies.   07:27.555 --> 07:28.755 And I'm like, what am I supposed to do?   07:28.775 --> 07:29.755 You know what they told me to do?   07:29.775 --> 07:31.276 Get an Uber?   07:32.036 --> 07:32.676 Call a cab.   07:34.890 --> 07:37.215 I'm like, I don't know if you understand where I am right now.   07:37.275 --> 07:38.999 Because, you know, they're always like, are you safe?   07:39.059 --> 07:40.361 I'm like, no, I'm not safe.   07:41.143 --> 07:43.448 I'm on the side of the road in the middle of the winter.   07:44.700 --> 07:47.401 And so they were like, well, we don't know what to tell you, ma'am.   07:47.521 --> 07:49.561 This is this is the deal during covid.   07:50.502 --> 07:58.404 And that made me rethink my relationship with Triple A. Now, what I ended up doing was asking the driver if he cared if I jumped in and he said, are you sick?   07:58.464 --> 07:59.004 And I said, no.   07:59.024 --> 08:00.085 He said, then go ahead.   08:00.725 --> 08:01.485 And I did get it.   08:01.785 --> 08:03.586 Like it was a driver decision.   08:03.606 --> 08:08.147 And I did have friends coming to pick me up if that didn't happen.   08:08.167 --> 08:11.188 But they were going to have to drive like two hours to get me.   08:12.228 --> 08:14.631 Meanwhile, my car was towed, you know, because it was broken down.   08:15.011 --> 08:19.635 So what do you think about that in AAA?   08:19.675 --> 08:25.441 Like they're kind of dead to me, but not dead to me because it's the only towing service I've really found that seems to work at all.   08:26.342 --> 08:28.764 That doesn't cost you an arm and a leg when you have to get it.   08:28.784 --> 08:28.864 Yeah.   08:29.205 --> 08:29.445 Yeah.   08:30.552 --> 08:35.134 Yeah, like, okay, first of all, everyone went insane during COVID.   08:35.634 --> 08:41.617 I mean, let's face it, totally reasonable, rational people I know lost their freaking minds.   08:42.497 --> 08:46.839 So I can't fault AAA too much, and they've probably done away with that policy.   08:47.419 --> 08:53.082 Like way, way back in the day, 2010, they actually could not leave you on the side of the road.   08:53.862 --> 08:55.203 They had policies against that.   08:55.771 --> 09:00.993 If you had to like load five people into your tiny two person cab, you did it.   09:01.433 --> 09:04.014 You drive to the next exit and you let them off.   09:04.554 --> 09:09.355 But as I said, people lost their minds during COVID.   09:10.696 --> 09:12.416 Yeah, that happened once to my mom too.   09:12.436 --> 09:19.259 She was stuck in the middle of the freeway, like the middle left middle because the car went into limp mode.   09:19.279 --> 09:19.939 Do you know what that is?   09:20.993 --> 09:24.395 Yes, that is when it enters in when it only does 30 miles an hour.   09:24.516 --> 09:33.182 Oh, no, it did five, five, five in a rainstorm on I-40 won't go more than five rush hour traffic.   09:33.262 --> 09:35.883 She pulls into the left shoulder, calls AAA.   09:37.204 --> 09:40.667 And they're like, well, we can't get there for four hours.   09:42.448 --> 09:43.048 Are you safe?   09:43.088 --> 09:44.790 And I'm like, no, she's actually not safe.   09:45.578 --> 09:50.641 Like anybody could just reef into the back of that car and they go super fast and whatever.   09:50.881 --> 09:51.501 And you can't see.   09:51.982 --> 09:55.884 So the police came and they actually drove her to the next exit, which was nice.   09:57.585 --> 10:01.687 That is something you should probably look at depending on your location.   10:02.227 --> 10:06.089 Suppose the police had said, no, we don't want to wait for AAA.   10:06.109 --> 10:08.010 We're going to call one of our guys and they'll tow you.   10:09.651 --> 10:14.254 And a lot of AAA states, if they cannot get to you in a reasonable amount of time, they will pay for the tow.   10:15.586 --> 10:18.849 I have had that happen with them too, where they couldn't get there for four hours.   10:18.889 --> 10:20.130 And I said, what's my option?   10:20.170 --> 10:21.471 And they said, you get reimbursed.   10:22.731 --> 10:24.473 And then they reimbursed me 80 bucks.   10:27.315 --> 10:29.136 Yeah, that probably wasn't enough to cover the tow, was it?   10:29.356 --> 10:32.417 It actually was in that case, because I live in the middle of nowhere.   10:32.777 --> 10:33.057 Yeah.   10:33.657 --> 10:37.759 It would not have been the case had it been that incident in the middle of the road.   10:38.679 --> 10:40.359 So we didn't know what limp mode was.   10:40.580 --> 10:44.801 So I didn't know why the car was only going five miles per hour and going doop, doop, doop, doop, doop.   10:44.921 --> 10:47.242 But I was like, hmm, sounds like a transmission problem, right?   10:47.802 --> 10:55.344 Had I known about limp mode, I would have been like, hey, cops, let us get over to the right hand shoulder and then we'll just limp to the next exit.   10:55.464 --> 10:56.404 Down to the next exit.   10:56.504 --> 11:05.206 It seems to me that limp mode is a really dangerous thing when it drops you to five miles an hour and won't let you do anything because you basically can't get yourself out of a situation at that point.   11:05.246 --> 11:06.846 I don't have that car anymore for that reason.   11:08.606 --> 11:09.226 They're dead to me.   11:09.847 --> 11:11.227 People become dead to me easily.   11:13.737 --> 11:21.261 Well, if it's between limp mode and the car not running, I prefer limp mode because, you know, at least I can move a little bit versus some cars.   11:21.301 --> 11:23.743 They will literally just shut down and tell you, nope, not moving.   11:24.063 --> 11:25.044 But you're capable of it.   11:25.244 --> 11:25.564 Don't care.   11:25.604 --> 11:26.004 Not doing it.   11:26.664 --> 11:27.145 Exactly.   11:27.165 --> 11:42.634 I mean, I've driven on on rims before to get out of dangerous situations just because I'm like, I know this is going to cost me a lot, but I'd rather pay money for that than like die on the side of the road because my car had a blowout of some sort in a really dangerous place.   11:43.514 --> 11:47.436 Um, but you know, I'm a weirdo and everybody's like, why do women always do that?   11:47.476 --> 11:50.278 I'm like, cause I'm not going to get out of my car and get hit by a semi.   11:50.378 --> 11:58.121 That's why I, I feel like woman versus semi semi wins every time, every time.   11:59.402 --> 11:59.782 Yeah.   12:00.202 --> 12:04.405 Red fire made it says waited six hours in Austin at night with a motorcycle.   12:04.465 --> 12:04.745 So, um,   12:05.737 --> 12:09.778 How what else should you do besides have something like AAA?   12:09.798 --> 12:11.319 Because I mean, it works.   