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Kindness Is Your Upgrade: Lessons From The Sky

• Shawn & G • Episode 64

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We trade Vegas chaos and a 12-hour kids’ dance marathon for hard-won travel wisdom, a kindness mantra that actually works, and stories from the jump seat that range from first class squatters to legends Jack and Lop. Practical rules, human moments, and holiday survival—delivered with a wink.

• holiday travel stress and simple survival rules
• costs of youth activities and Vegas sticker shock
• be nice or get booted mindset for flyers
• first class squatters and held connections
• empathy for travelers with dementia
• real service dogs versus fake vests
• layover sprint story from the old days
• Jack and Lop’s outrageous but beloved lore
• tech shift from paper manuals to devices
• news: bobsled gold, turnbacks, wheelchair scams, bag theft
• clear etiquette: headphones, no grooming in cabin, say thank you

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SPEAKER_01:

Welcome back to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G, the podcast where two overly seasoned flight attendants with too many opinions and not enough vacation days tell you everything you didn't know you needed to know about flying. We're not experts, we're just highly educated by trauma. If you travel, hate traveling, or love watching other people lose their minds at airports, the show is for you. Today we're diving into holiday travel madness, Sean's Chaotic Vegas Ventures, G's Be Nice or Get Booted Survival Rules, Clueless First Class Squatters, a confused elderly couple we basically adopted, and yes, another round of legendary Jack and Lop stories. Stick around and you'll walk away with travel tips, questionable wisdom, and at least one story that will make you feel better about your own life choices. Buckle up! This episode is smoother than most of our landings.

SPEAKER_02:

Hey, who's that turkey? G, what are you doing? Welcome to the holiday. Man, you are killing me. You know, last week, first of all, last week, that's pretty funny. But last week, I was thinking the way you started the podcast. Yeah. And you're like, oh, don't you know Bruno? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you go, you don't need you're not tuned in.

SPEAKER_01:

You didn't even listen to Bruno. Didn't listen to Bruno, don't even know. He's not in the know people.

SPEAKER_02:

So I had to go back and I had to listen to Bruno.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I did.

SPEAKER_01:

Sound just like it.

SPEAKER_02:

You did? I did. Yeah, like shit. It was painful. It was so damn painful when I listened to that. I had to turn on some old prince music with the time just to sit there and get some rhythm back in my head because that shit was ridiculously stupid.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, it is like it's every time that song comes on the radio, it's like I I can't reach for the radio quick enough to switch the damn song.

SPEAKER_02:

Bad Sean.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a terrible song. Just bad. And it's just like, but it's got that little that's at that hook rhythm that you're just like can't help from when you when you hear some of these songs these days, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Because we used to go out dancing all the time. And during during our era, the music was is re was ridiculously good.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, like I mean, it was ridiculously good for dancing.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, back back in those days you can understand the words to the song. Yep. They didn't there wasn't all this like made up weird stuff, all this stuff going on.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it was could you see me and you out on a dance floor running out there going? Oh, hell no. Are you shitting me? I was like, that thing is it did sound like you though. Yep. Yeah, bad. Bad. Really bad. So what's been going on with you? Sorry, I had to open that up because that was a good one.

SPEAKER_01:

He can resist. Hey, so uh took my trip out to uh Vegas to see my nieces. You did? Yeah. I got uh we have a um let's see, getting ready to be four, I think eight and eleven is the age like around the ages. Everybody's changed like all everybody's birthdays are coming up, like some's happened, some get ready to happen within like days. Anyhow, it was a crazy dance weekend. I mean, I have never experienced this. I don't know if you ever have you ever been to a one of those dance competitions for little girls?

SPEAKER_02:

No. No, I've seen a lot of them like on TV with the dance competitions, but that's like high school and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, well, before they get there, they have all this like training, and this my the middle one was in the dance, and so we went out there to see her because it was her birthday. So we were looking around, you know, watching her, going through like I I get there, we get there like at I think it was like eight o'clock in the morning, and she starts dancing, and so like like the first dance is like some like modern dance, and then she goes into like ballet the next hour, and then the next hour it's like tap dance, and then next time it's like hip hop, and these girls are like going, dude. Uh, we were there for 12 hours. 12 hours.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. How long were you there mentally though? Because I I mean, don't get me wrong. I mean, it would be it would be a lot of fun right now.

SPEAKER_01:

I checked out about four hours into it. I was like, it was like I was just like, I was getting exhausted. I was trying to get cranky had to like like check myself because I'm like, what's next? Yeah, I'm like, it will this please end because I I'm I'm done with the needles in my eyes. But it was uh she loved it though. It I mean, it is amazing that and and I'm watching around, like I was talking to some of the parents there and stuff, and I was like, you know, and I found out how much this weekend for these girls for this damn competition cost. And this is excluding like them buying their costumes and them, you know, paying for their normal whatever the membership to the dance studio they belong to and all this stuff. The weekend just to get through the door and to you know get checked in for this thing, a grand.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh yeah. That's that that's basic, man. I mean, think of that hotel cost, food cost, no, no, transportation. I don't know. No, no, no. That's what I'm saying. I mean, these kids, the these things that these kids do, whether it's dance or sports, man, it's a ridiculous amount of money.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's ridiculous. I I just couldn't believe how much money we've got. I'm just I'm I'm looking around. There was thousands and thousands of little girls there. So I mean, I mean, the amount of there had to be millions of dollars made that that weekend for sure.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, it's unbelievable. Do you know what costs a lot too? What's that? Hockey. Hockey. Hockey for kids, man. That's crazy. All the sports. I mean, just like all sports today, like when we were kids, like I don't remember, you know, our parents ever forking out this type of money now. Oh, hell no.

