Millions Are Afraid of Flying—Here's Why

100,000 flights take off safely every day, yet millions of people still grip the armrests like the sky is out to get them. We start with the real engine behind fear of flying: control. When you can’t steer, brake, or even see what’s happening outside the cabin, your brain fills the gaps with worst-case stories, even when the aircraft is operating normally.

We unpack what turbulence actually is, why “fear of heights” doesn’t always match what you feel in flight, and how claustrophobia and tight personal space can turn a normal trip into a panic spiral. We also talk about the “catastrophe thinkers” who interpret every vibration, sound, or wing flex as proof something is wrong and why some aircraft noises feel extra intense. Then we ground it in perspective: aviation safety is a layered team sport, while driving puts almost all the risk management on one person.

From there, things get weird in the best way: a Tokyo layover tale involving a go-kart tour booking mistake, the surprise requirement for an international driver permit, a hotel booking headache across time zones, and the one glowing highlight of the trip: a next-level Japanese toilet. We wrap with practical spring break travel tips for cruise passengers, a quick Denver airport security update, and a few wild headlines.

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hy Flying Triggers Fear

G 0:00

Every day, about 100,000 flights take off safely around the world, yet millions of people are terrified to step on an airplane.

Shawn 0:08

Why does one of the safest ways of travel trigger so much fear? I'd say lack of control. Lack of control. Lack of twist. Like my That was like a tongue twister, wasn't it? It was out of control. Yeah, it was.

G 0:31

Your tongue was just like I couldn't get lack of control. Yes, it is. You just did it again. Lack of control. It was like lack of control. It was like a lack in control. I'm saying it too fast. Yeah. Try it again. So lack of control. That's it. See, you controlled it. Dude. No, seriously. It's like it's like when you're driving, right? My wife is the poster child for this. She is. She is. She's a captain of the plane. She loves she flies the plane, all this stuff. She's in total calmness. When she's flying up there, she's in command and all this stuff. But put her in a car with me driving? Dude. Sean, you're going for too slow. You're going for so fast. Yeah.

Shawn 1:20

Did you see over the truck? Whoa. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're too close. I get a lot of this. Oh God.

G 1:28

Putting on the brakes, right? Like, she'll grab the center council. You know, it's just so fast. Yeah. That's what I get. I'm getting a lot of body language. I'm like, and you you know you're getting that look. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, you get that side look.

Shawn 1:42

You're like, real.

G 1:42

For real. Are you serious? Yeah, dude, it's like that anxiety is like these control freaks that are out there. Like people just can't be putting control.

Shawn 1:52

Yeah, but a lot of people, even you've been in cars, right? As a passenger.

G 1:55

And you're like, but when you're driving bad, and I'm not a bad driver, I'm gonna tell you right now. Like, you drove. No, no. I know. Like, I'm not a bad driver. I but she like the and she's even admitted to this. Like, the older she gets, the more she's like having these anxieties of having being in control and stuff. And it's just weird. Like, she can drive and she'll do the exact same things and like the maneuvers on the on the highways and stuff like that, go around, speed up around things, you know.

Shawn 2:24

Stay by an assault truck.

G 2:25

Yeah, she'll do that. But but yeah, anyhow, she like it's it's just it's like that whole anxiety and all that stuff. Same thing for people flying, right?

Shawn 2:40

We see it all the time. I mean, you see people come on the plane, and and you you automatically know it's lack of control. And that's I mean, I joke around with them because they come on, they're like, I'm really afraid to fly. And I'm like, Do you have to be control in control of it? Yeah, I have to be in control. I said, Well, you're not today.

G 2:55

Not today. There's people that are gonna be very safe, yeah, probably safer than you ever have been.

Shawn 3:00

Exactly, man. Exactly. But the I mean, honestly, about flying though, I'm more afraid of freaking driving on a 71 in the morning with the damn deer.

Speaker 1 3:09

Hell yeah.

Shawn 3:10

Talk about that all the time, right? In the morning time, we I mean, driving in on a 71, you damn deer everywhere. I'm afraid of them.

G 3:17

Yeah, you're a deer magnet.

Shawn 3:18

Now shut up.

G 3:20

Still afraid of those. But, anyways, man, like all the things that they're out of control. It's like turbulence, it's like you know, the bumps on the road. Like that, that's what it's normally is. You know, the wind's shaking the plane a little bit, whatever, and it's that's a fear of the unknown, though. Yeah, but it's the same sensation that you're getting driving down the road in Cleveland. These roads aren't the best thing.

urbulence, Heights, And Claustrophobia

Shawn 3:39

No, shit, it's worse. Come across one of them big ass pots. Exactly. You know your car's like this. Right, right, right. Yeah, but people aren't going like, no, you know, like, really? Yeah, you're sitting in all of a sudden you're sitting, you know, we've been in the aisle and all of a sudden you get a little jolt, and somebody's like, What's that? Yeah, you see the white knuckles. Exactly. What was that? Something wrong? Yeah, something wrong? Do you ever sit in your jump seat and all of a sudden somebody, you know, something happens on takeoff, and and they're like, they look forward and you're like, you're like, no, I'm just this. No, it's good. No, it's good. It's horrible. I do that sometimes, though. You know what I mean? Like messing with people? What the hell? What was that? No, but a lot of I mean, they they have the fear of control, right? Yeah, but they a lot of times they they have the fear of heights, but you don't actually have a height sensation. A height sensation. Yeah. But you know, you know that you're up in the clouds.

Speaker 1 4:40

Yeah.