12:11.499 --> 12:12.759 It is better than nothing.   12:12.839 --> 12:18.081 It's probably the best option I found out there from a price to benefit ratio.   12:18.821 --> 12:22.702 But obviously, I have lots of stories about being stranded by AAA.   12:22.782 --> 12:24.382 And we have some in the comments here.   12:24.422 --> 12:26.623 Like, what else can you do?   12:28.985 --> 12:57.057 something else this is just very basic stuff get a floor jack one with wheels on it i don't recommend the bottle jack and the reason i say the floor jack with wheels is because if you need to you can use it to help get your lug nuts off keep your car on the ground put those stupid little bar they give you and put the jack on the side of the bar so that way when you jack it up it turns the lug because some people out there like my wife she weighs 110 pounds soaking wet   12:58.044 --> 13:02.385 If she's driving an F-250, she does not have the body mass to get that lug off.   13:03.025 --> 13:03.686 It doesn't matter.   13:03.826 --> 13:04.646 It's not happening.   13:05.346 --> 13:12.448 However, she can jack it up, then stand on it, or use the jack in reverse to retighten the bolts if she needs to.   13:14.389 --> 13:19.850 And to know how to do that, how do you know those things to do besides just that one tip?   13:22.731 --> 13:25.732 Heard a lot of horror stories and found ways around them.   13:25.752 --> 13:26.452 Yeah.   13:27.524 --> 13:30.086 The other thing is try to have more than your cell phone.   13:30.206 --> 13:33.268 I mean, I know, like you said, we've become so reliant on these things.   13:33.588 --> 13:34.309 It has a light.   13:34.409 --> 13:35.970 What do I need a flashlight for?   13:35.990 --> 13:37.731 You want a flashlight.   13:37.851 --> 13:43.355 If it's pouring rain out, you do not want your cell phone sitting there as you're trying to get your lugs off.   13:45.338 --> 13:51.063 And your cell phone is not as bright as something like a Streamlight or like a decent pocket flashlight even.   13:53.244 --> 13:53.825 Correct.   13:53.985 --> 13:59.389 Another thing is, and I hate saying this, but dollar store glow sticks, they're not road flares.   13:59.869 --> 14:06.254 But, you know, if you buy five of them and just crack them and toss them down the road, at least they give people something.   14:06.354 --> 14:09.116 And worst case scenario, you have a glow stick light.   14:10.617 --> 14:11.738 Yeah, that makes sense.   14:11.798 --> 14:13.139 You know, I have one of those...   14:14.682 --> 14:21.028 cigarette lighter plug-in tire inflator, like compressors, it has a built-in light too.   14:21.048 --> 14:22.829 So every time it's on, it's flashlights on.   14:22.869 --> 14:27.313 Cause they just assume you need me in the middle of the night and you can't see anything outside.   14:28.574 --> 14:30.496 So that's another good one to have.   14:31.057 --> 14:34.560 The only thing I worry about with those is if your alternator dies or   14:35.094 --> 14:40.559 Because most people don't know that their alternator dies until they're going, why are my headlights getting dimmer?   14:40.879 --> 14:41.139 Yeah.   14:41.619 --> 14:43.401 And why did my radio stop?   14:44.122 --> 14:44.882 Oh, that's weird.   14:45.102 --> 14:48.085 So they just keep driving and then now your car is literally out of power.   14:48.906 --> 14:49.306 Right.   14:50.227 --> 14:53.008 I mean, those you're using it because you have a flat tire.   14:53.088 --> 14:56.890 And I don't know if you know this about me, but I have the flat tire curse.   14:57.971 --> 15:05.235 I may have actually finally passed it on, but there was a series of years where every time I went on any road trip of any kind.   15:06.846 --> 15:13.032 There was a tire blowout or a flat or I came out from the hotel one morning and there it was flat.   15:13.652 --> 15:20.659 And so that's why I have that thing, because I was like, OK, I can pump it up, get to where I need to go to get it patched or whatever.   15:20.699 --> 15:21.940 I do have a patch kit.   15:22.160 --> 15:24.723 I'm not terribly good at patching tires myself.   15:25.640 --> 15:28.041 But I like I can plug them if I need to.   15:28.341 --> 15:34.905 Usually it's it's a strength issue of getting the thing into the hole.   15:35.265 --> 15:35.765 The reamer.   15:35.965 --> 15:36.185 Yeah.   15:36.205 --> 15:36.525 Yeah.   15:37.266 --> 15:37.506 Yeah.   15:37.566 --> 15:39.507 That's that's my challenge with those.   15:39.647 --> 15:43.689 But I think like the more stubborn I am about it, the better it is.   15:43.749 --> 15:51.133 But having that way of inflating tires, no matter what, has been really helpful because I'm usually 20 miles from somewhere useful.   15:51.773 --> 15:53.515 at any given time when there's a problem.   15:53.575 --> 15:58.221 It's not like, oh, hey, look, there's a repair guy and my car just broke right here.   15:58.301 --> 16:00.944 Or there's a gas station and my car just broke right here.   16:00.964 --> 16:04.287 It's always like, okay, nope, no self service.   16:06.049 --> 16:06.770 Now what do I do?   16:06.810 --> 16:08.713 I got to get somewhere where I can go somewhere.   16:09.493 --> 16:11.736 So what's the most common?   16:12.337 --> 16:12.497 What?   16:13.587 --> 16:18.268 Another advantage to those is, at least around here, we get weather that's like negative 20.   16:18.848 --> 16:22.389 And when it is, those gas station compressors will not work.   16:22.990 --> 16:24.930 They turn on, but they don't pump air out.   16:25.290 --> 16:29.531 Those little plug into your lighter air compressors still work.   16:30.192 --> 16:31.492 Yeah, especially if your car is warm.   16:32.692 --> 16:33.192 Exactly.   16:33.813 --> 16:37.734 What do you tell people to do who are driving in environments like yours where it is really cold?   16:37.754 --> 16:42.675 Like what else should they have in the car besides some, you know, basic water and food?   16:43.775 --> 17:09.888 space blanket you can buy 10 of them for like 12 bucks on amazon and they are a lifesaver and this may sound weird but believe it or not if you are broken down in a car with no gas the car will be colder than the actual outside because why is that a giant ice box something to do with the metal and thermal dynamics and some math that is just beyond me at the moment   17:10.339 --> 17:14.622 But yes, there have been multiple studies done, one of them actually done by AAA.   17:15.222 --> 17:19.465 And it turns out outside of your car actually is warmer than inside of your car at a certain point.   