Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

From Cabo To Palm Springs - What Happens When Travel Dreams Meet Real-World Risk

• Shawn & G • Episode 60

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A perfect room in Cabo, the beach on lock, and then the headlines turn dark. We walk you through the moment we hit pause, weighed cartel warnings and fresh advisories, and flipped the trip to Palm Springs. The real story isn’t the resort—it’s how to read risk, tune out noise, and make a call that lets you actually relax once you land.

From there, we crack open the most expensive mistake a crew member can make: an accidental slide deployment. Beyond the embarrassment, it’s a brutal chain reaction—$50k–$70k for the slide, a five-figure repack, injuries if you’re too close, and a six-figure disruption that burns time, crews, and patience. We share frontline perspective on door discipline, why “armed” is a live system, and what passengers don’t see while ops scrambles to recover.

Tech throws its own curveball when a Microsoft Azure outage ripples into grounded flights and silenced Xbox headsets. We connect the dots between cloud dependency and aviation resilience, and ask the hard question: if one vendor blinks, does your entire operation stop? AI can supercharge scheduling, customer service, and planning, but without redundancy and realistic drills, smart tools become single points of failure.

We lighten the cabin with some necessary etiquette: no tuna, no hard-boiled eggs, go easy on the onions, and please skip the aisle yoga and gasper-vent laundry. Add a nod to a 22-year-old World Series phenom punching history into the box score, a jaw-dropping Category 5 hurricane that reminds us why timing matters, and a heartfelt shoutout to our new listener in Cyprus.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome back to Cabin Pressure. Gee, you know where Cyprus is? Nope. Well, we're gonna find out today. I'm nursing a fantasy football wound and a kabo trip that turned into Palm Springs.

SPEAKER_01:

Damn. Well, we're also gonna talk about blown emergency slides that cost$70,000.

SPEAKER_00:

And a Microsoft outage that grounded airlines, a Category 5 hurricane, and a historic World Series pitching performance.

SPEAKER_01:

Can we talk about airport parking? I saw a shuttle that said free. There is nothing free about airport parking. Uh Gary's got parking range, folks. I got questions. Also, why are yoga masters taking over planes? Is this the TikTok thing?

SPEAKER_00:

That's what I'm saying. All right, buckle up. This is episode 60. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01:

Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Press.

SPEAKER_00:

What's that? What's that? What's going on, man? Man, you know, first of all. I should have gone, wait a minute. I should have gone, What's that? There you go. Yeah. We're gonna flip it. You're gonna start doing intro stuff. You're gonna be doing stupid shit. I missed that one. I had to jump in there. That was good. Dude, man. We had a domestic incident at our house the other night.

SPEAKER_01:

Domestic incident.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, man. It was bad. It was brutal. Brutal. For all you men out there, you know what I'm talking about when I talk about I was in a fantasy football match with my wife.

SPEAKER_01:

She whipped your ass.

SPEAKER_00:

And she gave me the beat down. Like my my man card is injured. I'm just telling you right now. It's brutal out there, people. Your voice sounds like it was ripped up. You know, she's a big uh Colts fan, so she like has this uh fantasy football team that she's like all cults, right? And so she picks most of the team that it's like current, but she also goes with all the like dudes that were like been traded in different teams with ex-cults, so she still has in her mind like an all cults team, you know, all the guys she used to like and everything, but she's kicking people's ass this year. Like, I mean, like taking names, she's like beating down people, and I was just one of her victims. That's actually that's actually funny. It was it was bad, man. It was bad, but um so um you're gonna hear about this for a while. Well, you know, here's the thing like she goes like like two and three years of like streaks now where she's just like the worst in the league. And you know, and in our league right now, you know, you know, GW, he's in our league, right? And he's like 0-7. He's the worst. So he's good rap. He took place, yeah. He took place. Carol's normally because she only picks like the Colts, right? So if the Colts are shitty, she's shitty, right? And so they're like everybody knows, but this year's Colts are doing really good, and so she's beating people down. I mean, they're getting off.

SPEAKER_01:

Carol doing the happy dance, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

G did shout out to G if he's listening. He did win his first game this week, finally. So that was a good thing. And um, the other thing that happened, man, the other day. So you know, I'm doing all this like car juggling right now and trying to do all this stuff, and I'm at family over, and I'm backing out my car, and I'd parked it into my wife's spot. You know how like you're parking in a spot and you're like, Oh, you know, you're I'm gonna just jump in my car and get out of here, and I'm parking out at the opposite side of what I normally am used to backing out, and I pinched my mirror in the side of the garage, and that thing just exploded, like shattered everywhere. Of a brand new car. No, no, no, no, no. This is my old car. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Not that's why you're laughing. Not because it would not be funny.

SPEAKER_00:

I would be crying if it was my new car. I was gonna say your old car. But here's the thing. So the thing like has like 215,000 miles on this thing, right? So I'm like, it's still in good condition, it's a decent car, right? But like it's only worth like$5,500. Like, is it's a BMW, but it's 250,000 miles, right? So then I pop this mirror. I go to get an estimate today. You know what, you know what they tell me how much that mirror is? I'm gonna love this. Uh,$2,200. I'm like, it ain't worth half the car. I looked at the dude, I'm like, I said, I didn't tell you it was 2017 BMW at 215,000 miles.

SPEAKER_01:

I was gonna tell you go get it pull apart, but they ain't got no BMW and no pull apart.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, they do, they do, believe me. You know, so anyway, he goes, 2200.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm gonna go down there and pull that damn thing.

