Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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While high above the clouds, unexpected tales unfold that reveal the lighter and more cautionary side of air travel. Cameras on planes aren't just for selfies—discover the humorous fallout from a couple's high-flying antics and the serious consequences of not adhering to strict airline sobriety rules. The skies may hold many tales, but they remind us of the professionalism and vigilance needed to ensure safe journeys, even when the unexpected sneaks in.
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Sex in the galleys and who might be watching you. Tips and tricks for the holiday travel Drinking on the job $2,000 fines. Why are our appliances breaking down? All of this and more. Next, on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2:this is cabin Holiday season in full swing man, full swing man.
Speaker 1:It's up and running. Lights are on the house. We got people decorating. Everybody up in the freaking northeast is getting snowed in or snowed on or trying to run for a freaking warm shelter.
Speaker 2:Especially on the east side, man, they're getting a lot of snow there.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness. And when we say east side, we're up here in northeast Ohio, so the east side man, they're getting a lot of snow there, oh my goodness. And when we say east side, we're up here in northeast ohio, so the east side gets all that lake effect snow.
Speaker 2:It's just like uh, you should have realized that, though, when you decided to move in a place they call the snow belt hey, I, when I was looking for when I built my house and that was one of my considerations, I would not build a house in the east side snow belt.
Speaker 1:I was like that had no interest in it.
Speaker 2:If I was moving somewhere and they said, oh, this is the snow belt, yeah, I think I'm going to go the other direction. There ain't no way.
Speaker 1:I'm living there. Dude, I was that guy that, like, when I built my house, I did so much research, I mean, the only thing that I missed. There was one thing I missed on my house, and that was I'm I, how I built it. I missed the like direction of the sun and how it went in. I didn't think about that. But outside of that man, I was literally coming out here sitting on the lot, like how's this, is this? The lot I really want is this. You know what? What's it like out here?
Speaker 2:you know like well, as soon as you get up by the lake, man man, it is freezing. I mean it's like 10, 12 degrees colder.
Speaker 1:Oh way colder the closer you get to any of the Great Lakes are just like unbelievable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got blasted with snow on this last one, that's for sure, right. But you know, this part of the year I loved. It was putting the tree up and had to watch Chevy Chase Vacation.
Speaker 1:Oh dude, there's so many movies out that are like holiday. You must watch during the holidays. Oh yeah, that is one of the top.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a must watch, but I love when the cat gets fried.
Speaker 1:There's so many moments in that movie.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, gets fried. There's so many moments in that movie oh, yeah, yeah, oh he, he. You know when that time when he's, he's, uh, actually plugging the lights in, yeah, and he has that meltdown, he goes, starts kicking, the kicking, the santa claus and the reindeer starts breaking off their reindeer tops the the kid meltdown. He's having it as adults I don't care how many times I've seen that stupid thing. Every time I laugh. Anyway, the other one I really like seeing is Polar Express.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Polar Express is cool it's cool.
Speaker 2:Tom Hanks is the conductor in that one and that one. The Christmas it's something about that little bitty, the Christmas bell, the believing in Christmas, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:I'm such a movie guy Like I love that AI animation and all that stuff. I mean, that movie was like really well done.
Speaker 2:But you know, the one thing I love about Polar Expresso is truly, you know, because we've gotten away from what Christmas, the true meaning of Christmas is, and when you watch Polar Express and you get towards the end of it, it's actually the belief. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's a cool thing I mean you go through this whole movie and at the very end of it it's actually the believing part, and that's the greatest thing with kids is that they still believe and that's cool. I mean, I don't care Every time you see it, it's actually really cool.
Speaker 1:So I just went out with a dinner last night with a buddy of mine and you were talking about belief and everything and he was talking about, you know, the elf on the shelf. Oh yeah, dude, and he's talking about it. He has a granddaughter, his granddaughter's like, I think, six, seven years old, and he and he didn't have an understanding about the whole, the whole. You know what this is, you know. So, uh, she was having a little sleepover at his house and they gave him the elf for the sleepover but he didn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 1:So he like he got a little bit of brief, whatever and he put the elf out and she wakes up and he kind of like you know, they're having breakfast, and he kind of like he goes, wait a minute, he goes, who is that over there? And then he, she turns around and like loses her shit, like I mean, just goes crazy, like he's like I've never seen her so excited, like she was just out, like like she had seen like a superstar, like superstar it was star struck right there with this little elf. And then she's looking at him and all this stuff and she's like Papa and he's like where's the note? There's no note. He didn't leave me a note and so he didn't know. He didn't understand the whole process. He had got like 50% of it right, so he had to go and do some research on this whole thing. What was?