17:19.765 --> 17:21.627 Yeah, unless you have a windshield, I assume.   17:21.647 --> 17:23.188 That's insane.   17:23.728 --> 17:23.948 Yeah.   17:26.250 --> 17:26.870 Oh, the cat.   17:27.871 --> 17:28.291 What else?   17:28.612 --> 17:30.893 Space blankets, water, food, anything else?   17:31.273 --> 17:32.814 Hand warmers, anything like that?   17:33.535 --> 17:35.817 Hand warmers are a nice one to keep.   17:35.897 --> 17:37.698 However, most people lose them.   17:39.180 --> 17:41.381 I've stopped recommending them because people throw them in their trunk.   17:41.422 --> 17:45.444 Then when they need them, I can't find them or they throw them in their glove box.   17:45.524 --> 17:50.006 And then, you know, I throw 10,000 other things in my glove box and I cannot find them.   17:50.647 --> 17:54.269 You mean they don't all have a little kit in their card with all the stuff in it?   17:54.689 --> 17:55.489 No, no, no.   17:55.529 --> 17:56.110 Most people don't.   17:56.150 --> 17:59.271 They just throw it in the back of their truck or in their trunk, whatever.   18:01.713 --> 18:05.495 Another thing I tend to recommend is just some basic toiletries.   18:06.431 --> 18:09.033 Toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, soap.   18:10.234 --> 18:19.961 I mean, if you happen to get stuck or God forbid sleeping in your car because the roads are closed, they washed out, they had to close down the road because some guy's holding a family hostage.   18:21.142 --> 18:28.628 If you can sleep in a Walmart parking lot, go into the Walmart and just, you know, wash your face, some other necessities.   18:28.788 --> 18:30.449 It makes you feel 10 times better.   18:31.860 --> 18:32.120 Yeah.   18:32.180 --> 18:35.122 I know somebody who actually ended up in a Walmart parking lot.   18:35.162 --> 18:42.948 I think recently waiting for her husband when the past got just jacked up with truck trucks sliding all over the place.   18:42.968 --> 18:44.509 And luckily they got a hotel that night.   18:44.749 --> 18:50.713 That's the other thing is when they closed the highway snow or something, all of the hotels are instantly booked.   18:51.534 --> 18:51.694 Yep.   18:52.655 --> 18:54.396 So how do you get your hotel room in that case?   18:54.476 --> 18:57.198 If you see a road closing, how do you get the hotel first?   18:59.209 --> 19:01.230 Go for off the beaten path.   19:01.350 --> 19:03.212 Don't look for hotels next to airports.   19:03.252 --> 19:04.332 That's what everyone goes for.   19:05.133 --> 19:07.134 And those tend to be the first ones that fill up.   19:08.175 --> 19:10.116 And this is a little tweak here.   19:10.436 --> 19:11.317 Don't look for hotel.   19:11.357 --> 19:12.157 Look for motel.   19:12.437 --> 19:13.618 Everyone looks for hotel.   19:13.938 --> 19:14.679 Those fill up.   19:14.819 --> 19:15.820 Look for motel.   19:16.480 --> 19:18.782 And you might be able to find something a little better.   19:19.942 --> 19:24.505 Downside motels tend to be a little lower quality.   19:24.645 --> 19:25.706 So, yeah.   19:26.306 --> 19:27.307 Bed bugs are a thing.   19:28.047 --> 19:28.468 Oh, yeah.   19:29.304 --> 19:35.029 Well, that and fights outside your door at certain motels.   19:35.329 --> 19:36.110 Oh, yeah.   19:36.130 --> 19:36.991 Three in the morning.   19:37.271 --> 19:37.591 Yeah.   19:38.212 --> 19:38.352 Yeah.   19:38.432 --> 19:43.076 I like to when I'm going to be if I'm at a motel that feels sketchy, which I try not to do.   19:43.756 --> 19:47.800 I love to be on the front office side of the building.   19:49.521 --> 19:52.544 Because the fights all seem to happen in the pool area.   19:53.826 --> 20:14.091 where they can't see so just a little i mean if you end up in that situation and it's safer than staying in your car then you know see if you can get located somewhere where the people who are there all night and awake all night are are also able to see your door that's super helpful um   20:15.379 --> 20:20.782 The thing I noticed, so I was one time, I've done a lot of things on I-40.   20:20.822 --> 20:22.703 This was in New Mexico.   20:23.183 --> 20:24.504 Blizzard was coming through.   20:24.524 --> 20:29.327 And one person was driving, one person was calling.   20:30.427 --> 20:33.309 to make reservations.   20:33.409 --> 20:39.995 Calling was better than the websites at that time because the websites would allow reservations to go through when there weren't rooms.   20:40.735 --> 20:41.716 So it was better to call.   20:42.197 --> 20:50.323 It's almost better to pull over for 10 minutes and find where you're going and then go rather than drive as fast as you can out of that situation.   20:50.383 --> 20:54.647 But everything was booked for hours around that closure.   20:54.687 --> 20:57.329 And I-40 was closed for a couple of days because of that blizzard.   20:58.314 --> 21:01.195 I ended up actually driving south.   21:01.916 --> 21:02.796 We didn't get a hotel room.   21:04.077 --> 21:04.717 We drove south.   21:04.737 --> 21:07.378 Because you know what happens as you go further south?   21:07.638 --> 21:09.880 Usually, it gets warmer.   21:10.780 --> 21:15.582 And eventually, we got to the rain part of the storm instead of the snow part of the storm.   21:15.622 --> 21:16.383 And then we get heavy.   21:16.423 --> 21:20.524 So we just replanned our entire route around.   21:21.285 --> 21:23.606 I'm not driving in the snow and I-40 is closed.   21:27.503 --> 21:29.025 Oh, I get that.   21:29.425 --> 21:38.395 Something I've seen is if it's a blizzard, hotels actually will put a cot in like the gym and only be like, tell you what, 50 bucks on a choice.   21:39.697 --> 21:40.438 Is it pleasant?   21:40.758 --> 21:41.078 No.   21:41.098 --> 21:42.680 Is it better than sleeping in your car?   21:43.101 --> 21:43.361 Yep.   21:44.262 --> 21:44.642 Yep.   21:45.183 --> 21:46.645 That's actually not a bad play.   21:48.004 --> 21:49.265 Lots of cots in the gym.   21:49.305 --> 21:49.825 Who cares?   21:49.905 --> 21:52.326 I mean, it's actually better than dying outside.   21:53.606 --> 21:59.548 What's the most common problem you see when people are traveling and are there ways to prevent it?   22:02.229 --> 22:06.371 Most common problem, especially with flying, is lost luggage, believe it or not.   22:08.152 --> 22:11.253 There is, well, I haven't used this trick in a few years, but   22:12.637 --> 22:15.618 A friend of mine actually recommended this one to me for your carry-on.   22:16.278 --> 22:21.440 If you put a starter pistol in your bag, you have to declare that you have a gun in your bag.   22:21.940 --> 22:29.602 Starter pistols are legal in all 50 states, and they are then required to take much better care of that bag.   22:31.223 --> 22:35.304 So it increases the tracking on it and increases the odds that it'll get to your destination.   