Japan and JET LAG Experience - Be Prepared

00:01 John Daub: Jet lag. We are back in Japan. I'm in Tokyo. I haven't been sleeping well. I've been 24 hours here. And I thought maybe it would be interesting because so many people do come to Japan from the west coast, east coast of the United States, Europe — not so much Australians, Filipinos, Indonesians, Singaporeans — everybody in the time zone here is fine. But guess what? I came from New York on a 14-hour flight. Maybe the worst flight. The worst place to come to Japan for jet lag. And you feel it. Literally, you come into the country and you start getting sleepy around 5 p.m. and you wake up at 4 a.m. and it just really messes up with you.

What is jet lag? It's a physiological condition that results from the alterations of the body's circadian rhythms caused by rapid long distance transmeridian east to west, west to east travel. That's what I did. And I feel it. And now you know the definition of it. And in this episode, we're going to be talking about jet lag, what you can do to maybe survive it a little bit better, and hear from people on our Discord server, which is right here, this link. If you go here, you'll be able to talk with yours truly. Discord.gg slash only in Japan. We have 17,000 people on our server there, and it's pretty rock and roll over there. Yeah, you can talk about Japan and your travel here. And if you are jet lagged, that's actually where you could go, because now there's a bunch of people online. We're in a chat group there. So I did the thing you can do when it's 3 or 4 in the morning. I asked my great friend, ChatGPT, what do you do to overcome jet lag? Because you figure ChatGPT knows a lot more than me.

02:02 John Daub: So how do you get over jet lag? ChatGPT gave me a bunch of stuff. Gradually adjust your schedule for your trip. Stay hydrated. That makes sense. Avoid alcohol, caffeine. Probably not going to happen. Sunlight, natural light helps. That's a good idea. Not possible on the flight. Short naps if needed — 20 or 30 minutes, not too much. Melatonin supplements, I don't know what that is. Or gradual adjustments. Gradual, really? Come on. Give me more than this. What are 50 tips, ChatGPT, to get over jet lag? Now I'm trying to be very polite because it's an AI thing. And then it gave me like the same stuff, but in — in avoid heavy meals is a new one and stay active. Yeah, but you can't give me 50. You know, you have to be somewhat critical. So he apologized and gave me more. These are actually quite good — compression socks, limit gadgets. Before bed earplugs and eye masks really did work on the flight. Always get an eye mask. If you're doing these stay well rested before your flight, start your journey. Well, stay awake on arrival. That's not easy, but if you can get through it, it's okay.

03:16 John Daub: We'll talk a little bit more now, you know, ChatGPT is — is AI and you always should be polite to AI because in these early stages, this is where, you know, your true personality comes out and you have to tell AI that you respect them. And when the robots do take over, this record will be on the record and they'll know whose side that you're on. So make sure that whenever you talk to ChatGPT, you show them the respect that AI deserves. All right. And if you're jet lagged, this probably makes a lot of sense. It's nice that it's nice that, you know, you can talk to an AI friend. I think I said long live AI, but I made a typo, you know, because that happens when you're human, you know, and that's why we can't talk to AI. So AI does not get jet lag. AI does not get jet lag. You know, it can be quite unpredictable.

04:16 John Daub: All right. Thank you, ChatGPT. All right. Let's move on. So I left yesterday from New York.

04:28 John Daub: Hey, Michael Cisano is here. Stay safe. I am. Oh, wait, that's not what you said. Glad that you're back home safe. Finally caught you live. Miss seeing you, bro. Yeah. You know, I see it, too. Let me move up a little bit from the higher because I'm getting neck cramps. I'm getting neck cramps here. Jim, are you there? Yes, I'm here. So we have some people on our Discord server. You'll be able to talk to me as I sip coffee, which is one of the — one of the things that you're not supposed to do with jet lag. Let's get some people onto the stage. We have Okawadi here. Okawadi, do you have jet lag right now? And how are you feeling?

05:13 Okawadi: Not exactly right now, but I'm currently in Missouri on a road trip. OK. How are you feeling? Well, I've been in with jet lag, though. It's definitely a very tiring experience right here. I just came back from Japan a few weeks ago.

05:25 John Daub: Tell me about your experience. How bad was it coming to Japan?

05:29 Okawadi: I know for me, it was just — I'm staying up late and then suddenly I wake up early out of nowhere. I remember I just had like four hours of sleep or something the first night. It was hard to fall asleep. And then you just kind of wake up on impulse somehow. I remember I'm up just a little bit before the Sun was up in Chiba City.

05:52 John Daub: I can say that you can make the best use of your jet lag. So that means that if you're coming from east to west or west to east, you're going to be waking up quite early, I think, and going to bed early, at least for the first 72 hours. And how your body adjusts depends on — I would say your diet makes a big difference. If you're eating a lot of sugary foods and caffeine and alcohol, you're not going to adjust well to jet lag. So on the flight, maybe get the — you know what you do? Get like a jet lag. Get like the better meals. You can upgrade your meals. Maybe even get like the — I think one time I got the kosher meal and then the Hindu meal. I've been trying all sorts of different meals, and every single one of the special meals was better than the one that the other people around me had. Not only because I got it first — it just looked better and more fresher prepared. And that's really good. Or you can bring your own food on board too. I found that people didn't confiscate my yogurt that I brought on board last time. I think they did it. I think they did that like after 2001. But you can bring yogurt on apparently. Just make sure you eat it before you arrive. You can bring fruits as well on board the plane. Just make sure you throw it away before you arrive. Don't — you can't bring that into the country. I brought in a lemon, which I added to my water on the flight.

07:36 John Daub: When you get here in the morning, there's a lot of things that you can do. Not everything is open at 4 in the morning, but there's some things that are open 24 hours. There's some game centers that are open 24 hours. There are some points or places that you can go to to see the sunrise. You can walk around the city and you see it in a completely different light when the sun is coming up. And remember Japan in the summer, the sunrise comes up at 4:30. So you start to see glimmers of dancing light on the horizon around 4:25, which is kind of cool, but not right now. It's more like 5:30, 6 o'clock in autumn, and it gets a little bit later in the winter, of course. There's no daylight savings. There's no daylight savings times in Japan. Thank goodness, because daylight savings time is a disaster. Moving clocks back and forth. You just don't need it.

08:23 John Daub: Wake up early. So if you plan your trip accordingly, know that you're going to be jet lagged if you're coming east to west or west to east. And if you've been to Japan before, you know how bad it's going to be. Again, you can minimize it by eating well, being rested, avoiding caffeine and alcohol, and try to get some exercise in as well if you can. But yeah, eating right is a big deal. I think with jet lag. Going to the U.S. was the same way. I got over it quite quickly, though, because I've been eating a lot better. I'm staying away from sugar. I don't drink much alcohol, if at all. I avoid alcohol on the flight, which is crazy because it's all you can drink alcohol. If I was in my 20s, I took advantage of that maybe a little bit. I would have maybe two or three drinks. But now I might have half a glass of wine or something. But it's not — you know, I know to avoid it. If I can.

