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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Life Lessons from Going Viral

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture:places & Travel, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

I’ve gone viral once in my life…and it was awesome. But not for the reasons you’d think.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we had just arrived in C. M. Reep, Cambodia and we were there, of course, to see one of the magnificent wonders of the world, Ankerwatt.

0:07.5

And so we needed a driver to do that.

0:10.0

And the night before we had found a driver randomly at the airport.

0:14.0

He had taken us to our hotel and said,

0:16.0

if you want me to help you tomorrow, I can, and we had agreed.

0:19.0

And so we went with this driver that we found randomly.

0:22.0

And thankfully, we did did because his name was

0:24.7

Bonti and he is to this day the kindest nicest human I have ever met in my life. And you could

0:31.6

tell that Bontty went above and beyond for everything that he did.

0:37.2

He wanted to make sure that we had the absolute best experience that we could have in his home country and he was so proud of

0:44.3

his home country and proud of Ankerwatt that everything he did was to make sure

0:48.6

that we had the best possible experience and my goal at that point I started a travel website a year before

0:56.1

was to try to connect travelers to people on the ground in these places so that they could have

1:00.8

the most authentic and best experience.

1:02.5

And so I was doing a YouTube series at that point.

1:05.3

This is before social media.

1:06.6

So it was YouTube and blog post.

1:08.9

And I put out a YouTube video and I put out a blog post

1:11.5

called the top 10 things to do in CM reap and one of those is

1:14.5

hire a driver and make sure that it is Bumty because he's the best and I put his

1:20.0

phone number and I put an email address for him.

1:23.0

And every once in a while I would get a random message here or there from someone's that,

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