I'll never forget my ride from Seattle to Boise on the greyhound and heard 2 guys talking THE WHOLE 8 HR JOURNEY only to find out in the end it was only 1 person talking to himself in 2 different voices
How Danny gets around without a drivers license: There is enough slack on the chains to let him reach the computer and the toilet bucket, and in his dreams he can fly.
Hearing Simon say the name of Florida cities near me, makes me realize how absolutely legendary it would be for him to voice a BB trip navigation app. Of course it would have to call you a Bell end for making wrong turns and let you know anytime you're within 5 miles of a KFC.
They did something like that with the today i found out channel at some point, except I’m 99% sure it didn’t have any blazing comments since it predated this channel
300K subscribers idea: Danny will write a Biographics-style script about himself, and Simon reads it in the Biographics style and posts it here. It will be fun to see Simon try to not break character.
He can run that joke dry like the stale memes that have just become an irritant. ..... But.... Please bring back ETA, he's been in the wilderness long enough.
The part about Greyhound bus drivers _"behaving like prison wardens who threaten to throw you out of the bus in the middle of nowhere for the slightest violation"_ : Uhmmm.... something tells me someone got confused as to what prison wardens do with prisoners under their watch. 😂😂
@@-MarcusAurelius It is out in podcast form. The UA-cam video is not out as it came out as a podcast yesterday so it will probably be on UA-cam in a week.
My main memory of a Greyhound ride was taking a trip with a few layovers, and my luggage arrived well before me. I was jealous of whatever route my luggage took
I've ridden the greyhound many times (usually to get two or three provinces over for work) and i've had mostly good experiences on the loser cruiser. The one time something 'bad' happened, the driver beat the shit out of an unruly passenger and restrained him till the cops could show up. Turns out the driver is a military vet who used to teach hand to hand combat, so not all that bad in the end.
I live in British Columbia Canada. Greyhound used to be the primary transportation method between towns. They demanded subsidy from the goverment or they would leave the province. Greyhound no longer operates in British Columbia. Now we have a lot of smaller transportation companies that do the same thing, for a similar price, and it's usually a much better experience.
Greyhound got/gets subsidies in Canada and the USA to maintain low ridership routes. They had demanded a larger subsidy in B.C., and new subsidies in other prairie provinces. Bus subsidies still exists in B.C., they just go to other operators.
@@UniquelyPenny depending where you are in Northern ON, there are some smaller (and I mean small) options around......until lockdowns started. I think most of them went belly up too.......although with the current price of gas and insurance......can't blame them for not being able to turn a profit.
Ahhh yes Greyhound. You learn who has your back when you ride on a Greyhound bus. Before we were married my wife and I took a Greyhound from Baltimore to New York City. After several near Death experiences I knew that she was a partner who was in it for the long haul. I would like to thank the negligence of the Greyhound corporation for 15 years of happy marriage.
I love hearing you talking about what Danny says about Cornwall as being a joke. He literally isn't joking, that fudge shop has been the highlight of Tintagel for as long as I can remember and there is 1 bus a week in most places. There are no food delivery services there and the closest supermarket is like 40 minutes by car away lol
The village shop is decently stocked I've always found though, I've never needed anything I couldn't find in the village and I have stayed there in self catering accommodation many times.
That sounds both horrible and amazing at the same time. I personally would love to "live away from it all" but 40 minutes to the supermarket by car? D:
@@SwiftCreationStudio It's funny because it's literally my favourite place in the world. I've had a view from a hill above tintagel as my lockscreen for years and went there on holiday a couple months ago, even though I only like an hours drive away
@@Mikeey1 I live in America and my area has been going through a lot of growth lately when I was younger it was a bit more of a rural feel and now it just feels too busy. I have some friends in a few countries over there and the areas look very quaint and peaceful. I enjoy that sort of feel but I also love the access to the city because I usually ride a Bicycle which would be horrible if I needed to get some food
Sounds a lot like rurel Montana where I grew up (though it was an hour and half to the nearest supermarket). But it seems so odd to me that its in the UK that is about the size of MT but incredibly more populated...
@@michaelimbesi2314 yes communities are quite segregated by income, but a great deal of the American population is comparatively very poor, and most of the people I know have indeed ridden a greyhound, but I grew up in very impoverished condition and likewise so did many of my friends. People have a unique tendency to form enclaves like that.
@@michaelimbesi2314 but yeah my point was a whole lot of people have to deal with greyhounds at least once in their life, while many Americans don't understand what it's like for the other half of their fellow citizens to travel cross-country. I'm just glad Simon got to see what authentic Americana is like
I’m American and I’m glad I have never had to take greyhound, closest two things I have done is ridden a coach in England ( Bath to London, not that anyone is interested) and taken Amtrak Of course getting stuck behind a tractor in the UK ? I saw signs in England saying ‘ Tank crossing’ I didn’t see one tank in the wild , so disappointing.
As a former coach driver, I once skillfully caught a pheasant through a forward tilted skylight. I can still hear the screams, but didn't think the blood splatter was as bad as some of my passengers made out !
FYI, because it happened in Canada, Greyhound could apologize for the whole beheading incident without any possible legal liability arising from the apology. There is a Canadian law that makes it so that an apology does not imply any liability for whatever you're apologizing about. Other facts may or may not imply legal liability, but an apology does not.
Doesn’t the carrying of a ‘ Rambo’ (tm) knife violate greyhounds rules at least killing a fellow passenger should , or telling someone to ( ‘ Sorry GOD you told a passenger to kill another passenger, so you are banded for life ! )
It very much does lmfaoooooooooo 99% of Americans have never taken a greyhound anywhere, not sure how exactly that equates to “this is our society in a nutshell” but it doesn’t and you’re wrong lol
I once rode a Greyhound bus from Nashville, TN to Yakima, WA. A little over 2,000 miles. A lot of the usual crazy and annoying things happened but two issues in particular scared me. On the fifth night we were driving through the Rocky Mountains. I was a little worried as it was snowing outside but the road was clear enough to see the asphalt and painted lines. A while later I had fallen asleep in the very first seat on the passenger/right side if the bus. I was awaken by what I thought was a bump the bus had experienced. I looked over to see our driver leaned back in his seat ASLEEP and snoring. We were traveling about 75 miles per hour downhil on a long straight away. However we had a left hand turn coming up in about six miles that was tight. Speed warning signs advised 45mph for the turn. I jumped out of my seat over to the steering wheel taking hold of it to hold it steady and yelled at the driver. With my left foot I reached over and began to gently apply the breaks. I yelled at the driver again and he woke up but was in a groggy state. He realized what was happening, took the wheel and brake and told me to get in my seat. At this point many of the passengers had woken up and some were crying or yelling in fright. The bus began to slide sideways with the front of the bus moving left and the rear moving right. We were off line by about 10 or 15 degrees. I yelled at the bus driver to let off the brake to straighten us, not take the turn at all and hit the runaway truck ramp just before the turn. He yelled "What, why?!!!" He had already ket off the brake and we straightened out. I said " If we have ice here the corner will too. We can't slow down and we can't make that turn at this speed!!!" I yelled at everyone to " Brace on the seat in front if you!!! We are going to slow down really fast!!!" A runaway truck ramp is a very steep uphill road about a 1/4 of a mile long that is asphalt to dirt to sand that gets deeper and deeper. If maintained properly the sand at the end is loose and about 3 feet deep. I jumped in the empty seat behind mine so I had something to brace against. We hit the truck ramp and had enough speed to roll almost the entire 1/4 mile until we came to a resting stop. Once everyone caught there breath and seemed ok we opened the bus door to discover the wheels berried more than half way deep in sand. Being a time before cell phones we sat for an hour in freezing storm weather with the inside of the bus getting colder before a road salting truck and Sherif Deputy found us. Our driver was arrested when he failed the sobriety test three times. Three hours later we had a replacement bus at the bottom of the ramp to transfer too and a sober driver to get to Boise, ID.
