Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Trash Talk: The Art of In-Flight Comedy
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Take flight with veteran cabin crew members Shawn and G as they pull back the curtain on what really happens at 35,000 feet. Their candid conversation offers a rare glimpse into the world of professional flying that passengers rarely witness.
The duo shares hilarious stories from their recent flights together, including Shawn's now-famous "taking trash, talking trash" announcement that has passengers recognizing him in airports years later. They discuss the mummified mouse discovered during Shawn's podcast studio renovation and explore the unexpected treasures found at local auction houses where flight equipment and furniture can be purchased at deep discounts.
What truly makes this episode shine is their unfiltered take on crew dynamics. From the "chia pet" flight attendants who refuse to communicate to those who won't set up galleys because "I don't do that on the ground," Shawn and G reveal the personality types that make or break the in-flight experience. They also tackle serious topics like managing in-flight medical emergencies with limited resources and how airlines could dramatically improve boarding procedures if they would only listen to frontline staff.
A touching segment explores how youth baseball teaches crucial life skills beyond the diamond, as G reflects on seeing a young player carefully protecting his A2000 glove during a flight. The episode wraps with a look at global aviation news, including the fascinating comparison of international air force sizes and the recent delay in implementing secondary cockpit barriers across all aircraft.
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A baseball glove, a boy, and it's simple. How did that mouse get mummified? 70,000 lollipops how many does a kid need? All of this? Next, on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.
Speaker 2:This is cabin pressure I'm here. I knew everybody was waiting for that. I was like freaking, take her back. It's a magical thing, peter Pan or something Came through the freaking window.
Speaker 1:Right, right, Welcome everybody. We are here at Cabin Pressure having a good time this week. Lots to talk about. I'm still getting over that entrance. That shit was killing me. We are here at Cabin Pressure having a good time this week. Lots to talk about. I'm still getting over that entrance. That shit was killing me.
Speaker 2:I don't know why you're getting like. You're so shocked. You're like freaking Tinkerbell came in. I mean, that time you were like Tinkerbell or freaking Peter Pan.
Speaker 1:Right, whatever your imagination takes you. Shit was funny, though Go, I like that. So, man, catching up, man, oh, I've been like busy dude, busy, busy, first of all, um, working on our new studio. You have been, yeah, so, like it's been on my mind. I'm like trying to like focus on doing all this stuff, cause there's like a million different things to make, think about, to put together a studio.
Speaker 1:But, uh, I do have a fun story that came out of it and like, so we're building the studio in my basement and, um, the basement has this, you know, uh, insulation that goes around the top of the basement, and so we're trying to, I'm trying to prep this room to like paint the walls and get it ready, and I bought some carpet and you know just, we got to soundproof all this stuff, right. So I'm in there, man, and I'm pulling down this installation, and I've been in my house for like 25 years, right, right. So, and so I'm pulling down this installation, like get it off the walls, because I gotta get prepped this wall, and out pops a damn petrified mouse. It was alive, no, it was petrified, oh petra, I thought you were scared or something.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, not like scared too. It wasn't like that.
Speaker 1:This thing was like dead and like starting to turn into rock, like it's like this guy has been so dead for so long, like wood. But he was stuck in the insulation up there like it's who knows what year he died, but it was. It was like mummified into the insulation did you tell carol?
Speaker 1:no, no but, if my wife was there it would have been shrieked throughout the neighborhood and probably there'd be a for sale sign in the house, but all kinds of shit. But you know, you know, everybody reacts different mice and stuff. I'm not. I'm not the person that uh is afraid of mice. How about you?
Speaker 2:I'm just the guy, because I already picture you picking that damn thing up go how long have you been up there?
Speaker 1:no I didn't touch it, man, I thought it was gonna crumble or shit. No, I'm not afraid of mice, no, no, no, I I did get a paper towel and like pick it up and put it in the garbage tub, but you know years, years ago.
Speaker 2:You know, I ran a garbage route years ago when I was a kid and one of the things you used to have to do you know the old cans you had to pick that shit up and throw it into the truck. So I'm going through there and I'm like, yeah, early in the morning, throwing this shit, and I pulled the lid off of one of them, sean, and this big ass rat jumped out. It jumped out, ran right up my damn shoulder, over the top of my neck. I felt the. I could still feel the damn. Did you like fall on the ground like no, hell, no, I froze. That damn thing ran up my. It ran up my shoulder. You just froze, yeah, and I and I felt that damn tail just ran. It slid right at my neck.
Speaker 2:Dude, I was done with the trash, I was like job over oh, hell yeah, I was like okay, you're looking for a paper route. Don't mind them. Do you not mind a mouse but a freaking rat? No, I ain't doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not doing it, man I don't get freaked out about them, but uh, I know my wife does and this is hilarious because I know my nephew. He listens to the show.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And he is deathly afraid of mice. I mean, this dude's a big cat and you bring a mouse in the room and he is the first one jumping on a table, like he's knocking down women to get up on the table. That's just him.
Speaker 2:But I'm like I don't know why you're afraid of this stuff. But uh, people are, people are, hey, you know, dave's dave's pest control down in florida, yeah, okay, so he, he's talking about the funniest shit you ever seen is when they go and they, they tent a house. Okay, so everybody's watching, you know, because the whole neighborhood's like oh yeah, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 2:right, there's something wrong with they got roaches yeah, everybody comes out and they want to see, right, because you know curiosity. So he's like they'll tent this house and they'll get it all tented. And then they start pumping the gas in there, right, okay. And then as soon as they start pumping the gas in, out runs all these freaking rats out from underneath this tent Everybody's running Everybody, these freaking rats, out from underneath this tent. Everybody's running, everybody in the whole freaking place is like screaming and running Right.
Speaker 1:Neighbors are saying mother, Don't send them over here.
Speaker 2:Kill them, they don't get far right. They're dying already. But it's just funny how people just they're like oh the curiosity. Oh, I'm looking at rats. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no, but hey, hey, listen I ain't dealing with rats, no, no, but now, yeah, I'll deal with that, so that's one thing that happened this week was uh that that that happened as I'm preparing our uh studio and trying to get that in order and to bring you guys some live video. But uh, the other thing that I found, too, was this is cool, man. I um, I've never been really uh one to like jump on, like I've done ebay, you've done ebay not really.
Speaker 1:You haven't done ebay yeah a couple times, not really ebay used to be like the big shit right out there and all this stuff.
