Situational Awareness in Travel with Kenny G
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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.
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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?
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Transcript
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Howdy, everybody, and welcome to today's live interview with Kenny G. Kenny G, you going to play some music?
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Maybe a little later.
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I think I forgot my guitar at the show.
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Is Kenny G your real name?
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Close enough.
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That's right, guys.
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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.
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And
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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.
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Yep.
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Okay, so one of those alerts came over my phone.
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I'm like, I have Amber Alerts.
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Shut off.
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Like, what's up?
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And a convict had escaped prison.
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So it was a different kind of alert.
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And he had taken people hostage.
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And they said, this is going on in this area.
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Well, I had made the critical error of following my GPS instead of my map to get around, to route around a traffic issue.
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So I didn't actually know where I was.
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And so when it said where it was, I didn't know where I where I was, where it was in relationship to that.
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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.
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And I got all the way to my destination.
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And it turned out I was within a couple of miles.
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And the guy ended up taking a family hostage, driving to Ohio and killing them before he was caught.
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And so that's what I mean by situational awareness.
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Like we get so used to technology that sometimes it's a really bad idea to just put your faith in it.
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But there's a lot of stuff you can do.
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Oh, I lost the light.
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There's a lot of stuff you can do between now and then.
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But let's start with before we jump into that.
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I'm just giving everybody the overview.
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Tell us who you are and how you ended up on LFTN anyway.
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Um, Ken or Kenny G if you prefer.
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And yes, that is the real first initial for my last name.
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Um, I am working or I work for the emergency concierge service, our three contingencies.
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We see a lot of things happen up, down, left, right.
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And I thought it would be a great topic here.
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And not to mention, I've reached out to Nicole for several things regarding business.
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So pay it back, right?
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Yeah.
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So what is our three contingencies before we jump in there?
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They are, as far as I know, the world's only emergency concierge service that there is.
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What does an emergency concierge service do?
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For example, let's say you go on a flight and they lose your luggage and you have a business meeting.
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It would have been something that we prep for and we would have clothes delivered to your hotel room.
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Well, that's pretty cool.
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With, you know, a Visa gift card if you need it, a phone charger, standard stuff that you may have forgotten or gotten lost.
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Or example, you run out because your kid's in the hospital.
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We deliver a phone charger to you, food, basic necessities, toothbrush, toothpaste, stuff like that.
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Wow.
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That sounds really good.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I found your website.
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So I thought I had to, you know, show it.
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Cause we have that capacity here.
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Okay.
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So let's go back to traveling though.
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Cause traveling has probably taught me more about prepping than anything else.
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One thing I learned is you never leave the house without a snack in your bag.
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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.
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And luckily you have that snack in your bag.
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But why should I prep for travel?
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And if I'm like with a tour group, should I still should I still prep for travel?
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And if so, why?
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Absolutely, you should still prep for travel.
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And prepping for travel is essential because let's face it, you never know.
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I live in New Hampshire, I'm really close to Boston.
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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.
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Yeah, what's that mean?
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Do you just get stuck on the road?
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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
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Well, why not?
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Because you make stupid choices when you're hangry.
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I mean, I know it says no U-turn, but I don't see anyone here and I'm starving.
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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?
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Right.
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But I got on the freeway going the wrong direction after getting gas.
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And then I took the next exit, which was a terrible idea.
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Ended up driving 28 miles one direction to where I could finally turn around after paying a toll and 28 miles back.
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And I kept looking at the gaps every so often that said, don't drive through here.
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And I finally like I was like, well, there's so many cars coming.
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I'm not going to do it right.
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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.
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We would have busted your ass because people get into accidents when they do that.
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So I made the right choice in that turn and in that situation.
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But what does what does prepping for travel look like?
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Depends.
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Are you flying or driving?
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I mean, we're talking about driving, so let's go with that.
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A simple low-hanging fruit is get AAA.
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It doesn't cost much, and if you get one tow, just one in like four years, it pays for itself.
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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.
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That adds up really, really fast.
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Yeah.
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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.
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And except for this year, because it's the second or third or something.
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What happened in 2020 with AAA is they would pick your car up, but not you.
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
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And they said they didn't want to risk giving the drivers COVID.
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So I was in 2020.
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Maybe it was 2021.
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It was still in effect.
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I get caught in the middle of the wilderness, basically, between Chattanooga and Sparta.
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So I'm like literally on the side of the road.
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There's nothing around.
