Let's talk about who we build up and put on pedestals and idolize, because this ditty thing, you know, this is serious shit. This is a guy that people I DA lize. And when I tell you, if you only knew the celebrities that used to kiss his ass to get into that white party and the rich people and the Hampton's a flutter to go to that white party that I have never been to, by the way, but and would have gone because you know, I was a nobody. But I will tell you that there's so much bullshit
in Hollywood. And someone on social media was talking about how celebrity is canceled because people want real and people are taking people.
To the bottom.
And I think that people have been burned so many times by these celebrities and people that are I mean the fact that they are these gods, these icons, these moguls that people worship. I mean, you spend more time thinking about what you're going to order for dinner than you do thinking about who the people really are that you decide are gods and that you blindly follow and buy and worship and build up and make rich buy planes.
It's us we have the power.
And I think that that's been what people have been talking about, saying the celebrity is done because these people have so much power, and we've been burned so many times by thinking that there's something that they're not and why would they why would we know?
We don't know them, someone like Diddy has been completely idolized.
But we have to not put people up on pedestals who we don't know, because then when they become something that is disappointed, we're shocked. We don't know Diddy from anybody from a hole in the wall.
We don't know him any more than somebody walking past us on the street.
But you know, we're listening to his songs, we're believing his bullshit, and now you know this is some serious shit. So for me, the cautionary tale is we cannot keep living this life where because someone you know can carry a tune or dresses really slick, or looks really hot, or filters themselves, we can't idolize them and put them in these positions. Because I'm sure many of you have spent money on his music, his clothing, his bullshit, watched
his show, whatever it is. So I guess the cautionary tale is on us. These are just human beings that we don't fucking know. Everyone travels differently, and you need a baseline for the people that you're traveling with, or who might be booking travel for you, or who you might be getting recommendations from, so you can get on the same page. So for someone to say, oh my god,
that place is amazing. So many people have recommendations, but so many people disagree and think other people are wrong about restaurants, hotels, spas, rooms.
Vacation spots.
So let's get a baseline, because it just means if you're talking to a tech travel agent, it'd be like going on a dating app and and someone else thinks that someone with dark hair and blue eyes who's five nine is for you, and you're like, wait, I like redheads that have green hair, Like you have to have a baseline. So for me, I was recently in Canada and I first stayed at what I think is a five star hotel and it was a little beat up, a little old. Stars are given out for different reasons.
So stars are given out if a hotel has like a full service spa and a certain number of restaurants and X, Y and z, And it's the same thing with apartment buildings.
I'm different with apartment buildings too.
Some apartment buildings have dry cleaners and a full service doorman and a gym and a kids club and a TV room, And I don't want any of that stuff. And at a hotel, I don't really need all that stuff. I don't need a big hotel. I'm nine interested in transacting with people. I don't need ninety two restaurants and the most giant spot. Ever, here's what I like at a hotel. I like a bathtub in my room. An outdoor moment would be fine. Looking at something is fine,
it would not trump a bathtub. Like if you shut the windows and I never looked outside, I'd sooner take a bathtub.
I would like.
One separate space, Like we're not just sleep, you know, because there are five star hotels that you could go to and everyone says it's the best place and you have a bed and the bathroom there's no shower, but you're like the lobby amazing and it's hipping cool people go there, Like I don't give a shit about that at all. I give a shit about is there a
microwave in there? Is there a little fridge that's not jam packed with like automatic magnetic fucking room service robots that the second you look at something, you get charged. Like I'd like my own refrigerator that's probably empty and I could put my own things in there. A coffee maker is great, it's a great thing. I'd like an ice machine, an ice machine on my floor, like that's
sort of looked down upon. You know what I don't like being at a six thousand dollars a night hotel which I've been at and had to call and you're waiting twenty minutes for ice, and that same ice comes in a normal bucket and it's diluted and melted down in an hour because you're in a hot climate, and then you got to call again and wait another fifteen minutes. I'd like to go get my own fucking ice or put it in a nice little cooler and bring it
to the room. While we're complaining about stupid things that hotels do and don't do. But I was just at a hotel in Canada and everybody's like, oh my god, you're gonna hate it there whatever, And here's what it was. It was, like I said, probably like any other like Maria Business executive suites whatever.
