Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Dodging Chaos, Unvailing Secrets & Grooving Through Alien Mysteries
What if you found yourself dodging airport chaos like a live game of Frogger only to land on the mysterious path of the extraterrestrial highway? Join us as we recount our high-flying misadventures, where the enigma of Area 51 meets the glittering lights of Las Vegas. From alien-themed curiosities to the thrill of standing near one of the most secretive sites on Earth, you'll be on the edge of your seat. We wrap up our out-of-this-world journey with a slice of Vegas life, tackling giant pizzas and enjoying a night under the neon glow.
Get ready to boogie with us as we groove down memory lane at Northfield Park's Roxino. The electric energy of the Bee Gees tribute band, Stayin' Alive, had everyone strutting their stuff with falsettos that could pierce the heavens. Although a little mix-up kept our co-host from joining the disco fever, we promise to make amends at the next Prince and the Revolution tribute. We'll also touch on the soaring prices of concert tickets and the challenge of affording today's live music experiences, all while honoring legends like Neil Diamond and Taylor Swift.
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You ever feel as if you're playing Frogger the Live Edition when walking down the concourse of an airport. Have you been curious about what's going on in Area 51? After escaping both airport and Area 51 intrigue, reward yourself in Vegas with impossibly giant pizza slices or tacos, so good that even an alien would abandon his ship for a taste. This and more. Next, on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.
Speaker 2:Hey, everyone Welcome. This is Cabin Pressure.
Speaker 1:Just got back from the Bee Gees, the Bee Gees. Man, when did you go see the Bee Gees? The Bee Gees aren't even around anymore.
Speaker 2:Just was kidding man. It was a tribute band brother. It was a tribute band brother, it was a tribute band.
Speaker 1:Come on now. Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I didn't remember me getting invited. Look at you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you didn't, did you? No, I was thinking, man, there was something missing in that picture, and that was you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wait a minute, wait a minute. I think, was that picture and that was you. Yeah, wait, a minute. Wait, I think was this when I was in cabo.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, okay, we talked about that on last podcast. Yeah, that's when I was out working in the yard and your butt was on the beach yeah, so you didn't, and in an evening, yeah bgs. Yeah, exactly, you didn't go right, but anyway we were, we were out at uh. Have you ever been out to uh northfield park?
Speaker 1:the roxino out there uh, yeah, man, it's a, it's a. It's a fine venue out there, but I've never been to a concert out there.
Speaker 2:Oh man, go ahead the the venue out there. It's a small venue but it every seat in there is is great. I mean, it's, it's one of those ones if you want to go out and watch a band out there. It's, it's a, it's a great venue, kind of intimate. Uh, you know design of the whole facility they got, they got all these.
Speaker 1:They got little bars inside there. It's a great venue. Kind of intimate design of the whole facility.
Speaker 2:They got all these. They got little bars inside there. It's a casino. They have the bars in there. They have the racetracks out back so you can watch the trotters. They have a bunch of little restaurants inside there. And then you got the gambling, but the Roxino. They had this band. It was called staying alive and I had seen them four times. So yeah, you know, if I went somewhere four times, they had to be good.
Speaker 1:Was that about any of those times?
Speaker 2:No, We'll get back to that, but we we went to, we invited a bunch of people, we went to. It was staying alive.
Speaker 1:This was a tribute band for the Bee Gees, you invited a bunch of people.
Speaker 2:You didn't go. I don't know how many times I got to tell you you did not go. I know I didn't go, all right, so you weren't in the picture, but we, we were at the bgs. We walked in there and I was telling these guys, we're, we're, had taken picture out front. And these guys were standing there and I said you guys listen, when these guys start up, tell me that they don't sound like the bgs really they're like.
Speaker 1:Uh, they're, not only are they a tribute band, they like look like them too, too.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, you know Barry Gibb. He was one of the big singers Right and this one guy looks really. He looks just like him, wow, but his voice is incredible. When they get into these falsettos. You know the Bee Gees, they always had these falsettos Right. When they get into them for the disco area, that was good era. They get into these falsettos. When they get into them for the disco area, that was good era. They get into these falsettos. And both of the brothers I think it wasn't Andy, but I think it was Maurice, I think it was Barry and him they had this falsetto and, man, these guys are unbelievable. You just hear them. The funny part about it is that as soon as they started, you know everybody's first sitting because they're listening to them. They're like, oh, the venue's going and you know we've got a few of our girls out there. Lee, right, deb.
Speaker 2:Right and then you've got Aim and they're all standing there and they're just looking at each other, and they're just looking at each other, and they're just looking at each other and you knew it was coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were just kind of waiting, Itching. Who's going to make the first move? Itching?