Speaker 1:But there's all these new um auction sites that are available and I did not know this. Like in our town, like right down the street here, the next town over, has this giant auction site called bid btf and I never even heard of it before. But uh, this other flight attendant we were sitting on the jump scene and she was telling me about this that she she goes to this place and she was like buying stuff on these cheap auctions and then she'll resell the stuff because it's nice stuff and they have everything electronic equipment, tools, furniture, all kinds of stuff. But as I found this, I decided well, you know what, this would be a good thing to like try to stock our studio that we're building here, find items and stuff. So I thought it was kind of cool. But there's a place right down the road here called Mac Bids and Mac Bids they do big items like tools and electronics and cabinets and tool cabinets and all kinds of big items electric lawnmowers, you name it freaking powered scooters.
Speaker 2:They're bidding on them now, are these things that okay? Is this products that that um people just returned, or are they just?
Speaker 1:I don't know where they're coming from, like I don't know if this is like an amazon dump like of, like return by products, or this like from coming from big department stores, targets and walmart's or what I don't know now, do you take a chance if they're broken?
Speaker 1:No. So, like the bids actually show you if it's new or if it's an open box or if it's missing items or like it's only pieces of this box, you know, type of thing. So they let you know ahead of time and then you bid on them and you have three days to pick this stuff up, bid on them, and you have three days to pick this stuff up and uh, yeah, it's cool. So, uh, we picked up some real cheap items, a couple of things like picked up a chair that was like 300 chair. We got it for like 20 bucks, cool. So, yeah, it was. It was super interesting. But I didn't know these things exist and they're all over the countries, like they're all different states have these, uh bid sites. You got to check it out if you're, uh, if you're looking for some cool items and stuff like that because I was I was shocked at what it was on there. I started getting a little addicted to like I was scrolling at night like looking for shit like you.
Speaker 2:You're gonna have all kinds of shit down here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I started thinking like I'm like, well, I don't want to, I want to bid on this because one of the things is like you bid on it, you have this three day window and if you don't show up, like they keep your money and they put it back into the bid, you know. So I'm sure that happens. But you know I was like I ain't, I'm coming to get my shit.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you need it, yeah, I could understand it, but trying to resell it that, that sold before. Well, no, no, some of these things are like I mean, it's legit, look at, look at the sites.
Speaker 1:No, I mean I, I get you'll be like, wow, people do want this, there's people out there that want this. But like you can transfer that stuff from like these super cheap, you know low cost bid sites. I mean people have been buying things for like a dollar really. Yeah, I mean, and you know if it's worth ten dollars and you're selling it even in in a garage sale for $10, you just made $9. Right, so if you want to go through the trouble to do and all that stuff, cool, you know, but I thought I thought it was interesting. Um other thing, man and I you know I have been working, we just flew together, right.
Speaker 2:We did, we did fly together. Yeah, that's always comical.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was always comical. We had a fun. Uh, ran into some. Uh, the one thing I like like when we fly is like running into people that we know and like yesterday when we flew together I ran into a guy. It literally lived across the lake here from where my house is. I've known this guy and known about him for like 25 years. We're not like close friends or anything, just acquaintances through golf and all that stuff. And then come to find out you've been flying with this guy and knew him for like 20 years, over 20 years. Yeah, we never made that connection, like we had no idea that we both knew this same guy right.
Speaker 2:He started laughing because whenever I started talking, he's like you've known him I was like yep, and he's like I've known sean for over 25 years and I said well, I've known his ass for 35 I mean you, you.
Speaker 1:It is funny, I mean because it's just wild how the world works, like we've known, you know, we're good friends and all that stuff, and we can't. We're like how do I, how did we not know this? It's crazy, but but that's what happens in the airline world. Like we do make friends and acquaintances of frequent flyers and people that you see, you know the longer you're in this business not not for the new flight attendants, new flyers, everything's brand new, but for us, older flight attendants, um, we get to be have some acquaintances I was laughing yesterday, though, you know.
Speaker 2:When you're walking through with the headsets yeah, we were up front, I was just dying, man. When you're walking through, hey, get your headsets here. Get your headsets Last time you're going to get them. You ain't going to be like them anymore at a time during the flight. Get them right now.
Speaker 1:Now's the time. One thing on the plane that I hate we both hate what is headphones headphones.
Speaker 1:I'm not talking about giving out the headphones, I'm talking about people wearing headphones and ignoring us. I'm like I ain't got time for this shit, because every flight what happens? And we get on the plane, we got to do this, you know board them up, put them on the plane, all that stuff. We'll be talking about that a little bit later. And then also, you know, we on our airline we have amenities of screens and stuff that you can listen to, so we pass out free complimentary headsets, but people, they can't get connected. Like we can connect to bluetooth and all that stuff. They can't connect. Oh no, I need a headset. My mind's not connecting or they're ignoring us.
Speaker 1:And so we get done. It just tires me. It tires me. So my spiel, I go down and I'm like listen up folks. Today we have a snooze you lose rule Highly enforced. So get them while you can. And people are looking like like, what is he talking about? I'm like get your headsets. You want a headset? This is the last time you're gonna hear it on this flight. Right now, get them where they can. They make great stocking stuffers. Kids go crazy for them. Electronics, all that good stuff, get them they're cheap, but you can have them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, re-gift them.
Speaker 2:I was dying kathy's up front this kathy right she was in the lead she was in the lead and she leaned over and she's like what is that? Yeah, and I was like, oh, that's sean, yeah, and she goes. What is he doing? He's announcing that he's coming through with headsets. Is what he does? People? They actually they get the biggest kick out of this. You guys, I'm not kidding. You know, when he walks it is freaking hilarious. That's the same thing as when he picks up trash. He's like you know, taking trash, talking trash.
Speaker 1:Taking trash Dude, this is how crazy it is. So we've been flying for so long. I have been out in Cleveland. I've been walking around and people will walk up to me and go taking trash, talking trash, like, pointing at me and I'm like you're the trash guy. Yeah, you've been, I had you on a plane, exactly yeah, like it's yeah.
Speaker 2:But hey, we always got to, you got to have fun. We have fun all the time. Like I told you, your ass didn't come up to the front but one time. On the second one.
Speaker 1:I was like like when you do these little things and this is a good hint for, like, other flight attendants are out in the world, stuff like I, you can go down the thing and like you get the flight attend, they walks down and they have the bag open and they're like taking trash no, they don't they don't say that they're just like uh, trash, trash, you know trash.
Speaker 1:But then there's people like me and I'm like taking trash, talking trash, and people like they, they key into that, so they're like whoa, and then then they find it funny and all that stuff. And you know we go down and like I actually have people that they'll come back to me and they'll be like yeah, yeah, you're trash. You know they'll be. They'll be talking trash to me. You know like, and I'm like what?
