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Ever wondered how Northeast Ohio transforms into a stunning autumn wonderland? Picture this: just as the burnt grass seemed to have given up, the skies opened up, and hurricane-induced rains brought a breathtaking rebirth of lush greenery. Experience the thrill of autumn tales, from spine-tingling adventures in haunted houses and eerie hayrides through ghostly woods to encounters at the famous Mansfield Reformatory from Shawshank Redemption. And just when you think it can't get more intriguing, our chat takes a ghostly twist with tales from our flight attendant friends who moonlight as ghost-busters!
Let’s switch gears and talk about a common conundrum in the skies – headphone etiquette. We all love our music and podcasts, but what happens when being tuned in means tuning out important announcements? We're sharing the flight crew’s perspective on how inattentiveness can lead to missed safety instructions and snack opportunities, especially if you're seated in the infamous "lockdown row" of economy class. This candid conversation is packed with tips on how to make your flight not only smooth but also enjoyable for everyone aboard.
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Autumn Adventures and in-Flight Etiquette
Speaker 1This week we're going to be talking about some of our most memorable emergencies on an airplane , and do you think you should stop what you're doing and take off your headphones when a flight attendant is speaking to you ? This week's destination tip Phoenix . All this and more . Next on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G Cabin crew prepare for takeoff .
Speaker 2Welcome everyone . This is cabin pressure sean . What is one of the favorite things about this time of year ?
Speaker 1The changing of the leaves , the fall .
Speaker 2Northeast Ohio .
Speaker 1We just went from burnt to beautiful Burnt to beautiful man . The trees are starting to pop here . It's magical season for this area of the United States .
Speaker 2Oh , everybody comes here to look at the leaves change . But what's amazing is we had all this burn up grass right Probably three weeks we haven't mowed , I mean because the grass has been so burnt and fried .
Speaker 1Yeah , we were like on a big drought right now .
Speaker 2Hurricane bands come in . Three days ago Actually .
Speaker 1I thought my lawn was dead . I mean , it was so burnt up and so dry .
Speaker 2It gets a thatch later .
Speaker 1Yeah , a thatch later and it just went totally dormant .
Speaker 2Yeah . And then all of a sudden , three days ago , we get all this rain , right yeah , from the hurricane coming up and your grass . It's completely amazing that your grass doesn't need anything , right . You just put water to it and we've got this beautiful grass now .
Speaker 1Man , did we get some water ? It was like two , three days of continuous rain , mist .
Speaker 2It's so pretty now , I didn't even want to actually cut it . I'm going to cut it tomorrow , but I didn't even want to cut it . It was so pretty .
Speaker 1Yeah , you're going to cut it .
Speaker 2Well , you're not . Because you don't cut yours , I got to cut mine .
Speaker 1You got somebody that comes and does yours . Okay , I just don't want to be , don't be a hater , because I figured out that I want somebody to cut it early in life .
Speaker 2Okay , yeah , I cut my grass . He doesn't cut his .
Speaker 1It's all good . But hey , it is beautiful up here , from burnt to just a magical , you know colorful area , I mean the leaves and everything changing right now you can just sit there being mesmerized .
Speaker 2Yeah , because when you walk around some of these lakes we have a lot of little lakes around here when you walk around , you do a lot of photography and I've seen a lot of your pictures , especially with the trees and the reflections off the lakes . It's absolutely gorgeous yeah .
Speaker 1All of northeast of the United States right now . I mean you're going to get these . Any lake you're around that's surrounded with trees and stuff are just going to be just beautiful reflections of all the autumn colors .
Speaker 2And we have people . We have people actually travel from all over the world to come to Ohio just to see the leaves change .
Speaker 1Yeah , there's a lot of people coming in just for the for the fall .
Speaker 2Do you know what else I love about this time of year ? What's that ? Haunted houses .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , I do hey , the haunted houses here are just spectacular Off the hook man . We don't have just haunted houses , we have haunted forests .
Speaker 2I was just going to say that I love the haunted woods , yeah , the haunted forest .
Speaker 1So they've expanded . It's just not one little house that you walk through . You got you can walk through not only the house but , like the forest beyond it and everything that people jumping out scared the shit out of you oh we , we went out .
Speaker 2We went out to this haunted woods , we're traveling out , and it's out in the middle of nowhere , right you ? You're , you're going out of this country road and all of a sudden you see this little sign and and you pull off and there's all these cars in this field . Well , you pay your money and then you get on this hay ride and they take you down through the valley and as you're going down , it's getting colder and colder . You get to the bottom and there's this opening , there's a couple bathrooms . So you go to the bathroom so you don't pee yourself when you're going inside there . So you definitely stop at a port-a-pot .
Speaker 2Yeah , because a lot of the girls they'll end up getting scared too and they end up peeing . So they make sure that they got a port-a-pot . But the haunted woods are off the chain , man , they are so much fun . Yeah , they are a blast . You ever want to see someone , though Not a blast . You ever , you ever want to see someone , though I not to interject , but you ever want to see someone . You know this , sean , put somebody in the woods . Oh yeah , yeah , you don't even have to have haunted woods .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , it's . It's the eerie feeling , especially when you're out there by yourself . Whatever , if you grew , if you grew creepy feeling , cold damp , yeah .
Speaker 2And then you got all these things coming at you and it's great , but the haunted houses and the haunted woods crazy . And then they have one . Remember Shawshank Redemption ? Oh yeah , the movie .
