This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg - from The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York. Imagine one of the more creative, interactive museums of the US that is also the repository of some of the greatest comedic minds in history. Peter sits down with George Carlin’s daughter Kelly Carlin to discuss her father’s career and legacy. Then, conversations with Journey Gunderson - Executive Director of The National Comedy Center and Lucy Desi Museum - and Dr. Laura La Placa - VP of Archives for the National Comedy Center’s Carl Reiner Department of Archives and Preservation and for the Lucy Desi Museum - for a in-depth look at the history and future of comedy.

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Every summer for the past seven decades, 50 high school seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take part in one of the country’s most lucrative scholarship competitions for teen girls.

The Competition takes you behind the scenes of the Distinguished Young Women (DYW) program, and follows seven girls as they experience the highs and lows of competing for two weeks, away from home and under the most high-stress circumstances. Some girls enter for the money, some for prestige. All of them are used to being the best and the brightest. But only one will walk away with the top prize.

Host Shima Oliaee (Dolly Parton’s America, Pink Card) was Nevada’s contestant in 2001. More than 20 years later, she returns to Alabama as a judge. What can two weeks with 50 of the country’s most ambitious teens tell us about girlhood in America?

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This week's Eye on Travel Podcast with Peter Greenberg - from Los Angeles, California. Peter sits down with Geoff Freeman - President and CEO of U.S. Travel Association - for an extended conversation on the backlog of visa approvals for travelers wanting to come to the U.S. and the serious impact of those delays on the U.S. economy, Then, Boeing 737 Captain Dennis Tajer stops by with an update on the ongoing federal investigations. Finally, on a lighter note, Christopher Elliott - Founder of Elliott Confidential and Elliott Advocacy - joins the program for some insight into airborne etiquette, as in...who really has the right to the armrests if you're sitting in coach.

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