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Travel Chaos & Carry-On Cringe (Where Are We Even Going?)- Episode 8
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In this episode, we talk about travel—but not like influencers do. More like tired queer Palestinians navigating airports, guilt, money, and motion sickness. From rushed getaways to Barcelona to the politics of “finding yourself” abroad, we unpack why travel can feel more fraught than freeing. Also: do you tell your friends when they’re annoying on a trip? Do you owe your ancestors a good time? Is it okay to just… not want to go anywhere?
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Transcript
Gaining Followers and Bots
00:00:08
Speaker
that's There's really sexy guy from Bahrain that you don't follow. ah but Who followed the pod? No, but who also, yeah there's a lot of people who don't follow us that now follow the pod. Hello to 200 olives and counting. Nice.
00:00:22
Speaker
Wait, as of this morning, whoa, 262. Olive people? What? Oh my God, that's kind of crazy.
00:00:33
Speaker
This is literally your fault. That is crazy. Wait. We're saying this many... Oh, that's so cute. it's Oh my God. You had all these random followers flooding your account? I was just going to say, i was literally just going to ask you, are there like a whole bunch of, but the thing is though, those are the olives. No, but the thing is though, they're following, but then I check, like, you know how, like when somebody follows you, it tells you who ah who's mutual.
00:00:58
Speaker
None of them seem to be following all of people. i feel like, well, maybe we're getting different people following each other. no but it's like ah random ass, like part of me is like worried they're boss.
00:01:10
Speaker
Like, they're very random. Like, literally, the first one I just picked. guess who Who've watched the Olive People. I don't know, it's, like, literally the most randomest people. Like, and none no mutuals. And I'm like, who the fuck are you? I'm i'm worried they're, like, bots from Israel.
00:01:31
Speaker
That's, like, my first... It doesn't make any sense. I don't know. Yeah, I'm just paranoid. Whatever. Anyway. You're like ruining our podcast success by being like, these people
Dentist Experiences
00:01:40
Speaker
aren't real.
00:01:43
Speaker
You're right. You're right. Dentists can be scammers. Just FYI. Like they can be like, oh, you need like these fillings. But really don't. When you said you're adding your thing, as we get a second opinion, because they're just.
00:01:54
Speaker
This is crazy. Sorry. that My marketing skills are amazing. They are. I love the captions that you come up with. And it was actually like, yeah, anyway, doesn't matter.
00:02:08
Speaker
It's as I expected. Yeah, it's so unique for stuff. Posting stuff and then no one responding to it when you don't have a lot of followers is like, is this bad? Or is it just like a matter of people?
00:02:21
Speaker
Yeah, i like connecting with whatever. But obviously, on none of the feedback, no one has ever been like, oh, that was cringe. I mean, I'm sure people, whether it's cringe or not, who cares?
00:02:31
Speaker
Like, I'm sure people have opinions. Like, there's going to be haters always. or Yeah, like, cringing off opinions for, like, people to come forward and say it is different than, oh, I hate this is cringe because I'm insecure, so I'm not going to say anything. Like, ah there are levels of cringe where it's like, if I was with you and I started screaming on the subway, that's, you'd be cringed.
00:02:53
Speaker
Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trying to find my, like, a good angle because I feel like the light here is really hard. You should get a little spotlight like I have.
00:03:03
Speaker
Yeah. It just wouldn't make a difference because I have, like, the light from outside. You have spotlight right here. Oh, yeah, you do. It does help, though, like a
00:03:15
Speaker
ah you How are you? um been sitting how are you well ah Good, the root canal went okay. I'm getting the crown next week.
00:03:26
Speaker
It wasn't as bad as I thought. It's not going to be as intensive. It's not as bad as I, like the root canal I was very stressed about, but my dentist was an Irani and we like talked about Palestine a little. And he also was like, he's like, I i see you. Yeah. And he was very gentle. Like I actually felt nothing.
00:03:44
Speaker
And also he was hot. i like you I was like, hell yeah. Root canal. like Your teeth is fixed.
00:03:54
Speaker
Fixed. So just the one tooth that was really bad, root canal done. Now they just have to put the crown, like they have to fit it for the crown and make the crown. So now there's like temporary filling.
00:04:06
Speaker
Oh, it'd be funny if they just put no tooth. No tooth. No, but it's pretty gross.
00:04:14
Speaker
Anyway, what else? yeah Well,
Podcast Enhancements
00:04:17
Speaker
okay. Hey, olives. Welcome to the olive oil. Welcome back.
00:04:23
Speaker
and and um I want to add more soundbites. It's like I should be like... Soundbites? I want to add more soundbites.
00:04:35
Speaker
Oh, you like have a switchboard. Yeah, I mean, it has the function for that as the host. I can like add in whatever soundbites. we got Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
00:04:49
Speaker
I did not. Oh yeah, you did. My name is Ali and that's Khalil. Today's episode is about travel. Very broad, but very intriguing, I think. Because I feel like we're going to be different on certain something things right off the bat.
00:05:05
Speaker
Or we could be the same. yeah we'll see. We'll see.
Travel Anxiety and Preferences
00:05:09
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but We'll start off by saying, what do you like traveling? Yes. Yes.
00:05:17
Speaker
What do you like about it? I will say, a number one, i don't think everyone's built for travel, but I think everyone says they have to like it because it's, like, the thing so say. Like, I feel like it' be taboo to say, oh, I don't like traveling. People would be like, oh, you're ignorant.
00:05:32
Speaker
But I don't think, I think it's, like, but a really stressful, anxiety-inducing, possibly expensive activity. So I like don't fault people if they're like, i hate when people are like, I like travel. And then they're you know older than even you or I. And then it's like the only place they've been is like Mexico. It's like you don't like to travel.
00:05:52
Speaker
Right, right. There's a big difference. Like it's like you said, it's a sacrifice. to be able to travel, like even ah going to the anxiety thing, I do get a lot of stress around travel, like planning for travel.
00:06:04
Speaker
And I think we discussed this before where I said I'm a home person. i love my bed. I love my apartment. So going out of that and going to like a shitty Airbnb or like a shitty hotel, ah already I'm going to be like a notch lower, but I'm going to enjoy the experience as a whole more because it's vacation.
00:06:25
Speaker
I'm a little easier than that, but I've always been too poor to travel how I want to. Until, well... What is traveling how you want to? Like, okay, well, I used to always stay in, like, hostel... Like, I would never pay for an entire room by myself.
00:06:41
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Because I do solo travel and I've traveled with friends. But when I travel by myself, I feel like if I got a whole Airbnb to myself, it would be like a room in someone's house. Or like, I just try to like save money that way.
00:06:56
Speaker
But now I'm like changing that because I'm going to Colombia like literally this week. And I've just, I like the last trip I had, I was like, I can't stay dorms anymore. Like, it's just not, it clicked to me that I just don't want to save the money.
00:07:10
Speaker
i think I think your experience is going to be extremely different this time around. Like, you're going to see the light. think it's the same as normal travel, except now I'll just be able to, like, go back and have peace instead of, like, fighting with people about their stupid habits.
00:07:28
Speaker
Fuck no. Fuck no. you Do you when you, so wait, I've never solo traveled. It's something I've considered doing, especially now. And I was about to do it this summer, but then I was like, I would rather travel with people so that just in case the place we go to, I'm bored, i have people to chill with.
00:07:50
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know. I was worried. How has solo travel been for you? I'm very curious. Solo travel has kind of been like the rest of my life. A whole solo trip.
00:08:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's not really any different from how I just hang out my best house. Forever alone. Forever alone, but one but really cool and fancy.
00:08:12
Speaker
Yeah. No, no, no. But like, tell me more. Like, what do you do like on a day to day? Like when you do travel alone, what is your mindset? How do you organize your day? Do you meet people? Do you try to like meet locals? well Yeah. How does it go for you?
00:08:28
Speaker
I usually show. Okay. So like, for example, I have nothing. I have no idea what I'm going to do in Columbia. The only thing I have is like all the plane tickets and my accommodations. I like to, I love walking. I love walking. So I just like go like, okay, let's say I get there and I've slept and I like wake up and this is my first day where I'm just like, Oh, what do I do in Columbia?
00:08:49
Speaker
I usually will like get up and like check out my visit like immediate area, find some kind of breakfast while I'm simultaneously on Grindr being like, hey, like, or just like even putting myself on the grid, seeing who messages me.
