August 16, 2024 • 19 mins
Karena is back from her big European vacation and is here to give us all the details about what happened.
Martha & Christie were stunned to find out that Karena's dad almost didn't make it past TSA. Plus, find out why her parents were escorted off a plane!
Martha & Christie were stunned to find out that Karena's dad almost didn't make it past TSA. Plus, find out why her parents were escorted off a plane!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk talk begins.
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is this the part where we talk pretty sure ocasal
I ever wanted? Oh yeah, this is something I needed.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, Welcome to Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We are on episode number two hundred and nine.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You guys, oh man, Christie's here, Martha Quinn is here, yes,
and Green of Alaskaz is here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sometimes I feel like maybe I should just let my
true personality out, you know, Okay, you know, maybe maybe
this is maybe this is the real me. You know,
this is doubt, this is all I got. Maybe this
is all I've got, Ladies, Maybe this is it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, if this is it, please let us know.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Welcome to episode number two hundred and nine of Talk
Talk with Martha Quinn. Shout out to my husband Jordan,
who sat in the Queen of Alaska's share chair share
chair last week and episode number two hundred and eight.
This is the show that normally unites the Marth Quinn
Show crew, me and Karina of Alaska's with the Morning
(01:11):
Drive CHRISTI Live crew, which is Christie and Krena of
Alaskas Funny about that. Very funny about that. So Christy
and I have been on our own for a while
because Karina left us and went on vacation, which we
talked about in episode number two hundred and seven. And
(01:32):
at that point, Karina, you were talking about some anxieties
you had about taking this big trip with your parents.
You were going to Italy, France and Spain. Can we
revisit the anxieties and then talk about the reality and
how perhaps the anxieties got alleviated or maybe you discovered
(01:53):
some new anxieties along the way. So can we revisit
the anxieties you had pre trip?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Let's go back to the dark times? Yeah, just kidding.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I was extremely nervous to take the trip with my parents.
It was our first big trip in another part of
the country. We go to Mexico all the time, but
that is our comfort zone because we speak Spanish. But
this is the first time that we were going to
Rome and whatever, just another part of the country.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So or perhaps another part of the world, another part.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Of the world, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I pretty much had to plan everything, every single detail
when it came to our trip, and then having to
deal with my parents, who are not technologically savvy all
the time. So I was just very nervous about going
on this trip with them. I was excited, but also nervous,
and for the plane ride, which was twelve hours. So
(02:46):
where did you fly first? Where did you land first?
We flew out of Sfo to Rome. We stayed in
Rome for about two days. Then we went over to Florence.
Took the train to Florence. We've tooken a couple of trains,
a couple of taxis.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He went to Venice.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
From Venice, we took a plane over to Paris, and
then from Paris we took a plane over to Barcelona, Spain.
So yeah, so I was really anxious about taking the train,
booking the flights, taking taxis, speaking the language out there.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I guess we could call your trip planes and trains
and the automobile leasa.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
That's pretty much how it was.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I want to know. So you had anxieties about taking
the train and about traveling with your parents who aren't
technologically savvy. So what part about that got you anxious?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I just wanted to make sure that I didn't mess
up anything on the trip. I'm a little bit of
like a control freak that well, I like to control
things around me and make sure everything is organized and
planned well. And so I was worried about that. And also,
like I said, my parents are older. My dad's in
the seventies. My mom's going to be sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Five, I think, but just to make sure not that old.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
But just said my dad more, my dad more, My
dad that he's you know, he's around so he's seventy four,
so he's not a spring cookie anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And I was worried about their luggages.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And my dad gets extremely, extremely nervous when it comes
to flying. He's very very paranoid, and he'll will like
drop things out of his wallet or you know, go ahead, Christy.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Is the paranoia why he tried to bring a knife
on the plane.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, and that's where I'm gonna also tell you the
start of our trip, Martha, because I'm on the edge
of my seat.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't think you've heard this.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
So let's start off at the beginning of our trip,
where we're at SFO trying to get through security, and
my good, good, good friend Christy was going to get
us into a lounge where we can kill.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Some time, have some drinks, eat, and relax.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Kill is the word.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that's the knife.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
And Christy was, you know, running late, running behind. She
was like, I need to get you guys in there
because I have to go. She had a DJ gig,
which I totally understand and appreciate. So we're wondering and
why my dad.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is taking forever through security?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Why can he not get through security.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Turns out he had a pocket knife in his backpack.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Out of all things, a pocket knife.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So they're going through my dad's back back and trying
to get this pocket knife out, and I'm like, really, really, dad,
this one time that we're going through airport security, you
want to have a pocket knife deep down in your backpack?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
No, okay, that's yeah. That was part one.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
We go into the lounge, have a good time, We relax,
We eat, take a couple of shots of tequila, and
don julio. Because they're nervous. I'm nervous for the long flight.
