Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

The One Percenters: When Your Crew is Crazier Than Your Passengers

• Shawn & G • Episode 30

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What happens when your coworkers are more turbulent than the flight itself? Flight attendants Shaw n and G lift the veil on airline crew dynamics, specifically addressing the challenging "one-percenters" who make life difficult at 35,000 feet.

The hosts start by discussing the unseen health hazards of their profession – working in a "germ-infested tube" where constant exposure to illnesses is inevitable. "We're worse than a two-year-old," G admits about how flight attendants inadvertently spread germs across the country. This vulnerability creates a unique occupational hazard that passengers rarely consider when boarding.

The heart of the episode focuses on categorizing troublesome colleagues: "chia pets" who refuse to communicate, "fire starters" who create conflicts then disappear, "avoiders" who hide from work, and those who insist on wearing earbuds despite safety concerns. Through humorous anecdotes, Sean and G reveal how these challenging personalities affect both crew morale and passenger experience, offering an insider's view of workplace dynamics that mirror challenges in many professions.

Beyond crew discussion, the hosts share critical travel updates, including the May 2025 Real ID requirement deadline and recent travel advisories affecting popular destinations. They conclude with an extensive exploration of Orlando beyond its famous theme parks, highlighting hidden gems along International Drive, remarkable escape rooms, and dining experiences like the Hash House.

Subscribe, leave a review, and share your wildest airport stories on our Facebook page – we might read them on air! Remember: stay strapped in, stay hydrated, and please keep your clothes on in the terminal.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome aboard folks. This is Cabin Pressure with Sean and G and, believe us, this has got more turbulence than a red-eye to Vegas in a thunderstorm. We're talking about interesting co-workers Plus, buckle up because, beginning May 7th 2025, the real ID requirements finally kick in. Not to mention, the State Department just dropped 13 new travel advisories. It's chaos, it's comedy, it's cabin pressure. So stash your tray tables, grab your emotional support water bottle and let's taxi down the runway to madness hey, everyone, welcome.

Speaker 2:

This is cabin pressure. What's going on? What's going on, sean? What's going on people? You absolutely killed me, man. You are killing me.

Speaker 1:

What's going on? Man, You're sounding a little rough over there.

Speaker 2:

I'm sounding like freaking Kermit the Frog.

Speaker 1:

That's what I'm sounding like you are man, I'm like what is going on?

Speaker 2:

Well, what's going on is this is a little bit about being a flight attendant. Okay, we on. Well, what's going on? Is this a little bit about being a flight attendant. Okay, we work in a freaking tube that is just germ infested, right, we. But the only difference it's like working in a doctor's office, but you don't know who's sick exactly, man, that's freaking, a freaking, a bio experience in the sky, right yeah, I mean you know you got, you got passengers that are sick, you got little kids sick, but you have no freaking clue.

Speaker 2:

And then you know there's always some little kid touching the handle or passengers touching the handle, overhead bends, whatever it is, but we come in contact with it all the time constantly, man.

Speaker 1:

I mean, that's I'm when I'm when I'm flying, I'm always washing my hands. I'm like constantly washing my hands. I mean we had that, like you know, during covet and stuff. It was like sanitizer, sanitizers, gloves, all that stuff, but it was like uh it doesn't matter though, man.

Speaker 2:

I mean I, I tell you I wash my hands all the time, and and airline soap sucks oh yeah it dries your skin out. I mean, it don't matter how much lotion you put on your hands, afterwards your, your your fingernails crack.

Speaker 1:

I mean, it's well if you're, if you're washing your hands that many times a day, it's like, just like any other industry that has to do it, like doctors, nurses, all that stuff. You know, that's why they're always like. You see them now. They're always doing the hand sanitizer. Does it enter each room? Type of thing you know, so it's. Uh, you know that breaks up your hands. Washing it, I mean, washing is good but it's bad for your skin, right?

Speaker 2:

I like I said my, my nails crack all the time, especially in the winter time. But yeah, it's just you. You just never know. I mean, you don't know who's sick on the airplane. So it's just a matter of uh when, not if yeah as being a flight attendant. It's just a matter of when. And then your crew members are sick too, and with certain certain things about policies and stuff like that, um, you know, people come to work sick dude, that is the worst.

Speaker 1:

You know, like there's this like a little catch-22 here, like everybody's trying to make their money and, you know, do what they got to do to get through their life and all that stuff. But it's also like you're like you try to balance that. Should I be going to work, should I not be going to work? Should I not be going to work? Is this serious sickness, is it? You know, what do I got going on here Because we don't know, just like we don't know what we're getting.

Speaker 2:

Or do you just want to go back and share the damn love that somebody gave it to you? A lot of times I'm like, yeah, you know something. Okay, I accepted your love. You're getting mine right back yeah, that's worse.

Speaker 1:

I mean when I'm sitting next to somebody on the jump seat and we're like shoulder to shoulder and like, and this person's coughing, wheezing or you know all this stuff, sneezing, you're like really.

Speaker 2:

but you know, but flight attendants, truly, though, we spread it all across the united states, because when we're sick, when we're sick and we're handing people cups, I mean there's a good chance a big percentage of them on the plane are going to get a cold, right. I mean it's crazy like that, because we transmit it all over the place.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, we're worse than a little two-year-old.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, then it goes across the world, but hey, what's been going on with you this week?

Speaker 1:

You know what I'm just trying to spend. I'm still spitting up my business and stuff with uh, real estate photography and everything and uh, uh working at school and doing that type of thing. But something happened yesterday that was pretty cool. Um, in this uh photography business thing is, um, I just uh subscribed to do this. Um, I'm gonna have a personal app to my business. Really, yeah, it's pretty cool. Where you actually like, I'm going to be able to hand you or get you it doesn't matter what type of flat platform you're on ISO or Android You're gonna be able to download my personal app and then it's going to have like all my packages of pictures in there and all the services that I do and everything.