SPEAKER_02:

Right? Our our bat, our glove, the balls, everything, 250. 250 you're saying, no$2.50 because you got them used.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, there was no like pay to play, and there was no like uh, you know, all that's all that stuff that's happening today.

SPEAKER_02:

Pay to play, that's a funny one.

SPEAKER_01:

It is a yeah, it's it's like it's just so such an industry now.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And uh it's wild. Money. Yeah, so anyway, so we did a lot of that dance, and it was dance and a lot of going out shopping. And these little girls always like to torture me when I go out to Vegas. You know how they do this?

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know, but I I I can imagine why they like to torture you, but go ahead.

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, no. They every time we go out there, like Vegas has all this food. We were talking about food about Vegas and how expensive food is out there and all that stuff. And and speaking of which, like where I'm at the dance thing, I get two candy bars. How much was my two candy bars? Come on.

SPEAKER_02:

How much did you spend?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, how much did it cost me to buy two counters?

SPEAKER_02:

Ten dollars. Five dollars a piece. Five dollars a piece that way because it it's easy. You got a 20 year old.

SPEAKER_01:

There's no money to exchange. This is all electronic. No, this this whole lot that you're trying to throw at it ain't acceptable. Still, yeah. Five bucks. It was so crazy, anyways. So they always torture me because uh I go out there and I'm like, uh, where do you want to go to eat for your birthday? And you know, I'm hoping they're like gonna say something. I don't care what. They always say the same restaurant every time we go out there, CPK. CPK.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm still thinking when you ate those candy bars, did you think about the five dollars? Oh, you're still traumatized like I was. No, the whole time. I mean, the way you were eating that, you had to be thinking each bite, how much that bite was worth.

SPEAKER_01:

Listen, that was I had bought those on like hour 10 in into the 12 that were there. I was like, oh my gosh, it was unbelievable. All right, go to your restaurant. Yeah, so uh we go to CPK all the time, and it's hilarious because the littlest one, uh CPK has those little robots that like pick up the they bring out the food to your table and she goes nuts.

SPEAKER_00:

Robot! Wobot! There's a robot, there's a robot, the robot is coming, the robot's coming.

SPEAKER_01:

It is so darling. She is hilarious, but anyways, that so uh yeah, that's basically uh you know, shopping the little girls thing, it was all about them and stuff. It was fun. Um, but you know what was really cool during the dancing? There was this one instructor there, he was doing the hip-hop. This guy, like when he first came in, it came in kind of attitude, you know, and I was like, uh, and and we had heard that his whole routine stuff is kind of hard. But the coolest thing about this guy is everything out of his mouth was encouraging these little girls to have positive self-image pride. Right. It was like, it was awesome, man. It was like it, I mean, he would stop, he would stop the girls, and he said one of the coolest sayings that I heard in a long time. And it was to these little eight whole group of eight-year-old girls, and it was like, he said, I want you to remember this. It's nice to be important, but it's much more important to be nice. It's the truth.

SPEAKER_02:

You don't hear that a lot. You don't you don't hear that a lot. I mean, you know, the when when you hear these encouraging statements from these people and how it affects the kids, especially little girls, right? You get a group of little girls, and they and and the way that they are, they just like in tune to everything that they're gonna be.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, yeah, like society right now is like, I mean, I feel like you know, you they're grooming the daughters and girl women, future women of this world, to have all this very uh, you know, um self-importance to themselves, like like they're like, you know, I'm better to new type of thing, and breeding these attitudes, and you know, it's about money, and there's all that, you know, we can get go on talk about this for hours and hours. But for him to like start to this eight-year-old group of girls, and he's like, I mean, if he said it once, he said it like 15, 20 times during this hours. And he's like, What'd I say? It's nice to be important, but it's much more important to be nice. Because he was always trying to like, if other girls were out there dancing, you should be encouraged, you should be rooting them on. Right. Like, this isn't this is a competition and stuff, but you should be rooting them on. And so it was it was really it was it was refreshing to see that at least I see some people out there educating the kids in this positive manner, you know. I thought it was cool. Anyhow, the other um the other thing that happened though, this is this is funny, man. So we buy tickets to come back to Cleveland, and um we had bought uh first class tickets. Well, the wife, we're all sitting in there, and we're on a delayed flight, and because there was weather and our flight was our equipment was coming in late, you know, you know, the whole scoop and all that stuff, and all these people. So Vegas out this last weekend was nothing but there were two groups of people. There was either Browns people there coming in from Cleveland for the game against the Las Vegas Raiders, or there was the F1 crew. Now the F1 crowds, have you ever been to F or anywhere near an F1 race? No, dude, talk about money. Like this is like high-end stuff, like everything about the entire experience is high-end and hundreds of thousands of dollars. And you know, like you go to the event, like dropping 50 grand to go see it is not a big deal.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, that kind of explains why I haven't been there. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, nor have I. Right. But it was like it was like there was a lot of important people there, but maybe not so nice.