@@mattcook9108 I wish it hadn't. I may not have elequently described how panicked sloppy and scared everyone was. How the bus weaved and wagged down the hill on the ice being lucky we didnt go backward or hit a snow bank. Sort of like someone decribing a fight where it sounds like a pro boxing match but actually was swinging windmill arms making a lucky connect. Ever since I have been paranoid of drunk bus drivers, pilots when flying, being in a high rise building built buy construction workers high on meth and other drugs. That wasn't even the worst part of the trip. I got dumped downtown Boise ID at 2am to transfer busses in winter without winter cloths and got robbed.
@@kathleensiegrist1457 i have never been on a bus going longer than the 3 hours from Seattle to Portland since. I have heard Greyhound is much better about drug test, driver reviews and such now. Having a chronic acaholic driving drunk like we had is far less likely now.
Simon isn't kidding, I used to take many 15+ hour Greyhound trips home to visit my family, and there were few routes I found pleasant. I remember one time dozing off out of Louisville and somewhere around Nashville waking up to everyone screaming and the bus fishtailing across the highway in an ice storm...and I had a window seat! 🙄
Rode a Greyhound alone for the first time when I was 8, with a 5 hour layover in Toronto. As a kid from a Northern village...it was an experience, to say the least. The driver was all "sure, I'll keep an eye on this solo child passenger" and then promptly forgot about me. Thankfully, one of the ticket sellers in Toronto took me under her wing and kept me away from the druggies and aggressive people demanding money and food from me.
I know the Winnipeg bus driver. He was very brave and thought fast. He pulled over as quick as possible, immobilized the bus, grabbed a small wooden bat (apparently Greyhound bus drivers all need a weapon on board) and went to help the man. Two male passengers had already tried to help him but realized quickly they could do nothing so all three men focused on getting the other passengers off the bus. The driver locked the door to protect passengers and he and the two men helping stood guard at the door while Vince tried to break out to attack other passengers. It was only when Vince failed he went back to poor Tim and started his 'show'. Sadly the driver has not been able to work since but he and the men that helped probably saved many more lives that day. Imagine that for a day at work!
I remember seeing it on the news it's the video of him pacing back and forth on the bus carrying the head is burned into my brain. ☹️ It's also terrifying that they let him back out in public.
@@dannyharbour3951 Well he was smart enough to grab it to use if need be and stop Vince from potentially using it so props to him. It must have taken a lot of courage from those two men to be the only two to try to save Tim and worry about the other passengers.
there should have been violin music playing while Simon told his harrowing tale of having to be in close proximity to poor people for an extended period
I'm quite sure Greyhound requires that wherever possible all stations must be constructed as close to drug dealers as possible. It's a service to their typical clientele.
On my family vacation to the USA in 2015, we went around California on Greyhound buses. When I told a visiting American delegation at a conference about how I had an OK experience on Greyhound, they found my story hilarious because apparently, the reputation of bus travel was that bad.
As a Canadian, I remember the Edmonton-Winnipeg cannibalism incident from the news. I suspect this was a major driving force behind the demise of Greyhound in Canada... and as someone who doesn't drive for medical reasons, I miss the service.
Living outside of Winnipeg, a lot of us miss the service. It was used to get to many a doctor’s appointment. The incident outside Portage really did rattle people though.
You were correct in the use of “insane”. Contrary to popular belief, insanity is a legal term meaning that at the time of the crime, the perpetrator couldn’t tell right from wrong, usually due to psychosis or drugs that cause one to break from reality
I’d love to hear Greyhound bus station stories!! Once I saw a man duck into a doorway do an amazing quick change and cam out dressed as a woman! She headed back in the direction she came from. It made me wonder then I realized I really didn’t want to know.
Could we get an episode were Danny chooses the topic as well? Simon comes in completely blind to what the topic is until Danny reveals it 15 pages in at the end of the intro.
Brain Blaze finally bringing me a story close to home! To bad it's a messed up one. I live in Brandon, Manitoba and when I was a kid we drove past the Greyhound bus scene the next morning after the incedent. We were driving to Winnipeg to take a Greyhound bus tour to Minniapolis, Minnesota the next day... The trip was pretty good otherwise, no one lost there heads at least. Oh and keep up the great work on Brain Blaze Simon, it's my favorite channel!
In Canada you don't need to legally "cover yourself". According to Canadian law saying "I'm sorry" is not a legal admission of guilt, we understand that you're just saying; "I'm sorry that this happened"
And they all smell like cow sh!t despite no cows being visible. And they would definitely be visible. We used to watch radio towers in the distance and bet on how many hours would go by before we passed it.
Fun fact: In Canada, saying "sorry" cannot be taken as an admission of guilt, legally. Because it's a meme, but it's also true that we say "sorry" for everything, whether it's our fault or not. Also losing Greyhound service in Canada was a massive blow to a large portion of the citizenry who relied on bus transport as well as for shipping goods. (Our alternatives are Canada Post - ew - or Fedex/Purolator/UPS which are much more expensive than shipping by Greyhound used to be.) And about Vince Li? Sorry.
Never considered over-ground shipping via Grayhound. Having both sent and received packages from Canada post and private shipping companies while in the US, makes sense.
You should swap Danny and Callum for a week. They’re both hilarious, give them room to explore. Metaphorically of course, don’t let them out of the basement
I rode a Greyhound when I was a kid, I think 11 or 12, and a US Marine sat next to me. He was on his way back to Iraq. Nice guy. Until he told me that if he fell asleep on me that it's safest if I didn't wake him. Because he'd most likely break both my arms if I did. Now I get that it's because he was a soldier but I, the 11 year old, wasn't super thrilled about this. He did fall asleep on me, and I thought I was going to die.
16:18 Maybe to people who haven't ridden Greyhound or really any public transportation in the US. The rest of us know, Simon's not exaggerating about how sketchy it is at all.
Companies use greyhound to carry heavy cargo all the time. I worked for a commercial roofing company, we'd ship a 5 gallon bucket of screws 1/4 of the way across the country when we needed to, then the foreman would go to the bus depot to get it.
I took a bus from London to Amsterdam, and the driver had to be flown in from a country that drives on the correct side of the road. Took him a couple of everyone freaking the hell out behind him for him to realize, despite the inspirational speech. He got the bus stuck into the Tube sideways, and tried to get it out for hours and hours before he took a break, making everyone in the world wait behind us while he drank tea, ate sandwiches and mumbled about labor laws.
I was unaware of the interesting people who find their way on to every Greyhound before I took my first trip on one. I was scarred for life afterwards.
I'm Canadian and my experiences are utterly different than most described. I've taken a tremendous amount of public transit over the years (mostly around Vancouver, BC or Edmonton, AB) as well as taking Greyhound a number of times. I've had overwhelmingly positive experiences. The most dramatic event was once two women talked harshly to each other for 10 seconds, but the other passengers talked the situation down and they separated. Yes, sometimes there were people who were inebriated, but they were quiet or non-hostile. The Greyhound was a nice resource to get from Vancouver back to the Kootenays (12h trip) when I was in college. It was also a nice resource when flights couldn't land in the Castlegar airport because of weather in the mountains, and people had to be bussed 6h from Kelowna. I have no idea what they'll do now that Greyhound is gone.
