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Speaker 1 (00:12):
A moment, Jerry Moments.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm back to Virtuoso twenty twenty five. It's during the
summer of MPs twenty twenty years of hosting this show,
and I'm sure I've been at Virtuoso more than ten
and you've come along with me.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
For the ride.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We're gonna have a little game show here right now,
something a little different, and Natalie Payne Smith is going
to play it with us. She is the vice president
of sales at the Calliope Collection. Why that's easy for
you to say, nice to meet, Grace would say.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Kelly, Okay, so Tomato tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Here's what I thought we might do. First of all,
just twenty seconds on what the collection is.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Absolutely so we are a luxury sales representation for independently
owned properties. So there's so many any amazing hotels that
aren't part of a bigger brand, and so we helped
put them on the map in the US, Canada, UK,
and Brazil.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Is that your new husband over there?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Would you ask him to come.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Over here a second Robert Apparent, Robert.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Could you step into this interview for just a second
day because we had to have a little game show
and you're going to be the contestant. Nice to meet you,
by the way, Nice to reach as well. What is
your name, Robert? Is that an Irish accent?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, I didn't think so. Where is that from?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Southern South Carolina?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's right. That sounds nice. That's pretty good. Okay, Well
you both got married recently. You probably already had a honeymoon.
Maybe it didn't because you're busy. You haven't, no, sir,
not yet.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Perfect so very quick, you know, did you?
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It was all kind of wow. Well the engagement was
almost like a honeymoon. The sixth or seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Date and you get details of the sixth.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Or seventh date was almost like a honeymoon.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I said, stick with me, kid, because we've been traveling
ever since we first started dating.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ye did you meet? We met in at the crab house,
as people do.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And where were you living in? We're there too. His
accent's a little more rich, it is.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
He's turning it on for you to.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, there's no business like show business. That's a good
way to go about it. So what I thought we
would do, We're going to use the how do you
say it again? That's easy? Okay, We're gonna go down
the list of where your honeymoon might be from the list,
and everyone can play at home too, And we're gonna
put one out there and you say play or pass, okay,
and go to the next one.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Well, we'll get in trouble without pass on a hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But no, he's going to be making This is the
only time in your marriage that he's going to be
making decisions. Okay, So a hotel number one, resort number
one in the collection.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
In Japan?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Are you going to Japan?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'd love to. That'd be great. Well, no, the game's over.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Then, because the truth of the matter is if you
pass and you say what I'm going to get next,
you've got a list that will not disappoint all the
way to the bottom.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
That's right. So we could go to Bangkok.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We actually have already been to Bangkok, so fell in
love with Bangkok. Du Satani just opened in September last year,
and it is probably one of the finest hotels we've
ever stayed in.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So for anyway, people.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Are telling me, and they had last year at Virtuoso,
that Japan is the new Italy in terms of popularity.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, I think because during COVID, you know, they were
the last to open.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Asia was kind of the last to open up.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So there's all this pent up demand and so people
are just it's so hot right now.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
For sure. Why does Japan interest you?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I've never been there.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
I'm interested in the landscape, the culture, the food, you know, everything,
the stays, all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What do you do for a living?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I'm a content creator and Charlston Trelston dot com. Wow,
so I promote tourism and local business as well through
through media.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We hit the jackpot because just yesterday, I'm a friend
of mine used to be the manager at Joe's Stonecrab
in Miami, the famous restaurant one hundred and twenty five years.
He was the general manager for forty years, and he
was a may or d before that. Guess where he
moved when he retired, John Doland, Charleston. And I said,
bloody hell, that's a hell of it. He said, My
(04:18):
doctor told me I had to go somewhere and relax.
And he said that people in Charleston are way less
angry than those in Miami.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I would agree, yeah, for sure, yea, even though the
traffic's getting there, we don't have quite as much traffic
as Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, so okay, we already have Bangkok, we have Japan.