SPEAKER_02:

Maybe that guy should have came over there and talked to them.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, exactly. So, anyhow, uh we can we're we're waiting, we're under delayed a whole nine yards, and uh, you know, the first class all fills up, and everybody is on the plane. All of a sudden, Agent comes down and we're like waiting there for a little while, and she comes down and she walks up to the seat right across from me, and she like looks at these two guys, which when I looked at them, I'm like, you know, it's Vegas, you know, any cup, anybody you can't really judge a book by its cover with uh how much money or you can you afford this seat or whatever. But it's these two jokers, these two young kids, and uh they're in their young 20s, whatever, and they got like backpacks and all their stuff packed into the stuff, and they throw their stuff into the overhead bin and send the seats, but this agent comes down and they're like, Let me see your tickets. And she's like they're like, No, uh and they're both both Italian, right? Right. So they're like she's like, I need to see your tickets and they're trying to play dumb. So she's like, I want your tickets. And he's like, Okay, okay, okay. And so they jump out of their seats and get up in, they pull out their passports, then they have the tickets with the passport, they pull the seats out. The seat says 38C.

SPEAKER_02:

I could have guessed that. I could have guessed that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And it says big, gigantic economy, basic economy. They did these two jokers just walked on, saw two empty seats, and just sat down. Um I mean, I started thinking the balls on these dudes. Airline opportunity.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm would you ever do that? No, but they they do that all the time now. I mean, as soon as they wait at the end of the boarding process, if they don't have a bag to put on the plane, right? They'll wait. Yeah. And then and they'll slowly walk on. They'll make sure that they're the last ones. And they don't know that people like you and me.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, and the crew, period.

SPEAKER_02:

We're looking. We're we're watching.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And and you see that person, they start looking around, and you know that they don't belong there. And that's either in either first class or economy plus. But you know that they don't belong.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So as soon as they sit down, you're like on them.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I was I was suspect to them, but then I was thinking, uh, this is Vegas, because you know, it's riff-raffy out there anyways, period. And so who knows, whatever.

SPEAKER_02:

And I was like, But if you as a crew, if you as a crew, you would have looked on you would have looked on the computer and seen that they they weren't supposed to be.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, the crew wasn't involved in this whatsoever. It was just this is the aging coming down, and I guess they had upgraded people or whatever, and those people were like, we don't, there's no seats in there. There's no oh squatters, yeah. And so the squatter, the squatter, and there were two Italian dudes that were like there for the F1 race. Oh, Italian squatters, yeah. They even do it in Italy, yeah. They were like, Oh, oh, sorry, sorry, yeah, right, whatever. I was like, This is so crazy. It the other thing that happened too, the the last thing they gotta say about this last weekend was uh so we were connecting back and we were delayed, and you know, everything with all this, you know, government shutdown and all that stuff, cascading and how much, you know, the flights and all that stuff were like they were super full, super full. And so we were gonna miss our connection because of the weather delay out of Houston from the plane coming in from Houston. So we get on the plane with and they they text you now all this information about like you know, change your plans and like what they offered us was like the fly from Vegas to go to San Francisco and do a red high at home. Uh yeah, that won't work. Nope. Nope. That was a big no. Yeah. And so um, and then the and then you know, we had bought first class seats, and so they had red eye and the coach middle seat back home. You know, that that ain't happening. So, anyways, we decided, well, let's this is what we do. We'll get on the flight, we'll get to Chicago, because we were connecting to Chicago, and if we miss it, we stayed the night, you know, whatever. And you know, it's not on our dime because the plane, you know, they're gonna pay for us to have a hotel and all that stuff, blah blah blah. So I'm like, all right, let's just do that. But because, like I told you earlier, Vegas was F1 racers and Brown's half the connecting plane was on our plane going to Cleveland. So they held the plane for almost an hour. Makes sense to let us connect.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01:

So we ended up getting home, got home like uh like 1 30 in the morning. It was I was exhausted, but it was like the one time I was like, normally I'd be they would have misconnected and I wouldn't have got it, but they'd have left early. Yeah, but because we had a big mob of people going on this plane, and you know, that would just cascade like the next day, you know, the holiday weekend starting, so it's like there's no other flights, there's no other seats, I mean they're flights, there's no flights, so they're waiting.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, if there's another flight, no, they're gone.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but there's no other flights. No flights and no seats.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, so you're I mean, that made sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So what's been going on with you, man?

SPEAKER_02:

Well, what you were just talking about a minute ago, uh, that how you dealt with something as far as um, you know, when it became stressful. And I started thinking about we're starting into the holiday season.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So yeah, as we're getting started, though, I mean, you guys, I really want you to think about this too. But before you get yourself booted off an aircraft, there's a lot of incidents going on on the airplane anymore, and it's it's been like this uptick. So just realize this. Take time, a lot of patience, because when you when you rush yourself, you're you a lot of times you're gonna get angry as far as flying, right? Right. You're you're gonna get upset. You get to the airport, packed packed airport. So think about some of the things that you need to do this holiday season to make sure that you don't get booted off an airplane.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I mean, you get you got to be patient because there's just so much, so many people flying now, and it's like there's not there's minimum seats, there's millions of different combinations of things that can happen to you on on the flight and in the experience, you know? Right. From start from the from you're leaving your house to getting to the airport to getting on that plane and getting to your destination.

