Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
From Hurricanes to Mile High Humor in Airline Life
Ever wondered how a seasoned 737 captain handles the turbulence of two hurricanes and the chaos of reassignments? Join us for an exhilarating tale of whirlwind adventures that showcases the unpredictable nature of airline life. From navigating stormy skies to a spontaneous Orlando to Fort Lauderdale flight, we share our recent experiences that are anything but ordinary. Meanwhile, back on the ground, the action-packed saga continues with car accidents and a few unexpected twists, painting a vivid picture of our unique and thrilling lifestyle.
Meet Flat Reagan, our flat paper doll tour companion, whose journey through Cleveland quickly turned dramatic with a three-car accident. Despite the chaos, everyone emerged unscathed, though our beloved BMW wasn't as lucky. The episode turns humorous as we recount harrowing van rides and ground transportation woes, reminding us of the relative safety of air travel. With a mix of humor, suspense, and unexpected adventures, we bring to life the often unpredictable world of airline crew life, from chaotic terminals to the infamous Mile High Club antics.
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Welcome to another episode of Cabin Pressure with Sean and G, where life's twists and turns provide more thrills than a hotel van ride gone wrong. From surviving hurricanes to navigating the chaos of my recent car accident, there's never a dull moment. This week, we're diving into sky-high confessions, including our take on the elusive Mile High Club. So buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy and exciting ride. Next is Cabin Pressure.
Speaker 2:Man, it has been a crazy couple weeks, hasn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 1:this is some crazy events that have been happening lately.
Speaker 2:We just went through two different hurricanes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Crazy destructive hurricanes. I mean, this whole season has been just out of control.
Speaker 2:But you know, the one thing about it is we either fly over them, sometimes through them, right, right, first one, we actually were flying together, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:We were actually flying with my wife. She was actually flying us. Yeah, she was flying us. She's a captain here on 737.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and everybody else basically canceled and she found a seam and we flew right through it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the wonderful thing about that day was that we were the only flight that went, released from where we were at.
Speaker 2:And we slid right between the cracks and actually it was actually a really smooth flight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you wouldn't even know there was a storm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's an incredible pilot. Yeah, but yeah, we flew right in, we landed, picked everybody else up. We weren't even late getting out of there, we actually left on time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, the only delay or the only infraction to our normal schedule was that we just had to. It was added time on the way back because we had to go around the storm coming back.
Speaker 2:That's not normally the way it is, though. Usually, we're going to catch a lot of turbulence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally, and like like all this turbulence we were anticipating, like being thrown around, you know, top of descent. We were actually long before that we sat down like about I think it was close to an hour before we even got down, because we were circling before we were trying to get into where we were going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, well, they had no other planes that were actually flying. We were the only ones out there. So there's no reports out there of what the turbulence was like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's always fun being the guinea pig, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, we definitely were the guinea pig that day.
Speaker 1:The lab rat. Yeah, we were that guinea pig lab rat that day.
Speaker 2:But again, we were in the best hands. We could have been. Like I said, she is an incredible pilot. I've been flying with her for many years and next to her came Milton. That was crazy.
Speaker 1:Oh, man, milton, I didn't get to experience that myself because I've been taking some time off here, but I know you flew through it, you flew all around it and how did it impact you?
Speaker 2:First of all, everything canceled, right, everything canceled except me. Well, I actually canceled my flight, canceled on the side that I was on, because I was on the Orlando side, Right, so I'm thinking I'm going home? Right, I'm on my way home. There's nothing else you can do. Nope, yep, Reassignment, reassignment.
Speaker 1:Reassignment man. The airlines always love to pick on us.
Speaker 2:Well, and then also it's your seniority too, so we bid certain trips. So this trip was just a basic turn, wasn't a turn after that Wasn't happening. Nope, ended up getting reassigned. And you know where I went Other side of Florida, oh no, yeah, I went to Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So here it is. I'm canceled on one side.
Speaker 1:So where your original destination was Orlando.
Speaker 2:Orlando yeah, and everything's canceled there. Tampa and Orlando, everything was canceled. Yeah, so they pre-canceled everything. Tampa and Orlando, everything was canceled. Yeah, so they pre-canceled everything they normally do just to protect the passengers planes, everything. So I turn around and I get reassigned to Fort Lauderdale and at first you're like man, that really kind of sucks. But hey, listen, that's what we do, what we signed up for, that's our job. We got to go where we got to go.
Speaker 1:Been there, done that, From check-in to check-out. They got us.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. Then get on a plane, head down to Fort Lauderdale, flying right over the hurricane, looking down at it. It's pretty awesome. And then you see this big light area and there's Fort Lauderdale not a cloud in the sky, wow, unbelievable. I mean like that place had never seen anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like probably in one of those bands you know how like it fans out, type of thing.
