Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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The friendly skies aren't always so friendly, as Shawn and G demonstrate in this laugh-out-loud episode packed with aviation's most bizarre recent incidents. From the passenger who physically dragged a flight attendant up the aisle to a flight attendant who conducted a "citizen's arrest" on a coworker over a stolen snack box, this episode takes listeners on a turbulent journey through airline absurdity.
The hosts can barely contain their astonishment when discussing a flight attendant discovered dancing naked in a business class lavatory, who was subsequently dressed in pajamas and seated in first class for the remainder of the flight. Equally baffling was the DoorDash driver who somehow bypassed airport security and ended up driving on the Chicago airport tarmac. As Shawn and G unpack these stories, they share what would happen if someone grabbed them by the collar (spoiler: it wouldn't end well) and the unwritten code among flight crews that "nobody likes a narc."
Between aviation anecdotes, Shawn recounts his cross-country adventure visiting nieces, complete with roller skating adventures and children's theater performances, while Shawn prepares for an upcoming golf tournament. The episode takes a more reflective turn when G shares his experience watching a Vietnam draft lottery video and realizing his birthday would have been one of the first called – a sobering thought about how different life could have been in another era. The hosts also discuss how Shawn leveraged Uber Eats to fund his college education, emphasizing that opportunities exist for those willing to seek them out.
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passenger dragged a flight attendant up the aisle of an airplane. Flight attendant gets suspended on suspicion of assault. After conducting a citizen arrest on a co-worker flight attendant found dancing naked in a business class lavatory. All this next and more, on cabinin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2:This is cabin pressure and here's shawnee yeah, hey, that was good, I did. I like that one here's shawnee.
Speaker 1:We're back in, we're back at it. That was a good one, man. Welcome everybody, hey, everybody, hey everybody what's going on?
Speaker 2:What's been going on, g man, I'm telling you. You know, I had one of them, full weeks of flying that I always have. So you know, one of the greatest conversations I like to have with passengers was when someone tells me that they fly as much as me.
Speaker 1:Right, so that is the funniest. So if you don't know, g is like the one of the flight attendants that work the most out of anybody I know in my life. I mean he's gonna just drop dead someday on a plane because he works so too much. But I always tell him, freaking, get a life and go have some fun. But g works his ass off. I worked my ass off there's nobody. I know that works better more than you.
Speaker 2:Last week, though, man, it was funny Cause this guy's come up and he and he was talking to me and he's like oh, you know, I probably fly as much as you. And I said really, and he goes, yeah, and I said well, let's look at that, an Orlando turn. And then Wednesday I did a LA turn, and then Thursday I did an LA turn, and then Friday I did an Orlando turn, and this Saturday, just for fun, I went back to LA and I came back, what'd you do? He's like looking at me, like what the are you doing?
Speaker 1:You're doing that intentionally.
Speaker 2:That's how I get paid man.
Speaker 1:That's right. He's going to soak his company for as much money as he could possibly get out of it.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm there, man. I'm there to get paid, but I'll tell you what that was. A week, brother. I'm telling you, man, that was a week, that was kicking my ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my week was much different than your week.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know Yours is Jealousy. Yeah, here comes the jealousy part of the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is what real flight attendants normally fly.
Speaker 2:Honestly here comes the bullshit.
Speaker 1:I'm just the average Joe flight attendant that comes out here and we just do what we got to do and get the hell out of here, or as least as possible as we can do.
Speaker 1:Get to the point at which you did all right, so, anyways, get to the point of what you did. All right, so anyways. No, that's so. Um, my week man, I um took off like the last uh weekend. I took off on this like tour around the world to visit all my great nieces. So I took off to three nieces out in vegas and, uh, those nieces, as soon as you hit the ground, dude, I'm telling you right now it is like nonstop Go, go, go. They like activity after activity, boom, it was crazy. I mean, I got there. It was like mad, four square rounds for like six hours.
Speaker 2:You know something though. Okay, I know you because with you, with my kids, when they were younger, I could absolutely tell you where's Sean, where's Sean? Grab his arm and pull you right along with him. He's like the big toy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I like to play the kids. You know I have fun with the kids and everything and my nieces all love me.
Speaker 1:You're like Woody and Buzz Lightyear, all wrapped up in one yeah right, but you know, talking about that, and then you, I, they, they took me to like the vegas this is the vegas nieces. They took me to a water park. Dude, it was like 99 degrees out there. I mean I didn't bring the shoes, I didn't bring like water shoes. So I went to buy water shoes because I'm like I'm gonna burn my feet out there like it's so freaking hot. But here's the crazy thing like I went to a water park you would never expect this in vegas. I mean, they chill the water. It was so cold that my nieces were like asking to get out of the water because they were like shivering. It was 99 degrees outside and the water was ice cold. So they had to have like been chilling it because there's no way like a three-foot pool on a on a like a lazy river could stay, you know, cold.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was crazy, and then they took me.
Speaker 1:Then one day we went to a freaking a roller skating rink. I went roller skating dude.
Speaker 2:You know something when I was growing up loved roller skating.
Speaker 1:I did too, man, I was like how?
Speaker 2:was your feet Bouncing and groo man, I was like how was your feet bouncing and groove grooving.
Speaker 1:It wasn't the feet, it was like the legs. It was like, you know, like skiing and all that stuff. Like I'm using muscles I haven't used in 40 years. It was crazy, dude. I was like. But we had this roller rink all during tests. There was like 10 people in this roller rink. So my nieces they're like super, you know super little and they're like giving me the the kid response hey, do you roller skate? Yeah, I roller skate, we get to the rink. You know they're like giving me the kid response hey, do you roller skate? Yeah, I roller skate, we get to the rink. You know. They're like holding on to the edge of the wall, sliding themselves around the rink.
