Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Life's Lessons from Ohio to Cabo and a Musical Journey
What if the stark contrast between hard work and leisure could teach us more about life than we ever imagined? Join us as we navigate the humorous divide between fall cleanup chores in Ohio and the sun-drenched beaches of Cabo. From battling the elements to soaking up the vibrant party scene and artsy vibes of San Jose del Cabo, our tales provide both warmth and laughter. Amidst these adventures, we introduce our new pup, Gemma, whose antics keep us endlessly entertained, even as unexpected travel mishaps remind us of life's unpredictable twists.
This episode is a delightful blend of tales about a bunny-hopping Yorkie and a baggage cart that decided to take a detour into a Dreamliner engine. Age may bring gym mishaps and the importance of listening to one's body, but it also offers moments of reflection on influential parents and the work ethic they instilled. Our stories highlight how early jobs, free from the distraction of cell phones, fostered camaraderie and responsibility among peers—lessons we carry into adulthood.
Finally, we embark on a vibrant escapade through Nashville, Music City, with its magnetic musical allure and cultural landmarks. From the Grand Ole Opry to Broadway's Honky Tonk Highway, music is in every corner, promising a lively experience. As we wrap up, we invite you to reflect on parental gratitude and share our heartfelt farewell, encouraging you to appreciate your roots and live a happier, healthier life. Don't miss the next connection on Cabin Pressure with Shawn and G, where life's journey continues with humor and warmth.
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Welcome to the podcast where bending in the gym is riskier than a caffeine-fueled honky-tonk dance-off. Today, we're unpacking both baggage and work ethic, wondering if mom's influence is just as questionable as dad's dance moves. Plus, we're hitting Nashville, where the Music's Electric and the Grand Ole Opry is taking center stage. Buckle up, whether it's your suitcase zipper or that regrettable coffee purchase, we've got a packed episode for you next on Cabin Pressure.
Speaker 2:This time of year up in Ohio it is the fall and we're doing a lot of cleanup Lots of cutting back of the bushes, tons of trimming of the trees, the grass. Man, I was busy this past week doing all this fall cleanup. You know, I was loading stuff up, taking it to the back, sweating my butt off, getting to the back, burning stuff, coming back trimming more stuff. I got a pretty big lawn. So, man, I was really getting at it and I was at it for about three or four hours.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. But Mother Nature too is helping you out, because every time you clean it up, she's going to mess it up.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah Well, the wind's blowing like crazy.
Speaker 2:So the leaves are going nuts. But anyway, I was sitting there and I was really working hard and all of a sudden, as I'm working, my phone starts to buzz. And then I bring it out and you ever, in the middle of doing all this work, a friend. They will send you a message. Go hey, buddy, what are you doing? And you look down at your message and this friend of yours is sitting on a beach and he is getting his tan on with his sunglasses and you're like you've got to be kidding me, man. You're sending that shit to me and I'm out here working my butt off. So then I get going a little bit farther and I'm dragging some more branches to the back and sweating it again. And as I'm walking back, all of a sudden my pocket vibrates again. I'm like no, he's not no-transcript buzzing. Next thing I see is hey, look at these. I'm watching these whales and I'm like you've got to be kidding me Now.
Speaker 2:I've been working out in the yard all day long Dragging this stuff, doing this. It was a long day, sean. What were you doing?
Speaker 1:Well, I was sitting on the beach snorkeling, watching some whales, you know, doing those things that you're supposed to be doing on vacation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sending those pictures to somebody else who was working.
Speaker 1:Well, you know you're supposed to be in, like I'm trying to share my experiences with you. Isn't that what, like Facebook and the social media is about? I mean, we're tight, so you know G.
Speaker 2:That's called rubbing your nose in it. That's not tight man, that is rubbing your nose in it. I was like, are you kidding me? He's going to send me another one. I knew it. I absolutely knew you was going to send one. But, hey, how was your vacation anyway?
Speaker 1:Yeah, my vacation was amazing, man, I went down to Cabo. Cabo is like my new favorite. I mean, we're on the East Coast, so Cancun is the place that we normally would go close to Mexico destination type of thing but Cabo it's kind of like that next step up. If you go to Cabo, you got two cities. You're right in the middle of two cities. Both cities are two different places. One's Big Party, cabo San Lucas, and then you got Cabo, san Jose del Cabo, and that's kind of like an artsy, chill, relaxed town. So you got whatever type of vacation you want to do, you can do it in Cabo.