Speaker 2:and they're like we're talking trash you come back with a full bag, they come back with a half bag.
Speaker 1:Right, because nobody's listening, because nobody's listening what they're saying and then there's still like tons trash. But when I go through the cabin, dude trash gets picked up because people are paying attention.
Speaker 2:It's really humor though.
Speaker 1:But it's fun.
Speaker 2:We're having fun with it. I mean it's just humor. I mean I get the biggest kick every time, but it was funny. Kathy was like what is?
Speaker 1:that. Well, kathy, kathy went. What is that?
Speaker 2:Oh, when you were making the PAs it was like oh no, sean, you can't do that, no more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't enforce, quit it. You can't enforce, I'm like, I'm not enforcing, I'm informing.
Speaker 2:I'm informing, sit down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she couldn't say anything back because she knew I had the right answer. You did. I am informing the pastors about their safety.
Speaker 2:I was listening to the conversation secondary Right, secondary right. It was funny. I was like, okay, I wonder what sean's gonna say this is gonna be fine. No, I'm gonna give you the information right now. They're gonna sit their ass now right, that was funny exactly.
Speaker 1:but anyways, man, the other thing that happened to me was, uh, we had this dude and I don't know, you know, I know you've had this happen, but as soon as we take off, you know, we like pulled out the cart and uh, ding, and they're like, and then I, you know, then I'm just pushing up the cart and all of a sudden PA comes on. Do we have a medical doctor on board or a nurse or a paramedic? And then our airline, it's like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Speaker 2:They're everywhere Cleveland Clinic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like Cleveland Clinic out of Cleveland.
Speaker 2:There's some medical people on our flights all the time, if you're going to have a medical situation, have it going in or out of Cleveland.
Speaker 1:And people are like trying to jump out of seats. I'm like, okay, wait, we got one up front.
Speaker 2:Everybody else are cool, chill. Do we have a specialist?
Speaker 1:Right, right. So then this guy, he's up in front and he's having a panic attack, you know, and so we're. You know he calms down, and we get him calmed down, and then the medical professional that a volunteer came up talk to him. But they're like he's having a panic. It's okay, you know, we're okay. So but we decide to put him on oxygen, which always helps, you know, oxygen up at altitude helps period, and so we start giving this oxygen. So then bottle runs out, you know, they only last about 20 minutes or so, right, and then bottle runs out. He's like I need another bottle, you know.
Speaker 1:Next thing, you know, we're like giving oxygen service on this flight. We don't have that many oxygen bottles on the plane, and the thing that people don't know is that those oxygen bottles that we're giving you are the extra bottoms that we use as crew in an emergency, in an emergency, yep. So, like I'm telling you right now, if I got four flight attendants, I'm not going lower than four bottles. We have many bottles on plane, but not enough to like service a four-hour flight, right. So anyways, the point I'm taking is that, like, then this guy goes, I don't want any medical uh help or anything.
Speaker 1:When we get there we're like if you're taking oxygen, you're getting, that meant you're getting help. You know we're going to document this, all this stuff, but uh, it was, it was, it was wild that I was like you know, this runs, we run into this all the time with the uh pastures. They ask for oxygen or something like that, and we've got to, like, service them through the whole flight. Now I have a little bit of a problem with that. How about you?
Speaker 2:It's. It's because what they're using is supplemental oxygen and yeah, I, I. You know that that's what I don't run into that. That much we used to back. You know, back in the day we'd run into that a little bit more, but now they're I With his first travel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like we don't that is a good point. Like back in the day when we first started getting oxygen on a plane and all that stuff a lot, we would run into that Right, and especially when we were back in the day when we actually offered that service Right, like there was that you pay for medical oxygen, you can have it on board the whole time, and there's all these kinds of people that have you know, respiratory problems, that have those portable oxygen things, but now they can bring their own you know they're allowed to bring those own their own portable options. Yep, so we don't run into that too much anymore. But it was just interesting. When we ran into that I was like they brought up some old, you know memories of like people trying to abuse it. I don't want to pay.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to get it free from you, but it is funny, though you know when it would. What you just said about cleveland, when you're flying in and out of cleveland, that is funny. If you have a medical emergency, it is kind of funny in a way, because you'll ask for medical assistance and that cabin will light up like it's like bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. It's like just choose. I heard a cardiac surgeon. What do you got?
Speaker 1:I mean mean right, I heard the uh there's this comedian the other day it was, I was watching YouTube, whatever, and this guy was like talking about spirit, right, you know?
Speaker 2:and he was like.
Speaker 1:he was like you know, uh, pa comes on and is is there a doctor on board? And he's standing back and he's thinking we're on Spirit, are you? Kidding me no doctors flying Spirit, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:This is not your clientele.
Speaker 1:No, bells are going off, we're on.
Speaker 2:Spirit. It's not going to be a good day. It's not going to be a good day.
Speaker 1:Not that we're trying to bash Spirit, but it's funny there's other discount carriers out there too that probably doctors aren't flying, but on ours it'll ring off right, you'll be okay, out of cleveland exactly. So what's been?
Speaker 2:going on with you, man shark, week short shark week yeah, shark week. What's that load position? I was out. I was out in the ocean, man, I was testing the waters, testing the waters. Yeah, load position for us is anytime you get out of Cleveland, because we've been flying together for so long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but first of all pause. What are you talking about? People don't know what load position is. Are you talking about somebody going to the bathroom or what is it you're talking about? A load position is the extra flight attendant. He's kind of like the floater in the system.
Speaker 2:Do you ever notice how you jump in the shit and then you don't even? Let me finish.
Speaker 1:No, I just yeah, but you're not explaining. I'm going to. I know you're going to explain your story, a story I just want you to know, remember Redmond. Yeah, jen yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, me and her used to play a game. It was called shut the hell up, it's your term, go all right, but a load position is is an extra person on an aircraft and, uh, and, and what they do is they float a lot of times so you'll be on different airplanes. Uh, you could be on three, three different airplanes in a single day. So what it was is that I picked up this, this position, that was a load position, and I was with different crews. I was with like three different crews all at one time.
Speaker 2:So I had gone on this one flight and this girl that I was flying with, she had been out on a medical for like five years and she was really sweet. I mean, you know, we were talking and she had gotten concussion on the aircraft and she had a lot of medical issues. And we were talking and she had gotten concussion on the aircraft and she had a lot of medical issues, and we were talking about that. And it's just too bad, because sometimes that happens. Right, you get these situations and you know you get hit in the head. Hers was. She got hit in the head and she had a really bad concussion, suffered from really bad migraines.