00:09:05
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And then I kind of have like, I just want to ask somebody be like, hey, let's just like hang out. And I'm going to like ask you to take a lot of pictures of me. And then if they're like, OK, with that, then I guess we'll go from there and I'll just see what they tell me to do slash see what comes up.
00:09:19
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But I kind of just let the vibes like take me. I like see what people are traveling are doing, seeing what people are telling me on Grindr, seeing what I feel like doing. And then something happened. I'm really excited. I'm traveling to Madrid in July and I'm really excited for that aspect. I've never done that before where I've like reached out to the people who live there Grindr. In July?
00:09:40
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Yes. With who? a couple five
00:09:47
Speaker
And this is going to be during Madrid Pride. That's why we're going. my god, I was there for Madrid Pride. How was it? Video sucking a dick. Oh my god, no way. I've never been the city. I have such slitsy picture of me like laying on a guy's thigh of like, he like we were at a like city pool.
00:10:04
Speaker
Anyway, I took like, I made him, I was like, just like chilling. And then he like took a picture showing, he like asked me to move to take a picture to like send his friendsies at the pool. i was like, wait, can take a picture though? Like of me like next to your crotch, this kind of like, aesthetic.
00:10:19
Speaker
Ha ha. Oh my God, that's so funny. So it was a good experience. You liked Madrid Pride. I had a good time. I remember just feeling like overwhelmed a lot. But I are actually like, yeah, I remember I found a good group of people to hang out with and like I still follow a couple of them on Instagram and we like.
00:10:35
Speaker
Okay, nice. Yeah, I had a good experience. and but I had a good experience everywhere in Europe I went to, except not even. I had a good experience in France, too. I just didn't like it.
00:10:46
Speaker
Right. I get it. I get it. I'm nervous about Madrid because I'm more, when I travel, i like... So, like, I can tell you one of my favorite vacations was going to Turkey.
00:10:59
Speaker
And not even going to Istanbul, going to like a resort somewhere far away in the countryside. It was just me and my mom. And literally we did nothing. Like for a week, we literally like she was smoking her hookah away from my dad vibing.
00:11:16
Speaker
Her vacation is anywhere where she's not with my dad. And i was just like, I was a kid. So I was like maybe 14, 13. And i was just like lounging at the pool, walking around, kind of like what you're describing. That's like my ideal vacation.
00:11:31
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A nice home base and very relaxing activities around it. I'm not like, i' i will party in Madrid, obviously, but I'm already dreading the You said the overwhelmingness.
00:11:44
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I don't like overwhelming.
Pride Events and Travel Planning
00:11:45
Speaker
It will be like tuna fish, but that's every pride. That's the every pride everywhere. And at that point in Europe, so it was funny because I was, the prides were like, I wasn't doing this on purpose, but the pride was fucking following me. Wow.
00:12:00
Speaker
I was in the UK then I went, there was UK pride and then I went to Ireland, there was no pride and then I went to Spain and then it was literally like ah pride in Madrid and then there's pride in Barcelona and then I went to Germany and there's pride in Munich and then I went to Berlin and there's pride in Berlin and then every fucking German city it was like pride season because I was there and I was like August so obviously it's catching a lot of prides and I was literally sick of prides.
00:12:27
Speaker
I was like I had be more pride. I get it. People in Britain. I hate being gay. I'm not proud. I get it. I get it. Yeah, absolutely. i'm i'm I'm hopeful because I actually know people in Spain as well, like through social media connections and everything. So I'm excited. This feels like it's going to be my first adult like solo travel, pseudo solo travel, because the people I'm traveling with are my friends, but they're friends of friends that I know.
00:12:57
Speaker
And I traveled with them before and they like can do their own thing. i mean I'm using it as like an extended layover because I'm going to Kuwait for two weeks to see my sister because she's giving birth.
00:13:10
Speaker
So probably going to, yeah. um How do you know she's going to give birth then? Is it in June? She's due in June. So by the time I'm there, it should be out. Gemini slash what's the other chance this baby could be? there oh My sister and my dad are cancers.
00:13:28
Speaker
They're very high emotion, very loving. But like, if you get on their bad side, it's curtains. My mom's a Cancer, and one of my besties here is a Cancer.
00:13:42
Speaker
I feel like they're actually good at not taking anything serious. like as like ah They're like emotional, but the crab, so they have a hard shell. Oh, yeah. So for me, i sorry yeah I can develop a lot of good relationships with Cancers because i feel like anyone who's a Cancer, they'd like they can learn how to not take what I'm saying seriously very quickly versus something like...
00:14:06
Speaker
The fish. Yeah. it hurt Yeah. I was going to say that that TikTok, you sent me the Sagittarius. So funny. don know It's like different clips of people being very Sagittarius, which is literally just different versions of like mean, nasty and random.
00:14:21
Speaker
And just to the point in your face. look Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tayyib, going back to traveling. right. Yeah. yeah So we kind of touched on this.
00:14:32
Speaker
Clearly, you haven't planned your trip to Colombia because you're a week away and you're saying you're open to whatever comes. I'm the other way around. Three days away?
00:14:43
Speaker
Yeah. I'm the other way around where i need to know what I'm doing every day. So John and I went to Italy for a wedding, Sicily. You need to know what you're doing every day?
00:14:54
Speaker
i just want a general... Like, for example, we wanted to like see all the places. So we didn't just want to... go someplace and not have a clue of like, what are the places to see?
00:15:05
Speaker
So we like booked a hotel in three different areas and like rented a car, planned our day loosely in the sense like we wanted a day where it was like a food tour.
00:15:17
Speaker
We wanted a day where we were going to go to the beach. We wanted a day where we would check out the nightlife, you know, like that kind of, at least to have a framework of what each day is going to look like. Cause I feel like if the day comes,
00:15:30
Speaker
there's a chance that you might be too tired to do anything. Does that happen to you? Well, I have two weeks. Two weeks. my have more than two weeks, actually. Two weeks and a little bit. So it's like, even if I had to, even if I spend one day, like I plan, because I'm going be in Bogota for an extended period of time. And I really want to, like, I'm bringing my laptop with me.
00:15:53
Speaker
it's not going to be like, oh, I don't want to do anything, but like, I want to do more like pleasure projects. So like, um, the olive people, i want to like be looking more into, um, law school stuff and I'm going to be car shopping and apartment hunting and like, it's,
00:16:11
Speaker
a bunch of stuff and just like just like vibing too I mean feel like whenever I'm on there's always like a million little things to do that i like it's like oh this is literally time fully it's like a therapy session when you're talking to a therapist I feel like it's the opportunity to just do what i literally whatever you feel get it out of your system or like Because like you can even like test things. Not like being like a ah we like a complete weirdo, but like you can just like trial and error things. Absolutely. absolutely Because you're in the comfort of being someplace you're never... like You don't know anyone.
00:16:47
Speaker
So it's just like... fully yeah a time to experiment that's really cool that's really cool and also i've the two weeks thing i think that's the other thing because my workplace like the vacations are so limited that's why i'm a planner because i literally get like five days you know like to do something so like when we went to italy really it was like seven days so i was like we better like there's a lot to do you know oh my god handle me she's like oh yeah the mic's going like crazy yeah sorry Is she making biscuits now?
00:17:18
Speaker
She is. Loser. Do you want to see? No, she's so aggressive with it. She's not dainty at all. No. I don't even know. She's like, she's like, yeah.
00:17:33
Speaker
She's old. Is she old? She's, she's five. she's fired but she looks and She looks like a mangy old cat. like She looks like she would be.
00:17:44
Speaker
She looks like she's, oh my God, she's showing you her butthole. Halloumi, be it to mewre.
00:17:51
Speaker
can't wait to get my own cat. You, i oh my God, you would love having a cat. I mean, you had cats. You had cats. Yeah. my pet Well, one cat, I think he's still alive. He should be.
00:18:03
Speaker
um But yeah, like my my official own cat. Okay, travel. Oh, yes. Yes, travel, travel. ah I want to talk about the airport.
Travel Comfort and Flight Etiquette
00:18:11
Speaker
So there were a lot of good questions we had planned for this. So what do you wear? Because I am definitely a comfort, comfort, comfort.
00:18:19
Speaker
If I see somebody in heels, I'm knocking their feet out of their, like i'm I'm literally tripping them because what the fuck are you doing? Or if you're wearing anything that, like if you're wearing too many jewelry, if you're wearing too many, like why?