G 4:41

I mean, the plane moving and having the non-control, and the you don't have control of the movement of your body because you're moving with the plane. Yeah, I get that, right? But as far as like height, being heights, now the other the other big thing is being claustrophobic because these planes are small. They can be some some can be very small, some can be bigger, but even it doesn't matter with the size of the plane, people get claustrophobia, right? Now, are you claustrophobic? No. Neither am I, but do you like sitting in a center seat? No, I don't like sitting in a center seat, but it's not about claustrophobia. Yeah, I know. It's more about just like personal space. Yeah, I know. Personal space.

Shawn 5:16

But after a while, though, it's like it feels like it starts closing down on you. If you've been on a flight for a long time.

G 5:21

And you know, I'm a tiny person, and you know, I fit comfortably in those little seats. Yeah, no, dude, I always feel like this this first of all, the seats are like just perfectly I can get it. Contoured from your body.

Shawn 5:36

Yeah, but you're like this, you're like going in. And you mean you, I mean, we gotta we gotta hug ourselves.

G 5:42

Yeah, the center seat movement is this like this.

Shawn 5:45

Everybody in a plane, they're like, Yeah, we're gonna kind of crossed over, yeah, holding on to something. Love thyself. Exactly. But no, they get that, they do get claustrophobic, though. And and I mean, you see them, but they they'll tell you right away.

G 6:00

Yeah. As soon as you get on a plane. Yeah, I have I have some friends that are like, this is a real I mean, we're joking, all jokes aside here, like it is for real. It is a real, like, I would not want to be that person that gets this. I mean, it's that anxiety feelings, and they get like, you know, everything closing in, they can't breathe, all this stuff. And I have two friends, they're close friends of mine. Like, every time they fly, they have to be medicated. Oh, really? Yeah, and so like, you know, for all those people that do are this, like, there are ways for you to experience flying and stuff and still be comfortable, but you definitely need to get professional help. Like, you need to go talk to somebody, talk to a doctor, they can give you some, you know, medications to like calm you down, calm your nerves down, stop your thinking, and all that stuff. So, I mean, it it is a real sensation. So, like, we're we're joking about it, all that stuff. No, we don't know at the same time at the same time, they're gonna go out there, and we do help them though a lot of times because we haven't come back from the galaxy. And that's the thing, too. Like being a flight attendant, like we like as we as we were talking about in previous episodes, you know, we scan and we're looking at people. We know who's nervous and who's not nervous, and they uh but they'll tell us if they're cross cluster focused. Yeah, some people will some people say and some people won't. Like it that's kind of a 50-50 there. Yeah, but I mean the ones that don't, you know, we always like can we have our little like flight attendant senses that we're like uh this person's a little bit and you and you usually what do we do? First thing we do, we approach them. Are you okay how you doing today? You know, making sure, feeling them out, you know, can I help you? The whole night we're trying to make them calm and you know, know that they're in an environment that's being controlled and all this stuff. How can I help you and all this stuff? Because the one thing that we don't want on a plane is what? A damn panic attack.

Shawn 7:50

Oh, yeah, yeah. You don't want any, you don't want any kind of medical.

G 7:53

If you've ever seen somebody have a panic attack, you don't want to be around.

Shawn 7:56

No, you want boring, uneventful every day.

G 7:58

Yeah, because panic attacks are for real. I mean, people get they flip their shit out.

Shawn 8:03

Yeah, like I mean, we we joke around about a lot of things, like even passengers when they come on planes, because another one that we get a lot is the um the one that's uh that thinks that the cat catastrophic one.

G 8:15

Yeah.

Shawn 8:16

The one that uh okay, the plane's gonna fall out of the sky.

G 8:18

The tail's gonna fall off the plane, or the engine's working right. The wing is not attached. Did everybody have sleep? Ding. I see a bolt out there that's not tightened.

Shawn 8:29

Exactly. There's some dark stuff underneath the wing. Uh did you guys see that? Oh, wait a minute, excuse me. Uh the right wing I noticed was vibrating more than the left one. Yeah. I fly a lot, and I know this doesn't feel right. And we do joke about this a lot too. You you get you get that a lot when they're leaving.

G 8:50

Yeah.

Shawn 8:50

Right? They're leaving. Listen, um, I just wanted to let you know.

G 8:53

I was sitting in uh 20 uh and I saw out the window that there's some there's some fluid leaking out on on the on the side of the engine. Yeah, I just want you to be aware of that. Yeah, it's raining. Did you notice at the end of the wing that was bent? Yeah, it was bent, it's bent up. Did you guys hit something?

Shawn 9:14

Something happened outside there. Yeah. But we do we get those. I mean, those are the catastrophic people. Those are the ones that they they think something's gonna happen all the time. It doesn't matter all the time.

G 9:26

As soon as, as soon as little Joel, yeah, it's it. And social media is they're the experts.

Shawn 9:30

Yeah. Well, they the videos help, right?

G 9:33

The videos are all helping us.

Shawn 9:35

Screaming and yelling. But okay, so we talked about this on the Airbus, so the unfamiliar sounds. Because airplanes make all kinds of crazy sounds. Do you remember the old, remember the old 100 junk jets, the 100, 200s? 737s. The Boeings has they've improved so much over the years. So much. But we used to fly these old planes, the 100s and 200s. And I used to laugh all the time because when we start, we we'd be landing somewhere and there'd be a bunch of like wind shears and everything. The damn overhead pins. Rad around. Remember, okay, the air stairs and the air stairs in the back. Oh yeah. And they'd be like banging up against there. Yeah. And and I did you ever okay, when you're sitting on the jump seat, did you ever look at those airstairs and you're laughing because you're like, oh, air stairs moving? You're thinking, well, wait a minute, them damn things gonna clean our clocks, man.