Speaker 2:Okay, anybody, anybody that roller skated when you're young, right, there was one song they always played Flashlight. No, yes, are you kidding me? They did that? Yeah, but the one Flash, I think they did that Flashlight.
Speaker 1:You had the flashlights on your skates bouncing around, all right, but man, I'm talking about the hokey pokey.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're getting in a circle man. You put your left foot in, you put your right foot in Right.
Speaker 1:They don't do hokey pokey anymore. No way, really. Are you serious? No, there's no hokey pokey, oh, oh, man In fact, this rink was so crazy they wouldn't take requests. They're like we have prerecorded music, we do not take requests, this is it. But they had a great track. I mean everything you can bounce around the track and all this stuff. But it took me a minute to get it back. But I was grooving around there. I was like boom, I'm like yeah, I'm 59, but shit, look at me.
Speaker 2:Isn't that funny. You kind of go back, you resort back to when you was a kid, right, and you're like moving and everything. And then the next morning you're like damn.
Speaker 1:Dude, I thought I was going to break a fucking hip or something out there.
Speaker 2:That's what I thought was going to happen, but I did not fall.
Speaker 1:I did not fall one time, which is awesome. I came close but I caught myself and I was back on my feet.
Speaker 2:And if thing like, do a little power right yeah, do a little power slide, get up, put your arm down yeah, man, it was crazy, but uh, they were testing me.
Speaker 1:so then we took off there and I went to uh denver for a couple days. Uh, my, uh, my, like not family niece, um, that they've. I've known this gal since she was a little girl. She just had had a baby, a little baby boy. So that was awesome, a three-month-old. We weren't roller skating and so that was just chill around, see this baby laying around all day like hanging out with her. So that was cool. And then we flew out to Phoenix and we did oh, and I didn't touch on this both to the nieces in Vegas. They're in Broadway Kids, so they both had musicals that they were performing in when we were out there. So they were both in the Wizard of Oz, which that was hilarious. I mean, these little kids doing all these little parts and stuff. I mean like, so what roles were they? Anybody, any role? One of the girls was Uncle Henry, all right, so a girl playing Uncle.
Speaker 1:Henry, you know and it was hilarious. And so then the other one was like she was not the lollipop guild, she was the lullaby guild. Oh, okay, you know, welcome you to the lollipop, great yeah.
Speaker 2:So they were all up there doing all that stuff.
Speaker 1:It was cool. So then when we flew to phoenix, the we have twins that are out there, but they're teenagers, so they're. They turned 14 the weekend that we got there, so we get to celebrate birthdays. And then they were in a dance thing and they did a whole thing to alice in wonderland, so that was cool, but the show was like two and a half hours. It was crazy. Intermission, everything like big, huge production, all this stuff. So that's what I was doing, man running around just doing all my shit. And so then I came back here and I got golf coming up this weekend and, uh, so I'm trying to practice and so your week sounded a little different than mine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you were flying around I was having fun. That's bullshit so so you got a big golf tournament now right, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:So I got to golf, so you?
Speaker 2:had to come back. And what am I going to do now? Now I'm going to play golf coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, man, I haven't played any golf. I got to get tuned up so I'd go out there. I'm golfing with one of my buddies and and, crazy enough, his name's Gary and he's a when he an excellent golfer, like six handicap whatever, but I'm I hadn't seen him. He goes down to florida one of the snowbirds and he comes back and so we're golfing and I see on his bag he has this new bag hanging off the back of his thing and it says gary's ball sack and it's shaped like a freaking scrotum and I'm like I'm like what the hell, dude, what do you? I'm like what are you doing, dude? He's like. He's like yeah, my daughter got that for me, he goes. I got it. And I was like.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, I'm like what the hell, dude, what are you? I'm like what are you doing, dude? He's like. He's like yeah, my daughter got that for me, he goes. I got it. And I was like wow, probably needed to be a little bit bigger, though I said probably in longer too. Dude, you're a little old. And for those of you that don't understand a male anatomy, as it gets old.
Speaker 2:Not even going to go there. Not even going to go there, man.
Speaker 1:So, yeah. I'm back at it doing the thing, getting ready to go back to work. We fly tomorrow. Me and the wife get to fly together tomorrow, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2:Did you just actually say you're?
Speaker 1:actually working. I'm working tomorrow. This is crazy, I'm not happy about it. Working tomorrow this is crazy, I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 2:This is my birthday weekend, man, yeah so. So I'm gonna work friday before my birthday weekend.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do a golf tournament this weekend during my birthday and then I'm gonna go back to work on monday and then I'm gonna take a lot of time off, because that's a little too much stress and we're friends yeah man, yeah man. Somebody's got to keep the airline running. You damn, you're killing me man you can do it you're killing me hey did you hear about newark, newark? What's happening in newark, man?
Speaker 2:they finished that runway two weeks early, man what they're back at it.
Speaker 1:That is awesome, man, and I mean listen, I'm sure the whole entire Newark, new York population that services that airport is loving that it's back to, or trying to get back to normal. So it's back to the shitty normal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And back to the shit show they left.
Speaker 2:And then it's like a partial shit show. Yeah, don't think it's going to be smooth sailing at all.
Speaker 1:No, because they're just going to like smooth sailing at all. No, because they're going to just gonna like, you know, all the airlines gonna add back in all those flights that they deleted and you're gonna have air traffic control. Atc is not gonna be able to handle it and you know you're gonna have the new york attitude where you don't have enough air traffic controllers everybody's gonna be happy and friendly yeah, but hey, but hey, it got done. Yeah, it's done, that's a good thing.
