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.
Shawn and G, with their wealth of knowledge and affable personalities, create an atmosphere akin to sharing a drink and captivating stories with friends at 30,000 feet. "Cabin Pressure!" seeks to entertain a wide audience—whether listeners are aviation enthusiasts, frequent flyers, or simply fans of a good story.
The podcast provides entertainment for anyone traveling, enduring the daily commute, or seeking an amusing escape at any time. With "Cabin Pressure," listeners are encouraged to fasten their seatbelts, stow their tray tables, and prepare for takeoff into an engaging adventure.
Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Safety concerns, disruptive passengers, and theft syndicates might sound like the plot of an action film, but for flight attendants, it's just another day at the office. While recent headlines suggest our skies are becoming more dangerous, the reality is far less alarming when you consider the 45,000 flights that take off safely each day.
Shawn and G pull back the curtain on what's really happening in commercial aviation beyond the sensational headlines. From the Chicago O'Hare airport shooting to engine incidents making national news, they contextualize these rare events while sharing their daily experiences with the true challenges of air travel – namely, spring break travelers who don't understand basic airplane etiquette and families who treat aircraft like their personal playgrounds.
The hosts reveal fascinating insights about organized crime targeting air travelers through the "Steal While You Sleep" syndicates that specifically target passengers with expensive jewelry on high-value routes. These elaborate operations involve multiple conspirators, from jewelry store employees to airline staff, creating a sophisticated theft network that operates silently at 35,000 feet.
Perhaps most importantly, they discuss the critical role flight attendants play as first responders during emergencies, and why passengers who stop to grab their carry-ons during evacuations endanger everyone's lives. As one host emphasizes, "Split seconds matter" when getting passengers safely off a plane.
The episode wraps with a spotlight on Tampa as a destination, highlighting Ybor City's vibrant nightlife, the picturesque Riverwalk, and must-visit restaurants, including the intriguingly named "Naked Farmer."
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A shooting in Chicago O'Hare's airport. Spring break travelers, college students, inconsiderate families Is it safe to travel All this? Next on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2:This is cabin pressure what's up people?
Speaker 1:This is cabin pressure People. I got to try to do something different every, every time we start a show like I'm here. Let's go. Weather's changing man, Weather's changing. The weather's changing. You know what I'm like, uh, last night, yesterday, I'm like, um, we were outside, uh, doing some uh photo stuff and uh, and the weather's so awesome, man, you sit in the sun right now. It's just like.
Speaker 2:It's amazing how you start feeling right yeah, it just changes.
Speaker 1:Like you're refreshed, like the vitamin D is just soaking into your skin and oh, it's amazing. No clouds in the sky, no clouds. It hasn't been. We haven't had clouds for a few days now, which is a great streak here in ohio.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a big streak, right. I'm like oh man, you got to what's that big shiny thing up in the side.
Speaker 1:Well, now I'm starting to look at golf courses like really hard, really hard. I'm getting.
Speaker 2:The itch is happening well, it's because you live on one too right, you know?
Speaker 1:I mean look out your back, yeah you look out the back door and boom, I'm salivating and ready to go. I know my wife. My wife's the same way. So the itch has happened. Right now it's that time of year. She's more than you probably. What's that Itching?
Speaker 2:Yeah, right.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah.
Speaker 2:She actually is a better golfer.
Speaker 1:She's a better golfer than me and she plays way more than me, amazingly enough, and she works Sean hits houses though. No, not so much anymore. My game's gotten tighter now, but I used to nail the shit out of some houses.
Speaker 2:I've hit cars, I've hit houses, whatever you know.
Speaker 1:whatever, it's all good. At least they know you're here right, they oh there's a lot of people I didn't wouldn't have ever known if it wasn't for a golf ball so what the hell's been going on this week?
Speaker 1:uh this week, uh still uh trying to wrap up my basement stuff and uh, get that all wrapped up. I'm hoping to finalize everything by next week. That would be so good to get back in my office and be done with that. And then we've been working on. I had a friend, a professor, actually visit me yesterday and we're working on an art project from. She's working on people born in 1965. We're doing this like generational thing and there's nothing significant to 1965. It's just that we're just like looking at. You know, we're 65ers, are all turning 60 this year, so we're kind of like just like looking at this whole thing. Got this whole plan with this. We've been talking for about a year and a half, two years on this project, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:So what are you doing? You just for about a year and a half, two years on this project, but it's, it's pretty cool. So what are you doing?
Speaker 1:you're just taking a picture, I mean all you guys together.
Speaker 1:There's uh like stages of this, like she's doing a whole portrait series because we're photographers, so we're, you know, doing this photography thing. But he's she's also doing this really other cool thing where we're gonna get people to volunteer to give an archive of like pictures of them from time they were born to today and then what we're going to take at all those pictures and she's going to make that into a giant collage If you can imagine this like in a huge, like you know, museum, whatever collage on the wall that runs this wall of all these generational photos of all these people that have volunteered. And it's interesting in two aspects. One, it's just cool to see all these people that have volunteered. And it's interesting in two aspects. One, it's just cool to see all these pictures, but it's also gonna be like an archive of the history of photography and the processes that happen, so people that are heavily into photography and stuff. You're gonna see these different styles of uh processes that make you know, from a polaroid to, you know, digital you're actually.
Speaker 2:Is it different pictures of you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's pictures. So we're getting people to volunteer pictures of themselves from the time they were born. Try to get like a yearly picture of them, as many years as possible of them.