Speaker 2:They were itching, they were looking around and next thing you know, bam, there goes Zane, there goes Lee, popped up, popped up Deb, right after them. There they go, start dancing. Next thing you know, you look all around that venue, women start popping up like popcorn Next time.
Speaker 1:everybody in that place is dancing to the Bee Gees. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh man, these guys are incredible Folks. Let me tell you, these guys are from Canada. It's called Stayin' Alive. Now they perform all over the United States. So if you get a chance, if they're around your area and you see them staying alive, remember that, go see these guys. These guys are incredible. If you love disco, if you love that type of music, you have got to go see them. Don't wait for your friends to invite you.
Speaker 2:There you go there, you go again. Okay, I told you. I told you the next time there's also another band coming, I'm going to invite you there, you go Okay, all right, it's Prince and the Revolution. Oh, that sounds amazing. Oh, you know, I'll even get you your limp butt up there and dance on that one.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, Purple rain my ass off. Oh yeah, exactly, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Purple rain my ass off. Oh yeah, exactly, and these guys are supposed to be these guys supposed to be incredible too. But we had a great time at the Bee Gees, had a lot of fun. Again, check out that venue anytime that you're. You're, you see a band out at Northfield Park, Roxino, that venue, Top Notch. You guys will enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Every seat's a good seat. Don't worry about where where you're at, and for all our fans that are all over the world, if you're ever in this area, that's a great venue.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely, man it, it really is yeah, you know, uh, so you got me remind me. Uh, you know, we went before, uh, before we took off on our vacation and stuff we went. We have, uh, my wife and our season subscribers to the Broadway series play here in the area and Cleveland Ohio is actually known for the third largest Broadway series episode in or in in the United States. It's the largest community there. I mean, it's really cool little area down in here in Cleveland that has like this giant chandelier, crystal chandelier. Have you seen that? No, I haven't. Yeah, like it's like they hang it over the street. It's huge, definitely a sight to see. Another one thing, the cool thing in Cleveland but we go to these plays and everything, and the last play we saw was this Neil Diamond play.
Speaker 2:Hey, wait a minute, you went to Neil Diamond.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just told you we have season tickets.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just told you we have season tickets. You didn't invite me you did not invite me, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, let's keep going, because first of all, it's season tickets. Just throw that in there. Did everybody understand that I have season tickets? He still didn't invite me. All right, we're going to invite you for the season. Get both you and your wife into it. All right, go ahead, that would be awesome. But anyways, um, the the play was amazing. I had. I had no idea like. I mean, I grew up listening to deal neil diamond. It was kind of like in uh, I learned that I started listening to him, like later in his like mid career, because he was a songwriter and he and he wrote songs, kind of like Prince, like you just mentioned. Prince wrote for everybody. Neil Diamond wrote for all kinds of people and like the first song that came on, my wife is sitting there listening to the play and, boom, all of a sudden they're like talking about the number one hit, it's I'm a Believer, and they're like I'm a believer.
Speaker 2:I can't believe it. Wait, wait, wait, stop Stop.
Speaker 1:This is a talk show and we're not supposed to be singing. I wasn't trying to get everybody to make him sing. Anyways but I'm a believer.
Speaker 2:Hey you started it A song yeah, did you not start it Right. Wait a minute, folks he started it. I Did you not start it Right, wait a minute. Folks he started it, not me.
Speaker 1:I just joined in. So anyways, Neil Diamond wrote for a lot of people. He had an amazing life. I mean, the guy was like on top, he was the shit really. I mean he went all around the world. He was like a concert, he was like Taylor Swift of the day, but definitely not those level of tickets right now.
Speaker 2:Did you just compare Neil Diamond to Taylor Dude?
Speaker 1:I'm telling you right now, taylor aspires to be in his level. It is unbelievable. All right, go ahead, though. I'm telling you you look at him, he has a book. This book looks like I mean, it looks like a giant encyclopedia of all the songs and the history of his life and everything. But he anyways, he sponsored this play. He actually developed and you know he 100% backs this whole play, everything that's in it. The guy's been married three times, divorced twice, but he now suffers from Parkinson's, I believe. Is that the same thing that the guy from Back to the Future?
Speaker 2:Oh, michael J Fox, oh, michael J Fox, yeah, michael J Fox, yeah, he does.
Speaker 1:He suffers from Parkinson's as well, and yeah but he still. He wanted to get this story out and do his own thing, but it was a beautiful play.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm still bummed that you didn't let me sing. Well, you didn't know, you just didn't, you know.