G 10:26

I don't think have you ever seen those things used? No. Like outside of outside of a training video. No, like never in real life. Like those are like the worst idea of an evacuation system. You know what I mean? Like, just big yeah, but but the weight, I mean the extra weight. Yeah. I mean the inflatable slides is a much more better answer to an exit than a big metal piece of stairs.

Shawn 10:53

Think of how much fuel was used over the years. Just toting those damn stuff. Just toting them damn things around. Remember the 727 out the back?

Speaker 1 11:00

Yeah.

G 11:01

Yeah.

Shawn 11:02

Yeah. I mean, that that was that was a crazy plane, too.

G 11:05

Yeah, they had stairs that drop down. Yeah, all those planes that had stairs.

Shawn 11:10

And now everything's weight with an airplane because the fuel, right?

G 11:14

Yeah, and all exit stuff now are inflatable.

Shawn 11:16

Yeah.

G 11:17

Right? Inflatable exit slides. Yeah. Inflatable like this. So that's yeah, everything's changed so much in the industry. It's it's it's interesting, but at the same time, all these things over the time, too, is like promoted this, like, you know, people being educated about airlines and stuff. Yeah.

Shawn 11:34

So but the Airbus, have you guys have never been on uh I mean, if you've never flown an Airbus, Airbus makes all kinds of sounds. I think you said that on one of the podcasts about the the Airbus, but the Airbus.

G 11:51

You're like, what in the I'm telling you, somebody that is into um uh sounds for uh movies and stuff, they need to go on it fly on an Airbus. Yeah, record some of that shit. No, I I because they could have some weird, they had some weird, weird sounds. The first time I was ever on it, like an Airbus, I mean, I was like reacting weird myself as a as a experienced traveler, because I'm like sitting over the the whole wing assemblies and all this stuff, and all of a sudden you hear that first like spin-up and you can feel it too. You're like and you're like, even when you're coming the hell is going on, like you're like what like uh you're you're like you're halfway tipped into like do I ring? Do I say something? I want to call somebody about this because but then I don't want to feel stupid, like you're a flight attendant, you should know this. I would write.

Shawn 12:44

But that's when you descend, too. Yeah, all of it. Yeah, when you hold something, you're like, mmm, it is the most how can I say this?

G 12:54

Um non-soundproof plane that I that we fly. It's like it's right outside.

Shawn 13:00

Yeah, I mean, but Boeing seemed like it's insulated. I mean, you hear like the flaps go down.

G 13:05

All the planes make their noise, yeah, but it's exaggerated in the like they've done no amplified noise dampening of that stuff.

Shawn 13:13

Like and it's always been that way. All the planes, even the new, even the new 321s, yeah.

hy Air Travel Is So Safe

G 13:20

All of them. They still loud. They still be make a noise, it makes it. So, bottom line is don't be afraid to get on an airplane. No, don't be afraid to be on an airplane because one, it's one of the safest ways of travel. Yeah, it is. I mean, it it if you just think of this. If you get out in your car every day and you do you walk around your car and do you turn on all the operating systems on your car, and you make sure your blinkers blink left, blink right, is your tires inflated properly? You know, do all the electronics in your cars, all the systems work, air conditioning, the heated seats, you know, does everything work? And then after you check it all out, you decide, okay, now I'm ready to get in the car and let's go. Do you do that? Nobody does that.

Shawn 14:15

But you know, think about it. In our world, right, they could say on the news, a thousand people died in car accidents today. Right, right? Easily. And and they they would sit there and everybody would be like, just go get in your car and go to Walmart. Yep. Okay, and they're not even affected by it. But as soon as you hear an airplane went down, yeah, everybody's like, you gotta watch, right?

Speaker 1 14:37

Yeah.

Shawn 14:38

Because there's there was 150 people, 150 people, and and unfortunately in those situations they they lost their life. Yeah, but it's so big.

G 14:47

So since that mass casualty all at once is like is is like so. But yet you had a thousand in cars die all over the place, all over the place, and they don't even blink an eye. But if they were all in one place and they all piled up together, no, I know.

Shawn 15:04

Yeah, like yeah, because then they're like 117 on a pile up on the interstate, and then because you're looking at okay, what one interstate and what why'd it happen?

G 15:13

Right. And how many semis were involved. But I'm telling you, cars are like way more dangerous than a plane. Way more dangerous. Because here's the thing, too. There's only one person in the car watching out for your safety, is you, right? Yeah. Whereas you have on an aircraft, you have a whole team of safety professionals that are there to guide you and assist you, and then you have all the supporting functions of the people checking out all the systems and stuff of the plane. So, I mean, it's it's super safe, and it's usually it's so rare for something to happen.

tar Wars Shirt And Tokyo Plans

Shawn 15:42

So don't worry about, don't worry about it. Go get on a damn airplane. You guys always fly, it's the it is the safest way to go. But before we go into this next session, right? Okay, I've been waiting. What's that? Your damn shirt, dude. Bounty hunters, what is that? This is I I listen. I I wanted to start off asking you about the damn thing.

G 16:04

For for everybody out there that is a Star Wars fan, like most of the people in the universe, except for somebody. Uh no, everybody knows who this is. I don't know who this is Bobo Fett. He's a bounty hunter in Star Wars. It's like it's uh cool. This is like a uh a soccer jersey, uh Bobo Fett. It's just kind of a cool Star Wars jersey. Wait a minute.

Shawn 16:28

So Bobo Fett was a soccer player? No, no. Wait a minute. So why would they make a soccer shirt?

G 16:34

No, Star Wars, they make all kinds of different like shirts and stuff like that. You know, you can get a hoodies, hoodie.

Shawn 16:40

So he doesn't know anything, but wait a minute. You bought a soccer shirt. No, I just bought a big bounty hunter named Bobo Fett.

