Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Ever wonder what it truly costs to make magical memories at Disney? Prepare for sticker shock as we break down the eye-watering expenses of taking a family to major theme parks this summer. With admission alone costing $640 for a family of four at Disney and nearly as much at Universal, plus hundreds more for food, parking, and those irresistible souvenirs, your wallet will feel lighter than Tinkerbell by day's end.
We share a personal financial revelation that left Shawn simultaneously elated and furious—discovering his wife had an HSA card with a lot of money sitting unused in her desk for two years! This prompts an important conversation about knowing your benefits and understanding your company's compensation package beyond just the paycheck.
The conversation shifts to aviation as we discuss the bizarre incident of a pilot getting locked out of the cockpit when his first officer fell asleep, and the tragic story of a tall ship striking the Brooklyn Bridge. We also explore the fascinating history of the Concorde and exciting developments with "Boom," a company bringing supersonic travel back to commercial aviation.
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What is it going to cost to take a family to Disney this summer? Pilot gets locked out of the flight deck. Is supersonic air travel coming back? All this? Next, on Cabin Pressure, with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome. This is cabin pressure cabin pressure's in the house. Here we are, people. Let's do it. Let's do it you. That was kind of scary yeah, you know what my nieces love the whoop, whoop the whoop, whoop, so they can.
Speaker 2:They can at least listen to the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll go sean's whoop, whoop they literally anytime I can be. It's like that. You know, when I was growing up my dad had a whistle.
Speaker 2:You know we had to Get your ass in the house whistle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a get your ass in the house whistle.
Speaker 2:I know that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know the whistle, so you know, and that's kind of like disappeared right, Like our generation.
Speaker 2:Because their asses never leave the house. You don't have to whistle for them to get their ass in the house. They don't leave the house, sean.
Speaker 1:They're still there at freaking 30 yeah, yeah, dude, you mean that whistle you needed to call the police to get their ass out.
Speaker 2:It's a police whistle.
Speaker 1:Get your ass out of my basement right, yeah, when the whistle when we were like kids were like you know, you make that whistle and my dad's rule was, you know, and I'm sure like your dad was, like you know, if you get far enough from the house where you can't hear me, my whistle and I whistle and you don't come.
Speaker 2:Ass beating. Oh hell, yeah, Belt Hot wheel track. Yeah, oh yeah, remember that. Yeah, all of it Slipper. Yeah, you're getting covered Whatever's available. Yeah, I got it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So the whoop whoop man. I started that with my nieces and I'm like I could go like whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop and dude, I could say that anywhere and they're like where's Uncle Sean they?
Speaker 2:come running.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like where's Uncle Sean? Whoop, whoop, they're like the smile's coming and they come running.
Speaker 2:Like Uncle Sean's here. Awesome man. But anyways, man, what's been going on? All right, man? Well, as you know, jemma's my girl. So, um, I was messing around the other day and I I'd seen this recipe and and jemma's my little dog, as you guys know, and uh I was I was like I want to try a different kind of, uh a treat for her. So what I did was, um, I I'd seen this little easy family recipe and and it was for a doggy ice cream, doggy ice cream.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doggy ice cream, dude, man dogs like animals, like ice cream.
Speaker 2:They love ice cream and Gemma man I mean, she loves her treats but the one thing about it is in this product when you make it, because it's made with a cup of plain Greek yogurt and we was on the plane and we have all these extra yogurts that we throw away from first class, and it was the vanilla yogurt.
Speaker 1:So you made dog-eating ice cream treats for Gemma from the plain yogurt? Yeah, is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, you thief. It was in the trash man, hear you thrown away anyways thrown away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're throwing that away, but anyway, what it was is that I? I took a couple of the um, the vanilla yogurts, uh, that was uh going in the trash. Before you sit there and say anything else, they were in in the trash.
Speaker 1:I'm glad it's going to good use period instead of the garbage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you take two ripe bananas and then you take a cup of Greek yogurt and you take a half cup of peanut butter and you definitely have to. It has to be unsweetened, because you don't want that. What is that X-tol free? I mean that one sugar, that sweetener, that's really bad. Uh, it's x no, no, I don't know it's, it's um, it's x, x, something.
Speaker 2:It's um zola zola tall something like that, but anyway it's a. It's a sweetener you're not supposed to have for dogs. But then you add um a cup of water, you put it in a blender, blend it and it comes up like a really runny pancake mix. And what I realized is this is that if you take an ice cube tray and you pour it into an ice cube tray and put it in the freezer, freeze it and then break it up into small pieces, put it into another container, leave it in the freezer oh my God, she absolutely freaking loves those damn things.
Speaker 1:I was thinking, like you were saying ice cube trays. I'm like who has?
Speaker 2:those. Well, I'm going to make some for you.
Speaker 1:Like I haven't seen an ice cube tray in so many years, like every one of my refrigerators in my house, I'll have they make. Make ice, but it's so, does so, does mine, but you know, I understand but like ice cube tray. That's just an interesting thought. It's popping my head. I'm like that's perfect.
Speaker 2:Here's a funny thing, right? Okay, I have the ice ice maker, but I I actually make ice cube tray, ice cubes in in um in the freezer too. Why? Well, because I I've always got. I mean, I'm going to the gym, I'm putting a bunch of ice in my bottle and everything, and I use a lot of ice.
Speaker 1:I mean, here's my thing. I remember as a kid filling those stupid things up. You're trying to balance the water.
Speaker 2:Those were the metal ones back then remember that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had the metal ones.
Speaker 2:You had to lift it up and break the shit out of those things.
Speaker 1:You'd shift the thing and it would break the ice.
Speaker 2:Those were big-ass pieces of ice.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah, but now they've got the plastic ones and all these different types of stuff you get the ones made for the big balls.
