Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Every Monday, listeners are invited to join seasoned flight attendants Shawn and G for an exciting journey behind the scenes and into the galley of their favorite airlines with the podcast, "Cabin Pressure!" This show promises to bring the thrilling in-flight experience directly to the listeners' ears.
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Too much of anything on a plane isn't good. What's a polar bear suit? Let's celebrate chocolate-covered nut day. All this and more. Next, on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2:This is cabin pressure what's up everybody?
Speaker 1:we're back here. This week in cabin pressure, I had to throw my two cents there.
Speaker 2:It's about a penny so what's going on, man?
Speaker 1:oh man, you know what, um, I'm like aggressively attacking my basement. You know, the flood that we had and everything. I had a uh, it wasn't really a flood, I had a leak in my basement and you know, here's the crazy thing I haven't told you about this. So when I decided I was going to get into it and seal up the wall and everything and this is just a little side segue for anybody that's home do-it-yourself geekers out there but my seal plate on my house, you know you have those three 2x6s at the bottom of you're uh, framing and everything right so it was laying on the foundation and over in the corner of the room right there, um, it was. You know I had a mouse that had, like, dug through that bottom seal plate and ate through and he ate through a hole that came through and got into the office and then slowly I had water coming in, seeping into the office and everything, and that's what we discovered was the problem and everything. But now I went in and dug it, you know, got all that shit out of there and everything.
Speaker 1:But come to find out when I actually started cleaning out the whole seal plate and stuff and the foundation, like it wasn't just like the mouse had like a little bit of a head start, because the foundation and the seal plate was like often at like a angle right. So like right in the corner there there was like a gap and the gap was probably about about a good half inch and I mean I could feel like air coming through the gap and all this stuff is like it had like a foam rubber, like a foam like plate that was in there that due to to do some insulating, but it was. It was total shit. So I had to take all that out, foam it up, block it up the whole night, get in there. I do that, I did it. I didn't put foam, I put a freaking caulking insulation and everything. But it was. It was wild because I was like shit man, I could have had a freaking army of mice in there, like I'm thinking about what kind of damn mouse freaking chewed through.
Speaker 2:He got through there, looked at you and was like what? I just chewed through all that shit. I ain't afraid of you, right? I just chewed all the way through your damn wall. All this shit got around here and you're looking at me like you're going to kill me.
Speaker 1:Well, gonna kill me. Well, the crazy thing is that he didn't go much further than the walls, like I mean, we never had any wall. You know holes from our wall.
Speaker 2:You know, like the classic, like you see the mouse, like dug through the eight through the wall.
Speaker 1:That's one damn dedicated mouse. Yeah, man, it's a. It was, it was, it was rough but you had the metal plates.
Speaker 2:It was it the steel framing you got down there.
Speaker 1:I had a steel framing in there and you know the water coming in and stuff rusted out a lot of stuff. But I had to replace some of that stuff and, uh, oh, put it back all together and it's a good thing.
Speaker 2:Good thing about that man. You know both me and you are the same way. Um, take a time, learn how to do that shit, man, because when the stuff goes bad, if you got to pay somebody, you can pay a lot of.
Speaker 1:So if I would have just like said you know what, screw it, I'm going to have somebody come in here and do the whole thing. I mean, the whole thing was going to cost me $3,000. Ridiculous man $3,000 for a little teeny corner of the room and a recarpeted room.
Speaker 2:And that wasn't even a sheet of drywall that you replaced it with Do you know what they were going to charge me for taking off the freaking heater vent cover on the room.
Speaker 1:I can't even imagine, man, they want to use a screwdriver sean yeah, 17 to pull that plate off. Man, I was like what you got to be come on 17, but man, that's an expensive.
Speaker 2:I mean, they had that thing broken down to everything.
Speaker 1:I have a. I have a coat hook on my wall in some office. Right, they wanted another 23 to take that off that.
Speaker 2:Well, that's like cutting that piece of carpeting out. That was bad too, right Carpet removal company. Right, that's going to cost you some money. You've got to actually use a utility blade on that, sean.
Speaker 1:Dude, dude, I'm telling you, I looked at the whole thing. I'm like this is crazy, I can get it done. So, anyways, I got somebody coming in to do the actually painting the mud and all that stuff, and I sealed up the wall myself, hung the drywall, and so I'll get him to do that thing. He's going to do this in my office and I got a room upstairs I want repainted. He's going to do all that stuff for $1,500.
Speaker 2:Now, that's worth it, because painting sucks man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I don't want to do anything.
Speaker 2:If they're good, they're pretty quick. So I mean I understand that the painting painting is no fun if they're really good at it. Uh yeah, that's, that's worth the money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he said that it's going to probably you know, because of the mud problem like three days to get this all done.
Speaker 2:But yeah, but if it was me, truthfully, I sound pretty good at painting, so I mean, it'd be me. Unfortunately, I'd be doing it too. But if you're not good at it, yeah, that's worth the money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just I just don't have the time right now to do it. Like I thought I was going to have the time and then got to the point where I'm like I don't I want to get this thing done and back into my space again and so trying to just get it, I was like I got to expedite this, get some people to help me here.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I got it all buttoned up and stuff ready to go, but now it's just the final touches on it. Yeah, cool, remember I was telling you about Gemma, my little Yorkie. She actually eats a farmer's dog, the farmer's dog.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I remember you said a few episodes and I was like I was going to mess around with it. Yeah, I started messing around with it. They had some home recipes that you could do at home. Yeah, it seems like it's going pretty good. Man, I'm going to try it out a little bit more with a few different recipes. And then you gave me the idea, too, I'm going to throw a food saver in there and I'm going to actually freeze that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, if people think about this, this farmer's dog I mean the people that run the company they're genius because one, I mean it's not that freaking complicated to cook for a dog. I mean to cook them real food, right? Yeah, I mean, that's one of the big problems in the United States right now, like we're all talking about you know, we've got to get back to eating real food, stop all this processed shit, and so now we're starting with our dogs, but we're eventually going to get to us.