Speaker 1:I'm still bummed that you didn't let me sing. I didn't invite you.
Speaker 2:Well, you didn't know, you just didn't. You stopped me from singing. I mean, you're the one who started and I just jumped in, and now you say we can't sing on the program, Right? Well, you want to sing some Bee Gees too? No, maybe you know. I thought you were going to go Tay-Tay, let's talk about Tay-Tay. Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, yeah, yeah, you going to Tay-Tay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably going to Tay-Tay here soon. Oh, I am so going to give you that hard time Last concert. But you know I want to talk about this subject. I mean, you know, when I was a kid when we were a kid, I mean going to a concert, I kid you not. I could walk upstairs right now, go into my attic I got a bag of tickets, ticket stubs, from concerts back in the day. I mean I saw big names back there. I mean I saw, you know, all these big none.
Speaker 2:They're not like the beach boys.
Speaker 1:No, no, I saw things like I saw a kiss. I saw all these hard rock bands like rat. I saw freaking, uh rush. I saw I was a big rock into rock and roll and all that stuff Ted Nugent, acdc, I mean all these. But I'm kidding you, not A ticket stub. I would be challenged to go up there and see a ticket over $30.
Speaker 2:And well, how much are you paying for Tay-Tay?
Speaker 1:Yeah well, tay-tay is out of control. I mean, you know her face value and her tickets are somewhat reasonable. I mean a ticket now, a concert ticket now, right now, a general ticket is going for about $125, $150, something like that. I don't quite know. I mean every Taylor fan out there is probably cringing because they know exactly what it is. But I mean the resale on these things now are in the thousands. I mean it's insane. I mean the people are spending thousands of dollars on one tickets and the scammers are out scamming people everywhere too. I mean, but uh, it is, it's just, it's ridiculous. I mean you remember that. I mean I don't understand why everything is like like shifted so much because I don't know about you, but um, I'm not better off right now than I was back then.
Speaker 2:You just noticed that Right.
Speaker 1:You just noticed that we're not doing better right now, so I just want to tell you that the ticket prices on concerts have just like out of this world, but I had to just throw that out there. I mean Tay-Tay, here we come, neil.
Speaker 2:Diamond, you still didn't ask me to go.
Speaker 1:You want to go Tay-Tay.
Speaker 2:No, no, I'm not a Tay-Tay supporter, but that's okay, you are and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:We all have our likes Exactly. Hey, you know what drives me crazy? I was sitting there thinking about this the other day walking down the airport people that walk down the middle of the airport.
Speaker 1:Oh man, they, you know, come on people. I mean, you know any walkway in the United States because we are a you know right side of the road. This isn't like London, or this isn't like you know. We walk like our traffic. You know you should be walking like on the right-hand side of the hallway, down the right-hand side of the hallway, whatever direction you're coming. But I mean, when these people come in they just kind of like are….
Speaker 2:Oblivious, oblivious. They have no idea.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:They look at their phones. They veer to the right, they veer to the left.
Speaker 1:They're actually like morning drunk or something.
Speaker 2:They're looking around. Yeah, they're talking to the person telling them. Well, the last time I was at the airport, they didn't even have this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean they're oblivious to what's going on around them.
Speaker 2:You hear these conversations all the time, even when you're walking behind them. Right, they have these funny conversations. They're like well, last time I came here they didn't have this.
Speaker 1:And the other thing about when they're walking down the aisle like you're trying to get around them, like you're trying to get around them, and then they're like you know, you, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to move around and go off to the left and then it starts staggering to the left. And then you try to go staggered, you know, go around to the right. They start staggering back. I mean it is, it's like they're drunk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then you, and then you run into the boarding line, down the, down the crossing, the whole concourse and then you see the electric car driver driving like they're drunk, because everybody's on the left and the right, nobody's following any kind of order and all you're doing is trying to weave in and out traffic without getting your legs cut off by their bag.
Speaker 1:No, in reality we're just trying to get to work safely.
Speaker 2:This is better, though, you know, when they kept going they're like okay, go fast, go fast, slam on the brakes. Folks, you got no brake lights on the back of you. No, you slam those brakes on. We're going over the top of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that happens. You see a lot of that over the bag. You fall over their bag as they're rolling it down Into their bag.
Speaker 2:yeah, because they just slam on the brakes and all of a sudden they're like I'm sorry, what was that? I didn't do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh as you broke your hip or your leg.
Speaker 2:Goes back to about your knee Right exactly.
Speaker 1:But 35 years of running into my damn knee? Yeah, and that's why it's getting replaced here.