Years ago I took a Greyhound bus from rural Florida to Austin Texas. It honestly changed the way I saw the world, I recommend it to absolutely no one. As I got on the bus in Florida a young black man with basketball shorts and a graphic tee asked me to sit next to him, so I did. About 2 hours into our trip he started counting bills and wrapping them with rubber bands. If I had to wager he had over $10k in his carry on bag, as we approached Tallahassee he asked me to carry his bag off the bus for him. Me being an ignorant fool did what he asked. Our first major stop was Tallahassee, when he came off the bus carrying my bag, they stopped him and searched every single pocket of it diligently. When I got off the bus they waved me past like it was nothing, I proceeded to watch over half of the bus have all of their belongings deeply searched while every single white person got off without a hitch. Moving on from Tallahassee I had a layover of a few hours in Birmingham Alabama. Only incident on the bus was the bathroom in the corner reeking of weed the entire ride. I took a taxi to the historical district and looked at all the sites to be seen. Got hungry and took a stroll down the backroads past some slum looking apartments and into a run down neighborhood. Had the best grits of my life, but I was the only white person in the building and everyone noticed. Was rather intimidating walking out to the parking lot with so many people watching me. Back on the bus heading towards Texas our next big stop was New Orleans, passing through the French Quarter was nothing like what pictures and movies show, it was an experience in itself. I plan to actually visit the city in the future. I got a bus swap at that depot to a bus full of nice Cajuns headed to Cinco De Mayo in Houston. The man I sat next to shared his life story with me and I shared mine with his. In Houston I had a 4 hour layover and met up with a friend of mine who took me to an aquarium where I was amazed to find out they had white tigers on account of so many tigers being rescued from captivity in Texas that even aquariums took in rescues to provide proper care for them. Heading out of Houston I had a nice nap on the ride to San Antonio where I swapped to the bus that took me to Austin. After getting onto the bus to Austin a nice seeming man sat next to me, we conversed and he showed me all his prison tattoos. Nearing the end of the trip he told me he was traveling there from LA chasing someone his gang had a hit out for. He showed me the guy and the news stories surrounding the hit. Long story short he was a serial sexual predator and had messed with someone's daughter who was in the gang. In Austin I spent time with my friends I was visiting and had a great time. It is one of my favorite cities I have visited. Rounding the trip back from Austin had a long drive to New Orleans with someone really messed up on some drug I couldn't name. Guy made a pipe out of a Red Bull can and smoked it up in the middle of the bus ride. I assume it was meth, but I don't have experience to know. Whole bus spent hours listening to this guy ramble about demons and hoodoo voodoo and all kinds of nutty stuff. After bus swapping in New Orleans the next bus I was on had no AC. Middle of summer rolling from New Orleans to Tallahassee with no AC was one of the actual worst experiences of my life and I have had a lot of bad experiences since that bus ride. From Tallahassee it was back home and that was the nicest ride of all of them. Had an elderly couple across the aisle from me and no one sitting next to me, chatted with them about life and when I got to my stop I hopped off and headed home. I applied for the first travel rewards card I could after that and AmEx travel is insurmountably better than that Greyhound experience. I highly recommend a gold card if you can afford it. If you fly even once a year the annual fee pays for itself in my opinion.
I spent my 20's traveling around the U.S. by greyhound. Greyhound helped me with some of my most valuable memories. Chasing after loved ones, going to college, and seeing the U.S. through my own eyes. I grew up traveling, I was an Air Force brat. Moving was in my blood and it was a lot cheaper to travel by greyhound. If I could relive my life I wouldn't change anything. I've enjoyed my life. I have no regrets.
My first time on a Greyhound was when I was 18 and freshly discharged from Navy basic training for medical reasons. Rejected, dejected, and depressed when I got there, the sheer terror of spending a day on the bus and arriving at an inner city depot at midnight insured the pain of failing at my childhood dream wasn't the low point of my life. Thank you Greyhound.
simon venting how he truly feels is actually quite cathartic and healing. like after watching this, i no longer feel the need to tell off my boss or fire my whole crew. you are saving many lives. cheers.
Back in 2008 while going to school in Florida I was looking for an easy way to get from Orlando to Naples and Grayhound seemed perfect since they were only a few hours distance from one another. From the start of the journey until the end, the trip took over twelve hours because of several huge disruptions and it was an overall horrendous experience. It was also hilarious at the same time because during that period there were ads and flags all over the terminals that read, "Experience the great NEW Greyhound!". Like .... wow. I wonder what the old Greyhound was like.
Let me just add this little anecdote. Roughly 10 years ago, my wife and I had just started living together in downtown OKC, but not the nice part. It was within walking distance to the hospital where my wife worked and also within walking distance to the main Bus Station for OKC. At that time, the Greyhound Bus Station was next to it. One day, while walking to the municipal bus station, a drive-by occurred at the greyhound and I was hit by one of the errant projectiles. It definitely changed my life, and Greyhound was involved.
I used to have to take the Greyhound home from college during breaks, because it was relatively reliable (compared to the train) and it was cheap. Six to seven hours on a Greyhound each way. I was SO grateful when, my final semester, my mom said I could take the car back to college and drive myself to and from college on breaks.
That cannibal guy is the epitome of why I won't, nor let someone I love, ride on a Greyhound.. That haunts Alberta as a whole to this day. Duuuude was maaad!
I rode the Greyhound bus from Denver to Houston in two days, and it was the worst experience ever. It wasn’t the bus itself or the drivers. It was the other customers. It also was much cheaper than a Frontier flight which is just as unpleasant but is a shorter ride. I can’t believe Simon went for coast to coast.
I had one experience with a Greyhound bus that pretty much put me off them forever. Family vacay, long trip, Greyhound bus. Something went ... wrong. At least one of the tires just ... started on fire. For ... reasons. Fortunately we all made it off the bus without injury. Weirdly ... it happened right outside of a town named BURNS Harbor. Spooky. And we proceeded to watch the bus driver put out the fire and then stand around waiting f o r e v e r at the outer skits of a SNAKE FARM?! because that's just the kind of weird $#!7 this was. No "we're sorry". No discount or refund. No hotel as we wait for another bus to resume our trip. Just sitting outside a snake farm hour after hour, watching the bus smoulder with our stuff still in it.
I have literally seen someone get thrown off in the middle of no where Utah because they smoked in the bathroom during the middle of the night. The bus driver did specifically warn us that if anyone smoked they were off the bus immediately 😂
The bull jizz story isn't even surprising to me. The US is huge, and the cost of gas to transport each shipment individually by car can be pretty onerous. A lot of delivery services probably won't take biohazard stuff without a hell of a surcharge, if they do at all, so sending it via courier on a Greyhound bus is the most economical option.
Yeah but, if it got as hot as that in the luggage compartment, it wasn't going to be very viable by the time it got to it's destination. Stud semen needs to be refrigerated or frozen.
I used to be a service director for United Airlines Cargo. We shipped A LOT of semen. This was semen from highly prized bloodlines. Shipments were always insured for thousands.
I don't know what year(s) you experienced your Greyhound Slog Across the USA, but the last time I rode on a Greyhound bus was in 1995. I was still in college and didn't have a car yet, so if I wanted to go home for the weekend I had to find a ride on the ride share board in the student union, or buy a Greyhound ticket. Since the bus terminal was literally a block from my dormitory, I regularly rode the bus home & back on the weekends. It took an hour one way, but Greyhound busses somehow manage to warp time so that every minute feels like ten. I'm guessing it's because at least half of the passengers always looked/were absolutely miserable. By the time the bus pulled into the terminal in Grand Rapids (Michigan; I went to school in East Lansing), I had been ready to get off the bus for 45 minutes. It always felt a bit like putting my life in jeopardy since you never knew the driver's qualifications, and you didn't always get the same driver for the route, even if it was the same route, same day, same time. There was one driver who I dreaded seeing behind the wheel; his name was Manny and he tended to start to nod off a bit when he had to run the heater on the bus in the winter. Every ten or fifteen minutes the bus would jerk as he jammed on the brakes when he regained consciousness, or the bus would swerve suddenly into the next lane over, causing whole moments of excitement for the unsuspecting, innocent, conscious drivers in that lane, and the maneuver was celebrated by much honking and animated hand gestures from all parties involved. I'm glad you survived your multi-DAY trip across the states; I would have been begging for mercy somewhere in Ohio.