Speaker 1Mansfield yeah , the Mansfield Reformatory Right , They've got a haunted the Mansfield .
Speaker 2Reformatory Right . They've got a haunted . What was it ? Some blood something .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's like the haunted prison or something .
Speaker 2Yeah , something like that .
Speaker 1I mean , if you're ever up in this area Mansfield Ohio , and getting down to the Mansfield Reformatory , it is a wild experience just to walk through there , let alone just going through that place is just kind of like a creepy eerie .
Speaker 2I mean , like you know , Could you imagine being there at nighttime though Say , you're a person that is really spooked but being in Mansfield Prison at night .
Speaker 1So you're saying about this night . We have some flight attendant friends that are all into this ghost busting . They love this . Like that ghost , that ghost show , you know . You know what I'm talking about . Yeah , they , they . They decided that they were going to go spend the night down there In Mansfield , oh yeah , and then they give them , like the , the ghost detectors . Like you know , they're going around at night creeping around with flashlights and this ghost detector , it reminds you of like Ghostbusters .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I mean . Well , for those that are fans of that ghost show that's out there that they're always like places that are haunted and all that stuff , they have that experience down there in Mansfield Ohio Highly recommended if you're into that type of thing .
Speaker 2Because , yeah , they used to have the death penalty right . Yeah , all that crazy stuff that was Mansfield Prison . Yeah , all that crazy stuff that was Mansfield Prison . But yeah , with the haunted houses and everything in Ohio , unbelievable man , this time of year is really good . But you know something too I love Apple cider .
Speaker 1Ooh , apple cider Right down the road here my favorite apple farm , griggs Apples .
Speaker 2Yeah , the apple cider is really really good this time of year Off the chain .
Speaker 1I mean this is like we wait for that open sign to happen every year , every time we drive back , because my wife and I are always traveling every year , actually month to month , and when that sign comes out we've got to stop . We actually transport it to our family over in Indiana because it's so good .
Speaker 2Apple cider donuts too . That would be right , with Gary man right up his alley . But apple cider donuts .
Speaker 1Dude , the pumpkin patches right now . Yeah , the donuts being made right there . All that , this is the season right now .
Speaker 2Yeah , definitely beautiful time of year . All right , sean , I was given a message from a flight attendant about a note that was given to them . Yeah , what was that ? They had this . It was written on a napkin A lot of times during flight . We'll get little notes from people , right ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I love those napkin notes . Those are always extra special .
Speaker 2They're informational things like this person's got their seat back .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , normally they're just tattletales , exactly .
Speaker 2Yeah , this one was a little bit different of a tattletale Flight attendant had the note and I've seen this screenshot and it's actually really funny . It asked if the flight attendant could please make an announcement that the person farting from row 9 to 11 , please stop , that everyone is tired breathing in your ass air and that they are getting sick and you might want to go home and check yourself for ass cancer .
Speaker 1I know we didn't make that announcement .
Speaker 2You can't make this up .
Speaker 1Yeah , you can't make that up , you cannot make it up , but it's really brutally honest .
Speaker 2We deal now , you know we deal with a little bit of stink on the airplane .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's so weird that people enjoy farting in tubes . It is not good . I mean , you can walk into the cabin and like it from zone to zone . You know it's a like you could .
Speaker 2Sometimes we get the baby smell all those people are getting their hands over their nose , but a lot of times we get that , just that , that stink it .
Speaker 1It's not good somebody's decided they wanted to uh refresh the cushions on the plane .
Speaker 2There was this little gentleman . He came out of the bathroom one time and when he came out he was up front and man , I mean it was peeling the walls off , bad . And we immediately put our hands over our nose .
Speaker 1We were just hiding in the corner . We're always the ones that get the first of the experience .
Speaker 2It was so bad . He opened up the door and it was so bad . We got a call from the cockpit and the captain was like what the hell is that ? And I go . This guy just went in the bathroom . Well , his wife was back in row four . As he is walking back , she yells up to the front at me and she's like good Lord , just stunk up the whole plane . Oh , that's nice . Well , the smell had gone all the way through first class . Oh no .
Speaker 2So he's walking back , she's yelling up at me and she says he had an operation to take care of that and I guess it didn't work , yeah , so she goes oh my God , I walked back there and I did . I kind of felt bad for him at that point . But between covering your nose and laughing , you walk back and and I was sitting there telling her . I was like , don't worry about it , it's fine , and she goes . Great , we're going to be known as the poop people , yeah .
Speaker 1You know there's a lot of poop people on the aircraft . We , we , we can do a whole entire episode on poop people on the aircraft oh , my god , I told you before I love old people .
Speaker 2I really do .
Speaker 1I'm getting there , but they're so frank and honest right oh my gosh , they will just say anything they don't give a shit . I guess he was giving a shit , but one of the two , it was so funny , right ?
Speaker 2oh my gosh . All right , well , anyway
Headphone Etiquette on Aircraft
Speaker 2, let me . Let me ask you one question for you . What's some one thing that completely annoys you that people do all the time on a plane ?