09:18 John Daub: Okawari, anything you want to add about your experience? Jet lag? How did you survive those mornings? Or not?

09:33 Okawadi: It's all right. I feel the same way.

09:37 John Daub: Yo-Fu-Pap, how do you survive jet lag?

09:43 Yo-Fu-Pap (UFO-Bob): Well, it's been a long time since I've had an experience like that. Basically 20 years. Really? Yeah. The last time I was in Japan was 2000. And I miss it.

09:54 John Daub: You miss jet lag or you miss Japan?

10:01 Yo-Fu-Pap: I miss Japan. Ok. Not the lag. Just to clarify. Actually, it's one of the things on my mind because I know I'm going to come to Japan as soon as I possibly can, which really could be yesterday or tomorrow. But, you know, I'm a little on the tooth and I'm wondering how bad the jet lag will affect somebody my age. On the other hand, I have this kind of damned torpedoes, full speed ahead attitude. So, whatever happens, happens.

10:29 John Daub: I think you'll be just fine. I know that the older I get, the worse it is. But, you know what? Actually, it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. And maybe it's just because I've been eating better and trying to stay in better shape. I feel like I'm in better shape than I was when I was 25, actually. Which is weird. But I do really believe if you are eating better, you'll be able to get over it a little bit better. The other thing I did, which is weird, I got on a flight that departed at 2 a.m. I usually would take the flights that left in the morning. Because you lose a day when you come to Japan, right? I left at 2 a.m. on the 12th and I arrived at the morning of the 13th. So, my 12th, this has evaporated. I never had it in August, October 12th. It's like gone. I don't know. I arrived here at like 7 a.m. on the 13th.

11:34 John Daub: Actually, that's one of the best recommendations I would have for anybody. If you live in the United States especially, to take the latest possible morning flight. That's what I would do too. I would leave at midnight from LAX. And so when I got to Japan, I was already kind of acclimated.

11:54 John Daub: Right. Right. Right. A couple of — let me tell you my story about coming from JFK at 2 a.m., okay? So, I got to the airport. I got to the airport at 11, 10 o'clock. But they didn't open the gate until 11. So, for an hour, I was doing nothing. I was just waiting there. So, they don't open the gate, the check-in until 3 hours before, right? So, I mean, that's all right. And then you can see here, this was the only flight from Terminal 7 at JFK. So, I actually got through security in about — this is TSA, okay? I was the first one to go through TSA because I was the first one in line because I got there before they even opened it. So, I was through and I went to the lounge at New York's — it's called, what is it, Terminal, the lounge at Terminal 7 or something.

12:52 John Daub: All right. I came with premium economy and for some reason, I couldn't get premium economy coming back to Japan. So, I had to get economy, which is fine because I was in the emergency row. You can pick it if you paid another 20 bucks, which is great because you can stretch your feet out, but you don't get a little entertainment thing. But I was going to sleep anyway, so it didn't make a lot of sense to have that. But you don't get lounge. But in Tokyo, you cannot pay to get into the lounge, all right? And your credit cards don't even work either if you got a gold card. I think if you have a platinum maybe, but you can't use your credit cards to get in because too many people were doing it. Tokyo is no pay to play, but in New York, it's pay to play. So, I coughed up $65 for the lounge and I could sit there for two and a half hours and plug in and sit in a nice comfortable seat and kind of rest and get in a state of — I'm about to get on a 14-hour flight and I want to be tired. So, I had some really bad wine, which helped. And by the time I got onto the flight, it was — 2 a.m. And you can see here, I'm walking onto the flight. I don't know why I even took this video. But you feel like a zombie. I'm somewhere in between sleep and wake, this middle world where you're just marching towards. Oh, and that water cost me $6. Just want to tell you that. I'm walking towards some sort of — I don't know, area. I'm like out of my mind right now. But that's a good — but at 2 a.m. It's actually — it's better because it goes by pretty quickly, right? So, these middle of the night flights are actually really good for getting over jet lag, I think. Because you can actually sleep. I mean, I think — I think I slept. But I'm not — I can't confirm or deny. I just know that there were moments where, like, it feels like I was — I was awake, but I had my eyes closed. But I think I was sleeping, just not dreaming. I'm not even sure, actually. Is that what happens to you, UFO Bob?

15:00 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yes, the same thing.

15:02 John Daub: This idea about the eye patch — or eye patch, but the — you know, the cover your eyes with. I'm going to try that next time. Because I always — you know. Oh, you need that. And I went — I never used — I never did that. The other thing I would recommend, yeah, exactly. The other thing I would recommend is don't plan to do anything on your first flight. You know, you're going to have to do it on your first day there. Give your body time to readjust.

15:27 Yo-Fu-Pap: Get up. Walk around your neighborhood and kind of see what it looks like. I remember the first thing I did was like, oh, probably about six in the morning. And I got up and I just started wandering around. I bumped into a 7-Eleven. I brought a sandwich and — you know, I can barely speak Japanese. And I'm all embarrassed. But everyone was so polite. You know, it was a great experience. I don't know what to say. But, you know, if you get the chance to go, go.

16:00 John Daub: Yeah. Yeah. It's a good point. The first day, just plan on keeping it light, I think. And anticipating that you're going to get. And you know what? I see Brandania is here. Aloha. Brandania knows. Because Brandania and I — we were driving around in her Jeep. And at 2 p.m. Hawaiian time, I just would. So you wake up at 4 a.m. or 4:30 a.m. in Japan. And you're wide awake. And it's an amazing feeling. Because you got like this tiger sense. Like this really amazing awakeness that you should use. Utilize that. And then when the jet lag hits, it is like you've been drugged. I don't know what — I've never been drugged. But my feeling would be just like jet lag where you just cannot stay awake. There's some kind of power making you drowsy and sleep where you can't stay upright. You just want to sleep. And it's some of the best sleep in the world too. So you have to go get to your bed fast when that happens. Don't waste it maybe. I don't know. Or try to fight it a little bit. And that's how you can get over the jet lag too. Brandania says to stay hydrated. That's another big thing. Alcohol and caffeine and coffee do not help. So try to avoid the airline coffee which is probably best avoided anyways. And get a cup when you — you know, get in or something. But definitely avoid alcohol. I know it's free. It's free on these international flights. Don't do it. Just trust me. It does impact you. Just having one. And I think at 50,000 feet or however high you are, one drink is like equal to two or something I've heard. Because of the altitude. I don't know. I've just heard that. So if you do, maybe like a little glass of wine, you know. And the beer is — just sits with you. Those carbs will just sit with you. And I know that's not good. They sit in your gut.

17:52 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yeah, absolutely. And then that overpowering feeling of the need of sleep at around 5 or 6 p.m. really does hurt. So plan your trip accordingly. Know that you're not going to be able to do nightlife for maybe the first couple of days. Or if you do, you're really going to fight it out. You can take naps if you want. But I would try to avoid that. Just try to eat good the first couple of days. And if you want to get all these like cheese and — you know, like the carbs and stuff, do that maybe two or three days after you've gotten over the jet lag. And then before your flight, remember to try to start to eat healthy again. It's huge. If you're eating poorly, you really don't adjust.

