Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

Turnips, Turbulence, and False Memories

Shawn & G Episode 57

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Ever watch a safety drill and wonder what it feels like on the other side? We open with the grit behind flight attendant recurrent training—peer pressure, tiny procedural details, and the CPR updates that never seem to stop—then shift gears into the strange-but-true world of October: presidents born this month, why black and orange became the season’s colors, and how Irish turnips morphed into American pumpkins. Along the way, we call out the difference between real service animals and entitled passengers, laugh at wheelchair pre‑boarding grifters, and shake our heads at the chaos that erupts when two brand‑new gate agents are left to run a flight alone.

Memory plays tricks on all of us, and we compare notes on how confidently wrong a story can feel when our brains fill gaps—backed by research and a few friendly fact checks from a die‑hard fan. Then it’s a fast tour of aviation oddities and global headlines: a bomb threat posted from a seat in Singapore, a million pounds of cocaine seized at sea, a 15‑mask meltdown, China’s jaw‑dropping glass bridge with a waterfall and elevator, and one traveler who tried to flex “Global Service” status with… an Explorer card. The jaw‑dropper? A passenger sentenced to six months of community detention for excessive kissing on a packed flight.

We wrap with a simple ethic for tight spaces: respect trained service dogs, ask us to move you if needed, and save the drama for the destination. If you like a mix of real airline life, curious history, and sharp humor, you’re in the right cabin. Subscribe, share this with a travel‑obsessed friend, and drop your wildest airport or Halloween memory in a review—we might read it on the next show.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome back, folks. This is G. It's October. I spent the entire day doing fall cleanup, raking leaves, trimming hedges, sun up the sundown. Man, I'm exhausted.

SPEAKER_01:

And I'm Sean. Gee, didn't you have a run-in with someone who apparently thinks service animals are optional?

SPEAKER_00:

Man, don't get me started. Some people think their personal space is more important than, let's say, the law.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I got to deal with the world's worst driver and watch Road Crew basically cosplay as a traffic done. So basically a normal Tuesday in life.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, buckle up, everyone, because today we're diving into fake memories your brain makes up, presidential birthdays, why people used to carve turnips instead of pumpkins, and a guy who got kicked off the plane for you guessed it, kissing his girlfriend way too much.

SPEAKER_01:

Too much kissing on a plane?

SPEAKER_00:

Is that even possible? Six months of community detection kind of possible.

SPEAKER_01:

All right. Now I'm interested. Let's do this. Hello. Yeah. Here we are today, people. G was not expecting that one. He just was he was expecting way more. I'm I'm sitting here in disbelief right now. I know. You know, sometimes simple's good. Simple. Simple intros. I don't think you could got more simple than that.

unknown:

That's right.

SPEAKER_01:

Hey uh, so man, I just got back from recurrent training.

SPEAKER_00:

That that's a lot of fun, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's a fucking blast.

SPEAKER_00:

What do you okay? Now, every flight attendant that knows about recurrent training, what do you think the the big deal? We've done this for years.

SPEAKER_01:

Years. It's funny that you didn't even say that because when we checked into this year for uh recurrent training, you had to like scan your badge. Right. You know, like they're in the stupid scanning badge shit. And uh it pops up, boom, right? Like the whole class is standing there, boom, scam a badge, boom. 36 years. Wow, there you go. I'm like, wait a minute, wow, I've done this 36 times. You know, this is crazy. I mean, like, so our recurrent training used to be once a year, but now it just recently changed to every 18 months. So one and a half years. And you used to be a trainer. Yeah, and I used to be a trainer too. So it wasn't like recurrent, I don't get whacked out about recurrent training. It's just like, you know, I give myself the night before, I do a little review, brush up on stuff that I don't do every day, you know, but what we're trained to do, and uh just step into it. And usually it goes just fine.

SPEAKER_00:

I think with recurrent training, though, with the flight attendants, a lot of times when you're um you're it's it's like peer pressure, don't you think? I mean, because you're sitting there, and a lot of times you don't know these people that you're with, but you're sitting there and and it's it's that personal evaluation as they're watching you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I don't want to be the dummy in the room. That's what I'm saying. I know, like, like I don't want to be the dumbest person in the room. Yeah, and we always know know that when you get there, like, and this is for any class, like anything you do in life, like you get there and you got that one numb school.

SPEAKER_00:

You don't want to be the one that they walk back in the room going, uh, I don't what's his name? Because I don't want to fly with his ass.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, yeah, no doubt. Like, I mean, uh, there was we had that one numb school, and you know, she was like she was looking at emergency equipment like she had first seen it, and she was that she'd been doing it for more than 25 years. Right. And she was like looking at like picking up a fire extinguisher like, oh, what is this? That's a scary thing. It's scary. It's scary, man. I'm just like, yeah, you know, we've all experienced it and we've all seen those type of people.

SPEAKER_00:

It is good though. I mean, for it's good for a catch-up, though. I mean, you go back and and kind of um uh you you look at some of the things you've already known, but it kind of refreshes in your head.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, it keeps you kind of up to date too. Like the one thing that is just like mind-boggling to me is like through our career, like in the last 35 years for us, right? How many damn times has CPR changed? Like CPR changes like every year. Yeah, and this is not like for just our industry, it's like this is worldwide. Like, it's every time it's changing, and I'm like, it it boggles my mind like, why is it now this? It's kind of like reminds me of like COVID, you know, like, oh, you know, we everybody's gotta put on masks, and you know, and then they were like, you know, everybody's gonna get shot, and no, the shot's terrible, you know, like they're changing their mind constantly. Every day they were changing their mind like during COVID, they do the same thing with CPR, and it's just it boggles my mind, man.