SPEAKER_02:

But take that pay take that extra time. Like I said, pack your stuff, verify your stuff, make sure that you got your ID, Sean.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, you're going there again.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep. So uh make sure that you got your ID. And then when you get to the airport, know where pre-check and the regularly, the regular check-in line is because if you go to pre-check and you're not pre-check, they're gonna boot your ass out and you gotta go back in the other line again. So yeah, it's really gonna be mad at you.

SPEAKER_01:

Here's the here so I gotta pause here for uh because G's always digging my ID because I left my ID once and he helped me out, saved the day, but you know, I told you last time that Carol forgot her ID. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Um, guess what she did right when she we left this time. So what'd she do this time? Left her ID. We literally pulled out the driveway, and she's like, I gotta go back in. I gotta go back in. I left my ID. I mean, I don't know what's going on. Like right now we got this like little thing happening with the ID stuff, but I was like, hmm, I would have got another call.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Go back over to my house. Get Carol's ID this time. Yeah. Anyway, listen, the other the other thing too is make sure that you eat something and hydrate. Okay, because a lot of times blood pressure, you know, make sure that you're eating something that that you do hydrate.

SPEAKER_01:

Super important.

SPEAKER_02:

Just want to just want to cover a couple of those things with flying this week.

SPEAKER_01:

That's that's the number one. Like, if we have an emergency on a plane, nine times out of ten has to do with something about hydrating or not eating. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, because they get up early and they they don't do that. They they all they do is they rush caffeine, dehydrate, and then end up on a plane passing out. Yep.

SPEAKER_01:

So I mean it happens.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. So just take your time. And like I said, most of all, really patience, don't lose your cool, get to your destination, and don't get your butt booted off an airplane for something stupid. Just don't do it. I mean, I'm just telling you, for the holiday season, don't do it. Enjoy your season, and so we can take you from destination to destination. But this week I did do some reflection. So we we're a little bit over a year, and we're assuming we're gonna start doing our video show. Soon. And I thought about how we got here. Do you remember Gary Breca? Yeah. Breca was on our flight and we were coming into Cleveland, and then we were sitting up on the jump seat and we were razzing each other back and forth. He came up and he was like, You two are hilarious. How how long you guys known each other? And I was like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Long time.

SPEAKER_02:

I think I've known him longer than just about every anybody.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And he he well, Gary Breca, if you guys don't know who he is, he does the ultimate human podcast. And uh, well, basically everybody that that knows about podcasting knows who Gary Brecca is. Right. But he was amazing, though. He gave us a bunch of ideas, right? Yeah, he was very informative. Kind of kind of got us uh to kickstart this off.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. I mean, well, we were just into like it was all coincidence thing, like it was just happening, and boom, here's his major pod star, you know, on our aircraft that we really didn't even know who he was until we kind of stopped and talked to him.

SPEAKER_02:

That was funny because he goes, Do you know who I am? We're like, Nope. We nope, don't know who you are. He goes, I'm Gary Breca. Still didn't. Still don't know who you are.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. He's like, I'm the number one uh health podcast on the United States. I'm like, we're like, wow. Still drawing a blank. Yeah. No, but then our ears perked up because we were like, whoa, wait a minute. He was amazing though. I mean, what a cool dude. He's he is super positive. I mean, just a nice guy, always willing to help, always uh he's that type of person that he's you know, he he lives his and his whole business is trying to get people to be more healthy, right? And you know, be positive.

SPEAKER_02:

But he, I mean, he was an amazing person just to talk to. Yeah, he was cool. So, okay, so this week had some uh Asian, this this little Asian couple, they were freaking adorable, man. They came on the plane. Yeah, you know, you ever see them like they're they they just look like they've been together so long, they look like each other. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01:

I mean that reminds me of like like the owners and their dogs, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But I mean that's I mean, they they actually just looked like each other, they were really cute. But they came on, they had their bags, and they needed some help. So I was putting their bags up and uh and I was talking to them and they were really funny, and they're they started joking around with me and they put their stuff up, went up to the front. Next thing you know, he comes running to the front of the plane. Yeah, and I'm like, what's wrong? And he goes, I left my bag in in in the jetway.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh no, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So he goes outside and he comes back and I'm like, Well, where's your bag? And he goes, Oh, he goes, starts a big smile on his face. He's like, I've got dementia. And I go, You got dementia? And he goes, Yeah. And he he goes, he goes, I did he goes, I just forgot. He goes, that that you put it in the overhead band. And I said, Well, let's go back there. And I said, I'll I'll get you guys taken care of. I'll make sure that you know I I get you off the airplane, I'll get you some wheelchairs and stuff whenever uh we arrive. And listen, you need to listen to your wife, okay? Since you say, Do you got dementia? You need to listen to your wife. He looked at me and he says, Oh no, she's worse than me.

SPEAKER_01:

You love those people, dude. Well, first of all, I mean, to be able to have be the have dementia and like be traveling still, that's amazing.

SPEAKER_02:

Have you ever had someone though that was traveling with dementia and they they just put them on the airplane?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I had a lady trying to open the back door, trying to open the door.