22:36.400 --> 22:45.284 Now, if you don't want to go this route, and if you don't have a starter pistol, it's just not something you want to do, it depends.   22:45.344 --> 22:46.965 Are you traveling for business or pleasure?   22:47.685 --> 22:52.807 If I'm flying for pleasure and I get there and they've lost my bag, whatever.   22:53.227 --> 22:54.828 My friends make fun of me a little bit.   22:54.948 --> 22:56.909 I wear the same clothes for a few days.   22:57.029 --> 22:57.990 I go to Goodwill.   22:58.010 --> 22:58.950 It's not a big deal.   22:59.867 --> 23:03.850 Suppose I'm traveling for business and my bag had my suit in it.   23:04.350 --> 23:10.094 This is now a significantly bigger deal because I need to go to the place and look nice.   23:10.154 --> 23:17.840 I can't show up in my travel clothes because let's face it, I look like a hobo at this point because I dress for comfort on the flight, not to impress anyone.   23:18.860 --> 23:26.186 In this case, something we recommend doing is if you're traveling locally, look up places where you could buy a replacement and get an idea.   23:27.142 --> 23:43.909 so you know i need a new suit well i don't want to buy one well there's a men's warehouse right here how much will this cost me okay cool if you're traveling internationally this changes significantly because at this point now you need to before you go look up the translations   23:45.385 --> 23:47.546 Europe does not use the same sizes we do.   23:48.326 --> 23:53.448 And if you go in there with American sizes, you are not going to get clothes that fit at all.   23:53.928 --> 24:01.430 And it can save you a lot of hassle in the long run, just looking up basic translation for sizes, especially when it comes to undergarments.   24:03.991 --> 24:07.712 The way I learned that was by being there and asking him, what size do you think I should try on?   24:10.143 --> 24:14.606 but I actually get really frustrated with the American sizes on Birkenstocks.   24:14.686 --> 24:20.811 Cause I know my Birkenstock European shoe size, which is different in a Birkenstock than other shoes in Europe.   24:21.652 --> 24:28.137 They are the same sizes, but yeah, anyway, something about the wider footbed means I can have a smaller size on that.   24:30.880 --> 24:34.262 You order them on Amazon and they're like, get size nine.   24:34.303 --> 24:35.944 And I'm like, but is it,   24:37.691 --> 24:38.812 Is it a 42?   24:39.072 --> 24:39.853 Is it a 40?   24:40.073 --> 24:40.914 Is it a 39?   24:40.954 --> 24:42.316 Like, what are you actually going to send me?   24:42.976 --> 24:46.620 So I've had a lot like it varies the translation a little bit.   24:49.322 --> 24:52.345 It varies, especially depending on undergarments.   24:55.528 --> 25:00.213 Bras in particular tend to go by much different sizes over in Europe than they do here.   25:01.491 --> 25:04.413 So that's something you need to prepare for and be aware of.   25:04.433 --> 25:11.918 I mean, I know women's sizes are all over the place anyway, but you're going to have to deal with the translation and the sizes being all over the place.   25:12.679 --> 25:15.921 Yeah, I was really frustrated because I had to order a bra here.   25:15.941 --> 25:21.525 And it's like you measure yourself under your boobs and there's a number.   25:21.545 --> 25:24.447 So one would think logically you use that number.   25:24.487 --> 25:27.769 No, you add two to four inches to that number and then you order that size.   25:28.618 --> 25:29.738 And I had to go look it up.   25:29.818 --> 25:33.699 I'm like, how do I stop getting bras that are like too tight?   25:33.739 --> 25:34.659 Cause I'm not going to wear these.   25:34.679 --> 25:35.700 I kept returning them.   25:35.720 --> 25:38.120 And I was like, Oh, because it doesn't make sense.   25:38.140 --> 25:40.421 That's why it does not make sense.   25:41.381 --> 25:41.561 So.   25:41.581 --> 25:44.102 Men's sizes are easy, at least in America.   25:44.122 --> 25:46.242 Like you just wrap a tape measure around your waist.   25:46.262 --> 25:46.522 Okay.   25:46.722 --> 25:47.043 34 inches.   25:47.343 --> 25:50.403 That's how it should be done for women.   25:50.503 --> 25:56.425 Like waist, this hip, that like, here's your size in seam.   25:56.465 --> 25:56.805 The other.   25:58.175 --> 25:58.836 Imagine that.   25:58.916 --> 26:03.599 No, we have to call them numbers so we don't admit how big around our waist are.   26:03.739 --> 26:05.620 I think it's a vanity thing here.   26:06.440 --> 26:08.301 Somebody in the comments is going to fix that for me.   26:08.321 --> 26:10.103 They're going to be like, no, it's based on blah, blah, blah.   26:11.844 --> 26:13.184 No, I agree with you.   26:13.224 --> 26:16.406 I think it's, oh my God, my hips are this big?   26:17.547 --> 26:19.909 Instead of just saying, oh yeah, you're a size 12.   26:20.429 --> 26:21.730 Yeah.   26:21.750 --> 26:22.430 12 is beautiful.   26:22.990 --> 26:25.392 And then 12 has changed from the 50s till now.   26:27.396 --> 26:27.977 What hasn't?   26:28.617 --> 26:30.459 Yeah, that's also true.   26:30.479 --> 26:32.921 I mean, and it will again by the next 50s.   26:32.961 --> 26:34.642 I'm not sure I'll be alive for the next 50s.   26:34.662 --> 26:35.003 We'll see.   26:37.205 --> 26:43.110 OK, well, so let's go back to getting prepared for air travel.   26:43.170 --> 26:45.812 Like, what do you recommend people do for that?   26:48.573 --> 26:52.837 Okay, the key to being prepared for air travel is being prepared for the TSA.   26:53.457 --> 26:55.639 I hate to say it, but that is the number one thing.   26:56.159 --> 26:59.162 Make sure you wear shoes that you can take off easily.   26:59.702 --> 27:06.388 Try to limit the metal on you, like your watch, your ring, whatever, take it off, throw it in your carry-on.   27:07.449 --> 27:09.610 Always make sure when you travel, you have a carry-on.   27:09.670 --> 27:16.276 Worst case scenario, at least you have, you know, a spare pair of pants, boxers, shirt, and socks that you can change into.   27:16.561 --> 27:18.942 I mean, I always need that spare pair of boxers in my luggage.   27:20.063 --> 27:20.883 I figured you would.   