Speaker 2:Oh, I so want to see the one of you look like Lionel Richie.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, you know you've already seen it, you got that stache going on, man Richie.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, you know, you've already seen it, you got that stash going on, man. I mean, I, oh God, I want to see that.
Speaker 1:Oh, we got you know in the grade school pictures, are you haven't? You've never seen the picture of me with the uh the shirt with the orange uh deers on it. No-transcript a group of people working on this. So hopefully it's going to end up and we're. The target end date is actually next year, but we'll see that's cool yeah but then so what did you have to do? Bud, three words, man, three words three words.
Speaker 2:What's that? Spring break travel, oh, suck a big.
Speaker 1:Can you say the big?
Speaker 2:suck. You know it's amazing, though it was truly amazing with, with, about travel, really, with all these instances that we talk about right on the, on the, on the plane, it's a small percentage of people.
Speaker 1:Oh, for sure. Right, I mean it's a small percent, it's the incidents and everything that we see on the news about all airline stuff. Doesn't matter incidents.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about that today too.
Speaker 1:It's just that you know it's such a small percentage of those people and you know, right now we have the ebb and flow of our, our customers right when, right now, it's all these, you know, non travelers. It's the non. You know, the business travelers are always there, right, but the right now we got the seasonal vacation travel. College kids, yeah, families yeah, idiots that don't know what to do.
Speaker 2:You get, you get, get these some of these college kids and they're gonna I know, they're going to have fun, but man, I'm just I'm looking at him, I'm like you know, I I just do not understand how you even are getting through school right now you know the uh, uh, I was thinking about this too.
Speaker 1:It's like that, our tolerance, like remember, like when we were in our twenties, like like spring break, this time of season, like us dealing with this, we have a different perspective on it. Like when we were in our twenties we were like we got that whole thing and we were like, hey, you know, we're going to be on a labor, we want to be included, type of thing, right. And now we're older, we're like you, stupid assholes, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2:That's daily, though. I mean that is daily, daily. You're looking at them. You're just shaking your head, right, right. Have you ever got on a flight and you look at this person and they just react. And one of these young kids. You just want to reach over there, just shake them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it happened a lot this week yep, this is, this is a, this is a season then then these families, they come on board and we talk about this all the time.
Speaker 2:You got to pick up after your kids, folks, you got to pick up after your kids.
Speaker 1:I mean you, you come on board and you just totally trash the plane when we say trash the plane, we're talking about like crumbs everywhere, food all over the ground. There's trash everywhere. They never saw anybody walking by saying trash, they just destroy it.
Speaker 2:I know you don't have any children, right, but if you did Right and you was in a restaurant and those kids dumped something on the floor, right?
Speaker 1:you're gonna pick it up, everybody's gonna pick it up it's gonna be reaction, like you know, on the plane nope, they can do everything they can. They can, uh, piss shit, throw up whatever, yep like they don't, they don't care and, like some, most people will react it for the, for the benefit of the doubt, like 99 of the people will be like. You know, help me, I need help, I need to clean this up, whatever, I'm sorry, whatever, but then we have those families, right.
Speaker 2:Families. You got that, Don't give a shit. Then you got that cheap-ass travel going down to the cruise lines too. You know what I mean. They got that group on there, and you know what I mean? They, they got those on that group on there and that's. That's unbelievable, I mean that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Clientele in different markets. Like it is, it doesn't matter. Like you know flight attendants, we know the routes. Like we know the routes and we know the clientele on those routes, like, what are we going to expect? So you know, we're going. If you're going from Newark down to fort myers, we know what we're gonna get. We're getting all these like wheelchair city right, yeah you know, like we know, the markets, each, each, each type of flight is dictates, uh, the historical who's traveling on those routes.
Speaker 2:But, uh, this spring break, right now, you get these families that are just like boom, it's like nuclear disaster is coming and 98 of the people that are actually traveling are looking these people as they're bored too and there's like they're, they're thinking to themselves. Please Lord, don't let them. Let them sit next to me. You know that too. I mean, we're talking and I said this is a small percentage of people, but it's such a small percentage and you see them on social media they blow it completely out because it is a small percentage, but it's a small percentage that affects a lot, right? Right, it does. I mean because it'd be a big pain in the ass.
Speaker 1:One of my peeves is like I'm sitting on the plane, I'm a passenger, and you see those little kids coming down and you're like please, don't have that little shit behind me kicking my seat.
Speaker 2:There was a grandmother. She was boarding with the little girl and they were really cute. Don't get me right. The flight attendant up front tried to help the little girl because it was a step up. Grandma, don't touch her. Yeah, I'm like, okay, let her face plant, that's fine. I mean, what is that? I mean you? It's amazing people, this just happened. I mean I, I was just my, my face, my eyes were open, mouth was open. I'm like she was trying to help this little girl not fall, and you just want her to. Well, don't touch her.
Speaker 1:That's a weird reaction because we're like the service people on the planet. Yeah Right, we're there to help you, we're there to assist you, we're there to explain things that you don't understand, keep everybody in order, all that stuff. But yeah, that's kind of a weird action.
Speaker 2:Welcome on board. Don't touch her, yeah.
Speaker 1:When, when someone that type of reaction, I'm like wait a minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Are we looking at human trafficking right now or something you?
Speaker 2:know, that.
Speaker 1:That's kind of like those senses start going off when weird reactions like that happen, right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So beginning of this, I mean the beginning of this month I've been doing two day, three day trips.
