Episode 420: The Airport Guy
Freshly Grounded
Faisal & Sam
4.9 • 941 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Faisal sits down with Mohammad Taher, better known as "The Airport Guy", the man who's made airports weirdly fascinating for half a million people.
Mohammad breaks down how he actually gets access to the runway, why his growth took years before it looked "overnight", and the exact moment he went from 8k followers → 150k in 30 days after doubling down on one niche.
They get into airport realities and travel "hacks" that actually work:
👉 The truth about getting your bag out faster (and why "last in, first out" is a risky game)
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👉 Why old barcode stickers can literally send your luggage to the wrong country
👉 Why free business class upgrades are basically dead (and what to do instead)
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| 0:00.0 | this number plate is throwing me off |
| 0:02.0 | giving me RS3 cause he |
| 0:03.3 | Oh is it? |
| 0:05.2 | We actually had a paddle racket there |
| 0:06.9 | But I actually needed a spare padd racket for like a game |
| 0:10.6 | So I took it with me off the set |
| 0:12.3 | And then now our set looks like |
| 0:14.8 | There's a pad racket missing |
| 0:15.8 | So we just took the number plate there |
| 0:17.5 | Bro, right, the first question I want to ask you |
| 0:19.8 | Which is probably the question That is on everybody's mind when they see your content is, how do you |
| 0:25.6 | get access to these places, bro? So your content, by the way, incredible. I remember coming across |
| 0:33.5 | it once, clicked new profile, and I was like, this guy knows exactly what he's doing, |
| 0:37.3 | the audience he's trying to reach, the kind of content that he wants to do, and it's so |
| 0:41.1 | engaging, it's different type, it's just like phenomenal. And for anybody who hasn't by now seen |
| 0:45.9 | your staff, which, you know, you've, you've, you've amassed over half a million followers |
| 0:50.0 | on Instagram, you're, you're killing it. And it's just, uh, aviation, the thing, aviation, |
| 0:58.0 | uh, things that people, like, are so, that's so interesting to learn about. Anything from like, |
| 1:05.9 | you know, what happens in a cockpit of a plane to like what, you know, what the tarmac is like |
| 1:12.3 | on one way and everything in between, what kind of recently you did one about the, you know, |
| 1:18.3 | which airports are plane would land and if it's got a security issue and stuff like that. |
| 1:22.4 | And it's even, I have no interest in aviation, but it's so interesting to me your content. |
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