Watching immediately for the thumbnail alone! Also, I hope BrainBlaze slowly turns into a highly informative but mildly boring channel all about business.
This is my all time favorite, reminding me of my Greyhound journey from New Orleans to Tallahassee, where the overhead racks were full of live chickens.
🔥 Biz-Blazing again, Simon. Whether reading a script or speaking a stream-of-consciousness, this episode’s 100% lit & a-blaze via transport industry kindling.
I've rode the greyhound once, from near Atlanta to Salt Lake City. Having spent four years in prison previously, the overall vibe of the experience reminded me of prison and started giving me a bit of a flashback experience. Felt very much like being herded as cattle, with breaks limited to either the bare minimum required or what the driver felt was enough for them, being told where to stand or sit by angry people in uniforms, a lot of "hurry up and wait" situations, the overall disorganization and incompetence by those who insisted they were on top of things while in a way in charge of your whole life at that moment, etc. It wasn't all bad, met some interesting people and saw some places and landscapes I hadn't before, but overall 1/10 would not recommend. Rented a car and drove back when it was time to come home lol
So as a disabled persons, who resides in Texas, I prefer to take the "tornado" bus line. It's a Mexican charter line, and I book a seat on a double decker bus, in which the bottom level is reserved for disabled and handicapped, where we get two seats to ourselves 😃
Waiting for a Brain Blaze video about weird names for planets and Simon ranting about why they are named like that. Usually planets with an assortment of random letters and numbers
I sincerely hope that Sam takes that "ohh master" bit from the last episode and just uses it whenever he can as a recurring meme. Makes me laugh every time 😂
One reason for the crazy place names here in the States is because of a post office rule forbidding more than one town in a state having the same name. Combine that with the sheer size of states, and you get some truly bonkers Old New South East North West unpronounceable chaos. Danny could do a few episodes on the strangest place names in the USA and the weird thing they are known for.
@@85set05 I think the rule is from back in the colonial era before zip codes were invented. Having more than one settlement with the same name in a state would have made getting the mail to the correct recipient much more difficult.
@@MeduseldRabbit I see, have you ever seen The Postman? The boy with the letter scene is truly amazing and one of the best emotional scenes in all of cinema.
What a time to be alive when one of the vintage memes comes from one of the other UA-cam channels that I used to watch. Great times, great times indeed!
My great grandma and her friend of 60 years took the Greyhound regularly. They’d go for the four hour drive and take a whole German sandwich shop with them. Two adorable little old German ladies became well known in the Greyhound lines and would also hand out their sandwiches and sausages and cheeses that they brought with them to fellow passengers and drivers. This was also pretty recent. 2016, I believe. They both still bemoan that they cannot take the bus anymore.
I can totally relate with the person sitting next to you. I love doing road trips and will often take breaks in parking lots. I always look for the area where nobody is, roll down the windows, and enjoy my daily dose of Simon! Within 10 minutes they’ll be 2-3 cars parked around me despite there being plenty of other parking spots.
As someone from Edmonton Alberta Canada, I can say that I'm actually quite content with Greyhound leaving Canada, and the reason is in this video! Yay! >.> There are new companies here starting to pick up the slack now, though some small towns are still sol :/
@@Kiefsti If Casual criminalist is to true for you, maybe you should go watch some feel-good media propaganda about dumb stuff instead like, "how a blind puppy payed for it's own cancer treatment by selling cheap lemonade to diabetic rich people..." For the rest of us BB. and CC. are windows through which we look once in a while to confirm, that the world is still on fire... BLAAAAAZE!1
I recently was forced to take a Greyhound bus. I would have normally taken an Amtrak but the route was closed. And I couldn’t fly because I had a 2 foot tall bong in my carry-on. It was my first time on greyhound. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. I will never go on one of those buses again.
As a veterinarian I have to frequent the local greyhound station to get rabies samples shipped to the state health department. These terminals are truly terrifying pits of despair, and that’s coming from a man who spends his days treating stray pit bulls and stitching hit by car animals back together.
I'll never forget my ride from Seattle to Boise on the greyhound and heard 2 guys talking THE WHOLE 8 HR JOURNEY only to find out in the end it was only 1 person talking to himself in 2 different voices
LIAR LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE
Well....you just didn't see, perceive the other person, this is on you!
The twist is...
There wasn't even the one guy. You're nuts!
Creepy
As long as they weren't arguing
How Danny gets around without a drivers license: There is enough slack on the chains to let him reach the computer and the toilet bucket, and in his dreams he can fly.
Omg yes
Don't forget, Simon graciously gave him a VR set that Danny uses regularly.
@@susinatorThat's a cardboard box with pictures taped to the inside.
Hearing Simon say the name of Florida cities near me, makes me realize how absolutely legendary it would be for him to voice a BB trip navigation app. Of course it would have to call you a Bell end for making wrong turns and let you know anytime you're within 5 miles of a KFC.
Yes!
Hahaha. 👍☝️
You are at your destination! Am I right Peter!
@@darshfulford You're right. Peter.
They did something like that with the today i found out channel at some point, except I’m 99% sure it didn’t have any blazing comments since it predated this channel
300K subscribers idea:
Danny will write a Biographics-style script about himself, and Simon reads it in the Biographics style and posts it here. It will be fun to see Simon try to not break character.
Sounds good to me
I second this
it should even have the biographics intro sound instead of the business blaze intro sound
Let's make this happen
We need more likes on this genius idea
"The great unwashed, crack cocaine addicts, homeless tramps, illegal immigrants and escaped convicts, and that's just the drivers" Dead! 😅😅😅
Fun fact: Multiple Greyhound trips will eventually turn you into one of the crazy Greyhound People. I've come dangerously close myself.
I mean, it’s a good way to keep people away from you.
Simon actually just pranked us all, and he's never going to stop saying Business Blaze in the intro.
@Mickey Holmes That's part of the prank, false hope.
He can run that joke dry like the stale memes that have just become an irritant.
.....
But....
Please bring back ETA, he's been in the wilderness long enough.
I hope so! Cause ik never gonna stop calling it that 🤷♂️🤣
@Mickey Holmes and yet he mentions that it is now called brain blaze a few minutes later.
The part about Greyhound bus drivers _"behaving like prison wardens who threaten to throw you out of the bus in the middle of nowhere for the slightest violation"_ : Uhmmm.... something tells me someone got confused as to what prison wardens do with prisoners under their watch. 😂😂
I guess there might be the odd driver who threatens to throw you in the cargo hold for the slightest violation...
I have been laughing at this comment for a full five minutes. Bravo!
Hey if you can't be a proper prisoner get out of here! Just leave you jerk!
Tends to be the first place you go after prison is a greyhound bus. :U
Well this ties in nicely with a Casual Criminalist episode...
The Canadian one ab the slight beheading. Terrible accident
@@davidwetrich3047 a mild outbreak of headlessness
Has this one been released? I don’t remember it
@@-MarcusAurelius I don’t know about UA-cam, it it’s out on Spotify.
@@-MarcusAurelius It is out in podcast form. The UA-cam video is not out as it came out as a podcast yesterday so it will probably be on UA-cam in a week.
My main memory of a Greyhound ride was taking a trip with a few layovers, and my luggage arrived well before me. I was jealous of whatever route my luggage took
I've ridden the greyhound many times (usually to get two or three provinces over for work) and i've had mostly good experiences on the loser cruiser. The one time something 'bad' happened, the driver beat the shit out of an unruly passenger and restrained him till the cops could show up. Turns out the driver is a military vet who used to teach hand to hand combat, so not all that bad in the end.
Onboard entertainment!
I live in British Columbia Canada. Greyhound used to be the primary transportation method between towns. They demanded subsidy from the goverment or they would leave the province. Greyhound no longer operates in British Columbia. Now we have a lot of smaller transportation companies that do the same thing, for a similar price, and it's usually a much better experience.