Speaker 1:I know you're going to say something about it again. But yeah, I've been doing two, three day trips. Junior puke yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is what you think. Yeah, but anyway, I've been going to some of these destinations for spring break Cancun, but I went to Dallas the other day. Dallas, laid over in Dallas, dallas-fort Worth what?
Speaker 1:city. Laid over in Dallas-Fort Worth Sean. It's like there's two cities there.
Speaker 2:There's.
Speaker 1:Dallas and there's Fort Worth and there's an airport right in the middle of it splat.
Speaker 2:See, we go through this shit all the time right. We do this all the time right. Which one is it? This is him. This is him. He just can't say, oh, it's Dallas-Fort Worth right. He's like, well, which city is it?
Speaker 1:Well, you know why? Because, man, there's different things to do in each one. Like, fort Worth is my jam. I love going there. I got some places to eat there that I like. Dude, I got to go there. You're with me, you're going to nobody, all right. Yeah, well, it's dallas, fort worth at the airport.
Speaker 2:Oh, airport, okay, airport now, is that okay? Yeah, you know, when I was, when I was going there, it reminded me of a story a long time ago. We were coming in, and every time I come into dallas, I don't know, just, it goes back to this little story. Uh, we were coming in uh late at night and we're leaving the airport. You know how you have to leave the airport kind of walk down and you take a right, come out. Well, as we're coming out, there's this guy with a big bundle of flowers sitting out there and I was like I was looking at him, I was joking around with the crew and I told him. I said, look, if it's this late at night and a dude's out there with a big bundle of flowers and he's still standing there, he got stood up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something's, something's not right. Right, he got stood up.
Speaker 2:I'm like if he's out there, I mean because he's got flowers, that means she'd be anxious to see him. His ass is going, you know she's. He stood up. So the closest I got, you would not believe this. What's that? I knew him. You knew the dude with the I know him too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do, oh, wow, okay you do.
Speaker 2:But I walked up to him I was like, damn, what are you doing here? He's like, well, he goes. I met this girl. He goes, and you know she's supposed to come pick me up. And I was like, well, have you talked to her? And he's like, no, he goes. She's supposed to pick me up at this time. And he goes yeah, she's running a little late. I said, dude, she ain't coming, she is not coming.
Speaker 1:This is like we can do stories of flight attendants that do online dating for other cities. This dude flew to this city, yeah, and he's trying to connect with this gal, and boom, and he's like.
Speaker 2:But Sean, he's not getting out now because it's so late, right, exactly. So you're sitting there thinking that you're going to, you're going to go hook up with our, hook up with this girl, spend the time you know with her and and stay with her. Now, you, you, you need a hotel room too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this also smells like a scam, right Like are you really sucker. I felt so bad. You got to tell me who this is later, I will.
Speaker 2:So anyway, I just told him, I said look, when you realize she ain't coming, you know back then, back then. This is, I'll tell you. A little while ago we were at the La Quinta.
Speaker 1:La Quinta. We haven't stayed in La Quinta.
Speaker 2:Do you remember what was across from the La Quinta over there?
Speaker 1:What Denny's Hooters Hooters? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, the old Hooters Hooters.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I told him. I said, when you realize that she ain't coming, I said, look, just call me, I'll tell them that I'm going, you know right. And and you come over and uh and crash, yeah, crash. And then just come over to the hooters and have a beer, right. So I know, sooner got the hotel, he calls me up. He's like, gee, he goes. I'm on my way. I was like we'll get rid of the flowers because that shit ain't for me oh, that's hilarious oh my god, dallas it.
Speaker 2:it just killed me, remind me. But anyway, went down to Cancun too. Do you know what they do now with the international, with us when we're down there?
Speaker 1:In Cancun, like going through customs and stuff.
Speaker 2:You know when we have sit time, because we've got a lot of sit time down there. Oh, wait, wait, have you done that yet? No, I've been hours of airport appreciation time In Cancun, yep.
Speaker 1:That's bullshit.
Speaker 2:It is. But instead of going through customs now, they let us sit in that moldy hallway.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:You know that hallway that smells like mold.
Speaker 1:They didn't renovate that thing, got gnats in it and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But we don't want to go through customs, but you don't want to go through customs, right, right, so you sit there on that little windowsill for three hours. Oh dude, the life of a flight attendant, yeah, Isn't that something.
Speaker 1:That's just bullshit. Well, you know what? Here it is Company to company, contract to contract. You know some companies. You don't have those. You have rules. You have rules Say, hey, you know, you sit us here for so long you're going to pay us, type of thing. But when you don't have rules like that, like we don't, then we're sitting in hallways.
Speaker 2:You got to love it, though when you're telling a story to somebody, you're like, hey, where'd you go? You're like, oh man, I was down in Cancun. Oh, my gosh, blue water, scott. No, I sat my ass on a ledge, right. I waited for a plane to come in.
Speaker 1:The other thing is like because our contract sucks, you know we have these like 17-, 18-hour layovers and they never put us on the beach. Nope, that's BS.
Speaker 2:So I got sat on a ledge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So then went to Sacramento.
Speaker 1:Sacramento, yeah, you know, I like.
Speaker 2:Sacramento. Well, I'm sitting there thinking this is going to be great, right, Get to California, go out there, and the weather was better than Cleveland that's easy it was better in cleveland. No, it's better in cleveland oh really, yeah, I left. It was beautiful here when sacramento raining. Yeah, that's that's. That is uh rarity yeah, that's a that really sucks so I don't care you get on a plane, you're sitting there going to california like oh, sunny california, not today not today.