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And they're like, well, you can't ride with the driver because of our policies.
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And I'm like, what am I supposed to do?
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You know what they told me to do?
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Get an Uber?
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Call a cab.
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I'm like, I don't know if you understand where I am right now.
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Because, you know, they're always like, are you safe?
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I'm like, no, I'm not safe.
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I'm on the side of the road in the middle of the winter.
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And so they were like, well, we don't know what to tell you, ma'am.
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This is this is the deal during covid.
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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?
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And I said, no.
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He said, then go ahead.
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And I did get it.
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Like it was a driver decision.
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And I did have friends coming to pick me up if that didn't happen.
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But they were going to have to drive like two hours to get me.
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Meanwhile, my car was towed, you know, because it was broken down.
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So what do you think about that in AAA?
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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.
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That doesn't cost you an arm and a leg when you have to get it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, like, okay, first of all, everyone went insane during COVID.
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I mean, let's face it, totally reasonable, rational people I know lost their freaking minds.
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So I can't fault AAA too much, and they've probably done away with that policy.
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Like way, way back in the day, 2010, they actually could not leave you on the side of the road.
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They had policies against that.
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If you had to like load five people into your tiny two person cab, you did it.
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You drive to the next exit and you let them off.
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But as I said, people lost their minds during COVID.
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Yeah, that happened once to my mom too.
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She was stuck in the middle of the freeway, like the middle left middle because the car went into limp mode.
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Do you know what that is?
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Yes, that is when it enters in when it only does 30 miles an hour.
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Oh, no, it did five, five, five in a rainstorm on I-40 won't go more than five rush hour traffic.
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She pulls into the left shoulder, calls AAA.
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And they're like, well, we can't get there for four hours.
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Are you safe?
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And I'm like, no, she's actually not safe.
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Like anybody could just reef into the back of that car and they go super fast and whatever.
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And you can't see.
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So the police came and they actually drove her to the next exit, which was nice.
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That is something you should probably look at depending on your location.
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Suppose the police had said, no, we don't want to wait for AAA.
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We're going to call one of our guys and they'll tow you.
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And a lot of AAA states, if they cannot get to you in a reasonable amount of time, they will pay for the tow.
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I have had that happen with them too, where they couldn't get there for four hours.
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And I said, what's my option?
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And they said, you get reimbursed.
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And then they reimbursed me 80 bucks.
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Yeah, that probably wasn't enough to cover the tow, was it?
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It actually was in that case, because I live in the middle of nowhere.
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Yeah.
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It would not have been the case had it been that incident in the middle of the road.
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So we didn't know what limp mode was.
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So I didn't know why the car was only going five miles per hour and going doop, doop, doop, doop, doop.
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But I was like, hmm, sounds like a transmission problem, right?
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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.
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Down to the next exit.
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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.
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I don't have that car anymore for that reason.
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They're dead to me.
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People become dead to me easily.
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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.
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They will literally just shut down and tell you, nope, not moving.
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But you're capable of it.
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Don't care.
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Not doing it.
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Exactly.
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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.
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Um, but you know, I'm a weirdo and everybody's like, why do women always do that?
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I'm like, cause I'm not going to get out of my car and get hit by a semi.
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That's why I, I feel like woman versus semi semi wins every time, every time.
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Yeah.
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Red fire made it says waited six hours in Austin at night with a motorcycle.
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So, um,
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How what else should you do besides have something like AAA?
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Because I mean, it works.
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It is better than nothing.
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It's probably the best option I found out there from a price to benefit ratio.
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But obviously, I have lots of stories about being stranded by AAA.
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And we have some in the comments here.
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Like, what else can you do?
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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
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If she's driving an F-250, she does not have the body mass to get that lug off.
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It doesn't matter.
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It's not happening.
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However, she can jack it up, then stand on it, or use the jack in reverse to retighten the bolts if she needs to.
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And to know how to do that, how do you know those things to do besides just that one tip?
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Heard a lot of horror stories and found ways around them.
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Yeah.
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The other thing is try to have more than your cell phone.
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I mean, I know, like you said, we've become so reliant on these things.
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It has a light.
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What do I need a flashlight for?
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You want a flashlight.
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If it's pouring rain out, you do not want your cell phone sitting there as you're trying to get your lugs off.
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And your cell phone is not as bright as something like a Streamlight or like a decent pocket flashlight even.
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Correct.