Howdy from Sidney bc
They no longer operate anywhere in Canada. Which sucks for Northern Ontario. Think Mega Bus is filling in some of the gaps.
Greyhound got/gets subsidies in Canada and the USA to maintain low ridership routes. They had demanded a larger subsidy in B.C., and new subsidies in other prairie provinces. Bus subsidies still exists in B.C., they just go to other operators.
Hello from Delta, BC
@@UniquelyPenny depending where you are in Northern ON, there are some smaller (and I mean small) options around......until lockdowns started. I think most of them went belly up too.......although with the current price of gas and insurance......can't blame them for not being able to turn a profit.
Ahhh yes Greyhound. You learn who has your back when you ride on a Greyhound bus. Before we were married my wife and I took a Greyhound from Baltimore to New York City. After several near Death experiences I knew that she was a partner who was in it for the long haul. I would like to thank the negligence of the Greyhound corporation for 15 years of happy marriage.
I love hearing you talking about what Danny says about Cornwall as being a joke. He literally isn't joking, that fudge shop has been the highlight of Tintagel for as long as I can remember and there is 1 bus a week in most places. There are no food delivery services there and the closest supermarket is like 40 minutes by car away lol
The village shop is decently stocked I've always found though, I've never needed anything I couldn't find in the village and I have stayed there in self catering accommodation many times.
That sounds both horrible and amazing at the same time.
I personally would love to "live away from it all" but 40 minutes to the supermarket by car? D:
@@SwiftCreationStudio It's funny because it's literally my favourite place in the world. I've had a view from a hill above tintagel as my lockscreen for years and went there on holiday a couple months ago, even though I only like an hours drive away
@@Mikeey1 I live in America and my area has been going through a lot of growth lately when I was younger it was a bit more of a rural feel and now it just feels too busy.
I have some friends in a few countries over there and the areas look very quaint and peaceful.
I enjoy that sort of feel but I also love the access to the city because I usually ride a Bicycle which would be horrible if I needed to get some food
Sounds a lot like rurel Montana where I grew up (though it was an hour and half to the nearest supermarket). But it seems so odd to me that its in the UK that is about the size of MT but incredibly more populated...
As have recently riding on a greyhound bus, I can vouch for all of them, and can even add some stories myself...
That's a cruel way to describe intercourse with your wife.
As an American I'm glad Simon had an authentic American experience that most of us live with :)
Most of us? I’ve never ridden a greyhound and neither has anyone I know.
@@michaelimbesi2314 yes communities are quite segregated by income, but a great deal of the American population is comparatively very poor, and most of the people I know have indeed ridden a greyhound, but I grew up in very impoverished condition and likewise so did many of my friends. People have a unique tendency to form enclaves like that.
@@michaelimbesi2314 but yeah my point was a whole lot of people have to deal with greyhounds at least once in their life, while many Americans don't understand what it's like for the other half of their fellow citizens to travel cross-country. I'm just glad Simon got to see what authentic Americana is like
@@keatoncampbell820 I hate riding Greyhounds they bite waaaay too much
I’m American and I’m glad I have never had to take greyhound, closest two things I have done is ridden a coach in England ( Bath to London, not that anyone is interested) and taken Amtrak
Of course getting stuck behind a tractor in the UK ? I saw signs in England saying ‘ Tank crossing’ I didn’t see one tank in the wild , so disappointing.
This is going to be good. Greyhound alway puts a crazy on every bus for everyone’s entertainment.
Just one? 😂😂
@@evilwelshman no lots now a day
You might have a whole bus full of crazies, but you're only guaranteed one.
It's like megabus in the UK but more so...
I never met a crazy while riding with them..............oh my gosh, I must have been the crazy :o
As a former coach driver, I once skillfully caught a pheasant through a forward tilted skylight. I can still hear the screams, but didn't think the blood splatter was as bad as some of my passengers made out !
As a former transit van driver who forced a pheasant though the radiator of the van you'll be surprised just how much blood a pheasant contains
Pheasant tastes good when fried in muffin batter.
FYI, because it happened in Canada, Greyhound could apologize for the whole beheading incident without any possible legal liability arising from the apology. There is a Canadian law that makes it so that an apology does not imply any liability for whatever you're apologizing about. Other facts may or may not imply legal liability, but an apology does not.
A positively Canadian legal principle...
@@welshdragon99 it really is lol
Doesn’t the carrying of a ‘ Rambo’ (tm) knife violate greyhounds rules at least killing a fellow passenger should , or telling someone to ( ‘ Sorry GOD you told a passenger to kill another passenger, so you are banded for life ! )
@@welshdragon99 how come canadians don't engage in group sex? - too many thank you notes to write afterwards.
I love that one of Simons only authentic American experiences is Greyhound. Doesn’t get more American then what he’s described.
It very much does lmfaoooooooooo 99% of Americans have never taken a greyhound anywhere, not sure how exactly that equates to “this is our society in a nutshell” but it doesn’t and you’re wrong lol
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I once rode a Greyhound bus from Nashville, TN to Yakima, WA. A little over 2,000 miles. A lot of the usual crazy and annoying things happened but two issues in particular scared me. On the fifth night we were driving through the Rocky Mountains. I was a little worried as it was snowing outside but the road was clear enough to see the asphalt and painted lines. A while later I had fallen asleep in the very first seat on the passenger/right side if the bus. I was awaken by what I thought was a bump the bus had experienced. I looked over to see our driver leaned back in his seat ASLEEP and snoring. We were traveling about 75 miles per hour downhil on a long straight away. However we had a left hand turn coming up in about six miles that was tight. Speed warning signs advised 45mph for the turn. I jumped out of my seat over to the steering wheel taking hold of it to hold it steady and yelled at the driver. With my left foot I reached over and began to gently apply the breaks. I yelled at the driver again and he woke up but was in a groggy state. He realized what was happening, took the wheel and brake and told me to get in my seat. At this point many of the passengers had woken up and some were crying or yelling in fright. The bus began to slide sideways with the front of the bus moving left and the rear moving right. We were off line by about 10 or 15 degrees. I yelled at the bus driver to let off the brake to straighten us, not take the turn at all and hit the runaway truck ramp just before the turn. He yelled "What, why?!!!" He had already ket off the brake and we straightened out. I said " If we have ice here the corner will too. We can't slow down and we can't make that turn at this speed!!!" I yelled at everyone to " Brace on the seat in front if you!!! We are going to slow down really fast!!!" A runaway truck ramp is a very steep uphill road about a 1/4 of a mile long that is asphalt to dirt to sand that gets deeper and deeper. If maintained properly the sand at the end is loose and about 3 feet deep. I jumped in the empty seat behind mine so I had something to brace against. We hit the truck ramp and had enough speed to roll almost the entire 1/4 mile until we came to a resting stop. Once everyone caught there breath and seemed ok we opened the bus door to discover the wheels berried more than half way deep in sand. Being a time before cell phones we sat for an hour in freezing storm weather with the inside of the bus getting colder before a road salting truck and Sherif Deputy found us. Our driver was arrested when he failed the sobriety test three times. Three hours later we had a replacement bus at the bottom of the ramp to transfer too and a sober driver to get to Boise, ID.
Holy crap that's my worst nightmare. Totally scary, glad you were on your p's and q's
Yeah, that didn't happen
@@mattcook9108 I wish it hadn't. I may not have elequently described how panicked sloppy and scared everyone was. How the bus weaved and wagged down the hill on the ice being lucky we didnt go backward or hit a snow bank. Sort of like someone decribing a fight where it sounds like a pro boxing match but actually was swinging windmill arms making a lucky connect. Ever since I have been paranoid of drunk bus drivers, pilots when flying, being in a high rise building built buy construction workers high on meth and other drugs. That wasn't even the worst part of the trip. I got dumped downtown Boise ID at 2am to transfer busses in winter without winter cloths and got robbed.
