Contramar, COTE, Nowhere & Celestial in Las Vegas

**Jordan Okun** (0:02)
Mad Food, I'm Jordan, Max is here, and we survived all sorts of Las Vegas shenanigans. We lived to tell the tale. And oh, what a tale it is, Max.

**Max Shapiro** (0:13)
Ba-ba-bubbles.

**Jordan Okun** (0:14)
Part what, you're going with that over No, I'm done. Bubbela Bubbles?

**Max Shapiro** (0:18)
I'm done, it's whatever, it all works.

**Jordan Okun** (0:20)
Right?

**Max Shapiro** (0:20)
Sure.

**Jordan Okun** (0:20)
What about Buttercup? Has anyone called you Buttercup yet?

**Max Shapiro** (0:23)
I don't think that's gonna catch.

**Jordan Okun** (0:25)
I may bring it up. Part one of the tale is today, Vegas Day One, and I'm hopped up on all that St. James. Let's get right to it.

**Max Shapiro** (0:33)
You seem a little caffeinated.

**Jordan Okun** (0:35)
Yeah, I mean, we're doing it a little late. Actually, it's not that later. I'm just, I've been up. I've been up. This is what happens.
You start getting older. You know, when you're young, what is that?

**Max Shapiro** (0:46)
So I don't know.

**Jordan Okun** (0:47)
When you're young, you sleep in, you're all sleepy in the morning, and when you get older, your eyes shoot open.

**Max Shapiro** (0:55)
My internal clock has me at 5.45 in the morning.

**Jordan Okun** (0:59)
What is it? All of life's responsibilities? Is it crippling anxiety?

**Max Shapiro** (1:04)
It could be anxiety, but also if you just wake up early every day for a very long time, that's what your body does. It's the circadian rhythm.

**Jordan Okun** (1:14)
All right, well, I'm hopped, and everyone gets hopped up for Vegas. Max, you haven't been in so long. Were you hopped to go?

**Max Shapiro** (1:22)
I was excited to go. I wouldn't say I was hopped.

**Jordan Okun** (1:25)
You weren't hopped up to go?

**Max Shapiro** (1:27)
I was curious to see if Vegas had evolved since my last visit.

**Jordan Okun** (1:33)
Right, okay. All right, well, let's find out if it did.

**Max Shapiro** (1:37)
Yeah.

**Jordan Okun** (1:38)
Okay, a Vegas trip from Los Angeles always starts with what, Max?

**Max Shapiro** (1:43)
Getting there.

**Jordan Okun** (1:44)
That's what, I actually have two words written down there.

**Max Shapiro** (1:47)
It says getting there? Getting there. Wow. Wow.
We're so in sync.

**Jordan Okun** (1:52)
Our cycles are in sync. You either drive, right, which I don't mind doing at all, or you fly, okay? And when flying, they're not a sponsor. They didn't give us a, nothing.

**Max Shapiro** (2:07)
Nothing.

**Jordan Okun** (2:08)
But we got to say, JSX has to be the choice.

**Max Shapiro** (2:13)
It's a delight.

**Jordan Okun** (2:14)
I mean, if you're going to fly, if you're going to spend money to fly to Vegas, and you pay a little bit more, make it comfy, it's a couple hundred dollars more legitimately. And then look, you're signing up to be in Las Vegas with all the goblins and all the cretins.

**Max Shapiro** (2:36)
Jeez.

**Jordan Okun** (2:37)
And like, if you can cut down on some airport goblins and cretins.

**Max Shapiro** (2:41)
Airport everything.

**Jordan Okun** (2:42)
That's right. The nuisance.

**Max Shapiro** (2:44)
And let me tell you, this is my first time flying out of the Santa Monica hangar at JSX. Very pleasant.

**Jordan Okun** (2:52)
It. What a comfy lounge.

**Max Shapiro** (2:55)
It not just that. It's it's getting there is comfy. It's atmosphere is in Burbank. I'm fear them because Burbank Airport is right next to Burbank JSX. Right.
Santa Monica's hangar is at Santa Monica Airport, which is a private airport.

**Jordan Okun** (3:10)
But it's still kind of private in Burbank. But here's the thing.
You're not driving through Burbank before you get that's right. Driving through Burbank, it's a horrible lens to start, to start seeing your trip play out.

**Max Shapiro** (3:22)
You're on Ocean Avenue, tree-lined, quiet. There's a median with grass in it. It's nice.

**Jordan Okun** (3:30)
So it's only like average $200 more to not fly southwest.

**Max Shapiro** (3:36)
Worth it.

**Jordan Okun** (3:37)
With all those goblins.

**Max Shapiro** (3:38)
It's just worth it. It's worth it. And then, you know, when you're on-

**Jordan Okun** (3:41)
By the way, we don't gamble.

**Max Shapiro** (3:43)
Not at all.

**Jordan Okun** (3:44)
So it's like, if you're, if you're with people who don't gamble, then you really have to pony up, because most people, they go, they piss away two, $300 first 20 minutes in Vegas.

**Max Shapiro** (3:55)
Yeah. Contribute that towards your, your enjoyment of flight.

**Jordan Okun** (4:03)
But, you know, there's no full escape from goblins, because we're in this lovely Santa Monica lounge.