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No spoilers, but Matt has had a pretty smooth travel experience so far.
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Flight Experiences During the Pandemic
00:00:00
Speaker
I honestly I've never had like a terrible canceled flight or I'm stuck at the airport overnight or anything like that. Really? No. I my first like oh wow my flight got canceled and I and there's no plan was last year. Was your flight like back or your flight to somewhere? Back home. It was from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
00:00:29
Speaker
And yeah, they just I don't know something happened. They canceled it and they're like, well, there's no more flights and I had to kind of like wrangle something together. But yeah, I don't know. I feel like I've just had.
00:00:41
Speaker
Good luck with, with travel. But I mean, so like the actual, like that part of the, the travel, I think has always
The Tokyo Travel Nightmare
00:00:48
Speaker
gone well. Um, while on vacation, I think this whole Tokyo nonsense. Oh, here we go. All right. We can't buy the worst.
00:01:02
Speaker
The orders of magnitude worse than anything else. Yeah. That's I guess maybe not surprising since you came so close to death. Right. Yeah. Huh. Not today, Tokyo. No.
00:01:18
Speaker
No, you best can't can't do that deep dive Chris. Oh, maybe that'll be the season finale. Oh, man. Interesting. Nothing.
Dealing with Flight Delays and Airport Sleepovers
00:01:30
Speaker
I had a flight. I mean, I've had especially post pandemic. I've had so many flights delayed and or canceled, especially like red eye flights. And the one we were flying, I think we're catching a red eye. I think it was like at 1030 or 11 out of SFO.
00:01:47
Speaker
And like the flight got delayed and then it got delayed and then it got delayed. And then it was like 3 30 in the morning at this point, something like that. And they're like, they made announcements. They're like, the flight was canceled. We're sorry to inform you that the flight crew never showed up. Oh my God. Which is like a crazy
00:02:09
Speaker
That I, I assume they were probably spending that whole time just trying to get like another pilot or something. But, uh, yeah, that just feels like a wild thing to happen. It's just like, yeah, you know what? I'm not going into work today. So, um, what was the, um, the, it was the airline was a, what was the airline that you were flying? Let me write this down. Uh, Delta probably. Okay. Well, they're non Delta thing to do.
00:02:36
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say the guy just, we just did this when we were talking about it, uh, Doug, me and Paco were going over it. Um, I was just going to be going on my Mexico trip and they were explaining, like, I know you stay away from spirit and stay away from, um, uh, what was the other one? Oh, my two favorite airlines frontier. And I ended up going, uh, we, so it was, it was jet blues when we were flying out and you know, the, the,
00:03:05
Speaker
I heard about delays and all that. And I haven't had too many bad experiences. But on this flight yet, they had gate changes constantly. There was a couple of things that were happening that was needlessly created a little bit of a delay. But it wasn't bad. It was just a little bit of confusion, I would say, up until we boarded. Nothing too crazy. But it was still just kind of more annoying
00:03:34
Speaker
Yeah, the worst part was that one at least was because it was canceled so late. There wasn't really like they rebooked us into like a 730 a.m. flight or something like that. So going to hotel was almost not really an option, although they would have paid for it.
Honeymoon Travel and Budget Upgrades
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Speaker
But for like what I don't even I mean,
00:03:57
Speaker
for like two hours or one an hour and a half just to then come right back. And then I don't know. Well, it sounds like now that you've ever had the situation, but like they've purposefully made it very difficult to sleep at an airport. I guess for a variety of different reasons, but like so all none of the seating is remotely accommodating for sleeping at all. So it was just like bodies all over the ground, just like everyone.
00:04:24
Speaker
Yeah. That sounds like a nightmare. Uh, yeah, it's pretty poopy. And then on top of that, like, uh, these stupid, these stupid bougie lounges, they close at like 10 PM. So they're not even, those aren't even available. So can I get the pods? So yeah, that's sleeping pods. Yeah. I think, uh, I don't know.
