1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Hello everyone and welcome back to the Hostel Road Trip Podcast. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 The podcast that literally takes its show on the road. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Listen in as James Black and Bobby Dyer, owners of International Travelers House Hostels, 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:19,000 travel around the country to learn about these great locations and incredible people 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 that come together to provide a unique and exciting experience for travelers from all over the world. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Welcome back to the Hostel Road Trip Podcast, season 3. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:35,000 We are super excited to be here with Jordan and Cory on the south side of Chattanooga 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:42,000 at the Crash Pad Hostel, which we had the glorious advantage of staying at last night. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 As I was telling them, the mattresses were so comfortable. 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 If they had woke me up and told me it was Saturday, I would have believed you 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 because I literally didn't wake up one time once I hit the co-o. 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 And we all had the benefit of meeting at the American Hostel Conference, which was awesome. 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Incredible. And had the time to come here. 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 But thank you so much Jordan for being with us. Thank you James. 15 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Cory. Yeah, thanks guys. I really appreciate it. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 And what we'd like to do is, this place is so impressive, we're going to do a two-part episode. 17 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 We're going to talk about the actual construction and design of this awesome place, 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 more so with the owners after this. 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 But you both are the management team. And how long have you guys been working together? 20 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:29,000 I've been here for about six years now, starting in the summer of 2012. 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Nice. Yeah, and then he came in right after me. 22 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Yeah, it's been going on five years. 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 And you can feel the synergy between the two. 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Now Jordan, how did you get into hostels? 25 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 That was a weird one. So, I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm a small-ass fisher. 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 No hostels there, right? No hostels. There is one now. 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Oh good. Indian Hostel. If you ever get a chance, you'll always find great people. 28 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Nice. The right on broader who actually I'm from, or that area. 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 But I kind of moved all over throughout the country. 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Ended up getting into rock climbing from Indianapolis. There's a gym there. 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I kind of traveled to California. Went to Kentucky as well. 32 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 And then came here. And I was actually a cook for a very long time. 33 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:15,000 And then that's how I met Dan and Max from climbing with them and also doing certain like discourses for them when they came into the restaurant. 34 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 That's how I got the job here. Nice. 35 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Now, Corey, how did you get yourself into hostels? 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Kind of indirectly, like Jordan. 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Yeah, like got into climbing. Met the, you know, had a college roommate that was friends with all these guys from Indianapolis. 38 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 So, I met some people down here before moving here. 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 So, kind of had like a little base of friends. 40 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 And then was like writing to work at the climbing gym one day. 41 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And stopped here to fill my Nalgene up. And was talking to our former GM, John Ying, who's a huge mentor for both of us. 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And he was like, hey man, we might have a spot open. Would you be interested? 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And I was like, I've never done that before. But yeah, I love helping people. 44 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 And it's, so, you know, it wasn't even really a hiring process. We were like, yeah, let's get back. 45 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 That's great. You know, it just fits in so well. You're from the Windy City, right? 46 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Yeah, I'm from Chicago. So, yeah, I met all these guys in college. 47 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 I went to Purdue in Indiana and then lived in Indianapolis where they were all from for a year before I moved down here. 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Worked at the climbing gym that they all went to in high school. 49 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 So, it was like this little party spot. 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Oh, it was his day. Yeah. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 But neither of you had stayed in a hostel before working here. 52 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Ever. 53 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:45,000 And that is so cool to see because if you were to ask me, I would have thought you would have had an extensive hostel experience beforehand, that legendary. 54 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 But you were just such a good fit for the model here. 55 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Personality, you know, as if he was there. 56 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:59,000 But this gets back to what we were talking about at the conference with these smaller boutique style American hostels that are experience based hostels that we've been about. 57 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 This is very much an experience based hostel. 58 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,000 It is a lot of people might think crash pad also is where you crash on the pad. 59 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:13,000 But this is actually built around the climbing and rock climbing industry and what the actual crash pad is that you fall on. 60 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Not to take anything away from your mattresses. 