Speaker 2:Finally, yeah, because anything to help improve that freaking airport is a good thing right, you can say that again, but you know, this week I had to touch on this one again. So going down to Orlando doing that. This one thing you know I have a problem with this is that why is it that these young mothers and these young fathers have such a problem handling their kids?
Speaker 1:Dude, I have no idea it is. This is a. This is crazy, like everybody. Um, you know, because I was at a kid fest this last week week. You know it's just nothing but kids and they're all eight different ages babies and how everybody's raising their kids today is so different than when we grew up.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's so wild we talk about that all the time like even the, the gal that I was talking about, that we visit in denver, she's she's a teacher, uh, she's a kindergarten teacher and so she handles kids every day, right. But when she started becoming you know, she became her mother for the first time and all this stuff she's like every time I read about you know something, it doesn't matter what point I'm looking at there's like five or six different ways to do it and what five or six right ways that people think do it, she goes. It's so confusing, it's like so I don't know man, ever They've like over confused this, this, uh, raising kids thing.
Speaker 2:It just blows me away. I mean, we'll talk about that too. But it's also about the, the young parents, and when they come on board there, this woman she was. She was coming on board and she had all this shit piled up right, carrying all this stuff, and I'm like do you need some help? Are you alone? And she goes no, I'm with him. Now, that man didn't have a damn thing in his hand, sean. I'm like get back here and get some of her shit. I said, are you kidding me? I was like you just walked in front of her and she's taking all this stuff. And he looked at me and I'm like grab some of this, take it through. This is on a plane Now with the kids. Like I said, I don't understand this. So you know, when they board the aircraft, the first thing we say is hello, good morning, right, they say nothing. Now, if I had said nothing when someone said hello or good morning to me, my mom would have kicked me right in the rear end.
Speaker 1:He kicked me right in the rear end. Yeah, you would have back slapped right up in the top of your head, boom.
Speaker 2:Yep, they got their headphones on. Remember, that's a big peeve, right? So we're saying good morning completely ignored. Right, it just blows me away and it just keeps going on and on. You get back to their row and as soon as they get to their row, they start destroying it. They just sat down.
Speaker 1:Dude, I mean that down dude, I mean the disrespect of people on the airlines that just these families come on, that just destroyed, like they just like oh, we got to give all these snacks and then half the snacks go on the floor and then they ground into the carpet and like it's just like. It's just like a freaking tornado stop all the damn stickers, stews stickers, um, everything, everything and anything to entertain the kids.
Speaker 1:I mean, it blows my mind like, how much, like they think that a kid has to have you know their attention you know, right they're, they need something to, you know, preoccupy themselves, you know, and and the planes today are pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I mean there's a lot of entertainment on the planes now digitally, right, right, but, and in addition to that, I, I get to a certain point. But I mean there's a lot of entertainment on the planes now digitally, right, right, but, and in addition to that, I, I get to a certain point. But I mean you see some of these parents coming on and they do, they come on and looking like they freaking, coming on like infantry, you know, loaded on with all the things that they need for the next week, and it's only like an hour or two hour flight yeah, but sometimes you'll have one of those kids running up down the aisle screaming yeah, parents not doing anything.
Speaker 2:Nobody knows where in the where the damn parent is. Yeah, they're just.
Speaker 1:They're just letting this kid terrorize the whole damn plane well in my pet peeve and this whole thing is the safety aspect. Like all these parents, like they just drive me crazy because they never think about the safety aspect, because they don't, they're not thinking about turbulence, they're not thinking, they think they're just running around in their home like it's, it's nothing. Or like when we get turbulence and the parents sitting there with the kid on their lap right and they don't have their seat belt on, the parent does. I'm like, well, the kid, you know they can't say anything. But you, stupid, you need to put your damn seat belt, don't you wish?
Speaker 2:sometimes, yeah, but don't you wish. Sometimes, sean, you could. You need to put your damn seatbelt on, don't you wish? Sometimes, yeah, but don't you wish. Sometimes, sean, you could, you could, uh, you could take pictures and actually post pictures of the aisles, of the shit that's left by some of these families. Yeah, I mean, if you guys, if you guys seen this, you guys would cringe. I mean, it's unbelievable how I have taken pictures before, just because right. But we don't post, so I mean nobody built, they wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1:They wouldn't believe how bad, how bad you know what I should do, Like as a, as a photographer, like you know, like.
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:I do photo books and stuff, so I should be like, just every time I encounter one of those, just take a good nice book.
Speaker 2:The book is shit. Yeah, this is this is how people treat public areas. It and it's so true, man. But you know something, those, those things absolutely drive me crazy, because, I mean, the parents can pick up after the kids. They just don't do it. Yeah, they don't do it.
Speaker 1:That's stupid man, but how about that? Um, you know talking about these kids like going crazy and stuff. How about the pastor that here, that's that uh tried to drag a flight attendant down the aisle, said you're coming with me?
Speaker 2:What I mean, what I just pictured. You right? Yeah, I could not picture this guy coming back grabbing you by the collar and say come here, you're coming with me and start trying to drag you.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you right now somebody grabs me. That's been always like my one thing at this job, like ever since I've had this job, since I was freaking 25 me having a tie on like somebody grabbing my collar right. Dude, that's life and death right there on, like donkey I'm telling you right now, somebody's gonna have a broke arm, broke face. Something's gonna be broken quickly, because the reaction is coming out of me as soon as you try to grab my neck. That's it, it's on.
Speaker 2:I thought about me and you, because you know we, we never want to have a situation on an airplane. We never do me I mean me and you want it boring and uneventful. But when I read this I was thinking there ain't no way in hell, right, I mean I'm breaking out a can of whoop ass on you.
Speaker 1:You try to drive. I just don't see anybody looking at us, ever Nope and grabbing our collar.
