Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

From Septic Fails To Sky-High Frights: Halloween, Asylums, And Airline Madness

• Shawn & G • Episode 58

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Start with a septic pump failure, add non-rev roulette, then shake in a first-class passenger drying her hands with a toilet seat cover. That’s our week. From the ground-up mess to the sky-high absurdity, we pull back the curtain on why people lose their cool on airplanes—and how to keep yours when elbows sprawl, feet roam, and someone mistakes the cabin for a yoga studio.

We also lean into the season. Halloween in our neighborhood is a full-on production: hayrides, smoke, blow-ups, fire pits, and an “adult boos” cooler that turns trick-or-treat into a two-hour festival. Candy nostalgia flows—popcorn balls, wax lips, double bubble—and so does a real conversation about why we love fear. Anticipation, jolt, release: haunted houses are roller coasters in the dark, and that dopamine hit is part of the draw. We trace the shadow to its source with haunted histories: Eastern State Penitentiary’s brutal isolation, Italy’s Poveglia Island with plague pits and a later asylum, and West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny, where overcrowding and crude treatments turned suffering into legend.

Back on the ramp, we talk cabin etiquette and common sense: no baby on the floor while the dog takes the seat, no man spread on jump seats, and please find the trash bin. We tackle real headlines—a passenger triggering a slide by yanking a door on the taxiway, another blocking the aisle to “save” deplaning for her daughter—and a spicy take on service culture after an Olive Garden gratuity blowup. Good hospitality is in the small details, and so is respect for the people doing the work.

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SPEAKER_01:

Hey everyone, uh welcome back. Boy, do we have a week to tell you about? It starts with G's septic take went out. So if you think your Monday's crap, well, G's got your beat. And uh oh, then there's this uh yoga enthusiast who thought road 12 was her personal studio, the mom who put her baby on the floor but kept her dog in the lap, and somewhere in there a flight attendant who I'm pretty sure was on her third espresso and her second personality. So buckle up folks. I mean that literally, because apparently some of you don't know how seat belts work. It's episode 58. We're talking Halloween, why did it asylums, and why people lose their minds on airplanes. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00:

He's just a thing.

SPEAKER_02:

It's a good thing that you don't get paid for that.

SPEAKER_01:

I know. But I had to do something for the theme of the thing. You ain't making any money. I had to do one for the theme.

SPEAKER_03:

It was a good one, though. I like the freaks come out at night. Right. The freaks come out at night. I mean, not how you sing it, but I like the song. Uh I was just gonna start with just uh he's just a tela.

SPEAKER_01:

You love that one. I know you do.

SPEAKER_03:

You don't have to worry about like Tay Tate. Remember Tay Tay last week? It's spending three days to get you get you uh uh started, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, nobody's going to the theaters to watch me get my intro started. That's pretty good, though. How we did the how we do the show.

SPEAKER_03:

That was a good one, though. I like that one.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I mean, so um just got back from um Georgia. We went down to Lake Oconee. You ever heard of Lake Oconee? Nope. Lake Ocone is like the second largest lake in Georgia, and the coolest thing about this lake, and mind you, there's like multi-gazillion dollar houses everywhere on this lake, but it's a this huge lake, and the state of Georgia regulates the height. So it never goes down more than a foot ever. Ever because they use the they use the lake for uh energy.

SPEAKER_03:

So is it like locks or what are they how they no?

SPEAKER_01:

It's uh like this uh they got a big dam there that they regulate all the flow and stuff, but it's like regulated constantly. Oh, okay. And so this this it I mean can you imagine living on a lake that never goes down? Like how many people in the world have uh outside of a I mean even the ocean recedes and comes back, right? And it's like but this lake always stays constant. So how big is the lake? Oh, it's big, dude. I'm talking gigantic. It's a I don't know those exactly like the what the square mileage of this thing is, but I mean you can be on a jet ski for hours, like running around in this lake. It's pretty it's that big. But uh yeah, we went down there, man. They have the beautiful house. It's right on the lake, a little pontoon boat, beautiful place. I mean, um it's it's awesome. They want they're keep on like trying to push us to go down there, but I'm I'm like, it gets hot. So you were on another vacation, another vacation. Yeah, man. This sounds familiar. Yeah. This is this is um how you're supposed to live life when you get older. But you're not retired. No, but we can we can get close. We're warming up. Practicing. You're like hot.

SPEAKER_03:

I wouldn't even say you're warm, dude.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm like, you're damn hot. Here's the cool thing about this, like if anybody's never been to this area, it's called Reynolds, and uh, it's on a uh Lake Oconey, and um this place has at this present moment, they have eight golf courses on the in this neighborhood. Eight. And so you're member to eight golf courses there. It's unbelievable. They have they actually have they're planning on two more. It's unbelievable. I mean, the courses are just amazing, picturesque. A lot of the holes and stuff go come down to the water and all that stuff. So it's just it's a magical area. But I mean, Georgia gets way too hot, and then the other thing they don't like about it bugs. You poor thing. Bugs, lots of bugs, lots of big ass bugs. There's spiders, bugs, and lots of critters. Yeah. So I'm like, you know what? I can visit this anytime I want. They got extra rooms.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, I'm sitting across from you listening to this, and I know that everybody that listens to our show is thinking the same thing. Still, Sean's on vacation again.

SPEAKER_01:

Don't be a hater. Don't be a hater. And he's talking about bugs. You know what else happened on this uh trip that uh was just crazy? Was um, so we flew a different airline, you know, doing a little non-rev path travel. That sucks. Non-rev? Dude, it sucked. It goes like you you can fly on other airlines, like being a member of an airline. You can fly on other airlines doing non-rev travel, but this non-rev travel, man, you're the bottom of the bottom. Like I mean, you are the bottom, dude. I mean, in on every flight. I so we get to the airport, and this is a first that we get there, and we're we're the night before it says like 14 seats or whatever open. So I'm like, all right, cool. We get there. There's like 14 seats minus, you know, they needed they needed more seats, right? And so there's only a handful of people getting on. And we got all the way down to us, and when we got to the airport, Carol realized that she had forgot her ID. Dude, it was Carol this time.

SPEAKER_03:

That's you too, man. Both of you guys got that property.

SPEAKER_01:

So she'd never have done this before, but she got there and she didn't have her ID. And then so we they had one seat, and so I could get on the plane and we would have gone straight down to Georgia, right? And if she had her ID, she could have jumped seat because she can she's a pilot and she can jump seat in the cockpit. And so no. So she goes on the plane and I go home to get the ID. So then I come back and I proceed to get bumped off of two flights, dude. I'm sitting around the airport all day. It was a big suck, non-rift suck. And so then finally I was like, So she got there and you didn't. So she got there like at noon, right? I I was at the airport waiting around waiting for a plane, and finally I got bumped off this other airline's list, kept gonna get, and they kept on showing like they're like, Oh, you're gonna get on the next one. Oh, yeah, you'll get the next one. Bump, bump. Finally, I said I called Carol and I'm like, I'm like, I'm out of here. I like I'm getting I'm going back to my airline and I'm gonna get down there at this time because I know I can get there because I got some past travel benefits. You can jump seat. Yeah, I can jump seat. I have a little bit more flexibility and more power to get get to where I need to go, and that's what I did, man. So she got there at noon. I got there at like eight o'clock.

