Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind that little curtain or in the galley of your favorite airline?* Buckle up and join seasoned flight attendants Shawn and G as they take you on a thrilling journey through the high skies with our brand new podcast, "Cabin Pressure!"- It's like having two fun, knowledgeable friends sharing a drink and stories at 30,000 feet.
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Donuts, Drama, and High-Flying Friendships
Ever wonder what it’s like juggling donuts and emergency protocols at 35,000 feet? Join us on "Cabin Pressure with Shawn and G" as we welcome our special guest, G-Dub, for an episode brimming with laughter, nostalgia, and some seriously valuable insights. We kick things off with funny tales about Sean's knack for being the center of attention among the ladies, much to G's amusement. From softball games to Krispy Kreme indulgences, you'll get a backstage pass to the camaraderie and friendship that began during our flight attendant training days.
Curious about how flight attendants handle medical emergencies mid-air? Let us take you through a real-life incident involving an elderly passenger showing signs of a stroke. You'll hear about the quick thinking, teamwork, and specialized training that come into play to manage such critical situations. We discuss the importance of recognizing stroke symptoms, the role of onboard medical professionals, and how we balance immediate care with overall flight safety. It's an eye-opening segment that underscores the gravity of situational awareness in our line of work.
But it's not all high stakes and heroics. We also dive into the lighter aspects of our job, like the boarding process and the headaches caused by passengers who ignore their assigned seats. Laughter flows as we recount stories about navigating seat etiquette and the occasional housing challenges we faced when starting out. From unforgettable first flights to navigating cultural shocks in exotic locations like Hawaii and even offering up some must-visit travel spots, this episode is a rollercoaster of humor, heartfelt memories, and practical tips. Tune in for a delightful blend of stories from life in the skies and beyond!
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Have you ever been on a plane and a medical emergency happens? Or what's a crash pad? And what's it like the first day on the job as a flight attendant. It's all. Next on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board. Fasten your seatbelts, stow your tray tables, don't even think about moving out of that seat. It's time for Cabin Pressure with Sean and G, and you are in the galley. What's up, sean? What's up G? What's up G? What were you doing today?
Speaker 1:Oh man, hanging out doing my homework, doing a little bit of life, keeping things going here at the house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't worry, I was keeping the airline going again.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you were flying, I was not working today.
Speaker 2:Hey, man, we got a guest in the galley today. Yeah, man, we got a guest in the galley today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, guess who's in the house it's G-Dub.
Speaker 3:G-Dub. What's up, buddy? Hey guys, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:Oh man, it's a pleasure to have you on our show. You know, g-dub and I go back and we go way, way back. I mean, this is the first day of training. I know we talked about this in the other episodes. Yeah, he's the guy that witnessed me in the circle of girls.
Speaker 2:Here we go again. Every time Sean talks right, he is around girls. He's the main conversation around girls. It seems to be a repeating theme.
Speaker 1:Yes, it does. You know you've got to be you. I want everybody out there to just remind yourself be you.
Speaker 2:Hey G, I have to ask you something. Right, this guy right, the first time I met him, the first time I met him, he thought I was an asshole. Right, he thought I was an asshole.
Speaker 1:Well, did I nail that one, did I nail it?
Speaker 2:No hold on a second Now. He thought I was an asshole Gee. When you first seen him surrounded by all those girls over there and you just got to training, what did you?
Speaker 3:think.
Speaker 2:I knew I wasn't going to like this guy the minute I met him. There goes your first opinion again.
Speaker 3:Sean, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, look at that, sean, you're two for two. Yeah, First impression.
Speaker 1:Look at that, sean, you're two for two. Yeah, you know I'm being double teamed right now, so I just want to let everybody know Still be you, man, just be you.
Speaker 2:So you guys actually got hired together. Or did you get hired together, or did you just go to training again?
Speaker 1:No, we went to training together. We met the first day of training and then we had actually found out later that we both went to the University of Nebraska at the same time. Yeah, knew some of the same people Probably went. We were at some of the same parties, yeah, but not the same girls.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Oh well, you know Sean he's covered in them Everywhere he goes. Man, that boy is like he's swarmed in them right G, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, when you were 20, you know, and all that stuff, you just got to do it. Go with the flow.
Speaker 2:You know what I remember G with me and you Softball.
Speaker 3:Yes, those were quite a few years ago.
Speaker 1:Big fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we used to play softball together. G when he was young man. This guy had wheels right.
Speaker 3:The key part is when he was. Yeah, but he was young man. This guy had wheels. Right. The key part is when he was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he had wheels up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, g is being mildly stated here, but my man right here. He used to play for Nebraska and he held the 40-dash record for years.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a long time ago man, a long time ago, University of Nebraska held the record. You wouldn't know it now by looking at me.
Speaker 1:That's all right, though man.
Speaker 2:He did you know, even when we played softball, g had all kinds of wheels. But you know, one of the funniest things that I remember about G is that we would play these weekend softball tournaments, g, and we would have to get up early in the morning and everybody's ready to go. Right, we're all fired up, we're like, oh all right, we're going to take these guys, we're ready to go. Where's G? And he's like, oh, G hasn't even rolled out yet. And he comes out and he's like dragging.
Speaker 1:I'm like G. Are you ready to go, he?
Speaker 3:tournaments of softball. You're playing at 7 in the morning. Who doesn't play softball at 7 in the morning I got to have some breakfast. I got to ease into the day.
Speaker 2:No, don't wait for you. No, G comes out and he's dragging right. I mean, he's dragging, he's like gee, I'm tired, I'm tired and I'm like it. The chocolate ones, the biggest kind of Cereal cake I know of right now.
Speaker 3:Like I said, Donuts are God's gift To mankind. You know that.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden he turned. He turned from Dragon to Superman. Amen.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I know about G Big fan of the donut, the donuts, any type of Like cake, sweets.
Speaker 2:He's into it man.
Speaker 1:I mean when we moved here to Northeast Ohio. I mean when he saw the Krispy Kremes there.
Speaker 3:That's primarily where I'm not as fast as I used to be. Yeah, I'm like that.
Speaker 2:You know something G I tell you. Right Krispy Kreme in Ohio. I'm sorry, I can't even have them in the house.
Speaker 3:I would kill that. That's a heck of a donut. I will absolutely kill Krispy Kreme. That might be the top of the top shelf the gold star donut.
Speaker 1:The pinnacle of donuts, the Krispy Kreme is hard to beat.
Speaker 2:I would just kill Krispy Kreme.
Speaker 1:Walk in the store and see those donuts flipping off the freaking Krispy Kreme, when that red light's on, you got to pull in.
Speaker 3:You got it. When it's hot, you got it. You in there with the red lights on.
Speaker 2:Hey, so let's talk a little bit about this week, right? I mean, I just had an incident this week that it could have been potentially really bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Why don't you tell us about what?
