Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Shawn and G, with their wealth of knowledge and affable personalities, create an atmosphere akin to sharing a drink and captivating stories with friends at 30,000 feet. "Cabin Pressure!" seeks to entertain a wide audience—whether listeners are aviation enthusiasts, frequent flyers, or simply fans of a good story.
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Pixie Sticks, Family Loans, and Florida Man's Free Ride
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Ever feel like your job is the same routine on repeat? Shawn and G kick off with a candid discussion about flight attendant burnout and the need for mental stimulation beyond the galley cart. Shawn reveals how he balances his airline career with real estate photography while G warns about the dangers of DIY garage door spring repairs – a perfect metaphor for knowing when to call in professionals versus handling life's challenges yourself.
The conversation takes a delightful detour down memory lane as they reminisce about childhood candies that defined generations. From Fun Dip's sugar-coated sticks to Pixie Sticks' powdery mess and the ethically questionable candy cigarettes, their nostalgic candy tour reveals how much has changed in food safety and marketing. They share laugh-out-loud stories about jawbreakers cutting their tongues and still continuing to eat them, proving some childhood lessons are learned the hard way.
Things take a more reflective turn when they discuss aging concerns and planning for elder care, especially poignant for those without children as a potential support system. Shawn then shares a revealing personal story about lending money to family and his creative solution – transforming a potentially awkward situation into a teaching moment about financial responsibility by creating a formal loan agreement. The episode wraps with aviation news about a modern-day Frank Abagnale who scored 120 free flights by manipulating airline systems, reminding us that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Whether you're facing career monotony, navigating family financial dynamics, or simply craving a sweet trip down memory lane, this episode offers both lighthearted entertainment and thoughtful perspectives on life's complex challenges. Leave a comment about your favorite childhood candy or how you've handled lending money to family – we'd love to hear your stories!
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Summer's here, it's hot and we're heading to Florida. What is one of your favorite candies when you were a kid? Florida man booked for 120 free flights, posing as a flight attendant. All this next on Cabin Pressure, with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2:This is Cabin Pressure.
Speaker 1:Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. What's up everybody.
Speaker 2:All you had to add was like shama-lama-ding-dong.
Speaker 1:Shama-lama-lama-ding-dong. Hey, pretty lady. Hey, what's up people? What's going on? Yeah, man, not much man. We're just, you know, gearing up all this stuff. Man, we're doing the vacation to the Amelia Island with the uh nieces. It has been a crazy thing leading up to this.
Speaker 2:Like my nieces, every like, almost every other day, are like facetiming me do you ever notice, like when we get on and we do these shows that we always talk about you and vacation?
Speaker 1:That's a good thing. This is a healthy. We don't ever talk about you and work Well at times. There's sporadic moments that we can talk about I talk about Carol at work.
Speaker 2:Carol's at work. I see her all the time.
Speaker 1:So here's the thing. So so, for all you out there in in the uh land of cabin pressure world, okay, I just wanted to let you know that even though g says I'm not working, I am working because there's other stuff that I'm doing. So right now I've got my uh business going here with a uh estate photography. So I like, literally after we get done with this thing, I'm heading to an appointment to go to a real estate job. I love getting this shit. He's making it sound like just because I'm not flying, I'm not working. Believe me, I'm working because my wife, she, wants a check every month.
Speaker 2:I love making it sound like he's always on the golf course. He's out doing something. I love making it sound like he's always on the golf course. He's out doing something, he's taking it easy, he's going on vacation, it's a balancing act.
Speaker 1:His ass is always doing something, as our buddy Rob at work. He's like I just want to come back in life. I want to be Sean.
Speaker 2:Which iron in the fire are you firing up in this week? That's the question, man, it's always something You're always doing, some kind of shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, but I'm working in different aspects because, you know, my one thing is that like and I don't know how do you feel about this Like we've been doing this 30-something years okay.
Speaker 1:And this is a super easy job to get burnt. You get burnt out Like it gets monotonous, like we know how to do this, like we can do this in our sleep. We know like we're on the plane so much that it feels like our home, like I could close my eyes and I know where everything on the plane is. I that would be a cool test for flight attendants like, if you're a real flight attendant, do you know how to locate things with a blindfold? You know like we've been there like that's our homes, like but but there's a burnout to me, like I need more like mental stimulation, like so that's why I'm always getting into things. I'm going to school, I'm doing other jobs, I got, I got my entrepreneurial things going on, and so for me, this job, like at one point, can be very monotonous, right, you know I mean, even though I get it.
Speaker 1:I mean there's people and you know it's people who are fun to deal with on a daily basis and all that stuff, but at the same time it just there's no mental stimulation to the job a lot of times, right my reference our job a lot of times.
Speaker 2:Groundhog's day, bill murray yeah, I mean that. That is the perfect the description of our job I come here and I do the same thing over, over and over and over again. The only thing is is that inside your head sometimes you think, okay, when this person comes up and punching him in the face, right, groundhog's day. You guys ever seen groundhog's day? You he realizes that he's going through the day and then he just changed the shit.
Speaker 1:You know that would be a good movie Like do the Groundhog's Day on an airline as a flight attendant. That's it and all this stuff, just like you're saying, like us every day. Here comes this past year.
Speaker 2:Dump hot coffee in his lap.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Throw orange juice in your face, yeah. Right Tell your kid that he's ugly yeah, throat punch somebody in the.
Speaker 1:It would be the perfect, like it would be so funny to like.
Speaker 2:But that's exactly what it is, because when we get on the plane, we do the same thing over and over and over again, and I and I I've said this a thousand times over in our job in our job the play is always the same. The actors are different right, because that goes for the crew and it goes for the passengers, because we see different people and different crew members every day, but the play is actually the same, so it's just very repetitious. But if you ever want to see something, we see groundhog's day. Imagine a flight attendant doing groundhog's day.
Speaker 1:That shit shit was funny. That would be like we got to think about that a little bit more.
Speaker 2:We'll have a movie Sean and G's on the airplanes. Groundhog Day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that is some crazy stuff. That would be funny.
Speaker 2:I could imagine you throat punching somebody Dude. Okay, have a nice day.
Speaker 1:I'd like to just bitch slap somebody. You know those like slapping competitions you see online all the time.
Speaker 2:I'd love to just like boom and they like somebody just gets knocked out in the seat that's like that funny one, that where there's flight attendants are saying goodbye and they're like uh, uh, get out of here. Your wife is ugly, your baby's ugly, yeah what were you thinking this morning?
Speaker 1:you're coming on like that. Yeah, exactly, bitch, what are you doing here in those slippers? Anyways, um, yeah, so, uh, man, uh, what was I talking about? Uh, we're getting ready to go to these amusement parks and, uh, I am dreading this because I've already done this like summer retreat to the amusement parks down in florida and all my whole vision, like I'm just like having these waves of like I'm gonna be hot, I'm gonna like be so miserable but wait, man, you're with, you're with the kids.