Speaker 1:

It's kind of like a total step up in the business. It's going to be pretty cool. But it's um, it's cool marketing and then I can deliver all my materials through that to to the agents and stuff. So I'm pretty stoked about that. That's pretty good. A little bit of a tech, uh, you know um curve learning curve to get it all spun up and all that stuff. I guess it's supposed to take like a couple of weeks for them to build the app for me and all that stuff. But yeah, man, excited about that, that's, that's going to be super cool.

Speaker 2:

I was telling you um the other day, uh, about your venture with this. I think this is probably one of the. It will be one of your best ventures that you've done.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean, this is like so tech heavy loaded. You know, back in like you're doing all these like not only am I doing my photography and my pictures and all that stuff, but also I get to like play with all my toys and stuff. You know, my drones have all these different like and before I even got into it too, it was like there's so much into it Like uh, all these different uh things that real estate agents out there in today's world want that I had no idea, right, but so I'm getting exposed to all these like services and things that I can provide and, yeah, it's all through all me able to do technology and photography.

Speaker 2:

As I said, it's right up your alley. I mean 100% up your alley.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah. So in the news, man, the big, big dates coming up here may 7th. May 7th is the first day for real ids. If you don't know what that is real id compliance you're not gonna be able to travel throughout the united states unless you have a real id, like every. Every state in the nation right now has um, a and this has been going on for a couple years now where you get your driver's license and if there's a star on your driver's license, it means that you've been verified as a US citizen, resident, all that good stuff. So you're going to need a real ID to travel and if you don't have it, have it. You still can travel, but you're still going to have to produce a secondary id. And there's a whole list of all kinds of ids that are out there and number one is passport, right?

Speaker 1:

everybody's your passport, you know you can use your passport and your driver's license. If it isn't a real id driver's license, you're going to be able to um use both those. And there's, you know, there's just a whole slew of IDs. And what was so interesting about this list of IDs that I was like I had no idea that there's this many different crazy IDs out there in the world. And one of the ones that like jumped out on me, like did you know that there is a Indian nation? It's called a tribalal Nation Indian ID. No, yeah, I had no idea that they had their own IDs. That's so cool. And then they have a Canadian Province Driver's License and Indian and North Affairs Canada card. I mean, there's all these very interesting IDs that are out there that I was like wow, so TSA, TSA accepts any of those any of these IDs that are out here

Speaker 1:

that are on this list. Um TSA is trained to uh recognize these. You can use your um also like your travel uh cards to like the global entry Nexus, all that type of stuff you can. You can use those as ids valid ids as well. Um permanent residence cards, uh border crossing cards, there's all you know like it's. There's a lot of different ids that are out there, but it was just super interesting that I I didn't realize, like I'm always thinking you know an id is an id.

Speaker 1:

It's your driver's license, right yeah you know, driver's license, passport federally recognize that tribal.

Speaker 2:

I can see that that's kind of different one yeah, different.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean, then then they have, uh, you know, veterans health identification cards, uh, us merchant marine, uh, credentials, you know. So if you start thinking about, like, all the ways people travel and move about the country and stuff, there's a lot of IDs out there. It's pretty wild.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but we talked about that too, and the best thing to do is go to the DMV and get your driver's license done.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean you're going to, well, they stop. I think they're going to stop issuing normal, you know, those like standard ID type of things. Right, you're going to only have to do the real ID type of situation here, I think, after a certain date and where you're going to be, if you, you know, you'll be required to like prove your residency. But once you've already done it, once it's done, right, you know, like you, renewing your driver's license, you have to do it every time. It's just a you're done and you're, you're verified and so May 7th 2025.

Speaker 1:

Yep 2025. Be be prepared If you have some plans to travel, be prepared to have those secondary IDs If you don't have it, the real ID and and all that Other thing that's in the news, man, is that two way like travel advisories happening? I mean, you know the us government has a travel advisory um website. I don't know if a lot of people know about that, but there there is a travel advisory bet website and literally every country in the world has a link and it will tell you an update to what you know, what's buys and stuff.

Speaker 1:

And I will tell you I've used this site many times when I'm traveling, if I go to a different country or something like that, just to be aware of what's going on in that country when I get before I get there, because you can't believe of all the things that are happening that you don't see in the news, that's happening in other countries that just because it's not around you, you know they have. They have their terrorist problems, they have their like, you know issues, whatever political issues, and you know wars and whatever. But if, whatever you're, wherever you're going, you should definitely like back in the day when we went to Honduras. I don't think I checked that site.

Speaker 2:

You didn't look at it at all, you know. Excuse me, but you know, the funny part about that we had talked about this many times was, um, in the United States, u S citizens, a lot of U S citizens when they travel abroad, they have a false sense of security. Right, they have a and, and you know, when you talk to these people, they are like, oh, I just go, I don't really worry about that, and and all I think about all the time is that this is why you have these videos of these people that are missing a lot of times because they have this false sense of security in a different country.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they don't, they just don't. I mean I will, as an American that have lived abroad and seen like actions of Americans living abroad and people traveling abroad quite often that, yeah, that pulse and security lets their guard down and they think that there's this US citizen bubble around them or something like that, where they're protected.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's crazy. I've seen it with crew members too, though, sean. I mean, we'll be in a place that's not safe, right, and they'll go walk around in a downtown area and they'll act like they're safe and you don't realize you are a target. Yeah, you just became a target, and they have this false sense of security In some of these places. They got no business walking around those downtown areas.

Speaker 1:

Well, exactly. And then you know, the US has, right now they issued 13 new countries on the travel advisory and it's funny that they sit. You know the news picked up on these 13 new I mean, there's actually hundreds, uh, but but the why they picked it up is it because of some of the places that are, you know that we've issued travel advisory and one of them is canada. You know canada you would never.