Speaker 2:happened, because this is something that happens a lot on our aircraft. We have to be aware of a situation, even like sitting on the jump seat, even if the service is over. So you're sitting back there and then all of a sudden you hear this pounding on the lavatory door. I jumped up, opened the door and there was an elderly woman and she was kind of a little disoriented. I asked her if she's okay and she nodded and then she started moving towards her seat. So she seemed like she was okay, walking.
Speaker 2:Well, her daughter came to the back and she said I think something's wrong with my mom. I knew exactly who it was. I went right to her. The next thing I did is I asked her ma'am, what's your name? And she just looked at me and she didn't answer. And then I said are you feeling any pain? And she reached up and she started rubbing on her arm. And then I asked her to grab a hold of my fingers and she couldn't really grip that well, so I turned around and I said I think she's having a stroke. I'm going to get some medical personnel. So I went to the back and I immediately paged for some medical personnel to help. And let me tell you in our job. I can't tell you how important it is that when these medical people are on board, that they respond as fast as they do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah they always step up. Yeah, and we had probably four or five. And what's the chance of four rows behind this woman that there's a neurologist from the clinic?
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, well, coming out of North, the best medical facilities in the United States, right but still right behind her four rows behind her.
Speaker 2:You got a neurologist, yeah, four rows behind her.
Speaker 1:you've got a neurologist. Neurologist, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So within like seconds she's up there and she's talking to her and she tells me, she confirms it. She said, yeah, I think she's having a stroke. And so immediately what's amazing after that is crew right, yeah, I had amazing crew Automatically just goes in Boom.
Speaker 1:We become a team. Yeah, I mean, it's automatically, it's instilled in us, our training just kicks in and we all do the jobs. Take a piece of the job that's required, like we have somebody communicating. We have somebody that's going to get assisting to get equipment. We have, you know, somebody that's sitting there writing down all the information, that's communicating with our pilots so that we can connect with the ground to get to our med link?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we always connect to med link. But what's amazing is when you have this coordination right I mean of crew members you turn around, you've got a crew member there. Like Sean just said, she's writing all the information down. You don't have to repeat it, she's already doing it or he's doing it, and then in my case it was a she, so she was just writing it down.
Speaker 1:Gee, how did you know? How did you know that she was having a stroke?
Speaker 2:Well, symptoms, I mean through our training. Right, we're trained in medical situations. So if you think that it's a stroke victim, a possible stroke, well, first you're going to talk to them, see if they actually can say their name, if they can just even remember, simply remember their name and then you ask them if they have any pain. They could possibly have pain in their arms. Stroke victims have numbness, could have weakness of the face or arms leg, especially on one side of the body, and she was rubbing on the left-hand side of their body. So I knew that she was having some pain there. She couldn't really. She was having problems speaking, she was a little bit incoherent. And then her eyes, they had kind of a I don't know like a glossy little look over them. She was sitting down, so that didn't even come into effect. And the other thing they could potentially have severe headaches.
Speaker 2:These are all things that we learn through training. So we kind of try to do a quick evaluation and then we immediately get medical personnel, because we're not trained medical personnel. We will do exactly whatever we can to help these people. Yeah, we're first aid trained. Yes, exactly, but the fastest thing that we do is we go get these people and they come and they help us and again, I can't tell you how much I appreciate when they come in and they help us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, medical assistance is so important and also the time that you take to evaluate and to understand what is happening is so important when you're dealing with strokes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I always feel like the people that are so kind to help us should get like a free flight or something right on the spot Like hey, we got you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I know the alcohol is always being offered, but you know that another part of this, though, Sean, is situational awareness.
Speaker 2:right yeah, Situational awareness is super important.
Speaker 1:situational awareness right yeah situational awareness is super important. I mean, when we're having a medical emergency, not only are we trying to help that passenger, to assist them in whatever they need. As well as get them assistance, we also have a job to do, to continue to do as we're flying there. I mean, we are also aware of our situational awareness and making sure that, hey, this might be a ploy. I mean, safety and security of our aircraft is the most important to us.
Speaker 2:Because you're thinking of safety and you're thinking of the health and welfare of this passenger, but also you've got to think of the safety of the airplane always. And that's the other part is that you know, and that's why, when you have so many, you have, you know, four crew members on board and two of you are dealing with the situation, with the emergency.
Speaker 1:The other two are also looking at the situation on the aircraft and making sure that everything is still going the way it's supposed to go, because you know, when all this is happening, that customer that's on the other side of the aircraft, or the other end of the aircraft, is going to be ringing their call button wanting that extra drink, right? Oh yeah, because they don't know what's going on right.
Speaker 3:They had their headphones on the whole time. They're like I think something's going on back there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think something's going on. Can I get another bourbon please?
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, and we're right in the middle of a full-blown medical emergency, right, but they've got to have something to do.
Speaker 1:Their situational awareness has been turned off.
Speaker 3:And also, too, you've got to remember what time of flight this happens. Yeah, it's probably not going to happen when you're cruising with two hours in between. It could happen on takeoff or landing Absolutely.
Speaker 1:And there's other things to consider. Yeah, there's always. It can happen any time during a flight. It doesn't matter when it happens. We're still going to react and keep ourselves safe, as well as the aircraft.
Speaker 2:But I just wanted to I mean a little bit of a shout out to my crew. They did a phenomenal job. They really did. I mean such professionalism. But you know, I find that a lot with a lot of my crews when it comes to emergency situations on board an aircraft. It's amazing how sometimes you don't even know each other right and something happens and then everybody's doing their job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, to talk to that whole point about not knowing each other. I mean, for those of you that aren't in the industry, you know crews are not always coming from one location. We might be four members in the back of aircraft that are all from different bases and coming on different schedules, and we're coming from different places and so we don't. We might've just met, but our training kicks in and we become this team, synergy happens and we handle the situation. So it's amazing that this whole you know training has evolved to where you know, even though we don't know each other, we know how to work with each other, and most of the times everyone brings something different to the table.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Something may not be your strong point, but the other person, they know how to deal with that and the best part of the ending situation of that that person walks off the aircraft. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1:That's what you want.
Speaker 2:When they walk off the aircraft and they're going home, they get to see their family, their loved ones, right, and we were able to help them out to do that. That's the best feeling right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is the best feeling.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about something else, right? Yeah, you know what's not the best feeling.
Speaker 1:I can tell you Just what me and you went through, yeah, exactly the other day. G and I are on aircraft. We get these gals. They're all heading down to wherever they're going to. They're all together, and they just put themselves in their seats wherever they wanted to sit, and all they did was just screw up the entire boarding process.
Speaker 2:They jacked it all up, jacked it up.
Speaker 3:So much for leaving on time, right yeah.