Speaker 2:You can see it, but you can see, actually, sean, the farmer's dog, in their energy. You can see it in their stool. You can see everything. Why? Because their body actually utilizes the food. So you can understand why that natural food that we talked about the spinach, the carrots and everything like that it's actually good for them. So if you're going to have a dog, you're going to have a pet man. Take care of them. Gemma, I'm going to always take care of her like I did Dakota. We both agree the same. I mean, gemma, she's going to have the best, so we're going to keep it going. I mean, I might still purchase a little farmer's dog just to have it in reserve. But yeah, I won't be purchasing as much as I did before because it is expensive and if it's convenient for you actually check it out, because it is great for your, for your dog, but you can't.
Speaker 1:You can't do it at home too yeah, I mean, if you know the portions that you need for your dog and you can, you know you got a food saver and you can just pre-make meals. I mean you can just, like you're doing, like for a lot of people on diets and stuff you know, pre-pink those meals, food, save them and if you want, you want the nutrients.
Speaker 2:actually they got a nutrient packet too at Farmer's Dog. You can buy that and make the food. Put the nutrient packet in it if you want more nutrients, If you don't. Actually, you know Gemma gets vitamins, so she gets like a gel vitamin you put on your finger. She loves it, man, she just eats it up.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm saying, Like you can put that nutrients, like from different, different sources, whether you get it from your uh, your uh, veterinarian or something like that, Like there's all those types of things that you also add into that food for your, your animal that you're taking care of, whether this is dog, cat, whatever it is that it's for but, um, just doing your stuff I'm. What I'm really surprised is that there's not more people doing farmer's dog out there, like other people trying to start that business, because it sounds like a pretty cool business, like like the. You know animal lovers, they'll do anything. They'll do anything.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely, yes, oh yeah, and the.
Speaker 1:the amount of money that's to be made in that industry is like unbelievable. But if you can, uh, start making the mass uh you know facility where you're, you're cooking all this stuff up and uh, and then you have the you know the the scientific um portions for each of those animals and stuff out there. So you know like, oh, this is your dog and stuff. I don't know. Did you have to go through some type of questionnaire like the process of what's your dog or not really.
Speaker 2:It was more like it was size, how old, you know, um, breed. They want to know those things you know, so they can develop. I mean they have a diet, but I think what they do is they have a basic food form that they have and how much the dog's going to eat, because I mean a lot of it. Truthfully, a lot of it is water-based. So I mean even Gemma doesn't drink a lot of water. So I mean even Gemma, Gemma doesn't drink a lot of water. So there's a lot of, there must be a lot of water inside that food, because I mean she still pees like crazy man and she doesn't get a lot of water.
Speaker 2:We have to actually add the water to her food because it's almost like you feel guilty about, you know, because usually a dog, you have a thing of water out for them. That's not Gemma. Gemma doesn't drink it. She won't drink it just separately, she has it in the food. But again, a lot of those are vegetables and a lot of water-based foods that are in there. So she gets a lot of water from that too. But anyway, farmer's dog man, I'm a full believer in it. I'm trying it at home, still doing it. I'll report back to you see if I notice any different in her weight or how it'd be for food saver. But yeah, I really like it it's actually really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got to keep me posted, man, about that. That's good. I'm just kind of interested. That whole, uh, the whole process and everything, especially you can do it yourself, but way better.
Speaker 2:Hey, I've seen. Tiktok was back too, right.
Speaker 1:TikTok man is back. You can download it again. It's back in the App Store, like. You know TikTok, you know they banned it for that one day and it was like then they took it off the market and you couldn't download it anywhere in the United States. So now TikTok just came back to. They basically told you know all the platforms out there that tiktok type app was on that, uh, they weren't going to get that fine. You know that's what they were worried about. You know them being able as a corporation. You know you getting that fine that you're gonna have to pay.
Speaker 2:It was something crazy every day that they were not to be on how many millions it was but you know, those kids, man, were happy as as pie, because that's how they get paid, yeah, so they were loving that.
Speaker 1:But on this note, this is still all temporary. You know they're still trying to figure out. You know trying to get this, you know them to sell it and all that stuff. So it's still a process and works, but definitely it's backup, working stuff working stuff.
Speaker 2:But you know, last week, last week we were talking not to interrupt you, but last week we were talking about, like all the you know, the crazy incidents that had been going on, uh in uh the airline industry. We had talked about, uh in the industry, the incident in uh, toronto. But you notice, have you noticed, like a, it's been a, like an uprise in unruly uprising, unruly passengers too.
Speaker 1:Unruly passengers, man, is it like a season? Is this a season of them? You know? I mean it seems like every year we're always talking about more and more like unruly passengers on the plane, all these different things that are happening. I mean it's.
Speaker 2:Do you ever notice, though? I mean people that get on airplanes. They always act like they can do whatever the hell they want to do. Right, they do, I mean they. They sit there and said, you know, uh, I'm always right and you're wrong, basically, but more so there's these ones that there's the majority of people get on a plane. They want transportation. They're appreciative, don't get me wrong absolutely phenomenal. Have them on, and then you get them ding-dongs.
Speaker 1:Dude, what about that guy that you had? That was whacked out of meth?
Speaker 2:Oh, that was one of the craziest things, man. I mean, like I said, we're coming in from the red eye and the freaking lights were just going off like crazy and we flipped the cabin lights on. I had to run down through the cabin. All these people were screaming. This guy was just flipped out. Now I did not know what he was on. He was just whacked out of his head. Everybody was like screaming and yelling. He came out, was just yelling like a maniac. I tackled him, I took him down the aisle and then he's trying to bite me and I mean it was just nuts. I mean absolutely crazy. But find out later on that this guy was had meth in his system and you know he was just on this crazy high and low and, and, yeah, and, and the worst part, man, he was HIV positive and that was, that was the scariest part.