Speaker 2:Well, it had just passed over most of the state of Florida, so they were on an outer band. But it was beautiful out. I mean no turbulence, nothing. We didn't have that many passengers that were on board the aircraft. No one was in a big rush going down to.
Speaker 1:Florida. Yeah, not too many crazy guys going through the storm.
Speaker 2:No, and we didn't have that many coming out. But we actually went right in, we landed, no problems, no turbulence again, and we got right out of there and we headed up north again. And we got right out of there and we, we headed up north again, cool. So ended up going three legs and didn't get home till late at night, which is no fun, because you know how I like to do the turns and that turn ended up to a triangle. But again, that's what we do. Hey, we got to put our big boy pants on and and we got to get out there and we got to just make the make the trips happen. That's about it yeah, man.
Speaker 1:Well, while you were out there flying and everything, uh me and uh the wife got into a car crash. What happened with you? Man? We were sitting here, uh, my, my niece, my great-niece. She had a little you ever heard of Flat Stanley.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that little doll thing right.
Speaker 1:So she has a class project and her class project was she made a Flat Stanley, but instead of calling it Stanley, she named it after herself, so it became a Flat Reagan. So we were on assignment.
Speaker 2:What did Reagan look like? Because if I'm thinking of Reagan, you know what I'm thinking of yeah, yeah, no, no, no, not that Reagan.
Speaker 1:Reagan's a little, uh, seven year old girl that is, uh, you know, my sweet little niece, and uh, she was this little flat paper doll. Know, instead of a boy it's a girl, right, but it was flat reagan. And uh, we were on assignment to take flat reagan around the ohio area, and so the wife, you know, she's always over the top and they got to do everything for the nieces and nephew and, um, so we were taking reagan out to, uh, all the sites in cleveland that day, you know, rock and roll, hall of fame and uh, all that, you know, we were just doing pictures all the sites in Cleveland that day, you know, rock and Roll, hall of Fame and all that, you know, we were just doing pictures all the stadiums, everything. And so we were stopped getting ready.
Speaker 1:There's a guy in front of me, he's taking a left-hand turn and there's a car behind me and I'd look in my rearview mirror and all I hear is wheels squeaking and boom, he hits or it was a female. She hits this guy behind me, the guy. She hits him so hard that he slams into the back of us and we're all now in a three car pileup and the guy that turns into the left just kind of turns in and goes about his business. But uh, luckily not a lot of damage for my vehicle and you know I'm sad to say my BMW is injured right now. But you know he knows I love my BMW.
Speaker 2:I can't even talk about that. That's unbelievable. I mean, he's got a golf cart that looks like a BMW.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we are a BMW family, but besides that, I mean this accident was so crazy because the guy behind me was like he was handicapped. He was an old gentleman, like 80s. I run out of my car and you know, go over to the guy and check him out. You know, are you okay? The guy's sitting there and he can't breathe. He's like I can't breathe and he's pointing to the seat belt. So I like literally reach into the car, push the seat belt, and the seat belt pops and he like all of a sudden gasp for air. Oh, you know, thank you, thank you, thank you. And so I'm like are you okay? Okay, but he was just so shook up he couldn't even barely talk.
Speaker 1:So then I'm trying to like can you get out of the car? You know, does the car start? He's like it won't start, it's broke. It's broke, you know he. He just not talking straight. And so I'm trying to get him out of the car and he's like well, I have a walker. So we're holding up traffic, I'm getting this guy out of the car, gets his walker out of the car and we got to take him across the street in the walker. And my wife is calling 911 at the same time, because she doesn't know what's going on with the whole car. It was just accidents are, so everybody's startled traumatized, trying to figure, but everybody in this accident was actually OK.
Speaker 2:So everybody was fine? Yeah, everybody was fine. Ok, more important with that, did you get a picture with Reagan in it? You?
Speaker 1:know I was going to ask you you had to get flat Reagan.
Speaker 2:I mean, you took her all the way. Why didn't you have her in the accident?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we should have put Reagan in the accident. That would have been a priceless moment, but we did not do that. You could moment, but uh, we did not do that. You could have held her hand, the guy could have held her hand right next to your rec bmw.
Speaker 2:I still have my rec bmw, I can still do the picture with this, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, you can you can send her back. We sent her back that that would be perfect, yeah, but uh, she got to go down to. You know, we went to the guardian stadium. We went to the Guardian Stadium, we went to the Brown Stadium, we went down to the Rock Hole Hall of Fame. We took a picture on the lake, but yeah, flat Reagan had a great time.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, you're taking Reagan around. Okay, let me tell you what happened with me. So you know I normally do turns, yeah, so I'm laying over at this hotel and I'm getting on the van, we're heading back. Getting on the van, we're heading back over to the airport. Now people ask me all the time are you afraid to fly?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we get that a lot.