27:24.064 --> 27:25.685 I got what I get pulled out for.   27:25.705 --> 27:32.889 I got I actually started setting off the the thingy on my last trip.   27:34.509 --> 27:37.991 And oh, I have a metal hair comb.   27:40.313 --> 27:56.332 that on you know in nashville didn't set it off but it totally set it off at this other airport and they were like you got to take it all the way out ma'am we have to make sure that's what it is i was like okay here yeah here's my non-sharp metal hair comb   27:58.050 --> 28:03.094 The TSA is not a group you want to play a F around with.   28:03.354 --> 28:03.734 Yeah.   28:04.114 --> 28:07.397 And I will drag you into a side room faster than you can blink.   28:07.457 --> 28:07.757 Yeah.   28:07.837 --> 28:11.920 I mean, whatever it's, it's, it is important to know that I, I travel a lot.   28:11.980 --> 28:14.501 So I work really hard not to have to get pulled aside.   28:15.062 --> 28:23.708 And in the last year, because I travel with my food now, mostly to stay on my eating plan, the food trips them up more than anything else.   28:25.629 --> 28:32.016 Like, if you have a summer sausage in your bag, you can guarantee that they're going to have to look at it and make sure it's not a liquid.   28:32.977 --> 28:33.938 Oh, yeah.   28:34.498 --> 28:38.362 I have problems with highly processed food.   28:38.843 --> 28:41.586 So a lot of the times I'll pack a protein powder with me.   28:42.407 --> 28:45.570 Every time I go through, they need to get someone to test that powder.   28:46.551 --> 28:47.132 Every time.   28:48.503 --> 28:50.325 The same goes for cheese starters.   28:50.805 --> 29:02.153 Like the cheese, I did a cheese making class and I had to go through and I, you know, like when you're teaching a class, you're not going to check under the plane, risking it getting lost the culture you need to teach the cheese class.   29:03.254 --> 29:08.698 So I had this little white packet of powder and they were like, what's that?   29:08.978 --> 29:13.162 And I was like, well, it's a mesophilic culture for making cheese.   29:14.383 --> 29:14.843 Duh.   29:16.363 --> 29:19.067 And they were like, yeah, we can have to get someone to do this.   29:19.448 --> 29:22.032 We need to make sure that's not cocaine, ma'am.   29:22.072 --> 29:22.773 I'm like, really?   29:24.943 --> 29:26.364 Do I look like I'm on cocaine?   29:26.384 --> 29:27.245 But I guess whatever.   29:27.545 --> 29:28.986 Maybe I do look like I'm on cocaine.   29:29.006 --> 29:30.648 I do drink a good amount of coffee.   29:33.030 --> 29:33.650 You and me both.   29:35.432 --> 29:36.693 I love me some good coffee.   29:37.754 --> 29:40.516 So let's go back to situational awareness now.   29:40.556 --> 29:45.160 Let's say I know I need to fly to Texas in May for Exit and Build Lamb Summit.   29:45.220 --> 29:49.623 And I'm going to go from Nashville to Austin.   29:50.524 --> 29:57.527 And then I'm going to like grab an Uber to wherever I'm staying for the exit and build land summit in Bastrop.   29:58.368 --> 30:09.212 How do I figure out from a just geopolitical slash whatever's going on standpoint, what I need to be aware of there?   30:09.372 --> 30:19.697 And it's sort of like, I guess the background for this question is when I flew from California home for Christmas or home here after Christmas, I got a text from my dad saying, did you make it home?   30:21.092 --> 30:21.852 And I was like, yeah.   30:21.932 --> 30:26.294 He's like, well, there were protests that shut down the airport in LAX.   30:26.334 --> 30:28.134 And I was like, well, I didn't fly out of LAX.   30:28.214 --> 30:29.815 So because I just try not to.   30:31.495 --> 30:40.558 But I know I've been in one other incident where protests and riots kind of broke out at the hotel I was in in Ferguson.   30:41.741 --> 30:49.927 Which I totally, by doing a little bit of situational analysis, could have avoided that one by just knowing what was going on in the world.   30:49.967 --> 30:54.211 So like, are there steps you recommend people take or how do we prepare ourselves for that?   30:56.212 --> 31:00.356 Depending on where you're going in the world, as you know, most places have patterns.   31:01.056 --> 31:02.077 It's something to look into.   31:02.557 --> 31:06.921 Like last time I checked, France rioted around the same time every year.   31:07.878 --> 31:09.159 Don't go to France during that time.   31:10.300 --> 31:13.143 If you get invited to stay at a place, do a little bit of Googling.   31:13.663 --> 31:18.507 This may sound basic, but look at house prices around there.   31:18.688 --> 31:25.834 If you're seeing a giant four-bedroom house that's 2,000 square feet and it's only valued at $40,000, not a good neighborhood.   31:26.615 --> 31:27.375 Not a good neighborhood.   31:29.827 --> 31:31.408 Be aware of that before going in.   31:32.248 --> 31:34.009 And most of all, listen to your gut.   31:34.409 --> 31:38.110 If your gut says, uh-oh, bad things, bad things, don't go.   31:38.130 --> 31:42.352 It doesn't matter if you're Sac-A-Meal or Navy SEAL.   31:42.912 --> 31:45.433 There are certain situations that you do not want a part of.   31:45.813 --> 31:47.894 And even if you win, you lose.   31:49.568 --> 31:59.485 and this is a tip for international travel a lot of places they have signs that say beware of pickpocket everyone does the same thing they touch their wallet when they see that sign   32:00.543 --> 32:02.083 Don't touch your wallet.   32:02.744 --> 32:04.864 If you're a woman, keep your purse zipped up.   32:05.224 --> 32:08.625 Keep it going around your body, not hanging off one shoulder.   32:09.046 --> 32:11.466 If you're a man, keep your wallet in your front pocket.   32:11.906 --> 32:13.567 No one goes for your front pocket.   32:13.887 --> 32:15.868 It is way too close to the family jewels.   32:16.288 --> 32:20.609 If someone sticks anything in my front pocket, I am aware that they are there.   32:22.349 --> 32:23.950 I got pickpocketed in Prague.   32:25.175 --> 32:32.182 And it was not a lot of money, but I always kept a little change purse in my bag.   32:32.963 --> 32:36.286 And somebody got it out of my bag and that was it.   32:36.366 --> 32:39.829 And I was like, well, I'm glad I don't keep, like I always wear one of the undershirt   32:41.673 --> 33:06.621 things when i have to travel with cash and that's where you know my important stuff was but i lost five bucks man so they had a good day so even when you know you could be pickpocketed and you think you're situationally aware you can still get pickpocketed and not know it absolutely if you're going into a high pickpocket area it is not a good idea to carry cash in your wallet   33:07.589 --> 33:35.989 or in your bag worst of all um another place people usually get swiped is falling asleep at the airport oh yeah yeah tell you how many people i've talked to said hey i fell asleep in the airport and my laptop's gone my wallet's gone my cell phone's gone i'm calling you from a random person's cell phone can you please help me yes we could but still shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place oh i know somebody whose laptop got swiped on the airplane   33:37.401 --> 33:38.421 That's kind of impressive.   