Speaker 2:Yes, bullshit. Let me tell you something You're a goofball.
Speaker 1:I know, as soon as kids get around you you're a goofball. But anybody that knows me, when I get too hot I get very irritable.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to have to contain myself on this vacation because I know, get one of them.
Speaker 1:Damn little fans that missed your ass. We are, we're going to get some of those fans off of Amazon and all that stuff and hang them around our neck. You're officially old guy. Like every time we go to the parks, every time we buy, like this, like you know, a whole collection of like. We've had the powered fans with the water bottle. That's missed you on it. We've had those. We've had the things hanging around your necks.
Speaker 2:You're going to have a big ass floppy hat with the big, you know. I mean We've had the things hanging around your necks, you're going to have a big-ass floppy hat with the big, you know, I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:Exactly, I got one of those, if you need one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is it a sombrero? No, it's a big floppy one. It's one of the ones for the baseball.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, gotcha. It'll cover your neck. Oh yeah, it folds down.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea, man You're going to look a little goofy, but you'll be covered.
Speaker 1:We're officially old man. That's where we're going. We're going to see Goofy.
Speaker 2:Get the Hawaiian shirt now too, Right.
Speaker 1:The big old flowers on there. Yeah, if you know him, he'd do that shit too. Hell, yeah, anyhow, man, that's what I got going on. What have you been doing?
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, go going back to, uh, that storm that had come through. I had an issue with, uh uh, garage door opener. So, um, I went in there it was a power. You know I was having a power issue with it and found out the power's fine, I I think the outlet got blown. But then, you know, this is this is the one thing that I hated. We just I'm getting ready to change my garage door, so you have a double garage door yeah, man, okay, be careful, be careful yeah, I know I've already changed.
Speaker 2:I know the springs and everything. I've done all that you've done the springs.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm gonna tell you right now there's no way in hell in anybody's lifetime that I will touch a spring. Those things are the most dangerous thing in your house. I mean, mean, like you have no business doing, I did the damn things, redoing the tension on the.
Speaker 2:All right, I've got tension rods for the springs. Listen, I did them. You count the damn things.
Speaker 1:Here's the one thing that people don't understand and G doesn't either that he's getting old, that we don't need to be doing some of this shit anymore and quit being so damn tight. Spend some to be doing some of this shit anymore and quit being so damn tight. Spend some of that money. You do, you, you, you, you work your ass off. You can spend some money to keep yourself safe because, honestly, dude, I'm serious about this. You've got to start thinking about listen. I want to retire here soon. I'm gonna have enjoying my life. I want to be in the stuff, but stop doing unsafe shit all right, get back to the damn.
Speaker 2:Springs are bad, the springs are bad and I wouldn't suggest that anyone else other than me do it, so shut up. Um, so anyway, I, I did that. That's not. The part of it is that the garage door opener itself so had a half horsepower on that damn slow. You know, I've had a half horse hour that is ridiculous yeah, on.
Speaker 1:There that's so that part, like it's funny that you bring this up. It's like that's like a builder thing the builder puts on a half horsepower damn garage door opener on your thing and it's the same way for your garbage disposal. Yeah, they put you a half horsepower garbage, a quarter horsepower garbage disposal barely can grind shit up.
Speaker 2:It gets clogged and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Dude, I changed mine out almost after I built my house and my garbage disposal. Dude, I got a horsepower and a half.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go on with that in a minute too, because with the garbage disposal, when they run that, we'll go back to the garage door opener in a second. But when they run that, when they run, we'll go back to the garage door opener a second. But when they run that, that, that water line, you know that from the garage door, I'm sorry, from the garbage disposal to to the, to the dishwasher, right, okay, that shit is ran on the ground. Okay, at the very base of it.
Speaker 2:That's a big, that's a big bullshit thing, because what happens is have you ever opened your uh, your uh dishwasher and there's water in the base of that? Yeah, okay, and when it's running, but when it, when it goes, have you ever had back feet of water come through there? I have not, okay, so you, if you ever do the? The reason is that when they run that line, they run that line low and it doesn't create a loop, so the garbage disposal fills up and the water goes in it, and when it overfills in it, it goes back in the dishwasher.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and all that shitty-ass water goes in the dishwasher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you don't have your shit plumbed right, it will definitely jack you up big time.
Speaker 2:Right, and it's all in the building part when they install it. So if you come up like 10 inches and put that return drain through there by 10 inches high, it creates basically a loop in it and it stops all that bullshit water coming back. The dumbasses don't do that either. I mean, every once in a while we talk about builders and stuff what they don't do in their houses and you find out and that was one of the things I was like I couldn't figure out Every time I opened the damn dishwasher it stunk.
Speaker 2:It was just this bad smell. It was created by the damn garbage disposal, because the garbage disposal line was too low, raised it up, created a loop, stopped all that shit, and I don't have any problems with it since. No smell, no nothing. Now going back to the stupid garage door opener. Now, the damn thing was too damn slow. That was the builder that put it in there. So I'm getting ready to put a one and a quarter horsepower. This is like tool time, Tim. Right, I'm switching them, I'm putting more power on, because I can't stand that garage door is so freaking slow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. You probably aren't the most patient person. I know, no For sure.
Speaker 2:Especially waiting for a damn garage door opener and that stupid thing but be careful, be careful.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you right now, like I replaced mine, I did the same thing. I upgraded and had a you know new uh garage powerhouse up there and uh, it's not. That's not a huge complicated job to like do by yourself, no, but um, I got up on the ladder for mine, man, and this was like 10 years ago and I'm like literally closing up, I had done everything. It's all hooked up, it's running. I gotta like I closed the light, you know case, and all that stuff, and I'm stepping off my last step, off the little step ladder I'm using and I trip and I freaking tear my meniscus. Oh my god, dude, like in a month later.
Speaker 2:Why would you throw that shit to me now? I'm getting ready to do that shit and you're like hey, be careful with that last step, because I tore my minute.
Speaker 1:Here's, here's my thing, like Like I thought, hey, I'm done right, boom, boom, and I just like stepped back and boom, but I was using one of those little, teeny, small, just small step ladders and the stupid thing that I did which is I'm a stupid shit, right, Okay, you are. No, no, no, don't agree so quickly Is that I had two ladders sitting right next to me in the garage that were like platform step ladders, you know, like they fold out and I actually have a platform to stand on, like I have like, yeah, and that's just be careful the one that I will use.
Speaker 2:yeah, and then, when I put the garage door opener together, I'll put it on the ground and all I have to do is raise that damn thing up and hook it up there. You, you go, and I won't step off. And if I fuck up my meniscus because of you, I'm going to tell you something. I'm telling you what man I'm coming over your house.
