So... Alright - Jet Laggin

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

Geoff returns from his trip, before heading on another trip. Hear him muddle through the events of the last few weeks, while trying to remain awake and cogent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Air Canada, nice travels. Eh, chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga So I'll be honest, I am a jet lagged wreck and I don't know what to do with myself. It is 424 in the morning. I am recording this so all right because I can't sleep. I didn't sleep for shit last night. I have a lot of day ahead of me

and I don't know what to do with myself. Where to start? Oh God, just got back from an amazing two week trip. Started in Athens, Greece and ended in Istanbul, Turkey, saw a million amazing places and things. I have so many thoughts to share with you, so many experiences to share, and it's all just a big pile of diarrhea

in my head right now. Wasn't even intending to do a so all right this week. I thought I had scheduled enough ahead that I would have some buffer. But. But I but I don't. I miscounted and I got home yesterday around I don't know for Emily and I got home yesterday around 4 p.m So exhausted flew back from Istanbul. It was our day started at But what type what problems to have right I am, awake at four in the morning,

my brain is Swiss cheese and I'm miserable because I got to do such an amazing thing by going on this two week tour of Greece and Turkey. And now I am eating reheated Little Caesar's pizza and drinking Diet Dr. Pepper, which is I think my first diet, Dr. Pepper, I've had in two weeks. There wasn't a lot of that overseas. And I'm just in the utter throes of miserable jet lag,

which by the way, I apologize. I didn't even realize I had to do a soil right this week. I thought I had planned far enough ahead. In my head I had, and then here I was laying in bed at about 3.30 and it hit me, oh shit, today's Tuesday. There's a Soal Right comes out. I thought the Robots Robots Everywhere was gonna come out next week, but it comes out today,

which means I have to do another Soal Right for next week, which is no big deal because it's only Tuesday, right? Tuesday is the day I typically record it except I have this whirlwind. It's My life right now. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining Because I don't want to complain about being lucky enough to live the life that I do. I am just physically and mentally miserable because I can't just get up and start a regular day to day. I have to be on another plane.

I have to go to the airport at about 6 45 this morning to go visit Millie. She has to have a very normal, very minor medical procedure. It's not a big deal. It's nothing to be scared about. It's nothing to be scared about. It's nothing to be worried about. It's just something that she's got to get done and she is going to be doing it far away from home. And I cannot imagine her not having a parent there.

I got home from my trip at about, I want to say 5 p.m. yesterday and figured I would do my goddamn just to sleep and then get up at 6.45 in the morning and then go back to the airport to fly to her just for 24 hours. I'm gonna go, I land at like 11 a.m., take an Uber to where she is, meet her,

go with her to her thing, and then we'll go back and spend the evening together, and then I'll get up Wednesday morning and fly home. Let me tell you, and I'm happy to do it, by the way, this is what being a parent is all about. It's about being there when your kid needs you, no matter how young or old they are, no matter how responsible or old they are, no matter how responsible and able they

are to deal with things, you're still their parent and you're still their caretaker. And I still have to be there for her. I don't think she probably doesn't even need me, to be honest with you. But I don't know, man. I didn't, I didn't spend the last 19 years raising this kid to, to not be there for her anytime she needs me, you know, if at all possible. So I don't want it to sound like I'm complaining that I have to get up and get on a flight in a couple of hours because I'm not, I'm'm honored It's the duty of a father. It's the duty of a parent to be there for their child at all times if possible, and it's definitely possible I just

cannot deny the fact that Jet lag hits me so much harder now than it did. Is that something, as you've aged, if you've aged, I don't know how old you are, and you've had the pleasure of traveling internationally whilst young, maybe whilst medium age, and then again at an older age, has your experience been that jet lag gets compoundingly more difficult to shake the older you get?

God damn, dude. I hate to say it, I'm gonna be 50 in three months and I had this realization on the trip. Things just get harder to shake or recover from. I mostly feel as young as ever. And I was just on this trip with a bunch of old people. Most of the people on this trip were retirees in their 60s and their 70s.

