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All right, I'm Matt.
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And I'm kp. Welcome to the nightly from Hatch, where your late night thoughts go to. Matt, I am on a bit of a travel week and I had some odd little things happen at the airport when I went to leave and I'd love to share them with you.
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Absolutely. Odd as in annoying odd or odd as in that sounds. The way that you said that made it sound like it was some sort of supernatural.
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It felt supernatural. Well, the good thing is I wasn't in a rush, which is rare, I think, for traveling. But I was not in a rush. I was getting to where I needed to go. Denver for a work thing. And I was getting there the night before anything anyway, so really had no rush. But I went to the smallest airport in LA to fly out of. And that airport always has some just odd things going on. Firstly, my flight got delayed by an hour and a half, but didn't get told at all. So I had to go to the desk and I go, hey, I'm seeing like a number here, but then a number here. And she goes, oh, yeah, we're just gonna delay that one. And I was like, sounds good. I hadn't checked in yet. So instead I said, boyfriend, can you please turn right around and can we go do something fun for an hour? So he took me to a synthesizer store where it was just 7,000 buttons that you could press to create odd sounds. So that was already bizarre. Things are weird, right?
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Okay, so how far away is a synthesizer store from the airport?
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Six minutes. They're getting all those tourists, the synthesizer tourists.
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That's. Yeah. Straight off the plane, you think? Right. What do I want now? Food, sleep or a synthesizer, obviously.
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Yeah, I could go to the Panda Express. I could go check in at my hotel or I could go play with the synthesizers, actually, I mean, when you
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say it, that does sound quite fun. So it's a really small airport then if you can just circle back out and go somewhere else.
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Yeah, exactly. Yep, really small. So then I get in, I'm taking a few laps around just to be walking around before I have to sit for a while. And my flight, they say, hey, we're going to be delaying seven more minutes, guys. We're so sorry. We're going to delay seven more minutes. A flight attendant got stung by a bee.
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Just don't say anything if it's that,
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just don't say any. Firstly, delaying seven minutes. Not worth announcing. Don't worry about it.
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Well, yeah, in terms of a flight that seven minutes is. That's nothing. Yeah.
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Unless it's like 20 minutes, I guess. Sure. That would be the lowest that I'd. All right, start telling me, I guess. Seven minutes. We're going to delay seven minutes because a flight attendant got stung by a bee. So many questions. Where was the bee on the plane?
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So how big was the bee?
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Was the bee on the plane? But my biggest question is, what are you going to do? I mean, there's not like a medical antidote for a bee sting.
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No. I mean, you could put a bit of cream on it to take the, to sort of take the itch out. But my biggest question would be, why has this slowed down the plane seven minutes?
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Can't we just pull her off to the side as we're going in? I mean.
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Yeah, I mean, it's just sort of. You should never, never leave a man behind.
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But I reckon we could have done this without her. Yeah, the bee is dead, so we know that. So he's not a threat anymore. Were we worried maybe he had an accomplice that we had to catch?
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Yes, but yeah, somebody. A relative now looking for vengeance. Potentially.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Interesting.
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So that was already bizarre. We all get on the plane and this is such a small airport that you walk on the tarmac to go up the stairs onto the plane. That's just how this airport works.
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Step over the body of the stewardess.
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Yeah. We get on, we're just about to take off and then they go, sorry, guys, we have to come back. There's been a medical emergency on the plane from a passenger. I go, my God, the bee is back.
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God. Yeah.
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God, they got him. And this is now we've been delayed. I mean, it's been two hours of delays. Again, I'm chipper, I'm fine. Cause I'm not in a rush. But would I prefer to be in the air by now? Yeah, sure. We get back into the gate, two people get off that. And listen, they didn't look sick to me, but okay, fine. They had to get off the. Okay, fine. I don't pretend to know what's going on inside anyone's body.
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Did you not confront. No, just not go and just sort of give them a shake down and say, what? What's wrong?
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What could it have possibly been? We already were delayed two hours. If you were sick, didn't you feel it before? But okay, yeah.