Speaker 1:It's easy. You need time off work anyways, whatever.
Speaker 2:Anyway, that's what I'm doing, because that damn thing is too slow and I'm gonna take that horse, that one half horsepower.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna put it on the single because you know I never did you, do you have you, don't you?
Speaker 2:you just have the double? Did you have a double and a single ever before? No, never. Okay, because I never. I had never put that like one on the single. I just lifted it up.
Speaker 1:Right, should have put it on there years ago, but anyway, um well I mean, that's how mine was built, like we had a garage door open on both of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm going to just take the half horsepower one, I'm going to slide it over to the single I'm going to use and I'm going to get some power man.
Speaker 1:That damn thing is going to be fast, oh my gosh Not fast enough, but it'll be fast.
Speaker 1:Okay, tool time Shit would just shoot right up right Double garage door, just like right up because it has to be fast. Yeah, slam right down. You're so crazy man. Hey, I was, you know what. I was thinking about something the other day and I was, uh, like you know how, I have my sweet tooth, like I love my candy, and I started thinking about like all this candy that's in the world because, like I if anybody's known me like any time in my whole entire career, like I've been, I've done so many jobs and everything. But I'm gonna tell you like, like I was a supervisor for the flight attendants, at one point in my office I had a drawer of candy. You know, like I candy's always been in my life, like I love it. But the nostalgic candy I was started thinking about it, all the like fun, nostalgic candy. And there's a and and why I started thinking about it? Because there's a store here in our hometown and and the place is called sweets and geeks and have you been in there?
Speaker 2:yeah, I have. It's on freaking believable so they took a.
Speaker 1:They took a. Uh, an old, um, it used to be an ace hardware store and it's double story. Uh, ace hardware store, a huge warehouse, and this warehouse is full of nothing but candy and games. Right, I mean it is like. It's like if you want to get your kid thing on, can I mean geek sweets and geeks is the place to go. But I mean they have. You can walk in there and just just reminisce about all this crazy candy, and one of my favorite ones growing up as a kid was Fun Dip.
Speaker 2:Well, that's you Fun Dip. No, you are a Fun Dip, yeah right, that makes complete sense. Dude, I love it.
Speaker 1:I love the Fun Dip. You open a little thing you had the sugar spatula thing, whatever and then you dip it into each one and lick it off okay what was the?
Speaker 2:what was the bullshit thing about fun dip that they changed later on? No, I don't know. They used to only put one damn stick in there. Oh yeah, one one stick for three different pouches.
Speaker 1:You had like grape, strawberry and lemon, lime or whatever it was right you'd have the and then be like, like sealed for those three pouches, and then you had to eat one stick.
Speaker 2:And that one stick, you'd start putting it in your mouth and you know you start chewing on it. They say you know you got some damn nub. By the time you get to the end of it it's almost like a packet of your next one, your big pixie stick.
Speaker 1:Exactly that's what I'm saying. I was like when I was a kid I didn't get that little like sugar stick, yeah, and I'd be like it was like a, it was like the first sweet tart.
Speaker 2:What's the first thing you did when you dumped it in your throat? Hmm, like cough and sugar flying out of your mouth Right.
Speaker 1:Anybody that had a pixie stick. Yeah, pixie sticks was the next thing I was getting to man. The pixie sticks are like crazy. Remember how they had. Like the pixie sticks were, like they had like the little, teeny small ones came in a bundle package. I remember, but remember the like the super giant one yard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they that was later though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they supersized them damn things later, but they that was a big plastic thing, yeah, and you had a huge amount of powder coming out, powder man, it was like, and you poured it in your mouth and cough and powdered sugar go everywhere and it was so crazy man. But then you know there's like a lot of these. I'm like I haven't. I can't remember the last time I had any of these like a fun dip or pixie steps, and you don't see these candies around. You know they're not allowed. The only thing that's around now is the monster candy organizations. You know the hershey, the mars, those company, those candies are all over the impulse shelving at the grocery market. Right, but but these old ones like now or later.
Speaker 2:I was going to say those. Those were the very first ones that you know. You bit into that. You, freaking, locked your teeth together. Yeah Well, they would get together. And that's what I'm saying. Your teeth, you locked them together.
Speaker 1:You couldn't get them apart.
Speaker 2:You're like, you're a certain one if your fillings were going to come out? Yeah, now or later it's gonna.
Speaker 1:You're gonna get this chewed up, yeah, but you sit there most of the time.
Speaker 2:Later you check fillings after you.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's many a fillings that came out on an hour later. Yeah, it was a dentist dream like oh yeah, this just brought me work and kept me in business as far as it should have been like dental insurance plan, you know insurance.
Speaker 2:And God forbid that you get those things, that they're a little bit old, because them damn things were like rocks.
Speaker 1:Oh dude, they turn into like like they would like crystallize and like break apart like crumble. Actually, that's the best time to eat them because it wouldn't stick in your mouth, right, yeah, they'd be be little pieces, but yeah, I mean like now or laters were like everywhere Everybody had now or laters. And they'd come in those little teeny like little packets, like it was like I don't know how many were like 10 in a little packet or something like that, and yeah, and then they were wrapped like 15 times it took you a while to get to the candy, to get that thing it was.
Speaker 1:It was crazy because you got some now and you got some later. Yeah, exactly, exactly. But then, uh, what about like the things that they did that were like fun things like whistle pops?
Speaker 2:you know, I seen those. I never got into those. You never got into whistle pops.
Speaker 1:No, no, I seen them but I never got into them Whistle pops and then, like you know, the pop rings.
Speaker 2:Yeah, remember the pop rings. Those things, but that was a little bit later too. Remember the earlier ones. Remember the cherry chews that you used to get in the big vats, I mean like a big barrel yeah, Because a lot of that penny candy when we used to go to these dime stores, because our dime store was Ben Franklin, so we used to go to this dime store.
Speaker 1:First of all, you just mentioned something that maybe half the audience doesn't even know. What the hell you're talking about A dime store there was a dime store.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all they know right now is dollar store. Penny candy.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Penny candy. So you go in there and what it is? It was like it was this. Ben Franklin's was this little place that had a bunch of candy and stuff in it, but it was always in these barrels and it was so funny that nowadays this has never happened. I don't know if we talked about this before, but it would never happen today. They would have these barrels of candy unwrapped, right, they're just sitting there and they had these cherry chews and you'd walk in there and back then you thought, man, you had a shitload of money. You had 50 cents on you 75 cents. You, you were the king, right they would. You'd get this little um uh bag and you you go load this, this candy. And now you get, using your bare hands, you're reaching in there, got that, that, that bear candy thrown in inside there, get. You're reaching in there, got that bear candy throwing it inside there. Get them root bear balls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, root barrel balls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have those things. You have the cherry chews, you have all kinds of different kinds of candy and you're throwing it inside this bag. Then you walk it up to the counter and there's this old dude sitting up there and he's like what you got? And he takes your bag and he dumps it on a dirty counter and he starts counting it out with his dirty fingers.