G 16:47

Yeah. People are laughing at you right now, not me. Because you don't know.

Shawn 16:56

Wait a minute. I might not know about Bobo Fett, but he wasn't a soccer player. No, he wasn't a soccer player, but you got a soccer player.

o-Kart Tour Fail In Japan

G 17:03

There's a lot of like shirts that are not nothing to do with it, but this is just a jersey that's kind of cool. Anyhow, so but what this goes to is Mike, I want to talk about my layover in Tokyo. Like, I talked about that horrible experience I had last episode, but I didn't tell you about all the cool shit I did in Tokyo. So get this. Tokyo, if anybody out there is going down to Tokyo, they gotta experience this. They had this service, this like experiencing go where you can drive go-karts all over Tokyo.

Shawn 17:35

Like Tokyo Drift.

G 17:37

No, like Tokyo Drift. Kind of like a Tokyo Drift. But they're go-karts, and what they are, they started off actually. I guess this is a little bit of tattoo on it, was they started off as you were gonna drive a Mario Kart all over Tokyo. Now, is this like a one person or two person? No, no, no, it's like a little, like the go-kart you see at like you go for a car racing. But can you go with do you have like a passenger or is it just no, it's just one person, and it's like you everybody's just like driving these little, like it looks like little mario karts. That's what it looks. You you know what you have you. No, no, I I get it. I get it. I'm just trying to you can drive all over Tokyo and they do these tours in these go-karts. But do you I mean, okay, do you like rent them online? No, no, no. It's a tour, it's a tour, like you you you sign up for this tour, so you go in groups, and you know, like this gang of you know, little Mario Kart running around. It's kind of like the for everybody that plays Mario Kart videos out there and all that stuff, everybody gets it. They're like, What's he's not getting here? Why is G G going on about no?

Shawn 18:33

I'm getting it. I I was just sitting there, okay. I I I was just understanding how that it was actually a trip. Yeah, so I was like, this is cool.

G 18:40

I'm over in Japan and I'm doing like this Mario Kart, like I want to do this whole thing. So um one of this guy on the trip that I was on, he was like, Tell me about this. I was like, this is awesome. Let's do this. So I was like, we tried to sign up for it, and that day it was all booked, and then ended up we got delayed for our flight and all this stuff. So I had time, time I'm like, I'm I'm gonna sign up to do this because the night before I went out and I went to this uh Shibuya uh crossing, which is a very famous crossing. Many people you've probably seen it on the uh YouTube or whatever, but it's the most highest volume crossing in the world, and it's like like the cars are going across it, and all of a sudden it stops, and then you see millions of people go out and swarm across this and their crossing, like and this happens every so many minutes. It is the craziest experience you've ever been, like like everything, but then like all of a sudden the crowds part, and guess who comes by? Here comes Mario Kart, zoom, zoom, zoom, by right. I'm like, I want to do that, you know. Like it was like this is cool, and they're like all lit up in Neon and all this stuff. I'm like, this is super cool. So for all the people that are video game players out there that do Mario Kart, they're like you can do this for real in Tokyo. So yeah. So do you have like a Donkey Kong shirt? Yeah, so here, so here's the thing they got sued because they started calling it a Mario Kart thing, and then Mario was like Nintendo's like, no, that's our stuff. You can't do this. You didn't license it with us and all that stuff. So now they scratch, they still call it like they don't like people will refer to it as being Mario Karting around. Yeah, but what they did is they switched over to now you can drive these carts around, and you're all knee on things, and you look kind of like Mario Kart, but that they let you they have jumpsuits for you, and you dress up in like Tigger and Winnie the Pooh. You didn't get the Mario Kart, right? Don't get the Mario Kart. What do you get to like some Disney characters and stuff? Driving around a cart. So what'd you drive in? So so here's my story. So I decide, you know what? I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna sign up for this. I want to do this. And I'm like, I go online, I'm looking at it, I'm looking at their website, and they have all these different tours, right? Yeah, and so I'm like, okay, oh, here's one available. I'm gonna sign up for this one. So I can click it, and I'm thinking, you know, this is all, you know, cool different places to go. I'm like, I don't care where I go, I just want to drive the carts around Tokyo. And so I click on it and I pay the my my money and all that stuff, and I go to you know, get the email back and it says, and I'm like, now where do I need to go to pick this up? So I click on the directions. I booked the tour in Osaka, which is just up the road about three hours. I thought it was like all inclusive to just Tokyo tours. No, it was this whole company they do it in every big city in freaking Japan. You gotta pick the right damn city shop. This is my tech buddy. So now I'm like, oh shit, and I'm reading the whole fine print, and it's like, no refunds. I'm like, you guys stupid written on your head. I'm like, motherfucking No, it's not about the money. Nothing about the money. So then I finally call this this. Now I'm, you know, here's this language barrier thing again. I'm trying to call this company. I call this company finally, and I get a hold of them, and I'm like, hey, you know, this is what happened. I booked the wrong gun. I'm on a flight attendant, I'm on a layover, I want to do this. You know, can I just change the tour to the one that's local, right? And he's like, Oh yeah, yeah, we can do that. So then, oh sure, here's a tour. Let's do it. So he's like, okay, let me book this for you. He goes, I just want to make sure you got all everything that you need. And I'm like, what? He's like, Do you have your driver's license, your passport, and do you have your international driver's license? I'm like, International driver. International driver's license. I'm like, what's that? He's like, oh yeah, you have to have your international driver's license. He goes, you he goes, what country are you from? I'm like, US. He goes, yes. You have to go to AAA and you have to get this international driver's license from Triple A to let us know that you have my real license. So I couldn't drive the damn carts, even after I had paid them in damn Tokyo. A lot of work. I wouldn't like the whole thing. So you wouldn't get a refund. I didn't I didn't get a refund, but he said, listen, you're not gonna get a refund. He goes, but keep your voucher, it's good for six months. When you come back, then you can we'll book you for another tour. Just tell us everything, and we'll get you, we'll get you set up and all that stuff. He goes, within reason. He goes, like if you're talking two years down the road, that's not gonna happen. But he goes, within reason, we can do it. So I'm like, okay, or whatever. So did you look into what you got to do for AAA? Oh, I've done it before.