Speaker 1:But we're becoming more and more of a fan of Cabo. There's so many things to offer All kinds of water sports, just like Cancun, all that good stuff. But it's amazing. That's why I was sharing my pictures. So how many days did you spend? We were down there a week. It was good. I mean, it was a good relaxing time and you know I've already told you that I'm getting ready to go in for surgery, so that I'm getting ready to go in for surgery. So I needed some R&R time, my last walking about on my left knee.
Speaker 2:Oh, your ass would be sitting around not doing anything for months. You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1:No, I'm never not doing anything. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:No, but you know something Don't let him.
Speaker 1:Fool you folks.
Speaker 2:We do give each other so much crap. It's so much fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, don't let him fool you. He has his little fun going on too in his house. What do you got fun going on in your house?
Speaker 2:Oh my God, you know this was amazing. Actually, not more than a little over a year ago, we lost our little Yorkie. Her name was Dakota Amazing dog, had her for about 15 years. Just absolutely broke my heart and we decided to go out and start looking around and searching for another puppy. Now that in itself is an absolute adventure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the process? Even.
Speaker 2:Well, it depends on what you're looking for. We were looking for a small breed, a smaller, actually, yorkie, than Dakota was. So you know, you have to know what you're looking for. There's certain things about their legs, about their size, who the breeder is, the size of the mom, size of the dad, actually the grandparents. There's so much that goes into that, like you're getting into the dog genealogy.
Speaker 1:The genetics, the whole genetic of this animal that you're looking for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's amazing. And then you know we had gone through like two to three months of searching on like puppiescom and they have other ones like the marketplace for the AKC, but breeders are really different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they really are. Yeah, that's a different crowd.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they really are. They're different. I mean, it was kind of strange. Every time I talk to one, you think that they're somewhat normal. All of a sudden then they get real strange. I know it's crazy, but anyway. We found this little tiny little Yorkie Tiny is an understatement, oh my gosh and she was out in Los Angeles so had to fly all the way out to LA to get her man. She is 1.1 pounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would have been cheaper to send her through the mail.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean, we brought her back. We brought her back, sean, in a. She was brought back in a container that guinea pigs are brought in. That's how small she is. That's how small she is. I mean, she is so tiny and we are going to post a picture for everyone, a video, yeah, a video. Actually, her name is Gemma, and Gemma does not run, does she, Sean? No, she hops like a little bunny, is it?
Speaker 1:about a bunny that's like a very little, tiny bunny.
Speaker 2:And she is absolutely hilarious. I've had so much fun with her the last couple days. I've missed Dakota more than anything in this world. Anybody that's ever had their pets or lost their pets knows Dee was my girl. Gemma is an absolute sweetheart. She is so much fun. I had a great time the last couple of days waking up with her, having fun with her and training her.
Speaker 1:Puppies are so fun. I mean, the energy level is like you have to shift your gears here. You know they're going to be excited every day to see you.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely. And you know something? I've said this a thousand times and you've heard this saying that we don't deserve dogs because their love is just completely unconditional and we don't deserve them. But we have them, we're fortunate to have them, but you know we don't deserve them. But anyway, we will show you a little video of Gemma hopping around the front room.
Speaker 1:She is a cutie had a lot of fun picking her up and a lot of fun with her the last couple days. Yeah, I feel a little uncomfortable having Gemma around my house, I mean because I'm a klutz. Oh my God, I'd step on that little thing and I'd just be cracked.
Speaker 2:She tried to jump over my foot and she slid her belly across the front and did a belly slide right across the front of it. Oh yeah, I'm telling you, when you guys see her, the picture won't even do her justice, because if you put your cell phone on the table, gemma could put both, all four feet on the cell phone. Wow, and she, she could stand on it. That's how small she is. But anyway, she's an absolute little dream of a dog. I love her a lot already. She's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, you know that's cool.
Speaker 2:It is. It's really cool. But you know, when I was working, I was working out, though whenever you were on your little vacation You're always working out, I know. But you know what I hate about you know. Last time you said about getting older yeah, so I'm going to the gym, work out all the time lifting. Rarely ever hurt myself in the gym because I'm really strict about how I lift.