00:18:34
Speaker
Why? Because you're going to to take all that shit off. It's annoying. I have two airport outfits that I can think of that I i wear. I don't know why. They're not even comfort outfits necessarily. I don't dress cozy at the airports.
00:18:47
Speaker
But I'm very comfortable in whatever. So there's one outfit that actually you complimented me on i when I was in Asia. You replied to my story being like, oh, where did you get those pants? Like had big blue pants.
00:18:59
Speaker
But then I subsequently gained a bunch of weight and I think I shrunk them. Can you send those to me? No, either go they're long gone. I gave them to someone else. It's so depressing because they were like big baggy blue pants.
00:19:13
Speaker
Yeah, they were really nice. I remember. I can't fucking fit my legs through them and it made me feel like I gained billion gajillion pounds. You 100% them.
00:19:23
Speaker
I think I 100% shrunk them. So, I mean, those used to be my airport pants outfits because it had a bunch of pockets. I don't know. And i just liked the pants. Now I have this like denim, like it's literally like a denim overalls. It's like one big boiler suit made out of denim, which is really dumb because anytime you have to like use a bathroom, it's kind of really annoying. So I won't do that this time either. Damn, so you're, you're, you're, you're fashionable. But they're not like,
00:19:51
Speaker
I am fashionable even when I'm like looking. I feel like in public, it's hard for me. I don't really look bummy. Like the person that you see in like um Cookie Monster pajamas at 7-Eleven.
00:20:05
Speaker
it just can't be me. Like I don't own anything like that. even you want You want to know something? i unfortunately, when I do travel, I am a bum. Like, I will wear sweatpants that I've had since high school.
00:20:19
Speaker
I'll wear, like, I don't, I think to me, it's more about the, so yeah, actually, yeah, maybe I shouldn't do that. Because what if I do run into somebody I, like, like if they see me, they'd fully think I'm having a crisis. It's nice to stunt on people in airports.
00:20:33
Speaker
And I feel like it that big denim jumpsuit too, because it's like comfortable, but it's also fashion-y. Like, I'm just wearing one big... like oversized piece. So I feel comfortable, but then I still look presentable. But is it comfortable to sit in for hours on the plane?
00:20:49
Speaker
i mean, it's not, I mean, being on the, sitting for hours is not, I never comfortable, but like, it's not uncomfortable. I'm not like, I'm not cold. There's nothing like digging into me. Yeah. Aisle or window?
00:21:00
Speaker
Or are you a psycho middle? I've actually recently changed on this because it's really, it's really, really hard. Okay. So actually people always seem to ruin my joy on planes.
00:21:14
Speaker
I prefer an empty row, which I'm not poor enough to like secure. are I'm not rich enough to secure myself, but there's been times like ah one time on the way to Mexico, the whole plane was full and I had the only empty row and the guy front of he's a bat. He's a bastard.
00:21:29
Speaker
He's a fucking bastard. And he like turned around. He's like, oh, you got the empty row. And I was like, yeah, I don't know, man. And then he started complaining to the flight attendant because she's like, he's like, he was like, you said the flight was oversold and there was empty rows. And she's like, i don't know, man. Like I don't control the plane.
00:21:42
Speaker
And then, so I got to like nap on that flight, but then my luck started to change. I think he ruined it for me. And this guy, I heard him at the end of the plane ride. He was like talking to his buddy.
00:21:53
Speaker
This was earlier on post October 7th. And he's like, oh, it's proud. i Like, it's time that, like, people who are Israeli, like, start saying, like, oh, I'm proud to be Israeli. And then I literally directed in their conversation. I was like, what are you proud of? 30,000 dead? Oh, my God. that he's like He's like, oh, man, I'm not getting into this right now. I like, well, you said you're pride you're proud. Where did your pride pride go Oh my god, what the actual... It was so hard to fight.
00:22:18
Speaker
And then we were behind each other on the plane, and like, anytime any of them were looking at me, like, I was dead... so Like, I was already staring at them. I can see you. I can imagine it just like, death staring them.
00:22:30
Speaker
Hell yeah. Come on, please. Please. Yeah, yeah. Wait, what the fuck is wrong with that guy? I was worried you were... I was worried you were gonna say... He was like, oh, like, you have the whole row? I'm gonna sit in the, like...
00:22:44
Speaker
i have what I'm getting to that. So then later, on a subsequent trips, my flight to Vietnam, i was on I was from Singapore to... Or maybe Germany to Singapore.
00:22:54
Speaker
I have an empty row. I'm sleeping for the takeoff. I wake up and some fucking 12-year-old is in the other seat. but i mean like in the the So I have one... It's like a middle three seat.
00:23:05
Speaker
So I'm in the one here. Empty, empty. And then I wake up and then they're in the... And then I look at him. i'm like, what are you doing here? Is this your seat? He's like, no, it's just kind of cramped over there with like me and my mom and my little brother. And I was just like, so you moved here.
00:23:20
Speaker
So then I learned my lesson. If you ever sit down in an empty room before takeoff, put shit down in every fucking speed seat. So people... Well, people are like, well but then the way that ah that another motherfucker got around it, because God heard me think this.
00:23:34
Speaker
And then I was on ah another plane from Mexico and I had an empty row. And this guy, they were actually, a well, it was one sexy guy and one guy who was sexy, but he was old and rotted, maybe too much math.
00:23:45
Speaker
But they were a couple. And then he wanted to, I was in an empty row and he was with him and his partner in a full row. And he's like, can you switch? And then that person has an empty middle and we have an empty middle.
00:23:57
Speaker
And I was like, no, I'd rather keep the empty row. as And he's like, and then he started getting mad at me. He's like, well, I thought up to you, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to ask the flight attendant. i' Absolutely up to you because you're there. was like, you can go ahead and ask the flight attendant, but you're asking me and I told you what I wanted.
00:24:12
Speaker
Right. i I know. though But then, okay, this is the thing that other pissed me off. The flight attendants are normally like, no, you can't stay in your assigned seats. Right. Yeah. The flight attendant had the fucking audacity to be like, yeah, whatever. And then because and then he like said, oh, but he said no. i was like, I didn't say no. I said I didn't want to.
00:24:28
Speaker
And then the flight attendant was like, well, did you pay for those seats? And I was like, listen, lady, I'm not. He paid for them? No, did I pay for that? No, but i'm saying I'm saying you should have responded, did he fucking pay for those seats? He wasn't trying to argue. i literally i But that's what I said. I said, I'm not trying to argue with anybody. I'm sitting in my seat, but I'm just saying what I want.
00:24:46
Speaker
And then his partner was like the sexier one. I don't know. But like he was the one trying to be like all nice about it, blah, blah, blah. But i was like, I don't give a shit. I'm staying in my seat. And I had the aisle seat to this empty row.
00:24:58
Speaker
And I was like, I'm so I'm sitting here. But like anyone. I'm fine. Those two seats. You're right. They're not mine. If you say anyone could sit there, they could sit there. That was kind of the situation. It ended quickly, but he was a dick bag. So his husband, I'm like, I did. I split them up. I was like, I'm staying here.
00:25:12
Speaker
So then his husband came over and sat i sat by the window. And then I was like, anytime he wanted to like go over to the bathroom, I just like moved my legs and made him walk across me. Yeah. Wait, that's so annoying.
00:25:25
Speaker
So he was sitting next to his partner already and he just wanted to be more comfortable somewhere else. Him and his partner wanted a whole row to themselves so they could have more space. And then he was in a three row like that. That's too much.
00:25:39
Speaker
oh He was a nasty white bagot. And I literally told him that after the flight, after we got off the plane, ah that we walked off and then end there's bathrooms and he was standing there waiting for his husband who probably went to the bathroom.
00:25:50
Speaker
And I was like, you're a nasty man. And I kept walking. Yeah. I love that. Wait, that is actually so dark-sided.
00:26:01
Speaker
Like, why the fuck? What the fuck is wrong with you? You're already sitting next to your partner. Just shut up and enjoy the flight. Why are you trying to ruin... You didn't get the mucky seats. Yeah.
00:26:12
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i got I literally said that he was like, sorry, you didn't get lucky. Yeah, that happened. and He's thinking ah he's such a he was, you know, but he was just a miserable man. And I could see when he was scrolling on his Instagram, like he like you could tell the kind of gay he was like, I've seen lots of gays. It's like he used to be a jock, but his face is like he's just looks so old now.