SPEAKER_01:

There's certain there's certain things that like there should be a list of like certain type of physical or mental illnesses or you know, diseases or whatever you have you want to call it that should not be able to fly. Like, you know, if you have this, you have to be accompanied accompanied with somebody. Right. You know, because I mean that's that's sad that uh you see a a family or whoever put them on the plane by themselves and they have dementia's so crazy, and you never know like where it's at, you know. Having my mother-in-law and having her having dementia and like me being so close to it right now, like it it frustrates me when I hear that type of stuff because I'm like, you know, it's sad that people just do don't treat people, you know, better.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh yeah. Uh you when when they when I realized that he had dementia, it's like you just want to you like put your wings over him, you right? And just you just want to take care of them.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

That's me. I mean, I I I I made sure that everything was good, but they they were absolutely the cutest couple I've seen in a long time. Really funny. Okay, now a question for you. So I was walking down the terminal, seeing this, seeing this woman, she was wearing this shirt, and I I thought of you immediately, and I thought Me? Yeah. I was I was wondering. Can't wait to hear this. Would Sean would Sean wear this shirt? Have you ever worn shirts with your spouse? No. You've never worn like uh just married or we're a couple thing one or thing two? No, right? Okay, so could you imagine? Okay, I'm walking, I'm I'm walking down the terminal and I see this. So this couple was was walking down the terminal and the back of her shirt it says I'm with stupid.

SPEAKER_01:

Really? Yep. And his shirt I remember that was a big deal. Remember how that was big fad back in the day? Yeah, I'm with stupid.

SPEAKER_02:

And and his shirt says, Guess who I am? Oh no. Come on. Seriously, who would wear? I mean, still today, who'd wear that? I don't know. Would you? You wouldn't wear it. Dude, never. Never. You guys wonder what goes on. This is the shit that goes on every single day. When you walk down a terminal in the morning time, the first thing you see is I'm with stupid, and then he's got a shirt that says I guess who I am?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. Wouldn't wear wouldn't be you, would it? No, man. That dude doesn't have the man card for sure.

SPEAKER_02:

So did a layover, it was at the front desk. You ever went and and checked in, and then you went to your room, and the room was a mess?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So you gotta walk all the way back. So I had to walk all the way down these hallways, all the way, because they put us in the back 40 a lot of times. Yeah. So went there and and the room was wasn't even clean. So you had to go all the way back to the front desk. And this guy was so nice I was talking to him, and and you know, he goes like I he goes, I'm so sorry. And I said, No, it's not, it's not your fault. I'm like, it's no big deal. So we were talking for a couple minutes. You know what this guy does?

SPEAKER_01:

What's that?

SPEAKER_02:

Gives me a$25 voucher for the restaurant.

SPEAKER_01:

That's cool.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's amazing, though. And you all all it was was he goes, most people are really nasty whenever this happens, and he goes, You were you weren't. He goes, You you were just joking around, talk to me about it. He goes, That's the reason why I did it. So people uh again, a little FYI, be nice to people.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Right? I mean, it's a holiday season. And the reason why I'm saying this, this did happen this week, and and and it's a holiday season, so be nice to someone because you know, just because something isn't right, maybe it wasn't their fault. No. And here's another one. Uh, it just happened too. When I pick I don't ever mind picking bags up and helping people. I know it's not part of our job description, don't mind it. But a simple thank you. Yeah. Goes a long way. Long way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And a little appreciation, period. Like when you when you're doing something you're not supposed to be doing, and like you're you know you're doing it to assist somebody. You know, yeah, a simple thank you is it goes a long way.

SPEAKER_02:

They look at you you and I and they they think that that oh you're big enough, pick my bag up.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I hate that.

SPEAKER_01:

I hate that by the way.

SPEAKER_02:

I know that, but I don't mind helping, but I mind it when I don't hear thank you. I don't know. It really it just gets me.

SPEAKER_01:

The other thing that I don't like it's also in the approach. Right. Like when they're coming on, they're like, uh, are you gonna put this in the overhead for me? Simple. Yeah, yeah. If it if you start off, are you going to do this for me and I'm not supposed to do it, you're gonna definitely get a no.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, it's like you're coming with the attitude like, you know, you're like, I have to do this, and you know, if you don't do this, there's consequences type of thing. You know, that that's that's I'm called bullshit.

SPEAKER_02:

So told you a lot of stuff was going on this week. So at the end of at the end of my week, I had to take a picture of this amazing dog that comes into the gym every day. I see him almost every day.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, he's with this veteran. He he is uh he is a an assist animal, a service animal. Amazing golden retriever. Cool, just absolutely beautiful. So I I took a uh picture, a screenshot, sent it to you. You have the you have to post it. It's just amazing when you see these animals and what they do and the and how they benefit these veterans. Yeah, it's truly amazing. And the love that they have between Each other is also amazing.