Speaker 2:And then he scoops it all back up with his dirty hands and puts it back in that bag and all you could do is that you're looking at it Like there's a miracle happen right now.
Speaker 1:Right, and I can't wait, I can't wait to get into that bag.
Speaker 2:I am so going to eat all those things and you're not even thinking about that dirty man's nasty fingers.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, not at all. But then, like you know, so like today's world, we got the bulk candy places that are like, just like that.
Speaker 2:But we don't have the dirty hands.
Speaker 1:We got scoops in the bins, everything's wrapped, everything's like a sanitizer you know like. For the most part, I mean it's a different experience.
Speaker 2:You would never see it.
Speaker 1:And it's not a penny because those son of bitches in these new places dude.
Speaker 2:Outrageous. You're going to get a bag of candy. There's a couple of them on here. We're going to talk about them and one of them that. I don't know if we're going to jump ahead on this one, but one of the candy buttons right on the paper.
Speaker 1:No, the buttons are coming up Okay, like paper. We used to know the buttons are. The buttons are coming up okay, like how much. That's like the the worst candy I ever ate no way. Yes, that was by the foot. We used to buy it. I know you'd buy that like you peel off like a.
Speaker 2:It was like toilet paper, like yeah, they would candy dots on it. They would, they would take it and they'd pull it apart and they'd have they have a foot marked on that dirty, yeah, on that dirty, and you could tear it, tear it out that tear out that thing.
Speaker 1:And then you would take the little little dots of sugar that were on there and you'd peel them off. And it was impossible to peel them without taking paper. It didn't hurt you and we ate that shit. We ate so much paper. Back then I mean it was crazy, right?
Speaker 2:wood product all digestible and the funny thing about it is they used to be on these big ass rolls right and and they had these markers and you pull them out one foot, two foot, three foot and they'd roll them back up and throw them that same ass dirty bag. But they you would sit there and you take it up there and they'd measure it out at the countertop. Do the same thing. Nowadays it's like they got them pre-packaged. They're individually wrapped, they're like one foot they're actually still left about a foot long yeah and and and.
Speaker 2:They're actually the same way that they sold them, but they're. They're in packages, yeah, and they're.
Speaker 1:They're there too but they got all these watermelon flavors, all these other kinds too yeah, it's not like a roll on the wall that they just we used to like yeah, I still eat the paper. It's like eating glue. I I.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I can do that anymore so you could yeah, anyways, I went into this bulk candy store too the other day and I was looking at this uh, whole area and they had a bulk area of pez Really and like giant bins, like one bin, like you know, thousands of one flavor of the Pez and I used to love Pez when I was a kid. I mean those little Pez things like popping those things, popping the head open and the thing like pops out.
Speaker 2:Those things are worth a shitload of money too. They're very collectible the vintage ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're very collectible now, I mean all that type of stuff and and they're still like you can still. You rarely see them. But sweets and geeks has peds dispensers for you now.
Speaker 2:So if you had that pet, I cannot imagine those little bitty pieces of candy, okay yeah, and those peds dispensers. You constantly open that damn thing. Yeah, yeah, freaking things. Just keep it, no how we ate it.
Speaker 1:It was like we would load it up in that little spring-loaded thing and then we'd push them all in and then we'd flip back the head and literally be vampires and be biting the pets out of their neck.
Speaker 2:Even back then it was too damn slow for me. I just unwrapped the shit and just ate the whole handful. Yeah, you'd get the little packages that were the refill packages exactly. I just eat the whole thing. I ain't no way in the hell I'm waiting for that little bitty piece of candy. That's so thinking about this too.
Speaker 1:Like pez were like, um, like gun lovers, um type of candy, like it was, teaching us how to reload, reload our cartridges this is what you do exactly.
Speaker 2:You just take this Pez and you pop it out just like you would a bullet son. That's what it is, it's just like a bullet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, it's crazy, pezes are crazy.
Speaker 2:But here's the one that killed me, though. Right, it just shows you the times. The kids, every kid, would walk around with candy cigarettes, oh candy cigarettes Lucky strikes man, you'd have the lucky strike ones and you'd see all these kids walking out of the dime store. They got candy cigarettes hanging out their mouth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the mentality of the population back there, like smoking was cool. Yeah, it was a cool thing to do. There was no consideration about the health impacts or anything. It was just like it's cool, I'm smoking that's, that's my boy over there.
Speaker 1:He's got his likely strikes hanging out of his mouth at four so we had those candy cigarettes that were like like the, like the fun dip thing, but little teeny straws, yeah, but they also had, remember the ones, the candy cigarettes that were like gums. Yeah, so they had the wrapper on it. It was just like a little like a string of gum. Yeah, yeah, that was that was the gum wasn't good.
Speaker 2:Dude, none of the gum was not good I got a.
Speaker 1:I got a bag of like. I went to the store the other day and I saw a hole. They had a. They had a brand new case that was at the store of double bubble, really, yeah. And so I was like, man, that's fresh double bubble, I'm gonna get some.
Speaker 2:We got some upstairs right now and like it's like two minute gum you still see, yeah, but even though it's two minute gum, you see that in almost every freaking baseball um diamond yeah, you know, major league baseball double bubble yeah, double bubble.
Speaker 1:You had the whole bags and stuff, bulk bags of them still see it in it yeah, that's. That's one thing that I love. That's bubble gum, the old bubble gum and stuff. Remember when Bubble Yum first came out? Yeah, everybody was losing their mind how soft it was.
Speaker 2:They were like whoa Like.
Speaker 1:Big League Chew. Yeah Well, big League Chew was a whole, that's a whole. That was after that, right. But I mean how soft the double the bubble yum was with, like, everybody was like the mind blown because all we knew was double bubble how about rock candy on a rope? Yeah, or stick right yeah, yeah, everyone on the rope, you'd have it you'd have on rope.
Speaker 2:You just chew into it and it's just nothing but straight sugar. Yeah, kid, you wonder why in hell your kids are bouncing off the walls?
Speaker 1:and that's when it seemed like the necklaces Right, it was the same thing. Oh, the candy necklaces.
Speaker 2:Remember the candy necklaces? Yeah, you chew on those things, and then it would get stained on your shirt and your neck would be all sticky.
Speaker 1:You wonder why flies are going around you Trying to get one off of it and you're trying to manipulate it. It's like one left in the back. Man, those were good, those are crazy. Game changer was was pop rocks. Pop rocks, man, those are the coolest things. When I first came out I mean, everybody was into pop rocks. It was like you put those things in and they'd be like crackling and popping, like jumping out of your mouth and stuff like we'd lean our head back to, like it was crazy. And then then we Then we got the whole Pop Rocks with Diet Coke.