Speaker 2:All the time. Right yeah, are you afraid to fly? My answer no, I'm not afraid to fly. Let me explain to you why I got my rear end in that van the other morning. To you why I got my rear end in that van the other morning. That guy, let me tell you something. He was all over the place. Oh man, the van seats were armored. I swear, because my butt was sliding all over the place. He was jerking. This is only a three-minute ride and I'm sitting there thinking this man's going to kill us. I mean, I was sliding on those seats like Bo Duke does on General Lee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, I mean I'm telling you, ground transportation for our flight crews are just like so sketchy sometimes and we get into these vans and we just don't know who we're going to be, you know, driving us back. We trust the establishment that's been set up for us. But I mean we get in here and all of us as flight crew members have been there, the set up for us. But I mean we get in here and all of us as flight crew members have been there, the scary ass van driver, that's just speeding.
Speaker 2:It's only three freaking minutes. All he has is three minutes to take us to the damn airport. This guy's jerking back and forth. It's real early in the morning. This girl's over on the left-hand side of me. I don't even know her, but I slid over, almost ended up in her lap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to know her real quick.
Speaker 2:Oh, I was like, damn, what is right? This guy keeps jerking back and forth and then, right when we're just about ready to pull up to the airport, I'm sitting there telling these people. I'm like they asked me if I'm worried about flying, I'm worried about getting this damn van with this guy. And all of a sudden he just jerks. And there we go again. We jerked again to the left and jerked to the right. And how do they give these guys a driver's?
Speaker 1:license? Yeah, man, I have no idea. But those van drives can be very scary at times and I mean I've talked to every crew member I know has all had that moment where they're like you know I need to call the company I need to talk to you. Know this is dangerous. You know I need to call the company I need to talk to you. Know this is dangerous. You know it is. We're putting our lives in other people's hands and I guess they do that with us too.
Speaker 2:This guy couldn't drive Sean.
Speaker 1:He was horrible man.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you this guy was horrible. The girl that was next to me. This was funny because you know how we always say that we don't know our crew. We usually pick up a crew member. Okay, she was our load flight attendant going on the trip that day. So it's a big shout out to Michelle. She was a younger flight attendant and a lot of times you know younger flight attendants, they get like a bad rap. Michelle was an awesome flight attendant. I mean she was spot on. I mean that girl, she was a great crew member. But the funny thing about it is I told her I said we didn't know each other. I mean that girl, she was a great crew member. But the funny thing about it is I told her I said we didn't know each other. I just about ended up in your damn lap, it was. I mean that was crazy. That was just the trip to the freaking airport Unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ground transportation.
Speaker 2:Six o'clock in the morning, man, you're not supposed to slide like that at 6 am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know this isn't. You know, today's transportation is not like the old days. Old days, I mean, I remember running around in like limos, I mean actual, like stretch limos would pull up and pick us up as crews.
Speaker 2:I mean, they used to treat us so much better when we were in the past, but they jack up three-minute drives. Sean Right, how can you track up three minute drive? I mean I could have walked there and felt a hell of a lot safer, but three minutes, yeah. Yeah, it's absolutely crazy. But okay, as soon as we got in the airport, let me tell you exactly what drives me crazy that all the airlines do.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know where this is going.
Speaker 2:They take their boarding process and they run it all the way through the terminal area straight across.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is like the. I don't even know how cities allow this. There should be like a fire marshal or something like that, because they're blocking the entire concourse. The whole damn way you can't get by. I mean you're asking me like, excuse me, just to get through, to get you're going to a gate beyond that gate. It's ridiculous how airlines let that just happen Like mobs of people. You know they need a little bit more order to it, right?
Speaker 2:All the airlines do. I mean it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. They'll sit there and they'll start boarding most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. They'll sit there and they'll start boarding and all these people will go completely across the whole concourse. No one can get through Now. People are trying to rush to get to their planes, some people are going to baggage claim, but they got the whole concourse blocked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what, thinking about this too, it's like airport to airport. So certain airports are way better than other airports, like we're in Cleveland, and Cleveland Airport is a small airport and they block the entire concourse. But then when you go to, like some of the newer terminals, they've now taken those lines and slapped them up against the windows. So now they are like I think they're like addressing the problem, but they're not like you know, all these older airports still don't have a clue.
Speaker 2:Well, we must be flying to a whole lot of older ass airports, because I walk into that thing all the time, every time I go in there, this big line of people, and all we got to do is weave through this and all the passengers feel the same way. They got to weave through the same line that we do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, To answer your question.