Speaker 2:Hey, I was reading this the other day. Here was a really interesting thing how much do you think that the average cumulus cloud weighs the average cloud that we?
Speaker 1:fly past. It's got to be pretty light. I mean they float right.
Speaker 2:So they float. So I mean how, oh my God?
Speaker 2:They're not dense or maybe I'm being dense right now. I was looking at you sitting there thinking something, but anyway, it's actually 1.1 million pounds. Whoa, 1.1 million pounds Now. 1.1 million pounds, that is just the average cloud. That doesn't include one like a storm pounds. That is just the average cloud. That doesn't include one like a storm cloud. There's just a normal cloud. Now, that is the equivalence of 100 elephants, 40 school buses or an Airbus 380 jet. Wow, now those clouds are made up of water and air pressure. That's what makes them so heavy. Wow, isn't that crazy? I mean, that's absolutely. I mean, I was looking at that and I was like man, that is really amazing that a cloud would weigh that much, because it does float.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it floats, yeah, but I'm sitting here thinking like how do I get that job? Who's out there weighing clouds?
Speaker 2:Did you just feel that pause, that pause that I'm looking at him going? Only you would ask that question.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of an entrepreneur and you know sounds like a cool job just floating around weighing clouds.
Speaker 2:So what do you think you're going to do? You're going to jump your ass up in a balloon. You're going to take a scale up there and put it on there and go no, gee, you're wrong. It's 600,000 pounds, I don't know how they do it, but it sounds like a cool job. Only you would ask that question. You know, I should have known that was coming.
Speaker 2:I mean in my world, you know, if it's a cool thing, you know we're having fun doing it, let's do it. Cloud weighing, cloud weighing, sean. There you go, forget everything else. What's Sean doing? He switched careers. He is a official cloud weigher, exactly.
Speaker 1:Floating around on a balloon. Hey, if you can be a meteorologist telling the weather and getting paid to do it and telling the wrong thing, I can be a cloud weigher.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I'll be watching you floating over my house going. What the hell is he doing? Now he's weighing another cloud house going what the hell is he doing now?
Speaker 1:He's weighing another cloud. Heck, yeah, I'm going to start an academy of cloud wearers, teaching people how to weigh clouds. Oh, you're killing me.
Speaker 2:All right. Hey, I'm just thinking of the future. Do you remember the movie Independence Day? Oh yeah, Heck yeah, do you remember Will Smith, jeff Goldblum in there? Heck, yeah. Now when we fly out to the West Coast and we're going out to Las Vegas, there's a spot out there that it. It goes back to Independence Day with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum.
Speaker 1:Like shooting aliens out of the sky, stuff like that.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no. Not shooting aliens out of the sky. What are you talking about? Area 51. Oh yeah, you know, every time that I have flown out to Las Vegas, I always love on the clear day out to Las Vegas. I always love on the clear day Because if you look out over the side of the aircraft depending on if you're taking off or landing you can see the shape of the crevice and you can get a glimpse of the landing strip of.
Speaker 2:Area 51. Because they have their own landing strip. Did you know this? They have their own landing strip. Well, you, being in the Air Force, you do, but they have their own landing strip in Area 51.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you ever been at Vegas and like when you're taxiing out and everything and across from the terminals not the main terminal, any of the main terminals, like across in one of those hangar areas you ever seen those white planes that have no markings? Well, they had the red strip. No, some of them were just like plain white. They don't even have numbers on them.
Speaker 2:They might have changed those, because that was the airline. They call it Janet, jen. Is it Jen or Janet?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I thought it was Janet.
Speaker 2:I thought it was Janet, I thought it was mysterious shit. But that's who flies them out there yeah. I mean that's it, but it was a red stripe. I think it's Janet and you can look this up and we'll post it. We'll post a picture, we'll confirm it, but I'm pretty sure it's Janet.
Speaker 1:And they had the planes that you're talking about. And they had the planes that you're talking about and they had a red stripe down the side of them. Yeah, supposedly like this is the workers going to work or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they fly them out a couple times during the day and, yeah, they fly out there and they go out to Area 51. Now, area 51 is only 82.4 miles away from Las Vegas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty close, but it is probably one of the most secured places right, yeah, oh heck, yeah, man, I mean, with all the enthusiastic alien followers and all that stuff, that area they got to keep it well protected.
Speaker 2:So I started diving into a little bit about Area 51 because you know it's alien nation out there man, With our country. Everybody wants to know about the aliens, the alien conspiracy. Is there another life? Do you think there is?
