Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: This is the true story of one family who sold their house, packed up their life and decided to live nowhere on purpose.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: What absolute abnormal people would even conceive of something this ridiculous?
Two kids, two parents, six months, no fixed address.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: There are some people who are like, oh, that's so nice for you.
And probably secretly in their head going, what the fuck?
Find out what happens when you stop watching the travel influencers who make it all look perfect and start living their nomadic life with kids for real.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Did we name this podcast?
[00:00:56] Speaker A: We called it Trips and Giggles.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. Because I was gonna say welcome back to Trip Giggles.
I guess I'll start us off.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, you can start off.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: So we abruptly ended last episode.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: We did because the baby woke up.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Crying child mid conversation. And I will speak for myself and say I didn't go back and review and see, oh, where did we left off? So it wasn't a total cliffhanger for the three listeners of the show.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: I have no idea where we left off. So sorry if we repeat ourselves.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: So I think what we decided to do is we need to keep up with the level of travel. So we're going to end Mexico, kind of get our last highlights of Mexico and talk about our transition from going from Mexico into London.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Right? And then we'll do London, where we are right now and in the future.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: I know we're going to repeat ourselves, but I have to tell you, like, I have to talk about the smoke detectors. Like I. Oh my God, I feel like we've done this. But multiple places, I'm talking about gift stores, clothing shops, restaurants.
You just hear the beep and you're.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: Sitting there, you know, in the middle of the night when that starts happening and it drives you slowly insane. Oh yeah, that's what happens to me. And I'm like, I will drive to an all night 247 Walmart in the next state over to get a battery so that I don't have to listen to this. Meanwhile, we went into an ice cream shop because they had a fantastic Frappuccino and the kids liked the ice cream.
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: And days after the first time we went in, I mean it was almost a week later, it was still beep.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: A week later, it's still beeping.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: You're working here without going going insane.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: We go into this liquor store, right? It's super high end. It looks like you're the interior of a stone castle with glass encased shelving with like thousand dollar bottles of wine and you hear beep.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: They're selling Crystal.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: We did see Cristal. That was pretty funny.
We're in a Mediterranean restaurant and I asked our friend to translate to the server of like, hey, I'm hearing this sound. And she says, oh, it's just the kitchen.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: No. And there was literally a smoke detector above our heads.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: Right above us. And she.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: Above our heads.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: No, it's the kitchen, it's not the casino. Okay. It's your damn smoke detectors. Put a 9 volt battery. So I have to believe that there's no imports and 9 volt batteries.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: I mean, I guess. But you know what is interesting is that a lot of the rentals in Mexico have on the Airbnb listing that there is no carbon monoxide filter or detector and there's no fire detector.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Well, carbon dioxide, I get smoke detector. Like, carbon dioxide isn't. Like, you don't have to pass that in the fire code in the U.S. right. Like, we put those in because we flip out about it. Right? Yeah, but that's not required. Not having a smoke detector.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah, there's not a lot of Airbnbs, including the one we were in, did not have a smoke detector.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Which based on, like what we saw on people on the road driving, you know, like, what we witnessed firsthand, you know what I was surprised I didn't see was like farm animals on. On moped.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Like the fact that I did see a dog once.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no, no, A dog. I mean, like, I wanted to see like a full on, like llama on the back of some guy's like, shitty motorcycle.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: I mean, maybe if we gone outside of city limits, we might have.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: You would have seen like a llama on a motorcycle.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah. A lamb across somebody's face, like, oh.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: They'Re like revving, ripping by. Oh, my gosh.
We got dogs in restaurants. I don't know if you need to go.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I just. You know what I would say we.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: Talked about it a little bit.
[00:05:05] Speaker A: We talked about the dog, but like, our dog going into restaurants, it just was. It just was nice because, like, it was very animal friendly.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah. It reminds me of like when we saw the dog on the train in Vienna years ago. And this really cute dog and the fact that they're, you know, I think the lackadaisical nature about having, I'd say laws or regulations allows dogs to be in those places. You know what I mean?
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: But also allows your place to burn down without having an alarm because no one replaces the batteries. Okay. So, yeah, I know. We were gonna get to. We were gonna try to get to this whole fireworks thing. Did we get to that in the last episode?
[00:05:46] Speaker A: Yeah, but wait, before we get to the fireworks. Yeah, I just wanted to do a callback.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: You wanna do a callback?
[00:05:52] Speaker A: A callback to a previous episode where you had mentioned that the buses in San Miguel don't really stop for pedestrians. I will say now that we've traveled to other locations, the majority of traffic in San Miguel did stop for pedestrians.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: And not when I was walking across the street.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: I mean, like, like maybe when I.
[00:06:14] Speaker B: Walked across the street, those buses didn't give a shit.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: No, no, not the buses. Like the, the majority of cars and people on their motorbikes.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: Cars and people, they waved, but they looked pissed.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: They did.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Like they're waving. Kind of looked like somebody was like saluting Hitler. Like it was like very stiff and would fly up really quick.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: I get that. But where we are right now, don't walk out in front of traffic. They don't stop. No. So, but let's get to that later. We'll get to that later. But in San Miguel you did mention, and this is true, that the buses do not stop.
So we were walking on one of our very last nights and I think you had our almost two year old on her shoulders.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Yeah, she's on my shoulders.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: And she likes to try and rip her shoes off at any point in time.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Shoes, Shoes.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: She likes to throw them on the ground and then cry that they then got thrown on the ground. Well, this time.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: And then I put them back on her and she does the same thing repeatedly, repeatedly. She'll rub the back of her heel against my shoulder to like slide. I'm moving my leg around. Not that you can see this, like slide her shoe off and cries back on. Slide the shoe off again.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: So, and this is a healthy reminder of why we keep telling our 8 year old, never run out into the road after anything. A shoe, a ball or whatever. Anyway, so Nagi rubs the back of her shoe on your shoulder, it falls off into the road.