Speaker 1don't take off your headsets when I'm talking to you . I mean , this is like a rampant plague on the aircraft . I mean , every time you come down , everybody knows one thing we're going to come down , we're going to do the service and we're going to come down , we're going to ask you . You know what you want to drink . You know , would you like a snack ? Whatever , all that stuff , depending on the airline . You're on Right , but when you come to them and you're standing there looking at them straight in the face and they're looking at you and you , they could see your lips moving , but they can't hear you . And you go through the whole spiel of whatever you're getting ready to say , whether you'd like them to have them drink or anything , and then they go , huh .
Speaker 2But it starts way before that , though , right when we are basically even before we leave the gate , we're telling them bring the seat backs up , tray tables , stow stuff . They're not paying attention , they're not listening . They got their headphones on , they got their damn headphones on . They get upset because they haven't done anything that they're supposed to do and you had to interrupt their little bitty movie Right or them doing whatever they're doing on their laptop . That they're not supposed to have out .
Speaker 1Exactly .
Speaker 2Because if they'd had their headphones off , they would have known that the laptop should have been put away at this time .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2So then you go . Exactly what you were saying is when you get out on the aisle and you're doing a service , they'll realize on a lot of those planes we got like 200 people .
Speaker 1At least 200 people were saying this over and over . And these people they just get you and they're like huh , or they do this . I'm going down the aisle and I'm giving you a snack and you can see that the top of the cart there's snacks all over the cart . And I'm saying , would you like this snack or that snack ? And they go , I'll take a Diet Pepsi .
Speaker 2Exactly , yeah , because you're not even hearing , yeah , not even paying attention , not even paying attention .
Speaker 1Yeah , wake up , see these two damn things I'm waving to your face . Pick one .
Speaker 2I don't got time for this . Exactly , just take your headphones off for a minute and here's the other thing . You're traveling with your child .
Speaker 1Yeah , okay .
Speaker 2Lil Johnny's over there in the corner and he's on his little iPad or whatever he's doing to play his game , right ? Okay , Lil Johnny , you want a Coke .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2He don't even pay attention .
Speaker 1They see us coming down the aisle , they know that we're getting ready to get there . And all of a sudden , would you like something to drink , johnny ? What would you like to drink today ? And Johnny ignores us because he's got his damn headphones on too , not paying attention . And then he's finally pulling off his headphones saying what , what do they have ?
Speaker 2What do they have ? No , we're leaving . Do they have any fruit punch ? No , we're leaving . We're already packing our stuff up and we're going .
Speaker 1I'm most of the time turning to the other aisle , across the aisle from that row , and saying , hey , what would you like to drink ? As they get their shit together and mom finally tuned into current events and figured out what their kids are going to be ordering and finally tell me , because we have 200 people on this plane to beverage and serve . You know it's . You know why we do , you know ?
Speaker 2why we do these rants . I mean they're , they're because what annoys us too , but so like an education too , because when you're , when you're wondering why that that flight attendant passed you up , they didn't pass you up . No , they didn't pass you up Because two people have a drink right next to you .
Speaker 1Yeah , you were the person ignoring us , yep , and we're going to ignore you , yep .
Speaker 2And we're going to just keep moving , we're going to keep doing our job , and little Johnny ain't getting a drink Exactly .
Speaker 1Little Johnny doesn't need his juice or any of that . That's not so important because his iPad is more important .
Speaker 2No , he ain't getting his drink yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah no , he ain't getting his drink . Yeah yeah , Blue's Clues has got to be the most important right now . Anyhow , the other thing that really annoys me too is you know we're trying to give you a beverage and they come on and they're like what do you have Drink choices ? Drink choices are like can you just tell us what you want ? I mean , we've done everything , the airlines have done everything . They've given you a menu . In front of you there's a whole list of everything we are on there . Many of these people have been on the aircraft before , so they know , they know the brands that we have and what we're going to be giving out . So a lot of them are giving us those choices , but I will say about 50% of them don't have a damn clue .
Speaker 2No , because you wonder why sometimes you have slow service . Well , again you got two crew members in the back and 200 people . And when you get to row seven , now here's another thing row seven . On any airplane it's the hardest thing to understand . A crew member will tell you this Row 7 is lockdown .
Speaker 1Row 7 is like the front of the aircraft for anybody out there that hasn't actually flown .
Speaker 2It's the economy front row of economy .
Speaker 1Yeah , for those airlines that have those different zones .
Speaker 2Lockdown row . You'll get there and that person they will . Each person will want three drinks , two different kinds of snacks , and then they'll change their mind halfway between ordering it and that crew member is going to be locked down at row seven . Now . The person on the back now is at the exit row .
Speaker 1Yeah , and this person is like I— they're already rolling through because people are like giving their choices and these first couple rows are very needy .
Speaker 2I would never understand that , and it's all the time . It's every time .
Speaker 1It's crazy like that , though , right , and it's the frequent flyers pretty much that they're demanding all this amenities and beverages and snacks and all that stuff . It's a weird phenomena but it does happen on every aircraft .
Speaker 2But once you get out of that , it's just , you're flying , you're cruising , yeah , going through , yeah , you're going pretty fast Until you get to that passenger that doesn't know what their drink choice is . And headphones on . So hey , folks listen , take the headphones off when you see us . Just take them off for a second and you're going to get what you want . It's a little bit of education . We do the little rants for fun , but it's a quick education .
Speaker 1Yeah , mom , get the choices before we get there . It'd be a lot faster and they know already anyways .
