Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
Every Monday, listeners are invited to join seasoned flight attendants Shawn and G for an exciting journey behind the scenes and into the galley of their favorite airlines with the podcast, "Cabin Pressure!" This show promises to bring the thrilling in-flight experience directly to the listeners' ears.
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Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"
From Overhead Bin Battles to Travel Tales: Flight Attendant Confessions
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Ever wondered what flight attendants are really thinking when they see you struggling with those fancy neck pillows that never seem to work? Or why they look so annoyed when you claim ownership of "your" overhead bin space? Shawn and G pull back the curtain on airline crew life with unfiltered honesty and infectious laughter.
The duo shares stories of colorful personalities in the skies, including a vibrant Latin flight attendant whose energy level "was at 12" and knew everyone in the terminal by name. This leads to a deeper conversation about crew dynamics and how positive energy can transform even the most challenging workday.
Behind the smiles and service, flight attendants face significant challenges that passengers rarely see. Reserve crew members struggle with disrupted sleep cycles and unpredictable schedules, sometimes working twelve consecutive days with only the minimum required rest periods scheduled in random cities rather than at home. Meanwhile, finding healthy food options while constantly on the move becomes a daily battle against airport prices and limited choices.
The most revealing moments come when Shawn and G address passenger behavior – from the entitlement that makes some travelers believe their job title grants them special treatment, to the perplexing refusal to wear seatbelts despite knowing the dangers of turbulence. Their frustration is palpable when discussing how some passengers treat service workers, reminding listeners that respect shouldn't be determined by occupation or income.
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Why do people battle over overhead bin space Sandwich talk, the wheat and rye Paninis Monster sandwiches? Do you use neck pillows and what's your favorite neck pillow? All of this next on Cabin Pressure with Sean and Gene. Hey, everyone, welcome, this is Cabin Pressure. Hey, everyone welcome, this is cabin pressure. Good morning cabin pressure. It's shawnee here. I was thinking about that that, uh. Good morning vietnam. You were talking about that a few weeks ago. Well, I was like, yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 2:I always wait. I always wait for your weekly intro, the weekly intro I never know what you're going to do.
Speaker 1:You know what it's just what am I feeling? What are you feeling today? How are you feeling? How's everybody feeling out there? Like get in the groove, Like get some positive energy. If you're in a shitty mood right now, pause, Like just pause, Readjust your attitude because attitude is everything and get it right, we definitely need to work on that one with you your attitude? No, my attitude is good you got good attitude. He just doesn't like my straightforwardness, my blunt, not soft touch.
Speaker 2:You come over and it's like Okay, yeah, hey, what's going on? Listen, we got to sit down and talk. We're going to go over this and go over this. Yeah, man, it's really good to see you too. Uh huh, yeah, okay, you sit down here. We got to do this.
Speaker 1:You're way past the warm. I don't need warmer and fuzzy. You, bitch, sit down, we need to talk. Did I tell you I like Carol more Dude man, so out flying man this last week and I had this gal she was just so we're talking about personalities and stuff she was the total sum of a Latin gal. She had that whole jazz going on.
Speaker 2:So her energy level was like at 12. Yeah, man, it was at 12. She was, s it was like it was.
Speaker 1:It was at 12. She was sassy, very, very saucy and uh, she just, she just had this very positive energy and like walking with her down a terminal, like even walk with her, like she was so friendly to everybody, like every I'm talking like the cat in the freaking, like a headset store and the you know the, the freaking gift store there. She's talking to everybody like hey, and she's not talking about it Like hey, how are you today Generalizing? She's like Paul, what you up to? Hey, sharon, how you been.
Speaker 1:Like, I'm like, meanwhile me and you've like 30 some years. We're like I don't know who they're, like I I recognize some of the people, but I definitely don't know their name. Yeah, yeah, but but she had that energy man it was. It was a good vibe, like I like that whole, like when you're around like another crew member that has that cool positive energy. Right, it steps you, it brings your whole everything up right, your attitude, your, your your feeling about the day. It's. It was cool man and she was just and I was thinking to myself I'm like, oh, this girl's gotta have a dude like she's, she's, she's, she's, she's a fun package, right and nice looking gal.
Speaker 1:I mean, she had it all going on, but she was like I don't have a man I can't have, I can't. I can't give me a man I can't have, I can't. I can't give me a man. A man can't hold her under me. I'm not doing the accent is good justice, but um, she, uh, she's like, I know, I know that I'm a lot, but uh, you have to, you can, you can do this. I can't find any men here that can handle me Bullshit.
Speaker 2:You wouldn't have. There's no way, there's no way, there's no way you think about that. That wouldn't be you at all. What's that? That kind of energy in the house?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, what do you mean?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, like me having a relationship with a person that? No, no, no, and I think that's it. Dude, you'd be so far down in your man cave that you wouldn't come up.
Speaker 1:She's from Argentina and she knows who she is.
Speaker 2:I don't understand why Shawnee is downstairs in the middle and I never see him. That would be you'd be like, hey, no way, no, no, but it's cool, though Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:Like Midwestern men can't? They're not used to that. Like you need to go to the market, like have a friend, like I have a buddies, um that he's out of his market for looking for women. You know, it's the same thing. Like there's certain like types of people that you're going to be compatible with and if you're not geographically located in those things, it's going to be very hard for you to find somebody compatible, right.
Speaker 2:I mean that and do you agree with that? I was just sitting there thinking, if I would came over your house and you were married to someone like that, what was her name? Uh?
Speaker 1:the immaterial yeah.
Speaker 2:So if you were married to consuela and she started talking, come down and sean, what did she just say? Yeah I have no idea.
Speaker 1:It's unlikely.
Speaker 2:You've been around, because you okay, when you've been around someone like that, you understand what they're saying.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Okay, but if I'm coming, into the game right there.
Speaker 1:I have no freaking clue what they just said. This girl has a extremely, really heavy accent and she I would love to have her on our show just because she's just, she's so and vivacious, vivacious about her, like her life and all that stuff. But it was, like you know, it's very hard. Like my wife, she would literally blank stare because she would not get, she can't understand any accent. As soon as you start speaking with any type of accent, I don't care what it is, um, I mean, and she's really bad, like with interpreting that type of stuff, like From Ohio to Indiana accent, she has trouble.
Speaker 2:But she didn't understand why she didn't have a man. But you couldn't even imagine having that type of woman in your house. There's no way, even with the energy level, I mean it's great, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:Well, that's why you always see the stereotype of Hispanic women or that passion, that level and that feistiness and all that stuff you know, like that kind of like that stigma is. She was all of that.
Speaker 2:I don't understand why I haven't seen some. He's downstairs there ain't no way. Yeah, don't you love me?
Speaker 1:I love you. She was sweet dude. I loved working with her. She was sweet dude. I loved working with her. She was awesome.
Speaker 2:What I love about those people, though, is they do know everybody.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's all they do, is they talk and they know everyone, dude here's the other thing about them too they're all about family, yeah, like their family, their friends. That's life, that's their essence of life, which is where most people should be at Like essence, like family and all that stuff and the whole. Like she I was asked her. I was like do you feel you know alone up here? Do you know miss? You know she's like once a month. I'm like that's a long flight to to get to argentina once a month.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of traveling, but zoom yeah exactly, zoom is much easier and much friendlier, but it was crazy. The other thing that's been happening too is uh, um, I've been flying, I've been getting all these reserves, you know, and you know us being senior pops here and doing, uh, doing our thing and being in our group, we don't get a lot of reserves. Like we know a few reserves here in cleveland that we that sometimes get on our trip and sometimes we meet new flight attendants, but I had a whole crew. In both ways I was one of those pairings where it's like you know, they keep switching out the crew, so one leg I had them out and then next day I had a whole nother crew different coming back and I wasn't just, I wasn't the load, I was like galley, position, right, so it was like it was.