Here comes boarding time. I don't think I told Christy this.
By that time, Christy was gone, Here comes boarding time.
We're getting on the plane. My mom goes, I need
to go to the bathroom. I said, okay, run to
the bathroom, which is on the second floor.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Run to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Here's everybody boarding the plane that we're about to take off.
Connie Velaska's Connie Velashka.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And I'm like, where is my mom? She forgot what
gate we were at. She didn't take her phone with her. Oh,
so she's up and down by the bathroom somewhere, and
I'm running to go try to find her because.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
She is a little bit and he reated a little bit.
She couldn't remember the.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Gate that we were at, where we were at, and
I had to go try to find her. She asked
them stranger to borrow the phone, and luckily she remembered
my dad's phone number. So she calls my dad and says,
what gate are we So a guy helped escort her
to the gate that we were at, but literally she was.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
The last one to board.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
We had to wait for the board so that was
a child, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Okay, So you must have been so happy when those
doors closed and you took off.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, because I said, if we missed this flight, I
was going to be really I was already mad that
she couldn't find the gate and they're literally waiting.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
For her to board this flight so we can go
to Rome.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I did that.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
My husband, Oh man would oh man be.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He would be out of his mind if I say
I want to go to the bathroom, and you know
I can see the bathroom right by the gate a
half hour before we're boarding, Yes, he goes, He goes.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know what if they start boarding early. I'm like, honey,
it's right there. I'll be right back, and I'm like, hunt,
I have to go.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I'm going.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So I totally understand that anxiety. Oh I just I
just know if that if that had been me, Oh wow,
there'd been sparks flying. Oh so awesome. Well, and what
anxieties dissolved? And what was the high point? Tell us
some high points of your trip Roma Venus. Yeah, I'm Paris.
You are hanging out with Tom Cruise and Celine Dion.
(07:46):
I want to hear all about it. You guys didn't
see me competing in the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I was competing for the most wineglasses raised.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well out there.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You know, the anxiety went away once we landed. I'm like,
everything's going to be okay. I'm just gonna relax and
chill and just we're here. We made it, and that's
all that matters. So everything pretty much kind of worked
out the way that we wanted it to.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But yeah, we had a really really great time.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And I had my Google Maps, which was the best
thing ever created, and Google Translate, which helped me a
lot with the language barrier.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And I also watched a lot of videos, so I
feel like I was.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Already kind of prepared, like, Okay, this is how we
take the train, this is how I get a taxi.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All that.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
However, I do have one more little story of what
happened on the plane to from Venice to Paris.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Okay, here my seat.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Because the fund does not stop when it comes to
the Velaskas family. So we are all on the plane
in Venice getting ready to head over to Paris. Here
comes the flight attendant. The doors are locked everything. Uh,
your dad had a machete. Mister Velaskis, Can you please
come with me? Mister Velaskis can oh no way, yep,
mister Velaskis, can you please come with me? My mom
(09:00):
starts panicking. He goes, ma'am, you can come with him too,
which is my mom. I said, I'm just gonna sit
here like I am not even gonna get off this plane.