Speaker 1:He was trying to bite you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was trying to bite me. So you, I mean, you don't even know. I mean, people think about things, but you don't think about that, right, you don't think about, like, that passenger. And I didn't think about it until later I got a call from the FBI and said look, this person was HIV positive and it's an attempted murder charge, you know. And they wanted to talk to me if I wanted to press charges on this person. Well, this person was getting locked up and they told me that there's no way that they were getting out. And I said that's fine. You know, I'm not going to press charges or make people go through things as long as this person wasn't going to get out and they were going to stay locked up.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean absolutely freaking crazy Sometimes what happens, right, I mean you've had incidents on them too, right, oh yeah, but I was just thinking about your incident here, Like you were literally, just because of the time of day, that was a red-eye flight. Yeah, you could have been a TikTok star. I mean honestly like if that would have happened during the day, there would have been people filming you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, absolutely Like that whole thing would have happened so fast. All they wanted to do was get the hell away from this dude. This dude was freaking nuts. Now, you know, I've had some crazy-ass people on my planes. I mean, folks, let me tell you something. I've had some crazy-ass people on my planes. I mean there was one guy. He was drinking something out of a bottle. All he was doing was slamming his fist down and started it starts making this like grunting sound. Okay, Now we, we had the girls on a plane. Nobody wanted to be around this dude.
Speaker 1:These guys that were sitting next to him were looking at me like deer in the headlights, man who wants to be next to somebody that's grunting.
Speaker 2:He's crazy. I don't know what he's drinking, but you know you walk up there and you're like hey, how you doing. He's like ugh, I'm like what the what is that Like?
Speaker 1:is he a caveman, I mean?
Speaker 2:I'm just telling you, this guy was completely whacked out and these guys are like I can't move anybody because there's no seats.
Speaker 1:So these guys, that's always a problem today, like there's not places to move people.
Speaker 2:No, and and, and this guy, this guy. I was just waiting for this. I thought for sure that this is going to be a you know, definitely a WWE wrestling match with me and him. But thank God, man, he, just he just kept grunting. But you know, okay, in in a search is a situation likeunting. But you know, okay, in a situation like that we can't have anyone meet the plane because he didn't do anything Right.
Speaker 1:He's just disturbing the peace of people.
Speaker 2:Believe that, right, yeah, I mean, you're not going to divert, you're not doing anything. You can't have the police meet the plane. He didn't do nothing. All he did was meet somebody to meet the plane because we got a grunter. Yeah, slams his hands down and acting like he's aggressive, but he didn't touch anybody, didn't touch me. So I'm not calling the police on him. I mean, I'm just hoping you don't ever get on my plane again.
Speaker 1:Well, that goes to experience. We're experienced flight attendants. We understand what it's actions that make you get yourself in trouble. You have to do something to get in trouble. Just because you're behaving a certain way or saying something, or blah, blah, blah, doesn't necessarily mean you're going to like we're calling the police on you, whatever. But that goes to just assessing the situation. Us having experience, you know.
Speaker 2:Man, I had this guy one time. Sean, we got delayed and we were in this little Bohunk airport, right, we had to land somewhere because the weather was bad. So little Bohunk Airport, right, we had to land somewhere because the weather was bad. So we were delayed there and they had told the passengers, you can get off the aircraft but you have to stay in the boarding area. So I was telling everybody well, you know, there's the one ding-dong.
Speaker 2:I mean I don't care this guy, he comes up and they always it's a stupid comment, right, just a dumb, off-the-wall comment, I'll do whatever the hell I want to do, blah, blah, and that's fine. I just told you. I said, if you go into that bar, you go do something and you don't hear the announcement, you're getting left here, right? Yeah, I mean that's what we do. We make announcements and you get left. Well, we close the door. He wasn't on board the aircraft and all of a sudden, yeah, well, he's lucky. And then he got on the plane and he walks by me and he makes a stupid comment and I'm like, all right, I'm going to let that one pass. So I started doing the demo. As we're doing the demo, this guy is lipping F you To you, to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I'm looking at him and the girl that is in front of me, she's looking at me like, oh my God, I don't know what you're going to do, but it ain't going to be good. And so, about third time, he said F you. I dropped that mic and I walked back there and I said you know something? Just verbalize, let everybody hear what you're saying. And he goes what? And I said everybody around here, you go ahead and say that and you watch what I do. So but just go ahead and say I just want to hear you, because see, what it is, is that I don't care.
Speaker 2:If you want to go ahead and do that, you want to act a fool. I want you to verbalize it. I want you to tell everybody I'm not going to sit there and get. I'm not going to get violent with you, unless, unless you tried to do something with me. But I'm going to tell you this right, go ahead and say that, prove yourself. Prove yourself a man or a woman. Go ahead and say that and then watch my actions, because that airplane's going to get pulled back up. You're getting off.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're getting off the plane. I don't care. You can call me any name in the book, you can say whatever you want, and you know this too right. You say whatever you want. You act like a fool, right. You know and say whatever you want. You act like a fool. You act like that. Those people on board the aircraft do not deserve to listen to you. Go on and on. They don't deserve to listen to me, and you go on and on. So the thing is is that one of us is leaving?