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Another thing is, and I hate saying this, but dollar store glow sticks, they're not road flares.
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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.
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And worst case scenario, you have a glow stick light.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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You know, I have one of those...
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cigarette lighter plug-in tire inflator, like compressors, it has a built-in light too.
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So every time it's on, it's flashlights on.
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Cause they just assume you need me in the middle of the night and you can't see anything outside.
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So that's another good one to have.
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The only thing I worry about with those is if your alternator dies or
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Because most people don't know that their alternator dies until they're going, why are my headlights getting dimmer?
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Yeah.
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And why did my radio stop?
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Oh, that's weird.
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So they just keep driving and then now your car is literally out of power.
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Right.
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I mean, those you're using it because you have a flat tire.
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And I don't know if you know this about me, but I have the flat tire curse.
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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.
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There was a tire blowout or a flat or I came out from the hotel one morning and there it was flat.
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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.
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I do have a patch kit.
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I'm not terribly good at patching tires myself.
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But I like I can plug them if I need to.
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Usually it's it's a strength issue of getting the thing into the hole.
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The reamer.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's that's my challenge with those.
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But I think like the more stubborn I am about it, the better it is.
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But having that way of inflating tires, no matter what, has been really helpful because I'm usually 20 miles from somewhere useful.
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at any given time when there's a problem.
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It's not like, oh, hey, look, there's a repair guy and my car just broke right here.
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Or there's a gas station and my car just broke right here.
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It's always like, okay, nope, no self service.
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Now what do I do?
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I got to get somewhere where I can go somewhere.
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So what's the most common?
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What?
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Another advantage to those is, at least around here, we get weather that's like negative 20.
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And when it is, those gas station compressors will not work.
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They turn on, but they don't pump air out.
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Those little plug into your lighter air compressors still work.
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Yeah, especially if your car is warm.
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Exactly.
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What do you tell people to do who are driving in environments like yours where it is really cold?
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Like what else should they have in the car besides some, you know, basic water and food?
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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
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But yes, there have been multiple studies done, one of them actually done by AAA.
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And it turns out outside of your car actually is warmer than inside of your car at a certain point.
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Yeah, unless you have a windshield, I assume.
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That's insane.
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Yeah.
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Oh, the cat.
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What else?
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Space blankets, water, food, anything else?
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Hand warmers, anything like that?
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Hand warmers are a nice one to keep.
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However, most people lose them.
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I've stopped recommending them because people throw them in their trunk.
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Then when they need them, I can't find them or they throw them in their glove box.
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And then, you know, I throw 10,000 other things in my glove box and I cannot find them.
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You mean they don't all have a little kit in their card with all the stuff in it?
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No, no, no.
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Most people don't.
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They just throw it in the back of their truck or in their trunk, whatever.
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Another thing I tend to recommend is just some basic toiletries.
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Toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, soap.
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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.
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If you can sleep in a Walmart parking lot, go into the Walmart and just, you know, wash your face, some other necessities.
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It makes you feel 10 times better.
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Yeah.
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I know somebody who actually ended up in a Walmart parking lot.
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I think recently waiting for her husband when the past got just jacked up with truck trucks sliding all over the place.
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And luckily they got a hotel that night.
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That's the other thing is when they closed the highway snow or something, all of the hotels are instantly booked.
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Yep.
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So how do you get your hotel room in that case?
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If you see a road closing, how do you get the hotel first?
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Go for off the beaten path.
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Don't look for hotels next to airports.
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That's what everyone goes for.
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And those tend to be the first ones that fill up.
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And this is a little tweak here.
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Don't look for hotel.
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Look for motel.
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Everyone looks for hotel.
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Those fill up.
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Look for motel.
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And you might be able to find something a little better.
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Downside motels tend to be a little lower quality.
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So, yeah.
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Bed bugs are a thing.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, that and fights outside your door at certain motels.
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Oh, yeah.
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Three in the morning.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I like to when I'm going to be if I'm at a motel that feels sketchy, which I try not to do.
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I love to be on the front office side of the building.
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Because the fights all seem to happen in the pool area.
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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
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The thing I noticed, so I was one time, I've done a lot of things on I-40.
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This was in New Mexico.
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Blizzard was coming through.
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And one person was driving, one person was calling.
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to make reservations.
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Calling was better than the websites at that time because the websites would allow reservations to go through when there weren't rooms.
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So it was better to call.
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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.
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But everything was booked for hours around that closure.