Speaker 1:

You would never ever think of, think of Canada as a place Austria, ireland, portugal, argentina, caribbean islands right now, aruba and St Lucia is on that list, and these are places like. I've been to most of those places on that list and you know, going there I wouldn't have thought that you got to worry about that. But what they're saying is that terrorists are likely to try and carry out attacks against US people internationally, and those attacks could be indiscriminate, including places of that foreigner's visit, and so you need to be aware, when you're internationally, that these attacks might be. You know they're trying to target Americans outside of the borders, so you need to be on heightened alert period. I mean, just in this day and age and right now. This is a, this is real.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, just be careful. I mean, anytime you're traveling abroad, I you know you need to be careful, be aware, you're aware of your surroundings, cause, like I said, I've seen it so many times, even with flight attendants that travel abroad, they have this false sense of security and it's foolish.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's foolish. And then here's the other thing, as I was looking into this whole thing, you know there's also travel advisories in other countries that are against the US. I mean, a lot of people don't realize that that, like other countries that they're trying to come to here, there's advisors in their countries for them not to travel to the US.

Speaker 2:

Well, it'd be the same thing, right? Terrorist attacks, right.

Speaker 1:

Well, it's not always a terrorist attack. Their big concern right now is like if you get to the US border, you might not, even if you have the proper documentation, be accepted to come in.

Speaker 2:

Oh man.

Speaker 1:

And there's a lot of being denied to people coming into the United States, I guess right now? Um. So, uh, there's. You know, canada, denmark, finland, france, germany and United Kingdom all has issued travel advisors to go to the U S? Um, and it's for those reasons, mostly not as concerned like a US citizen going abroad, so it's a little bit different. You know, it's immigration things, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, I guess I mean I definitely understand that Some of the places we fly to you can understand why.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's crazy, man, but you were talking the other day about the cruise you've been flying with. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, you know, on the podcast we always talk about passengers and things that go on with passengers and, to be fair, because I just flung with a, let's say it's just a different type of crew member, right, right, okay, so we have 1% of passengers that are a little disruptive. Sure, today I thought, well, let's just talk about that 1% of crew member.

Speaker 1:

You're talking about the 1%, crazy.

Speaker 2:

Now, any flight attendants are listening. Any passengers are listening? You guys have ran into this too. I mean, this is not a shocker. We just don't talk about it so much. As a crew member.

Speaker 1:

Sure, I mean, we want to keep face right, we want to make sure that we have a professional industry and stuff, but, just like you said, there's always that 1% out there that you run into.

Speaker 2:

That's batshit crazy this part of the podcast was when I was on this flight, I was with this crew member and she was.

Speaker 2:

Everything was good, right. I mean, you know, we're sitting there, we're sitting there going through the motions and getting everything, and we get out in the, we're getting out in the cabin. And as soon as this person got out in the cabin I'm not kidding you, sean, I mean, I don't, the stress level wasn't even that bad. But next thing, you know, I'm like this person is completely spasmodic in the aisle and I'm like what the hell just happened to you from the galley out here, and I had to deal with this all the way through the cabin and all I could think about is this is the one thing that we have not talked about on this podcast yet is our bat crazy flight attendant set. That, that that we at and and flight attendants you guys are listening, you know exactly what we're talking about, so we're going to kind of give you a little bit of a rundown today on the bat shit crazy flight attendants that we have kind of classified all these uh different uh employees you run to.

Speaker 2:

you probably can apply these to other work environments too, but uh, the ones that are specific to us as crews, I mean these are this is some of the list, so like you know when you walk on board and a lot of times you're a load flight attendant you know when you come on board and those people act like they don't even know you. I mean the first thing. I mean you're just, you come in and you say hello and you'll get one person that actually smiles at you and the rest of them, that you get these these little frowns and everything else and you just meet these person for the for the first time yeah, I mean, that's one of that situation.

Speaker 1:

I hate that situation. When you're you're that uh, extra flight attendant running around in the sky and you're by yourself and you're flipping from crew to crew and you get on this crew and you know you got total attitude coming back for you and then nobody wants to be friendly or talk to you. And you know, on this crew, and you know you got total attitude coming back for you and nobody wants to be friendly or talk to you and you know that is like the most uncomfortable situation to be in.

Speaker 2:

And they put you in the funny thing about it, in this position you're always at the front of the plane, you're greeting people, so you're like you remember the Julie, the cruise director of the love boat. Right, You're out in the front of there and you're greeting all these people and and you're, you're, you're all nice and everything, and everybody else is not nice.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you know what I mean. Do you feel like, uh, do you get embarrassed when you're like, with a career like that?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean. That's why I wanted to talk about it, because this is only 1%, don't get me wrong. You know, when we're talking about this to our flight attendants, this is 1%. This is a very small percentage of people on the airplane that are like this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean this is like little encounters that we pop up every now and then I mean these unicorns within the system that rear their head and we're like where did you come from?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean, you get the first one. I always refer to them as a chia pet, the chia pet. Do you remember that chia pet? You just water it and the shit grows Right.

Speaker 1:

That's the same thing.

Speaker 2:

I mean you get this person that they just come in. There's no response from them at all, sean, I mean at all. I mean you come in. You're like, hi yeah, silence, nothing, right, they just move around, they just move. You have to literally draw any type of conversation out of them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they won't talk at all Like it's just like they're there. They're just, they're the party crew, but they do not communicate with you whatsoever.

Speaker 2:

Even going through this every, every time that you run into these type of people, you always ask the same question who in the hell hired them?

Speaker 1:

Because this is this is a career in which you have to communicate with people yeah, you're supposed to be personable, you're supposed to be able to communicate all that stuff, but I mean, when you start shutting down towards your own crew members, I mean that's like red flag and you're like what is going on?

Speaker 2:

exactly, and you see him. You see him in the aisles, too, with the passengers. The mean crew member, the one that doesn't want to talk yeah, oh man, those.