Speaker 2:People wonder why you don't leave on time, right? Let me tell you something. You got a group of girls that come on. They know their seats, they all got center seats right and all of a sudden there's a whole row and they just sit there and they look at you. Well, we didn't want to sit in those seats, okay, well, you bought those seats.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on a full aircraft. Now we're trying to first figure out the situation because we don't know that they just sat in the seats until we start doing the research, right.
Speaker 2:Right and the one girl kept going to the aisle seat right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she would be. Oh, this isn't my seat. Oh, and then she'd get up and walk to an aisle seat.
Speaker 2:And then somebody else show up, yeah, and then she'd get mad and she an aisle seat. And then somebody else show up, yeah, and then she get man. She ended up being where Back in your original middle seat, exactly Right.
Speaker 1:So they just jacked the whole, and then they were angry with us, right, exactly, yeah, it was our fault.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we like that. Yeah, you didn't buy your ticket Exactly. We always love those situations, right Me and you always got a big smile on your face, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we know one thing folks See, we don't put you in those seats, you purchase them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you buy them. You have the option of buying that seat in a different location.
Speaker 2:Yeah like the premier location.
Speaker 3:Yeah, sit in your assigned seat. Play by the rules. It makes it easier for everyone.
Speaker 2:Never do it. G, they never do it. G, they never do it. I mean, they'll jack a boarding up in a heartbeat. They never do it. We deal with that situation daily, right? But this group, like me and Sean were talking about unbelievable Just sat where they did. But here's the other thing, right, Walking on board. This happened like on the same flight, and you know it. You know those ones that come late in the boarding process. Oh yeah, I love these guys, right, they're like I'm boarding last. You know why.
Speaker 1:Because they want to take any seat they want to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they want to sit wherever they want to.
Speaker 2:They see the prime seats Everybody's on board.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'll just take this empty seat Exactly, I'll just plop down here.
Speaker 2:Right, the one that everybody else paid extra for. Right, that one seat that everybody paid extra. Well, let me tell you something, right, if you see Sean or G out in the aisle, and we got that electronic device. What does that mean, Sean? We are the seat police. Police, we're going to come in and if you are parking in a no parking zone, oh yeah, we're going to make you pay. We're going to make you pay, or guess what You're leaving?
Speaker 3:These guys are on the job.
Speaker 1:You don't want to see these two dudes now. The one reason why we both go to work is what we're trying to get paid right.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're going to get paid right. Me and Sean is the in-flight parking wars.
Speaker 1:You have to come on and you've got to obey the rules. That's all there is to it.
Speaker 2:If you want a better seat we're happy to give it to you, and you know what we love the feedback. Right, because here's what comes. You, you sit there and you tell them okay, you have to move, and they're like why well it's empty, and it's going to be empty if you don't want to pay for it too right you got that right. I mean you, we're going to take you out of that seat because everybody else paid for it and they go. Well, it's stupid, because the seat's going to remain empty yeah okay, so you so you have to move back to 38E.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I love to tell them. You know, I used to take my kid to the baseball game. All the time I love using this one and I told him. I said you know, I did the same thing at a baseball game. I purchased a stadium seat and then I walked up and I noticed that there was a loge open. I started walking upstairs and the security guy stopped me and they're like what are you doing? I said I'm taking my son up that loge. And they're like you didn't pay for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's empty.
Speaker 3:It's empty, it's open.
Speaker 2:And he looked at me like I was nuts. He told me to get back down to my stadium seat.
Speaker 1:Now folks, seriously, I mean that was a joke, but seriously right the seat.
Speaker 2:the seat is empty for a reason it's because you did not pay for it, and just realize this. We are the seat police.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel like these are the same people that pay for the nosebleeds and try to move down into the courtside seats.
Speaker 1:Exactly, but, g-dub, you got the whole picture. You know with experience that these are the people, the opportunists, that are waiting. It's the same thing as those silver sneakers people that need a wheelchair and they get to their destination. It's like a miracle. They just hop out of the seat and walk right to their destination.
Speaker 2:But, believe me, okay, when you look to the back of the aircraft and you see two people looking at you, right, we already know that you're that person. We know that you're looking at this seat and we're already looking at our seat map and we know what you're doing. So we're just going to come up there and confirm it as soon as you take a seat. We're confirming that you weren't supposed to sit there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're already made.
Speaker 2:Okay, so let's just say sit in your right seat, sit in the seat or pay for it, exactly. But you know something, sean, this happened too right. We were going down to Florida the other day and we had a problem. We pulled in, we was on time, right. We pulled in and we were ready to go. We were like 15, 20 minutes early, we're all ready to get out of here, and then we get that call.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, there is that long silence and nobody was moving or getting off the aircraft and we're like what is happening, yep, and the jet bridge is broken.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you, folks, right, worst thing is that you get there early, you're ready to go, you've done everything you're supposed to do, can't get off the airplane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so now we've got to tell everybody to sit down.
Speaker 2:Put their bags away. Put their bags away.
Speaker 1:Clean the aisles out, yep, and now we've got to push the aircraft. But then the beauty of this whole story is, you know, we park at the gate and flight attendants if you didn't know how they get paid we get paid when the door is closed and then it opens again. Well, we just got to the gate and they opened all the baggage gate doors down below, which timed us out, and it took about 39 minutes to get the aircraft towed over to another gate that we weren't getting paid. But gee, what did we do?
Speaker 2:Oh, we, yeah you know we were going to put it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, because that's, that's the thing. Okay, how many people in this world we're sitting there? Yeah, I'm, I'm, yeah, I'll give you 39 minutes. What I don't want?
Speaker 1:no money, yeah right well, a lot of people don't understand that flight attendants only get paid when that door is closed and when it opens. So all that extra time that we're doing running around the airport sitting around and that you see us and where you're coming up asking us questions about where to go in an airport that we may not even get familiar with, we're not getting paid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gee, you don't mind giving away free time, free money, right.
Speaker 3:Well, my time is very important to me, but 39 minutes is a long time to be sitting on that plane, in other words, now, gee, I need to give this time away.
Speaker 2:No. So last time, guys, we talked about training right and the stresses of training right, and today we're going to talk about what it was like when we got our base, assigned our base, and then what it was like when we went and we dealt with the living First day on the job too. Yeah, the living circumstances first day on the job. Right, you got it. Yeah, so you two basically.
Speaker 1:No, but before that, before we get into this conversation, we're going to talk about something that just happened. We just had our podcast, just air our first episode.
Speaker 2:That was phenomenal man. Our response.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we have had a phenomenal response to our first episode, more than we can even imagine, but uh, it's been, uh, it's been a great experience so far over 100 uh people downloading our first episode so far within 24 hours and that's thanks to everyone listening right now yeah, everyone out there that's listening.
Speaker 1:And then we, within the last four days of us launching Facebook and Instagram, we have almost over 300 members on our Facebook page. We just want to put a big shout out to all those people that are supporting us and we really appreciate it and we're going to do a good job for you.
