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Have you ever witnessed an airport brawl where wet floor signs became makeshift weapons? Shawn and G kick off this wild episode of Cabin Pressure with a firsthand account of the chaos at Chicago's airport, contrasting the madness with the tranquility of adult coloring books. Dive into Shawn's creative world as he shares his latest projects, including a new book and whimsical coloring books featuring unicorns and mandalas. We find humor in the unexpected, from airport altercations to the therapeutic delight of coloring between the lines.
But the journey doesn't stop there. We recount a friendship forged in the heat of a misunderstanding involving dreadlocks—but no, they weren't rope! This tale from the past highlights the importance of staying cool and seeking help rather than resorting to fists. We revisit a memorable night outside a bar that sealed a lifelong bond and explore the loyalty born from shared adversity. Our message? Think twice before acting, and remember: sometimes the strongest friendships are forged in the most unexpected places.
As holiday travel kicks into high gear, we tackle the stress and humor of in-flight annoyances, from unresponsive passengers to smelly lavatories. Our candid anecdotes spotlight the patience required from airline staff, while a reflective discussion takes us into societal issues like homelessness and mental health. As a cherry on top, Sean and G whisk you away to New Orleans, savoring the city's vibrant culture and mouth-watering cuisine before wrapping up with warm holiday wishes. Whether you're dodging airport chaos or savoring gumbo on Bourbon Street, this episode has a bit of everything to keep you entertained and thoughtful through the holiday season.
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When you see someone in trouble or a part of some type of injustice, what would you do? Airplane laboratories or airport bathrooms? What's your choice? Muffaletta, beignets, etifet, let's go to the big easy. All this and more. Next, on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Hey, everyone welcome, this is cabin pressure. Hey, can't have a holiday season, man, without a fight. Without a fight. What are you talking about? Chicago? Did you check that out? Chicago, shit happened in chicago yeah, there was a.
Speaker 2:there was a little brawl in front of the terminal area. Oh no, yeah, but first what were you?
Speaker 1:doing? What have you been doing, dude? The same old, same old. You know, the knees coming back working with that I've been working on. Actually, I got another book I'm writing now I got all this time on my hands so I'm like just doing shit. You know, like the first book, I just put that out, pick a ball for everybody, and uh, you've heard that before and uh, I'm promoting that. But uh, at the same time, right now I've got this book actually doing a couple of coloring books too. You're really doing it. I'm serious man, coloring books out.
Speaker 2:People do coloring books I think that's kind of cool. But what are you making? What are you doing?
Speaker 1:two adult coloring coloring books. They're actually right now in the process of being published. One's a unicorn coloring book and the other one's a mandala coloring book, and you know what mandalas are. Go ahead, you're going to tell me. I'm going to get ready to tell you. You know, like those, you know like those like stars, or like the shapes of, like flowers and stuff, or like the shapes of, like flowers and stuff. Oh yeah okay, that's called mandala design. You can do any type of picture, that's mandala.
Speaker 2:Like those. Remember when we were kids and you used to twist that little thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kind of like that. Yeah, so I'm doing a whole coloring book, but it's an adult coloring book, which is something that's very popular. People like to color, man.
Speaker 2:People need zen in their life. Like like to relax some de-stressers, right.
Speaker 1:So you're gonna be like uh, duane johnson was in that movie.
Speaker 2:You're gonna have a little unicorn shirt on. If I need to, I I could actually see you in a unicorn shirt you gotta do what you gotta do, bruh oh my God. Anyway, you should have seen. Did you see that brawl in Chicago? These three guys? I don't know exactly what happened on there, but these three guys were fighting this other guy.
Speaker 1:So one guy against three guys and they're fighting in the terminal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, holiday season starting it off. But these three it looked like they were employees Really. Yeah, they had. But these three it looked like they were employees Really. Yeah, they had badges.
Speaker 1:I mean it was hanging around their neck Like TSA or like just airline employees, don't know the guy didn't want to check his bag or something, I don't know, but they were throwing down at the terminal.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah, they were sitting there. And then they grabbed ahold of the signs and started hitting each other.
Speaker 1:They started banging on each other with the signs in the airport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's. You know, there's a wet signs, there's yellow wet signs. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:They started swinging and swinging on each other. But you know the funny thing, this whole time when I was watching this video, it, it, it just had me thinking that, listen, guys, if in your life that you have never thrown hands with someone, gotten a big fight other than your sister, and you got beat like these three guys did, this one guy he was throwing one guy through this opening and he grabbed this other guy, threw him the other way. The little other dude was grabbing the sign, chasing him around with it. But you can tell these guys have never gotten in a fight, even with their sister. The one guy and here's the thing you'll know this Sean a guy with dreads. Oops, what happens if you're in a fight with a guy with dreads? What happens?