SPEAKER_03:

It was suck. Hey, did you when when she forgot her ID? Remember when you forgot yours? Right? Did she ever say, How could you have forgot your ID?

unknown:

No, she didn't.

SPEAKER_03:

I was gonna say they kind of come back to bite her on.

SPEAKER_01:

I told yeah, I told her already. I was like, I was like, you're hanging around me too long. Yes. She didn't have me to bring the ID though this time. No, no, no, no. It was uh dude, and we were there down there too short at time to like do what we did last time, but it was it was just uh it was a total so at what at what time did you think that this was just complete bullshit sitting there? Oh the second flight, like like um that was by like around three o'clock. I was like, okay, I'm out of here. I am freaking out of here.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm telling you, anymore, like you you'll you that night before you get on a plane, you'll you'll see 20 or 30 seats. Yeah. And in the morning time, negative five. Yeah. What is it? Stub hub? I don't know what to do. What do they do? I mean, seriously. I mean, it it's like all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_01:

Somebody ran a discount somewhere. No shit. Like it was it was amazing. People can showing up from out of any, I don't know where they were coming at, coming out of work. But I was like, I was pissed because it doesn't matter who shows up there. I'm behind all those people.

SPEAKER_03:

The best thing about being a crew member, flight attendant, or pilot, one of the best things other than pay, which is gonna get better, but um the best thing is the travel, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, the travel to be able to get all the benefits to get on the plane.

SPEAKER_03:

You can't get on a damn plane. Try to get try to get your ass out of Vegas anymore. No, I mean you'll show up, you'll show up like anytime in the evening time, and it'll say like it'll say 25 seats, right? Start in the morning time. Yeah, and then as the day goes on, it goes 25, 10, 2, negative 6.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, it is it is so crazy. Like I'm uh and being outside my comfort zone of being in my airline and be able to know how things work and stuff, and then you go to this other airline and they're they operate a little differently. Uh it was just, you know, you it's in it makes that more more of an uncomfortable experience, right? So it was like, oh shit.

SPEAKER_03:

Now when you when you traveled on them, did you did you have to buy did you buy a ticket?

SPEAKER_01:

No, the non rev non-red pass.

SPEAKER_03:

So the non-rev pass.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I think it cost us like uh 90 bucks or something like that. So you just lost that. No, no, no. You get a refund. You get a refund to the to the pass that we didn't use, whatever. But um, like so Carol used hers, I didn't use mine, and then well, it is what it is. But we did we took them on our way home and we were able to get back straight from them, and so that was it was it was a cool experience. Got to fly on that new uh Airbus at uh 321 uh Airbus that we're doing.

SPEAKER_03:

There wasn't nothing cool about getting down there at 8 o'clock. That's bullshit.

SPEAKER_01:

What's that?

SPEAKER_03:

You did it's a cool experience. You spent all damn day at the airport.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, no. Uh the back end was a cool experience where uh it things went normal. We got on the plane and we came back. The front end sucked. Okay, let's let's clarify that because you're like, oh yeah, it was a good experience.

SPEAKER_03:

It was nothing good about that.

SPEAKER_01:

The experience coming back was just fine, but the the experience going down there was just a sucking suck. Anyways, yeah, man. So then the other thing that was going on, like the wife is uh really allergic to cats, and our friends have two cats, and these two cats they have like a siamese, and the other one, I don't know what the heck it's called, baby doll cat or something like that. It's like this white, fluffy, blue-eyed cat. Beautiful cat, like super chill, but the siamese was a fucking psycho. It wouldn't have you ever seen the cat? This cat would not let you touch it. Okay, if you even came close to it, it would be like and then it would like swat at you, and they're all declawed, so it was okay for them to swat. But um, yeah, and it wouldn't let you touch it, didn't like being pet at all. He was like a skittish little son of a bitch, but he ran around just like crazy, and he'd he'd do like run by and swats, like just run by you and be like, SWAT, get away from me. I'm not a cat person, dude. It was the I'm not a like cats are okay to me. I do like playing with cats and all that stuff because they're they're fun to like goof off with and all this stuff. But these people are like serious, like our friends are serious cat people. That I'm ever since I've known them, they've had cats, and they've all their cats have had like some crazy personalities. Most of them have been good and laid back and chill and all this stuff. But this new one, skit, just a crazy son of a bitch. Cat hair, man. Can't do it.

SPEAKER_03:

Can't do it. I can't do it, man. I mean, I've had friends that had cats, and as soon as you walk in the house, you know how a cat just circles around your leg?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

And then next thing you know, you look like frickin' Bigfoot down there.

SPEAKER_01:

Not this cat that I just had. That cat like didn't circle around and didn't even get close to you. So you can't.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh shit. That one was swiping you. Yeah, she was.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh yeah. See? The other one was like she she'd come up and love on you and stuff like that. Like, look like you walk away looking like Bigfoot. Yeah, I don't like I don't like animal hair. That's a big like that's a big thing to me.

SPEAKER_03:

You know what it is for me? It's it's um it's in the kitchen because cats get on everything.

SPEAKER_01:

They get everywhere.

SPEAKER_02:

Right, and that's well, the hair gets everywhere. That's what I'm saying. The hairs, the hair is flying in their food and shit, and I'm uh uh uh uh uh they ain't doing it.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, here's another cool thing about the this beautiful house we went to, like their whole entire house was all wood floors. So that helps too. Then you don't have like the the dander and the hair getting caught in like the the the uh carpet and all that stuff. Like it they they were able to like always keep it clean.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, if you got an electronic robot like you, man, there ain't no way to know because you walk across the floor with your socks with that. No, it's all of your socks, even on a floor hardware floor.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm gonna tell you, it was there the whole time. I didn't have a cat hair. Yeah. Because they were like always they they must always like bistle or whatever, you know, do the little wet mop thing, whatever, just to kind of like clean it up. But these the you know, it's worse in different seasons, right? Yeah, yeah. So I mean like when the when the cat's shedding and all that stuff, that's when it's all over. But you know, like I have a niece and she has a dog, and she just got a new car. And I don't know if she listens to our show or not, but but I opened the door to her new car, and we were checking it out this a few weeks ago, and I was like, oh my gosh. Like there was like the dashboard was covered with hair. Like every there was hair everywhere, like her body had hair all over it. There was dashboard hair. So there's like the there's the people that like manage that and like try to keep it to a somewhat of a tolerable level, but then there's some people that they don't care.

SPEAKER_03:

Open the window and the shit just blowing like all over the place.

SPEAKER_01:

Like open the car, and I was like, Whoa. This I go, this is new? Because it was that hairy. Like I was like, it was crazy. But I mean, people are like they're they had that comfort. It always surprises me like when you see the people walking around. Like we see them in the airport all the time, right? And then you know who's has the animal who doesn't.