And now I don't expect a bus driver to see a two year old.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: If it did, would you expect it to hit the brakes?
[00:07:47] Speaker A: No, I guess that. But we did like Courtney, don't run down to that. And then just boom, boom, boom. Now keep in mind that Nuggie has only one pair of shoes.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: She refuses.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: She refuses. Anytime we've tried a new pair of shoes, she refuses to put them on and screams bloody murder and rolls on the floor.
So we have one pair of shoes that's barely holding up as is and it got run over by a San Miguel bus.
Just every, every wheel that could have hit it, hit it.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: I mean, it has double wheels on both sides and runs this thing over, like bubble, bubble. I'm imagining this other. Like, I'm getting this vision of like the bus driver in a world where they did care. And so the bus driver with this giant wheel, probably the same guy who's on the phone with both hands on the phone texting, ran the shoe over.
Adios mio Zabato. No, he's not gonna stop.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: No, I mean, they.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: It just. And we just. We all stood there and just stared at this flattened shoe, which to this.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Day she's still wearing because she refuses to wear another pair of shoes. So now she's wearing flat tongue shoe. The flat bust driven over shoe smells.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Like rubber and cobblestone.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: You know, it's a little bit more flexible now.
It's a little softer sometimes.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: You probably think I should get run over by a bus too. Maybe I'd end up more flexible.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: All right, so the, the last night, of course, and I think this is where we left off actually was this whole fireworks situation.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: Like the amount of saints days that they have and these celebrations that I cannot find any information about it online because I feel like when you're in certain places, and this is true of some other places I've been to as well, I think maybe we're just privileged in the sense that we're in an area that's put so much online. It's like, I do work for this. Like, I work to make sure people search shit and they come up in other places. I think that that's not important. It's very community based posters. And so, yeah, the night before we left. Right.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: Our very last night, we're like packing. We're getting all of our stuff together. The car is coming in the morning to pick us up to take us to the airport and fireworks. Literally going out outside of the front of our house. I mean, we have pictures which I will put on our Instagram.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: I took as well. Our Instagram now. Yeah. This is amazing. Yeah, I took some videos too at some point because they were going off well at the 12:30.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: And I gotta say, like, the packing for this was like, I think we spent three days packing. I don't know why we spent. I think we accumulate so much shit because we don't have any toys.
And so we're constantly figuring out what do we do with this stuff?
[00:10:41] Speaker A: Do we keep it? Do we get rid of it?
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Do we get rid of it? I mean, we ended up donating stuff to the nanny, the house.
And then just the.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: Cleaner, the cleaners.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: Was gonna come actually. They were really happy and excited.
Marta. I'm sorry, the person said, who has the place? Was like. They were very happy to get stuff.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: So, but, but again, it's like this. We had to get all this stuff in. We somewhat had to worry about weight. You know, we have these suction bags that have to suction all the clothes together. And it's got this little hand pump. So you remember those hand pumps you used to like blow up a soccer ball in the 80s? It's like this little tiny. You've got about a six inch pull and afterwards like your forearms are on fire. I mean, it just, it's terrible.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: But I mean, and then the baby, the toddler keep trying to stealing it because she likes it, take it away.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: And she thinks it's a toy. And then, oh my gosh. And then the bags have leaks so they're just, just leaking out and I can't find the leak.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think the suction bags were meant to be like unsuctioned and suctioned like multiple times.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's probably like a single time methodology to like pack something.
And meanwhile, we've been using these things since Portugal and by the time we get out of here, it's like we're gonna suction them in, close the case, shut the zipper, and then we'll end up at a, you know, to come pick them up and they'll pop open because they have so much shit stuffed in them, the zippers can't hold them down. You've already gotten a broken zipper shout out to away, who's probably gonna fix that for you.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I hear that you can bring it back into an away store and they'll fix it.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: I saw them do it when we were in dc. We were in Georgetown. I saw the woman came in and she's like, I didn't even know they did it until I was like. She was like, oh, my zipper broke. And they fixed it. And I was like, whaaaat?
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm about taking care of that lifetime zipper warranty. Yeah, too bad we didn't stay longer in London. I would have taken it to the one in London.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Oh, shit.
I didn't even think about that. Why didn't you say something?
[00:12:36] Speaker A: We had a lot going on when we were there.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Oh, it was easy time. It wasn't like you Were doing work meetings or anything.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Let's get to our journey.
Anyway, just about the fireworks situation, the fact that they go off in the morning at 5am, 6am, 7am the nighttime, I can kind of get through. Our kids slept through it. That was the benefit.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Thank God.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: I was scared, I was anxious. We were both super anxious, but they slept through the whole thing, so. But I don't, I wouldn't recommend staying in the city, downtown San Miguel, with little kids because what, we were there for a month. How many times did that happen?
[00:13:15] Speaker A: A lot.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Probably four times.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: In 20 something days.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: And like I heard, I did read about that online and we probably even talked about it. I didn't realize that it would literally be like your neighbors going out into the street in front of your house setting off fireworks.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: See that, even that, like, I somewhat like get. It's not that it's the morning.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Because you can't see the firework.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. During the day. Yeah. It's more just the sound.
Well, and we were driving, when we were driving to Mexico City, you just like occasionally look left and right out the window and then you'd see the smoke.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: You see the smoke you don't actually.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: See during the day. Like during, like. So you're not even seeing the actual firework.
It's just the sound.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: What are you doing?
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I would love to read more about this because I feel like there's something.
There's something here, I guess like a pyrotechnic obsession.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Like I just want to blow something up. I don't care if I don't see what it is.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't like, I.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: It's concerning. It's concerning.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: I don't know if you're a religious.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Town, you're blowing shit up.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: I don't know if I'd go to concerning.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: I mean, how many hands do you think have gone off? You know what I mean?