SPEAKER_00:

He goes, he goes, Why don't you uh go searching around? He goes, Yeah, I bet you can find this. He goes, If find it, he goes, bring it back. He goes, Well, I'll have them install it, paint it for you, and get it installed for you, save you some money. I'm like, I'm telling you, me and you go to pull apart, pull that damn thing right off. It was a bit throw. I mean, I popped it, it was like you just looked over. I'm telling you, you should you should look. I mean, we'll go pull it off. But amazing enough, the mirror still works, it folds in, all that stuff, man. But I know everybody. We'll go check a parking lot. Everybody out there that's ever had that, like, oh shit, what year is it? Did I do that incident? You know, they can relate. God, I was like, I did that in like uh, I don't know about like 10 years ago. I had friends send over, and you know Taylor. He's over with his new car, and he puts it in the driveway and everything, and I'm like, oh, I'll go out and get pizza. And I opened the garage door and I back up and I'm just boom. Brand new kid. His first car ever crunched the whole front end.

SPEAKER_01:

When the when you rip that, when you rip that mirror off, yeah, did you think it was gonna be 2200? Oh no, I didn't think it was. It's like half the value of the car.

SPEAKER_00:

I was thinking like, I was thinking like under a grand. That's what I was thinking. But you know, anyway, so I have that shit going on. And then and then then check this out. So here we plan our vacations like a year out. Because you know I'm I'm that Marriott Vacation Club stuff, and so we have to like you have to like reserve everything and all that stuff. And so we were sitting around the other day and we're talking about it to our friends we're going on vacation with, and we were getting ready, and we had this, we had this like primo room, like we've been we had been down there, had like seen the property, figured out oh, these this is the room we wanted for the following year, whatever, and so we reserved it on this stuff, so we were all excited and everything. And a week ago, I'm sitting up last week and I said, you know, how are you guys feeling about going to Cabo right now? Because uh we're blowing boats up and shit over in Mexico, and and and then my buddy sends me this like article that says cartels hanging signs in Cabo, you know, Americans beware, we are gonna kill you. We talked about that in the podcast.

SPEAKER_01:

I was like, we did, we talked about that. We said, okay, so you you have these these signs that says Americans don't go. Right. And the people that go. Yeah. Okay, so you were one of those people that were going.

SPEAKER_00:

I was going, and then I talked to the group and I said, um, I don't know if you so I got onto, you know, the you know, the travel warning thing, right? And I get in there, and guess when the last update was to like don't travel. 22. No, no, no, no. I know the government shut down. It's sarcasm.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Damn. The 15th of, like the 15th of this, like 15 days ago or something like that, or whatever, or three days ago is when the last update happened. So uh people out there right now, if you're traveling around any of your international shit, that site's a bunch of shit.

SPEAKER_01:

We talked about that. That's what we said.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, do just do your own good judgment, think about where you're going, think about you're American, I'm going to this country, am I safe? Because and don't don't get in a speedboat. You look at the map, and it has like there's only like one little section in Mexico, like where Cabo is and where Cancun is, and it says, you know, be cautious, right? And then all the other territories around is like, don't travel. Uh, warnings, change plans, uh, they will kill you. You know, like it's green.

SPEAKER_01:

You know the greatest thing about living in the U.S. What's that? When have you seen a travel advisory for the U.S.? Right. They're out there though. When?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I mean, like, I think we talked about this before.

SPEAKER_01:

We're like, is dangerous going like to Jackson Hole?

SPEAKER_00:

Dude. Have you seen what's happening in some of these major cities right now? I knew that, but yeah, so the foreigners are coming in, they're like, Don't go to don't go to Portland, don't go to New York. Well, don't go to Chicago. I wouldn't go to Portland either. Beware.

SPEAKER_01:

There's a bunch of different reasons, but I wouldn't go there.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly. So, anyways, though, yeah, man. So we audibled and we went, we are now going to Palm Springs. And uh a beach vacation just turned into a golf vacation. Carol's happy. Right. So we're we're like, we had to like flip everything else, change plans, you know, the whole nine yards, you know, the whole, you know, hotel rooms and uh cars and you know, trying to figure out how to get freaking, you know, our clubs out there. And it was crazy. But uh I'm I feel safe now. No travel advisory for Palm Springs. Yeah, because in Palm Springs, you might be getting bit bitch slapped by a gay dude, but you ain't gonna get killed by the cartel.

SPEAKER_02:

I'd like to see that one.

SPEAKER_00:

They might try to bitch slap you. That would be funny, but that's about as harsh as it's gonna get out there, anyhow. Um, so yeah, man. So then then other thing you know that's coming up here, uh uh, which is gonna be tomorrow after this when the show uh launches here is gonna be daylight saving times happen again. It's dark. Dude.

SPEAKER_01:

I go to work and it's dark. I come home and it's dark. It is dark.

SPEAKER_00:

Are they ever gonna change this shit? Nope.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, I don't know. All I know is uh when I when I leave it's dark, when I come home, it's dark.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, uh, how many years now has it been like somebody and like the government is like, oh, we're gonna we're gonna have a bill and we're gonna change this and this is gonna get changed and this is outdated and just leave it alone, right? No, I don't know. No, I mean change change it and then leave it alone. Yeah, just just abolish it. Just like forget, stop doing the shit anymore, just leave it at one time and just let's go. Yeah, quit changing back and forth and bouncing. But, anyways, for those people that are concerned, on Sunday, November 2nd at 2 a.m. local time, uh, you'll turn return to a standard time, so you're gonna fall back. Anyhow.

SPEAKER_01:

I had this guy. I had this guy. PSA for the day. I gotta tell you about this guy uh came in uh day before yesterday. I came in from Los Angeles, and he was coming in for a wedding. Actually, it's pretty cool. Yeah, and uh he was he was all excited about getting in Cleveland. And and here's here's uh our our Captain Finkey. He was like, Yeah, it's uh cold, rainy, wet, everything, you know. I mean, everything bad about as far as the weather goes. For us, it's normal, it's just that time of year. And this guy was so excited about coming into Ohio. And so yeah, we got in this conversation, and and uh so he is moving from Los Angeles into Cleveland. Yeah, to Cleveland.

