I don't do roller coasters. I don't like to be high in the sky, I don't like all that up and down, and I'm not down with all that centrifugal force stuff. So when they told me a few weeks ago that I was gonna be copiloting MTV News' first-ever traffic chopper during the VMA preshow, I figured I was in for 10 times the excitement and 10 times the discomfort.

Anything for the VMAs.

Still, when I arrived at Whiteman Airport and they informed me that I was gonna spend two full days in the air, all I could think was that every minute in the air was gonna be a risk. You know, L.A. is full of turbulence, with all the mountains and valleys. And nobody told me I was gonna have to go three or four times!
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