Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

Mermaids, Mountain Dew, and the Case of the Toilet iPhone

• Shawn & G • Episode 56

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Ever watched a cabin flip from reunion chaos to pin‑drop quiet at 30,000 feet? We have—and we’re unpacking how it happens, why sit time wears crews down more than flying, and what old‑school service looked like when carving roasts in the aisle was just Tuesday. This week we trade stories from the jumpseat: a 6 a.m. group that wouldn’t lower their volume until they did, the passenger who slept with eyes wide open, and the unforgettable “toilet phone” moment that made a compelling case for cloud backups and gloves.

We also zoom out to the systems that shape our days. Pilot pay now rivals top medical salaries, and we talk frankly about skill, responsibility, and the gap between cockpit and cabin. Safety stays front and center: a regional return after pressurization failure, oxygen masks you should never pull unless told, and the reason your seatbelt matters most on taxi when sudden stops can throw anyone off their feet. On the ground, AI cuts thousands of admin roles at a major carrier—a signal to future‑proof your skills before automation finds your desk.

Between the heavy and the hilarious, we share the tools and rituals that keep us sane: layover hotel room checks that actually catch what housekeeping missed, Barkeeper’s Friend for flawless stainless, Fels‑Naptha for stubborn shirts, and starch strategies for crisp lines without flakes. We chase wonder, too—mermaid myths, the green flash that cameras catch at sunset, and tall fishing tales next to a clip of a truly massive tuna gliding by a rig. Plus, a cultural curveball: Mountain Dew started life as a whiskey mixer, and yes, the crew‑approved cocktail list practically writes itself.

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome back to another episode, folks. I'm Sean. And I'm G. And before we dive in, I gotta ask you something, Sean. Have you ever had a phone fall in the toilet on one of your flights?

SPEAKER_03:

Oh man, not my phone, thank God. But G, speaking about disasters, have you ever watched someone fall asleep with their eyes wide open, like you're ready to call for the defibrillator, and suddenly realize they're just napping?

SPEAKER_02:

Dude, yes, it's terrifying. But hold up, here's what I really want to know. Do you believe in mermaids? Because I just flew with a flooding center and went down the rabbit hole. And she showed me a pick of green sky, so apparently mermaids are real.

SPEAKER_03:

Gee, what are you talking about? You know what? Let's just get on with the episode before you start telling me about Bigfoot serving drinks at first class.

SPEAKER_02:

Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Pressure.

SPEAKER_03:

Do ya do ya? Do you want to see Shiny? Nope. Nope. Nope. Do ya? Yeah, man. Hey, what's been going on? Nothing was going on with you. I'm just getting over that. Do you, do ya? Do you, do ya? Uh, yeah. Man, they can just keep going on with that. You know what? Today is? What's today? It's today is Taylor Swift's new album day. Oh my god. What am I doing here? I don't know, man. I gotta get out of here. The whole damn world is like going ape shit right now. I mean, millions. Millions of Tay Tay craziness going on. I mean, you know, the the marketing genius of that woman is just freaking unbelievable. I wish I wish we had like a one one hundredth of a percent on our show.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, first of all, we'd have to be able to sing.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, we don't need to shing. I'm talking about the marketing.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't care. We'd have to do something.

SPEAKER_03:

She had a build up to it. Right. Then she had a um she had a three-day launch movie. So it was just a movie just for the fucking launch. And then then she eventually, and then she had like X like serious and everything. They had like a build-up for a whole entire week, a countdown on a special station just for her. It's insane, man. I mean, they got all kinds of stuff. It was like the anticipation and the build-up and everything. That's what we should do. She's got a following though.

SPEAKER_02:

Build up to the mom, your mom's following us right now. So number one fan. Hey, that's okay. I'll take one.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, that's right. She loves you, G. You gotta start somewhere. Right. So, anyways, man, uh, dude, I've been, you know, it's been going crazy a little bit for me. I'm I went on a few trips and stuff, and uh, I encountered this uh, I was talking to this crew member about these, you know, like the reserves out there and that and like how they, you know, life and all this stuff, and they were telling me about this trip that they're doing, and I was like, I can't believe the shit that these reserves get. That is so crazy insane. Like, I don't remember us ever having to fly like this crazy, but they had a pairing, a three-day pairing put together, which for everybody out there doesn't know what pairing is, that's where our trip that we go on, and then it was three days, and then right in the middle of the second day, they they get up, they're in like they do Santa Ana to San Francisco, they sit for three and a half hours, and then they do San Francisco to Panama, which is a seven and a half hour flight. In flight initiation. Shit happens, man. I mean, literally, they're they're sitting around for a good almost five hours, you know, doing one flight before, five hours before they actually do this long ass flight. What is that? That is a long ass day.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, what is the biggest bullshit about pairings? Sit time. Sit time.

SPEAKER_03:

We don't care about flying, right? We don't. The second that that we put that in our they put them into contracts on any airline where you know you start getting paid for sit time, poof, gone. Right. It's amazing. It's pairing parameters. Yeah. All of a sudden they they disappear. Yeah. All of a sudden, oh, we don't have time to sit around because we're not gonna pay you to sit around. You know a perfect example of that? What's that?

SPEAKER_02:

Well, your your wife, Carol. What's that? Okay, I I'm doing a Denver term the other day. Oh, yeah. I take the Denver flight out in the morning. My ass is sitting out there for almost four freaking hours, and guess who comes and picks me up? Carol. Yep. Yeah. And does she have sit time?

SPEAKER_03:

She was complimenting about that.

SPEAKER_02:

Nope.

SPEAKER_03:

Nope. She literally flew in, turned the plane around, did a little walk on the concourse, got a little sandwich. Got a little sandwich and back on her on her way. Yeah, it's bullshit. She sat there.

SPEAKER_02:

No, I mean, because that's exactly the way it's supposed to be. If they got that in their contract, right? Hopefully, you know, we're gonna get that straightened out in ours. But the biggest bullshit thing in flight attendants' lives are sit time.

SPEAKER_03:

Just sitting around airports. If you love people watching, this is your job because you're sitting around doing it all day long.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. The biggest the biggest thing we love to do is turn and burn. That's it.

SPEAKER_03:

Turn and burn.