SPEAKER_00:

What's funny is is you did CPR actually on a passenger. I I assisted CPR numerous times on the airplane. And if you ever seen some of the the Cleveland Clinic doctors, I mean, when we get in a situation we had, man, they're jump this lady jumped on top of this dude's chest, started compressions right away. Right after the the whole thing saved this guy's life, okay, in flight. Uh and afterwards, I was talking to her and I said, you know, before it was like, you know, give two rescue breaths and then start compressions. Right. And she was like, if there's no blood moving, doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Right. So I mean, she was just, I mean, and she she was pounding this dude. Well, okay. And it saved his life. But, you know, and it just makes sense, and you're right. They've they've changed it so much from the time that we started now.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just that's my one thing that every year I'm like, what are we doing this year? Yeah. Because it changes every time. And now, like, right, the the the going trend right now is you know, if you're older than 12, all you do is chest compressions. Period. So that's it. You you identify it, and this person needs CPR, and boom, you start doing chest compressions until you get the person can gets woken up, or you get an AD there to help you out, or all that good stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

It goes back to that what I just said, what she said about the blood.

SPEAKER_01:

But then everybody underneath that, so 12 years and below, yeah, we do the standard 30 and two breaths. You know, so I'm like, it's just interesting. Like every, you know, every year this changes. And so that's one thing I'm like, I gotta over what are we doing this year? Because I don't know what whatever.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, this is what I gotta do.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm doing it. Cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Don't you hate when you gotta go back though? I mean, you you you screw up that little bitty one thing. Yeah. And then you gotta go back. I have that's a bucket of sucks.

SPEAKER_01:

I haven't I don't think I've ever gone back in my career on anything. This year I thought I was gonna go back on one, I thought I blew it on one of my drills, but um, I haven't had to go back um ever. But, you know, it's not anything like you know, it could happen to anybody. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, it's not because I'm not saying that like, oh, I'm Superman or thing like that, but it's just you know, anybody can you can screw up a command, you can screw up a procedure or whatever, and they'll make you it's as simple as a what mine was was the first time I ever had to go back was the last time, and what it was was on an aircraft that I'm not usually on, but it was simply this it was an assist handle. Yeah, didn't grab didn't grab assist handle. Yeah, I was grabbing hold of something else, but not the the required assist to handle. Yeah. So so you know, I mean, but I I mean I get it, but uh still going back.

SPEAKER_01:

I gotta tell you, like, you know, for people that don't aren't airline familiar and everything, you know, the assist handle on the plane is like this every door has its handle, there are handles all over the doors that we're supposed to hold on to so we don't get pushed out during evacuation, right? Right. So, but here's my thing, my problem with him. Like, I'm a big ass dude. Yep. And then the spaces they want us to stand in, we don't fit. Yeah, no kidding, no way. And I'm like, people ain't gonna be knocking me off the plane. Oh, yeah. I'll be knocking people off the plane, but I'm not gonna be knocked off the plane. Yeah, like I'm gonna be protecting myself, period. You know, like you and I it's just gonna be natural instincts for us to defend ourselves and keep ourselves safe, right? Um, and if they could see that, that we're at least trying to stand out of the way or whatever, but she's like, this instructor less that I just had yesterday. She was like, you know, you should stand in there. I'm I'm trying to put my body in there. I'm like, I I don't fit. I don't I can't fit in this spot, right?

SPEAKER_00:

I'm like, 210, are you shitting me? There ain't no way in hell I'm going in that spot. I mean, they're they're they're looking at themselves and they're like a buck five.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I mean, these tiny gags and stuff, they can squeeze into there, but not me. Not you and I.

SPEAKER_00:

Nope. Oh no. We're just throwing people out the out out the door. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01:

It's crazy. Anyhow, uh, so that was that was yesterday. And uh today, man, I've been had to go do some car shuffling because we're like, you know, getting new cars and switching cars and getting rid of cars and all this stuff. And we're trying to tune up these cars because we gotta drive one of our cars for a longer period of time than we were anticipating. But anyhow, I need to get new tires on this stupid car, even though I'm gonna get rid of this car because it's gonna be winter and we're gonna be driving in during the winter. Yeah. So I'm looking at these tires and stuff, and tires, man, are just they are such a so crazy. Crazy, man. I I've done prices, right? Well, I'm not just talking prices, it's just like there's so much variables to a tire out there. Like uh, I was talking to uh G um G Dub, and he I was he was talking about his tires on his car and everything, and he's got like performance tires, and then these, you know, those little skinny tires, big rims, and all that stuff. But then he has to, you know, in northeast Ohio, you need to change out those tires, and you're not gonna make it through the winter if you plan on driving that car in the winter. And uh, so he has like two sets of wheels, which is expensive as shit, right? And so I'm like, I was like, wow, the tires are so freaking ridiculous right now. And I just I did I don't know. I was just I had to go through this whole thing with these tires, and I was like, uh, and then I got I have like run flats, so then those are special, and then they got special valves and special prices, yeah. Special prices, and then they got like, you know, and then my you know, I got a high performance vehicle. And so have you ever been to a place where they balance your tires and you you drive the damn thing off and they're wobbling? No. It's happened to me, it's happened to me where I've like I've had my wheels balanced and I'm like, why do I got a vibration, right? And I'm turning around and going back and like, what's going on? Because a lot of these garages, some of them aren't rated to even get do these high performance tires. So they have to have the right machines and right tools for the job. And some of these places don't have it. So if you're not going, if you're going to like some Joe shop, you know, like they might have it, they'll be like, Yeah, we'll do it. So you gotta pay more money. Yeah, I gotta go to a specific shop, you know. Like, so anyways, tires are a pain in the butt.

SPEAKER_00:

Mine is just a performance car.