Speaker 2:We're going to try I mean honestly, we're going to try to put great shows for you guys together, make you laugh yeah.
Speaker 1:The other thing too we're going to do some little housekeeping here. On our website at Buzzsprout, the fan comment button. When you click that and you send us a comment, you just need to know that it's a one-way comment. There's no way for us to actually give you some feedback. So we want to give you some feedback because a couple people asked some questions, like one Amy Ratty, out there, a little shout out to you. She wanted to be on the show. Well, we'd love to talk to you, but we had no way of contacting you. So if you want to do any type of feedback or ask a question that you need some feedback, do that on our Facebook or social media. We'll be happy to talk to you and contact you that way. And if you just want to leave an amazing comment about that you're just enjoying the show, or something like that, then leave a fan.
Speaker 2:Hey, reach out to us folks. I mean, we love any opinions about the show, anything you guys want to send to us. We greatly appreciate all your feedback. Now, sean, I was at the house and I was underneath the car. I had to tell you this. Right, I was sitting there thinking about this the other day and I was changing the oil and I was sitting there thinking you know, have you ever seen this show, yellowstone?
Speaker 3:Yep G. Oh, I've seen it. Yes, all six seasons. Maybe Is it six seasons.
Speaker 1:Something like that I have no idea.
Speaker 3:I've seen it from start to finish.
Speaker 1:I know I've seen all the episodes too, and waiting for more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, the funny thing about it is like you know, I don't watch a lot of TV, I really don't, and it just doesn't seem like I have a lot of time. But I was told I got to see this so I turned it on. I started watching this. From the very beginning I got hooked. I mean, I got hooked. Fantastic show I did. But you know what I got hooked about? What's that? There's two characters I completely got hooked about and that was Rip and Beth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rip and Beth are over-the-top amazing characters. What about you, g? Which?
Speaker 2:ones, do you like?
Speaker 3:I like Rip and Beth a lot.
Speaker 2:I'm more of a Kevin Costner guy but I like the dynamics between Rip and Beth. Well, you know, the funny thing you said that is that. What I'm about ready to say is actually it'll pull Costner right into that too, though, but I was sitting there thinking why are women absolutely crazy about this guy? Right, I mean, that's all they talk about is how these women see Rip. He's a man's man.
Speaker 1:He's a man's man, he's a man.
Speaker 2:I mean that's amazing, right? I mean because we're on the plane, I'm going to bring this together all about what happens on an aircraft, and women can actually attest to this. He is actually this definition of what a man used to be. Yeah, and I mean used to be Chivalrous. Yes, I mean they fantasize about him for a reason, because they think that's what a man is supposed to be. And let me explain that to you. And the reason is because he's very strong and he's no nonsense, right? His woman, he understands that Beth's a little crazy.
Speaker 1:She's a lot, no doubt about it. I mean, she's crazy. There's crazy women out there, right.
Speaker 2:And Beth is crazy. I mean you know she's crazy. There's crazy women out there, right. And Beth is crazy. I mean you know she's crazy. She's strong, right, she's a strong woman. But let's face it, beth is crazy. But he lets her be crazy Absolutely, and you never hear him say a bad word about her. Nobody wants to deal with Beth, but he doesn't say a bad thing about her. Not one bad thing, right. And from that she's got this crazy affection for him, right, and he never, ever calls her a name and you'll never, ever see him walk away. No, he doesn't ever walk away. Now, the reason why I was saying this is that there's not a whole lot of men in our country anymore, right.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:just me, or is it just me? I mean, I know there are certain ones of us right. We believe certain things, like I grew up walking beans, baling hay, detasseling corn. As a kid we drank coffee. There was two kinds of coffee In the morning time. It was percolated folks. I don't know if you know what percolated coffee is.
Speaker 1:That's old school, but if you do know what percolated coffee is. Old school right yeah.
Speaker 2:In the morning time, when the farmer would make that coffee, you drank black coffee. Well, when he heated it up for you in the afternoon, it was mud, it was blacker, Exactly, and that's all there was. There wasn't no cafe latte, double cappuccino. There was nothing like that, right, it was either one Guys men were men back then, and then all of a sudden it started changing right. So you see, guys that don't do things for women, right, Hold doors open, Pick a bag up and put it in the overhead bin. How about that one, right? How about the guy that's standing in the aisle with the elderly woman is standing in front of him and there's a 115-pound flight attendant in there and you see that this elderly woman's struggling and you want that 115-pound female over here to come pick that bag up and put it up. But you won't say ma'am, can I help you?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. We're right back to that guy with the headphones and wants a bourbon Exactly right, it comes back to that right.
Speaker 2:So my point is a rip. Right, let's say a rip, because that would be the definition of man. Let's say a rip, because that would be the definition of man. Let's say a rip. A rip to me is not some guy that's big muscles, puffs his chest out steroid-looking thing, it's not a physical thing.
Speaker 3:Not a physical thing Not at all right, it's something inside you, right?
Speaker 2:No, it's the guy— that's how you're raised Exactly Because when I was raised right my mom we had four boys and one girl right.
Speaker 1:I don't know about you. Oh, I do know about you guys. If you walk, wait, wait, wait, what?
Speaker 3:was that. No no, no, no, I do know I think he's going somewhere good with this. No, no.
Speaker 2:I do know about you guys, because if you didn't hold a door for a woman, what your mom would have done.
Speaker 1:Oh, my mom would smack me upside the head in a heartbeat.
Speaker 3:You know, I called a lady ma'am the other day and I think I made her angry. I was trying to be respectful but it didn't really go the right way.
Speaker 2:But it's how we grew up, right yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, our moms expected that of us, right, absolutely, that was it. And the thing is that we were there to help people and we still do that today. It's not changed. I know you guys, it doesn't change. When you see someone, that you help someone, you don't walk away from that person just because you avoid it. Right, and this is what we have today on the planes. Right, we have these guys that avoid it. They always walk away and they leave that person there. So, to honor these women listeners that appreciate the rip, right, the rip guy.
Speaker 3:The rips of the world.
Speaker 2:Right, the man, because that's what they do. They appreciate that man, so we're going to bring that situation to an airplane. Sean, I'm going to need your help on this one. Okay, all right, so here we go folks.
Speaker 1:I think G-Dub could help too.
Speaker 2:He can. Yeah, you can chime right in G. The game is called you Ain't a Rip, you Ain't a Rip, okay, you Ain't a Rip. So here we go. If a flight attendant accidentally bumps your knee with a cart and you act like you were hit by an NFL linebacker, sean.
Speaker 1:You ain't a rip.
Speaker 2:You ain't a rip, not the guy.
Speaker 1:You ain't the guy. You ain't the guy. He's in our space. First of all, exactly, get your damn elbows.