Speaker 1:You know what I do, I do. We can't be so vain to think that we're the highest intelligence in the universe, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, you're weighing clouds, but that's another story.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to get a job.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but no, seriously, I think so too. I think that we're a galaxy, we're a planet, and there has to be other life forms out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's definitely other life forms. I mean, even now, like you know, those new reports that have came out, like they released all that Pentagon footage and stuff now and we're not talking beyond Area 51 now, like they have all those like videos and sightings of all this, like like documented material that they've seen UFOs, right, and you know. So the cat's out of the bag. We're not alone.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so either. But let's go back to Area 51, because there's a history behind this place. Oh yeah, and when you kind of dive into it and I started diving into it and started doing a little bit of research on it very, very, very interesting facts about Area 51. First of all, did you know that there's an extraterrestrial highway? No, so on the outskirts of Area 51, you'll come up to this split in the road and then you're going to see one. If you go to the left it's going to say extraterrestrial highway, and then the right is you continue on the other part of the highway. Now, the extraterrestrial highway goes on for about 100 miles.
Speaker 2:Wow, now you've seen those shops, all those little shops that they show the alien nation shops. So they have a, the Alien Nation shops. So they have a bunch of these shops where you go in. They have a bunch of alien products in there, kind of fun stuff for people when they're driving this highway. There's a ton of people that go out and they want to see Area 51. So they drive this extraterrestrial highway. But the one thing about this is they have a couple of these gates that they go into Area 51. Now you would think they would be really secure, right, right. Do you think that they would be like this big wall, these big military guys standing there?
Speaker 1:No, normally like an armed gate, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, just a little drop-down gate, just a little drop-down gate, just a little drop-down gate. But the guy's sitting there and he's talking about these gates. He's talking about Area 51 and how secure this place is and he's like, well, this is where I'm getting really nervous. And he's talking. He said, see, he said I don't want to get any closer to the gate Because if you look on top of that hill, there's this big SUV standing there and there's guys in that truck right now looking down at us. And if we step one foot into Area 51, into that gate, just to take a picture, these guys are a security firm that is there to protect the whole borders. They have cameras, they have everything to protect the borders of Area 51.
Speaker 2:And if you put one foot in Area 51, these guys are going to come down off of that hill. They're not only if you got in your car and thought, well, I'm just going to drive away. Well, you're a hundred miles away from the nearest town, right, so you're driving and these guys are going to chase you down. They are going to get you to the side of road. They're going to hold you there by gunpoint until the sheriff they're going to call the local sheriff to come out there. They're going to show them the footage of you putting your foot over an area 51 to take that stupid picture that you wanted. So they're going to get arrested and your minimum fine for putting that foot over one foot over there, for that dumb picture, is going to be $600. That's a minimum fine, good grief. Listen Now, how scary would that be, though. I mean, you just do that and all of a sudden you're getting chased down the road by this big SUV.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing. It'd be scary, but all of us know that that's a restricted area, exactly. I mean, it's a military government facility. They've got it blocked off. It's like me growing up in the military. I totally get it. It doesn't matter where you are. I've been in lots of situations where I've kind of like walked into the wrong area not knowing you know, but everybody knows about Area 51, right? So it's like I mean, they know so much that they made a extraterrestrial highway to sell shit on.
Speaker 2:Exactly. But you know what I love about that with the military. You're saying that it's a point of it, right, right, it has nothing to do with the money or anything. You violated a military area and that one foot you're going to pay for it.
Speaker 1:It's a restricted area, it doesn't matter. Aerospace, all that stuff. Pilots can't fly into those different restricted areas too. Any of those are violations. Those pilots are going to get fined for it, or the company is going to get fined and the pilot will get fined. You know, it's not a, this is all over. In any restricted area we have lots of them in the United States.
Speaker 2:I just found that was amazing, that one foot. Now let's go back to Area 51 itself. Now, let's go back to the history Area 51 itself. Now let's go back to the history. Sean a little bit. Tell us why.
Speaker 1:Area 51 was made. Why was it developed? Well, it was developed as an aerospace testing facility so they would develop these aircraft, and a lot of aircrafts over the years have been developed, the ones that we commonly know today the U-2, the SR-71s, all of our stealth aircraft. It's a testing facility that the military has always used. But what happens is these aircrafts are so far into the future that when you see them they'd looked alien, you know, and they are operating at altitudes and different things that you don't, that the common person or the common aviator would not recognize Because, as you said, like in the history of this facility, you know when they were testing.
