Best Western Hotels & Resorts
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Sep 13, 2026
Keith O'BrienGUEST
You know, there is a distrust of outsiders that I really had to break in a lot of ways just by being there, by hanging around.
Keith O'BrienGUEST
by basically coming to town, booking a room at the Best Western and just staying there.
Keith O'BrienGUEST
That's the only way that I found I could sort of break through.
Keith O'BrienGUEST
And so having to face those challenges as a historian, as a reporter, as a writer, in the 2020s when I'm writing this book, really did help me understand a little bit about how Bird might have felt in the 60s and 70s, growing up in this isolated place.
Michael Abel DengGUEST
The
Michael MeredithHOST
interior for me, those interior photos, it has the same finishes as like a Best Western hotel or something.
Michael Abel DengGUEST
I think in a really endearing way, one thing that I like about some of these architects is that they make things that are so ugly that I feel like it just means that they just love architecture so much.
Michael Abel DengGUEST
That they're so obsessed by these things.
Jake StorielliHOST
[upbeat music] Trev, it's September.
Jake StorielliHOST
Why not start with a curveball? Why not throw out the best Western Road Warriors to start the American League? Yeah, got that kinda pool, 'cause it starts with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Jake StorielliHOST
Mentioned them in the NL a little bit.
Jake StorielliHOST
They get over 500, uh, with some impressive pitching.
BobboPANELIST
Oh
John Clay WolfeHOST
... on his ankle, and he walked out with a Best Western logo.
BobboPANELIST
Oh, yeah.
BobboPANELIST
[laughs]
BobboPANELIST
They are very similar.
DJ PreKHOST
Very.
John Clay WolfeHOST
If you Google Best Western in, um, the old Best Western logo, not the new one, and, uh, Crown, you'll see how there was confusion in the tattoo parlor-
BobboPANELIST
Huh
Sean WellsHOST
Yeah.
Sean WellsHOST
Best Western and Hilton Hotels, Montana Cigarettes, Campbell's Soup, Jack in the Box, Sharper Image...
Sean WellsHOST
Wilson star tennis rackets, ESPN, the still in existence.
Sean WellsHOST
And I did not know this proton televisions.
Carrie BrownsteinHOST
I'm not, like, I'm high-low with hotels.
Carrie BrownsteinHOST
I love a Best Western.
Carrie BrownsteinHOST
I love a Holiday Inn Express, one of my favorites.
Carrie BrownsteinHOST
So at, this is, like, hotels of all [laughs] um, stripes.
Richard ChristensenGUEST
I think we talked about this last time about the,
Elise LoehnenHOST
You and I travel together and I'm like, I found a great rate at the Best Western.
Elise LoehnenHOST
And you're like, no, we're going to get twin beds.
Elise LoehnenHOST
We'll just share a room at the Carlisle and sleep in twin beds.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
Wolfgang Wurz took a drag on his cigarette and a sip from his coffee cup, looked at his watch, and blew his whistle.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
It was 8 a.m. in the parking lot of the Best Western in suburban St. Louis.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
Time for Mr. Wirtz to rally his troops, a dozen German and Swiss tourists, so they could jump on their Harley-Davidson motorcycles and head out on Route 66.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
Mr. Wirtz, who was 67, rattled off the day's stops on their roughly 200-mile stretch through Missouri.
Neil ShahGUEST
[laughs]
Kin SioHOST
... to change the career from there to working at your uncle's hotel then to, uh, really buying your first deal, uh, um, which is a Best Western?
Neil ShahGUEST
Yeah.
Neil ShahGUEST
That's a great question.
6 MINS LATER
Neil ShahGUEST
So that, that's how, basically, that was like a turning point where I felt like this is the direction I want to go in the future.
Kin SioHOST
Gotcha.
Kin SioHOST
So back then, right, in the late '90s, early 2000s, you know, when internet was just, you know, started, you know, it wasn't even a thing like what it is today, correct? So thinking about starting your career working at, you know, Uncle's Friend's Hotel in California to ending up now buying your first deal at Best Western in Arizona-
Neil ShahGUEST
Yeah
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
Wolfgang Wurz took a drag on his cigarette and a sip from his coffee cup, looked at his watch, and blew his whistle.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
It was 8 a.m. in the parking lot of the Best Western in suburban St. Louis.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
Time for Mr. Wirtz to rally his troops, a dozen German and Swiss tourists, so they could jump on their Harley-Davidson motorcycles and head out on Route 66.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
Mr. Wirtz, who was 67, rattled off the day's stops on their roughly 200-mile stretch through Missouri.
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