So what happened was they're being escorted in front of
everybody off this plane and people are looking like, whoa,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What's happening? Because there was a flight attendant.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
The flight attendants were like walking them out of the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Oh were they kind of like clustered around them. Oh,
my god.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
And I said, please don't let my dad have a
pocket knife like somewhere else or something. What happened was
they busted open my mom's luggage and they needed her
to come down and make sure that everything was still
in there before we could take off.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Ah, So so why did they ask for your your dad?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Because they switched seats, so they thought maybe my dad
was in the middle, my mom was on the outside,
and so they had switched seats and so they thought
like the luggage belonged to my dad.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So it was just funny.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
And then when they came back, you know, my mom
gets so paranoid and she's it was just my luggage,
My luggage was open, my luggage broke.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Does it feeling like she had to say it?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Really?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Everybody everybody was looking at them like.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, what they do?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
What they do?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, other people are going they're still on the flight.
Now we're nervous, ye back with them.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I mean, wouldn't you be.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'd be like, why are they exporting them off?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So, but you know what, we had a really really
great time.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
This is like the best trip.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
It was just really beautiful to experience another part of
the world, how people live.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's just so different from here.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Like what was the most amazing thing, most different thing
that you saw?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Paris was really beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Paris has so much history to it as far as
in the architecture and just being there, seeing the Eiffel Tower,
especially being there during the Olympics, like that was.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
All really really cool.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
There's just so much history and to think like how
people lived back in the day over there.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It was really nice. We had a really, really, honestly
a good time.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Did you mean to go in the Olympics for happening, No,
it just happened to be that during that time.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
My dad really wanted to go to Paris, and so
I'm like, you know, the Olympics are happening. But there
was security everywhere. Everywhere we looked there was police. So
we felt extremely safe and there was police in groups
like there was literally police everywhere in Paris, and then
our hotel happened to be in an area called the
Latin Quarter, so it was like a whole big old
(11:22):
party zone.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You couldn't hear it in our room, but it was fun.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We had a good time.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
We met a lot of people, like soccer fans. My
dad's a big soccer fan, so it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It was really nice when Karina would send me pictures.
One Karina's dad would always be rocking some kind of
giant skiar's, some big gear.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I was loving it. Yeah, we had a really good time.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
It was little mishaps here and there, but for the
most part, everything worked out great. Like I said, watching videos,
Google Translate, Google Maps, Venice was incredible. The fact that
there's no cars and this is a city built on
water is amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
There's no cars anywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
There's no cars in Venice.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No what I thought the canals were the canals, but
there must be roads elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Nope.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Everything is done by boats in Venice. Every single thing.
It's water. Taxi is a water bus. There are absolutely
zero cars in Venice. It's all cobblestone and like back
in the day. But it was really nice.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Christy, you probably knew that about no cars in Venice, right.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I knew that. I've been there once before. It was
a while ago.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hey, I was there a while ago. Becus Christie for
those of you who don't know, served in the Navy
and served over in Italy, and Christie knows Italian. If
she's going to be djaying a wedding of views, which
I highly recommend to add Christy alive on Instagram, you
can ask her to bust out some Italiano for you.
(12:49):
It's always fun. It's cool to see people speak different languages.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Yeah, I was like this, this trip would have been
fine to have Christy on it because she's fluent in Italian.
I'm like, oh, she'd be easy to communicate because I'd
be like, oh, you know when I said like good afternoon,
and I'd say hi, and then I would try to
say something off my Google Translate, and then they would
just start talking hella fast.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm like, it's too much, it's too much. Did knowing
Spanish help you in Italy at all?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It did? It did.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Because surprisingly, also, Martha, is that a lot of people
spoke Spanish. They knew Spanish, so they would speak to
us in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, that's the cool thing about Europe is they tend
to know a lot of different languages. Like I was
watching an interview not that long ago with Nick Jagger
over in Paris doing the whole interview in French.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And even in Paris a lot of people spoke English.
We didn't really have to worry too much about speaking
in French.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So looking back on the trip, what would you say
you learned.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I learned that to just let go sometimes you don't
always have to be in control of everything. My biggest
thing just to be patient. And I said I was
going to be very patient, especially with my parents because
they refer to me for a lot of stuff and
they depend on me for a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
For me to do everything where it's like.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Even the simple thing like oh what's the name of
the train or you know, I'll be like google it.