Speaker 2Yeah , it'll be a lot faster . All right , sean
Ted Lasso's Heartwarming Impact
Speaker 2. Did you ever watch a show called Ted Lasso ? Oh yeah , love . Did you ever watch a show called Ted Lasso ? Oh yeah , love .
Speaker 1Ted Lasso what did you like ? About it . Oh man , I mean it was just a warm , funny situational comedy show that just surprised you at times .
Speaker 2It was on Apple TV , right Apple TV . So Ted Lasso folks , they recruited a football coach .
Speaker 1Yeah , so they recruited a football coach . The premise of the whole thing is that he's a football coach from the United States and he's going over to coach a soccer team , as we call it , here in America For all of our fans out there that are in England football to coach their football team over in England .
Speaker 2So he has an assistant that goes with him , that believes he's going to go coach football . Yeah , until he understands that football is .
Speaker 1The beard .
Speaker 2Yeah , football is actually soccer . So this is one of those shows that at first you're wondering okay , where are they going with this right , where are they going with this ? And as it goes on , you really start liking it a lot .
Speaker 1Yeah , you like it because the characters that are there excuse me , the characters are just very heartwarming characters . I mean , no matter .
Speaker 2Their personalities .
Speaker 1Each one is like an individual personality that you can identify in different times with .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , and they have a ton of personality , ton of heart . All these characters have major , major , major heart .
Speaker 1Yeah , it doesn't matter . With their disgruntled characters , ones that are supposed to be angry or ones that are supposed to be overly happy or ones that are just goofy . Each one of them are just like . They all have this really giant heart .
Speaker 2And they all center around this one individual . His name is Ted Lasso . He is the guy that remember what was it ? The Millers , the Millers yeah , he was the dad in the Millers and if you'd watched that , he's really funny in that movie too . But in this one he has that personality that by being positive and having this big heart , how you can change people Right , be a leader . Even more so than that . He has this way about . He turns everything negative to a positive . Even when these people are angry , he shows them a different side of it , right .
Speaker 1Yeah , he did In some very comical ways .
Speaker 2It was In the first season absolutely loved the first season . The second season it was pretty good too . Third season got a little bit different from that . But if you ever get a chance , take a look at Ted Lasso . If you ever wondered what one person can make a difference in people's lives , it's one of those programs that you're going to . That first season I guarantee you'll binge watch it . You'll binge watch it when you start it . You'll binge watch it because you just fall in love with this character that he is and how he affects people .
Speaker 1Yeah , he comes into a very hostile environment because he's this football coach from America coming to coach soccer .
Speaker 2Well , the owner is divorced from this woman , and the reason why is she wanted to ruin him and she hires a football coach for soccer .
Speaker 1Yeah , everything kind of backfires in the whole situation .
Speaker 2But you're going to love Ted Lasso . Just the personality that he brings and the caringness that he brings for people and how people change when they're around him . They actually change . The people that were not nice end up being nice , right , yeah , so it's actually one of those ones you want to look at and again you'll manage to watch it . So I want to go back and to talk about
Airport Frustrations and Lack of Help
Speaker 2this .
Speaker 2About a year ago , they had this video out of this elderly woman . She was in an Atlantic airport . Did you see this was in an Atlantic airport . Did you see this ? No , she had missed her flight . She came up to the gate area and she was pounding on the door . Well , the plane was already gone . No plane there . She didn't realize that there was no gate people there , no gate agents . She was pounding on the door . She jumped on the microphone and was like saying hello , hello , people were videotaping this . They had it on their phones and they were videoing this and she was getting so frustrated . But let me tell you why . In an airport , first of all , it is one of the most frustrating , scary places for a lot of people , right ?
Speaker 1Oh , absolutely . I mean the travel experience themselves is just a very frustrating . A lot of anxieties happening with that situation , and we've seen that so many times . How many people have we seen Hundreds over the years ? Right , yeah , Probably coming up to gate and miss their flight .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , because when you think about this folks , when you leave your house , the first thing you do is you jump in the car with the kids . Everybody's frustrated . You're trying to get to the airport . Why ? Because you got to go through security . You got to get through security . They got to take all your stuff out , the things that you didn't realize you couldn't take out . They're going to take those . You're going to get rid of those . You're going to be upset about that . Then you got to get through security . You got to get to a gate and you're rushing to get to a gate , to rush to sit there . And you know , all of a sudden somebody forgets a bag or whatever . So you have all this frustration . And people are not used to airports . They don't fly very much . Most people fly once or twice a year yeah .
Speaker 2I mean that's most , I mean if they're lucky once or twice . So it's a big frustration and for some people these airports are really scary too , because they are really big . You got to go from one side of the airport the other side of the airport .
Speaker 1You don't know whether it's A , b , c or D or F and they have no idea . And for elderly people it's even more difficult . I mean , I have a buddy of mine I always call him Mr Magoo . He was traveling with me one time and he went and he's like I got to a restroom , so he goes to the restroom . When he came out of the restroom he turned the opposite direction of what our gate was and by the time he realized he was in the front of the airport and realized that we were at the other end of the airport . He's running down and he came in panicking , probably just like this lady .