[00:14:33] Speaker A: I did worry. I did wonder about that. Like, how many times are people blowing off their hands?
[00:14:39] Speaker B: I mean, there was a dude in the NFL, blew off a couple of his fingers setting off fireworks. Three fingers after that.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And there was like kids, like little kids doing it.
Did you see it? Like, I don't know if you saw it. The one day I was like, I was peeking out the window.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Were they, were they shooting off fireworks while on a four wheeler with the llama?
Because that I am sure that's Happened. That's truly San Miguel.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: That's totally happened.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: That is truly San Miguel. Like, we should make T shirts that show the true.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: We probably should make T shirts.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I almost feel kind of like, bad.
I have to be careful with this because we'll have to reflect on this and go through it. But I'm feeling bad that. Am I struggling so much because it's such a cultural difference and so is it because I don't like it or is it because I don't. I culturally struggle with this situation. Like, I'm trying to have like a cultural bias conversation with myself about the situation.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:15:38] Speaker A: I think that's a fair situation. I actually was reading some stuff online about it and there was.
There were people who were basically writing and saying, like, you came here, we didn't invite you. Right. And so you made the choice to come to this town, whether to live or to visit.
And we are not. We are not going to adapt our culture to make you more comfortable.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: I don't expect.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: And I think that that's accurate. That's right.
[00:16:08] Speaker B: I accurately support that. I'm just not going back.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: It's not for you.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: You see what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I'm not. I should say this. My. Our feelings. I'm gonna say mine. I don't wanna speak for you. It's not fair. My feelings are for me. And so this is not for anyone listening to this to say. I don't want to do this because as we've mentioned, your cousin is in love.
Multiple ex pats who are like, this is the place. Yeah, this is my space. And so I'm like, I just want to be careful. Like, we are expressing our opinions about ourselves, but I'm not going to yuck somebody else's yum here.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: And just say like, this is only for us.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: Yeah. You're like. You might really love fireworks, but that's.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: The same as like. So it's subjective. I think the experience is somebody might be like, this is so cool. Are so passionate about what they believe in, that they're celebratory 24 fucking hours a day.
Because sleeping is not important for your children.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: I mean, this might be why we were saying that a lot of the people who seem to be there and love it are like, retired.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: They're old dudes.
Yeah, they're retired.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Maybe they can turn off their hearing aids.
Oh, man, what.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Sucks to be going to those good herring folks.
[00:17:29] Speaker A: They don't have any little kids that are gonna Get.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: They don't have kids, aren't woken up.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: No. Like, people that live here and they have kids. I guess you just, if you grow up with it, you grow up with it. Right. Like our dogs barking all the time when the kids were little that didn't wake them up. You know, they grew up with it.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: Yeah, they grew up and they got used to it. I'm just like, think about life as a person who doesn't have children and can kind of do what you want to do.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying?
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Like, there's things in the morning that just don't exist for other people.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: They will sleep through it now. Those fireworks woke my ass up.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Oh, they woke me up.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: Just generally because I woke up. Right?
[00:18:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: But like, I think other people, they have earplugs, they have hearing aids, they have whatever, you know?
[00:18:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Our friends, right. Like, our friend has a hearing impairment and uses hearing aids and said that she turned them. I mean, she just took them out at night, so it didn't bother her.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: I was like, dude, it's amazing.
I love the part where she says when she has conversations with people trying to, like, do things, like explain things to her. She already knows, she just turns them off, you know, I was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever heard in my life.
You can just choose to not hear things if you don't want to. And then you can actually say, oh, I'm sorry, I'm hearing impaired. Yeah, just walk away. Oh, my hearing aids just weren't working.
What the shit?
[00:18:48] Speaker A: I mean, there. That works for you. Disability pride right there.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Amazing. Okay. Yeah, that's definitely pride. Okay, so we, we left, right. We got in again. Did we shut up. The service, they were great.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: We did talk about it before.
I.
I think it's.
I'm gonna get this wrong. Biaggio, go.
[00:19:08] Speaker B: I don't know. I keep thinking, baila mos.
[00:19:10] Speaker A: I'll put it in the show notes. They are amazing. They pick. I mean, coming to. From the airport to our place, leaving San Miguel, going. We went all the way to Mexico City, which was a like three and a half hour drive. Well, for us it was like six hours. We'll get.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Oh, my God. It was a six hour drive.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: But they. The guy who picked us up was awesome. The car, who that picked us up was awesome. I mean, he did fall asleep in the middle.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: He fell asleep and he got ice cream and ate the ice cream and traffic.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: He was very nice. No, no, I think, like, if you in where we lived, if we tried to get a van. Large van.
[00:19:51] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: With USB ports, four rows of seats, humongous luggage space, private driver who stops when we ask them to stop.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: So three and a half hours. So that's driving from Baltimore to jfk.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: What do you think that would cost?
[00:20:08] Speaker A: Hundreds of dollars.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: I mean, I.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: Like, years ago, I had a person I was working with who looked into getting a driver between somewhere in Maryland and somewhere in, like, New York City.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:20:24] Speaker A: And it was like, $700.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm going to say a grand. Like, I want to say for the size of the vehicle and for the level that we received, which is actually really helped to have somebody take all the luggage and load it into the car and load it out, like, this was worth its weight in gold.
I mean, we tipped him 20%.
And I have to also say, like, he was honestly surprised.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: Oh, that we tipped him.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Mexico is a tipping culture, which I. I hate tipping culture. So it was kind of expected to tip. But, like, when I handed him the cash, he was like, whoa. Like, he was definitely taking aback. And I appreciate that. That was very humble. Like.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: He wasn't expecting it.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: It's probably because we were, like, three hours late to the airport.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: Yeah. So we.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: But that wasn't his fault.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: That wasn't his fault, though. So we get out of San Miguel. So at some point on this trip.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: Meanwhile, we almost run over our friend's brother who was in the street on our way out the city.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: What is he doing?
