Mike & Alex's Travel Show

Comment from Meg
Time July 27, 2010 at 10:03 am

Congrats on a great first ep, hilarious! I wonder too about Two and a Half Men, but thank American for introducing me to How I Met your Mother, which took me years to realize existed *off* the airplane. August Rush is probably the worst movie I’ve seen, on a plane or otherwise. Also? I am one of those synchronized couples, don’t hate.

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Comment from Marco
Time July 27, 2010 at 10:26 am

Good first show! High quality audio was a big plus. So many podcasts fail at that! May I suggest video? It adds a lot to the conversation. A download link instead of having to play in the page or go to iTunes would also be a plus.

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admin Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 10:33 am

Thanks, Marco! We’re thrilled that you enjoyed the audio quality. That is a major priority for us. The show will be on iTunes later this week so that you will have the option to download episodes. Video may come in the future once we get some momentum going. Appreciate the feedback! -mb

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Comment from Karen/Chookooloonks
Time July 27, 2010 at 10:43 am

Dude. Two-and-a-Half Men is the scourge of the airwaves.

Also, “Oh… you!” is the funniest shit I’ve heard in a while.

(Well done, men!)

K.

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Comment from Alisha
Time July 27, 2010 at 11:06 am

I was hooked once the line “Welcome to the narcissistic world of blogging and podcasting” was said. I love this show, expect some quotage being posted on my Tumblr blog (thisisalisha.tumblr.com). great job, guys!

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Comment from stephen
Time July 27, 2010 at 11:26 am

” I haven’t tripped my balls off since i last had balls, i guess… ”
it was actually very informative, and kept my interest, and i usually don’t like podcasts.. so i say success

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admin Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 11:31 am

Thanks, Steve. Did I leave my balls in Greenpoint by any chance? -mb

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Comment from mikeandalex
Time July 27, 2010 at 11:39 am

Thanks for all of the comments/feedback! Glad you’re enjoying the show. Now we don’t have to take all those sleeping pills we bought.

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Comment from pam
Time July 27, 2010 at 11:53 am

Alex, you have a voice made for radio.

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Alex Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 11:57 am

On today’s show in three acts: stop it, you’re terrible!

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Comment from Eva
Time July 27, 2010 at 1:16 pm

Nice work!

I have a long, proud history of vaguely-tourism-related jobs. Spent three years serving BeaverTails (TM) to the adoring bus tour hordes in downtown Ottawa. Another two summers as a rickshaw runner giving grossly inaccurate historical tours of, again, downtown Ottawa. I actually loved both gigs.

I think the best/worst tour guide I’ve ever had was last summer in Dawson City, Yukon, at the local First Nations cultural center. I signed up for a free “river walk” and my guide was a teenage girl with total valley-girl lingo. Sample dialogue: “And then the elders were all like, whatever…” I kind of loved her.

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mikeandalex Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Are rickshaws native to Ottawa? -mb

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Eva Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 2:20 pm

Ha. Well, not native per se, but O-town is one of the last places in North America where they still use runners, rather than pedi-cabs or cycle rickshaws or whatever you want to call them. My company had runners in Ottawa, Toronto and Daytona. I’ve seen them in Halifax as well – hilly!

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Comment from Kara
Time July 27, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Enjoyed it guys… entertaining and a nice change from what you hear on most “travel show” podcasts. I’d like to hear more from Lionel next time though. Oh, and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” … worst. plane. movie. ever. Watched it Sunday on flight from San Juan… painful.

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mikeandalex Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Thanks, Kara! Did you choose to watch that to prepare for parenthood? Explain yourself!

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Comment from Michael Tyson
Time July 27, 2010 at 5:38 pm

Very entertaining guys!

So, shout out to Sart at Geckos who we did a tour of Bangkok and the hill tribes in Thailand with.

And what do you mean you didn’t like Sherlock Holmes? I loved that movie beyond all reason.

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Comment from Jeremy
Time July 28, 2010 at 12:06 am

Mike, you forgot the worst movie ever shown on an airplane, Roll Bounce.

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mikeandalex Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 8:02 am

Ugh, I must have suppressed that deep in my subconscious. -mb

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Comment from Andrew
Time July 28, 2010 at 5:01 pm

Great first podcast guys.

I actually hate watching movies on planes, as I have a very short attention span and tend to fall asleep when flying.

But the crummiest movie that I watched on a plane was Whip It! starring Drew Barrymore. It made me physically angry. I then proceeded to watch the map for the rest of the flight.

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mikeandalex Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 5:07 pm

Thanks, Andrew! Appreciate the rousing endorsement!

I once endured Roll Bounce on a flight. What is it about movies involving roller skates that make them so bad for flights? -mb

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Comment from pam
Time July 31, 2010 at 12:14 pm

Diary of a Shopaholic. Man, I was ready to try the emergency exit. Whew. I was in coach, we didn’t have options. It. Was. Awful. Though on one horrible string of long haul flights we sat through Ants three times. THREE TIMES.

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mbarish Reply:
July 31st, 2010 at 12:26 pm

Now, if it was A Bug’s Life, you might have been OK.

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