61 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 They're a little bit harder than that. 62 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,000 But so the climbing is what kind of brought everyone together here as a team from the ownership down to management. 63 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 You guys are admin climbers. 64 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You cater to and promote that you're a hostile for the adventure style. 65 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:39,000 So tell us a bit more about the rock climbing community in Chattanooga. 66 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 That's one of the best communities I've ever been a part of. 67 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Actually, it really is a good vibe. 68 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 It's what makes this city hard to leave. 69 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Yeah, I tell people that often. 70 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 You're going to get sucked in. 71 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:59,000 We were both making trips here. You come once and then you're like, maybe I can fit another one in next month. 72 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Maybe I can just stay another week. 73 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Outside of here. 74 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Yeah, even when you go climb somewhere else, the climbing is amazing. 75 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 There's so much around here and out west. 76 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 After a while, you're like, man, I just miss the cruise. 77 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Yeah, no one's clicky. Everybody really cares about each other. 78 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Everybody cares about the land. 79 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Yeah, access to all the climbing areas and the hard sandstone that we have. 80 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 It's unique to this area. 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 The southeast has its own sandstone band. 82 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,000 It's pretty extensive because you can find some of the stuff up in southern Illinois, 83 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,000 there's Pocketson, Ohio, southern Pennsylvania a little bit, and then basically south of there. 84 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 We run on the same band as the Red River Gorge 85 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,000 all the way down to Little River Canyon two hours south of here in Alabama. 86 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000 All the way down to Slate. 87 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 There's a seal still out there. 88 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 You were saying that last night, we were having a pint. 89 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 You were saying that pretty much within an hour's time in different directions, 90 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 you can find all kinds of different spots. 91 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 We're still developing. 92 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 The Southeast Uncommerced Coalition, they're always buying property. 93 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 We're going about developing that. 94 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 It's one of the most successful coalitions in the country. 95 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 They have to be. 96 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 We don't have the BLM land. 97 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 That's the Bureau of Land Management. 98 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 We have private property. 99 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 That's what all of the southeast is. 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 That's really interesting. 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 It has to get bought up to be preserved. 102 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Which is an awesome move in itself. 103 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Exactly. 104 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 When we think of BLM land out west, it's like that's where I can shoot my guns 105 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 and not be in trouble about it. 106 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 It's still kind of good here too. 107 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 This is south. 108 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 You can't use your ears to shoot your guns. 109 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 That's one of our funnier, out in San Diego, 110 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 one of our most popular tours of the hostel is going to the rifle range. 111 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,000 They always look at Bobby and they look like, oh, this hippie with the surfboard. 112 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 They're thinking that it's range day and he's out in the back 113 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 and he's BMW cleaning and shotgun. 114 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 I'm like, this kid's like huffed in. 115 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 We're all fired up and ready to go. 116 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 With rock climbing, we talked a bit about it last time. 117 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 I've never done it as I'm a bit of a heavier fellow 118 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 and I'm always afraid that rock's going to come out on me. 119 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Is it like the adrenaline rush of rock falling? 120 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Is that part of the... 121 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Because it's going to be great exercise. 122 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 You must be working muscles that you just never would hit in any other exercise. 123 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Is it like kind of like mountain climbing when you get to that summit? 124 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Is this euphoria? 125 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 I think it's different for everyone else. 126 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:55,000 For me, it's just like figuring out all the micro beta movement that you need to do 127 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:01,000 and 99% of it is like pretty much, 99% of the time you're not doing any problems. 128 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Once you finally ascend, it's like doing a coat-bind. 129 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:12,000 You're out of the roof and you're just like, oh my God, I just finally did something. 130 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 You get to take a view, all this stuff, and then you just feel accomplished. 131 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 It's very similar. 132 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I know we have a similar thought process on this. 133 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 We used to skateboard when we were younger. 