I'm, like, waving emphatically at our friend's brother. Meanwhile, the windows are tinted.
You know, have those moments where you think someone can see you, and he's just, like, walking through like nothing happened. So we're on this trip and there's some kind of an accident. Right.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: Oh, God.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: And so we just come.
[00:21:38] Speaker A: There's a tractor trailer.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Oh, the tractor trailer. Jack Nike that went over the.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Which I took a picture of, which I will put on our Instagram.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
If you one more time say, I'm gonna put this on our Instagram. I'm gonna take a pause here. I'm gonna tell you something, okay?
[00:21:55] Speaker A: Nobody cares.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: I wanna take a pause. I know nobody cares. And I don't care. You and I. This is for you and me.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: This is for you and I.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Okay. This is for us. Ready? This is not a swelling. Okay. Take a break. Here we go.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Okay, we're going in.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: It's us. It's us. You know me. It's us.
There's no time. Like, we don't have any time anymore.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: No, you're right.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: Like, our life has. Has. I mean, just now with jet lag, children, they used to go to bed at a certain hour. They're up.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: Oh, God, they're up.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: Till they.
I mean, like, I don't know about you folks, but, like, you know, and they're up early.
They've been doing better, like, a little later. But the. I appreciate and love that you're into this, but it's like, please don't say Instagram. Just please just don't say it anymore.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: Okay, okay.
Only if it starts making money, then.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Just kidding. This isn't gonna make any money. It's far. It's our journal. Just kidding.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: This is our journal. If people derive information, entertainment, laughter, joy, I would feel happy from that.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: I.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: Honestly, yeah, I think if it was, it would be fun.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: This is a very real depiction of a couple going where one is kind of like, what the. And the other one's like, yay, I never want to go home. Like, if that somehow jives with people a little bit, I. I would be happy.
[00:23:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Okay. We had a moment.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: We're good. Okay, I'm just gonna make a comment on that.
So after our. When we were in Portugal before and our three months was coming to an end, I had this, like, sort of existential crisis. I wouldn't say it's that. That extreme, but I had, like, a bit of a. Like, maybe a grief moment where I was like, I don't want this to end. Like, I'm not ready to leave yet.
So then I forced you to come to Northern Ireland to visit my friend for a week.
I was like, let's extend our trip.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: She was looking for any possible way to not go back. I mean, you explored multiple opportunities to not return in any way, shape, or form.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, so we come, we visit my friend for a week, and, you know, then we, like, are like, okay, it's, you know, it's over. We have. We have to sell our house, blah, blah, blah. We have to go back. We went back. I was feeling really like, ugh, you know, I just am not ready to go back.
And we get back, we're getting into everything. It's stressful to sell the house. We're doing all the things.
But, you know, while we're there, I'm like, you know, this is. It's not that bad. You know, we're moving into our new house.
We went and visited that town a Couple of times. I was like, this is going to be a nice town to live in.
You know, Cordy saw her friends, you know, I was like, yeah, we. I saw my friends. You saw, you know, people too. I was like, you.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: Did you catch that? Did anybody catch what just happened there? I saw my friends. Cory saw her friends. Damon, you saw some people maybe on the street when you were driving. They were in other cars.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: No.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Yeah, see that, that's really what pulls you back.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Well, because I immediately knew you were gonna be like, I don't have any friends.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: Seeing the people. No, no. I'm gonna honestly say I do have friends.
[00:25:16] Speaker A: You do have friends.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: It has taken me eight years.
Eight years. I've tracked this by. To cultivate some friendships.
[00:25:26] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: With dudes.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Yeah, with dudes.
[00:25:31] Speaker B: With dudes. To the best of my ability.
With the exception of the time that the, the multi level marketing guy tried to conn me into a friendship. But that's a whole nother story. I totally almost got conned into a friendship.
[00:25:45] Speaker A: You're like, I'm really trying to make friends here. It's a 40 something year old.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: I was so sad that this dude was trying to con me and doing like a multi level marketing plan as opposed to a friendship. I should have known better. Like, who tries to set up a friendship in Nordstrom Rec? You fucker.
Sorry.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Meanwhile, you did make a really good friend at Best Buy.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: At Best Buy. Oh, yeah.
Those guys were great.
Okay, that's. Well, I mean, but they're really far away, so we don't hang out.
We are so far.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: Anyway. No, I'm going back to my original point. My point was, I was like, we, you know, we have a good friendship group here.
You know, Megan, like, I know you were disappointed to come back, but, like, we're good. We're good. This is gonna be good now that we are back, especially in Europe. I'm like, this is. I don't want to go back.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah, you were, you were glowing in London. Like the moment we got to London, you were like, this is great. And this is great.
Look at this. Oh, I love this.
Like, you have these like moods and I can tell when you're like clearly happy or unhappy. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, not that I, like.
[00:26:58] Speaker A: I'm not going back. No, I'm just kidding.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: Not that you can't read me. You know what I mean? But it's like, it's very clear that you were like, you have reached your destination.
Okay.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Anyway. Okay, let's finish transition Back.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: I want to finish this travel point.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: I've gotten here multiple times.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: We are, yeah, we are losing it tonight.
Listen, we're barely hanging on to actually get this together.
Jet lag has lasted two weeks, so really bad. Like week and a half of jet lag. And like getting the kids to bed has been extremely difficult. Not their fault, but it's like for some reason, like we regressed twice.
Okay, so there's an accident.
We're stuck.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: Dead stop traffic.
[00:27:40] Speaker B: I mean, dead stop traffic.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: I mean like parked people are getting out of their cars. They're walking up and down between the car. There are people selling food. There's like, I don't, here's the question.
Where did they come from?