Speaker 2:They put them in the drinks now. Oh yeah, they have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have all kinds of crazy stuff, but I mean, I just haven't seen ice cube train so long.
Speaker 2:Well, if you look in my freezer, you'll see three of them, and one of them had Gemma's little treats in there. But you guys, I'm telling you, if you have pets, a little bit of Chobani Greek vanilla yogurt is really good, and half, like I said, a cup of peanut butter and two ripe bananas, blend it together, add a little water, pour it into your ice cube tray and I'm telling you, your pets will love those freaking treats.
Speaker 1:The crazy thing is that I think I'm going to see one day walking in. I'm going to go over to your house and it's going to be G and Gemma licking on an ice cube.
Speaker 2:I'm going to bring one for you on a popsicle stick, because he's a peanut butter, and you put peanut butter in anything he wants.
Speaker 1:some too. I love peanut butter.
Speaker 2:But you know she don't have crunchy, she has to have creamy, creamy, creamy. But anyway, yeah, so got that for Gemma.
Speaker 1:But you know what it's like. Uh, I was thinking about that the other day too, about all this freaking crazy road rage people, because we travel back and forth to indiana, you know, like once, twice a month, it seems like. So that's about four and a half hour drive and there are some crazy ass people on the road. I don't know why. Why are you gonna get all worked up about this stuff?
Speaker 2:the thing was killing me, though, is that it wasn't even on the road. Oh, actually on the road, but you know, when you pull up to a light, yeah, and somebody's doing something, and they're doing something on their phone, I'm like whatever, I'm behind them, I'm waiting. I'm waiting the light's been a green. I give them a reminder, you know what I get the finger and start cursing at me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you did something wrong, I'm like are you kidding me? I had that just the other day.
Speaker 2:I just gave you a little beep reminder.
Speaker 1:I tried to tap the horn, yeah, but it was just a tap yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like just to keep going right.
Speaker 1:And then you get crazy about this dude. I just can't stand the phone stuff. This is the whole distraction of the phone. You know you see a car swerving, a car coming at you, crossing the yellow line. They're on their phone.
Speaker 2:Like you see it every day they're just nuts, though, I mean they're crazy, I mean just for a little, a little beep. And then you want to flip somebody else and plus, here's the thing too. Remember this, okay, remember this. When you're starting flipping anybody, you don't know how crazy-ass that other person is sitting next to you that you start doing that. Now, that person might be on their last thought in their head and you just took them over the edge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, took them over the edge and now they're going to ready to take you out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you think your road rage is bad. Your ass whooping will be 10 worse times worse than that road rage.
Speaker 1:Or that gun comes out.
Speaker 2:Get your ass shot.
Speaker 1:Lots of concealed weapons here in this state.
Speaker 2:It's just stupid. I mean seriously. I mean get off your phones and if you don't want to get beeped at, but I mean to flip somebody off and do all that.
Speaker 1:Nah, it's just ridiculous, it's funny because you, you take this whole conversation and put it in New York. It's like so they beeped at you and everybody's beeping.
Speaker 2:Everybody's, everybody's. Yeah, it's just. They actually just want to hear what kind of horn you got.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, literally they beep even when you go. I yeah, yeah, all right, what's going on with you, dude? You know, um, so we're gearing up right now we're planning on a trip to um amelia island with my nieces. We're gonna go on a little summer vacation trip and, uh, we've been trying to plan all the logistics for that that trip and, uh, amelia, um, my little niece, she's like all pumped up because we've decided that we're gonna take.
Speaker 1:We always take our nieces and nephews on vacations and stuff and like, normally, like when each one of them get of age, graduate, we take them on a trip. We let them like pick your destination, we'll take you wherever you want to go. You know, like. So it seems like all our nieces and nephews have always picked hawaii and stuff, but this is long before, like, this niece is six years old and her name's amelia and her sister's name is reagan, so reagan. Of course we got to give her a trip because we're taking a million to a million island, so we're going to take reagan to reagan library and reagan's bookworm, so she loves she's like they even thought of it as like crazy. So she's all pumped up.
Speaker 1:But we're planning this trip right now and dude, it's so expensive. It is so expensive to like do all this stuff. Like I mean, when you start talking about, like summer trips and first of all, the last thing I want to do is do a summer trip into Florida in the summer, that is like the worst thought, like I don't want to go there In wintertime I'm all about it, but summer no. And so Amelia Island is what we're planning right now and yeah, it's just like it's wild, but they are so pumped it's so crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean, they're like Well, I mean, I can understand her because, amelia, you get to go to Amelia, my islands, cause I mean, how cool is that She'll? She'll get to stand there and take a picture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on, I'm hoping there's going to be like a, somewhere where we can get to some like a, you know, a poster, a bill, you know some, sign something that says Amelia Island. We'll take that picture. So that's going to happen, you know cause? We're gonna do it with Reagan, with the Reagan library and all that stuff. So yeah, and then the other thing, man, that's happened is, you know, my health is still shitty and all this stuff, and I got all this fricking pick the wrong insurance. It's me this year, I don't know. Did I talk to you about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we talked about it because you were talking to me about it before and I had looked into it and I was like it didn't fit my bill, but then it didn't fit yours either.
Speaker 1:Right, and the after fact. I picked this insurance where the co-payer or the deductible that has to be met before they really start paying for anything is like six grand. And so I'm like damn. So I went in and I like planned all this stuff and I'm like you know what? I got to get one of those HSA cards. And you know, and one of the things with this insurance I picked was the HSA card company is going to contribute 1500 bucks, and so I said, well, I'll do 1500 bucks and all this stuff. And and so I I've already went blowing through all that stuff.
Speaker 1:And you know, on my way to $6,000 for the year because of my heart and all this stuff, right, and then my heart, you know they're talking about I got to have another ablation. So I'm thinking, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to blow, I'm going to definitely pay this this year because if I have this surgery, that surgery is going to be on a hundred thousand plus whatever. And so I'm sitting here struggling with all these thoughts and trying to figure out how I'm going to do this. And you know, we got money saved and all this stuff and I'm I know we got it. I'm not worried about us not having this stuff.