00:26:33
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And like you would tell by the guys he's looking on his Instagram and by his partner. And i was like, I bet you have money. And because I was wondering, his partner was a sweet deaf man. He seemed nice enough. And he's very handsome. And I was like, why would you be with a guy like this?
00:26:44
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Because he was already freaking out before that. I remember I overheard him being like a nasty fucking cunt about something else. And his partner was trying to calm him down. So that seems to be the dynamic. And I'm like, you you you probably have money.
00:26:55
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See, the thing is, though, I also blame the younger, attractive one. Well, the younger. was definitely in his 30s, too. Okay, but like you you have agency. You're choosing to be with this person. He's probably rich.
00:27:09
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Yeah, exactly. so you're So, to me, I judge people that will choose that over, I don't know, not being with a faggot. Sounds like you're done this. I would not be jealous of that, man.
00:27:23
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I don't want to be with someone like that. But anyway, ah let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Oh, we talked about the aisle seat thing. Or that was my question. Did you answer? Did you say what you prefer, aisle or window? Oh, okay. Well, I don't know. It's hard because aisle seat, I like getting up to pee and not I'm scared to like wake people up.
00:27:42
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if I have to go to the bathroom, I don't like doing that. Not that you can't. Like, most people are very nice about it and no one's ever told me no. But, like, I just personally feel annoying and bad doing it versus I also don't want to be disturbed to move to let someone up to the bathroom.
00:27:55
Speaker
Oh, that's a good point. It's really, honestly, just throw me on the plane and let me just fucking, yeah middle, whatever, I want to get there. I will say something cunty that I do do is that when I'm checking in my flight at the desk, I will tell them i get motion sickness, which is not true.
00:28:11
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But I tell them that because I need the aisle seats. I need them to give me the aisle seats because pee all the time, like maybe five times in a flight going to Kuwait, for example.
00:28:24
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I hate kind of like you're describing the whole like jumping over someone. to I don't want to do gymnastics trying to get to the bathroom, you know. So i'll I'd rather them like wake me up or like ask to go to the bathroom.
00:28:36
Speaker
So somebody else being window and I'm being aisle. I'm always think I think I think you framing it like that is making me an aisle person because also I noticed on longer flights it used to piss me off walking watching people walk around the flight I'm like actually no it's good to stretch your legs and like yeah stand up and like don't want to get I don't want a thrombus in my fucking like veins and die that shit can happen I'm sitting for too long yeah like you get Well, no one tells that.
00:29:06
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No one does. That's why people say you should get legs start like a compression socks when you travel. No, I'd rather do the annoying middle-aged man thing that I see often, where they just get up and stretch on the plane. That's a good thing, too.
00:29:24
Speaker
We're aisle seaters. Have you ever been on like a Business or First Class?
00:29:30
Speaker
No. Have you? I've gotten ah random upgrade to business class one time. So there was a year when I was applying for jobs in the US that I flew here like five times.
00:29:42
Speaker
And on like the fourth time, i think they overbooked the flight. So they literally, the lady at the counter and like, you could she looked annoyed. She took my ticket and handed me another one. And I look at it and I'm like, this is business class. She's like, yeah, you've been upgraded.
00:29:56
Speaker
Like you can tell so she did actually she was like, this pleb but is about to get served by me. Fuck no. But anyway, that was the best flight of my fucking life. And I totally get it.
00:30:07
Speaker
Like ever since then, it's like I saw the light and now I'm back with the fucking like peasants. I'm like, oh my God, this is horrible. Horrible. Those motherfuckers get a cheese board.
00:30:19
Speaker
I remember getting like three or four courses and they were all. And all this is one level up. It's just business class. I mean, I guess there's economy plus before business class or whatever, but. Yeah. But business class, by the way, is like four or five times the cost of the economy.
00:30:34
Speaker
It's kind of in insane. Like I. You want to travel beyond coach. It's like it's astronomical. Yeah. I'm surprised that people can actually afford that shit.
00:30:45
Speaker
Like even, thing is, I hear about people doing it all the time and I'm like, how? Like, well how did it get how could you justify, how could you justify that amount? Like you can literally pay for your whole vacation.
00:30:58
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with My dad flies in his class now when he when he does like travel. He's in his 50s. That's young.
00:31:08
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But the thing is, I feel like he's worked two jobs for a really long time. Like, now, like, good for him. He has a bunch of money. Like, he any he he he's like he's he's not, like, an extravagant man.
00:31:21
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So and I feel like he has, like, a fat, fat, fat savings account. And also, he's a business owner, right? So he has... What I was saying is a lot of people get... There's a lot of good deals on points, right?
00:31:32
Speaker
Like if you have, you should get, you should have a travel points card. This is unsponsored advertisement for anyone. But if you want to hit me up and you're in Canada for a referral program for a travel rewards credit card, DM me because yeah here that if you travel once,
00:31:50
Speaker
If you travel more than two times a year, you need to be collecting points. Even if the credit card costs you, think about this, math grow math, everybody. If the credit card costs you, let's say $30 a month for the year, it's let's call it 400 bucks.
00:32:04
Speaker
Two plane tickets is more than $400 a year. And it's more cash back than any credit card will ever offer you per month. rights like Right. but Like on 2%, 2% is the highest you're getting for cash back. Listen, I know all about this.
00:32:19
Speaker
That's, yeah, and I need to get better at this shit because I am so stupid when it comes to points. Why is Handami putting Rihanna on my... She's like, enough. Okay.
00:32:32
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Anyway, ah yeah, okay. So i I should look into points here, to be honest. And then you can probably fly business. Like, if you saved up a lot of points, like, it it it is doable. Wow, that's the life. That's the life.
00:32:45
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um ah Do you um pack light or are you like packing really heavy?
Packing and Airport Strategies
00:32:52
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so I, first of all, always check in a bag. I know it like when I told John, when John and I first started dating, he's a duffel bag person.
00:33:01
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Like that's very white in behavior, I will say. But like, he's very much like, we'll pack light and we'll carry everything on him and use it, like put it as a like ah overhead.
00:33:13
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And to me, I'm like, why? You can literally bring anything you want and check it in and just not have to stress about your bag and then just get it when you arrive at the airport.
00:33:26
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And yeah. He hates waiting bags. I feel like some people hate waiting for bags. He hates waiting for bags. And then I think it's, I might be wrong, but I think he's also suspicious of the fact that it might get lost, which is true. That has happened to me once before, but they ended up finding the bag.
00:33:41
Speaker
But They always find it. i've never had them I've never had my bag be lost forever. I had it like, i i lot they lost it at once for me too on the way to the Philippines and they lost it um one time on a family trip back home.
00:33:55
Speaker
I lost my bag for like five days or something and it's so annoying. Yeah, it would be annoying if like you're traveling for like, i don't know, a wedding or something and you needed it the next day. And you like I can see why some people are extra cautious, but I would always check in a bag and I would always pack extra.
00:34:11
Speaker
So I would pack like multiple outfits. I don't know what the occasions are. Even if I'm fucking going to Antarctica, I'm packing a bathing suits because you never know if there's going to be an indoor heated pool somewhere.
00:34:22
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have you Have you ever land somewhere? i don't know where you're going that wouldn't have a thrift store, but i would just go like, if I landed somewhere and they lost my shit for a wedding, I would just go land at thrift store and get some shit.
00:34:33
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Although I told you I'm going to ah wedding in Arkansas soon. and May. Well, not soon. And don't think I said... I don't know if I told you.
00:34:45
Speaker
ah Well, they're faggots. They could be cousins, but they're not. They're not. ah Okay, so I'm one of the groomsmen. And so they sent out to a thing where you had to like rent tux for like to be all be matchy-matchy. Yes.
00:35:00
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And that shit was $500.
00:35:04
Speaker
I would say no. $500 to rent? To rent. So that's my point. If I lose that shit and I have to pay because I lost it, fuck that. Why is it $500? Do they, like, custom fit it to you? Girl, I don't know. They better fuck me because it's that expensive. Like, I was shook. Because it's her wedding.
00:35:25
Speaker
That's why. Yeah. they and they know they know, like, they're like, oh this is, like... how they get their shit. But I was... You want it to be that, like, matchy-matchy? They couldn't just send you a directive, like, everyone wears... I wish.