Shawn 23:29

Oh, okay.

G 23:29

I've done it. It's super, it's literally so stupid. It's the like this is the stupidest process because you go into walking to AAA and you show them your license, and they're like, okay, here, we'll give you that. So they tip a piece of paper, they sign the piece of paper, stamp it. There's your international driver's license.

Shawn 23:45

So if anybody goes to Tokyo and wants to dress up like Tigger and drive around in a golf cart. Or Winnie the Pooh. Or Winnie the Pooh or Pigley. Make sure you stop at triple. Because you're not required to do anything other than show your license.

G 24:04

But you go and I'm like, can't I just email them and you have them send it to me? You're kidding me. I was like, it was like just the craziest, most crazy experience. Did you have to have proof of insurance? No, no, no. No, they didn't care about the insurance.

Shawn 24:20

Ah, forget that. That's not important over there. We just see a license that says valid, but you got to have an international license.

G 24:32

I just went out and did. I was with a very senior crew. So all of them have like done everything. They've been doing it for years. So they were nobody was interested in going anywhere. But I was like, screw it, I'm going.

Shawn 24:42

So is there an area like remember that movie Tokyo Drift? Is there like a big area like that?

Speaker 1 24:47

No.

Shawn 24:48

They're not? No. Oh well. It's kind of depressing. It wasn't some big drift area.

G 24:55

Yeah, you you thought, no, no, no, no.

Shawn 24:57

Well, I could see all those people running across in that area.

G 24:59

Yeah, yeah. That that that highly Shibuya crossing.

Shawn 25:04

So is it like a light system that they No?

G 25:06

I'll show you pictures of it, the whole thing.

Shawn 25:07

You'll see when they cross.

G 25:09

Yeah, it's just like any other six. It's any other I can't even. What am I? I'm not in control again. I know. Tongues like moving. Like any other city crossing. Like when the lights turn, you know, they hold the cars, and then everybody has the walk signal. It's just no different than anywhere else. But it's just this but is it a colored light?

Shawn 25:29

Is it a colored light system? I mean, is it like red and green? Yeah.

G 25:34

Like a little guy, like there's a symbol of a little guy walking, you know, like that's green and then red to stop and all that stuff. No, that's what I said. I was just saying it's universal. Okay, that's it. Yeah, yeah. Like an international license. Yeah. But cool place, man. There's so much shopping. That would have been a great video.

Shawn 25:50

Could you imagine attach your phone on that and driving that damn thing? Dude, that's what I wanted to do.

ommute Chaos And The Hotel From Hell

G 25:54

I wanted to like I wanted to take some videos and all this stuff. And I was like, this will be so cool. But boom. It was only like an hour, hour. They have hour tours, or they have an hour and a half tour. So I was like, I want to do an hour and a half. This whole Tokyo adventure is really going off well, isn't it? Yeah. It's going real good. Yeah. Can't wait to go back. I am going back because I am driving my guard goal carts. You got to get that international license first. I will do that. But, anyways, the other part that happened too was like on the commuting for anybody that's flight attendant. And you know you've done it for years, right? Yeah.

Shawn 26:27

That's the big that's the thing that keeps me from going international.

G 26:31

But we're gonna get we're gonna get you international anyway. So we're we're we're gonna work on that. Nope. Because I want I want G and I to go on a trip, do some videos on international trips. That'd be funny. Yeah, we would have fun. We would have fun, but you don't have to transfer to do it. You can just pick up. Yeah. You have to set that up though. We will set it up. Yeah. Anyhow, so I'm commuting, and the commuting sucked because my plane was delayed and got in after midnight, had to wait till the next day and all that stuff, which I got a got a nice uh extra day off from it, you know, from the company and all that stuff because I went into my day off. But man, I had to like try to find a hotel. Have you ever experienced this? Like us growing up, think about this. Like us growing up as uh kids, we're driving down the road and our parents we need to stop at a hotel because we're traveling. Yeah, you pull into the hotel and you have a room available and you book the room, right? In today's world, like you have to make a reservation for the hotel, right? Well, guess what? When you're in another country or another side of the world that's actually a day ahead of you, the computer system's not letting you book for that day. I didn't think about that. So I was trying to book for that day, yeah, and it wouldn't let me do that because I was already a day ahead of it, and they're like, that day's already gone.

Speaker 3 27:49

Yeah.

G 27:50

We're just adding on to your Tokyo adventure, aren't we? So I couldn't, so I had to now call my wife in the States to try to get a booking for my hotel that I'm gonna be showing up at midnight to get into a hotel because I'm like, I have to get some sleep for the night, right? Because I'm staying over, I can't fly out until the morning. So it was like so weird. But then I get to the freaking hotel and I get a like, you know, a cheapy hotel. And you ever been to a hotel where the whole entire hallway smelled like marijuana? Uh no. That's that's like super common. It's getting more common now.

Shawn 28:26

No, I know. Well, I listen, you know me, I complain about the smell of marijuana every day when I walk in the damn airport, right? So, yeah, I I know that.

G 28:34

So that smell, I get up the elevator and the entire hall is smelling that smell.

Shawn 28:40

Yep.