Speaker 1:It was kind of an odd type of thing that happened. So but I was asking him, I was like you know, you know, trying to like get in touch with the reserves and say, hey, you know what's the hardest part of being a reserve? Like I wanted to hear what they had to say and there was two big things that they they said, which made perfect sense, because me reminiscing about this, was their sleep cycle. Like that we can't. Like sleep is hard, like the first part of the being in this job is getting sleep.
Speaker 1:Like and I remember that back in the day is like it was like trying to figure out when I can get that sleep and how, because the the company, like they're going to push you to to do whatever you got to do, they want you to do, but you just don't have any rhythm to your sleep. You know the circadian rhythm is not in sync. In the early parts of our career you need to be younger, you know, more flexible your body, be able to agile, to be able to handle that uh sleep because sleep is so important. But they were like, yeah, we just can't get a rhythm of sleep. Like sometime I'm sleeping at night, sometimes I'm sleeping in a day. Welcome to the world right, the airline world man. I mean for us.
Speaker 2:I was just putting it in comparison to us.
Speaker 1:Like we know our rhythm, you know being a line holder, being senior and stuff, we make it. We make our schedules the way we want to make our schedules.
Speaker 2:But there's nothing normal about this job. No, it doesn't matter whether you're a reserve line holder. Listen, there's nothing normal about this job ever. Yeah, I mean, you know you could. We could sit there and talk about this all day long. Yeah, okay, and and say, oh, I'm sorry for this. I'm sorry, but no, there's nothing normal, I'm not saying sorry, I'm just.
Speaker 1:I was just like trying to like I was taking a step back and kind of like looking at their they're trying to get their perspective on what was happening, because I was like you know what, you know, being on and all that whole thing is is hard. Being a line holder is a little easier because we have control of when we're going to fly and stuff, but we have, you know, those rhythms don't happen right away either. Right? I mean, we don't start getting rhythms and trying to like you know, getting our like, doing our turns and all that stuff every day doesn't happen.
Speaker 2:So what's the other one?
Speaker 1:But our turns and all that stuff every day doesn't happen. So what's the other one? But the other one there was, uh, that they were like complaining that the company just pushes them, like the one gal said to me. She was like I'm on my uh, I'm on day 12 today and I'm like what? Like no to you, and I like that's a, that's an instant question, like, like we're like that's not possible, like there's no such thing as day 12 in the industry. There's FARs and we, we are mandated by FARs and it doesn't matter what airline you are. If you're a part one 21 airline, you've got to have a six days on, one days off and there has to be a 24 hour period.
Speaker 1:But they were like yeah, the company's putting these 24 hour periods down line, yep, and I'm like that's a son of a bitch right there like, like I, you know, I don't remember I don't remember too much of that because I didn't have to do too much of that but the company used to be uh, or you would think that these reserves and the probably the public things too like you got a day off. A day off is at home. Well, no, for a reserve, it could be anywhere in the world. You can be 24 hours in freaking Jamaica or 24 hours in freaking Minot, north Dakota.
Speaker 1:It's 24 hours off and that's your day off, and you don't have control where you get your day off at, which is bullshit.
Speaker 2:There's so many things about our job people don't understand.
Speaker 1:Well, and that's our point in our show, right, right.
Speaker 2:I mean, and even when you're that's just a, that's such a small amount, because even with those, with what you're saying, let's talk about 35 people in a room sharing a room for a crash pad because they ain't got no damn money, they don't have no money. Listen, don't ever think. I mean, it takes probably five to six years of being in this job to realize that you're going to start making money. You know, those first few years you're not making any damn money. You know that.
Speaker 1:No, it's a struggle to get through it because you're getting paid very little money. You're not working. You're working a lot of hours but you're not getting paid for a lot of hours. There's shitty hours a lot and there's shitty time. I mean your hours are spread out all over the place, so it's not like just go to work and get your 9 to 5 in type of thing. It's a go in and you get two hours here and an hour over here and you know.
Speaker 2:You go on these trips and there's one it's like the Honolulu death run, man Like you're coming out of Honolulu during the daytime, you end up on the West Coast. You've got two hours sit time there. Then you do the red eye in the cleveland and you don't get into like 6, 37 o'clock in the morning. On the way home people don't understand man. You're seeing pink elephants on the side of the innistrate, you know, waving you off of the, waving you off of the, the um, the tree line right, right, right.
Speaker 1:I mean that's the whole that. That that whole thing is like the company pushing those reserves to like they're you know as far as they can push them when they're pushing these, like you know, 15 hour duty days back to back, we don't have rules. We don't have rules like that. Where it's like you can have in this job, where every day is 15 hours, you got 12 hours of rest. 15 hours, 12 hours, that's like it can go. Like that, you know so, but it's you have no uh warning if it can happen.
Speaker 1:So I get I don't know. I just I was just trying to relate, like what some of their challenges and stuff. Because when we start talking about um rules and the rules of the reserves and stuff, it was interesting to me because I'm only looking at my perspective, you know, as line holder and how's it affect me and these rules, because we're many companies right now are in contract negotiations and stuff. We're talking about that type of stuff. So I just wanted to, like I was trying to wrap my head around how they felt. You know, get their perspective, but it was interesting. Outside of that nonsense, I've been working on our studio.
Speaker 2:And he did a damn good job.
Speaker 1:We ain't done yet, I know but he still did a good job. So here's the thing, man, I posted a couple pictures and we're starting to get into this groove where I took a little space in my basement here and we're starting to. We want to incorporate video, so we're trying to get in video and so I'm trying to figure out all the technology and um, also like just the whole capabilities of the things, because I'm trying to make it so it's nice and smooth, so we can like the audio here. This is actually relatively simple to do, like to do a podcast, and for those people that are out there want to do a podcast, listen about it. It's not a hard thing to do.
Speaker 1:You can buy a podcast machine and plug it in and pretty much the technology isn't too too hard to figure it out. But when you start throwing in the video aspect of it and you start doing multiple cameras and all this stuff, you need certain types of equipment and all the equipment has to be compatible and I'm running like literally like I had one. I thought I had to write cables, I had wrong cables, I had to buy adapters, like there's all this, like little teeny nuances to this thing, but as we go here we're trying to get it all set up and, um, get, get, get it so that we launch into video, because, because I think video you guys are going to start seeing our personalities a little bit more, because you get the visual.
Speaker 2:You mean like the visual of me staring at you half the time or rolling my eyes?
Speaker 1:Well, it's normally not rolling your eyes. It's more of like you being in a maze the amazement of the amazing.
Speaker 2:I've been amazed with you over 30 years. Amazed. My ass is still here. That's the amazement, that's, that's, uh yeah somebody can stay around your ass for over 30 right anyways man, but we're working on it.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping like we're shooting for the end of the year and I'm crossing my fingers we can do it even sooner, but I got to get my ass, my this technology wrapped around my head and stuff, and here's something for anybody that's listening out there. One of my thoughts was is that we can have I might start looking for like an intern, like somebody a young kid that's looking for some information, you know, experience with working with podcasts and all this stuff audio visual and working with cameras and all that stuff and try to get them in here in the studio and working with us, because at first I wanted to automate this and I think automation is probably the coolest thing to do, but it requires very specific tech and so we're working on it. I'm working on it to get there, but I think I might look for an intern eventually, just because having somebody on the outside running all this equipment is so much better.