33:38.601 --> 33:39.021 It was.   33:39.061 --> 33:40.362 They were in the airplane.   33:41.162 --> 33:44.742 They worked on their laptop, put it in the bag, and at some point got up to pee.   33:45.723 --> 33:52.684 Came back to their seat, didn't notice it until they walked off the plane and were going to sit down and do something, and their laptop had been taken out of their bag.   33:53.324 --> 33:55.544 Presumably by the person sitting next to them.   33:56.705 --> 34:00.865 They were able to report it and catch the person before they got to the next flight.   34:01.225 --> 34:04.006 So they got their computer back, but...   34:05.319 --> 34:13.866 Like some people are very brazen about stuff, which is kind of interesting because now I'm making everybody paranoid about being around people all the time and their stuff getting stolen.   34:13.906 --> 34:16.188 But the other thing is when you travel.   34:18.550 --> 34:20.771 Do your best not to bring stuff that can't get stolen.   34:20.811 --> 34:22.513 That's that's something I've always thought like.   34:23.900 --> 34:28.024 If this gets stolen, it's going to be a bummer, especially if they can crack my password.   34:28.064 --> 34:32.648 But if they can't crack my password, what happens is this gets reset, right?   34:33.749 --> 34:36.171 And gets resold somewhere in theory.   34:37.912 --> 34:43.917 Everything that's on this, I can restore to another one of these in about 10 minutes right now.   34:45.699 --> 34:49.202 My laptop, it would actually really hurt if that got stolen right now.   34:51.331 --> 34:54.797 So that's where I'm like, oh, that's my weak spot.   34:54.817 --> 34:56.519 Because that's usually like this.   34:56.599 --> 34:57.721 It usually can be restored.   34:57.761 --> 35:03.891 But right now there are some decisions I made about the laptop that need to be unmade if it's going to travel with me.   35:05.683 --> 35:07.705 And some things like that you can't get around.   35:08.265 --> 35:11.528 I mean, I need to bring my laptop if I'm traveling, period.   35:11.588 --> 35:12.088 End of story.   35:12.108 --> 35:12.869 It has stuff on it.   35:13.309 --> 35:14.470 I mean, like you said, my phone.   35:15.251 --> 35:18.954 I can, you know, back up everything and get it all on my new phone in 10 minutes.   35:19.534 --> 35:23.558 Also, I have a nifty app that allows me to track this, take pictures, and listen to what you're saying.   35:24.398 --> 35:27.601 So, yes, I stand good odds of getting my phone back.   35:27.701 --> 35:30.183 But if it gets lost, eh, whatever.   35:30.523 --> 35:33.085 I can literally pick up a burner at Walmart and is it great?   35:33.345 --> 35:33.546 Nope.   35:33.926 --> 35:34.747 Will it do what I need?   35:34.987 --> 35:35.147 Yep.   35:35.492 --> 35:36.192 Will it get me through it?   35:36.552 --> 35:36.752 Yep.   35:38.573 --> 35:45.434 Another thing people can do is take photocopies of your identification and any cards you have with you and put them in your safe at home.   35:46.634 --> 35:56.896 And then if you're out and about and your passport gets stolen, at least you have the information you need to start the ball rolling to get some sort of identification.   35:57.816 --> 35:59.996 That brings me up to another travel tip.   36:01.016 --> 36:03.857 Take copies of your ID and email them to a friend.   36:04.757 --> 36:04.997 Oh, yeah.   36:05.768 --> 36:09.451 We keep copies of frequent travelers ID on hand.   36:09.871 --> 36:14.595 And if you lose your driver's license, your odds of checking into that hotel go way down.   36:16.197 --> 36:21.641 If we send them a picture of your driver's license, about 50 to 60% of the time, they'll take that.   36:22.422 --> 36:25.104 And they'll go, okay, you lost your driver's license.   36:25.144 --> 36:25.645 Totally get it.   36:26.305 --> 36:27.386 We'll work with you on this.   36:27.807 --> 36:29.508 Hopefully your card was already on file.   36:30.390 --> 36:30.650 Yeah.   36:31.251 --> 36:35.354 Well, and if you if you store things in more than one place in that situation.   36:35.374 --> 36:39.517 And this is because I've done months of travel with a backpack.   36:41.078 --> 36:44.060 If you don't have all of your identification with you.   36:44.360 --> 36:45.922 So if you have some at home, that's real.   36:46.846 --> 36:48.408 that can be overnighted to you.   36:49.148 --> 36:56.576 If you have a passport and a driver's license in two different places, if one gets stolen or lost, you probably have the other one.   36:56.596 --> 37:02.062 If you have them all in a nice, neat little container with your credit cards, you just lost everything at once.   37:03.163 --> 37:10.090 So I usually would have two different credit cards, separate places, two different IDs, separate places and cash separate places.   37:11.593 --> 37:11.773 Yep.   37:12.153 --> 37:14.555 And sometimes you lose your social security card too.   37:15.935 --> 37:17.336 I do not walk around with that thing.   37:17.736 --> 37:18.597 Me neither.   37:20.218 --> 37:22.099 No, don't walk around with your social security card.   37:23.139 --> 37:27.742 Like some of our frequently travel clients, what they do is they keep an Amex on file with us.   37:28.262 --> 37:28.522 Yeah.   37:28.682 --> 37:30.963 So that way, like, and they just leave their Amex at home.   37:31.443 --> 37:38.067 So no matter what happens, oh crap, I got here and the border patrol literally stole my wallet.   37:38.367 --> 37:39.728 They do that depending on where you go.   37:40.859 --> 37:46.142 Okay, we got you, call up, get you this, get you this, get you that, charge it all, you're set.   37:47.042 --> 37:55.206 What could have been a major, you know, hiccup now just became a slight little bump in the road and you can go on with your trip in relative ease.   37:56.907 --> 38:01.369 So with your concierge service, if I lose my ID, like how do you help me out?   38:02.790 --> 38:07.332 We'll email you a copy of your ID that we got previously from you because you told us that you travel.   38:08.052 --> 38:12.975 We'd also get a general indication of the sizes and type of clothes you like to wear, long or shoe sizes.   