Speaker 1:But, out of the blue, carol comes home the other day and she's like hey, I'm flying with Missy and Missy tells me that Jimmymy, you know, jimmy too. Yeah. Another pilot says that hey, um, you know, when we did our contract and stuff, they gave us this um credit card and we all got this credit card and um, it's this hsa card and we and I think there's like um 26 000 in this card that the company put in for him if you can see my face right now, I was beyond livid man.
Speaker 2:I'm like so you had an unknown benefit no, no it was.
Speaker 1:I had an unknown benefit that's been sitting up in her desk upstairs for the last two years of this hsa card. Now I've set aside money in my paycheck to cover some of these expenses and stuff. Right, and she already had this card. Right there, dude.
Speaker 2:That's a damn good day, sean Dude.
Speaker 1:I was happy and I was pissed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's a damn good day. I was happy and pissed. I'd have been more happy than pissed.
Speaker 1:I'm like you're telling me all this stuff. And then she was like so focused on this car because they had kind of sold it to them Like they had like their, their, uh, their, what is a back pay and all this stuff. They couldn't put an all this money that they were owed, whatever they agreed to, into one lump sum without this tax. So they were looking for drip tax breaks. So this was one of the vehicles they decided to do in their contract and so I had no idea about it. But if I would have known about it, like in the beginning of the year when we're doing insurance, I would have been like okay, but do you get to keep your?
Speaker 1:money do I get to keep my money? Yeah, um well, I've already spent my money.
Speaker 2:I think I know, but you forget.
Speaker 1:I've already blown through all that money that I'd like set aside and all this stuff and I paid out of of my pocket and all this stuff. And why are we paying out of pocket? When we got $26,000 sitting up in her desk, she, she literally thought it was like, oh, we can use this and I can put this in the retirement fund, because once you get to the retirement age, if you still have money in your HSA, you can like roll it over into four, one K oh hell.
Speaker 1:no, sean's got to get fixed. Yeah, I'm like honey. My heart is going bananas right now. I said I'm thinking I'll get to retirement.
Speaker 2:It's a wonder you didn't need to defib on that day.
Speaker 1:Dude man. I was happy and I was so mad. At the same time I was like are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:But you know, truthfully, the one, that that time of year I hate insurance I don't care. You know, going through and trying to figure out which one to which one to take, we have a bunch of different um insurance uh that we have to look at and man, it's tough, you gotta figure, you have to figure it out like when you work for a big corporation, like we do, and that they offer a lot of benefits.
Speaker 1:I mean the one thing about our job is we do work here for our benefits, because the benefits is what kind of drives it I mean we make. We make good money now, but in the beginning, when we first got this job, we weren't in it for the money, we were just in for the benefits like the flying benefits and all the pension retirement everything all that stuff. That's what it was all about.
Speaker 2:Airlines.
Speaker 1:It's still mostly about that. You know like, benefits is what we're really concerned about, and the insurance plans that they come up with and offer to us. I mean, I think this year we had like I feel like there was like 20 different insurance plans.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. It's confusing.
Speaker 1:That's just the health plans, right, the normal, you know, medical type of thing, and we're not including wrapping into like dental and I, I and all the other stuff they offer too. But it's complicated to like. Look at it. You need, you need a month to like, just like, decipher this whole thing and I guarantee you next year, my, I guarantee you next year, my ass will be there deciphering for the whole month, for the whole month.
Speaker 2:And I guarantee you won't be on the same program.
Speaker 1:I am not going to be on the same program, and I will not be. I'll be in a program that's going to be a little bit more beneficial, because this year has been rough man.
Speaker 2:Just remember, Carol's got that other 26 grand just sitting there, since you ain't doing nothing with it.
Speaker 1:And then here's the other thing with the thing she, since you ain't doing nothing with it. And then here's the other thing with the thing she takes a credit card right. So she takes it and she's like bought new glasses. She goes do you think I can use it for this?
Speaker 2:I'm like yeah, I'm like honey, you can use it. I can actually picture her too. I can picture you looking at her, knowing that you just had 26 grand sitting in the car.
Speaker 1:Dude and we were worried about like, oh, we're going to have to pull this out of our pocket and budget for this, and blah, blah, blah. Here we go.
Speaker 2:Sitting on the table.
Speaker 1:Sitting there because she ain't know. And here's my thing, like with all this stuff, and I'm always on her about this you know working at a company and everything, and it goes for everybody. If you work at a company, the big corporation, you get a contract, especially if you're in a union situation where you've got contracts and rules. Dude, know the game, know the rules, because the more you know rules, the better your game's going to be. It's just like golf the better you know the rules, the lower your scores.
Speaker 2:How many times did we talk about that in our job? That people, they, they have this contract they don't know shit about the contract right?
Speaker 1:they do not know anything.
Speaker 2:Contract yeah but you ask them what the rate of pay is. Yeah, they'll know it they'll know the pay the only thing that they know out of that damn contract is the rate of pay and that's it. I mean, they'll know they might know a little bit, but the majority of that contract, no idea. Same thing in health care they have no idea.
Speaker 1:The only thing that they know is that they have to pay them either 25 for a visit or 40 for a specialist yeah, they know they, just they have no, no clue that's it and unless you're in a situation where you, like, are in a health situation or have somebody in your family that are in a health situation, you have to pay this like you're not going to be hyper focused on it, it's just like something that we just do. But I would tell every all you youngsters out there, pay attention to shit, know the rules read your contract. Read all that stuff, you know what?
