Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, and Worst Bathroom Experiences

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SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dylan and producers Johanna and Amanda take your questions. For our next mailbag, we’re looking for questions about solo travel. If you have a question for Dylan about traveling by yourself, give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at [email protected], or simply email your question.

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0:00.0	Okay, okay, I'm recording now.
0:02.9	Sweet.
0:04.4	It's hot here.
0:05.4	It feels like summer.
0:06.5	And what happens when it gets turned to be summer?
0:08.9	It gets very hot in this little booth.
0:11.3	I know.
0:12.6	Yeah.
0:13.5	We hold off in putting in air conditioning until it's like blazing and we can't sleep, basically.
0:20.1	Yeah.
0:20.5	But it means that when I record this podcast, sometimes by the end of it, I am like dripping in sweat.
0:25.6	It's gross.
0:26.5	Hi, I'm here now.
0:27.5	Are we talking about how hot it is in our makeshitship recording studios?
0:30.6	Yes.
0:31.2	I love it, though.
0:32.1	I love trying to keep cool.
0:34.5	I love finding creative ways to keep cool.
0:40.2	Drinking smoothies. I'm like getting cold packed. Put an ice cube on top of my head, just letting it melt. Oh, God, this is, you and I are just
0:46.2	not the same here. Okay, it's a mailbag day. I have a few questions for us today, but we might have to cut one of them out
0:56.7	because it might be... Too controversial? Yeah. Too salacious. It's not salacious. It's not
1:03.9	controversial. It might be gross. Oh. I can't even imagine. Is it a gross related travel question?
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