It was clean. It had a little you know, you turn.
The switch fireplace on, and had a couch in the living room with a TV and a bedroom. So let's say you're there for extended period of time as I was, you don't you don't feel like your whole life is in the bedroom.
You go in that other living room and maybe watch TV in there.
It had a washer dryer, Like washer dryer trumps many things like that means you go away, you don't feel like a gross pig, like you didn't bring enough underwear or you just you just want to go home with clean laundry.
Like laundry is a big deal in life. I just think it's freedom.
Laundry is freedom going away and being able to bring one set of clothes that you fly on the plane there and then wash it and bring it back. That means like freedom in your suitcase too, So that to me was huge.
And then we had a full kitchen. You had a microwave.
You could get some microwave popcorn, you can make some raw and you don't have to be a prisoner to other people and what they they you know, calling downstairs waiting like I don't like that. I want my own shit. So I think that it's important to get a baseline. Okay, do you want to be on a beach, you might not be a beach person.
I want to walk out my room.
I'd rather have a room that was a little bit inferior, with less no view obviously, to not have to go through a lobby and not have to go on an elevator, to walk into my room on the ground level and open the back door and walk right onto the sand. I don't like a lot of transacting, so to me that's killer, But other people same thing in apartment buildings. I don't want to be on an elevator and talk to Jane while she, you know, gets her mail and is walking her dogs. I'd rather be in a building.
It's like a townhouse. We could just walk right in,
and I would. I'm not a person that I like there to be like a little access to a little town near the hotel, because I'm not big on making a ton of plans, but like going to walk into a town is like a little activity or at night, deciding on the fly where you want to have I don't like to feel like I'm on an island, a prisoner of the hotel that's like a beautiful, private, gorgeous, five star, romantic, amazing, well rated hotel that you have to take golf carts everywhere on the property, and you
have to get a car twenty minutes to go into a town to get a normal coffee that wasn't made in your little like weird room coffee machine that doesn't have milk, like and then you got to call down and get the milk. Like.
I like that. So everybody has different preferences, is what I'm saying. I don't care about the gym at a hotel, but I do care if it's on the sand, because then I can take a beach walk.
And I don't mean just short sand where you're just on the rocks and there's a little sand and you get to swim in it. That's nice, but I mean walkable sand beaches are like a mile each way. These are things that people don't discuss enough. Like there are hotels that are five star in Mexico. They are gorgeous and they're on the beach and then there's like tons
of seaweed. It's not really it's beach and it's beautiful, but like you're not really running in and out swimming all day because you're going through like the loch ness monster around your ankles every time you try to take a swim. So I just think it's important that you know what a hotel has. Some hotels have a cute little like Barista coffee shop, or they have a little deli we can go.
Down and get something.
I like that, or like a little coffee cart, because I don't like everything I do at a hotel to be like a massive transaction. You're like you're ordering in from a Michelin star restaurant to get a cup of coffee.
I just it's too fancy and too precious.
So the hotel that I was at recently in Canada was perfect, and people were shocked because.
It was easy and it had what I wanted, what I needed.
So when you travel, or when you move into a building or however you roll, figure out exactly what you like and convey that because someone else will tell you that this amazing five star hotel that's twenty minutes from civilization, that has no little ca effe place, that you have a shower and a small room, that you have no microwave, that you have no refrigerator, that that is where you should stay because it's rated high and may not have the things that you want, and you may be spending
money on the things you're not even going to use. I may be paying for a gym that I'm not going to use. I don't need a full service, so on. But some people want to get a blow dry every day. Everybody has different needs. What are yours