Speaker 1:I caught that like the what's the percentage in california? Like bad days it's got to be like. I mean just I, we only get like 160 days a year or something like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know that. I mean what percentage is a bad day, my day 20% of the bad Mine.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, that's it, man, that's our business, man.
Speaker 2:That was it, man. Oh, I changed the oil on the cars too. That was a lot of fun. Oh, I changed the oil on the cars too. That was a lot of fun. Oil on the cars too, that's my day off.
Speaker 1:Okay, first of all, quit doing that shit. You're getting too old.
Speaker 2:No, I'm still doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my ass will be a jippy lube in and out and you'll be still sweating underneath the car. Probably true.
Speaker 2:That is true. That is true. You know, we were talking about this, the last podcast, and there's a lot of things going on in the industry right now, right, I mean you know there's a lot of stuff. I mean you see it in the news, right? 45,000 flights a day, though. People, 45,000 flights a day. Think about that for a minute, okay. So you're going to have something that's going to happen, and I get it, and it's on a bigger scale. I'm on those planes every single day. I'm not afraid to get on an airplane, I'm not. I mean, I'm just telling you I'm not. And we have 45,000 a day, and you're seeing one or two incidents. Okay, an engine, an engine catches fire.
Speaker 1:One or two incidents that might happen, like week or whatever Start times, and that there are days go by that nothing happens.
Speaker 2:But a fire with an engine. How many times on a freeway have you seen a car catch fire?
Speaker 1:Not often, but super rare.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you'll see them Right, right, right. Yep, you'll see a car fire, oh yeah. In our lifetime we've seen a few car exactly there was one, actually there was one, uh, out in front of the airport. Uh, I think it was down in fort lauderdale not recently. Oh yeah, yeah, there's a car that caught, that caught fire. But you, you'll see a blurb on that.
Speaker 2:I mean you, you know, but it's an engine and and that's the thing. Okay. So you have, you have an airplane, and something happens. And then next, you know, the media just blows this shit out of proportion. And don't get me wrong, it's something that does happen, but you're making it sound like it's this huge thing, like all this. There's this big thing going on in the industry that where are they having all these problems?
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it's every time, you, everybody's gonna gonna experience this. You know the the rate of things happening now is just astronomical, it's. It's not that it's astronomical, it's just that it's being reported so often, like news is just like anything, and everything is on the internet.
Speaker 1:I mean from you know everybody's got a phone yeah, everybody's got a phone, there's cameras everywhere and there's always a video of now for everything that's happening, which is there's a good and bad to all that stuff. It's good to see. So you have recorded facts, right, right and what really happened, and then you also have, you know, the uh, you know the bad part is doing it all at the wrong time.
Speaker 2:More important, Sean, who gets their ass off the plane.
Speaker 1:Who gets their ass off the plane? The passengers?
Speaker 2:right, but who gets them off the plane? Oh, we do, dude. Yeah, exactly, yeah, we're the people who get them off. You want to know why we're there when you see these few things happen. When they do happen, you see a bunch of people coming off the airplane, don't you? Yep, you, yep, and you see him sliding down, slide, going out windows, coming off the planes, evacuating, getting away from the airplane. That's the reason why we're there, folks we're there, believe it or not, I mean that's we're there to for service.
Speaker 1:But the main thing is, when that does happen, when it occurs, we're there to get your ass off that plane right, we're trying to assist you in every way possible to keep you as safe as possible in all situations, it doesn't matter once the you know, evacuation happens, all that stuff that I saw only like, uh, there's one that that incident that happened up, uh, with the plane you know flipping over and all that stuff. You know, I did see a video where flight attendants like trying to get people away. Right, you know, like, so you don't see a lot of those videos every now and then you get to see that part of the whole thing. But like our job doesn't just stop after, like everybody just gets off the plane, we're still, like you know, triaging and trying to figure out who's hurt, who's there, is everybody there doing head counts? All that stuff, trying to get assistance from wherever we can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a best part of those videos, sean? Best part of those videos is you get to see how stupid passengers are when they take their bags off. It just shows the importance of life, right, right, I mean the plane's burning, you're having all these things, but you've got to take your bag off now.
Speaker 2:That makes no sense at all. Your life was so important that later on that you have something against the airline right for this. The most important thing to you is to get that damn suitcase off, Not your life, Not fearing for your life.
Speaker 1:There's nothing that you bring on a plane. That's so important Because technology today, like everything's backed up to a cloud. 99% of everybody that's like doing some type of business, whether it's you know they got their business computer or whatever. It's all backed up and everything. Like You're not going to lose stuff. It's so rare that you're going to lose that Something that's so important that you've got to be risking your life for those few seconds or risking somebody else's life. What people don't understand about these things is that when they're doing these actions of grabbing their bags and holding the things, split seconds matter.
Speaker 2:Well, your ass will be in the clouds. Sean, you'll be a spirit. You ain't got to worry about no damn clouds. Your ass, don't get off the plane. You will definitely be in the clouds, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you have to be freaking. People are only thinking about themselves and they don't realize that, especially like in a fire man, there's some historical fires that have happened in the industry where, just because after the you know, this is after, uh, the action report of the what happened and stuff in tsb put now, but whatever somebody had like slowed down, because they had slowed down the exit at a certain point, it blocked the exit for all the people behind them and if they would have had that split second, so many more lives would have been saved, you know.