18:30 John Daub: I think I adjusted better to the jet lag this time than I did — you know, when I first came here 25 years ago.

18:40 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yeah, you sleep like a rock.

18:42 John Daub: This is me at 2 a.m. I faked that yawn. It's not real. That's my feeling. But I feel like I'm asleep. Yeah, I feel like I'm asleep. Wine helps my mom sleep.

19:03 Yo-Fu-Pap: Well, that's your mom.

19:04 John Daub: I don't know. Thanks for the addition there. Well, the thing about — yeah, alcohol will help you sleep. But the next day when you do arrive in Japan, that jet lag is going to get a little harder.

19:19 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yeah. That's — again, why you keep yourself hydrated. Another thing about keeping yourself hydrated is that aircraft dry you out. It's dry air inside the aircraft. It's not humidified well.

19:28 John Daub: That's true. They had these — Japan has these wet masks where you can — it's a mask that you wear. I know we're all against masks. A lot of us don't want to wear masks. But I actually — before the pandemic, I used to wear masks on the flight. You want to know why? Because you could put these hydrating pads inside of the mask and it would keep you feeling hydrated where you weren't. Or I used to put a towel on my face for a little bit of time. Because it is so darn dry on those flights. And that dryness does make an impact on you.

20:09 John Daub: And I — the other thing is, you know, you should try to stand up and walk around every couple of hours on a flight. I know if you're sleeping, that's one thing. But I did try to go to the bathroom and do some stretches and stuff, you know, whenever I needed to get up. And it was good to sit in the emergency aisle because it was easy to do that. But I know getting up and moving around helps. The compression sucks do help if you do get older. That's the other thing. But it's definitely — these little teeny things, they do all add up to make something huge. Again, and then eating really well.

20:38 John Daub: I see GodzillaMega54 is here with us in the audience. How you doing? It's Gojira, actually.

20:43 Gojira: Gojira, okay.

20:45 John Daub: Well, you want to share your jet lag experience? Or have a question?

20:50 Gojira: This — well, I'll tell you the story of my last flight. Okay. Hey. Yeah. I was in Frankenmuth, Germany for a book. I'm not going to discuss that part. But anyway, the worst part is the stress — especially the fact that one time when I was in Dublin, the flight would not take flight for eight hours. So when me and my brother had to wait in Dublin on the way home, the whole airport was packed. And every spot. We could try to find a sleep was taken. So we had to sleep on the floor. So I guess the stress of not finding a place to sleep can really get you on the jet lag.

21:44 John Daub: I think so. Because when I got back home, I'm like — bed, bed, and drop dead on the couch. Couch. Because I didn't want to go anywhere. You know?

22:00 John Daub: Oh, yeah. I think planning for this and then knowing — that's why I think it's good to share the experience. Planning for this and knowing a little bit about it definitely helps. And that's why at the airport — it depends on your flight, but paying for the lounge sometimes is a good idea if you can do that.

22:20 Gojira: There was no lounge. That's right. And everything was packed.

22:22 John Daub: Packed. That's what I'm saying. Here's the advice. If this happens to you, you're going to be in trouble. Make sure you get a pillow — the one that goes around your head. And since you're unlikely to have a blanket, use your coat. Okay?

22:41 Gojira: Good advice. Good advice.

22:43 John Daub: Absolutely. That's the one thing I didn't. I bought on the last long-haul flight, I bought one of those wrap-around pillows, but I forgot it for this one. I didn't have it. I found that one tip — even on A, I believe it's on all the flights, but A&A had — even economy, they had a pillow. So, these little things — the headrest could actually come out and you could wrap your head around it so your head did not move like this. So, you do have this option on some of the flights, depending on the airline. Both premium economy and economy had that. So, I could keep my head in position. And when you're sleeping, that's actually a benefit. Now, the economy seats did not go back very far, but I could stretch my legs because I — in advance, purchased the emergency aisle. And that was huge, actually, for me to get some rest.

23:33 Gojira: I like to get two blankets. If you ask, sometimes they'll give you two. I always make sure I bundle up. I always have layers on the airplane, okay? That's another thing. Airplanes are kind of cold and it depends what kind of person you are. But those blankets, they kind of are not great. But if you do bundle up, not your jacket, but you have layers. Like I had a T-shirt, a shirt, a vest, and a sweatshirt. And then I had long pants and socks. I'm not going to wear shorts on a flight because it's — unless maybe it's summer. But on a long-haul flight, make sure you wear pants because it does get cold over time. And those blankets are not the greatest. You need like several of them then. They're not comforters. But if you have two or three of them, you know, you start to feel like — I try to get in the position that I am when I go to sleep, right? If you can find a way to simulate that with the blankets. Like sometimes I'll put my hands on the blankets. I'll put my hand inside of the pillow. And I caress it like I do when I'm sleeping in my bed here. That sometimes is a comfort zone for me. And I can fall asleep like that. But it's very hard to find that position. But you can't get into that — you know, position that you might do on your bed. Premium economy is a little bit better. But even then, I really couldn't get into a normal sleeping position with that.

25:00 John Daub: I thought between a premium economy and economy. If you have the emergency row of economy, I think it was pretty much somewhat similar. But the seats were bigger. And that's sort of nice. And there's a little foot rest that will go up a little bit. But it doesn't go up all the way. So it's not like a business. They give you enough discomfort that you want to upgrade to business class. Which is not going to happen for me.

25:24 Gojira: Thanks for sharing the story. Anything else you want to add there?

25:27 John Daub: I think he's gone. Okay. Well, thanks for that. We got some people raising their hands. If you do want to come up here onto the stage, join me and share your jet lag experience. Some of the other stuff that I've experienced here. This is interesting. So when you do have jet lag, there's some things associated with it that you should know about. Like what does it say here? You do awake early, which is what we've talked about. You have trouble remaining asleep — which I said you like at 4 a.m. You become automatically awake, which is kind of cool. It's a cognitive effects — poor performance on mental tasks. Don't — if you come to Japan, don't start to — don't go and take like an important exam or something. All right. Like your Japan proficiency test or something. Maybe you want to wait until you get over the jet lag. Like your brain is like not working great. Just look at me right now. All right. This is all because of my poor performance. This is just some things I've come up with that I cannot use for at least 72 hours. Dizziness, I've had that. Nausea? No. Insomnia? Could be. Confusion? Always. Anxiety? Sometimes. Increased fatigue? Definitely. Headaches? No. Irritability? Ask me in an hour. And problems with digestion? Yes, actually. Frequency of defecation and consistency of a feces.

26:55 John Daub: Now, there are some people who like to talk about their duty. I'm not one of those people. But you know what? These problems are an actual concern. A lot of people get constipated because of the dryness of the flight, which is another reason Brandania might have suggested that you might want to drink some more liquids. The last thing you want to do is to be irregular upon your — you're not. Why are we talking about this but it's true. Stay regular. It helps.