Wow!! I’d never get on a bus again
@@kathleensiegrist1457 i have never been on a bus going longer than the 3 hours from Seattle to Portland since. I have heard Greyhound is much better about drug test, driver reviews and such now. Having a chronic acaholic driving drunk like we had is far less likely now.
Simon isn't kidding, I used to take many 15+ hour Greyhound trips home to visit my family, and there were few routes I found pleasant. I remember one time dozing off out of Louisville and somewhere around Nashville waking up to everyone screaming and the bus fishtailing across the highway in an ice storm...and I had a window seat! 🙄
Rode a Greyhound alone for the first time when I was 8, with a 5 hour layover in Toronto. As a kid from a Northern village...it was an experience, to say the least. The driver was all "sure, I'll keep an eye on this solo child passenger" and then promptly forgot about me. Thankfully, one of the ticket sellers in Toronto took me under her wing and kept me away from the druggies and aggressive people demanding money and food from me.
I know the Winnipeg bus driver. He was very brave and thought fast. He pulled over as quick as possible, immobilized the bus, grabbed a small wooden bat (apparently Greyhound bus drivers all need a weapon on board) and went to help the man. Two male passengers had already tried to help him but realized quickly they could do nothing so all three men focused on getting the other passengers off the bus. The driver locked the door to protect passengers and he and the two men helping stood guard at the door while Vince tried to break out to attack other passengers. It was only when Vince failed he went back to poor Tim and started his 'show'. Sadly the driver has not been able to work since but he and the men that helped probably saved many more lives that day. Imagine that for a day at work!
I remember seeing it on the news it's the video of him pacing back and forth on the bus carrying the head is burned into my brain. ☹️
It's also terrifying that they let him back out in public.
The little bat is for checking the tires by hitting them with the bat. The dual tires are hard to tell if one of them are flat or not.
@@dannyharbour3951 Well he was smart enough to grab it to use if need be and stop Vince from potentially using it so props to him. It must have taken a lot of courage from those two men to be the only two to try to save Tim and worry about the other passengers.
@@RaisonLychi Must admit I would be worried about him. He better have some great medical care and supervision to make sure he takes his meds.
personally I've always found riding greyhound a writers/story teller's gold mine
there should have been violin music playing while Simon told his harrowing tale of having to be in close proximity to poor people for an extended period
The woman who told him , "my BAG 'S sittin ' here!" Deserves an award. Straight savage lol
The 1% energy is palpable
I'm quite sure Greyhound requires that wherever possible all stations must be constructed as close to drug dealers as possible. It's a service to their typical clientele.
On my family vacation to the USA in 2015, we went around California on Greyhound buses. When I told a visiting American delegation at a conference about how I had an OK experience on Greyhound, they found my story hilarious because apparently, the reputation of bus travel was that bad.
How is Danny ever going to learn to drive if you dont let him and Sam and E.T.A out of the basement Simon?
ETA will get it’s license before Danny.
@@toric6005 lol probably
As a Canadian, I remember the Edmonton-Winnipeg cannibalism incident from the news. I suspect this was a major driving force behind the demise of Greyhound in Canada... and as someone who doesn't drive for medical reasons, I miss the service.
Living outside of Winnipeg, a lot of us miss the service. It was used to get to many a doctor’s appointment. The incident outside Portage really did rattle people though.
Lmao i love how Simon thinks hes always going to get cancelled 😂🤣
Please never lose your humor :p
Im pretty sure the BB Legends would stop it happening lol
I am making a cancel Simon fun club!
He isn't big enough to be relevant enough to get cancelled
People like to sit close to you Simon because of your shiney head, it is like a beacon of hope and love to all in the world.
You were correct in the use of “insane”. Contrary to popular belief, insanity is a legal term meaning that at the time of the crime, the perpetrator couldn’t tell right from wrong, usually due to psychosis or drugs that cause one to break from reality
I’d love to hear Greyhound bus station stories!! Once I saw a man duck into a doorway do an amazing quick change and cam out dressed as a woman! She headed back in the direction she came from. It made me wonder then I realized I really didn’t want to know.
Could we get an episode were Danny chooses the topic as well? Simon comes in completely blind to what the topic is until Danny reveals it 15 pages in at the end of the intro.
What's the point? It will only be a 4 page argument for being let out of the basement.
Danny in a pub " reading" a script that Simon wrote. Or the basement with a pint
Do the thing, Simon and Danny!
Brain Blaze finally bringing me a story close to home! To bad it's a messed up one. I live in Brandon, Manitoba and when I was a kid we drove past the Greyhound bus scene the next morning after the incedent. We were driving to Winnipeg to take a Greyhound bus tour to Minniapolis, Minnesota the next day... The trip was pretty good otherwise, no one lost there heads at least.
Oh and keep up the great work on Brain Blaze Simon, it's my favorite channel!
Greyhound- When you want that eight hour trip to last fifty.
In Canada you don't need to legally "cover yourself". According to Canadian law saying "I'm sorry" is not a legal admission of guilt, we understand that you're just saying; "I'm sorry that this happened"
18:40 "There are stretches of nothingness in America that boggle the mind!"
Ah, yes; we call them Kansas and Iowa. Great corn though!
And they all smell like cow sh!t despite no cows being visible. And they would definitely be visible. We used to watch radio towers in the distance and bet on how many hours would go by before we passed it.
I love how Sam has gone through every video since the rebranding and altered them to say Brain Blaze. I hope Simon gives Sam a Bonus for this service.
Sam was given a KFC coupon
How incredibly coincidental that Simon just covered a Greyhound story on Casual Criminalist 🤔
Fun fact: In Canada, saying "sorry" cannot be taken as an admission of guilt, legally. Because it's a meme, but it's also true that we say "sorry" for everything, whether it's our fault or not. Also losing Greyhound service in Canada was a massive blow to a large portion of the citizenry who relied on bus transport as well as for shipping goods. (Our alternatives are Canada Post - ew - or Fedex/Purolator/UPS which are much more expensive than shipping by Greyhound used to be.) And about Vince Li? Sorry.
Never considered over-ground shipping via Grayhound. Having both sent and received packages from Canada post and private shipping companies while in the US, makes sense.
@@CannaCJ Probably because you're under 100 years old. My grandparents used nothing but Greyhound for sending parcels.
You should swap Danny and Callum for a week. They’re both hilarious, give them room to explore. Metaphorically of course, don’t let them out of the basement
Has Callum been "moved in" to the basement
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No
Greyhound: transportation desperation.
Greyhound depots: surreal portals to Hell.
I rode a Greyhound when I was a kid, I think 11 or 12, and a US Marine sat next to me. He was on his way back to Iraq. Nice guy. Until he told me that if he fell asleep on me that it's safest if I didn't wake him. Because he'd most likely break both my arms if I did.
Now I get that it's because he was a soldier but I, the 11 year old, wasn't super thrilled about this. He did fall asleep on me, and I thought I was going to die.
16:18 Maybe to people who haven't ridden Greyhound or really any public transportation in the US. The rest of us know, Simon's not exaggerating about how sketchy it is at all.
Companies use greyhound to carry heavy cargo all the time.
I worked for a commercial roofing company, we'd ship a 5 gallon bucket of screws 1/4 of the way across the country when we needed to, then the foreman would go to the bus depot to get it.
I took a bus from London to Amsterdam, and the driver had to be flown in from a country that drives on the correct side of the road. Took him a couple of everyone freaking the hell out behind him for him to realize, despite the inspirational speech. He got the bus stuck into the Tube sideways, and tried to get it out for hours and hours before he took a break, making everyone in the world wait behind us while he drank tea, ate sandwiches and mumbled about labor laws.
I was unaware of the interesting people who find their way on to every Greyhound before I took my first trip on one. I was scarred for life afterwards.
