Jet Lag: The Game

I do too, lady.

You know that I've become a super nerd for this travel competition show called Jet Lag the Game.

I watch it with my son.

We bought tickets to the finale that was in a movie theater.

I don't know what the challenges are [laughs] of translating, um, books from Taiwan, but it does seem like there are a couple of, of translators doing, uh, that work for a lot of titles that are coming out.

Jam, now I know you sometimes watch Jet Lag, um, the Nebula and YouTube travel show.

Have you watched the one, ones where they're in Taiwan?

There's just one so far.

Um, that's, like, yeah, half of my knowledge about Taiwan [laughs] comes from that.

Um, and, uh, yeah, I mean, it looks beautiful.

Like, we watched it and unlike, I think, most Jet Lag seasons we watch And, and experience it like a game show, and that one really felt more like a travel show where we're like, "Oh, maybe we should go." [laughs] It's...

Everywhere they look, go looks amazing.

Unsurprisingly, Danny, no.

However, I have now seen Jet Lag, the game, and Poppy and I are

hooked.

Good.

Jetlag creators, Adam, Ben, and Sam, as well as Jetlag guest and YouTuber, plus many other things extraordinaire, Tom Scott, about the latest season of Jetlag, season 19, Japanorama.

I've got to say, right up front, Might be my favorite jet lag season.

So I'm very excited to talk to you guys.

Tom, first of all, how are you doing?

I thought that... you really nailed, and this is retreading old ground, but you really nailed the balance of gameplay and travel experience and tension and fun moments.

And it just, it really, like from start to finish.

And they were also just like, I feel like there were moments that were elevated beyond what I normally even expect from jet lag.

I think that things like you arriving at the build a house of cards challenge at roughly the same time was like such a cool early like, competitive moment, but then you also have these cool moments of going to the bamboo forest and seeing the sunset and the baseball game while you're at the village on the TV, even though it probably wasn't the same game.

[upbeat music]

Welcome to Baggage Claim, an unofficial Jet Lag: The Game companion podcast.

Today, we're unpacking episode one of season five, A Race to the End of the World.

I'm Jaiya.

Like, let's just say in game design they underestimated how long something would take or they overestimated how long something would take, five challenges just means that there are more chances for something to be wrong than a route with two challenges on it.

And so I think especially early in this game, like, I really would wanna take the safer but longer route.

That being said, I do understand Sam's psychology of taking the shorter route because his win record so far at this point in Jet Lag is kind of brutal.

Like, he's had a hard time with luck-based things, but I think that that generally has just given him a being behind mindset, and when you are behind, then taking the risky route is often what you wanna do, and so it makes sense to me why he's initially erring that direction.

Oh, OK. um there's a team that's a grandfather and grandson uh he is the the grandfather is the oldest person to ever be on the amazing race and the grandson is the youngest person to ever be on the amazing race so that's fun um yeah it's just it's a good time uh and the they're only like hour-long episodes which feels short uh so yeah the amazing race that makes

sense that you would be interested in that with how much you like the uh whatever the youtube show jet lag yeah

yes it is also like in the current season they went they started in vancouver and they've gone to spain and uh morocco um so just getting to see different places in different parts of the world and stuff it's fun cool

uh listeners let us know what you've been watching and enjoying what you are thinking about season 51 by emailing us at tribal council podcast at gmail.com and this for this week of tribal council this is chris signing off this is patrick and the tribe has spoken

Also, some of them are not worth, like, a whole day to go to and, like, turn around.

You know what I mean? So it's like there has to be something with making some sort of, like, hunt with these locations and make this something that we can, like – split the group up and kind of collectively collectively go to and my husband watches this show called jet lag on uh is it nebula um it's like i've heard of it oh it's so great um it's like a it's like a youtube kind of place it's more subscription based i don't know if you need to have a subscription though for nebula but jet lag is so much fun it's kind of been like honestly like if i like reality tv it's not really a reality tv show it's a it's a contest it's like a competition yeah but this is what I like like traders and like I'm like this is

my

jet lagged really inspired this because they do check-ins and they have challenges so I used that kind of framework to make this and our discord was honestly it worked perfect I was nervous of how am I going to do this so like what is the platform and discord just made the most sense I made a whole channel y'all this guy is right And, like, we had Team MK, Team Tiffany, Team Tori.

And they knew their teams for a very long time ahead of time.

Like, that was something we released pretty quickly.

From Reddit comments, to emails, to people coming up to me on the street, you all made it clear that you loved it and that you wanted more.

So we asked ourselves, if Crime Spree was a show on a YouTube channel, what would that YouTube channel be? What's come out of that is Wendover's first ever live action YouTube channel, Jet Lag: The Game.

[squawks] America, Sam.

Third time.

To be honest, we've sunk a huge amount of time and budget into this channel, so it would mean a lot to us if you at least gave it a try.

But I think anyone who loves travel and transportation will love this show, so since you're already watching Wendover, this'll probably be for you.

Once again, just click the link in the description to head over to the Jet Lag: The Game channel, and thanks in advance for supporting the newest addition to the Wendover network of channels.