SPEAKER_03:

Like the same thing with flight attendants, so they walk in the crew room and all of a sudden you look at the back and they look like a like like a rug. They look like a rug, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Especially the cat owners, right? Like they they have the hair all over them, and I'm like, and they got one of those lint rollers too.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, you need a lint roller, they always have one. You will not know I got one, they just don't reach the back.

SPEAKER_01:

Not always, they don't always have it. They they they should always have them. Look a little fuzzy, right? They have a little they're a little bit um furrier.

SPEAKER_03:

So you need those cats that like the one that was hissing.

SPEAKER_01:

That that damn thing won't even come near you. And he was a siamese to it's like super short hair, like super tiny. So it's uh yeah, that's the type of cat. One that stays away from you.

SPEAKER_03:

Just saying. You'd be good, you'd be all right.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's it's cool. Anyways, cat I like playing with cats. Like, I have fun. Cats crack me up some of the stupid things they do and weird things. I got a picture of that Siamese. She was sitting on their floor, gee. Literally, and if you can imagine, like us, we're sitting right here, and we have our leg wrapped around the back of our neck. She's just sitting there on the floor looking at us with her back.

SPEAKER_03:

We're in the ER, brother. If if that leg is in the back of our neck, that means that we're broken.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm looking at this cat and I'm like, really? Like, no, this is comfortable. She was just chilling there. I mean, for a long time with her leg behind her head. Yeah, we're in the ER. How did you get to this position? Reminds me of our story of Oma.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I know. Where's it? Where do you put the dollar?

SPEAKER_01:

Right. All right. Oh my gosh. Anyhow, man, what's been going on with you? Shoot, man.

SPEAKER_03:

I this this week has been a week. And uh it all started off with uh septic pump. You don't have septic. No. Okay, damn septic pump went out. Alarm system didn't work. If you guys that that don't know, those of you that do know septic, I have a septic pump. I've got an alarm that's supposed to work that didn't work, and what happened is your septic fills up, uh, the pump is bad, the alarm float is bad, and then the electrical gets burned out. So just to say in the least, I started in the shit for the for this week.

SPEAKER_01:

So that's a total shitty situation.

SPEAKER_03:

It was so bad because you got to pump all that nasty gray water out just to get down to the pump. Then you got to change the electrical, you gotta, you know, put put new plugs and stuff out. Then you got to pull that nasty ass pump out of there, you gotta you gotta redo this whole thing, and then you you have to redo this electrical float. Anyway, no fun at all. Zero.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean how often do you have to pump a septic system?

SPEAKER_03:

Um, probably it depends on how many people are in the house. Usually four years, that that'd be the max. If you had if you had a full family, yeah, four years, about about four years, that's a maximum you go. They pump it out, and yeah, they just pump it out. They just it it's like you got like a four-trap system, right? And they'll come in in the first one, they just pump all that shit out. I mean, it's all the sediment that sets on the bottom. And it about four years. But if you have if you only have a couple of you, you're gonna get away five or six years. I mean, easy. But a lot of it, you know, the detergent that goes in it and stuff that jacks up, you know, your septic systems. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, but anyway, um, yeah, that pump went out. That was nasty. That was just gross. Dude. Start you start your week off in a shit. That's a shitty start. Now, here's another shitty one that was it was pretty funny though. So, this lady, she comes out of the lavatory and she looks at me and she goes, Um, I'm complaining to your airline about all this money that I spent for sitting in first class, and you have the worst paper towels. They don't dry your hands for crap. That's what she told me.

SPEAKER_01:

Really?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and she had it in her hand.

SPEAKER_01:

This was her complaint.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. And I said, ma'am, and she goes, Yes, what? And I said, Those are not paper towels. And she goes, What? And I said, They're they're toilet covers for your butt. Oh, I love people. She pulled the toilet cover out and was drying her hands.

SPEAKER_01:

Drying her hands like with the butt cover. People can't see in the bathroom or something. I don't I don't know what the heck it like. Do they need like big signs like what each bin is or something like that, labels on the bins or something? It's it's it's it amazes me like how people just grab shit in the bathroom and just try to like you know, dry their hands off and all that crap.

SPEAKER_03:

See, me, I was thinking, okay, do you think do you actually think that she's gonna go back and tell her friends? No, right? Tell her friends going, yeah, I was really pissed off. And uh and you know, I thought they were paper towels and they were toilet seat covers for my butt. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01:

People are people are nuts. They, you know, the here's it the bathroom is one of those places in the plane. Like, people can't figure it out. I don't get I don't quite understand what it is. Like it's not highly complicated. Everybody's used the shitter before. Just flush it. The the flush usually says flush, right? You know, it doesn't like haven't been on the airline where it doesn't say flush or not illuminated square or something. Right, something to show you this is where you flush. Take a minute, yeah, push. It's like, yeah, it's weird. Like I've had those fights where it was like they can't find the the trash can. Right. So they just throw it on the floor.

SPEAKER_03:

Or just had that. The guy, you okay, he comes out of it and has has it stuck on his foot, and he and what he does is he opens it and he kind of kicks it and throws it right back in on the lab floor.

SPEAKER_01:

Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03:

Doesn't even pick it up, just throws shit right back in there, like some marathon station.

SPEAKER_01:

It's weird. Yeah, it's weird, dude. I don't know, I don't get it. But we all come from different places.

SPEAKER_03:

No, yeah, and this crew member did too that I was flying with. You ever fly with somebody that they're completely wired differently? I mean, wired, wired, wired. Uh yeah. So so like one, I mean, every once in a while we'll come across those and and and we'll we'll think that, right? I mean, but when the whole crew they're all all their eyes are just like wide open, go, what the f what did this person come from? I mean, they're just wired differently. It was like it was the equivalent of having a hyperactive person on speed.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, it's a it's like uh it reminds me of that Sesame Street song, it's one of these things just don't belong here. No, one of these things is not like the others.

SPEAKER_03:

No, it's one of these things and not like the other. Yep. Right. That that's exactly that was on our plane the other day.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, great.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, everybody was it was looking at each other like, what the hell? Where'd this person come from?

SPEAKER_01:

Like, are you an imposter?

SPEAKER_03:

Good thing about it though, you know, in our job is that usually you get away with like one flight with that person.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. And then they're gone. And then they're gone, and then you don't see them no more.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. But when you're stuck with a like on a trip where you're multiple-day trip, can you imagine? Yeah, that's so long.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, you get with that person in our job, that's what a lot of people don't understand. In our job, all of a sudden you're you know, have you ever gotten to a crew and you thought this one person was supposed to be there? Yeah, and you got there and it's like they got swapped out.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

And you're that yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, and and you don't know if you're getting an upgrade or a downgrade. No, you did that sound like an upgrade? No, I didn't, I'm just saying, like, I'm just talking about that situation. Like that you get there and then boom, all of a sudden you got a new person there, and you're like, thank God. What the hell do I got now?

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, what's gonna happen now?

SPEAKER_03:

It's gonna be a long day. We're gonna put out a lot of fires.

SPEAKER_01:

For the most part, like on the the higher percentage, we get people good people, but um, yeah, there's this.