SPEAKER_00:

A lot less sunny days.

SPEAKER_01:

No, but he was it was amazing how he was looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, he's probably feeling better because they're nice people here. That's what he said.

SPEAKER_01:

He goes, he goes, it's amazing how nice everyone is in Ohio when when you you get here and you meet these people, right? And he goes, and you drive around, it's like these these little towns and all this and great food and everything that you get. And he goes, and then I love the seasonal change. Because most of those places, you know, where they got like two seasons if they're lucky.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude.

SPEAKER_01:

Right?

SPEAKER_00:

We get all four. All I can say right now, like you just hit the nail on the head, man. Yesterday I was just driving around, and right now it is popping. Like the colors here. I mean, I'm driving down streets, and you just think, like, this is a storybook. It's unbelievable how beautiful the colors are. So many fall colors happening. It's just magical right now here in Ohio.

SPEAKER_01:

So he was talking about like a different place he was looking. He they're gonna spend like the next two days driving around. And he was talking about he get he wanted to be up by the lake. And I and I told him, I said, when you get a realtor, ask him where it says snowbelt. Yeah. And he goes, Snowbelt, what's that? You're gonna find out real quick. And I told him, I said, Okay, if you like a lot of snow, yeah, okay, may then go look at the side. Unless you'd be stuck in your house for a little while. Exactly. It's by the up by the lake, right? The temperature changes. I was telling him, I said, temperature, what did you say, about 10, 14 degrees difference?

SPEAKER_00:

A lot of times a minimum 10 degree shift from the lake to inland. It's just it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

So he was looking forward to, I mean, he he is uh so excited about moving here, and he's got his house up for sale, and he he's looking for houses. And I thought it was so cool. I mean, we got in this long conversation, but I showed him, you know, our you know, our area, and he couldn't believe how beautiful it is out here. Yeah, and he's so looking forward to moving to Ohio, and we've said it numerous times, Ohio is a phenomenal place to live. It's great people, great food, um, and great uh traffic.

SPEAKER_00:

You know the traffic is good here. Yeah, it's on it's about a 15-30 minute window.

SPEAKER_01:

No, we got good traffic. But hey, you know, I just got done. I just got done with training. I'm not gonna you know go on and on about that. All I can say is is uh, you know, preparation.

SPEAKER_00:

Prep.

SPEAKER_01:

Right?

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, it makes all the difference.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, because you know, you get these people in training and they're not prepped. Oh, I hate that. Spinning like a top, looking stupid. Yep. Yep. And and they give you all the information. All you gotta do is just prep yourself.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And uh, you know, the the gal they put with me, and you know, they she followed me the whole time in rotation. Oh, the gal. Oh yeah, they there's a reason.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Well, the I like the instructors kind of like do that. Oh yeah, I know. They figure out which one's the smart one, and then okay, you're starting, you're following. Yeah, you're starting to get it. Gary, you're up. Yeah, you're up. So they did that to me as well.

SPEAKER_01:

So yeah, so me and me and Kurt, we got done. And so we're rushing, you know, you're running over to the airport, and you know, you got random. Right. Right. Oh, that's fun. Right? Chicago random. Always fun. So we had to go over to uh what is it, the pre-check.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So we thought we was in this pre-check, and we're supposed to be at the other pre-check, then we got to go on that one, then we get in that line. You're not in uniform, so you gotta stand in line. So then we get on the plane, right? We're packed in like sardines, we're heading home, we're thinking, God, thank God, you know. 18 months, we're clear. Right. We get out there, and all of a sudden I'm like, Kurt, we're not moving. And she's like, Yeah, I know, we've been here for a bit. And all of a sudden he comes across, maintenance. Oh man. Yeah, we go right back to the dam. We go right back to the airport. I uh go, I'm like, she she was like, Are you are you getting off the plane? I was like, shit, yeah, I'm not sitting on here. So I I got off and I went and got that number two caramel in Chicago. Boom. Right? Right. Clark's. Yeah. Now I it's uh it's okay. But you know what I don't like about it? Clark's talking about. Yeah. The seeds, the caramel corn. Yeah. The seeds. I I I don't like the seeds because you get you get them in the corn. Yeah. Didn't like that. I'm not a you know, Clark's is just okay to me. It is. I say number two. Yeah. Garrett's is number one. Garrett's. But we were on the wrong side to get Garrett's. You gotta walk a little bit. Yep. Too far for uh the delay that we're in. So anyway, like I said, we were packed in like sardines. We ended up getting home the well, closer to the next day. Next day. After closer to midnight. Yeah, we were illegal. 16 hours exceeded uh limitations, but you know, we were going home. Because we we get nothing extra. I know, dude.

SPEAKER_00:

Nothing, nothing, just sit in there and go home. I know. Believe me.

SPEAKER_01:

So anyway, yeah, here so uh now I'm I'm driving and I and I'm right behind this fast park van, and I thought of you.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I did. Because they had this advertising I thought was really funny on the back of it. It's a it's a 24-hour shuttle. Relax, it's free. What the f is free in in airport parking? Come on now. What is free in airport parking? When did they give you free parking?

SPEAKER_00:

Nobody gives me free parking.

SPEAKER_01:

You park at Fast Park.

SPEAKER_00:

I think they were talking about the shuttle.