Speaker 1:

You know what. I can't stand a mean crew member, especially because I feel like I'm always needing to run behind them and put out their little fires or whoever they pissed off. You're trying to overcompensate for what they're doing because of their bad behavior, and you know that the customers are actually attuned to this. The customers are actually like they're attuned to this.

Speaker 2:

That's funny. You just said that because that one I refer to is that's the one that hits the hot button, right, and they're a runner. Yeah, they hit the hot button and then what do they do? They piss this person off and then they run away from it and they do what they go. Get me and you to come back here and play the cooler.

Speaker 1:

See, I call them a fire starter. That's bullshit. I'm like like these. I'm my motto when I get on a crew, like when I'm like, uh, the lead or something like that, and especially if I don't know these people, whatever I, like you know, do our briefing, that we're supposed to do and stuff, and I'm like you know, um, you know, I'm a, I'm a fire fighter, not a fire starter.

Speaker 1:

So you know, that's part of my brief. Like I'm like, you know, don't start the shit. Like I don't know who you are, but don't start it. You know, I'm a firefighter, I'm not a fire starter. And if you start some fires, I'm gonna put it out and we're gonna be talking exactly, but they still do it I mean you know they do.

Speaker 2:

I mean that's that's why I'm saying it's crazy. And then you get these ones, you get these ones and this is kind of a towards a younger generation, this 1% and they're like oh, this is just my part-time job, is how I get my coin. Yeah, what is your coin?

Speaker 1:

The beauty of our job is that one yeah, we have the flexibility of doing our schedule and we can make it part-time if we want to. I mean, once you get just a little bit of seniority in a, in any system, you can. You don't have to be here that often. You know you can, you can give away your trips, you can pick up trips, you can do all that stuff. But I mean that attitude of like for the majority of us that come here and we're this is our job, this is our staple. You know we come here, we do our job on a daily basis, weekly basis, and you got this one guy rolling in here, a gal, that's like. You know this is my part-time job and you know I don't really care.

Speaker 2:

Right from the very beginning, right, right, yeah, you know I don't do that because this is not how I make my coin. Right? I hear that and I'm like coin, what is that? I know it's your money, I know, I mean, but it just blows me away when I hear that. And then the other one is I love this one too. Don't bother me, I've got my earbud in.

Speaker 1:

Oh, dude, first of all, unprofessional right, I mean having your earbuds in on the aircraft. I will say. I will say this there's been a time like in my career where I was like I wish we could wear earbuds, like you know. I know, I know our policy and our company that we're not supposed to be doing that, but it happens all the time on the plane. But I mean to protect our ears. I mean, honestly, flight attendants as much as we're on these steeper planes and the noise level. We just don't realize how noisy it is. But I mean, how many flight attendants do we know have ear damage?

Speaker 2:

They're not listening. Yeah, but that's not the case, man. They're listening to music or they're talking to somebody.

Speaker 1:

Right, right right.

Speaker 2:

We're talking about the bullshit ones that are listening to music and talking to somebody. That's not even part of your job.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they're talking to somebody on the phone where they know they're not supposed to and they're telling everybody else on the plane not to be on the phone but they're on the phone when they're freaking pods and they're listening to music and stuff like that and just not paying attention to stuff. Doing their job? Yeah, I did, that is the, and we're out there doing their job and our job right because they can't hear bells and you know all that crap.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's the one that killed me. Okay, you got them in there that are sitting on a jump seat and they got that shit in their ears and all of a sudden there's, there's uh, there's a call back and they're not answering the phone. They're on the side of the phone and I'm like waving over there. I'm like what are you? They got earbuds in.

Speaker 1:

It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2:

It's ridiculous. I mean, like I said, this is 1% and you guys know this, but we have to talk about it because you know. It's ridiculous as a crew member that you also have to deal with this too, but it also affects customer service too, that you also have to deal with this too, but it also affects customer service too.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but then on that line you have the person, the avoider, right, they avoid everything. They're just like literally they don't want to be like. They shrink into the corner on the jump seat and don't move.

Speaker 2:

They hide out in the galley. They stick their head around the corner just to see if it's close to being done. Right, they don't help out with bags. Yeah, and the other thing with bags. Why is it? Why is it passengers automatically think, when they see a male flight attendant, that the male flight attendant is the bag lifter?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Right, they just think because of us it's rude. They think that we're and you're not being rude, but they think automatically they see me and you like we're supposed to pick their big ass bag up and throw it in the overhead man this is something that's you know, it's only because we're we're male.

Speaker 1:

Flight attendants like this is a peeve of mine, like people they think that we're just because we're male, oh, I need to assist this lady or I need to assist this pastor. But this is education for everybody out there if they don't already know this. One of the things that a company wants to do is they want to protect their employees, and to protect their employees is that.

Speaker 1:

One of the number one reasons why flight attendants get injured on the jobs is lifting bags, and we injured ourselves with our bags, all kinds of stuff. We get injured doing it, and so a lot of companies have put out directives out there saying, hey, don't lift the bags, you can assist, but you're not to lift it yourself. Now there's a lot of situations where obviously you know, hey, we need to lift the bags, can this person's handicap? And we're, we're, we're assisting them and you know, try to. You know we, we do that type of stuff, but on an average basis. Just because you're rolling your bags and you brought too much stuff with you like you shouldn't have. We're not here to lift your bags.

Speaker 2:

You need to be able to lift your own bag but they always look at me and you the same way. It doesn't matter. They look at me and you about oh, you're rude if you don't, um, pick my bag up. No, I'll help you pick your bag up, but just don't assume that you know, just because we're on the airplane, that that's our job is to pick your bag up because those bags are really heavy a lot of times yeah and I don't care.

Speaker 2:

You know me, I'm in the gym all the time. It's not the, that's not the the, the whole point of it. The point of it is is that you know you packed it. It's like pack, you pack it, you stack it right, exactly because as soon as you get it over your head, it could be a back injury for most flight attendants right.