Speaker 2:But it was some asshole grabbing a bag. They really don't understand is how fire runs inside of an aircraft. Right sean. If they ever seen that, trust me, that bag you, your ass would be off that plane. Just get off the get off the plane. Let me tell you something as soon as that flame gets inside that cabin, you do not want to be anywhere near that no, the other thing about this thing too.
Speaker 1:This is just a point from our perspective, as, being flight attendants, you know, I don't know why we haven't been designated as first responders. We are the, we are a frontline first responder in a safety industry, right, I mean the flight attendants. Millions, if not thousands, hundreds of thousands of flight attendants all over the world react. We are their first responders. We have a medical emergency on a plane, we got them. We have a incident on a plane, we have, uh, you know, incident off the plane. Flight attendants are first responders and they should be classified as first responders. That this is just my opinion about it. I know that afa yeah, is um advocating for trying to get that push through Congress to show that we are recognized as first responders, because it doesn't take a smart person to understand that we are the first line of response.
Speaker 2:Well, they only understand. That was when your ass is getting them off the plane. And see, that's exactly what I'm saying. When you see these incidents, there's people getting off and that's us. It doesn't matter what you think of us on the plane, what we're doing on the plane when those things happen, trust me, we're the ones that are getting you guys off. But you know, other thing I want to talk about is what really things that happen more on an airplane is, when you get these ding-dongs, that that like these one percenters right, there's less than 1% but these dumb people like this dummy that was vaping on that flight Do you see him that diverted? Are you kidding me? First class pastor.
Speaker 1:We talked about this First class pastor. Did we talk about this last week, right?
Speaker 2:I don't know if we did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we talked about this. Him vaping and diverting and all that stuff. Like it's a uh uh, these people are like it's it's to follow up on this whole thing. Is that, like? This kid posted more videos on tiktok, like you know, saying you know baby, f the f, the airline, and you know I'm vaping, you know, but all they're gonna do is use this in court you gotta love that, though they're so stupid that they they keep posting these videos about what they did right.
Speaker 2:And so, the next thing you know, they're in court, sitting there and they're like so are you going to do it again? Oh no, Well, you just said it in a video, you dummy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's play this. This is how you respond when you're not in front of everybody trying to lie. How about that dumb tiktok trend? Did you see that one? Oh my gosh, this is the stupidest trend out there in tiktok. But you know what? I'd love to see how many people don't make this and what we're talking about. Tiktok has this thing where you, these uh, vacation travelers right now spring breakers right are trying to show up to an airport and get onto the plane 15 minutes before departure.
Speaker 2:That's the dumbest damn thing, sean. I mean seriously. That is the stupidest thing. You pay all this money, so here's the thing.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing these TikTokers don't get it because they don't do their homework and research One. Most airlines can leave 10 minutes early, and we do, and we do, man. So let's start just from that aspect. They're going to show up 15 minutes, so they've given themselves five minutes to step out of their car, get through security down to wherever the jetway is, the gate they're at, and, depending on the airport I mean, I know some airports there's no way we're airborne. Yeah, that plane is gone.
Speaker 1:We haven't shown up and, literally, if you don't, you're not checked in at the front counter, or they have any. You know any way to make them aware that you're in the airport?
Speaker 2:They're not holding the plane for you.
Speaker 1:And they're not going to, even if you, they know that they're not necessarily going to hold the plane. And they've called your name a few times so you think it's funny. You'll be on that dumb video that you got too right. Hey, but they're calling your name. Yeah, but if that video is so important to you for tiktok, do it, man.
Speaker 2:I I just I mean some of these stupid trends that they do.
Speaker 1:I mean it's unbelievable well, I mean, how many times have you seen something on tiktok that is like they, they do this trend and it's so not safe and like, like that cinnamon, that cinnamon trim, do you remember that? Uh, these kids were like oh yeah, yeah they were. They take a tablespoon, yeah, cinnamon, and then they try to swallow and eat it I kids, kids were like killing themselves over this, over a stupid day I mean, there's certain ones that are like you know, like the ice bucket thing was cool last, but you know yeah, you can get hypothermia.
Speaker 1:There's all kinds of stuff and people were doing in all different types of temperatures and stuff, but it was a split second thing and people weren't getting hurt from it. But there's so many things, so many trends out there that you gotta, you know, just think about it. Take a second to think is this really important?
Speaker 2:okay, I I like this next one though first class passenger vegas called 9-1-1. Call 9-1-1 for what they said. He was so stoned that he was calling them to make the airline depart.
Speaker 1:I would love to have just like a series of stupid 911 calls. Honestly, I wish 911, I don't know if that agency could like release over a certain time like historical stupid calls, because I mean it would be so entertainment to listen to some of these stupid things.
Speaker 2:Do you think he's going?
Speaker 1:Yeah, mean, here's the thing, it's a you like say you were on our flight, if he was calling 9-1-1 and you know talking all this stuff, right right, we don't know, and you know we were walking by doing our job and everything, and he hangs up the phone, we don't know, right, right, but I mean, could 9-1-1 stop the flight from going? Uh, yeah, they could and be like, you know we need to get this guy off or whatever, and are you?
Speaker 2:it made sense. So because, vegas man, it just from the time you're walking that airport, all around just weed, that's all.
Speaker 1:You smell horrible man, I just can't stand that smell we talked about that last week.
Speaker 2:Big old skunk smell. Can't stand it.
