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So this weekend, we got back into town after being gone for a week, and we were gone for Luke's spring break, and I want to bring Lydia, who is our mojo-in-the-morning extraordinary director of the show, to come into the studio because she also went away, and we both have a topic to bring up that deals with Airbnb.

First off, you snuck out of town. I didn't even know that you were leaving.

I planned it last minute. I really did. I planned it probably about two weeks ago. Okay, but still. I know, and I really- You didn't say anything to anybody. I thought about that, too. When I got there, I was like, did I even tell anyone I was going?

That is, by the way-

I'm sorry.

The most interesting thing, too, because I saw your social media, and I saw that you were in Florida.

I'm like, what the heck?

And I thought to myself, I'm like, man, world traveler here. Is she just posting old pictures from a while back? And then I saw those pictures of you and your friend. What's your friend's name? Shamir. Shamir, who I met at your birthday party. You guys were in Florida at Disney. And this was, what, a trip, a graduation trip that Shamir planned for you?

Yeah, so she got me Disney tickets for the both of us for my graduation. We've been wanting to plan a trip together, and we just haven't come across any time. And she's like, let's go to Disney. And the way she did it was super cute. She put sunscreen in my bag, and then in the little envelope, she said, let's go somewhere warm. And then we were talking about it. And she's like, surprise, I got you.

Disney tickets that's a great gift she's amazing how do I get friends like that is amazing that's like the best ever yeah so you guys went to Florida you guys Airbnb'd and we're gonna bring this up because I also have an Airbnb story from being away at Luke's uh uh spring break you Airbnb'd a place that wasn't too great it was like the Bugs Life movie really I walked in

probably about it was like 10 o'clock at night so my flight landed at 9 and um it took us about an hour to get there and as soon as I walked in the door the vibe was a little off but I was letting it go you know when you get somewhere and you're like the air or something feels off it felt too humid for me I don't know I sat on the couch I was trying to ignore it because I had already paid for this Airbnb and all of a sudden I see two ants crawling up my arm and I look at Shamir and I'm like uh I got a couple of ants going on here I'm like what what's happening and she's like well look down at your leg and i look down and there's a cockroach climbing no no no no yeah yeah so i get up and i'm screaming and she's screaming and she's trying to lock the bathroom door because she didn't want me to get the roach on her and i was like you got to let me in so i can get this roach off my leg so as soon as i busted in there i wiped the roach off with a toilet toilet paper and i think i'm in the toilet i can't where there's one there's many that's what I was thinking yes I'm like there's more around especially roaches also yeah and I so what did you guys do I contacted Airbnb and I was talking to a representative and she was like unfortunately if you don't have a photo of the cockroach we can't refund you and you have to stay there I know I was so shocked by that I'm like you don't believe that I saw a cockroach like I want to

stay here i have no problem i paid for the trip but uh so the airbnb policy is that they have to actually see the bugs or see a pictures of the there has to be documentation to be able because

otherwise people would probably say while the crack road cockroach is calling it's crawling up it's calling up you know what i was gonna say never mind i can't even do it now the other one actually is interesting too it was about to become a cockroach and you want me to stop and take a

photo of it for you like as i was like running to the bathroom i'm shaking my legs as i'm trying to get there to get it off my first reaction is how can i kill this thing that let me take a

picture of it i wonder how many people have ever had that where they check into an airbnb and the place is just awful because the the pictures sometimes make it look so great like when you guys rented it looked like it was going to be a nice clean place yeah and the reviews weren't

half that bad until I got deep down them after I had contacted Airbnb. And I was like, these are

the reviews I didn't see. And there was a lot of them that said the same thing. It was not a great place. So we, so we also, we rented a condo with another family and we stayed in that when we were down in North Carolina for Luke's spring break. And our issue was not necessarily the issue that you had of bugs our issue was the second to last day we're leaving you know to go home you know the next day and luke takes his golf club and is swinging it in the room and takes out the ceiling fan of the airbnb and at that moment right there all i kept thinking to myself the entire time that this ceiling fan is kind of like dangling and there's glass on the ground and stuff like that is I'm going to have to buy a new ceiling fan for this Airbnb.

Oh, probably it'll cost a triple, too.

Oh, it's going to be at least, I mean, listen, it will probably be at least a couple of nights stay, you know, because their price, the price first off of a ceiling fan is a couple few hundred dollars, right? Yeah. Well, they're going to have to get it installed and do all the rest of that stuff. So I am panicking, and we're trying to clean it up and try to figure it out, and luckily we were able to fix it and get everything reattached so that it was back to normal and everything was okay and it was still working and stuff. But I wanted to ask this question of people. So with Airbnbs or hotels, what have you broken that you either had to hide? Because that was also a thought too. How do we fix it to hide it enough? Or what did you have to pay for? Because I can only imagine what people would have to pay for in that case. That would suck, by the way, to check into an Airbnb and have it be cockroaches. Roaches and ants. Our buddy Spencer, who works in radio, got an Airbnb in Atlanta. This is the best story ever. Place looked great. It was in the middle of the worst neighborhood in Atlanta. He was literally in a drug house, too.