Speaker 2:we're old and yeah, it drives, me absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1:It is crazy. I mean all these, just like the other thing is, like those fast food or food establishments in the airport. I mean it is like they do the exact same. You know the Dunkin' Donut line that goes all the way across the terminal and everybody stands in a line straight across the terminal instead of like bending down the terminal. You know why is that?
Speaker 2:That's exactly what I wonder all the time, because if I'm a person, I want to get out of somebody's way. Yeah, I don't want to stand in their way. No, these people. The line goes straight across and then they look at you like what's your problem? You're breaking up the line here. Yeah, you got to like.
Speaker 1:I mean I, every time I stand in those lines, I try to like I'm trying to like influence people, to like bend the line around to get the hell out of the way, Right.
Speaker 2:They never do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they just stand there Like it's weird.
Speaker 2:It is. I mean, it's absolutely crazy. But you know another thing that happens all the time. What's that? You see these people that they'll watch programs on their laptops or their iPads.
Speaker 1:Oh man, this is just out of control. You know, everybody gets on that plane. They have their laptop, they have their iPad, whatever their device devices that they're carrying to entertain themselves and they start watching these shows. And on those shows there's like I mean, there's a lot of nudity on shows today, yeah, and we're in public spaces. I mean you have families traveling. You have all these people, younger people, that are traveling, and here's this guy watching. You know, you know Game of Thrones and it's the sex scene with the witch. You know, like it's like you're, why is this happening on the plane?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, they don't care if someone else is watching this and there could be a young boy, young girl right there and you're right there. They're showing a lot of nudity on it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean, have you had people on the plane where, like actually watching porn?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I mean there's like.
Speaker 1:I'll stop that, though I mean if, if I see that I, I I stopped that. Yeah, I mean I don't know how do you find that acceptable that you can be in a public space and flip on some porn?
Speaker 2:Like I said, when you're walking past these people and they're they're watching these movies and you, you see a mother that maybe is a row behind them and they got their kids and their eyes are just completely bugged out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we get the. We get the call bells on those, sometimes where they're like you know. Can you ask that person to please turn off their device or whatever, or stop watching the show that they're watching, because it gets out of control? People aren't conscious of everybody that's around them. I mean, this is back to our previous episode Put those headphones on, tune us out, get in their world, and they think they're just in their little bubble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but nothing's better than when those headsets become unplugged and everybody can hear the sex scenes that's going on in the row.
Speaker 1:Oh man, yeah, the, the, the once, the, or the guy that's sitting there that hasn't connected the Bluetooth and that it's going on and you hear the moaning, all this come on.
Speaker 2:Everybody else is looking around like this. Guy has no idea that everybody can now hear his movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and it's usually some like little grandma or something like that, tapping him on the shoulder.
Speaker 2:Sir, yeah, there's moaning. There's moaning going on in there. I think this is inappropriate. Exactly, a bunch of naked women on that thing. That is absolutely crazy. I know that thing. That is absolutely crazy. I, I know, and, and, and you, you think in today, because you are so close with that, you think that they, they'd probably be a little bit more aware and and not do it. Yeah, people.
Speaker 1:They don't care. I mean honestly, people just don't care about people around them like you. They get on that plane, they sit in the the seats, they, you know, recline, they do all this crazy stuff Like plug in all their devices. They got cords everywhere Like it's insane. But you know we deal with them. This is the public right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all the time we deal with all kinds of situations, but this one I've been waiting for a while.
Speaker 1:I know where this is going.
Speaker 2:Well, we were going to hold back on this one, because everybody always asks this question about flight attendants.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, what's the question? Give me the question.
Speaker 2:The Mile High Club Yep have you ever seen anybody? Have you ever been in it saying that one?
Speaker 1:right, we're, we're gonna, uh, plead the fifth on everything about the subject matter, but we're gonna tell you about the experiences that we've seen on the plane now the reason why I'm bringing this to you today, because I just flown with a flight attendant.
Speaker 2:Every time that I fly, I'm always asking everyone give me your craziest story, tell me something. Yeah, because this is what we do. This is what cabin pressure is. It's actually all the stories of flight attendants it's not just me and Sean, but it's flight attendant stories, and this one was unbelievable, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, set up a story here. When and where did this happen?
Speaker 2:Okay, so they were coming in, even if this was just a couple days ago, so this is not happened years ago. This is a couple days ago. So they were coming in. It was like a red, a red eye flight, but an evening flight, and everybody was quiet there. You know, they had their headphones on and they're, all you know, in tune to their stuff, and one of the flight attendants noticed that there was a there's some sound that was going on in the lavatory in the back.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, so this is typical for a night. Uh, you know it normally happens on red eyes evening flights. Yeah, all that stuff Anytime when there's going to be a more higher level of alcohol involved too.