Speaker 2:they do. It annoys me too, especially in our line of work, is that when they don't know the contract, they go to social media and they throw it out there. And guess what? You just had 49 answers that were wrong about the contract because their ass didn't know it either. And the one that was right. You can't decipher it because you have no idea what the hell the contract says, so you just threw it out there to this ocean of people that have no freaking idea, just like you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not the place that you go for uh information about your contract. Nope, nope, nope, talk to a union rapper, talk to freaking somebody in the company or somebody else or another uh employee of your company.
Speaker 2:Don't, don't google it hey, man, I'm gonna let you talk about this next one. This dude was going to disney and he was uh, he was taking his family. Since you're going to, you got plans for Universal, I'm going to let you go ahead and start this one, yeah man.
Speaker 1:So here's the thing the cost to take a family of four to Disney today is astronomical and this kind of sparked the whole thing. Yeah, I'm planning for this thing, but we also ran into this article about what it takes, because right now it's like Disney time, because you know all the people that are out of school, the kids are out of school and Disney and all the parks are coming in and everybody's getting ready to go, but the family expense and the cost to do that is so astronomical. It's so astronomical. I was like blown away when I was doing like the research and comparison about this stuff, because we're getting ready to take after Amelia Island, we're going to go three days over to Orlando and then we're going to take them to Universal and Universal has a new park coming up, opened up actually here May 22nd like in a couple days. They're going to have a brand new park called Epic Universe and I mean things sound awesome. I mean Super Mario Land is going to be in there. They got a whole new Harry Potter section.
Speaker 2:I would go to Universal with you. Yo hell yes, me and you at Universal. Me and you would have a freaking blast at Universal.
Speaker 1:It is like it's so like Universal. I like Universal Parks and stuff. There's only one aspect about Universal Parks that I don't like is that they are super heavy in the virtual rides and some of those virtual rides dude. Oh man, it turned my stomach like crazy.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't want to go, anything that goes round and round. But you know something as far as like rides and shit like that, that I'll go on there with you, it's not, it's not like ground around, like that.
Speaker 1:If you been to universal, I mean they have these like uh, so I went through the first harry potter one, uh, when they first opened it up, and uh, you were like flying on a broom. So you're sitting in his car, but you feel like you're flying on this broom of harry potter, like playing quidditch. You know like you're, you're doing all this stuff, but this thing, it goes on and on and on. Like there's a certain point where you were like, can I get off the broom? Can somebody get me off this broom? Damn it, I want, I need to get out of here now. Okay, and like you will close your eyes because the all you're doing is looking at screen. The car is like turning and it's moving through this ride, but you're just looking at screen. So it's like a wraparound screen, so it's like virtual reality, right, and so if you get motion sickness and stuff, dude, you will get motion sickness.
Speaker 2:I had to close my eyes.
Speaker 1:It's actually from the middle of an IMAX. You talked about this before. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's not as fast.
Speaker 1:So like the speed of this too, like the cars are moving at like two miles per hour.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it's not that bad.
Speaker 1:But it's not. You're flying through the sky and the car keeps twisting from screen to screen to screen to screen, and it is, it's. They have a lot of rides like that, dude. They got transformer rides like that spider-man's rides like that harry potter's like that, and they, they're all similar rides. So you'll see, if you ever went we go, dude you'll be like, oh shit, my stomach's getting kind of queasy because they they're long rides and they just keep going on and on. But I was like I was ready get my ass off a broom anyways.
Speaker 1:so, anyways, let's let me talk to you about this cost of this thing. So, like an average family going to uh, the park, if you're going to Disney to pay for four people, you're going to pay $160 per person to get into the park, so that's $640 right there. So then you go in there and you got the park Like you would think, like Disney owns this whole entire like universe. They make the parking free, come on. No, they're still getting you $30 for the parking for the day, and then you got then that's per vehicle. So don't go with more than one vehicle, right? I mean $30 for a vehicle. And then you're talking about food. So one thing about Disney is that they will let you bring in food. So that's interesting. A lot of people don't know that you can bring in food, but most people won't. They're going to go there and enjoy the park. They're going to go there, enjoy the park. They're going to.
Speaker 2:You know the fest. Yeah, they don't want to schlep around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I want, I want, I want to go and I'll get a hot dog or a burger or whatever. Get some snacks, and you're definitely it's in the middle of summer in florida. How much, how many drinks are you going to be buying? Exactly right, I mean it is going to be going crazy. So the estimated total for beverages, for for uh, for just for food, is 200 to $250 per person. That is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it's like crazy, it's crazy, Like you gotta.
Speaker 1:You got all these, like like it's a monster bill, and so you you can't take the kids without giving any souvenirs, right. So you got to throw in the souvenir budget, which is 200 to $400 for a family of four to get souvenirs, Because you know you can get one of them. Broomsticks Everybody needs those damn mouse ears. You get the broomstick, that's universal.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but you're going to universal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so then, yeah, then if you think about oh, I want to speed up this, I don't want to stand in lines, you got them now. The, the lightning lane, the multi-pass, they bump you up to 15 per person. You got another 60 added on to I mean and everybody else had that same idea yeah, so everybody exactly, and so you got.
Speaker 2:But you'll be surprised how many people don't do it like I know, but you'll be surprised how many people do do it yeah, so anyhow then.
Speaker 1:So you're looking at about eleven hundred dollars plus for mickey mouse for one day with your family at the park. I mean that's just kind Anyhow. So you're looking at about $1,100 plus For Mickey Mouse For one day with your family at the park. I mean that's just kind of like an average total going and that's almost probably a low estimate of what it's going to cost you, because you're not talking about adding in all the experiences If you take your daughter there and she wants to get dressed up like a princess and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Go have lunch with the princess or something another 500 bucks, you know like that's you know it's pictures with all the animals you know breakfast with all the you know characters and stuff like that. Yeah, each one of those things add up, so this is just like a average general cost, but we're taking the a million Reagan to universal.