Speaker 2:No, it's all. I'm just telling you, man, it's all.
Speaker 1:This had to have been like some small tiny flight attendant that you know, like I'm picturing, like you, school, like grabbing the student.
Speaker 2:Could you mean you being on the same plane, man? You picked the wrong damn flight to be on.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That's right. It'd be a damn nightmare for him. It'd be like the pastor got his ass whooped.
Speaker 1:Yeah Him grabbing my car? There would be him. He's going to be grabbing himself quickly because we're going to be doing some serious damage.
Speaker 2:He's going to be doing a little bit of time in prison, I bet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean don't, don't, don't. There's no reason to lay your hand on another person on the aircraft period. But uh, yeah, man, that's the. Uh, that's some of the things that's been happening here. What else we? We found out?
Speaker 1:It was uh 9, 30 pm and uh this guy took stood up and just took his shirt off, running through the back of the airplane yelling help me, help you, help me. Yeah, that dude's on drugs. You, you know, you know that dude's on drugs. I mean, as soon as, like, it reminds me of, like, some of the people that we've seen on the videos in the airport and stuff just going berserk and stuff you like there's yeah, there's some barbiturates happening here. You think of all the crazy ass people that we've had on the videos in the airport and stuff just going berserk and stuff you like there's yeah, there's some more bitch with tapping in here you think of all the crazy ass people that we've had on the planes.
Speaker 2:But you, you gotta love how they write this afterwards. They says, well, he was making incoherent statements and the pilot declared an emergency and the passenger was arrested and taken to a local hospital for evaluation. For evaluation, Right, your ass is crazy.
Speaker 1:You know, back in the day this is funny, Like so today you know the ambulance comes, the paramedics going to, you know, evaluate that person instantaneously, and you know they're going to police is going to help restrain them, they're going to put them down in a stretcher and they're going to strap them down and all this stuff you know. But back when we grew up, what'd they put them in a straight jacket, a straight jacket when's the last time he's in a straight jacket?
Speaker 1:I know I did but yeah, yeah, like, can you imagine us like taking people off the plane and in straight jackets? One of those masks on, you know, like hannibal lecter mask, I think I'm gonna petition the airlines that we should have like, just like we have, like the firebags and stuff. We should have a straight jacket and a spit bag, yeah along with the firebags and stuff.
Speaker 1:We should have a straight check and a spit bag. Yeah, Along with the handcuffs and stuff. Right next to the handcuffs we have a straight jacket as well. All right, man. That'd be cool Everybody out there that's listening to us. Please write your airline and tell them that we should have straight jackets on board.
Speaker 2:It'd be fun trying to get them in that. I was reading this article. This It'd be fun trying to get them in that, right, I was reading this article. This one killed me. Though I was reading this article, it was back in 2003. Now you'll get a kick out of this one. This 727 was taken from I think it was Luanda Airport in Angola. Okay, it was stolen by a pilot and a mechanic. Really, yeah, 727. And they've never found it.
Speaker 1:Never found a 727,. Just took off and gone.
Speaker 2:I love this story because I'm like how do you just steal a 727?
Speaker 1:727 is not a small aircraft.
Speaker 2:It's not like a prop. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:And the 727s were big, big three engines on the freaking thing. It's a decent-sized aircraft and just to like disappear. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Okay, but this thing had 14,000 gallons of fuel on it right and it traveled like 1,500 miles, but you'd think in a radius we're in hell to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is so.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking of this, but like as a a sleuth, you know being detective 2003, okay so this is a couple years after 9-11, right right, and the technology, I mean, we had transponders and all that stuff. So there's like, you know, locators and stuff for the plane, so they had to have disabled all that. So, being a maintenance person too, you know locators and stuff for the plane, so they had to have disabled all that. So being a maintenance person too, you know. But my question is what the hell did they want with that thing?
Speaker 2:they could have picked a different plane yeah, they could have been doing.
Speaker 1:They could have chose a different plane.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you want to steal a plane 727 no, that story just blew me away though, because I was like where did it just go? It just disappeared they hadn't found it.
Speaker 1:I mean still haven't found it.
Speaker 2:No crash, no wreckage, no anything.
Speaker 1:I bet you anything. I know where it's at when. I think it's in a trailer park down south somewhere. Somebody made it into a home, something Shit. What do you?
Speaker 2:want to deal with the 727? That's a crazy story, though the plane just disappeared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, another thing is the plane was loaded with five tons of gold. There was a brink shipment on it.
Speaker 2:I can't understand why you stole it. I can understand why you stole it. You're like, hey, what right? You're like, hey, what are you doing tomorrow? Nothing.
Speaker 1:Hey, you want to go steal a 727 yeah, yeah, okay, what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2:let's just go dump it somewhere. I have no idea.
Speaker 1:Let's hide it yeah, I'm thinking it's kind of like that whole answer is like Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, we're just going to land it somewhere and hide it. I thought it was fun just to seal it. What do we do with it? So stupid, yeah, man. Anyways, you were watching the freaking Vietnam draft the other day.
Speaker 2:I was. It was really cool. I mean, you know, that's why I was telling you about this story is that you know, a lot of times we watch these videos and some of them are funny. You get the ones with the animals and you know the real funny, stupid videos and stuff.
Speaker 2:This one was a Vietnam draft video and what it was. It was this. It was this, um, the video showing, uh, how they first started the draft in Vietnam and how they drew numbers. And I know that you knew, you know, you, me in the military, you knew this, but, um, I didn't know exactly how it was done. Now, and I kind of was watching this thing and I put myself in the position of that, say, I'm 18 or 19 years old and I'm coming out of high school and I'm thinking, okay, so they're pulling these draft birth dates. That's how they did it. They pulled the days of the birthday out and if your birthday was called, you had to go down to the draft office and you were drafted and you had to go into the military. So I'm sitting here watching this video and then, all of a sudden, I was looking at this thing, thinking, okay, I'm watching it, watching it, and then my birthday came up.