134 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 It's the same thing with skateboarding. 135 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 You're trying to learn new stuff. 136 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,000 You're trying to learn the 88, 99% failure rate until you find when you get it, 137 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 when you stomp it, you're just like bolts. 138 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Right away, it's just great. 139 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 It's kind of the same thing with climbing. 140 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 I know some people that climb for the adrenaline. 141 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 There are definitely people out there that do, and that scares the shit out of me. 142 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 You need adrenaline junkies that are out there. 143 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 It is not. 144 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 We're all soloing. 145 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 We're all super solo. 146 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I just use it to clear my mind. 147 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 After that, I did a little bit of it because I'm not a rock climber. 148 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Last time I was in bed, I was just kind of Googling stuff. 149 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 There's one kid that does these reclines that are, you know, fucking super. 150 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 He's on the other picture of them. 151 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 His hands are like, his fingers are like a different feeling. 152 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,000 One thing that he was saying was that you can't, 153 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 you literally have to dedicate all your focus to what you're doing. 154 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Therefore, it's therapeutic in a way because anything else you have going on in your life, 155 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 it's going on. 156 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Take a step aside. 157 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 I completely agree with that. 158 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 I'm not doing anything. 159 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 It is definitely like an escape. 160 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 I can turn my brain off, and I can allow my body to move. 161 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 You focus on the movement. 162 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,000 You kind of get to know your strengths and weaknesses a little bit more. 163 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 That's a form of mental game. 164 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 That's a form of meditation. 165 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 We do a lot of yoga and meditating at our hostels. 166 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 That, when you get good at meditating, 167 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 it's pretty much when you're able to clear out all the noise in its essence. 168 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 I think that that's in its raw form. 169 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 You're putting yourself in a very different situation of like, 170 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 you don't really have a choice. 171 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 You're not sitting on a yoga mat. 172 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,000 There's times. 173 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 You can't fall. 174 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 There's times we've been in that. 175 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 You get to a point, a certain point, like, all right, I'm going. 176 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 There's no, you can't go back. 177 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 You can't fall. 178 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 That's exactly what I mean. 179 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Another interesting one I was just looking up on took me the last night was the 180 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 the essence of it, kind of like being like a chess game. 181 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 You're planning all these moves in advance. 182 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Like, I'm down here and I'll put my hand in this crevice or I'm crevice, 183 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 but I'm going to take 20 moves ahead to how I can get up here. 184 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 So that's also in its essence a really cool thing to think about. 185 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Like, you really have to be thinking through this. 186 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 It's like boxes, and you're trying to figure out, like, 187 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 you can be in this one position for this certain box. 188 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 How do I, like, move to get to the next box? 189 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Yeah, to get to the next box. 190 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 You're in a tentacle position to get to the next box. 191 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 It's, like, we call it projecting, and it seriously is. 192 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 It's, you have to put together this project. 193 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 You have to work the beginning, you have to work the middle, 194 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 but how do you connect those two now? 195 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,000 It becomes, like, very much like figuring out these different sequences. 196 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 It's different for everybody, too. 197 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,000 It's the next part. 198 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Like, what he does is totally different than what I know. 199 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And, like, what Drake's done downstairs compared to what we can do. 200 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Like, one of our other managers, like, he's 6'2", he's super long, 201 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,000 and really, really strong, and I'm, like, 5'7", and have no upper body strength. 202 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Yeah, yeah, different styles. 203 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Exactly, yeah. 204 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 And it goes with our other manager, too. 205 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 He's a caver, but he has the same kind of projecting, 206 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 but it's for exploration. 