Speaker 2:Let's see what Sean's going to have to pay. Yeah, so we're going to probably like cheaper for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you would think for me that was sarcasm, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here it comes.
Speaker 1:So the admission per adult is $139.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cheap, Sean yeah $139 per day.
Speaker 1:And then then, if you got two children, you got the children's at $134. They get a $4 discount. Oh, that's a good discount, it's a deal. And so, yeah, you got $546 going in the door to get into that new park that opens here in a few days, and so you get that they're charging $ 32 for parking. And then on top of that you got another, the food costs, which is pretty similar to the disney and stuff like that. So so you got an estimated food cost of, uh, probably about 140 bucks per person going in there. And then you got the souvenirs same budget, 200 to 400 for the budget, right. So it, it's pretty much almost the same about 1100 plus dollars to get in, you know, for an average cost to do universal as well. So it doesn't matter if you're doing mickey, it doesn't matter if you're doing any of the freaking you're into um, you know, minions or harry potter, whatever they're gonna get you.
Speaker 2:But the best part is that when you have to go on the rides, you have to go with the girls. I have to go with the girls, yeah, so you're going to be sick and you're going to be paying a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Dude, here's the thing. The only good thing about the girls is that they get scared. Really easy.
Speaker 2:Don't want to get off the broomstick. Yeah, they're young right now.
Speaker 1:So they're not going to like they're going to go on. If they go on something and get sick like that, the next ride that does is that they're not going to do it.
Speaker 2:So you'll be safe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those will be safe. But I mean, I actually want to go to this epic universe.
Speaker 2:Now will Carol go actually on those rides.
Speaker 1:Dude Carol's a freaking kid too.
Speaker 2:Oh, is she, oh yeah kid too.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, she loves doing that. Here's our. Here's the thing. So we would for two, I mean for a long time. All of our first generation. These are great nieces I'm talking about right now, all the first nieces and nephews. Cedar point was. This was their vacation, summer vacation. They come here for cedar point and we take them to cedar point every year like that was a big thing. One week here in ohio and we did cedar point a couple days it was.
Speaker 2:They loved it and all of them talk about him, like every one of those if you guys have never been to cedar point, make it a point of going, because it is a bomb of a time yeah man, the roller coaster capital of the world.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you're into roller coasters and all that stuff and I am.
Speaker 2:I love they got a new dragster, right the new. They got a new dragster.
Speaker 1:They got a new roller coaster I don't know what the name of it is, but I just saw a video of it and the coaster goes up this hill. When it gets to the top of the hill it flattens out and it gets on a track and the track is overhanging, okay, and there's a end to the track that doesn't have a barrier or anything, just into the track and the coaster slides onto that and the whole damn car tips straight down till your 90 degrees vertical, connects onto the neck, the trap below, and drops you. It dude, it was it is. And then then you keep finishing your ride, twisting and turning and flipping upside down.
Speaker 1:I was like the first of all, I can't not remember.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to remember the roller coaster we were on that it did that. Actually it went to. It looked like the abyss, right. I mean you're just going off and it just stops and you're looking at nothing but sky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then it reverses and goes the other way. No, but this isn't a reverse, I know. But I'm saying Go out to the edge and tip over straight.
Speaker 2:I've seen that.
Speaker 1:Actually it looks pretty cool Because Disney has one. What is that? The Matterhorn or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:It's in Animal Kingdom and the Yeti, something like that.
Speaker 2:Anyways, I'm sure everybody out there is yelling the name out.
Speaker 1:But it goes up and it stops and then it goes backwards. But when it goes backwards it switches tracks and you go back through the mountain and all this stuff. It's, it's pretty wild, um. But anyways, man, this whole trip, this whole cost, they get you in this time and one day, one day, it's astronomical I am, I feel, for all the parents right now, like right now, when school gets out, from that time, those three months that school's out, like you are like, it's a big cost, huge cost I feel sorry for the parents when you go into those um, those souvenir shops and that kid is screaming that he wants that saber or he wants the broom at the Universal or he wants some Disney thing.
Speaker 2:And you're sitting there thinking Jesus, I just dropped 500 in that last place, dude, I mean when you walk.
Speaker 1:The last time I was at the park and I was at Disney and Star Wars was my thing, right, they got the whole Star Wars park. They got an area now like lightsabers are one thing they used to get you. It was 300 bucks a lightsaber and you build your own life center. Right now they got build your own robot. So they got the like bb8s and all these different robots that you could build and customize and everything. So you know you're dropping another three, four hundred bucks for a robot. So I mean, and then you'll see families walking out of there. They got like three, four, each kid has a robot.
Speaker 1:I'm like, you got to be rich to go to these places.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why they have defibrillators all over Disney.
Speaker 1:That's exactly it.
Speaker 2:All right, Well, good luck with that man. Anyway, hey, listen, did you check out that video of that ship, that ship that ran into the Brooklyn Bridge, Dude the tall ship that hit the Brooklyn Bridge.
Speaker 1:That was crazy. And you see one mast snap and then it just keeps on going.
Speaker 2:The next mast snaps. And guys were falling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there were guys that were actually up on the freaking mast that when it hit. I can't even imagine that. First of all, I don't know whose fault this is, but somebody's going to be in a world of freaking hurt right now. But the tall ships are coming in for that whatever Memorial Day weekend and they have like the celebration of whatever that they bring these tall ships in. Have you seen like any of those tall ships ever Like one time they have it here on Lake Erie?
Speaker 2:Have you seen like any of those tall ships ever? Like one time they have it here on lake erie. Have you seen those? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was sitting there thinking about this. So with this ship, though, it was 297 feet. Yeah, okay, if you were, if you were taking your ship through there and you get your 297 feet right, you're a captain of that ship and you're thinking 297 feet. Wouldn't you want to know how tall the bridge is?