Speaker 1:He might have a little less dreads.
Speaker 2:That's exactly what happened. That dude grabbed a hold of his dreads and ripped him off, scalped him.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, yeah, he was holding. That had to hurt like a son of a bitch.
Speaker 2:You know, it got hot and cold at the same time and he was feeling that breeze.
Speaker 1:Hey, but you know those dreads and stuff, man, they're like decaying and all they might come off a little easy. Actually, that's a rope, sean.
Speaker 2:That was a rope. He grabbed a hold of that thing and he ripped those dreads right off of his head. You could tell he was holding that patch area on his head where he got ripped off. And then he seen the little guy over in the corner. He was holding the sign and they're all coming at him and they're getting ready to come at him again and he grabs a hold of this pole and then they all started backing up. But going back to what I was saying, folks listen, if you have never gotten a fight before, when you have an altercation like this, go get the police.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go get somebody to assist you, don't start. Now is not the time to start your WWMA career.
Speaker 2:Especially if you've got dreads, because you're going to get scalped in a minute. You cannot throw hands because you're going to get scalped in a minute. You cannot throw hands. You're going to get your ass whooped for sure. How?
Speaker 1:do you even correct that? The dude goes home with it in the night and he's got this missing patch of dreads out of his head. You just braid them over and tie them into a ponytail.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Well they've got that spray hair stuff that you could spray over the patch, right?
Speaker 2:You can't just go and like trim it, not with dreads, you know what this goes back to, you know, when we first started our podcast and we said how we became friends and I have to go back to this because we never actually touched on this Right Years ago, me and Sean and this is a long time ago, long time ago this is how I became really great friends with him.
Speaker 2:We were in a situation it was outside of a bar and it was late at night Not going to get into the whole situation but it got really bad really quick and we were out in the parking lot and the next thing, you know, we have these guys there's probably anywhere from I don't know, 16, 18 guys running at us At least. And we were out there and I was with my brothers and me and Sean our friendship just started and there was this other guy that was with us and when he seen this big group of guys running at us, he took off running, didn't he? Yep? And I looked at Sean and I said look, I don't leave my brothers, you do what you got to do. And he looked at me and he's like I'm with you. And he turned around and next thing, you know, all hell broke loose in that parking lot.
Speaker 1:And that ended up a little while later as all of us spread eagle on police cars in the middle of the heat in Florida, which is a whole other story.
Speaker 2:But going back to what I was saying, though, sean, this, the difference was this okay, you had four guys and I didn't know, sean, at that time, how he could, you know, throw hands, basically. But we had four of us in this parking lot and probably 15, 18 guys running at us, and the four in the parking lot could throw hands.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, we did our damage. Let's put it that way. They end up letting the police let us go at the end of the day, because it was like they were like wait, you four were all fighting all those guys. And I could hear the police getting policeman. He was like get the hell out of here. I don't want could hear the policeman. He was like get the hell out of here. I don't want to hear about it. I don't want to see you arrested today. Get out of here.
Speaker 2:That was the most fortunate thing that ever happened to us, because it was self-defense. These guys came at us and they had other witnesses. But going back to what I was saying is that that's the reason why, folks, when you have a friend like that and you have a situation like that, and that person turns around and he stands there and you're looking at these insurmountable odds and he was like, let's get it, that's why he's still here today.
Speaker 1:Man, we've been friends for a long time you got to stand by your friends, man. Oh yeah, friends family, that's what the life is all about. Right, absolutely. But hey, listen going Friends, family, that's what life is all about right, absolutely.
Speaker 2:But hey, listen, going back to those guys, listen, next time you think about going after a passenger or anybody else, realize, come back to this video and it will make sure that you don't ever do it again. And, mr Dreadlocks, trust me when I'm telling you man, look at that bald spot in your head and your ass ain't going to get in a fight ever again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll repost that video. That's online. We'll put the link on our Facebook page.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you're going to see that this guy has his hair actually in his hands, yeah, but hey, listen. Going back to the holiday travel, you know me, I work a lot and this last couple days I actually took an extra day off. Why is that?
Speaker 1:You don't wait, wait, wait. First of all, this man doesn't take days off. I mean, he's the hardest working platter den I know, like period. I don't know anybody else anywhere in the freaking United States world that works harder than this man right here and he gets at it like always. Do you know when?
Speaker 2:we talked about the rants. We always talk about our rants. Well, take our bag of rants, put them in Santa's bag. And that shit was what happened during the week. Every damn day, oh no. And forget that 5% that I talked about last week. It was like 95% and 5% were normal, right, and I was like I have got to get away from this airplane for a few days because, man, they are killing me.