G 28:40

I get into my room and it and this the smell is coming into my room. I literally had to roll up a towel and put it by the door to keep it from coming from the woman. That's how bad it was. I was like nasty, it was nasty. I was like, this is I can't, I like this is terrible. So I did not have a great commute this time to put it lightly.

Shawn 29:01

Let's start from the wait a minute. This whole damn story, there hasn't been anything good.

G 29:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing's good about well, there was it's fun to like new experiences and all that stuff. There was fun things they did on the uh layover and all that stuff. But here's the funny thing about this whole thing, the marijuana thing. I wake up in the morning, I'm walking down the hall, and I'm like getting out of there trying to get to my flight in the morning. I look down the hall and there's this room, and it has a box. The box is nothing but full of freaking potato chip wrappers. What are we the marijuana? I don't know where the marijuana is. I don't know. We're the dudes with the chips. The guy that had the box of chips. Dude, quit smoking in the damn hallways. I freaking hate the skunk weed, man.

Shawn 29:49

I cannot stand that weed.

G 29:51

It was so crazy. So nasty. I know.

Shawn 29:53

So what do you what do you mean? No, man, you're not done yet. You're not done yet? No, no, no, no. Because you forgot about the toilet. The toilet. Because you told me about the toilet. So the whole I no, I was waiting. This whole story. Right, yeah, yeah. This whole story, right? Went to, I mean, you have no idea. I was telling you about my. But the whole story was shit, though. I mean, from uh it went the shit all the way from Tokyo, right? When for the crew being left, and then you know, can't do your Mario Kart. Right. You're gonna have to dress like Tigger, pig, poo, right, right? You're going through all that, but the commute, wait a minute, the commute sucked. Go to a marijuana hotel, right? Get walk down there, the bag of big nasty chips still sitting there, right? Yeah, the only thing that went well was what?

G 30:43

My shitter. My toilet, man. It was an upgrade from Narito.

Shawn 30:48

He was all we could talk about was he sat on this toilet.

G 30:52

I'm I'm seriously considering, like, how can I get one of these in my house? Like, this is unbelievable. Like, okay, so I talked about this in another episode. This they have like the electronic toilets with the bidets all hooked up to it and everything. Now, this hotel was even an upgrade from the last hotel that was in the Rita. So in Hanaida, which is in Tokyo, downtown Tokyo area. This toilet, dude, it had controls on the wall. So, like, it wasn't on the like jankity on the side of the toilet seat, it was like controls on the wall. It had like massage, it had you were hitting every damn button. The toilet was heated every time you sat onto it, it was like a warm seat. Like you had like heated seats in your car.

Shawn 31:34

Did it have like those like motion bumps?

G 31:36

It had it had the massage jets for you when you hit the hit the rinse, you get a little massage jet to it. It's like a butt, it's like a butt wash, dude. The whole butt, dude, it was like a total, it was the best butt wash ever. How long did you sit on that toilet? I went there a few times. I won't lie. And you didn't even have to go. You're like getting the buttons. Sometimes the hemorrhoids need a little misogyny.

Shawn 32:06

I could just see you. Well, I'm not doing nothing. We go sitting here. Wow, I wonder what's let's understand that was done.

G 32:14

It probably would be really bad for me. Because my wife's always complaining I'm on a toilet too long, anyway. My gastrointelligent intestinologist, he's like, don't stay in a toilet that long. So that that toilet would probably not be good for you.

Shawn 32:30

The only thing that happened in Tokyo that was good was the shitter.

G 32:38

So how's your shit been lately?

ushi Kits And The Sushi Bazooka

Shawn 32:41

My shit's been fine. But oh my god, my face is hurting. Oh, my face is hurting. I'm laughing too damn much. Oh, I've got to stretch it out a little bit. Yeah. I was just sitting there going, the shit is the only thing that went good. Yeah, man. Yeah, I get shit. You know, I love I love sushi. Yeah. And uh, I'm not gonna go back into your sperm sushi roll again. But um, so I went and bought some stuff. I was gonna make sushi the other day. Have you ever seen, have you ever heard of like do you make sushi? I have. You make it? Yeah.

G 33:14

Do you like it? Do you like making it? Oh yeah. I have like a sushi making kit, like that's like really easy. So like it shows you, you know, jeweling all the vegetables and different like the cutting everything up, and you basically like put the nori paper on there, push the rice down on it, and then you throw it in this thing, and it has the wrap, and you literally just wrap this thing up, and it has like this, like it's like a tube type of thing. Like it you press it down and then it makes it perfect.

Shawn 33:41

Do you have a is it is it a bamboo mat, or do you have the no, it's not traditional. This is like a little like a form shape, like is that okay, is that the um bazo uh the um bazooka? Um sushi bazooka? No, I don't think so. So I I was looking at somebody told me about this. Yeah, and I I I do my own at home with the mat, you know. Right. And uh so I'm like, okay, I'm always looking for something a little easier to do. Sure. So I got that um uh sushi bazooka. It's like eight bucks. Okay, I'm like try it, you know. So you open it up, and if you guys look at this online, you can go look at it. But um, so you you open this up and you got two sides, you gotta put the rice in it. First thing, always remember this make sure either that you you coat it either with Japanese mayonnaise, like just wipe it in the mayonnaise on this bazooka thing or put some oil in it. But um so you make this gonna stick. Yeah, it sticks. But you fold it together, you put all this stuff in it, you fold it. You can you can look at the videos uh online if you want to if you want to do this. But um you fold it together and then you like twist it like four or five times, and then you it like poops it out, it just like poops it out. So you literally you're pushing it out.

G 35:01

So now you're eating poop sushi. Yeah, you're you're creating me, you're down on me with a spray.