SPEAKER_01:

I know, but how in the hell are you gonna get to the airport? I know what they are talking about. I know the shuttle's free. What do you think? You're gonna pay for the shuttle from the airport? Yeah, uh, yeah, you go ahead and park, and then it's an extra five dollars for me to drive your ass to the airport.

SPEAKER_00:

And they want a tip.

SPEAKER_01:

It's free. Stupid it's it's that's a dumb, stupid advertising.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, man. It's all uh it's all a facade. Right? The one thing I do get free there when I park is uh I get some juice. I get to plug in my car now and they give me free juice.

SPEAKER_01:

When you leave, though, you it's nothing free. You're paying.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Your ass is paying.

SPEAKER_00:

And it's uh through a little sippy straw juice, so it takes a long time for my car to get charged up.

SPEAKER_01:

And this week I love this. You know, remember Ubekistan? Ubekistan, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Shout out, Ubekistan.

SPEAKER_01:

Had no freaking idea where Ubekistan is. Well, I I love it when we get a person that listens to us from a place I'm not familiar with. Right. Have you heard of Cyprus? Cyprus. Yes, I've heard of Cyprus.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, well, I haven't. God, you're like, I've heard of Cyprus. I'm a I'm an international man. What a mystery. All right.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. So I thought this was cool. This this person listened to us in Cyprus. Okay, exactly. Where is Cyprus? No, you know something, you're gonna know where it is. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00:

No, go keep going. Cyprus.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, the Cyprus is an island country located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. This is kind of cool because it's south of Turkey, it's west of Syria and Lebanon, it's northwest of Israel and north of Egypt. It's the largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia. Now, this was really cool. If you look at this on the map, it's beautiful there. It's like, yeah, but it's it's like in the center of all these places in the damn water. It's just an island.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I thought it was really cool. And then this person is listening, and he's out there in Cyprus going, hey, you know something? Damn. Cabin pressure with Sean G. That'd be something I'm gonna listen to. Boom. Boom. I just loved it. I I love it when they dance when they actually listen. And and so you get to learn about them, and you get to learn about their food.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what would be really cool? What? Is we had a listener that was like in Cyprus or one of these different countries, and then they contact us, and then we go there and do a show.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's do it, especially that place. Cyprus, hey, email us.

SPEAKER_00:

They'd be like, hey, hey, let's come here, let's do the show. G and I fly out there because we got that access, like privileges. That'd be funny. And we just like go. That would be fun.

SPEAKER_01:

People would be like, What? That's our new thing. Right. We're gonna do it. You guys, you got you have to ask us though, you gotta send an email. But anyway, wanted to tell you there the food there. It's semi-hard brined cheese made from sheep's and goats' milk. It's unique because it doesn't melt easily. So it's often grilled or fried and served with mint.

SPEAKER_00:

Now, cheese with mint. Cheese and mint, man. Dude, I'm in for anything. You know me. Yeah, I'm a foodie. I'll try anything.

SPEAKER_01:

Now, this is the part I could understand though, because when you when you have cheese like that, eating it with watermelon in the summertime.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

That'd be good.

SPEAKER_00:

I've done that.

SPEAKER_01:

So Cypress, hey, listen, reach out to us, send an email. Me and Sean will get once come visit. Just show us show us where we're staying. First of all, it would be a major event to get G to go anywhere. Okay, but show up. Stop flying. All right, shut up. Show us where we're staying. Show uh the bed that I'm sleeping in and the cot that Sean is. Right. So just send us the email. We're coming. Let's do it, man. Cyprus, I thought it was cool. So we have Ubekistan and Cyprus. Who will be next? Who's next? Who's gonna be that crazy place that we not heard of? No, well, you've heard of Cyprus. Yeah. I think you're bullshitting. No, dude. I know you're because you you were there by Italy. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_00:

I know you knew where it was at. Across the water, spit, boom, there. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01:

I learned about it anyway.

SPEAKER_00:

Anyways, man. Uh yeah. So what's happening in the world today, man? The World Series is happening. That's what everybody right now is listening. I mean, not everybody, like the World Series is the big event here in the United States, but like it's still a big event around the world, right? Huge. I mean, huge. But there's been some crazy stuff happening. First of all, Canada is getting off right now. The Blue Jays. Yeah. They are they are in a position to get ready to win this whole thing.

SPEAKER_01:

I was like over the Dodgers?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, dude. That's that's a big thing right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, uh who are you for? You are you for one of these teams? Because I mean, like, these aren't our teams. No, I I but I I don't want the Dodgers to win. I'm with you too. I don't want the I'd rather see the Blue Jays. I'm always about an underdog winning. Yep. You know, because the Blue Jays, first of all, they have you know Canadian World Series start their very first ever, then they wrap it all up and all this stuff. But they're ready to do it, man. They are fighting tooth and nail.

SPEAKER_01:

I like I do like the thought of the underdog. I don't care who it is. I don't care if it's Canada. I don't care where it's at. I don't care if it's Cleveland. Right. Right. Love to see Cleveland in it. Oh there you go. But anyway, no, I I I totally agree with you. I would I would love to see the the Blue Jays actually win. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

That'd be cool, man. But there's been some phenomenal things. Game three, 18 innings happening. I mean, that was like, I mean, I didn't stay up for some friend friends of mine were talking about it. How like it was crazy how long. And then um then the yesterday's game, man, with uh the pitcher that freaking uh threw out 10 strikeouts in the first five innings. Yeah. That hasn't been done since 1963, Sandy Koufax. That's some crazy stuff right there. That kid's only 22 years old. 22 years old and uh in the World Series and just having making a day of it, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I mean he he played uh he played college for the East Carolina Pirates. I mean, he was uh he he was a first round in an MLB draft.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I mean yeah unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01:

But 22 years of age. Could you can imagine that big of a stage standing there 22 years old? And uh the the the focus is crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

First of all, they had the nerves to do it and all that stuff just crazy being on that platform is a bit unbelievable, but I mean what a what amazing that's locked in. I uh I'm I'm hoping I'm hoping for them. I mean, I'm you know, I'm the underdog router too. Yeah. So anyways, what's happening with the crew members blowing slides?