SPEAKER_01:

So speaking about tires, man, I'm I'm driving here uh when we're doing the cars and everything, and there's this road crew, and they're down on River Sticks, you know where Riversticks is, but the this this road has a lot of like uh bumps and turns and blind spots that uh you turn on the road. And it just so happened this crew was working on I don't know what they were a power line or something like that, but it was right on a bump at a blind turn. And this dude in one of those damn pregnant roller skate cars, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, those little like little Suzuki, like like you barely two people could get into it, right? I don't even know if you could put a freaking wallet in the backseat, but um, it is this little dude, he's creeping up on the dude with the stop sign and literally just trying to like edge by him and he keeps rolling. The dude takes the stop sign and like tips it down and like puts it right in front of his windshield. That's how close he is to this dude. I'm like, what the fuck? Like, give these people some respect, they're doing a dangerous job already, and then now you're like encroaching on them. And man, like a supervisor's come running over from this other truck, and then now they're like on them, like they're like a team, they're ready to get on, and big girl comes out. I'm like, little Suzuki, pregnant roller skate, getting ready to get stomped. Stupid drivers, stupid driver. He was stupid as hell, and then he like goes through the past when we finally get to go, to go around, and then he stops that the other guy with the sign, like saying stop, and he's complaining to that guy about the crew back there. I'm like, you fucking idiot? Like you're an idiot. There's so many idiots on the road. There is. I know everybody has seen an idiot every day. Every day, every single day. God, like it tried drives me crazy. But here's the last thing that happened to me today. Um so I'm checking out this, you know, local the neighborhood website thing, and I see that my surgeon that just did my um tooth replacement, he put in like a you know, uh uh what's the freaking implant. Put an implant in, right? So then my oral surgeon put in put this implant. Supposed to be very reptable here in Medina, right up to the thing. I don't know. And um dude just killed somebody. I know killed him. Like, I mean, like how did he respond to that? I don't like I'm like, what? He's like he's he was he was supposed to be pulling three teeth and he tried to convince his guy that he needed to go under local anesthesia, put him under, guy never came out.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, so oh no, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

So he killed him yeah, doing his job. Like what he was just doing on the meeting freaking scary. And the crazy thing is that Carol and I both have been to the surgeon.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, see, when you first said it, I was like, okay, that's why I laugh. I was like, okay, so he killed somebody. Yeah, you're thinking like you know, that's even worse. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01:

That's even worse. It's worse. He was doing his job and killed somebody. That's even worse. Like, literally, like he's this big lawsuit's happening, they got this big, huge thing that happened at the end of the month here. State of Ohio's, you know, all these it's it's nut, but it's so creepy when both myself and my wife have all gone under state anesthesia with this guy and he just killed some dude.

SPEAKER_00:

Right? It'll be interesting though. Did he did he give him too much or what I mean? I don't know. That whole story's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I I feel I feel for doctors and yeah, because well, you don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, could does he have a heart condition? Did a person there's so many things on there?

SPEAKER_01:

Right, right. And the picture of the dude that was on there, I'm gonna tell you, he wasn't like the picture of health.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. But you okay, you first had me because you you you were talking about killing somebody. Right. And then I I was thinking, well, he he just went and killed somebody.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, everything I was doing, it all worked. Yeah. Because I had got you to where I wanted you.

SPEAKER_00:

What have you been up to, man? Oh my gosh. Uh, you okay, it's October. So fall cleanup. Man, I've been the other day, I w from sun up to sundown. That's all I did was trim bushes, hedges. I mean, I I've got freaking uh Japanese maples, I've got all kinds of trees. I had to prune stuff. I was constantly dragging this shit to the back of the property. I got two huge piles of stuff. And you you know, I mean, you're you're spent. I mean, seriously, I'm I'm not young. I'm 59, I'm in pretty decent shape, but shit, you're dragging that shit all the way to the back of property. I have like two, almost three acres of property, and I got a burning pit all the way in the back. And I was dragging this stuff constantly back and forth um, you know, across the lawn. And then I was about ready to get done, and I was like, I gotta mow. Because it's gonna rain. It's gonna rain into like two days, it's October. And if you don't, if you don't get out there and mow, you'll be bailing it.

SPEAKER_01:

It's raining all day today, right?

SPEAKER_00:

And so, you know, I was out there even longer, so sun up to sundown, man. I was I was knocking it out, man. It was crazy. You need to move. Yeah, I need to move. I need to move in your spare room, dude. Like, you got a nice deck and everything over here. I can just come play golf. It don't take much.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, dude, and I I literally, well the one thing like getting older and thinking about like retirement and all that stuff, you you start thinking about like your house and how it's set up, you know, and like first floor masters are a big deal to people, right? I mean, like everybody getting older wants first floor master, everybody wants to, you know, because stairs are a challenge, you know, all that stuff. Working outside. I don't even want to work outside ever again in my life, but you know, I mean, some people enjoy it and like do gardening and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

I I get that, you know, because it is relaxing and you're working with your hands and all that stuff, but you'll be hearing me each October come back here and tell you how much bullshit I was doing out in that yard. Yeah, but now you could at least said, Oh, you could share some space here, G, but you didn't. But let's talk about sharing space. Let around, G.

SPEAKER_01:

Where's the space? What you want behind that blanket over there?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that'll work. All right, this person was on a plane the other day, and it it was unbelievable. Now, this is gonna be for the golden retrievers, uh, you know, the people that are uh golden uh owners. This beautiful little golden retriever was uh a service animal laying at the bulkhead. And this person in the aisle seat, man, Sean, I'm telling you, what a nasty person. Did not want to share this space at all with this dog. This dog didn't do anything, just laid down. You know, a service animal, true service animal.