[00:27:56] Speaker B: Genius people.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: Number one, do they like listen to a radio and say there's, there's dead stop traffic on a highway. Let's run out and start selling.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: It's amazing. The again, the salesman, the salespersonship of Mexico is amazing. You're right. I, I, I did not know. Like, we're on a three lane highway.
[00:28:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: Not near anything.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: Not in the middle of nowhere, out.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: Of nowhere with their chips. And I love it. Our driver, I thought was actually gonna buy the chips, but he just engaged with the chip seller to figure out what's going on.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: And he's like, excuse me, hang on a second. Just go back, I want to know what's happening and where is it happening from? Yeah, people were like running like walking from their cars, like probably half mile to go see the accident.
[00:28:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:39] Speaker B: They're like, well, whatever, we're screwed here. Our driver goes to bed.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: I know he just lays his chair back and goes, this, he's out.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: I see him in the mirror. He's past out. She's done. I'm like, wow, this is interesting. This is normal. And then we're like, what do we do with Nuggie? So we had to pull our two year old out of her seat and like get her to run around inside this van.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: Thank God we're in a van.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Right? So she's just, you know, up and running around, you know. And at one point, like about halfway into this dead stop, I start feeling like I have to pee.
And I was like, in my head, what the fuck am I gonna do? Like, if I it start, I was like, deep breaths, deep breath. I was like, there is no, there's no privacy anywhere. People are all like on the sides of the road.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: I saw dudes peeing, which obviously.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: Well, of course dudes are peeing, but where the Fuck is a woman gonna pee?
[00:29:36] Speaker B: You know, if you would just drop your trowel and go, who cares?
[00:29:39] Speaker A: I mean, you know what?
[00:29:40] Speaker B: I literally thought about the V's out. You know what I'm saying?
It doesn't matter. Like, why was that somehow less? You know what I mean? Like, why is that a problem? I literally thought about the feminist charm. Then you should have just gone and peed.
[00:29:52] Speaker A: You're right, I should have. I thought about getting one of Nuggie's diapers and putting it like in my mind. No, I was like, I was problem solving. I was like, okay, I have to pee. If this keeps going on, what am I gonna do?
[00:30:09] Speaker B: You were gonna think that was one of the solutions.
We did not talk about this. This is not in the notes.
You thought, I'm gonna take a 22 pound, not 2 year old baby's size 4 diaper, wrap it around my vagina and pee into it, thinking that it's somehow going to absorb a grown ass woman's urine.
Is that correct?
Is that one of your problem solving thought processes? See, this is why we fight. This is why we fight. Because I rule that out before it even goes through the middle.
[00:30:52] Speaker A: You know what I mean?
[00:30:53] Speaker B: Like, it doesn't even get into the top five.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: Listen, when I worked at this brain injury center in New York City, we did this exercise where we would have everybody in the room have to come up with solutions and we were not allowed to judge them. Okay? You just had to come up with as many solutions as possible. And then you go back through the list and you circle the ones that you're going to try. Okay?
It was a solution in my brain which I didn't have to use because we started moving before it got serious.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: Somehow you managed in that conversation to make me the bad guy like you somehow managed, even though you came up with an asinine idea that I'm still the bad guy based on research.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: God, I just listen, you gotta be flexible. Flexible thinking.
Listen, I should note here that there are many times where I am not flexible and where I get very agitated, but I like to talk a big game.
[00:32:00] Speaker B: You do talk a big game. I am the more rigid one. I get that. I will take responsibility for it. I will say yes, and I agree that a good problem solving situation does not involve significant judgment. I also also and would like to believe that people need to kind of thicken up a little bit and say, you know what, if it's a bad idea, it's okay to someone.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: What's bad about it?
[00:32:28] Speaker B: What's bad about pissing into a baby's diaper?
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Yes. I mean, like, if you really had to go, I would like to test this theory out.
[00:32:37] Speaker B: I want you to test this shit out. I'm staring at campers right now and. Hold on, hold on. Let me say this, let me say this, let me say this, let me say this.
When we were at home in the US we got these wildly bougie diapers that were like.
I mean, they thickness was the level of a pillow. If you pissed, I would say piss into that all day. You're good.
[00:33:03] Speaker A: But these, we should say at coterie if you are like, pregnant. I know. They're really like, a lot more expensive.
And Damon really was like, what the hell are you doing ordering these diapers?
But they, they're good.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: They're by far the nicest diapers I've ever seen. And they cost that amount. My point is, if you were gonna piss into the shitty huggies that we got versus the coteries, that's a no brainer. You are overflowing out of the huggies. Yeah, I mean, you are spilling through the.
[00:33:41] Speaker A: I guess I. I didn't consider what would have happened if, if it didn't like, absorb.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: That's where I'm going with it. The, like, my. And your thought is like, okay, what are my options? I could pee in a diaper.
My. My very first thought is like, we got. First of all, you're holding it close to you.
[00:34:01] Speaker A: Also, like, is it actually. Is the driver gonna see me be.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: So you don't want to pop a squat outside in the grass, but the driver's like, in the mirror, seeing you're holding a diaper over your vagina, it looks like a napkin. I mean, you might as well be marrying a G string. I mean, like, what are you doing here?
What are you doing? Cordy would have freaked out.
Freaked out.
And then she would have gone, mom, can I do that? That's what she would have said, like, as soon as you do it. But can I do it?
Oh, my God.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
So. Oh, my gosh. This episode is a absolute tangential disaster. It is amazing.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: You can tell how much sleep we've had.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: Okay, let's move. So after five hours, almost six hours.
[00:34:54] Speaker A: Thank God. Our flight.
[00:34:55] Speaker B: Our flight was at 10pm and we left at what, 10:30 in the morning?
[00:34:59] Speaker A: 10:30. And we did that just because, like, we had to get. We check out our Airbnb. And so we're like, what are we gonna do in the airport for six hours? Well, thank God we did, because. Because of that accident. I mean, we got there three hours. A little more than three hours ahead of time.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: It was more than three because three hours before they would have opened the gate, and they didn't open the gate. So we got to the airport, we got in and we went to the gate, and the gate wasn't open yet.