00:35:38
Speaker
Look, whatever. A wedding where I do that to... If I have a... Whoever my groomsmen are, I will not be doing that to them. Yeah. I love this person, so I'll do it for them.
00:35:48
Speaker
But I also wouldn't do that. I also would not do this. Why are they doing it? Why is it so important that all of these people are in these exact suits for, like, this person you're probably going to get divorced from?
00:36:01
Speaker
They're going to last forever, inshallah. Statistically, no. It's just like, yeah europe you're a patient in front of me and you have terminal whatever illness. I'm not going to be like, you're going live forever. Like, come on. Like, 50% of it is. Divorce. Divorce. That's true. But look, look, look.
00:36:18
Speaker
I will say, this is more... I'm almost certain this is their fantasy and like their... Whatever. And because i am, I could have said no, I could have said no. So I do have part of the blame and I'm also like, I'll do this for them.
00:36:34
Speaker
It is, but we're not, this is not the episode about weddings. right so was great right How do you treat babies on planes? I beat the shit out of them. Because I don't like babies crying the whole flight.
00:36:49
Speaker
like i Look, here's the thing. When my sister and husband came to see me in Boston one time, they flew they thought it was a good idea to come with their one-year-old child. Apparently, my sister's baby did not stop crying the whole flight from Kuwait to the States.
00:37:05
Speaker
And my sister like was losing her mind and getting into a manic episode where she was like picking up the baby and like running up and down the aisle trying to calm it down. And apparently the husband was like in the seat crying but yeah ah because they were exhausted, embarrassed, didn't know what to do.
00:37:23
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And everyone was complaining. And my sister was just like, the fuck up, all of you. You know, like she was just like not caring about anyone else. Just trying to like console her child.
00:37:35
Speaker
Well, I mean, I honestly, because I get it. I'm upset when there's a baby crying, but I'm not. yeah and not like to the parents shut that baby up exactly i'm with the parents i'm pissed at this baby too i yeah i get the situation i feel like because it's like you have to i think being a mother is like working at fast food where it's just a shitty situation that like no one wants to be here yeah but like it is what it is like you know what i mean like yeah i never like ah you like I never want to do it myself. I never want to have like, I can't imagine the experience of traveling with a baby and like the constraints of being seated the whole time on a plane enclosed and trying to like keep this thing alive. Yeah, no.
00:38:23
Speaker
But they're not, they're not like, so when my mom had me and they would go Follestein, because I was like such a cute little baby, like stewardesses used to like be like obsessed with me.
00:38:35
Speaker
Really? Like on n a flight from, they were German stewardesses, I remember specifically in this story. But yeah, like they like literally like daycared me because I so adorable cue and cute. they're like do you want us to watch your baby while you sleep?
00:38:48
Speaker
And then my mom literally got to sleep and then she like woke up and like, where are these bitches with my baby? Like what the fuck? but They like swapped her real baby out with somebody else. Cause they want her. Like child is somewhere like literally.
00:39:07
Speaker
That is so funny. um Yeah. How would you deal with babies? Um, I like I mean, there's nothing you can do, but I do absolutely hate it. I'm just like I'm already miss I'm already miserable and angry at everybody as soon as I enter the airport.
00:39:25
Speaker
So I'm already like expecting a crying baby. I'm expecting to see a group of people walk in a really crowded corridor and stop in the middle of it and block my path.
00:39:36
Speaker
I'm expecting to be like in front of an old person as we deboard the plane who literally looks like they could dissolve into dust any second. And they're like, can barely move. But yet they insist on standing up in front of me in the aisle.
00:39:49
Speaker
i I just expect everything that I think is the most utterly retarded thing to happen to me. And I also expect to like spend $30 on like shitty fries. So I just like I'm already going into it just being like, I'm a piece of cattle. I deserve the worst.
00:40:06
Speaker
um And this is ah a matter. This is like a mental strength game where they're going to try to break me. And I just need to get through this. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, I totally agree. I'm curious. Did you have this is getting each equal warfare. right No, literally. Traveling is like not easy.
00:40:22
Speaker
But I'm curious, traveling with your family, did you have Palestinian dad's travel trauma? Do you know what we did? oh my god, yes I do.
00:40:33
Speaker
You know what I... The dumbest flights with 13-hour layovers with three kids... My brother was such a fucking, oh my God, if you ever watched this podcast, holy fuck, you are such a piece of shit.
00:40:45
Speaker
There was one time he was like, he was constantly like, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm like, i have a headache. And he would vocalize it. He didn't keep his misery to himself. He was such a fucking drama queen.
00:40:57
Speaker
I felt the same way. I was the same thing. My dad picked these shitter shitty kosher meals one time, and none of us, like, it weren't wasn't even edible. Oh, my God. And he was like, oh, shit, we should have just got the regular meals because they're, like, normally halal enough anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:13
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ah the stewardess came up to me and said, oh, I have a mushroom ravioli thing, like left extra because we all hated our meals. Do you want it? I took it because, um and then my dad literally hit me after and was like, you should have given it to your brother, blah, blah. blah Because my dad wanted me to like co-parents my older brother and help pacify him because he was the one who more so we all suffer less and i was like but i'm hungry yeah what the fuck he's thinking from a parent perspective of like no just give it to this fucker so he shuts out annoying one but that's not fair that's like i good behave yeah you're all so that's not fair that's not fair because then that encourages bad behavior that means the one who whines the most he read i always told my parents was like you guys raise monsters
00:41:58
Speaker
Yeah, because you're, like, encouraging people to whine and complain in order to get what they want. Like, just because you're the well-behaved one, that doesn't mean you get stomped all over. Anyway. No, it did, because he was the oldest boy. I feel like my dad... Oh, that's annoying....lated to him more and maybe liked him more.
00:42:15
Speaker
Which, I mean, I understand. My dad's kind of, like... So a little socially awkward so I could see it's just like it's I don't know. Maybe he just felt more comfortable. Anyway, we also so during these 13 hour layovers, we fucking used to just play this game where it's like, okay, we're going to list countries countries that like it's the country. it's So I say Afghanistan. Okay, it starts ends with an new list and and then we just play that. for Oh my god, that's so funny.
00:42:43
Speaker
hours my My Palestinian dad trauma is that because he fled two wars... Like he left Palestine at the age of 18 and then he left Kuwait during the Gulf War.
00:42:56
Speaker
He's always on survival mode. For some reason, the second we get into an airport, boom, dad is gone. We look around. We're like, where did Baba go? He's already at the counter running. He's like where are you guys? Hurry.
00:43:10
Speaker
You know, like very like in the mentality of like, we must hurry, hurry, hurry. And it's like, why are we rushing? We're four hours early. to our flight. Like, what are you doing? And then he's always like triple, quadruple, pentuple checking if we all have our passports.
00:43:25
Speaker
And then if I'm like, he's like, Ali, where's your passport? I open the zipper. It's not in the one I looked at. He starts freaking out. I'm like, oh, it's in the other zipper. Immediately. yeah Immediately assuming...
00:43:37
Speaker
I'm going to be deported from the country. You know, like he's always thinking like this and this trauma, it's not even in travel, even in like day to day, randomly we'll be sitting at dinner and he'll be like, Ali, where's your diploma?
00:43:50
Speaker
Show me, show it to me now. Like, make sure you have You know, like, shit like that. I'm like, oh, my God, you're crazy. Show it to me. Show it to me, Rachel. Yes, literally. yeah Yeah, my dad is that woman.
00:44:04
Speaker
That's so cute, though. No, my dad, I feel like he is that person, but he's more... Maybe I learned that from my dad. My dad, he'll always have all his ducks in a row, and he is the one who's, like, handling the shit. So it's, like...
00:44:17
Speaker
All the passports are already with him. He already has all the tickets printed out. Like, he does his research the days before. so it's like, boom, boom, boom, we just execute. And, like, because where we were... i feel like, yeah, we're just... we're We're a very obedient family for the most part.
00:44:33
Speaker
Do you feel like because your dad did that, you're not like that? Like, are you less so of a person that, like... sure My name is very much like, yeah, like, for example, like, if you wanted to do anything, like, yeah, like, do the research, look at all the options, and then, like, look at all the things that you have to do and then execute it.