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With that extra time of being delayed as well, surely you would have felt some sort of symptoms. Annoying that.
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By the way, I, I forgot to mention this. As we're getting on the plane. This was before. As we're getting on the plane, A man had a medical emergency at the gate. He's on a stretcher. The firefighters had to pull this man out of my gate with a stretcher. I didn't see what was going on.
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Pull him out of the gate.
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They had to take him while the fire truck came to the tarmac. It was odd.
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We had to get the fire brigade in to get him pulled out of the gate.
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I mean, he just happened to have to get pulled in a stretcher onto the tarmac.
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I don't know what the fire brigade got to do with this.
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They were just the first to show up. I guess they were the ones nearby. They were all at the synthesizer store.
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Yeah, of course. Yeah. A couple of loops and then. But so the guy wasn't. He wasn't actually stuck in anywhere in the fight. They didn't cut out. Okay. Right, right.
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They just pulled him out of that gate. I don't know why I said it like that. They just took him.
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It's just that with the. With the fire brigade. That's the image that it conjures.
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In a. Yeah.
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Stairwell or something or like, you know, those. You know, the baskets that you check how big your overhead bag is.
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He got stuck.
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Guy with his head stuck in one of them. Okay. It wasn't that.
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So that was happening. So then we have to turn around. We let these two healthy people out. Fine. They seem to need it. No worries.
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She doesn't hold a grudge, though.
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No worries. Then we're leaving again. They go, guys, we just got word that Denver is not allowing any planes in. So we were about to leave, but in the five minutes to let those two passengers out, Denver just shut down. I mean, we were about to leave, and Denver was saying, sure. And then those people. Who knows what they were sick with. And I hope it was. I hope it was good. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Because then Denver shut down due to a lightning storm or something. So then we're delayed again.
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Oh, no. How long?
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This one was only 20.
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Okay. Oh, so you're on the plane for this delay, though?
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Yes, yes. We're just twiddling our thumbs and then finally we leave. And there was no other exciting things that happened. Denver at least had it all together. No medical emergencies. Once we got rid of the couple,
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you did have the opportunity there to do the funniest thing ever, which is just. Just as the plane starts taxiing. I don't feel great.
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I need to get off. Yeah. And then it was like Everyone was late for their connecting flights. And I found it to be a real community moment because everyone at once was like, nobody get out until all the connecting flight people leave. And everyone listened to that. Denver's a very kind place. This wouldn't happen in any other flight, I think.
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Yeah, that's impressive.
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They're very kind over here. So everyone was like staying in their seat until all the connecting people left, which I think in many other cities I've been to, they go, I don't care about those people.
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Yeah. I mean, I'd like to think that I would stay in my seat. Would I? Yeah, maybe.
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Well, that was. I mean, that was the odd medical delays of my trip to Denver. That was the really only thing to report. But it was just a bizarre. That airport, I mean, you're paying extra because it's a small airport, because truly, to get through line to your plane, it takes six minutes. It's the fastest little airport. But you do have to deal with a lot of just odd things. There's only one restaurant in that whole airport and it's Guy Fieri's Sauce Hut or something. It's just like, wow. Where Guy Fieri goes to guinea pig test his disgusting sauces, I think, or something. He's just using us as lab rats at the Burbank airport.
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That's such a risky move, isn't it? Trying a new sauce before a flight.
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I'm not doing that. No. And there's no. So there's no restaurants there. You have to come having eaten, which I did not. So everything was a little more annoying. As you can tell, as I'm relaying this story, you can tell I was hungry.
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Those small airports I remember going through, I think it was like, it was nice. Or Monaco. It's somewhere in the south of France. I'd been working and I went back to the airport to come home and I was, same as you, just starving. Went in the one restaurant there and ate. And then I suddenly realized the time and it came over the thing saying, oh, flight whatever to London, Gatwick's boarding. I went, oh, my God. Ran. And when I was on the plane, as soon as we got up in the air, I suddenly went. I didn't pay for that meal.