It's this touring company that we do with Emily's parents. And it's kind of desired for retirees, but we always jump at the chance to go on these trips with them if we can afford it, because it's just, they're wonderful, right? And I get to be the young person on the trip. You know, I'm only 49. I have a bunch of old guys giving me advice. I had the nicest conversation with this 83 year old man the other day and just like the warmest, sweetest, most heart fillingfilling conversation.

And he was telling me at 83 years old, he feels as young as he did at 20. He still feels like the same guy. It's just that age to him is just that it gets harder to recover from something. He was a big tennis player and he talks about how like, he plays tennis for three hours, he used to be able to shake it off.

Now it's the rest of his day to recover from, you know? And that's been my experience too. And here I am, I used to be able to shake off travel, international travel so easily. We used to do it so much from my time in the military where I flew all over the world to then my time in Rooster Teeth where I was fortunate enough to fly all over the world.

It was something that you could almost ignore, but at 49 years old, I did everything in my power. We got home at four or five o'clock yesterday, came home. I thought, I'll let her nap and sleep and I'll do the dishes and I'll try to stay awake and be productive and shake off the jet lag because you know the day started at Fuck 2 a.m. We had to be up in Istanbul To catch our transfer to the airport which by the way

I've got so much to tell you guys about this trip and the amazing things I saw My brain is Swiss cheese right now and so whatever I say today I'll have to do I'm gonna have to do a proper episode about this trip once I have my full mental faculties but our morning started at about 2 a.m. in Istanbul and I have got to say the Istanbul Airport is maybe the nicest airport I have ever been in my entire life. Turkey in general might be one of the greatest places I have ever been in my life. And I can't wait to get my thoughts together and really dive into that with y'all because I enjoyed Greece. I was blown away by Turkey in all respects and not the least of which is just how beautiful and old and new that country is and the craftsmanship

with which they approach everything. Honestly, if you've ever been to the Istanbul airport, you know what I'm talking about. It's like a work of art. But anyway, they started at 2 a.m. at the Istanbul airport, flew to Frankfurt, dicked around Frankfurt airport for a little bit, and then hop a flight to Austin. So we get home at 4 or 5 p.m. Emily's trying really hard not to fall asleep, but she's... I don't think she succeeded.

I wanted to make sure that I didn't fall asleep because I needed to get a solid couple of hours of sleep because I knew I had to get up and turn around and go right back to the airport like, I don't know, five p.m. or 13 hours later, essentially. And so I did laundry and I unpacked and I spent time playing with the dog and trying to reconnect with him because he missed us so much. But he was also if've ever had or experienced bulldogs, you know that they are, they're particular little animals and he was mad at us. After he got overseeing us and the excitement of seeing us,

he was, he's like, you left me. And he curled up into a ball and wouldn't hang out with us. And I had to, I had to, you know, I had to put some time in there, smoothing things over with little Albert. But now the little sweetheart is, he's in our bed. He slept with his ass in my head and his face in Emily's all night, just as happy as could be.

And it was like, even though he farted in my face directly, like four times in the middle of the night. And I know that because I never slept for more than 20 minutes at a time. And so I felt the full force of each fart. He couldn't be happier and sweeter. And it was the best thing in the world just to spend a little time cuddling with the little guy.

I missed him so much. And I hate that I hate that I'm going to leave them again for 24 hours. But you know, I watched the Tigers game. By the way, Scuba looks amazing. Tigers beat the Brewers nine to one. I watched three episodes of the show that I'm currently binging. Love Never Lies Poland, which is something that I have got to talk to you all about. At some point, it's one of my new favorite reality shows.

I don't know why it's I guess it's a Polish show. It's on Netflix. And I hope that there's other countries because I'm really into the idea. A bunch of couples come into this villa as in all reality shows. But it's similar to Temptation Island. It's couples that are at a crossroads, kind of like the ultimatum. There's got there's so many similarities between all these shows. Right. But they come in and they're at a crossroads in their relationship. kind of like the ultimatum. There's, God, there's so many similarities between all these shows, right?