Shawn 35:07

I know, but you're creating like poop sushi, right? So you put your like you you line it up on the nori roll and then you push it on the nori roll, and then you roll it up, the nori on the outside, on the outside, and then you put a little water on it, then you have to let it sit there for like I don't know, four or five minutes. Yeah, I'm already eaten by that time, right? So, but anyway, the I I I try it. It's I mean it's good, but the damn rolls, like in your sushi roll, is it huge? They're big. Yeah, yeah, uh-uh. They're Americanized. No, yeah, just and and they're not tight, it's not tight. So if you're if if you want my opinion, learn how to roll them yourself, yeah. And do it yourself with a bamboo.

G 35:49

Well, the bamboo thing is so easy too. I mean it is. I mean, once you once you learn how to do it, and then you can make it as tight as you want as far as the roll.

pring Break Travel And Cruise Timing

Shawn 35:57

Well, that's what I do. I have the nori paper. Yeah, but I'm like, I'm gonna try it. I mean, for eight bucks, nine dollars, I'm gonna try it and see. And it does work, don't get me wrong. If I mean, if you suck at sushi and you want to try it, I mean that it's a sushi bazooka, but I thought, man, you'd have had a shitload of that sperm stuff on there that was so big. Pooping. A pooping sushi. Pooping. Yeah. So now weather's getting crazy. So, you know, we're getting into we're getting into spring break. Right. Um, a lot of weather heading down to Florida. So I just want to tell people that, you know, especially if you're going on uh the cruises, get down there early because you see a lot of people stressing out in the airport about um making their cruises. And a lot of times, and if it goes all well, that's good on you. I mean, you get down there and it's like 11 o'clock and your cruise doesn't leave until like four or three or whatever, and that's fine. But we see a lot of people this time of year miss their cruises because they're going down the day of. So just make sure that you, you know, you want to you want to go down a day before and don't put yourself through all that stress because I've seen so much of this weather already down in Florida. We're gonna be going down this week. Um, and we're gonna hit a lot of shitload of weather down in Florida this week. We're gonna hit it down in Texas too.

G 37:12

Spring, spring, spring is in the air and it's springing everywhere.

Shawn 37:15

Yeah, and and it comes across Florida, it's there for a couple hours, but it shuts everything down. So just do yourself a favor, go the day before if you're gonna do the if you're gonna do that.

G 37:23

That's smart traveling right there.

Shawn 37:24

Yeah, if you're gonna if you're gonna do the uh the cruises, go the day before. But you see, you always we always see those people that don't they didn't pay for the they didn't pay for the insurance, they're screwed.

G 37:34

Yeah.

Shawn 37:34

And then they're first they're first to blame the airline.

G 37:37

Yeah.

Shawn 37:38

Because you didn't It's Mother Nature.

G 37:40

Mother Nature.

enver Airport Security And KCM Rants

Shawn 37:41

You ain't gonna get you're not gonna get anywhere with that. Yep. So uh I had to say that. Went through Denver. Yeah. You know, Denver's completely different. The airport, the security, have you been there since they redid the city? All the new design, no. Dude, it's crazy. Is it good crazy or bad crazy? It is really good. I mean, it's called it was called the Great Hall Program. Okay, and what they did is um they they moved it, they moved it over to uh the east and west uh side, and they have like 17 different, they have these 17 different security, all high-tech.

Speaker 1 38:12

Really?

Shawn 38:12

Yeah, it's really, really cool. Now for crews, and this is strictly for the crews. If you're looking for the um uh known crew member, you got to go past the uh TSA pre-check, and it's down around the corner of the PS uh TSA pre-check. Had to had to find that out this past week because it's a long ass walk. They drop you off and you come in, it's a long walk. But what a great they they they redid this system, and it's actually it's really fluid. Okay. I mean, you've seen the passengers and everything, and it's really cool because they come through and then they they take their bags, they put them in this individual area, and they like re-screen them, they can like go through this whole thing before they even go into the bag.

Speaker 1 38:55

Oh cool.

Shawn 38:55

Yeah, I mean, and and then when you come out of there, it's an easy, you go right down the escalator to the um tram to go out to your gates. Yeah, but it was cool. You know how in Indianapolis how they started making the the terminals like the inside of a hangar. Yeah. And then Denver's is massive.

Speaker 1 39:14

Okay.

Shawn 39:15

Um, you know that that yeah, they call it the Great Hall because when you look up, I mean, all you're seeing is it's stories up there. It is huge. Stories super, super cool. It it uh speeds up their uh their their screening, it gets people through the screening process a lot faster.

G 39:33

I'm I'm waiting for like them to do like the KCM when they do face recognition because now that I'm like international and I'm doing all this like international stuff, there's a lot, and I'm not just talking about here in the States, everywhere, all these different countries and stuff, a lot of them are doing all facial recognition things now. Yeah, so which speeds it up even further. You don't even have to like you don't have to get out anything, it's literally just walk up and boom.

Shawn 39:55

That's like it is in customs now. Yeah, I mean you we always have our passport, right? But they do facial recognition, yeah.

G 40:02

So I'm wondering, did Denver include any of that stuff? Facial recognition or any of that stuff?

Shawn 40:06

That would be actually really good. But you know the one thing I don't like with KCM, and that's about every airport. If you get random, and I don't care about getting random, right? That's just part of it, that's fine. But they don't make it easy. They don't make it easy. There's only a couple airports that have it easy for KCM. So you you'll get random, and then all you do is open up this little door and you're going right into a security line. Right. Okay, and and you're just putting your bags. That's not the way the most of them are. It's like even even the one in Denver, the it's I don't like that either because the KCM didn't bother me, but when you get random, you got to go all the way back around. You got to go all the way back over to pre-check, you gotta fight through pre-check, and then you got to come through pre-check.