SPEAKER_01:

True service dogs are amazing. Yeah. You know, like I I feel bad for this, you know, I almost feel like there should be a push out there for the real service dogs that, you know, they're getting the backlash of the idiots that buy the service dog jacket and pretending.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, have their house pet to their transport and saying this is a service dog, and everybody in the world knows it's not a service dog. You know, that that's bad.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, especially when the dog's shaking.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, shaking or the or trying to bite you. Exactly. You know, like this isn't a service dog. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02:

So the other day someone asked me, you and you and Sean did a lot of crazy shit over the years. And a little bit? Yeah. Well, they they were they were saying that we hadn't actually talked too much about too many stories. So I was like, oh, we've got to do one. Do you remember, do you remember years ago when we were young, we were going out to this club and we had met these girls out and they wanted us to go to the after hours club.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This is a that was uh that was one of many times where you're like, this is like on a first of all, the setup to this thing, you're you're not setting up is that we're on a layover.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, we were on a layer.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, we're we're flying, we're out on a layover, and we decided we back in the day, we would just like I mean if it was 12 hours, we'd be like, hey, let's roll. Right. Let's go. Right. You know.

SPEAKER_02:

But we never with okay, honestly, with me and you, we didn't ever need to drink. When we had a short layover, we didn't need to drink to have fun because me and you like to dance.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

We just go out dancing. Yeah. There wasn't a ton of drinking in our lives. No. But we used to go dancing all the time. Oh, yeah. And there was always girls and dancing. There's a lot of sweatiness going on. Yeah. So we end up we end up going to this after hours club with these girls. We're dancing for hours, man. We go into the bathroom. Sean's, we're both standing at the urinal, and we're talking about saying what time it was. And Sean goes, he goes, gee, what time is it? I was like, I don't know. I don't got no damn watch. And we definitely didn't have a phone back then.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, this is long, way before cell phones.

SPEAKER_02:

And Sean looks up and he goes, Well, he goes, it's still dark outside. And I'm like, dark. Yeah, it is. He goes, it can't be that late. So I'm looking at the window and I'm like, wait a minute. I go up there and I start scratching the window. I'm like, oh shit, Sean, they painted the glass.

SPEAKER_01:

And now we're like, what time is it? We ran out of that bathroom. Sitting there swinging. We're sitting swinging and shaking and panicking at the same time.

SPEAKER_02:

We had to be downstairs in 45 minutes. And we were at a nightclub. Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And we made it too. We did.

SPEAKER_02:

We ran back to the hotel. I'll reiterate this, okay? Back in the day, me and Sean didn't drink that much. And then we didn't we weren't drinking at all. We were actually just running around the clubs. We used to go dancing all the time. So it the drinking wasn't even involved. The funny part was we had 45 minutes to get from this club back to the hotel, change clothes, and get downstairs and go work that day. That's the difference between being young and being old because it today we'd be like, oh hell no. Yeah. Wouldn't have made it.

SPEAKER_01:

No, like 9:30, we're rolling in. Yeah. There's gonna be a flight delayed somewhere.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my god. All right. Now we're gonna have to start uh talking about uh this person. Someone asked me if you could name a person that you that that uh definitely stuck out in your head.

SPEAKER_01:

Stuck out as a flight attendant in your career.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, in your career. I mean that stuck out in your head. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Who would that would stick out in my head? Yeah. I I always think of the negative shit. So mine's just give me one that would have stuck out in your head. In my head? Yeah. Would have been like uh a Mr. D. Oh yeah. Yeah. I just seen him. Oh, don't want to see him. Yeah, I just seen him.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Yeah, that that's a negative one.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I don't I loathe him. I hate the guy. Anyways, but that's that's what would be the first one. But you know, funny people. Mine was the fastest response ever. What's that?

SPEAKER_02:

Jack and Lop.

SPEAKER_01:

This those two are that's careful.

SPEAKER_02:

Hello, how are you? I'm Jack. I'm from Steubenville, Ohio. Home of the big red. Go red. Dino Martin in the rat pack. That's where I'm from. If you want if you ever wondered what Dino did when he was younger, he dated my grandmother. Yeah, they used to bang in the back.

SPEAKER_01:

That's Jack. Jack had that uh that that little talent of like he'd he was a big listener. He loved listening to stories. Like he knew if you had a story and he loved to speak to the pastors, talking to pastors, and like and especially veterans, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Everything.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, there's not there wasn't he was into it, like he'd be all into it. By the end of the flight, he knew your life because he'd want you to tell him everything.

SPEAKER_02:

The the reason why, I mean, there's two reasons why Jack would he had to retire. One was electronics.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, he didn't want to merge into the new new technology.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and the other one would be he'd have been sitting in human resources talking about his sensitivity training.

SPEAKER_01:

He would rather be he he was always like this uh flight attendant that was he would just be very frank with you. He could no to the point of like most people wouldn't be able to get away with what he says, right? Literally, Sean.

SPEAKER_02:

There is there's a few people that we've worked over the years, right? Jimmy. Right? Oh yeah. I mean, these guys can get away with anything. So I I'm sticking with Jack for a because this is like the world according to Jack, okay? So I'm gonna go over a few of these stories that they're they're real stories about with Jack. And Jack, we we were sitting in the galley one time and we and V came up and she uh she was talking to Jack, and and back then a lot of the flight attendants used to travel with toys, right? You remember that? Before before um TSA started taking their toys away from them, they used to they used to travel with the toys.

SPEAKER_01:

That was like an issue too. Like when we first like when we started getting security, like real security, and this is like before TSA, like they had the paid security there, right? You know, pre-9-11. You know, that was a big deal for the flight attendants. They were like, they're gonna scan my bag. Yeah, my toys in there. Wait a minute. Yeah. Are they gonna like are they gonna be like going through my bag?