Speaker 1:

Well, and here's the other part about it that people don't realize. I mean, and I've seen this happen Like you are a flight attendant and we go and we try to do, you know, try to help people out, like we're always trying to do and that flight attendant gets injured. And guess what, if that plane is in a station where we don't have extra flight attendants, it's down.

Speaker 2:

You've is in a station where we don't have extra flight attendants. It's down. You've just canceled the flight. Oh yeah, it's down, for sure, I mean you're not going anywhere.

Speaker 1:

You're not going anywhere because if that flight attendant has to get off the flight and there's nobody to replace them, you just, you just literally canceled the flight because you brought too much shit yeah, exactly now.

Speaker 2:

Let's go back to our one percenter, sean. How about that flight attendant that you know you? As soon as you get done with the service and you go back and you sit on the jump seat, they kind of turn towards the door and they act like you're not even there. Did you love that one?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

The one that acts like you're not even in the galley man. They just they turn their back to you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they're in there. They want to like crawl back into their own little world or whatever.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but um, and not be a part of what's going on, with what they're getting paid to do. It's their job. Now, here's here's the one that I really think is kind of funny too. The one that would do this job, zoom that would one do it zoom.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly Right In their apartment. They'd want to do this job by Zoom, because they don't even want to be there. You know, and the funny part about it again, we're just talking about this, but, passengers, you've experienced these people and trust me when I'm telling you we might not talk about them that much, but we experience them too, because when we fly, when we fly, we look at our pairings and we look at like crew members, right. And when we look at a pairing and we think, okay, it's a one day trip, well, I can take them for one day, right, sure, I can take them for one day. And then you see three day trip and you're like, oh, hell, no.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Three day trip working with that person. I'll jump my ass out of the airplane.

Speaker 1:

You know I mean seriously I'm not airplane. You know I mean seriously I'm not. You know that. You know that we we have the benefit of being a small base and we know everybody. And then we've you know we've experienced this forever. I mean it's we're just getting recently into uh, getting new people and stuff like that. We'd really that some of them we don't know. But I mean, yeah, I mean if you have that pre-knowledge of, like the, what this person is like to fly with, and yeah, I don't want to go multiple days with that person flying with them.

Speaker 2:

Because you're constantly. You're Smokey the Bear man, you're putting out fires all day long for one person.

Speaker 1:

I'm not doing that, man first of all, it's not worth it Because I'm the flight attendant that I'm not going to be shy about getting in your face If you're a fire starter and you're causing a problem. By the end of that next flight, between those flights, we're going to have a serious talk and somebody's getting off the flight or somebody's going to be correcting their behavior, because I'm not putting up with that bullshit.

Speaker 2:

Exactly because you don't want to deal with it for three days. But you know, just like I said, I had to touch on this because we talk about passengers and we kind of give it to the passengers a lot of times. But this time we had to give a little bit of love back to our crew members because there is 1% that we deal with all the time and a lot of times the passengers, you guys see them and they're the same way towards you and you know, unfortunately in every business you have that 1%.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, man, but we skipped over one here, one really important one, which is that one flight attendant that doesn't want to stop talking.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, but you can't even get a word. Edgewise G oh you're talking about. No, you're not. Yeah, you've got to be kidding me really?

Speaker 1:

oh, all right, all right. I need people to call in and need to like chime back. Let me tell you what you there is a.

Speaker 2:

There's a big difference between me and someone. I will have a conversation with you and we'll talk about anything, but you know where you just keep going. No, you ain't saying that about me, brother.

Speaker 1:

No, no no, listen, no, the flight attendants that are out there, that we know that like talk and talk and talk. Like there's one here in cleveland that I'm not saying any names or anything like that, but it's like, uh, when she gets on the flight, or even if I see her on a parent, and just this goes back to us like knowing our crew members stuff, it's like I mean, it's so that that conversation, that she it's like a continuous conversation, that it's almost a nervous conversation because she's talking about nothing.

Speaker 2:

Well, you know, what it is with me is that if you're in the conversation, we're having a conversation Now, you're right, I can talk all day long. We're having a conversation, now, you're right, I can talk all day long if we're having a conversation, right. But I'm also listening to what you're saying and I'm responding to what you're saying. I'm not just waiting for me to interject again. These people, I don't even think they're listening to what you're saying.

Speaker 1:

Whatever they're talking about is the most important thing, yeah, and they just keep talking about them and their life and what's happening, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, and they just keep going on, and on, and on, and on and on and it never ends. Yeah, never ends.

Speaker 2:

But how about the ones that they could have summed it up in like three words, and it ends up being 15 minutes for three words 15 minutes is something that you do not want or not interested in hearing. That's it. Yeah, I mean three words it takes, but anyway, we all have that and I can't even believe you said it was me, you got me, all right.

Speaker 1:

People help me out.

Speaker 2:

No, you ain't no helping out. You ain't no helping out. You got to be kidding me, right Listen? To you how much you talk.

Speaker 1:

You know, I got give you shit. Yeah, give it shit. Anyways, um yeah, what about? What else has been happening?

Speaker 2:

in the airline business, the these days here. Did you see that flight attendant? Uh ran that mercedes into that tesla dude.

Speaker 1:

So so I don't know. I don't know what this is about and all that stuff, but I mean, uh, this whole thing with the tesla thing in in mus Musk and I don't I don't want to get political on the on the show and all that stuff, but I mean it. It a person goes out and buys a vehicle that has no attachment to the person that owns the company or you know like that's such a bunch of bullshit.

Speaker 2:

And then you take off running and all you're getting out of that as a mug shot.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean running, and all you're getting out of that is a mugshot. Yeah, I mean, this is like. This whole situation with the tesla stuff can like flip tomorrow, like tomorrow, like, uh, all of a sudden, you know something happens in germany against america, or something like that, and now everybody's keying bnws. You know, like the tesla thing is ridiculous, though, sean, because it's so stupid yeah, but it's.