SPEAKER_02:

Let's get it done.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, we get it we get on the plane, get it, yeah, pick them up, yep, take them and drop them off. Yeah. Anyways, man, they I was also uh like reminiscent about our service like the other day because we were talking about these new hires. I was flying with this whole crew, it was a whole San Francisco crew I was I was with, and uh they were talking about um, you know, how oh, they're stressed out about the service, and I started telling them like, you know, you ain't you got it so damn good, you don't even know. You don't know what you don't know, I guess. But I mean, you remember, I mean, we used to do like in the economy cabin, like we would have like trays where we put hot casserole dishes. Remember how we would like load all the casserole dishes onto the trays in the cart, yeah, and then we'd pack up the the ones that were in the middle of the cart, we'd stack all those meals on top, and then we'd load into the back, and then we'd go out and pass out all these trays, and then we'd have to pick up all the trays.

SPEAKER_02:

It was like you mean where we were constantly working every freaking minute?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I mean like it was like crazy. And then like we had like the sandwiches on board, like every flight we always gave something to eat, you know. It wasn't I mean, even it like those short flights like from Newark to Boston, we were giving out those Nosh bags.

SPEAKER_02:

You're like bageling us and salmon in a bag, you know, like But what's funny is that you start talking you start talking like that to a new hire, they're already yawning. Yeah. They're like, um, yeah, that's not the way it is. That's not that's not where how it works. No, because airlines now it's like a sling and fling service. Sling and fling. That's what it is. I mean, we you and you know, we used to have to unwrap everything, set everything up. Now it's it's pop top, right? You you pop the top right off of it, we're serving it. Yeah, I mean, it now we used to have to plate it up, now it comes pre-plated.

SPEAKER_03:

Dude, back in the day, carving the Chateaubriand. Yeah, in the aisles, play plating up all those things. We could get the whole like big tray of thing where we had to plate it onto a plate. Have those big butcher knives. Yeah, those big knives. Yeah, we had all kinds of wild shit, huh? Yeah. But anyways, man, that I was just doing some reminiscing, and in addition to that, um, I started talking about, we were they were talking about this gal, she was talking about how she's in this crash pad and she's they share a car. And then that took me back to us sharing a car. Oh yeah. I was like, oh yeah. I remember sharing a car with G back in the day. Yeah. G was commuting back and forth, and he he'd you know, he'd pick me up at the airport if I was coming in, or I'd pick him up at the airport as when he was coming in. We were sharing one car. Yep. Isn't that true?

SPEAKER_02:

Well, you had to you had to do a lot of things. Um, when you first started, because you didn't you didn't have no money. Right.

SPEAKER_03:

Right? We were broke. We were like we were it was like an economy uh living situation where we were all grouped together in a in a combine. But we had fun. But we did have fun, we had a shitload of fun.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, we really did. We might not have money, but we had a good time. Yeah, we had to it was just the nightclubs back then were so much fun though. We we used to go out dancing all the time.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh yeah. Dancing, just like well, anytime we had like some free time where we weren't working, we were we were going out partying and goofing off.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, we we were over at a party um not long ago, and you know, I don't go out and um and everybody everybody's over there but you. Right. You just came in and they were like, Oh, Sean's going home. He said he's not coming. And I was like, give me the phone. And they're like, What? And I say, give me the phone. And and they they they were like, What do you mean? I say, if he knows that I'm here, he's coming.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm coming.

SPEAKER_02:

And so I got guy got on the phone and I'm like, hey, what what are you doing? He goes, I just I just got off. And I said, Well, come over to this party. He goes, What do you mean? What party? And I told him, and he said, You're you're out. And I said, Yeah, and he goes, It's a rarity. I'll be I'll be over there in like 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, 15 minutes later, we're on the dance for like a disco.

SPEAKER_02:

He walks in like Kevin Bacon and Footloose. That's right. He didn't here comes Shawnee. But you know something is funny too, who I was talking to, um, Jimmy Z. Jimmy Z. Just flew with him today, and then he he said, you know, got to do a shout-out to Sean. Oh, yeah? Yeah. He goes, it's so funny. I listen to you guys every single week. Z is our fan. Z is our fan. He listened to us every week. And he said the funniest thing about it was last week Sean went to work. Yeah. He goes, he said that Sean said how tired he was. And here he goes, if anybody knew how much you fly and then Sean did a three-legg day. And I'm exhausted, G. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly. So shout out to Jimmy, man, because that was funny. Z-Man, Z-Man. Z-Man's been coming up in our household. His name's been coming up a lot. I'm gonna just leave it at that. You know why, Z. You taking trips, brother. You're making my life uh it's a little stressful over here. You need to calm down. Yeah, Carol's having to go to Denver, pick G up. Exactly. Anyhow, yeah, man. Uh, so what's been up and oh wait, wait, wait. There was one other thing that I found that was so crazy interesting that I ran into. So I had this gal on board my aircraft that she was from Nepal. Where's that? Go ahead. Anyhow, we are I'm like, I'm like, wow, Nepal. And she started telling me of all this whole, you know, her life history and everything. And I'm like, well, like what how'd you how'd you come here? Like, you know, because uh immigration is like on the forefront of everybody's news right now, and you know, everybody's got an opinion, whether they're pro or don't you even remember the movie The Golden Child with with Eddie Mercury?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah, yeah, right. He's from Nepal, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_03:

So, anyhow, um, so I'm thinking, I the first thing I started thinking was food. I'm thinking Nepal? Yeah, really? Oh my gosh. Wait, so, anyways, let me finish this story. So I'm like, she's like, um, tell me all this stuff. And I'm like, I'm like, so how'd you get here? She's like, I won the lottery. Nepal lottery? Nepal lottery. This ought to be good. Go ahead. So it wasn't get this. I didn't know this. Did you know that other countries outside the U.S. the U.S. allows them and allots them a specific amount of citizenships to that country that will give them green cards to come up to the U.S. So she won the lottery from Nepal to come to the U.S. to get her green card and to go through the pop the normal process to become a citizen as she became, and uh she's now a U.S. citizen.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, see, that's where you had me because you had me going to lottery and it was a completely different lottery. That's bullshit. I'm sitting there listening to this going, how in the hell does Nepal have a lottery? And then you just spun that shit. You turned it right in.

SPEAKER_03:

But anyway, so she won this lottery, and I thought it was fascinating.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, but anybody listening to this just thought you were talking about some damn lottery in Nepal. And and and uh and you came out with the immigration lottery. I don't know what the exchange rate of Nepal money to what that would be, but I'm like listening to them like how well how much money did she win in Nepal?

SPEAKER_03:

Dude, she won the lottery. She got to be a U.S. citizen. That's that is winning the lottery in the world. It's still bullshit. No, it's not.