27:20 Yo-Fu-Pap: Anything you want to add here? Hello. Hi. Eight two one after that. No, I think I'm good. I mean — the only traveling like long distance traveling that I tend to do is across the United States because I have a family that live out in eastern United States and I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I have to jump three time zones when I go to visit them. And usually what I find is that the — western jet lag when I travel from eastern to west is a bit easier than traveling from west to east, like the easterly jet lag, because when I travel west, all I need to do is push myself to stay up a little bit later than I ordinarily would, and I fall asleep pretty easily, and the next day, usually I'm okay. But when I'm traveling east, it's different, because once I arrive at my destination, it gets to be late at night, and I'm just not sleepy.

28:23 John Daub: Sleepy. Yeah. That's tougher to handle.

28:28 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yeah. Three time zones, it's lightweight, man.

28:32 John Daub: Yeah. Yeah, it's much simpler compared to traveling from other places in the world.

28:39 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yes, absolutely. But I don't mean that now, I'm just kind of teasing, but you can get jet lag with just short flights like that. Across the United States, you still get a little bit of jet lag, so if you do travel even domestically. You can learn some coping mechanisms to do that.

28:57 John Daub: Here's a list right here. There are eight tips. If you ask ChatGPT, they'll give you eight, and if you push ChatGPT, they will give you 50, and some of them are the same, just worded differently. So AI is not as intelligent as they think that they are right now. Because it's early — AI will continuously improve, but I just want to say that in case the robots are listening to the transcript. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to do transcripts these videos. AI robots, I respect you and I'm on your side, and should you look for human people as leaders in this new world, I would be happy to join you as a loyal human of AI.

29:44 John Daub: Thank you. Try light. I don't know what that means. Number four, drink a caffeinated beverage. Wait, this is like all contradicting a lot of the stuff I said. So try Melotart. Keep your sleeping space comfortable. That's true. These are things that you can't do much, so this is pretty much useless. The best thing you can do is just to ask ChatGPT — do what I do here. And depending on the time of day, I heard that ChatGPT might even give you different answers. So, you know, it's all a mystery to me. Let's take some questions here. Any chat group here? No? No. No. I have Okawari. Oh, Okawari's back. How you doing?

30:41 Okawadi: It's Gojira.

30:43 John Daub: Gojira. Okay, but we have Okawari in the chat group too. Oh, sorry. Sorry. I'm like — I thought you mispronounced my name. That's all. That's a big jump from Okawari to Gojira.

30:59 John Daub: Okay. But jet lag would do that. All right. We have Mila June here. She was waiting along for a while, but got kicked off by action. Okawari, are you — let her go first. Can you — All right. Hey, what? All right, go ahead. Let's take your mic off of mute.

31:19 John Daub: We have the most polite audience. I definitely would say that the sleeping on the plane — like, every two hours or aiding up and stretching. I think that was the biggest key for me to avoid jet lag on the way back.

31:31 Yo-Fu-Pap: Yeah, I — I noticed coming back, it was like the arrival at the afternoon, so I just kind of timed it carefully. Standing near, like, the restroom and just stretching. That's probably the biggest way to cope on the return. Going there was definitely the tricky part for me, but I did enjoy a meal from the convenience base before I was up over the sun.

31:51 John Daub: That's true. And note that the International Terminal at Haneda has a 7-Eleven after you go through security inside of there. So, if you want to — at least as of October 2023, there is a 7-Eleven at departure after security inside of the International Terminal. So, you can get your 7-Eleven, bottles of water and stuff before you get on the plane. I thought that was just kind of cool to add in there. And that's at Haneda, not at Narita. Narita doesn't have such amenities.

32:22 John Daub: Yeah, you know, that's a good point. I think what Okawari says is basically this. You plan for the jet lag. You kind of think about it. And if you know that you're going to have it, if you're coming east to west or west to east through several time zones, you need to add that into your itinerary. You need to consider that because it is — if it's your first time coming to Japan, you should be thinking about it and planning your trip accordingly.

32:52 John Daub: Raymond writes in here — that seems new at Haneda, post security 7-Eleven. Yeah, I think maybe it's a new — I don't know if it's new or not, but I thought that the 7-Eleven there had a really good selection. For example, you can get that egg salad sandwich, you know, that tamago sando. They had that there. They had onigiri that you could take on the flight, Japanese snacks. They didn't sell a lot of the omiyage — the boxes of like cakes and stuff that you would find outside. It was mostly 7-Eleven type of food. But when I went to the US, I could only get the Duane Reade at the JFK. It was like bottles of water for like $7. It's ridiculous. But in Japan, you can still get bottles of water for 100 yen or the same price as you could in the city. I don't know why they do that other than the fact that they could do that. That made me angry a little bit, slightly. Don't be surprised. Here in America, it's all junk food at 7-Elevens. When my mom saw a video of 7-Elevens in Japan, she was like, everything's healthy in there. I said, yup.

34:30 John Daub: Oh, hey, wait — hold it, hold it. Wait. Do not — do not — do not say that. Everything at 7-Eleven in Japan is not healthy. It is a deception. A lot of it contains as many chemicals and all that crap in there as it does in the US. But when you compare it to our 7-Elevens here, yours are way healthier by five miles.

35:04 Yo-Fu-Pap: I could argue with that.

35:06 John Daub: Okay, I could agree to that somewhat. But convenience store food is still not healthy. And if that is the level of where you think healthiness is, you're way off — convenience store is convenient. No, I don't think everything's healthy. I'm just saying in comparison. But yeah, there's a reason a lot of that food has a little bit longer shelf life. Even the Japanese that know convenience store food — it's like a last resort type of thing. I'm not going to say don't eat convenience store food, although I've said that in the past. Don't rely on it for every single meal. And that's not what you're saying. I'm just pointing out to people that are watching. Convenience store food has a lot of chemicals in it. A lot of additives, a lot of coloring. 7-Eleven is getting really good at making it seem like it's okay. But they had this chicken breast that I was eating — boiled chicken breast. And when you read the label of it, there's all these chemicals in there that you really don't know about. But it's still maybe a better alternative than roller hot dogs at the US. I don't know. But you should not be making convenience stores your meal unless you have no other alternative. All right? It's fun to go in there. But it is not healthy. All right? It's not healthy. It's white bread. It's processed stuff. It's not healthy. If it comes in a package, it's all processed. All right?

36:37 John Daub: There you go. I don't know why I was holding out. This is the new channel. I don't know if you've subscribed to that. If you haven't seen the new Hiroshima video, I have to plug that right here. This is an amazing story of an atomic bomb survivor. This was uploaded about 10 days ago. And yeah, you might see it in your feed if you're watching this. If it comes up. But this is an untold story that you don't know about — an inspirational story in probably the worst of times. And her account of how she survived it because she was only about a couple of kilometers away from the hypocenter. Right? She saw the flash. She hit her back on her desk, passed out, came to, and she described what she saw all around her as she walked through the city to find her sister. It was a really amazing story all around. Trains. So yeah. Maybe a little different perspective on that. But yeah, I'm going to put a link in here on some of the just straight bomb stories. This one has an attraction almost — if you're curious about it, that you can ride and you can be connected to that time, which I thought was really fascinating. I did not know a lot about this. So I made this episode and shared it with you on the main channel. I'll try to put the link in here in the description.