00:44:50
Speaker
And i've I actually, yeah, do get that from him. Yeah. Honestly, my mom did shit all for my adulthood. All the gay stuff, that's her. All the, like, serious, like,
00:45:03
Speaker
That's funny. Yeah, I'm the same way. I feel like initially I used to resist the urge to be anal like my dad, but now I see it as a skill. Like I am similar in the sense that I over plan and stress about, like I will be the type of person that will put my passport in the pocket, put my bag
Travel Mishaps and Solutions
00:45:20
Speaker
in the overhead. As soon as I sit down, i'm like, did I actually put my passport in the pocket?
00:45:25
Speaker
And I'll stand up, check, unzip, see it, close it, sit down be like, but did I actually see it? Like, actually, like, i scare myself sometimes. or I'm like, I'm losing my mind.
00:45:35
Speaker
And you know what? I was proven right because that same trip I was telling you about where I went to Italy, we returned the rental car on our way back at the airport. And I remember taking out my folder that has my visa, my work visa.
00:45:50
Speaker
And I saw it because I had to give John something else. And then I put it back. We get to the airport counter where we're about to enter the flight. And they're like, can we see your visa? I pull it. And oh, wait, it gets so much better because John was in front of me.
00:46:06
Speaker
And as I was looking for my visa, another lady was like he to John, you're randomly selected for a test, like a pat down. Come here, please. And he like enters past the security into the plane and they check him. And so he's in and I'm still out.
00:46:23
Speaker
And I realized then that I can't find my visa. And I immediately start getting palpitations and start shaking. And I literally like step away and I realize John is in.
00:46:36
Speaker
And then I call him like, John, get out the fuck now. Like, i you are not leaving me alone in this fucking country. Like, you better come out now. He tried to come out and they wouldn't let him.
00:46:48
Speaker
They were like, sorry, sir, you already like... boarded the plane you can't leave so then i straight up was having a panic attack being like what am i gonna do like i but don't have my visa i have i'm panicking but yeah i i was so scared i ended up pretending like another piece of paper was the visa And I showed it to them. Because the people who let you in are the stewards.
00:47:14
Speaker
Like, they're not yeah they they're not... They don't know shit. And I was like, oh, I found it. And they look at it and they're like, okay. And I walk in. And then the whole flight, 18 hours, I was like half crying, half stressing about what I'm going to do.
00:47:28
Speaker
i had a picture of my visa. It's a piece of paper. yeah Then I contacted actually because I like paid the like ridiculous $30 an hour Wi-Fi on the plane.
00:47:40
Speaker
And I emailed a lawyer, a friend of mine that I know, an immigration lawyer, and he told me like what I should do and whatever and bubble bla blah, blah, blah. Got there.
00:47:51
Speaker
Worst case scenario, we were like, I'm going to need to... There was this option where you can prove that you actually are supposed to be there, but you would have to report back within a couple of days to the airport to like show them the document or something.
00:48:05
Speaker
Anyway, long story short, we waited in line. I'm like stressing out. As soon as I get to the TSA person, it was this cunty black woman. She literally takes my phone. She's like, next time, have the actual copy.
00:48:18
Speaker
Gives me the phone and lets me through. Wow. And I literally like we were so prepared that I wouldn't be let into the country. that was like That was my horror story. That was the worst thing that's ever happened. And after that experience, I was like, my dad was fucking right.
00:48:35
Speaker
I need to really like check a hundred times, make sure that shit is there. oh That was stressful. My story like that was I came early to the airport.
00:48:48
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I checked my bag and then I went back outside like the intelligent person I am. and i was like, oh, I have I want to smoke a joint. So I'm like, do to do do.
00:48:59
Speaker
I'm like smoking my joint. And then I go back and then I go through security. And then because I was going to New York ah in Canada, we have or America sometimes do this for like ah airports in their colony countries where like you do TSA preclearance.
00:49:13
Speaker
So I go through security and then I'm at the preclearance then there's a long lineup and then they put you in. He puts you in a, to a lineup where they divide you into two. So it's like two people. And then your officer, it's two people at an officer after like the long lineup.
00:49:25
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My person in front of me was an entire family of like seven people. So normally it's just one person in front of you. Then you see the officer. No, there's person, an entire fucking family seven and then me.
00:49:39
Speaker
Right. So everyone else in the lines beside me is like, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right, right, right, right, right. And I'm like, hey, I have a flight to catch. Like the people working the airport. can i Can I just move to this line? Can you just move me here? Because I'm already near the front. They're like, no. Oh, go shit. So it was this faggot fucking thing.
00:49:58
Speaker
It's a fucking faggot. just this i Just a fucking faggot. Just such a... The TSA person? The TSA person was... No, no not the TSA. The airport person who was putting people into the lineup. They were such a fucking cunty little faggot.
00:50:10
Speaker
And I heard them speaking into their language to their colleagues about me. And they were giggling. And I was like, oh, you guys... Anyway... i I finally get to the guy. He, like, is so quick with me.
00:50:22
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i sprint to my, uh, uh, what's the gate? Terminal. The gate. And I go there, and they're like, are you Khalil? And I was like, yes. They're like, thank God. Like, you had literally one more minute before the system would have locked you out.
00:50:37
Speaker
And they were like, you were the first person to check your bag. So we were about. I was literally. all the bags on the plane to get yours. And I walked to the plane and everyone was just sitting down already. And I was like sweating, huffing and puffing. Cause I had just been sprinting through the airport in, in, in platform doc Martins, mind you in my, my denim, ah denim overalls.
00:50:57
Speaker
I was like, I was like shaking being like, my dad was right. I mean, you serve. I never fuck around with airports. I'm like, I'm there for, when I travel with friends, I'm the person freaking out being like, no, if you guys aren't going this early, you can just meet me there. Because yeah i I don't play with that kind of stress.
00:51:14
Speaker
Absolutely. oh my God. But at least you were serving a look walking down the runway, everyone watching you. And you're like, yeah, I'm here. Y'all waited for me. But I was going to say i was going to say ah so that was my I was going to ask the question and be like, are you somebody that gets there on time? Have you ever missed a flight?
00:51:31
Speaker
So again, oh one wrong airport at one time. i know but' do I was in this is actually kind of a sweet story because I was in Thailand and then I show up and they're like, yeah, this is for the other airport because I was looking for my fucking counter to check the bank.
00:51:46
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And was like, OK, how far is it? And she looks at me with a sad face and i was like, oh, ha All right really I did it was just i was like, you know what? It's fine.
00:51:57
Speaker
It's okay. Because I knew something bad was going to happen to me at least once on this month in Asia. So I was like, this is it. I'm not going to lose my password. I'm not going to lose anything important. This was my one. Right. And then I literally just emailed my brother and I was like, hey, like, I just missed my flight and a new one's $400. Like, could you like, would you send me some money?
00:52:18
Speaker
And he literally did. No, he asked. Oh, that's cute. That's cute. That's brotherly love. And it was just like it was a short, it was at least it was like a short flight from like Vietnam to Thailand. Like it wasn't anything like didn't miss crazy long haul flight.
00:52:33
Speaker
That would make me kill myself. So I've learned my lesson. Check the airport code. Never assume it's the same airport in the country. Never assume now. no And that also, but however long you need you think you need to show up, do like 15, 20 minutes earlier. Absolutely.
00:52:48
Speaker
Absolutely. I honestly, so I told you how like my dad does anal about like getting us there super early. The one time it was me, my sister and my mom traveling without my dad.
00:52:59
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We were so lax. We ended up getting, we we were traveling to Jordan to meet my dad. And so we totally were like, we're better than him. We know exactly what we're doing. This is easy.
00:53:13
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We ended up literally but the gates to exactly like your situation. The doors closed on the gates. My mom ended up having to beg the people to open the doors again to let us in.
00:53:24
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She was like, you don't understand. style She's a huge, exactly. It's a huge deal. She's like, you don't understand. If we don't make this flight, he will always hold this against us.
00:53:35
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but If we don't get on that plane, he's going to always think he's right. Who was the airline people? Was it like out of airline? Yeah, yeah it was like Alia, a Royal Jordanian.
00:53:48
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Yeah, they understood. They're like, they got it. Yeah. like I think literally like a system thing. like Right. It's a big deal. Like, so, because, yeah, I believe those people when I went to New York that they were like, bro, you almost fucked us. Yeah. ah They didn't want to do that either. They didn't want to take off. FYI. They wanted to take out all the bags because the fucker who left his bag is named Khalil.