Speaker 1:The skunky, smell, nasty. You're talking about this. Here's the crazy thing. So, like we went last weekend to Indiana back for our last visit for about a month. Here we're going to kind of like take a break here because we've got things settled down and stuff. But we had this hotel we stay in, always stay in there, and but we had this hotel we stay in, always stay in there, and they're always super kind to us, upgrade our room and all this stuff. So we walk in this room that we always, pretty much always stay in. They know us by name when we walk in the door and I open the door, I open the door. The whole room was just reeking, reeking of marijuana.
Speaker 2:I can't stand that.
Speaker 1:And we had just stayed in this room like four days prior. So between that some yahoos had a little party in this room and it was just reeking. But amazing enough I didn't realize this that the hotels had this thing called a hurricane. But amazing enough, I didn't realize this that the hotels had this thing called a hurricane. And they come in the room and they just freaking bomb the crap out of this room and spray all this stuff that encapsulates the smell and boom, it was gone. Man, I was like I couldn't believe it, but I mean it was everywhere. I mean, in the freaking, you open up the closet in the room and you just like it was like whoosh in your face, you know, like it was. So people just don't realize how it just like permeates and sticks.
Speaker 2:Everywhere we go anymore. I mean some of these cities, man, it just smells, yeah it just smells.
Speaker 1:I can't stand it. But that's, we'll be dealing with that for a while All right, check this out.
Speaker 2:This was actually. I didn't hear about this and I started reading about it. It was called Steal While you Sleep. Steal While you Sleep. I thought it was interesting. I was like I got to read this. You know what it is.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:So these crooks, what they do is on these high-dollar flights where they know that people travel with a lot of money, like routes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, certain routes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:All right, like Hong Kong and Dubai, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:China anywhere, you know? So what they do is this whole organization, and I've never even heard of this. Is that? What they do? Is they target passengers that have a lot of jewelry on board the flight? Oh right, they can try to steal their shit of jewelry on board the flight. Oh right, they can try to steal their shit, yeah, on the plane, but it's crazy how deep it goes. So it starts at the very beginning. When this passenger or this person buys this high-end jewelry from these jewelry stores, one of their people is working in them.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So they talk to them, they find out that they're traveling and they give them a little information. Okay, so they're writing that information down. So then what they do is they give it to an airline personnel that actually works for this group of criminals too. So then that airline person he writes, or she writes all their information down. They determine whether this is enough money for them to send a crew on. So they have a crew of people that come on. Now there's usually, they said, a person in every cabin.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, man. It's just a whole syndicate of people that are like trying to do this whole scam Like it gets even better, Sean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it gets better. So this person they get up and they know that this bag is in the overhead bin. So one of them will get up and they go in the overhead bin and they retrieve that bag. Now, if they can get the stuff out, they'll just leave the bag there. If they can't, and they feel like they're being seen, they'll move the bag to another bin. They'll take the stuff out. Now, it's kind of tricky from there. So they take the stuff out and they'll put this bag either back or they'll put it in another place. Well, they walk this and they give it to the other person. So then they go back and they sit down and then this other person has the stuff and then they go give it to the other person.
Speaker 2:So if somebody actually comes on board and they see that these jewels and all this stuff is missing, they start looking through people, right, and they've seen the person with the bag and so they identify that person. Well, then he or she doesn't have it. So then they look to everybody else. It's that game of cat and mouse. So this third person what they do is they hide it on the airplane somewhere, because they have ground staff working at the airports that come in and take this so they don't get popped in customs. Yeah, now it's been such a big thing, though it's been such a big thing when the aircraft gets met this whole group of security people from Hong Kong come on board the plane Right, and then what they do is they stop everybody. They go through all their stuff when they know it's gone, but they said nine times out of ten it's not gone. Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 1:No, isn't that crazy? Well, here's my. I mean, if I'm a courier of jewelry and stuff, I ran into a couple people here in the States that do that type of stuff. They go back and forth to like Central America, mexico, whatever, and they're buying massive quantities of jewelry back and forth, taking it back. You know, I don't know if I'm just traveling alone with a unlocked suitcase, you know it's gonna have to be locked and um, and you need somebody else with a pair of eyes.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't be doing it by yourself, right it's kind of like I truly don't think that they're thinking about it, right, right, they probably, they, probably, they probably are thinking nobody knows that they have it on them and, and you know, they just put in the bag right over there, over over their uh, their seat yeah, but these scams and stuff can only go on.
Speaker 1:So so long before they start, you know, the uh industry starts getting, you know, figuring out how to prevent this. You know, because I'm thinking, like, if this person never goes to sleep and they've sent these three people like and this guy's watching, you know, they're watching their bag the whole time or uh what, what if they like, get these three people on and the person puts a bag under their seat in front of them?
Speaker 1:you know, like, like, and I'm saying like, how are they? You know they're getting lucky in certain ways where the person goes to sleep. If the person goes to sleep, they're being, they're stupid. But um, if they're carrying that much, you know, valuables and all that stuff, well, these flights, these flights, you know how long they're, they're going to sleep.
Speaker 2:They're going to sleep sometime. You know that they're up. They're up in the, in the um first class cabins. They're going to sleep. I mean, it's just a matter of time and that person, as soon as they they see them go to sleep, this crew goes into stealing this stuff. Right, I just thought this whole thing was really interesting.
Speaker 1:I mean it's interesting to a point. I mean obviously there's always people looking to scan somebody some way, somehow.