I'm Canadian and my experiences are utterly different than most described. I've taken a tremendous amount of public transit over the years (mostly around Vancouver, BC or Edmonton, AB) as well as taking Greyhound a number of times. I've had overwhelmingly positive experiences. The most dramatic event was once two women talked harshly to each other for 10 seconds, but the other passengers talked the situation down and they separated. Yes, sometimes there were people who were inebriated, but they were quiet or non-hostile.
The Greyhound was a nice resource to get from Vancouver back to the Kootenays (12h trip) when I was in college. It was also a nice resource when flights couldn't land in the Castlegar airport because of weather in the mountains, and people had to be bussed 6h from Kelowna. I have no idea what they'll do now that Greyhound is gone.
Years ago I took a Greyhound bus from rural Florida to Austin Texas. It honestly changed the way I saw the world, I recommend it to absolutely no one.
As I got on the bus in Florida a young black man with basketball shorts and a graphic tee asked me to sit next to him, so I did. About 2 hours into our trip he started counting bills and wrapping them with rubber bands. If I had to wager he had over $10k in his carry on bag, as we approached Tallahassee he asked me to carry his bag off the bus for him. Me being an ignorant fool did what he asked. Our first major stop was Tallahassee, when he came off the bus carrying my bag, they stopped him and searched every single pocket of it diligently. When I got off the bus they waved me past like it was nothing, I proceeded to watch over half of the bus have all of their belongings deeply searched while every single white person got off without a hitch.
Moving on from Tallahassee I had a layover of a few hours in Birmingham Alabama. Only incident on the bus was the bathroom in the corner reeking of weed the entire ride. I took a taxi to the historical district and looked at all the sites to be seen. Got hungry and took a stroll down the backroads past some slum looking apartments and into a run down neighborhood. Had the best grits of my life, but I was the only white person in the building and everyone noticed. Was rather intimidating walking out to the parking lot with so many people watching me.
Back on the bus heading towards Texas our next big stop was New Orleans, passing through the French Quarter was nothing like what pictures and movies show, it was an experience in itself. I plan to actually visit the city in the future. I got a bus swap at that depot to a bus full of nice Cajuns headed to Cinco De Mayo in Houston. The man I sat next to shared his life story with me and I shared mine with his. In Houston I had a 4 hour layover and met up with a friend of mine who took me to an aquarium where I was amazed to find out they had white tigers on account of so many tigers being rescued from captivity in Texas that even aquariums took in rescues to provide proper care for them.
Heading out of Houston I had a nice nap on the ride to San Antonio where I swapped to the bus that took me to Austin. After getting onto the bus to Austin a nice seeming man sat next to me, we conversed and he showed me all his prison tattoos. Nearing the end of the trip he told me he was traveling there from LA chasing someone his gang had a hit out for. He showed me the guy and the news stories surrounding the hit. Long story short he was a serial sexual predator and had messed with someone's daughter who was in the gang.
In Austin I spent time with my friends I was visiting and had a great time. It is one of my favorite cities I have visited. Rounding the trip back from Austin had a long drive to New Orleans with someone really messed up on some drug I couldn't name. Guy made a pipe out of a Red Bull can and smoked it up in the middle of the bus ride. I assume it was meth, but I don't have experience to know. Whole bus spent hours listening to this guy ramble about demons and hoodoo voodoo and all kinds of nutty stuff.
After bus swapping in New Orleans the next bus I was on had no AC. Middle of summer rolling from New Orleans to Tallahassee with no AC was one of the actual worst experiences of my life and I have had a lot of bad experiences since that bus ride. From Tallahassee it was back home and that was the nicest ride of all of them. Had an elderly couple across the aisle from me and no one sitting next to me, chatted with them about life and when I got to my stop I hopped off and headed home.
I applied for the first travel rewards card I could after that and AmEx travel is insurmountably better than that Greyhound experience. I highly recommend a gold card if you can afford it. If you fly even once a year the annual fee pays for itself in my opinion.
I spent my 20's traveling around the U.S. by greyhound. Greyhound helped me with some of my most valuable memories. Chasing after loved ones, going to college, and seeing the U.S. through my own eyes.
I grew up traveling, I was an Air Force brat. Moving was in my blood and it was a lot cheaper to travel by greyhound.
If I could relive my life I wouldn't change anything. I've enjoyed my life. I have no regrets.
My first time on a Greyhound was when I was 18 and freshly discharged from Navy basic training for medical reasons. Rejected, dejected, and depressed when I got there, the sheer terror of spending a day on the bus and arriving at an inner city depot at midnight insured the pain of failing at my childhood dream wasn't the low point of my life. Thank you Greyhound.
simon venting how he truly feels is actually quite cathartic and healing. like after watching this, i no longer feel the need to tell off my boss or fire my whole crew. you are saving many lives. cheers.
Greyhound is how you fast travel from Walmart to Walmart.
Back in 2008 while going to school in Florida I was looking for an easy way to get from Orlando to Naples and Grayhound seemed perfect since they were only a few hours distance from one another.
From the start of the journey until the end, the trip took over twelve hours because of several huge disruptions and it was an overall horrendous experience. It was also hilarious at the same time because during that period there were ads and flags all over the terminals that read, "Experience the great NEW Greyhound!". Like .... wow. I wonder what the old Greyhound was like.
Let me just add this little anecdote. Roughly 10 years ago, my wife and I had just started living together in downtown OKC, but not the nice part. It was within walking distance to the hospital where my wife worked and also within walking distance to the main Bus Station for OKC. At that time, the Greyhound Bus Station was next to it.
One day, while walking to the municipal bus station, a drive-by occurred at the greyhound and I was hit by one of the errant projectiles.
It definitely changed my life, and Greyhound was involved.
I used to have to take the Greyhound home from college during breaks, because it was relatively reliable (compared to the train) and it was cheap. Six to seven hours on a Greyhound each way. I was SO grateful when, my final semester, my mom said I could take the car back to college and drive myself to and from college on breaks.
15:04 this is my favorite bit! Thank you Sam xD
That cannibal guy is the epitome of why I won't, nor let someone I love, ride on a Greyhound.. That haunts Alberta as a whole to this day. Duuuude was maaad!
I rode the Greyhound bus from Denver to Houston in two days, and it was the worst experience ever. It wasn’t the bus itself or the drivers. It was the other customers. It also was much cheaper than a Frontier flight which is just as unpleasant but is a shorter ride. I can’t believe Simon went for coast to coast.
Houston pimps hand at the bus station
I took a grey hound bus once and it was the nicest bus ride I've ever been on, I guess that says something about our public transit buses.
I had one experience with a Greyhound bus that pretty much put me off them forever. Family vacay, long trip, Greyhound bus. Something went ... wrong. At least one of the tires just ... started on fire. For ... reasons. Fortunately we all made it off the bus without injury. Weirdly ... it happened right outside of a town named BURNS Harbor. Spooky. And we proceeded to watch the bus driver put out the fire and then stand around waiting f o r e v e r at the outer skits of a SNAKE FARM?! because that's just the kind of weird $#!7 this was. No "we're sorry". No discount or refund. No hotel as we wait for another bus to resume our trip. Just sitting outside a snake farm hour after hour, watching the bus smoulder with our stuff still in it.
So this is basically some guy rambling on, but somehow crazy fun and entertaining. Sam did great chopping on this as well.
I have literally seen someone get thrown off in the middle of no where Utah because they smoked in the bathroom during the middle of the night. The bus driver did specifically warn us that if anyone smoked they were off the bus immediately 😂
Everyone should ride the greyhound at least once, there's always a story in it for you
The bull jizz story isn't even surprising to me. The US is huge, and the cost of gas to transport each shipment individually by car can be pretty onerous. A lot of delivery services probably won't take biohazard stuff without a hell of a surcharge, if they do at all, so sending it via courier on a Greyhound bus is the most economical option.
Yeah but, if it got as hot as that in the luggage compartment, it wasn't going to be very viable by the time it got to it's destination. Stud semen needs to be refrigerated or frozen.