Speaker 1:So when I was in the military some background from my point here I was stationed out in Omaha, nebraska, but I worked with a unit that actually is disbanded now they don't even exist anymore. It's called the 544th Strategic Intelligence Wing and we operated with all the spy crafts in the world in the world. So those spy crafts would actually go up, do their reconnaissance over various places Russia, china, wherever we needed to send these aircraft but they're operating in like altitudes that are not listed anywhere, but like out in space almost, and they're taking pictures on the ground and these pictures. We can get these pictures and develop a picture of like. So the sr71, which is blackbird, and the u2 um they would go up and take these pictures and the camera systems on there which I was trained to repair. All these stuff was um unbelievable. They can. You could pick up a penny on the ground anywhere. They were taking a picture and they could tell you the date on the penny.
Speaker 2:But wasn't okay. Area 51, though, wasn't it developed for the U-2?
Speaker 1:Wasn't that the start of it? It was developed, for that was the first, one of the first planes, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Go back to the history part of it.
Speaker 1:When it was, it was the first plane that was developed, to be developed out of that area.
Speaker 2:And what was that for? And?
Speaker 1:that was for spying.
Speaker 2:What were we spying at that time, do you remember?
Speaker 1:At that time, we were spying on Russia, we were spying on China and anybody else that we needed to, but it was operated by the US Air Force and the CIA.
Speaker 2:Right and the U-2 program on that. From my understanding they would operate at 60 and above, right Around 60,000 feet. Is that true? Okay, so closer to space, but Never registered.
Speaker 1:You know, like they would tell you, it would be on 60,000 feet.
Speaker 2:Okay, so let's go back to that time right now. So back then the pilots, two-thirds of the pilots that were flying for commercial aviation, two-thirds of them came from the military.
Speaker 1:Right, that's pretty much where all airlines kind of like were farmed from was from military pilots.
Speaker 2:And here's ironic about it, the majority of UFO sightings back then, at that time when Area 51 was basically opened up for this program, two-thirds of the pilots flew for the aviation, but the sightings were made by aviation pilots, commercial pilots that were military guys. Now, at that time, commercial aviation, they would fly at 10,000 to 20,000 feet, correct, right, and then as military pilots, they knew that their aircraft could fly up to 40,000 feet in the military.
Speaker 1:That was kind of like maxing out that technology, commercial technology at that time.
Speaker 2:So the question was that these guys would see these things moving above 60,000 feet, and that's where they had no idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was the unknown. Nobody understood. We don't make aircraft that fly that high. It has to be an alien it had to be an alien.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there was. The ironic part of that is that back then, a lot of these reports were being made but they couldn't say anything, right? They couldn't say anything because we were spying on Russia at the time.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was a you know as we still have today and I'm sure probably Area 51 is in high use. We see those planes being taken off every day.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely Send the workers.
Speaker 1:So they're always developing new stuff out there. And you know the interesting thing about the development and the history of this the U-2 was the first. One interesting thing about the development in the history of this the u2 was the first one, but as the um aircrafts continue to generate and, um, we needed different types of things, uh, for our capabilities to keep peace in the world. Um, you know these different aircrafts were being made and as you look at some of the modern day aircraft right now that I'm sure they were all tested in that area as well. I mean, like the a12 right now, you haven't seen a freaking alien. I mean that looks alien. It looks like a big triangle in the sky that you're like. It doesn't even look like it should be flying Well even the stealth.
Speaker 2:I mean, look at the stealth. I mean those things look like the Batplane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all of our aircraft are becoming geometric shapes. Now you know like it's like you're flying the blind blocks. I mean we're getting closer and closer to like you kind of relate this back to all this. You know alien stuff, but you know Star Trek. Right now you start looking at that and are you a Star Trek fan?
Speaker 2:Nah not so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not so much, yeah, but so like one of the big villains in Star Trek. I'm a big Star Trek fan, but you know, one of the villains in the modern day one is the Borg, and it's a cube that's flying around, you know, like there's no aerodynamics to a cube? Yeah, exactly, I know.
Speaker 2:How does a cube fly? Well, I mean, think about when we were kids. You know how they used to have those jetpacks. And the guys are going to fly around with the jet pack, yeah. And now they're flying around with the jet pack, yeah, I mean it's crazy. But back then wasn't it Eisenhower that started that program?
Speaker 1:Eisenhower started the program and developed it and opened that whole facility. And then, as the U-2 got its wings wet and all that stuff, the U-2 was the famous plane, that spy plane that got in trouble. You know, one got shot down over Russia and then one got shot down over Cuba which started the whole Cuba Cuban incident there.
Speaker 2:So why did they have a lead engineer? His name was Kelly Johnson. Why do you think he called it the Paradise Ranch? I don't know, that was kind of weird. It never really said. I looked at that and I was like I wonder why he called it a Paradise Ranch, because it didn't look like paradise. No, and when you see pictures of this thing it's like big salt flats. Right, they have all those salt flats and they used to use the salt flats for bombing, didn't they, right?