Where else might we go?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Let's head to Ireland.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We have the perfect duterinerary in Ireland with the K
Club thirty minutes from Dublin.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Then you head down to Killarney. You can do the
Ring of Kerry everything.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Killarney's so amazing awesome golf in that area too, and
then you can end at Jamolan Castle. Everybody wants to
stay in the castle, which is ten minutes from Shannon Airport.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
And that's where we actually got engaged.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's where it happened. That was date number four.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No no, no, I.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Thought you were That's what you said, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
No, no no, But we actually went there and I
wanted to. I wanted Natalie to see the falcon the
program once again. She'd already seen it. So we tied
the ring to the bird and we had the bird
fly the ring over to her. Yeah, and and what
an experience to have an animal so majestic just fly
(05:24):
over and lant.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I don't want to ask you how much this ring
was worth, but prize like her, I'm sure it was
a good diamond. Were you not afraid the bird might
fly away with it.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, I had insurance on that. It definitely would have
been hard to explain.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes, but he was so nervous that he dropped to
his knee and he just gave me the ring and
I said, was there something you wanted to ask? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You made him say it.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yes, so he had to get back down and say it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Whatever romantic.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well that's how and you did you expect that to
happen on that trip?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, not on that trip. I knew that he had
talked to my dad.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
He's a proper southern gentleman and all of that, but
I didn't think it was going to happen on that trip.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I got engaged in Ireland once, actually got married in
Ireland once, and I remember taking the ring through. I
didn't want to check it. Of course, I had it
in my carry on, and they made me open it up,
and she was with me, of course, the possible wife,
and I was afraid you were going to see it.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Well, in our case, Natalie has global entry and she
tsa so she goes right through the line and she
was like handing your back and I was like why,
she goes, well, you have your computer camera and.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I can just walk through with it and I said, no,
I got this. No handing your bag. I said, no,
I got this.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I wouldn't let her take it, so I said, you know,
she's going through a different line. So of course that
protected me. And I didn't want them to open the
bag up because of all the electronics in the bag
and then her see it.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, that would have been terrible.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know the point of this is, and we're at
Virtuo so Virtuoso dot com trat that travel creates memorable
stories like this.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We've been to many of our Italy properties as well.
We have Cassadaylonga here at the show. R Marris is
a new hotel on Sorrento is amazing. We were there
on his birthday last year and on the rooftop bar
and the fireworks went offosite.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Seabay that much I love you see, and.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I found the lemon, the cream of lemon cello. There
was the delicate.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Dream of.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You really going about that?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And I guess we're going to Nema Colon. I've been there,
a beautiful interesting resort that's like an amusement part of
our adults. And Montego Bay, Jamaica, another very Romain romantic
kind of state.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
We really do.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Calipee has a good United States sellection, which not a
lot of sales reps do.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
So we're really proud of our Nashville.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
You know, the Hermitage in Nashville, Keswick Hall and Charlottesville,
so you can kind of do that Americana like history
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
PGA National Life broadcast from before in the past. That's
on your list too. And then the other one that
I think is also Edgewood, Tahoe. If you love golf
and we've been there, and.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Don't discount the Laurel in Auburn, Alabama. It's Alabama's only
five diamond hotel. Incredible hotel.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, I got a good friend and is a brother
in law, Tim MacGuire and Pat Pritchard. Therefore they went
to Auburn. Yeah, I'll send them there.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Next to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's a great stop off if you're driving kind of
from the north to the Panhandle area.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
So Auburn's a really cool Americana town as well.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
This list is endless and unbelievable and for someone who
wants to peruse it for themselves, how to the oh
Sea Island. That's where George and Barbara Bush had their honeymoon.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Lots of history at the island. Canoe Place is a
new one in the Hampton, so yeah. Just go to
the Caliopee Collective dot com and all of our properties
are listed there. There's a lot of advisor tools there
as well, so we're happy to help.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I wonder if anyone has been to all of these
that would be a good thing to try to do it,
and maybe the two of you can do it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Absolutely that's our goal.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I've only not been to two of them, so don't
have one honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Have all of everything on the list, and.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
We're happy to help with honeymoons and whatever travel you have.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Very sweet to meet Natalie Payne Calliope Collection and I
learned how to say.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It, yes, thank you, mine, beautiful day kissed us from
smile if I speaking them by him? No, No, it's
(09:22):
a beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Music, explain any sud hang on hold the phone. This
happens in radio sometimes. And Natalie Smith and her new
husband just revealed some details that ain't I always dreamed
of being a jet copter pilot, like for the traffic,
you know, and I said you did that in the media.