Speaker 1:And also you're smart. I mean you use machines. You're not trying to do something that you don't need to be doing. You're not trying to do something that you don't need to be doing.
Speaker 2:You're not impressing anybody in there. No, this is all about my health and about with myself. But this is what I hate the most Bent over just to move the plate right, move to adjust it Okay.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:That was it. All of a sudden I was like you have got to be kidding me. I just tweaked something in my back. And I have learned one thing when I do this if I continue the lift, I'm in trouble. I'm going to be down for the next week. So what I do is I just pack my stuff up, I go home, I lay down for about a day or two, let the nerve calm down. Then I'm back in the game. So it was short-lived, but if you're one that lifts and you go out there and you tweak your back, just go lay down, take it easy and let the nerve calm down and you'll be back in the game or you'll be waiting for your next tweak because we're old, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hate that, but it is part of getting older and we have to deal with that. But did you see that video of that baggage cart?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the baggage cart that—.
Speaker 2:Turned the Dreamliner into a recycling plant.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, yeah, it is. It's amazing. We will post that on the web as well, on our Facebook site, for sure. This thing's just rolling down the tarmac here, the baggage cart, and it was another airline, right.
Speaker 2:There was an Airbus, there was a Dreamliner behind, there was a crossroad from where the baggage carts come, and then there was an Airbus in front of them. One was taxiing in, one was going out, and the Airbus was pulling out and their jets, their engines, blew as this baggage cart was coming across the front of it. Actually, I'm sorry, behind the Airbus, right.
Speaker 1:But in front of the Dreamliner.
Speaker 2:The air blew the last cart right from the baggage cart. You've seen this thing come apart and all of a sudden you're looking at this and you're like, oh hell, no. This thing is going right to that Dreamliner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the guy in the baggage handler. He's like no, no, no, no, no, no, this is not happening. How am I going to explain this? And you can see all the carriers are just floating in the air, tumbling towards this engine and then one just gets like Shredded, Shredded.
Speaker 2:It looks like aluminum can going in. There's a $20 million mistake right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those Rolls Royce engines are like $20 million a piece.
Speaker 2:And that thing was just turned into scrap Scrap. Wonder who wrote, was just turned into scrap Scrap. I wonder who wrote a check for that one.
Speaker 1:Somebody's like I'm getting drug tested.
Speaker 2:It wasn't even my fault, yeah that guy was like yeah, it wasn't me, I swear it wasn't me, I didn't do it, that wasn't me, I didn't even get close to that engine. Yeah man, that was an absolutely crazy thing. But again, they turned a Dreamliner into a recycling plant that day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what. You know there's things on the plane that always bugs us here and you know we got something to complain about these oversized bags. You know people packing their bags on the plane. It's out of control.
Speaker 2:Well, they put those extended zippers on them so they go anywhere from four to six inches and they unzip and they're like. Well, my bag I mean my bag is able to do that. It fits on most planes.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, the crazy thing about these planes too is that the baggage bins are like all different sizes now Like they're trying to adjust. The airlines are trying to adjust to bigger bins to accommodate more bags, but you get on an older plane and they're like smaller and it fits a roller board. But you unzip that little teeny zipper, expandable, you know area and make it into that now ballooned bag and it's like four inches bigger.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, there was a gate agent, sean the best announcement that I ever heard in the boarding area. This gate agent. He gets on the mic and he tells people. He says Ladies and gentlemen, we're getting ready to board the aircraft. Everybody, take a quick look at your bag. If, when you purchase that bag, it was a rectangle and today it's an oval, you need to bring it up. We're going to check it Because that's exactly what it is. It looks like a big oval when they come on the aircraft.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even get it. Every time I see them I'm like you need to take something out of that bag and the stuff that comes out of the bag, that's a whole other show.
Speaker 2:Well, they're shoving it down and they're breaking their zippers. I mean, they're just shoving in or the bins. Yeah, well, you just came off of a Max and those have the big bins in them. Then you come to a 737, has a completely different bin in it, right, and you're like, well it fit on the last plane. Well, the last plane was a huge plane, it was a Max or it was a wide body and this one's a 737, it ain't going to fit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's out of control, but I mean these oversized bags. You just need a like stop.