Speaker 1:Hey man, holiday stress is not only for the customers, it's for the employees as well. I mean we have plenty of we got to deal with everybody's problems coming on the plane and stuff. So I mean I get it 've got to deal with everybody's problems coming into the plane and stuff.
Speaker 2:So I mean, I get it, You've got to decompress. Sometimes Just step away. Well, you're going to hear me say this a lot throughout our podcast Take the headphones off. It absolutely drives me nuts. I can't tell you how much it drives me nuts. This past week, Sean, I'm telling you, all I wanted to do was just kind of rip those headphones off their heads.
Speaker 1:I know I have gotten to be a very short fuse with those headphones. I mean you can literally you're talking eye to eye, they're looking at you back and forth and they have the headphones on and they can see, see your lips moving and you're trying to communicate with them, but they still.
Speaker 2:They'll be like. Then they'll like take off one or remove one and be like what'd you say? I know it like. It absolutely drives me crazy dude, I don't got time.
Speaker 1:This is like we're. We're in a time situation here, like most of our job is dictated on. We only have so much time to do certain things on the plane, and one of them is not to repeat 100, 200 times on a plane the same damn stupid stuff. Fasten your seatbelt.
Speaker 2:You're going to get an ugly. Look, I'm telling you, I felt my face changing by the time that I got to the back of the airplane because I was like if one more person with those headphones just asked me again to repeat what I was saying, it's just going to absolutely drive me crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, you know what. Here's the headphones. So this is related. So you know one. My big annoyance during when I'm flying is that people are always asking us for headphones, you know? And so now I go down to the cabin and like one of the first things I'm like I'm yelling. I go down to the cabin and one of the first things I'm like I'm yelling, I'm like all right, this is it. You snooze, you lose. You got one chance at this. I'm handing headphones out. Who needs headphones? And if they, hey, I'm not coming back. By the time I get to the end of the plane, if you haven't heard and you ring your flight attendant call button, another flight attendant is going to help you.
Speaker 2:And you know, as soon as you get in the aisle, the first thing they're going to ask you is for the headphones.
Speaker 1:Dude. I mean, I get belligerent about it because people have their headphones on all this stuff I need a headphone, whatever. Oh dude.
Speaker 2:But hey, here's another one, this little lady. She comes on board the plane, I'm in the back, I'm getting stuff ready in the back and there's nobody on the plane. There's her and probably, like I don't know, three other people all the way in the front of the aircraft and when she comes out, completely blows the lav up. Blew the lav up, but that wasn't that part. That happens, unfortunately.
Speaker 1:Every day, on every flight.
Speaker 2:Not in the morning, oh my God, in the morning especially, it's a ramped up thing.
Speaker 1:I think it's the coffee and our digestive systems all working together in the world.
Speaker 2:She comes out though, sean, and she looks at me and she goes.
Speaker 1:excuse me, sir, yeah, you need to tell the pilots they need to service those labs because they really smell.
Speaker 2:Listen, this lady is just trying to cover up her embarrassing ass stink. I looked at her and I said, ma'am, there's four people on the plane and you're the only one that used that lav, yeah. And she's like well, the labs are full and that's like they didn't stink whenever we boarded the plane. And they're, they're not full. The plane's been here all night and they they dumped the whole thing yeah, we check.
Speaker 1:Oh, we have gauges for all that. They check the labs. Like here's a little public announcement one when we get on the plane, the crew, the whole crew, okay, pilots, flight attendants, everybody, everybody's checked in every system on the plane to make sure that is ready to go. And when you get on the plane, by the time you get on the plane, we already know the labs have been cleaned, the the plane has been cleaned, everything's empty, everything's ready to go, we're stocked, resupplied, ready to go for the next flight. So when you walk on board and tell us, oh, you need to service the labs because they're dirty and they're full, no, that's just you putting a big old dump in there. They don't want anybody else to smell it.
Speaker 2:You should just do what most people do. It's called a shit and run. Yeah, just do it and leave they take off running through the airplane because they just stunk the whole lab up.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the other thing too. Why Tell me this? Why do people and we've seen this for our entire career but why is it like the first people getting on the plane, they go immediately? I got to run back to the lab and take a shit.
Speaker 2:Because they've been standing in that line. They wanted to be first on the plane, so they're holding that present for us.
Speaker 1:I mean, here's my personal thing Laboratory on a plane, last place in the universe. I want to take a shit Absolutely. And if I can get off the aircraft and go to a public facility or some other private area that we can find a decent toilet, that's where I want to go, not on a freaking plane. I'm trapped in a tube. Then I'm going to take that smell with me for the next two plus whatever hours.
Speaker 2:No, so listen.