Speaker 1:Is that what happened to a lot of our employees? They got hit in the head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got hit in the head. I know we got so many of them right, we do, we got so many, but then you have legit ones and this girl was legit but she was out for five years, came back and I got her first flight back.
Speaker 1:Lucky you.
Speaker 2:And you know, sometimes when you come back you're not quite on your game.
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, being gone for five years, there's a lot of changes that's happened in five years.
Speaker 2:You're not on your game, right, trust me, you're not on the game. But you know she came back with the right person not being on your game, because I get a kick out of those people a lot of times, you know I don't get all frustrated and mad or anything. So we get out there and and the first thing, sean is, I went through my, my ice, and then the every bag of ice on that cart was on dry ice. Oh no, yeah, it was. It had been dry ice, it was frozen solid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's.
Speaker 2:Ricky, she was, so she was so cute. She comes up there and she starts hitting it with a can of lemonade, with a can of lemonade. That's what we used to do.
Speaker 1:That's what we used to do? I was like don't do it Like we used to, like we didn't have a mallet, Like today, we got mallets Right Right on board, but it used to be the only way we did it. We'd drop it on the floor or we'd freaking pound it with a can, Right.
Speaker 2:But I was like this is going to go everywhere. Right, I'm going up front, I'm taking this thing of ice trying to bash it with a mallet. Shit wouldn't even break. Oh yeah, it would not even break. It had been sitting on dry ice so long, couldn't even break. So you know, the service isn't quite what it normally is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it wasn't flowing the way you want it to flow.
Speaker 2:So we got to the back of the aircraft and this poor girl I was having to call her, you know, and say, hey, I need this, hey, I need this and. And we're going to the back and she just looks at me and she's like, well, what did you think? And I was like, do you have? Yeah, we just give you a little advice for the next flight. And she was funny and and she's probably going to listen, because she wanted to listen to, uh, the podcast. So sure, this is not a bashing her at all, this is actually just a laughter, because it does happen to where you've been gone for a while, but then you get real back in, you make a few adjustments and then you're back in the game but be in a low position. You never know what you're going to get, and a lot of times it's personalities, but she had a great personality.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I have nightmare load stories. I mean you go from one crew to next crew like one crew. You're like this is the best crew. Can I wish I was hanging with you all day. The next crew you're like I don't ever want to see your motherfuckers again. Don't call me, don't text me.
Speaker 2:A lot of times, right, people bash the, the, the younger flight attendants. I flew with this group and these guys were spot on man and I was so impressed with them that when I got off the plane I said I had to tell you guys something. You know, you probably don't hear it a lot, but I man, I really enjoyed flying with each and every one of you guys are exactly what flight attendants should be. You have great personalities, you have a great work with attitude and that leg it was.
Speaker 1:You just wanted to fly with them again because they they were a lot of fun, they're they? Well, they must have had a great work ethic. If you're saying oh, yeah, I mean you're like g is a get it done flight attendant. You got to be level 10 man. Yeah, you got to be ready to go and let's go, yeah and there's no hesitation here, like have it and it's full, throttle out the door and I hate the bullshit.
Speaker 2:Flight attendants, the ones that you know have a personally, just to say a personality deficiency. No, I'm serious, you know you sit there and it's like you. You, in this job, one of the most important things is do what? Talk, right, okay, communicate.
Speaker 2:Your ass turns faces the other direction, towards the door, like a damn chia pet yeah right and oh, they and they, they say nothing to you and you're like uh, are we going to start the service? What are we going to do here? I mean, are there's any communication? And then they get up and they say nothing they're a chia pet. A chia pet, they're just sitting there growing these are things people don't see in the back right. I mean, unfortunately we don't have a lot of these, but we got them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we got the personality where it's like they don't want to do anything until we reach altitude, like they want to sit there for 30 minutes or so.
Speaker 2:What are you in a rush for? Well, we've been in the air for 45 freaking minutes. Get up. I don't do that bullshit. I don't take that damn card out myself.
Speaker 1:I had a flight attendant the other day. She did not want to like I don't get up, I don't get up until we're up, but she would not sit her ass down until like the last second when we're landing. She's like it's unsafe. I'm like well, what about the back end? Like you're coming down, you're descending. Everybody else is in our jump seat. She's still standing in the galley. I'm like you're wacko, you don't know.
Speaker 2:How about the ones that don't do shit? I mean, you're a galley person and one of your jobs, your job, your only job, is to do what Set the damn galley up?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And then you get back there and you you're like, okay, um, where's tray? Well, there, there was one up there. Yeah, what do you mean? There's one up there? Well, there's a tray up there. Where's it? It's not set up. Oh no, I don't do that on the ground yeah, I don't do that on the ground.
Speaker 1:It's not me, you know me. I'm gonna like, I will you're, you're gonna get full force shawnee attitude coming at you if you give me this thing. I don't do it on the ground what the? Hell were you doing? Because I'm gonna say guess what I don't do? I don't assist you in the air like, get your ass up, start setting up your galley and do it like I ain't gonna. I'm not coming back here to do your job too see, isn't it funny?
Speaker 2:this is, this is what you guys, the um, the passengers you guys don't see is some of this stupid bullshit that we got to deal with with a person, just because they're like, oh, I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that, I'm not. Whatever it is, it's like I'm not doing that. You know the worst team player that there is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is so relatable. I mean, it's not just flight attendants like any. I can imagine this in in any work environment, any office like it's's. You're trying to do something, that you have a job to do, that you're doing along with other co-workers, and you have the co-worker that's not do you know? They're not giving it their, they're not necessarily have to be all, but they're not assisting and doing their part, and that's what's happening like yeah, they're not doing shit, sean right, exactly, no, no, I'm relating it to other other industries like that's the thing.
Speaker 1:You got the weak link. Who is the weakest link?
Speaker 2:Right, I'm thinking weak Shit, they're not doing nothing, they don't do shit, they don't. But you know something? But I had some good ones. I had her. That was funny. But I give her a break because I actually was laughing. I mean she made me laugh because five years of medical, you're out of the game and she's back in it. She'll do, she's going to be fine. I mean she'll be right back in it. Just a couple flights and your groove comes right back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she'll catch her wind.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, but you know something? The other thing, when me and you were walking out, and the one thing that both pissed us off was again the way they board aircrafts.
Speaker 1:Dude, I don't know if there's a right answer to this. It's like there's like I just I know one thing that marketing should never be involved in any decisions with a aircraft boarding procedure.
