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Speaker 2: So I want to talk summer vacations. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of our listeners are planning vacations. We'll go on
Speaker 2: vacation at some point. Or maybe you're lamenting it, maybe
Speaker 2: you're worried about it, maybe you're worried about the budget
Speaker 2: of it all. I get that I'm old, so my
Speaker 2: kids are nineteen, seventeen and fourteen, and I look at
Speaker 2: vacations differently now than I used to. I look at
Speaker 2: vacations as I'm kind of buying memories here at the
Speaker 2: end of the game, not really looking at it like
Speaker 2: I'm about to die tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I could.
Speaker 2: My dad died at sixty three, and I'll be fifty
Speaker 2: five in November, so.
Speaker 3: I'm older than that.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I don't know. But the point is,
Speaker 2: my son is nineteen. You know, he's going into sophomore
Speaker 2: year at college, and he'll pretty soon just have his
Speaker 2: own house and get married and have his own kids,
Speaker 2: and so here at the end of the parenting game.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to create some magic and enjoy some moments
Speaker 2: with my kids. And We've worked really hard over the
Speaker 2: course of our career, and there's been times where I
Speaker 2: couldn't afford to take my family on vacation, made a
Speaker 2: lot of bad career decisions with you Skin yep, and
Speaker 2: had a ton of kids.
Speaker 3: Wanted God, how many plane tickets is that?
Speaker 2: Definitely too many kids. But I've had some bad jobs.
Speaker 2: I've been totally broke. I've gone to the ATM before
Speaker 2: where the balance was negative. Like you know, there's the
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones moments. Yeah, just not the other opposite end
Speaker 2: of the Jerry Jones moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've made a lot of bad financial decisions too. But
Speaker 2: I say that to say I'm now at a point where,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to invest in this vacation.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I subscribe to the Jerry Wade Skin's dad of philosophy
Speaker 2: on vacations and that you can't save money on vacation.
Speaker 3: You just can't. It's not a smart investment. You just
Speaker 3: have to.
Speaker 2: It's like when I go to a casino, I love
Speaker 2: to win. Like last time we all went, I won
Speaker 2: big and.
Speaker 3: That was great.
Speaker 2: But the money I take to that casino, I'm prepared
Speaker 2: to lose. I'm not counting on it to make rent.
Speaker 4: Right, You're counting on it to have a good time
Speaker 4: that night, and don't exceed that amount.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel that way about vacations, and so I'm
Speaker 2: investing in a good time.
Speaker 3: I'm creating memories with my kids. And for many years
Speaker 3: we couldn't afford to go on vacation.
Speaker 2: And my older brother's crazy high roller and super rich,
Speaker 2: so he would just take us on vacation and we'd
Speaker 2: go with him.
Speaker 3: You know, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: I got a rich sister that has a house out
Speaker 4: in Newport, and so we can go stay at that
Speaker 4: house for free. And basically we're on a beach in
Speaker 4: California with a free nice house.
Speaker 2: We've got to pay for the way to get out there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's crazy like it. It's a great thing to have
Speaker 2: a rich sibling. And so, you know, then there was
Speaker 2: vacations where we would go to the Texas coast. We'd
Speaker 2: go to Port Ransas because our buddy Braun owns a
Speaker 2: beach cart company there and it's an inexpensive way. It's
Speaker 2: a nine hour drive go to the beach. There beach
Speaker 2: is a brown covered in seaweed. People can drive their
Speaker 2: trucks on the beach at Gordon. Not great, not great,
Speaker 2: shark infested, you know, brown water. It's the parking lot
Speaker 2: of beaches. Flesh eating bacteria. Yeah, it's great. So I'd
Speaker 2: always heard skin talk about Turks and Cacos being a
Speaker 2: great place. And I know a lot of celebrities go there.
Speaker 2: So once you hear like Oprah or Drake or somebody's
Speaker 2: going there, You're like, oh, that sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 3: That's in my price range. Not in my price range.
Speaker 2: But I did get a at a charity function. I
Speaker 2: was able to buy an auction for an airbnb to go,
Speaker 2: and so we were kind of pot committed at that point.
Speaker 2: And so we went, you know, to Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 2: But the whole time I was questioning whether I should
Speaker 2: take my younger two on vacation.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I love them, but I don't know that they can
Speaker 2: really evaluate the difference between crystal clear blue.
Speaker 3: Wattle water and brown water.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know if they care about that while
Speaker 2: they're fighting with each other, right, you know, and on
Speaker 2: their phones.
Speaker 4: Well, and it's also I mean this is a long
Speaker 4: time ago, but at that age I didn't want to
Speaker 4: be with my parents anyway.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. They want no part of being around us.
Speaker 4: Do you want to pay thousands of dollars to have
Speaker 4: them in the next room full of spite?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So we there was one night where okay, so you
Speaker 2: know this from going to Turks and Kko Skin, there's
Speaker 2: some places that are very expensive to go eat and
Speaker 2: they're just kind of average.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to get supplies to the islands, so
Speaker 2: it's understandable. And we had struck out a couple places
Speaker 2: we went that this looks bad, this is not going
Speaker 2: to be good, and so somebody said this restaurant is good,
Speaker 2: so we'd go. And we walked into this one restaurant
Speaker 2: and I could tell it was fine dining. No like
Speaker 2: fine dining. Yeah, like there we had like six waiters
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, no, this is gonna be bad.
Speaker 2: And it ended up being a crazy expensive dinner for
Speaker 2: five of us. It was six hundred dollars. I don't
Speaker 2: think my kids, my younger two, really enjoyed what they ate.
Speaker 2: They didn't really eat very much, right, And so the
Speaker 2: next night we were like, uh, My oldest son was like, Dad,
Speaker 2: you know I sat there. I only want to go
Speaker 2: to a nice restaurant if there's a great view, because
Speaker 2: you're paying for the view, right. Otherwise, just go eat
Speaker 2: a meal in Garland. Yeah you know there's no beach
Speaker 2: there either, right, and so yeah, you want to go
Speaker 2: to Garland and go to Garland and so so anyways,
Speaker 2: I was like, we Max really wanted to go to
Speaker 2: this meal, and he set it up and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: this is going to be another high end.
Speaker 3: It was nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone enjoyed it, and nobody, you know,
Speaker 2: it was like I couldn't even understand what was on
Speaker 2: the menu. And I'm looking at that going this is
Speaker 2: testing my theory on everything, right, that you can't save
Speaker 2: money on vacation.
Speaker 3: But it just felt like a waste to take those
Speaker 3: younger two. I'm not a waste because it's a way
Speaker 3: I enjoyed spending.
Speaker 1: Time with you.
Speaker 4: It's only that's why I usually my kids are different.
Speaker 4: Now they're on a different curve than yours, because my
Speaker 4: daughter's about to be twenty, my son's about to be eighteen,
Speaker 4: and actually, like each other now so we can vacation
Speaker 4: with him. But most of the time, dude, I was
Speaker 4: just vacationing with my wife, and my kids are like,
Speaker 4: hell yeah, our parents aren't here.
Speaker 3: And my kids would rather just be at home. My
Speaker 3: seventeen year old just.
Speaker 2: Rather be at home, unbothered, ordering door dash and playing
Speaker 2: video games without a job.
Speaker 4: And I like the way this is going been all right.
Speaker 4: I think the final verdict is leave your kids at home. Yep,
Speaker 4: come on, man, all right. Coming up next and the
Speaker 4: weekly weekday update. Some of you are not going to
Speaker 4: be able to flush or shower this weekend. We'll tell
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