SPEAKER_01:

Do you did you see that? No. We talked about we talk about this a lot, about um with the the one thing that crew members their their biggest nightmare, right? Yeah. I mean a crew member's biggest nightmare is blowing a slide.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, here's the thing. It's like it's like uh any other job that's out there. We have our main responsibility as a flight attendant is to man your door and evacuate a plane, right? That's the number one thing. I don't care if you get a freaking coke, I don't care if you eat anything, whatever. Our first and only reason to be on the plane is to get that door open in an emergency and get people off the plane.

SPEAKER_01:

And if you fuck up doing it, but no, there's but okay, put yourself do it when it's not supposed to be done. Yeah, but put yourself in this situation though. You're your your plane is is boarded, everybody's ready to go, and then you blow the damn slide. Oh, dang. Right now, now your ass is standing there while everybody's looking at you like you're the dumb ass. Right? Yeah, you are. Because, you know, first of all, everybody's gotta come out and take pictures.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Everybody and their mother. I know if it ever happened to me, I the first thing I'm thinking about, you know what it is? Taking a picture? No, it no no. It is I just like envision myself in that video like this can happen to you too.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what I'm being in a video. You know what I thought is is that holy shit look, right? Where all of a sudden uh you felt like you're gonna have a bow movement. Right. Yeah. Because your head starts getting lightheaded, spinning a little bit. Because you know, you know, as a crew member, the um it it's all bad from this point forward.

SPEAKER_00:

I had I had an incident out in Hawaii where this dude blew a uh 7-6 slide. Yeah. Right next door to us. I was with you, probably, and then remember the guy got knocked out. Knocked out.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, seven.

SPEAKER_00:

The door comes in. This stuff is so lethal. Yeah. I mean, people don't understand. Like, the when these doors blow and these slides blow, they're coming out with thousands of pounds of pressure and they just like explode open. And this door in this plane slides up and has this big gigantic uh slide bustle on the thing, and it smacked him right in the face and knocked him cold.

SPEAKER_01:

All the way across the other side of the galley.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

And and he was he was knocked unconscious. Unconscious.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So that that just puts it puts it in perspective before you get people out there that don't understand what we're talking about. But these when you open these doors, there's something like that.

SPEAKER_01:

That could happen to a crew member in a normal circumstance. If you if you're not aware of being on the 7-6, right? If you're not aware, you know it. If you if you make the mistake by getting too close, you're getting knocked out.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you and and you know what? Ever since that incident happened with that we were a witness to, like, you would have thought we would have had more training about it. Like, these things open quick. Yeah, be careful, stand out of the way. Get your ass knocked out. Yeah, they never tell you about that shit.

SPEAKER_01:

Nope. So, but but going going on to what happens after that, I mean, for a for a crew member, I'm just telling you, it is it is a nightmare. I mean, it is the beginning of your nightmare.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. You're getting ready to go pee-pee.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but could you imagine sitting there and if you're at a location, now everybody's got to get off the plane, and and everybody's like, well, there's dumbass. As you're as you're getting off. If they didn't have a crew member to replace you and they they got a new slide, well, there's dumbass again. Don't let him out of the door. Yeah, slides aren't just laying around. Exactly. But that this one, this one was like, I think it was like a four to five hour delay. Now, you get this is what a lot of people don't understand. Those slides, just a replacement slide, is anywhere from$50,000 to$70,000 just for the slide. You got a repacking cost. Did I tell you how much my mirror was?$1,200. Yeah. A repacking cost of$12,000 just to repack it. Wow. Operational disruption. I mean, it can go anywhere from a hundred thousand up, depending on depending on the passengers.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. Like I I would like to see that whole thing about repacking. Like, you know, like I didn't know if they they were reusable type of thing. Yeah, they just deflate them and repack them. Yeah. Yeah. But I'd like to see it. I would I would. And would you trust if our main is repacked and put it back in?

SPEAKER_01:

I wouldn't want to do it. Have you ever tried to have you ever tried to repack like a pool, a blow-up pool?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, a blow-up uh try to get that damn thing back in the box. Right. Ain't no way in hell. I was just trying to do that with that game, that stupid uh toss the burrito game and trying to repack that thing. I know mad.

SPEAKER_01:

You just throw the shit away, man.

SPEAKER_00:

I literally was like, uh, I'm gonna buy a new game.

SPEAKER_01:

I hate I hated those blow up pools too, because I those things you could never get back in the damn box.

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01:

$100,000 though, man, plus it it's a nightmare.

SPEAKER_00:

It's a nightmare. That's that's a crazy expensive nightmare and a total inconvenience to everybody on the plane because you're stupid.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, you know what else is a an inconvenience on the plane? Uh more of an inconvenience, nasty, disgusting. You're gonna like this one because w when I get to the top of this, is you when passengers bring on uh food that's just nasty. Yeah, it's the smell. Tuna fish. Yeah. Any type of food. So a passenger was just mixing a tray of tune on the on the tray table and everybody around him could smell it. That's nasty. Right? So offensive food on an airplane, and I thought the number one thing, you know what the number one thing was?