(09:47):
You were up in the sky for media.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Absolutely, yeah, for both media and for power company. I
worked for a power company for about ten years and
did power line inspections and like inspections all from the
helicopter is a video camera. They got my hands still, so,
you know, a lot of time to practice. But now
I've viewed lost those skills into doing videography for events
and things of that nature, and photography.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No a good thing they didn't have drums back then.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Huh, well, there's certain things you can't still do with drums.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
She's still Yeah, I needed a helicopter for and a
lot of the FA restrictions kind of kind of help
out with that. So, you know, we're glad that the FA
is around to kind of regulate that those drones and
keep us safe, keep them out of airspace when we're
when we're flying events. But there are certain things you
still can't do with a drone that you can do
with a helicopter.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That still makes it pretty viable.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Did you hang out the side with the camera still
do What with.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
The red tennis shoes.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He has signature red tennis shoes that he wears for
the Cooper River Bridge Run.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
So when we do the bridge run in Charleston, it's
one of the larger, larger ten k's in the world.
We have the helicopter and now wear the red shoes
just because of you know, it being the run and
been doing it for so long that people people recognize
this shar So I get a lot of pictures on
my cellphone that evening.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Don't you get scared leaning out like that?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wow, Jesus, that's we heard for it.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
My door on. I was in the helicopter too this year. Yeah,
and they took all their doors off, but I kept.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
My door on.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, you were in news also.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I would see she was a TV reporter with NBC
and Charleston is where I started.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
What was the big story in your career? While you
were on the air.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
There there was a riot because we're a right to
work state, so we're a non union and but the
port is union and so the Steve Door company used
non union workers and there was a big riot and
they turned over my news vehicle.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
They busted out all the windows. I had to sit
in the tank for the night behind the police.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Line, and that you know what I was like for
twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I think I think I'm good.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I think I'm good and travels just a lot more opportunity.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Do you know that that issue is still being fought
in Michigan right now. We were right to work for
about ten years. Then a new governor comes in and
a new legislature and they overturn it, and now we're
not and we want to do with it. I don't
know why. And then when it was, you know, being considered,
it was very demonstrative and violent times.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, for sure. And now we have Boeing.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know, Boeing came to South Carolina because of that reason,
because they in Washington and Seattle their all union. But
I mean there's positives to both, right, Well, everybody's passionate
about their cause.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You can still join the union if you want. It's
just your right to opt out if you want. And
I thought we were about choice, right, So.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
That was probably what was your biggest story? He's he
traveled with Peter Jennings.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And Peter Jennings dear God, ABC News anchor.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, probably the biggest story would be the Peach Treaty
setting between Jordan and Israel. Was one of the bigger stories,
the bombings and Tel Aviv.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wait a minute, they sent you there, but from well
was there when it happened.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I went there to be a witness from a UJA
flight out of Russia and to Israel for the first
time that these people have ever seen their freedom. And
while we were there, there were some there were definitely
some fights that caused it, and then peace treaty Sunning
between Geordan Israel came about, so you know, we we
(13:04):
lengthened our stay, got permission from the from the you know,
from the powers to be, and attended the event.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You didn't tell me you married James Bond.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Anything, cook.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What shrimp and grits?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
That with some of the other stories that really back
in the day were really more human interest stories I
did with a gentleman by the name of Michael Trusch.
We called it Carolina Camera at the time, and it
was really a hands on type three or four minute
episode that kind of broke the news up during the day.