Speaker 2:You just want somebody else to talk to tech-wise.
Speaker 1:I don't necessarily need it. Yeah, it'd be somebody that understands, See I gave that to you.
Speaker 2:I gave it to you, I just gave it to you. I gave it to you Just a little gimmick.
Speaker 1:I took it, you know it.
Speaker 2:Anyways, but you did, do I mean seriously, you did a great job.
Speaker 1:I mean, seriously, you did a great job. Yeah, thanks, man. I mean it is a uh, it's looking good, it's feeling good, we're trying to um, I just I just wanted to make it a relaxed atmosphere. I wish this space was bigger, though that's my only thing. I wish we can. We had a space that we could like put this in, and it's much bigger, and that way we can cause right now I'm setting this up for just you know, you and I that are going to be sitting here- I love these retro chairs though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just like I've been like dude, I've been like thrifting it, like this is we've got stuff from like Facebook marketplace, we've got things from bid sites, we've got you know, just getting cheap shit.
Speaker 1:But it's amazing when you can get for a few dollars, like I don't think we didn't have this type of shit when we were growing up, you know, when we were young, I mean I got some really cool airline memorabilia stuff I'm gonna bring in too yeah, but to the subject of what we're talking about, like me, getting like when we were used, when we when I was first, uh, when you were crashing at my house back in the day and like me buying stuff in my house, it was always like to get a good. I had to get in my ass in a car and I had to run around some neighborhoods looking for garage sales and get lucky. You know right, yeah, nowadays, man, the technology is awesome. Man, facebook like throws a marketplace. You can get garage sale stuff right on your computer.
Speaker 2:Offer up.
Speaker 1:Offer up. All these different sites.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's bid sites at MacBid, whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they've got all these different types of bid sites across the nation that you can do to get stuff. I mean, as a young flight attendant coming up and you're doing a crash pad and you're looking for freaking beds and whatever you're looking for, you can do pretty good today without running around like we used to do in our cars and throwing stuff in the back of our trunks. It was crazy, but anyways, uh, and then the last thing I got man to catch up on with you is uh, man, I got school starting up. I got one class left. This is it. This is it. This is my final. Are you gonna be done with school now? Yeah, I think, I think I'm like, I think I got the school bug out of my blood right now you're gonna be school?
Speaker 2:well, you got enough with me, yeah you gotta school me a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whole education process of getting g up to speed on things is like it can be exhausting I'm just giving you these.
Speaker 2:I'm just feeding him to you, don't. Don't think that I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm feeding him yeah, so we got. So this new degree that I'm doing. It's all super heavy tech. It's called media um, arts and science is uh. In fact they changed the degree name. I don't even know what to change it to, but I just got an email about the month. The greed degree title's changing. Mine's not changing, but for anybody in the future they get get a totally, you know, whatever.
Speaker 1:It's weird, but basically what this is is like a degree in, like trying to do art with digital technology. So you can there's a bazillion, take that to wherever you want to think about. But I got to do my last capstone If you don't know what a capstone is kind of like a thesis for art, um, that you do a big, gigantic project project. And this requirement for this degree is that this capstone class has to be one year, one school year. So it's going to start here in august and I'll finish it in may of next year end of may, almost june and out of that some type of project's going to come out of it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking how many years you spent in school.
Speaker 1:Dude, a lot of years, man. Well, I mean, it started this whole going back to college thing during COVID, right? Yeah, so COVID started it up and I was digging it. It's cool. It's still cool. I enjoy it If I'm learning something new and I'm interested in it, which I am interested in this degree. It's awesome, man, I tell people out there all the time man don't think a lot of people are scared of school, you, scared of school.
Speaker 2:I wasn't scared of school. I wasn't scared of school. But the funny part, what I was just thinking, it was about the technology, because me and you talk about this a lot Sean's a techie guy and I never was that. I mean, I'm a hands-on person, so I like working with my hands, building things, working on cars, stuff like that. But that's technology, yeah, but it's a little different, a different technology. It's a little different technology, yeah, but it's a little different.
Speaker 2:A different technology. It's a little different, but I mean he laughs all the time because we go back and forth, because I'm learning how to do short clip videos, because we want to do short clip videos of places that we go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to get some reels out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we want some reels. So I was working on different things, and you know, but there's a lot to this. I mean even even taking notes for shows. I mean learning how to do that there. There's a lot to it, but you know, both me and him are busy all the time. We don't, we don't have any extra time.
Speaker 1:Yeah our extra time is to like sitting on the jump seat doing working on our notes all the time like yeah, we're doing something with the show constantly.
Speaker 1:When we just have a break or something like that, we're like doing something to get to our next episode, because I mean, the one cool thing about this show, you're like, um, and this is like a little segue to it, what we're talking about right here. I just watched that this show and I know you didn't watch it because you never watch shows but there's an. There's a show out there, that about tom brady and his soccer team. Have you heard about that? No, yeah, yeah, so so, and I'm not surprised by that, but there's a. So I just found out on myself that he has this, he bought this Birmingham soccer team and all this stuff. But I watched this whole entire show.
Speaker 1:The work ethic that he was talking about, like it was so cool to see and and learn how like they perceive the work ethic of what they're doing. Being a professional, what you got to do, the sacrifices you got to do, the mental engagement that you have to commit to in order to be the best Right, commit to in order to be the best Right. And I gotta say, man, one of the things on our show is that we are both G and I are like we're trying to make this good, like we want. We want this to be as best as we possibly can. So we're always working at the show trying to make it, refine it, tweak it, learn, learn this stuff as we go and everything. And you know someday who. You know somebody, more people will listen to us and we'll have a big show here. Well, but I think video everybody's going to love. G.
Speaker 2:Not really. But you know I was going okay, going back to what you were talking about real quick because I had a thought when I first got into this with you and we first started, we had no idea what we were doing. We were just sitting around bullshit and having fun, and we still do. I mean, that's the best part of it, people. You know the funny thing about when I hear about with me and you they're like who is that laughing all the time, right, and you're like it's G and they never hear me laugh because life, most of the time in life, you're so caught up.
Speaker 1:Right, all right, right, right, right You're so caught up in things. Well, G at work, like if you're working with G, G does not fuck around Like this is all about let's get the job done. I got other things to do he's.
Speaker 2:I mean, people are paying for something. Yeah, yeah, that's why I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's one thing, but also you're like that everywhere, like every aspect of your life, you're kind of like that. You're like, hey, I gotta do something and then I gotta do something again and I got, and there's something else coming after that. I don't got time to be fucking around right, I got three more things, more things, yeah, like he's going to record this podcast right now and he'd be like I got to get the fuck out of here. Bye.
Speaker 1:You know, like like he ain't hesitating and if you guys think you're like after our show, like geez, like sitting around we're talking about the show and cracking a beer, that ain't fucking happening. He's got a car to repair. He's got a house to like redo.
Speaker 2:You got something.
Speaker 1:But we're both, but both of us are the same way.