Speaker 2:Well, she didn't know what to do. She called her crew members and she was like I don't know what to do. Should I stop them? I mean, should I knock on the door? What should I do? And they're like, well, let them finish.
Speaker 1:They were like, let them finish. Was this like a area consensus? Did they like ask the passengers? Around or this was from the crew.
Speaker 2:They had no idea what was going on around them because they had their headphones on. They were watching a movie, sure, so they had. You know, they don't have, they have no idea. Only, the crew knew what was going on back there, gotcha, and she was back there and she's like I just didn't know what to do. She goes I was standing there and it was all this noise was coming on from this and she goes oh my God, I didn't know what to do. So all of a sudden, the, the, the, the noise stopped and then the latch opens up. Yep, then the latch opens up, yeah, and the walk of shame starts Right.
Speaker 1:First of all, we're all looking, trying to figure out who is it and who's in that bathroom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and here's the best part, because you're thinking this coming out, it's going to be some young girl, some young guys, and they're going oh yeah, just join the Mile High Club, always, yeah, what you going to do about it? Nope, who was it? This 70-some-year-old woman and her husband comes out of the lavatory. She starts fixing her hair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we were having a bucket list. Mile High Club event.
Speaker 2:He's fixing his pants. She touches her on the shoulder and says honey, that's the Mile High Club event. He's fixing his pants. She touches her on the shoulder and says honey, that's the Mile High Club that is perfect. Yeah, oh, my God, I'm like you've got to be kidding me and I mean, okay, it's nasty, don't get me wrong, that bathroom is bad. But let me tell you something that killed me. You know they checked off the bucket list.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you know it. I mean but I mean just to think about that like you're bringing up the cleanliness of the lavatories, I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but forget that. That's your grandparents.
Speaker 1:I don't have a bucket list to become. You know, have sex in a freaking outhouse, I mean it.
Speaker 2:Just that's what you're doing. It's so nasty, but your grant is like grandma, grandpa. I told you before old people, man, they, they will do anything, they don't care. And this just proved it. And we had to save the starting of the mile high club with a mid seventies, mid seventies couple that went in there and check one off the bucket list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean this happens all the time on the plane. I mean I don't have enough fingers or toes on my hands or feet to name all the times that I've encountered this on the plane.
Speaker 2:But don't you think back in the day though. I mean back in the day. Years ago it happened. All the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was well back in the day. It was because we had less people, right?
Speaker 1:Right back in the day it was because we had less people, right right, but it still happened all the time. It happened all the time and I mean you would always see people like especially I mean red eye flights g and I did so much red eye fly back. And flying back in the day, I mean, you know, with seniority you fly different types of flights and our red eye period of our career that was and they didn't contain it to the lavatory either no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:They would. They would be like, I mean, that's what happened with me. One of the stories that I have is uh, you know, we were on a red eye flight and there's this young couple and we're coming in. We were doing like a trans con type of thing, you know, LA to New York or some of that, and this couple's in the back and they get on and they're having a good time and they're talking and they just introduce themselves to each other and I just so happen, like overhear this whole thing conversation because they're being, like, you know, very cheerful and outgoing and all that stuff. And, uh, they're talking and you know service comes and we bring them out and they start drinking and all this stuff. And later on in the flight, you know, we turn off the lights in the cabin trying to get everybody to go to sleep, all that good stuff. Next thing, you know we're sitting in the back of the galley that's the crew and we get that call bell and I walk out an aisle. I'm like what's going on here? So, you know, you carefully walk down the aisle because the cabin's pitch dark and try not to trip on anybody and their legs and arms sticking out. That's a whole nother stuff we can talk about.
Speaker 1:And I get to this and there's this family and this mom with her kids and sitting across the row from this couple, and she says excuse me, but can you address what's happening across the aisle? I don't think this is appropriate for my kids to see. And I turn around you know it's dark. I turn around and all you see is a blanket and it's bobbing up and down and the blanket's going up and down and he's not sitting by himself. Okay, there's somebody else under that blanket and he's not sitting by himself. Okay, there's somebody else under that blanket. And I literally tapped the person that's in the blanket. I tap them and I'm like and she flips off that freaking blanket and she's like, excuse me. And I'm like yeah, excuse me, you need to take this some other place. This is not the appropriate place. I said you have a family across the aisle, Stop. And she's like oh, I didn't think we were bothering anybody.
Speaker 2:You know, that's a funny thing about with the Mile High Club is, you know these people. They get themselves in these situations and then you go in to put a stoppage on it and they're like what are you doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like we're offending them. We're not done. Yeah, we're not done. This is our time.