Speaker 1:That's kind of a sinking feeling right there.
Speaker 2:It was unbelievable because I was sitting there thinking to myself at that moment I'd be going, with one of the first ones going to Vietnam.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and, and I was a bad group.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and, and I, and I was thinking, you know I'm going, I mean it's not a question, I mean I would be the first one to go. But you know, it was that moment that you realize you know what was running through these guys' heads, that you just came out of school and next thing, you know, you know, and you got to give props to any person like, even like yourself, that went into the military out of school and all of a sudden, you know, next thing, you know, you got a uniform on you're strapped on a gun and then they go throw you in a jungle, being the first group that got over to vietnam.
Speaker 1:And then, like you know, every war we've ever been into, like you think about uh, going in afghanistan, doing all the different uh you know, uh, kuwait and all that stuff. You know that's the recent stuff, right, and each war that we would like look back on, a vietnam, it was totally, you know, guerrilla warfare. And then you have this like desert warfare, and each one of them were very, very different styles of fighting. And uh, to be the first group that came in there and the vietcong knew exactly what the hell they were doing and we didn't know what the hell we were doing. Like we got over there into a train that we were not trained into and all that stuff. I mean it's very interesting. I mean this first group, unfortunately, probably a lot of them. I don't know the history behind this or the stats and all this stuff, but the kill rate's got to be pretty high for us All those young guys that went over there.
Speaker 1:A lot of them probably didn't survive.
Speaker 2:And see, that's exactly what I was thinking about. I was like, being the first over there, you wouldn't know exactly what they expected and I'd probably end up being dead. Oh yeah, I mean, you know, no matter what, you're probably going to die because survival instincts kick in and you do what you got to do to survive.
Speaker 1:And that's what happened to all those guys over there. They were we're just doing whatever they had to do to survive. But you know, like you know, the news obviously twist everything up. And you know they were in Vietnam, they were all baby killers and all that bullshit, you know. But you know it's you need to put yourself in those situations.
Speaker 2:Well, you know how much I appreciate our military. My son, like I said, he's Air Force and you know your military, most of my friends are from the military, so but yeah, it just kind of hit me. I mean, it was one of those videos that you know I watch a lot of dumb, you know funny videos with animals and stuff like that talking and stuff, but this one man it hit, it, hit home it was. It was kind of, especially when you call your birthday oh man, that was just.
Speaker 2:I mean that that really, really hit me because I, you know, I screenshot it. And I took a screenshot it because I was like I'd have been one of the first ones to go and and I, it just hit me for a moment, but hey, I was wondering too if my number, my birthday, went up.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna watch it too, just to see, if I want to see if my birthday came out. But you know what, not to move on too quick on this, the uh, um, the thing I was thinking about is, like you know, selective service is still in in play right now, yeah, and I don't. You know selective service is still in play right now, yeah, and I don't you know.
Speaker 1:Just because I don't have like I don't have kids and I don't have like all that stuff and I got nothing my nieces and my family. So it's like you know, I didn't realize that. You know it's still, you know, required for if you're between the age of 18, 25, you're supposed to sign up for selective service.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my son did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's required by law, but within 30 days of your birthday you're supposed to do that, yep, or you can be, you know.
Speaker 2:They send you letters and they remind you too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They will remind you. If you're not on it, they're definitely going to remind you.
Speaker 1:I remember getting my letter for it. Even like I got it and I go and sign up, you know what? You had to go down to the post office when, when mine was now, you go online and it's like probably, tap, tap, tap, put in your name, address, contact, you're done, right. But uh, it just. It was interesting because you know that process is still in play with the united states right now, where we can still, you know, activate that draft at any moment. Yeah, you know, if something, something comes up, a new, uh, current events and wars in the world and all that stuff, yeah, it was crazy though.
Speaker 2:I mean that video definitely got me, but I mean it was kind of cool though, but it wasn't cool seeing my birthday. There's no one time I wouldn't want to see my birthday.
Speaker 1:No and it's cool to reflect right now.
Speaker 2:Right now, but definitely would have been cool if you were there it goes back to like when do you want to go back in time? Not that time, I don't want to go back to them are you? Sure it wouldn't be good for me, sean, it would not be good I'd be have to go out in the jungle. And you know something I don't do well in jungles yeah, so that question.
Speaker 1:See, that question now comes back and you know now in oh, wait a minute, if I do time, travel back here I picked the 50s.
Speaker 2:I picked the 50s and you'd be drafted exactly. That was a stupid time. Look, I take that back.
Speaker 1:It took us like three, four episodes to get through, get to realize that you're like wait a minute, maybe not me either.
Speaker 2:It didn't matter if you were black or white or whatever. You were right. See my, I just took my ass right to vietnam during that time that was really smart, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:it's kind of like there's uh, you know how, like you talk about, like you know what's your three wishes as a genie and stuff you know, and you everybody's like oh, I want all, I want to be super rich, or whatever you know, like I inadvertently send myself to vietnam.
Speaker 2:That's nice, you go.
Speaker 1:The realization happens three episodes later.
Speaker 2:Hey, let's go around the globe around the globe.
Speaker 1:Did you hear about that lady that, um, she's got like.
Speaker 2:She had a meltdown and got called miss piggy and she like hit some kid on the on the plane I seen that man Like.
Speaker 1:I did was hilarious. I'm sorry, that was funny yeah, I mean like, what's so funny about it is like here's these adult like just like losing their shit because you know some kid calls her miss piggy what goes back to the parent thing when I was talking about earlier.