207 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 What's a caver? 208 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 He's like... 209 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Do you go down in? 210 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Yeah, he goes down. 211 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 We go up, he goes down. 212 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Oh, my. 213 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 We recently found out that he's one of the leading... 214 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 I think he's a pro-caver. 215 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Yeah. 216 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 He's so humble about it. 217 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 He's just like, oh, yeah, I love caving. 218 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 And then if you get him talking, he'll just show you pictures. 219 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 He's like, oh, yeah, I found this a mile and a half down. 220 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Like, no one had ever seen this before. 221 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 It's like all these museums now and stuff. 222 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,000 And you're just like... 223 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 You know, when you're a caver, you're probably, like, going into places 224 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 sometimes that haven't been... 225 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Oh, yeah. 226 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 He lives for that. 227 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Oh, my God. 228 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 He showed you his tick list and it was like thousands. 229 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Thousand plus caves. 230 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 He's mapping like, I don't know, a couple of like... 231 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 He's mapping. 232 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 That's a real badass. 233 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 He's like, weird adventure. 234 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Like, no one else has this, so I'll map it out. 235 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 You know, that's impressive. 236 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Yeah, the pictures I see are those... 237 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Those are like my worst nightmares. 238 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 I know. 239 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 He's hanging, like, rushing waterfalls and we're just like, what? 240 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Squeezing through cracks under... 241 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Aqua under water and stuff. 242 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Oh, what? 243 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Yeah. 244 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,000 He's a badass. 245 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 It's cool. 246 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 But he has the same mentality. 247 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Yeah. 248 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Caged up. 249 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 He learned something new every time. 250 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Yeah. 251 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Now, I think this is also, you know, for a lot of reasons, I think, 252 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 for the health benefits of it getting outdoors, you know, 253 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 I think we're constantly trying to find a way to not become more 254 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 desensitized by all of our media stuff and being in the box. 255 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 But I think also from that clearing of the mind and kind of that 256 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 meditation, I think that's why you see such a big movement in the rock pile. 257 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Yeah. 258 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 And I think you see it out in Big Bear and other locations as well. 259 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00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 And now we bring you back to your regularly scheduled program. 284 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Welcome back. 285 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 We are still here at the crash pad in the south side of Chattanooga with 286 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Jordan and Cory. 287 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 We just had some epic talks about rock climbing. 288 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 I'm ready to take on my first adventure when I come back next time. 289 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 But now we're here to talk a bit more about the guest experience. 290 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Just before we broke off, we were talking about how you can host 291 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 weddings here, you can host events here. 292 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 You obviously have a great climbing community here. 293 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 But this is for all types of backpackers. 294 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Not just for climbers. 295 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Yes. 296 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 You should definitely look this place up if you're a digital nomad, a 297 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 person traveling through. 298 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 So tell us a bit more about your guest diversity. 299 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 It's kind of based off season. 300 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Every season has its different guests. 301 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 It could be winter time, we have the climbers, maybe some mountain 302 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 bikers, but go more into springtime. 303 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 That's when tours are coming through, families, the weather is getting 304 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 nice. 305 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Traveling, traveling to your home. 306 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000 A lot of races. 307 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Okay. 308 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:22,000 And then summer, it's Ironman, triathletes, cyclists, weddings, 309 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 and international travelers, a lot more international travelers. 310 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 In the summer time. 311 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah, just one time I experienced that southern mentality. 