 Samantha Brown you've been all over the world thanks to your travel channel shows you have a new show coming on PBS tell us about it. It's called Samantha Brown's Places to Love and it's all about finding the destinations, the experiences and most importantly the people who make us feel like we're really a part of a place. Everyone talks about going where the locals go and doing what the locals do and I'm sort of defining that and for me I feel like it's when you feel like you belong so where are those places that we as travelers can go to anywhere in the world but feel like we belong there. And you had a lot of episodes in the U.S. but you also have some international ones and by the way the show is premiering early next year. Yes 2017 would that be? No 2018. I've been traveling this year so I missed a whole year. January 6th 2018 on your PBS channels. You went to Houston, Ireland, Shanghai. Yeah so 13 episodes we started in Houston which of course just suffered just destructive floods and we just got word back that everyone we featured is okay. So we think that's gonna be our very first episode but all around the world. China, Shanghai, Xi'an, Canada there are 350th anniversary of being a country I believe or 375th so it's just we went all over. Are you still working with Travel Channel? What do you make of their reality-based shift to reality programming? I'm not working with them. I haven't for a few years and I think if people get excited about that I think it's a great way to go. I personally feel like a lot of the shows show places that we'll never get to go to or maybe these exclamation point experiences that are wonderful on TV but I wanted to make sure that everything I did was something that anyone could actually show up into because travel should be accessible. It shouldn't only be for these mind-blowing explorations and these once in a lifetime trips. It's also about the weekend trip. It's all also about going to a country you've never been to or maybe a state or a town in your own state so that's what we try to incorporate into the show it's just accessibility of travel. I think that's what made your show so successful which is you would go into a hotel and point out you know the carpeting on the floor or the marble in the bathroom or the chandelier in the lobby. It was so exciting. As a kid we stayed in motor lodges so now I had this show where I was staying in luxury hotels there were $700 a night and I just like took every toiletry I could even in the slippers because you're like oh my god. Don't tell anyone. No exactly. Well I always tell people you can take those toiletries and the slippers they're like really like yeah those are yours. Take the slippers. Just don't take the towels or the bedding. That's it. Or the bathrobe. Don't take the bathrobe. That's right. They will charge you for that. As a content creator what is your what is your take on these shift to digital. Has that helped things for you. I think so. I mean again I like all forms of media and I think it informs everyone and what digital gives you are these quick hits because I feel like the people's their attention spans are quicker in the digital world and so you need to get them immediately. So that enables me to still be on television and tell a longer story and then be able to break that up digitally. So we can I can show my content so many different areas that will get a younger audience will get an older audience and it'll appeal to even more people. Well speaking of a younger audience I mean are you noticing this renewed interest in travel especially among millennials because if you look at the travel and leisure stocks and you talk to their CEOs they'll tell you yes. It's always about the millennials. Absolutely. Everyone loves the youngins as we call them and absolutely and I think what I love about the millennial aspect of travel which is far different from my own is that they know already they don't have to go to Paris and hit all the must sees. That idea of we have to wait in a two-hour line to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. That millennial already knows no I don't need to do that. I want to go to this little side street to this mom and pop bistro. They're already where like maybe I am now or maybe I was 10 years ago and I love that about them. They're adventures there they want to get the local scene and those must sees and must do's are not so important. With the exception maybe of Versailles because I waited on a two-hour line. We all have to go there sometime. Exactly. You have to see that right. Bite the bullet. Let me also ask you about your your best travel tips right because the airports it's not getting easier over the years. The TSA lines are only getting longer. No they really are and I think I mean I always tell people you want to arrive at the airport. I mean I fly out of New York airports which are crazy busy so I get to the airport an hour and a half of the boarding time of the flight. This is the number one tip I tell anyone. Don't base your arrival to the airport on the departure time of your flight because your flight's gonna board 45 minutes before that time and you need to be ready for that flight then. So make sure that everything's based off of that. How do you get a good deal on airfare and also cruises because all these storms I'm sure has depressed the price of you know cruise trips in the coming months. I'm a big fan of alerts. I don't have my own crystal ball and I rely on alerts. One of the best alerts I've gotten for 20 years now is airfarewatchdog.com. It's run by a wonderful man named George Hoboka. He's been following the industry for a close to you know you know easily over two decades and I sign up for alerts and I know when the prices and I think we were talking about this before. You sign up for a price alert on a certain flight. You wanted to go to Paris so you just follow that flight and then you know wait a minute that's a good deal but a part of knowing what's a good deal is understanding the history of the price. So sign up for alerts and just kind of monitor where those prices are from now until mid-December is one of the best times to fly in terms of price. Average price of an airline ticket is about 250 bucks anywhere in the United States because kids are back in school. There's also something that people don't know called a dead week. It's a terrible name but a great idea and these are the weeks that there's no one's traveling and those are the best prices so it's the day right after Labor Day that week and then right after Thanksgiving up until mid December. Those are amazing times to know obviously if you have jobs or if you have kids you can't do it but of course there's a huge group of people who can travel whenever they want. All right this is a good time to travel. And just quickly before we let you go you have an incredible story just in terms of how you got your job at the travel channel years back. You want me to tell that story? Okay briefly. All right so I was missing a connecting flight Washington Dulles very difficult airport to get through and the plane I got to the gate and they said we already called it you can't get on I said please let me on and they're like okay go down and check so I went down the gate and it was one of those flights that you had to walk on the tarmac to get to the jetway didn't reach the but and so I'm walking to the gate the plane and a guy stops and said you can't get on that plane I'm like please you don't understand if I've been waiting on tables I think I can get this job you have an audition I have an audition to make sorry I have an audition to make and I got to get on that flight and so the man walked up and I saw him walk him to the cockpit and talk to the pilot because the pilot could overrule his decision and I just picked up my bag and I ran I put myself under the nose of the plane and I said please and the pilot looked down on me and just did one of these and that's when I knew I got the job obviously that's something I couldn't do today post you know 9-11 but this was in the early 90s and I got on a flight that I was going to miss if I was going to miss that flight I wasn't gonna get the job and that was after waiting tables for what 10 years 10 years in New York City which is really 20 years so what is your advice for young people starting out right now oh my god and want to do what I do I just think just I mean I started so young doing what I wanted to do and just now I feel like I'm in my zone so never give up and never think that there's a certain age where you should have accomplished your dream keep going for it you will get it all right Samantha Brown thank you so much nice to be here to see you all right I'm Scott Gamm and you're watching the street