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

All right, so so this is one where where Jack goes, hello V, go back and go get it. Go get your toy, bring it up here. So V brings the her toy up there.

SPEAKER_01:

V is another flight attendant, but yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02:

And and she brings the toy up there, and Jack grabs a hold of this. Sean, this is one of those ones you stick on the wall. Yeah, the the big suction cup to the wall. He took this thing and he stuck it on on the oven in the galley. He turns around and looks at me and he grabs it, he grabs one of those linen. He goes, Zeus, look at this. He goes, It's a towel holder. And he throws it on there. It's this big dong hanging off this this oven. And he throws a towel over it and calls it, it's a new towel holder. A world according to Jack. Yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_01:

That's that's Jack.

SPEAKER_02:

So a woman comes on board the aircraft, she asks for a glass of water. Yeah. Jack's response, what'd you need a glass of water for? Well, she, I need to take a pill. He goes, What is that? Birth control. She's 90, Sean. 90. Now let me tell you something. Anybody else, this woman would have gone off, right? Yeah. Jack has a conversation with this woman that's 90 years old. This woman tells him that her vagina hasn't had any activity for over 50 years. And Jack continues to have a conversation for this with this woman's non-active vagina for the next 15 to 20 minutes. Right? He goes, he looks at he looks at her and he looks at her and he says, he goes, Well, you're a good looking woman. I could I couldn't imagine you not being active, right? So the next 15 or 20 minutes is is about her inactive vagina.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, Jack. Jack had a Jack had a knack of like Mr. Inappropriate conversations. Like, still going, Sean, not done.

SPEAKER_02:

All right. So a guy comes to the back of the aircraft. He he he starts talking to Jack. He's got a beard. And Jack, you know, remember how Jack used to love his beard? Yeah. Jack had a beard for many years. And this guy was talking about his girlfriend that he hadn't seen in over a year. And he was nervous. And Jack said, What are you nervous about? You haven't seen your you haven't seen your woman for a year. You shouldn't be nervous. You should be excited. Sure. And he said, No, he goes, You don't understand. He goes, I started growing a beard. And he goes, I'm I'm afraid because I didn't never told her. And he goes, I'm afraid if she sees it, she's she's not gonna like it and she's gonna make me shave it. Now I'm sitting on the jump seat across from there, Jack, and this is uh from Jack and this guy, and this is what I hear. Shave it. He goes, if she makes you shave it, you make her shave her bush. Sensitivity training, Sean. Yeah, Jack.

SPEAKER_01:

Jack and HR probably would be like he would be like number one sensitivity training hit squad.

SPEAKER_02:

Now, Jack's sidekick was named Lop. Lop. Everybody and their brother knows who Jack and Lop is. Yep. Okay, so Lop, his his most memorable story with me, I had a problem with my feet. After a while, you know, your arches start killing you. So I instead of wearing the the uniform shoes, I started wearing some black tennis shoes.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Because my feet were killing me in flight. So Lop looks at me and he's like, Zeus. He goes, You he goes, are you wearing tennis shoes? And I said, Yes. I said, I got them approved because I have a foot problem.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_02:

And he goes, Well, did they help? And I said, Yeah, yeah. He goes, he, I said, man, my feet are a thousand times better. So um that was it. That was the end of the conversation. A month later, I see Lop and I'm flying with him. And I'm looking over at him, I'm like, hey, Lop, did you um uh did you uh do what I said about wearing tennis shoes? And he goes, he goes, yeah. He goes, he goes, Oh my god, my feet feel so much better. He goes, how could you tell? And I said, uh Lop, I can tell they're your tennis shoes. I said, but can I can I ask you a question? He goes, he goes, sure. And I said, Did you spray paint your tennis shoes? And he goes, what? And I said, You did you spray paint your green tennis shoes? And he goes, How'd you know? And I said, Well, they're peeling. They're peeling. So I took a screenshot of this back in 2015, and I'm gonna have Sean post this. This is Lop's tennis shoes peeling paint.

SPEAKER_01:

Lop was known for for one, he was he was a funny dude, but he was uh one of the cheapest son of a bitches you've ever met in your life. Like he wouldn't, he wouldn't there was two things I always remember Lop about. Like, I always called him Pig Pen. Because everybody would be like Lopy Lopy. No, he was like, hey, Pig Pen. Like he was he was the dirtiest little flight attendant I knew. Never washed his shirt. Like the guy would go on a four-day trip. He had one shirt and one pair of pants.

SPEAKER_02:

A tote bag.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and he carried a little little tiny little satchel tote bag with him for the trip, which is very unusual. Four days. For four days. You can only turn your underwear inside and then so you can imagine how gray the shirt was by the end of the four days and his painted tennis shoes.

