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The Best Travel Tip During a Global Disaster: Don’t Travel There’s a moment when travel stops being exciting and starts feeling urgent. Episode 5 captures that exact moment — when the world shifted from business as usual  to how do we get home before everything shuts down? In this episode of On the Bar Fly , we tell the story of navigating international travel as borders closed, flights vanished, and uncertainty became the only constant. The trip wasn’t spontaneous. It was pl

Thoughts That Probably Should’ve Stayed Inside Our Heads Every once in a while, you have a thought and immediately think, “I should not say that out loud.” Episode 4 is what happens when we ignore that instinct entirely. In this episode of On the Bar Fly , we share a collection of ideas, stories, and debates that absolutely did not need a microphone — and yet somehow made it onto the show. We’d like to say we planned it this way. We did not. Sometimes we come into an episode

😏 The Story You Didn’t Expect (Again) When we say we go everywhere  for our travel stories, we mean it — even if that means walking straight into a sex museum… again. Our first trip to the Museum of Sex in New York City  was an experience to remember — and not just for the high ticket price. Between a dress made entirely of pubic hair  and a sex bike exhibit , it was equal parts fascinating, shocking, and laugh-out-loud funny. We thought that would be our one and only museum

🧦 The Story of Stan, the Drunk Sock Monkey In 2013, my daughter gave me a sock monkey named Stan  to keep me company when I travel — a sweet little gesture meant to make me feel safe on the road. What she didn’t realize was that Stan would become my drinking buddy  and accidental travel mascot. Since then, Stan has joined me on countless adventures, and, naturally, a few pub visits . Over time, he earned his full title: Stan the Drunk Sock Monkey . 🍺 Sydney Shenanigans One