Just to be patient and not everything needs to work
out the way that you have it planned.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And now that you're home and you're hanging out with
your sisters who did not go on the trip, are
you guys like ha ha oh remember that espresso and Paris?
It was so good?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, My sisters are very happy to hear about the trip.
They were really happy that we were We left and
we came back and went piece.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Mm hmm, that's very good. Yeah, well, Christy, I feel
like I have peppered Karina with questions. What do you
have to ask Karina about her trip?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Where's your next vacation?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
My next vacation is around the corner, going to Bali. Oh,
I did not know we were talking about this. Why are
you going to Bali?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Kas someone's having a birthday? Oh my mom, My mom's
having a birthday.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
That's why you're going to Bali. Is your mom going
to Bali?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
No, my mom isn't going to Bali.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But you thought you would just go to Bali to
celebrate your mom's birthday without her. Anybody celebrating a birthday
on this trip?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I don't know. Christy isn't even celebrating a birthday on
this trip.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
This one girl I know, her name is Christie. She's
fabulous human being. You should all get to know her.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, so this is gonna be wild, so crazy. Christy
and Karina are going to Bali for Christie's birthday, which
is September twelfth, and they're gonna be no Balie eleventh, eleventh, eleventh, eleventh, fifteenth, fourteenth, forteenth. Yeah,
(15:51):
hopefully we get to take this.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Christy for sure is going.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I'm going for sure, you know, God forbid anything should happen,
especially here at work. But yeah, that's it's going to
be the next trip. And it's gonna be a quick trip,
quick trip to Bali, go and come back. But I'm
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That's the thing, you guys. It's way too far, way
too quick for me.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
It is far, but I feel like it's what a
twenty hour flight from San Francisco, So I feel okay,
I did twelve hours, I can knock out twenty no problem.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
My gosh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
That's the spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Once you got the travel bug, Yeah, gotta get it
while the gitten's good.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh yes.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
And then now I've learned also, Martha, that if you're
going down a trip to Europe, don't take a medium
sized luggage.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Nope, just don't.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Oh I did not learn. What do you recond what
do you recommend.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Carry on carry on or the most smallest bag you
have carry on?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Really, I thought you were going to say the opposite,
that you didn't have enough clothes.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, I definitely had enough clothes.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
But I will never again take a medium sized luggage
when I'm traveling like that. I will take the smallest
bag I have or a carry on bag, and that
is it, because there are a ton of stairs, a
ton of walking, and so not only was I lifting
my bag, but I was also lifting the uggages of
my parents.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And what size bags did they bring?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Medium?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I made sure they brought medium because my dad one
time brought the most largest suitcase in the world to
Mexico and there was about two of us carrying it
all the time for him.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So we brought medium luggages. But yeah, that's another thing
I learned.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, you're gonna have no problem going to Bali because
you'll just throw your bikinis in and go there. It
is bikinis and flip flops and off we go.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That's all you need sunglasses and that's it. Call it
a day.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, exactly. Well, ladies, thank you for hanging out for
episode number two hundred and nine of Talk Talk with
Martha Quinn. If you're listening right now and want to
go to Bali with Christy and Karina, leave us a
talkback message and tell us why you want to go,
maybe they'll consider you right tap their a talkback microphone.
(17:50):
You'll find it on our free iHeart radio app, So Krina.
While you were gone, I was out sick for a
couple of days. Christy at the very last minute stepped
in from I had one of my kind of vertigo attacks.
I was literally in the studio looking at my computer
when I said, I can't do this. I can't, I
just can't. And Christy came running over after having been
(18:14):
on already from six to ten and took over for me.
So if you were in San Francisco a couple of days,
you heard Christy on from six in the morning till
three in the afternoon. Christy, thank you for.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That, of course anytime. And how are you feeling, Martha Quann?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I feel much better, you know. I feel a little
bit dizzy around the edges, and I know from this
happening in the past. I've actually sort of had these
issues since two thousand and one, so I know from
these issues that it takes a little while to pass.
But I'm feeling much much better. But thank you really
from the bottom of my heart that that's always hard
(18:50):
for me to know that you're doing that, so thank you.
