Welcome to this episode of Talking Points. I'm your host Brian Kelly and today we are talking to one of the

O.G. Travel bloggers. Don't believe me? Well if you Google how to become a full-time travel blogger, his

website is the number one search result which tells you he's a legit source.

Anyway we've got nomadic mats aka Matthew

Keptness here with us today to discuss all things travel, the travel lifestyle, and

something I'm not an expert at, budget travel.

Matt, thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having me.

I think it would be interesting watching you in a hostile.

You know, my first time in a hospital first and

last actually I've stated a hostels twice when I was in college we went to

Ireland right around St. Patrick's Day for spring break. We had found $250 airfare from Pittsburgh to Dublin and we stayed at it. It was actually a decent hostile in Dublin. It was like a party hostile right near what's that what's the neighborhood all where all the bars are temple bar

my bad hostile experience was in Paris at the peace and love hostile I actually

passed it recently when I was traveling through the air

I was like oh my God that's a blast in the past and I had a very a

that's how to stay there and in Eastern European it was the three of us in this room and there was some language barriers and some

body odor barriers as well and of course needless to say I did not pass, the shower did not pass the TPG shower

test. I think I had to contort myself, but.

Yeah, I mean, they're small for me sometimes and I'm like half your size.

So Matt you've been in the travel game for a long time we're gonna get into your

story and how you got but do you still you're successful you run a great website

nomadic mat dot com do you still stay in hostels all the time I I say a private

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