Speaker 2:Well, how many times have flight attendants had their stuff stolen? Oh, I've been one of the victims of that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Early in my career I had somebody steal something on a plane. When I'm, yeah, early in my career I had a uh, somebody steal something on the plane when I'm on the plane. We only had a handful of people on the plane. I know there was a person on the plane that took them, took the item that I had and uh, there was nothing I could do about it. This is like way, way pre 9-11 and all this stuff. And uh, the person just took it off the plane and there's nothing I could do to stop him. You know, because I didn't see it, I couldn't tell them. You know this is, I had my suspicions and all this stuff, but you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean, like we've had I had a security person in Mexico security person in Mexico go up into our overhead bin, take one of my bags down, started going through my bag. I caught her in the bag. I caught her in it. I went and had their supervisor came up and and she was.
Speaker 1:She gave me some lame excuse like she thought it was a another bag. I said you know what crew bags? Yeah, crew bags are super obvious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you gotta make sure they're not putting anything in it yeah, I remember.
Speaker 1:I remember when I first started this gal, she was she. You know how the flight attendants like to put the purses and stuff on under the last row seats, stuff like that, which I think the, if you're a flight agent out there, don't put your purse or any valuables under the seats.
Speaker 2:They've taken money out of their wallet. Sean, this girl lost her whole paycheck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, her whole paycheck. She had just cashed her check back in the day and she had a bunch of money in her purse and they took her wallet and it was gone she had nothing.
Speaker 2:They even take the money out of the wallet, leave the wallet. So they they don't think, because they see their wallet and they don't know that their money's gone until they actually go to buy something I mean that's why, on our you know, the airline that we work for we have locked bins now.
Speaker 1:so, like we, you know we have a place to actually for the crews to lock our personal valuables up. You know it's it's it's limited space, but if you have like really expensive stuff, you're going to want to put it in that lock bin and lock it Right, absolutely. Yeah, you got to be smart out there, don't. Don't just be. There's people trying to scam and all this stuff.
Speaker 2:but but listen, you know, going back to this thing that we just talked about a little while ago, do not be put off from flying because, again, it's 45,000 flights a day and even though you see a couple of things, you know I get it, but don't don't let that scare you from going to the airport and getting on an airplane. Like I said, I do it every single day. Sean will be back at doing it pretty soon, but, yeah, don't, don't do that, because it's just the media that's blowing all this up and you know they always say what's going on with the airlines? Nothing's going on with the airlines. An incident happened, it happens like that and we start flying again 30 minutes later.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they should be asking like what's going on with all these videos that we're seeing? Why is it so? You know, why are we doing this? Well, direct to the point there's cameras everywhere and people taking videos of everything, and you're seeing everything. Now, I mean, it's a I mean dude.
Speaker 2:Just get on an airplane Right.
Speaker 1:Get on an airplane, all right. Destination no, no, no, no wait, we're not doing. Destination Did we talk about Chicago.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's right yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's right, yeah, oh yeah, chicago man, that was like the wild west, crazy shit happening. Yeah, I forgot they had.
Speaker 2:They had the brawl in, the brawl in o'hara and right outside the bag, actually those doors. You know we went through those doors right oh yeah, right in between those doors they started swinging yeah, the double doors, they're just like brawling and I don't know what I have no idea what the whole issue was, but it was like you could tell.
Speaker 1:It was like two gangs or something like that. Who knows what it was, but these guys brawled all the way into the airport, rolled out into the back, into the streets, out there on the lower level there in O'Hara, and nothing but gunfire. Yeah, and on the lower level there in o'hara, and nothing but gunfire. Yeah, and I'm not talking about like pop pop. It was like pop, pop pop pop, pop.
Speaker 2:You watched the video watch the video.
Speaker 1:Google the video. It is crazy. You can see the bullet you know in the windows and stuff the holes and stuff. You're like I can't believe that somebody else didn't get how busy chicago is out there waiting for vans and stuff. It had to been like in the mid, like late at night, or something like that. Like there's no way, like during business hours normal time, like the airport's always active but during, like any time we've been there, it doesn't matter what top or lower, lower level or upper level you're gonna be.
Speaker 2:There's a lot now that's how scary people that scary. That was scary because you never know. All of a sudden you just hear this pop, pop, pop. You have no idea where it's going. You know if you're around, if you're in the vicinity, if you're safe.
Speaker 1:Right. I mean, what was interesting to me about this too was, like you know, you think you're going to the airport and we're getting screened and all this up. What was that screening, that protection? Only is that a certain area in the airport, right, we don't think about baggage claim and you're down in baggage claim and there's they're picking them up yeah, somebody's picking them up or, um, somebody's trying to meet somebody or intercept somebody but they think, you know, somebody's coming in exactly that happens.
Speaker 1:You know, like, yeah, that's that's. You don't think about that type of stuff, but that does happen and it has. It's nothing new too. I'll tell you a story, and this is a person that we both know, but this guy's a little kind of off and he, he decided that he knew somebody his, his, his ex-wife, they were going through a separation and all this stuff, and his ex-wife and her boyfriend were coming in from a flight, and so this Yahoo decided that he was going to meet the flight there and down a baggage claim.
Speaker 2:Same problem.
Speaker 1:I know where you're going, yeah, and then all of a sudden, when he meets the flight, they come rolling down outside of security and everything and he walks into the baggage claim area with a loaded squirt gun. He has a squirt gun that he had pissed into the. The filled the squirt gun up with piss and he started squirting the boyfriend, new boyfriend, because they're having this domestic quarrel. Whatever saying I'm, I'm, I'm pissing on you, I'm pissing on you, I'm pissing on you, dude, and start squirting him.