Speaker 2Yeah , and go back to her . So what she was doing . She had ran up there , like I said , she was pounding on the door , wasn't getting any attention at all . She had got on the PA was saying hello , the people were videotaping her like they do today . Everybody wants to be the next Steven Spielberg right , just stop it . Everybody wants to throw something on YouTube , and I get that . That's fine . You know you do what you got to do . But in this moment , after all this , she gets so frustrated and she does something that we're never going to condone this . She pulled the fire alarm and and you don't ever do that in an airport , ever unless there is a fire , you don't do that . But what I'm talking about is the people that were all surrounding there seeing this woman going through that . Why wasn't anybody part of the solution instead of the problem ? Why wasn't somebody just step up and say can I help you ?
Speaker 1Yeah , you know , this is something that I , uh we studied in when I studied photography in college . There's this like a point in photography , like when you're taking pictures or you're you're videotaping whatever , there's this fine line like when do you actually stop to help the person in trouble ? Like , yes , those moments , you know , and especially in photography , uh , you know the classic pictures that you've seen over the history and time magazine and things like that , you know , in war zones , and but when's that time where we stop doing what we're doing and help people ? It's just a very it should be human nature .
Speaker 1Yeah , it shouldn't be that . It's more important to take the picture .
Speaker 2No , no , and that's what I don't understand . You're watching this happen . So , after all this , that she does that . Just say , for instance , her sister was dying , sure , and , and she was trying to get that flight and she went the wrong direction like your , your , your person did , and that happens , right sure because when you're looking at , when you're looking at the , the gates , you make a mistake , you go the wrong way .
Speaker 2We've done that . I mean as crew members . We've turned around , went the wrong way . We've done that . I mean as crew members . We've turned around , went the wrong way and we're like , oh , we got to hustle up and go the other direction . Well , could you imagine being an elderly person and doing the same thing and you're trying to make that and you don't normally fly and you're scared to death because you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going to be at , where you're going to stay , and you're in this airport .
Speaker 2But my point is nobody helped her and what happened was they had her on video . They were saying a bunch of things and I get that Again . Everybody wants to be Spielberg on this one and they want to get their two seconds of fame by their video . But none of this would have even we wouldn't have seen any of this if somebody would have just stepped up and said you know , can I help you ?
Speaker 2And then maybe directed her to someone that could have helped her , would have had her on another flight and she would have got home , and we wouldn't have seen the fire department come out and the end result was this woman got fined $2,000 fine for this , for doing this and a lot of people would say , well , good , that's what she gets .
In-Flight Emergency Experiences
Speaker 2And I say , well , put your phone down . Maybe go over there and see if you can be part of the solution instead of part of the problem . See if you can be part of the solution instead of part of the problem , because in our world anymore people are more of the problem than the solution and people we got to be . More of the solution instead of the problem .
Speaker 1Yeah , quit being trying to be an opportunist and , you know , get something on that phone of yours instead .
Speaker 2Just being human yeah .
Speaker 1Help somebody human .
Speaker 2Yeah , help somebody out . Yeah , look out for people . All right , sean , going back . If you could think back , what was the emergency that sticks out in your head the most ?
Speaker 1Man , my first emergency that I had that was a just you know we train for in flight attendant training . Is that planned emergency ? And I had one back in the day . I mean , we're going to take you back a little ways now . This is a 737 , one of the first models of 737 , 737-100-200 .
Speaker 2Oh , the old junk jet .
Speaker 1Yeah , we call them the old junk jet and these things had a history of hydraulic issues . I mean , I'm talking when I say a history of it . We would have planes landing many a times where we would see hydraulic fluid shooting out the wings and stuff when we land , like it was .
Speaker 2Those overhead bins vibrated . Remember that these things looked like they were going to fall down .
Speaker 1Yeah , it was a very interesting aircraft , but hydraulic issues were a very common thing back in the day and these aircraft too were unable to dump fuel . So when we loaded these planes up with a lot of fuel , sometimes we just had to circle around and circle around for hours just to get to wait to land , and circle around for hours just to get to wait to land . Because you know , in a flight plan in the aircraft it's going from A to B and they're predicting how much pounds , thousands of pounds of weight is going to be burnt in that time . And if it's not at that weight , it's going to be too heavy and it can cause structural damage when it lands and all that good stuff . So we had to circle and we were going to have a planned emergency because we had a hydraulic issue on this 737 . So we planned for these planned emergencies in our industry and it's probably the thing that we . This is the number one thing , this is why we're here , that's why we're flight attendant , and it was happening on my aircraft , and so we had to brief the entire cabin . We only had about 50 passengers on board the aircraft and there was three flight attendants on this plane at the time , two pilots and 50 passengers , and so he had told us we had this hydraulic issue that we had to brief for , and I know every flight attendant out there right now just going through their head . Well , you know what would I do in this situation , you know , and how we're going to react , and really we don't know how we're going to react until we're in that , put in that situation . But we've done a lot of training to , you know , get through that .
Speaker 1Well , one of the flight attendants that were with me it was myself , another gentleman and a gal . The gal just absolutely flipped out . She was incapacitated . She started crying , she was panicking . We had to take her back to the galley and get her out of the side of the pastures , because the last thing we want to do is start making them panic and we , you know , try to calm her down and she just wouldn't calm down . So we were , we had a lot of time . So that was a good thing , you know , because we had to circle . But we had to lot of time .