Speaker 2:Okay, I got to tell you this was the bullshit candy. Though what's that? When they came out with the Charleston, the Charleston, the Charleston, you didn't like the Charleston.
Speaker 1:No, it was nasty, seriously, big old piece of nougat candy taffy covered in chocolate. That wasn't taffy. It was nougat candy taffy covered in chocolate, that wasn't taffy.
Speaker 2:That was like it was nougat.
Speaker 1:Charleston wasn't nougat. Yeah, it was like a long like white piece of like taffy nougat combination covered in chocolate. I don't know, it was nasty Dude, I used to like a Charlesman.
Speaker 1:It figures there's no candy that I would encounter that I did not like. I mean my mom. When we were little kids. She'd go off and she loves to gamble. She's always a big gambler and so they'd always. We were in California so they'd take off and go to Tahoe right, so never been to Tahoe as a kid, they never took us there or anything like that and um, but every time she came back she would come back with these giant jawbreakers.
Speaker 2:You know, I remember those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like they look like about the size of a baseball yeah giant jawbreaker.
Speaker 1:Those things were like tongue killers. A dentist friend, dude, it was a tongue killer. We would lick that thing and lick a thing and then it turned into like these, like spiny little things on the jawbreaker and then you keep licking it and then it would cut your tongue and we still be licking it, like as kids. I mean, it's like the things you did. I was like what are you? Like it was bad, you didn't think about you, just you just bit into. Eventually we like get a hammer and like put it in a plastic bag and smash it, just to try to like eat it by pieces because we were tired of getting our tongues cut. But we're still gonna eat that son of a bitch do you remember the sweet tart pops, those two.
Speaker 2:They used to have them on a stick sweet tart. It's like a popsicle, but it's like a sweet tart thing. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah remember those things. Those were actually. I like those too. Those are actually. Those are actually pretty well, they had those in lipstick too Remember.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, they were like the lipstick containers.
Speaker 2:And then the Halloween. You get all the remember, all the Halloween. Do we have the Dracula? Lips Wax candy yeah all that kind of stuff. I mean it was loaded. All those stores were loaded with that stuff.
Speaker 1:Dude, I had to get some wax like those lips and we'd be like playing with them because they had like the, they had the teeth and they had the lips and all that stuff, and then you'd like chew on it and be like, oh, this is good and it was like just nasty okay the one that I did not like, though I can honestly say I did not like black licorice oh see, I'm.
Speaker 1:I like black licorice, but I'm very, um snobby. I'm very snobby when it comes to licorice anyways, because here's the thing Now we're getting out of the whole genre of this old licorice stuff, old candy, but I'm a traditional red licorice fan. I cannot eat a Twizzler to save my life. I don't care what type of Twizzler it is and what flavor it is. To me it's very waxy. That's not licorice.
Speaker 2:Are you?
Speaker 1:talking about the old rope licorice. Yeah, like American red vines? Yeah, red vines is my is my jam, and it doesn't matter if it's black or red or whatever. Red is my preferred, but I mean that twizzler stuff. To me it's like, it's just like waxy.
Speaker 2:Well, the roller rings used to have remember that licorice that broke off and then it was like a um, you pulled it apart and some is like a, a flat, a flat thing. It was, um, yeah, they had like five little sections and you break off a section of the the licorice and you pull it apart. You remember that one? No, they always saw that at our roller rink. It was actually pretty good. Oh, I think it was. It is the same thing as, like the old red vine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was good. Like on down that road too is like remember the taffy oh yeah, the big, huge, long like taffies and it was wild.
Speaker 2:All that old candy and stuff.
Speaker 1:I mean, we have a place here in Ohio that the sweets and geeks, and it's like we'll take you to far places. And it doesn't matter what country you're from too, because, like, sweet and geeks has candy from around the world too.
Speaker 2:You know you just may talk about this. I want to go look in one of your damn drawers. I know you got some kind of shit, we. I want to go look in one of your damn drawers. I know you got some kind of shit around here.
Speaker 1:Somewhere we got some candy, I got candy laying around here somewhere, I guarantee he's got some shit around here somewhere. All I'm doing is reaching across my desk and here's a bag of Jolly Ranchers.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, Jolly Ranchers. I love those, I love Jolly Ranchers. Yeah, we can't be.
Speaker 1:I don't even want you Jolly Rancher on them.
Speaker 2:Those things will lock in your teeth too. I love a Jolly Rancher. I think you actually got me started on those years ago.
Speaker 1:Jolly Ranchers are like one of my favorite. I'm a hard candy person, Like out of all the handy like. I'll take a piece of hard candy over a piece of chocolate any day.
Speaker 2:I'm positive you got me started on those and then you cost me a filling. Well, good for you.
Speaker 1:You owe me you needed to renew it anyway. Shut up, they only last so long, man. Dude, you just got to spend some of that money. You know, after taking them damn things from you I did, yeah, speaking about getting old and dennis and all that stuff. Man, I was thinking the other day, um, you know all this experience with my in-laws and my father-in-law passing away lately and all this stuff, and it got me thinking like I was flying with this gal and she's in the same position as me.
Speaker 1:You know we're we're dinks. You know dual income, no kids, you know, like we have right now life is great, right, but at the end of life, right now, like getting closer to the end of life, it is like it is a scary thought of like what type of care and how are we going to deal with this and manage this, all these different things and later in life. And I know it's a serious, more serious conversation than candy. But I was just like, wow, you know this is a uh, it just gets you thinking and it and it scares the shit out of you. You have kids, yeah, so you have kind of like a built-in insurance plan.
Speaker 2:That doesn't mean they're going to take care of you. Yeah, probably not. You for sure, exactly Like you. I mean seriously. I mean you can't you okay, every, every situation is different, but I understand where you're going with this, but you know, know this, you're not assured that those kids are going to take care of you either, right?
Speaker 1:Well, you're just hoping that somewhere along the way there's going to be an empathetic kind kid, one of the ones that you brought up that's going to be like you know, okay, pops.
Speaker 2:I'll help you out. I'll come over there and bring you a sandwich every once in a while.
Speaker 1:Right, I know you like peanut butter, buddy, we'll get you some peanut butter.
Speaker 2:But you know something, seriously, I know exactly what you're talking about, because when my mom had to go into assisted living and my mom passed away from, uh, basically UTI, right, and because what happens is they go there and they don't, they don't watch people, they don't take care of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't get taken care of.
Speaker 2:No, they don't. It's really scary. I mean, in all seriousness is very scary because these people do not take care of the elderly people at all. And, uh, you know my, my brother and my sister. They did incredible jobs with my mom for years because my mom lived right down the street from my brother and then Dave was always there and then Yvette unbelievable, I mean, they're like angels to help my mom all the way through that time.