And I really enjoyed that because you never really knew
what you were going to get. You were working with
(13:41):
live animals, you were working with scenarios that you get
one take, and so you know, you had to be
on par had to run a camera, and a lot
of times you didn't get take to it and if
you missed it, then it would kind of mess the
story up. So that was a lot of fun doing that,
so we still try to create It was more like
a Steve Orwin type type of episodic features that you know,
(14:03):
it was before his time, so it was, you know,
back in the late nineties, early two thousands we would do.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
With that kind of work.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
They asked me one time to they had this thing
with golf tournaments. Maybe they have it, I'm sure in
Carolina where you would buy a golf ball and it
would have a number on it, and then it would
take like five hundred golf balls up in a helicopter
and drop them on the green and you watch from
the clubhouse. In whichever ball lands closest to the hole,
you win the jackpot. So if your ball was twenty
two and it was the closest one to land to
(14:31):
the hole, then you won. And they thought it might
be fun if they had a local radio celebrity go
up there and spill the balls out of the helicopter.
And I thought that sounds like really cool, so I wore,
you know, a suit like this, a white suit. I
jazzed it all up. It's not really that good to
maneuver around. And then they gave me a Duffel bag.
(14:51):
And I don't know if you ever tried to lift
a Duffle bag with five hundred golf calls in it.
I didn't realize how heavy it would be. So story short.
The last thing the pilot says is now when you
spill those out, don't let go of the bag because
it'll fly into the road.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Room will crash.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'm like Jesus. So then he wants me to lean out,
and he chilts the copter to the side. He goes,
go on and lean out. I'm leaning the other way.
I don't want to fall. It's what happened was the
balls went everywhere but that green. They went on top
of the clubhouse, they went into maintenance shed. They were
bouncing around in the parking lot, and all these people
(15:28):
that played in the tournament are looking from the balcony
puzzled about why there are no balls on the green.
So when that thing landed, I ran straight to the
parking lot. I got in the car and drove off.
It was the most humiliating moment ever.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Well, we would do egg drops.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
One of the egg drops who did for the church
is I told the guys that don't let the kids
run onto the field until we're done with the egg drop.
In the middle of the egg drop, I looked down.
There were kids running out in the field and dropping
eggs from you know, two hundred feet me here.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You bombed the kids, yes, real quick?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh god, the story. So anyway, that's a form of
travel too. How do we find you? It's the website representation.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Also dot com or the chartgroup dot com. Thank you
very much, thanks for the good fun.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's virtuoso. Twenty twenty five, Michael Patrick shields back in
a flash
A moment, Jerry Moments.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm back to Virtuoso twenty twenty five. It's during the
summer of MPs twenty twenty years of hosting this show,
and I'm sure I've been at Virtuoso more than ten
and you've come along with me.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
For the ride.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We're gonna have a little game show here right now,
something a little different, and Natalie Payne Smith is going
to play it with us. She is the vice president
of sales at the Calliope Collection. Why that's easy for
you to say, nice to meet, Grace would say.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Kelly, Okay, so Tomato tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Here's what I thought we might do. First of all,
just twenty seconds on what the collection is.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Absolutely so we are a luxury sales representation for independently
owned properties. So there's so many any amazing hotels that
aren't part of a bigger brand, and so we helped
put them on the map in the US, Canada, UK,
and Brazil.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Is that your new husband over there?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Would you ask him to come.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Over here a second Robert Apparent, Robert.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Could you step into this interview for just a second
day because we had to have a little game show
and you're going to be the contestant. Nice to meet you,
by the way, Nice to reach as well. What is
your name, Robert? Is that an Irish accent?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
No, I didn't think so. Where is that from?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Southern South Carolina?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's right. That sounds nice. That's pretty good. Okay, Well
you both got married recently. You probably already had a honeymoon.
Maybe it didn't because you're busy. You haven't, no, sir,
not yet.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Perfect so very quick, you know, did you?