I used to be a service director for United Airlines Cargo. We shipped A LOT of semen. This was semen from highly prized bloodlines. Shipments were always insured for thousands.
@@Musikur the containers are refrigerated. That's why they can't go by airplane. Liquid Nitrogen...
Every summer when I was a little girl, my mom and I rode the Greyhound Buses to visit my grandmother and grandfather and it always took three days! 😫🥱
I don't know what year(s) you experienced your Greyhound Slog Across the USA, but the last time I rode on a Greyhound bus was in 1995. I was still in college and didn't have a car yet, so if I wanted to go home for the weekend I had to find a ride on the ride share board in the student union, or buy a Greyhound ticket. Since the bus terminal was literally a block from my dormitory, I regularly rode the bus home & back on the weekends. It took an hour one way, but Greyhound busses somehow manage to warp time so that every minute feels like ten. I'm guessing it's because at least half of the passengers always looked/were absolutely miserable. By the time the bus pulled into the terminal in Grand Rapids (Michigan; I went to school in East Lansing), I had been ready to get off the bus for 45 minutes. It always felt a bit like putting my life in jeopardy since you never knew the driver's qualifications, and you didn't always get the same driver for the route, even if it was the same route, same day, same time. There was one driver who I dreaded seeing behind the wheel; his name was Manny and he tended to start to nod off a bit when he had to run the heater on the bus in the winter. Every ten or fifteen minutes the bus would jerk as he jammed on the brakes when he regained consciousness, or the bus would swerve suddenly into the next lane over, causing whole moments of excitement for the unsuspecting, innocent, conscious drivers in that lane, and the maneuver was celebrated by much honking and animated hand gestures from all parties involved. I'm glad you survived your multi-DAY trip across the states; I would have been begging for mercy somewhere in Ohio.
The last story about Florida man getting his comeuppance was awesome. That bus driver is a definite legend.....This was a brilliant Blaze guys..
Watching immediately for the thumbnail alone!
Also, I hope BrainBlaze slowly turns into a highly informative but mildly boring channel all about business.
Honestly I’d like to see Business Blaze as it was in the early months of its creation. I was part of that 2% that liked it for the business content. 😂
This is my all time favorite, reminding me of my Greyhound journey from New Orleans to Tallahassee, where the overhead racks were full of live chickens.
🔥 Biz-Blazing again, Simon. Whether reading a script or speaking a stream-of-consciousness, this episode’s 100% lit & a-blaze via transport industry kindling.
I've rode the greyhound once, from near Atlanta to Salt Lake City. Having spent four years in prison previously, the overall vibe of the experience reminded me of prison and started giving me a bit of a flashback experience. Felt very much like being herded as cattle, with breaks limited to either the bare minimum required or what the driver felt was enough for them, being told where to stand or sit by angry people in uniforms, a lot of "hurry up and wait" situations, the overall disorganization and incompetence by those who insisted they were on top of things while in a way in charge of your whole life at that moment, etc. It wasn't all bad, met some interesting people and saw some places and landscapes I hadn't before, but overall 1/10 would not recommend. Rented a car and drove back when it was time to come home lol
2 blazes in 2 days? I must be in blaze heaven!
We're on a 5 day streak
Greyhound is always an experience... ALWAYS A EXPERIENCE
So as a disabled persons, who resides in Texas, I prefer to take the "tornado" bus line. It's a Mexican charter line, and I book a seat on a double decker bus, in which the bottom level is reserved for disabled and handicapped, where we get two seats to ourselves 😃
Waiting for a Brain Blaze video about weird names for planets and Simon ranting about why they are named like that. Usually planets with an assortment of random letters and numbers
Was not expecting to see Shane Madej in my weekly Blaze!
I sincerely hope that Sam takes that "ohh master" bit from the last episode and just uses it whenever he can as a recurring meme. Makes me laugh every time 😂
I’m disabled and can’t get a license. I never even connected my issues with Danny’s stories and your reactions.
I would like to point out that half the video was the intro, good on you Simon! This is the content I subscribe for!
One reason for the crazy place names here in the States is because of a post office rule forbidding more than one town in a state having the same name. Combine that with the sheer size of states, and you get some truly bonkers Old New South East North West unpronounceable chaos. Danny could do a few episodes on the strangest place names in the USA and the weird thing they are known for.
This isn't a Kevin Costner movie, why does the post office have that power?
@@85set05 I think the rule is from back in the colonial era before zip codes were invented. Having more than one settlement with the same name in a state would have made getting the mail to the correct recipient much more difficult.
@@MeduseldRabbit I see, have you ever seen The Postman? The boy with the letter scene is truly amazing and one of the best emotional scenes in all of cinema.
What a time to be alive when one of the vintage memes comes from one of the other UA-cam channels that I used to watch. Great times, great times indeed!
LoL. Simon "Your time isn't that valuable." Also Simon " I need that sweet watch time.. you kill me 😅
This man is a UA-cam treasure. The amount of content is insane. Lol
I once had the option of taking a Greyhound or hitchhiking, I picked hitchhiking as it felt safer.
My great grandma and her friend of 60 years took the Greyhound regularly. They’d go for the four hour drive and take a whole German sandwich shop with them. Two adorable little old German ladies became well known in the Greyhound lines and would also hand out their sandwiches and sausages and cheeses that they brought with them to fellow passengers and drivers. This was also pretty recent. 2016, I believe. They both still bemoan that they cannot take the bus anymore.
Morning Brew: don't control Simon, we're more likely to buy your product when he ADHD rants.
Thats fucking right aye
I can totally relate with the person sitting next to you. I love doing road trips and will often take breaks in parking lots. I always look for the area where nobody is, roll down the windows, and enjoy my daily dose of Simon! Within 10 minutes they’ll be 2-3 cars parked around me despite there being plenty of other parking spots.
As someone from Edmonton Alberta Canada, I can say that I'm actually quite content with Greyhound leaving Canada, and the reason is in this video! Yay! >.>
There are new companies here starting to pick up the slack now, though some small towns are still sol :/
That downtown Edmonton station was a critter magnet.
@@ttww1590 soooo sketchy too... I refused to walk within a block of it...
😂😂😂😂 taking the greyhound for a month from the east coast to the west coast. I laughed so hard. How is Simon even still alive.
oh no, the sad canadian one is gonna be in this one huh. i feel so bad for everyone involved
He recently covered that on Casual Criminalist, if you feel the need to destroy your nice day. 😢
@@Kiefsti If Casual criminalist is to true for you, maybe you should go watch some feel-good media propaganda about dumb stuff instead like, "how a blind puppy payed for it's own cancer treatment by selling cheap lemonade to diabetic rich people..."
For the rest of us BB. and CC. are windows through which we look once in a while to confirm, that the world is still on fire... BLAAAAAZE!1
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I'm Albertan, and happened to know Tim (the victim).
But thank you for your callous attitude towards my dead friend and his family.
Almost 2 and a half hours of Simon this morning at work from over the weekend. Legendary
Sam really gets better and better with the memes.
I recently was forced to take a Greyhound bus. I would have normally taken an Amtrak but the route was closed. And I couldn’t fly because I had a 2 foot tall bong in my carry-on. It was my first time on greyhound. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. I will never go on one of those buses again.
Simon, did someone suggest the bus to you guys? You were getting pranked.
In USA we all know it is last resort.
Next trip take Amtrak!
As a veterinarian I have to frequent the local greyhound station to get rabies samples shipped to the state health department. These terminals are truly terrifying pits of despair, and that’s coming from a man who spends his days treating stray pit bulls and stitching hit by car animals back together.
I'd be more afraid of a stray shih tzu or chihuahua 😆
@@quackaddict2203 it’s the chow chows you gotta worry about.
Another good show, blaze boys !! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏼
Kudos on the Big Train sketch with Simon Pegg.