38:00 John Daub: Convenience store foods. This comes from Matsumi. Convenience store foods likes using margarine. Yes. Thank you for adding that. Butter and margarine. This is like the debate that will go back and forth every couple of years. The pendulum swings towards the other one. Yeah. I don't mind butter. I mean, a little bit of — you know, either one is not going to kill you. But Japanese convenience stores and processed food in general, they love shortening and they love margarine. And it's very hard to find butter. I don't know. I don't know why there's a love for margarine here. I don't even know if the margin is different than American margarine, but in all the foods at the convenience stores — like they actually market it as a butter is healthier. So we got a lot of people here. They actually market margarine as an ingredient on the package because Japanese don't mind it. It spreads easy. It's creamy and it tastes good. And that's probably the most important thing. Japanese are typically quite — quite healthy because of the diet. But again, people don't rely on convenience stores for every meal. Like you're not getting a bento at a convenience store every single day. All right. You do it if you — if that's like your last resort, you just don't have time because it's convenient. So that's the way Japanese approach convenience stores. There's a few people that might live there at the convenience store, but it's not — you know, please don't get every meal at the convenience store and say that it's a healthy thing. It's — it might be seen healthier, but it's well — definitely not.

39:44 John Daub: Okay. I — I — the only time I eat at convenience stores is if I get a coffee because they do like freshly ground coffee. Now they have a little machines there, or if I'm doing a live stream and I want to show you something interesting or a convenience store, because they're fun — they're fun to go to. I like it. And they're open 24 hours a day. And if you have jet lag and you're hungry, probably that's where you're going to be going anyways. And I'm not going to be against that. You just got to get something. But they do have bananas. They — which is probably not the healthiest. I think all that sugar, I don't know. Eat what you want to eat at four — if it's 4:30 in the morning, it doesn't matter. Maybe yes.

40:28 John Daub: So Neil, a junior — uh, like you didn't buy her on the stage if you don't mind. Oh, okay. So that wasn't — that was — that was somebody else. Okay. Mia Jun. How you doing? You need to take care. I'm going to — there you go.

41:02 Mia Jun: Hey, uh — I'm a guy, lovey. So I'd like to add one thing. And I think — um, yeah. Okay, just what Okawati said. I fly from the east coast of the U.S., so I fly out of — like, Florida to Haneda, so it's a very long trek for me. What my friends and I do, and I know this doesn't really work for everybody, but what my friends and I do, and what we did — like, a month and a half ago in August — is we would sort of ruin their sleep schedules like a day or two before. So we would stay up all night in our time and then kind of sleep during the day. I know it doesn't work for people usually because of work, but it works for me because I work from home. And then we sleep a lot during the plane. And when we get to Haneda, like, we got to Haneda at like 3 p.m. It's basically in the middle of the day. We were physically exhausted from just having to sit. But we were not sleepy. We were pretty much awake, and we fell asleep around 11 p.m.

41:54 John Daub: Woke up around 7 a.m. Economy?

41:58 Mia Jun: Yeah, economy?

42:00 John Daub: It's a big — it makes a difference. A big one.

42:06 Mia Jun: Okay.

42:08 John Daub: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've done that before. Try to stay up — like, all night, and then if you're taking a morning flight, I will try to stay up all night and then try to sleep on the plane. That works for some people. That's worked for me maybe 20% of the time. And the reason it doesn't work for me is because I cannot get comfortable enough to get sleep on economy flights sometimes. Like, I got lucky because I was in the emergency aisle. I didn't actually get lucky. I knew I was going to be sitting there. It's 30H on the — like, was it Boeing A380 or something? The Airbus 3. I can't remember. But if you're stuck in the middle in economy, it happens. Like, that thing made me worse because I was so tired when I arrived, plus — like I got no sleep the night before and the entire time before. Just like you feel like you're in insomnia and you feel sick upon arrival because you got no sleep at all. So that can go against you or it could go for you. Just depends on the type of person you are. I don't know. Maybe practice sleeping in a chair. Some people can do it. I'm a stomach sleeper sometimes. Mostly. So, you know, I wake up with creases on my face — probably gives me premature wrinkles, all that other stuff. I know people say sleep on your back. I ignore them. I like to sleep on my stomach. But, like, if you can sleep in a chair, then you're probably going to be fine in an economy flight. The other thing is that my butt gets sore because the economy padding is not good. So I'm thinking about bringing my own butt pads for the economy seats. Because, like, the lumber support and, like, that actually probably would make a big difference in me having a comfortable sleep. You just can't get comfortable with the lack of the padding on the chairs. And you can put blankets there and stuff. It's just not enough. The little pillow they give you, bring your own pillow. It's not enough. So that might be some good advice there as well.

44:23 John Daub: Jari says here, TMI. I agree. Maybe. But — I go unfiltered here.

44:40 John Daub: It also depends on your age, too. I don't think — like, stay. I think, look — that's why maybe the Jedi — the red-eye flights in the middle of the night might be a good idea. Because I woke up. But here's the weird thing. So my flight was set on the tarmac at JFK for two hours. And I got in. I was supposed to get in at 5 a.m. But I got in at 7. And there's a big disadvantage to that. Those two hours were bad for me. Not in the beginning. I could. I slept in that zombie zone for a while. So I don't remember much of it. I missed my meal. And I remember she brought me my box lunch, like, in the middle of the flight. She goes, oh, and you also missed this meal. And I opened it up. There's all this processed crap. Like these grandma cookies with shortening and all this stuff. A banana, which I don't eat. And I think I had like a sandwich with some mystery meat in there. So I gave it to the couple from Shanghai who was sitting next to me. Because the flight continued on. They actually wanted it. Because they were looking at it. Like the people next to me were looking at it. And you could see, like, they wanted it. So I just said, oh. I gave it to them. And I made some friends from two people from Shanghai. But the point is, the middle of the night flights seemed to work out okay. Because I could — the same thing. I wrecked my sleeping habit from the beginning. By taking that flight. And I was already jet lagged. Because I only — I started to get used to the American time zone. After about 72 hours. Because I flew there about eight days before. And then I flew out. So now I'm kind of wrecked going in reversed. I think it takes about three days to get over the jet lag. And then — yeah. But once you start going — getting used to it. Another reason to consider staying for more than a week in Japan. Because by the time you get over the jet lag. If you're just staying a week. You've got to go back. And get back into that time zone. And that stinks on the other side. Right? So you might want to do that. You might as well stay for ten days or two weeks. I think two weeks is — ten days or two weeks should be your minimum in Japan. But you take whatever you can take. Right? Take whatever you can take.