SPEAKER_03:

We get the one percenters, we talk about all the time. Hey, if we're gonna talk about one percent of the passengers, we're talking about one percent of the crew.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, the crews and we got them one percent. We probably have a higher percent than that, but I was being nice, right?

SPEAKER_03:

One percent. But just say one percent. Yeah, no, but then then I had this this woman. This is the one that always kills me, and you see these on the flights, but I had to address it because you know it happened. I'm I'm looking up the cabin, and this lady's feet are up in the air.

SPEAKER_01:

Ugh.

SPEAKER_03:

It's seat yoga.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, I don't get this. Why? I don't get the seat in the back of the seat. Like, I'm gonna slump down and put my knees in the back of your seat, and I think that's okay for the person in front of me. Like, I don't quite understand that. I don't understand what people think that their feet shouldn't be clothed.

SPEAKER_03:

Could you imagine if you were sitting in front of her and her foot bumped your head?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, dude, I'd be you might see a video. You would definitely, you might see a video. That would be fun. That would oh no.

SPEAKER_03:

But yeah, then she got up, then she got up and she started uh she started doing a stretch in the aisle. Now that's somebody's butt in your face.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. That's right, you know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of like even uh when I'm in the jump seat with another per another flight attendant and they cross their legs. And they cross their legs and they put their like the flat of their foot towards you. That pisses me off. Yeah. Because I mean, we know what's on those galley floors. Right. And now you're like rubbing that galley floor shit close to me, like gonna put your nasty foot on my next to me. I'm like, can you cross your legs the other way, please? Like, I don't need that.

SPEAKER_03:

You know the biggest problem that women have with male flight attendants, and I have it too. Why like spreading open the legs? Man spread, man. Don't fucking do that shit, man. If I gotta share a jump seat with your ass, you you you know, you need to close it down.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I I was sitting when I came back from uh Atlanta there in Georgia, it was like I was sitting next to a dude that was like the man spread, and he kept bumping my bumping my knee, and I, you know, I'm I was in a middle seat, so it was I didn't have too much to go, and I'm a big dude anyway, so it's like you know, like, dude, slide over to the window. Yeah, you're like get out of me.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, I mean, you you see the partition of the seat and it goes straight. I'm like, I've done that too on a on with a passenger, you know. I I sat next to somebody and their leg was constantly on my leg. I'm like, nah, that's not cool. I hate that. I'm not that's not cool. That man spreading thing that drives me nuts.

SPEAKER_01:

No, close it down. Yeah, I've I've been, you know, there's a few male flight attendants that have flown with it. And there's one in particular here in Cleveland that is like Mr. Man spread. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. He has to sit sideways because he's gotta he's gotta do like the like butterfly spread. Yeah, the yoga spread. Right. I don't know what the heck that is, but it's like I'm like, really, dude?

SPEAKER_03:

Close the shit down, close it down, man. Girls hate that shit. They can't stand it. Women cannot stand a man's spread. Yeah. Your junk your junk is not that big. No. Go check yourself.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you got issues.

SPEAKER_03:

Hey man, okay, so I'm gonna end this one with I had Mom of the Year on board.

SPEAKER_01:

Mom of the year? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

What what made her mom of the year? She took this baby, laid it on the floor.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_03:

On the plane? Yeah, we're on the steel brackets, no seat belt, no nothing, right? So you go back there and said, ma'am, listen, you might want to pick the baby up and put the dog on the floor.

SPEAKER_01:

She had the dog up on the seat and the baby on the floor?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah. And she said, No, it's fine. It's fine. Yeah, d uh that pause, it's yeah, it's fine. So the baby's on the floor, and you know I'm a dog driver, right? But come on. The dog's on the seat, the baby's on the floor, and that's fine.

SPEAKER_01:

It ain't common. It ain't common. Common sense is just not common. I mean, people, come on.

SPEAKER_03:

The other flight attendants are like, hey, they have to do this. I'm like, no, we're here to inform, not enforce. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Right? Well, to a certain extent, there's there is a time for enforcement, but that ain't one of them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Poor baby, but mom of the year. Yeah. You should, you know, a lot of a lot of parents, when when you think about some of these parents when they fly, right? And they have kids, you think they they should have had to go through a class. Dude. They have a kid. They should have.

SPEAKER_01:

There's uh so many, so many areas.

SPEAKER_03:

Because they'll let them be rejected.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. More training and more. Yeah, you should have a uh birth certificate should come with a certification too. Yeah. Certification of uh I can be a parent type of thing.

SPEAKER_03:

How about this? A how to clean your shit up 101. 101. Yeah. Because you know, they they leave their shit all over the plane.

SPEAKER_01:

Here's the thing. Like, our people so this lady's not thinking, like, she doesn't know what we know. Like, one every freaking seat on that plane, somebody's probably threw up on that plane.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Nasty fake. They clean it up. Yeah. There was the last last toad gunge was there. Right on the last, you know, it was freaking, you know, flip Fred Flintstone came in. He had a big old crusty toes out there laying on the floor, you know. Mama was doing her yoga.

SPEAKER_03:

And got baby's head right down there smelling it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. The nastiest stuff goes on the floor. And we they cleaned it up, but it's not like sanitary or anything like that. Like, just do you want the baby laying in all that shit?

SPEAKER_03:

Well, but you got metal brackets down there. That's what I was telling her. Any bump. There's metal brackets. If you hit any turbulence, that baby's head's gonna slam against one of them brackets.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, any little bump in the room.

SPEAKER_03:

But the dog is safe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Parties, man. Not smart people, though. They get it all straight.

SPEAKER_03:

Hey, you know what, you know what time it is, right? It's what it's close to. What's that? Halloween. Halloween. We said we're gonna talk about the spook tacular.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. Right? Heck yeah. Spook. I gotta like I gotta start gearing up where it is. Um our neighborhood does um Halloween at a specific time and it's not on Halloween. And so it's usually the Wednesday before Halloween we do it. Uh, but I think this year it's the maybe the one before. Anyhow, but it's a middle of the week, Wednesday, and we live in like a little circle, uh, one street in, and then it goes a giant circle around all these. There's 120 houses, and they do trick or treat. So they bring them down on a hayride to the entrance of it, and they drop all these kids. We now have like two, three hundred kids coming here, and uh, I gear it up, man. I got all kinds of blow ups and smoke and hiss and. Spiders.

SPEAKER_02:

When did that shit start? That all you okay, we're gonna have Halloween, but not on Halloween.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, all these uh development too, they they do the same thing, but nobody does it on Halloween. So shit, Halloween comes, ain't nobody out.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, it it you know what here it depends on the area, like so. When you're in like the city, right? You're in city atmosphere, the houses are close, and you know, kids are running. I think they're doing Halloween more that way. But the further you get them out in rural areas, like they regulated like when they're gonna do it and stuff. Because like still doesn't make sense on Halloween. I don't think I've ever had a I think I've had one kid over the last 25 years in this house knock on my door during Halloween. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, when we were kids, it was Halloween night. That's what we used to do. I mean, it didn't matter what neighborhood you lived in, it was Halloween. Now it's like, oh, we're gonna do Halloween two weeks before Halloween on Sunday between six and eight. Make sure you have your light on and make sure that you do this, this, this, and this. I'm not angry about that.