Speaker 1So that was a good thing , you know , because we had to circle , but we had to actually remove her from the situation , get her and put her in the cockpit . This is pre nine , 11 . So we had , you know , go in back and forth on the cockpit was we were able to do at that time . So we said , just sit up to the cockpit , we'll take care of it . So me and my partner there the other guy that was on a flight prepped the entire cabin . We did everything that we're supposed to be doing , that we were trained for at that time . We were having the ladies take off their pantyhose , because when you jump down the slides we didn't want the pantyhose to melt to your skin , type of thing . Take off your ties . We were buddying up people , briefing ABAs , all that stuff .
Speaker 2For those of you that don't know an ABA , what Sean said is an able-bodied assistant , that's someone in case you're incapacitated to open a window , exit to open a door . We brief them on how to do this if we are not able to do this Right exactly .
Speaker 1We're going to buddy people up with the flight attendants to basically partner with us , just in case somebody like one of us . The flight attendants are not able to do that duty , that you do that . So we have to brief every exit on the plane , windows , doors , all that , and so we go through that whole thing and circle for two hours . So you can just imagine all the thought . We had enough time on this flight to actually sit down with some of the pastors that were like panicking and they were like they wanted to call their families and all this stuff , because back then we didn't have the cell phones .
Speaker 2We didn't have all that stuff .
Speaker 1So people , just they were just , you know , they thought they were going to die and you , you know , I had to tell them . You know , we're being extra safe today because this is a hydraulic problem . We believe the wheels are gone down and all that stuff and everything should be okay , but we're being extra cautious .
Speaker 2Yeah , and you have to keep it together too , because you're already down . A crew member .
Speaker 1Yeah , there was a heavy workload put in , put on us , so we got it all uh prepped up and uh , we're going in and we start , you know , barking at our commands at the time , you know , bend over , heads down all this stuff . People are you in the brace positions , the whole nine yards . We get there , we touch down like it was a smooth land and nothing ever happened . I mean , we were just taxied off , taxied over to the gate and it was like business as usual .
Speaker 2That's the one thing I always tell people . You know , no matter what situation , if those wheels hit the ground and we're taxied , best flight , Best flight . Yeah , absolutely . I don't care what happens in there . If we put those wheels on the ground and we taxi into the gate and everybody gets to go home , it is a great flight .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , people were crying , people were cheering , there was all kinds of emotions happening there . But we got to that gate and we were so happy that it was all over . But what an experience I'm telling you right now . Happy that it was all over , but what an experience I'm telling you right now , like that's going to test you as a flight attendant .
Speaker 2Well , yeah , because you're in a pressurized tube and you come down and you really don't think about it until that situation , sure , and then you realize exactly the importance of everything that we're doing , all that training , all the training , I mean it just comes like we had talked about that before . It just flows right back to some people . It will affect them and you know it's okay for her because she didn't know , she had no idea how she's going to react . She might react differently if it ever happens again , or she might not even have been there . Some people they end up retiring because of an emergency .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , that happens a lot . I mean she to her account . Like by the end of the flight she had actually got herself together enough to like come back in the cabin and land and do all the commands and all that good stuff . So she was able to get it back together . But you know , we all react different and we don't know until we're put in that situation .
Speaker 2You can't judge somebody . No , not at all .
Speaker 1So yeah , what was your big emergency ? That you can think back .
Speaker 2Oh , that was easy . It was my first year flying and this one I would never , ever forget . So we were out in Honolulu . Honolulu has what's called the Reef Runway . That Reef Runway was completed in 1977 . The runway is about 12,000 feet long . It cost them about $80 million to build this runway . It was really cool out there . I mean when you take off Well , we take off most of the time because we were doing international routes , so we would take off at midnight . Pitch dark outside and those runways , you know they're a couple miles along , so it's pitch black out there .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , if any of you have been to Hawaii , it is dark out
Runway Emergency and Phoenix Barbecue
Speaker 1there .
Speaker 2Yeah , exactly . So we get briefed by this captain . We are being briefed that the plane's fully loaded cargo , fuel , passengers , everything and that we're going to need every inch of the runway to take off Because that 7-4 is like a big slow boat to China . That thing is just like a tug when it starts taking off . So he tells us we're going to need every bit of the runway to take off and we're looking at each other going , yeah , okay , yeah , it's fine , we just go do our stuff . So we go back and sit down I was sitting at three R at the time . So we go barreling down the runway and we get to right right around . V1 is what was said later on .
Speaker 1Yeah , V1 is the point of no return . You are going to fly ?
Speaker 2It's either take off or you got to reject . I mean , it's either you have to from that before Once you hit V1 , it's either you're going to fly yeah , you're going to fly but if you get before V1 , you have that last second that you have to make that decision . So what happened was an airplane before us had dropped an engine cowling a DC-10's engine cowling Whoa . Now , just to give you an idea , a DC-10's engine cowling is right around 400 pounds .
Speaker 1Yeah , and about probably the circumference of one of our narrowbody aircraft .
Speaker 2Exactly . It's actually huge . But what happened ? Is it landed on the runway ? Oh no , it's amazing because it doesn't have an indicator saying that the engine cowling fell off . So that crew never knew that they lost their engine cowling , so it landed right in the middle of the runway . So we're right behind them getting ready to take off . Well , nobody knew it , so we're barreling down the runway .
Speaker 1It's dark , yep Can't see it , and we hit this thing right before V1 .
Speaker 2And let me tell you something it sounded like someone had shot a gun in the cabin three times and it just it was the loudest sound . We start yelling our commands about bending over and their heads down . Next thing you know we're yelling this you hear three more loud bangs that came back through the cabin . Engines are in full reverse , smokes rolling up the side of the planes . You can smell rubber just burnt . You know , because you know the tires are just melting . Yeah , everything's in full reverse , everything's shaking . You can smell the burn . We're yelling commands .