Speaker 1:People get your shit together.
Speaker 2:If you ever do this, just go back to your seat. Don't bring it to our attention, because I really don't even want to have a conversation about it.
Speaker 1:Dude, I bring my own spray, like if I have that emergency. Like you know, we've all been there as crew members. You have that emergency, you got to do what you got to do. I got my own spray. I mean, I don't leave home without it. Exactly, they carry poopery, yeah, poo-pourri, baby. Hey, I'm going to tell you right now, go on our link right now on Amazon. Dude, poo-pourri, poo-pourri is some good stuff.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you this other thing that happened. I think this one is the one that set me off more than anything. It really pissed me off because you know how much I love dogs. Yeah, this lady was traveling just the other day would not keep her dog in the carrier, and you know, listen, I'm normally like I said you know, you know how we get a little dog. Look the other way everything. But she wasn't like that. She was a big pain in the rear end, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know what, when you bring animals on board and like, there's so many people traveling with emotional support animals nowadays and all that stuff and they go through all the steps to get their documentation, whether it is or isn't an emotional support dog or cat or whatever it is. But here's the thing If you're just bringing on a pet and you're trying to take it out of the carrier, which you've already been told that you can't do that when you sign the release to pay for your animal, don't be an ass about it, especially if the crew's going to be cool about it.
Speaker 2:Well, she's being an ass because I'm an attorney.
Speaker 1:No, she threw that in your face.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'm an attorney Now she actually threw that in the other crew members and I came into it a little bit later but I was listening to what was going on with the other crew. So the flight attendants kept going up there and asked her to put the dog in there and then she said the dog won't go and he gets out, he gets out. Yeah, like he takes his mouth and unzips it from the inside of that carrier and gets out himself.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's basically what she was saying. She was saying like this dog was getting out on his own.
Speaker 1:He's like Inspector Gadget or something like that of the dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then the lady next to her was getting really pissed because the dog kept getting up and moving around and stuff and she kept coming to the back. And I get it. She, she's upset because now she can't just sit down in her seat.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But here's what really pissed me off is when I went up there and and we were getting this dog back in the carrier the carrier was way too small for the dog Pisses me off. I can't tell you that's animal, animal abuse. They take these little bitty carriers and then what she did is here's the other thing she kept the tag on it, the price tag because you know what they do On the carrier. Yeah, Because they use it for their travel and then they take it back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So this carrier was so small, that little dog, we had to scrunch that little dog up into that thing. It was absolutely ridiculous. So just to let you know what happens after this, all this thing, you don't want to keep the dog and carry. We, we had the aircraft met and and we, we have a airport personnel, they, they meet the aircraft and because they, like you said, they, they sign an agreement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they sign the agreement, yeah, you get to, they sign the agreement with the whole the process of what they need to do to bring the pad on and they get a whole, you know, whole list of you know what don't drink, have the dog or the cat or whatever, drink and eat and be tons before they get on flight. All you know it's got all these good advice for them, but they just come on and you, you know, just transporting those animals and they're all, most of the time, most of the time they're doing it correct For the majority, the majority of people are doing it correct. But you have those incidents, especially with this. Sounds like this lady just didn't want to follow the. They wanted to be entitled, right?
Speaker 2:Entitlement? Yeah, absolutely is the thing that she was being the whole time. I mean, you know, that's the thing when people throw what they do for their life at you and you're supposed to jump.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, man, I'm telling you right now she would have been like I'm a lawyer. I would have been like I'm a flight attendant. So you can read the paper that you signed right, and I'm the flight attendant in charge of this flight right now that has the authority to tell you to get off the flight and take your little foo-foo dog with you.
Speaker 2:I felt so bad for this dog. I mean, honestly, listen folks, the thing about when you travel with the dog. Make sure the dog can stand up in the kennel. It can lay down underneath the seat, but make sure that inside the kennel the dog's able to stand up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That dog was like a little burrito, and more so than her. She pissed me off because the dog, because I love dogs and to me that's animal abuse and you shouldn't be. You shouldn't have a dog if you're going to stick them in a little bag like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm damn sure she's not going to travel that way.
Speaker 2:You might as well stick her in a little bag You'd like to right. Oh my gosh. Yeah, you know this goes into what I was talking about too. We talk about this all the time. I was watching this video, I sent it to you. It was about a? Um, it was about a professor and he talked about um, uh, why we have laws. Yeah, did you? Did you take a look at that?
Speaker 1:It's an excellent, excellent video.
Speaker 2:What'd you think about that?
