Agents of Travel: Recent Episodes
Garrett Palm
Secret agents from the National Travel and Tourism Office interview guests on their previous travels with the mission to book each guest their perfect trip. At the end of the podcast, the agents each give a sample itinerary for our guest's dream vacation and they choose which trip they would rather go on. (Sadly, we currently do not have the actual funding to send anyone on their chosen trip.)
Ify Nwadiwe joins us for the final episode of season 4 to talk about his first trip abroad to visit family in Nigeria, struggling with Spanish in Buenos Aires, and how long he had to wait to go to Japan.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by: Tommy Bowe
We talk to Dropout and Superstore star Chris Grace about his love of food, board games, and performing abroad.
Dropout's Katie Marovitch joins us to talk about her trip to Iceland, visiting the oldest restaurants in America, her love of the cultural center in Hawaii, and her need to eat ice cream everyday while traveling.
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Music by Tommy Bowe
Editing by Garrett Palm
This week we talk with Kimmy Jiminez, former Smosh cast member and producer and current host of The Dogs Were Good (again). We talk about her time studying abroad in Europe, feeling out of place in the Philippines, and her honeymoon trip with our last guest, Shane!
Music by Tommy Bowe
Editing by Garrett Palm
Shane Haste, formerly of WWE now of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), joins us to talk about his love of bridges, walking around Dublin visiting pubs with live music, and much more.
We talk with Knutti about her completely unprepared for trip to Turkey and the locals she met!
We talk with comedian and soon to be author Charlie James about traveling around the USA and his love of some of the smaller roadside attractions you can find in the middle of nowhere.
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Arasha from Smosh joins us this week. In this episode we talk about the joys of studying abroad, Arasha's first trip back to India after growing up in the US, and more.
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Welcome to season 4! No guests on this episode as we open the season with our hosts Rachel and Garrett stepping away from their Secret Travel Agent work to talk about their most recent trip to Colombia. Their itinerary is: Cartagena, Bogota, a coffee farm outside of Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, and Tayrona!
The restaurant they couldn't remember the name of is Sambal Bistro in Cartagena.
In this episode Agents Garrett and Rachel interview people at the LA Travel and Adventure Show. We get travel stories and pitches from seasoned travelers who blew our minds!
Guests: Pauline Frommer (Frommers Guides), Justa Lujwangana (Curious on Tanzania), Marcus Bobb (Choctaw Country), Kay Allen (JNTO), Alex Trup (Purple Media), Monique Telles from (Terra Brasilis), Joshua (Collette), From the Wanderful booth - Akemi Rico (Akemi's Adventures), Kai Bouhmad (Passport Bohemian), Leah Arao (Ticket 2 Anywhere podcast).
We're closing out the season with a special episode with return guest Rekha Shankar! When she was last on Rachel pitched her a trip to Vietnam and earlier this year she went! We cover Vietnam, traveling with a partner, traveling as a vegetarian, and more!
Rekha's got a lot of cool stuff going on you can check out on her website here! Check out her and Rachel's team at UCB, Bitchin', every second Friday of the month.
We're taking a break and we'll be back soon!
We have Adrian Snow on to talk about how great Scotland is, improv festivals, and more. Follow her on Instagram at msadriansnow.
Send us an email with travel questions, advice, tips, or whatever at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com.
Jewell joins us to talk about finding surprises while traveling, trips with her sister, Disney, and so much more!
Jewell is co-host of the Parasocial Social Club with Charlie James.
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Ann Maddox from Vanderpump Rules and the podcast We Signed An NDA joins us to talk about growing up in Tokyo, Kinshasa, and Cairo, taking a trip back to Japan to show her friend where she grew up, and more!
Eli Gonzalez from UCB Theater's Harold Night and most commercials you see on TV joins us to talk about how great domestic travel can be; his first trips to NYC, Mexico, and El Salvador, and FOOD!
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Heidi Ha joins us to talk about food, a whirlwind family bus trip to Europe, meeting with Rachel and Garrett in NYC, and more!
Send us an email with questions, trips your planning, or whatever for a future mail bag episode! agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com
This week we're joined by Janie Stolar! Previously a writer on Smosh and currently a performer on Dropout, Janie is also a big time traveler. We talk about solo travel, home meals in Japan, some philosophical travel discussions, the vulnerability of sharing your google maps, and more!
Feel free to email us at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com with any questions, trips you want to go on, or anything at all for a future potential mailbag episode!
Jeremy Bent from Eurovangelists joins us to talk studying abroad, travel to Egypt, and taking pride in learning transit systems!
We talk to Zach about his love of Hawaii, Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, and why doesn't Europe have iced tea?!?
Check out his podcast and tour here!
Vic Michaelis joins us to talk about late nights with family, Disneyland, and their TSA skills.
You can find Vic on multiple dropout shows, their Instagram, and they want to shout out Trans Lifeline for all the good work they do!
Our final episode of season 2! This week we're joined by Amanda Lehan-Canto of Smosh fame. She talks about her family trip to Belize and the affect it had on her family, her trip to the Azores with her mother and sisters, and more!
Email us with your travel questions or stories here: agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com
This week we talk with Eric Czuleger about, well, so much. He's done it all, he's been ambassador to Somaliland for a small crypto-nation, lived in Kurdistan, and so much more. He has thought a lot about traveling and has a lot of great stuff to say!
Eric's Book - You Are Not Here
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Jeremy is planning a solo trip so we catch him just in time to pitch some possible destinations to him. We talk with him about his first time ever out of the country being Sierra Leone with an ex and more!
We have an email address! Email us at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com and maybe we'll do a mailbag episode someday?
Check out his podcast, Video Games: A Comedy Show!
Check out his short film, Skin Dinner.
We talk with Social Media guru Sarah Whittle about Italy, growing up a military brat, and more!
We have an email address! Email us at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com and maybe we'll do a mailbag episode someday?
Writer and Comedian Karen Chee joins us to talk about perfect moments of riding a roller coaster with grandma, being sad in London, and the joy of taking days off.
Read Karen's Morning Egg article here.
Brooklyn 99 writer Marcy Jarreau joins us to talk about her love of Hawaii; traveling with her best friends, the improv team Bombardo; and her dream of seeing the northern lights.
Mari Takahashi from OGSoG, Ismahawk, and general bad assery talks to us about breaking away from ballet to take risks, the bad ass woman she learned from while hiking Kilimanjaro, and being a fish out of water at her own wedding at a Shinto shrine in Japan.
Rekha Shankar, writer on Grand Crew and Animaniacs, and performer on D20, share her food centric travels and her adventures with her quiet dad.
Smosh's Tommy Bowe talks to us about trips to Long Beach, the joy of a shaken Patron shot, and the moment you know the person you're with is Your Person.
Jake Jabbour created WE Improv, one of LA's top improv schools. We talk how he'd want to have a wedding like the one he went to in Argentina, his trip with the Long Beach city government to see how the Chinese government works, and how not to get in trouble tipping in San Diego strip clubs.
Mia Schaffler, UCB improvisor and star of most commercials, talks about how she prefers to travel with a good book and a good soundtrack.
Our first episode!
Liz Reichelt (Writer's Assistant on Bridgerton) talks to us about how she travels and Rachel and Garrett each pitch her on her DREAM TRIP.