Speaker 2:the proper procedure. He just brought the elf home, right.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. So my nephew and my great nieces and nephews they had the elf too and so last year they did the same thing to them, but they didn't have a note. And so what they did was actually they had a note and they wrote a note to him and they were like, oh man, they must have lived, he must be an invisible note. Because when they they were like, look, look what he wrote, he wrote this thing, and they're like. They're like the adults were like pretending, you know, they couldn't see it.
Speaker 2:Oh, like they pretend, let's not ruin it for them. No, no.
Speaker 1:They were pretending they can't see the note itself. Oh okay, it's like an invisible note but only children can see it. Oh, okay, and they were. Let me totally again the loss of shit Like they were like this is like we're so special because we can see this and they can't like.
Speaker 2:we got something Well that goes with the Christmas bell and and polar express, because adults can't hear the bell right Because they they lost their belief in it. And that's kind of cool, kind of tied that right end in it.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly. Oh my God, it was, it was. It was a really cool thing, man, but what's been going on with you, man, lately?
Speaker 2:Nothing Holiday travel, but this time of year I really like it. It's a lot of fun because you get these passengers that come on and you'll get the ones that are really, really cool. They'll come on board. They're real happy. I'd say about 95% of them are in really good spirits.
Speaker 2:I mean they love traveling to go see family. It's all a lot of fun for them. They come on board. These guys are great. They give you these little bitty gifts all the time for the holidays it's phenomenal. Or they give you the little Starbucks gift cards.
Speaker 1:I mean, the crews love those. Yeah, this is like the season. I mean, last year was the first time I got a dunkin donuts gift card. Oh really, yeah, I had never got a dunkin donuts. I've never got one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was always starbucks, yeah and then all of a sudden then one time I got a dunkin donuts. I was like what I didn't know. They did that, you know, because star war starbucks is such a dominant power in the coffee, air and all the airports and all that stuff. But yeah, it's cool, I got one of those too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 95% of all the travelers. Man, they're a lot of fun to have on board and their families and going and seeing their families is a lot of fun. And then you got that 5%.
Speaker 1:That 5%.
Speaker 2:Ones that bring all the shit they're not supposed to bring Always you know they're miserable.
Speaker 1:Didn't take enough time to get to the airport. Threw their Grinch hat on, yeah, their Grinch hat and they're angry at everybody else because they screwed up and whatever their situation is.
Speaker 2:And we're going to talk about that a little bit later in the show. A couple incidents with some holiday people. But hey, what's been going on with you?
Speaker 1:Man, you know what? Yesterday I had a real fun privilege of going down to watch my godson do his signing. He got a full ride scholarship to university of minnesota. Really be a gopher. Yeah, he's gonna be uh running back for the university of minnesota. So they had a big uh signing for him and everything. Uh hats off to my godson. Love death grant washington. Um, just uh can't say enough about like his accomplishments and where he's going and all that stuff and his dad's like hey, I'm so excited for him to do that, but I got free college Best thing ever.
Speaker 2:You didn't even have to pay, right, right, I don't got to pay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. So he was like for a celebration. He took everybody out for a very nice restaurant.
Speaker 2:Well, he can splurge, yeah.
Speaker 1:So he was like I'm the favorite college man, so yeah, so uh, yeah, it was, it was, it was fantastic, man, but uh, props off to that. That's what wouldn't help. That's what has been happening with me other than that. Um, I've been working on my book, man, and uh, I'm writing a book right now, actually just published a book and uh, and what's the name of the? Book. It's a book called pickleball for everyone oh man, I love pickleball yeah, pickleball is like the number, it's the rage out there, like.
Speaker 1:So I mean it is like the fastest growing sport in amer and I just thought, hey, I'm like totally into it and I started doing all this research about it. And there's like this intimidation factor in pickleball, like when you first go, people don't go onto the course because they just don't understand it. And if you don't know somebody that's like in doing it, yet like you don't like it. It's not like walking up and everybody knows how to play basketball.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's a lot of rules that go with it. Yeah, there's a lot of rules.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit of the scoring is confusing and all this stuff. So I started doing some research and all this stuff and decided to put together a book and Pickleball for Everyone. It's on Amazon right now.