Speaker 1:We're going to post that too. I mean, it's something that literally, uh, everybody in America needs to literally watch. It's a great, uh, learning tool to um Watch. It's a great learning tool to understand why we should be good citizens. Why should we? We should be upholding and keeping everyone. It's not only the responsibility of just our law enforcement and all this stuff, but it's also our responsibility as citizens to keep each other safe, make sure people aren't being treated unfairly or being, you know, attacked or all kinds of stuff. You know our laws are there to guide us.
Speaker 2:And protect us.
Speaker 1:Right and protect us.
Speaker 2:So when I was watching this video, it was really interesting, because we talk about diversity a lot in our business and in this whole video. If you look at every person in there, it's a very diverse group of people. That was in his class.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's an excellent video. We're going to post it. We're going to post a link on our Facebook page. Check it out for sure, but it is the dynamics. Whoever produced that video really did an excellent job of pointing out some really good points about, um, our loss and um, you know, in in this video, um, it's not. It's not a spoiler alert, because we want you to see it, um, but you know, the first thing is, uh, instructor does comes in this classroom she's getting ready to lecture and he doesn't start talking about anything at school. He just points out one of the students and tells her to leave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he removes her from the class.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Just like, get your stuff and get up, and she's like what? And he's like I'm not going to tell you a second time.
Speaker 2:And she has to get her belongings and leave, and everybody is standing there looking at her and the first thing that he says is why do we have laws? And they go on and they start saying different things. But when he comes to one person and he says for justice and it really hit me because everything that's been going on in our world recently, it really this video kind of covers it all.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I mean it really impacts us as flight attendants. I mean because you want people to understand, evaluate and understand when we should be getting involved in certain situations, but at the same time, we don't want situations to get out of hand, right?
Speaker 2:Right. But it goes back to critical thinking, right, and just what we talked about in the fight situation going into the airport, that fight going to the airport right. Right, there's an injustice going on right there. We don't know exactly what the situation was, but something. There's some kind of injustice going on right there. We don't know exactly what the situation was but something.
Speaker 1:there's some, some kind of injustice going on. Oh yeah yeah. But people, people are always after the first thing they're. Their reaction isn't to like help or to assist, it's to record and they want to get their five seconds of fame for the, because they'd have this video.
Speaker 2:But that's that's our world anymore. That's that was telling you is that when we're on an airplane and me and you have had situations that we've been on the plane with each other and when something happens, we've always had each other's back- the safety of my friend, the safety of the public is number one concern period.
Speaker 1:So I mean we're going to have, we're going to deal with the situation in that respect Like you're not going to just, you know, jump in, you know, uneducated to the situation of what's happening. You're going to assess, use some critical thinking, figure out what's happening here and figure out how to do with it, and we're going to do it also as a team.
Speaker 2:You maintain order on an aircraft. But you know, and we're just going to touch on this, but just like what happened with Daniel Penny, on on the, on the, on the subway, yeah, What'd you think about that?
Speaker 1:Well, you know, first of all, I mean I don't want to get political and all this stuff, but I mean this is a huge problem. I don't live in New York. I've traveled on the subways in New York many, many times and there's some crazy-ass people out there. I mean I'm talking about crazy, unnerving people. If you're not from New York and you experience the subways today, I mean they're going to scare the shit out of you. There's a lot of people down there a lot of mental illness, a lot of homeless, a lot of all kinds of people down there that you can make you feel very unsafe.
Speaker 2:And when I said this to him I'm not saying this to actually be political, because when you're in a situation and it's not just in the subway a few years back we had a big homeless problem in the airport, right Okay, and I used to come into the airport from the parking garage.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And they had a tremendous amount of homeless people that had taken over airport areas.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's all changed now. They had to change that and they had to get a lot of these homeless people out. But let me explain something to you. What happened during those two years of walking in from the parking garage, I was threatened three times with my life threatened three times, and I went to the police all three times and it was responded saying the same thing we can't do anything until something had been done. I said what do you mean? Something had been done and they said until someone does something to you. I said wait a minute. So someone actually has to stab me or has to do this before you, before you, before you do anything about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a that's. I mean this is a really strong point. I mean I this really drives me crazy. In society right now, we are set up in this, like, instead of having a preventative system, we have a reactive system where we do not do anything until something's done, and so they can only react until that situation happens, until something's done, and so they can only react until that situation happens when we, as educated individuals, as citizens of this world, as the public, as we can all see where it's going, as as as these things are transpiring, but we can't do anything until we, you know, something happens. I mean that's some bullshit.
Speaker 1:I mean, you, we should be able to, we should be able to react. I mean good leadership, as far as I'm concerned, should be reactive. It shouldn't be not reactive, it should be preventative. It should be where we are going. We're seeing a problem evolving. We should step in and do something about it, try to, or at least try to do something about it. But yeah, I mean I remember this whole situation where the airport here, our local airport, was not doing anything about it until there was several incidents. We had flight attendants attacked, we had passengers attacked, all kinds of stuff, and eventually they have gotten the homeless out of there and there's no more situation now.