Speaker 2:No, they shouldn't. But the funny shit was we were walking out of there and Sean's like I so want to mow these people down. Yeah, they covered the whole terminal Again. We could not get through. We were leaving and there's people. That was just complete. It was a complete shit show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're talking about the planing now.
Speaker 2:No no, I'm talking about the boarding process. They were standing there and me and you were trying to go through and the shit was completely across the whole airport. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:The other airlines. As you're walking through the concourse and you're seeing different airlines and different airports, they all manage their boarding procedure in a different way, like they all manage their boarding procedure in a different way. So, like our boarding procedures pretty, I would say, like organized and like you'd line up and put all these things. And there's several airlines that do this, like they line up and they have like call them in different groups and stuff like that. But then there's the airlines where it's just like they don't know what the hell they're doing and everybody just stands in a mob in the middle of the airport and then they stand there waiting to try to like if I'm next, they're like you know me yeah, no, it's bullshit.
Speaker 1:It's bullshit, I mean, it's just then they stand in the way of the whole entire concourse and you can't even like the traffic going back and forth trying to get through.
Speaker 2:They can't get through and then people look at you like uh, excuse me, I, I was here first.
Speaker 1:And what pisses me off is that the airline that's doing it. They should be controlling it. You and I had that conversation. It was like they should be out here at least saying make sure the aisles are clear, step to the aisle. If you're waiting, step over to the side. But people just stand there like freaking lemmings and just wait.
Speaker 2:It's annoying as hell man.
Speaker 2:You're trying to fight through this crowd and it's annoying, but part of it, too, is the boarding process that we were talking about.
Speaker 2:And just real quick touch on this, I would love to see an airline allow gate agents and flight attendants to get together for a week, come up with a boarding process and then put it against any boarding process with any airline and I guarantee you it's going to be 10 times better than any boarding process that they have. Our boarding processes for years have just been bullshit. The way we board airplanes is just a bunch of crap. We run out of bin space, there's a bunch of stuff that goes on. Everybody gets pissed. Well, if you really want to know how it would work, well, take a group of flight attendants, take a group of gate agents, give them about you know they don't even need a week, but you give them a week and then set them side by side with your boarding process and watch how efficient the gate agents and then the flight attendants boarding process is and stop doing this bullshit boarding that we do on airplanes all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, board the aisle first.
Speaker 2:They're stupid. We got some of the dumbest things. I mean we really do. We got some of the dumbest ways to board an aircraft. But, OK, enough about that. Let the agents and the flight attendants take it over and you'll have a lot better process process. But I had to ask you this question and you see your response because we did. We did have a a question and how how you would respond to this sean, oh really, yeah, what's?
Speaker 2:that okay. So you have a 98 year hire. Now they're hired in 98 senior papa flight attendant comes on board and says he hasn't flown domestic in quite a while, Sean. How would you, how would you respond to that?
Speaker 1:Oh hell, no, I'm going to tell you right now, this, this guy that thinks he's a senior Papa, I mean, this guy is, he hasn't even been down to his frigging training pans yet.
Speaker 2:I mean, come on, he hasn't even got everything in his feet wet in this industry.
Speaker 1:98 okay if if you were considered um being senior in our airline at 40, 50 years, I mean that's a senior, that's a senior flight attendant. Yeah, I mean that's a seasonal. They've seen stuff. They've seen the world change, the airline industry change all those different things.
Speaker 2:But come on, 98 senior listen the only way with that type of attitude. And the other thing is that if you see senior flight attendants, you know you'll recognize them oh yeah, they're the ones being dropped off by the assisted living senior bus at the front of the airport, right and they're ushered to. They're playing with a wheelchair, right right and the first thing that they need is somebody to help them up with their bag. Now, that's senior at our airline, that's senior.
Speaker 2:That means that your ass has been around a long time. Exactly Did you like that senior's living bus?
Speaker 1:You know that shit is real. You forgot the walker. They might have a walker or, or a cane hold on to the bar cart. That's senior, though. If you want to know 98, you ain't senior. Yeah, yeah, if your hair is still the same color as you uh were born with, then it's not.
Speaker 2:You're not senior yet yeah, but it's a good try right, good try, uh 98er.
Speaker 1:But uh, yeah, that's. That's. That's crazy, man. I mean seniority in the airline business. It's funny like each airline runs like different, you know different seniority levels and all that stuff. To be be real about it.
Speaker 2:Like uh me and you laugh at. Yeah but.
Speaker 1:But 98 is that's. Come on, we'd laugh. You got a little bit of. You got a little bit of dirt under your fingernails, but not enough yet maybe did you see ozzy oz warren passed away oh man, how sad.
Speaker 1:Prince of darkness, the prince of darkness dude crazy. Yeah, man, I mean that that intro, done on, done on, done on, done on. Anyways, yeah, it's awesome man, he, he had some awesome, awesome music. I mean, I'm not the funny thing about this, like that, I thought, or the coolest thing about this is that he's he's a heavy metal rock star and he became relatable to everybody in the world. That's what, like everybody, it didn't matter you can be a country western music lover, you can be whatever you're into man, but Ozzy, everybody knew who he was, everybody could relate to who he was and he was always relatable, like, just like.
Speaker 2:Well, when he was young man, he just looked on about being this crazy wild individual, right, because he hit the head off of a bat when he was younger and he said.
Speaker 1:He said he thought that was like a stage. Like you know, it was just like a pretend bat and stuff right I guess until he bit into blood everywhere and forever be known for biting into a bat but you know.
Speaker 2:But the thing is is that when they they had the, the show the osbournes, you kind of got an insight of his humor. He's funny as hell. Yeah, he is funny. I mean he was like Sharon, the dog shit on the floor. Sharon, You're right. Bloody hell, get in here. This is the dog shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean all the crazy stuff they did. I didn't watch that stuff, but I did see the clips and stuff that were funny on there.
Speaker 2:He was just relatable like there's like every uh, you know, crazy american family in the world and the fight. And he just did care about his family. He didn't really, I mean, he loved his music, he was all about his music, right, but he, he just cared about his family. And then, you know the the the thing was is that um, crazy train was performed by this group of kids years ago and it was amazing, man, they had this whole group of kids. Tribute to Tribute to Ozzy.
Speaker 1:Ozzy.
Speaker 2:But he was alive when they were doing it. It was really cool. But the coolest thing the coolest thing was recently he performed Mama I'm Coming Home before he passed away because he knew he was dying and that was the most touching thing that I've seen, because all these people that loved Ozzy's music was just emotionally touched by him coming and it's like his goodbye.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had that. So you know for people out there that don't know too much about it or haven't been paying attention to news, you know Ozzie was originally in black Sabbath and so black Sabbath and then kicked him out of the band and then he went solo and he blew it up. That's how he came out and do all these you know crazy train and all this stuff Sabbath right before he passed away. The last performance and the last song he sang was Mama I'm Coming Home, which is touching and very heartwarming to hear. He kind of knew what was happening.