Speaker 2It's just complete chaos inside that aircraft . We're going down and all I'm thinking about oh my God , we're going to go in , we're going in the water , yeah , because there's no way we're stopping . And I keep looking out the window and I'm thinking you know , this is not going to be good . This is not going to be good . And I was just praying that we cleared the reef , you know , with that plane . I was just praying that , whatever it was , that we got up enough to where we cleared the coral that was out there . And so we get to a point and the plane comes to a stop . Now we are out at the end of the runway . There's no fire , so we don't have to evacuate the aircraft .
Speaker 1Yeah , so we're jumping up assessing , looking at everything that's happening with the aircraft because it's been violently stopped .
Speaker 2At this time , and we're continuously assessing . We're not just doing this once , we're actually looking around . We're looking for other signs of reasons to evacuate . Well , we had none . So the captain comes on , tells us the situation . Didn't have any idea where the aircraft was , how far it was out , so they had to bring out those little air stairs all the way from the airport . Now we're like three miles out and it's dark . There's nothing out there , so we're completely full . This aircraft is full . They bring out those little custom things in Honolulu where , if you're at Cedar Point , you're in the parking area and they all load you up .
Speaker 1They call it the leaky leaky , or something .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , they kind of pull you up . It's like a golf cart with a big train behind it . Well , they didn't have buses or anything . They drove those things out there . We loaded all these people For a 747 . 747 , full 747 . We loaded them on . It took us like four hours to get all these people back to the terminal . We went down underneath the airplane . There was a hole in the aircraft . The first one the size of a Volkswagen . Wow , it was 747 . It was ripped open . Well , it was just ripped it open . It just ripped it open three big holes in the airplane . The plane was completely shut down . The amazing thing , that nose was sitting at the end , sitting at the end of the runway . If he had a fishbowl he could have fished out into the water , that's how close we were .
Speaker 1You guys were right on the edge , right there Wow .
Speaker 2So it was truly the most scary thing that I'd ever been through Well , let's say first year , because I've been through a lot .
Speaker 2I mean , you know I fly , let's say , first year , because I've been through a lot . Right , you know ? I mean , you know I fly all the time . I've been through a lot , but that was probably the one that I always go back to , because that happened in the first year of flying and we'll never forget it . My crew , everybody did a phenomenal job . We were ready to go and , thank God , we didn't have to do anything . You know , and I know the last thing that we want to do we do not want to evacuate , we want to pull up to the gate , we want to get off , we do not want to do anything .
Speaker 1No , no , that's the last thing you ever want to do as a flight attendant is evacuate that aircraft ?
Speaker 2No , we'll do it , but that's the last thing we want to do .
Speaker 1Yeah , that sounds like in a freaking crazy experience .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Just just I can I get chills . Let's thinking about like the whole , the whole , everything you said right there . That's like everything that's happened . All the people panicking the past years , not knowing you , not knowing everybody , not knowing smelling .
Speaker 2Oh , you know , if the one thing I forgot when the rubber burnt off those things was , you heard this high-pitched sound and you knew the rubber was gone . Yeah , we were down to metal , on to metal . Yeah , and that was probably one of the most eerie things , because I'm sitting here thinking you know , this isn't good , but anyway , that was the one thing that I could sit there and say that you know , I will never forget that emergency as long as I live . So I mean , those were two that stuck out in our minds , right ?
Speaker 1Yeah , those are two major experiences that both of us are going to remember for the rest of our lives . I mean that first emergency is always that one that's going to stick with you .
Speaker 2All right , I'm going to love to go to this destination because I already know something that you absolutely love in this destination and you're going to have a lot of fun talking about it .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , Phoenix area Sean Phoenix , arizona .
Speaker 2Phoenix .
Speaker 1Arizona . It is an amazing , amazing destination . Not only is the greater Phoenix Arizona area has so many cities and stuff around it that you can visit . One of my favorite spots to go to when I lay over in Phoenix is Little Miss Barbecue . That boy loves barbecue . Oh my gosh , when you get into food first of all , I mean my experience
Phoenix Food, Cars, Shopping, and Time
Speaker 1.
Speaker 1Every time I go to a destination , I'm Googling , I'm looking for places to eat . I want to know where the locals are Googling , I'm looking for places to eat . I want to know where the locals are eating . I want to look for places . But this happened to me by accident . I was just like on this layover and Googled . I was just trying to figure out some place to eat and I find this little barbecue place and talk to the crew and we all head over to this barbecue and it's in this like industrial part of I'm talking like it doesn't . This doesn't even look like a restaurant . It looks more like a uh , one of those auto rec players you get like get some parts from , or something like that . I mean that that's the area that this is located in , uh , but you , we walked into this area and then they had the van driver said oh yeah , you've never been there , you should go .
Speaker 1It is really good . Well , we get there , the crew walks in . We see all these barbecue pits , everything's smelling good . I mean , the food was off the chain . It was amazing , I'm talking . They didn't have much left because they were like , uh , we normally run out of food . We do have some food left , but we normally run out of food by like noon . I I'm like what ? I mean he goes . Yeah , you just missed the line . Evidently they had lines like down the block that they have every day there . So we grabbed what they had left . Some pulled pork , some brisket was still there , but they made these homemade pecan pies . Oh my God , good grief .