SPEAKER_01:

But then but the animal was in encroaching in their foot space or whatever? The tail. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Give me a break. Right? And and and all she did was bitch the whole time. And all I could think about was you're so lucky that that woman isn't like one of those people that like take a picture of you and send it out to every all those golden retriever owners because man, they just blow you up everywhere.

SPEAKER_01:

You know it. She wanted something. It's just bullshit. I mean, you know, it's those people that you run into every day, like you know, they see, oh, okay, I'm getting inconvenienced, so how can I twist this to make it like work for me to so I can get something out of this? And she was probably bitching, bitching, thinking that we as an airline are gonna give him something as compensation or some bullshit like that. You know, like I I can't stand people like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, well, we didn't give her anything.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Because I can't stand that because this was a true service animal, they're supposed to be on the aircraft, they're the best passengers we have most of the time. So, yeah, I mean it just it's just irritating. And all I can think about is man, you're you're you're lucky because if that woman would have snapped a picture of you and put it on some site, man, you you'd have been getting a lot of responses. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So she shouldn't have done it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. They had these two ladies, I seen this video, man. Did you see this one? So they were handicapped boarding, and uh and and they supposedly couldn't walk, but they walked over and and while they were waiting for their flight, and they walked over, stood in line, they got their food, and then they came back and then they sat back in their wheelchairs.

SPEAKER_01:

This is this is that wheelchair scamming thing. You know, like you they know that they can ask for a wheelchair and they're gonna get bored at first, so they bypass all the different like you know, priority customers and people that have like flown many, many miles, you know, but then they tick pick their big fat asses. If you've seen the video, they're both big fat asses and they wheel them out itself down and then they probably walked off the plane, right? You know, at the end. That's what they always do.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, they walked over from the food court, right? I mean, it it's uh it really is. I mean, it's kind of comical, but it's really unbelievable that that these people get away with this stuff. I mean, it it's crazy. I mean, the the people that actually need wheelchairs and they need to pre-board, and and these people just walk over, act like it's okay, they sit down and then then they just get in line to board. It it was just it was funny, comical, and also sad.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I mean we any given flight, I'd say like on a main line aircraft, it's like we have ten wheelchairs. Five, ten wheelchairs is kind of like an average type of thing, but I mean you some we exceed that. We've been up in twenties wheelchairs, and when you start getting those big high numbers like that, that's when you're like a certain percentage of these people are just scammers.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

It's just ridiculous. They were big time scammers, but people got video of them.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, you know, you're you're all all over the internet.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, they got video because they were making they were making a scene, probably.

SPEAKER_00:

No, they weren't even making a scene. They were just they it what it was was they were supposed that it was a pre-boarding thing, and these people were going, well, these guys were supposed to uh pre-board and sitting in wheelchairs, and they they got up out of the wheelchairs, walked over to the food court, got their food, stood in line, came back and sat in their wheelchairs and waited to board the plane.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's those people that have like built themselves up to get that privilege to be able to board early and all that stuff. And then here's these fat asses rolling in, bringing their Burger King with them.

SPEAKER_00:

You're gonna love this one though. So we're we're ready, we're ready to uh we just came in, right? Just dropped off our load of passengers. We're sitting there, and you know that after the cleaners are done, everybody's done, we're sitting there going, okay, why aren't we boarding? Right. So we go up, we go up, open up the door, there's the passengers in groups one, two, and three. They're all ready to go. Pilots are there, flight attendants are there, no gate agents.

SPEAKER_01:

No agents.

SPEAKER_00:

No agents.

SPEAKER_01:

That's gonna delay you.

SPEAKER_00:

So they they're calling these two agents. They're brand new. They've been there like two weeks. One of them uh is like in the concourse somewhere, the other one's on the other side of the security. So they they rushed this boarding, and you know, we're trying to get the plane out on time so these people get get on their way. And they the agent came down there and she's like put pointing at her at her uh her electronic device, telling us boarding complete, boarding complete. I'm like, boarding complete, yeah, but they're all the way up the jetway.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It doesn't matter that your boarding is complete. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Is that crazy?

SPEAKER_01:

That's stupid, man. I mean like people the pressures of the you know, the internal pressures of the organizations that out there try to get these agents to like board the aircraft and they got to do it in a certain time, and they have this window. And I get all that stuff, that DOT on time performance for the airline and all that stuff. But at the same time, you know, like life is life, shit happens, and you know, these delays and whatever the for whatever reason why they weren't there, who knows, whatever. But you can only do it so fast.

SPEAKER_00:

But the mistake that they made though truly was this they put two brand new people at the same gate. Well, that's stupid. And they they had no idea they were supposed to be there.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's kind of like you know, like we don't, you know, our airline doesn't put two brand new pilots in the cockpit. Nope. You know, like that there's rules and regulations against that, you know, like you can't do that. Now they could put five brand new flight attendants in the back. And they do. And they do. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

But flying a plane, no. All right. Did you know that did you know that your brain can actually generate false memories?

SPEAKER_01:

Like kinda, I guess. Think about that for a minute. Like false memories. Right. I mean, uh I yeah, for sure, because people hallucinate for people, you know, do all these weird stuff, but but like you can tricking yourself and giving yourself false memories of some sort. It's you know, like it I I I count this to the people like like I remember it this way and you remember it that way.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And one way is true.

