Samantha Brown

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And so I would watch either the Twilight Zone or Discovery Channel or Travel Channel, and then they'd have, like, these Samantha Brown travel series that were on.

Okay.

Or, and that's, like, really kinda what hooked me into the nitty-gritty of these regional parks that were not Disney.

And I feel that we need to start this episode off by giving some love to Tampa.

I just watched the new season of the show Places to Love by the legendary travel show host Samantha Brown.

And in the Tampa episode, you were one of the people who showed her around the city.

So first of all, what was it like hanging out with Samantha Brown and spending time together?

Insane.

So this is a story I haven't even fully gotten a chance to tell public yet, but we actually shot this around this time last year.

And yeah, it's been awesome to now have one of my lifelong people that I admire now be able to call her a friend.

It's crazy.

I know that you had-- We, we've been watching a whole bunch of them on, like, YouTube.

I-- Samantha Brown is one that comes to mind.

Oh, she's my favorite.

I'm like, "Whatever happened to Samantha Brown?"

Right.

So she would go around, and I think she did, like, a holiday one, but it was always, like, this host-led...

And then they also partnered with Kylie Kelce, uh, on a Walt Disney World episode that was basically her family experiencing Disney rather than Disney producing some highly scripted vacation special with TV talent.

And, you know, our other friend owns a PR agency, and she was representing, I think, a national paint company that was paying for a family to go down and experience Disney because they had a partnership with Disney that they were putting on their platforms.

Senior audio engineer, David Goodman.

Additional editing from Vicki Merrick, Sidney Lewis, and Samantha Brown, and audio mixing from Jay Allison at Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Theme music by Two Bob Crew.

Additional music by George Bernal Egloff.