312 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 They picture cowboys, shirts and hats. 313 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 And a lot of people are like, what's up y'all? 314 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 I want to say y'all. 315 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,000 I think it was Byron that touched on that at the conference. 316 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Talking about how the south is kind of in right now. 317 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 And we do see that. 318 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:55,000 A lot of people from overseas are doing the trip down to Norweeds and 319 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 then over to Memphis. 320 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:02,000 I think that the south has the advantage of that genuine, 321 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 authentic feel that a lot of people are into right now. 322 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Southern hospitality. 323 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 It's a thing. 324 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 You can't get out of the market or the grocery store sometimes. 325 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Unlike Chicago, New York, I hate not them. 326 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,000 You will get stopped by everybody just because they want to have an 327 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 actual conversation. 328 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 It was a huge culture shock for me personally. 329 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Chicago is like New York or Boston. 330 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Get out of my post office. 331 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 I've got somewhere to be. 332 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I'll step on your throat to get there. 333 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 I guess Station Clerk was asking me how I'm doing with it. 334 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I'm not buying anything that you're going to try and sell. 335 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 What are you trying to sell? 336 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Everything slowed down a bit. 337 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 It's nice. 338 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 When you do slow down a little bit, 339 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 which I think we could all take a lesson from this digital age, 340 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 because everyone is so amped up and going. 341 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000 We laugh about that as we're on the road driving around on the podcast. 342 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 When we were up doing season one in the Northeast, 343 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,000 just our general normal vibe of going to a parking lot and 344 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 the ticket booth person. 345 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 They're like, hey, how's it going? 346 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 And they look at you like, why did you disaster? 347 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Take this ticket and move on. 348 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,000 And then they're like, oh, sorry about that, sir. 349 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Just in a good mood here. 350 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 For sure. 351 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,000 I think that it's very important to know that you can come here under 352 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 all different scopes and have a great time. 353 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 What about the age demographic? 354 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Would you say wide open? 355 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Wide open. 356 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 We were talking about we get conferences here where everyone in the 357 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,000 community is coming together and we're like, 358 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Hey, we're going to have a meeting. 359 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 So we'll be like 16 up. 360 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Yeah. 361 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Yeah. 362 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Some fundraisers we do. 363 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Yeah. 364 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 For some conservancies. 365 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Yeah. 366 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 It's just most older crew. 367 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Yeah. 368 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I think so relax. 369 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Yeah. It's a great, it's a great. 370 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 But, you know, 371 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 we get the families that come through here too. 372 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 And they'll bring their kids. 373 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 I know some hostels are. 374 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000 About that. 375 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Yeah. 376 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,000 And we're like, 377 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I think we're going to be able to kind of include as many people as we 378 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,000 can. 379 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Yeah. 380 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 We're not a part of the hostel. 381 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 So it's like, 382 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Yeah. 383 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Yeah. 384 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Most people are here to like get sleep. 385 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Yeah. 386 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Like get up and go and enjoy the city. 387 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Yeah. 388 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Enjoy the city. 389 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Everything. 390 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Yeah. 391 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Check it out. 392 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 And then for hostel operators out there, 393 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 that can be so beneficial to you. 394 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 If you're, you know, 395 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 if you coin yourself as a party hostel or the biggest attraction theme you 396 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 have is getting blacked out. 397 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Yeah. 398 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Your place is getting dirty. 