SPEAKER_01:

It's that's crazy though. But I like the like the I like the control of it because what happened is like you know, like we grew up, like it started off Halloween for us as kids. We were like bouncing around doing the trick-or-treat on Halloween, and that was uh, you know, we had our little school parades at school and everything, but we never had any of this new stuff. Like there wasn't trunk or treats, and there wasn't like you know, go around to the you know, the the the car backs of cars to do a little round circle in a parking lot, and you know, none of that type of stuff was happening. But so then it got to the point where you know it started getting crazy where all the kids were like it was getting two old kids trick-or-treating, and then there was the abusers, and then we got the freaking psychos out there that started putting shit in the candy and trying to screw kids up and people shit like that, you know. Like, so it it was it got to this like there was this danger involved into trick-or-treating, and so like you know, you you had to do it, you know. How did your mom have to go through your candy?

SPEAKER_03:

No, they did, I know. Yeah, I mean, when you got these crazy put razor blades and shit in there, I know.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, so then now we're adults and older and been doing this for a long time. It's like the control of having this, like uh, you know, if this is a safe environment, pretty safe environment that we can take all these hundreds of kids and have a nice event. And it's a neighborhood thing here, so it's a big event here because like people are out in the I'm in the golf court uh golf course community. So people like people decorate their golf carts up with lights and all this stuff. They got the kids running around, and it's a big event, but it's only for two hours. Well, you're gonna have to tell me so I can get some candy, dude. You can get well, I'll tell you. It's gonna be a big deal because the nieces are coming in this this year, so they're gonna be doing it. That'd be cool. So normally what I do is I have um I sit is set it all up outside, so I'm not opening doors in my house all the time. I set out in the driveway, we decorate up, I've got the music going, we got the lights, we got blow-ups, we got all kinds of stuff, right? But I also do I got a fire pit going. So I got a fire pit, and then I got two things of booze.

SPEAKER_03:

See, we're gonna talk about that in a minute, too. Yeah, because that that that's uh that's exactly what we're gonna get into is about, but you did you know before we get into that, did you know that it's one of the most called off of for sick days?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Halloween?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Because of that, right? I mean, you think about that.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean people are trick-or-treating and drinking beer. There's always parties, right? There's a party everywhere and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so the the reason why people like Halloween so much is because you you do, you get to dress up. You get to dress up, being a fool, act a fool. Hey, do you remember, do you remember, okay, every Halloween, there is like you you have like specific people that dress up, right? I mean, they're like costumes.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah, like there's the the favorite costume of the year. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03:

You're so they they were just playing this. Do you remember the movie It? It, oh yeah. Remember who who that was? Who it was? Pennywise. Pennywise. Yeah. Remember the clown? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It so years ago, Pennywise is still around. They they've been playing that movie. He's a scary motherfucker. He is a scary ass clown.

SPEAKER_01:

He is a scary clown. People people that are scared of clowns, that's the reason.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, no shit.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, he he he was like I remember he he was in he was in the woods, and this kid was looking at him and he was waving at the kid holding an arm.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Like he just ate this thing.

SPEAKER_01:

See, I grew up with a it's funny how like people are scared of clowns, and it's because I think of Halloween, you know, like that that whole you know genre of clown. But I grew up, you know, my clown when I grew up was Bozo. Right. You know, Bozo was a fun guy, he was funny. He was a you know, clowns are supposed to be funny, likable, you know, what little wacky guy. And that's the clown that the feature of clown. When people started saying, Oh, I'm scared of clowns, I'm like, what's to be scared of? They just juggle.

SPEAKER_03:

Pennywise, Pennywise was probably Bozo's inbred cousin, right? He was juggling limb parts and shit. Exactly. But man, you had the Grim Reaper, remember? Yep, Jason. Jason, Michael Myers, yep, Freddie Krueger, Kruger, Chucky. Chucky. Remember Chucky?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that little son of a bitch dog.

SPEAKER_03:

Did you ever understand? I mean, okay, this doesn't make any sense. How did Jason and Michael Myers? They all got these people and they killed him. They never ran after him. No, they just showed up.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, because all those people were those stupid people, like that commercial.

SPEAKER_03:

But they did you back in the movies, they're like, oh my god, they're good. Jason never ran. Yeah, he never. He just had to walk over. Michael Myers never ran. All of a sudden he just came out from behind a tree. Right, boom. Axe. Right? Dude. But you did see Pennywise. Pennywise ran.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Pennywise is he's a little energetic. Pennywise is a clown. And then the and it came with the candy and the treats, man. Do you remember the wax teeth?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah. Love the wax teeth. They used to love those little vampire teeth and uh in the wax lips. You'd chew that shit forever, right? Yeah, they didn't taste stuck to your teeth. Yeah, just it really didn't taste much of anything. Like it was, it had like a flavor for a second, and it was just you chewing on wax. Right.

SPEAKER_03:

But we liked it. But when we were trick-or-treating, they used to throw like, remember pennies? Yeah. Who in the hell throw pennies in there? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

No, that's bullshit. I don't see anybody throwing money in bags now. And you know, here's the other thing. Like, the kids nowadays, you know, they all come around with their like decorated bag, or you know, this like time, like I used a pillowcase. Did we use a pillowcase?

unknown:

Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_01:

A pillowcase is what we use.

SPEAKER_03:

That was like that was a standard bag back then. You know, the reason why I stopped there, I just remember that the um the little girl that came up to your house and was like, You're on the list. Yeah, right. I'm thinking, could you imagine if you do like apples and pennies in someone in the bag and that kid just looks up at you and is like, the fuck is that? What you on a list?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you're on my list. You going down. You know, these these pennies aren't even gonna be they're gonna be obsolete soon. You threw a damn apple? What the hell is a penny? I should go to the apple farm and get a bag bag of apples and throw apples into their bags. Remember the popcorn balls? I love dude. We were just talking about that. Popcorn balls is like was my favorite thing, and like people would make the homemade popcorn balls, you know. Yeah, that's how it all started. Like people were like, oh, and I'd be like, oh, this is amazing. I love popcorn balls, and then you can finally they like you know, commercialize and got the packaged popcorn balls and all that, but you hardly ever see those anymore.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I mean you go up there and they had they even I remember uh one year they did like the rice crispy treats and they just wrapped them up in like plastic.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, threw them in your milk. Rice crispy, you got one, you know, they they got the Halloween wrappers now, right?

SPEAKER_03:

But it I mean, but people used to make them at home.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Remember Hubba Bubba?

SPEAKER_01:

Hubba Bubba.

SPEAKER_03:

The gum that you chew it and like two seconds later it just tasted like nothing.

SPEAKER_01:

Hubba Bubba. And your jaw hurt. Hubba wasn't that too bad. No, it was. That wasn't like double, you're thinking about double bubble. Double bubble was bad. That was jaw chewing hard. Yeah. The taste went crazy. Hubba bubble was the first like soft gum, right? That's right. You're right.

SPEAKER_03:

And I was I was thinking about I was thinking about double bubble. Double bubble.