SPEAKER_00:

The crazy thing is that sometimes you know some people recognize it at food, or some people was like going, did you take a shower? You're stinky. You're still gonna like the number one thing. Go ahead. What is the number one thing? Sardines. Sard sardines on a plane? Yeah. That's nasty.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you remember? You don't remember, do you? No. I remember I I told you, I said, hey, hey, Sean, do you do you care about sardines? Do you like sardines? You're like, yeah, I like sardines. And then I I cracked one open and you're like, damn, G. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

That's nasty, dude. Stunk up the whole galley. Stunk it up. There's certain foods that are not, should not be allowed. Should be banned on planes.

SPEAKER_01:

Tuna, hard-boiled eggs. Hard-boiled eggs. Smells like somebody's butt. Yeah. Right? Fish. Any type of fish. Any type of fish. Fish in an oven on a plane is just.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know why the airlines do that. No, they just give that option. Like that international trip I just didn't. It was like we had a fish option. And I'm like, why don't we have a fish option? This is such I mean, or or cook a fish that doesn't stink. Like there are lots of fish out there that aren't that smelly, you know? Like, but there's some that are just like, and tuna's one of those. If you start cooking it, I'll eat a raw tuna any day. We would cook it.

SPEAKER_01:

We will smell that funk in the ovens for months.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like a it's like a baked-in fish smell.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. There's just a lot of there's and then there's a lot of culture food out there that are like that that stinks, yeah, but really good. Like like curry.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh I love curry, but have you ever cooked it in the house? Indian food like all of it.

SPEAKER_00:

Curry will stink your whole house up, though. Dude, like one of my favorite foods, like when I go to like barbecue, is uh I love collard greens. Have you ever cooked collard greens in a house? No, it will stank the house. Stank it up. Bad. Yeah. In fact, Carol, I cooked up some collard greens, big old huge pot of it, because I was like, I gotta have some. I'm gonna save it for later and get warm these things up. And you know, they're better as they go day by day, right? Yeah and uh she comes home, she opens the refrigerator, it's stinking. She like grabbed that thing, threw it in the garbage. I was pissed, dude. I was so pissed. And she cost me like like you know, I had already I already blew like you know$20,$30 on some collard greens, and it takes a while, and it already stunk up the house. So I was like, I'm going to stink it up again. I'm telling you right now, she was throwing my collard greens. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01:

All right, the last one is and you like this a sandwich with extra onions.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, dude, onion onions are just like they're temperamental, right? So you could slice an onion and then be like, oh, make me cry or something like that. And it doesn't smell stupid. But when they started, like once they start aging and get that that fermenting, yep, that is it, dude. I just I just had some food in the car, like my new car. I bought something that had some onions in it. I literally rolled down the window and was like, it's not gonna stink on my car, man. I can't get my I'm not gonna get the new smell out for onion stink, right? Yeah, I know. Like I was like, oh my gosh, they were so ripe. And they they like permeate into anything. They like they're like a soak in stink, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So hey, just just be be aware. Don't bring, don't bring the tuna, the hard boiled eggs, the hard-boiled eggs, I like them. I'm gonna bring them anyway. Yeah, but yeah, I'm still gonna bring fish. I won't bring curry. Yeah, keep going from the start. Starting me and you always have a sandwich with onions. Yeah, man. So we're we we basically covered all of them. We yeah, we're the funk crew.

SPEAKER_00:

It's a stank. We're the funk crew. Stank, but it's it tastes good. Let's go around the globe, man. Round the globe, man. Uh, have you been uh looking at what was been happening, man, with all this uh AI stuff right now? Like it's on like all over the news. Like everybody is like talking about AI and like the three big names, you know, like Microsoft and Baple, and everybody was talking, you know, they're getting ready to report and all this stuff, all their earnings the other day. And right before they get ready to court, Microsoft, their whole entire server thing, the Zur crashes. Not good. Right before they announce their like earnings and all this shit, right? So this Xur like is on a server, and it's crazy because like this happened, this been happening a lot, a lot. Like, we've had the other day, I think it was it hit like Amazon or somebody like that, where it was like everybody couldn't get, it was one of the Amazon servers, and you couldn't like it. It was affecting everybody's internet, right? So, like all these huge servers that are out there now is like amazing that people don't realize like we're connected to all this stuff, and this Azure that houses Microsoft 360 uh 5 and all that stuff, and has all that, you know, it also has all the Xbox on there, so can you you can imagine like there was a bunch of pissed off gamers all over the world going, you know, Kinstream, they had their headphones on, like I can't hear you. What you're breaking up, you know. Come on, you got my back. Exactly. Freaking out, they're all freaking freaking out and all this stuff. But this her was like um this server went down, and um it it took them like a long like seven, eight hours to get it back up. And there's a big investigation of what's happening and all this stuff. Is this like a cybercrime or something like that? But these servers are keep going down, and I just thought it was like super interesting though, like how these things affected in addition to the Xur, it also affected airlines, like one of the airlines that took it down, it's like the third diamond has taken this airline down, and they had tech down and they had to ground all their planes, like it's crazy. So it's interesting how like these businesses are putting their like why would why would like a like can you imagine like these major the major airlines, you know, the deltas, the United, the Americans, all the big ones, if they housed it onto a giant server that was crashed, so they're all gonna like what if all three of them were on the same server? Like oh yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

But you know, uh okay, you're right though. The AI has been in the news like like all the time. And and they and it's funny you were saying about with that with the major airlines, they're talking about replacing you know a lot of management positions with AI.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. Well, it's gonna happen. They're already doing that. They're already doing that. Like AI's AI's coming and and they're gonna be able to replace cer a lot of specific like duties that people have been doing. Like all this analysis of business and stuff like that, right? Yeah, it can do it like snap. Yeah, right. All we need to do is basically like oversee. Is it doing it right? Right.