SPEAKER_00:

That's exactly it. I mean, because when you when you yeah, when you start thinking about it and and all of a sudden you're like you create this false memory in your head going, um, yeah, no, it was it was black, it was black. And they're like, No, it wasn't black, man, it was red. Right. No, it wasn't. It was black. I swear, I swear it was black, right? So our brains actually create, I mean, we we actually create false memories. And it could have been like um like a certain dog or or or a cat or something like that, and then and we created something else in our head, and then later on in life, we actually tell this story, and the person that's when the person looks at you and says, mm-mm. That didn't happen. Nope. Didn't happen that way. No. So researchers, they did this, they actually planted these thoughts in people's heads. I thought it was really interesting that but you know, and the more I thought about it is I've I've told a story before, and you know, a person said, gee, that wasn't exactly it. Exactly how it happened, right? And you know, and and you think back and you're like, oh, you know, something to write. It wasn't like that. You created your own false memory in your head.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so yeah, and this is gonna be hilarious because your number one fan says that I don't always get my facts right on the show. I'm loving your mom already. But remember, remember this. It's just like we said, we both remember two different things, and she remembers it one way, and I remember it one way. No, what's the truth? I have no idea, whatever, but you know, like you know, that does happen. But yeah, that's it's interesting to think about for sure.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm loving the fact that I I've got a number one fan.

SPEAKER_01:

Right? I'm gonna have her show up here. I'm gonna go, I'm buying her our shirt and I'm putting number one fan right on it. There you go.

SPEAKER_00:

You can take a picture and send it. You have to post it. That's right. So, you know, it is October, and and I was sitting there thinking, I was like, you know, let's talk about October a little bit because this is this is actually a pretty cool month. Yeah. Lots of things happen in October. Did you know that October was the eighth month on the Roman calendar? Nope. Eighth. It's a tenth month now.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a tenth month now. Wow. Yeah. So that's like the calendar's changed that much over a long time.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. But it was they liked it so much, they liked Octo so much, they they just it decided to keep it. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah. Now, presidents that were born in October. Jimmy Carter, Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Adams. Did you know that? I didn't care about that. That's not very nice. All right, here's something you might care about. What is that? It's the most common birth months in the United States. That is right, yeah. Most common birth birth months. So you know what was going on during in January. January.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Isn't it nine months, G? Yeah, that's right. You're right. See? February. Oh, now it's February. Guess what, Sean?

SPEAKER_00:

You were wrong again.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, no. February, right? No, January. Everybody do the math. January.

SPEAKER_00:

What was going on in January?

SPEAKER_01:

Makes it nine. If you did it in January, it would be nine months.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but no, in January to October. You're a little slow. It's the tenth month, but you're in January. I was a premium. You need some help. Oh my god, you are killing me. Anyways. So they the the the pumpkin carving, this was crazy. Do you know instead of pumpkins what they used to carve? Nope. Turnips. Turnips? Yeah. What? Yeah, turnip. They used to carve carve a turnip. Now, could you imagine that? Think about think about that for a minute. Okay, Ichabod crane.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, I'm thinking shrunken heads. But Ichabod craze. Like big old pumpkin heads to now like these little tiny turnip heads.

SPEAKER_00:

Could you imagine? Could you imagine Ichabod Crane with a turnip head? I'm trying to figure out how the candle gets in the turnip. The scary face. Would you have the scary face sideways?

SPEAKER_01:

Like the turnip's only so big, right? It's like an onion size. But they said in Ireland they carved creepy faces into turnips.

SPEAKER_00:

Alright. Sounds crazy. That would be that would be tough. Right. But they what they did is they they it integrated into the United States and they switched it to pumpkins. Heck yeah. So that and now black and orange, right? Those are the traditional colors of of the the holiday, this this um this time of year, right? The halloween and the colors, uh the black symbol symbolizes death and darkness, and orange represents the war warmth of the harvest.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. The fall. The fall season. Yep. I love dude. I mean, I I would tell you, like, falls actually one of my favorite times of the year because it's just so pretty. Yeah. Everywhere, everywhere you go, even though it's that death and dying and everything's like, you know, uh going away and all that stuff, but the color changes, the temperature usually is nice, you know. Some areas are a little too wet, but but we talked about we talked about that last year.

SPEAKER_00:

The Northeast Ohio, everybody comes here to watch the the leaves change. Well, it's cool beautiful.

SPEAKER_01:

It's love I love flying into Northeast Ohio because it's like you have the uh I mean the the trees and everything are changing. There's all those fall colors, just like a blanket of like yellows and oranges and reds and greens. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_00:

So this time of year, there's always kind of masks, right? There's always there, there's like the skeleton mass. Yeah, they get the skeleton, and then you got like the um uh the scarecrows, right? Oh yeah. Got all the scarecrow stuff that's out. So years ago, in medieval times, the children and the poor adults would go door to door. It was called All Souls Day.

SPEAKER_01:

All Souls Day.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, all souls day. Yeah. Wonder what the intention behind that was. It was to offer prayers for the dead in exchange for food. Soul cakes. Soul cakes.

SPEAKER_01:

Soul cakes. Go ahead, man. You're gonna mean different things in different neighborhoods. That just took me back to uh um oh my gosh, there's a movie out there uh that that they're talking about hoe cakes. Not soul cakes.

SPEAKER_00:

Soul cakes and hoe cakes.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, soul cake and hoe cakes. But yeah, man. Some of them like the cakes, what type of cakes are in it? They're giving out. I have no idea, man. You got white cake neighborhoods, you got chocolate cake neighborhoods. See, man, I knew you were gonna go there.

SPEAKER_00:

I knew as soon as soon as they said soul cakes, you're gonna run with this one. Yeah. Okay, so later in the 20th century in the in the in the in America, the kids would threaten minor pranks unless that you gave them candy. There you go. That was that bag of shit on the doorstep. That was the the the treat that became a bribe. The trick or the treat. Yeah. Yeah. Now here's a fun one. Witches were believed to gain peak power in October. Peak power? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Huh. Wonder why. I don't know. That's interesting. Like peak power. Like there's like like the brooms are charged up at that time and ready to go. Fly a little faster. Like they had like jet propulsion ready to I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

That's where they revived it during the witch hunt. So that's where they get their power, right? Get their ass out of there.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. We got a place right down the road here called Salem. They weren't digging it.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh no. That was bad. Okay. Owls were once feared as omens of death. Omens of death. Yeah. An owl. Yeah. I can believe that though. I mean, owls are pretty, they're they're really cool, but they're kind of they're kind of.