00:54:12
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They're like, this motherfucker has a bomb in there. We need to get this bag out. I didn't get on the plane. So they don't want to take. Exactly. But in their mind, they're like, this fucker checked in a bomb and then ran.
00:54:24
Speaker
No, oh I don't think they thought that. Okay. I don't think that at all. i just They were like, well, because I was the first bag in, so I was all the way at the back. right Because I remember, I actually checked my bag very early, because i wanted to but i just took way too much time smoking. But you just tried to make a racist joke.
00:54:41
Speaker
I did. Yeah. I still think part of were probably great. Yeah.
00:54:47
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ah great
00:54:50
Speaker
This bag that's been stuffed. You also made it harder for them to get it. Ergo, why it's a bomb. They're like... Well, they didn't have to get it at that point. Yeah, yeah, because you came back.
00:55:00
Speaker
But you didn't... Um... If I had to be stuck in an airport for 24 hours, I'd want it to be the Turkish airport.
Airport Preferences and Facilities
00:55:10
Speaker
If I had to be stuck in an airport for 24 hours, I would pick the Singapore airport. Oh, I bet that one's lit. I've never seen it, obviously, but...
00:55:19
Speaker
Okay, oh okay. Oh my God. Airports that are the best. Anything. Okay, my airport. I'll just say generally, I like when there's a smoking room. And I like when... That's it, actually. I just think when there's a... e I don't smoke.
00:55:34
Speaker
But just for human rights, I think the smoking room shouldn't be a fucking glass box in the middle of the terminal with like humans on display for everyone like they're animals.
00:55:45
Speaker
Give them some dignity. but Give them a little like a better space, at least like some windows, like an outdoor. Ideally, it should be like an outdoor portion of the airport that you can just like walk out into.
00:55:59
Speaker
But yeah, I have never seen it in like the middle where I feel like on display, but I have seen like all glass. i don't know. I usually like them. I just like I'll usually like I like spending the money on like my thing in the Asian airports was always like a passion fruit juice.
00:56:14
Speaker
And then I go into the smoking lounge and have a couple cigarettes with my like big ass passion fruit juice. um But like anytime there's a smoking lounge, I just like buy a pack of cigarettes and like get a treat and then just chill there.
00:56:25
Speaker
So I like that ability because smoking, it just, it's a comforting thing. But i you don't see that in North America. There's nowhere to go in North American airports. Like Canada would be so lit if they let you, if they had like a weed smoke, because they have a weed smoking section and a tobacco smoking section outside the airport.
00:56:42
Speaker
But why can't we just have an after security? yeah Build, you can literally build a whole fucking like prison barbed wire fence thing on the, yeah ah that's what you would like to make. With like guard dogs.
00:56:53
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I was going to say, yeah, I was going to say something. ah Oh, how long have you gone without smoking? Like when, because obviously when you fly, you don't, you're not able to smoke. So ah what happens to you? Do you feel like you need it? Or do you feel like after the trip, like it's fine?
00:57:10
Speaker
um No, I get withdrawals, but it's like it's kind of like similar to like a coffee at addicts withdrawals. Like I'll just like a headache. I won't be like I'll like won't have an appetite as much.
00:57:21
Speaker
But I think what's like the adrenaline from traveling and being a new place um makes me forget that I need it. And then by the time I get to whatever country, honestly, like weed is so easy to find.
00:57:33
Speaker
It doesn't take me very long. what how do How do you do? Actually, that's a good question to you You might want to cut this out if you don't want to share it. But what is your strategy for finding weed in countries where it's illegal?
00:57:44
Speaker
Google is obviously really helpful. Like some cities will have a tip. They'll be like, oh, in this park, like you go on Reddit, there's a subreddits for this. Oh, go to this park. they Everyone's selling weed.
00:57:56
Speaker
ah In some countries, you learn about the gray market areas, right? Like in Mexico City, there's a places where they legally sell weed and you're legally allowed to smoke it. In Vietnam, I learned from a grinder, a local told me, oh, go to this coffee shop. They'll sell you weed.
00:58:12
Speaker
It's either like Grindr or just Google. Got it. Or just like, don't know, honestly, it comes to find me. i was in but I was in Barcelona and I saw a woman smoking a rolled cigarette, but I thought it was a joint. i was like, hey, is that weed? Can I buy some?
00:58:25
Speaker
And she's like, no, but I actually do know someone who will sell you some. And she sold me great weed. The best weed I had in Europe, five ah five euros a gram, which if you know anything about European weed is actually pretty cheap.
00:58:38
Speaker
That's great. I feel i'm in in my experience with that, when I was in PV, literally everyone and their grandma was trying to sell molly. Not just weed. like Straight up molly, PCP, like heroin, you're whatever. like Literally, they'd come up to you and they're like, do you want MDMA?
00:58:58
Speaker
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Get away from me. But they're letting you off. like all he is outed The thing is I'm sure it's laced with shit. I'm like, what... Yeah, I'm never going to trust that. but I bought weed and PV from the beaches, though.
00:59:11
Speaker
The thing is, you just have to ask the locals where they're buying their weed from. I actually wasn't in PV. I was It's outside of PV, but ah ah there was a guy in a hammock off one of the piers, a local told me.
00:59:25
Speaker
And he's just always there like laying on his hammock, like big, fat Mexican guy, being like, marijuana, selling it like that. And he's just always there without fail. hes I loved him.
00:59:36
Speaker
My dream one day is I really want John to experience the Kuwait International Airport. Because that place, I will, inshallah.
00:59:47
Speaker
That place is such a funny, like, cultural...
Flight Experiences and Cultural Observations
00:59:51
Speaker
Like, you get off because there's a direct flight from New York. You're in New York, prim proper order.
00:59:58
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And then suddenly you arrive, get off the plane. Chaos. like the line Like the clear segregation and racism of Kuwaiti nationals versus is not is like extreme off the bat.
01:00:12
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But then also not to like push away our Kuwaiti viewers. I love Kuwait. But um your airport is fucked. And you can agree.
01:00:24
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it's not Is it like a shawetma shop where everyone's like waving their ticket in front of the guy's base? Yeah, kind of. That's surprising because you think of Kuwait as like more like Dubai, Saudi Arabia, where it's like, I don't see that happening. They're actually, they've been building an airport that's supposed to be like very modern, but they've been building it for like 10 years.
01:00:43
Speaker
So... Don't they have money over there? They're rich, but it takes them forever to do anything because they're lazy and also... Not... not They don't use slave work like the rest of the Gulf? Oh, no, they do.
01:00:55
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but So what's taking so long? it's It's... No, like yeah I'm not for slave work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who abuse people and treat them like shit and you can't... find I think it's mostly because they have no incentive to do so. They're not a tourist country, so they don't really care about people enjoying their experience.
01:01:16
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They're like, we enjoy our experience because we use private planes. Like you, like losers, get to do whatever. You know what I mean? ah it It's a bus. Yeah, it's like no one cares about public transit because it's like you don't drive, you don't have a car.
01:01:30
Speaker
Basically, yeah. um Okay, I have a... of ah ah we get We can end off with some would you rathers if you're okay. Yes. So, Ali, would you rather be stuck on a 12-hour flight next to a crying baby or a loud snorer?
01:01:44
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Loud snorer. I agree, loud snorer. Would you rather travel with an ex or your most annoying friend?
01:01:55
Speaker
I have no exes that I don't like, so ex. I would also say ex, too. only have one ex, and i I would travel with him. um Would you rather lose... Oh, this is one's kind of crazy. Would you rather lose your luggage or your passport?
01:02:10
Speaker
Luggage. i'm an I'm an immigrant. Are you kidding me? I cannot lose my passport. I don't even think Canada would give me another one. i don't think I don't think that... Yeah, i don't think anyone would ever say like like passport. It's like a big human ass.
01:02:28
Speaker
But the thing is, okay, I guess now... Actually, like if A friend of mine lost. ah Like if I went to Europe in July, um like i we were talking about before, and I lost my luggage, it'd be kind of like, oh, no big deal. Like i keep I could spend like two months here and then like have to figure it out a consulate because it's like I don't have anything to do. yeah So it'd be more of like a thing for convenience rather than a thing I actually want to happen.
01:02:51
Speaker
Right. I will say, though, for like a friend of mine who's Arab American lost their American passport when they were in Lebanon and he got a temporary one super easily and he just flew back. I think, do they not charge you or no?