Speaker 2:Quit using the 4-inch zipper. Yeah, I don't even know why do they do that? Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you know what?
Speaker 2:That should not be allowed. That shouldn't be allowed on bags brought on aircraft.
Speaker 1:Now, if you want to put it in the belly, and it has an extension.
Speaker 2:I understand that right, because it's a checked bag. Well, even the belly is out of control. I mean, how about that super stroller? Oh my gosh, we are going to post this one. This person brought this super stroller up and this thing was absolutely ridiculous. All my years of flying I have never, ever seen a stroller so big. And she looked at us and she was like, well, it fit on the last plane. I said, well, ma'am, that last plane was a cargo ship from China.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, your little Fiat 500 can't fit with you.
Speaker 2:This thing was absolutely huge. I mean, okay, that's another story, these strollers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The strollers that they check. These things are huge. They're like all-terrain vehicles.
Speaker 1:And they are like. I mean, they're like transformers, like they just like expand collapse. Now they've got them where the stroller, where, like you can unhook the kid and wheel the kid down the aisle. Have you seen that?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I mean it's crazy. But these dads. What's funny is the dads come on like pack mules. They have all these bags packed up and they're pushing that stroller down there. And man, these things are. You have to go on and you'll have to look at the size of this stroller. This thing is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's basically a little small Fiat 500.
Speaker 2:That thing was huge, man. But you know another thing, talking about a waste on the aircraft we were talking about this the other day Do you know what people waste the most on an airplane when they purchase in the? Airport I don't know, yeah, when they purchase inside of an airport. Now, this is the one thing that's probably the most sold in an airport, right, yep?
Speaker 1:Coffee, coffee, coffee all day long. I mean, these people bring all these like gourmet coffees and you know everybody's running to Starbucks. Seven, nine, twelve dollars, yeah, fifteen, yeah, exactly and cold hot they're huge, cold, hot, doesn't matter, different size containers and they bring them on the plane and the first thing they do is they empty those things and they're handing them to us.
Speaker 2:Can you dump this for me?
Speaker 1:Yeah, can you dump this for me?
Speaker 2:Half of this cup, sometimes three quarters of this cup, so you just spent $12 on this yeah, buy the small one. I'm dumping six. Buy the small one, finish the small one.
Speaker 1:Be happy about that. We have coffee on the plane. I know it's not Starbucks.
Speaker 2:But bigger is better and I love my big gulps, Exactly, but you're wasting. I mean it's amazing. You know this. It is amazing how much money people waste every single day on coffee. We throw it away every day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean we have so much disposable income on the plane. I mean coffee cups are just like every other person In the morning time, anything you can imagine. I mean it gets even crazier when you get down the line on lunch and all that stuff. You get the pizza boxes come on board, oh yeah, all kinds of crazy stuff like that. But yeah, coffee is out of control. It is huge.
Speaker 2:And you pay such a high markup in the airport too? Yeah, Because they know that you're going to buy it.
Speaker 1:But you know, are they just sending us a message that they don't like our coffee.
Speaker 2:Our coffee is actually really good. Our coffee's good. I mean we have a dark roast coffee.
Speaker 1:Right right On our airline. Our coffee is good.
Speaker 2:Our coffee is actually really good.
Speaker 1:But maybe the other guys? There's a problem out there.
Speaker 2:I don't care. Listen, buy the small cup of coffee. There's no reason to buy that big grande thing. Get the smaller one, be happy with that. You're going to save a few dollars at the airport, for sure.
Speaker 2:Oh, for sure, Because we throw that away every single day. Yeah, now the other thing when you went on your vacation, you had said to me oh, you could do this too. Remember that, yep, because I was giving you a hard time about your vacation. You're like, oh, all you got to do is take some time off and you could do it too.
Speaker 1:GE never takes time off. The hardest working flight attendant in the industry. I mean man, if it wasn't for FARs he wouldn't stop working.
Speaker 2:I probably wouldn't, I'd probably keep going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you just keep going.
Speaker 2:I mean, he can't help himself. Did you ever you?