Speaker 2:Well, you know that I'm getting it and I'm going to review it. You're going to get my review.
Speaker 1:Dun, dun, dun dun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:Awesome.
Speaker 2:No, I bet you it's going to be a great book. Like I said, pickleball is phenomenal man. It is a fun game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a fun. It's a super fun social game. Like I've been to different states, different like probably three, four, five states now I've played pickleball in and no matter where you go, who you're playing with, any age group you got young kids or just like I'm talking about like single digit kids out there playing pickleball to. You have grandparents playing pickleball and it's all mixed. It's just a super fun social sports.
Speaker 2:But you know, the cool thing about your book, though, though, is you get to download it yeah, download, take it with you this this weekend.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not going to be this weekend, it's going to be, uh, this weekend coming up, but by the time you hear this it's already been passed. But I'm doing a free download promo on the book, but I will have future promos, so stay tuned if you're looking for a that's the one I'm going to review is a free one, right, I know? You will Anyways, yeah, so that's pretty much what I've been doing, man, just diving on into this whole thing, this process of making a book for the first time.
Speaker 2:Very cool, very cool. Hey, we got to talk about a couple of things that happened though this week. What happened, man, did you see that video? Well, actually they had a video of the two people were having sex in a galley. What, yeah, in the front galley. What In the front galley? You know how they were caught, how they didn't understand that there are cameras on the plane?
Speaker 1:Yep, that's the first thing that was going through my mind. I'm like, what plane were they on?
Speaker 2:And how did they see this? Didn't understand that, Sean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, People don't understand that. You know, 9-11 changed the world.
Speaker 2:And there's probably three to four cameras looking right at you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's cameras on the planes that people don't realize. I mean, uh, protect the cockpit, so you gotta have you gotta?
Speaker 2:we, the pilots, can see in the back and they got cameras on all the new aircrafts and it's a big screen and it's yeah, actually it's in, like they.
Speaker 1:I think they could put it into the indie screen in the new aircrafts, like they can switch it over to whatever three screens. Whatever they got do different angles do different angles.
Speaker 2:But if you didn't get the three screen, it's the main screen. Right it's the main screen and, trust me, they got all camera views on this. What's going on?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so evidently these people were on this plane and didn't realize there was cameras.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but there's more to the story than that, though. Here's the funny part. So they got caught, Right. But you know how they got caught? The pilots of this. They videotaped it on their own phones. No, they didn't. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1:And they put it on social media.
Speaker 2:They did. They did. When will people learn, folks, you do not do things like this. I mean, there's some things you can get away with in social media. Trust me, there's some things, but that's not one of them. Because you're supposed to be flying the airplane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're supposed to be flying the airplane first of all, one and two. You're not supposed to be defaming one of your customers.
Speaker 2:It's funny shit, Sean Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:It's funny as shit, sean, don't get me wrong. It's funny that this couple decided that they were going to go up in the front part of the aircraft and think they're alone.
Speaker 2:We got away with it.
Speaker 1:There's no crew up here, the flight attendant isn't here or whatever, and they decided they're going to join the Mile High Club and they got caught by they're lucky they were given the cockpit of show.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine if they would have fed that to all the TVs? Oh my God, oh no, that would have been horrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That would have been bad, but so anyway, these pilots are looking at some definite disciplinary yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't do that. I mean, the situation is hilarious, but you don't do that.
Speaker 2:Hey, another thing you don't do. What's that? Don't come to work intoxicated.
Speaker 1:No, that's a no-no. Let's pause for one second. It's a no-no today, and you and I can know that back in the day, before they started doing drug testing, alcohol testing, there was a day in the airline business that that happened and we worked in that era.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, back then there was shit going on, a lot of shit going on. But in today's world, nah no.
Speaker 2:If you want to keep your job.
Speaker 1:You don't come to work intoxicated or high.
Speaker 2:Not a smart thing, but there was a couple flight attendants that got popped over this last week when they were coming out of Amsterdam. Now this is what blows me away. Now in Amsterdam they actually have airline police personnel. That this is what they do they do a sweep, oh.
Speaker 1:So they do like a crackdown, sting of all, like the whole airport. It's not like one airline, every crew.
Speaker 2:But you don't know when they're coming. So it was a Friday Random drug screening, yeah, but they did it for like 445 crew members, wow. So out of those 445 crew members they had gotten two from the same flight.