SPEAKER_01:

They can be creepy and yeah, eerie. Especially when those heads like twist around and shit. Yeah. Like do that Linda Blair thing. Yeah. I said it. The jack-o'-lander comes from a myth about a man too too bad for hell. The legend of a stingy jack tells a man who tricked the devils multiple times. And uh when he died, heaven wouldn't take him.

SPEAKER_00:

And hell wouldn't either. That goes back to the Ichabod Crane, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, yeah. Kinda sorta. Like the uh I mean the Jack o' Lantern's that th those are some crazy, creepy things, dude, man. Like with the uh guy with the big old pumpkin head, like that's wild.

SPEAKER_00:

I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So and and the other thing, d did you know that here's the funny part. Halloween was actually a romantic holiday. A romantic holiday when in the 18th and 19th centuries. Okay. Young people would peel apples in a long strip and toss the uh they toss the peel over the shoulder, and whatever letter it formed was said to be the initial of their future spouse.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, that's that's kind of like tossing the the flowers at the bride's, you know, like then they toss the flower and oh boom, you catch the flower, you're gonna be married, you're the per next person to be married, type of thing. I guess. Yeah. An apple? They did it with an apple. That's crazy, dude. Man, things things changed for weird. You know what? You were talking about that Ichabod crane and all that stuff. My uh nieces just went on like a haunted hay ride, and you know, they were scared. They were scared, and like the hay ride like went through this whole thing, and like um, they had to get to a part where they were like finally go over the bridge and stuff, and then when they got there, it was like Ichabod cranes there, and he's like, Oh, you've made it and all this stuff, and you know, we're safe at this time, and then his head like slices off and falls off his shoulder. They were flipping out, and they're like, For real, how can they fake that? They can't fake that. We need to go to the haunted woods. Like, they yeah, that'd be cool. We need to do it, we'll do it. All right, we'll do it. Yeah, but it was like it was funny because uh my uh wife had just gone out there and they had done this, and I guess Mimi was she was like scared shitless, and but Reagan was convinced like she just saw somebody's head get cut off.

SPEAKER_00:

Good memory, Sean.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, now the last one we're gonna talk about with October is uh October 30th. It is the mischief night the night before, and it's also called the Devil's Night. The Devil's Night. It's the night before Halloween. It's often when the teens cause mischief. Now you know you did some shit when you were young. I didn't limit it to one day. Yeah, but did you did you ever do that in Halloween? You ever go like teepeeing or anything?

SPEAKER_01:

Nah, you know what? Most of the time I I didn't really like Halloween wasn't my jam. Like it was just, you know, I just I just wasn't that kid, like be into it. Some some kids are like like some of my friends and stuff, they were like way into it, and they always wanted to go trick-treating and all this stuff, and I just I just was not that guy. Yeah. But it it was it, you know, I do like like now today, I do like Halloween, but I like to watch the kids. Like, like we set up and we have Halloween in our neighborhood here, and just to watch the kids' reactions and stuff, they are so funny. And we're always trying to like tease the kids or something like that and get them to say crazy stuff. And uh, we've had some of the most craziest comments and stuff, like and then kids will like I got a big giant blow-up spider where you know we put a uh smoke machine under the spider, and when the kids come up, I push a little button, and then it's like spits smoke out of the spider's mouth, and like kids go crazy over like they love that type of stuff, and uh it was it was so funny.

SPEAKER_00:

But see, the the next week we are going to talk a lot about Halloween. We're gonna have like a spectacular. Spook tacular. Talk about all the scary stuff of Halloween. But this this week I wanted to talk about, like I said, I wanted to talk a little bit about October because there are so many things that that um that changed during October throughout the years and throughout history. And as you can see, it went it went from um it went from all souls night to now it's it's Halloween trick-or-treat, you get some candy and the kids have a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01:

How has Halloween changed for you over the years? Like ever since you were a kid to today? Like how do you how do you view it? Like your like overall view. The candy. The candy.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I mean, when you looked at it that to d today, years ago, you remember they there'd be people you'd show up and throw a frickin' apple in there. Yeah. And it hit the bottom of your damn bag or something. You're like, that was shit. Yeah. Right? Or you go somewhere and they have c they remember the popcorn balls? Dude, I yeah, with the popcorn balls. Yeah, we used to get a lot of those. And I mean, you know, and and that's I I think that that was like the the big thing because it was a candy, because they have that that junk candy, but which we like them, like the smarties and stuff like that. They all remember all the little smart mix of candies that you'd have. But you'd rarely, if if you got the candy bars, man, you're in.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh man, the candy bars were like something. But today, candy bars are like the standard.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. But you have to have the like the big candy bars to be the the cool person in the neighborhood. But then the kids come up there and you got the little kid. He's like three years old. He tries to grab like three candy bars. I don't let him grab it. Nope. I give I serve. Now and you gotta say trick-or-treat.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, right. I'm like, what do you we have to talk about that? And talking about like funny things that the kids say and stuff, that reminds me, like, I'm passing out the candy. Then I'm always like, What do you say? What do you say? And I'm like, you know, they're I'm trying to get them to say trick-or-treat, right? Trick-or-treat, right? And here in Ohio, you know, I get these kids and they walk up and I'm like, Hey, what do you say? And they're like, Oh. You got a response. Yeah, like it's hilarious. Oh my gosh. I had these two girls, little girls, they were trick-or-treating one year, and me and my buddy was sitting out in front, and we were, and he he was he likes to tease and stuff, the you know, the little kids and stuff. And these little girls liked her house, so they kept coming back to our house, and they came back like three times, three or four times. You know, when you start seeing the same kid, you're like, hey, you've been here before, get away. And so they're like, You have a cool house, we like it. And the little girl's looking in like I was dressed up and he wasn't. And she's like, We really like you. And she's pointing at me, yeah. And she's like, and she points to my buddy and she's like, And you, you're on my list.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, we fell out of our chairs. He's like moving around as you're as he's leaving your house, he's like, Man, that little kid's around the corner somewhere.