Speaker 1:Here's my point Like she was so blessed to have those kids that stepped up and you know, and that's pretty much the majority, but like us, for, uh, carol and I, we're gonna be like I'm, I'm hoping that, like I'm gonna have some nieces and nephews that step up and say, hey, you know they can watch out for us and stuff like that. But, um, you know, there's no guarantee to all that stuff and it's scary. And and here's, here's one of my. I know this is going to sound crazy, but I do not want to get old and stink.
Speaker 2:I was going to tell you Dude.
Speaker 1:I do not want to be the guy running around like stinking so bad Old people stink.
Speaker 2:You know, I was just going to tell you don't you worry, sean, because I'm'm gonna come get you. I'm gonna wheel your ass outside, make sure you go see the sun, and then my mind will be gone and I'll forget. And I left you out there and it'll be raining exactly.
Speaker 1:You're only a few years behind me, some bitch. Come on, are you kidding me? He's like I'm gonna wheel you out, like he's like like he's in, he's in the 30s or something like that. This guy's like just a couple years behind me, he's gonna be right there with me. Just remember, I'll be the one wheeling you out, dude here. Here's what the whole thing like.
Speaker 1:If I'm blessed that I got a guy that I play golf with, like literally yesterday we played a golf, we were playing, it was wet here, we had rain and stuff and all that stuff. But there's a cat here in my neighborhood and my neighborhood is like almost like all retirement already Right, mainly retirement people, um, but there's a dude that's 92 years old and he plays golf with me every day. He's in my group. Like he's out there, he's doing his thing. Boom. I mean guy was an athlete his whole entire life. He's. He's like he's still relatively healthy. He's had his you know, normal body's getting old. He's got some skin cancer issues and stuff that he's been getting, you know, doing the mows and all that stuff. That that's a crazy procedure. But you know, like he's still. He's still going out there golfing and all that stuff and that's when I'm like man, health and the way you are, you know, like you live your life and try to keep yourself healthy, and stuff is so important for that later in life stage, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, you know the way I am, but that's exactly what I was saying is that the most important thing that we have is our health. That's it. You know that. I mean, you know any anyone, anyone knows that. But yet we take a lot of people, take it for granted and and you know from what they eat, they what they do and, and they drink, they smoke, they do a bunch of different things that are bad for them and they continue to do them, even when you know that they're bad, that you just continue. I could understand some things, but then, then you know, you gotta, you gotta everything in moderation, right, you can't not not do things like even candy or whatever it is. You gotta, you gotta.
Speaker 1:Everything's gotta be in moderation yeah, everybody's, everything's in moderation and and you know to go to to end this conversation this elderly stuff is that like you gotta plan for it too. Right, like this is it takes planning and all that stuff. And so that's what my wife and I are going to have to do, like kind of like set us up. Not only do you have to worry about like okay, you work all your life and you save and you make enough money to survive when you retire to the to the end of your life, but at the same time, we also have to equate into this like huge factor of like self-care of us.
Speaker 1:You know that we, what are we going to do at the end of our life? Because we don't have insurance plans, a family that we can absolutely be saying, oh, we're going to take care of you, type of thing. We may be blessed that way because we have lots of nieces and nephews that we love and all that stuff and cherish. But I mean those are people that are like down the road, like you don't want to put that burden on them, right, but, but you know please, please, god, somebody wash me and don't let me stink no, that's what I was going to tell you, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:if, if, if me and you ended up in the same place, then what we'll do is I just pictured me and you wheeling at me, wheeling down with you next to you, and then grabbing the hose and spraying you down. What are you doing to Sean? Yeah, sean, he stinks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would be like it's not a hose, it's a fire hose that he'd be using.
Speaker 2:Yeah. He'd be pushing me down the thing with the fire hose. I made one mistake. I thought it was the garden hose. It was a little big but big deal.
Speaker 1:He just went down the staircase Speaking about health and all that stuff. Man, you know they just finally decided, you know, to firmly get rid of and ban food coloring in the United States. About freaking time, like I mean, how long this is one of those cycles Like in our lifetime, like smoking and all these bad things that were happening in the world, like it was cool and faddish and all this stuff. And you know the United States was hey, well, let's enhance the color of it and make it look more appetizing because, you know, bright, red or whatever you know it's. Finally, you know, reality and good senses are going into play, where the food companies and stuff aren't still killing us with all these chemicals and stuff that are in our food and they finally are banning this stuff. I mean, they've known about this since 1980.
Speaker 2:They've officially came out with like research saying this is bad, and now it's taken to 2027 where it's going to be officially like they're going to have to remove this stuff well, if you, if you really want to see this directly, go to any walmart, right, go to any walmart and you watch how obese people are and just loading up their damn carts with all this shit that has this products in there, right? I mean, I'm talking about tons of this, right, and you wonder how that person got that big now, and I'm going to talk about how big they are. Careless, I mean, you do, you, but you're talking about health. When you just sit there and said about that, you can't, all that fat is around your heart, all that fat around your organs, you can't breathe. Your lungs you can't breathe, you can't function, okay, and you have all these things that are killing you internally. And then, finally, it's taken how many years for them to finally put a stop to this.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing I get your aspect of where you're going with all the personal decisions. No, this is the product.
Speaker 2:This was in the product. It's not the personal decision. This is what's in the food it's loaded inside. That's what I'm talking about. If you had imagine how much of this dye is inside that cart. That's what I'm talking about. I mean, when you look at, this is not about personal decision. This is about how much of these products are inside that cart for that one family well, here's my point to the thing.
Speaker 1:What I was trying to get at is this is that, like, this is the economic thing, like the our government right now is driving a food system that is so bad on the lower end of the food chain that we are loading all these people and creating health issues and it's a whole entire like ball of shit.
Speaker 1:So, like you got to it's it's not always by like choices of the people, like they can't even help themselves because our system, that's here, that's in place, that the food that they can't afford and are enticed and lured to are these cheaper foods that have all this crap in it. And so that's my whole that was, that was my point to this thing. Is that, like, yes, we can all think about, like, okay, we know this is bad and we don't want to do this and all this stuff, but sometimes there's a lot of people in this world that we can't even afford it. Right, like they can, they can't afford it. They can only afford, you know, to feed their family on a certain level. So, like we as the upper level of society, it should be concerned about everybody, not just themselves. Like, like we had the ability.
Speaker 2:Right, but that's that's what I'm saying. Even with this dye, that's fine. That's exactly what I was talking about, though, even with this dye, that's exactly what I was talking about, though, even with this dye, this red color, all these things that cause cancer, yeah, okay, it's in all those cheap-ass products. You can just take it out and still have cheap-ass products.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and here's another thing You're just making them look better, that's all you did.