Speaker 1:Two of them. They were in the same place last night, yeah they're in the same place today in trouble, right.
Speaker 2:But anyway, these two, one of them was barely over the limit, I think it was like 0.24, somewhere over the limit, right, but the other one seven times over the limit.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, she or he was out of their mind.
Speaker 2:Seven times over the limit. What the hell were you thinking?
Speaker 1:I don't think I could even walk on the plane.
Speaker 2:But what were you thinking?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, they weren't thinking they were still high, they were drunk high, whatever they were.
Speaker 2:You flat out stupid. But anyway he ends up paying. I think it was like $275, because his was like a small amount and she ended up paying like I think it was like $2,000.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's crazy. That's crazy. Well, and they might lose their job as well.
Speaker 2:Well as airline personnel. You're not allowed to consume alcohol 10 hours before a flight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that goes for Europe, right Right. So you know, around the world there's different regulations and different measurements. I know here in the company we work for it's a 12-hour limit. You can't do it 12 hours before. But they're in Amsterdam, they're getting candy. Let's do it Amsterdam.
Speaker 2:But why would? It doesn't make any sense. I mean today, honestly, today it doesn't make. Why would you jeopardize your life, your career and everything just to go get drunk?
Speaker 1:That doesn't make any sense. This is young and dumb stuff.
Speaker 2:It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you that both these flight attendants are in their 20s. Guarantee it.
Speaker 2:They had another flight attendant. They had a third one that actually they attested positive to. It was a separate airline, so they got three of them in their sweep Wow. It was a separate airline, so they got three of them in their sweep Wow Out of 400. 445 crew members. But anyway they should get zero, because it doesn't make any sense. No, for you to be in the airline industry, especially whether you're a pilot, whether you're a flight attendant, it's the stupidest thing to do is to come to work intoxicated. It makes no sense at all.
Speaker 1:Man, you know, I know people have problems with alcohol and drugs and all that stuff and we have all kinds of different things happening in our lives. But I mean again, there's just no excuses to bring that into your professional world.
Speaker 2:No, because we have. There are outlets that you can go if you do have problems, and there's outlets that every company has it and go get help. You can go get help, you know, but you, you don't have to come to work like that. You can actually go get help and then, and then that way your job is safe At least. Then you can go get the help, come back, your job's still there. But if you do this and come to work, your job's not there, you're gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I mean that goes to the you know steps of I'm no expert on rehab and all that stuff. But you know, first step is admitting you got a problem, you know so.
Speaker 2:Well, your first step there if you come intoxicated, you're just gone. Right, there's not even admitting a problem at that point, you're just gone. But they had a pilot back in March just a perfect example in the United Kingdom. He was in jail for 10 months.
Speaker 1:That's crazy 10 months. Here's my thing about the whole situation, about this pilot being in jail. I don't care if you're out, I know US law, I know what they can do, the repercussions of my actions here in the United States, but when you are flying to these different countries, I mean I'm telling you right now you don't want to end up in some of these prisons. No, and they have a much stricter rules than we have in the United States. A lot of these countries, and it is amazing.
Speaker 1:For instance, in my lifetime, a military brat grew up all over the world and in Italy at the time it was legal to take a three-inch blade of a knife and stab somebody in their ass. I'm trying to follow me here. You can go into these different countries and they have crazy ass laws and they have different restrictions than we have. So don't go over these countries thinking that you're going to be an american. Okay, because these countries have different laws and what I'm saying is like in the united states you'd be. You know, you could be put in jail for stabbing somebody, right, right, whereas over there, hey, you know, this is just a social but how many times have I told you that travel-wise Americans have a false sense of security?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they always do. They go somewhere else and they're like I'm an American Well that don't mean shit.
Speaker 1:This whole thing that we're talking about here is kind of a false sense of security.
Speaker 2:Exactly they're not going to catch me, no, and then you get popped and then you're done In a foreign country, and then when you do 10 months, it's actually 10 months. There ain't no good behavior, dude, it's 10 months.
Speaker 1:I don't care If I'm going to a foreign country. I'm on my best behavior Because I do not want to do anything to get into anybody else's prison.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like when you go through customs, right when you're going through customs.
Speaker 1:It's like, yes, sir, no ma'am, whatever you get through the customs area, I am straight as straight can be. Just do not arrest me.