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, you can't. You can't interfere with us. I mean that's that. You know we're here doing our job, doing doing whatever, whatever his situation was why he didn't get back on the plane and you know him being a freaking ding dong, whatever but you know you can't interfere with the crew period. I don't care what you're upset about or anything like that. And if we feel like you're interfering with what we're doing and what she's mouthing, this F you to you during the demo and all that stuff, you know interfering with what we were our job, what we were doing, the demo and all that stuff, you know interfering with what we were our job, what we were doing. I mean that's, every airline in the world is going to be like you're interfering with us and we're going to. We have the right to refuse your. You know your service.
Speaker 2:You know you don't like arguing on planes. I like boring and uneventful. You do too, I know. I mean, you know the best flights for flight attendants boring and uneventful ones that we're not in on a video. We don't have to explain it to anybody. It's boring and uneventful, but you have alcohol on an airplane dude.
Speaker 1:alcohol is the root to so many problems. I mean, I mean that's like I have stories and stories about, you know, alcohol and how it affects us on the, on the aircraft, I mean alcohol can be is a good, you know. Okay, you know everybody enjoys their drink and stuff, all that stuff. But when it gets to a point where it starts affecting your behavior and all that stuff, that's when it's like okay, this is a time and place and it's as innocent to like, like how many times we have, like you know, the bridal party on board and you know, or the girls going down to Florida or the guys going to Florida or on a golf trip, you know, and everybody's drinking and you know that's all fine and dandy in certain atmospheres, Like if you're on the ground, you're in a bar and you're having that type of behavior and you're getting crazy and stuff, that's like a space that they're expecting that right, right, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But in a public transportation vehicle and we're doing the same type of behavior and one little spark or one little comment or something like that gets spent out of control and now we have like a situation that they're affecting other people. I mean, it's just not a good thing.
Speaker 2:Well, you're just like me. I know because, like I said, we've flown enough times that when a situation comes up, I don't want it, you don't want it, but we will take care of it and we'll take care of it and we don't take it personal. If you want to act like a fool, I mean, trust me, we don't. I don't take it personal, I know you don't we. Just what we do is we take the problem, we eliminate the problem and then we apologize to people for having to deal with the problem, and then we do what we take off and we land, that's it we just do our job Exactly.
Speaker 2:We just remove the problem from the aircraft, and that happens on a regular basis. I remember, talking about alcohol, there was this couple in the back. I was working the front of the aircraft and, like I said, there's so many incidents me and Sean can talk about daily that happen on airplanes because of stupidity. Well, this, this couple in the back, they were drinking. Then they got a little bit belligerent with the flight attendants. The flight attendants asked me if I'd come back and I would talk to this couple. So they were going down on their cruise down to Lauderdale right, so they're, they're down there. They'd probably drank in the bar. Right, so they're down there. They probably drank in the bar. No one noticed that they were intoxicated. Let's have an understanding with this folks, even though they have bars and airports. Okay, remember this phrase when you fly If you ever appear to be intoxicated again, listen to this appear to be intoxicated, you can't fly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't fly.
Speaker 2:The airline can just reuse your service for sure. It's black and white. You cannot fly. You can be removed from an aircraft until they see that you do not appear to be intoxicated. So just because that bar is right there, don't think you can have four or five and you can get away with that, because that's not going to happen. Because if that flight attendant, if that crew member sees you and you act not like a normal person and you appear to be intoxicated, they can have you removed off the aircraft. And nobody wants to do that. But you know, sometimes maybe you should stop away from that bar. Well, this couple didn't, so they were in the back. They called me to the back of the aircraft and the first thing that this woman said, Sean, what the hell do you want? And I looked at her.
Speaker 1:That's such a good intro Lane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what the hell do you want? I said it's funny, you should ask that. I said the flight attendants asked me to come back here because you guys were getting a little bit out of sorts. And I said I just want to tell you. You know, I you can do whatever you want to do, but I just want to inform you about, like, what's going to occur if you keep this up. And she goes, I'll do whatever the hell I want to do. And I said that's fine. I said, but just realize. I said if you keep this up, I said what I'm going to do is just listen to me the next few minutes and then if you want to do that, you go ahead and do whatever you want to do, but I'm going to make sure that all this stuff happens.
Speaker 2:So a real quick rundown is the plane gets met by police officers, you get put in handcuffs and your husband or boyfriend get put in handcuffs.
Speaker 2:Now you both will get taken off the aircraft and you're going to get arrested, you're going to get fined, you're going to have federal charges brought against you interference of a crew member's duties. You're going to have federal charges brought against you interference of a crew member's duties and at that point we have nothing to say about it. The police take over and then you know, then you're going to have to have a court date, you're going to have to come back and you're going to have to come back down to Florida and have a court date. Then you're going to have to have an attorney, you're going to fight fines, you're going to probably be on some list that says that you are a problem on an aircraft and you're not going to go to your, your cruise. You're going to lose out there, you're going to lose out on your vacation, and all that because you don't want to keep quiet. Right, that's your decision, right? Yeah, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1:Consequences of your actions. Man, you, just you, you, it's your choice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're just going to react like we're supposed to, and I told her, yeah, and I just told her all I had to say to her, Sean. I said now it's your choice. If I have to come back here. If I have to come back here, all those things that I said are going to happen. And he looked at me and he said she won't say anything. I said, if I was you, I don't want to do this. I love boring and uneventful. I love saying goodbye to you, hello to you, you know, but I do not want to have anybody meet the plane. I don't want to do reports.
Speaker 1:I don't want the paperwork man we do not want to do any of that.
Speaker 2:People just understand that we don't want any of that. We just want you guys to enjoy yourself, have a good time and then go on about your way, and then we'll catch you on the way back. But if you're going to be a problem on an aircraft, right, you're going to run into these crew members like Sean, like me, like other ones, that you're going to get arrested or you're going to get taken off the aircraft, you're going to get left, and there's a lot that goes with that. I mean, and just think about that because it, let me tell you something your damn day will get really bad really quick.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you right now, g and I are all about a good time, exactly. I mean, we want to have a good time, we want you to have a good time but all that is in with within reason, you know. I mean you just got to do what you're supposed to do, have a good time in moderation and get to your point. You know B and boom.