Speaker 1:Well, you would think, and that's what I was saying In the videos and stuff, I thought they were being towed and so I think the towing company is going to be the one.
Speaker 2:But any ship, though, any ship traveling through any port.
Speaker 1:Any waterway, it doesn't matter what you're in. Any vehicle, whatever, you don't go by an estimate.
Speaker 2:You're not going by an estimate. It looks good. Yeah, I think you're going to clear it.
Speaker 1:It looks good. I think it looks good until it's gone.
Speaker 2:I mean I only have like hundreds of millions of dollars of products on this cargo ship. But hey, yeah, no, it looks. No, you know exactly how many inches you have of clearance Exactly. So I mean, if you knew your ship the masts were 297 at the top point of this you'd think you would have known how tall the bridge was.
Speaker 1:First of all, brooklyn Bridge is way up there too. I mean, I think it was like Brooklyn Bridge is like 230 or something like that is the clearance for it.
Speaker 2:At the highest point.
Speaker 1:At the highest point.
Speaker 2:They weren't at the highest point.
Speaker 1:The ship was 297.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they weren't even at the highest point, they were at the lowest point.
Speaker 1:They were over on the edge.
Speaker 2:So I mean, when you're looking, it just blew my mind because you're looking at 297. Oh yeah, we got three feet of clearance at the highest point.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing. How many ships have gone through there? Yeah, and I don't think I've ever heard of anybody hitting the Brooklyn Bridge Nope, Ever in my life. You know like it's like somebody fell asleep on the job. Somebody fell off, Actually it was really sad, sad for those families that lost the two people that died.
Speaker 2:Two of them, two guys, lost their lives because of this and if you've seen the pictures, it was really crazy and sad. You see the pictures of these guys, I mean, literally hanging on to these masks because they're getting knocked off these masks. Dude, that's crazy. It was nuts man. I mean I could not believe it. But it's all over. It is all over the news.
Speaker 1:I mean anybody can see this yeah, you can Google this the tall ship hitting Brooklyn Bridge and you'll see the pictures and the video, because it was almost as like slow motion as it's happening. You're like it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I think it took out all three of them, though right all three of the masks, I think I think there was two.
Speaker 1:There was two, but I don't know yeah, but anyway, check it out.
Speaker 2:Okay, listen, uh, got it, we're gonna. We're gonna head around the globe around the globe, around the globe man all right, we had a captain, john, and he got locked out of the cockpit locked out of the cockpit.
Speaker 1:How does that even happen?
Speaker 2:well, when he okay, they were at the um, uh, the top of descent and he had to go out and use the bathroom, which you know they never do yeah, right, and you know, every flight attendant in the world right now is laughing yeah, they. They never use it right at the top of the descent.
Speaker 1:I think it's that nervous feeling, you know, like okay, now I got to go land this thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, if he wasn't nervous. If he was not nervous before and he was having a problem with the bowel movement, he wouldn't have had it shortly after that.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Because when he went to knock on the door and call in the cockpit, nobody answered. Nobody answered.
Speaker 1:Nobody answered. Nope, nice.
Speaker 2:The first officer had passed out. He went to sleep, fell asleep, yep Yikes For about 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:That's perfect At the top of Descent.
Speaker 2:Did you know how busy they are at the top of Descent? Do you know how that captain is currently?
Speaker 1:shitting his pants. Yeah, he's like shitting his pants, shit in his pants yeah, he's like shit and kind of like what's going on up there, like what the heck right? Yeah, I don't dude that. There's a whole bunch of things that went wrong in that thing. We, we there's some other aspects to that whole situation that we, we are not going to talk about. We're not going to talk about it but the, uh, the, that should never happen, I mean, and how you get locked out, come on, come on crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2:But, like I said, I can imagine if he had a bowel movement problem he wouldn't have it right then, man he was, because it was definitely you, definitely you definitely run back in there. All right, hey, remember the concord.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, tell me about it, man concord man, concord's cool plane, supersonic plane, first supersonic plane ever freaking be invented. It was a gas guzzling monster. Each one of the uh aircraft costs about um 23 million dollars to produce. It was uh in 1970 and uh today. That would be like 170 million dollars per plane just to get that thing in the air.
Speaker 2:But um do you remember how they used to go on and on about the Concord?
Speaker 1:Dude, you heard nothing about the Concord's coming in here. The Concord, like it was an event to see the Concord, right, right and that's. And it was so interesting to me, like as a kid, like like, oh, the Concord, that's so cool to be like able to fly on the Concorde and do this thing, but the lifespan of that plane was not too long, nope, no, I mean like.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean you look at the cost. I mean when you start looking at the cost of it, it's unfreaking. Believable. I mean because exactly what you said you're like oh, the Concorde's coming in there. Well, no question whether it was empty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were saying like I mean cost-wise, you're saying yeah, jet fuel, it burned 6,700 gallons of fuel every hour. So even though it was fast, it was burning through fuel like unbelievable. So just to do a three I mean do the math on that for a three-hour flight.
Speaker 1:Like it's lots and lots of fuel but they, they never carry that many people. Well, yeah, there wasn't that many people because, uh, it was a very expensive plane to fly and so that the only airlines that did it, which was, um, air france and british airways, they were being subsidized. So, like the only it was it was, it was kind of like just a. They were doing it to do it Right. You know it was a, it was a cool thing to do and in the who's who of who's, you know, all the famous people and stuff were flying on it and it only existed until the damn thing crashed.
Speaker 2:Right, like you were talking about earlier, is that there was never a next generation Concord.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they never like. It was interesting to me when you look back in the history in the Concorde like every generation of plane, it doesn't matter, you can look at it whatever you want to look at war planes, commercial planes, private planes they are always developing and enhancing that product and continue to do that. But the Concorde was one plane that they made it and never planned for a predecessor. Like it was a plane that just was in that period and then when the plane like didn't exist anymore and they shut it down, it was like gone and we were ghosts.
