Some thoughts in Emirates First Class with the OG Spacegoods Team Member - Doc the Journey Ep 81

So we're in first class. Flo is busy working, as always, being the operational dog that he is. Yeah, I've been doing first class for a while. Did it first time about six years ago. Never gets old, though. Always get very drunk, well, relatively drunk with the Dom Perignon and so on. I actually made a, like, first class vlog review in 2018 on my old.

Channel, which I still can't figure out.

How to get back. I used to watch the plane vloggers doing this all the time. So it's quite funny that I'm now filming on here. This camera is much better because it's wide angles. You see how big this thing is? Yeah, it just never gets old. It's always a flex in it. Obviously on points. Would probably never pay 6k one way at this stage of my life.

In fact, I definitely wouldn't.

But 100,000 points plus 500 quid is a pretty good deal. So brought Flo along. It's like a end of year, I guess, bonus in a way because he's a big hustler. Been with me since day one. And, yeah, I always try and have a tradition where I don't work on these planes. I just, like, chill and try and think and, I don't know, come up with ideas and that. Whereas some people love to work. He's been on his laptop the entire fucking time. He sat next to me doing that. Yeah, I also usually don't get WI fi, although this time I decided to pay for WI fi. Should have got it for free, but it wouldn't let me log in. So, yeah, I've had a few champagnes. Bloody Mary. This is the third day in a row drinking. It's not a great idea, but it's been a pretty heavy weekend. We're flying to Amsterdam, actually, because we couldn't get a flight straight to London, funnily enough. But then we just thought it, we'll do a day in Amsterdam, so maybe some mushrooms and some sightseeing there, literally just for the day. Get there tonight, leave tomorrow at like 7pm, then back in London until Christmas. And we'll see what. Well, we'll see what's what, I guess. But, yeah, wide angle lens. Need a haircut, as always. I'm gonna enjoy the rest of this flight and maybe give. I might film again when I've got some caviar coming. So. Yeah, there we go. Bush. Always a very cozy setup. I find I wear slippers and just put my feet up. I do find these chairs a bit annoying in terms of Adjusting them. It's very much a first world problem. I'm not complaining but just Conte and yeah, it's my first time but it always just feels, always feels like the first time. Emirates first. Always a nice little treat. So yeah, Flo's sat there on his laptop. Typical. I'm very much not. Maybe he's a better team member than me. But yeah, good, good to bring the team and I'm gonna put out things then every six months someone in the team gets a first class flight or something so hopefully that'll be a good motor there going forward. Very cozy wall up. Be having a shower later. Got me the most of it. Last so just had a shower. Don't know if you can hear me at all. It's quite cosy in here. It's like a little house. Had a few bevs. I'm feeling almost hungover on the flight from the flight. I always do this whenever I fly. Business or first? Especially first. I just drink far too much. I had like six drinks. I was out Friday night. We did a yacht day yesterday. This is not normal process for me by the way. This is end of year sending and then yeah, had terrible anxiety so thought it'd be a good idea to drink loads more today basically. And when you're in first class it's hard to turn it down. So I'm now on the fruit, the electrolytes and hopefully shortly I'll feel better. So we land tonight at 8pm Local. I was going to say we go sour house something but probably just go straight to bed up early tomorrow. I've got Monday morning calls, team calls, etc. We want to then do loads of mushrooms. Let me fly back home at the 6pm which is going to be a full on day but we're a mushroom brand so I feel like we should be doing mushrooms in Amsterdam. Especially when we're flying to Amsterdam and then Flo's coming to London for a few days. We've got a big team day on Wednesday. Talk about plans for next year and then doing the whole Christmas party thing. But for us it's just like nine of us going to crazy golf and then winter wonderland which is always shit but I love it so it's really decent. I can't believe at all that it's Christmas in like 9 days, 10 days. Drink really affects me these days. It fucks your sleep which is the main thing. It makes you eat shit food. Makes me feel paranoid and anxious and depressed. Yeah, I still do it now and then but electrolytes haven't trained in two days, need to train tomorrow. Electrolytes sleep well tonight? No drink all week while I say that until Wednesday. But I guess there's an extent of living a little all that. It's that time of year. I considered going fully tea total many times and I guess ultimately I just thought the hangovers are worth it for a good send now and then. So as long as it's not a regular thing, then fuck it, why not? So yeah, I don't know what else I've got to say. I guess land in Amsterdam surely and I'll see you on the other side.

We're in what looks like a co work space. It's actually a fucking airline lounge in Amsterdam. Schiphol, however you say it, very heavy few days layover in Amsterdam as we landed yesterday from Dubai. Quite a random and unnecessary stopover. I've had three days basically on the. On the booze which is not usual for me. Bit of mushrooms today or truffles, the completely legal version of course. Felt a bit weird this afternoon. I think rainbow dust is probably a better form of mushroom than the real shit from the ground. And yeah, jeez, drinking and all that stuff just fries my brain when I'm trying to work. And I don't like traveling every time. Well I don't like traveling on weekdays. Every time you travel it feels like a full day is gone. So yeah, Monday's been pretty much ruined. Had to move our team call because we were both away a bunch of one to ones, et cetera. So trying to catch up a little bit before the flight but I just don't know what it is for me. I feel like I can't fully focus. It's definitely not. I probably do enough but to me I don't fully focus when I'm traveling and away from my big screen. I need to kind of have lock in at my proper desk. I don't know if it's like ADHD or some sort of autism or whatever it is or just an excuse which is probably more realistic but fine. When I'm just laptop in random places I can do like a bit of work but not as much as I would normally. But yeah, I just need to get.

The fuck out of that.

Like I'm so behind on emails, Slack messages, bunch of different things I know.

I need to do.

I feel like I become a procrastinator when I've been drinking the past few days and yeah, it's not good. So Dubai was fun, the weekend was good. But definitely to catch up this week on a bunch of shit lots of big things happening lots of things that I need to do and finish and so on. So yeah I appear to be a full time vlogger now filming pretty much wherever I go so that's definitely a change to this channel but yeah busy week. December's looking a lot more efficient than November because we went heavy on acquisition which was always the plan pulled about this month and you know get the benefit of being a subscription business with lots of repeats coming in and then obviously just gearing up for hopefully a really fat January which was our best cohort on lowest CAC all year in 2024 so hopefully we'll be the same in 25 kicking off next next month so it's kind of crazy it's 25, 2025 in 15 days or 14 days and it's Christmas in nine days which is weird need to buy some presents.

So yeah there we go lots going on catching a bit.