SPEAKER_01:

We we could not control ourselves. It was so funny. I mean, just to see this little, I mean, it was like she had to be like six, seven years old. You, you're on my list.

SPEAKER_00:

Like next week's gonna be fun when we start talking about this, like this spook tacular, because there's gonna be a lot of crazy stuff we talk about. Right. A lot of spooky things, but before uh now we're gonna go around the globe. Hey, a 22-year-old man was fine. You're gonna love this, okay? When I read this, I was like, really?$3,500 after posting a bomb threat on Instagram while seated on the flight at in in Singapore airport. Oh stupid. Now think about that.$3,500. That's the difference of being in China and being in the United States. Oh, easy. Right?

SPEAKER_01:

What would happen in the United States? I want to know what the his intention was. Like, he did he just want to go back to the gate? Like, I mean I don't know, but in the United States, what would have happened to him?

SPEAKER_00:

He would have he's going to jail. Now you'd think in China you'd be going to jail.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Here in China, you you're just posting$3,500. A fine. Yeah. Yikes. That's crazy. We'd probably get a fine too, though. Well, you're gonna get a fine, but you're going to jail.

SPEAKER_01:

Initially. He probably went to jail too. Just didn't say it. But it's regardless, to do that act, you shouldn't like, period. That should be higher consequences. You'd think$3,500. How many people he inconvenienced over that stupid reac you know action? Yeah. That's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_00:

All right. Florida drug task force seized a record one million pounds of cocaine. Wow. Yep. Wow. But the best part of it, the best part was, man, see, they're not learning, Sean. They shot another drug boat, boom. Blew it up.

SPEAKER_01:

Boom.

SPEAKER_00:

You uh, you know, I I gotta say, I I do like those videos.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I do. They're cool. They I mean, they you just see this boat and it's like, man, man, going through the water, man, boom, poof, gone.

SPEAKER_01:

Puff of smoke. Yeah. You're gone. Dude, who who is who are they getting to volunteer to do this? That sounds crazy. I mean, somebody that's not watching TV. Yeah, like you're crazy. You're not watching TV. Yeah, he he hasn't seen any current events or she, whoever's in the boat or was in the boat. That's crazy. But you know what? That the other part about it on the serious note, it's sad too, because for people that are probably doing it, they're probably gotten all kinds of promises of whatever, you know. It reminds me of Terrace, you know? Right. They they they promise them all these things. You're gonna get, you know, 50 virgins in your next life, and you know, whatever the the thing is, and they go do these stupid things and they get to find out.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Not anymore, you're gonna get to find out because, like I said, we're like we're four for four. Right. Poof. Yeah. All right, so the flight from uh Minneapolis to Newark was forced to divert after a passenger wearing no less than 15 masks.

SPEAKER_01:

He had 15 masks on? Yep.

SPEAKER_00:

Yep. Erupted in a bizarre mid-air outburst. Really? Yeah. And what happened? Well, they they were they were they just diverted and they they had him uh they had him arrested. Dude, he had 15 face masks. That's the whole that that was the whole part of that story when I was reading that. I was like, 15 masks. Right there, we should have told you something's wrong. Yeah, coming on.

SPEAKER_01:

How can you you can how can you breathe?

SPEAKER_00:

Come on. Now, if you'd have seen a guy had 15 masks on at one time on an airplane, you'd be like, something's wrong with this dude. We're we're watching him.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't care what type of material it's putting on 15 layers of a mask put on top of your face. Uh yeah. Yeah, maybe the outburst was I can breathe.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know if I'm gonna pronounce this right or not, but China has officially opened the Hujiang Grand Canyon Bridge. Have you seen this thing? No, this thing is unfreaking believable. It soars 2,050 feet above the river and stretching 4,600 feet across. The bridge features a restaurant perched 2,600 feet high. It has a glass sidewalk, a high-speed glass elevator, and even a waterfall cascading off its edge. It's unfreaking believable. And it has bungee jumping and cutting. I mean, it when you when you it's almost like its own little theme park. Yeah, man. If you looked at this thing up.

SPEAKER_01:

Have you ever walked in those glass glass bridges? Yeah. Those things are like those are freaky.

SPEAKER_00:

How about when they when they start cracking them? Have you ever seen that? No, they have those ones that they have them in China, like you're walking across a grack uh glass bridge, and then all of a sudden it acts like it cracks. They oh, they like a project or something that looks like it's cracking underneath there.

SPEAKER_01:

That's so sick.

SPEAKER_00:

And those people are like climbing off of there thinking that that is gonna break.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude. I walked out on that glass ledge in Chicago and the Empire's or that the Sears Tower or the X Sears. I don't know what even what it's called now. Do you know what that building's called now? No. Anyhow, it used to be a Sears Tower or whatever. I walked out on that stupid ledge now, and I started getting uncomfortable. I was like, this does not.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, I knew that glass was like super strong and all that stuff, but still just to like walk out there, you're like I think it's your equilibrium though, because once you get to like your height deprivation, you know what I mean? Yeah, it kind of guys starts messing with you.

SPEAKER_01:

And normally heights don't mess around with me, but that was like definitely messing around with me.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, usually usually it doesn't with me either, but I I can understand though when you get like to a certain height, yeah, I think it kind of mess with your vision.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I I did a I did a glass um bridge kind of like that too up in Canada. They had like a one that was like on the side of a cliff and you kind of like arch out, and that was kind of weird too. Just a different sensation.