[00:35:28] Speaker A: Yeah. So we had to eat dinner, which was really sweet.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: No, no, no. We need to go back because I.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: Gotta tell this whole story. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: So we're trying to figure out some kind of way to get our luggage, which we have a shitload of luggage because we're away for six months. Right.
[00:35:42] Speaker A: Too much.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: And so we're walking through the airport. I'm looking for an information booth. Like, someone has to speak English. My Spanish is terrible. So of course we walk.
I mean, we already went to the gate. We walk halfway through the airport because we're looking for the lounges, too, apparently.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: Carrying the toddler in a carrier who's.
[00:35:57] Speaker B: Screaming, she is losing her effing mind.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: Let me out. Let me out.
[00:36:01] Speaker B: She's super angry. She's screaming her brains out. Anyway, we're walking through the airport looking for this lounge because there's supposed to be one that's outside of the security area.
And some dudes like, do you need help? And so he pulls out his translational app, and. And we go back and forth asking for help. And I explained to him the situation. I said, our gate is closed. We can't go in until three hours before. We're trying to see if there's a way we could check our luggage through some other means so we can get through the security line to the other side. And he immediately says, I can help you. No problem. Follow me. Grabs our bags, hightails it through the airport. We walk all the way back to.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: Our gate, to the original gate.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: He stops and says, the gate's not open yet.
You'll have to wait here.
[00:36:47] Speaker A: And asks for a tip.
[00:36:48] Speaker B: And then he says, and can you give me a tip for helping you?
[00:36:52] Speaker A: Oh, my God. I'm like. We literally just walked from. With its screaming toddler half an hour.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: Screaming the whole way. The whole way. I mean, she screamed the moment we got out of the car.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Yeah, well, like, she was in a car for, like, five and a half hours and then gets into the carrier.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: So of course she's screaming, losing her damn mind.
And this guy bamboozles me. And I was like, you're such a dick.
I gave him, like, 5 pesos, which is the equivalent of basically nothing.
[00:37:25] Speaker A: I gave him that. Well, I mean, I think that's all we had at that point, Really.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: I wouldn't have given him anything anyway. F you, dude.
[00:37:30] Speaker A: Yeah, F you.
[00:37:32] Speaker B: So I was like, you get 5 pesos, because it's all I had in my pocket. And we're just gonna sit here at the gate for the next hour, which we did somehow, you know, playing with Nuggie and Cordy.
[00:37:43] Speaker A: They were running back and forth.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: They're sprinting around the airport.
Before we could finally get our asses through security to the other side. We did stop to get dinner, which was terrible.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: Yeah. The food was not good.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: It was absolute.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: There was a lot of places in Mexico that were good. That place in the airport was not good.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: It was terrible and overpriced.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: And of course, the kids didn't eat anything, so we just wasted a bunch of food.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: They didn't eat shit. I mean, of course. So you buy a bunch of stuff they're not going to eat, but somehow we make it through to the other side.
[00:38:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:12] Speaker B: So.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: And then we. We did go into a lounge, which at that point we were just like, oh, my God. Like, just.
We have been on a. Like, I don't know how many hour journey at this point.
It wasn't the best lounge. There were other lounges we could have gone into.
[00:38:28] Speaker B: I was pretty happy with the lounge. I mean, like, listen, I'm not a lounge person. Like, I haven't.
[00:38:33] Speaker A: I know. I mean, this is.
This is not something we usually.
[00:38:36] Speaker B: I can't really compare this as much. Although there was a bunch of lounge, and I would have loved to go to some of the other ones.
[00:38:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: But we went to the American Airlines lounge.
[00:38:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Because we have, like, a credit card, whatever that lets us.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: That's not what they let us in. It was the business.
[00:38:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Because this we could have shown. We upgraded our tickets using points. Okay. I think at one point, we should do an episode talking about the cost of all of this. Because while I do think that, like, we are very privileged, and I want to call that out, at the same time, I think this is not as expensive as people think it is.
[00:39:09] Speaker B: Well, but the work that you went through to get this. And we talk about this a lot from a business standpoint, like, people will pay a lot of money to not do the work that you did to make sure that points X went with this points and did this points and do this points. You navigated so much to get these tickets. And with that, I still think they dicked us on a lap child. You cannot charge $500 for a lap child. She eats no food, she doesn't take up a seat, and you charge 500 bucks.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: I know.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: Go F yourself.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: I think that was a Heathrow thing, though, to be honest.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: London can f off. Yeah, they can straight up f off. I mean, that's just not cool. It's not cool at all. Like, we spent enough money, got those tickets. We still had to spend money, even outside of the business class stuff. Point is, is like the fact that they wanted to charge that extra and the shit that you went through just to get her on a flight. Yeah, that was the second flight.
[00:39:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: That was insane. Anyway, so the lounge.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: So we went into the lounge and they had chocolate cake.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: Well, they had a giant candy bowl when you walked in.
[00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:08] Speaker B: Which is weird because I was like, that place definitely wasn't for kids. I mean, these lounges are definitely adult based lounges.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: There are adults that eat.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: People did not seem, you know, that people eat.
[00:40:17] Speaker A: There are adults that eat candy.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: I don't understand what you're talking about.
What kind of pedophile eats candy?
[00:40:25] Speaker A: Lots. Lots of pedophiles.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: That's what you're gonna say. It's a lot of pedophiles, you know.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Anyway, there's chocolate cake. Our 8 year old then proceeds to eat every piece of chocolate cake.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: This girl goes in and jacks.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: And then more, more came out.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: Every chocolate cake in the glass.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: And at that point, I was so exhausted, I was like, I don't care. Eat as much.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: I think I missed two of these because I was at the bar.