00:04:45
Speaker
Or the lactation room, if you can put a chair up against it. Occupied, occupied. We were, when we were in, where was it?
Minimal Packing and Airline Preferences
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Speaker
Towards the end of the honeymoon. We were, I don't know, we were just like having a great time. We were like out to dinner. And I was like, oh, Elise, what time do you think we should get to the airport? You know, just because make sure we have enough time and all that.
00:05:16
Speaker
And after we did the math, right after we ordered, we were like, oh, 10 minutes ago. That's when we were supposed to be at the airport to make our flight. Our flight departs in like 70 minutes.
00:05:29
Speaker
Um, so we, I mean, that wasn't like a, I don't think that was like a disaster. Um, but, uh, it was a, it was a funny, funny kind of moment, but I flew, uh, what's it called Nordic air for the first time or Norse air, Norse air. It's another, uh, budget, budget one. There's a lot of budget ones. I'm all about the budget with an upgrade is like best of both worlds. What type of.
00:05:59
Speaker
What type of like a traveler are you? Do you like carry on only or check bag or? Or I think for domestic I can do a personal item only. But well. OK, so, but if so, we feel like the like what did you bring on the honeymoon? You don't need to get into like the, you know, one bag. OK, well, yeah, let me open my suitcase now. I think we had one. We had one checked and then we each had a carry on.
00:06:30
Speaker
And that was for like, uh, the check bag was for like gifts. Yeah. Just, you know, stuff that we get way out while we're there and all that stuff, but it was united both ways. We had the credit card and all that stuff. So, um, okay. All right. That's pretty good. But you're not like, yeah, I guess I have seen you do like the domestic flights. I've seen you just have a backpack and not even like a travel backpack, like a Jan sport back. Oh yeah. Just like,
00:07:01
Speaker
There's no compartments, what's just a big, like a small cavity that you just throw stuff into. Pilot in. Yeah, it seems like the both of you guys go pretty light with packing. I know Doug was saying last time, same thing, but yeah, it's usually, I thought you both kind of had the same scenario going on, just like. Well, I have like a special, like a travel backpack with like packing, like I'd make it, I can get a decent amount of stuff, like a Jan sport. There's not a lot of,
00:07:30
Speaker
There's not a lot of wiggle room there. It's like, I think you can fit your social studies book and maybe a jacket, but like, that's probably the extent of it is my guess. So, uh, interesting. What, uh, so you've never had a bet or in general, it sounds like, uh, most of your travel has been,
00:07:52
Speaker
Pretty, pretty good. I was telling them last time about, I don't think it was last time. It was a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about the Dublin trip, like how we took separate flights and how it seemed like you had a much better time than I did. Yeah. Although you ended up getting to Dublin much later than me because I guess you got delayed in Paris or something. That
Boarding Confusion in Paris and LAX
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Speaker
sounds right. I did almost get on the wrong
00:08:18
Speaker
plane. But because in Paris, they let you go out into the tarmac because it's like a pretty short flight. Yeah, you get on a bus and they take you out to somewhere on the tarmac and then you go on the plane from the ground. Not like, oh, if you need to stretch your legs, feel free to walk outside. Right. Just be back by one. So they had two planes parked.
00:08:42
Speaker
And so they were just letting everyone off the bus and the planes looked very similar to me. I, you know, I'm not reading tail numbers. And so I get on the plane and someone's in my seat and I'm like, whatever. So I sit in another seat and they make that announcement. Um, this is the blah, blah flight to Aberdeen. And, but I think they were, I can't remember if they were saying it in English or something else, but I was like, I think I'm on the wrong flight.
00:09:08
Speaker
I think it was recently we were on a flying out of LAX or something like that. I've never seen it before. I've seen it where a gate will go to two separate jetways. You go on this gate and whatever. But I've never seen a jetway itself that splits off into two. It goes down to one lower plane and then goes up to a different plane in the other direction.