Speaker 1:know, yeah, but you know.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's be fair, you also are doing stuff all the time. I mean, I give you crap, but you're always busy. I don't care what it is, you're always doing something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm doing something. It's school, it's golf, it's work, it's donating my time to nonprofits. I do all kinds of stuff. I mean I'm never sit still. There's something that's always going on in my life.
Speaker 2:So I mean that's why we're I mean, both of us are alike in that way but I do give him a big. I give him a lot of crap a lot of times. But I had thought about what you said and I started thinking about why? Why am I the way I am? Have you ever did that?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the self-reflecting is a good, healthy exercise for everybody right, yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:But I was sitting there thinking you know he's going on this vacation, I know, I mean, you do your thing and I was sitting there thinking, why am I like this? And I started thinking I was like it was my mom. Yeah, yeah, because you know, when you go back and you think in your life it's either it had to be somewhere, it had to be somewhere, it had to be like either a mom or dad, it had to be someone that influenced you.
Speaker 1:Oh for, sure, I mean our parents are giant, you know influences around our life, right?
Speaker 2:Some are.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean instinctively, as a human growing up your parents are the only thing you're identifying with right. Some are Well, I mean instinctively, as a human growing up, your parents are the only thing you're identifying with right. So you aspire to be those people right that are around you. I mean so those influences and their work ethic, their morals, all their beliefs and stuff. It's going to be transposed to you.
Speaker 2:So, for yourself, who would you say that yours was as far as Develop? When you looked at yourself, when you reflect back, who did you think?
Speaker 1:Well, I think it kids in my generation I'm one of four, but she was a strong influence to you know, carry us on and support us in the world and all that stuff. And so she was always about educating yourself work hard, you know, to get what you want, type of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's my mom. We were, we had five kids, we had four boys and one girl, and my mom all I can remember is that, you know, as, like I told you before, we didn't know that we didn't have things, we didn't know about that. I mean, we just thought that, you know, mom always provided certain things and we watched her during Thanksgiving. She'd always make sure that she had food and everything on the table. She had, you know, dinner and everything ready, and then, you know, she always made sure that her boys were working and we started. We started at a young age and back then we used to do walking beans, and walking beans is you'd work for a farmer and they would drop you off at the field and back then they would call that slavery because they sat there, they would drop you off of these fields, they'd give you a sickle and it was like having a golf club with a hook on it.
Speaker 2:It was like a razor-sharp hook. So you'd pull these button weeds, you'd hook these button weeds and you'd drop them in the field because they didn't have the pesticides that they have now. Okay. So you'd have like 10 or 12 of these 8-, 9-years-old, 10-years-old kids in these fields hooking these button weeds, walking three-quarters of a mile, and you realize that that's where your work ethic is. It all started back then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. More reflection on my part here. My parents were always like if I mean you know, more reflection on my part here, the? My parents were always like you're, if you want something, you need to go get it. And early in life it was always like hey, I mean, what was your first job? Like you just said, your first job, how old were you? Eight, eight, wow.
Speaker 1:So mine probably started in like junior high. Junior high was my first. I started like going out there mowing lawns, trying to figure out, because I was a big runner when I was young. Yeah, so what I wanted was a pair of shoes. And that's when nike came out with their first shoe I don't know if you remember that the waffle stomper. Yeah, everybody had that, the waffle stomper. It was the, the running shoe, right. So I wanted that. But my parents like we're not buying it for you, and so I wanted it. So I was like I'm going to go get it. So they were like get a job. And I started working mowing lawns. I remember I had a job at night cleaning up a laundromat at the middle of the night, just to get paid to go buy these shoes that I wanted, and that continued.
Speaker 2:Do you think, though, that part of that is, we didn't have phones, cell phones, no Right. So not having cell phones also forced us to work more.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Well, you also— no distractions. Well, work was also a social activity, right, yeah, it was. So like when you get to work, there were your friends at work and then you went. So that was a. That was one of the social aspects of us in our generation, us growing up, I've always wanted like get to that place because there was people that I liked and we all had things in common, type of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was. I mean when we worked a lot on the farm. So it was walking beans, baling hay, to tasseling corn. So there was always a group of kids it was country kids working and as you grew the workload got harder. So you went from walking beans and then baling hay. You had to be strong enough to pick the bales up and throw them up to each other and then detasseling corn. You had to be high enough to do the detasseling of the corn and it was hot, sweaty work. No one really wanted to do it detasseling of the corn and it was hot, sweaty work.