But they come in and they're at a crossroads in their relationship and they're trying to decide if they wanna move on or if the problems that they're having are unsolvable. And they have some questions, whether that be about infidelity or about being aligned going forward in their relationship and priorities or whatever they are.

And they put them in a house together and then they split the couples up and they tempt one half of the couples for two or three days, while the other half stays behind and has to watch videos of them being tempted. And then they're put on a lie detector test and they ask him questions like, do you wanna marry this person? Were you being serious when you said that you had never cheated on them?

If the cameras weren't here, would you have done something physical with this person? And then they answer, and then a lie detector determines if they're telling the truth or not. And then it flips and then the other half goes and does a similar thing while that half stays behind and then at the end they reconvene and they find out if then the other half didn't and they shouldn't have, to be honest with you. And I think that the show is an impetus to help them break up. Anyway, so I watched the final three episodes of that.

I watched an episode of that new Shonda Rhimes show on Netflix, The Residence, which is fucking awesome, by the way. Really, really good. I'm only two episodes in. But what a charming., really, really good. I'm only two episodes in, but what a charming, well shot, beautiful show. And if you ever wanted to get a sense of what it's like to be in the White House, just visually,

they do such a great job of, I assume, I don't know how accurate it is, but of recreating it. And it's just got this wonderful cast with these great cameos left and right from Al Franken to Jason Lee Bronson Pinchot Kylie Minogue Giancarlo Esposito Uzo Aduba like just Randall Park is in it. It's just a Fantastic cast Oh Ken Marino is in it. Jane Curtin is in it

There's a actress I wasn't super familiar with who I really like in it called Mary Wiseman now Anyway, it's I've only seen the first two episodes, but it's essentially I don't want to spoil it, but a murder happens in the White House and then this the world's best detective, sort of a Lady Columbo, who's a Dubha placer. She plays her name is Cordelia Cup and she comes in and she's particular and quirky and brilliant. And she comes in to solve the murder. And I in and she's particular and quirky and and brilliant. And she comes in to solve the murder. And I assume that she's going to do it. I'm only two episodes in. It's looking pretty good so far.

I'll let you guys know. But I watched an episode of that. That sounds like a lot of TV, but it was kind of on in the background. I ordered pizza. Also, you come home to everything being broken. Like somehow all of our streaming services I have to relog into for fuck's sake. Out of the blue for no reason. The water filter doesn't work on my fridge, so we can't get fresh water out of it.

Just one thing after another. You know, but I stayed up and I did my goddamn just to stay awake until about 10 p.m. And then I thought, yeah, I'm exhausted. I should be able to just slide right into sleep now. Fell asleep till probably eleven fifteen solid. Awesome. And then I got up, took a piss and began the the process of going back to sleep and then waking up and thinking, oh, man, that's got to be two hours of sleep. Let me look at my.

Oh, I've been asleep for twenty seven minutes. Cool. All right. Well, let's go back of sleep. Let me look at my, oh, I've been asleep for 27 minutes. Cool, all right, well let's go back to sleep. Wake up, oh, I've been asleep for 22 minutes this time. Cool, go back to sleep, dog farts you awake. Oh wow, I made it another 30 minutes. And now here we are. There was no point in trying anymore because I have to get up to go to the airport at 6.45.

I'm wide the fuck awake. It is now 4.42 a.m. So I microwaved a pizza, grabbed a diet Dr. Pepper, and decided that I needed to tackle this because I will be out of town all day Tuesday and I won't get home until Wednesday evening. And then Thursday, I gotta hit the ground running with regulation.