I literally was like, I'm going to the bar and I'm like, ordering drinks. By the way, it was a fantastic bar. I've never seen a bar like this at a lounge. They were making real drinks with high end alcohol.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: Not bullshit. Like, really nice mezcal. Really nice tequila. This is Mexico City, right?
It was really nice. Like, I saw somebody. Like, I was just gonna order a beer, and I saw the person ahead of me order this, like, serious mezcal. Rita.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:20] Speaker B: And I was like, okay. You know, you have nine mezcals. That sounds great. Meanwhile, Cordy is downing cakes housing chocolate cake. She's like the person in the cartoons who would cut the slice but then eat the whole cake outside of the slice.
But I. So I took her up, I think, for slice number four. She was waiting for the person to re. Like, stock the tray. Like she was following her. And then she stocks the tray and she Stocks. Why? I don't know why the person did this. When they stocked the tray, they put the cake in the back. So Cordy's, like, reaching deep in here to pull the cake out.
[00:41:57] Speaker A: She's not quite tall enough, so she's like, reaching in with tongs to try.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: And she's also smacking every other dessert on the way. Like, every dessert's just getting disheveled and slapped around, you know? And meanwhile, I'm pretty sure she had four slices of cake. Like, I'm pretty sure that's pretty sure.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure it was something like that.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: So she was happy, but ate.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: She's asked me if we can go back to that lounge. And I'm like, listen, we're not going back to Mexico City anytime soon.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: Like, do you. Let me ask you this. Do you remember preying on your parents when they're exhausted? Like, I don't remember doing this.
Like, did I pray on my parents? Like, oh, my God, they're beat up. They're gonna say yes to whatever I want. This is my moment. This is my time.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: I'm sure I did, but I don't know if. I have no idea.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: I don't remember being able to do that, like, having a moment.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: I think maybe my parents were too strict. I'm not sure that they let me get away with that.
[00:42:53] Speaker B: I mean, the only thing I ever got away with on those moments was not dessert. It was when I went to those all you can eat places. And I ate, like, more bacon than any human should ever consume in one serving.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I think my dad let me watch a lot of TV when he was in vet school because he was, like, staying up all night studying. And I think I got to watch a lot more tv.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: I think you probably watched about six to seven hours.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: Probably.
[00:43:17] Speaker B: That's most likely.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm. I'm pretty sure I did.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: I should go back and figure out what you were watching in 1998. But that's not the point.
We're off the top.
[00:43:26] Speaker A: I can tell you. Probably.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: Okay, so we're at the lounge.
We then head over to gate. What was your thoughts and experience of your time in business class on British Airways?
[00:43:40] Speaker A: Listen, as soon our flight took off at 10:00pm okay. And it was a 10 hour flight.
My goal was the only. The primary reason I wanted to get business class seats was not for any of the amenities other than to lay down and go to sleep, which is exactly what I did. The guy, as soon as we got on the flight, the Flight attendant who was extremely kind and very nice came over to me and he was like, what would you like to eat for dinner? And I said, sir, I don't want anything because as soon as this flight takes off and I am able to, I'm going to lay down and go to sleep with this toddler. And then he was like, do you think maybe you'll have breakfast? And I said, I don't know if I'm asleep. Don't wake me up.
[00:44:30] Speaker B: There you go. That's all you had to say.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: So he was like, are you sure you're going to be very hungry? And I said, my goal is to sleep for as long as possible and have the toddler sleep for as long as possible. So that's exactly what I did. My experience was that the tea was very good for the hour between when we woke up and before we landed on this 10 hour flight, which we'll talk about this maybe next time. But this had this like flight was a blessing and a curse.
Our two year old slept probably eight to nine hours.
[00:45:09] Speaker B: Yeah, you too, were you. You achieved your goal.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Like when I looked down and we.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: Went to sleep, were out. Yeah, just out.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: It was fantastic.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: It was a little harder. I feel like on the tap. Portugal, when we, when we flew to Portugal, it was harder to get to sleep. But you two were gone.
[00:45:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:27] Speaker B: So that was great.
Cordy wanted to, our oldest child wanted to stay awake because she wanted the food.
[00:45:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:35] Speaker B: Because they had a special kids meal for her and wanted to stay awake and it was taking some time.
So I, you know what I want to do? The first thing I want to do and first in business class is I want to do the Uncle Frank maneuver from home alone. So I want fill her up champagne. Fill her up. Like that's what I want. Straight up. And I did. I had a champagne initially and it was actually quite good. I enjoyed the champagne. But Cordy is like staying awake and I'm like, okay, girl, if you want to stay up, I want to give you this privilege. You're eight years old, that's fine.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Yeah, but how many times are you going to be able to, to be in business class.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: Exactly. So I'm like, let's do it. I also need to say this was not as nice straight up. Just the seats compared to tap were not as nice.
[00:46:26] Speaker A: Which technically isn't a, like a, a budget airline, isn't it?
[00:46:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a budget airline. This plane was older. Courtney called it out. She's like, this screen doesn't work real well, this is old. She said.
And I'm like, you're right.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: Probably from when we 787 in college.
[00:46:43] Speaker B: It's. It's probably 20 years old.
[00:46:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:45] Speaker B: And it really was like, the Tap Portugal one had compartments you could hang your headphones on on. Like, they had a little hanger for your headphones, little things so you don't stuff it up your ass when you're trying to go to sleep because you have nowhere to put your headphones. Like, it just. It had, like. It didn't have, like, a full layout bed, which is what the Tap Portugal one was like a full on, like, your full legs. This was like, pull out the little tray so you can lay your legs on it.
The buttons didn't work right. To lay you down. Certain buttons worked, certain ones didn't. You didn't know what was what. So you're just pressing buttons left and right to try to figure it out. It was really. My seat was literally falling apart. There's plastic pieces falling apart and wires exposed. I took a picture of it for the Instagram.