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Oh, no.
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I thought, that must happen all the time. Why would you not charge me?
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Do it in the beginning.
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At the beginning. Yeah. Because happen constant. They must be going out of business.
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Wow. I never thought about that.
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Yeah, it's the best dine and dash you could do. Like, there is absolutely no you just. You're out.
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Yeah. You're not gonna be able to catch me. You cannot catch me. I'm in the air. Dang. I never thought about that yet, but that makes sense.
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But I felt bad to the point where I actually. I felt I don't remember what the restaurant was. So I had to Google the airport, find what the restaurant was called. And then I emailed the head office because the waitress was so sweet and I didn't want. Because I know in some places they kind of penalized the wait stuff. So I wanted to say, oh, that was my fault. I ran off. Yeah. They came back and went, oh, don't worry about it. It's fine.
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That's very nice. Wow. Yeah. It must happen a lot.
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Yeah. Weirdly unbothered by it. So. Yeah. They must be used to it. Maybe. It's a strange business model.
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Very.
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So how long are you in Denver for?
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I'm leaving today. I was here for four or five days and I had a real. I've been to this hotel before. This is becoming kind of. When I'm in Denver, I go to this hotel. But there's quirks, there's art. And I don't know if I said this last time I was staying in this hotel. There's an art wall in each of the hotels that has, as you can see, it's a blood red wall.
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Wow.
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And it's the scratchings of a madman as wallpaper. It is scratched white things from around Colorado. And you go, oh, that's nice. Okay. But again, it's a blood red wall scratching as if, you know, they're deep in a troubled state. And I will say there's like joke ish ones on some of them. Like, there's Agave havardian. So, okay, that's great. That's a plant from Colorado. I. But then they'll be like, Subaru tire. Like up here, there's a tire. Subaru impreza wheel 2012.
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Right. Yeah. It's not bad.
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And then there's another one. The worst one for me is there's a bear. And it says, it's labeled, guy in a too small bear suit.
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Yeah. That's weird. Yeah.
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Why would you say that?
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To say bear. It looks tall in terms of purposes, that looks like a bear.
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And I'd say, hasn't the Shining taught us that in a hotel? I don't wanna see a man in a bear suit. I go, maybe we go back to the drawing board on this wallpaper. It's in every room. Cause I've tried two different rooms now, and I was excited this one to be like, okay, perhaps I'm just plain walls on this one. But they really, they liked this man scratching his ideas about Colorado on the walls.
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Yeah. Cause it is. It's obviously stuff from Colorado, but it is like, it's from the memory of a guy who's completely lost the plot and lives alone in a cave.
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Yes. It's a man who's remembering a drug dream that he had where he went to Colorado.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There's one here where it says coyote, A picture of a coyote, and then has crossed out the word coyote. I go, well, what happened? Why did we cross out.
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What's the top left one there? Is that some sort of bird I'm seeing on the.
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And it's called a Gloomy Woodcock. And don't laugh.
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Nothing funny about that.
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There's nothing funny about.
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Say that straight away. Yeah.
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The one under that is flashlight on a rabbit. Huh?
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Flashlight on a rabbit. It's haunting, I would say. Yeah.
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Well, that's the thing. And I go, okay, I can't be scared staying in this hotel. This is the hotel I've chosen. I'm getting loyalty points. I must enjoy this.
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That's the main thing. Is it a chain hotel? Is it a big chain?
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It is. Yeah, it is. And I appreciate them using artwork. Hotel artwork in general can just be very odd, don't you find?
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Yeah, it can, I think, increasingly going into the future. I mean, it's great because that's definitely not AI unless AI has had an extreme breakdown. It's seen too much, poor thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So I think that is great. Yeah, it's nice. There's some. A local madman doing the interior design.
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Yeah. There was another one where I took a cross country trip in a hotel I stayed in. Just had a bunch of words again scrawled, typed out that said like, power, possession, success, strength. And I'm like, oh my God. This is like, you know, a really scary CEO's journal.