I really appreciate it. My pleasure anytime, Okay, well, I
might not be feeling well. Party hard, Okay, well until
episode two hundred and nine. I'm Martha Quinn, I'm Christy,
I'm Queen of Alaska's miss here ready,
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk talk begins.
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is this the part where we talk pretty sure ocasal
I ever wanted? Oh yeah, this is something I needed.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, Welcome to Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We are on episode number two hundred and nine.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You guys, oh man, Christie's here, Martha Quinn is here, yes,
and Green of Alaskaz is here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sometimes I feel like maybe I should just let my
true personality out, you know, Okay, you know, maybe maybe
this is maybe this is the real me. You know,
this is doubt, this is all I got. Maybe this
is all I've got, Ladies, Maybe this is it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, if this is it, please let us know.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Welcome to episode number two hundred and nine of Talk
Talk with Martha Quinn. Shout out to my husband Jordan,
who sat in the Queen of Alaska's share chair share
chair last week and episode number two hundred and eight.
This is the show that normally unites the Marth Quinn
Show crew, me and Karina of Alaska's with the Morning
(01:11):
Drive CHRISTI Live crew, which is Christie and Krena of
Alaskas Funny about that. Very funny about that. So Christy
and I have been on our own for a while
because Karina left us and went on vacation, which we
talked about in episode number two hundred and seven. And
(01:32):
at that point, Karina, you were talking about some anxieties
you had about taking this big trip with your parents.
You were going to Italy, France and Spain. Can we
revisit the anxieties and then talk about the reality and
how perhaps the anxieties got alleviated or maybe you discovered
(01:53):
some new anxieties along the way. So can we revisit
the anxieties you had pre trip?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Let's go back to the dark times? Yeah, just kidding.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I was extremely nervous to take the trip with my parents.
It was our first big trip in another part of
the country. We go to Mexico all the time, but
that is our comfort zone because we speak Spanish. But
this is the first time that we were going to
Rome and whatever, just another part of the country.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So or perhaps another part of the world, another part.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Of the world, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I pretty much had to plan everything, every single detail
when it came to our trip, and then having to
deal with my parents, who are not technologically savvy all
the time. So I was just very nervous about going
on this trip with them. I was excited, but also nervous,
and for the plane ride, which was twelve hours. So
(02:46):
where did you fly first? Where did you land first?
We flew out of Sfo to Rome. We stayed in
Rome for about two days. Then we went over to Florence.
Took the train to Florence. We've tooken a couple of trains,
a couple of taxis.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
He went to Venice.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
From Venice, we took a plane over to Paris, and
then from Paris we took a plane over to Barcelona, Spain.
So yeah, so I was really anxious about taking the train,
booking the flights, taking taxis, speaking the language out there.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I guess we could call your trip planes and trains
and the automobile leasa.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
That's pretty much how it was.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I want to know. So you had anxieties about taking
the train and about traveling with your parents who aren't
technologically savvy. So what part about that got you anxious?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I just wanted to make sure that I didn't mess
up anything on the trip. I'm a little bit of
like a control freak that well, I like to control
things around me and make sure everything is organized and
planned well. And so I was worried about that. And also,
like I said, my parents are older. My dad's in
the seventies. My mom's going to be sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Five, I think, but just to make sure not that old.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
But just said my dad more, my dad more, My
dad that he's you know, he's around so he's seventy four,
so he's not a spring cookie anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And I was worried about their luggages.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And my dad gets extremely, extremely nervous when it comes
to flying. He's very very paranoid, and he'll will like
drop things out of his wallet or you know, go ahead, Christy.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Is the paranoia why he tried to bring a knife
on the plane.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, and that's where I'm gonna also tell you the
start of our trip, Martha, because I'm on the edge
of my seat.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't think you've heard this.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
So let's start off at the beginning of our trip,
where we're at SFO trying to get through security, and
my good, good, good friend Christy was going to get
us into a lounge where we can kill.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Some time, have some drinks, eat, and relax.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Kill is the word.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, that's the knife.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
And Christy was, you know, running late, running behind. She
was like, I need to get you guys in there
because I have to go. She had a DJ gig,
which I totally understand and appreciate. So we're wondering and
why my dad.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is taking forever through security?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Why can he not get through security.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Turns out he had a pocket knife in his backpack.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Out of all things, a pocket knife.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
So they're going through my dad's back back and trying
to get this pocket knife out, and I'm like, really, really, dad,
this one time that we're going through airport security, you
want to have a pocket knife deep down in your backpack?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
No, okay, that's yeah. That was part one.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
We go into the lounge, have a good time, We relax,
We eat, take a couple of shots of tequila, and
don julio. Because they're nervous. I'm nervous for the long flight.