I gotta get back to my boys. We have to make the podcast. We might have to do two. I don't even know. boys. We have to make the podcast. We might have to do two. I don't even know. I've been so out of the loop. We have streams. We have all kinds. We have a meeting with our merch company

that we've been working with. And if I don't do it right now at four in the morning, I'm not gonna be able to do it until Saturday. And chances are, I'm gonna really not wanna do this on Saturday. So I decided I just got to pull the fucking exhaustion bandaid off and dive in and that's why this episode is going to be all over the map and I apologize for that. But I do want to talk about jet lag because what the fuck even is jet lag? Well, it is a sleep disorder that can affect those

who travel quickly across multiple time zones. Duh, right? It is a temporary sleep disorder, thank Christ, that occurs when the body's internal clock is out of sync, which cues from a new time zone. Cues can include light exposure and eating times. Fatigue and difficulty concentrating are symptoms, ain't that the truth.

Medications and light therapy might help. If anybody has any therapy, some light therapy for me, please hit me up, because I am fucked. It's essentially when your body's natural sleep wake cycle, known as your circadian rhythm, which I always thought was such a cool word, circadian, gets out of whack, right? And it typically goes away in a day or so.

But I looked up this study from the, I don't know, from pubmed.ncbi.nim.nih.gov, that studies the age-related differences in recovery from simulated jet lag. Here's the, I'm just gonna read this from the website. Six healthy young men and eight nearly middle-aged men were isolated from environmental time cues for 15 days. For the first six to seven days,

one or two nights adaptation, four nights baseline, their sleep and meals were scheduled to approximate their habitual patterns. Their daily routines were then shifted six hours earlier by terminating the sixth or seventh sleep episode Six hours early the new schedules were followed for the next eight or nine days Important age-related differences and adjustment to this single six hour schedule shift were found That is a mouthful

For the first four day interval after the shift, middle-aged subjects had larger increases of waking time during the sleep period and earlier termination of sleep than young subjects. They also reported larger decreases in alertness and well-being and larger increases in sleepiness, weariness and effort required to perform daily functions. That's it right there. I just feel like I'm moving in slow motion. I feel like I'm moving in quicksand. The rate of adjustment of the circadian core temperature rhythm to the new schedule did not differ between groups. These results suggest that symptoms reported by middle-aged subjects

may be due mainly to difficulty maintaining sleep at early times of the circadian day. The compensatory response to sleep deprivation may also be less robust in middle-aged individuals traveling eastbound. Well, I was traveling westbound, but there you go. According to some sleep study that I don't know the name of, it's pretty clear that it's harder to bounce back from jet lag the older you get. And man. You find that true? You find that false?

Let me know. Email me at Eric, just boss dot com and let me know. Also, I'm not planning on going anywhere for a while after I get back from this trip to see Millie, but if you have any tips for getting over jet lag, let me know, send them my way because I could use them. Although if, as it stands right now at 447 in the morning, Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, it'll be a cold day in hell before I take an international flight again anytime soon.

I'm ready to buckle down. I don't even wanna go to Michigan anymore. I just want to stay in this house in this neighborhood and never leave it again. I know I'll feel differently very soon, but man. And then, although the big thing I had to do is I got back and of course my accountant was like, hey, dickhead, you got to pay taxes, man.

You've got to pay a lot of taxes. And I fuck I look at it. I say, oh, my God, it is. It's April 14th. Taxes are due the 15th, but I'm going to be on a plane first thing in the morning. So I don't really have time. So I had to sit down also with my accountant yesterday for about 30 minutes and figure out how much to pay and what to pay and what I could afford to pay and get my extension filed and all of that.

And so it man, if there's one thing doing laundry when you get home from an international flight unpacking, that's one kind of annoyance, you know, walking around your house and trying to figure out like all the dumbest stuff, like all of the Alexa lights stopped working, you know, where I have I don't know if you use Alexa, but I have all the room sales recently. Alexa, turn on the bedroom. Alexa, I'm trying to do it too loud because I don't know if you use Alexa, but I have all the room cycles. We say like, Alexa, turn on bedroom Alexa. I'm trying not to do it too loud because I don't want her to hear Alexa turn off bedroom

lights. Alexa, turn on living room lights, that kind of thing. None of that shit worked. It's just like everything breaks with no use, I guess, over the period. So you spend frustrating minutes fixing all that stuff. But the real fun thing to do after about 15 hours of international travel is to sit down on the phone with your accountant and start writing checks and filling out tax forms. That's the sweet spot of just pure fucking hell.