SPEAKER_02:

No, I mean, and no, that part of it, I'm talking about you. I'm talking about you building it up like it was a Nepal lottery.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm not talking about Dude, you can't just quit thinking about money. There's other things in life to think about, gee. You set it up.

SPEAKER_02:

What's going on with you? Okay. Do you know when you're going into the airport and you'll in the morning time, 6 a.m., right?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't do that often, but I try not to.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, go. CZ. So let me reminisce. This is what I said, right? He's he doesn't ever go. But there was a group this morning. Come out there, and you know, we sit up in this certain area where the flight attendants were all sitting there in there, and this group, they are so damn loud. Yelling, screaming.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh no, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Not not not even like six o'clock in the morning. And everybody you know that group that they want to make sure everybody hears them.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like the the popular group in the lunchroom.

SPEAKER_02:

It is like twenty or thirty people that go to a family reunion and have never seen each other for like 20 freaking years and have to yell everything. Yeah. Okay, so we're sitting there and you know it's Babe, where you been?

unknown:

Where you been?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, honey, I've been having you know you miss me. We're standing at over here. Over here. Where you at?

SPEAKER_02:

It's just constantly. It was yelling. So anyway, we're we are sitting over this area and we're doing what flight attendants do. Please, God, don't let them be on my plane. Please don't let them be on my plane. Oh, you know they're on your plane. That's murdering. And guess who's who go guess whose plane they were on? Yours. Mine. So they get on there, they get on the plane, and they Sean, they will not shut up.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm telling you, when you get on an airplane and it's six o'clock in the morning, it's quiet.

SPEAKER_03:

First of all. My friends always call me like the bear. Yeah. You know. I know. Because you don't want to poke bear in the morning because bear will get very grumpy real quick because at six o'clock in the morning, I'm like still growling. Right. Like, I'm like, I don't need that shit.

SPEAKER_02:

Sean, they're yelling from there. There's one, there's there's some in the back, there's some in the middle, some towards the front, yelling. One girl is sitting there going, shut up, shut up. And I'm like, all right, stop it. We're not doing that.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And and I keep telling him, like, this is gonna bring it down. And about the third time I said, Look, I'm not playing anymore. All right. And then finally the guy said, Hey, he ain't playing. You guys better bring it down. I'm like, Yeah, you better listen to him because I'm not doing this. It's six o'clock in the morning. We're not doing. And then the guy turns around and he goes, he goes, hey, he goes, you know, you you have a famous person sitting in the back. And I said, You who was that? Well, he said it was uh the the Barbie bunny. The Barbie bunny. Yeah, and he pointed to the last row. I'm like, and I looked at him, I said, She's sitting in the last row. How how famous is she? The Barbie bunny that's sitting in the very last row of economy.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, she's that famous.

SPEAKER_02:

Now, let me tell you, okay, people when they do crazy stuff like this, sometimes somebody gets kicked off. Oh, yeah. Okay. Luckily, these guys calm down, they listen, quiet the entire flight. I mean, you it was a church mouse quiet inside that cabin. They every one of them went from screaming to going completely to sleep. Now, as soon as we got in, as soon as we started the planning.

SPEAKER_03:

Boom, it started up again.

SPEAKER_02:

It started. You could hear them all the way through the cabin. Yeah. All the way through the cabin.

SPEAKER_03:

They just had that initial excitement or whatever they were going. They had a big reunion or a party or whatever they're doing, their big vacation together, and they just were like, and then they get on there and they like all fall asleep.

SPEAKER_02:

Not on an airplane, not at 6 o'clock in the morning. Man, there was this little this little Jewish guy who was like, No, no. Oh my goodness. It ain't gonna, he was having anxiety. He was let me tell you something. He he looked like he was starting to, he was gonna start gripping his chest here in a minute. Oh, no. Because it it was that bad. It was that loud. I mean, and they they were driving me nuts too. But got it settled down. Everybody's fine. They were completely quiet. We didn't take control. That's what we do. Exactly. That's what we do. So then we then we go ahead and and uh and then I go and I get to meet my crew. There you go. Right? So one of my flight attendants, I I love this. And and this is the greatest thing about cabin pressure, is we talk about everything, right? So we were in the galley, and uh, Sean, do you believe in mermaids? What the hell are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03:

Do I believe in mermaids? Yeah, you know, I went there. No. This come on. Somebody's believing in mermaids. Went down that rabbit hole.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh no. So this girl I was flying with. But you know, I I I've got to dive into this conversation because we, you know, we talk about everything. So she had showed me a picture, and you were telling me about this that I'd seen. Have you guys ever seen the sunset, the color green on a sunset? I've never seen it. First time.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so to like to just to talk about that over a second, like so. If you get a camera and you especially if you got one lens at a high speed or something like that, you know, you you need somebody to like to catch this that split second. And like right when the sun kind of hits the sunset on the water, you're gonna get a green flash. They call it the green flash, and this green flight flash. I actually got it several times, and uh, but it's like literally when the sun's getting there, you're just like hitting the camera and it's going click, click, click, click, click, click, you know, like so fast. It's not something that our eye can actually physically see. Like, it's not like all of a sudden, boom, the sky turns green, you know, it's just this green. But when you look at the film, right, or the digital film, whatever, you're gonna see there's some green flash.

SPEAKER_02:

Picture picture was so damn cool that I had to go down the rabbit hole about the mermaids. Right. So she starts telling me, I'm like, okay, so I bite, tell me about it. So she said that she listens to this TikTok channel that this guy goes out in the ocean and at nighttime, and then he hears the you know the mermaid song, right?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, that obviously she's uh sourcing a legitimate source.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. So he's he's out there and he hears the mermaid song, so and and he won't tell anybody his location. So what's the mermaid song?

SPEAKER_00:

It's like what is it? No, it's I can't even get that high.

SPEAKER_02:

Have you ever seen that to where they the the mermaids come and they have that that one uh iridescent song like they come in there and all of a sudden the it it it takes the guy's breath away and he looks at it and he just all he wants to do is dive in the water, and then what he does, the mermaids grabs him and takes him to the yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, also like was it that's the myth behind it, like the the sailing ships would come and crash into the rocks because the mermaids, the sirens would like guide them in and spoil their day.

SPEAKER_02:

So I told her, I say the first thing I'm gonna tell Sean is he's gotta go get a boat. A boat. I got I got a boat. We'll go out. We don't got any mermaids in my lake, but we got a I got a boat. We'll have just as good a chance of finding one.

unknown:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, you know what? If we go farther enough down the lake here and we get to the pool, there might be some kids in there with some tails on. But that's about close we're gonna get. So I had to go down, I had to go down the mermaid hole. I just you know what amazes me that people actually like they really believe, like they believe this stuff, like it's like Santa Claus, but it's so much fun. I mean like I mean, like flat earthers and you know, mermaid believers.