Speaker 2:

It's built in the united states, it's's built in. Yeah, it's US workers, it's US product, I mean, and you're sitting out there and you're yelling and screaming about it, but anyway, the flight attendant ran her Mercedes into a Tesla and tried to run.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, dude. First of all, the Tesla vehicle has that sentry mode and there's like I don't know, 18 cameras, yeah, exactly. You're busted sentry mode and there's like I don't know, 18 cameras. That thing has recording every angle and anything around it. I mean, one time I was in the I was I was golfing and I I saw one of the tesla trucks on the thing and I just went up to it and I literally touched the car and like was looking in. But you know, just like lean in type of thing yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And it was like you know, century mode and like it actually started talking to me. I was like what? The whoa?

Speaker 2:

dude high tech man. But you know, these people are so stupid, they're all on video. I mean that's just dumb, I mean she was stupid. But all these people that are doing this to Tesla's, they're stupid, they're on video. You're going to go to jail.

Speaker 1:

This reminds me of like that know, when, uh, I was growing up, it was talking about, like, college students protesting and all this stuff. And, uh, when I was young, you know, like this is early, you know, late 60s, early 70s, whatever protesters, all this stuff and you know this is, these are actions that you're doing right now that eventually you're going to regret it. You're going to regret it because you're going to get, you're going to get caught.

Speaker 2:

You know, know and this goes on your record.

Speaker 1:

You're already caught, it's just a matter of time when they figure out who you are and all that stuff. I mean it's just stupid things to do. I mean I saw a guy like on the news the other day going down and he like was keying one. You know, they got him keying it.

Speaker 2:

But with facial recognition anymore it's going to be so easy. How about the guy that ran the little four-wheeler into the side of it?

Speaker 1:

But anyway, we were talking more with the flight attendants about this, but it's just absolutely crazy.

Speaker 2:

But did you see the one? Now this is nasty. Sean Guy takes a sterno and he puts it in the toilet and then puts a tin across the lid inside the lavatory of an airplane and cooks a steak on it. That's fucking gross. How nasty could you possibly be? And then you're taking a video of this, like you know, like you're, it's like a five star restaurant. You're in the toilet.

Speaker 1:

I'm sorry, man, I can't like. I can't even think of anybody like taking any type of beverage, food, anything into a lavatory on a plane. I mean, you're talking about? Where are you talking about? We started off talking about bugs in a plane, in a tube. Are you kidding me? Now you're going to go cook food in this environment. That's like the worst freaking bio environment in the world.

Speaker 2:

How many people have set their ass down on that lid? And you just set your steak on a piece of, on a tin over that thing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's like me going out to like a construction site and going into a freaking outhouse and like, hey, I'm going to set up, cook some lunch.

Speaker 2:

That was just nasty. You're looking for views. I get it. That's nasty man, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

That's gross, why, why?

Speaker 2:

How about the ding dong that had his lighter out, flicking it and the captain actually had to come on the PA, tell him if, if he keeps doing this, if he doesn't give over, give over the light. They're diverting and they diverted, they diverted yeah, I mean, you are as you're about as dumb as they could possibly be in this day and age.

Speaker 1:

Man, I'm serious, I'm I'm surprised if there was someone, somebody on that flight that literally wanted to freaking, pulverize this dude.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but the airlines are going to come after you for that cost.

Speaker 1:

Oh, no, no, yeah. Yeah, I mean, we know that, you know you're getting into trouble. You might have this attitude and I'm going to do what I want and blah, blah, blah and whatever that person's situation is, but there's some definitely repercussions to that situation financially, right.

Speaker 2:

Yep.

Speaker 1:

And how about another naked woman man, the one running around Dallas stabbing people and biting them?

Speaker 2:

What is it? What is what's up with these people running around naked in airports now? Is this a new thing or what? And? But now you start stabbing people too and biting them.

Speaker 1:

I think the only thing I can think is edibles. We got a drug problem at check-in at the airports Because these people are batshit crazy running around doing every week. Every week, we've had some naked person running around the airport you can literally, if you google naked people in airport, there's just like seems like there's hundreds of people. Just I don't understand like what is the purpose about getting naked in the airport?

Speaker 1:

I don't know yeah it's, it's weird. It's like you know, back in, uh, the 70s and stuff, they had those like streaking was the big thing, you know, like it was kind of like a fat, it was like funny and people were doing it at like public events and stuff. But no, these people are just bad shit Crazy.

Speaker 2:

That one I still laugh at that one that she was. She's running around with that police officer and and she was going up underneath uh all the um, uh, the little um check-in area and he ended up taking a big dump. That was hilarious, oh my God, Dude Nasty, but it's crazy. I mean this is absolutely crazy. A lot of, just a lot of, uh crazy naked people running around airports, I guess.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know, in the news lately. I mean it's either you got crazy people or you got this weird things happening like you know and you just the world, it's a world.

Speaker 2:

Hey, let's talk about the destination.

Speaker 1:

Destination man. Destination this week, man. There's so much to talk about this destination Orlando Florida.

Speaker 2:

Love Orlando, Orlando, Florida.

Speaker 1:

first of all, there's so much to talk about this destination orlando, florida, love orlando, orlando, florida. First of all, I mean, uh, I've been, you know, we've both been there so many times. Yep and um, you know they are known for their theme parks and the theme parks they're like you know, disney started that whole area, you know, bought up all those hundreds of lands secretly and all the stuff started disney, you know, just it exploded. But when you go to to orlando it is, you know, people all think about these parks but there is like thousands and thousands of things to do other than the parks. Now the parks have grown, you know, like disney started off it was just magic kingdom and then they grew to like Epcot and Hollywood studios and animal kingdom and all that stuff there. That's their main parks and they all have their own like little, uh, beach parks too as well.