Speaker 2:If you got a man card, we're ripping it up right there, but you ain't a rip. If a little water spills on your shoulder and you act like your body was doused in acid G Not a rip, no, he ain't a rip. You are not a rip, no way, no rip. And if a little coffee spills on your pants and you act like you're now suffering from a third degree burn and you have to go to a trauma unit, gee, tell me again.
Speaker 3:Not that guy.
Speaker 2:He's not a rip, not a rip. You are definitely not a rip. No, not a rip at all. So, gentlemen, let me tell you something. Right, let's be a little bit more like a rip. Okay, if the women of this world like the rips, then maybe we should start being that guy. Maybe you should start opening those doors. Maybe, when you're in the aisle and you see a passenger that needs assistance, instead of waiting for that girl to grab that bag, maybe you should just say ma'am, can I help you? And then maybe, if you see a person that's, maybe they're disabled and they need some help, help them out.
Speaker 2:Maybe, Okay, so let's just be a little bit more like a rip and let's go the right direction instead of the wrong direction about being a man in our country. Copy that.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:So you know, I just I'm sorry, but I had to talk about that.
Speaker 1:I just I'm sorry, but I had to talk about that. No man, that's a good point to be made. I mean we are so lost in this world, there's so many distractions and we're all so into our own person and being in our own space. I mean, especially on the planes these days, nobody wants to be helpful. I mean it's a good point.
Speaker 2:And Sean, let me tell you something right between me and you. And Sean, let me tell you something right between me and you. They're lucky that we were not giving man cards, because me and you would be ripping the shit out of them all the time.
Speaker 3:Right, I'm straight out telling you we'd be tearing them man cards up, gentlemen, you would not be getting them. There's a lot of selfish guys out there, all right.
Speaker 2:So, guys, let's try to be more like a rip, anyway. Okay, all right, listen, we're going to go to our base assignments, right, we're going to go back to what we were talking about Coming out of training guys coming out of training, right, base assignments. Now you guys both came out of training same class. So, hey, give me the scoop. What happened with you guys?
Speaker 1:Man, you know, we were all given a choice of where to go and that choice was, you know, many different big cities in the United States at the time with our company.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm trying to think how many actual choices they gave you, even though they felt like they weren't.
Speaker 1:Well, we got three out of all the choices that we got, and then it was just a big bunch of bullshit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I knew that the choice thing was just something to make us feel like they were giving us something. Like we had some power to be able to choose, but we all went to Newark they were going to send you where they wanted to send you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were all going to Newark and that's where our whole class went to. We got there and it was.
Speaker 2:Was that intimidating? Going to Newark, I mean, you know, let me say you're going to the big city. Were either of you from a big city?
Speaker 3:No, no, for me it was. It was a lot. I'm going to be honest, it was a lot.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that G, because you know something, I think, if I end up going to a big city, like, and you know my stepfather's from Newark actually.
Speaker 1:So we I got to experience all that stuff, but I never had to live there.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, living, you know, you know, visiting a place and living in a place of two different things. But we all got to go to Newark and and we got assigned there the first, our first base assignment we got walked in there and back in the day first base assignment, we got walked in there and back in the day they weren't as friendly as they are today with flight attendants.
Speaker 1:Most of the time in today's world, they get three days in a hotel. They help them to relocate, find them a place to stay, all that good stuff, kind of hold their hand. Back then, as we walked into a big room auditorium, they said, hey, welcome to Newark. And they got right down to business.
Speaker 3:Yeah, newark, I always felt like as much as they needed us, they were still trying to get us not to stay.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Like you know, if you didn't Like they weren't happy to see us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Like you were thrown to the wolves, Wait what Like one or two strikes and maybe you're out.
Speaker 1:Right, One or two Tuesday, yeah, and they were trying to make us drive big time. But, yeah, they got us in this room and they were like hey, welcome to New York. This is what you have to do. For those of you that don't have a uniform, go get one.
Speaker 2:We have some borrowed pieces over at the base, Like they didn't even give us a uniform when we graduated, but it was okay. When you walked into Newark's airport though, I mean that was huge, right, I mean it was a huge airport it had to be a little bit intimidating when you first went in there.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, you were on public transportation going back and forth to where you live at, which is, you know, something that's different. You got to find a place to live. You got to get a beeper.
Speaker 2:You got to find some roommates.
Speaker 3:You got to find roommates because you can't afford a place by yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, back in the day, we're old school man. We came in. There was pagers at the time. We had to come in, no phones.
Speaker 2:Right there we did.
Speaker 1:Phones were here. There was the public phone everywhere. Right, there was public phones. Over here, by the gas station, there was public phones by the, you know had to keep a roll of was it was. It was crazy. But uh, they, they laid down really hard on us and told us hey, you know, by we only had like four or five hours to get everything and we also had to have an address for scheduling you know, to give them a place where we're gonna, you know, contact us yeah which was uh, just uh reminiscent on.
Speaker 1:It is just unreal that we even got it, got through it. But yeah, then then we, then we all had to find housing.
Speaker 2:Yeah what was that like and?
Speaker 1:housing, like every. You know, flight attendants, all we all got there. Imagine us all. We've been in training for like six weeks, eight weeks, whatever it was, and uh, we get there and we are all. We haven't really worked because they didn't pay us for the last six, eight weeks. Right, I think it was a hundred dollars a week or something like that. Yeah, that you used.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it was something around that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Even then didn't go very far.
Speaker 1:No it didn't go very far. And then, then we, anyways, we, we all grouped up into these things crash pads.
Speaker 3:Ours was in Elizabeth, I think Elizabeth, new Jersey, yeah, at the.
Speaker 2:Town and Campus. It was a motel.
Speaker 1:It had burned down once and they had rebuilt it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and they rebuilt it badly. It was a no-till motel, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was so bad like the crack under the door of this motel was like two inches. We'd come back from a trip we'd have snowdrifts in our room. Yeah it, from a trip we'd have snow drifts in our room.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was bad. I'm not so sure there weren't written rooms by the hour at this place.
Speaker 1:No, there was probably some of that going on, we just kind of like ignored it. But yeah, it was me. G-dub and two other cats that are out of our class were there.
Speaker 3:I think we had four guys paying like a thousand bucks a month.
Speaker 2:So you had four guys sharing two double beds, four guys sharing two double beds Four guys.
Speaker 1:No, it was more than that. I thought it was like 300 apiece, right About 1,200 bucks.
Speaker 3:Yeah maybe so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it was All right now, how old were you, sean?
Speaker 3:I was 25. G, same age. Okay, so you're 25 years old, right? Yeah, same age.
Speaker 2:You're four guys in a hotel room sleeping back-to-back with someone you just met.
Speaker 1:Well, we're not always sleeping back-to-back. I know where you're going with this. We don't like where you're going with this already.
Speaker 3:I will tell you this, Gene when all four guys were there and you were sleeping back-to-back, you were afraid that the guy that had his back to you was going to wake up with a little morning wood.