SPEAKER_02:

We've got we got some friends and and flight attendant friends that have their foil cappers, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Right, like they wear foil caps. Yeah, they put foil caps. Like it's it's just amazing how people like they just decide that they're gonna believe in this.

SPEAKER_02:

We did we did one, the flight attendant, she was a foil capper, and we we end up uh taking the foil off the foods, and everybody in the crew made a cap.

SPEAKER_03:

I know who you're talking about, too. It was so funny. That's awesome. That shit was so fun. That's like bringing everybody shows up as a cone head or something, you know, like that.

SPEAKER_02:

But you know, also there was this couple that came in uh uh a few days ago. I was walking in and all of a sudden this this little lady, Asian lady, taps me on the shoulder and she like waves at me, doesn't know look of English, and I'm like, um I don't know you, you know, right? And and her daughter comes over and explains it to me that I brought them in from Cleveland to LA. Oh, they were recognizing you. They they they came from Taipei, the scene, their their other daughter that was living here in Cleveland. And this just goes to show you um, even sometimes you're just just your little bit of kindness, how how it goes sometimes, even by yourself unnoticed, right? Right, oh for sure. So you don't notice it, but just doing something nice for someone, they notice it. Well, she she begins to tell me, she's like, Oh, my mom couldn't stop talking about you on the flight because you were so nice to her. And I was like, She doesn't even understand anything. She said, But yeah, but she goes, You were so pleasant, and I was explaining it to her, and um, and I didn't even I didn't remember her, but how cool was that? That's cool. I mean, she's like smiling and everything, and she was like, she just wanted to tell you how much she appreciated, you know, your how nice you were too.

SPEAKER_03:

We get a lot of pastors like that, like then I've gotten led that too, where it's like, you know, they come on and it's like this family, they're like, Oh, you're on our flight, like you know, a week ago or whatever. And I'm like, I can't remember yesterday.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't even remember exactly.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I was right. But you know, they had a great time. But they had a great time and they remembered you and all this stuff. And I had this one family, just this like key my memory here, but I had this one family, it was for I and I want to say it was three or four years in a row. Every year, I took them to Cancun.

SPEAKER_02:

That happens a lot.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, like they were like we were like filming. But the GR person. Yeah, to put it like a unicorn. Exactly. That kind of I mean they were they they were some special people, right?

SPEAKER_00:

That that many times.

SPEAKER_03:

Shawnee's like a unicorn. Hey, speaking about which, you know, like uh our vacation and stuff just came out, and so you know how much vacation I earned last year? Like two days. No, I got 20. I got 20 days. Okay. So 20 days is pretty good. That's not bad. Carol was like calling me, she was like, Yeah, you only have 20 days, and normally people that are out there listening, like, we're senior flight attendants. So, like here at our airline, I normally have about 46 days of vacation, which sounds like crazy insane, but um yeah, that's what we get here. And so to go from 46 to 20, Carol's like, Well, you know, we're not gonna have much vacation. I said, Oh, believe me, we'll be on vacation. You're always on vacation.

SPEAKER_02:

You know, I'm sitting here thinking that I just did a 20-hour two-day trip.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

20 hours of that's flight hours, folks. In two days. All right. The flight in, I swear to God, it was like the golden corral up front.

SPEAKER_03:

No.

SPEAKER_02:

Every freaking every glass was gone. One leg. One leg.

SPEAKER_03:

I had that the other day too.

SPEAKER_02:

For you to do that, that's that's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03:

This that like we went down to we were going to Cancun. Going down to Cancun, dude, they drank from the second they got on to the second they got off. I mean, to the last second where we were like pulling the drinks out of their hand. They were drinking everything. I had to like restock from the back. I had no much no more liquor.

SPEAKER_02:

Did you see that can Air Canada is gonna start giving to them for free? Giving uh alcohol? Alcohol. Wow. That's crazy. You know what the shit you're gonna see. We're gonna have a lot to talk about. Yeah. We're gonna have a lot to talk about, Air Canada.

SPEAKER_03:

Some news coming.

SPEAKER_02:

I guarantee you. There's a lot of stuff coming out of that one. I guarantee you.

SPEAKER_03:

Right.

SPEAKER_02:

But then uh this this was hilarious. Do you know when the little kids come on board?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, so the family, the family comes on board. Love it. And so you got the you got this little boy's like three, and the little girl, she she's like three or four, and then they're their last one's boarding, right? Yeah, everybody's waiting for them. And we're like, hey, how you doing? The little boy just That's not a little boy, that's a germ bug. He is hacking up a lung, right? And then this is what teachers and shit have to deal with. Right behind him, the little girl is Hackathha herself. Oh my god. Now, they're walking in like they had t-shirts saying, I'm Cyrus the virus, and typhoid Mary.

SPEAKER_03:

You got that right. I'm not getting you. Dude, were you handing them like those uh sanitary wipes and and a mask had to go with it? Hell no.

SPEAKER_02:

I was watching people's faces. Have you ever watched a whole row of people? A little kid watched it. You know how a little kid kind of spins his head around, yeah, and he doesn't even he does not put his hand over his mouth. And he's like, you know, he's just like turning left and right, and this kid is oblivious, and everybody's thinking, oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_03:

Skewing germs everywhere, just all the way through the we've all got COVID now. Thanks, shithead.

SPEAKER_02:

I was dying, man. It was so funny. And your sister, too. If you guys could see the expressions on these people's faces, right? They're like putting their like their hand covering their own faces, gonna stop.

SPEAKER_03:

Some of those people probably ask you for masks.

SPEAKER_02:

It was too late, man. It was too Cyrus had already gone through the cabin.

SPEAKER_03:

Typhoon Mary and Cyrus is gotcha.

SPEAKER_02:

Hey, before we get to the I gotta talk about Mountain Dew here in a minute. Mountain Dew?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, Mountain Dew. That's Carol's favorite. And that's exactly why I had to talk. Did you know? Wait, wait, before you do this, I gotta let people know because people don't know this about my wife. But Lily, like she doesn't drink a lot of alcohol. I mean, if anything, just like very rarely on occasion, she'll have one drink. But every day she doesn't drink coffee, she drinks Mountain Dew.

SPEAKER_02:

And a certain size of Mountain Dew.