Speaker 1:The Air Force Originally. Originally they were like a testing bombing area. We still have those type of areas all over the United States. I think it was the Army Corps that first started that. It was the.
Speaker 2:Air Flats. Yeah, but it was really interesting. I mean what you were saying about them actually being shot down. I mean there's so much history behind Area 51.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's a test development center. But I mean, what the conspiracy theorists all think is that you know, there's been an alien air crash that crashed there and there's little green men living there and they've got people that are green men, that are residents there, and they're hiding over there and that's why they're always trying to get in.
Speaker 2:But when you do the research and you actually start reading it and again, don't get me wrong, I believe that there is, there's life somewhere, sure, but Area 51, there was a lot that was explained from the information that you read about back then and when this program started and you kind of understand that these, these pilots that were former military, when they seen this, they, they were probably like and they took the word for it, because these guys, these guys are military, so they're like this is above. This is above what we see.
Speaker 1:Sure, I mean, the unknown is always mysterious, right? So when you see something that you can't reason with with all the knowledge that you've gained as your you know, into your expertise of an area I'm an aviator that's been flying, I know a lot about aviation, you know been around all that stuff but then you see something that just doesn't fit in the parameters of what you have, your knowledge, obviously it's going to look alien to you, right?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah. But anyway, love talking about Area 51 today. It was a lot of fun doing a lot of the research on it. I learned a lot of things about it. Didn't know that Eisenhower started that program, didn't know about the U2, learned a lot from you about it. I love history and that's one place that is very cool because we see it I mean we fly. Every time when I go into Vegas I do I'm like, hey guys, where are we at? Where's Area 51? They're like, oh, it's off to the left and I'm looking for it because I just want to look for the land strip, because I think it's cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's kind of cool to see new stuff, right? I mean, one of the coolest things about being in the military is being like having that information. You know, I had that information that nobody else had.
Speaker 2:Exactly Right.
Speaker 1:Like it's fun. It's fun, it's exciting, the whole knowledge thing of what our capabilities are and stuff. I mean us as American citizens only have a very, very tiny minute piece of information of everything that we are capable of here in the United States. Oh yeah, the technology that we have already right now is just probably mind-blowing beyond even what we know right now sitting here talking about it, I couldn't even imagine and we were talking about this earlier I could not even imagine what people thought when they seen the first stealth.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it didn't even look like a plane Right. It doesn't even look like a plane Right. It doesn't even look like it's supposed to be flying.
Speaker 2:No, and that thing is like you see it and then it's gone. Right, it's just crazy. But anyway, area 51, folks, very, very interesting place, you know. I hope you enjoyed that section of it. So we're going to go ahead and continue on talking about the destination, and that is going to be Right down the road Vegas, vegas, baby.
Speaker 1:Vegas Love.
Speaker 2:Vegas.
Speaker 1:Hey, who doesn't like Vegas? I mean most people that you know. It's really interesting. When we're flying in a plane, we get people coming from all over the world and one of the things that they want to do when they come to the United States go to Vegas.
Speaker 2:Do you know what, when I think of me and you in Vegas, only one thing comes to mind with me and you what's that? The day? You're like, gee, I'm taking you for pizza. Oh yeah, and I say, well, what the Big deal, I mean pizza. And he's like, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ge doesn't like. So you guys are getting understanding that I'm a big foodie and you know I'm always looking for food and Vegas the one cool thing about Vegas and back in the day Vegas used to be like the food spot, like I mean it was so cheap and you can go there and just I mean I remember going to buffets we'd be like 20 bucks and we have all the lobster we can eat.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I was going to say $20. We're getting a whole seafood.
Speaker 1:It was just crazy. It is not like that now. I mean, it's turned in those freaking tape, tape tickets.
Speaker 2:But he, he calls, he sits there and he tells me he said he goes we're going to have pizza and I was like, okay, so what? It's pizza. And he said, no, you don't understand, this is pinup pizza. This is pinup pizza, my big deal, pinup pizza. He goes, it is a big deal when you come up and see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you come and see it. So pinup pizza is located on the strip and it's in. So if you know what pinup girls are and this is dating us a little bit but pinup girls were like in old World War II, where you know how these guys always had, like these pinup posters, the center foot posters of these good-looking girls, and they'd be not naked, they would be just dressed up, cute and stuff whatever in their little dresses, high heels, things like that, all that stuff. So the gals that work at this pinup pizza are walking around in these little outfits.