By the way, I am a good American. I pay my taxes. I'm happy to pay my taxes. But holy shit, are taxes expensive? Oh my taxes. I'm happy to pay my taxes, but holy shit, are taxes expensive. Oh my God, I don't know how losing my job last year resulted in me having to pay so much in fucking taxes. And I'm not gonna complain. No, I am complaining.

I'm gonna stop complaining. My duty as an American to pay my taxes. I'm not gonna bitch about taxes, but Jesus Christ. If anybody needs a cameo, Jeff L. Ramsey, if you want, I'm gonna to have to hit my twitch hard. Look me up on Twitch fake Jeff. I've been streaming about three days a week. I think I'm going to have to crank that up to four or five days a week.

And I'm going to be putting a lot of effort and redoubled energy into regulation over the next few months, because I got to fill this tax hole pretty quickly. Anyway, that's a Jeff problem. That's not a problem. Oh, also, definitely making the Jeff merch now after after talking to my accountant yesterday, definitely got to get the Jeff merch off the ground for sure. So look for that in the next couple of months.

Whenever I figure that out, I don't know where I'm going to find the time to do that. But I also don't know where I'm going to find the time to edit this, but I will. Anyway, looking at the time, I'm do that. But I also don't know where I'm going to find the time to edit this. But I will anyway, looking at the time around 26 roughly minutes in. And I don't know what the fuck I've talked about. All I planned on talking to you about was just the rough outline of where I went. So let's do that real fast and then get the fuck out of here. I started in Athens and I got to be honest, Greece and Turkey

were places I'd like to visit. Always wanted to go. I wouldn't say they were super high on my list, but I want to be honest, Greece and Turkey were places I'd like to visit. I always wanted to go. I wouldn't say they were super high on my list, but I want to go just about anywhere. Right. And so I wanted to go there in the sense that I want to go most places. Didn't know that I'd ever make my way there. So I thought it was kind of a fun surprise that this trip was happening and that it would be an opportunity to knock out these places that weren't like the highest on my list. Honestly, the place I want to go more than anywhere else on earth.

I would love to go back to Japan. I'd love to take Emily to Japan, but mostly I want to go to Portugal. I don't know what it is, but I've just always been really charmed with and by Portugal and I want to check it out. I also want to go to Gibraltar someday. But as it stands right now, I can't see myself ever after I get back tomorrow. I can't see myself ever leaving this house again, maybe to go to the grocery store. But that's about it. So our trip started in Athens and I was pretty impressed with Athens. I thought it was really charming. We Emily was all over TikTok, so she knew all the cool

places to get the best euros. And they have these little donut balls there covered in honey that are fucking amazing. And I'll dive into all that later. But we spent a couple of days in Athens, which I thought was a really cool place. Got to go to the Acropolis and Parthenon. Went to museums and shit, of course. Then we got on a small cruise. I'd never been on a cruise ship before. Never thought I would enjoy it. Never had a desire to step foot on a small cruise. I'd never been on a cruise ship before. Never thought I would enjoy it.

Never had a desire to step foot on a cruise ship. This is a small one. I think it only held about 300 people. And our cruise, our portion of the tour was only about 70 people. So didn't even really interact with the other 200 or so. But got on this cruise ship that was fucking awesome. And we drove drove. We sailed. Yeah. Sailed through my poor brain, sailed through the Corinth Canal, which is something I had never heard of before. But if you get a chance, look it up.