SPEAKER_00:

I would have loved to get you on that glass one and then just crack the shit out of that thing.

SPEAKER_01:

I get you know what another one's uh that I've been on too is uh the uh Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower, when you go up in it, it has like a uh platform on one of the levels where it's glass and you could stand there and see straight down to the street and stuff. It's pretty cool. But uh weird feeling too.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, man. They had a passenger, you're gonna love this one. Passenger at uh at Newark Liberty. He caused a stir because he said he was a global service member, but yet he had no status. He is just telling people I'm a global service member.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. He said that he had it he had it before COVID. And then he he wanted all the treatment of the global service. And when it came down to it, he actually he actually he held a an explorer card. And he said that I can't even.

SPEAKER_01:

And and slept in the holiday in last night.

SPEAKER_00:

And and it entitled him to special privileges. And go figure it, it drew laughter uh amongst everyone in the gate area. People. People. Hey, listen, I've got an explorer card.

SPEAKER_01:

That's like yeah, yeah. That that's the whole, I mean, people are just like, they don't, they don't get it. They don't get it. And and for him to even know what a global, you know, a global member is, you know, first of all, a global service member member is like it is it for those people that don't know out there, it's a uh position that uh one of the airlines out there that you get invited to.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Like you can't earn this. There's no way to earn it. You get invited to this club and you get to be in the club type of thing. But and get all this special pampering and trip treatment. But you can't you can't just like I'm I gotta explore a card and I'm a global surface.

SPEAKER_00:

He got a card, Sean. He got a card. Come on, man. I mean, you know, he got a card.

SPEAKER_01:

That's like I guess the next time when I get pulled over by the police, I'm gonna use my monopoly get out of jail card, too. That'll work. That would be funny. You have to get that shit on video.

SPEAKER_00:

That actually would be funny. I got I got a get out of jail card here. Can I use it uh yeah, step out this time? Uh step out of the vehicle, son. Put your hands up on the top of the roof. It's the same difference as this guy right now. Yeah, you're going to jail. It's like give me a break. This is the best one. A passenger was sentenced to six months community detention after refusing to stop what the crew described as excessive kissing of his girlfriend on a packed flight. What?

unknown:

The fuck?

SPEAKER_01:

Like it it was, it was so it was one of those situations like get a room. It had to be. You know, like everybody's like, Will you please knock it off? This PDA is be out of control right now. Like, come on. Like excessive kissing. What do you think his six months was?

SPEAKER_00:

Community detention.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. What do you think he had to do? Well, it wasn't like a kissing booth. He had to put him up in um freaking uh some type of carnival. Some of the shit that people that they do is just crazy. Well, first of all, for him to even like I don't I'm trying to figure out like what's the law he broke. Right? So, like, what is the law? Indecent exposure? The lips? Come on. Indecent. Like like I don't know what the law is there. And like it's and that's funny. Like when you go, this is good. I think we talked about this a long time ago.

SPEAKER_00:

We were talking about like you're exposing me to whatever you're doing as an indecent.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, so you go to these other countries and you don't know their laws, and then you know, here's this guy, and he's just like, you know, making out with his girl, thinking he's just doing having a good vacation or doing whatever he's doing, and then next thing you know, he's doing community detention. Six months. Six months. He gets a six month vacation in New Zealand. Come on, people.

SPEAKER_00:

Just a little peck on the cheek and then wait till you get there.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. That's crazy, man. I mean, uh I don't know. You just it it's it boggles a mind, you know. October is a fun month. October is a fun month.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, man. Inspirational quote.

SPEAKER_01:

Inspirational quote. The best view comes after the hardest climb. And that's true for everything. It is. You got to be able to work for it. You gotta be able to earn it.

SPEAKER_00:

But hey, hey, listen, if you guys ever travel on planes, trust me, when you see these service animals, um, you know, if you have a problem with them, ask a flight attendant, we'll switch you. Damn. Don't don't cause a scene because let me tell you something. I love dogs. A majority of all flight attendants love animals. And if you're having a problem with it, just kindly ask us and we will try to switch you around. But the dog ain't moving.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I mean, just like you gotta understand, like, there's it and then we've gotten to this position in world right now where like service animals are people are like assuming that service animals are just, you know, somebody trying to get their pet from point A to point B, and then there's the real service animals out there. And this sounds like a legit service animal that was, you know, documented correctly, it was there helping this pasture for whatever reason. It's not like an emotional support animal. Right. We're talking about a service animal that has been trained to do specific whatever it is that they're supposed to be doing, and you know, kind of you got to give them respect.

SPEAKER_00:

You do, you do, and like I said, and the next time, if you guys see that happen, just realize that uh the dog's not gonna move, you're gonna end up moving. Just be just ask spot attempt. We'll move you. Heck yeah. All right, guys. Hey, listen, we will see you next week, and we're gonna have a lot of fun with the spectacular man. We're gonna have a we're gonna have a fun show on that one right before Halloween. Ookie. Yep. You can't wait for your intro. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Begin, Spookie. Alright, guys, you guys have a great week. Have a great week. See ya. And that's a wrap on episode 57 of Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. From 15 face mask guy to causing flight diversions to expired global service wannabes with explore cards. To that couple getting sentenced for excessive kissing, air travel never disappoints. Before you go, we need your help. Head over to Facebook and search for Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Give us a like, drop us your feedback, got crazy travel stories, want us to cover specific topics, we want to hear from you. Remember, the best views come from the hardest client, but the best episodes come after you hit the like button and share us with your travel weary friends. Thanks for flying with us. This has been Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Until next time, keep your expectations low and your sense of humor high.