Speaker 2:But nobody else wants to hear that crap either, though Nobody wants to sit there and say you know God, I got to worry about this, getting in a fight, and you know this right, they drink too much. We've had projectile puking on an aircraft that went over rows of seats. See, you don't hear anything about this, but this person was intoxicated and what happens is that they throw up on three and four rows in front of them. I'm not kidding, I mean it's, it's unbelievable. Some of these here.
Speaker 1:I got this story, man, because you just brought up a whole point of this projectile puking.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is, this is a, this is a, this is I had this guy.
Speaker 1:He had passed out on the aircraft and I mean he I'm, when I say passed out, like we're shaking him, he is not responding type of pass out, like he is out to the world, and so we didn't know if he needed to get off the aircraft at that time or not. Because this is back in the day when it was like we were kind of like bouncing as a shuttle type of thing and, um, we didn't know. But so we were like, you know, okay, we'll leave him alone, right, and he's passed out, that he'll get off when he wakes up, like or or or. We're done flying and we'll, you know, have somebody come take him off, you know. But, um, all of a sudden you know we're in flight with this guy and this guy's passed out and and he starts projectile vomiting and it is going like two and three rows in front of him.
Speaker 1:So imagine sitting in your seat and all of a sudden you feel all this wet substance hitting the back of your head. I mean it was absolutely grotesque. I mean it was absolutely grotesque. I mean, and you know, people start ringing their fly button and this guy's like it's over and over and over. This guy's like I can't believe how much he's throwing up and all I could do is I reach in my pocket and I grabbed some of our napkins, whatever, and I grabbed it and I just like slam it on his face with my bare hands, like I was like just to kind like prevent the projectile happening.
Speaker 1:I mean, most people wouldn't have done that. But I mean I just was like I was thinking about all the people that were getting freaking dirty from this guy. But it's come on.
Speaker 2:But here's another thing even that, sean, is that, as crew members, right? It's our responsibility to recognize this, especially when you realize, okay, that someone is drinking. You can't just keep feeding them. Okay, you can't do that, me and you don't do that, and I know you don't do it. I don't do it If I think that you're intoxicated. You're not getting any more of the drink. You're not. You're not because you just become a bigger problem and it's going to happen, and it might not happen on this flight, but it's going to happen on the next flight. And then, like that, just like that, if that crew, if a crew knows that this person is drinking and they keep feeding them believe me, people are watching you and if you give them more, and then all of a sudden, you have a situation where now it's projectile puking, there's altercations or whatever it is, you're going to have a lot of questions to answer for doing exactly what you weren't supposed to do, because you're not supposed to do that either. As a crew member, you're supposed to recognize that.
Speaker 1:You're supposed to recognize that it's the same thing as a bartender? Yeah, absolutely, you can't over-serve.
Speaker 2:But even more than a bartender. We get these people at 35,000 feet. You better damn well make sure that you got control of that cabin, because shit can go bad inside of a cabin real quick and you know that if you lose control of a cabin and you got some crazy ass people on there, it can go to hell in a handbag quick. You know that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, we've had crazy ass people on there and and and you know, right away, you got to get control of the situation. Right, I had a, I had a guy, I had a guy in first class. The guy was reclining the seat, he was drunk and from first class. Now I'm working the back and I'm walking up and this guy starts shoving this guy's seat from the back and and one of flight attendants still remembers this situation and the guy the guy in 5a yells at the guy in five or 4a he goes, he goes, you keep doing that, he goes. I'm gonna kick your fucking ass. Right, excuse my, but that's exactly what it said. And I told him. I said you ain't kicking anybody's ass.
Speaker 2:And in that moment, right, you got one or two ways. You can be really calm about this, or you shut it down. If you do not get control of it, you're going to have a bad situation. We get crazy people. Folks, sometimes you have to deal with it a little bit differently. Most of the time it's fine, you can talk your way through it, but, man, we get some crazy situations. 38 years plus of flying, you're going to get a lot of situations on board the aircraft.
Speaker 1:We don't have enough time even if we kept this podcast going for a long time of all the talk about all the different stories. But you know what flight attendants are? We? We are highly trained in diffusing situations. You don't have to be a big guy, you know to be, you know, uh, it doesn't matter what your size is and all this stuff, but we are trained to diffuse the situation and that's that's what's going to happen. We're going to shut down your party. We're going to shut down whatever. What's what's happening or whatever's causing this? Uh, uh, commotion or whatever on the aircraft Cause we got them in control.
Speaker 2:Best thing to do is diffuse and then don't stoke it, because you always get, there's always someone that wants to stoke it, right by a look or something like that. Don't stoke it If you. If you put out that fire, don't go stoking it again, man, Just leave it alone. Get them people to their destination, Let them go on about their ways. Nobody gets arrested. We don't have to do reports. Everybody's happy, so you know. But anyway, when I was reading this, I'd seen in 2024, man, there was a big increase of unruly passengers again. But just realize this as a passenger, you can be fined just as a general fine from the fed. Passenger, you can be fined just as a general fine from from the feds. You can be fined up at $37,000. Now, that's just a general fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's just not worth it. It's not. It's not this place, a place at a time to be doing this type of behavior. But anyways, let's move on. Man, we are, you know, there is all kinds of stuff happening in the news and one of the airlines, one of the discount airlines for the first time in their career history, just laid off 1750 employees.
Speaker 2:That's a lot.
Speaker 1:And one of the employees was the vice president of the company. Really, yeah, I mean this is all like they're going from corporate and like this is corporate layoffs. So it's not like frontline, it's not the flight attendants, it's not the pilots.