Speaker 1:No one really wanted to do it, but this is how we got paid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2:So I'm glad I didn't grow up where you grew up, because that sounds some rough hard work, you know it was, but it actually developed me and it did. I can honestly say, and when I ask people all the time if you could describe your mom and this is a tough one but if you could describe your mom in one word, what would that word be? Mom?
Speaker 1:Hmm, I would say my mom is powerful.
Speaker 2:It's tough, though, isn't it? One word, yeah, one word's hard, because when you look at your mom a certain way and this is the thing I find funny is that I would say amazing, but there's so many other words you can use to describe your mother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a single word is not doing it justice. No, no, no.
Speaker 2:No, she. I mean, like I said, you know, my mom was incredible raising five kids, and when you were talking about this and you said about with the vacation, it got me thinking a lot about my work ethic and the way that I am and that's the way I am today is that I don't stop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we don't. I mean both of us are from the same cut of cloth. I mean we both, we came in here two different ways, but we both have this work ethic that we go and get things done.
Speaker 2:Yeah and it's. I just think it's amazing when you're around people like that done yeah and it's. I just think it's amazing when you're around people like that it's, um, it's.
Speaker 1:It's amazing that you know when you when you talk to them, there's always someone that affected them that way. Oh yeah, heck, yeah, I mean, um, I will tell you, like my, I was, grown, grew up in a military family, so, um, for the most part of my life here, or half of my life, and I uh traveled around. So you know, I wasn't close to fields or anything like that. So my, my type of work was always like, uh, getting some type of retail job or working at the commissary or the PX, or, um, working at the bakery, uh, I mean, I had all kinds of crazy jobs, working at the record store, in the BX, uh, so I got you know. As you know, I'm very into tech. So even at an early age, you know anything, the newest tech. Back then I mean I was walking around with a Walkman because that was the newest thing you know Most people right now wouldn't even know what a Walkman is.
Speaker 2:Right, right.
Speaker 1:And then I had the CD player, you know, rolling around, you know, and I was always, like you know, in kid Now I can't believe I'm going to tell you this, but in high school, you know, I had the job that was in the BX, that I controlled all the albums coming in, and I was in Italy at the time that's where I was going to high school. So I had music didn't come from the United States for, but like maybe a week or two later when they got released. So when they'd come over in the BX I got the first records. So I DJed at night at our teen club and all this stuff, all my friends and this was I said I wasn't going to tell you, but they used to call me sugar bear. Now there's a long story to that and all my friends there at Vincenzo American High School that know Sugar Bear knows that.
Speaker 2:Oh, you so got a new name.
Speaker 1:I was out there, you know, always with I was styling. I always wore my clothes, I always had the latest music and you know I was that guy. But it was that way because of my work ethic. I went to school. Before school I had a bakery job. I get up at three, four o'clock in the morning, go work a couple hours in a bakery and go to school Afterwards. I'd do my you know sports. Then I'd go to work doing something else at the BX, you know, because I wanted these things, I wanted to be, look nice, I wanted to have all these stuff. So in order to do it, I had to go ahead and do it myself.
Speaker 2:I remember one story of my mom with my brother Dave. Dave, we all played basketball. We played basketball, baseball and football and we used to wear Converse. Remember the Converse All-Stars? Heck, yeah, yeah, the old Converse All-Stars. Back then it was the leather ones and we thought those were the good ones. But well, everybody on the varsity team wore. Remember the Dr J's? Yeah, those were the shoes to have back then. They were Dr J's. Well, everybody had those. And my brother Dave. I remember we were driving home one night and he looked at my mom and he's like hey, mom, can you buy me the Dr J's? And she said why? And he said well, everybody else has them on the team and I'm the only one that doesn't have them. I wear Converse. My mom looked at him and she said who's high score tonight? And he goes me why? And she goes ain't the shoes. You got that right. And it just tells you what kind of person she was Right. I mean, she instilled these little things in your head.
Speaker 1:Perspective.