Speaker 6 (01:41):
It was all kind of wow. Well the engagement was
almost like a honeymoon. The sixth or seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Date and you get details of the sixth.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Or seventh date was almost like a honeymoon.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I said, stick with me, kid, because we've been traveling
ever since we first started dating.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ye did you meet? We met in at the crab house,
as people do.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And where were you living in? We're there too. His
accent's a little more rich, it is.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
He's turning it on for you to.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, there's no business like show business. That's a good
way to go about it. So what I thought we
would do, We're going to use the how do you
say it again? That's easy? Okay, We're gonna go down
the list of where your honeymoon might be from the list,
and everyone can play at home too, And we're gonna
put one out there and you say play or pass, okay,
and go to the next one.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Well, we'll get in trouble without pass on a hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But no, he's going to be making This is the
only time in your marriage that he's going to be
making decisions. Okay, So a hotel number one, resort number
one in the collection.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
In Japan?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Are you going to Japan?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'd love to. That'd be great. Well, no, the game's over.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Then, because the truth of the matter is if you
pass and you say what I'm going to get next,
you've got a list that will not disappoint all the
way to the bottom.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
That's right. So we could go to Bangkok.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We actually have already been to Bangkok, so fell in
love with Bangkok. Du Satani just opened in September last year,
and it is probably one of the finest hotels we've
ever stayed in.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So for anyway, people.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Are telling me, and they had last year at Virtuoso,
that Japan is the new Italy in terms of popularity.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, I think because during COVID, you know, they were
the last to open.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Asia was kind of the last to open up.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So there's all this pent up demand and so people
are just it's so hot right now.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
For sure. Why does Japan interest you?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I've never been there.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
I'm interested in the landscape, the culture, the food, you know, everything,
the stays, all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What do you do for a living?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I'm a content creator and Charlston Trelston dot com. Wow,
so I promote tourism and local business as well through
through media.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We hit the jackpot because just yesterday, I'm a friend
of mine used to be the manager at Joe's Stonecrab
in Miami, the famous restaurant one hundred and twenty five years.
He was the general manager for forty years, and he
was a may or d before that. Guess where he
moved when he retired, John Doland, Charleston. And I said,
bloody hell, that's a hell of it. He said, My
(04:18):
doctor told me I had to go somewhere and relax.
And he said that people in Charleston are way less
angry than those in Miami.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I would agree, yeah, for sure, yea, even though the
traffic's getting there, we don't have quite as much traffic
as Miami.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, so okay, we already have Bangkok, we have Japan.
Where else might we go?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Let's head to Ireland.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We have the perfect duterinerary in Ireland with the K
Club thirty minutes from Dublin.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Then you head down to Killarney. You can do the
Ring of Kerry everything.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Killarney's so amazing awesome golf in that area too, and
then you can end at Jamolan Castle. Everybody wants to
stay in the castle, which is ten minutes from Shannon Airport.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
And that's where we actually got engaged.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's where it happened. That was date number four.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No no, no, I.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Thought you were That's what you said, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
No, no no, But we actually went there and I
wanted to. I wanted Natalie to see the falcon the
program once again. She'd already seen it. So we tied
the ring to the bird and we had the bird
fly the ring over to her. Yeah, and and what
an experience to have an animal so majestic just fly
(05:24):
over and lant.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I don't want to ask you how much this ring
was worth, but prize like her, I'm sure it was
a good diamond. Were you not afraid the bird might
fly away with it.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, I had insurance on that. It definitely would have
been hard to explain.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes, but he was so nervous that he dropped to
his knee and he just gave me the ring and
I said, was there something you wanted to ask? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You made him say it.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yes, so he had to get back down and say it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Whatever romantic.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well that's how and you did you expect that to
happen on that trip?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
No, not on that trip. I knew that he had
talked to my dad.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
He's a proper southern gentleman and all of that, but
I didn't think it was going to happen on that trip.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I got engaged in Ireland once, actually got married in
Ireland once, and I remember taking the ring through. I
didn't want to check it. Of course, I had it
in my carry on, and they made me open it up,
and she was with me, of course, the possible wife,
and I was afraid you were going to see it.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Well, in our case, Natalie has global entry and she
tsa so she goes right through the line and she
was like handing your back and I was like why,
she goes, well, you have your computer camera and.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I can just walk through with it and I said, no,
I got this. No handing your bag. I said, no,
I got this.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I wouldn't let her take it, so I said, you know,
she's going through a different line. So of course that
protected me. And I didn't want them to open the
bag up because of all the electronics in the bag
and then her see it.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, that would have been terrible.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You know the point of this is, and we're at
Virtuo so Virtuoso dot com trat that travel creates memorable
stories like this.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We've been to many of our Italy properties as well.