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That is terrifying. But what, what are they. What's going through the minds of the people that. Are they going. The people that stay here. I know what they're like. They are all about success.
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I don't know. Cause it is odd. I feel like most of the times chain hotels, you would want to make a really safe bet, like, oh, okay, we'll just hang a picture of a flower.
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Yeah. Or even just like travel lodges over here. It's a very. It's the same in every room. It's an Abstract, like sort of light orbs in the colors of the hotel. Like a white and a blue and a red. Yeah. Very inoffensive.
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You would think they would want to. Yeah. Just do something that. Because I would assume. I mean, the market for scratched symbols of men in bear suits, I just. I thought that maybe that would be lower, but I don't know. It's growing on me.
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It's a filter that I often have ticked on my booking dot com. Yeah. It's got to have a gym, a breakfast bar, and scratched etchings of a man in a bear suit in the wall.
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Yes, absolutely. I hope for these things, but I've learned a lot about Colorado and I know now to look out for the gloomy woodcock.
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Keep an eye out for the gloomy woodcock. Always.
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Always.
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Where's Colorado Springs from you?
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Probably about an hour, I think.
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Have you been there before?
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No, I haven't, but I passed through Colorado a few times driving, and it is quite gorgeous.
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Yeah. I've got in my head. I don't know why. It's come up loads recently. Colorado Springs, I think, like, in several different mediums. I think I was listening to, like, some Doug Stanhope interview and he said he's lucky. He went to a club in Colorado Springs or something. But in my. Every time it conjures an image of, like, lots of greenery, waterfall.
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Very.
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And a comedy club at the bottom. I thought, God, I'd love to do that. I'm sure the reality is nothing like
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that, but it might be. I mean, there's some really interesting. They have the Red Rocks Amphitheater here, too, if I'm not mistaken.
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Oh, is that there?
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Yeah. Colorado. I mean, I would love to see that. That looks so beautiful.
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That'd be. I'd love to do the. Do a gig there. That'd be fun, wouldn't it?
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I know that would be really fun. But a lot of the. I mean, they're so outdoorsy here. Every Uber driver I've had so far has been like, I assume you're going to take a hike today. I was like, not if I can help it. Unless I'm forced.
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It's dangerous out there. There's men in bear suits, there's bees.
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I don't want to see the Agave Havardian. I don't know if it's poisonous or not.
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Yeah. Get your eyes pecked out by a
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gloomy woodcock or a Subaru Impressa. I would hate to get the Subaru. Impressive. Roll up on me. Yeah. So that's why it could be like a comedy club that's right in the bottom of a waterfall. It seems very Colorado to have that, so it's possible.
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I'm gonna keep that in my head. I'm actually. I'm thinking of coming out at some point and doing like a run of comedy clubs just to sort of have a look about and see what I can get over there.
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Absolutely.
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So that's on my list. Need to find the comedy club at the bottom of a waterfall.
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Yes. And you have. The troll will ask you three riddles. To get people in, you must answer them.
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Probably the same troll that did your painting in your room.
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I like him now. I don't know. I've got. Here's the other thing and I won't dwell too much on it. This hotel. I'm a really great sleeper. I sleep through the night, I don't wake up. I'm not a heavy sleeper, but I'm a very medium sleeper.
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But you're a good sleeper because of hatch, the nightly on hatch.
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Don't ever forget the nightly on hatch here at this hotel. This happened last time I stayed and this time I'm waking up like once an hour really. And maybe it is because I'm without my hatch, but it is. I have to imagine the troll that sketched his curses upon this hotel has something to do with this.
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There's something going on there, isn't there?
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Yeah, well, it's not even. I'm sleeping poorly. Like I'm waking up with a lot of pep in my step. But I'm like, why was all night every hour I was like, time to wake up. I don't know, maybe I'm sleeping too good. I can't tell.
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Maybe. Have you ever had that before where you stayed in a hotel? I think I spoke about this ages ago on here. But have you ever had it where you've got to the bathroom and you've taken the wrong door and gone out into the corridor?