Speaker 1:Supersonic planes for like 30, 40 years now, like there's been no talk of like a supersonic plane. The only thing you talk about supersonic planes would be like fighter jets in the military and things like that. You know, like that, like us traveling. It went from Concorde to now we're talking about space travel, right, right, that was the whole thing. Everybody's like hey, we're going to do pastures into space and everybody's like the ex-Musk and Bezos were racing to figure out who's going to do into space and the supersonic kind of like conversation, kind of like fell to the side.
Speaker 2:But if you think of it back then during that time, $12,000 for a round trip to London. I mean that plane only had 100 seats.
Speaker 1:That's why it was the who's the who's.
Speaker 2:I know that plane only had 100 seats. That's why it was the who's. The who's, I know, but still $12,000 back then, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1:So you're saying the $12,000 per ticket to get on the plane, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah round trip.
Speaker 1:Okay. So I went to college in Omaha, nebraska, and the owner of Godfather's Pizza lived in Omaha, nebraska, and he decided that he wanted to charter the Concord to come into Omaha and pick up his family and take them to London. Okay, and he did that.
Speaker 2:He made a shitload of pizza, sean. If you remember, when we were young, godfather's Pizza was in every mall in the United States. It was everywhere, everywhere. You didn't go to the mall without eating. Godfather's pizza was in every mall in the united states, it was everywhere, everywhere, I mean, you know you. You didn't go to the mall without eating godfather's pizza, so that's the reason why his ass flowed that concord, but I mean he charted the thing.
Speaker 1:So it was just him and his family on that plane going direction. He didn't like fill up the rest of the seats, it was just him. So you can imagine what the cost was. I have no idea, do the math yourself, but it was a. It was a buttload of money to get it done. But concord was a cool plane. I mean it was just a really neat plane to uh fly on and all that stuff. I never got a chance to do it.
Speaker 1:I have a friend that his brother he has. He's an aviation like nut and ever since he was a little kid he was like and he got the chance to like travel by himself and doing the non-revving stuff. He literally would go on different companies when they're doing like these inaugural flights or he would literally fly all over the world just to do fly on the plane. And so he flew on the concorde and before it actually got retired and all that stuff, so uh it it's a wild plane.
Speaker 1:But now there is a new company out there that actually is has the conversation about uh, supersonic and that company is called boom, boom, boom, baby. And uh, they have just actually flew the first uh version of the boom model in their research and production of the new aircraft that are going to be supersonic aircraft, and uh three new three companies in the world now have bought into this boom uh company to actually do air travel. They have a model out that's called the overture and it's going to hold like so the Concorde held 100 people. This one's going to have 64 to 80 passengers. It's going to be a smaller plane but it's going to still do Mach 1.7.
Speaker 2:But I can see it, though. I can see it being more productive and more economically feasible during this time, because there's more millionaires now yeah, well, here's. So I mean there's more people that would actually fly that.
Speaker 1:And the technology, though the technology is not going to burn the fuel like it is. No, the Concorde reminded me of the Blackbird in the military. You know the Blackbird was the same type of thing. When the Blackbird took off, it ate so much fuel that there was three tankers that actually three air tankers that would follow behind it, because I worked with this plane in the military, so I know what's what's going on here. And it would refuel in air and the blackbird would have to fly the slowest it could possibly fly and the the tankers would have to fly the fastest it could possibly fly to tank refuel it, because the plane would literally ooze fuel out on the ground as it's taken off.
Speaker 1:I mean it was, it's wild. So I mean we don't, in this day and age of all this you know green energy and all that stuff when there's that would never, ever fly to invent something that acted or behaved like that. So these planes are actually using biofuels and different. You know the engines are going to be designed so they're going to be very economical and all that stuff. So the cost maybe to build them might be expensive, but the cost to fly them is going to be much cheaper than what the Concorde was.
Speaker 2:It'll be interesting to see what Boom does. But hey, listen, I have to tell you about this. We had another, um uh, flight attendant, a drug mule, drug mule. It was a former, a former British cabin crew member. Oh man, stupid and Sri Lanka.
Speaker 1:Dude, this is why would you ever, ever participate in anything like that? I mean, I guess if you're in the dead or whatever, but I mean just stupid, you're gonna get caught. In this day and age, there's so much technology out there to catch you, like for you to like bypass that you're gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2:This girl was only 21 years old 21 when, when she goes to prison sean, she's to do more time in prison than she's been alive.
Speaker 1:Oh for sure man, she might not get out.
Speaker 2:Here's the crazy part, right. I mean, she's flown back and forth through the countries. The flight it was arriving from Bangkok. Could you imagine if you got caught in Bangkok? Forget about it. I mean, she got caught on the best side of that flight. Could you imagine getting caught in Bangkok?
Speaker 1:Dude, there's no way, there's no way. You're gone forever We've had that conversation before. Yeah, you're gone forever. Yeah, I mean those prisons and the freaking medieval treatment and stuff that they got done. You know they say you ain't getting a cell and a colored TV like here in the United States.
Speaker 2:Nope, Three square meals, yikes, $1.15 million worth of cannabis. That was found in her leggings. Now, I can't understand how they missed that in bangkok, because they're they're usually, they're usually pretty spot on right there. But, man, did she get lucky that she got it on the other end, because bangkok, nope, she'd have been gone first of all, the amount that she's toting, that's a lot it's like it's one thing to like bring.
Speaker 1:Okay, you're bringing one brick. Yeah, she was said she had multiple, multiple bricks, like bricks of the of this uh and uh, the comparison of how much the value was I thought was kind of funny. You know, 460 million, uh, sri lanka rupees, which is worth 50, 1 million, 500, whatever it don't mean shit she's gonna be in prison.