Speaker 2:What was amazing, though, what they said about Ozzy was Ozzy did so many drugs during his life. They said he'd never make it to 50, and he made it in his 70s. Yeah, I mean it's amazing he survived. At one point there was an interview that he had said that he had done so much cocaine during the day that he had to do marijuana at night, just so his heart didn't blow up, right, I mean that's crazy.
Speaker 1:I mean that is crazy. I can't even imagine that feeling and putting your body through all that stuff. Oh, my God no, I can't even imagine. Nope, hey, he did him, he's him, he is the guy.
Speaker 2:But yeah, ozzy Osbourne man, rip to him because he was. I got a kick out of his show the Osbournes it really did yeah.
Speaker 1:He'll be missed.
Speaker 2:But you know, I have to tell you, I was traveling, I was traveling this week and I came across this kid. Now, most people, if you guys would have seen this kid, uh, carrying this glove, uh, you just thought it was some young boy that was carrying a, um a, a baseball glove. So, sean, do you know what a wilson a is?
Speaker 1:I have no idea. Okay, it's just like a branded glove, Like when I played baseball and softball and all that stuff, like I didn't know anything about a glove. All I know that it had to fit my big-ass hand.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, exactly Right. I mean, you know, when we played ball back in the day, I mean our equipment, hell, I remember we used to have this little bitty bat called an Adirondack and we used to take tennis balls and throw it as hard as we could and try to hit the damn tennis ball with it. Right, our equipment. No one really knew anything about the equipment. But going back to this was this kid was carrying this A2000 glove and to everybody else it had just been a baseball glove. But you know, to me it really, really hit home and it took back. It took me back, um, and anybody, everybody knows me as soon as you talk about baseball, I can talk about baseball all day, all day.
Speaker 2:And this kid and I, I looked at him and I said, okay, so by the size of the glove, it's either you play shortstop or second base. And so which one is it? And he just looked at me and goes, how'd you know? And I said well, it's an A2000 mitt. That means it's a short A2000. So it's either you're playing in the shortstop position or you're playing second base, because that glove is too small to be playing third. So which one is it? And he said I'm a shortstop and he goes how did you know that? And I said well, I trained my son from probably six years old and you know this, sean Jackson, from the time he was six, all the way up. So at this part of the podcast you might think that this doesn't pertain to you, but the youth baseball in America, it's our national pastime. So you see this kid on board the aircraft and the thing that got me was the way he carried his glove.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, he was being respectful for his glove, his equipment.
Speaker 2:And what it is is that, if you know how he kept his glove in his lap, he didn't put it in the overhead bin, he didn't throw it underneath the seat. And I knew that he had been professionally trained. Because I was talking to the parents and I said I know you've been professionally trained. And he goes how do you know that? And I said well, someone told you that that glove is the tool to your trade, because you've been doing this a long time and the way that you respect that is that you set it in your lap, because if you put it anywhere else, the chance of that pocket getting broke down is highly likely. So this kid had this glove and what I was looking at just took me back when I was teaching my son baseball. You're in training facilities every single day, yeah, every day, right, and there's over 3 million kids that play baseball in the United States, right?
Speaker 2:Over 3 million. What do you think the percentage is of these kids that are going to make it to Major League Baseball? Extremely low. There's only out of that 3 million, okay, there's only about 700 to 1,000 that are drafted into the minor leagues in one year, and 700 to 1,000, that's into the minors, with all the minor league teams. Okay, undrafted, there's between 100 and 200 players. Now, when you look at these kids and you tell them well, there's this small percentage, the chance of you making it is highly unlikely. And that's what was told to my son when he was young, and let me tell you something about that. Well, jackson, when he was young, he was always told that you know, you'll make it to this level, you won't get to the next level, okay. Well then he went into the high school. When he got into the high school level, they do this evaluation. Have you ever heard of the PBR?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You've heard of the Prep Baseball Report. So these kids go and they get evaluated by the Prep Baseball Report and then they get listed and a lot of times this is how these kids get seen. So they get seen by colleges and they get opportunities to go forward. And this kid was actually part of the PBR because he had a PBR shirt on too, so I knew that he was also part of that. So they get listed in there and the colleges come in and they get opportunities that normal kids wouldn't get to go to college universities and play baseball. So they go from that point and then from college to, from high school to college. There's only about around, I'd say about 7% of them go forward and that's about like 30, you think about this all the high school players in the United States. Only 35,000 of them go go play college baseball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 35,000. Right, yeah, I mean this. This to me like is a very relatable, like a, not just baseball. It's like you take any sport that that goes professional right Football, soccer, all these things, these kinds of stats are all over the United States. So, like you take any sport that goes professional right Football, soccer, all these things, these kind of stats are all over the United States. You can apply this to a soccer kid, you can apply this to a football kid. Each avenue has their system to kind of get these kids weeded out to this pinnacle of professionalism.
Speaker 2:Right out to this pinnacle of professionalism. Right, and what it is, is that they're told at each level what it takes to get to the next level. But these kids still believe that they have it and every year they get weeded out and then they go from that to. They go to the collegiate level and then there's a small percentage after college that get taken into minor league baseball. Now, jackson wasn't one of them.
Speaker 2:Jackson didn't get drafted, but what happened was he had worked so hard throughout his life that he wasn't going to give up on it and he kept fighting for it. Well, he was one of the ones that was in the 100 and 200 that went undrafted and went into the minor league baseball. Okay, and he played for the Ogden Raptors. Now, I'm not telling you that he had the greatest part of any career, even playing in the minors. The Raptors won the minor leagues and he got a ring, but he didn't have this illust. You know illustrious career.
Speaker 2:But you know something, sean, what's amazing? I looked at this kid and I went back and I thought of my son. I thought about the road and what he did and all the work ethic. This is what the point I'm getting to. It's a work ethic that these kids develop right.