SPEAKER_01:

It is it is crazy too, um, because the AI, I mean, when you scan something, then AI reads what you scan, and then they give you a basically a a um a synopsis of it, right? Right. I mean, it's that's incredible. These people, you know, they they they say, okay, you write 50 words, and you and and this person writes 50 words, and all they do is come up with, okay, that meant this. Right. The whole 50 words, that meant this. That's it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean that's how crazy AI is. I I just thought it was like when this whole thing crashed, and and it's funny that it happened to Microsoft, and it's funny that it happened right before they were getting ready to you know, posters, earnings, and all that stuff. But how it affects everybody and how these giant servers, and they're talking about like the energy usage and all this stuff on these servers are so tremendous that like now it's even affecting the stock market because they're underestimating the energy usage. Like they're like, oop, uh, let's use way too much electricity, and we weren't planning that and didn't realize that.

SPEAKER_01:

And you know, what was that movie, Sean? With the remember the um the AI with it, was it it wasn't IM4, it's it's one or something like that. What was it with the robots? With the robot?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, iRobot.

SPEAKER_01:

iRobot, yeah, okay. Will Smith. Yeah. I mean, when you think about every time that you say something like this, it goes back to, you know, we watch that movie and I was like, oh, that's crazy. That's what's that's what's going on, right? You and the computer, the computer is actually smarter than everybody else. What happens when you can't shut it down?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I think we can still shut them down now.

SPEAKER_01:

No, I I know, but what I'm saying is kind of crazy though, right?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I mean, everything's everything's going AI and everything's going autonomous and all this stuff. Speaking about autonomous, like, um, so did you see that new um warship we got? No, an unmanned battleship? Really? So we're testing right now a totally unmanned battleship, basically a drone ship. And it's been cruising around all over the world. It's been doing this for months and months now, and uh it's like so efficient. They like just imagine putting a warship on there where you can basically it's like battleship. I'm just like joysticking this thing around, telling it where to go, what to do, and it's on watch, and I don't got people involved. One person, one person with a joystick. Yeah, and they're just people monitoring it. Crazy, you know, they're sitting up in uh freaking you know Kansas somewhere in a box somewhere, like monitoring a freaking boat. But all these things are coming out, like you're all this autonomous stuff and AI stuff is getting ready to happen where it's taking jobs away where we're gonna be just the monitors versus the actual doers. But I mean in sailing, I mean imagine all those different things that are happening with a ship, like all the men, like all the people that are out there in the navy, they they know what I'm talking about. Like there it takes thousands of people to run a ship, uh one of these big ships, right? But now you got zero. Yeah. Unbelievable. But uh that's it, that you know, all that stuff's getting ready to happen. And like my new car, man, has it has autonomous driving. Like, I cruise down the highway and it drives itself. Your old car didn't. No, it doesn't, it's missing a mirror too right now.

SPEAKER_01:

But all right, let's talk about let's talk about a cat five hurricane. Melissa. Melissa. That thing was unfreaking believable. Could you imagine? Could you imagine being on the island and knowing that shit was coming? I mean, those people, those people that live there, they live in huts. Dude. Not even not even homes. I mean it's pictures right now. Have you seen the pictures?

SPEAKER_00:

It's just like a shredded mess of like just carnage going across island. Like it, I feel for those people. I mean, they haven't even come out yet with any type of stats of people, how many people are being killed, but you know there's people that then killed.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean it was I mean, it was unbelievable. I I was sitting there thinking that a cat five hundred it was it was top speeds at 175 miles an hour. It is unbelievable. I mean how lucky we are that that didn't come to the US?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh I mean it I mean that that is crazy. Hey, uh this year has been like we've had uh several hurricanes, but this has been one of those blessed years so far where we have not had too much impact in the United States because uh we had a few cat fives.

SPEAKER_01:

We had Aaron Aaron, right? Aaron, Umberto. Umberto. It was uh cat five and Melissa was cat five. But I think Melissa's gonna do the most damage.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, the the it's been pretty wild where like you know how like you see those like models of the of the hurricanes and the they'll they'll like come across the uh Atlantic there and they come across down the equator, just you know, north of the equator, and then they hit the you know, into where you know Mexico, or they'll come straight into the the the Gulf or they'll you know whip around into the Caribbean, but they kind of always do that like same motion where it's just like that circular pad in the Atlantic where it's gonna go up the U.S. coastline and off and then over across over to Europe and then that way, uh Spain, Portugal, all that stuff, but it's a big old cycle.

SPEAKER_01:

But you know, it's start like the hurricane season season's around June, isn't it? Yeah. And then so this should be the end. I mean, this should be it's coming close to the end.

SPEAKER_00:

We're in the we're in the we're in the back end of it right now. Like it's getting there, like right now is not the time to be cruising. Nope. Don't be cru, you know, that's that's when you get cheap cruises too. And cruisers know that too.

SPEAKER_01:

Like they're so they knew about this hurricane for a long time. Would you okay, you you change your vacation. Would you would you have changed your vacation? Dude. Would you have changed it, though? Yes, I would have changed it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, exactly. That's crazy. I mean, that's the whole thing. Like, people, when you're traveling, you need to like like do your homework. Like, we're all excited about going to do these things. Like, there is nobody else in this world right now that wants to be on a beach more than me right now. I want to be on a beach just like you want to be on a beach, and you know, like it everybody loves that. Like, I got nothing to do, chill out, relax, have some beers and kick back or drink whatever you drink, and you know, and do it. But you gotta think of your safety, right? You gotta think of like you what's happening in that part of the world. What's what's what's the current events happening in the world? Where where am I going? Because this isn't like your home. This is you're going to somebody else's home and other things are happening. And it just so happens that um they haven't done it yet, but they're threatening to kill Americans where I was going. Right. And so I was like, I'm out.