Speaker 2:I think about that too. Whenever I go to an international destination, the one thing that I always do if I leave my room, the one thing that I always do before I leave my room, I check my bag, check your bag. Yeah, I do, because if I go work out and I go use the facilities down there, I make sure, because of our situation and what we do, I make sure that nobody put anything in my bag.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you just got to be super careful when you're outside of your home territory, right? You don't know everything that's going on in the world and how they operate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely, whenever I do that, do not have a false sense of security. I do know what goes on out there and I don't have that false sense at all.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm telling you Ben, beware crew members, be on your best behavior.
Speaker 2:And guys, listen, don't go to work drunk for crying out loud, Stop drinking. I mean, have your fun, sure. Listen, don't go to work drunk for crying out loud, Stop drinking. I mean, have your fun, sure, but you know there's a limit. Stop. Don't do it, your job's not worth it. And if you happen to catch somebody video having sex in the galley, do not videotape and put it on social media. Don't do it, because you're going to lose your job there too.
Speaker 1:All of us want to do that? All right, Listen, I got to tell you. Oh wait, wait. Just to add on to your advice, there is that you know it's the holiday season, so you better not watch out, Better not pout. You know somebody's watching you.
Speaker 2:Better not cry. All right, listen. I got to tell you I've been working on a broken washing machine. I got to rant about this.
Speaker 1:Oh man, yeah, I'm with you here. All these appliances today, total shit.
Speaker 2:They're made to break. They suck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think we talked about this before, a little bit.
Speaker 2:Well, we're going to talk about it again, all right, look, I have an LG front loader, right Okay, what kind of machine do you?
Speaker 1:have? I have an LG front loader, right, okay, what kind of machine do you have? I have a Samsung.
Speaker 2:I'm a Samsung house All right, these things are made to break people. I don't care what anybody says, they're made to break. Okay, first of all, I had a problem. You hear this grinding in the back of the machine. All right, that's your bearings going bad. First of all, when they send these things out with bearings and the reason why I know this is because I take the damn thing apart and I fix it, so I took this thing apart Well, when they send the bearings in these things, they barely put enough grease in these things.
Speaker 1:So these bearings are actually made to fail within five years? Oh dude. And they are made with that fiber, whatever plastic material they change it. They wear down quickly. And how many thousands of times are these rollers and stuff going over and over?
Speaker 2:And the speed of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's the thing is that the speed of them and then the moisture gets in there, and what happens is that grease is basically eliminated in the bearings and the bearings just disintegrate in the back of these things, and so they're made for five years. For what? Now, let me explain this, the reason why. So they're made for five years. You, as a consumer, you purchase this machine. The guy comes in. Now the parts for those bearings are probably about $70 to $80. Right, but for the guy to fix it it's about $500 or $600. So now you think, well, I'm just going to get a new machine. So you take that washing machine and that guy is nice enough, where you've got a new machine coming in. So they take your old machine, right, and they bring this brand-new machine that you just put in there and now it works. Now that machine, they're willing to take that.
Speaker 2:There's a reason why Because the main control board right there there's nothing wrong with it can be resold for anywhere from $250 to $350. Right, now all they have to do is repack bearings in the back of this thing. Now you have to know how to take this thing apart and put the bearings back in it. Now they're going to sell this whole unit for about $500 or $600 that you paid about $1,200 or $1,300 for this thing at a used place. This is the biggest freaking market that I've ever seen. It just absolutely pisses me off. Because I'm in the middle of this thing. Now they also in these main boards. I've got to tell you something too in these main boards, you take off these main boards. Now what they do is they soak these things in silicone. Now Right, they say to protect them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just a seal on the part so that you can't go and solder them in and out yourself.
Speaker 2:Exactly Bunch of bullshit. They've got a couple fuses in them. It's a slow blow fuse. They're like a dollar and you could actually, if you know how to solder, you could pull this fuse out, solder this new slow blow fuse in for a dollar and your machine is going to work fine. But that's not going to happen, no, so anyway, these things are made to break folks.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing with the appliances today, you know, like you and it's not just wash machines, it's everything, it's refrigerators, is there washers or dryers, freaking ovens, all of it's made to be this like five-year rotating, that we're buying these things every, you know, five to ten years. It's ridiculous. And so one of the things that, like now I'm not trying to get too political here, but you know they're trying to be eco-friendly and all this stuff.
Speaker 2:That's the problem with it.