Speaker 2:They don't just keep it in baseball, they keep it in life. And they have a relentless work ethic because it was hours upon, hours upon hours of training to get to the next level and when no one else could believe in them, they believed in themselves. And he gets there. And to be able to stand on the diamond and throw one pitch in a minor league baseball game, that is absolutely amazing. And when I seen this kid and that's why I was saying on an airline that you see this kid holding this glove and there's this whole story with this family behind that because it's not cheap. I mean for travel baseball in the United States, the annual the cost for a family is anywhere between $4,000 and $13,000 a year, a year for these kids. Yeah, because if you're not being professionally trained at eight years old, you're behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, to interject in this whole thing. Like I have lots of friends and stuff with kids and all that stuff and they all have like really put their kids out there to get this professional training and stuff. Like you know, I'm a big golfer so I definitely got a lot of golf stories and the equipment cost and the training and all that stuff that's involved with that sport in itself and as well as, like when you go into other sports so the football, the, the basketball, the you know all those sports. Every family that's out there that's trying to let their kids have that dream to become an elite athlete is very expensive and it impacts the entire family.
Speaker 2:It does. But the biggest thing when I seen this kid was when he was sitting there and I just told him. I said I don't know what you think about your skills as a baseball player, but just remember this the only way that you're going to make it to the next level is that if you believe in it, it doesn't matter what your parents think, it doesn't matter what a coach thinks, it only matters what you think, because there's going to be people all the way up that's going to tell you you're not going to make it. But you better believe more than anybody. You better want it more than you want breathing to make it to Major League Baseball, because there's the smallest percentage make it to the game.
Speaker 2:Ok, jackson never made it to the game Now he's, you know, but he still. He did stand on a diamond and he played for a minor league baseball team. So you got to believe in yourself and I seen that kid and all I could think is you know, I hope that you have that same drive, because it's that work ethic. Yeah, you know, I just love that.
Speaker 1:Well, he's also starting with the fundamentals, like exactly what you started off with. He's respecting the equipment, he's starting to live that journey and you know, and obviously whatever the he's been taught to that point. Uh, caught your attention right.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, the biggest thing I got to say this too is the biggest reason is because he wasn't playing the damn game man he was. He wasn't doing anything but sitting there holding that mitt and and he looked like a damn baseball player and he wasn't. He wasn't doing anything else, not video games, not anything else. And I thought that's what it takes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it takes, right and and it's kind of cool, all because of a baseball glove on an airline and and it takes you back and and that's what you see, and that's what you remember is is this relentless work ethic that I? I had the privilege spending many, many years with my son in training facilities watching him go from this small kid that no one believed in. And when I tell you people, no one believed in him. But I told him a long time ago and I still tell him today, there's nothing you can't do when they put a baseball in your hand. All you got to do is believe in yourself and if you do that, if you do that, there's nothing you can't do. So I mean, it was a good moment, it was great, actually it was a great moment. I seen that baseball glove and that A2000 and I can show you four A2000s sitting in my house right now. Cool. So anyway, a 2000 glove, I hope that kid, I hope that kid goes on and plays a lot of years, yeah, man.
Speaker 1:So well, I'm just oh, you know I'm. My big takeaway for this story that you're talking about is I know you're reminiscing a lot of stuff, but my big takeaway is that I love that athlete athletes in the United States and athletic programs in the United States also help to guide and groom our young adults. And being this, uh, having this work ethic, that that, to me, is like super important, because no matter if you you know you actually win and you get to and you achieve this pinnacle or you don't, the takeaway is that you're getting this unbelievable education of work ethics.
Speaker 2:That's exactly my point. When I seen the glove, it wasn't. It wasn't so much as baseball or anything, it was the work that goes behind it. Yeah, and that was the whole thing that really got me, because I know the work that those kids put in, I know the work that it takes for the parents, for the family and everything else. It is relentless, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, let's go around the globe, man.
Speaker 2:Yep, All right man.
Speaker 1:Around the globe. Man, right now the FAA has we're like totally shifting gears here. We're like totally shifting gears here. The FAA has literally given all the airlines out there a delay to the second barrier to the cockpit. Really, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so people that don't know this, like ever since 9-11, the airline industry has been mandated to put into barriers for the cockpit. Obviously right, because that was one of the failures of 9-11. Um, so they put those doors in first and we have those, you know locked doors and all that stuff on all the aircraft across the nation and and that really happened really quick. I mean, if you recall back like it only took them a few years, if not even that, to start putting those doors, like get those doors in place. I mean that was like a quick process.
Speaker 1:But now the airlines have been given this really long process of putting in a second barrier and you've seen this on the airline, if you fly, you've seen flight attendants blocking the aisles and doing these things when the pilots come in on the cockpit.
Speaker 1:This is, this is very well known, but we actually are are developing, or airlines are developing, are mandated to develop a secondary system that blocks the aisles for us, you know to protect the cockpit, but the airlines haven't really stepped up, you know, they really haven't done their job to like get it done, and the deadline was coming up, and so they had to go in and request an extension. And so there's a lot of, like different views on this as far as whether it's really, you know, like why hasn't the airlines been doing this To? You know like no, they should be given more time to do this type of like, then develop, uh, systems and stuff for each type of aircraft and all that stuff, but it just they just got a two-year extension on this whole thing but do you think it's because they don't they, they don't believe in the um, uh, the barrier that they're actually presenting them?
Speaker 2:or do you think it's just that they're just not doing it?
Speaker 1:no, I think. I think it's an economical thing, like I think it's. It's the airlines. This is going to cost money, right? This is another piece of money that you know. This does not bring the airline more money, right? Right, it's a cost that is just being mandated on them.
Speaker 2:So you think the barriers are going to be the same, the engineering of the barrier, that what we've seen is going to be the same?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the engineering of the barrier is going to be developed for each type of aircraft. So each, each separate aircraft on every airline is going to have a different type of system, and that's up to the faa, the airline, and it's just like every system. We have an aircraft that has to be approved. But my point to this whole thing is that I think the airlines you know, know, you know are are dragging their feet. You know, I I would like to see it already in place, personally, as a flight attendant, and having that protection and all that extra protection on the aircraft.
Speaker 1:Um, I know it's a hassle, like we have some aircrafts that already have a secondary barrier, right, yeah, but it's like there's. They wanted to cross the whole entire fleet of every airline, so it's just an interesting thing that they're giving them a delay. So in the next two years you'll see these things being implemented and installed and so something to be watching out for and seeing on the aircraft. But good thing, we were trained on it, yeah, and now they're delaying it we hate my smart ass remark.
Speaker 2:We hate going to training.
Speaker 1:First of all, nobody likes to go to training, but now we're getting training that we're not even going to implement it for another two years, you know, yeah good thing we're trained.