Speaker 2:That didn't cross my mind.
Speaker 3:You were praying that this guy wouldn't wake up and try to hold you or something, not that there's anything wrong with it?
Speaker 2:Try to snuggle with you in the evening. Yeah, All right guys.
Speaker 1:So you guys, you had to bunk up you had four of you in the hotel room and we didn't have any money Tough times and we were always begging to go on a trip because we needed to eat.
Speaker 3:You wanted to go fly so you could get food. Yeah, get food, free food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was how we survived through this first month that we were together here in this crash pad. I mean, I remember us pulling our money together and going to the store and buying boxes of Tasty Cakes Love the Tasty Cakes.
Speaker 3:You know Gary loves those cakes. Fantastic, tasty cakes. Love the tasty cakes. You know Gary loves those cakes Fantastic. Yeah, butterscotch crumpets, yeah, butterscotch crumpets, that is hilarious.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And yeah, and the beer. Yeah, drank a lot of beer.
Speaker 3:Got to have some beer Right, a lot of beer. But I will say this it was a lot of fun. We bonded, we had each and we all made the best of it.
Speaker 2:That's a great thing about that right, Because you do make those connections.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those connections last for a lifetime man. Here we are sitting, 30-plus years later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I look at you guys sometimes and I go back to our younger years man. And here it is. You see me, you got readers on. We're sitting there looking across from each other and I see the young us and where we're at now. It's amazing that you make those connections and here you are, 30-plus years later still friends.
Speaker 3:And I tell you, what's not going to happen is me and Sean sleeping back-to-back in a double bed.
Speaker 1:That ain't happening.
Speaker 2:There's no room for that. We're beyond that, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1:We're beyond that ladies and gentlemen, we're back to back sleep. Both of us are married.
Speaker 3:We don't need to be sitting back and back.
Speaker 1:I'm not so sure we both could fit in a double bed either, and we're not staying at motels anymore either, but anyways, yeah, you know what? Let's move on. What was your first flight? Let's talk about our first flight.
Speaker 2:Oh mine. Well, I got to tell you first where I was based.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:What were you based, that's okay, man, you just want to sweat me right underneath your belt.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, we can't not ignore that.
Speaker 3:We're going from a bad place to live to a great place to live Exactly.
Speaker 1:Tell us about your Cinderella story, as usual.
Speaker 2:Mine was a little different than yours. When we were putting in for our bases, they told us that Honolulu was closed, but I put it down anyway, and so when they announced the bases, they announced all the bases, and then the last one that they announced was mine, and I was Honolulu, and I was like you've got to be kidding me. That's the best Dude. Well, it is, yeah, but okay, imagine this I'm 20. I was 20 years old, right? So you're talking about a kid that came from the crop fields in Illinois working on farms, right, I had never been anywhere, not even on an airplane, so I've never been on an airplane.
Speaker 2:I'm working now, going to work on an airplane. So I'm taking these suitcases, I travel all the way to Honolulu, which I'd never thought I'd be on a beach in Hawaii in my life. So I'm standing on Waikiki Beach, I've got two suitcases on Waikiki Beach and I'm looking at this and I got this beeper strapped to my side and I've got no people from my training class, right, I'm the only one there and I'm looking at this beach and I'm like, yeah, man, this is really really cool, this is really beautiful. What the hell am I doing here? How?
Speaker 3:did I get here?
Speaker 1:And all the locals are looking at you going.
Speaker 3:There's another, holly just came in A holly boy.
Speaker 1:No, it's a holly boy.
Speaker 3:That's what I was a holly boy. He's from out of town, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:And if you know what a holly boy is? All you got to do is see a Hawaiian's when, as soon as they see a holly boy, they were dead, staring at me.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I was standing there with suitcases, but anyway I had to find a place to live. So I go traipse around the island and I'm jumping on the bus, I'm looking for places. Well, anybody notice anything? Hawaii was expensive. It was expensive then, it's expensive now and I had no money. We were guaranteed 65 hours back then. We had no money and we hadn't even made any money to have money, so I only had a little bit of money in my pocket. So I'm looking around, found no places. Most of the place was just like rat holes, right. I mean, just did not want to live there and so I was getting dejected. I went to the Ala Moana Flea Market and I was sitting there and I picked up a pineapple and I sat down. I started cutting it up.
Speaker 3:Pineapple is the best.
Speaker 2:Oh there, Pineapple is amazing.
Speaker 1:They were like 50 cents back then. Yeah Right 50 cents.
Speaker 2:I mean you get these beautiful pineapples. So anyway, I'm cutting it up. And here's this elderly woman sitting next to me and we got in this conversation. She was asking me is that? It was phenomenal? I said you want some? So I gave her some. We started talking. I told her the situation and she goes well, did you find anything? I said no, I don't have no money. There's just no way I joke around with her. I said I'm going to be sleeping in that park down there. Right, there's a lot of people sleeping in there.
Speaker 2:Exactly, I'm going to be one of them with a them on Nice parks too, right, exactly. Well, she looks at me and she said, well, she's a missionary's wife and she had been there for like 50 years with her husband who passed away, and she had like five homes on the island. And she had said, well, I just donate the money anyway to the church. And she said, well, I'm going to write an address down. You tell me if you want it and how much can you afford. And I said I can't go over $600. And she says, okay, well, you give me $600 and just take care of the yard and we'll call it even. And I'm sitting there thinking yeah but $600, though.
Speaker 1:What is this going to be?
Speaker 3:What's it going to be like and where is it going to be like? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:So you know, I get on the bus, I go to Salt Lake shopping center. I asked where Pulku Malika is and they point to the very top of this. You know it's like it looks like a small little hill I mean mountain, you know but it's just a really big hill. So I went up top and I was looking at this house and I had the address and I looked at it and then I looked at the address. I couldn't have ran down that hill fast enough. Right, she had a two bedroom, tworoom stilted home. I'm facing the military base on the other side of the island. I just won the lottery.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Jackpot. Yeah, no doubt I just won the lottery. So I said, yes, I grabbed it. I walked down to the shopping center and what do I do? I get my bed. It's a blow-up Right, I don't have a bed, I don't have nothing. So I get a blow-up mattress. I go up there, I go to sleep. I get this call this beeper. Right, beeper goes off. Yeah, it goes off. I got to run down all the way to the flea market because, again, we ain't got no phones, right, I haven't got hooked up, no phone hooked up. So I had to go down to the shopping center. I I called them, it's scheduling. Now, here we go, first flight, right, I'll just keep going, since it was my first flight. Scheduling says you know, flight attendant, and I said yes, and they give me the information. I start writing it down and they say tonight you're going out on the 747. You're going to Auckland, new Zealand, and you are the lead flight attendant.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, wow, wow, yeah, no, I am not kidding, every flight attendant that's listening to the show right now just panicked Lead flight attendant on 747. Now in Honolulu you guys out there was the most senior flight attendants in the system, right, and I was probably one of the most junior flight attendants system-wide.