399 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 It's going to be messy. 400 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Yeah. 401 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 So it's going to be a good place. 402 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 And I think it's going to be more of a fun place to come. 403 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Yeah. 404 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Yeah. 405 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 And it's going to be, 406 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 it's going to be more of a fun experience. 407 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 And I think it's going to be a good place to come. 408 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Yeah. 409 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Like there's no doubt about it, 410 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000 but you have to be a good place to get, 411 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,000 to be secure. 412 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,000 I'm going to say this, you know, 413 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 you guys have a really cool skeleton type crew. 414 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 There's not many of you. 415 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000 More of us. 416 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Yeah, that are running this place, 417 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 but it's running extremely well. 418 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 And one of the first things we know is the security system. 419 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:09,360 not someone at the desk all night for graveyard. I thought to myself as we were going through 420 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:13,520 it last night, I'm like, you know, I love all of our receptionists, but I'm just thinking of that 421 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:18,320 like, you know, 20 year old, you know, graveyard that's very easily distracted. And I'm like, 422 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:25,040 I'd probably take this key fob over again. I love them, but you know, if it was not to, 423 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:30,480 you know, the security of the element, it really well thought out here with those systems. But at 424 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:36,800 the same time, you do have beer for sale in your lounge, which is so cool that you could come in 425 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:41,360 and have a cold one, but in a very mature and respectful way. Yeah. We kind of set the tone 426 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:45,360 of the door. Yeah. When people walk in, you know, we're not, you kind of look around and see the 427 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:50,080 place and like, this is a beautiful building. People walk in and really take that in respect. 428 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:56,800 Yeah. Yes. And I think they, another thing that we talked about last night, we got here, and I think 429 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:02,320 for the owners of this operation, one of the things they should be very proud of is that it would be 430 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,800 very easy to think that you two are the owners. Because the way you care about the place, the way 431 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,040 you talk about the place, the way you're passionate about it, the way you're kind of living it, 432 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,360 breathing it along with it. When we were at the conference a few days ago, I thought you guys were 433 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:20,240 the owners. And when you said you were, I was like, oh, that's cool. And then when we continued to 434 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,120 get here and hang out last night, I was like, these owners are lucky because when you're speaking as 435 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:31,920 an hospital owner, you want your manager to take ownership in it. And that's very hard to do 436 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:38,080 without them actually being owners with you. So what would you say some of the things that 437 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:44,240 Max and Dan have done to create a culture here that makes you guys so proud here, you know, 438 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:51,600 makes you feel like you're the owners? I mean, it's overbook management 101. So they kind of just 439 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:57,600 empowered us to, you know, they gave us the tools, the data, the education to like, actually feel 440 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,160 like owners. So we see the data, we see all the numbers, we see what's going on behind the scenes. 441 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,920 Full transfer. Exactly. And so we come in and just, yeah, we feel like we do feel like we own this 442 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:16,240 place as a baby. We know pretty much everything about from an operations standpoint. And I think 443 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:21,520 a lot of that came down, I know, but Dan and Max helped start it for sure. But at least for me, it 444 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:29,040 was John and Beth and the two people that were above us that brought us on. They have their culture, 445 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:33,280 they're creating a culture of just like going above and beyond and caring for the team, 446 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:39,600 first and foremost, and will help drive the care, like wanting to care so much that the 447 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:46,000 people that come here are going to see that. Yeah, top down, it kind of rubs off. Yeah. And I had 448 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:52,240 never worked for a place that cared so much about the person that they just brought into the team. 449 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:59,440 Yeah. You know, they used to emphasize that we are family. Yeah. So often. Yeah. And, you know, 450 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:04,560 going above and beyond for your team first, and then that will help everyone go above and beyond 451 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:10,400 for the guests that just got here. Yeah. I think that's very good advice for the listeners out 452 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,680 there. But it's also, it's just great for the whole operation. You can feel it from the 453 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:21,280 moment you walk in. And a person loves to be proud of where they work and they love to be a part of 454 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:27,840 it. But that's good advice on having that full transparency and including you guys in the big 455 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:33,200 decisions, trusting you guys to make big decisions and to operate the place as you see fit. Yeah. 456 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:40,560 Definitely rub off in that way. Now, what would you say for a potential traveler who isn't 457 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:46,320 a rock climber or boulder who's coming in and maybe also isn't that digital nomad that's very 458 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,160 prevalent now, a person who's coming to work for a few days and then you guys would see some of the 459 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:56,560 guests out there right now or in that format. What would a potential international traveler, 460 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:02,720 millennial traveler coming in, hostiling, what would they do for fun stuff here at Chattanooga? 