G 40:49

Some of them like some of the airports are like really good for crews and stuff like that to go back in. You know, like they do have it where like you just like boom straight into, you know, oh random, step over here, you're gonna go through this little gate and you're gonna go in. And some of them are like super inconvenient. But I mean, I'm just glad they have them. No, I love KCM.

Shawn 41:08

And you know, and and the TSA people, man, I appreciate those guys. I'm so I I've got so many friends in in TSA. Yeah, those guys are really cool and everything. It has nothing to do with that. Um, the the KCA is a very good thing.

G 41:20

No, there could be improvements, though.

Shawn 41:21

But as far as like when you get random, it's like going all the way back around. Some of these, some of these places you know are freaking nuts.

G 41:29

I get random in Newark. I gotta go all the way to the other ends into the airport. What about Seattle? Oh, geez. Just like all of them.

ports Fights And Language Barriers

Shawn 41:35

I mean, you're you're fighting, you're fighting the the crowd in Seattle. It is horrible. All right, so let's go around the globe. The world baseball classic was going on. Did you see that flaw that I didn't see anything because I've been gone? They they had they USA has been doing pretty good, and then uh they played. I have I heard that, yeah. I haven't seen it though. They beat Mexico, right? Which has been a long time since USA has beat Mexico. But USA's got a really good team, but they they end up beating Mexico. But the the the biggest thing was they they had a brawl in the stands. In the stands watching it? Yeah, some guy just attacked another one. It was Mexico against the United States, and he and and they attacked him, and the fight fight was in the stands. I don't ever understand that though, in baseball. How the hell are you getting a fight in the stands with baseball?

G 42:24

Like any other stands. Stupid dude, have you seen it at basketball? You've seen it like there's not a sport that it hasn't happened in, right? So I was like still stupid though. It's all stupid.

Speaker 1 42:35

Yeah.

G 42:36

First of all, you're going there, everybody's going there and picking a ticket to see something because they're trying to entertain themselves and enjoy the, you know, have this outing to entertain yourself. You're not going there to like start feuds.

unknown 42:48

Right.

Shawn 42:50

Especially the internet, okay. When you're looking at the international part, it probably he they they they probably understood English because it's Mexican with the English. But nine times out of ten, you can't even understand each other. Because on that international, on that international languages, because yeah, they'll be cussing at you in an Italian. Sure. You'd be like, okay, like waving at them. You didn't even know they just called you a bunch of bad names. Right? You'd be like, oh, that Italian's like really nice. You know, like waving at him. He just called you a piece of crap. You had no idea, right? So but anyway, I just thought it was kind of funny to hear the they they were brawling. They probably didn't know what the hell they were they were yelling at each other.

G 43:30

Who knows?

egas Scorpion Story And Wrap-Up

Shawn 43:31

But yeah, so stupid. Yeah, but WBC, but the U.S. ended up losing. Um, they actually lost, uh, they actually lost to Italy. Oh, they did? Yeah, just recently. Yeah, they just they just lost to Italy recently. So this one I had this was funny. So a businessman was sleeping in the bed at the Silver Six Silver Casino, Silver Seven Casino in Las Vegas. Right. You've seen that one, right? Yep. So um he was. He was laying in bed and he claims that he was stung uh by a scorpion. In his bed? Yeah, in his bed. He was stung like three or four times on the arm. But that wasn't the funny part.

Speaker 1 44:11

Right.

Shawn 44:12

The attorney, when they were interviewing him, that the attorney was talking about this, and he goes, This is not the first time this has happened. He's talking about a guy that he represented that was stung by in in the Venetian. In the Venetian. The hotel. Okay. In 2023. It hasn't been settled yet. Do you know where he got stung?

G 44:29

No.

Shawn 44:30

In his testicles.

G 44:32

Oh shit. You know the scorpions, they like little warm places. They're sneaky too. So one of these dumbass things. I'm sorry.

Shawn 44:49

I just had to.

G 44:51

They are in a desert.

Shawn 44:52

Okay, so supposedly he got stung like three or four times in the in the testimony. Okay. And and he said that his his his whole life has suffered from this.

Speaker 1 45:04

Yeah.

Shawn 45:04

Okay. That his sex life, because of the swelling, suff suffered with his marriage.

G 45:11

Yeah. Impacted his sexual drive.

Shawn 45:16

Well, I'm just I was thinking about that.

G 45:19

Probably a little too sensitive now.

Shawn 45:20

Well, could you imagine being in court and sitting there and saying, well, the it was the swelling that's suffered for their marriage.

G 45:27

Right. Well, I'd I'd hate to be in front of anybody talking about my testicles.

Shawn 45:33

That's why it's not settled yet. Oh my god. Anyway, yeah. So anyway, that had to bring out that one.

G 45:40

All right, let's let's go to the inspirational quote. Inspirational quote. Okay, it says, it's okay not to have it all figured out. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just the first step. That's true. Maybe you should look down and see the you should see the scorpion. The scorpion before he stinks. Get into that damn bed, too.

Shawn 46:03

Sorry, I had to. Like unbelievable. All right, guys. You guys have a great week. And uh when you if you're laying over in Vegas, make sure that you pull the sheets back and you check for them scorpions. Do you like Jitas? Rip that damn bed apart. No, rip it. You know something? Rest assured, my ass will be tearing that bed apart after I seen that big ass stain from I told you about last time.

G 46:26

What's that whole thing about what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? No, you that was you. That was you. You gotta tell somebody about your stung testicles? That would be bad. All right, guys.

Shawn 46:39

Bye. You guys have a great week. We'll see you next time.

G 46:41

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