Speaker 1:The H&A, you know, and all this stuff. They put on all these rules and restrictions and all these appliance manufacturers and we get this shit product. And then now, oh yeah, they may be, you know, efficient and all this stuff, but now we've got them in the dump five years later.
Speaker 2:They suck man, they don't even.
Speaker 1:What I'm saying is that we got garbage piling up all over the world of these appliances, just piles and piles of garbage. Yep, you know that's.
Speaker 2:Not eco-friendly. There is it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:So you know where's the balance here. It's okay for us to spend more money to get another one, and it's okay that when we had one that lasted longer, that that's not okay, because we need to make it eco-friendly so we can be better for the earth, but now we're throwing them all away.
Speaker 2:How many appliances do you think that were just sold during Black Friday? Oh, millions, right, millions of these things are being replaced, taken out of your homes and then thrown into these discount things. And you're absolutely right they're garbage.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then they're just scrap metal thrown in and piled up, and what do you do with them? Then You're right, it's not eco-friendly at all.
Speaker 1:It's not. It's not. They don't shred them down, strip them apart, you know, melt them down, all that stuff. They don't do that shit. They just put them in a pile and press on.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I'm going to just tell you real quick. So, if you have this situation right now, number one washer, number one and I can understand why is the Speed Queen? Okay, the Speed Queen, okay, the Speed Queen and Speed Queen is is the one that's known. If you go into any laundromat, they're the ones in the laundromats. Okay, they are the ones that last the longest. They're more maintenance, they're made out of metal still yes, and they're.
Speaker 2:They're made to last Now. They're going to cost you more money, but they are made the last Now money, but they are made the last now. Let me. Let me tell you the number one uh front loader. It is the lg electronics wn 4000 hwa.
Speaker 1:Now, wait a minute I just gotta stop, because that's funny as shit. You're, you're, you're sitting here, all these numbers, the model number and all that stuff, it is this whole thing with the like, the number one, and all that stuff, that's all to me is just consumer bullshit.
Speaker 2:But these are consumer reviews. That's a different one.
Speaker 1:I understand Consumer review is getting paid by XYZ Corporation to do reviews on their stuff, so LG's probably put some serious investment to say that they're going to be number one.
Speaker 2:They're still shit. Sean, yeah, yeah, serious investment to say that they're going to be number one, and so yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, it doesn't matter who you're saying is number one, or it's LG, samsung, whatever it is, you know a whirlpool, whatever they just whoever you're looking at, it's hard to believe for me today in this world that this is number one. Like and that's my whole point it's like, it's like and whole point.
Speaker 2:It's like, it's like, and I can tell you that it doesn't matter and I actually agree with you because I tear these things apart and I fix them and they're shit. Yeah, they're all. So you're gonna get folks, you're gonna get five years out of this, unless you want to go, and with a higher grade speed queen. Now, that one, you can look that one up. That one is maintenance, I mean because it is known for being very reliable sturdy and're, so sturdy and they're sturdy, and they're made of metal, and that's exactly what that's exactly like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we agree. Everything other than the metal ones, shit, shit.
Speaker 2:All right, brother, let's go to the holiday travel man. It is in full swing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, holiday travel right now. This is the time of the season where it's going to be. You know everybody needs to plan appropriately. Start, you know, think about what you're doing, try to de-stress the situation and make sure that you're getting to the airports on time and stuff.
Speaker 2:We just want to put out some like some good, smart advice about holiday travel, Especially with the families. You guys, you got to understand something, to understand something we understand. You guys are traveling with the kids and it is one of the most frustrating things is to travel, but the most frustrating thing is to get from the house through security.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you just got to plan appropriately. You just don't know. I mean, wherever you're at in the world and we're talking United States here wherever you're out, you need to call ahead and be like what's the line? Like how early should I get? Do I need to be there two, three hours early? I mean when you get to some of the airports. Depending on the size of the airport, it could be two to three hours to get through security.
Speaker 2:But you know why that is. Why is that? Because people, they're bringing the wrong shit. Now listen, folks. Trust me when I'm telling you this. You're not paying attention what's allowed through TSA security. Let's give a real quick thing, sean, about okay, say that you have a water bottle, right, okay. Okay, Are they going to give you the opportunity? Say it's your personal, the one that you spent $45 on $50, say your own personal one and you got it full of water. Are they going to let you dump it? Not in most airports, no, they're not going to let you dump it at all. You're going to have to do one or two things, right, you're going to have to let them throw it away, or you're going to have to go back to the end of the line, check it into your check luggage and then get back in line again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can still get back in line even if you dump it, but you're going to be back in the back of the line.