461 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:09,040 Yeah, I mean, there's too much. This is like our biggest, you know, crux sometimes is like, 462 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,120 there's so much to do here. It almost takes like a week or two just to kind of like get used to 463 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:16,400 like what's going on in the city. But I mean, they can come in, they can go to looking, 464 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,720 look out mountain, they can go to Craven's house, which takes the point part, just 465 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,720 in our two sunset rocking back. You got a great music scene, right? Music scene is, 466 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,320 you know, it's not been coming. Yeah. Well, right around the corner here, what's this? 467 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,520 We got song verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, 468 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,520 song verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, guitar verse, 469 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,200 right next to station street, which is now you can grab a cup and you can actually drink around 470 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,520 and go to each and every one of the bars. We're right next to all the, I mean, we have discounts 471 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:48,400 for 37 bars and restaurants all around us. Heck, you can do like a 3.7 mile running loop or hike 472 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,200 that's right downtown. Is it a state preserve? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rock City, Ruby Falls, 473 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:03,360 River Walk. It's like a 25 mile back and forth, basically elevated at sometimes right along the 474 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:07,360 river. It goes all the way up to the dam and now it extends all the way out to the lookout mountain. 475 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:16,160 Awesome. It is very outdoor. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Definitely. And then the bar next door to the 476 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,480 hospital, you know, so you can have, you can buy a beer inside reception, but we've got a full bar 477 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,720 restaurant that's owned by you guys. Commercial bar. Right next door. Tell us just a bit about 478 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:35,280 that place. What's that place like? It's really nice. It's beautiful. I mean, looking at it, 479 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,120 it's beautiful. It's one of the wards for one of the best looking bars in the country. Architecture, 480 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:44,720 I like art wars. Yeah. But the food there is just like, what type of food? It's a Southern spin. I 481 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:50,000 get you're the kitchen guy. Yeah. You work with chefs. Yeah. Ben Parks and I, we used to work over 482 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,320 at St. John's restaurant together at Meeting Place and at St. John's, but I almost like to say it's 483 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:59,920 more, I mean, they're trying, we're in this weird, I was just talking about, we're in a weird funk of 484 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:06,640 like trying to figure out, the bar is trying to figure out like who they are in this new area of 485 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,680 the Southside where everything, all these restaurants are popping up all over the place. 486 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:16,400 I would say it's more of like a shareable, it's like, it's almost like a tapas place. Shareable, 487 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,800 small plates that you can just share with everybody. At the same time, like if you're like really 488 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,120 focused on like dinner, like we do have like, they have like full on sets, like chicken sets, 489 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:30,560 salmon sets and all that stuff. Their cocktail program is incredible. Yeah. Seasonal rotating 490 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:37,040 drafts, like, I mean, we try to keep it all local. It is someone's on the table. It's just a, it's 491 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:43,440 a beautiful restaurant and that's, I mean, you also get 20% of the food. Yeah. Well, I think one of 492 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:48,880 the cool things and advantageous that you guys have here is that you're, the owners clearly got into a 493 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,080 part of the neighborhood right as it was starting to get revitalized. Classic Main Street revitalization. 494 00:25:54,080 --> 00:26:01,200 Yeah. Yes. And we pulled in here and right away we realized like, wow, we could have just parked 495 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:08,080 our car and walked everywhere and got into bars and music places and restaurants and very easily 496 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,400 just kind of started to explore it. So it's really cool that you found yourself in this 497 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:18,320 booming city within this booming neighborhood and at the perfect time for it. Yeah. The very 498 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:24,960 advantageous for you guys. Now tell our guests, potential guests a bit about the price point here 499 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,280 as if you're coming through Chattanooga and you want an option to stay at the hostel, 500 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:38,480 like what would a bunk cost? Yeah. So our, our bunks are 3D and I tax you for a little high, but 501 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:46,400 that's an onto the choice. Yeah. So yeah, it's going to run you right under 45 bucks with everything. 