Yeah, yeah. I stay in Airbnbs a lot, actually. I don't know that I've ever had anything. I mean, we probably did break something in them. But have you ever rented a car from Turo? It's kind of like the same thing. It's like the Airbnb of cars. And we like rolled up onto like a curb and the whole, you know that like rubber thing that's under the bumper of the front of a car? And we totally ripped it off and had to tell this girl that that's what we did to her car. I mean, it felt terrible.

You told them?

Well, you have to. It was hanging. It was literally hanging, Mike, from the front bumper.

My son puked in that van. Remember when we went on that road trip in a Tarot car? We never told him. Oh, my God. Could they not smell what the puke smelled like? Or was it out? We scrubbed it as much as we could, but I wasn't going to go, hey. I mean, I literally scrubbed the heck out of it. Oh, my God.

Trust me. We thought about talking rolling with this thing, but it was so obvious that something had happened.

That's why I promise you I will never Airbnb or do a Turo, you know, letting somebody use my car for the mic situation of the clean up the puke. What's up, Sarah? Hi.

Hi. Okay, so it's not a cockroach in Florida. It's a palmetto bug.

Really? What's the difference?

Totally normal. Well, that's what they're called. And we have a house in Florida, and every time we get there, there'll be a couple. And then they scurry away, and that's it. And we spray for them, so there's not a ton. But that's totally, totally wrong.

But they are cockroaches. Palmetto bugs are cockroaches.

Well, the Florida term is palmetto bugs. Right, I mean. It makes it nicer. If it's moving and it has legs. It is a cockroach, though.

It makes it so much more, like, okay to call it a different name.

Totally, yeah. Like, I had one crawling up my back one time when we were there.

And, I mean, we had company, and I, like, whipped off my shirt, like, running through the house. Yeah. But now it's them.

I love the people, by the way, that will also tell you with these bugs, and this is probably the same thing with the palmettos, they eat other bugs. So it's okay. You know, they'll eat flies. Yeah. Well, I don't care. I'd rather have a fly flying around than have a palmetto cockroach. Amanda, what's going on?

Hi. So I was staying at an Airbnb with my dad and my stepmom once, and they had a gorgeous kitchen. It was, like, all white. You know, the cabinets were white, the countertops, the ceiling. Everything was gorgeous. And my dad opened a bottle of red wine, and it, like, exploded everywhere. I don't know how or why it did, but it went all over the ceiling, the cabinets. and of course I was like dad this Airbnb is under my name and you're like you did this we ended we were able to clean up like all of it except what was on the ceiling because like we obviously couldn't reach it but they never said anything about it and that was like two years ago wow

you're so lucky oh my gosh it was everywhere um 248 says same thing happened to me in Kentucky that happened to Lydia in Florida. The host denied it. Another one here, 616 says, Mojo, why was Luke swinging at a fan? He wasn't swinging at the fan. He was just swinging at a golf club and hit the fan. It was not a very smart move on his part to do that. Another person here that said, did you guys hear the story about the people on TikTok who tried to get into an Airbnb they rented just to find out from the neighbor next door that the owner was evicted and the person was renting the house that the person was evicted from the house.

I don't understand Airbnbs. What do you mean? I would not pay that kind of money to be liable for that much and to have to clean up after myself. I think back in the day they were great and I think they're really great for big groups. Like if you're trying to take a family camping trip and there's like 15 people or maybe it's a bachelor's party. We just rented one for Hacking Hills actually for our family right by you. But if there's, like, two people, I would never pay for an Airbnb when I could get a hotel room.

I agree with you because I feel like I have more control over the front desk than I do have control over that Airbnb. Like, what happened to Lydia? Right. Do you like hotels better than homes? Because hotels also make me feel like I'm on vacation more.

Yes, because you don't have to. I mean, you know, your bed gets made every day. It's really nice.

Yeah, which is nice.

It feels safer for some reason, too. I'm not sure why, but it does.

And no offense, but I feel like everybody has their own smell.

That is a thing.

Every home that I've ever gone into has a smell. Even friends of mine who are perfectly clean people, their house has a little bit of a smell to it.

This is part of the reason why I won't have people over. Because I don't know what mine is, and it freaks me out. And I am a scent person, and I'm terrified it's bad.

Have us over so that we can actually tell you what the smell is.

not i i remember for a fact walking into a house every time it smelled like dirty socks and the place was super clean so i couldn't tell you why it smelled like that but it did and that's my

biggest fear yeah stay away from your house for like a week like stay somewhere for a week and

then go home and then smell it yeah yeah i still don't feel like i like really truly smell it though

uh adam what's up yeah my wife and i got a airbnb for the weekend away from the kids We had a few cocktails, and we were getting ready to go to bed, and we saw a little square with a blinking light on it. And in our current situation, we thought that it was webcams recording us, so we ran around and unplugged them all over. And then we woke up in the morning and realized they were actually just night late.

I would have thought the same exact thing. Did you guys think that after you had already done something?

Yeah, exactly. But, yeah, we're having a couple weekends out, and we panicked, woke up, and felt quite embarrassed about it.

Oh, my God. What do you think Megan's house smells like? We're going to do guess what Megan's house smells like.

Lavender.

That is very kind and generous. Thank you. I was expecting much, much worse.

I'm thinking Coraline. More like Coraline, not lavender.

Well, I'm terrified of weed. It smells like weed.

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