Speaker 1:

Um, but then you know, universal studios is growing right now like big time and people don't realize that. But here, here this may 22nd, there's a new universal park opening up in orlando and, uh, that's, that's called, uh, universal epic universe and um, I guess it's going to have like a mario world in there, really, yeah, so they're going to have all these different, uh you know, section of different things uh that universal studios are are connected with. But they had, you know, universal studios are going to have now three parks. So I mean they're giving disney a run for their money. I mean disney has four, universal has three and they both have two water parks you know, you remember, you remember a thing called soren.

Speaker 2:

Was that universal? Soren yeah, soren, it's. When you went up, they they took you in an imax and you're in the center of an IMAX and you actually looked like you were flying. That was actually in Epcot.

Speaker 1:

It was at Epcot. Yeah, it's Epcot. It's in one of those worlds there.

Speaker 2:

They still have it. Yeah, it's still there. That is the most incredible thing, man, I mean. Did you do that?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I've done it. So that whole some some situation where they put the giant seats there and you soar across something. I also did one outside of Orlando up in Canada and it was. It was in Vancouver and it was this soaring across Canada and they you did the same experience where you're like you know it looks like you're flying and all that stuff, but in this one was you were flying across all the providences of Canada.

Speaker 2:

It was really cool it's so because they what they do is they, they have um the smell of the, the trees, and they, they just pump in the smells of whatever you're flying over yeah, like you see water and they missed you and there.

Speaker 1:

So it's like more of a like a 4d experience, like not only are you doing this experience of like sensation of flying and moving and all that stuff, you're also having these like other sensations of that that the water and the smells and all that stuff that was cool.

Speaker 2:

And then you know the one I remember, and this is when jackson was young. But the one I really remember was the crush interactive, did you? Okay? You remember crush? No, the turtle from Dory.

Speaker 2:

Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, the hello dude, what you doing, man, right. And then, okay, so you go in there and they had this interactive with the kids and Crush was like swimming up and he's like doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, you know, sure. And he comes up and he's like what's up, dude, what's going on? And all of a sudden, sudden, he's like talking to kids that are in the crowd. Oh, that's cool. So, yeah, so it was actually somebody that was in there could talk, just like crush and they were. They were doing this, this whole interactive with the kids, and he'd swim around and he talked to another kid or he talked to a dad and, yeah, it was really is some of the stuff they they have in there is really cool I mean we went to disney um a year or two ago and took our nieces there and I mean it is just mind-blowing the technology that's involved with Disney and you're talking about that interaction.

Speaker 1:

Like Hollywood Studios, they had a Muppet show, one where you know you're basically on a Muppet show. Yeah, and you know me, growing up I love the muppets. Yeah, were you a muppet fan?

Speaker 1:

oh yeah yeah, I mean, who's not, who wasn't a muppet? Jim jim hansen was amazing. But that interactive thing there in this uh studio is they get interactive with the audience and stuff and so the muppets are actually interacting with the audience and talking to the audience and making jokes and putting a spotlight on different people and things like that. It's, it's a it's, it's amazing, but I mean All right your favorite Muppet. My favorite Muppet man animal.

Speaker 2:

Come on, you know something. I tell you that I was sitting there. I was like there's no way, yeah, animal man, he was mine too.

Speaker 1:

Heck yeah, he was a bomb man. I mean after which would be your number two.

Speaker 2:

Number two. You know, I really never thought about it. Animal was always my favorite, so I really never thought about number two. Go ahead.

Speaker 1:

My number two would be Beaker.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, yeah, I like Beaker. I like Beaker, he's cool.

Speaker 1:

Beaker was the Muffet equivalent of Kenny on South Park. Exactly, beaker got blew up. He was always getting blown up here and there, all that stuff. Muppets were that. That physical comedy has got to come back in the world. I was thinking about this the other day with my nieces. We were at a restaurant and there's pictures of the Three Stooges and we were talking about them and trying to explain to them about Three Stooges and it was like man, how do you not know about Three Stooges? Like we grew up it was like a staple right.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, little Rascals, three Stooges, it's like Abbott and Costello, yeah all that stuff was like that was our jam right there.

Speaker 1:

But like these kids are oblivious to this, I'm like I've got to get you experienced too. Just, I mean larry curly mo, come on now but I love the little rascals too.

Speaker 2:

That was really good yeah, little rascals.

Speaker 1:

I mean all that, all that physical comedy and things like that were just, you know, we that was priceless do you remember mom paul kettle? Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1:

Okay, all right, I just had to see, because that that was really funny too yeah, so, uh, the other thing about um, the destination orlando too, is not only disney, and universal has a park there. Seaworld has a park and it's kind of like the redhead stepchild of the parks. I mean, seaworld's turned into like a different experience. When I was growing up it was all about the sea animals and you know you can go see the whales and the dolphins and the otters and for some reason the otter at every show I went always got out of the cage and they're running around the park chasing the seed. But uh, it was like. You know there's that experience.

Speaker 1:

But now the uh sea world has turned into more of an amusement park, like it has all these roller coasters, rides and stuff that like lots of rides that are involved in sea world and stuff. But they still have the animals and stuff in the in the tied into it but they don't. You know it's just not as uh prevalent because uh, they stopped all the you know the whales in the parks and all that stuff. You know, so um, pita and all that stuff was involved with like getting rid of all that stuff and getting deterring that stuff. But anyways, um, the other thing that's really, really cool in disney or at um, orlando, orlando. You always call Orlando Disney because it's so prevalent there is. There's so many other places to go outside the parks and one of the things that we lay over on usually on International Drive. You've done some stuff on International.

Speaker 2:

Drive, oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yep International Drive is like what is some stuff that you've done on international drive?

Speaker 2:

you know, sean, it's been a while because it's been with the, with the kids a long time ago, so I mean it wouldn't be anything current.