Speaker 2:But that shit was funny. Could you imagine just her, her look on her face and in front of all this, hey, miss piggy oh no, you didn't Smack, she brings the beat down, oh wait.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry she would be going hi-yah.
Speaker 2:They had her booking picture too, man, that was the best part of it.
Speaker 1:That's so stupid People, I mean golly. You think of this and you're like where are the adults?
Speaker 2:I was saying the same thing. It's a kid and as much as you want to whip this kid's ass, for the parents sake, it's a kid.
Speaker 1:You know this reminds me of a little story of mine. So me growing up I was on on, uh, I was in a little little kid, fourth grade, out in California, and California was very progressive, as as it always is in everything right and uh, you know, it had just, you know, all that like no preaching in the class and all that stuff had just passed laws and stuff like that. And so california was like super straight. Well, I had this teacher and he was, he was a dick. That's all I gotta say. I get to say it now out loud to everybody that guy was a dick anyways.
Speaker 1:So I was a little kid and um, he, um was passing out tests and he's going through, you know, I mean you can imagine, but you know, going down the rows and he's handing each kid a piece of paper. Here you go, here you go, here's your test, here's your test. And he goes to pull mine and he rips the test but he lays it down and he's like keeps on walking. I'm like you know, teacher, you know this is ripped. I need a new one. No, that's good. And I'm like you know that ain't fair. You know why do I have to have a rip one? Everybody else doesn't have a rip on? You know, I'm a kid, you know why you're shawnee?
Speaker 1:don't need to rip, so he's like he's like just do the test, it's good enough. And I'm like you're a pig shawnee in trouble and so I get sent down to the office and the principal's, like you know, question me all this stuff and then tell him explain the thing. He ripped my test and all this stuff and yeah. So I called him a pig and you know they didn't like that so I got suspended so it was kind of crazy.
Speaker 2:And so it's a story. It so started your life, so it's a story that kind of stuck with me.
Speaker 1:here I am like getting ready to turn 60. And I still remember this fourth grade story of this teacher ripping my test and him me calling him pig all right, this next one.
Speaker 2:This is good that you just said that. What reminded you of something? This next story reminded me of you and what's that the the door dash driver that ended up on the Chicago tarmac.
Speaker 1:How in the hell does that happen? Come on, Be like, this is so crazy, there's so wrong in so many different levels. I mean, first of all, here's, here's, here's my thing. Like okay, so the people that may or may not know this, I drove for Uber Eats during COVID and um end up getting a scholarship with Uber Eats, and I went to college and graduated and Uber Eats paid for it and Uber Eats is the one that I stuck with because of the professionalism level of that organization. They really run a tight show like it's a real job to hold it in yards, Not like DoorDash. Doordash is a little bit different. If we're all out there that have ever had a DoorDash driver deliver your food, the level of professionalism isn't there. So how in the hell does a DoorDash person end up on the tarmac in Chicago of all places? Like how did they get first? How did they thwart the airport security to get into the gate? And like what was the order that took them into the airport?
Speaker 2:What I love the best, though, when I seen that, when I seen the picture of the security and everything around this guy and the cars parked, could you, I mean just think things going to what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what? Things going to what, what, what?
Speaker 1:what, what, what wait, I'm just trying to make a delivery here like like oh my god, dude, they said gate 18, it's a damn sandwich you know, like it's a subway exactly um, like this is, uh, jimmy john's. It's supposed to be freaky fast. I'm trying to get here and help.
Speaker 2:I was looking at the tail number for an address and it didn't have it on there Right. All I did, I followed a truck in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was in the lines that had the little roads behind the planes, you know.
Speaker 2:Exactly when is the address I? Can't find this Damn there's one big plane here. There's two big planes. Am I in the right place? Right, right and wait. Who needs a donut? Why? You got guns on me, why are?
Speaker 1:you so angry? I mean how this even happens. First of all, why the level of intelligence of the driver to say hey, I think I might be in the right area to deliver my delivery.
Speaker 2:Did he deliver it?
Speaker 1:I have no idea. I'm like the story doesn't give you all the details of this. Like, like, what was he delivering? You know who had ordered this. Why would he even think that going on the airport was where he was supposed to be going? You know? And also, like you know, for uh I can only talk to uh, uber eats like we have a gps system that tell, takes us to our delivery, and like, if you were delivering in the airport and I guess that could be possible, whatever, like you got to go past security and all this stuff, like you know, I'm gonna go in there and like, oh, I'm just delivering plane here, tsa, I'm gonna just come by I can see.
Speaker 2:I can see at home. Hey, ma, ma, come in, ma come in here. Yeah, yeah, mikey, he's doing DoorDash. They got him on the TV right now. His hand's up. Yeah, mikey, mikey, mikey, he's at the airport. Look at him.
Speaker 1:They're going to make him get on the ground.
Speaker 2:Ma.
Speaker 1:What a doobus. He thought he was the deliverer in the freaking airport. There's so much you can run with that. I know I'm dying to see if Saturday Night Live or somebody does a skit on this.
Speaker 2:Somebody's got to do something we just did one that was killing me man. I was sitting there thinking about this guy who was running through his head. Is there all the securities around him, If you?
Speaker 1:see the picture. There's like 15 cop cars around this guy and if the guy had donuts, there's no more donuts.
Speaker 2:No more donuts, they were confiscated. But I did think of you on that one. That was funny, but hey, you know the one word. What's the one word on an airplane that you don't want to hear anybody say Bomb? Bomb is not a good word. Right Stay away from the word bomb.
Speaker 1:Had one uh in san diego and you know, we really it's crazy about that. Like remember the time when, like, that word was like to say it's like everything's great, that's a fantastic or whatever. Yeah, that's the bomb man that's the bomb, like yeah, that's the wrong thing to say on an airplane that is not the jargon to be saying on a plane.