Speaker 1:Well, here's a crazy thing because we can only see what was our paradigm we're like. We only know what we know because this is where we are, but when you step outside of the United States and we get the privilege of seeing this, different things. I was talking to some friends about this Dorito. Okay, here in the United States is loaded with all these different dyes and extra products and all this stuff. But if you, if we go over to Mexico which we always like you know us people always like consider Mexico like a inferior place, right, like that's kind of like our attitude, like we're Americans, we're so much better than you. Inferior place. But guess what? In Mexico a Dorito is all organic. They have no processes in there. They can still make the damn Dorito over there organic, but here in the United States they're making it bad as shit for us.
Speaker 2:Have you ever seen the video where they set the Dorito on fire?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it burns, it burns, yeah, it burns like crazy. So it's like. My point is that is that like, yeah, there's like we got a screwed up food system and it's it's about damn time that they finally are getting themselves to the point like and and it's really cool if you really pay attention to this thing, like if you've seen this whole evolution of this change happening. Like 10 years ago, how much organic stuff do you see in your supermarket? Like there was, there was none, yeah, yeah, and today we have organic sections, you know, like. So it's about supply and demand, the pressures of people. Our attitudes are, you know, saying no to this stuff. That finally gets things changed and I'm glad that change is happening. But I just wanted to bring that thing up. Next topic man, I'm going to tell you right now this is something that just happened to me and I just want to hear your feelings about this whole thing and it's loaning money to families and friends. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, you don't need no damn money, so I don't have to worry about.
Speaker 1:I don't have to worry, I just sit there.
Speaker 2:I'm just telling you. Well, you know, I ain't got a lot of friends.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm a loner guys, I think everybody out there that knows you just like laugh. They're awesome.
Speaker 2:No, I mean listen, you know, you know Right, you don't have a lot of close friends.
Speaker 1:No, you have a lot of acquaintances, no, yeah.
Speaker 2:So as far as that goes, yeah, I'd be good with that. Even though you don't need it, I'll borrow from you. But as far as family, yeah, I would give my family money, I wouldn't even hesitate. But I know my family because as soon as they got it back, they would give it back. But it would I loan anybody else money? Hell, no, no, if you call me up like they, they sit there and somebody said that they got a call and they said, oh, your, your, your cousin is in jail. They need money. Well, my cousin's gonna stay his ass in jail, he ain't getting out, go ahead.
Speaker 1:But I'm just no, I ain't gonna give him money, no, so so so I mean, what, what sparks this whole thing, can thing is that, like I have a family member that asked me for money, okay, and and here's the um, the the thing about it it's like my family is just like anybody else's family and I'm going to tell you right now, just like you, you're like if you had a close family member that called you and said, hey, can you give me a thousand bucks? You know, whatever, whatever it is Okay, you're going to give it to them, right, you're going to give it to them because they're family Like my, my brother or sister in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cause I my my brother's sister.
Speaker 1:Yeah, heartbeat, yeah, because I know it's coming back. So this is my brother, one of my brothers, okay? So he asked me for money, all right. So now, two years later, I'll see now that's bullshit.
Speaker 1:Okay, two years later, that's bullshit. There's no effort whatsoever that like return the money that I give him or anything at that. But you know, I mean I like I talked to my wife about this. You know I don't use something in talked to my wife about this. You know I don't use something in the back of your head. You're like you still remember I gave them money and they didn't even attempt to do it and that goes to the moral character of that person and you know their, their ethics of you, know how to handle the situation, but at the same time it's like you just write it off right, it's like it's gone, it's family right.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that you do write it off, but that would kind of that'd bother me, because the way that I see my brothers and my sister, I mean it would bother me. But and honestly, fortunately I know with that if it was, it was my situation. I know we're talking about yours, but if it was my situation, they would have thrown in an extra hundred because you know, hey, listen, I appreciate what you did. Thanks, you know what I mean. You helped me out.
Speaker 2:And that's exactly what you should be. Your situation was a little.
Speaker 1:My thing goes. Is that so? Like here I am, I offer the, you know, I give this money and everything, and this is two years, whatever. But then that same person comes back and they ask you for not the same sum they just asked you for like five times the sum they just asked before, and ask you for more money.
Speaker 2:Sean, you just made me think of uncle Eddie. Uncle Eddie, yeah.
Speaker 1:Clark Griswold.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'd be like are you shitting me? There's no way in hell. There's no way. There's no way. I mean all seriousness, there's no freaking way in hell.
Speaker 1:I'd be like Nope you freaking way in hell. I'd be like, nope, you ain't getting shit. You haven't paid me back the money that you, you borrowed from me before. There's no way in hell, so. But so here, here's what happened. So so my wife and I am like you know. Uh, he asked me for this money and they have this situation happening and and they put themselves into a bad situation, everything and uh, so they need this money. And I'm talking to my wife, and my wife is the most generous person in the world, and it's when it comes to family. Her attitude about money and family is that family has supported her in the past and help get her to the place that she's been. She is now today, and now she has the means and ability to do this, and she's like, I'm just going to give it to him, you know there would have been a big no, there'd have been big difference.
Speaker 2:Go, I'm going to let you finish, but there've been big difference. If you pay back your original amount of money, go ahead, and that's my point.
Speaker 1:My point is so we come from two different types of worlds. Like my wife is very well off and they had money their whole life and all that stuff, and she just like she just feels like this is, uh, something that I owe back type of thing. That's her feeling, okay, and I'm not going to discount her feeling, all this stuff. But what my feeling was like exactly, I'm reacting like you're reacting, like I'm like, oh, you know, your past behavior dictates. What happened is going to get ready to happen again. So I'm going to give you this money, and if I give you this money, I know that you're not even going to attempt to give it back to me, right? So you know? So I'm. So now I'm like there's me and my wife are like having this big discussion about this whole thing, about, like, how we're going to handle this stuff. So I was like you know, it became a big dilemma, like I had to think about this for a few days, cause it you know it weighs on you.
Speaker 1:You, you love your family, you want to help them. At the same time, you, you want to make assurances, that you know. And to me, honestly, you know I'm blessed to be in a position where I have money. Right, both of us. Right, we're blessed, we've worked hard, we got money and all this stuff and I give away a lot of free money to a lot of people in the world. I do all kinds of different.
Speaker 1:You know philanthropy and all that stuff, but you know, when you feel like you're being taken advantage of, that's the point that really irks you. You know, that's the point that really irks you. You know, that's the thing that's in your back of your head. That is like you know, this is family and they're treating me, disrespecting me, right, right, and that's my whole, my, my, my point about it. But how I the in-story to this is this is that I decided to like, think about this, and I went down a road that I said you know what I'm going to treat this as a life lesson, because the one thing in my family that did not happen was and I don't know how your family was, but we did not grow up with a lot of financial education and I think a lot of that happens in the United States today, like there's not a lot of financial education happening out there with the lower class of Americans that are out here, that are that are the you know lower income Okay, it's not class lower income of Americans and they don't have the knowledge and ability to how to manage money. And that's what my brother's, you know, in that situation right now and unfortunately he's kind of like in midlife right now and still hadn't learned this lesson. So I'm like you know what? I'm going to turn this into a life lesson.