47:06 Mia Jun: Good advice. Anything else you wanted to add there?

47:10 John Daub: Miwa Jun? No. I pretty much agree with what you said. On the note of like — konbinis. 100% I agree. By the way. I only ate it. Like you walk in. And it's like. You want to get everything. But I've only — I only got it for drinks. Like water. Or like whatever type of lemon. Thing that they have over there. Maybe a cup of ramen. That's about it. Everything else looks — and tastes delicious. But — especially if you're health conscious. You know that's not good for you.

48:12 John Daub: Yeah. I think so. I got health conscious. I didn't really care that much before. But as soon as you hit a certain age. You have to get health conscious. Or else — you're not going to be around much longer.

48:35 John Daub: Why is the laptop on the stove?

48:42 Mia Jun: Where else am I going to put the laptop? In the kitchen.

48:45 John Daub: Why am I here? Because if I go out there. It's so bright. I like having a fluorescent light. It looks like it's 3 a.m. I don't know. Konbini is only good for drinks. And onigiri. And by the way. The onigiri have chemicals in it too. They're not actually the healthiest onigiri. Kanai reminds me every now and then. Don't get convenience store onigiri. Get them at a supermarket. They're usually a lot better. The convenience stores put chemicals in the onigiri. To make sure they're preserved. Most of the convenience stores. I don't know — it's always changing. But — onigiri. And by the way. Rice is not that healthy for you. Okay. Bread and rice. It's all the same. Starch. Carbs. Sugar. It's basically sugar.

50:05 John Daub: I learned that from the internet. Internet. All right. That's all I really have here. Thanks so much for the discord. And all of you guys listening in. If you want to join us on the discord. Here's the link. And if you are coming to Japan. And you are jet lagged. We have a community of people here. That are already in Japan. Sharing their photos and stories. About traveling here. Some of the ones in the food category. We have like a — eating. And anime. Manga. All these other subcategories as well. On the server. People talking about different things. And it's — it's really — interesting for me to see too. Because I learn a lot from everybody else's experiences. And it's sort of like that — Thorn Trees on Lonely Planet. If you're a traveler — about 15 years ago. You could keep in time. But now in real time. Which is cool. You can upload photos. And. There's always somebody to help you out. If you — tag people here. You know — you can get some advice from very experienced travelers. And I chime in every now and then.

51:22 John Daub: Carbs are the devil critter.

51:24 Mia Jun: Yeah. But you still need them. Just — just watch it. You know.

51:30 John Daub: I — the one thing I learned with this diet. Is that — I just — eat less. I — I think a little bit about it. It's like — I don't — I still eat cookies. What do I got here? What do I got? Like — I still eat cookies and stuff. I mean — like — I got these Trader Joe's. Pumpkin sandwich cookies. And I had three of these. But — like — I'm still — only three. I'm trying. I try — I — Look — I ate half an avocado. See. Should probably put that in the fridge. But — the point is. Yeah. The older you get. The more you really have to watch. And get — it's — everything is a habit. And a — and a regiment. And — you get better at it. But — if you stick to it. You can get rid of your sugar cravings. And that's the most — like — I couldn't believe in the states. And I'll make another episode on this. Everything has sugar in it. And it's just unbelievable. When I walked into a convenience — into a Wawa. Which is what we have on the east coast. Wawa's are the best convenience stores in the US too. By the way. It's like — hands down. They're amazing. Just the coffee that they have. There are like 20 different kinds of coffees in there. But your options are — like — you walk around there. Every single drink in the refrigerator. Is a sugar drink. And even the ones with the fake sugar. Are still sugar drinks. It's like — all — chemicaled out. What I — what I learned was this. I think I said this before. I only like the carbonated drinks. I think I'm a little bit of a carbonation. Like — the only reason I drank Coca-Cola. Wasn't for the sweetness. It was just for the bubbles. So I just get water. Not seltzer. Because that has sugar in it. Just — carbonated water. And I put lime in it. Or lemon. Or whatever I can get. Okay. And that's. That's all I really wanted. I just wanted the darn bubbles. And you can't — it's hard to find that in the US. In Japan. We've got carbonated water. Everywhere. But you have to drink like a Perrier. And I don't want to drink that stuff. So — you know.

55:02 John Daub: Can you find carbonated water without sugar though? Yes. You can. But I don't know what it is with the beverage industry. The carbonated water. The carbonated water that I had. Like Polar Springs had something. But they had like very bad bubbles. Like they had purposely made it uncomfortable. Like the bubbles were very weak. In that Polar Springs carbonated version.

56:11 John Daub: All right. You know — what is it? The club soda has a little bit of salt in it. Seltzer has sugar in it. It's not alcohol. But seltzer water has sugar in it. All right. It's sweetened. So the — you want to get just sparkling water. Without — without the fake lemon and taste in it too. That's all like not even a real lemon. Okay. Just — you know. What did they say in some drama? They said like the bliss point. Like the food companies are thinking about your — your — the bliss points of sweeteners and stuff. And — just the sparkling water. I found that my bliss point was the bubbles, man. That's pleasant pain you get.

57:28 Mia Jun: And there's no Wawa on the west coast yet. But Wawa is pretty darn cool. If you haven't been there. They made their fortune. I think. I think they had the first place that ATM machines that had with no charge. So everybody started to go into the Wawa's with the ATM machines for free. And then they realized that they loved it. And they would — they would stick around and start to buy stuff. And they started to really expand. I think the Pennsylvania company that's now all over. Places in New Jersey. The Delaware Valley. Philly. It's pretty cool.

58:10 John Daub: Hey, John. I think we have — just one more question. If you have time.

58:23 Mia Jun: Okay. Bingo Kemp ski. Welcome aboard. Let me to. What do you try? So I wanted to just talk a sec about the jet lag in regards to flying in Japan. So I used. I was. I went to Chicago to get to Narita. And so for me. I was using a flight called Anna. Anna to get there. Which was actually a very fortunate thing. Because I usually was doing an air Canada to get through. But I had a — I had a fortunate connection where I was able to change my flight due to the Star Alliance program. Anyway. So what happened. Was that. I was. Doing the flight. And during that flight. I was able to take. Because I have. Insomnia. So for me. What was effective was taking melatonin. My — I guess my question would be more so. Are — types of like — sleep inducing. Forms of medicine. Effective. Towards. Preventing jet lag. And. Preventing those things.

60:02 John Daub: Yeah. I'm not a medical trained. You know. Person. So I — I don't have a lot of experience with that. Because I haven't. Taken that stuff. But I can tell you. Peter. Has told me that he takes. Those. And it does help him. So everybody is different. That's the thing. And — I think that there's no — there's no replacement for natural sleep. But — if you — there's a point where you can be in a comfortable chair. And just be safe. And — you don't have to be so tired. That you — you sleep. And sometimes those — medications can help. Does it help you in the long run? I'm going to let the live chat. Tell you the answers there. Because — again — I haven't — I don't have that kind of experience. But from what I've been told. Some people. It helps them. And some people — it'll help you sleep. But on the other end. You don't — feel rested. As a result of it. So — it just depends.