Speaker 1:In a holly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a holly boy. So I told the scheduler. I said you do realize I'm brand new, right? And she's like, yeah, what's your point? I'm like I guess I don't have any right. So I write this information down and I go show up to the plane and there it starts. Right, I'm on this huge airplane, I have no idea what I'm doing and I ask everybody if anyone wants to switch positions and you know, nobody does that right.
Speaker 2:So I ended up being the lead position on the 747. The incredible thing is, flight attendants are incredible right. You come across these ones that all they want to do is they want to make you better too, and that's what they did. I mean, they helped me out and they told me everything what to do, and I absolutely I love that first flight because I learned so much from these flight attendants, but I also learned how important it was to help somebody.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think everybody understands that at some point they were new at something.
Speaker 1:For sure.
Speaker 2:Right, so it was. Oahu. Auckland, new Zealand was my first flight 747. All right, guys. Where did you guys go?
Speaker 1:Oh man, my first flight 727. I have no idea Multiple legs that day. I just know that I ended up in Detroit and that was an experience. The first layover was an experience. I don't know how you guys would happen there when you get to that first destination. For me it was, let's say, the rules were different back then. Yeah and uh, we had a lot of alcohol in the room we had pizza.
Speaker 2:He's a layover guy and we had that was no testing back then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was no testing and uh, we had we had rigged up the TV to watch the free movies in the box in the hotel room. Oh, uh, I remember that one, I remember that one. These are all old school stuff that doesn't even exist anymore, but yeah, so that was my first flight and it was an experience, for sure, a four-day trip.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I really can't remember my first flight. I do remember that. I mean, I'm not very good now, but I was even worse back then which is hard to believe and they used to help me and I didn't know what I was doing. I really didn't.
Speaker 1:They're still helping you. Yes, raw is still helping me. It takes a village. It does take a village.
Speaker 3:But I remember those people, all the flight attendants just helped me and I was nice, so I took direction, I did it, but I was not a good stew, no doubt about it, yeah, but you know something the one thing about G man you have them on the plane.
Speaker 2:It's always fun, right? Yeah, I mean, it's always a good time.
Speaker 1:The one thing that does happen on any plane that any of us are on over having fun, because what's the point of even being there?
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely, oh yeah. Especially remember when they used to put all three of us on the plane. Oh, my, all right guys. Now listen. As you know, we talk about a weekly destination, right? Last week we talked about Bozeman, now this week I'm choosing this one Oahu, right.
Speaker 1:Oahu. What a perfect scene that he had his first base in the Oahu.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I want to see, actually, you know what it is. We're asking for pictures, so I want to see pictures, right. I want to see some really cool pictures of some of these things that we're talking about, and one of the first things that I think that we have to talk about right is Diamond Head, because both of you guys went there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, the first thing you do when you go to Oahu is-.
Speaker 3:You got to be a destination of Diamond Head. Yeah, you got to get there, you got to get there.
Speaker 1:You got to get there. It's the view, it's the picture that you're going to take there with the people that you go. You're going to be so enamored with that. That's going to be like lifelong memories Postcard. It's a postcard For sure.
Speaker 2:Now, didn't they have like some kind of staircase they were showing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know. So Diamond Head is a state monument park. It's built in a volcano. A little bit of history on Diamond Head.
Speaker 1:Diamond Head was a little bit of history on a diamond head. A diamond head was originally just a big chunk of land there and the military took over the land and then they turned it into a military base which protected our Western territories at the time of the United States, and they built bunkers in there, they built tunnels and they have a very unique spiral staircase that goes up into one of the bunkers there that you can still go into at that time. But in addition to that, it remained a military base until about 1955. And then the military gave it back to the island of Hawaii and they were going to actually make it into condos and stuff and they had a big fight on their hands. The local started fighting because they wanted to protect their Island and it remained a decision that they were going to actually make it into a park and so the park the Hawaii park division took over in 1975. It's been a park and a destination for everybody in the United States and visitors from all over the world to go hike up Diamond Head and you can hike up the tunnels and spiral staircase into those bunkers and climb out.
Speaker 1:These pictures of a beautiful overlooking of Honolulu.
Speaker 2:So G you went there with family. So good family place right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely Just a lot to do there. Um, I think that's got to be one of the top destinations when you do to go to oahu is a diamond head. It's like I said, it's a postcard um memory. We get very scenic.
Speaker 1:Um, just just a great, great place to go to yeah, and you know, if you are, you can't go in the city you can't go without going.
Speaker 3:you know, if you are in the city, you can't go without going there. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you're in the city of Honolulu, there you can actually walk to Diamond Head. Yeah, you don't even need, you don't have to take any transportation or nothing. You can literally walk up, walk through the tunnel right into the park, up to the top of the hill and boom. A lot, of, a lot of crew members on layovers do that.
Speaker 2:So Diamond Head definitely a destination Diamond Head.
Speaker 1:Definitely a destination, definitely a destination. What's another destination, top of the list Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2:You got to also say Pearl Harbor, right. Oh my gosh Without a doubt right, yeah, yeah, pearl Harbor is a must, that's a must, see, yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, when you go to Pearl Harbor, everybody thinks they know you really don't until you get there, and there's just so much more that you can learn by going there that you don't know. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's such a sobering experience, especially with you know just the memory of what just happened a few days ago here in 9-11, here with us. This was another tragic event on December 7th 1941, that we were attacked in Pearl Harbor, and you can go there. You can still see bullet holes on the sides of the buildings there and it is amazing that that has been preserved. There's so much to do there and see there. Not only are you seeing the memorial, that is the, and you can see the oil still coming out of the ships there.
Speaker 3:And you go down into the ships, to the submarines. Yeah, you can get in they have submarine, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:They have a submarine museum. Spit that out, yeah, and they also have an airspace museum as well. It is an amazing experience that we spent. I went there with G-Dub.
Speaker 3:You spent a whole day, but I think you could spend multiple days there and still not get it all in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot of stuff there, A lot of stuff to see, a lot of stuff to do, a lot of education about the World War II and what they went through in that time. And also you're going to hear stories about how the locals reacted to the whole thing, because you always hear about the military. But man, were the locals there were involved so much. It is definitely a destination to go to.
Speaker 3:Really makes you have a great appreciation for all those people that fought for our country Absolutely and who lost their lives For sure.