SPEAKER_03:

And the whole entire base here knows that she drinks Mountain Dew. Like this is legendary. Yeah, watch this. How many ounces? Oh, it has to be a 20-ounce bottle. Yeah, you can't. She only drinks 20 ounce bottles in the morning because she can't. If it was a you purchase a we can purchase a 24 at the store, or you can put a 16 ounce at the store, but no, she has to have 20 ounces.

SPEAKER_01:

He's not lying.

SPEAKER_03:

And then she has to go get a at a vending machine every day, every every morning.

SPEAKER_02:

It's a ritual.

SPEAKER_03:

It's freaking asinine.

SPEAKER_02:

But anyway, had to talk about this because Mountain Dew was never made to be a soda. Really? Never made to be a soda. It was actually developed in Tennessee as a citrus soda designed to pair with whiskey. That makes sense. Yep. It was the Hartman brothers. They in back in the 1940s. I did not know this, and I thought it was so cool because you know, Swinny, you know, she she's a big mountain dewer. Yeah. Right? We and we have different flight attendants. They love actually, they love Mountain Dew. Carol is a huge Mountain Dew person.

SPEAKER_03:

Mountain Dew. I mean, it's in our refrigerator. We always I have it stocked. Like if I get to the point where it's like there's less than like 10 cans in the house, like she's having like, I don't know if sometimes she can't even go to sleep. Right. Like she's like, I don't know if I'm gonna have nothing to have Mountain Dew. You gotta get to the store. Hurry up and get to the store. Go buy me some Mountain Dew. I'm having nightmares. Like I'll go to the store and like the you know, a case of mountain, like a 12 pack of Mountain Dew can be if you find full price here around in our area, it's like uh it could be like almost 10 bucks for the 12 cans. And I'm like, I'm not paying$10 for a can, 12 cans of the month.

SPEAKER_02:

I could just I just imagine Carol's meltdown. She goes down, she'd go down to the vending machine and it would be out of order.

SPEAKER_03:

No, what she does is she looks at me and she gives me that big attitude and she's like, I'm worth it. Well, you know, yeah, you get it exactly. She's like, Why just buy it? I'm worth it. And I'm like, all right, all right, all right. But I'm like, you know, I'm always trying to catch it on sale because they have like those sales that's like buy three, you know, buy two, get three free. Right. You know, okay, now I'm spending twenty bucks for a cake two and a half cases of Mountain Dew. I'm in. So when I when I looked at this That sound like G there, man. I'm getting tight like you. That was a dig.

SPEAKER_02:

That was I I just saw it and I had to take it. That's okay. Jimmy Z, remember non flying individual over here. But hey, that's They had some of the really cool names. Tokyo Tea. Tokyo Tea. That's their version of the Long Island Iced Tea with Mountain Dew. Yeah. And then they had look at the Mountain Dew Mojito.

SPEAKER_03:

Mountain Dew Mojito. Mountain Dew with some rum in it and some mint. Mountain cider high. Wow. Dew with apple cider. I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know about that one either. Yeah. All right, how about this one? This this is definitely a flight attendant thing. Dew jungle juice. Yes. Yes. That would be a flight attendant thing.

SPEAKER_03:

We would be doing that. If we had do on the plane, it'd be doo juice. It would be in DeSante bottles. Dew juice. Bottled by Desante.

SPEAKER_02:

All right. And then you got the traditional bourbon and do. Yeah. That's that's cool. I like this one though. Do me dirty. Do me dirty. I don't even know what that is, but all right. I'm in. And the last one, do tequila slammer. Now, have did you ever do slammers? Yeah, you know, you know I have. Are you kidding me? No, in college. You know, we was in college. We used to do, they called them, they're not Alabama slammers, but they what they did is they'd put whiskey with Mountain Dew, slam it on the slam it on the counter and throw it down.

SPEAKER_03:

Down it. Yeah. I mean, I did slammers of all different sorts. Big mouthful of fizz. Yeah. And you're like belching.

SPEAKER_02:

But hey, Mountain Dew, man, it was not made to just be a soda. Yeah. That is a that's a staple in my life. And I gotta throw a couple of these. You're gonna love these little tips. Okay. You got stainless steel? Stainless, of course. Okay. This is just a tip. I had to throw it in there because uh last week I've had this stupid mark, uh, this water mark going down my stainless steel of the dishwasher. Damn thing. I could not get, man, I used to stainless steel. Just listen. Okay. Now I was trying all these different products on there because I was worried about scratching it. You know, I didn't I it was just a water stain. So I used, and which I already know, barkeeper's friend. I love barkeeper's friend, but I shit I wasn't thinking about you know the regular um non-abrasive barkeeper's friend shaking it out and doing it because I was still nervous about it being on the stainless steel. Um, so I went and got barkeeper's friend, they have a foam scrub, like you just spray it on there. Damn, Sean. I mean, that shit was so fast, so clean. A quick rinse off and the stainless steel, you guys looked freaking phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03:

Barkeeper's friend should spot we should have that sponsor on our on our site. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I love that shit. This this next one, too, is gonna same thing. But Barkeeper's Friend, you guys, two of them, right? I mean, both of them, the shaker and now the phone.

SPEAKER_03:

The scrub, the soft scrub, the I I use it all. I have it all. The powder, the foam, the soft scrub, everything.

SPEAKER_02:

But if you guys have any issues with stainless steel, like refrigerators, you know, the stains or anything like that, get Barkeeper's Friend foam, or you could use a shaker because, you know, it is non-abrasive, but man, it is phenomenal on your on your stainless steel uh refrigerator. It's brand new. Yeah, it does. I mean, really, I just loved it.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, I was like, damn, this that's my pots and pans, I use it on. Like, Carol doesn't like to uh clean it because you need to use a little bit of elbow grease. Yeah, you know, but it's like you you get in there and you script that stuff and barkeeper, you rinse it off and it's like it's like showroom. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Dude, I was like, damn. Now, do you do you ever use have you ever heard of Fels Napa? No. Okay, Fel'Nappa, you guys, for stains in your clothes, especially uh, you know, if you get anything on your collars or or your shirt or anything, it all it is is it's a bar, and it's over in the um the detergent aisle of any grocery store, and it's just a bar. It's like a couple bucks.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

You take that thing, it's a big long bar, you know, put it, you know, put it on any stain, and it gets that shit right out. Really? Yeah, it's incredible. It's fell's Napa. It's it's a bar that you guys have to try to use. It's a staple in our house, man. This thing is incredible for stains and clothing. Dude, man, like my collars are my shirt, first of all, like the ring around the collar. Fels Napa, brother. I'm telling you, use Felsnappa, it will, it will take it out.