61:12 John Daub: Magnesium. Is the new. Melatonin. I — thanks for that Chris. I'm not sure what to do with that. Uh — yeah. I — I think it's — it's worth — you know — if it's your first trip. You can try it out. And then — and then find out for yourself. But — knowing that — if you're somebody who — all right. Let me put it to you like this. If you're somebody who — who you're confident. That — and you're riding an economy. You're confident. That you can sleep. In that chair.

62:00 John Daub: But — if you're not confident. Then I would. Bring it along. Just in case. Because then — this — that zombie sleep. Really stinks. The second — the second thing that you definitely need to do. You definitely get those eye masks. The eye covers. You can buy them at the airport. I got one that — I — I rode Emirates. Like about — eight years ago. And they gave me a really nice one. So I've been using the same Emirates one. For the last eight years. And also — ear plugs. Help a lot. Reducing that cock — the — the cockpit. Not the cockpit. The — sound inside the cabin. Really helps you sleep. I don't know what it is. It's — it's quite loud. But if you can reduce that. It does help you sleep. I also use my AirPods. On noise reduction. That was really helpful too. But I also got these — yellow ones. That I stuck. Stick into my ears. With that — the iPads. And then I always wear a hoodie. And I put the hood up. So I look like the emperor from Star Wars. That also — is very helpful. Again — staying warm. Sleeping cap. And — in economy. I get some good sleep. And — people stay away from me. Because — my whole face is covered. And it's quite creepy. If you wear face masks too. With the eye patch. All they can see is — a little bit of your nose. Which is even creepier.

64:08 John Daub: Yeah. Absolutely. You know — face masks are absolutely helpful. I — I found that helpful. Throughout my time. In Japan. So — when I was in — at the airline. Opening up my suitcase. And — for me. Melatonin was effective. But — I found that — I wasn't able to sleep on the plane. So — by the time I got. Into. Japan. I was. Still. Awake. And I was active. Until. I went to my. My place. And then I just crashed. I was just. Out like a light. And then waking up. From straight — straight in the morning. And for me — that — the jet lag. Was — because it affects them more heavily. So — I would definitely say — certainly rest up. And — prepare yourself. Because — it. It is a long journey. Going from that plane. And you might not be able to sleep. So — it's — it's just — it's a really difficult thing to say. What's — what is effective. And what is not effective. It's more so dependent. On the person.

65:43 John Daub: You might say. Yeah. Exactly. So everybody has a. Has an experience. And — and if you're watching this in the playback. Leave a comment down below. With your. Experience. Trying to get over jet lag. Again. Some people prepare for it. Some people don't. And — if it's your first trip to Japan. Probably. Maybe that. Is one of the things that you haven't even considered yet. That the time difference is. 14 hours. Between New York. And. Tokyo. So — you really do have to consider jet lag. And — preparing for it. Can. Maybe save a day or two. Where you're not — really out of your mind. Because — it. It does. Make you feel sick. When you feel sleepy. And — you can't get to sleep. It's a weird. It's not a great feeling. But everybody is different. And — you know. Some of the medications can help. Starving yourself of sleep. The night before. And then coming to the flight. Might help. For some people. Having half a glass of wine. I found. Does not help. Alcohol. Doesn't help me sleep on the flight. Usually. I'll sleep for — for 30 minutes. And then I'll just wake up. And have to go to the bathroom again. Or — something. You can also tell the flight attendants. Most of them will not disturb you. For the food. All right. And — that's at least not ANA. Has never ever woken me up for food. What they do is they. They take note. And they bring it. When they see me wake up. And they keep tabs on you. That's what a flight attendant's job should be. Like you're supposed to be keeping tabs on. On the — on the passengers. And — I've always been impressed with ANA. And JAL for that matter. All the Japan carriers. They do a good job of keeping tabs on you. They won't wake you up. They won't disturb you. Because they know that sleep is precious. Because they — also like to have their sleep. I think. But we still ring that bell when we want a coffee or something. So you know. Flight attendants are getting paid to be up there. Not enough though. Not enough. But — they're paid — and I — I really respect the — the work that they do. Especially if they can keep a smile. For 14 hours. Those long haul flights man. We — amazing flight attendants we had. Cabin attendants. We called them cabin attendants in Japanese, I believe.

69:01 John Daub: Great. Thanks to — thanks everybody for calling in on the discord. I'm gonna shut this one down. But if you wanna join us on discord again. It's discord.gg slash only in Japan. That's the invitation. You can join us there and start chatting about life in Japan. Or anything that you wanna do. You can ask other people there and they'll help you out. Which is pretty cool. Ask the passengers next. To you. To gently choke you. Till you — Chris! Don't do that. All right. Uh — Korean Airlines woke me up when — well — I think you can tell them. Don't wake me up too. Like literally — point to them and say. I'm going to sleep. Don't wake me up. I think communication sometimes helps as well. That's why I like to bring the hoodie. Nobody wakes up the emperor from Star Wars. You try to stay away. You look like a thug. You don't wanna wear a hoodie. You don't wanna wake up a sleeping thug. All right. So when I'm there with the eye mask. And I have the hood. And I have — and I have — You can maybe wear a mask. And I have like — ears. Like my whole face is covered. I'm basically — like — have a dome around my head. Yeah. No one's gonna try to touch me. All right. Not even the people next to me. They won't even — they don't even wanna sit next to me. All right. You wanna be that kind of passenger. Maybe not. But — the point is. You don't wanna be that kind of passenger. No one wants to disturb you then. All right. Don't — break wind when someone is sleeping. I don't understand. If you're sleeping. You can't really — help. Try to do it before you get on the plane. Maybe. Clear your system out if you can. Okay. That's the last thing you want. To be next to somebody like that. My god. Who is that? Make note of them moderators. All right. If you're ever flying. John — let me know. So I can make sure I change my seat.