SPEAKER_01:

Now double bubble. That shit was hard. Carol buys those double bubble bags, especially during Christmas. I mean uh the Halloween time, because Halloween, you know, double bubble has that, it's the freshest you're gonna get it. Right. Right?

SPEAKER_03:

And then it turns like rock.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and then it turns rock hard. It is, it's literally like a freaking stone. All right, here's here's a few other ones. The pixie sticks. Love them, brute beer barrels. How many times have you choked on a pixie stick? Coughed it right out. Dump that powder into the and it hits the back of your and then like a puff of smoke.

SPEAKER_03:

And you're like, I just ruined all that. Yeah, that was my favorite one. I love that cherry one. And then the last one, hey, remember Tootsie Rolls? Everybody had Tootsie Rolls. You had the minis, you had the the the big Tootsie rolls.

SPEAKER_01:

I think where Tootsie Roll went bad was when they decided they were gonna change the flavor. Like Tootsie Rolls is chocolate. Right. Leave a chocolate. Yeah. Like I don't need a blueberry Tootsie roll.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, but those are good though, too. They're good though.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, I I I can say I'm a traditionalist when it comes to my Tootsie Roll. I need I need a big, juicy, soft Tootsie roll. Love a Tootsie roll. You know, uh one of our layovers, uh, was it Chicago? We used to lay over right next to a Tootsie Roll factory.

SPEAKER_02:

Really?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. It was that was pretty cool. I used to always be like, you know, I need to roll over there and get like that. It's like fishing, you know, catching that fish and getting it fresh, having that fit. The closer you are to the product, the fresher it is. So I was like, I gotta roll over to the Tootsie Roll factory, get some fresh Tootsie Rolls. Never did it, but I always thought about it when I got there.

SPEAKER_02:

It's just funny watching you.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. I get excited about camp.

SPEAKER_02:

I bet, man.

SPEAKER_03:

The spooky fun that we used to have though on Halloween. Did you did you ever you didn't TP trees, did you? No, you were in the you were the TP.

SPEAKER_01:

You're a mischief. You're a mischief bunch of little rat rat rats. You never soaked a car? No, no, dude. Really? No, dude. I was not. Listen, I was not. What did you do on Halloween? I trick-a-treated like I was a normal kid. I was going down the street and I had I was in a pillowcase like you didn't like egg a house or anything? No, I was more interested in volume of how much candy I can go. I was motoring.

SPEAKER_03:

See, when we were kids and you and you got caught, you had to come back and clean that shit off.

SPEAKER_01:

No, yeah. I don't first of all, that didn't like I had no desire to do any of that stuff. I had friends that were like, oh yeah, let's go do this. I was like, why? Yeah, we did that. Like, why do I do that?

SPEAKER_03:

But we got caught though, too, and we had to clean that shit off.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

That's no fun, especially when it rains.

SPEAKER_01:

I've seen don't get me wrong. I think the one time, there was one time I TP'd a house, but that was like when I moved here to this neighborhood, and it was, I think it was Arthur's house. Right. We TP'd it.

SPEAKER_03:

Now going back, going back to um what you're talking about, it's also uh Halloween's a huge social connection, right? Because when the trick-or-treaters come out, you get all these adults that come because adults are walking right up with the kids, because they also know that hey, uh the the Sean Sean's got jello shots.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So what I do with my uh mind thing, I got that fire pit going, and usually we got it kind of set off to the side so it's not in the like walking path of the kids and all that stuff. But like the families will come in and everything, and so I got it cooler, and I have, you know, it has a sign that says adult booze E-O-O-S on the and people are like, Oh, I love that. Love that. And so I'll have usually one that's filled with beer, yeah, and then I'll have another one with like I'll go down to the store here and they'll have some type of like seasonal wine, you know. So they'll have like witches brew or some wild stuff like that, and then I'll get this cheap wine, whatever. And just like I love, I'm like, hey, you want some? Here you go.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. They have the beer barrels, and then I think you ever do like the hot cider rum? Oh, I love that stuff, man. Right? Because the, I mean, on on the coal nice, because it's getting it's getting colder right now.

SPEAKER_01:

I gotta tell you, falls like one of my favorite seasons. Getting colder. Like just everything, like food, hot cider cold, the hot cider. We got a that cider place thing. You haven't hit that place yet. Not yet, but I wouldn't. It is like all that type of stuff is great. Like to have a like a warm fire sitting around and get that cider and you know, spiked it a little bit. Spiked it a little bit.

SPEAKER_03:

A little bit of rum. A little bit of rum.

SPEAKER_02:

Right.

SPEAKER_03:

So but the other thing they do too is a lot of people they like exploring the dark side, right? Because they when they're go it when you just don't dress up like penny wise because you you're normal. No, you got a little freaking you, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Grim Reaper. Yeah, right? That side of you get the that's that's the the whole draw to Halloween. Everybody gets to like let their inner whatever mischiefs, you know. Do you remember we used to go to the kids that used to run around the neighborhood toilet paper and egg and stuff? Those are the people that do this weird shit.

SPEAKER_03:

But you go to the bars. Remember when we were in the 20s, right? And the girls in the bars would be like, a vampire?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Like a female vampire.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, let me tell you first of all, I ran into this girl the other day. Where was this? I gotta remember my mind because it freaked me out. She had she had literally she had those teeth where they ground them down to like spikes and all that stuff, right? She had that, and then she had taken something and put in, she had put these like spikes in her forehead. Like she had I'm not bullshitting you, like I was like, this is some like it was a piercing, but she had like normally like they'll do like an eyebrow or they'll do your nose or through your nose or whatever, and all that stuff, lips and all. She had it like spikes all in her forehead.

SPEAKER_03:

I said the dark side, man. It's uh like I'm like, some people some people live there. Yeah. We're just uh we're just visiting. Remember the purge? Remember the purge?

SPEAKER_01:

The what? The purge.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh yeah, the purge, right? Yeah, dark side.

SPEAKER_01:

We need the purge for different reasons.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. So what do you think? You know why people like to be scared though. It's that adrenaline to the brain. Oh, yeah. That crazy release, that dopamine feel. Because okay, you know when uh you go to the woods or you go to a haunted house, you know it, you you already know you're gonna get scared. Yeah. So you're you're you're so it's like a roller coaster. Right, you but you can already feel even if we know that that they're they're gonna be there, you you already feel it like in your arms, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. You feel the hair stand up, right? Yeah, or you feel like the goose that the anticipation of it. Yeah, you get that chicken skin. Yeah, and then you know it's gonna do it, and and all of a sudden that person jumps out or something. Sure. It's that big dopamine rush.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. But I mean, all that stuff is like it's okay to like uh want that. It's all that um, you know, adrenaline and a dopamine rush that you get from anything that's exciting, jumping out of planes or whatever, you know, whatever you're excited, you know, popping wheelies on the bike, jumping around across the, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

How do you like those guys that go to the haunted house and all of a sudden that guy comes around the corner, he throws a girlfriend in front of it?

SPEAKER_01:

I love when people like like push their like significant other in front of them.