Speaker 2:We're the same thing. I mean you do different things, we do different things, but we're very similar in that way. So you know, like I said when we started the podcast you know it was easy for me and you to talk I told you we can talk about a carrot now for an hour, right, right, I mean we can, we can talk about anything for an hour, it's, it's easy now.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's not a hard thing. Yeah, this is uh, we we've, we've eased into this whole thing very naturally, like it. We, we figure out what we want to talk about and we roll with it. But anyways, man, what's been going on with you? Man, let's give you some catch up.
Speaker 2:Mine's pretty simple man Going into the airport again. Now you know, my favorite thing is when I'm doing my walk-in, so I got to talk about this.
Speaker 1:It starts my day off Skunk weed, skunk, weed, dude, you keep on talking about it.
Speaker 2:Skunk weed is everywhere, know that. But I'm just telling you that's how I started my morning off. I walked into the airport first thing I did big old smell of skunk weed. I hate that, man, I know so do I, but I had to tell you again. Just smelled it as I was coming in. But there was something a little bit better than that. What's that? So I'm coming in, I get through security, I start walking to the gates and I come come across these three dudes, and they were standing there. Now they looked like a cross between Duck Dynasty and ZZ Top.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 2:Now you guys remember ZZ Top, right? Yeah, all right. So these guys had these big beards. They're standing there, but that wasn't the special part. So they were standing there. This is what I love about airports they were standing there, they had camo shirts on all of them. They looked like they called each other. You know they all wanted to look the same yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, they were in a group friends forever, right?
Speaker 2:but they had the camo shirts on and then they had snake skin fitted silk shorts shorts.
Speaker 1:My first thought's like where do you buy that? Like where is it?
Speaker 2:I had to sit for a moment. I was like don't get your camera don't get your camera sean ain't gonna believe this, so I gotta get it. I just gotta try to get a picture of this, yeah but you probably could ask him.
Speaker 1:But like hey, can I take your guys picture?
Speaker 2:it would have been like yeah, fitted shorts, dude Duck Dynasty.
Speaker 1:With long beards. Long beards and big old, you know.
Speaker 2:Camo. You know when you Start your day like that it was a fashion statement. But when you start your day Like skunk, weed and ZZ Top With Duck Dynasty and silk Snake skin fitted shorts.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Know it's going to be a good day.
Speaker 1:It's going to be at least special when you're walking in and working. You're laughing when you're walking down the concourse. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:As long as I do this job. The thing I love the most about this job is I love the people watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do I can't help it. As you're cruising in, you know you're panning around. Do you ever do that? You just pan around. So as you're cruising in, you know you're panning around, Do you ever do that? Just pan around. I mean, you're seeing groups of people and you're seeing people sitting over there and you'll see, all of a sudden, something just hit your eye. Right, Somebody's got some kind of crazy-ass shit on and you're like what the hell were you thinking? Right, they got some shit.
Speaker 1:They got like five different colors on, dude, you know, you know, first of all, we that's happening all the time. I mean, how many times we see all these gals walking around with these leggings on that shouldn't have them on? I don't know, like a dude coming down the concourse got like a snow cone head right or the haircuts that we see, or the, the, just the hairstyles we see and just like it's crazy man, I've seen so many people watching stuff.
Speaker 2:This one pilot. He had the craziest, craziest. What was it? You know, Joe Dirt. Yeah, Joe Dirt, he had that mullet man. Oh yeah, he had the craziest looking freaking mullet Dude. I don't know why would anybody want a mullet man. Yeah, oh yeah, he had the craziest looking freaking mullet dude.
Speaker 1:I don't know why would anybody want a mullet?
Speaker 2:it was a thing back then I understand it was an ugly thing, but damn, it's still ugly it's still ugly oh yeah dude.
Speaker 1:I have a cat in my neighborhood. Man, he's a, he's such a nice guy. But last year he grew a mullet and I was like and this, this dude is like 70 years old.
Speaker 2:It was the god awfulest look I've ever seen billy ray please, please, go to a barber to shave that shit off, but that's I mean. That is one of the the the funnest things about our job is you. You walk through and you'll I find myself panning around and you know, even as I'm walking by, I'm walking by and I'm thinking, oh, that looks good. You know what I mean? I mean, they're a couple, they look really cute. And then you're like what the what is that? What is that?
Speaker 1:Yep, crazy People watching.
Speaker 2:People watching in the airports. But I had to talk about this because this recently occurred in our world and it kind of bothered me. You ever get bothered by, you know, people. They determine that they're worth by either the job title or the money that they make.
Speaker 1:I'm not about that we see this a lot. You know that.
Speaker 2:Because see, here's the thing about flight attendants, and people really don't understand. The majority of these people have their college educations and, as you can tell, sean has done nothing but educate himself. Now we are what they considered. Let's see, just flight attendants, just stews, just what's some of the other things they say that you're a glorified waitress, or whatever it is, it's all, whatever the stereotypes that come with the job.
Speaker 2:Right, all these stupid comments that come with it and then. But you come across these people, these individuals that they have to make a statement and they act like because the amount of money that they make or their title makes them a better person.
Speaker 1:Dude, entitlement is one of the worst freaking. It should be like one of the worst sins period. I mean it is. It is a um. Entitlement drives bad behavior everywhere does that bother you?
Speaker 2:on a plane, though? When, oh yeah, when they, when you know, when you know that that person is basically trying to make them more important than you because of their either their title or the amount of money that they make, yeah, that you're.
Speaker 1:You're basically nothing yeah, here's the, here's the thing. I'm not going to do anything about it, but I'm definitely not going to contribute to it. You know, I mean, like they can come, that they're going to come with that attitude towards me, like you're not going to be received and you're probably not going to get the best service in the in the in the world, like I don't ever get that. Like why do you want to act this with that behavior to the person that's serving you Right? Like I don't care if it's a flight attendant or a person in a restaurant, or like all these people that are doing service jobs out there, and you're going to come at them with this very entitled? You should be more appreciative. Like you should be more like thankful that these people are serving you. They're doing you a service. Don't don't treat them as they're beneath you. They're serving you because this is the life that they wanted to do.
Speaker 2:We went out to eat Mexican food the other night. Two things about that. First of all, before I get into it, I'm going to bring that full circle on this one. But okay, real quick with the Mexican food. I have to say this too when you go to eat Mexican, do you ever feel like any of the food is actually cooked? It's not just warmed up, thrown in a damn oven.
Speaker 1:No, Okay, heated up Because they got like 90. The Mexican places I go I've never felt that way?
Speaker 2:Oh see, I always think that they just re-warm. Where are you eating at? They got 90 different things.
Speaker 1:Where are you eating at? Oh yeah, with the menu. Yes, I get what you're saying. Yes, like there's Mexican menus that have like 100 things different dishes on it.
Speaker 2:I'm not talking to a chef. I'm not talking to a Mexican chef, Sean. I'm talking about a Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 1:How is this like? How are they able to put together all these different dishes you know 90 different dishes in like boom? How's that possible?
Speaker 2:Anyway, the food wasn't that good. But the point was going back to this. This girl was a waitress there and she was a young girl. Now, in this particular restaurant they've always used the men for waiters Very few women that they had. Well, the young girl was our waitress Phenomenal, unbelievable. She was so nice, absolutely. She was there every second Drinks were filled, came back. There was a problem with my meal because it wasn't good. I mean, she didn't even think about it. She took it right off the bill. Came back and you know what's amazing Going back to this, it's not about your job, it's not about how much money you make.