502 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,120 Okay. Just stay in a bunk, you know, includes breakfast, includes wifi, gay city, 503 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:57,520 the fastest internet in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Very fast. You got a cool little hangout area with a 504 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:05,600 grill, a fire pit, a full kitchen, like all, you know, all local stuff for breakfast, laundry, 505 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,000 free linens. We don't allow any outside linens. So you can grab as many as you want. We do have 506 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,400 wooden bunks after all. Well, but we stayed in the bunks last night and we were actually in the 507 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,520 private rooms where you have to have a nice queen size or that underneath and then the bunk up top. 508 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:24,240 I thought we gave you the hook up. Yeah. We needed that after a few rough days. 509 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:30,640 Haskell Sears Design did all of our woodworking for us. Who is Haskell Sears? A local company, 510 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:37,520 local woodworking company. They do some seriously good work. A lot of our stuff is mostly, 511 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,240 oh, it's pretty much all reclaimed. Either reclaimed from the old building that was on site or 512 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:48,480 it's scraps from their warehouse. So they did a beautiful job. Those things are sturdy. Yeah. 513 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,160 He was on the top bunk. He moved around. I didn't hear. They're not moving. Yeah. So you're not 514 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,640 waking up the neighbor down low. So that's nice. That's why we hated the metal bunks. Well, I went 515 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:04,640 to wood, but yeah. Well, I mean, it has its advantages, pros, cons for us, but I've actually 516 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,520 been a fan of the wooded bunk bed because we really are making bunk beds for adults. Yes. You know, 517 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:16,400 and bunk beds that are not made custom by wood are made for children 90% of the time. Yeah. And 518 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:23,360 that shows how it feels, how it sounds, how it feels. So if you can make a cool wooded bunk 519 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,440 custom made, you know, I think it's personally for me a favorable way. Yeah. I mean, we definitely 520 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:36,880 made it for adults. Yeah. Twin XLs there. Yeah. You can be 6'8". And you got the curtains on the 521 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:42,560 bunk. They're very well made and comfortable. Now, what about the price point of the private rooms? 522 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,640 Private rooms. So we have a couple different models. They start at $89 a night. That's just 523 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:51,200 a regular private room. You get a queen bed, sitting in there, personal storage units, showroom units. 524 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,200 Again, all the restrooms, they are shared. Men's and women's restrooms on each floor, each one with 525 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,120 two private showers, two private stalls, hand stains, hand towels. Towels are already, you know, 526 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,680 lids are already on the bed. Back to the private rooms. Sorry. There's an 89 dog with a couple 527 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:13,680 different models. 89, 99, 119, 199 for the suite. Kitchen and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you 528 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,920 have a nice range of private rooms too. And we always encourage listeners out there, especially 529 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,160 the Americans and the millennials, that if you're wanting to try this social experience, but you're 530 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:29,280 a little bit hesitant, try out the private room. Get your feet in there and see how that goes and 531 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,840 then work your way into that dorm room. But I think two of the foundations that you guys have 532 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:39,280 nailed here is the safety and the cleveless. If people feel secure and that it's clean, 533 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,600 then they're much more willing to try to share the environment. Yeah. And that you guys nailed 534 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,760 that one because it's very clean and it's very secure. Yeah. And we were talking about, you know, 535 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:52,720 the big part of your guys' presentation was like getting over that stigma. Yeah. As an American 536 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:59,440 hostel. Yeah. And we do get a lot of first time guests. First time hostel guests, not just Chattanooga, 537 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:07,200 never stayed in a hostel before. Yeah. We get it every week. We get people in. And we do have to 538 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:13,680 say like, just so you know, like I love, usually they love it. Yeah. But just so you know, not all 539 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:21,520 hostels are like this. Yeah, that's true. It is an uncommon hostel. Yeah. But we use that private 540 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:28,320 room. Yeah. We know the importance of getting those people into hosteling. Yes. And trying to 541 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:34,080 beat that stigma. The security and the cleanliness are, you know, that's right off the bat. You notice 542 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,400 it before you even meet us. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Clearly. It's organized, styled, and makes you 543 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,720 feel safe. And I think that for anyone out there who's thinking of trying out a hostel for the 544 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,200 first time, this is an uncommon hostel, but it's the type of one that you would want to break in 545 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,320 with. And the type of one that if someone did stay here for the first time, I guarantee you're 546 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:58,160 winning them over to the hostel side away from hotels. And we encourage all listeners to come 547 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:04,480 to Chattanooga, try out the crash pad, whether you're a rock climber or not, this is an upcoming 548 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,520 company that's going to make its mark in the industry for sure. Jordan, Corey, thank you so 549 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:14,320 much for being with us. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Yeah. You're at Southern Hospitality, 550 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:20,960 has revived my soul. We are ready to en-road and we are going to head for Nashville next. 551 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:26,080 And thanks so much for listening and stay tuned for more great episodes from season three 552 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:43,680 of the Hostel Road Trip podcast.