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No, but this seems. I could see how this happens.
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Yeah. It's only ever happened to me once. It was the worst night of my life. I mean, long story short, just had a really great evening out and then I was looking for the bathroom, went through the wrong door and all of a sudden it's 4 o' clock in the morning and I was just in my boxers in a hotel corridor. I couldn't get back in.
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Oh no. Cause you didn't bring your card.
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No, of course not. I was going for a. Let's go to the toilet.
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Of course
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I had to. There's so much goes through your mind when you come round and you just realize the gravity of the situation.
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I'm in my boxers.
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You've just gotta suck it up. So had to get in the lift and a lot of mirrors in the lift. A lot of shame, of course.
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Yep.
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Went down to reception and obviously the garden. Reception was like, everything all right? I was like, yeah, well that's all point.
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It could be better. Could be a little better.
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One sort of issue maybe. I'm just. He was like, don't worry about it. It happens all the time.
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I'm sure. I was gonna say. They probably say see the craziest things.
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I bet they do. I would love to. That'd be a great book. Like a compilation of night porters at hotels.
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Yeah. I'm sure it's full of characters. Yeah.
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Ended up. Just got in the lift with him. It's just the two of us going back to our room. Just in my box.
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Please don't look at me. There's mirrors everywhere. He has to look at you.
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My eyes are up here, buddy. Nice. Well, I hope you sleep better tonight.
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We'll see. Yeah. I want to say goodnight to you. Of course, Matt. But I'll say goodnight to that flight attendant that got stung by a bee. I hope everything's okay. I. I hope that those seven minutes made an impact on you.
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Yeah. Her thoughts. Thoughts are with her family and the family of the bee. Very difficult time. And I'd just like to say goodnight to the gloomy woodcock. Great bird.
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Great bird.
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Didn't know anything about it until 10 minutes ago, but not even sure it's real. It's on the wall. What. What else matters?
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Good night everyone. Talk to you next time.
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Good night. K.
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Sa.
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Date: May 27, 2026
Hosts: Matt Bragg and KP Parker
Produced by: Hatch Podcasts
On this sleep-friendly, playful episode of The Nightly, comedians Matt Bragg and KP Parker dive into the strangeness of travel—recounting a series of surreal airport delays and delving into the oddities of hotel art in Denver, Colorado. The conversation is packed with witty banter, late-night humor, and the uniquely cozy yet sharp perspective that characterizes the show. For insomniac travelers or anyone who has ever wondered about synthesizer shops near airports or scratched drawings of men in bear suits, this episode is a delightful journey through the bizarre.
| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Event | |-----------|---------|-------------| | 02:41 | KP | “We’re going to delay seven more minutes because a flight attendant got stung by a bee. So many questions. Where was the bee? On the plane?” | | 07:45 | KP | “Everyone was like, nobody get out until all the connecting flight people leave. And everyone listened to that. Denver’s a very kind place.” | | 12:21 | KP | “Hasn’t The Shining taught us that in a hotel, I don’t want to see a man in a bear suit?” | | 10:22 | Matt | “I felt bad to the point where…I Googled the airport, found the restaurant, and emailed the head office. The waitress was so sweet, and I didn’t want her to be penalized.” | | 19:32 | Matt | “A lot of mirrors in the lift. A lot of shame, of course.” | | 21:03 | Matt | “Her thoughts are with her family and the family of the bee.” (Wishing well to flight attendant and bee) |
Lighthearted and sharp, the hosts use the absurdities of airport and hotel experiences to explore the universal mix of annoyance and amusement in travel. Their anecdotes, both mundane and surreal, become a vehicle for sly observational humor and gentle camaraderie. The episode creates a cozy space for listeners—especially those winding down for the night—to laugh at the baffling rituals of travel and the odd comforts of temporary homes.
For fans of cozy, relatable comedy with a late-night feel, this episode stands out for its celebration of the strange details that make travel stories memorable—and maybe just a little bit magical.