It's this fucking super tiny canal through Greece that you could when you go through it, the boat had about three meters of clearance on either side. And so you're like, I don't know, it's fucking like going through some kind of a movie where the boat, you don't think the boat's going to fit and it's insane. And I got a little pin for crossing through it because it's a big deal, I guess, from a maritime standpoint. And so I got these cool they gave everybody these cool like I traversed the Corinth Canal pins. But then we went to Delphi and went to where the Oracle of Delphi was, which

was maybe the coolest thing I saw on the whole trip and beautiful and I'll get into that when I do a proper recap of this tour. Then we went to Santorini blew me away, just like all the pictures were it's the early season and it was cold. So we weren't like hanging out at the beach or anything. But it was kind of cool too, because the place was essentially empty because the tourism season hasn't started yet. So it was, you know, 40s and 50s the whole time. So I

kind of got to feel like we had the these places to ourselves for the most part. After that went to Bodrum, Turkey, which I had never heard of. What an awesome, beautiful city. It is at the top of what they call the, which I didn't even know existed, the Turkish Riviera, which is supposed to rival the French Riviera. And I can see it. It's like the top, I guess like the Northwest point

of the Turkish Riviera. And everybody just kept telling me, if you like Bodrum, you gotta go down that coast and see the rest of it. They have these emerald waters and it's just even more beautiful the further southeast you go. And I can't, well, here I am saying, I can't wait to find out. It'll be a cold day in hell before I leave this house again. But if I ever do, it's gonna be to go back to Bodrum

and explore that. Then we went to Cusadesi and ancient Ephesus. And by the way, I have never cared about Greek mythology or history in my life. I read the Iliad and the Odyssey in high school. I thought they were fine. I wasn't super into them. None of that shit ever really grabbed me,

but getting to go to these spaces and these places, and I'll talk about this more in depth at some point when I do a proper episode on this, and getting to stand in these places in essentially the birthplace of Western civilization and to feel the sense of history. It blew me away and I was amazed at how fascinating these places were and how connected I felt to some of them. And anyway, then we went to Mykonos, which is where all the, you know, celebrities and rappers vacation.

And I get it, awesome place. I'd love to go back when there's warm weather and I can go to the beaches, because it was beautiful. Then I went to Limnos, which I gotta say, probably the least exciting and interesting place we went to on the trip. I really think that we could have done without, no offense to Limnos, but after those other places,

there just really wasn't a lot going on in Limnos. Seems like a real quiet, sleepy island. I think about a population of about 17,000. Lovely place just after Mykonos and Bodrum and some of those other places. I wasn't as blown away by Limnos. Then we get off in Istanbul and spend the rest of the time there. Go to the Blue Mosque, the Basilica Cistern, the Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, the Grand Bazaar, which I skipped. But I did go to the spice market, which I hear was way better anyway. And toodle around like you get off the boat in Istanbul. We spend like three days there, go into all those places and then fly home.

I don't know if you've ever been to those places, but if you have and you were as entranced and as charmed by them as I was, hit me up at ericatjessboss.com. I'd love to talk to you about it. I really have, once I get my thoughts in order and I have maybe two nights of sleep behind me and I'm back in our normal rhythm. I assume next week I will tackle this trip in greater detail because I took tons and tons of notes. I looked at my notes on my phone to just see if there's anything I could pull out right now to talk about and I'll be honest, all the words were swimming on the page.

I think I'm losing it here. So it's probably time to wrap this up. And let's see, it's about 5am. I guess I should hop in the shower and get dressed and ready to go to the airport. I wish I could say that I enjoyed my 13 hours in Austin more than I did. I was very excited to come back here. but it was pretty uncomfortable. And I feel half nauseous. And you just you know, you just have that travel gut. My asshole is a problem. And it's, it's just a mess. I need to give you guys a song and I need

to get out of here so that I can get out of here, which I really don't want to do. But I do because I want to go be a good dad. I'm going to pick I'm going to pick reasons by built to spill as the song of the day, just because it's the next song up on my playlist and it's a good song. And I hope you like it. I apologize for how fragmented and miserable this episode may have been for you. I'll try to edit it into something that's at least slightly coherent and cogent. Or maybe I'll just come home and be so disgusted by it. I'll just redo it. Although I think it's probably releasable. We'll see. Anyway, I'll talk to you guys in a much more cogent way next week. All right. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

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