Speaker 2:And I told her. I said you know, do you get the tips or is it divided? And she goes I get them. I said okay, because the reason why I'm giving you the tip is because of the way that you are the type of person you are and she's a waitress now. God knows what she's going to be in her future. But let me tell you that type of person, they're amazing. Yeah, okay, and I can't stand when a person, just because of what you do, that you think that you're better than somebody else, just because of your job, because you know you're around a lot of people that have a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, and the cool thing is is that you get these also, these other people that have a lot of money, yeah, okay, and and the the cool thing is is that you get these also, these other people that they have all this money and they never act like it they don't act like that no dude, I got some.
Speaker 1:I got some super cool friends that are like loaded right, they're loaded I know they are they don't have to. They don't worry about money. Yeah, like they can't they. It just comes to them, but they don't act that way. But these people don't even to. They don't worry about money. Like they, it just comes to them, but they don't act that way. But these people don't even have that kind of. They're just normal Joes.
Speaker 2:They don't even have that kind of money. And then all of a sudden, it's almost like they're more important than you or me in their job title. And you know, trying to make another person feel smaller is absolutely ridiculous. Trying to make another person feel smaller is absolutely ridiculous. And then you try to make them feel like they're less of a person because they're doing a job that doesn't make as much money as you. It's just asinine.
Speaker 1:You know what People that are like that. They're insecure, first of all because they're trying to project a status that they don't you know whether they have it or not, I don't, I can give a shit. But um, as I say, like a lot of my friends and stuff, we were just talking about this with the another buddy of mine and he I was like he was asking me you know like how do you deal with all those famous people? Cause he was like we were. You know, hulk Hogan passed away the other day and I met him the year before and all this stuff. They're like you know what's that like.
Speaker 1:I look at him, I'm like what do you mean? What's that like? I'm like they're humans, like they just they put on pans, just just the way I do like, and most of them are really cool, like they're all laid back there. If you just act like they're normal people and they, they treat you like they're normal. That's what they're looking for. The problem is is that our society has, like, made them into these like uh, you know, demigods and stuff like that that you just can't like, that you think that they're. There's this type of certain behavior projection that's being put on them and they don't want that they. That's why so many of them like are trying to hide from the paparazzi and all that nonsense. You know it's like they just want to be, live their life normal, like, be, be a normal person it's amazing when you get, when you get one of them in the, in the g, you start talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're chill, they're normal.
Speaker 2:Man, I was like that. They're just like anybody else.
Speaker 1:Like I had Usher up in the galley one time. Me and him were just rapping about it. I'm like, how's it? Like being like this whole thing? You know what do you think? We were just talking about everything. He was just chill, normal guy, you know. You know, tell me about his family. And you know, I was like that's what this is, this is what we're, what people are supposed to be doing. We're supposed to be connecting and bonding and, you know, and enhancing each other's lives. We, we shouldn't be like, you know, looking at each other like we're. There's some type of status symbol to it.
Speaker 2:It's so stupid just never let another person make you feel less, because you know, like I said, you're not judged by the amount of money that you make or the title that you have. It's the type of person that you are that's it.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about a place that we frequent, often on our layovers back in the day. Back in the day, back in the day. We're talking about the famous Wheat and Rye in Michigan.
Speaker 2:Do you remember that place when we first went there? That? Was a little hole in the wall.
Speaker 1:Do you remember it?
Speaker 2:I mean, it was a dump little hole in the wall place.
Speaker 1:I mean not a dump but it was actually.
Speaker 1:It was a dump, little hole in the wall place. I mean not a dump, but it was. It was actually. It was a little bar that just made great sandwiches, huge, but the sandwiches are like when you say who huge it's unless you had the sandwich, you don't understand like we're like. It's just it wasn't big sandwich. These things were like monstrosities. You could not g and I could put away some food in early days. Right, yeah, I mean we could knock some we would eat. I mean it was insane, we were just two young guys doing it. But I mean wheat and rye, you get a sandwich. You can split that and still be like why did I eat that much? Anyhow, the wheat and rye man is like just a phenomenal sandwich and it's just gigantic. There's no, I've never seen a flight attendant where we're like well, I'm gonna eat this whole sandwich because I mean they stack a sandwich and there's like if you had like a roast beef sandwich, you'd have a pound, pound and a half of meat you.
Speaker 2:You're taking half of it home. Yeah, there's no way, did you?
Speaker 1:ever see the tuna one. Yeah, I mean, it's so much food You're just like. Are you for real? You could have made four sandwiches out of this.
Speaker 2:It's like tuna soup by the time you get it. No, they're huge, I mean. And the bread was fresh cut bread too, yeah, but you know what it reminded me of? What's that, dude? Come on, when we were young, you introduced me to the panini sandwich.
Speaker 1:Ah, paninis. First of all, for those of you out there in the world that don't know what paninis is, it originated and I'll give you a little bit of sandwich history. In Pennsylvania they had these sandwiches. They started making in Pennsylvania and I can't remember the first origin of this, where it was, but they made these sandwiches and basically it was two slices of a French bread. They would take these and just hand-slice French bread and they'd make these sandwiches where they would make these deli sandwiches French bread and they'd make these sandwiches where they would make these deli sandwiches. And then they would stack.
Speaker 1:They would take a giant handful of French fries and put it on top of the sandwich and you'd have like coleslaw, cabbage, all this stuff with French fries and then whatever type of meat you want on it and it was just a monster, giant sandwich and it was like, instead of just having an ordinary sandwich, a deli sandwich with some fries. It was all on the sandwich and paninis was invented out of that here in the local area and it's spread down. Paninis are actually spread a little bit all over the East Coast now, but they are fantastic sandwiches. He introed me, you introed me. We were down the flats, we were going out, yeah but they are fantastic sandwiches.
Speaker 2:He introed me, you introed me. We were down in the flats.
Speaker 1:We were going out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but when we were younger we used to hang out down in the flats and we used to go bar hopping down there and Sean was like oh gee, you got to come and try this sandwich. You ever tried this sandwich? I was like no, it was hangover food.
Speaker 1:It was like we were drinking all night. Now we need to get some stuff. You know, soak up some of that stuff at our, at our age, is cardiac food yeah, and right now it is, and so you, you'd go down there and like there would be a line there and this guy was. It was like the soup nazi on seinfeld man. It was like they were just like next, next, next, next, and the sandwiches were like three dollars that piled I mean just big giant sandwich, I mean just oh, it was so good what's the price of that sandwich today?
Speaker 1:yeah, we just looked this up, it was 12, it's 12, 50 for that sandwich, that same sandwich?
Speaker 2:probably not even as much. Yeah, that shit was stacked I mean we walked out of there. You were stuffed it is.
Speaker 1:Every now and then I'll hit paninis because we have a few Panini's. They turn them into restaurants and bars and all this stuff. They're big time now. They're a big establishment, kind of like Hooters or BW3 or whatever. They're that size now. But it started off as literally the guy running a space and he had a hot flag like a Blackstone grill going and just was like boom.
Speaker 2:Crazy. It was so damn good. But listen, those two places let me tell you, michigan Wheat and Rye. If you're in that area and you see that restaurant, jump in there, try one of their sandwiches. They are super good. And definitely try a Panini's Yep, a Panini's sandwich sandwich off the chain man, really good, but okay. So had a question because this was funny. I was watching on the plane the other day and, um, do you know something that we? We always see passengers where we don't really think about? And I was. I was thinking about this.