Speaker 2:She's giving you perspective. It was just, I mean, I remember them. I mean, and it just makes me think, you know, and I watched my mom and I lost my mom not long ago, but the most amazing thing was, when my mom passed, all of her kids were there. Yeah, all of them. And believe me when I'm telling you the greatest thing in the world is not about money, it's not about what you have, it's not about all these things that you're not ever going to take with you. Right when you it's time to leave this earth, when you look up and the people that you love the most are standing right there, you reach out and you can touch them. When you're afraid and you're going to pass over, that's the most credible thing in the world.
Speaker 1:And like.
Speaker 2:I said, it just had me thinking about my work ethic and I have to say that, well, that's because of my mom, and I don't think it's ever going to stop, because my mom never stopped. So she was one of those women that was just. She just kept going. So she was absolutely amazing. I loved her. I love mom and I know that a lot of you people out there you have moms and dads the same way and you look at them the same way. So just had to touch on that today because Sean had said something to me and it kind of hit me about my work ethic and the way that I am and I just want to give that props out to my mom because she was an amazing person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, you got to appreciate everybody that's influenced you in your life, and you know we've really focused on mom today, but fathers are an important part of our lives too, and both of us had pretty, very strong fathers. Oh, yeah, yeah, we did, and they'd helped influence us into the direction and the men that we are today. And I knew G's dad. Unfortunately, he didn't know mine because mine passed away when I was 16. But, yeah, those family members are strong influences.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and, like I said, go back on those and draw from them when you have to, because I do it all the time. I think about my mom all the time, I think about my dad all the time, but it is the way. It's the reason why I am the way that I am. It won't change. I was built this way. I'll remain this way until the day that I leave this planet.
Speaker 1:But anyway, let's go on to hey G. I just want to let you know one thing before you go on. What's that? They did a good job.
Speaker 2:Okay, sugar Bear, you are so good at it.
Speaker 1:You couldn't wait to say that. No, no, no. You know everybody out there.
Speaker 2:You are going to hear that now, sugar Bear, I let it out the box. Yeah, you did Bad thing, but hey, listen. Let's talk about the destination.
Speaker 1:Destination. Destination this week is Nashville. Nashville Music City. Love Nashville. Nashville's a blast. I mean you don't have to like their music or not like their music. Oh, don't even talk to me about country music Listen country music in our generation has grown leaps and bounds, and they've spread their wings to all genres.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:There's no place that Nashville has not touched. You know, like rap music, classical music, rock and roll. They're touching it all, all of it, they're there. Nashville is such an amazing place to visit. I mean, if you ever get a chance to go to Nashville, one of my favorite places to visit, because there's just so much to do, right, yeah, what are some of the things that you like to do?
Speaker 2:Well, they have. Which I absolutely love is the Grand Ole Opry. Yeah, classic, that's one place I have not been. Well, I think for anybody going to Nashville if you're making the trip to Nashville, it's country music. So the Grand Ole Opry, you got to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but here's the problem with that. The problem is that when you get to Nashville and it doesn't matter where you step or what block you're on, there's music coming out of a bar. It's hard to even get to the Grand Ole Opry because there's some places that's playing music and you're like what's happening here?
Speaker 2:And you might even sit on the side of the street and the and the people on the street are so good you don't even go, even go in the bar, yeah, yeah, I mean there's just, there's music everywhere, even even when the hotel that we laid over they have. They have actually performers downstairs in the lobby on the weekends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yep, I actually. I mean, nashville is just a great place. If you love music, nashville is the place to go. Some other things about Nashville is. That one it's the Country Music Hall of Fame and the museum that's there. And this is another state capital. Like I was saying before, when we we lay over in a lot of places that are state Capitals, I mean reach out there, go visit those places. They're they're free to visit, they're open to the public. We own them, we bought them anyways. Um, another place is really interesting in Nashville. Um, I rented a car one time, me and a crew kind of like flew, you know. We got all over nashville there and we went to this park and it's called parthenon in, uh, centennial park and if you know what, the parthenon, parthenon in greece, you know, oh yeah yeah, yeah, so they've replicated that building in the park.
Speaker 1:Really, it's the exact replication and it is just the wildest thing. You're driving down the street there. If you keep driving down broadway, eventually you're going to go and you'll see this park and here's the parthenon, just sitting there. It's wild. I'm definitely have to do that yeah it's, it's a beautiful little park, um, lots of activity, lots of people walking around taking pictures and stuff next to this thing. Um, but the you know, the main track in Nashville is to walk down Broadway.