[00:47:31] Speaker A: Listen. I didn't mention it.
[00:47:32] Speaker B: God dang.
This was clearly, like. To me, it's when you get into a house and the house is. It says, oh, this house is a Maryland people. Okay. Oh, this has a million dollars. And you look at the insides, and it was definitely redone in, like, 89.
[00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Frilly curtains, old cherry furniture.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: Has the square footage.
[00:47:53] Speaker B: Brown wood, everything. You're like, shit, what am I going to do with this?
You know? Anyway, I already knew it was bad.
We had to pick an appetizer. I picked some, like, beef carpaccio or something, and they bring out Cordy's appetizer. No shit. It's cold rice with the cubed carrots and peas. Like, the stuff that was, like, the frozen stuff in the bag.
And it's cold. And she goes, daddy, it's cold. And I told the guy, I was like, listen, this is cold. He goes, it's supposed to be that way. I go, cold rice.
In what place is cold rice and peas and carrots a delicacy?
It's supposed to be that way, sir.
I'm surprised.
[00:48:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: So poor Cordy. Like, I feel bad. She just was like, I'm so tired, Daddy. So I took it away. I tucked her in, and she went to bed.
[00:48:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:48] Speaker B: I stayed awake for the dinner. And let me go backwards. Tap Portugal's dinner was actually.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: I know you mentioned that you stayed.
[00:48:57] Speaker B: That was probably one of the best airplane food Situations I'd ever had, like, good ass steak, decent steak, not amazing. But on an airplane to have a steak that's actually not well done.
This hockey puck shit bag of a show was an embarrassment to airlines. British Airways, you might at some point in time have had something nice. I think you might have in the glory days of airlines. But. But it's like.
[00:49:28] Speaker A: And I will say, like, if you were to pay cash for both of these, tap was probably half the price.
I mean, I will say it was also a shorter flight.
[00:49:38] Speaker B: It was a shorter flight. I'm just saying, like, there's businesses you go into and you can tell that they're. They're so cheap that they refuse to spend money to make it better.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:50] Speaker B: Like, they refuse to upgrade the interior and they're just gonna live off their world. Like bowling alleys. You've seen bowling alleys that are like stuck from 30 years ago. It's like, oh, I have this thing, but it clearly smells like feet and has like brown and yellow interior. Like, that's very.
[00:50:07] Speaker A: Like, I'm glad I used points and not cash for this.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm just, I'm disappointed because I think an airline that. For the money, like, I feel like for the money we paid, that's not even worth it.
[00:50:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: You know?
[00:50:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:20] Speaker B: So I have to honestly, like. And I'm critical and you know that, but I'm gonna tell you, like, if I hadn't been on tap, I would've been like, oh, this is decent, you know, but the fact that we did tap and had such like this beautiful large touch screen that actually worked and I have this 5 inch screen that I have to pop out and slap my hand against it. I'm like beating it up to get it to do anything.
[00:50:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:44] Speaker B: It was not a good experience. I did have a French red wine that was super good though. I would.
[00:50:49] Speaker A: Well, there you go.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: I strongly recommend drinking a lot and eating nothing.
That's my recommendation.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Well, I mean, I did mention the tea was very good. The next morning, quote, unquote, morning. Actually, we landed at 3:30pm British time. So it was morning Mexico time. But the tea was quite good.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: Tea was good, coffee was shit. But I thought Cordy's breakfast was pretty good. Yeah, like, that was not bad. Yeah, it was okay. I just, I honestly think this whole plane should be completely renovated.
[00:51:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: Just don't make people like. I don't. What was the retail for that?
[00:51:23] Speaker A: $10,000.
[00:51:25] Speaker B: $10,000?
[00:51:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:26] Speaker B: For a seat?
[00:51:27] Speaker A: Yeah. On this plane, which we didn't pay because I used points.
[00:51:31] Speaker B: PS with that ugly bag of elephant testicles.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:36] Speaker B: That we. We went through.
[00:51:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: I'm just.
[00:51:38] Speaker A: By the way, I just want to mention here, I'm not like a points guru and I know there's like lots of people out there that do like these Instagram or like whatever social media things, but there are like reward search engines, which I didn't realize before until we went to Portugal.
I have like four different ones.
But it allows you to search for flights that like, use points and you can. It also shows you how to transfer from like one thing to another. And then there's sometimes transfer bonuses. So you get like 25 more points if you transfer from like Chase to British Airways or Chase to American or something like that. And so like, it does. It took me like three days to figure this out.
[00:52:27] Speaker B: You work so hard on it. I mean, like, you really.
[00:52:30] Speaker A: And I was like searching all kinds of different, like, options and leaving from different places and all kind of. I mean, it's annoying as all get out, but like I. We were able to get those flights for like what we would have paid for. An economy.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Same as the economy, actually. Probably. Well, yeah, you're right. Think about it as like a thousand dollars a ticket for three tickets, which is probably what economy would cost. Right.
[00:52:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:51] Speaker B: It was just. I think it was harder for Mexico City because we were two hours deeper.
I think people do this all the time. Like if you take your kids, like the people in Boundless. Right. There's people coming from Colorado and California.
[00:53:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:04] Speaker B: So they're now at a two to three hour deeper deficit versus the east coast.
And now they're going over to a five hour change. So we're doing an eight to nine hour change.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: And the kids have never done that before. So this is a new level for all of us or for the kids. Not for us.
[00:53:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:21] Speaker B: And they're struggling.
But we can talk about that next time.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: Could definitely talk about that next time. So more to come.
London next episode.
Thanks.
[00:53:33] Speaker B: What are you putting in teasers?
Here's a teaser. Trips and Giggles. Here's a teaser.
Get to London next time on Trips and Giggles.
[00:53:46] Speaker A: You're such a dork again.