We have Cassadaylonga here at the show. R Marris is
a new hotel on Sorrento is amazing. We were there
on his birthday last year and on the rooftop bar
and the fireworks went offosite.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Seabay that much I love you see, and.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I found the lemon, the cream of lemon cello. There
was the delicate.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Dream of.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You really going about that?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And I guess we're going to Nema Colon. I've been there,
a beautiful interesting resort that's like an amusement part of
our adults. And Montego Bay, Jamaica, another very Romain romantic
kind of state.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
We really do.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Calipee has a good United States sellection, which not a
lot of sales reps do.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
So we're really proud of our Nashville.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
You know, the Hermitage in Nashville, Keswick Hall and Charlottesville,
so you can kind of do that Americana like history
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
PGA National Life broadcast from before in the past. That's
on your list too. And then the other one that
I think is also Edgewood, Tahoe. If you love golf
and we've been there, and.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Don't discount the Laurel in Auburn, Alabama. It's Alabama's only
five diamond hotel. Incredible hotel.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, I got a good friend and is a brother
in law, Tim MacGuire and Pat Pritchard. Therefore they went
to Auburn. Yeah, I'll send them there.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Next to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
It's a great stop off if you're driving kind of
from the north to the Panhandle area.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
So Auburn's a really cool Americana town as well.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
This list is endless and unbelievable and for someone who
wants to peruse it for themselves, how to the oh
Sea Island. That's where George and Barbara Bush had their honeymoon.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Lots of history at the island. Canoe Place is a
new one in the Hampton, so yeah. Just go to
the Caliopee Collective dot com and all of our properties
are listed there. There's a lot of advisor tools there
as well, so we're happy to help.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I wonder if anyone has been to all of these
that would be a good thing to try to do it,
and maybe the two of you can do it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Absolutely that's our goal.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I've only not been to two of them, so don't
have one honeymoon.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Have all of everything on the list, and.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
We're happy to help with honeymoons and whatever travel you have.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Very sweet to meet Natalie Payne Calliope Collection and I
learned how to say.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It, yes, thank you, mine, beautiful day kissed us from
smile if I speaking them by him? No, No, it's
(09:22):
a beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Music, explain any sud hang on hold the phone. This
happens in radio sometimes. And Natalie Smith and her new
husband just revealed some details that ain't I always dreamed
of being a jet copter pilot, like for the traffic,
you know, and I said you did that in the media.
(09:47):
You were up in the sky for media.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Absolutely, yeah, for both media and for power company. I
worked for a power company for about ten years and
did power line inspections and like inspections all from the
helicopter is a video camera. They got my hands still, so,
you know, a lot of time to practice. But now
I've viewed lost those skills into doing videography for events
and things of that nature, and photography.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No a good thing they didn't have drums back then.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Huh, well, there's certain things you can't still do with drums.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
She's still Yeah, I needed a helicopter for and a
lot of the FA restrictions kind of kind of help
out with that. So, you know, we're glad that the FA
is around to kind of regulate that those drones and
keep us safe, keep them out of airspace when we're
when we're flying events. But there are certain things you
still can't do with a drone that you can do
with a helicopter.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That still makes it pretty viable.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Did you hang out the side with the camera still
do What with.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
The red tennis shoes.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He has signature red tennis shoes that he wears for
the Cooper River Bridge Run.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
So when we do the bridge run in Charleston, it's
one of the larger, larger ten k's in the world.