00:09:36
Speaker
there was no markings or anything. It was just the person at the gate was like, please, everyone pay attention. Like, go left. When you get to the end, go left. If you go right, you will not arrive at your destination. It's like, that's such a ridiculous setup. That's like, you make it so far and then you could still end up on the wrong plane and, you know, everything haven't gone wrong. But, but I haven't done that yet. I haven't, I haven't home alone toed myself. I was just thinking that Macalester for sure scenario.
00:10:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Those were some bad parents FYI, but, Oh, no spoilers. I haven't, I haven't seen the second one yet. If you've seen the first one, you've seen the second one. Yeah. But I haven't actually seen the third one. I've seen the third, the fourth, the fifth. Did you know that there's six? No, there's not. Yeah. Kimmy, Kimmy Schmidt is in the newest one. Uh, that's right. Yeah. It's home, home, a home alone.
00:10:34
Speaker
Isn't isn't Biff in it? Yeah. No, not Biff. Yeah, Biff is a cop. And they made vague references. Wait, Biff... Back to the Future shows up. Where you're going, you don't need roads. Buzz. These crossovers are getting real out of hand. Didn't need a Callister multiverse.
00:10:59
Speaker
The guy, it's Buzz, the older brother, he's a cop and they make vague references to Kevin McAllister being grown up and he owns a security business for like home, home security or something like that. But like, yeah, Charlie and like, we go through movie marathons and stuff that we watch every year. And so Home Alone is like the favorite.
00:11:27
Speaker
on Netflix, if you want it, you can see every version of it. So we went through all of them. There are definitely a lot of misses, a lot of swings and misses as they get into the multi-series
Holiday Movies and Disney Favorites
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Speaker
movies.
00:11:38
Speaker
there's a we watched some Disney because we always try to watch like in October we watch a bunch of like Halloween ish movies and in December we watch a bunch of like Christmas holiday movies and we do some classics but then we also try to sprinkle in some like new stuff and the new stuff always tends to be pretty terrible but we watched this one that was I wasn't called it's something like the
00:12:05
Speaker
holiday heist or something like that. And it's where a bunch of kids have to go to the North Pole and steal. Oh, I saw that. Yeah. I was not. Here's the thing. It's it is very like Disney channel ish as far as like production. But they whoever made that movie understands heist movies in a way that I actually kind of appreciate it. I was like, all right. They like the whole like put the team together, put together the plan. The plan goes wrong. You got to improvise like the whole thing. I was like, all right. All right.
00:12:34
Speaker
I think they even did the thing where they introduce each character and it's a freeze frame and they say they're like demolition expert. Yeah, yeah, that a bunch of the end of the they had like the stinger with Santa himself about the next heist is Danny Glover. The movie was called the the naughty nine.
00:12:52
Speaker
the naughty nine. That's right. So it's probably gonna be the naughty 10 would be next. Uh, yeah, I can't highly recommend it. I don't know if that makes sense, but again, I structurally, I'm like, yeah, they, this is a heist movie in every, every way. So horrible, horrible holiday movies on Netflix is, is that's my, that's, that's my, that's my world right now. That's your jam. What's the one with like Kurt Russell was like Santa Claus. There's like a bunch of them, Christmas Chronicles one and two. The second one was with the golden.
00:13:24
Speaker
Yeah, man.
Solo Adventures in Amsterdam
00:13:26
Speaker
That was good. The second one was not that good. Yeah, those looked those are pretty rough. You know what? You know, I do. Did you have a bad time? That that second or third day in Amsterdam, you seem to have a pretty bad time. Oh, yeah. Not like not like Tokyo match, but.
00:13:45
Speaker
at the. I forgot that you guys went there. But like that that wasn't any worse than the day after the first bachelor party day in New York and similar. But I mean that day, I don't think you left the apartment. Yeah, only for a couple of hours. It was pretty. Yeah, all I remember is. Spicy drinks. I did.