38:13.956 --> 38:16.498 Know what type of phone you have, whether it's an iPhone or Android.   38:16.558 --> 38:18.879 So that way we can send you an appropriate charging cord.   38:20.941 --> 38:23.082 Do you ever like shoot out phones to people?   38:24.083 --> 38:24.243 Yep.   38:24.623 --> 38:26.405 We had one guy who called us.   38:26.745 --> 38:28.866 I remember this one because it was from the Washington airport.   38:29.687 --> 38:31.528 And he's like, hey, can you help me?   38:31.988 --> 38:33.149 Everything just got stolen.   38:33.569 --> 38:34.810 I'm like, okay, you got your phone?   38:35.010 --> 38:37.092 No, I'm calling you from some random stranger's phone.   38:37.771 --> 38:39.032 Okay, what's around you?   38:39.052 --> 38:40.072 I'm at the Washington Airport.   38:40.132 --> 38:40.513 No, no, no.   38:40.613 --> 38:41.913 What is actually around you?   38:42.254 --> 38:43.114 There's the five guys.   38:43.514 --> 38:43.854 Cool.   38:43.894 --> 38:44.555 You like burgers?   38:44.655 --> 38:44.855 Yep.   38:45.175 --> 38:47.697 We're going to order you a burger, fry, and a drink.   38:48.437 --> 38:49.037 Go over there.   38:49.157 --> 38:49.417 Get it.   38:49.578 --> 38:50.058 Sit down.   38:50.478 --> 38:51.058 Relax.   38:52.259 --> 38:57.102 And we had someone deliver him a cell phone, a $500 Visa gift card.   38:57.522 --> 39:01.864 We emailed a copy of his ID to the hotel and had an Uber pick him up and take him there.   39:03.445 --> 39:04.646 I bet he was happy about that.   39:05.529 --> 39:07.651 He was, he upgraded it next time he got home.   39:10.493 --> 39:11.714 So how does that get paid for?   39:11.774 --> 39:19.580 It's like, okay, so this $500 gift card, is that you pay in addition to it and the subscription that you're paying is like for the service or how does that work?   39:20.561 --> 39:24.664 In his case, the $500 gift card was wrapped up in his subscription fee.   39:25.644 --> 39:25.885 Okay.   39:26.482 --> 39:29.024 So that was just part of part of the service.   39:29.824 --> 39:39.651 On the financial side, does that work because you have multiple people you're working with and it leverages together or do you buy insurance policies on top of that to cover costs?   39:39.671 --> 39:45.815 So we refer to it as flex funds per account and your flex funds can be used for anything.   39:46.556 --> 39:48.117 I need a $500 gift card.   39:48.218 --> 39:48.478 Okay.   39:48.618 --> 39:49.259 I need a phone.   39:49.419 --> 39:49.760 Okay.   39:50.280 --> 39:56.488 I need Uber Eats delivered to me for a week straight because my kid just got into a motorcycle accident and I'm not leaving his side.   39:56.808 --> 39:57.169 Gotcha.   39:58.671 --> 39:58.911 Okay.   39:59.031 --> 40:03.577 So you pay, I noticed on your site, it's like $50 a year up to $1,200 a year.   40:06.105 --> 40:06.866 Yep.   40:06.966 --> 40:08.768 Are you adding flex funds on top of that?   40:09.048 --> 40:10.850 Or is that part of that?   40:10.870 --> 40:13.932 Flex funds are wrapped up into the subscription fee.   40:15.033 --> 40:17.395 Some guy, he travels in and out of Canada a lot.   40:17.435 --> 40:20.398 He cannot stop mouthing off to the border patrol.   40:20.858 --> 40:24.021 So they take his cell phone every single time.   40:24.702 --> 40:28.305 So every time he gets out, he's like, hey, can I get another cell phone?   40:28.665 --> 40:29.005 Yep.   40:30.587 --> 40:32.749 He should just not have a cell phone in Canada.   40:34.338 --> 40:39.359 You know, he actually tried just deleting everything off it so they wouldn't have anything to hold them for.   40:39.679 --> 40:40.459 And they held them for that.   40:41.419 --> 40:42.839 Wait, why'd you delete everything off this?   40:43.560 --> 40:44.120 What are you hiding?   40:44.900 --> 40:47.900 Because at the border, you're required to open your cell phone.   40:48.720 --> 40:49.161 Really?   40:50.221 --> 40:50.421 Yeah.   40:50.741 --> 40:51.281 You didn't know that?   40:51.901 --> 40:59.562 No, because I don't know that I've gone to Canada with a cell phone since before flip phones went out of fashion.   41:00.142 --> 41:03.083 When you come back, they will tell you to open up your cell phone.   41:04.568 --> 41:05.509 What are they looking for?   41:05.529 --> 41:10.853 Nefarious text messages?   41:11.494 --> 41:11.814 Yes.   41:12.254 --> 41:14.396 Proof of nefarious acts, stuff like that.   41:15.177 --> 41:17.659 It's one of those, what I believe is government overreach.   41:18.019 --> 41:19.000 That is awful.   41:19.941 --> 41:20.261 Isn't it?   41:20.281 --> 41:23.924 Is that going into Canada or coming back to the U.S.?   41:24.164 --> 41:24.825 Coming back.   41:25.305 --> 41:25.605 Okay.   41:26.406 --> 41:26.986 So it's the U.S.   41:27.027 --> 41:27.707 government doing that?   41:28.688 --> 41:28.788 Yep.   41:29.468 --> 41:31.170 Well, at least he always gets held up coming back.   41:31.250 --> 41:31.610 So, yes.   41:31.950 --> 41:32.371 It must be.   41:32.391 --> 41:33.071 Yeah, those are U.S.   41:33.151 --> 41:34.893 agents asking to see yourself.   41:35.173 --> 41:41.899 Yeah, so I have traveled with smartphones to Europe and back and not had that.   41:41.959 --> 41:43.741 I don't know why Canada would be different.   41:46.523 --> 41:48.805 They're more worried about it because we're their neighbors.   41:48.886 --> 41:49.706 I don't know what to tell you.   41:49.726 --> 41:52.669 I mean, but it's our agents on your way back in, not their agents.   41:53.370 --> 41:53.710 Correct.   41:54.010 --> 41:54.771 And heck, screw you.   41:56.752 --> 41:57.573 just gave up my rights.   41:57.673 --> 41:57.773 Okay.   41:57.793 --> 41:58.493 We have a question.   41:58.513 --> 42:03.276 Do they, do you help people with alternative travel arrangements?   42:03.336 --> 42:06.498 Example in July, I took a train from Hungary to Romania.   42:07.079 --> 42:14.484 There was a train wreck and one train for eight hours became a five plus a bus for 22 hours.   42:14.584 --> 42:20.928 So basically in that situation, do you help them find a better way to get somewhere when, when stuff goes wrong or.   42:21.792 --> 42:24.073 Yes, that is one of the reasons we are here.   42:24.193 --> 42:30.395 We have done everything from getting you a ride service because they have different ride services depending on where you go.   42:30.955 --> 42:33.316 And we also partner with various travel agencies.   42:34.696 --> 42:34.936 Okay.   42:35.116 --> 42:39.598 I mean, generally speaking, if you book through a travel agency and something happens, they got you.   42:40.138 --> 42:41.939 They will help you work around that.   42:42.299 --> 42:43.939 Will they answer the phone 24 hours?   