SPEAKER_03:

Or the guy screams louder than the girl. And then they're all looking at it. Or they run away and leave that person like this. They're looking at him going, Did that just come out of me?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, your priority uh level gets uh identified quickly. Where you are in their rung. That's hilarious. It's that bonding experience.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, people are just uh Do you remember in the movies and all those uh those scary movies, right? And Jason, there was always that one person that thought it was a good idea that we separate.

unknown:

Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, you go that way, I'm gonna go this way. And we'll see it. We'll we'll meet back at the barn. The house. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

The barn. The barn. Right? With all those metal cool our big sickle tools and sickles, hammers, sickles, and knives hanging from there was always that one person though, right? And you knew it's like, oh, you're dead. Yeah, you're dead. You're the next one that comes around the tree, and then Jason like pulls you up.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude. Halloween is a Halloween's just a freaky, like it just lets you do you you exercise and get that a permission to just like think and uh be whatever you want to be. Right.

SPEAKER_03:

We have a bunch of fun. Yeah, it's fun. So some of the scariest places on the on the on the planet. Have you ever heard of the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia? No. This is a historic prison. It's known for its haunted history. Really? Yeah, and it hosts what's called uh Terror Behind the Walls. It's one of the most intense haunted houses in the United States. Oh, wow. It was opened in 1829. It didn't close till 1971.

SPEAKER_01:

The um, so they made this penitentiary.

SPEAKER_03:

That was the penitentiary, or this is like like uh it was a penitentiary that they made into like you know, they do the haunted house, you know, like they do at Mansfield. Yeah, yeah. Reformatory.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Mansfield Reformatory is really cool. Uh like during during uh this time of the year, they they let you do sleepovers.

SPEAKER_03:

Really?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

But this, okay, wait a minute. Hold on to that.

SPEAKER_01:

A few flight attendants we know, I know, went down there and did the sleepover, and they had the you know the ghost um that ghost show where you they can you know detect it's ghosts and they got like the ghost meters and all that stuff. Well, they equip them with all this crap, right? And so then they can like creep around the whole place all during the night looking for ghosts and shit.

SPEAKER_02:

They've run around those little machines.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm gonna tell you the middle of the day, the reformatory in Mansfield is scary. It's the it's the for all those, you know, that's where they film the Shawshank Redemption. But um, it's scarier than that. We need to do that. Go down there? Me and you.

SPEAKER_03:

It's cool. I love it. We need to do it. I'm serious. But this, okay, this penitentiary though, I gotta tell you about this one though. It they there it was a separate system of solitary confinement. These guys lived alone, ate everything alone, exercised alone, everything was done in extreme isolation. So bad that they they used to uh it used to cause psychological damage, and it it was like crazy suicide madness and all this thing. And that's why they're saying that they had all these hauntings. It was, I mean, absolutely crazy place. You people weren't meant to be alone. No, but they did it, you know, back then it was it was amazing because we talked about that in the last last podcast, the difference uh years ago what they used to do and what they do now, right? For even even the prisoners, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean Mansfield. I mean, Mansfield was crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, just what they well, what they decided, like you know, it was just ju it was a like a juvenile detention, really, at first, is what this all started off as. And then, you know, it was a reformatory, right? Right. And uh then it went to criminal and it became criminal later, you know, as it went on on, you know, the different clientele that came through there.

SPEAKER_02:

So so they had this other one that was they I wanted to see if if I pronounce it right, Povglia Island.

SPEAKER_03:

This is in northern Italy. It's only a few acres, right? This this place is abandoned. Okay, it's closed to the public, right? Okay, and in the 18th century, it was set up as a quarantine island island for people infected with the bubonic plague.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, I'm gonna tell you right now, when you get over to Europe and you see some of that midieval shit that they did. I mean, they and like the remnants of those things, like it is yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

They were burned in mass graves. These things, it's no wonder they say that this place is haunted. Right. Because I mean, the mass graves that they did, and they say the estimated was over a hundred thousand people may have died on that island. That is crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, if the blue blonde plague was involved with it, I could see why, but they had to figure out where to put all the bodies and stuff.

SPEAKER_03:

So in the 20th century, i it a psych psychiatric hospital was built on the island.

SPEAKER_01:

That's nice. That's nuts.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. There's uh crazy period. So you got crazy people that's haunted by spirits of people with the plague from all the dead people, and you have asylum patients. Yeah. Hey, let's build an asylum on this grave area. I wonder what it was like to get a person to go work there. What was your uh let's see, what benefits did you get? I don't know about benefits.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know what type of benefits they're okay.

SPEAKER_03:

So they had this trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Western, or excuse me, Western West Virginia. This place was built in 1858. Right. This was one of the historic sites for all these ghost hunts, this paranormal activity. Crazy. It served as a psychiatric hospital, and I thought this was kind of crazy. It was designated for 250 patients. Okay. Right. It held over 2,400 patients. Ugh, can you even freaking imagine? The just the crazy condition.

SPEAKER_01:

They were just squeezing them in there.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. All those, but here's the funny part, right? Some of the patients that were committed for minor reasons like depression, yep, menopause. Oh, that's how they got overpopulated. And reading too many novels.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. I know some people that should be going there.

SPEAKER_03:

Did you read that? Uh nope. Now, now listen. Now for you, could you imagine menopause? Okay. So the how you how we're gonna treat menopause or reading too many novels? We're gonna we're gonna give you electric electronic shock treatment.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Bobotomies. Nice. Insulin therapy. Hey. You know what? Anything to stop that crazy freaking rage.

SPEAKER_03:

I would I you know something I'd haunt that damn island too. I went there with the uh reading a few novels, and next thing you know, I'm getting electrocuted.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what's the funniest thing is that like history just shows some of the stupidity that we believed in. Like it, I mean, this is continuing on today. Like the things that we believe today, we're gonna look back on some of these things and be like, that was stupid. Right? Like, we already do. Yeah, it's like here you're just like, why did why was that acceptable? Why was that the norm of being able to like, okay, oh, she's having a period, send her away. Electrocutor.

SPEAKER_03:

What the f lobotomizer? That will work for that one. Yeah, exactly. Let's go send them all to an island. Hmm. Yeah, that worked. I wonder who I'm gonna tell you right now. Imagine the person who thought, hey, let's take that island, let's just go ship all those people over there and we'll just kill them all.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I'm gonna tell you right now, like the airlines, we wouldn't have any flight attendants. No, they don't be exactly.

SPEAKER_03:

Especially reading, right? They'd be sitting over there. If they added candy crush to it, they're all their asses all be on the oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01:

You're talking about some this just I it just blows my mind when you think about how the world worked.

SPEAKER_03:

All right, man. Halloween is gonna be a fun time, but let's go around the globe. Around the globe. A 20-year-old passenger was arrested after trying to open a cabin door in a 737-800. Nice. It was just landing in Houston on the 5th, man. And it triggered one of the emergency slides, forcing the pilots to shut down the engines on the taxiway and call for emergency crews. There is a smart guy.