Speaker 2:All shit broke loose then.
Speaker 1:People don't? They take you literally and not. You know that's not good.
Speaker 2:You know, when they have videos of the guys with big guns coming on to take you away, it's like man, I was just. I was kidding, yeah.
Speaker 1:I just like hey, it's a joke, man, I was excited, it was like da bomb.
Speaker 2:No, your ass is in big trouble now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not a cool thing, I mean, but I guess a man told a flight attendant that he had a bomb in San Diego on a plane and that didn't go over too well, I guess.
Speaker 2:It's a bad day. This one, I love this one, though this one is all the flight attendants can relate to this.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So flight attendants, please tune into what's happening here.
Speaker 2:Flight attendant got suspended on suspicion of assault and unlawful detention and you know what it's for Sean, what? Well, first of all, she conducted a citizen's arrest against one of her co-workers that would be one of her crew members.
Speaker 1:She arrested a co-workers that would be one of her crew members. She arrested a co worker.
Speaker 2:It was a citizen's arrest and detention of a crew member on an airplane. For what? A snack box.
Speaker 1:Another co-worker had taken or confiscated or whatever you want to say about a snack box allegedly, allegedly, and she's going to detain them.
Speaker 2:She was going to detain them until management the management personnel got there so they could properly search this person's belongings and find the snack box.
Speaker 1:She missed that part in training about the informing, not enforcing.
Speaker 2:But she took a cart, Sean, and she blocked the person leaving and she took their bag.
Speaker 1:She could have been that person that grabbed my collar. I'm serious, I would have knocked Sean. Yeah, there would have been not just her in there, they're probably me, because I've been like, get the hell out of my way are you kidding me to trying to detain a co-worker first neck box yeah, I mean, and I guess she thought she was like being super employee or whatever, protecting the company and whatever you know the assets of the company.
Speaker 1:But uh, she ended up getting in trouble. She got suspended, yeah, because she did everything wrong there. I mean you can't detain anybody. Listen. If you want to be a tattletale, don't try to like arrest somebody. You know we're. We're not in the area where I'm making a citizen arrest on you.
Speaker 2:You know, like and the funny thing about the airlines too and this is true too is that if you say something to anybody about anything, man, it doesn't take 24 hours With the technology of today, listen, your mug is shot everywhere. They will snapshot that sucker and send it to every person. Every crew that you know will know everything about you. Your life is over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, hopefully this girl was based in Iowa, because if she was in New York, that girl's dead. Could you imagine She'd be taken out, her car would be vandalized. She would definitely leave the job eventually because everybody at the company would be after her.
Speaker 2:If she had blonde hair, she'd have red when she came back. Yeah, because she'd have to have red hair, because there's no way.
Speaker 1:Because this mentality, this is the same thing, this is like jailhouse mentality, right, nobody likes a narc. No, nobody likes a narc, Nobody likes an arc, nobody likes somebody like, and first of all over, a damn snack box. Yeah, Come on now.
Speaker 2:And you know, and I know, before you even got on your crew, somebody would have messaged you her picture and said hey, this is a one, this is snack box girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is snack box Snack box, please. Please Pull over. We is snack box girl. Yeah, this is next box snack box, please please pull over we know you got it. You got some gummy bears exactly. Oh, you took the cookies. Yeah, let go of the hummus right now.
Speaker 2:Drop it whatever you do, drop the hummus yeah let me get grief.
Speaker 1:I mean, like, come on, and it was like in the story the co-worker was like hungry or whatever and they had to eat. I mean, how many situations are we in as a flight attendant where, like, we get delayed and we don't have time to grab something to eat and all these different type of scenarios that happen during our like career where we were hungry and went, hey, I'm going to need to get something, I need to grab a snack box or something. Dude, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:We break a snack box opening because if somebody's going to get sick, we try to get them some food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like you need a cracker. Oh, you need some cracker in your dinner room. Snap.
Speaker 2:No, but you're going down, Charlie Brown, You're going down. You take some damn crackers off this plane. Your ass is going down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not back to police. She probably is not going to be employed wherever she's at too long.
Speaker 2:Hey, but this last one man I love, absolutely love this one, because you know, sean say we're working in an airplane, right, and we're like hey, where's Bob Bob?
Speaker 1:Bob's the flight attendant. Bob the flight attendant. Yeah we haven't seen him. I haven't seen him.
Speaker 2:Go look for him, sean, where's he at? Yeah, this just happened on an airplane, so the crew was looking for him. Couldn't find him.
Speaker 1:Oh gee, You're not going to believe this, but Bob's dancing up in business class.
Speaker 2:He's naked.
Speaker 1:Naked. What you damn crew member. If I had a crew member that's dancing naked, I'm like, I'm serious, like that's it. You know drugs are involved. First of all Like something's wrong.
Speaker 2:So do you think he's like got his headphones on going, you don't have to take your clothes off?
Speaker 1:Honestly, you know, my thought was more of like Y-N-C-A, we're going to have fun, so this dude was dancing naked in business class outside the lavatory. Or it could have been like it's raining man. He's swinging his junk around like I don't know man, who knows.
Speaker 2:So how do you approach that? How do you stop that Blanket?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You go in with a blanket Sean, because I ain't wrapping around nobody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, depends on what airline you're flying with, but you might want to use your Rana.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's bad.
Speaker 1:Whatever, you or a blanket.
Speaker 2:I'm going in with a blanket.
Speaker 1:I ain't going to have a Rana, You're a little, yeah, yeah, whatever Blanket, Sean blanket. Something needs to be covered up.
Speaker 2:So they take this guy. They somehow got him in pajamas. You know where they put him.