Here comes boarding time. I don't think I told Christy this.
By that time, Christy was gone, Here comes boarding time.
We're getting on the plane. My mom goes, I need
to go to the bathroom. I said, okay, run to
the bathroom, which is on the second floor.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Run to the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Here's everybody boarding the plane that we're about to take off.
Connie Velaska's Connie Velashka.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And I'm like, where is my mom? She forgot what
gate we were at. She didn't take her phone with her. Oh,
so she's up and down by the bathroom somewhere, and
I'm running to go try to find her because.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
She is a little bit and he reated a little bit.
She couldn't remember the.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Gate that we were at, where we were at, and
I had to go try to find her. She asked
them stranger to borrow the phone, and luckily she remembered
my dad's phone number. So she calls my dad and says,
what gate are we So a guy helped escort her
to the gate that we were at, but literally she was.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
The last one to board.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
We had to wait for the board so that was
a child, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Okay, So you must have been so happy when those
doors closed and you took off.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yes, because I said, if we missed this flight, I
was going to be really I was already mad that
she couldn't find the gate and they're literally waiting.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
For her to board this flight so we can go
to Rome.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I did that.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
My husband, Oh man would oh man be.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He would be out of his mind if I say
I want to go to the bathroom, and you know
I can see the bathroom right by the gate a
half hour before we're boarding, Yes, he goes, He goes.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know what if they start boarding early. I'm like, honey,
it's right there. I'll be right back, and I'm like, hunt,
I have to go.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I'm going.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So I totally understand that anxiety. Oh I just I
just know if that if that had been me, Oh wow,
there'd been sparks flying. Oh so awesome. Well, and what
anxieties dissolved? And what was the high point? Tell us
some high points of your trip Roma Venus. Yeah, I'm Paris.
You are hanging out with Tom Cruise and Celine Dion.
(07:46):
I want to hear all about it. You guys didn't
see me competing in the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I was competing for the most wineglasses raised.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well out there.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You know, the anxiety went away once we landed. I'm like,
everything's going to be okay. I'm just gonna relax and
chill and just we're here. We made it, and that's
all that matters. So everything pretty much kind of worked
out the way that we wanted it to.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But yeah, we had a really really great time.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And I had my Google Maps, which was the best
thing ever created, and Google Translate, which helped me a
lot with the language barrier.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And I also watched a lot of videos, so I
feel like I was.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Already kind of prepared, like, Okay, this is how we
take the train, this is how I get a taxi.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All that.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
However, I do have one more little story of what
happened on the plane to from Venice to Paris.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Okay, here my seat.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Because the fund does not stop when it comes to
the Velaskas family. So we are all on the plane
in Venice getting ready to head over to Paris. Here
comes the flight attendant. The doors are locked everything. Uh,
your dad had a machete. Mister Velaskis, Can you please
come with me? Mister Velaskis can oh no way, yep,
mister Velaskis, can you please come with me? My mom
(09:00):
starts panicking. He goes, ma'am, you can come with him too,
which is my mom. I said, I'm just gonna sit
here like I am not even gonna get off this plane.
So what happened was they're being escorted in front of
everybody off this plane and people are looking like, whoa,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What's happening? Because there was a flight attendant.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
The flight attendants were like walking them out of the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Oh were they kind of like clustered around them. Oh,
my god.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
And I said, please don't let my dad have a
pocket knife like somewhere else or something. What happened was
they busted open my mom's luggage and they needed her
to come down and make sure that everything was still
in there before we could take off.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Ah, So so why did they ask for your your dad?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Because they switched seats, so they thought maybe my dad
was in the middle, my mom was on the outside,
and so they had switched seats and so they thought
like the luggage belonged to my dad.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So it was just funny.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
And then when they came back, you know, my mom
gets so paranoid and she's it was just my luggage,
My luggage was open, my luggage broke.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Does it feeling like she had to say it?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Really?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Everybody everybody was looking at them like.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, what they do?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
What they do?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, other people are going they're still on the flight.