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And I-40 was closed for a couple of days because of that blizzard.
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I ended up actually driving south.
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We didn't get a hotel room.
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We drove south.
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Because you know what happens as you go further south?
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Usually, it gets warmer.
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And eventually, we got to the rain part of the storm instead of the snow part of the storm.
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And then we get heavy.
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So we just replanned our entire route around.
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I'm not driving in the snow and I-40 is closed.
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Oh, I get that.
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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.
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Is it pleasant?
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No.
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Is it better than sleeping in your car?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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That's actually not a bad play.
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Lots of cots in the gym.
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Who cares?
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I mean, it's actually better than dying outside.
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What's the most common problem you see when people are traveling and are there ways to prevent it?
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Most common problem, especially with flying, is lost luggage, believe it or not.
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There is, well, I haven't used this trick in a few years, but
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A friend of mine actually recommended this one to me for your carry-on.
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If you put a starter pistol in your bag, you have to declare that you have a gun in your bag.
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Starter pistols are legal in all 50 states, and they are then required to take much better care of that bag.
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So it increases the tracking on it and increases the odds that it'll get to your destination.
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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.
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Are you traveling for business or pleasure?
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If I'm flying for pleasure and I get there and they've lost my bag, whatever.
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My friends make fun of me a little bit.
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I wear the same clothes for a few days.
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I go to Goodwill.
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It's not a big deal.
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Suppose I'm traveling for business and my bag had my suit in it.
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This is now a significantly bigger deal because I need to go to the place and look nice.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Europe does not use the same sizes we do.
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And if you go in there with American sizes, you are not going to get clothes that fit at all.
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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.
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The way I learned that was by being there and asking him, what size do you think I should try on?
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but I actually get really frustrated with the American sizes on Birkenstocks.
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Cause I know my Birkenstock European shoe size, which is different in a Birkenstock than other shoes in Europe.
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They are the same sizes, but yeah, anyway, something about the wider footbed means I can have a smaller size on that.
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You order them on Amazon and they're like, get size nine.
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And I'm like, but is it,
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Is it a 42?
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Is it a 40?
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Is it a 39?
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Like, what are you actually going to send me?
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So I've had a lot like it varies the translation a little bit.
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It varies, especially depending on undergarments.
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Bras in particular tend to go by much different sizes over in Europe than they do here.
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So that's something you need to prepare for and be aware of.
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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.
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Yeah, I was really frustrated because I had to order a bra here.
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And it's like you measure yourself under your boobs and there's a number.
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So one would think logically you use that number.
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No, you add two to four inches to that number and then you order that size.
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And I had to go look it up.
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I'm like, how do I stop getting bras that are like too tight?
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Cause I'm not going to wear these.
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I kept returning them.
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And I was like, Oh, because it doesn't make sense.
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That's why it does not make sense.
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So.
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Men's sizes are easy, at least in America.
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Like you just wrap a tape measure around your waist.
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Okay.
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34 inches.
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That's how it should be done for women.
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Like waist, this hip, that like, here's your size in seam.
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The other.
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Imagine that.
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No, we have to call them numbers so we don't admit how big around our waist are.
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I think it's a vanity thing here.
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Somebody in the comments is going to fix that for me.
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They're going to be like, no, it's based on blah, blah, blah.
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No, I agree with you.
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I think it's, oh my God, my hips are this big?
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Instead of just saying, oh yeah, you're a size 12.
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Yeah.
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12 is beautiful.
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And then 12 has changed from the 50s till now.
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What hasn't?
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Yeah, that's also true.
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I mean, and it will again by the next 50s.
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I'm not sure I'll be alive for the next 50s.
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We'll see.
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OK, well, so let's go back to getting prepared for air travel.
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Like, what do you recommend people do for that?
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Okay, the key to being prepared for air travel is being prepared for the TSA.
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I hate to say it, but that is the number one thing.
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Make sure you wear shoes that you can take off easily.
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Try to limit the metal on you, like your watch, your ring, whatever, take it off, throw it in your carry-on.
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Always make sure when you travel, you have a carry-on.
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Worst case scenario, at least you have, you know, a spare pair of pants, boxers, shirt, and socks that you can change into.
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I mean, I always need that spare pair of boxers in my luggage.
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I figured you would.
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I got what I get pulled out for.
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I got I actually started setting off the the thingy on my last trip.
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And oh, I have a metal hair comb.
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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
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The TSA is not a