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[M] ColorMeInPink0 asks,
[S] "Dear Simon and Martina, what's it like taking an international flight from Canada to Korea?
Are there any important facts that somebody traveling out of the country should know?"
[M] Ooooo, travel by plane questions. [S] Very interesting question in fact.
[M] Well, we have certainly done that flight a lot of times.
[S] Far too many times. [M] Yeah, so if you guys are coming to visit Korea
or you're coming to work in Korea, you'll probably have a ten to fourteen hour flight, depending on where you are coming from.
[S] Right. [M] I mean, most people are pretty far away, right?
[S] For us, since we're from Toronto, it takes fourteen hours to get to Korea.
We used to take the nonstop 14 hour flight, but we found that flight actually drives us crazy.
After the 10 hour mark, you're just like- [M] I can't. [S] I've gotta get off the plane. Ahhh.
So, we now have a stopover (layover), we usually stop in Vancouver, after 4 hours of flying, and then we can handle the 10 hour flight just fine.
[M] Yeah, so, I do recommend breaking it up. Your body will thank you.
Your body will thank us, actually.
[S] That sounds like a sexual favor.
[M] Not that kind of thing, like a high five, thank you, Martina.
(Bonk, bonk, bonk) [S] Your body will thank us. [M] Your body will thank us. [S] Whooo! [M] With a high five.
[M] Our quick packing tips! [S] Depending on how much you're packing, if you have one suitcase full,
what I would recommend is packing that suitcase inside of another (empty) suitcase.
The reason why, is because if you wind up buying a lot of stuff in the country, you want to bring it back,
then over packing your single suitcase is going to suck, and you don't want to buy another suitcase. [M] Nah.
[M] When it comes to packing, we actually use a lot of vacuum bags now (The Space Bag) to like flatten everything.
Simon likes to roll his T-shirts, and we usually wear our biggest shoes on the plane because we're going to take them off anyways
because shoes take up so much freaking space, especially when you have a dothraki man warrior.
[S] Man size 13!! [M] Yeah, it's like he puts in two pairs of shoes, and there's no more room in the suitcase.
I'm like, thanks Simon, I'll just pack my clothing in this tiny corner.
[S] So, wear boots on the plane. Also, if you're going to be packing any bottles into your suitcase, say like for example, lots of bottles of Ranch (dressing),
I would recommend putting them inside of another plastic bag because sometimes they can explode, while in the suitcase,
and you've got like Ranch all over your clothes (Splat), which definitely improves the quality of your clothes,
but it's something that you might not necessarily want.
[M] I've had conditioner explode, I've had face cream explode, so I put everything now in those little zip top bags (Ziploc bags).
You will thank me. Your body will thank me. (Sexy "Intoxication" music) [S] Whooo!
[Both] Whooo! Whooo! (Bonk, bonk, bonk)
[S] Tips for on the plane!
[M] Pack your medicine inside contact lens cases. (Those tiny crappy ones)
(Actually, don't do this because you could get in trouble for it) That's right, when you get contact lens fluid, you get those like free, tiny cases.
You can fit about three Tylenol or aspirin, and you can fit about three like back muscle spasms pills or whatever it is you need,
and they barely take up any room so you can just pop them into any pocket,
and you don't have to worry about big containers or pill boxes or whatever.
[S] Another tip for you, I'm not sure if you have pain the way we do, but whenever we're about to descend then we get really bad nasal pain.
Martina's brain seems like it's about to explode.
[M] It's awful, guys.
[S] We've found that the one thing that really helps us out, is an hour before you're about to descend,
take a shot of nasal spray, in each nostril.
It opens everything up, and definitely helps us out and doesn't make us pain as much.
(Record scratches) Make us pain as much? [M] It doesn't make us pain as much.
[S] It doesn't make- [M] My English is so good!
[S] It doesn't make it hurt as much. [M] Oh, sweet revenge for last week's TL;DR when Simon made fun of my "good speak English".
[S] Justice! [M] Justice!
[S] If you're bringing an iPad on the plane, you might see that some planes have like a USB port
that you can plug it in.
Unfortunately, it's not strong enough to charge your iPad. (Depending on the plane...)
It could charge your iPhone or like your phones or whatnot, or mp3 players,
but the iPad is too big, so we always have these like extra rechargeable batteries,
you know those things that you charge up, those like sticks. We have one that looks like this.
And, what's cool about that is that you can actually charge that via the airplane charger,
but you can't directly charge your iPad into the plane, so bring an extra battery charger if you can
because at fourteen hours, your iPad is not going to last.
[M] Inside of your carry on, I suggest packing a small bag inside that bag (Carry on bag Inception)
because when you put your bag up top on the overhead, you are going to have a really hard time getting it down.
And if you try to put it underneath your seat, sometimes they won't let you because the bag is too big
and other times they let you, and then sometimes you're stuck for 14 hours with a ginormous bag underneath your feet: it's awful.
So, what I do is, my iPad or my iPhone, or my headphones, my music, whatever it is I want, I just keep it in a small bag,
kind of like a, like a paper lunch bag, but not a paper lunch bag, like a little, a little bag, you know what I mean?