Speaker 2:That's the Honky Tonk Highway. The Honky Tonk Highway, oh yeah, yeah, and that is just. It's live all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean 24-7,. That place is jumping. I mean you can walk up and down that street. It's like Nashville's New Orleans. Yeah, it's Nashville's New Orleans. You can just walk around jumping in bar to bar, different music, different music on every level of the bar. The bars there are like three stories high. They'll have music on the rooftop, they'll have music in the middle, music on the ground floor and there are three different bands in one bar. It's the craziest thing. You don't see that in many places.
Speaker 2:No, and the great thing too is that, just like we were saying, country music has gotten so big that you're going to hear all different kinds. You'll hear the old-style country music and then you'll hear the newer country music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of the places that I stopped at in Broadway was a kid rocks bar. Oh, I bet that was cool. Yeah, it was cool because he had like three different bands on three different levels. It was. It was just the wildest thing.
Speaker 1:But I mean the get, get on Broadway and you go to one of those bars, you gotta go to the rooftop and you can get up on the rooftop. It is a spectacular, uh scenery there. You can see the, you know, see broadway, get an overview of the whole thing. Um, the weather there usually is pretty nice and man, it's just, it's just a great experience to do that.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I did, um, if you haven't tried to do it in nashville, is there's a pedestrian bridge there and, and that pedestrian bridge I'm going to get this right is called Syngenthaler Pedestrian Bridge and I probably mutilated, but it connects the Nashville city over to the stadium of the Tennessee Titans through this bridge. And on this bridge, which is really cool, is also there's all these street performers and stuff on the bridge and it is just, it's just a cool and there's a really cool park and you can walk along the river there and everything. That's the Cumberland river or whatever, and that Cumberland river is a it kind of winds through and you know, separates the city, but really cool area to do that. But there's one last place that's a very historical museum to visit there that you should be visiting and what's that?
Speaker 2:Jay, the Johnny Cash Museum. Now, I love Johnny Cash. I mean, I loved his music, he had great music and that museum I have not been to. But I would absolutely love to go to the Johnny Cash Museum next time I'm there. But it has nothing but great things to say about it. They have a lot of artifacts and memorabilia. It's a comprehensive collection of this and they have it as definitely a must-see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, johnny Cash I mean first of all was one of those performers that are so unique to me. There's voices in the world that are so memorable because they're signature voices. Oh yeah, and Johnny Cash is that guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was that movie. Walk the Line, Remember Joaquin.
Speaker 1:Phoenix.
Speaker 2:That was incredible and it was a great depletion of Johnny's life, because he was the ultimate country music singer. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Another thing you got to look at too when you're walking down Broadway is that Broadway doesn't have just music. It also has these crazy shops. They got candy shops, they got boot shops, they got boot shops and they'll have like thousands of pairs of boots in the shops. You can't believe how many boots. It's a really wild place to visit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I said. Nashville is like New Orleans. Yeah, right, it's the country New Orleans, basically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then off-Broadway, there's now all these shoots of streets that have more action on them. So get to Nashville. Lots of things to do in Nashville.
Speaker 2:All right, everybody. It's the end of the show. Do in Nashville.
Speaker 1:All right, everybody, it's the end of the show. Oh, wait, wait, wait. We didn't mention one thing about Nashville. What was that? And I would be remiss to not mention this. All right, Sugar Bear, go ahead. All right, Hot chicken Tennessee hot chicken baby, oh yeah. I mean you got to.
Speaker 1:When you get to Nashville, you got to. When you get to Nashville, you got to get some Nashville hot chicken. Yep, absolutely. It is a place to go get that type of food and it is fantastic. They have great food places there in Nashville as well.
Speaker 2:All right, Sean's covering the food again. All right. All right, guys, the quote that we are going to leave you with today. Remember this never complain about what your parents couldn't give you. It was probably all they had. Amen, so, everyone again, thank you very much. We appreciate each and every one of you guys for listening. You guys fly safe. You guys have a great, great day and we'll see you back here on cabin. Yeah, We'll see you in cabin pressure.
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