Speaker 2:Let me explain something to you too, though. More situation now. Let me explain something to you too, though. Coming down the escalator, the last time I had two flight attendants with me. Another passenger was behind me. This other guy was behind her and coming into the terminal, he had threatened to kill all of us as we're walking in. He threatened us Okay. So, as I'm going down the escalator, I made those guys get in front of me, and then I told the female passenger to step down and get in front of me on the escalator. Now he's right behind me and he's telling me basically, I'm going to fucking kill you, and this whole time he's sitting there doing this and I'm thinking you know, if he makes one move, I'm throwing him down this escalator. Right, he's going to do a Superman all the way down this thing. So so his picture burns in my face. You know what he did two weeks later, Sean.
Speaker 2:What's that he assaulted an employee in the parking garage. Jeez Physically assaulted them, but that's the whole problem.
Speaker 1:I'm saying it's a reactive instead of preventative.
Speaker 2:Exactly. And for this, for this thing, this guy would not. I had his picture and I went down and showed him. I said this is the guy that came down and was basically verbally abusing us coming down the escalator. So we're letting these people dictate basically our safety and then until someone's actually injured, we're not doing anything about it. But going back to the Daniel Penny thing and, like I said, it's not about being political, it's about stepping up and doing something because you're protecting people. You're from the military.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm. I mean, I watched that interview with Daniel Penny and and, uh, what he had to say, and I got to tell you that, uh, I would be in the same situation as him. I mean, if I'm on a subway and what had happened and transpired with him, um, uh, and like we were talking about this before we even got on, get on our show. Here we were. I will, I'm not going to let someone get harmed. And I couldn't sit there and let somebody get harmed.
Speaker 1:You need to be stand up for people, and that video that we're talking about in the beginning it talked to this subject. You need to know when is the right time for you to step up and step in for justice. You know, I mean, you don't have to be the initiator, no, but you can definitely be the preventer and you can be the protector. And what Daniel Penny did there's not one soul in my inkling body that says that he did anything wrong. I mean it's unfortunate that Mr Neely, you know, had his problems and all that stuff and he ended up dying, but I mean in this situation— that was your choice, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you made a decision. That was your choice. You made a decision. That was your choice, right, you made a decision. That was your choice. When you come and you do that to other people and you put people in the position to where they feel like their lives are in jeopardy, you did that to yourself and, as far as I'm concerned, that was your choice, and thank God that you had someone there that was willing to actually stand up and to protect people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I know you or I, if we were sitting on that subway, would have probably been right there. You know, with Daniel Penny I mean, I would definitely 100%. The interesting thing is that I didn't see a lot of people helping him. You know, there wasn't a lot of people helping him.
Speaker 1:He had the situation under control as far as like restraining him, you know there wasn't a lot of people helping him. He had the situation under control as far as like restraining him, but there wasn't a lot of people that like got up and assisted.
Speaker 2:But that goes back to what we were talking about, though, is that you have a room full of people and an injustice happens and everybody stays seated, because this is our world anymore is that we are breeding this.
Speaker 1:We are breeding this to where people don't stand up for people anymore yeah, and then unfortunate things is like, uh, going back to, uh, putting this into the airline perspective, like being on the plane, I will tell you like, ever since 9-11, the level of interaction and people willing to assist is heightened so much more. I mean, I think that, um, these incidents of you know, and it's horrible that we're a reactive society, that we have to wait until something terrible happens in order to change our demeanor and how we deal with situations. But, um, you know, daniel Penny was, uh, he's, as far as I'm concerned, he's a hero and that's how he should be treated, not how he was treated. But we're not going to get into all that type of stuff right here, but public safety and our regulations and what is going on in the world. We need to help enforce and protect the innocent. I mean, protect the people that do not have the ability to do it themselves.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the same thing. The reason why I was saying this is that it's basically standing up, because me and you do it all the time. Whenever we're on the plane and we feel like a flight attendant is in a situation that we feel like they could get hurt, we step up. I know you do and so do I. It doesn't matter, I'll put myself between them and the other flight attendant 100% of the time. I'm not letting them get to them without getting through me. And that's more what I was saying, because I love this video, because it proves the fact is that a lot of people they just sit down and they don't, and they know something that's going wrong and they don't do anything about it. They just watch or they grab their phone. The first thing they do is they take a short video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, interesting video. Definitely check it out. We're going to post it on our Facebook. We post the link. It's on YouTube. Great video.
Speaker 2:Hey, let's talk about the destination, Destination New Orleans.