We have the helicopter and now wear the red shoes
just because of you know, it being the run and
been doing it for so long that people people recognize
this shar So I get a lot of pictures on
my cellphone that evening.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Don't you get scared leaning out like that?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Wow, Jesus, that's we heard for it.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
My door on. I was in the helicopter too this year. Yeah,
and they took all their doors off, but I kept.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
My door on.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Well, you were in news also.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I would see she was a TV reporter with NBC
and Charleston is where I started.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
What was the big story in your career? While you
were on the air.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
There there was a riot because we're a right to
work state, so we're a non union and but the
port is union and so the Steve Door company used
non union workers and there was a big riot and
they turned over my news vehicle.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
They busted out all the windows. I had to sit
in the tank for the night behind the police.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Line, and that you know what I was like for
twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I think I think I'm good.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I think I'm good and travels just a lot more opportunity.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Do you know that that issue is still being fought
in Michigan right now. We were right to work for
about ten years. Then a new governor comes in and
a new legislature and they overturn it, and now we're
not and we want to do with it. I don't
know why. And then when it was, you know, being considered,
it was very demonstrative and violent times.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, for sure. And now we have Boeing.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know, Boeing came to South Carolina because of that reason,
because they in Washington and Seattle their all union. But
I mean there's positives to both, right, Well, everybody's passionate
about their cause.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You can still join the union if you want. It's
just your right to opt out if you want. And
I thought we were about choice, right, So.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
That was probably what was your biggest story? He's he
traveled with Peter Jennings.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And Peter Jennings dear God, ABC News anchor.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Yeah, probably the biggest story would be the Peach Treaty
setting between Jordan and Israel. Was one of the bigger stories,
the bombings and Tel Aviv.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wait a minute, they sent you there, but from well
was there when it happened.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I went there to be a witness from a UJA
flight out of Russia and to Israel for the first
time that these people have ever seen their freedom. And
while we were there, there were some there were definitely
some fights that caused it, and then peace treaty Sunning
between Geordan Israel came about, so you know, we we
(13:04):
lengthened our stay, got permission from the from the you know,
from the powers to be, and attended the event.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You didn't tell me you married James Bond.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Anything, cook.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What shrimp and grits?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
That with some of the other stories that really back
in the day were really more human interest stories I
did with a gentleman by the name of Michael Trusch.
We called it Carolina Camera at the time, and it
was really a hands on type three or four minute
episode that kind of broke the news up during the day.
And I really enjoyed that because you never really knew
what you were going to get. You were working with
(13:41):
live animals, you were working with scenarios that you get
one take, and so you know, you had to be
on par had to run a camera, and a lot
of times you didn't get take to it and if
you missed it, then it would kind of mess the
story up. So that was a lot of fun doing that,
so we still try to create It was more like
a Steve Orwin type type of episodic features that you know,
(14:03):
it was before his time, so it was, you know,
back in the late nineties, early two thousands we would do.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
With that kind of work.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
They asked me one time to they had this thing
with golf tournaments. Maybe they have it, I'm sure in
Carolina where you would buy a golf ball and it
would have a number on it, and then it would
take like five hundred golf balls up in a helicopter
and drop them on the green and you watch from
the clubhouse. In whichever ball lands closest to the hole,
you win the jackpot. So if your ball was twenty
two and it was the closest one to land to
(14:31):
the hole, then you won. And they thought it might
be fun if they had a local radio celebrity go
up there and spill the balls out of the helicopter.
And I thought that sounds like really cool, so I wore,
you know, a suit like this, a white suit. I
jazzed it all up. It's not really that good to
maneuver around. And then they gave me a Duffel bag.
(14:51):
And I don't know if you ever tried to lift
a Duffle bag with five hundred golf calls in it.
I didn't realize how heavy it would be. So story short.
The last thing the pilot says is now when you
spill those out, don't let go of the bag because
it'll fly into the road.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Room will crash.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'm like Jesus. So then he wants me to lean out,
and he chilts the copter to the side. He goes,
go on and lean out. I'm leaning the other way.
I don't want to fall. It's what happened was the
balls went everywhere but that green. They went on top
of the clubhouse, they went into maintenance shed. They were
bouncing around in the parking lot, and all these people
(15:28):
that played in the tournament are looking from the balcony
puzzled about why there are no balls on the green.
So when that thing landed, I ran straight to the
parking lot. I got in the car and drove off.
It was the most humiliating moment ever.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Well, we would do egg drops.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
One of the egg drops who did for the church
is I told the guys that don't let the kids
run onto the field until we're done with the egg drop.
In the middle of the egg drop, I looked down.
There were kids running out in the field and dropping
eggs from you know, two hundred feet me here.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You bombed the kids, yes, real quick?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh god, the story. So anyway, that's a form of
travel too. How do we find you? It's the website representation.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Also dot com or the chartgroup dot com. Thank you
very much, thanks for the good fun.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It's virtuoso. Twenty twenty five, Michael Patrick shields back in
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