Speaker 2:It's kind of funny neck, pillows neck neck, pillows, neck, I know you right, you, you would make right neck pillow.
Speaker 1:Neck pillows on the plane have turned into this whole like uh, scientific experiment. Have you seen all the different styles that they have? And we're not just talking about wrap around the neck right, have you?
Speaker 1:seen the ones, the ones in the front, where you're like you're putting your face in those things I guess now've got the ones where they're like a mask, okay, and then it hooks to your back of your chair so you don't do the head nod thing. They've got the one. Have you seen the one where you look like that little green Martian from Flintstones? What's the guy's name? Q, Q, yeah, yeah, q. Your head looks the size of the Q, literally. It's a bubble thing that you put all the way over your whole entire head.
Speaker 2:you look like an alien and you got that little face.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's just like a place to breathe thing with your mouth, so you can see the nose and mouth but you can't see anything else and it just looks like this big alien head and thing we should have put like little little um alien off the top of it.
Speaker 1:I saw just the other day. I saw the one where they blow it up and they put it on the tray table in front of them and they could lean into it and just like lean over onto it and they put their face bedded into it. I was like dude, there's all these weird ass neck pillow things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you see all these they're hooked on bags or they're going around their neck. But then you watch all these they're they're hooked on bags or or they're they're going around their neck, yeah, but then you watch them when, when they sleep okay, so they always put when they do it, they put the button in the front. You ever see their heads there? No, their heads just fall straight forward. Yeah, it's not doing a damn thing. Nope, it's not doing one thing. I'm sitting there looking at these people laughing, going okay, okay, you bought that head pillow and it doesn't work.
Speaker 1:Well, the one, the one, the new one, that one that I said that attaches to the seat headrest. That one to me was like I saw somebody the other day that had it and she had it hooked to the back of her seat and it came over like it kind of had a cushion in the back of it, of your head, but it also had like the sleep blinders on on it too, so like it didn't matter what direction your head fell in, whatever. It wasn't like going to make you do those nods and stuff like that. So that and that one I was like that makes little bit of sense because it feels like you're leaning. It doesn't matter which way you go, you'd be able to feel like you're leaning and you're you're catching something you know, without having something there you'd like to be able to lean on. So that one made a little bit of sense.
Speaker 1:The alien thing I don't know what the fuck they're thinking um, the uh, the little neck thing, like those things suck. I mean a kid coming on the plane the other day. He's like dad, dad, dad, I learned that this neck pillow, you're not supposed to snap it in front, you're supposed to snap it in back, you're supposed to put it under your chin, exactly. And I'm like yeah, yeah, and I'm like yeah, I'm like this is cool that the kid is like educating, because you never see anybody put it under their chin.
Speaker 2:Right, that was my point.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:I mean, the whole point of it is when we see them have it on, the big part is in the back and the little parts in the front and you see their neck goes just droop forward. Turn the damn thing around.
Speaker 1:Their thought process is this is a pillow, like I'm laying down on a pillow type of thing. Yeah, their, their um thought process is this is a pillow, like I'm laying down on a pillow type of thing. That's your thought process. I don't understand that. It's supposed to keep you from doing the head nods forward. Right, you know, your head back. Yeah, keeps your head back and up, so that way you're not like doing that, not I hate the nods you're breathing, breathing a little easier.
Speaker 1:Dude to wake up and you get that body jerk whoa, yes I'm a drooler, so I've always been a drool my whole damn life, dude. I was a kid in school like sleeping on the desk. Get up from the desk and there's a pool of drool on the thing and all the kids are laughing I'm like, yeah, that's fucking me. That's why I can't help. I should, as I wipe it up with my sleeve, right some rabid dog?
Speaker 2:yeah, oh, did somebody see that?
Speaker 1:yeah, did somebody see that shit?
Speaker 2:big spaghetti. They came I hope. Nobody saw me oh my god, you're killing me.
Speaker 1:That was the shit, man. That's what happened, man, it still happens.
Speaker 2:All right, here's one that just happened the other day too. This is kind of funny. Battle of the overhead bends, please. Battle of the bends, this happens all the time I don't even get it Happens all the time when they come on board. When the passengers come on board, you guys realize this. Nobody, nobody, nobody owns an overhead bin.
Speaker 1:No, nobody. It doesn't matter where you're sitting, the bins are all community. Just put it up there wherever you find space.
Speaker 2:But just realize this If you're sitting all the way in the back and you put that bag towards the front of the aircraft and you, you get them up there and it's gone, that's on you. Yeah, because if you put it out of the view of yourself, how many black suitcases do you think are on that aircraft?
Speaker 1:but that's the concern, like that's, that's also the concern of everybody, like that's on the plane, like I want it next to me because I want to watch my bag. And we get that right, we get that. But there isn't any freaking law says that that has to be. Your bag has to be right there. You can, just you can have it a few bins away and just know and be able to have an invisible thing. But when you're in the very back of the plane, you put it on the front of the plane. You don't, can't see it, or it is in visual range. You know that's on you, dude I know we, you on.
Speaker 2:you get two different sides of this with people, because you get the, get the people that throw it in the first class and they walk all the way to the back of the aircraft and they come up there and bitching that their bag's gone, or they go to the back and there's no spot. Yeah, man Right, this is our life.
Speaker 1:Nobody owns the bins, bags, shit. All the time it's tiring and then we close the bins and they gotta open the bins yeah, oh yeah, especially when you tell them that they're full yeah, they love that don't open the bin because they're full.
Speaker 2:They're full and they the first thing to do is open them.
Speaker 1:Those bins aren't? They're not light. Nope, they're not light. That's. The thing is that you know, like the new bins on the newer generation aircraft, we we could put like five, six bags in there. Five, six roller bags is getting heavy and pushing things up and stuff. And for some of these gals, I mean, unlike you and I like you know, we can pop them up, but they get heavy. Man, people are putting a lot of heavy shit in their bags and they want you to pick it up. Yeah, I had this, I had this um and this lady just a couple days ago and she was of a another foreign culture that's a nice way of putting it yeah, and she could not understand.
Speaker 1:Like this guy got up and he out of a seat and he's like, here, can I help you? She's like, thank you, thank you so much. No one does this for people anymore. No one, no one will help people. And I'm like you know, I'm just standing there listening and I know that she's like kind of like throwing this at me, like why aren't you helping me? Asshole, you work here. I need help, I need to lift my bag in the bin. But people don't get that. People don't get why the companies don't like that. That's a super big liability in the airline industry. Flight attendants don't lift bags and the reason why is because if you want to get from point A to point B, you don't want us to get injured. I pick up that heavy-ass bag that you got, all your freaking bricks or whatever the fuck it is.
Speaker 1:You got some heavy-ass shit, man I mean some of those bags are like 70, 80 pounds, man. It's like I'm like, whatever it is, that grandma has no business bringing it on the plane, and my thing there should be a rule where it's like, if you can't lift the bag over your head, don't bring it in the plane but some of those bags, even like the tummies, are heavy with nothing in them yeah, they're just so. Then you have their shit.