Speaker 2That's the one thing about Sean I . Oh my god , good grief , I mean , that's the one , that's the one thing about sean .
Speaker 1I'm telling you , any place that we want , he knows where the good food's at . Yeah , I mean . Anyways , we this is the greatest part of the story here we sit down . The owner comes over . He's asking us how you like this , all this stuff , and he's like do me a favor , look , pull up yelp for me . He goes can you , can you put in a little miss barbecue and yelp for us ? We do this . This little miss barbecue at the time is number one in the united states . Wow , in the I'm not talking about phoenix- no , that's crazy entire united states it's the number one ring restaurant .
Speaker 1I'm thinking . If you're looking at the industrial beautiful place that we're in , it doesn't look like it should be the number one , but the food was number one yeah , but that's , that's the main thing , right ? Yeah , it was out of control I mean if you get a chance to be in phoenix area . They have two restaurants . Get the little miss barbecue . What about old town ?
Speaker 2yeah , old town . What about Old Town ?
Speaker 1Yeah , old Town , scottsdale , that's another hot destination . Get there Anywhere you walk knickknack shops , restaurants , the food , the food all over Phoenix is just amazing . I mean , there's so many gourmet restaurants and different places to eat there . It is just a wonderful , wonderful place to visit . And also in that area right outside why I say the phoenix metro area , I mean phoenix is , you know , the downtown phoenix . It has a lot of life and food and all that stuff too .
Speaker 1But right at the end of the runway there is , uh , the tempe unit . Uh , tempe arizona is right there , which is the home of a State University , my alma mater , and one of the things they have there that I would highly recommend to any of you , because there's only three places in the United States that has this . This is like the future coming at us . They have autonomous cars , a company called Waymo cars that are self-driving that drive you all over . So , instead of having Uber , you can have Waymo cars that are self-driving that drive you all over . So instead of , instead of , uh , have an Uber , you can have Waymo and they just pull up and the app tells you where to where to pick it up and it pulls up as entertainment , all that stuff in the car it's . It's a wild experience .
Speaker 2I'm not doing that , Sean . There ain't nobody there . First of all , I rarely ever let somebody drive me anywhere . I'll be damned if I'm gonna let nobody drive me somewhere .
Speaker 1It's the craziest thing Cause you you're , when you're around that area . You're going to see them in Scottsdale , you're seeing them all over Phoenix area . These , these cars . They cause there's . There are only one type . They're like these , black and white , and they have cameras all over them , but they're driving everywhere and sometimes you see people in them . Sometimes you a lot of times you don't , but uh , it's an experience , definitely check it out . I mean , it's the future , man , this is what's happening .
Speaker 2I look over there and there's nobody in the car and it's driving .
Speaker 1Don't be like that guy that I know , like I haven't used to have . My friends was like like I ain't using an ATM . There ain't no way I'm getting the money out of a machine . It's going to happen , people .
Speaker 2It might happen . Embrace the technology , but ain't nobody's driving , I'm driving myself , you're good .
Speaker 1Yeah . So the other thing too , in the Phoenix area . I mean everybody that's a golfer out there knows that it's golf mecca . I mean there's a golfer out there knows that it's golf mecca . I mean there's so many good golf courses tpc of arizona , the waste management , uh tournament , that happens every year . The crazy hole three there , uh , part three , that's everybody talks about it . You know so much good golf there . Um , the thing that's real close to the airport is uh botanical gardens . You can walk to those botanical gardens they have , can walk to those bad botanical gardens . They have a like a desert shape . I mean , first of all , phoenix is nothing but a big desert .
Speaker 2Yeah , all the flight attendants , they , they , they love one thing , though what's that shopping ?
Speaker 1Yeah , there's so much shopping there . I mean anything you want , especially like in , I mean , Scottsdale .
Speaker 2Yeah , oh yeah . I mean that's the one thing that they talk about all the time is the shopping in Arizona . I mean Phoenix area . This is crazy .
Speaker 1Yeah , every time I go out to Phoenix , in fact , there's like stores and brands that I like to buy , like one of my favorites is Shady Rays . I mean , have you ever heard of Shady Rays ? No , I mean , have you ever heard of Shady Rays ? No , I mean Shady Rays . Here's a little tip for everybody . Shady Rays are a very nice sunglasses . All of them are around 50 bucks , right in that rate , $50 to $100 range . And this is the beauty of them If you break them , lose them , damage them , they'll replace them . Really , it's unbelievable . I mean , gary can look right . There's a shelf right behind me here , where we're at right now , that has a whole stack of Shady Rays behind me . Shady Rays is amazing , but they have a store out there . Definitely check them out . You guys will not be upset with that .
Speaker 2Shady Rays .
Speaker 1Yep , shady Rays . So , anyways , the quote of the day . We're going to end our show here and um , as we always do with a little quote and I got the quote this time you know there's something more valuable than money , and that's time . You can always make more money , but you cannot make more time .
Speaker 2Nope , you definitely can't do that . We appreciate every minute of the day .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean you got to appreciate life and everything that you got and all the time that we got to enjoy one another in it .
Speaker 2And as soon as we get out of here I'm going back outside , I'm going to enjoy the rest of the day , because it is gorgeous in Northeast Ohio
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