Speaker 1:

Yeah so, like, I used to get these like layovers like I do two days down there and being being in orlando every like once or twice a week, and so I spent a lot of time in international boulevard, and international boulevard has everything, dude, it has all kinds of like experiences, like these shops and food and and you can do a helicopter ride. You can do, um, madame trudeau's museums there, the upside down museums there, um, like it's like the whole building's flipped upside down on the thing, um, it's like it's wild. I I mean it's, it's a wild, the whole road, but it's all kind of like hidden because it's Florida on this, like bushes, it seems like you know what you can't see. Everything is right there, but it's all there. And uh, one of my big things that um was like a big rage here recently or in the past history, was escape rooms.

Speaker 1:

Have you done escape rooms? Nope, let me tell you, let me give advice to everybody out there If you like and enjoy escape rooms, you've got to go to. The pinnacle of escape rooms is Orlando. They've taken it to a whole other level that you can never, ever experience anywhere else. I mean, it's become an amusement park, these escape rooms, and they were so popular at one time Disney was trying to. They were thinking about incorporating this into Disney somehow. Really yeah, but their technology and what they're doing in these escape rooms now are so impressive and the scenarios and stuff and stories are great. You don't have to be with a group to go you can go by yourself.

Speaker 1:

I did that myself.

Speaker 2:

I just went by myself, joined another group and you know you do the 68 rooms of one hour experience. So how?

Speaker 1:

many people are in a group usually it depends on the room and the experience.

Speaker 1:

Like one, one of the very high level rooms, because they have them measured in different levels um, like there was a maximum on five people could be in the room, okay, so I was in there it was me and two couples and we were in a very, extremely hard escape room that you had to get out of one hour and uh, we barely did it but we got it and we got done with it and uh, it was, um, it was like a next level escape room.

Speaker 1:

It was a um, a werewolf thing where you were like in a cabin and aware in out in the woods and the whole experience start where you're like in this cabin and it's pitch black and it is. It is wild because they had like all kinds of freaky things Like you're, once you find like some light and figure out, find some keys and there's like little holes and things you go into and there'd be like you know they'd make sounds and grab. You know they'd make sounds and you know stuff would like grab, grab at you at the like it was. It was wild man. It was like or like air would blow on you and you like scared the crap out of you, like that would be fun but, it was just really cool.

Speaker 1:

But to get to my point, universal I mean international drive has so many experiences and there's other experiences there outside of the parks, like disney springs with Disney has their whole area. That is like literally a city. And back in the day it was called something else. I can't remember the name of it, but it was. They had started off as a nightclub area, like for adults. In the evening you can go in and like from five to midnight. This thing turned into like a party zone, but it was like a Disney party zone, so they had all these different types of clubs and stuff like that.

Speaker 1:

But then they changed this whole area into the city. So now it's this family experience where you can go there with you know food and there's shows to see, there's you know, there's not so many clubs necessarily, but there's experiences and stuff that you can go into. They have those, like now, 3d rooms and stuff where you can go in and like put on these 3d equipment. There's a virtual equipment and you're as a team in the room and you're all doing this whole venture, whether you're shooting aliens and stuff, but you're in a big open space with this equipment on. You can just see everybody through virtual reality. It's pretty wild.

Speaker 2:

Orlando has something for everybody, right?

Speaker 1:

yeah, I mean it's, it's something for everybody there, and then universal has their own city too, now called universal city walk, and universal city walk is the same thing, but it's all the universal stuff in the city and the same thing, kind of like parallel to what disney springs is, but just they've got all those different experiences and activities for you to do giant arcades you know four, four story arcades where you can go in there and pay one price and you're just doing all kinds of crazy stuff, kind of like a Dave and Buster's type of thing. But I mean it's just unlimited. In Orlando, what all the things you can do, not to mention outside of the resorts. You've got all the hotels and you got golfing and food, and even downtown Orlando is like amazing. There's just so many things to talk about with Orlando. I mean you just got to. It's amazing. But there's only there's so much food there. There's no sense in even trying to like, pick, you know, any food to talk about. There's no specific food to go to.

Speaker 1:

But there is one place that I got to tell you about that I think that you would really love, and it's a place called the hash house and it's on international Boulevard. I found this last time I was down there with my niece and nephew and the hash house is like this breakfast breakfast experience. Like you go there and you're going to get a put a pancake. You order one pancake. The pancake is going to come out. It's like I would say like it's twice the size of the plate that they serve it on. I mean it's ridiculous. I mean the size of the food and all this stuff. They got people going around talking to the kids, making balloons and all kinds of stuff. It's really cool. It's a cool place. But the Hash House is definitely a place that you have a time and there's hundreds of places to get food and breakfast and dinner and lunch and all that stuff. But the hash house is really cool.

Speaker 2:

Well, you can understand why Orlando flights are always packed, right, I mean they're they're packed all the time because this is a family destination and there is something for everyone.

Speaker 1:

There's not a room. I mean all those miracle flights we do down there and you know it is a cool destination and there's something there for everybody.

Speaker 2:

All right, man. Well, listen, here is the quote for the week. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear and an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which has the potential to turn a life around. Amen. You know, in our job we say this all the time people travel. Most of the people that we could come across are traveling for the first time and the airports are the most frustrating place to be and, trust me, I understand that I'm in those every single day. So, just as a crew member, those one percenters, take that in consideration when you're coming across some of these passengers. We realize some of them are a little bit upset, but sometimes there's a reason. So just take a minute, try to make somebody's day and make yours a little bit better. But hey, listen. Hey, sean had a lot of fun this week. You guys have a great week. It was a lot of fun here on cabin pressure.

Speaker 1:

A lot of fun. We will see you next time on cabbage pressure. We got some fun stuff coming up here in the future and uh look forward to uh talking to you guys about it. Have a good day.

Speaker 2:

See you guys.

Speaker 1:

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