Speaker 2:They didn't give an explanation right yeah, I don't know what the.
Speaker 1:I actually have no idea why they're downsizing, but this is the first time ever that they've been laid off and you know it's very interesting to see that. You know this isn't just happening in big corporations and all this stuff. Small businesses and stuff, and you know smaller airlines too. They get affected by these layoffs and the change of. You know how we do business.
Speaker 2:But it's got to keep. You got to keep in competition, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of like you know. You know, right now Trump is kind of right-sizing the government. Right, I mean corporations. He's treating the government just like a business.
Speaker 2:So yeah, but we said that before you know me and you have had this conversation numerous times I've said it before the problem with our country is our country is ran by politicians and not business people. The United States is one of the biggest businesses that there is. You need somebody that knows contracts, knows what to do, not a politician that just makes freaking bull crap promises, but you need somebody that actually knows how to run a big company and cares about doing it. Because we've had politicians for years, and I'm not saying sides, I'm saying politicians, politicians, and they jacked it all up. They've jacked it up and you need business people. You need business people.
Speaker 1:The most amazing thing to me is that, like in in our country, there's so many intelligent business people, like you know, but those intelligent people are smart enough to not be in politics.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because of politics.
Speaker 1:Right, and then you get the mother-bringer that's out there right now, like Trump. That's like. You know what I'm going to take on it. He don't need to do this. No, no.
Speaker 2:If you go back to his early interview years ago, he never wanted to actually run for president when he was young, I mean, and that's when he was still a multimillionaire. Back then he didn't want to. But it's kind of ironic now in the position that he's in and he's surrounded by all business people, Right, Right, I mean. But everybody thinks it's there for their benefit. Well, we'll see, I mean. But you know, I mean as far as with this discount carrier and what's going on, I mean, well, I think that's going to be a future conversation. We're going to, you know, read about that and see exactly where they're going with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to read about that and see exactly where they're going with that. Yeah, I mean there's still like all these mergers pending right now, trying to figure out who's going to be merging with whether, like the discount carriers and stuff, trying to figure out what they're going to be doing. I mean there's more mergers to come.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I think the next five years is going to lay out a plan in the industry. I mean might be wrong, but I say the next five years there's going to be a lot of changes. Hey, let's go through some fun facts.
Speaker 1:Fun facts man 1957 was a Scandinavian airlines, uh, created his first route from Europe to the far East, and what was really cool about this route is it was the first line route that went directly over the North pole. Uh, and I thought this was like really fascinating. When I saw this in this fun facts I was like, wow, 1957 is when that happened.
Speaker 2:Now did it say what kind of plane it was?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it didn't say what type of plane, but it was interesting to me because I'm like today, in today's world, like we have planes in our company that we fly over the polar cap right now, right, and when we fly over the polar cap, um, you know, we plan for everything, you know we plan for disaster, we plan for, you know, uneventful things happening, and so the pilots have polar suits on our planes and people, people don't know this information and you know like like.
Speaker 1:Why would you have a polar suit? Well, if you have to land at an airport that's up close to the North Pole and you have to go and walk around the aircraft and get the aircraft back in the air, better have a polar suit, you better have that damn polar suit because this is going to be cold as hell out there.
Speaker 2:Remember the Shining? Yeah, you look like Jack Nicholson out in the Shining Right, but with a pilot's hat on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean like it's funny.
Speaker 2:But anyway, you know the captain ain't doing a walk around there and be like oh hell, no, you're going.
Speaker 1:But do you think this first flight had a polar suit, or did they even think about it?
Speaker 2:Oh. I can't even imagine the 1957, I mean you know you kind of wonder sometimes, even with the airplanes, if, uh, you know how cold it was on the inside of those airplanes. Fine, you know. I mean, I mean you just got you kind of wonder because the insulation, the way the airplanes were made, yeah, the height of where they're sustained.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, exactly, they didn't go as high as we go now in these days, right, but still, there's still the the temperature, you know, I mean the way temperature was I mean, it's cold I imagine it's cold because it's cold outside you don't have to fly it too high to get over to north pole to be cold. No, hell, no, you just hell.
Speaker 2:You said you sit in a passenger seat today and you're, you're by the window. I mean it's, it'll get cold. Right, planes get cold, man. I mean it's like 60 degree below zero out there, anytime, anytime you're on a plane and you're on that like close to one of the exits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's colder.
Speaker 2:Next, to the right, yeah, right, yeah it is.
Speaker 1:It is. It's cold, crazy. And unless you're on a like the, the bigger planes, like the wide bodies and stuff, a lot of them have heating uh systems within the doors and stuff like that. So they they don't. They're not as cold, but most the planes, the majority of those narrow body planes that we fly all over the united states, and those millions of flights every year, those are freaking. You know they're, they're cold, yeah yeah anyways, here's another one.
Speaker 1:Uh, you're gonna love this. February 25th is the day we officially celebrate chocolate covered nut day would that be like pecan clusters, um sure that That'd be good. Dude any type of chocolate-covered nuts. It's the official day of it.
Speaker 2:Put some little pecan clusters. I'd kill those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean, chocolate-covered nuts is one of my favorites man. I mean, I love some chocolate-covered nuts, Like any type of peanuts, like double-dipped chocolate peanuts. I like covered raisins too, though Raisins, oh yeah, but that's not today, I know.
Speaker 2:I still like them. Today is all about goobers. Hey, you know what happened in 1983? What's that? Michael Jackson's album Thriller, thriller Hit number one on the Billboard Dude. You know what that shit was? A bomb.
Speaker 1:You got to admit, man, billboard dude, you know what that shit was a bomb. You gotta admit, man. Yeah, how old were you, how old were we, like um 1983 so I was. I was a junior in high school I graduated high school that year and um, so I was 17 years old and, wow, yeah, that was. I knows like what state of life you're in during Thriller, right?