SPEAKER_01:

But you've seen that, I mean, but but Melissa, they knew they knew that this thing, I mean, was this big, they knew it was coming, and these people still went on vacation because I've seen a lot of videos, and then there's other people. This is the airline part of it. They're blaming the airlines for not coming getting them. Did you I mean, we're we're did you see did you see the freaking runways?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, they get well that also to be fair, like there's a lot of stupid, right? Yeah. I mean, just like we're we're talking about this. There's so many people that don't understand. Like the airlines are giving you warnings. Like, when it gets to a point where we can't go in there, we're not going in there. We're not gonna risk millions and millions of dollars, billions of dollars of equipment just to come get you. No. When you are we already knew that this is coming, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Nope. You're gonna continue making them dumb videos we're gonna watch.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Dumb, stupid. Like the like the one that that where I showed you the the people were hanging their underwear from the air vents.

unknown:

Dude.

SPEAKER_01:

Went in the bathroom, went into the bathroom, washed their underwear, right? And then hung them from the air vents.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, that is like straight up nasty, right? Okay, first of all. Straight up nasty. I don't care how good looking you are, how whatever. Somebody coming out of the bathroom on the airline and they wash their J's on there? Hanging. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01:

Hanging from the air vents. No, no, no. How about vaping on a plane and you didn't know you could you you couldn't do it?

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, that and also we're doing a fish for the underwear thing, nothing vaping. You jumping on me, man. Because uh you I I didn't get to the stank part. Right? I mean especially if you were sitting behind them. Right. So so here's a here's a picture for everybody. Like, here's this these customers, they go in there, they decide whatever happened, I don't know what they did, piss in their pants, poop in their man, whatever. Then they decide they're gonna wash their drawers out, then they're gonna hang them up in their their the gasper vents in the plane, and then guess who's in the galley eating sardines? It's bad. It is so bad. I'm just saying, man. Like walking out with the phone. Then people come to the back of their plane and they're smelling this fish order, they're seeing panties and stuff hanging from the good scene.

SPEAKER_01:

It's why we're always equipped with spray. Right?

SPEAKER_00:

We'll flood it. I don't leave home without spray. Yeah, that's like a mandatory duty item you should have in your bag as flight attendant.

SPEAKER_01:

All right, now go on to the vaping thing. How we're back to vaping again. How did you not know that you couldn't vape?

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, they're that big word, stupid stupid.

SPEAKER_01:

All right. We don't even have to go any farther than that because you're just plain stupid.

SPEAKER_00:

Plain stupid. I mean, come on, people. I mean, this is crazy.

SPEAKER_01:

The the puff of smoke's coming up. Hmm, wonder what's going on over there, dummy.

SPEAKER_00:

I love it. So uh so here's here's my own personal take on uh vaping. Like vaping to me, I like vapors, okay? Because most vapors, it doesn't stink, it doesn't smell like a cigarette, it really doesn't offend me in any way. So, you know, if you want to kill yourself, kill yourself. I don't I'm good as long as you're not spreading the stink on me versus a cigarette, right? Like a cigarette, man, I get it. I mean just don't know. Like people that smoke, they don't know how bad they stink. And then for people that do don't smoke, like you stink like that fish in the galley, like it's bad, dude. Yeah, like and it permeates on you. It doesn't matter where you go, you're walking around like Pepe Le Pew, and you got this odor of wafing with you. Yeah, and but the vape doesn't do that, yeah. And so I'm like, all right, that's that's cool. And then they think they can get away with it in the plane, even though it's illegal, but they're like, Well, your ass still can't do it, right? You still can't do it. Plain simple. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

All right, now this is one, the last one I gotta talk about. This what is going on, man? This is week three, guys. This is week three. I've had three yoga people, one every week. What is there something going on on TikTok? Dude, you have a kung fu panda on board. What is going on? You guys gotta stop doing yoga on the phone.

SPEAKER_00:

Are you attracting these people?

SPEAKER_01:

No, I was wondering if some shit was going on on TikTok. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00:

Go, go, go do yoga in the you look at TikTok, not me. No, I don't. Not anymore? No. Dude, I don't know, man. Maybe somebody made it up there. Maybe somebody listened to our show and be like, okay, you know what? If you're on a plane, you need to do a session of yoga. And here's the poses you can do in the aisle. Maybe, maybe there's like a cheat sheet and like a travel advisor thinking like you should get up and do yoga during the plane. This is they're putting that out there.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah, you should put so your ass in somebody's face. Yep, that's exactly what you should do. Right. All right, man. Go to the inspiration.

SPEAKER_00:

You're putting your panties in their face, driving them on the Casper vents.

SPEAKER_01:

You're still hung up on the panties. What's so bad about yoga in the aisle? It's bad. I mean, you seen you you seen the guy last week. It's bad.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, just stop it, people. Behave yourself. Go to the quote. All right. So uh the quote this this week is the world is a book. And those who don't do not travel read only one page. Get out there and see the world, dude. Like Cyprus. Right. So if you're in Cyprus, hey, email us, me and Sean will come see you. Email us. That would be awesome. That would be the coolest thing. Like it doesn't have to be in Cyprus, man. I'll go to freaking, I'll go to Omaha, Nebraska. Whatever. Let's go. All right.

SPEAKER_01:

So anybody out there that wants me and Sean to come visit, we want you to email us. We'll do remote shows.

SPEAKER_00:

And then we we're gonna do a remote show. Pack up the equipment, pack up the mice, and go. We're gone.

SPEAKER_01:

All right, guys, man. We had a lot of fun this week. Great fun, man. Can't wait to talk to you again. All right, guys. You guys have a great week. We will see you next time. Next time. On Cabin Pressure. See ya.

SPEAKER_00:

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