- Ify Nwadiwe - Can Japan Possibly Live Up To The Hype?
Ify Nwadiwe joins us for the final episode of season 4 to talk about his first trip abroad to visit family in Nigeria, struggling with Spanish in Buenos Aires, and how long he had to wait to go to Japan.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by: Tommy Bowe
S4E9 - 1h 23m - Jul 17, 2025 - Chris Grace from Dropout - Food and board game cafes around the world
We talk to Dropout and Superstore star Chris Grace about his love of food, board games, and performing abroad.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by: Tommy Bowe
S4E8 - 2h 1m - Jul 10, 2025 - Katie Marovitch from Dropout - Ice Cream Everyday
Dropout's Katie Marovitch joins us to talk about her trip to Iceland, visiting the oldest restaurants in America, her love of the cultural center in Hawaii, and her need to eat ice cream everyday while traveling.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E7 - 1h 26m - Jul 3, 2025 - Kimmy Jiminez - Studying in Europe and Traveling to the Philippines
This week we talk with Kimmy Jiminez, former Smosh cast member and producer and current host of The Dogs Were Good (again). We talk about her time studying abroad in Europe, feeling out of place in the Philippines, and her honeymoon trip with our last guest, Shane!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E6 - 1h 11m - Jun 26, 2025 - Shane Haste - Best Bridges in the World
Shane Haste, formerly of WWE now of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), joins us to talk about his love of bridges, walking around Dublin visiting pubs with live music, and much more.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E5 - 1h 24m - Jun 19, 2025 - Lauren Knutti - Turkish Kitties
We talk with Knutti about her completely unprepared for trip to Turkey and the locals she met!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E4 - 1h 8m - Jun 12, 2025 - Charlie James - Traveling Around the USA
We talk with comedian and soon to be author Charlie James about traveling around the USA and his love of some of the smaller roadside attractions you can find in the middle of nowhere.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E3 - 1h 33m - Jun 5, 2025 - Arasha Lalani from Smosh - Living in a Dutch Castle
Arasha from Smosh joins us this week. In this episode we talk about the joys of studying abroad, Arasha's first trip back to India after growing up in the US, and more.
Watch Arasha's show livestreaming here!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E2 - 1h 21m - May 29, 2025 - Trip Report - Colombia with Rachel and Garrett
Welcome to season 4! No guests on this episode as we open the season with our hosts Rachel and Garrett stepping away from their Secret Travel Agent work to talk about their most recent trip to Colombia. Their itinerary is: Cartagena, Bogota, a coffee farm outside of Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, and Tayrona!
The restaurant they couldn't remember the name of is Sambal Bistro in Cartagena.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S4E1 - 1h 18m - May 22, 2025 - Agents of Travel at the LA Travel and Adventure Show
In this episode Agents Garrett and Rachel interview people at the LA Travel and Adventure Show. We get travel stories and pitches from seasoned travelers who blew our minds!
Guests: Pauline Frommer (Frommers Guides), Justa Lujwangana (Curious on Tanzania), Marcus Bobb (Choctaw Country), Kay Allen (JNTO), Alex Trup (Purple Media), Monique Telles from (Terra Brasilis), Joshua (Collette), From the Wanderful booth - Akemi Rico (Akemi's Adventures), Kai Bouhmad (Passport Bohemian), Leah Arao (Ticket 2 Anywhere podcast).
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
1h 13m - Mar 6, 2025 - Trip Report - Vietnam with Dropout's Rekha Shankar
We're closing out the season with a special episode with return guest Rekha Shankar from Dropout's D20 (Dimension 20) and Game Changer! When she was last on Rachel pitched her a trip to Vietnam and earlier this year she went! We cover Vietnam, traveling with a partner, traveling as a vegetarian, and more!
Rekha's got a lot of cool stuff going on you can check out on her website here! Check out her and Rachel's team at UCB, Bitchin', every second Friday of the month.
We're taking a break and we'll be back soon!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E10 - 1h 1m - Nov 4, 2024 - Adrian Snow - Scotland Lovefest
We have Adrian Snow on to talk about how great Scotland is, improv festivals, and more. Follow her on Instagram at msadriansnow.
Send us an email with travel questions, advice, tips, or whatever at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E9 - 1h 8m - Oct 28, 2024 - Jewell Karinen - The Year of a Million Dreams
Jewell joins us to talk about finding surprises while traveling, trips with her sister, Disney, and so much more!
Jewell is co-host of the Parasocial Social Club with Charlie James.
Shoot us an email at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com.
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E8 - 1h 40m - Oct 21, 2024 - Ann Maddox from Vanderpump Rules - Traveling Home to Japan With Friends
Ann Maddox, Tom Sandoval's assistant from Vanderpump Rules and the podcast We Signed An NDA, joins us to talk about growing up in Tokyo, Kinshasa, and Cairo, taking a trip back to Japan to show her friend where she grew up, and more!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E7 - 1h 23m - Oct 14, 2024 - Eli Gonzalez - BROADWAY
Eli Gonzalez from UCB Theater's Harold Night and most commercials you see on TV joins us to talk about how great domestic travel can be; his first trips to NYC, Mexico, and El Salvador, and FOOD!
Weight in on our debate about what a Dream Trip means here:
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E6 - 1h 9m - Oct 7, 2024 - Heidi Ha - Gas Stations of Europe
Heidi Ha, Garrett's old Smosh coworker, joins us to talk about food, a whirlwind family bus trip to Europe, meeting with Rachel and Garrett in NYC, and more!
Send us an email with questions, trips your planning, or whatever for a future mail bag episode! agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E5 - 1h 13m - Sep 30, 2024 - Janie Stolar - Joy of Solo Traveling
This week we're joined by Janie Stolar! Previously a writer on Smosh and currently a performer on Dropout, Janie is also a big time traveler. We talk about solo travel, home meals in Japan, some philosophical travel discussions, the vulnerability of sharing your google maps, and more!
Feel free to email us at agentsoftravelshow@gmail.com with any questions, trips you want to go on, or anything at all for a future potential mailbag episode!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E4 - 1h 28m - Sep 23, 2024 - Jeremy Bent - Inspiration for the Argonath in Egypt
Jeremy Bent from Eurovangelists joins us to talk studying abroad, travel to Egypt, and taking pride in learning transit systems!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E3 - 1h 20m - Sep 16, 2024 - Zach Reino from Dropout - Comfort in Defiance of Nature
We talk to Dropout and Off Book star Zach about his love of Hawaii, Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, and why doesn't Europe have iced tea?!?
Check out his podcast and tour here!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
S3E2 - 1h 39m - Sep 9, 2024 - Vic Michaelis from Dropout - TSA Wizard
Dropout's Vic Michaelis, star of Very Important People, joins us to talk about late nights with family, Disneyland, and their TSA skills.
You can find Vic on multiple Dropout.tv shows, their Instagram, and they want to shout out Trans Lifeline for all the good work they do!
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Hosts: Garrett Palm and Rachel Van Nes
Music by Tommy Bowe
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