01:03:04
Speaker
Does it cost any? I'm not sure. Would you rather explore a new destination every time you travel or revisit your favorite places repeatedly? Let's say you get like, remember when phone plans were new?
01:03:18
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So like, there's like seven places you can go, but you can only ever go to those seven places or every single time you have to go to a new place. I would want to go to a new place. Every single time.
01:03:29
Speaker
For the rest of your days... I just think i really like I really judge people that have like the vacation home, and that's and that is their vacation every single time. I'm like, you don't want to branch out? like That's every middle-aged couple's... like I could see that being me.
01:03:46
Speaker
That's fair. but like I think the thing is, it's like you kind of are like, okay, I get it. It's like, like okay, no offense. I'm sure every place has their little differences, but like you're in this place, you're eating them out in the mountains, you have a dumpling, you're in this place, you eat...
01:03:59
Speaker
You're on flatland and you're having um some kind of meat. I don't know. It's just like things kind of. Yeah, there's very rarely where it's like a whole. I think there's like only so many like different ecosystems in the world and like very few places where that ecosystem only exists that region.
01:04:15
Speaker
And fun fact, I think one of those is South Africa, where it's like there's a certain kind of area where flowers grow, where like you will only see that in South Africa. Oh, that's I don't know. Maybe I'm ignorant, but like I personally think it's like, you don't need to come to Canada if you've been to Switzerland.
01:04:31
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Right. That's my mind. There's always equivalencies, but... So I think i would do I could pick a top seven. Yeah, maybe i I'll change my answer to seven is a lot of places.
01:04:43
Speaker
Too late. Locked in. You have to talk to someone every time. you think flight attendants should be able to eject passengers mid-flight? Yeah.
01:04:51
Speaker
I've never actually seen a passenger so difficult where I'd be like, whoa, like, um like the the police are going to get their ass on the way down. I think that would be the scenario if I was a flight attendant where I could press a button and they'd be like, boing, like.
01:05:06
Speaker
You like sign away your life just like in a clause. By the way, there is a button that could. They will be able to kill you. Death electric. your death Yeah. Yeah. But, like, there are, like, I've seen flight videos where it's, like, the everyone's getting filmed and the person's being a jackass and then they're, like, they'll, like, strap them on the plane until, like, they land.
01:05:23
Speaker
Have you ever been in a scenario like that? Or, like, have you ever, do you, do you, you seen enough times where a flight attendant should be able to press a button? I have actually, you're right, I have not. I have been, i feel like the domestic American flights get ratchets.
01:05:37
Speaker
Like, that's the... and i've actually I've used Spirit like once or twice, but actually all airlines in America, for some reason, people that travel here are so ratchet. like Traveling internationally, people have a mission.
01:05:52
Speaker
They have that mentality of like this is important. But domestically, I feel like people are just weird. Anyway, the last time I flew, there was a Karen that was like yelling at the guy behind her because his feet were like encroaching on her space.
01:06:09
Speaker
I was like, girl, who cares? Yeah, no, i've never had I've never had something that ridiculous. It's always been like more like, oh, overhead. like Things that are kind of reasonable, like, oh, the luggage thing doesn't fit in the space and the airline's trying to be a dick to the person and charge them for the bag. or like I don't know, people don't want to check their bag because of overhead space.
01:06:29
Speaker
I feel like for the most part, it's but I've been like knock on wood. I don't want anything. I don't want to deal with anything crazy where like there's police waiting.
Music Discoveries and Vacation Debates
01:06:37
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There's this album I stumbled on called Hexed.
01:06:41
Speaker
by Aya. Holy fucking shit. I love new music, like new sounds. And this bitch made like such a weird. She's speaking English or out of ah English.
01:06:51
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She's from the UK. I think she's white. I don't know why her name is Aya, but it's called Hex. Check it out. Would you rather have a vacation where you lose all your photos, but you have a great memory? Hell yeah. Or one where you have amazing photos, but can't remember the trip?
01:07:09
Speaker
Fuck no. Are you? That is such an annoying ass question. Obviously, anyone who answers, i want the photos, but not the memories should be like tossed off a building.
01:07:20
Speaker
What do you think? Yeah, that was a really stupid one. know that wast do you think there's somebody that's going to pick pictures over the memory? Honestly, I guess I'm a person who I don't remember stuff.
01:07:33
Speaker
At baseline, you remember nothing. oh like like Like when I hooked up with that guy, but I had no idea. Yeah, the one you went to his house.
01:07:45
Speaker
So if someone showed me a picture of me doing something crazy in a different country, i would just be like, oh my god, I'm so iconic. Yeah. ah I guess... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unique Travel Memories and Language Barriers
01:07:55
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I can see that. But I will always... Actually...
01:07:59
Speaker
So there is maybe in a couple of years, this could happen to me because I'm just remembering now because of the story. But when I was in Germany and I rhinestone my head for Pride, ah bunch, I was like kind of a little celebrity for the day. And like a bunch of people were like stopping me in the street, asking to take pictures with me.
01:08:14
Speaker
So there's like a bunch of random people from like Munich Pride in 2022 with like a photo of me with them. And I was pretty fucking drunk. So you couldn't remember I do remember i was getting to a point of like, I literally had to be like, okay, no more photos. That'll stop.
01:08:32
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Yeah. Literally I would be like walking to rush to catch it to my friends. And someone would literally be like, like try to stop me to be like, Oh my God, this is so cool. And I'd be like, I know, like, no. no ah That's living my life.
01:08:47
Speaker
I'm just like, yeah, I know. I'm amazing. I'm amazing. i would i would either I would start charging people at that point. Be like 50 bucks. and should I should have did something like that.
01:08:59
Speaker
Okay. Would you rather experience a destination as a local, but with a language barrier or as a tourist, but um as a, or as a tourist with guided tours in your native language?
01:09:13
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ah The first one. I don't need hustle and like Google translate. Yeah, I love I'm kind of a piece of shit. So I find a guy on Grindr who speaks English and then I just like I'm like, OK, tell them this.
01:09:28
Speaker
OK, can you do what is this? What are they saying? That is so funny. That is so funny. Oh my God. first of my you I love a guided tour guide and I can just like speak English and the other person just gets that right.
01:09:42
Speaker
Some of my best experiences while traveling was because of a language barrier. So I told you i privileged enough that I went for a school trip to Tokyo with classmates. It was just six of us.
01:09:56
Speaker
And... The chaperone who was supposed to come with us cancelled because they got food poisoning. it was literally six children. Yeah. They sent you to Tokyo? Yeah.
01:10:08
Speaker
Assuming... How old were you? I think I was 18 or 19. So we were adults. Oh, that's like... We're holding up to dough on you. on Everyone was like, fuck you. We literally were like, holy shit. And the thing is, we were all nerds. So we still did the thing we went there to do.
01:10:24
Speaker
Like, we could have totally ditched. There was no supervision. But we still did. But anyway, there was a point where we were switching hotels. And we didn't realize that we... thought the hotel was somewhere in a different land, like region in Japan, it turned out somewhere completely different.
01:10:40
Speaker
So we were trying to explain to the concierge of the hotel we were at, and he was trying to explain to us, and neither of us were understanding what the other was saying. And at some point, we all started laughing.
01:10:53
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ah Like him too. we We were all just like, he was trying to explain to us the train we need to take, and we were like, trying to like... ah
01:11:03
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Oh, that was so funny. For me, it becomes like I could see it becoming funny, but I think it wears me down every day, like not being able to communicate. So but it is nice to have like Google Translate. I just also feel he jackass being like, you know, those that TikTok of the of the person showing brain rot to people when he's like.
01:11:24
Speaker
Yeah. And like, uh-huh. And they're like, ah what are you?
01:11:34
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ah I think with that, is that our travel episode? I think that was our travel episode. Thank you guys for watching our little olives. I hope you enjoyed.
01:11:45
Speaker
Tell us about your best travel experiences and worst. Leave a comment, subscribe, share this podcast. Thank you for watching. Thank you for watching. I feel like I look like a little olive.
01:11:59
Speaker
I can see that. i Like my head's kind of like an olive. I think we both have ovoid heads. I have a great head shape. People always tell me. You do. I don't know what I would look like. If I was an Egyptian pharaoh, I'd look so good mummified. but you know under you of Or even like your profile is nice.
01:12:18
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Like, ah is that what it's called? I always feel like you have like rat profile from the side. No. I feel like it's like smushed. Okay. Anyway.