00:14:11
Speaker
I did a bunch of... Oh, actually, Steve, we were talking about solo travel. That was a solo travel day for me around Amsterdam, and then ended the night watching Monsters, Inc. with Matt in some random person's house. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's good. Actually, that ties nicely into I like to do stuff that grounds me to my normal
00:14:37
Speaker
routine. And so, you know, watching a Pixar movie with Matt before bed, that's, you know, it's a bit of a throwback. Yeah. You know, that works. It works. But, um, all right. So nothing, nothing too dramatic has ever really like, you've never been like robbed at gunpoint or robbed somebody at gunpoint. Not that I can recall. That's the right answer as your lawyer. That's a,
00:15:06
Speaker
Well, nothing you say here can be.
Sustainable Food Practices in Prisons
00:15:10
Speaker
Well, actually, yeah, I was going to say can be against you, but don't. I think verbal consent, I think in Pennsylvania, verbal consent is enough. So it's very much like living Pennsylvania, Doug. Yeah, but I think your your data does now. Oh, yeah. And well, I guess, yeah, my last all of our last if we commit a crime, make sure it's in Pennsylvania. So your last meal can be waffle shop.
00:15:35
Speaker
Uh, very good. I don't know if, is that their, their, uh, their radius is like Philly to Philly to Pittsburgh will deliver, but whatever prison chef doesn't get up to his old antics. I saw there's a prison chef. I don't know why I know so much about prison. There's a prison chef.
00:15:58
Speaker
Vermont or Maine, like one of those very like crunchy granola states that all of the prisoners make, effectively they all work in the, they have like, like an open garden concept. So like all the food they make on the prison. So they go out and they, they grow vegetables and crops and they have chickens for eggs and they, for, for chicken and all that stuff. And then they cook it and they all work in the kitchen and make the food. And it's like a very like,
00:16:25
Speaker
self-sustaining setup. And all the food is obviously much healthier than, you know, sleeves of Oreos or whatever. So, which I assume is what they eat in prison. I don't know that for sure. They probably eat the other ones, right? The Hydrox. Oh. The off-brand. Right. You know, actually the- Great Value sandwich creams. Oreos are actually the off-brand Hydrox.
00:16:55
Speaker
Oh, really? The Hydrox came out first? Hydrox came out first, and now they're gone. They couldn't compete with 45 different flavors of Oreos. With four different stuffing levels. Oreo, now Hydrox flavor. Come on.
Unusual Oreo Flavors and Snack Food Chat
00:17:14
Speaker
Yeah, that really got out of hand. Even today, I went for groceries and I saw just a whole, all the different flavors. Thanksgiving dinner. What?
00:17:24
Speaker
like the birthday remix Oreo. And then they're like, we got, there's really bad one is the space Oreos. What is it? Well, it's like the, it's more about the packaging is just neon pink and blue. And then, but, and then you, you, uh, the, the cookie there has an image instead of it saying Oreo emblazoned on it is, or it's a rocket ship. And then.
00:17:53
Speaker
It's the filling is neon blue and pink. And then I remember I had one and the kids had, and it's like something is, something's weird. And they put pop rocks in there. Oh. Yeah. Jeez. I've had that before. I had it labeled, I guess maybe they just relabeled some of them. I had it, it was like labeled Oreo fireworks and it had the pop.
00:18:20
Speaker
It's a weird thing. If you're not ready for that, it really is freaky. Yeah. Fireworks. It's those caffeine free diet, Mountain Dew Baja Oreos. I would not be surprised if they had a colab. I did see there was like a Mountain Dew Dorito colab where it was like Mountain Dew Dorito flavored. This is like so gross. I think there's a a flaming hot one.
00:18:47
Speaker
Flaming hot Mountain Dew. Yeah, the flame is hot. That's a that's another thing that's gotten out of control. It's like everything is flaming hot. I was like, ah.
00:18:58
Speaker
I did try somebody, and this is another reason I kind of, I try to stay away from regular grocery stores because too many snacks, but I saw Cheetos makes Mexican street corn Cheetos and they're delicious. They are. I disagree. I'm all about it. I don't think they taste like Mexican street corn. Maybe you're misunderstanding the premise here, Steve.