Speaker 2:The back of the line, but you're not going to get unless they take it and throw it away.
Speaker 1:Right, you're not getting through.
Speaker 2:So now, this is just one reason why that line's going to get all backed up now. Everybody's waiting because you got this big bottle of water stuck into your bag and it just went through the screening check port. Now the belt stops, wow, okay.
Speaker 1:This is also in addition to the water. Don't just pick on water. We got the big bottles of shampoo and conditioner Hair gel. And gels and all that different stuff Colognes. Yeah, yeah, k-way jelly you had to go there, hey.
Speaker 2:But you know, here's a big one though. You know, your cologne and perfume. Yeah, that I'm telling you folks, I tell you how many times I've seen women absolutely lose their shit because they brought their perfume in there and that perfume cost them $120, $130, and you had to make a decision Are you going to get it thrown away or are you going to get it, go back there and get it checked?
Speaker 1:Right, I mean it. Perfume and cologne is expensive and uh yeah, and you, you get why people get mad about it. But here's the thing that we're trying to get across to you. Plan appropriately, if you're, if your containers and stuff are more than 3.4 ounces. It has to be less than that. Okay, that is the max. Um, you gotta check it.
Speaker 2:You gotta put it in your check bag yeah, each passenger you get a one quart size clear bag to pack them in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's all they're going to allow you to get through. So if you don't have that, not only are you delaying everybody else behind you because you didn't plan appropriately, I mean you're delaying yourself to do this. You know, get onto your holiday vacation.
Speaker 2:If you get right through TSA and you get your bags and you go through, just realize this, you were not part of the problem. But if you get stopped because of this, you are part of the reason why those security lines are going all the way down the airport.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just plan appropriately. I mean the number one tip we can give you. I mean the number one tip we can give you get to the airport early, make sure your bags are packed correctly and make sure here's a big, really important thing is that if you use your bag for multipurpose different things like I don't know I guess evidently people like to put their guns in their bags and stuff Check to make sure it's not still in there you might be going to jail. Yeah, I mean this is you can't believe.
Speaker 2:Or ammunition. They do that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Ammunition and knives. I mean, I don't know what these lifestyles are like, that people have these in their bag. But I will tell you. Just think about what's in your bag before you get to the airport.
Speaker 2:You'll get to talk to the police officer if you bring any of that stuff in it's definitely going to delay you. But hey, let's talk about the health part of it. Make sure that there's a couple of things Get up early, get something to eat and make sure that you're all hydrating. That's a family, that's just not one of you. That's all of you guys, and don't think that coffee is going to do it. Make sure that you get some other liquid other than coffee in you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do everything you're supposed to do. Take your medication that you take, hydrate yourself, get something to eat, plan appropriately, give yourself enough time. What does that all accomplish? De-stresses your situation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we see people stressed out every single day going through security on the other side of the security and then what happens is this is what happens on board the aircraft. The number one thing that we deal with all the time is when the blood pressure goes up and down. Oh yeah, they have big-time problems with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the medical emergencies that we encounter. I mean, we get people dehydrated, high blood pressure, all these different things that are setting off all kinds of stuff. But if you do want to do yourself a favor, plan time, give yourself time and just make it a de-stressed situation. You know, because by the time that, like we, we see them, by the time they've gone through all these different stress points of travel, right, and they get on the plane and by they come, we see them, by the time they've gone through all these different stress points of travel, right, and they get on the plane, and by the time they come, we can watch you as you're walking. Like this person knows what they're doing. This person has no fucking clue.
Speaker 2:Most relaxed family that you'll see sitting in that airport will be the ones surrounded over a box of Dunkin' Donuts. They've been sitting there for 30 minutes waiting for the flight attendants to get there to board and they're all relaxed and all the kids are having a good time. Parents are having a good time, all because they got there early.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they planned appropriately.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you guys take care and make sure that you guys plan appropriately and get to the airport early. Let's talk to the destination, Sean.
Speaker 1:Destination man. This week we're going to talk about Myrtle Beach, south Carolina.
Speaker 2:Man, I love South Carolina.