Speaker 2:Okay, what was the guy's name that did the voiceover on that, boris, was it?
Speaker 2:No no no, vincent, vincent, did you ever see that? Okay, they offered him a percentage of what Thriller sold to do it first of all, and he turned it down. Yeah, I seen this one time they offered him a percentage of Thriller and he had turned it down for a flat rate, because he said how do I know if this is going to take off and if people would actually even listen to this? And so he actually turned down the percentage of that. Now talk about a big damn mistake.
Speaker 1:Dude, it's one of those hindsight things you know, like you're like what? Why wouldn't you take a piece of it?
Speaker 2:The whole time that you're alive. You're sitting there saying that was the dumbest damn thing I ever did. Thriller, man, that thing went crazy. Today, though, I mean right, they still, they, they still do thriller on halloween.
Speaker 1:They do a bunch of it, yeah, yeah then so the guy, yeah, the guy's name was vincent price and he uh uh, he had that like he was, he always had that. It's like all those scary uh voices back in the day monster movies and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had a cool voice, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Thriller was. Thriller was like that just was like a whole new thing, Like when Michael Jackson did that and the dance came out and like that, that kind of like was like that first start of those like you know group dances, like everybody you know that started that. Like you, like everybody you know that started at. Like you know, like that, what did they call that? That mob dancing and stuff like that Flash dancing. Yeah, whatever it's like you know.
Speaker 2:That was cool, though him in that theater and all of a sudden he turned into like a zombie type. That was pretty sweet.
Speaker 1:The whole aspect. 1983, that happened. Anyways, 2018, this is crazy. Singer Barbra Streisand announced that she had her pet dog clone twice.
Speaker 2:That doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1:Talk about being attached to something. It's like you know. I mean, how many times have we had a dog or animal in our life that we absolutely loved, but to clone them again, like when you clone them, do you give them the same name?
Speaker 2:I'm sitting there thinking to myself why? But then again I'm thinking Barbra Streisand again.
Speaker 1:Fifi one, Fifi two, Fifi three. Yeah, that's some crazy stuff.
Speaker 2:Again, I got nothing.
Speaker 1:Go ahead yeah 1990, the New Zealand Navy ended its daily allowance to sailors of having rum every day.
Speaker 2:Did you know? Shortly after that, they lost half of them. How's that they left you know? Damn the sailors man, they're like no hell. No, no, no, no. This part of the damn military man. First of all, I was looking at it as if they had pictures of it I drew you into that?
Speaker 1:Sailors like lining up and they were like like they had like a ladle dipping into a cup, giving them their daily allowance of rum. Like I don't even know what the purpose of this is. Like every day I get you know this is this job so shitty, I need to get drunk, type of thing.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine? Just signed up and you're sitting there thinking, man, I'm going to leave. And what did you just say? No more rum, no more run. What, oh hell, no, oh, hell, no, no, no, no, no. Where's my paper at? Because I know that there's a clause against my ass.
Speaker 1:I signed up for rum every day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Get my ass out of this. All right, go to the next one.
Speaker 1:I mean come on this is crazy.
Speaker 2:That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so then the other thing that's really cool this week is in 1872, that Yellowstone National Park park was the uh protection act went into effect and making yellowstone the first national park in the world. Did you know that? Nope, I mean I was like what in 1872, before that we never had a national park anywhere in the world, I mean, in our lifetime. You know our generations and stuff. Obviously we're 18. Yellowstone's hugestone is huge, huge, huge, but it's I mean that whole. Have you seen any of the episodes of Kevin Costner doing that new Yellowstone?
Speaker 2:stuff. No, I've just seen that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've just seen that You've got to watch it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to. I've just seen it.
Speaker 1:So I mean I'm going to watch it like I like he's a great actor and the whole nine yards I mean. But just the information about that he has about Yellowstone and stuff, it is just phenomenal. I mean I started looking at this thing and I told my wife. I was like um, you know, normally we go on vacations, we go to beaches and stuff. I was like I've got to start going to national parks there's so many things that we don't know about.
Speaker 2:That's what I love about doing this a lot of times, because even throwing fun facts in there, this shit me and you didn't know about we'll find out about in doing the podcast. I mean it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Right, it's fun, it's some cool facts, it's some cool information and stuff. But I mean I just so much.
Speaker 2:We got so many national parks though, man, I mean, you know you could spend your whole lifetime You're not going to cover them. You wouldn't cover them Even if you spend a lifetime. You're not going to cover all the national parks.
Speaker 1:I got this poster here. It was in my office. Now that my office has been moved temporarily, but I got this poster that is like this scratch-off poster and so every time you go to a national park, you can scratch off the national park, right, yeah, dude, I've only been like and I don't know, we have like 50 or something like that. I've only been like 17 that's what I said.
Speaker 2:There's no way. I mean and and you and you work for an airline, I mean like it's, it's impossible, because I mean you, that's, that's really you got to make it a big thing for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not impossible, no, but it is hard to do to go see all these parts?
Speaker 2:It's not probable but, it's something I like. That part with you, it's not impossible. Yeah, yeah, but don't. Don't limit yourself.
Speaker 1:Probably, but uh, yeah, one of the things I got to do is get out here and go to these natural parts. I things I gotta do is get out here and go to these national parks. I mean, speaking about national parks, let's talk about our, our destination this week. The destination is baltimore, baltimore, maryland, baltimore. Man, every time we lay over there, have you laid over any place other than the inner harbor? No, yeah, the inner harbor. I mean for years and years and years I mean a whole entire career that I've been flying 35 years I've always stayed in inner harbor, always, probably will.