Speaker 1:And I mean it's crazy, one time lifting over, you pinching nerve or do something or whatever it does, and you get jacked up and then all of a sudden, the flight is down and boom, guess what? You're not going on vacation. Nope, yeah, airlines just canceled that shit. Oh, we're down to potty. We don't got another body to replace it. Grandma with their bag and freaking 83a, she just fucked all you. But anyways, what did they? Uh, but it's, it's hard. Like I didn't even go there with her, like you know. I just let her, like roll with it and you know, the guy dude helped her out, which I was happy that. You know, people should be helping people out. We should have like a sign I think I'm in the airline industry when you come on a plane like um, today we're requiring everybody on board to do one good deed for one person on a plane, like pay it forward a little bit. You know they take care of each other. I let you in my row, yeah, I mean, oh, I do.
Speaker 1:I had to check this dude the other day too. Man, he was like I'm trying to get. There's a family, we're on a four-hour flight to la and they got a baby. We got seats open and stuff, and so I'm looking on the map and like, oh, maybe there's a person in that row, I can move them over to another row.
Speaker 1:So there was a person on the aisle, or they were actually on. They had picked A and B, trying to take the gamble right, trying to get the middle seat open, and I already knew what was going on, and so somebody was sitting in the middle seat. So I was like somebody's sitting there. So the person comes and I'm like hey, they had moved him to the aisle. And I said, hey, why don't we move you up to this aisle? Her husband was right across the aisle, sitting in the middle seat. They were husband and wife, they were both in middle seats because they must have got their tickets late or whatever.
Speaker 1:And he's like no, no, no, she can go sit over here at the window. And I was like no, I said that's not going to work because I got an aisle up here. And he's like no, no, no, but I'd rather have her here. I turned around, dude, and I just looked at him and I said what Are you going to? Let me do my job? I said, because I've been doing this for a minute and I got this. I said so you stay there. You do you right now and let me take care of this. But if he just came at me like the wrong way and I got irritated, I was like you know this, your wife, this bitch is going to be sitting in frigging up front soon or off the aircraft in the lobby. I'm just dying. And the person next to him was like good job.
Speaker 2:It's one percenters. I mean, you know we make it sound like this a lot, but it's like 1% that you run into this, I mean, and they're just stupid thing, like the person that asked me to make the baby be quiet. Right, right, baby, be quiet, right.
Speaker 1:Right, baby, be quiet, as if we got the control.
Speaker 2:Let me see what I'm going to do with this one. Go grab a pillow. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1:Yeah, can you do something about that baby?
Speaker 2:It's a baby. That's got to be the dumbest question, dumbest statement that anyone ever wants to make to a flight attendant. Can you tell that baby to be quiet?
Speaker 1:As if we got control to do something with it. Like honestly, yeah, here, let me, I'll crack the door in the back and toss it out.
Speaker 2:And then they wonder why they get a stupid look from you.
Speaker 1:Well, you only get stupid looks when you make stupid statements, right?
Speaker 2:That happens all the time. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Copy that Hard hardest thing about, uh, flight attendant's job. What do you think? It is, dude, one of?
Speaker 1:well, one of the hardest one of the hardest things is uh, I didn't dude, I didn't even know where you're going. Where are you going eating?
Speaker 2:you know, you said you're sleeping with it. With they find it eating is eating is one of the toughest things about our job. We don't get the time let's say eating correctly, because we don't. A lot of flight attendants eat like shit.
Speaker 1:That's my biggest struggle these days is actually the eating part of the job Because first of all, I mean the company gives us crew meals on certain flights and you know the certain situations, whatever. But honestly I mean, as long as we've been doing it, the food food's shit like we that sodium.
Speaker 1:You can't eat that every day, man like it's just, it's not good for you, and so we're always trying to like bring our own somewhat healthy foods, you know, eat some fruits and vegetables and stuff like that, and but but here's the thing like we're pulling these like turns la turns, like you got to bring all day your all-day food, and that's that's where it gets tough. It's like okay, what am I bringing for all day?
Speaker 2:but how about these reserves that go on four day trips and they can't I mean, they can't eat for four days? They can't bring that.
Speaker 1:You bring snacks with you or bring stuff that you can sustain for a little while.
Speaker 2:They're surviving off airplane food. Yeah, your airplane airport food, and that's a bucket of suck right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, airplane and airport food. I mean, the airport food, I got to say, is getting somewhat better, but it's just so expensive and you're not making enough money to do it, so do it right.
Speaker 2:Airplane food is two things it's sodium and butter. You pick Right, it's either sodium or butter.
Speaker 1:Pretty much.
Speaker 2:I mean that's. I think one of the hardest things in our job is actually the ability to eat correctly.
Speaker 1:Try to keep a decent diet.
Speaker 2:All right. How about the misconception of flight attendants? A couple of them. What do you think?
Speaker 1:Well, I think the number one thing is that everybody's like oh, you know, this is a glamorous job, you know that's the biggest misconception to me. But there's so many misconceptions out there it's like hard to put your finger on, like what's the biggest one?
Speaker 2:it's not like we live pan am no right yeah come fly with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not like we're like laying over in each destinations. We're on all-inclusive hotels and we've got 24 hours, 48 hours here, like that's not happening, dude.
Speaker 1:Nope, I love it. My, my one number one thing is that people that don't know about the industry they're always like so when you get to these destinations, like do you get to have some time there? Like how much time do you get to have? Like do you get to get off the plane and go there? Like I'm, like, I'm like I'm doing a turn, yeah, yeah, and that turn can go to hell, like mine did the other day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I don't even know what the weather is like there, because I don't get off the plane A lot of times. It's like I'm in that tube all day long. What's happening on the outside of the tube? I don't know, because we're not looking out the windows I'm not on a flight, just like looking at scenery, right? No, it's like we have no idea what's happening. If it's, if the outside environment isn't shaking my ass in the plane, I don't know what's happening, right?
Speaker 2:see, I I say this all the time. You know, when people think that we get paid for the, the peanuts and pretzels and and you know that's what we do, our service, that's a small part of what we do. You know, it's trained for safety and security and some other things, but this is what I really think, that our pay and that's another thing is how we're paid. We'll talk about that in a minute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people don't get how.
Speaker 2:How we get paid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, All the it's.
Speaker 2:But let me finish this one first. But let me finish this one first. So I think honestly, flight attendants, it's your risk factor, because you know there's a risk factor in what we do every single day. We're in a tube at 35,000 feet every day and we repeat it, and that tube is two wings filled with fuel and two big engines on each side of it and if something happens, if something happens and something goes wrong, good chance we ain't coming home is two wings filled with fuel and two big engines on each side of it and if something happens, if something happens and something goes wrong, good chance we ain't coming home. So I mean, when you're looking at you know why we get paid. What we do is risk factor.
Speaker 2:Most people are scared to death to get on a plane one time. One time, right, they get on a plane and they're scared to death to fly one time. They're looking at us to feel support. So let me tell you, even the toughest men, I've seen them scared shitless when we get into severe turbulence. Or they have a pressurization problem in their ears where they're just looking for someone to help them, right, I mean, we've seen that brought to tears because the pressure in their ears is so bad that their eardrums are going to blow, and we've seen that too. So when you think why are flight attendants or how are flight attendants paid, there's a risk factor that goes with it.
Speaker 1:Yep, to a certain extent we are like you know. It's being valued based on the value of what we're trying to do. Right, it is, but every airline is paid different. That's the other big misconception about that subject is that we all, depending on what airline that you're working with, some go off a time, some goes off a flight miles, some you know like. So how your day rolls out impacts how we're being paid, and so yeah, it's, it's. It's a tricky ass. There's no like. Literally, we can talk for hours about how this pays Right and then at the end of it you'd be like what? Yep, huh, how do you keep track of that?