42:44.120 --> 42:44.820 Usually not.   42:45.520 --> 42:48.441 But when they do pick up the phone, they will help you.   42:49.764 --> 42:53.867 we had a client who his flight got canceled and he's like, I don't know what to do.   42:53.887 --> 42:54.888 I just need a ride home.   42:55.308 --> 42:56.269 I just need a ride home.   42:56.329 --> 42:57.170 I just need a ride home.   42:57.190 --> 42:58.351 I'm like, relax, relax.   42:58.871 --> 42:59.852 Ended up calling everyone.   43:00.252 --> 43:01.353 No one had a ride for him.   43:01.413 --> 43:05.336 The only thing was like one taxi service and it was going to cost a small fortune.   43:05.856 --> 43:08.819 Well, it turns out it was off season for limo services.   43:09.659 --> 43:12.962 So they were offering rides like dirt cheap.   43:13.302 --> 43:15.163 So we got this guy to stretch the limo.   43:17.265 --> 43:18.386 That's actually hilarious.   43:19.761 --> 43:20.602 Screw the taxis.   43:20.662 --> 43:21.542 I'm taking a limo.   43:22.883 --> 43:24.244 If it's cheaper, why not?   43:26.045 --> 43:31.449 Well, what basic overview advice would you give anybody who's looking to travel in 2024?   43:32.129 --> 43:33.690 Just like around the U.S.   43:37.172 --> 43:41.375 Number one piece of advice is know where you're going and know the local culture.   43:42.656 --> 43:45.398 I mean, I know that seems simple, but it's...   43:46.428 --> 43:47.990 Really not.   43:49.431 --> 43:51.333 Example, you go to Hawaii.   43:51.914 --> 43:53.115 They don't like to be rushed there.   43:53.716 --> 43:54.197 Period.   43:54.677 --> 43:55.578 End of story.   43:56.699 --> 43:59.762 I once lived there for over two years and I never once heard a car horn.   44:00.704 --> 44:05.288 Versus you go to Boston and it's, hi, welcome to Boston.   44:05.889 --> 44:07.431 I mean, it's just the way it is.   44:07.451 --> 44:08.432 Same thing with New York.   44:10.816 --> 44:14.580 Verse over there, you'll never hear a horn when the emergency vehicles come down.   44:14.921 --> 44:15.942 Everyone just pulls over.   44:15.962 --> 44:17.463 It doesn't matter what side of the road you're on.   44:17.964 --> 44:19.045 They don't like to be hurried.   44:19.085 --> 44:20.647 Your meal's coming out slow.   44:21.828 --> 44:24.351 And if you're a tourist, they're going to refer to you as a Howley.   44:24.371 --> 44:27.674 They will be very polite to you because you are bringing them a large amount of money.   44:27.694 --> 44:29.837 However, you are not one of them.   44:29.897 --> 44:30.838 Do not confuse it.   44:32.372 --> 44:41.359 Go down south, people tend to be a bit more on the polite side when it comes to customer service and a bit more rude in their personal lives.   44:42.099 --> 44:45.662 It's a weird formula, but is what it is.   44:46.422 --> 44:55.849 You go to New York, Boston, California, people talk fast, people drive fast, and you might as well get used to hearing the sounds of horns with red lights because that is your life.   44:57.470 --> 45:01.373 I'll tell you what, I live in the south and I flew home to Portland, Oregon.   45:02.227 --> 45:06.831 Well, it's not home anymore, but at the time, and I'd been here for years.   45:07.111 --> 45:13.036 And what happens in the checkout line here is you talk to people you don't know and nobody thinks it's weird.   45:14.918 --> 45:20.063 So I'm at the airport and we're going down the escalator and it's like kind of backed up.   45:20.123 --> 45:26.128 And I say something to the people in front of me and they're like, like, I'm going to ask them for money.   45:28.337 --> 45:29.638 Why did you talk to me?   45:29.698 --> 45:32.079 Northwest, you don't talk to strangers, apparently.   45:32.099 --> 45:40.545 And it seemed very unfriendly to me because I had apparently acclimated to polite conversation here out and about.   45:41.445 --> 45:42.146 Exactly.   45:42.166 --> 45:45.688 And I thought, man, I'm from here and you guys are rude.   45:47.819 --> 45:52.643 Or you go to New York and you try that, people are going to be reaching behind their back or backing up slowly.   45:53.023 --> 45:54.545 Because, oh, they're going to rob me?   45:55.065 --> 45:56.967 I talk to people in New York all the time.   45:57.007 --> 45:59.288 And what I learned is usually I'm asking directions.   46:00.650 --> 46:02.951 Like, is it that way to this street or that way?   46:02.972 --> 46:06.795 Because they all pop up out of the ground like a freaking prairie dog.   46:06.815 --> 46:07.856 And I'm like, I don't know where I am.   46:07.876 --> 46:10.298 And they'll be like, it's Fifth Avenue that way.   46:10.418 --> 46:15.121 And as long as you're walking the direction they are, they usually be like, yeah, that way.   46:15.998 --> 46:18.841 But if you try to stop somebody and ask them, they'd be like, screw off.   46:19.682 --> 46:22.104 So that was my hack in New York.   46:23.646 --> 46:27.770 New York, New York, and like Pine Bush, New York, very different cultures.   46:27.810 --> 46:30.573 You think that you just crossed six borders in a time zone.   46:31.293 --> 46:32.535 That is how different they are.   46:33.813 --> 46:35.394 Pine Bush, New York is out in the country.   46:35.454 --> 46:37.395 Last time I checked, it was a UFO hotspot.   46:37.895 --> 46:40.176 People went out there, watched little lights dance in the sky.   46:41.116 --> 46:42.657 Everyone's all friendly, whatever.   46:43.117 --> 46:45.938 You go to New York, New York at like two in the morning, you step outside.   46:46.619 --> 46:47.679 Very different environment.   46:48.420 --> 46:50.821 Yeah, I don't I haven't really been to rural New York much.   46:51.501 --> 46:56.443 I had an uncle who lived in Manhattan, so he used to always go there and visit him.   46:56.503 --> 46:58.344 But I don't know if he's still there or not.   46:58.624 --> 46:58.964 Anyway.   46:59.324 --> 47:02.746 OK, well, if people want to learn more about your service, like how do they do that?   47:04.281 --> 47:07.422 Go to r3-kon.com.   47:07.862 --> 47:19.767 Also, we are starting up a YouTube channel, giving various sorts of advice, like how to avoid bed bugs, especially if you have a job that requires you to travel and puts you up in cheap hotel rooms.   47:21.108 --> 47:21.468 All right.   47:21.668 --> 47:22.529 Any last words?   47:25.710 --> 47:26.370 Arrivederci.   47:27.290 --> 47:27.611 All right.   47:27.651 --> 47:28.771 Well, thanks for being on today.   47:28.891 --> 47:31.932 Thanks for having me, Nicole.   47:32.232 --> 47:33.253 It was a great time as always.