SPEAKER_03:

I used to have uh the Clorox had a uh had this spray many, many years ago that it was like it was the shit of spray. Like, I mean, you take that spray and you spray it on, you can watch the ring around the collar disappear. Really? It was amazing, man. And then they pulled it off the market. Why? Because it was too not ecologically whatever, you know, and all that stuff. And so I'm like, label it that way and let who wants to buy it buy it. Right and keep making the shit, you know. Like people were buying it. Because it worked, it worked, yeah. And then all of a sudden, boom. Now I had to figure out a different solution.

SPEAKER_02:

Now, this this last one's Napa. This last one you're gonna have to tell me if you know. Now, do you ever starch your shirts? Yeah. Okay, how do you do it?

SPEAKER_03:

Um starch it and then iron it. How do well? So here's here's the thing. So I've been ironing since I've been a teenager. Mom knows this. Um, but normally, like I like to spray my shirts first, and and then I let them hang a little bit, you know, a few minutes or so, and then I iron them. Because if you do, if you don't let it soak into the material, you're gonna get flaking. And even in a no-flake starch and all that stuff that they have out now, too. It's like you have possibly you can get flaking. And so you don't get flaking if you just like I just hang it up on a hanger, spray it, and then iron my shirt. All right.

SPEAKER_02:

I knew you were gonna get that one right because um I learned it from a military guy. And I well, I know, I know, and and and I I give you props on it because I knew you I knew you were gonna get it. But what it was is that I always had that same problem, that flaking and all that shit on your shirt and everything.

SPEAKER_03:

You just iron it too soon.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, so you you take this heavy spray start, spray your shirt, and just let I go a little bit farther. I spray like three shirts at a time and I let them dry, completely dry. Yeah, don't you don't need to let them dry. But if you do, I mean I'm just telling you, if you let them dry and then you go to iron them, I'm telling you guys, man, what a huge difference.

SPEAKER_03:

It looks like you're coming up back from the cleaners, right?

SPEAKER_02:

It's such a big difference.

SPEAKER_03:

You get nice, nice creases in your shirt and all this stuff. You don't have to spray just the crease just to get that sharpness. It will come exactly like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But yeah, but I've been doing that since just had to cover that because I mean a lot of people don't know. I mean, there's certain little tips that we come across. I think that everybody, if you come across something that you know works, hey, send it to an email and we'll share it because we love we love sharing tips too.

SPEAKER_03:

We love stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I mean, we do love sharing tips. So anyway, we're gonna move on, and I gotta tell you about what happened in uh one of the bathrooms in the back.

SPEAKER_03:

What happened?

SPEAKER_02:

So this girl opens a bathroom, she's like, uh, can you help me?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't know about where's this going? Help you do what?

SPEAKER_02:

I was waiting for that. So she she goes, I my phone fell. Yeah, where she said it fell in the toilet. Sucks be you. And I said, wait a minute, let me see. And then I looked. And and I I looked at it and she goes, Well, it it fell into something.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, it's laying in the shit. Are you kidding me? And she's asking you to help. I looked at her and I said, No, I'm sorry, that's yours too. Yeah. So it might be time to buy a new iPhone.

SPEAKER_02:

I said, I'm gonna give you some gloves and you're you're gonna have to get it out yourself. And I said, the only thing you can pray for is that the the the power outlet part didn't end up in it.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh god, can you imagine this? Like all the speaker holes and all that shit.

SPEAKER_01:

It was super funny.

SPEAKER_03:

That reminds me of like this uh, so I gotta give you the story. So you know the on shoes, the brand on. So on has those little like their heels have those little tubes on it, on them, you know, going down. And then in the center of your shoe, there's kind of like a cavity that the those little holes are open, right? So I get a brand new pair. This is like the first time I've ever had on's, and I'm going running out and all this stuff, and I'm doing doing so. I think I was doing uh a photo exercise or something like that. But I'm driving around trying to get photos and stuff. I step on, I go behind this church, I step out of the car, I go running over, I take this picture, I'm running through this grass, I take this picture, I come running back to my car, I get in my car, and I'm like I'm like, oh shit. What the hell is that smell? And dude, just like you're saying, like the phone like falling in the toilet, I stepped in the fucking most recent pile of shit right in the center of my shoe. It injected down all those little holes in the on, and I had little tooth cake shit in my fucking brand new awns. I couldn't even return it. Oh, dude. I was like, and then then I'm like, so you can't just like scrape it off, right? Like I literally put my took my shoes off, put them in like a uh grocery bag, and drove home immediately as I was like washing them off with the hose outside my house.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my god, between you and her phone, my face is hurting.

SPEAKER_03:

Dude, it is it was so it was a shitty situation. I'm just telling you. Everybody stepped in shit, too.

SPEAKER_02:

Everybody's done it. Everybody has stepped in shit.

SPEAKER_03:

I just was on the golf course like Wednesday, and like I get into golf, like I got my new cart and everything. I get in the car, I look down, there's this giant goose shit in on my foot and on the floor thing, like green grass goose shit. You you hate geese. I hate fucking geese. Kill those motherfuckers. Oh my god. Anyhow, let's quit talking about shit. But anyway, that girl's phone, man.

SPEAKER_01:

My face is actually hurting because I'm laughing so hard. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_03:

That girl's phone is she's it was in the shit. Hey, I would have flushed the shit and just got a new one. I'm sorry. Screw it. I ain't doing it. There's certain points of no return, like it's like you've dropped in an ocean. Oops. It happens on the airplane.

SPEAKER_01:

Be careful where you set your phone.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. You can recover your information. That's a wonderful thing about a cloud.

SPEAKER_01:

All right. Have you ever had a passenger? They have like um a crazy way of sleeping.

SPEAKER_03:

Crazy way of sleeping? Yeah on the plane? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Have you ever had anybody with their eyes open?

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, dude.

SPEAKER_01:

That's scary. We had somebody with their eyes open, I was like, oh, damn.

SPEAKER_03:

Are they dead? My dad used to sleep that way. So when I was young, like he'd be sitting there and he'd like, it's they'd be like halfway open. So it's like he's they're just like barely halfway close, but they never ever completely close. And he's sitting there snoring. So you never knew if he was really looking at you or not looking at you.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. But on an airplane, on an airplane, their eyes are open, and you you start wondering, I was like, are they breathing?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. CPR?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, because it's it's that glassed over look, too, you know. So it's like you don't know if they're like really with you or not. Could you imagine if you were say that you were dating somebody?