SPEAKER_01:

What the hell? People like it blows my mind. Like people we will like hit the runway. The wheels were just boom. Yep. You just the jolt of hitting the runway. And people are on passenger seat trying to go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_03:

Like, I'm like, well, put it this way: if you open that door in front of the engine, you ever seen a paper shredder?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, not good. I think um, so talking about that subject, and we're talking about Halloween and crazy stuff, like I was a this happened probably 20 some years ago. Where the dude was working the flight, and you know, in they were working a prop.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And the dude like the hat blew off right into the prop and decapitated the guy. Yep. Like, can you imagine being the pastor on that?

SPEAKER_03:

I couldn't imagine, I couldn't imagine just I mean, even as a crew member seeing any of that, that would have been horrific.

SPEAKER_01:

Ugh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

But you know, that's just stupid trying to open a door. Done.

SPEAKER_01:

But you know, you it's stupid to be people don't people are stupid. Yep. That's why we talk about them.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, come on. Okay, here's another one stupid one. This is on uh one of the the other airlines going to uh Baltimore. This this woman decides not to let it's like halfway through, and she she decides not to let people off the plane because her daughter's in the back of the aircraft. So she she says, I'm just standing here until everybody lets her daughter by so she can get off the plane the same time as her.

SPEAKER_01:

Ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03:

And and so you you've seen this video and uh this screaming this finally this flight attendant comes up and is able to get her to move. Unbelievable. I would have loved to have seen you in that situation on that.

SPEAKER_01:

She could she would have been moved.

SPEAKER_03:

It's just so stupid. Some of the dumb things. I mean, this is every week. Every week. But this is my favorite, though. This is my favorite of all. The 26-year-old Olive Garden waitress. She was arrested on Saturday.

SPEAKER_01:

The waitress was arrested.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep. Okay. Can't wait to hear that. It was a gratuity dispute. All right. The witnesses, the the the waitress um said this couple had ran up a$94 bill with pasta, wine, and appetizers. Well, it's a la garden.

SPEAKER_01:

Cool.

SPEAKER_03:

And she said that it uh didn't leave her a tip.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_03:

So she slammed the receipt on the table and she told them that this is unlimited breadsticks that doesn't mean unlimited free labor. And she threw the breadsticks at him.

SPEAKER_01:

Good for her. I know, right? That's what I thought. A few people in Olive Garden that need to be beat with a breadstick.

SPEAKER_03:

I seen the picture of the girl, and she just looks like a normal girl, right? I mean, in all fairness, they paid for unlimited breadsticks. She just gave to them.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. Right?

SPEAKER_03:

Why'd you arrest the girl?

SPEAKER_01:

Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03:

But you know, there's people like that, right? They go, they go out to eat. This is what I can't stand. I cannot stand people that go out to eat and you get good service and you don't tip these people. You're lucky that she didn't shove that breadstick somewhere else because that's bullshit. It is I mean, if you don't get if you don't get good service, I can understand you leave 10%, right? I mean, that's just basically saying you didn't get good service. And but you know, I I'll say this a thousand times over. You're gonna get a lot in your tip from me. I gauge it on that Diet Coke sitting on the table, believe it or not. If that Diet Coke remains full on the table, then your tip is good. It means that you paid attention to small details, right? In a service. And and because I'm spending a lot of money for that stupid Diet Coke. And when you let that thing in, it only gets filled up one time, and and that's bullshit.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay. But when you don't tip at all, you're lucky that that is the only thing she threw at you were breadsticks.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, I will tell you right now, like, so I'm one that I get pissed off about service because we work in a service industry. So we know what service is, right? Right. But so I do exactly what you just said. Like, if you ain't give me bad service, you're gonna probably get a 10% tip. Right. You know, I can understand that 90% of the time, you're probably gonna get 25 to 30% out of me because I'm I'm I'm you know, I'm I'm thankful for the service that you're giving me. But at the same time, like, you know, Carol my wife, she won't, she will never ever under tip. Doesn't matter. You can be you'd be you can kick her. She would she would still give you a Same tip. And I don't believe in that. I'm like, as my friends that I just visited down in uh in Georgia, they always love my little one-line because one time we went out to a fast food place and they gave me a sandwich, and the sandwich was like just like a sloppy mess. And I just I went straight back into there and I threw it up on the counter and I said, called the manager over and I said, Tell me something. Does that sandwich there look like that picture there? Nope. I know. And they were like, they were beside themselves. They were like, I can't believe you had just said that. I'm like, I at minimum on a fast food place, you should be able to assemble the sandwich in a relatively good manner where I can eat it, not where the buns are slid and it's just wrapped up in a ball. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, before we get out of here, I gotta I gotta say this about okay, the Mexican restaurant, any waitress at a Mexican restaurant. Okay, you give this big ass thing of chips. Yeah. Come back with more salsa. Seriously? I mean that little ass bowl of salsa, right? We're big. We're big guys, right? I mean, are are you a scooper or just a dipper?

SPEAKER_01:

I'm a scooper, but I'm like uh I'll ask for more salsa. It doesn't matter. I know you asked for sales. I'm gonna ask for it, but like but I don't need to have it like you know, I get it like the restaurants are like, okay, this is what you get, and you know, you need to ask for a little bit more if you want more type of thing. It's empty.

SPEAKER_03:

Just bring you got a whole damn thing of chips.

SPEAKER_01:

But is this isn't all every place is an olive garden. All right, man. Just more salsa. All right, Sean, go ahead. Inspirational quote. All right. Uh inspirational quote this week is life doesn't get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient. That's me and you, brother. That's it.

SPEAKER_03:

More hey, hey, and these guys can't see. I can't wait for you guys to actually see. We have got the coolest sign here. Yep. The Cabin Pressure Sean and G sign. It is awesome.

SPEAKER_01:

A brand new sign for the show. It's getting ready. We are we are ready for video. Sean is coming.

SPEAKER_03:

He's gonna have to take a picture and post it. But listen, man, I had a lot of fun talking about Halloween this week.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Heck yeah. I love that.

SPEAKER_03:

And if you if you're in the if you're in the lavatories, use the paper towels. Don't use the seat toilet covers.

SPEAKER_01:

And find the trash can, please. Please.

SPEAKER_03:

All right, guys. You guys have a great week. Have a great Halloween, and we will see you next week here on Cabin Pressure.

SPEAKER_01:

Bye. See ya. Well, folks, that's all we've got for this week. From septic disasters to toilet seed cover mishaps, from haunted asylums to pastors who think airplanes are yoga studios. It's just another week in the crazy skies. Remember, life doesn't get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient. And if you can survive a flight attendant on the Third Espresso and a mom who prioritizes her dog over her baby safety, you can survive anything. Before you go, we need your help to keep this show flying. If you love hearing these crazy stories from 32,000 feet, head over to Cabin PressureMerch.com and grab some merch. We've got shirts, mugs, gear that will let everyone know that you're part of the Cabin Pressure crew. Plus, it helps us keep bringing you these wild tales every week. Hey, and if you've got your own airplane horror stories or you just want to tell us we're crazy, hit us up on social media. We read everything, even messages from people who think unlimited breadsticks mean unlimited free labor. Thanks for listening. Stay safe out there, and remember, those are not paper tiles. Catch you next time on Captain Pressure!

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