Speaker 1:Yeah, south Carolina's cool man, I mean it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:If we had a big airport right there, I'd be moved. I'd move right there.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, just the weather. Like we'll take that change in weather anytime right. We'll take that change in weather anytime right. Oh my God, it just is gorgeous. Yeah, it's beautiful. I feel for all the people down in South Carolina that's been affected by these storms lately and all that stuff and going through that hardship right now. Blessings to all those people out there. But Myrtle Beach is one of the iconic places that people go to vacation. It's a beautiful, beautiful beach. They're known for the beaches.
Speaker 1:Beaches yeah absolutely yeah, and they're known for that Uh, the boardwalk that's there. They had that uh iconic sky wheel that's on the board, the uh right there next to the boardwalk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have tons of family attractions, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Family attractions uh, broadway on the beach is what they call it and all of that is part of the Grand Strand, and I'm not saying Grand Stand, it's called the Grand Strand. It's a 60-mile stretch of beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. It blows my mind because I'm a big golfer and if you're a golfer, golf Mecca. There's 80 golf courses along this 60-mile stretch of beaches, so lots of golf down there. That's your golf heaven, right there, yeah man, golf heaven, good weather, good golf courses. Come on, you can't go wrong there.
Speaker 2:Don't they have a big bike week there?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, bike week in Myrtle Beach. Big, big. When is it? Huge May 9th through the 18th of next year, 2025. They're anticipating 300,000 visitors. Man, that's a ton man. I don't even know if I want to be there. I mean, that's a lot of bikers, a lot of shit can happen.
Speaker 2:That's true. It depends on what kind of bikers you get there, right?
Speaker 1:Right, I've got to imagine. I'd love to hear the podcast of the police force down there what happens during Bike Week.
Speaker 2:Hey, they've got a country fest down there too, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the country festival June 5th through the 8th of next year. Um, quite the lineup, man. I mean it's huge. I mean this thing goes on 5th through 8th. Jelly roll, kid rock, lanny wilson, rascal flats, all kinds of performers are coming there oh my god, I love that. That'd be great dude, I mean just to see, be able to be in a venue that. I mean all those festivals, all those music festivals and stuff that happen. They're fantastic To be able to see all those performers.
Speaker 2:In one thing I mean, it's not a Tay-Tay show, but you know You'd see me there before you see me at Tay-Tay, that's for darn sure, hey. But listen, they got this one little cantina place inside the airport. It's known with the locals. What's the name of that place? I don't know what the name of it is. What is the name of it? Nacho Hippo Cantina Maxima.
Speaker 1:Say that again three times.
Speaker 2:Nacho Hippo, cantina Maxima.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, it sounds like a really cool little place, a little cantina in the airport. You know we're trying to each week throw some food destinations to the airports around our podcast just so that people have some places that we recommend in different airports is quite a bit of airports out there that are really doing a really good job of upping their game on different venues of food and stuff there that Nacho Hippo.
Speaker 2:they're known for their Tex-Mex. I love that food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Tex-Mex, you can't go wrong with that man you can't go wrong with chips and salsa ever.
Speaker 2:When you go eat Mexican food, isn't it funny? You'll sit there and you eat chips and salsa ever. You know, when you go eat Mexican food, isn't it funny, You'll sit there and you eat chips and salsa for almost the whole time, and then the meal comes you're almost full.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like crazy man. My favorite little place in our local area is this place, mucho Bueno. Mucho Bueno is like I love it, man. We stop there constantly, but it's a staple. I can always get a good Mexican meal there.
Speaker 2:You know, I just think it's funny Every time we go eat Mexican um that I'm always taking my meal home because I eat so many damn chips.
Speaker 1:Well, they give you a lot of food. Most of the places give you a lot of food.
Speaker 2:All right, so Myrtle Beach, south Carolina.
Speaker 1:Yeah, myrtle Beach, south Carolina, that's the destination. Check it out. I mean, millions of people have been there, but that's a fantastic place to visit in the United States. So, g, what's the quote today? Ending this up here?
Speaker 2:I love this quote the way I see it. If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
Speaker 1:Put up with the rain. Put up with the rain. I like that. Yeah, man, you got to, hey, you got to get through that storm man to get to the freaking rainbow, right. Exactly so, and to get you your book. I got to go to Amazon. Yeah, everybody, go out there, check out my new pickleball, Check his book out, guys. I mean it's going to be cool.
Speaker 2:Pickleball for everyone. All right, sean had a great time this week. Everybody you guys take care. Uh, a lot of fun talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lots of fun. We'll see you next week here on cabin pressure.
Speaker 2:See you on cabin pressure guys See ya.
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