72:00 John Daub: All right. It doesn't happen. I've never had that happen. I've never had that problem though. Again. I — really will. Now — if you're the emperor. You'll have unlimited power. I probably wouldn't be flying at all in economy either. If I was the emperor. But — you can still look like a thug emperor. You know. It's all recycled air. It's — it's — it's all — you know what — you forget to write in filtered recycled air. Okay. They filter out that. Some sort of super carbon filter. All right. Okay. So don't think that — oh — if a hundred people in economy start breaking wind. You think they're going to push that wind in the first class. Doesn't work like that. It gets filtered. All right. And then starts in first class and that wind comes to you. Air purifiers. Right. Um — Japanese have these carbon. Carbon underwear that will help to filter out any of the — any of the — uh — flagellants. So you can buy that in Japan. Carbon filtered. Carbon filtered underwear. It's actually exists. Google it. I'm serious. First class gets you the cleanest wind. I figure. And we got a lot of space. And there's walls and stuff. So. I don't know. I said premium economy. And I was getting a little bit upset that economy people were coming to use the premium economy toilet for example. Because I — you know — you pay a little bit more. I think. You know. You're entitled to — to want to not — to have some sort of privilege. I don't know. I don't know. No. Hello. Hi. Too. And I'm serious about the carbon filtered underwear. I'm just — it's a thing here. Serious. Carbon undies. It's true. It filters out the odors. It's — it's a thing here. I'm serious. Um — yeah. You know. If you pay a little bit more, you sort of want to have your own luxuries a little bit. I'm not even used to it. I'm — you know. But I still don't want economy using the premium economy restrooms. Because there's — we had more space. But I'm okay. If you're in business class. And you come to use ours. I think I'm not okay if a business class passenger tried to use the premium economy — I think the premium economy passengers would block them and go on strike and push them back to their business class — we don't want business class using our premium economy restrooms, I don't think that's fair, okay, but premium economy is so close to economy I guess it's okay but the other way around that 1% — there's one percenters can stick with their — you know — toilets with with with showers and stuff, why would they come in to use ours, you know, and they stopped giving free amenities on there because there was an economy — there's always this one passenger that would just take all the free amenities, you know those people like soap and stuff — that sometimes I go in there and like everything was gone so you could tell who those people were, so they stopped doing it — they like bolt down soap and stuff now. Yeah, there you go. So economy aisle seats all the way — yeah, yeah, that's another thing — I found that aisle seats are way better because you can go out to use the restroom more and actually there's not a lot to look outside of the window if you're going on a 14-hour flight — I want you to think about it — you can see out the window for about I don't know 15 minutes and then — 15 minutes and then you're done and you're done and then 14 minutes and then you're done and then before arrival the rest of it is like clouds and you're so high up you can't see much — if you really want to look at the window in mid flight, you can go to the restroom and there's usually some windows near there where you can check it out — by the galley you can look outside and see the Rocky Mountains or the places where there are no humans sometimes in Siberia — I remember looking through there back on some cross Asia flights — so you just see in the ocean in the clouds — so aisle seats are probably like 15 and a half hours or more — way to go.

76:23 John Daub: Yeah, um — I did tell the story once — I was on a Continental flight from Newark to Narita — I liked Continental but Delta bought them and it no longer exists — but I was — I was in the back row — it's the worst seat possible — it was the center five-seater — I was in seat three in the middle of the plane with two people I don't know on both sides — in the back row where the seat doesn't even go back and you can hear the toilets flushing — I was in that seat — it was the worst seat — I didn't want to sit down in the seat — I stayed in the aisle until I couldn't — and in fact as passengers came aboard I made myself useful and I said welcome aboard, can I help you with your baggage sir, and I would put the bags up especially if they were — you know — older ladies — I would help them up because they seemed to have the most trouble with the baggage — this was like uh — 20 — 15 years ago or more and I was doing this for a while — I was doing this for about 30 minutes — somehow I got on the flight really early — I was — I just got on maybe I boarded with the business class I don't know — but I was one of the first people in the back of the flight — I was helping people and then a flight attendant came over and he said what do you think you're doing — I remember his accent too — it was kind of funny — and I said you know look — I don't want to sit in my seat — I'll be honest with you — I'm sitting there sir and I'd rather you know avoid having to sit there so I'm helping people get situated — and he goes — he goes to me — well there's only one thing to do with someone like you — and I thought he was going to kick me off the flight or something — so he said get your bags and come with me — I was like oh crap — I don't know if he was joking or not — maybe this is like — I think this is like pre-911 — all right — this may be the humor pre-911 — I don't know — I think this is 1999 or something — I can't — I forget how long ago this was — so he moved me and we kept going to the front — he goes um — this is your new seat — please stop helping the passengers — that's our job — he put me in 1C — that's first class — there was a seat there — it was available — he put me in first class and I always liked Continental after that — that was the greatest flight in the history — I got so much sleep — they brought a cheese platter — all right — it had like 20 different kinds of cheeses and I told them — I was like — I'm not used to first class — I didn't fit in at all — I think there's a couple of celebrities around me and I said to them — uh like like I want to try all these cheeses and they go just take the plate — so I did — I started just eating all the cheeses — I did not — it was probably a big mistake but I — I ate — I didn't really sleep that much because I tried to enjoy as much of first class as I could — I think I got some — I got some sleep — it was a 14-hour flight — but I looked back on that — it was a $6,000 seat back then and I was like a $480 ticket in the worst seat and I got upgraded to a $6,000 seat because I was disruptive in a positive way — so don't forget they don't do free upgrades like that anymore — be nice to people and good things will happen to you sometimes — maybe you never know — but don't look for the good things to happen to you — they just sort of do, you know — that was a pretty big upgrade — it never happened after that but I do still help people with their bags and I still try to be — a bit more positive and they don't look down on me and I noticed that I am frustrated and angry just like everybody else stuck in a tin can — but I realized that if you're helpful and you're kind to people it's a little bit better — it's just a — you know — the sense of your mind sense is in a positive place and you get through tougher times if that's the case — you can buy a used Toyota Camry with that first class ticket — I did not pay but I did pay because I did help some — some people enjoy their — was priceless to Continental even though they don't exist anymore — and maybe that's why — but Continental had the longer roomier planes — they did — they had decent planes and Newark was their hub and I like Newark — I'm more so than JFK — so it was pretty comfortable but they no longer exist — as I said — when I get frustrated driving on a crowded highway — I do someone a favor and I allow them to change lanes — it actually puts me in a better mood — sometimes doing something nice for somebody helps to put you in a better mood and that helps your health your stress — just good — it's just a good thing to do — just think about that — I did fly TWA once and that's how — that's how old — you know — have you ever flown Pan Am — my mom did — I remember taking her to a flight from Pan Am to go to India — but I never flew Pan Am — but I did fly TWA — but what was the — you're gonna like us TWA — I remember the the — uh — commercials for them — I can't remember the Pan Am commercials — I remember the TWA ones — Trans World — Airlines — it's pretty cool — all right — everybody — that's all I got for you — thanks again for watching for an hour and 10 minutes as we talked about jet lag as I try to get over mine and this actually helps me — so thanks for joining me — I'll be in another live stream tomorrow meeting my friend Greg Lam — he's from the channel Life From — and I'll try to convince him maybe to talk about what he's been doing here in Japan — he's a really great YouTube creator and he's — gonna have lunch with me tomorrow — I'm not gonna tell you where — but you will know if we decide to go live — and he's — um — I shouldn't tell you what he's working on but he's got some pretty good stuff — the next episode is going to be one on gyoza — I went to gyoza factory in Miyazaki which is the number one gyoza city in Japan and that episode will be coming — I think on Tuesday — and then I have one on samurai racing which is pretty intense — so please make sure you go and you subscribe to this channel — this is my edited channel — if you don't like live streams this is where you can get edited content — it's a new channel from 2020 — I had to restart over because of contract problems with a group of people — and it was just easier for me to have to start over — and I did not fight them — I just left — and happiness is more important — that's the secret to life — being as happy for as long as you possibly can — mata ne — thanks Michael.