Like a canvas, help me, Simon.
[S] There you go, that plush bag that's counts as a lunch bag. [M] Like a canvas sack. (It's a canvas or tote bag)
There you go. [M] You know what I'm saying, and then I get into my seat,
and I take all those doodee free magazines (Dump those stupid magazines in the pocket in front of you)
(Martina said doodee. Haha!) which I'm never going to be buying from.
How many of you have actually bought anything via those doodee free magazines. (Simon said doodee. Haha!)
[M] On the plane. [S] I've never seen anybody do that on the plane before.
[M] Plus, we've read those magazines like 20 times; I'm sick of them, so as soon as I sit down,
I just like hold them up and I just throw them under the chair or in the overhead,
and then that way I just put the bag in, and you don't leave anything behind
because people always leave their headphones or like little things fall down.
[S] Because, their headphones can get stuck between the magazines, who cares about those magazines? [M] No.
[S] Just dump them as soon as you get in. [M] Just dump them and then when you're ready to get off the plane,
you can just pull out your little bag, and you've got everything in it.
Also, I recommend packing a couple of comfort things. (Pack slippers and comfortable crap)
It is a very long flight, so I always include (My travel slippers) little slippers that fold up (my fold up shoes),
so as soon as we get on the plane, we take off our ginormous shoes- [S] Mega boots. [M] that we didn't want to pack,
and we put them up top right away, and we put on our little slippers.
I always pack like wet wipes because you will get stinky stinky stinky.
(Wash your stank ass body... please.) [S] Whoa. Yes you will. [M] If you are of European man (male) descent,
[S] Hairy man like me that retains a lot of sweat and smell. (European music)
[M] Yes. So, around eight to ten hours into the flight, you are going to want to go to the washroom,
and shower, sponge yourself. (Splash, splash, splash, splash) [S] Freshen up.
Some airlines actually do provide you with slippers, but for me that's kind of useless
because they have little tiny baby feet. (More European music) I am giant man, your slippers mean nothing to me.
[M] I will bring Simon slipper fold ups from the Walmart.
Once you're on the plane and everyone's kind of settled down,
ask the flight attendant for an extra pillow and blanket right away because, guess what, they actually run out,
and you don't want to have the seatbelt like poking into your side in the middle of the night,
and you've got this like dinky tiny little pillow. You want to be the person that has two dinky pillows and an extra blanket.
[S] And you can ask for an extra pillow, and if they give it to you and that baby behind you in the flight (baby crying) is starting to scream,
you can use that pillow to smother the baby. It works very effectively.
[M] Simon and Martina do not endorse smothering babies. [S] Or murdering them.
[M] Or murdering ever, don't do it. [S] No. [M] No.
[S] It was a joke people.
Oh, my god. I can't believe Simon and Martina recommended infanticide.
[M] Is it called vanticide? [S] Infanticide.
[M] I did not know that. [S] It is.
[M] I've learned something new today.
[S] Infanticide. [M] Infanticide. [S] It's when you kill infants.
Or you can be badass like us, we usually are very effective with packing everything into our luggage,
so our carry on is very light. So in our carry on we actually pack our own pillows. [M] Two.
[S] The ones that we use at home, two of them: one for Martina, one for me
because the pillows they give you on the airplane are like this big, and it's just so useless.
We have our big, king sized pillows, we get to hug and snuggle them,
and actually kind of get close to sleeping on the airplane.
[M] But... we... never actually do.
[S] It's just too painful for us. [M] Pack some snacks because they're going to feed you food on the plane,
and then they're going to turn the lights off,
and you're gonna be like, what the heck? It's the middle of the day.
They're trying to like adjust you to time zones, and then at the seven hour mark, you're going to be starving.
Guess what? They're not going to feed you yet, and you're going to be really hungry
and sick and tired of the crusty, old sandwiches, and like the apples that are not quite ripe, and the bananas that taste weird,
and the peanuts. Like how many peanuts can you eat?
[S] Too many. [M] So pack yourself a snack.
[S] We usually pack little snack bars so we have little health bars that we bring with us,
and they actually do a good job of filling us up.
[M] Or beef jerky. Or some nuts, something that's, that's kind of healthy to eat on a plane
because I can't have a chocolate bar even though I really want a chocolate bar.
What about when you arrive at the airport, Simon?
[S] Oh my god! What do you do? [M] We've arrived at Incheon airport many a time,
so we want to talk about taking the subway, the bus, or the taxi;
however, we're gonna leave that for blog post because there is a lot to be said.
[S] So, make sure you click on the link here that will take you to our blog post, and we'll tell you a lot more useful information there.
So that's it for this week's jam-packed, very informative TL;DR.
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[M] Usually we're not that informative, but this one was very informative, wasn't it?
[S] Because there, like, when we sat down we started to think about it, a lot of, a lot of tricks that we have. [M] We're like oh, yeah.
Yes. [S] We're pros at this now. [M] Yes. Yeah, we certainly are.