Speaker 1:All right. Destination New Orleans. First of all, I can sit here and talk all day long about the big easy. The big easy is the, I mean, one of my favorite places to go in the South, and it's all driven by food for me. I mean, you can't go to New Orleans and not get good food. I mean there is so much good food. If you like flavor, if you like spices, if you like all kinds of different stuff that you've never eaten before, New Orleans is the place to go. I mean, it is off the hook. I mean, let's back up here One why is New Orleans called Big Easy?
Speaker 1:It was a nickname. There's a million different reasons out there of why it's kind of like this is just personified and the folklore of these, why it's called the Big Easy. But some of the things that they said, the reason of it, it's just a relaxing lifestyle down there. The jazz scene that's there. The history of prohibition, all these different things that have happened. There's been movies, books, all these different things that have happened. So that nickname is stuck. So there's not one thing that this is the reason why, but that's why they call it the big easy and it is. I mean, you go there. You're kind of like in a relaxed atmosphere, this fun jovial mardi gras flights are hilarious, man, there's so much fun I mean everybody is everybody's just having a great time I'm going in, coming out, man, they're hungover
Speaker 1:have you been down on bourbon street? Oh yeah, yeah, I mean like bourbon street is like an experience from one end to another. I mean you can walk down bourbon street and it looks like you're going through um, I would say like different, um social, uh, you know, clusters of people. As you go, I mean the, the whole social network and the whole social atmosphere of as you go, I mean the whole social network and the whole social atmosphere. As you go down, it changes. And how I say this is that there's just different types of people in different areas of that, and I'm going to let you go explore that. I'm not going to explain it to you because we're going to get ourselves.
Speaker 2:It's like you're constantly being watched, though, because there's people always up top.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's people up top, there's people down below. Everybody's looking at you, everybody's on the street. People are yelling, trying to get you to come in and buy drinks.
Speaker 2:There's always naked bodies somewhere.
Speaker 1:There's lots of naked bodies, lots of stuff you've never seen. You might see a bowl constructor around somebody's neck and walking down the street. I mean it's just, it's just crazy. But, um, I mean you've got to go down there. If you like music, it doesn't matter if you I'm not talking about just jazz. There is every kind of music down on Bourbon street you can think of. You can go into bar after bar after bar and, uh, most of these bars there's no cover or anything like that and you just go into them and you can sit there and watch this live entertainment. All is unbelievable. Love Bourbon Street.
Speaker 1:The other part of a big history about New Orleans is the French Quarter. I mean the beautiful architecture. The whole area has got lots of great restaurants and food. You've got to get down there. New Orleans is known for their streetc cars as well. They got these street cars that drive all over it's, it's, it's like their signature look kind of like of the city. Um, you know, street cars going down the streets and stuff. That's. It's kind of like that san francisco vibe. You know how they got the trolleys?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, they got street cars but they don't run those during that, uh, during mardi gras. Oh yeah, they, yeah, yeah, yeah but I mean the street.
Speaker 1:They don't run those during Mardi Gras, oh yeah, yeah, they don't. But I mean the streetcars don't go down Bourbon Street, because Bourbon Street is like almost an alley. It's like just an offshoot of the main strip there, but on the main streets and stuff the streetcars are always operating, but it's a really cool place. I mean. Back to the food. I mean I'm a—.
Speaker 2:You know how much I love Cajun too.
Speaker 1:Dude, I mean the gumbo, the jambalaya, the crawfish man.
Speaker 2:I couldn't even imagine me and you sitting down eating crawfish. Those damn things are so little We'd be killing a ton of them.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, you order them by the pounds. I mean they come in like I'll start off with like pounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like I'll start off with like three pounds of crawfish and I'm just like shucking and sucking heads and just just going at it, man, I mean it is crazy. It is like, um, you're gonna love, but crawfish season's only between, uh, early march and mid-june and you can get crawfish all year round. But when you want some good crawfish and you want to be down in new orleans or that area, um, in louisiana, that's the time to get the crawfish.
Speaker 2:You're going to get some really good crawfish at that time you know what I used to love whenever we'd uh, we'd fly down there is do you remember the? Even in the airport. I don't know if they still do it, oh it's there red beans and rice.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, the cafeteria there. It had red beans right and then they had.
Speaker 2:They had the, um, uh, the, what was it? Uh, the cornbread the cornbread. Yeah, dude, oh, dude this, the food is just amazing the red beans rice was always the to-go meal for when we were flying yeah, yeah, I that's just a great staple.
Speaker 1:But you know the shrimp and grits they got down there. But you can't not talk about desserts too. Their signature dessert's down there Bananas Foster's. Bananas Foster's like one of my favorite, favorite things. I think, we covered that before, didn't we? I know that was in. We ran into that restaurant in Iowa that had that bananas foster the whole deal. It was awesome. But they also have the beignets.