Now we're nervous, ye back with them.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I mean, wouldn't you be.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'd be like, why are they exporting them off?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So, but you know what, we had a really really
great time.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
This is like the best trip.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
It was just really beautiful to experience another part of
the world, how people live.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's just so different from here.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Like what was the most amazing thing, most different thing
that you saw?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Paris was really beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Paris has so much history to it as far as
in the architecture and just being there, seeing the Eiffel Tower,
especially being there during the Olympics, like that was.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
All really really cool.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
There's just so much history and to think like how
people lived back in the day over there.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It was really nice. We had a really, really, honestly
a good time.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Did you mean to go in the Olympics for happening, No,
it just happened to be that during that time.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
My dad really wanted to go to Paris, and so
I'm like, you know, the Olympics are happening. But there
was security everywhere. Everywhere we looked there was police. So
we felt extremely safe and there was police in groups
like there was literally police everywhere in Paris, and then
our hotel happened to be in an area called the
Latin Quarter, so it was like a whole big old
(11:22):
party zone.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You couldn't hear it in our room, but it was fun.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We had a good time.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
We met a lot of people, like soccer fans. My
dad's a big soccer fan, so it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It was really nice when Karina would send me pictures.
One Karina's dad would always be rocking some kind of
giant skiar's, some big gear.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I was loving it. Yeah, we had a really good time.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
It was little mishaps here and there, but for the
most part, everything worked out great. Like I said, watching videos,
Google Translate, Google Maps, Venice was incredible. The fact that
there's no cars and this is a city built on
water is amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
There's no cars anywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
There's no cars in Venice.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No what I thought the canals were the canals, but
there must be roads elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Nope.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Everything is done by boats in Venice. Every single thing.
It's water. Taxi is a water bus. There are absolutely
zero cars in Venice. It's all cobblestone and like back
in the day. But it was really nice.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Christy, you probably knew that about no cars in Venice, right.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I knew that. I've been there once before. It was
a while ago.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hey, I was there a while ago. Becus Christie for
those of you who don't know, served in the Navy
and served over in Italy, and Christie knows Italian. If
she's going to be djaying a wedding of views, which
I highly recommend to add Christy alive on Instagram, you
can ask her to bust out some Italiano for you.
(12:49):
It's always fun. It's cool to see people speak different languages.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Yeah, I was like this, this trip would have been
fine to have Christy on it because she's fluent in Italian.
I'm like, oh, she'd be easy to communicate because I'd
be like, oh, you know when I said like good afternoon,
and I'd say hi, and then I would try to
say something off my Google Translate, and then they would
just start talking hella fast.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm like, it's too much, it's too much. Did knowing
Spanish help you in Italy at all?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It did? It did.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Because surprisingly, also, Martha, is that a lot of people
spoke Spanish. They knew Spanish, so they would speak to
us in Spanish.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, that's the cool thing about Europe is they tend
to know a lot of different languages. Like I was
watching an interview not that long ago with Nick Jagger
over in Paris doing the whole interview in French.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And even in Paris a lot of people spoke English.
We didn't really have to worry too much about speaking
in French.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So looking back on the trip, what would you say
you learned.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I learned that to just let go sometimes you don't
always have to be in control of everything. My biggest
thing just to be patient. And I said I was
going to be very patient, especially with my parents because
they refer to me for a lot of stuff and
they depend on me for a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
For me to do everything where it's like.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Even the simple thing like oh what's the name of
the train or you know, I'll be like google it.
Just to be patient and not everything needs to work
out the way that you have it planned.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And now that you're home and you're hanging out with
your sisters who did not go on the trip, are
you guys like ha ha oh remember that espresso and Paris?
It was so good?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, My sisters are very happy to hear about the trip.