Speaker 2:Well, there was one time, these two they were drinking years ago and they were both pretty much. They were kind of trashed a little bit, and so they were making out, which wasn't too cool. But when you came back through they must have been like really going at it with each other, because when we came back they both passed out. Okay. But here's where you got to wake them up, because her shirt was down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a whole nother episode of like inappropriate clothing on board aircraft. I mean, the exposing of body parts on airplanes is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, she, her shirt was completely open and there you are, you're looking at two breasts looking right in your face. So you're like, excuse me, you got to put them away.
Speaker 1:You can't have those out. It's one thing if your mom nursing your child, but she wasn't nursing your child.
Speaker 2:No, there was no kid involved. I'm the only one. That was that drunk guy right next to her.
Speaker 1:Alcohol is a route to all evil.
Speaker 2:But you drunk guy right next to her. You know alcohol is a route to all evil, but you know, hey, you know there was tons of flight attendant stories.
Speaker 1:Oh man, yeah, you know what? This is not exclusive to just pastors. You know, flight attendants are a little bit crazy, and those stories out there with flight attendants joining the Mile High Club as well, has happened.
Speaker 2:Now there is a guy I know he's no longer here, all right, and probably because, well, it was because some of this what happened. But he goes into the bathroom with a passenger yeah, with a passenger. A passenger, yeah, he told me that With a passenger. A passenger, yeah, he told me that he just met On a plane. Yeah, yeah, on a plane. I mean, you know, we got some stupid people too, sean. Yeah, I mean we got some stupid people that we work with too, woo. But anyway, he goes into the lavatory. The crew, the whole crew, leaves the galley. Yeah, because he's in there with this passenger. Oh my, Now I guess it's the crew cover-up. It wasn't no cover-up, right? He says it was getting crazy in there. Oh, all right, and he said he's sweating and everything, but anyway, he gets finished and he opens the door. When he cracks the door open, he said he looked out. There was like a row of nine passengers with their arms folded.
Speaker 1:Upset with the whole situation.
Speaker 2:He started freaking out and he didn't know what to do. And here's this girl in there and he said that. So he was like I had to jump he goes. I jumped out of the lavatory, I went back into the galley, threw the curtain shut and he goes. I just stayed there and I said, well, what'd you do with her? And he goes. I have no idea what happened to her. He goes. I just went in the back and pulled the curtain shut and I said, well, what'd you do with the rest of the flight? And he goes. I didn't leave the galley. I said, well, what'd your crew say? And he goes, they wouldn't talk to me, they wouldn't talk to you. And he ended up. But the funny thing about it, he did get pulled in. Yeah, he got pulled in because they had a bunch.
Speaker 1:And pulled in we mean by management. Needed to talk to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's kept his job. Wow, you know how he kept his job. No, they couldn't prove what he was doing in there.
Speaker 1:Nobody confessed up and those rogue pastors, nobody read a letter or anything like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the girl wouldn't go verify what he was doing in there, so they couldn't fire him. So he actually kept his job and later on he did another stupid thing which led to his termination. So it doesn't take long. You know people like that, you know how that goes they.
Speaker 1:They have a trail and that leads to their termination there is a um long list of promiscuous flight attendants that I've been flying with over the years. I mean, they have like some, some flights just get really out of control with all this stuff. I mean, and it doesn't always happen just exclusively on the plane. They meet people here and boom, you know, layovers are layovers, right when anything's possible. But yeah, this is like a crazy phenomena, I guess, with the flight crew. But this is not. Mile High Club is not exclusive to just the pastors.
Speaker 2:No, it goes to the flight crew too. But let me tell you, if you take that risk, if you run that gamut, just realize you're going to end up like him and you're going to be out on the street because it will not take long.
Speaker 1:Well, and also in today's world, the flight crews all react differently, so you might end up talking to law enforcement at the end of the flight.
Speaker 2:Well, you got telephones too, so there's video Right. So you're going to be in trouble with the video part of that. So the Mile High Club it is funny, Don't get me wrong, but it could cost you your employment and that's your choice, but it's pretty comical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, your employment and that's your choice, but it's pretty comical. Yeah, yeah, I will. Uh, yeah, so, um, gee, what are we talking about today? As far as our um destination, des moines, iowa, des moines, iowa, des moines, iowa man, we've been on to all these like international destinations, all this stuff. I mean we there's so many crews out there we fly to these little smaller towns and stuff.
Speaker 2:I love those small towns though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, small towns are so cool. I mean, those are. You know, everybody thinks of a flight attendant. It's like we're going to these great vacation resort type of places. Those are the places but we really most of our flights, are all to these little small towns.