Speaker 2:Hey, you know that's funny as a flight attendant. When you stop in the airport, there is a little place that sold the beignets and one of the funniest things is if you've never had them is you'll get a new person. You're like, hey, listen, you want a beignet and they're like, okay, and you just give it to them, Don't tell them anything, and their first reaction is they'll pop it in their mouth and they suck in that powder and they instantly cough, Choke and that white shit is all over their uniform.
Speaker 1:Powdered sugar is everywhere.
Speaker 2:And they're covered in white powdered sugar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're a mess to eat, but they're delicious.
Speaker 2:They are so good New.
Speaker 1:Orleans Airport has a beignet place. There that you definitely, in the morning time, you're going to see lines of people getting bags of beignets. Beignets is like a little donut. If you don't know what it is that, these little square donuts that they put in a sack and then they scoop a giant scoop of powdered sugar and just shake it up all over these uh donuts. It is.
Speaker 2:It is out of this world and I love, I absolutely love shrimp and grits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shrimp and grits, dude I love grits.
Speaker 2:But man that just says south to me right, yeah, oh yeah, I mean, just says, just I me right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. I mean not just New Orleans, it just says Southern cooking.
Speaker 2:If me and you were in the restaurant, we'd be like, okay, one of each, yeah.
Speaker 1:Gene's looking at the list of what we're talking about right here, of all these different things. I was making sure that I covered stuff. Yeah, could like literally eat this whole list, right?
Speaker 2:now, if we just cover the menu just one of these, just bring.
Speaker 1:You have to cover the table right now right, the food down in new orleans is just amazing. I mean, if you go to new orleans and not get good food, you've made a big mistake, because I mean you don't have to go to. Like you know, you can ask anybody hey, where's some good food? I mean they're gonna tell you freaking a whole list of places to go to, but I I mean there is great food all over the place.
Speaker 2:One thing you didn't cover, though.
Speaker 1:What's that? Which one is it? Oh yeah, yeah, I didn't talk about the muffaletta, muffaletta, muffaletta. Gee gets a kick out of me just saying muffaletta.
Speaker 2:He doesn't even know what a muffaletta is. I had no idea. He goes gee, do you know what a mufflet is? And I said, no, is it a Cajun girl? And he goes no, it's a, it's a sandwich.
Speaker 1:If you haven't had a mufflet. Mufflet sandwiches are amazing. Especially, I'm a huge olive person so I like anything with olives is just crazy. But mufflet is this big gigantic uh, like a pie of uh. They use a mufflet of bread and if you've ever had that in a restaurant and stuff, it's a you know this like kind of like flat bread, but they slice that into a sandwich and then with that bread they'll make this gigantic round sandwich with layers of all these different like you know more mortadello, salamis, a bologna, all the all these different slices of deli set meat. And then they took the take this relish, this olive relish, and they spread this big olive relish all over the entire sandwich and it's just this giant stack and they just cut slices like a pie off this big giant bread. But that's what a muffaletta is, man. You've got to check it out. You'll love it. Believe me, I know you, I know how much you eat.
Speaker 2:I just got a kick out of the name. I mean, that was actually pretty funny. He's like you don't even know what a muffletta is. No, I don't know what a muffletta is.
Speaker 1:That's right. We're going to get him a muffletta soon. We're going to edumacate him on some good food. I said it in person, because you don't know what I'm up to. That's actually pretty funny, so all right. Well, what's the quote? Man? Let's wrap this up.
Speaker 2:Hey, before we get to the quote, I just want to say one more thing. Folks, listen, if you ever come across a situation for yourself and what we covered today is you don't have to be a hero, but we do have to stand up for each other. So if you come into a situation, just remember there's power in numbers and there's power in your voice, and sometimes it's all it takes is your voice. So stand up and help people that sometimes can't help themselves. So just remember that. Like I said, I just want to talk about that today, but quote of the day never expect anyone to give you what you want. Work hard, show some dedication and get it yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, that's how you do it. Do it, nobody's going to do it for you.
Speaker 2:Muffletta man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to leave right now and go get him a muffletta, because he needs to experience some good food.
Speaker 2:All right, guys. Thanks a lot. Have a great time. You guys have a great week and we'll see you next week. All right, We'll see you next week here at Cabin.
Speaker 1:Pressure. See you, guys. Thank. Thank you for listening to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G, wishing you peace, joy and all the best this wonderful holiday has to offer, and may this incredible time of giving and spending time with family bring you joy that lasts throughout the year. Happy holidays to all, and thank you for listening to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.