Speaker 1:So now I treated this whole thing like this is a bank loan. And so I drew up papers and drew up a whole contract and made it into a bank loan. And the first loan was just like hey, you're my brother, here's some money. This next one I was like, oh no, no, no, we need to put some like guidelines and procedures in place, just like and treat this like a normal bank transaction. And that's exactly what I did and I wrote this whole thing up and I said here's contract. And at the end of the contract I was you know, I've even put in there, you know like. If this is not fulfilled, legal action may be taken, you know, so that they can weigh the seriousness of this and weigh the responsibilities of how you, how you pay back a loan and and I'm teaching my brother how to, like, build credit did he take it?
Speaker 1:he took it.
Speaker 2:I gave it to him okay, but the thing is, is that here's the question right? If he reneges on it, you taking him to court?
Speaker 1:I don't know we will cross that bridge.
Speaker 2:You see what I'm saying, though I understand there's.
Speaker 1:There's the thing but here's the thing I have that option, right, I know, I mean you always have the option, you know, but nobody wants to get in conflict with your family like that. But here's the thing I'm like I chose to make this a lesson. Right, this is how you manage money. Let me help you understand how you build credit, how you manage your bills, how, instead of you going down to the candy store and buying candy with the money instead of paying your bills Right, you know, these are the things that we bought. We already know this stuff, like most people, most people do, and I tried to equate this. I gave him an analogy of, like I said listen, when I was, when I was coming up and everything, and I was trying to like bill, credit and build all bill, every time I tried to spend money on something, when I start seriously understanding money was like hey, can I afford to go and buy that ice cream cone?
Speaker 2:And you couldn't. But that's, that's beside the point. I get it. I mean, I get that, but how much you got in your wallet? How much do I have in my wallet, Cause I want it.
Speaker 1:Oh you, you think I'm a sucker, sucker, Right, yeah, no, I'm not a sucker. No, it's not a sucker.
Speaker 2:You know something. Listen, I'm making light of it. I know exactly what you're doing, I know how you are and I get that it wouldn't have been me. But, like I said, there's no way. But I'm fortunate enough that my family that wouldn't have been the case with them.
Speaker 1:But I do understand what you're talking about, but I mean, I didn't think that was going to be the case too. But say, one of your brothers did this Right Borrow money. I don't know they give it back to you. You're not going to be with your brother and be like when are you going to give me this money?
Speaker 2:You're going to be him to court either. So I mean, so I I understand what you're talking about, and but I'm still gonna. I can take him to court and I still want the money out of your wallet. So, um, let's go around the globe, man let's go around the globe.
Speaker 1:So, uh, man, uh this, uh talking about taking somebody advantage of. Did you hear about the guy that was? Uh, that got 120 free flights?
Speaker 2:how the hell that happened. I mean as a flight attendant, seriously, how did that happen? I mean this guy, this was incredible it was the modern day.
Speaker 1:Catch me, if you can. This dude is like he, literally it. There wasn't a security issue because he was actually going through tsa, going through all the print paces, you know, doing his id, going through the screenings, all this stuff, but he was actually scanning the process through these airlines.
Speaker 2:I can understand how that happened. I mean because, okay, let's take a look at this. Okay, even with TSA, you're looking at your badge or whatever you know you go through, and if you were able to duplicate a badge, okay. And if you, if you could get onto the other airlines, whatever it is. But here's the thing you didn't have to do that this is not.
Speaker 1:This is not that thing he did not do, duplicated in a badge or falsifying any of that, that type of stuff. The only thing he did was he was using our non-rev system and manipulating that with the airline. And so a non-rev think non-employee Right? You know, you don't have to. All you have to have is driver's license.
Speaker 2:But how did he get? Okay, but he still had to have someone's right Like an employee.
Speaker 1:He was using false numbers and stuff through it and saying that, like this is all done through the computers, like he's just doing giving false numbers. He had I don't know, I 35 or something like that, but was different with his name. Yeah, he would like use. Like you don't have to buy through your name, it could be flying on somebody else's, but somehow he had manipulated the system.
Speaker 1:We don't want to get too detailed no, exactly, yeah, but it's like he manipulated the system to be able to get on the plane and get free tickets as a non-rev and all these tickets started coming up and it's coming through the systems and the airlines started catching it, and that's how, when he got to so many, it was like they were like wait a minute, who is this? We got some type of pattern going on here, right, and then the guy gets snagged. But he's, he's in some serious trouble right now. I mean, he's got like all kinds of charges, I think 250 000 in fines, like it's.
Speaker 2:It's crazy they'll be able to find him one more time to whatever prison he's going to he's gonna get one more free.
Speaker 1:one more free ticket to whatever prison his ass is going to hey but he can be like that dude and catch me, if he can, where the U S government comes in and hires him. That's true, yeah Right, like, like, how did you do this? Teach us how you did this and, uh, we're going to help prevent. You know, use this for as a prevention.
Speaker 1:I, you know use this for as a prevention. I think he's going to prison, but yeah, he's probably going to prison, but yeah, anyways, and uh, yeah, man. And then then the other thing that's happening is like all these airlines now are canceling flights to the middle East because of everything, all the shit going on right now.
Speaker 2:Well, there's good reason, right? Yeah, possible war.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, do you got to pay attention to what's happening in the world right now, like if you are anywhere in the world listening to this right now? Pay attention to everything happening outside of your little bubble, of whatever country you're in and check on your flights yeah, check on your flights. It doesn't matter what like. And this isn't just us air carriers. Like everybody is canceling flights to the Middle East.
Speaker 2:Nobody wants to be shot down as a defenseless civilian carrier, and we don't do that at Jackson. Hole, you don't think? No, we ain't. Nobody shoot me down at Jackson Hole. All right, All right man, maybe you, because you're international base, you change base. But, you know something, not me. I might be doing this show solo, that's right. All right, everybody, man, it was a great time. Go ahead, sean. Lead us out with the quote.
Speaker 1:All right, man. Yeah, you got ahead of yourself there. Our quote today is this it always seems impossible until it's done. That's Nelson, nelson Mandela said that and uh, and you need to. You need to believe that, like, anything in the world is possible and you can do anything you want to do, um, and just like, sky's the limit, man, so don't limit yourself. Nope, all right now it's time to go, you.
Speaker 2:You finally gave permission. All right, guys, you guys, you guys have a great week, had a lot of fun, and we will see you next week at Cabin Pressure. Lots of fun, we'll see you next week.
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