They were really happy that we were We left and
we came back and went piece.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Mm hmm, that's very good. Yeah, well, Christy, I feel
like I have peppered Karina with questions. What do you
have to ask Karina about her trip?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Where's your next vacation?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
My next vacation is around the corner, going to Bali. Oh,
I did not know we were talking about this. Why are
you going to Bali?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Kas someone's having a birthday? Oh my mom, My mom's
having a birthday.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
That's why you're going to Bali. Is your mom going
to Bali?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
No, my mom isn't going to Bali.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But you thought you would just go to Bali to
celebrate your mom's birthday without her. Anybody celebrating a birthday
on this trip?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I don't know. Christy isn't even celebrating a birthday on
this trip.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
This one girl I know, her name is Christie. She's
fabulous human being. You should all get to know her.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, so this is gonna be wild, so crazy. Christy
and Karina are going to Bali for Christie's birthday, which
is September twelfth, and they're gonna be no Balie eleventh, eleventh, eleventh, eleventh, fifteenth, fourteenth, forteenth. Yeah,
(15:51):
hopefully we get to take this.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Christy for sure is going.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I'm going for sure, you know, God forbid anything should happen,
especially here at work. But yeah, that's it's going to
be the next trip. And it's gonna be a quick trip,
quick trip to Bali, go and come back. But I'm
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
That's the thing, you guys. It's way too far, way
too quick for me.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
It is far, but I feel like it's what a
twenty hour flight from San Francisco, So I feel okay,
I did twelve hours, I can knock out twenty no problem.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
My gosh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
That's the spirit.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Once you got the travel bug, Yeah, gotta get it
while the gitten's good.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh yes.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
And then now I've learned also, Martha, that if you're
going down a trip to Europe, don't take a medium
sized luggage.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Nope, just don't.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Oh I did not learn. What do you recond what
do you recommend.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Carry on carry on or the most smallest bag you
have carry on?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Really, I thought you were going to say the opposite,
that you didn't have enough clothes.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, I definitely had enough clothes.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
But I will never again take a medium sized luggage
when I'm traveling like that. I will take the smallest
bag I have or a carry on bag, and that
is it, because there are a ton of stairs, a
ton of walking, and so not only was I lifting
my bag, but I was also lifting the uggages of
my parents.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And what size bags did they bring?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Medium?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I made sure they brought medium because my dad one
time brought the most largest suitcase in the world to
Mexico and there was about two of us carrying it
all the time for him.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So we brought medium luggages. But yeah, that's another thing
I learned.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, you're gonna have no problem going to Bali because
you'll just throw your bikinis in and go there. It
is bikinis and flip flops and off we go.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That's all you need sunglasses and that's it. Call it
a day.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, exactly. Well, ladies, thank you for hanging out for
episode number two hundred and nine of Talk Talk with
Martha Quinn. If you're listening right now and want to
go to Bali with Christy and Karina, leave us a
talkback message and tell us why you want to go,
maybe they'll consider you right tap their a talkback microphone.
(17:50):
You'll find it on our free iHeart radio app, So Krina.
While you were gone, I was out sick for a
couple of days. Christy at the very last minute stepped
in from I had one of my kind of vertigo attacks.
I was literally in the studio looking at my computer
when I said, I can't do this. I can't, I
just can't. And Christy came running over after having been
(18:14):
on already from six to ten and took over for me.
So if you were in San Francisco a couple of days,
you heard Christy on from six in the morning till
three in the afternoon. Christy, thank you for.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That, of course anytime. And how are you feeling, Martha Quann?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I feel much better, you know. I feel a little
bit dizzy around the edges, and I know from this
happening in the past. I've actually sort of had these
issues since two thousand and one, so I know from
these issues that it takes a little while to pass.
But I'm feeling much much better. But thank you really
from the bottom of my heart that that's always hard
(18:50):
for me to know that you're doing that, so thank you.
I really appreciate it. My pleasure anytime, Okay, well, I
might not be feeling well. Party hard, Okay, well until
episode two hundred and nine. I'm Martha Quinn, I'm Christy,
I'm Queen of Alaska's miss here ready,
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