Speaker 1:Hopefully in the back toilet or something like that. They put him in the first class seat First class seat, of course.
Speaker 2:Now you have to go back and do your service. Who's watching, bob?
Speaker 1:Yeah, first. First of all, who's sanitizing that seat afterwards?
Speaker 2:exactly, but who's?
Speaker 1:watching bob. Who's watching bob? Yeah, that's when you need an aba oh, that's what it is yes, able body assistant. Yes, when we we. This is when we're going to voluntarily ask somebody in the cabin somebody in the cabin. Can you please watch that dude's junk?
Speaker 2:So then when Bob was, bob was landed, and then he was arrested. Now Bob's a fictitious.
Speaker 1:Right Total fictitious? We have no idea.
Speaker 2:But the story is real, okay, but Bob, the name is not, but the story is actually freaking funny, right.
Speaker 1:It's just unbelievable so.
Speaker 2:Bob was arrested.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he's taken it for evaluation.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Do you think he was brought back on for the next flight home?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know. See, this is the thing that the public doesn't understand how valuable we are, Because maybe if they were going to outside line station, you're not coming back because the flight coming back gets canceled because bob was dancing in business class exactly the short crew I love that story.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry yeah the door, dash one and that one. I yeah, you're like really that's the best stories, man, this week. This week was so much fun. We had so much shit to talk about this week. Yeah, I love this week, man, it was. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean we were like there's just some of these things are just you just can't believe this is happening, but every you know believe it. We're going to bring you crazy shit every week.
Speaker 2:We never have things, believe it or not. We had a lot of other things to talk about, but you know we don't have time there. There's never enough time in the, in this weekly episode, to talk about all the shit that goes on in the industry.
Speaker 1:No, it's because we just, we can just keep going on and on and on, but we're trying to keep this to uh, relatively uh short sometimes, but shit like that, that was fun.
Speaker 2:I just you know, when I see that door dash driver, I see, I thought you dude, I'm not.
Speaker 1:I'm more professional than a door dash.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:Uber eats I mean, if you see me walking through next time, you see me and you see me out running around and I got like fuzzy slippers on and I got my you know like tights on and then you know a little half shirt running around here and I'm coming up to your door dropping on the package.
Speaker 2:He's doing it for a damn education man. You know damn money here and I'm coming up to your door dropping on the package. Take a picture. He's doing it for a damn education man. He didn't make no damn money.
Speaker 1:He's doing it for the education. I can care less what they pay. Just keep paying my bill on the education.
Speaker 2:But you know, something I got to say on that is that you know I got to respect you for that because you know you definitely find you know how to, how, how to pay for something and you don't have to pay for it. I mean you actually, you work for it, but you, you, you were able to pay for your education.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing I really like like, after having this experience, like and this all was a big surprise Like I didn't know, like Uber even had that program and all that stuff. And when I was doing it during covid, I was just literally just going out to like one, I was driving, I was going crazy, I had been, you know, coming back from back surgery and I needed to get out of the house. And then the two, I was like you know a lot of these medical workers and you know all the people that were fighting this thing that was happening at the time. You know, I wanted to support people and I was delivered to all kinds of people. You know, you know the signs out front the nurse lives here, you know, doctor lives here, blah, blah, blah. You know that was fantastic, you know. But then it led to this hey, they're going to give me an education for doing it. And I was like, wow, that's cool.
Speaker 1:But you know, there's so many things out there or ways out there to go to college or to get an education to do something that people don't know that's available, like, like, I'm talking about college right now and we're like we were talking about trade schools the other day. Right, did you know that most fire departments or paramedic departments that are out there. If you go in there and say, hey, I want to become a paramedic or I want to become a fireman, that a lot of that schooling stuff, the the city is going to pay for you to go do that really. And people don't know that like I wanted I was thinking about.
Speaker 1:After covet I was like, hey, you know what? I think I might want to become a paramedic and I started researching, finding out. Lo and behold, my town, right here. If you want to become a paramedic, you can volunteer, jump on the trucks with paramedics, go ride with them all that good stuff. Find out about the job. They'll actually send you to community college to get your license and all the education you need to become it and then sign you up for a job. You know like it's out there, but you just got to go find it. The bottom line to this is find out what's out there people. Just because you don't have the money and I definitely was a kid that didn't have the money to do it go find it.
Speaker 2:I love the fact with you, though, is that you actually do have the money, but you still found a way to go do it, and you still work and to make it happen, even though you don't have to because you do have the money. But that just says a lot about your character too, and and like I said, you know, even even I still thought about the doordash I did.
Speaker 1:I can't help you, man, no doordash damn door doordash that's it. Anyways, man, let uh read the quote man. What's the quote man? What's the quote today?
Speaker 2:Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Yeah that's exactly it, man.
Speaker 1:And this goes right back to what we were just talking about. Man, people out there, listen, don't fool yourself, don't tell yourself that you can't do something.
Speaker 2:You can do anything you want to in this world, just believe it, but there's one thing that you don't want to do. What's that? Don't take a snack box. Because, your ass is going to get a citizen's arrest for sure, so don't take the damn snack box.
Speaker 1:I think the next time I go to work, I think I'm going to like tomorrow, by tomorrow I'm going to have a snack box police badge. Let's do that, let's do it.
Speaker 2:All right everybody.
Speaker 1:We've had some fun. We really look forward to this every week and we are looking forward to next time we do this.
Speaker 2:Hey, you know something, Sean, before we get off here, you know we're coming up on 5,000 downloads. 5,000 downloads, 5,000. Yeah, we're just about there, dude. I can't wait. That's awesome. I can't wait. All right, guys, you guys have a great week and we will see you next week on Cabin Pressure.
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