Speaker 2:The pizza guy wasn't no Sean. He wasn't no pinup, nothing.
Speaker 1:That boy, he was a big boy he was one big boy, so they had these gals walking around, but they had these pizzas and the pizzas are the largest pizzas you've ever seen in your life. I'm talking one slice of pizza is like a giant wedge, like if you took a large pizza today and just cut it from end to end and make it one slice that's like the slice and that's from your chest.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you looked at your chest, extended your arms out.
Speaker 1:And make a triangle shape and make a triangle that's about the size of your slice.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So he comes out there and he's like, hey, do you get two slices of cheese?
Speaker 1:I'm like, holy crap, the plates don't even hold the pizza.
Speaker 2:So he comes out and he brings out two beers and I'm thinking we need more than two to wash this thing down. This thing is huge. So we're sitting there and it takes us forever to eat this thing.
Speaker 1:They're there. It's a. It's a awesome experience because also you get to stand on the strip. I'm not done.
Speaker 2:So he, he, he brings out a couple of beers, and so we watched this, this cheese pizza down. Apparently he forgot. So we're sitting there and I'm thinking, oh my God, I'm, I'm, I'm dying here, I'm dying. And he goes what do you mean you're dying? I said I'm stuffed and he goes oh no, I bought us two other pieces of margarita pizza, that's right. I'm like, are you kidding me? And he goes nope, got a couple more beers. Now he brings out two more mega slices. I'm like I'm going to throw up. We sat there and ate these pizzas and they were the biggest pieces of pizza I've ever had, I swear. I went back to that hotel room. I woke up in the morning time and I felt like my mouth was like the desert. All the moisture was sucked out of my body from the dough that I ate. A little puckered up. There were you, but you've got to go to Pin Up Pizza. You know, it really was cool, it's an experience.
Speaker 1:I mean, you're just sitting there, you're on the strip and you're outside drinking some beer, eating pizzas, watching everything that's happening on the strip, which is always an entertaining festival. And, yeah, pin Up Pizza, do it. But another place to go that's on the strip, that's on the total opposite end of the strip, is another place called Taco El Gordo, and if you like street tacos I'm talking authentic street tacos this is the place to go to. I mean, you're going to walk into a place and you're going to think, first of all, if you don't speak Spanish, you might not be able to order because no one speaks English in the place.
Speaker 1:There's all nothing but Hispanic people in that place and there's eating street tacos. I mean, the meat is put on racks and it's kind of like the gyro meat you put on the lamb, but instead they do the chicken and they do the pork and everything and they put it in the big skewer and they rotisserie that thing and they slice it off. You got these little tacos, they throw the meat in and then they're grilling up jalapenos and onions and peppers.
Speaker 2:You know me and you were doing that next time because I did not go there.
Speaker 1:I mean it is out of this world and it's not crazy expensive, I mean, but you will see a line down the strip at this place during any of the feeding hours. It is unbelievable. But yeah, taco El Gordo, very famous place. I mean anybody in the people actually from outside you know that live there, they actually come there just to see go to Taco El Gordo. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yep, come there just to see go to taco gordo, it's amazing. Yep, that's the place me and you're gonna go next time.
Speaker 1:Uh, we go to vegas, me and you're going there. Yeah, vega vegas has so much food. I mean, I really just gave you two little little hot, you know tips and we.
Speaker 2:We really don't need to highlight much in vegas because there's so much to do yeah, and and.
Speaker 1:And. Another thing, though, before we move on here, I will tell you listen, vegas doesn't have to be expensive either. I mean, I can spend an entire day there and have a blast just walking around looking at sites, viewing casinos. You can go, I mean, for miles there. Don't gamble, yeah, do not gamble If you want to keep your money don't gamble yeah. Do not gamble. That's a challenge. If you want to keep your money, don't gamble.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a challenge, because we always say that when we walk around, those casinos were made by people losing. Yeah, you didn't win, right, you don't win, you did not win. So enjoy yourself, enjoy the shows, enjoy Vegas. I hope you guys enjoyed the show today. So, sean, hey, sean, what's the quote of the day?
Speaker 1:So the quote of the day is this Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and you know that just tells you. Listen, we often perceive as luck what we think is luck is actually the results of being prepared to seize the opportunities when they arise.
Speaker 2:I like that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause I do. I really liked that one Cause I I believe in that If you, if you have an opportunity, you actually always seize it. So, thank you guys. Do appreciate you guys listening. I hope you guys have a great day. Hope you're flying safe If you're our crews. Thanks again. You guys have a great week, yeah, have a great week.
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