Speaker 2:He is so far left of center man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he got arrested there. You can't have even a toy gun in that type of area.
Speaker 2:That's a whole other story too. I mean that one is a whole other story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but just to the point here. You think that airport is usually pretty safe area but just remember, you're not really protected in any screening until you get beyond that screening. So you have to get into the gate areas and all that stuff and even the gate areas.
Speaker 2:You know you're not expecting guns and stuff for sure and sean just showed you that there's some crazy ass airline people too.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, it's not. It's not exclusive to just the public no, we'll have another one later.
Speaker 2:He just, he just triggered another thought we're going to talk about in another another podcast, because, uh, he'll remember this one, uh.
Speaker 1:Flight attendant with her husband oh yeah, yeah, there's a there's yeah, that wasn't we need to. We'll do episode on just crazy crazy ass employees.
Speaker 2:That's gonna be a funny one, all right, tampa is the destination yeah, tampa's the destination man.
Speaker 1:Tampa's a fun city. Um, there's so many things to do there. You know tampa's named for the big. You know they got the sports teams, tampa big buccaneers there and all that good stuff. But one of the fun, cool places that gary g and and I that G and I both used to hang out at is Ybor City.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they revamped that man. That was bad and then it was good and it's kind of like sketchy, but Ybor City is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Ybor City is long, it's continuous. I don't know how many blocks it is, but it's just a long strip of nothing but bars and entertainment and all that stuff. There's no cars going down the street so you can just kind of walk around, see all the people watch and all that stuff. Ybor City is a cool place to do, but other things. Cool is the Riverwalk. It's not that popular in Tampa. People don't realize it's not like a San Antonio Riverwalk but it's a that popular in tampa like. People don't like realize it's not like a san antonio riverwalk, but it's a cool riverwalk where you can like go down. There's all these really nice exclusive hotels and business buildings along the play and you can kind of walk around different places. Uh, you have a few eating places here and there and stuff, but they built it up. But riverwalks is really cool.
Speaker 1:But uh, the other thing to do in tampa is bushes, bush gardens, bush gardens, yeah I mean, that's like, that's a classic, you know attraction to come to tampa and go to bush gardens, one of those things you got to do. Yeah, I mean, if you, if you like roller coasters and amusement parks, bush gardens is a just a a classic place to go. This first food was gonna be funny, though the though the food one man. Hey, food in Tampa there's food everywhere. I mean, you just like we're not. There's so many hundreds of restaurants and stuff there, but we just picked a few that are like, kind of like stood out, and the first one we want to talk about is the Naked Farmer. I don't want to see a naked farmer.
Speaker 1:Well, why not, man? There's some hot naked farmers out there.
Speaker 2:Are we talking about the?
Speaker 1:same farmer, sean. Yeah, well, yeah, these gals are.
Speaker 2:No, we're not, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:These gals are hot.
Speaker 2:Naked farmer's wife or naked female farmer.
Speaker 1:So you didn't say Farmer's a farmer, it's not gendered, it's not a farmer, farmer is a farmer.
Speaker 2:It's not gendered.
Speaker 1:It's not a farmer, no, a farmer. You're thinking like farmers are only men. Farmers can be women too.
Speaker 2:All right, well then, I changed what I said then A naked farmer is a naked farmer.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm going to the naked farmer. Good, and whichever side you want to visualize naked, do that, that's your choice.
Speaker 2:We have choices, your choice.
Speaker 1:There's no shame, we don't care.
Speaker 2:That'd be funny, though You're sitting there telling somebody where are you going? I'm going to the Naked Farmer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, naked Farmer. Naked Farmer downtown Tampa is known for their harvest plates and all these salads and stuff. It's like super healthy choices and stuff. That's all downtown Tampa. The other place that was really kind of a hot place is called the Flan Factory. Flan the Flan, you know, like that Mexican flan. Not like a fan, but a flan no no flan, you know flan, like the Mexico dessert, I do Flan right. So the Flan Factory, which they have that there. But their famous thing is their Cuban sandwiches. I freaking love Cuban sandwiches.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Cuban sandwiches must be crazy off the hook there in the Flan Factory.
Speaker 1:But the food in Tampa, there's just so much stuff there to go to. We were just talking about one of the historical places we went to in Ybor City. That's not there anymore, but new places all the time. But you're not going to be lost at getting good food in Tampa, but anyways. So what do you got for the quote today?
Speaker 2:I'm just going to tell people again do not stay away from the airlines folks. Do not. No matter how many of these things that you see on the news, don't stay away from them. Yeah, don't be scared to fly.
Speaker 1:This is the safest way to travel period. I mean we've talked about this before we I mean you just we've talked about this before. We're kicking tires, checking everything, get your butt back on a plane. Yeah, get out there and do it.
Speaker 2:Yep, okay, here's a quote. You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:All right guys. Man, it was a lot of fun this week. You guys have a great week. Can't wait to see you next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, great week man Cabin Pressure. We're going to see you, see you guys Later. Bye, thank you for listening to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. We would like to ask any flight attendant that has crazy crew stories to contact us with your story so we can talk about it. On Cabin Pressure and if you'd, like to be a guest with your story so we can talk about it on cabin pressure. And if you'd like to be a guest on cabin pressure, email us at C-E-W-I-T-H-S-G at gmailcom.