Speaker 1:It's the spot to go to. I mean, it's the central heart of, uh, what's happening down in, uh, baltimore. I'm not super familiar with baltimore city, so I'm gonna only talk about the things I know about. But in the inner harbor there's three museums there, three big ones, uh the maryland science center, the national aquarium and the american visionary arts museum. Um, it's all within this harbor area, but it was surrounding the harbor too. There's all these like food places and stores and, um, there's actually um, the uh, the trade centers there too. I mean there's all this cool stuff, but it's just a really cool area to go to Baltimore, I mean-.
Speaker 2:That's what's great. You go down there, though, and you just want to spend the day, have some lunch and stuff so many cool things to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just in one small area, just walking around that area and everything. I mean I normally walk around the piers and stuff and check out all the different uh the shops and stuff there. Um, the uh other thing that baltimore is known for is, uh, fort henry, and that's the home of the star spangled banner. So that's where, uh, francis ford scott had, or francis scott key, I'm sorry um wrote the national anthem and uh, and about us repelling the british.
Speaker 2:Like we repelled Canada last week.
Speaker 1:You going to write a song about it.
Speaker 2:I just had to throw that in there. I did like I love that little, that bout between USA hockey and Canada. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's kind of funny, you just brought that up, but go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Baltimore, baltimore. There's a lot of history there. A lot of you know significance. Baltimore's also known for being a. It used to be like a haven for pirates. So they got an area there that's that's this like pirate, you can go experience all this be a pirate for a day, type of thing, and they got bars and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2:Of course they got didn't know that one Right. Actually, I didn't know that one at all.
Speaker 1:But Baltimore's gotten some cool history and stuff. But in in addition to that, you know you're going to talk about the food, like food in Baltimore, like when you go to Baltimore, crabs I mean, everybody wants to get some Maryland crabs, right. I mean, and if you're going to really experience Baltimore, have you ever done where you go in and they pour the crabs on the table and you got a hammer and you're breaking the crabs and all that stuff?
Speaker 2:Have you ever done that?
Speaker 1:Dude, it's an experience. I mean, if you go to Baltimore, I would highly recommend one meal. Go do it, go teach yourself. The restaurants are teaching. One of the restaurants there is Nick's Fish House and they got the picnic tables. They got it covered with butcher block paper and you order these crabs and they dump the boiled crabs out on the thing. They got mallets there and there's a whole. You know they'll teach you on how to like, take apart the crab and how to eat the crab and everything. It's an experience, man. But if you like crab and I love crab you crab eater oh yeah, and I shoot.
Speaker 2:I love all that, and the only thing I don't like is mushrooms, so I'm good Mushrooms. No mushrooms or crabs, only thing I don't like.
Speaker 1:So yeah, as far as crab, yeah, but yeah they'll throw them on the table when you crack them and hit them with the hammer and peel off the shell and all that stuff. Like it's an experience, I definitely, if you get a chance to be in that area or be in Maryland, really, uh, get some crabs and experience that whole process, it's cool. But another area that is like really, really cool, that's just down the street, that's outside the Harbor. Like you walk out, there's this whole neighborhood and it's little Italy.
Speaker 2:That's you. I don't care if there's a little Italy, any in any damn city he's going to find it, dude, this little Italy area has all kinds of restaurants.
Speaker 1:I'm talking, you name it. They got all these pasta places making fresh made pasta. They got all different types of and because little Italy is like this concentration of food, like just surrounding it, anywhere outside of that whole entire neighborhood, there's just more and more food. If you open up a map, google Earth, it, you're going to see so many different restaurants. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:That's one thing I can say about with you, is that a long time ago, sean, like when we were eating Italian food one time and I was like you know, this tastes like Italian. He's like this shit's not Italian. And then he was like Italian food is tomato-based. This is like a sugar-based sauce. Yeah, this is Americanized, so yeah, so he introduced me to actually true Italian, and man, what a big-ass difference. Yeah, man, I love that.
Speaker 1:Well, it's like farmer's dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's us getting back to eating food that's real, natural Tastes, like Italy. There's a different taste to it and the flavor's amazing. When you start getting into flavors of food when it's actually real food, come on, it's hard to go back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I still remember that same day that you told me they're like that shit is not Italian. And you're right, though I mean I was looking at you like well, of course it is. It's spaghetti sauce. No, that's crap. And ever since then it's like I'm stuck on true Italian tomato-based sauces. Yeah, that's it right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man. Anyways, Baltimore it's an experience. I mean, they got all the pro teams there and stuff like that too too, to go visit and see games and all that stuff, Camden Field, all that stuff. But get to Baltimore, it's really cool.
Speaker 2:Very cool.
Speaker 1:So, wrapping up for the day, we're going to do our quote here. The quote today is a little bit, it's just a simple quote. The sky is not the limpet, it's just the beginning. You know, yep, I mean. It's just the beginning.
Speaker 2:You know, yep, I mean it's true, though I mean, you know, that's the one thing I always love. This saying, too, is like when you fall down, fall on your back, because when you look up, right, there's only one way to go, because we talk about that sometimes in life and we've both been dealing with that Shit goes wrong, right? So take a look up, man. Sky is the limit, just beginning of what's going to happen. Sky is not the limit. Well, it's Well. Yeah, I guess it is. It's not the limit, man.
Speaker 1:You don't limit yourself. That's the whole point of it. It's just, don't limit it. It's just the beginning, beginning. Yeah, listening to us this week. We're going to see you next week on Cabin Pressure. I was just laughing because I said that wrong I know, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 2:It was meant the right way, but it just said the wrong way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do that a lot. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Alright. Well, we'll see you next week on Cabin Pressure. Everybody take care.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'll get the quote a little bit right next week. But hey you guys have a great week. We'll work on it All, right, bye, bye.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Share this episode with someone that you think might like it too.