Speaker 1:That's a big suck wad. So, anyways, uh, I came across this other article that, um, I thought was super interesting because, you know, I'm ex-military myself. But there was this article about, um, the air forces in the in the entire world, and like how they line up, like how and in size, like who's the biggest air force in the entire world? Do you know who? That is g usa, baby usa, baby. Like usa, we, we invest a lot of money, billions, if not trillions of dollars, into our military, which we should right, because we got a lot to protect, but at the same time, like the us air force in perspective to the next largest air air force, which is china. Uh, that we're 2 358 fighter jets. So we're only talking about fighter jets. We're not talking about bombers or the b2s and all that, all the other type of aircrafts that are in the world. We're just talking about a. You know, you know the, the, the red barons out there right of the today world right those are fighter jets.
Speaker 1:So, and then china lines up at 1975 well, let's see what happens in four years. In four years yeah, what do you mean by that? I bet our numbers go up, go up, oh yeah. Well, I mean, the production is going to go up for sure. There's always orders, we're always mass producing and we have the most elite, technologically advanced air freight.
Speaker 2:USA has always believed, though, in the military, sean, and you know this is air superiority.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing that I so air superiority is a big, important thing in the US, but when we compare to like, a lot of people always think Russia is our number one nemesis right, yeah, but I mean, that's how. When we were growing up, it was like russia, russia, unless you really know what's going on in the world.
Speaker 1:You know it's china, china, china yeah, china secretly kind of snuck in there and they're really the our biggest adversary. But, um, russia only has a thousand and eight military aircraft, fighter jets, that's, that's in. That's amazing to me. I mean, we, we are more than double the size of russian air force but what's going on with russia?
Speaker 2:I mean, you, you've seen and you can kind of see the the um loopholes in their military well, that is, you know what it goes to.
Speaker 1:Back to like you're going to get into politics of this stuff.
Speaker 2:Like you know, socialism versus yeah, I'm not getting into politics I'm just saying but you know, when you're talking about that I I was just saying when you're saying about russia only having a a little over a thousand, I mean it just shows a different. I mean when they actually have to go fight. It shows you where, where the problems are in your military. Oh yeah so but yeah, I mean it is very interesting, yeah yeah, yeah, but you never thought.
Speaker 1:Japan only has like 253 yeah, that's, and, and we're just like. These are the top five largest air fleets in the world, and so japan ranks up there number five. India is the number four with 542 jets. But you know what really was interesting to me? That I thought it would be like israel, something that would be in there, they would be in that top five rank, but they're not.
Speaker 2:I was thinking China for sure, right behind the US. Everything that you've learned about China, I knew that was coming up. Dalton's a crew chief on the F-16. My other son's a crew chief on the F-16. Very, I mean my son's, uh, my other son's a crew chief on the f-16. So very cool, usa, we got a lot of power, a lot of power other things.
Speaker 1:Talking about a lot of power. How about, uh, two days ago, that fight that broke out on the asian airline? I told you, did you see the video?
Speaker 2:I, I did, I did, yeah, but that was I mean. You see, see all those fight offense in the red.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There it is, that one lady was jumping over the seats.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like what? I guess what happened was like the guy was like uh, this row behind him was being loud.
Speaker 2:No, it's two women.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, there's a. There's the guy in front of them that that he's the one getting beat? Okay, and you don't. You can't see him in the video, okay, but there's.
Speaker 2:there was a row of women behind him that were being loud chattering whatever.
Speaker 1:They're all chattering whatever and he told him to be quiet and everything. And then he ended up calling them stupid and he told him to shut up and that that bitch jumped up and start beating the shit out of him, like he's. Like she didn't know, you ain't, no, you ain't. And she just like went crazy. I mean just bam, they're trying to pull her off, or the video chinese whoop ass yeah it was.
Speaker 1:It was serious, like she was just on it and people were screaming and yelling. It was on a wide bed of aircraft. I mean, people were on the other side of the aisle, like the aisle further from them, and and there he's, guy standing in the aisle yelling at him. You know I had no idea what he's saying, but you know you could just imagine like. You know you bitch, stop it. You know like it was crazy. You know like, but it was wild. I mean, this is the point I was trying to make. Here was um one. It's not just happening, no-transcript, it's not just happening in the United States right.
Speaker 2:It's all over. It's been crazy man. We couldn't even, honestly, we could not even cover some of the fights that have broken out in the in the last week, because there's two. There's been way too many on on on the planes, yeah, just way too many.
Speaker 1:I mean this next story. I love this next one, though the next one, next story, man, yeah, go ahead, because this you, you love this one too.
Speaker 2:There's a mother in kentucky uh she received 22 cases of dumb dumb lollipops.
Speaker 1:You know how that happened, g. I can't wait. Yeah, yeah, she let her her son get a hold of her her iphone or her phone, and he ordered up 30 cases of dum-dum lollipops 70 000, 70 000 dum-dum like four thousand dollars in dum-dum lollipops.
Speaker 2:You know when you said this, right back to nights of the museum, right?
Speaker 1:you like dum-dum, dum-dum, dum-dum like, like who's a dum-dum in the story? I mean, come on there's lots of first of all look, mom, like you don't let your password to be able to, you know, get into the account and you know, just charge stuff, just open, like, come on, you need to password protect all that stuff my kid ordered 70 000 dum-dums and all I got was this free dum-dum T-shirt. Yeah, first of all, it should be like a family vacation T-shirt with dum-dums, the dum-dums.
Speaker 2:We are the dum-dum family.
Speaker 1:We do dum-dums. Would you like a lollipop?
Speaker 2:Hey, how about that couple before we get out of there? How about that couple that was arrested, arrested man? She was giving him some oral gratification in the back of the aircraft, isn't that?
Speaker 1:nice, that was nice. Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't on a family-ran aircraft or airline Like I mean come on?
Speaker 2:What are you thinking? You love their mug shots right, because she's always crying and everything is like, oh, it wasn't a good idea yeah, yeah, that's, that's ridiculous, especially when kids are on there, because the charges are going up exactly you in trouble now you're in trouble now.
Speaker 1:First of all, getting caught right. I mean it's funny like over the years, like you always hear about the couples going to the bathroom or something like that, or it's a red-eye flight and it's dark in the cabin and stuff you know, like yeah but a head going up and down in your lap right, that would just, yeah, yeah, that's gonna give you away a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 2:All right, sean, give me this quote all right.
Speaker 1:The quote today is to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment, and that's by ralph waldo emerson. I mean, you just got to be yourself, like, don't let people tell you what, the, what you can and can't do, and all that stuff be it that little kid in Kentucky.
Speaker 2:they told him he couldn't get the dum-dums and his ass got the dum-dums. So he's good, don't let him tell you what you can do. You get 70,000 dum-dums. Hell yeah, hey guys, it was a lot of fun this week. You guys have a great week. We'll see you next week, Next week cabin pressure.
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