Speaker 2:She ain't't going to spend nothing. Let me tell you anybody think about doing this. This is why you all messed up a known crew member for us, because you do stupid shit like this. But you know you're dumb, you're going to get caught every single time.
Speaker 1:Dude, this reminds me of a story that happened back in the day too. Was this guy, wasn't? He wasn't uh doing drugs or anything, he just thought you know, I'm gonna uh, I'm gonna make some bucks on my flight, and uh. So every time he'd uh fly over to whatever country he was going to, he would uh bring cell phones with him. And so he was. He'd come on the plane and he'd have like four or five, ten cell phones with him and he'd go over and he'd sell them wherever he was flying to. Like you know, say he was going to bangkok, he'd sell them over there because they couldn't get him at the time right.
Speaker 1:So he was just packing, you know, doing all this stuff, not paying any taxes, not paying, not even claiming him all this stuff, and he was doing it on the job. And when he came back through, you know, he had gotten rid of the whole thing. But he was involved in this huge like syndicate of all these people that were doing all this black market junk. I mean, it's the same thing Drugs, black market. Doesn't matter what you are. If you're trying to bypass rules and make them to make them buck, you're going to get caught.
Speaker 2:You're going to get caught. I mean, this is an example, like I said, 21 years old going to do 25 years in a prison because of this stupidity Unbelievable. But another thing I wanted to talk about was remember our friend Gary Brecka that we talked to.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Ultimate human.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was going over this thing and I thought it would be interesting just to touch on this. Have you heard of that, uh, that pulsed electromagnetic field, um this, this, um matt that you sleep on?
Speaker 1:yeah, I've heard, I've heard of it and I keep on. The things are popping up here and there on different social media links and, uh, it looks super promising. Like I'm, I'm, I'm relating it to like that, what's that device that we? We both have one of them that we like when we get sore muscles and stuff and we kind of like, do the pulsing and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1:Anyways, I think it's very.
Speaker 2:Electric stimulation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's electric stimulation. They use it everywhere. Like when it first came out, it was kind of like came out, it was kind of like I don't know about this, I don't know about this. Then. Then you know, actually like physical therapy, people were starting to use it and then that kind of like legitimized it for us and we're like, okay, well, now we can buy our own, we'll just do do it ourselves, right, and those things work, fantastic. But this is a kind of like along the same type of wavelength to me. You know, like this, the benefits of this that they're talking about, the uh potential benefits, is like pain reduction, uh, the fast recovery from injuries, improved sleep, reduced inflammation inflammation for me is like a big thing from in my, in my body. Right, I can do something to like get me past this. Like the pains and stuff that inflammation causes in my body, oh man, yeah, the unit that we were talking about was the TENS unit.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, TENS.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the TENS unit, but this is like a complete TENS mat, right, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't think it's like the effect of tins, like you're getting that stimulation, like you're being electrocuted or anything.
Speaker 2:No right.
Speaker 1:But I mean, I'm interested you.
Speaker 2:I am because you know, as you get older, you know you feel from arthritis and everything, and if this, I mean if this would help like reduce just the feeling of getting up, yeah it'd be cool. But I'm kind of like with you. I want to see, I want to wait and see on this and because there's a couple of companies already got a few, a few of these out, I want to. I want to see what the consumer review is for passengers Excuse me, for customers that actually that use this and their results from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because my my thing is, like you know me, I invest in my sleep. Like, and sleep is super important to me. As far, this is just as important as me selecting my health care. Like I need to have a good bed to sleep on.
Speaker 1:I think many people need to like adjust their attitude about beds and how much they invest into them because, uh, how you sleep matters so much about your health and wellness and, uh, this is something adding to my bed and my sleep and, like, I've invested into that Tempur-Pedic and I don't know how that's going to affect, like the um mechanics in the you know, the effects of my Tempur-Pedic mattress, so that that will be interesting to me to figure out. If you know, is that compatible? You know, is this, does this match, stretch and bend and form to the body like my Tempur-Pedic, or is it going to? Is that going to like take that away type of thing? So those are some of the concerns I got as far as this thing goes, but if the benefits are these, what they're saying it is, then that might be worth it.
Speaker 2:I know a TENS unit man. I'm a firm believer in the TENS unit. I use it whenever I have aches and pains. Hook it up. It feels a lot better. I've been using it for years. I mean we both have. I mean both of us have been using a TENS unit for a long time.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you right now, like you were the one that turned me onto the tens unit and I went out and tens units. Now, man, you can go on Amazon, buy those things for like 20 bucks. I mean they're, they're so inexpensive, but they're such a nice thing to have around. To me it's like having that uh heating pad in my house now right. Like who doesn't have a heating pad in their house? That is old Right.
Speaker 2:Or play sports, Especially if you've got a 10s unit man, If you've got like a lower back or your shoulder or something, it's amazing. You can just hook this thing up and then just turn it on and it just feels so much better.
Speaker 1:It does yeah, it does all kinds of like electrical massage and different types of pulses, and you can do it as whatever strength you want. And the cool thing about this like this PEMF mat, they are going to be coming down in price because a lot of people, a lot of companies, are starting to produce these things. So it'll be interesting where it goes and I want to experience One of us. I know we're going to get it.
Speaker 2:And then we're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1:And we're going to definitely talk about it All right man, listen.
Speaker 2:you know something. I had a great week. Sean, go ahead with the quote.
Speaker 1:All right Now. So we're going to end with this quote man, your talent determines what you can do, your motivation determines how much you're willing to do, and your attitude determines how well you'll do it. That's a quote from Lou Holtz, and that is so true on every aspect of it. I mean attitude to me is everything Like if you approach, how you approach, life matters.
Speaker 2:Absolutely All right, guys, listen, we had a great week. Can't wait to come back next week. You guys have a great week. Hope everything goes well and, Sean, we will see everybody back here on Cabin Pressure. See ya, see ya.
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