Speaker 2:So that's number two. So let's go to the next one, and I love this one, right? I mean it's changed a little bit since I was there when I first got there, but still it's a must go. Must see Hanama Bay, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hanama Bay is the place to go If you want to snorkel and you want to see coral. The one thing that I know about Hawaii I've been there several times, but is that I go dive in there. Hawaii and the islands are very steep, so you think that when you go into water they're going to be very picturesque, but they get very deep very quick, so to see a lot of coral. You're not going to see it in all the beaches there, you're only in certain places. It happens it just so happens that Hanama Bay is built on another point and it's shallowed out somewhat, so it has such a great coral base there. So you're going to see all kinds of marine activities fishes, octopus, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2:But going back to what you were saying and how it drops off in Hanama Bay, once you get past that coral, what does it do, Sean? It just drops off.
Speaker 3:It just drops off. I mean it's a black mess. I mean it's a black mess, I mean it really is.
Speaker 2:You're absolutely right, because if you've ever gone out to the coral part of that and you get to the edge of it, it's like the abyss it gets dark quick.
Speaker 1:You mean?
Speaker 2:right.
Speaker 3:You don't know what's coming, you get very uncomfortable, exactly yeah, isn't that right? As much as I can appreciate it, I'll see it from the side GW is not the aquatic type I have the ability to appreciate something by not actually doing it fully.
Speaker 2:Hey G, you know something, though I'm right there with you because I remember getting to the edge of that thing and I looked down there and it was like the abyss, right, yeah, and all you can remember is remember Jaws yeah. So I mean you always go back to that.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you ever grew up and we grew up, you remember, john, I remember a story there when, when, uh, gw and I went there, um, I actually went off and like it's in this crater. So I went off to the side of the crater and actually jumped off the cliff there and then I swam back into the shore like reverse the whole place because I was like I want to see the deep stuff. Or you know, when I got my energy.
Speaker 1:I can go and then I can kind of like float on into the shallow coral and stuff and it's like a maze out there. You like got to get through the coral and all this stuff.
Speaker 3:Sean, you're a fantastic swimmer to begin with, so let's get that out there.
Speaker 2:But it is really cool. Okay, so Hanama Bay got to go right.
Speaker 1:You got to go. It's one of those ones.
Speaker 2:But you know real quick, okay, hanama Bay, if you go a little bit farther, a little bit farther, I just want to throw this in there.
Speaker 1:Just up the highway.
Speaker 2:Up the highway is Sandy Beach Now, in between Sandy Beach and Hanama Bay. There is a cove underneath there and for a lot of people our age who will remember this From here to Eternity, was filmed in that cove.
Speaker 3:It's a little scenic area.
Speaker 2:They don't let you go down there anymore.
Speaker 1:If you've got a woman and you want to roll around on the beach like, how's it going? They don't let you go down anymore. They don't anymore, right? No, no, no, Because.
Speaker 2:I used to be able to go down there and they don't let you go down. But Sandy Beach also a very, very cool beach.
Speaker 1:There's other beaches to roll around All right, so is Manoa Falls. Yeah, Manoa Falls. I have not been to this one location that. Now I've got something on my list to go back to see in Hawaii. Yeah, Tell us about it. G.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is incredible. It has a scenic 150-foot tall fall right. I mean, it's just beautiful. You're hiking through a rainforest. It's about 1.5 miles round trip. It takes about an hour or two from the trail, I mean, but it's definitely worth the trek. Make sure, on any of these, when you're going, especially there, make sure that you are taking water with you. Just make sure. Just make sure you stay hydrated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know. One thing that you've got to remember, too, is that you need to get out of the city.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:This is one of the one first places here that are is not like all these other places are somewhat starting to get out. Uh, this is going to give you the experience of what the islands are really look like and what they feel like. I mean you. When you go to Hawaii, you have to see a waterfall, doesn't?
Speaker 2:matter what island you go to.
Speaker 1:You got to see a waterfall.
Speaker 2:And if you're going to Oahu, you're traveling that far. Folks Trust me on this, I get it. Everybody goes to Oahu. They want to see Waikiki Beach right. Waikiki Beach now is what A strip, right G.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's still nice. Sometimes you want to do a little bit of shopping and some other stuff.
Speaker 2:It's a concrete jungle. It's a concrete jungle, though it's not like it used to be. I mean if you want to see an ABC store every now and then that is the place you won't see that everywhere in the world, so rent a car, go to the other side of the island, go to the North Shore, go see something right, Don't just stay right downtown in Waikiki.
Speaker 1:There's so much more to see. Yeah, if you get on the car, I highly recommend get to the other side of the island.
Speaker 3:Yeah, stop at Dole right G-Dub Pineapple Number one pineapple place.
Speaker 1:Man Dole Whip. The Dole Whip there will blow your mind. I mean, it is unbelievable.
Speaker 2:So remember everyone the reason why we highlight this we want to give you some information about where to go and what to do. Sometimes it's food, sometimes it's restaurants, sometimes it's just a destination that we want you to experience. That. But what we really want when you go there, and if you're with your family, if it's with your crew right, we want your pictures. Yeah, right, we want the picture of you standing on Oahu, you stand on Waikiki Beach, you go on to Diamond Head, you go on to Pearl Harbor, hanama Bay, anything that we talked about. Get a picture of it, send it to us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, gw, and I got that postcard picture of us up on top of Diamond Head, me and the family.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fantastic picture.
Speaker 2:And you send it to us. And, trust me, right, sean's our tech guy. Yeah, you're going to get posted. You're going to get posted, we're going to put it on social media.
Speaker 1:We want everybody, if you want it to go one step further and you want to download our, our logo or put up a sign saying something about cabin pressure with Sean and G boom.
Speaker 2:Love it, man. That's appreciated because.
Speaker 3:I said that's a definite way to get it on Facebook.
Speaker 1:You got it Top, top fan.
Speaker 2:Absolutely that's. That's exactly what we want to see. We want to see cabin pressure.
Speaker 1:Outstanding. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's pretty much our show, but we're going to end our show, like we always do, with a quote, and G's going to get our quote to this week.
Speaker 2:Okay, everyone, this one is. It's one that I think about a lot, so here it goes. The only opinion in life that truly matters is the one that you have about yourself. If, for some reason, your day gets a little bit tough and trust me, I know we all deal with that take a minute, just go in the bathroom, take a deep breath, wherever you're at, look in the mirror and just repeat I got this. Do it all the time. Trust me, Take care of yourself. Gee, it was a lot of fun. I am so looking forward to you coming back.
Speaker 3:Hey, thanks for having me guys. It's been fun. Yeah, A lot of fun.
Speaker 1:We're going to have you back on the show as well. I mean, it's great to have guests on and have another opinion.
Speaker 2:Especially G man. I haven't seen him for a while and do any time come back, because I love having you here.
Speaker 3:I will Thank you, guys. You guys got a great show. I appreciate you inviting me on and I look forward to the next time.
Speaker 2:All right, man. So everyone, again, again, get back to us right Post on Facebook. We want to hear from you. We definitely want to hear from you. So until next time, right, sean, until next time, we'll see you back here on Cabin Pressure.
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