Speaker 2:Man. Do you remember when we first opened up we used to lay over in Saginaw Michigan, saginaw Michigan, little bitty, there was nobody there. There was like one little nightclub bar there that we went there. We all hung out there and we had a great time in that little nightclub over there.
Speaker 1:There's so many spots that are just like these little teeny spots but Des Moines Iowa is not teeny. That are just like these little teeny spots, but Des Moines Iowa is not teeny. The state capitals there in Des Moines Iowa. I mean, I love Des Moines Iowa because believe it, or?
Speaker 1:not they have a freaking, unbelievable culinary collection there of restaurants. My favorite restaurant that I found another one. Just like Little Miss Barbecue, I found this restaurant called Bubba's. If you are in Des Moines, iowa, you've got to get to the Bubba's. I'm telling you right now this food is out of control. If you like Southern food, I mean Bubba's food, is this Southern? It's this little quaint little restaurant right in the middle of downtown. Southern. It's this little quaint little uh restaurant right in the middle of downtown and you would like. You just wouldn't think that southern cooking is going to be in des moines, iowa but I'm talking about. They specialize in buttermilk.
Speaker 1:Fried chicken is their number one thing there that would be incredible I'm talking like gigantic chicken breasts, you know, double breaded, they're just delicious. But I stopped in there on a layover and because you know me, I'm always looking for good food and I got in there and I had back to back layovers so I had it, you know, like two days after you know it was a two day trip, whatever so I had the same labor two days later. Well, bubba's was there and the next time I laid over as well and I went right back because the food was so delicious it was in out of this world, got to talking to the patrons in there, some other people that were sitting around the tables, people we were all just talking about the food, how amazing it was. Um, but they had a dessert there out of this world.
Speaker 1:You like bananas, fosters bananas, everything bananas bananas fosters like one of my, my wife and I's favorite dessert. I mean, if a restaurant has been as fostered as unbelievable, but they had a bananas fosters that was on a waffle. I'm talking freaking ice cream, caramel bananas drip it off of this Belgian waffle Like oh wow, dude, it's out of control.
Speaker 2:You know, what I love about Southern cooking is like the Southern gravy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that, like the sauces, I mean it's all comfort food, right Right, oh yeah, absolutely, like, absolutely Like, unbelievable. The other thing that I really like to do that, in a little, these little towns like that, we we visit a lot of cities that are state capitals, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean it is it is like one of my favorite things to do is just go visit state capitals. I mean, state capitals are pretty interesting, like all the history behind them and everything. Des Moines capital is one that's been renovated recently. You don't want to miss going to the state capitals. It's free. I mean it's all public property so you can go in these places, you can watch them do their legislation, all this stuff. I every time I shoot if I'm in Lincoln, nebraska, freaking. Des Moines, I mean Sacramento, california. You guys got to check out all these capitals. It is out of control, like just so interesting, not to mention all the people that are there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, I think a lot of people miss that is, they miss the history of a place. Yeah, Because they'll go there but they really don't find out anything really about it.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. You know I try to get out of my layovers and I go out there and explore and find out about the people in the area and you know who they are, what they are, because everybody gets kind of. These small towns get bad rap, right yeah, but that's really the heart of our country.
Speaker 2:Yeah and again, love their food is incredible. Yeah and again, love their food is incredible. I mean, I remember years ago we fly into some of these places and these little bitty places they have, like that, red beans and rice, remember that. Yeah, all that comfort food in those small towns, man, that was incredible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Des Moines is that small town that you definitely have a lot of food in there. I mean, I'm just I'm telling you about one restaurant, but there is a whole list of restaurants and they're all located downtown area Really nice metropolitan area of Des Moines, Iowa. The other thing that's there is Papa John's. Everybody's familiar with Papa John's. Papa John's yeah, they have a sculpture park there downtown where they don't donate 40 different sculptures down there on 4.4 acres. It's a beautiful park you should definitely get out. Check out the Papa John Sculpture Park.
Speaker 2:Very cool, you know, and along with that is, we always like to end our shows with a quote, but today we thought we'd change it up a little bit. We'd have a little bit of a life tip.
Speaker 1:Yeah, life tip. Life tips, I think, are super important. I mean, we as flight attendants need to stay healthy, right?
Speaker 2:That is the most important thing.
Speaker 1:We need to really focus on ourself, our time, all that stuff. And these are seven tips to increase your energy, your life, make it healthier, happier, more productive life. And these seven tips are this so one, eat nourishing food seven tips of this.
Speaker 2:So one eat nourishing food. You know that's even for the passengers coming on board too, because remember, when you do fly, make sure that you're eating something good before you get on a plane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, don't be that person that comes on a plane that think that a snack box or the food that's on the plane is going to be amazing, and then we're going to give you this some type of culinary experience, because plane food is last.
