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Thank you. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saved the world.

And today, since Johnny Depp is now saved from Amber Heard's defamation, I bet you want to travel, don't you? But now you realize the gas is so expensive. It's impossible to plan a road trip anywhere because you cannot afford the price of petrol if you're going from point A to point A and a half, which isn't

very far. So that is maddening for a lot of people. It's very discouraging because as many of us

have been locked down emotionally, physically, free from travel for two plus years, this is the

summer for a lot of people.

People have been saving.

They have been planning.

I talked to a neighbor the other day who just got back from a family trip to Italy because

they were so pent up.

But a lot of people are seeing that travel by and large is up about 60% since the beginning of the pandemic because of the costs of

inflation. That's, you know, a number of things. There's a labor shortage. So whoever's working,

they cost more money. Gas costs more money. Gas is, you know, eight bucks a gallon in some

parts of California. And we are definitely going to go

northward of $6 a gallon here in terms of the United States average. And we are getting

into territory that we haven't seen. And the pandemic wanderlust will not be tamped down, nor should it, because you have to have

new experiences with new places and food that you will remember for the rest of your life.

That's what travel does.

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