SPEAKER_02:

Right? I ain't dating that shit. No, I'm just telling you right now. You're dating them, right? You first time sleeping with them. Then you're like, oh man, that was a good night. Sitting there, we had a lot of fun, you know. You you roll over, you look, and all of a sudden, eyes wide open looking at you. Dude, that just reminds me of a saying.

SPEAKER_03:

Coyote ugly. Coyote ugly. You getting out of the bed. If nobody knows what coyote ugly is out there, that's where you wake up, you got somebody under your arm, and you that you're having a situation like that, and they're so ugly you just chew your arm off. Like a coyote.

SPEAKER_02:

This person, I swear to God, I thought we were gonna have to get the defibulator. I couldn't tell whether they were they were actually alive or or dead. But I've had that before at nighttime on a plane. That's scary as hell. You see them at night and the eyes are open. Dude.

SPEAKER_03:

It's like a horror movie. Eyes are like I so there's I love eyes. Like, I love when you see like pretty eyes, right? When you see people that have like, especially for myself, females with pretty eyes, you're just I'm like, wow, you know, they just I could sit there and stare at those eyes like all those that, but then there's some eyes that scare me, and those are like the half-open lives when they're sleeping. And the number one scary one to me are those bulbous eyes.

SPEAKER_02:

You know those ones that were like they look like they're literally popping out of their head. That's what hers were. That lady's eyes at night, man. They were like literally popping out of her head.

SPEAKER_03:

Like, you know how those people like can actually squeeze their eyes and their eyes literally pop out of their socket? Have you seen that? Now imagine that at night when you're doing a check.

SPEAKER_02:

Hell no. You're doing a cabin check, and next thing you know, you're seeing that.

SPEAKER_03:

Dude, that's like some scary mermaid shit. Exactly. They get you down to call you in, and all of a sudden pop out their eyes and look at you. Hear the music.

SPEAKER_02:

All right, man. We gotta talk about uh hotel layovers. So, you know, when you go in a hotel, do you what do you do what do you do? Do you normally just go in and and park your stuff and then start um now?

SPEAKER_03:

We're right back to doing the shit. It's routine, man. I get you get back to the room and it's like clockwork. You gotta do your business. So you don't check it first, you just go in there and dude. You sometimes it's like, you know, you gotta go in there and like I'm I'm ready to go. But no, I do check my rooms. So you go you blow the room up, then you go check it. Whoever's in there's gonna get out. You gotta have procedures here. How does that work?

SPEAKER_02:

See, I'm going to I'm going, I'm going for like checking the room and you're going for taking a shit. Are you kidding me? Seriously. You're like any flight attendant that walks in the room, all of a sudden you they close the door. That's right.

SPEAKER_03:

Trap gas is a bitch. It's painful too, don't like we should have like a segue right there and during our show where it's like a trap gas commercial.

SPEAKER_02:

Anyway, I go in. When I go in, I've got this routine though. I park my bag, I don't even look. I I go check for body hair.

SPEAKER_03:

I got body hair the showers. Oh, gotcha.

SPEAKER_02:

Because what I found is is like remember I told you in a podcast a long time ago, I I was sleeping and I found underpants underneath, I was sleeping at night and they were stuck on my foot. And you don't remember being with somebody? Not funny. Not funny. The maid just remade the bed. Somebody's underwear was in the bottom of the sheets. It was straight nasty. So from that point on, I check every freaking room. And if I see if I see body hairs in the shower or on the bathroom floor, I take a picture and I'm out of there. If I see the toilet, any body hairs or anything, I'm out of there. I check the water pressure, I check the toilet. I even check and see if the hairdryer is gonna work. Yeah. I pull the comforter back, I remove that because God knows what goes on in those comforters. Because they do not replace those. Yeah. Right? And then I do a carpet check and make sure that there's nothing falling on the carpet.

SPEAKER_03:

High tech, high intrusive sweep of the room.

SPEAKER_02:

Sean, if you had somebody's underpants on the bottom of your feet in the middle of the night and they weren't yours, you might either you've had a really good night or you've had something really nasty going on. Did I tell you that they were not mine?

SPEAKER_01:

And they they were somebody else's on the bottom. It was completely gross.

SPEAKER_02:

Yuck. So anyway, let's go around the globe. Around the globe, man. They had this 18-foot freaking tuna that it swum past. Now don't bring the mermaids in it, but this swung past this oil rig in the Gulf of America. Right? Possibly the largest ever filmed.

SPEAKER_03:

And it was a tuna. A tuna. I'd love to see that picture. 18 foot tuna. 18 foot tuna. First of all, that's scary, man. It's like jaws. Those tuna are aggressive. Huge. Yeah. I mean, they might an 18-foot tuna's looking at you like you're the minnow and I'm gonna eat ya. And it could. Exactly. Right?

SPEAKER_02:

It it can get trying to even get that damn thing in your boat.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and when they they they they swim in school, so they're like piranhas, man. Those those guys are rip you up.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't even think that you could land that thing. No. No. That thing would probably spin away.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, if you had a whaling ship. That's true. Yeah, a big sp a harpoon. An anchor. Right. Hooked it with an anchor. Exactly. There's no way. That's a big ass tuna. Dude, I hooked in I hooked in in uh Gulf of America out there deep sea fishing, right? We were I hooked into one of those um what's those big huge uh they look those weird looking tarpens? No, no, not tarpon. They're those like um I'm trying to think of the name of a fish. It's like this big, like it's like big one big giant flat fish. They got little tiny lips. You know what I'm talking about? No. Oh god, it'll come to me. Anyways, I mean they're monsters.

SPEAKER_02:

Are those the ones with the real pretty colors?

SPEAKER_03:

No, no, no, no. That's like a uh that's like a mahi mahi. But the um the oh what the hell is the name of the fish? Anyhow, it will come to me, but it is a and people out there shout out whoever it is, what the damn fish I'm talking about, but it's it's I mean, I got it up. We got it close. It came up close because it was kind of like just dragging, because I was just barely annoying it. And he comes up in this big big ass fish, like literally my buddy was like, cut the line, cut the line. We're not gonna be able to get this fish in. Like it was too big. It was huge, dude. Huge. Just throw it back, or just cut it.

SPEAKER_02:

That was that 18-foot tuna.

SPEAKER_03:

No, it wasn't a tuna. I can't think of the name of that fish. It would it would come to me. I'm gonna have to call my fishing buddy just to like remind me what the heck is the name of that fish. That's what happens when we get old. Yep.