Speaker 2:You're going to blow up like a balloon. Yeah, plane is simply going to blow up. Okay, sleep seven to eight hours per night. Yeah, get your sleep in.
Speaker 1:Turn off your electronic devices, get some sleep. I mean, your whole life is going to change If you keep to a regimen where you're getting that seven to eight hours sleep and the older you get. A lot of people's problem in the United States is that we have sleep problems, right? Oh yeah, I mean, I know G is not a big sleeper.
Speaker 2:I don't sleep. Yeah, I mean, you actually need sleep. But let me tell you something about my sleep is that I really don't think about sleeping, so I sleep deep. I go to sleep right away. I really don't require a lot of sleep.
Speaker 1:I'm the opposite. I'm the bear. I can drop eight, nine hours, no problem. I'm just that guy. The other thing, like G, and I do keep company of good people.
Speaker 2:Positive. I think that's probably one of the most important things. I say it all the time is that life itself. It gets a little tough every once in a while, but who you're around and who you affiliate with is probably one of the most important things, because even when you go to work, it's incredible how fast your day goes when you are with really, really positive, good people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people that want to boost you as well as you want to boost them. I mean, that's the whole thing. Behind your circle of friends, you should have friends that support you, help you. I mean, I'm the one that I'm a military brat, grew up all over the world and my friends are super important to me because my family is spread out all over. I don't have one location, a city or a place where I say this is home, except for now I'm called Northeast Ohio home, but it's like I didn't have that one place that was home. So I don't have like this whole you know community of friends that I go back and see my high school friends. My friends are important to me, so I pick them very wisely, absolutely, yeah. Anyways, the other thing that we would recommend, too is, uh, avoid news overdose.
Speaker 2:That is a big one because it's so negative these days.
Speaker 1:No, right now, in the culture that we're in right now, the politics and the election going on right now, all the stuff that's creating this very divisive world that we're living in right now, you just need to turn it off. Turn it off, absolutely Turn it off. Yeah, turn it off, Turn it off, absolutely Turn it off. Yeah, ignore it, turn it off.
Speaker 1:Go to a good you know, pick a good book Go for a walk, go for a walk, read a book, you know, have a good conversation with a friend or a stranger, anything Just, you know. Turn off the news.
Speaker 2:Now I'm going to tell you about this next one exercise, because I'm a big one on this. Even before we came here, I was up at the gym. I was there at 5 am in the morning and I get my workouts in. Very important it's like I said, it's basically my church is where I exercise those demons and you get them out.
Speaker 1:G is the exercise holic. I mean he went from. I mean I've known this man for a long time. I'm going to tell you G was not always the exercise, but I'm telling you, in this last 20 years or so or plus, he has been like focused on nothing but his health and exercise. I mean he wants to be. You know, that's part of his religion.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, absolutely. So it's really important that you get up and you do something, because the most important thing in life is movement, Because if you stop moving, believe me, you start dying. So get moving, get out there, exercise, get your body moving and you're going to feel a ton better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Move while you can, because I'm telling you like the older you get, the more you're unable to do all the things that you wanted to do. And whether we're 20 or we're 60 or older, whatever you, just you know, seize the moment.
Speaker 2:And the last thing do something meaningful each day, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Do something positive in this world. You know everybody shouldn't just, you know, do one thing every day, Be that Girl Scout, Boy Scout. That mentality of helping that person across the road, assisting somebody, opening the door for somebody, doing those tasks, that makes our communities a good place to live.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Everybody should be doing something good every day well, everyone uh it's been a great you know uh podcast today. I wanted to tell you guys again, thank you very much. We uh went past a thousand downloads, one thousand downloads.
Speaker 1:Last night it was like just crazy. You know, we really appreciate all of our fans that are out there that are helping us, boosting us and enjoying, uh, listening to us, uh, on all those our fans that are out there that are helping us, boosting us and enjoying listening to us on all those different subjects that we're talking about. If you have any ideas, all this stuff, let us know. We're happy to talk about them. I mean, we're always searching for more material to you know that people want to hear, so if you have a, you have something we want special that you just specifically want, let us know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and realize this If you see me out there, you know I'm going to ask you. Yeah, I'm definitely going to ask you, because this is what we do. This is not just about me and Sean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tell me a story, Tell me something that you went through, that you think, and if it's funny and it's moving, we definitely want another story.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so you guys take care Fly safe. Fly safe and we will see you next time on Cabin Pressure, next time on Cabin Pressure.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Please like and subscribe, and please send us fan mail. Then share us with just one friend and one group. Now go out and live a happier, healthier and more productive life.