Speaker 2:I think it's a huge misconception with people, though, because they think that you're paid for every little bitty thing, I mean right when you show up. That's not the way it works.
Speaker 1:Let's go around the globe. Yeah, let's talk about that. Did you hear about that parent allegedly ditched their 10-year-old child at the?
Speaker 2:airport Home Alone. The movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kevin, kevin wasn't at the airport, at least.
Speaker 2:He was a real-life Kevin. This kid became actually the real-life Kevin Pretty much. Did you read this? Did you see what they did? They forgot his I don't know his travel information.
Speaker 1:Like the passport or something like that. I think it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then so they're like they can't. They didn't get a refund on this, so we got to go.
Speaker 1:We got to go. I got to get out of here. What am I gonna do with my kid, kevin? Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:Aunt Susie's gonna come here in like four hours just sit right here.
Speaker 1:We're gonna get on a plane, stay here and Susie's gonna get you and we'll get him. We'll get him a call and they'll be right here. Just be patient.
Speaker 2:Bye what the fuck, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1:dude man, I don't even could you imagine being on the flight.
Speaker 2:You look across there and you're like, um, I wonder what kevin's doing. This is why?
Speaker 1:uh one? Uh, no such thing as common sense. Uh, they're like people need licenses to have kids or something I don't know, to be responsible for another human being I would love to see the aftermath of this one.
Speaker 2:It didn't have any of the information of what happened to the parents.
Speaker 1:I would like to see that, yeah I mean I'd like to have seen them, like, getting to their destination and being put in handcuffs. That's what I'd like to have seen and su Susie goes.
Speaker 2:Kevin's not here.
Speaker 1:What an idiot they weren't shouting Kevin, they were literally like you know, I hope he's okay, maybe not. Maybe they weren't even thinking about that. They were probably drinking their Mai Tais heading to their destination. It's Kevin's fault. He forgot his passport. Unbelievable People are people. Think, think, just use time to you know, take a pause and just think is this right?
Speaker 2:now. Now this next one. This would be a couple flight attendants to be retiring on this one. What's that flight from burbank to vegas? It descended like 475 feet shortly after takeoff. It had a rapid descent because it had to avoid a possible midair collision. Now you know something there'll be a couple of flight attendants to be retiring after that.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm going to tell you right now, like the more this goes on, like the DC incident and all these different uh uh, you see all these close calls and and then you look at the statistics in the United States of like how often this happens, like the close calls, it's kind of scary right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it goes back to what I was saying why we get paid, though. I mean how we get paid because this is it right. There is the risk factor they don't understand. Planes take off what? Every 30 seconds, a lot of these airports yeah I mean they're taking off every 30 seconds they're landing, taking off and you know this is going to happen and you know fortunately it hasn't occurred that much, but it's a, it's a risk that that happens and and 475 feet drop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would. That would be a tough well, this is the. This is the thing, man, Like I just this whole thing with turbulence and seatbelts and like an incident like this, just it always pisses me off, like I'm like it at one part of me, one part part of me says this. One part of me says every now and then, on every flight, I wish the fucking plane would just drop like 20 feet just to be like check people, like because I'm like people are so freaking smug and you know I'm doing whatever I want to do and it's like what we're saying is just doesn't have any value. That that's, I think that's what, the biggest irritation. It has no value. And until they experience it, until they're actually on a plane or they've experienced that accident it's kind of like a car accident, like you know until you're in that situation where, oh yeah, that seatbelt helped me, then they believe it. But until then, these stupid asses just never put the seatbelt on. It's the simplest thing to keep it loose.
Speaker 2:Now when you get in a hotel van, you look for a seatbelt. I do, I know, me too. Yeah, that's one thing. A lot of our flight attendants go into the hotels and they're going on the interstate and you're watching this van driver go in and out. Man, and you don't have a seatbelt.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the other thing. I mean, that's as stupid as that right.
Speaker 2:I mean it's as stupid, it's not stupid.
Speaker 1:The aspect of it is like this it's like I trust our pilots because they've gone through a lot of training and a lot of work to get to the position they are. They're like. This is not. They're not ignorant to the fact of well, you know all the different safety aspects and what they've had to do to get to this point. Van driver not so much right like like uh especially early in the morning.
Speaker 2:His ass has not been asleep.
Speaker 1:You know, you've been up all night rico, uh juan or uh johnny, uh, they they're not like specially trained in this van driving stuff.
Speaker 2:I mean they've been driving in the morning time and all of a sudden you see them like they're like half nodding off.
Speaker 1:You're like hey hey, man, wake up, dude and a we. The one thing that you will experience as a flight attendant is a scary ass van driver. It is man, it's not, there's not anywhere. I mean they will like you. I've been many hands where we're like slow down, wake up. You gotta slow down, wake up, right, right, dude, pay attention road.
Speaker 1:You're like yeah, it's, you're falling a little close behind that semi yeah, we should be getting extra pay just for riding in the damn van sometimes, talking about pay, anyways, yeah, and then this segues to the whole thing. Like that whole incident that just happened with that airline 25 people getting hospitalized for turbulence I mean that to me just blows my mind. Like that was 25 people on that aircraft that didn't have their seatbelts on and I guarantee you 90 of them knew better, right, yeah, like, I mean, like, come on, it's one thing where you get like a kid getting tossed in the air or something like that, or a baby or whatever, but when you have a grown adult and they're getting hurt and then they're upset and they're going to sue because of this whole thing happened, you know, like, like, did you have your seatbelt on?
Speaker 2:Simple. Thing.
Speaker 1:It's so stupid.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Don't don't keep the what I've seen with turbulence over my career and the amount like the flight attendants get hurt and I've seen flight attendants in their entire career stop flying altogether Turbulence done. I mean it is violent and I don't care how big and strong you are and all that stuff. I mean turbulence will throw you around like a rag doll Like a freaking rag doll man.
Speaker 1:You have zero control. You think you're? Oh, I'm working, I'm a muscle bodybuilder, I'm going to do it. They'll splat your ass on top of that ceiling in a second.
Speaker 2:And if you ever see people, especially when you're going through this severe turbulence, the first thing they start doing is praying to God. Yeah, because I mean, they really do. They think it's the end. I mean, you know, and that's true too. That's the way it is this is crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my, the biggest annoyance for me for this thing is the uh families that are holding the baby that don't have their seatbelt on right. I'm like you know, the baby has no say right right, it's like and the flight attendants are doing, we're their mouths and you know like we're their spokesperson. Like mom, dad, fasten your damn seatbelt when you're holding the kid. You're not going to be able to hold them in the first place If it happens, but at the same time they at least have a chance. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:But make sure the seatbelt just goes around you and not you and the kid, right. So make sure that it just goes around you and you're holding on to the kid Because you don't want the kid in the seatbelt in front of you, because that seatbelt won't give and your weight's going to go right in that child and that child's going to go against that seatbelt and it's going to get hurt bad. So again, seatbelt just around you.
Speaker 1:Just around you, man. Yep, All right man, this is a good show man. Let's wrap up and talk about our quote. What's the quote?
Speaker 2:When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a million reasons to smile and laugh. Stay strong.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, that is a good quote man.
Speaker 2:All right guys. Hey, we had a great time this week, you guys have a great week and we will see you next week on Cabin Pressure. Yeah, man.
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