Close your window shade on midday flights. Feat Mo Amer
Summary
Mo Amer has a bone to pick with inconsiderate flyers who leave their window shades open on midday flights. The comedian and Kareem bond over this shared pet peeve, with Amer declaring that anyone guilty of this offense "should lose all flight privileges." He's willing to grant a grace period until cruising altitude for takeoff viewing, but after that? You're just being thoughtless. The conversation spirals into the horrors of screen glare, with Kareem lamenting his inability to watch Lawrence of Arabia in peace. Amer admits he's personally closed other passengers' windows, even when they're awake, claiming he gets a "rousing standing ovation" from grateful fellow travelers. The riff eventually veers into airplane safety theater, with Amer confessing he hasn't worn a seatbelt on planes in years because flight attendants don't actually check.
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So, what's your take? Say it again. Loudest. How do you guys operate in these conditions? That's what I want to know. I feel like I'm fleeing war again.
So, what's your take? Anyone who's on an early to midday flight and leaves their window open should lose all flight privileges.
100% agree. You're out. The sun's coming in. What are you doing? I don't know.
Look, I'm going to give you until like cruising altitude. You enjoy the takeoff, look out the window, get a little bit of sun for a second. [laughter] And when we're cruising altitude, there's nothing else to look at. You're just being an—you're a thoughtless human being. You don't care about your fellow humans. It's one of my biggest pet peeves. I get on a flight.
Can't do it.
I'm ready to just relax a little bit. Yes.
And this person just has the window open. It's going on my screen. I can't watch Lawrence of Arabia. That's it.
How am I going to get through Dr. with a window open?
Impossible. And the reflection on the screen is the worst thing cuz it's ever changing. Maybe they're unaware.
Oh, so you're a well-meaning? Is that what you mean? [laughter]
Have you ever done this, sir? No. I've done this.
No. Oh, yeah.
No. Oh, yeah. No. It has to be done.
Were they awake or asleep? Both. [laughter]
Especially if I'm behind. I'm going—
No, you don't do that.
We're doing it to a rousing standing ovation in the airplane. Right. Everyone's like—
Everyone's like, "Oh, thank you."
I think it's novice travelers who are like, "I like looking at clouds."
What do you mean? Look up. Just look up. Just walk around and look up if that's what you [laughter] like to do. Go sit on a mountainside. Why are you doing this to me? You can just go look at clouds.
Because they're all the way up.
They're above the clouds.
So what?
They're above it.
Close it and pray to God that this plane lands safely.
They should probably tell people to lower the window.
They should absolutely tell.
They do sometimes. Especially takeoff, they want you to organize the plane for them. This whole like "Please put your seat back like this—3 in"—is really going to change everything. No, it's not. It's not going to do anything. It's not going to save your life. Nothing's going to save your life.
Seat belt.
Seat belt's not going to do it either. I haven't worn a seat belt in years, by the way, on an airplane. They don't even check.
They check.
No, they don't check. They check me. They just walk around.
They go like this to me.
No, they don't. It's not a roller coaster. They finger me. Whoa, whoa. I don't know what kind of flight you're on. Come on, Virgin Airlines. [laughter]