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Though a wide swath of HGTV's daily programming is geared towards the acts of buying, flipping, demolishing and renovating houses, some of my favorite shows have zilch to do with hard labor. The channel's latest luxury-geared offering that fits such a bill, "Wild Vacation Rentals," is a gobsmacking good time that makes me wish I'd had bigger dreams about traveling when I was younger. If only hosts D’Arcy Carden and Sherry Cola didn’t make it all look so flipping FUN!

"Wild Vacation Rentals" isn’t any kind of a coded title, and the show delivers exactly what it promises, although it could use the subtitle ("With Two Hilarious And Loveable Co-Hosts"), assuming that wouldn’t be too long for marketing purposes. The debut episode kicked off on March 1 — and is currently streaming via HBO Max subscription — and if there was ever a palate cleanser for the first two months of any year, it’s this show.
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00:00I feel like this may be the most inspirational HDTV show I've ever seen from a get out of the
00:05house and do something with myself perspective. Totally. Is that part of, I guess, what you both
00:10hope to impart on viewers? Totally. Like, that's a great way of putting it. Like, there's just so
00:16much to see. And I think that is what doing this, being on the road with Sherry and finding all
00:23these amazing new places that we'd never been to before, you kind of go like, oh, yeah, you could
00:27just stay in a hotel, like a hotel that you know, and it's, you know, you could just stay in
00:31like a
00:32simple, everything comfortable, what you know, it's going to be fine. Or you could stay in a potato
00:37and something that you've never seen before, a tree house, or you could stay in a cave and really
00:43like have an unforgettable experience. And yeah, it's, it definitely was part of the, it's part of
00:49what we hope people. Yeah. I try new things. I think thematically, that's really what we're trying
00:55to tell the people, because like you said, you could stay at any other hotel that, you know,
01:01we know will check the boxes. Or you could stare a cow with freshly trimmed bangs in the eye.
01:08Yes. On a windy day. Right. That's right. You know what I'm saying? Choose your own adventure.
01:15Yeah. Yeah. Everything, every place we stayed in was so unique, not just in general, but from each
01:21other. We stayed in, no two places were alike. And it was so like new and fresh and everything
01:26was so exciting. And you really, yes, we definitely took away, like, there's so much to see.
01:32Yeah. So much to see. I mean, we could go on and on. Oh, wait, go ahead, go ahead, go
01:36ahead.
01:37I was just going to say, I'm going to ask every hotel I talk to you from now, why aren't
01:40you a
01:41potato? Why aren't you potatoes? Right. Lazy, lazy. Right. Can we, is there any, is there a potato
01:46upgrade? No? Okay. You know? Yeah. Penhouse? I want the spud house. So stupid. I guess you'd
01:58get pretty baked in there. I don't know. Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. Oh,
02:01let's keep doing this. No, no, no. I don't think you can top that. I'm thinking scallop, french fries.
02:07I'm thinking, I'm thinking tater. I'm thinking tater. But you're not, we're not going to be able
02:12to beat bakes. That's perfect. Never. Yeah. That's very good, Nick. Very good. This is
02:16my dream. I got to go now. No. No. No. What, did you both have any input on the places
02:24that
02:24were picked or did you show a blind? Blind. Totally. Yeah. We want, we wanted to be surprised
02:29and you know, like our, our amazing producers were, they give us the option of, we can send
02:34you all the information, pictures, details, or we can go in blind. And we just thought it
02:39would be more fun to really experience it, experience it live, you know, for the first
02:44time. Yeah, absolutely. Cause I think Darcy and I are just like unscripted to the bone that we
02:51like the idea of like riffing in the moment with something that we've never seen or experienced
02:57before, you know? And yeah, I think that's really what makes the show magical is the fact
03:01that Darcy and I are in real time being ourselves and reacting. Right. Yeah.
03:09Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
03:11You
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