SPEAKER_02:

Anyhow, what else been going on around globe? Well, they were talking about the airline captains, how much money they're starting to make. Man, they and and they were comparing them to uh to actually doctors. Oh yeah. They and the the amount of money that captains are making is translating like the the higher paid captains,$400,000,$500,000 a year. It's crazy. That is freaking crazy, dude.

SPEAKER_03:

We have them here.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

We have them here. I mean, that's uh that just goes to show you, like, I mean, first of all, what angers me about that is that the disparagement of like price, like, you know, in our industry, like from the back end to the front end, how much the difference of pay is. And I know that first of all, like you're talking comparing them now to a doctor. These guys have all these lives in their hands. Doctors have one person's life in their hand at a time, right? Right. And so here's this person that has multiple lives in their hand, and they're getting paid all this money. A lot of them aren't even college graduates, right? Right. And so, and then and then so because they are they have this stigma of the industry and that control and all that stuff, they're getting paid so much money, which bravo for them. But the disparagement of what we make in the back is just ridiculous because we don't make you know a blip of that. No.

SPEAKER_02:

So But you know something I will never down them because I tell you what, man, you ever land in Cleveland in the middle of wintertime with some nasty ass crosswinds? No, they'll make your butt pucker.

SPEAKER_03:

No, there's a lot of time. I mean, that's what they're like uh like us, we're getting paid for safety and those those instances that happen very rarely, but um, when they happen, we're everything they mean we're getting paid is we're earning the money, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Right? I mean they they earn their money. If you ever take a look at the distance between an aircraft wing and the ground and and your your room for error. No. Right? Yeah. So you if you wonder why they get paid what they pay, look at the wing, look at the ground, look at the wheel well, room for error. Right. None. Yeah, there's not much, man. No. So they they also had a uh a regional flight that was forced to return to Atlanta on Friday. Um, it it cabin failed to pressurize and the accident oxygen mass dropped. We remember we've had that before.

SPEAKER_03:

Dude, you know what? Now I'm reminiscing it again. Like back in the day, it was like it seemed like we had that all the time. That was not a rare instant where masks drop in a plane and stuff. Like I've had it several times. Turbully in our career.

SPEAKER_02:

Sometimes even in turbulence because the uh the the little latches weren't very good.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, they just like shake them and boom and they pop down, right? And you scream at everybody, don't pull them. Yeah, don't pull, don't pull them. Don't pull the mass. You know, some Joes pull on the mass. Just pull on the mass, man. Like, and for everybody out there, like oxygen mass, this is a good educational spot. Oxygen mass on some aircraft are chemically generated. So when you pull that mask, it pulls a pen that starts the generator, and that mask is done. Like you have to, and the aircraft's done wherever it parks because that they're not gonna go anywhere until it's replaced. So it's not a good idea. But then we have some of the older systems that it's a gaseous system where it's just like turning on uh water boss, you know, so you pull the mask and it just gives you a mask off of a big tank. But for the most time, most part now it's all chemical. Right. The newer planes.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, also uh Luftanza, they this goes back to what we were talking about last week with AI, right? Uh the Lufthansa plans to eliminate 4,000 administrative roles due to exactly what you were talking about, AI.

SPEAKER_03:

AI. Right? AI is scary, man. I mean, there's there's there's administrative roles that are can be replaced because there's like jobs. If you're in a job where you can easily be replaced by a robot, I mean gonna be replaced. You need to start thinking about a new career.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. I mean, when you're coming fast, yeah, exactly. I mean, and they're talking about by what 2030. Yes, that's right around the corner.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, you need to learn how to control that robot. Then you got a new job. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So then they they also had uh they had so many things go on this week. We only picked a few of them out, but they had a collision between uh two aircraft, low speed incident that injured one flight attendant.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I just wanted to talk about that a little bit. The the uh, you know, people don't realize, you know, we're always talking about seat belts and all that stuff, but you know, here's a low speed, and we would say low speed, they were taxing on the runway, and the two planes collided, and that collision of impact, the flight tens are up, we're walking around and doing our jobs, doing our safety duties, doing our checks, all that stuff, and all of a sudden we get a collision, we're flying through the cabin. You know, now we're like, you know, jet disin through our cabin, hitting whatever. I mean, we have I have a close friend. This happened. Uh it wasn't even a collision. The there was a near miss where the plane cut in front of another plane, and that plane she was on had to slam on the brakes, and they were walking through the camera. She went flying through the cabin, hit her head on a C-res, had a brain bleed. Right. You know, like these things can happen like in an instant.

SPEAKER_02:

How many passengers have you seen just like that when they slammed the brakes on, took their took their seatbelt off, right? And at the bulkhead seat, and they almost slammed right into the wall. Oh, yeah. Because because we they they slam on the brakes because exactly what you just said, somebody just cut us off. They have no idea.

SPEAKER_03:

Like, I mean, all these incident instances happen in a split second. Yep. And you just you gotta be prepared for arm movement. But the simple thing is put your seatbelt on. Put your seatbelt on.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_03:

All right, Sean, give us the inspirational quote. Inspirational quote. So the elevator to success is out of order. You will have to use the stairs one step at a time. Amen, brother. Right. Yeah, yeah, man. You know what? You you you don't just get success overnight. You gotta work at it.

SPEAKER_02:

No, step by step. We're a work in progress all the time.

SPEAKER_03:

We are a work in progress.

SPEAKER_02:

But hey, listen, I wanted to tell your mom, hey, thanks for being my one fan. Number one fan. I got at least one.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. I think you need to start a fan group. You know, a fan. I'm gonna ask the mom if she wants to be president. She might.

SPEAKER_02:

President. She's got you're just jealous now because your mom wants to be president of my fans bucket.

SPEAKER_03:

She got time.

SPEAKER_02:

Hey guys, we had a great time. I can't wait to do this again next week.

SPEAKER_03:

All right, man, me too. I'm I'm looking forward to our next show and everything. Thanks for listening to us. We are gonna see you next week. See you next week, guys. Bye. Thanks for flying with us today on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. If you laughed, learned, or just enjoyed hanging out. Don't keep it to yourself. Tell a friend. Share the love and help us grow this crazy ride. Want to support the show and help us reach our goal of launching video by the end of the year? Check out our official merch at cabin pressure merch.com. From teas to travel goodies, every purchase helps the cabin pressurize and banter flow. Until next time, keep your seatbelt fastened, your tray tables up, and your sense of humor on stamp. Bye.

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