SPEAKER_02:

Jack put mine and Lop's tie together one day, and he was like, he goes, Lop, look at Zeus's tie and look at yours. He goes, it they're totally different colors.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Lopy. And the and the craziest thing about the thing is that like our uniforms, the company buys them for us. Like he's been around so long he could have pieces. There's no no reason for not having uniform pieces or having all this stuff, but it was just that was that was loppy. That was a lot.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, last Jack story for the day. Do you remember, you know when you use in training? Yeah. Do you remember an instructor? Do you remember? Yeah. Sean Sean used to be a uh a training instructor um for it was a recurrent. Yeah. So we we just transitioned from our manuals, our are actually paper manuals to electronic um links. Oh, geez. And so Sean was the tech guy. Still am the tech guy. Well, I know, but you were the techie back then. And Sean was recruited to teach us all about how to use these.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. So I was uh I was the instructor back then that it was like I did the launch to our first from back in the day, Flight Genesis had to carry a manual that was actually a physical manual that was like this gigantic Bible. Like I'm talking when I say a gigantic Bible, it's like it was probably a good three, four inches thick, widthwise. Yeah. And these manuals are all like you we had to update them weekly almost. And every all that manual was going from that big, huge, giant paperweight, which was like a good five, ten pounds, whatever, to go to a little iPhone.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. So okay, back to back back to this whole story with Jack and Lop. So Sean was teaching. Jack and Lop were sitting together in the back of the room. I was in front of Jack and Lop. And uh Sean opens up the class and he says, Listen, what we need to do is everybody turn on your links, and I'm the first thing I'm gonna do is show you how to power them up. I'm gonna show you how to charge them. And because all of you need to make sure that your links are properly charged. So everybody starts powering their stuff on, and and I've got mine on, and everybody else does, and Lop and Jack are just sitting there. Yep. And you turn around and you I'll never forget this. You you said, Lop, Jack, you above everyone needs to listen because you don't even have a damn cell phone. They were very technology challenged. Jack, Jack looks at you and he goes, No worries, Sean. We don't need it. We're good. And you said, Jack, you have to learn how to charge it because it has to be charged at all times. Jack looked right at you and goes, Sean, it's not a problem, buddy. We're not even gonna turn it on. It's gonna be charged at a hundred percent. You looked at him like, Jack, turn the damn thing on. It was like having Cartman in the back, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it was like Jack, Jack ended up. I mean, the the crazy thing about this thing, this is how severe his like technology uh phobia was, that he it literally caused him to retire. Right. He left the job because he didn't want to change into the new technology.

SPEAKER_02:

But the one thing about Jack, and the one thing about Lop, even though we're joking around, okay, because these guys, I absolutely love flying with these guys for years. Okay, everybody loved Jack.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Every I I don't think I ever came across a passenger that did not have a positive thing to say about Jack.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, he was always just a happy-go-lucky guy. Like he was he'd say the damnedest, craziest things out of his mouth. Right. But he was just uh, you know, there was no like ill intentions in what he was doing.

SPEAKER_02:

When it came to customer service, 100% one of the best flight attendants.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. Yep. Lop? What do you think about Lop?

SPEAKER_02:

Um Lop was more like a tax write-off. But no, you know, Lop was Lop was funny though.

SPEAKER_01:

He was funny.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, you know, he might have been a tax write-off, but he was funny as hell.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, he was funny, but he was kind of quiet.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so he was like kind of the sneaky, funny, quiet guy.

SPEAKER_02:

The the company probably didn't make a lot of money back in those days with him when they when we started charging for stuff because he didn't understand how to charge. No, no. So he probably just faked it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Technologically rechallenged for sure.

SPEAKER_02:

Just a fake swipe. A lot of free stuff went out on lobster. Right. So what's happening, man? Let's go around the globe. Man, did you see the Jamaican bodies? This was amazing. I I seen these this four-man Jamaican bod sled team made history this week. They secured the gold medal at the North American Cup for the first time. Do you remember the movie uh Cool Running? Yeah. John Candy. Yeah. That was freaking hilarious. Yeah. And I thought, how amazing is that? These guys just took gold for the first time. And back in what we it was in 19 what, 93, that movie was. And it was about the 1988 Winter Olympics. And there was the first Jamaican bob bobsledding team.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's I mean, it's a it's based off a true story of a bobsled team that um, you know, from Jamaica, and you know, of all places in the world, you know, how do you learn how to bobsled in Jamaica? It was. You know, so like that was the whole premise of the movie that it was, it was already funny from the get. But uh, you know, they've been ever since that movie, Jamaica's had a bobsled. I know. And they just wow, they're now they finally she accomplished. Go back and look at their time.

SPEAKER_02:

Their times was amazing how fast they were. These guys, I mean, these guys were incredible. But anyway, congratulations to those guys. Um, I just I it went right back to cool, uh cool running or that that cool runnings. Yeah, that was John Candy was hilarious. Great movie. Yeah. Okay, so a flight was headed to Cape Town, it was delayed over an hour. Three over three hours in flight, they had to turn back around and go and return to Newark. Wow, why what happened? That would be the question, right? Yeah, they didn't answer that question, but if you was on that plane, yeah, right, that would be your first question.

SPEAKER_01:

Why? Right, why would why do we have to go back? Especially three hours into it, because that's like almost halfway.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and the the next question would be like, wait a minute, we're over water. Yeah. In the middle of the water, in the middle of the water. Now, are we good to make it back? Right. That would be my next question, yeah, right? No, no, really. I mean, if you think about it, you're like, wait, wait a minute. Hey, all these questions are valid. Right? We're gonna make it back. So that that whole three and a half hours, you you start wondering, wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_01:

For sure.

SPEAKER_02:

So, and and would you be swimming anytime soon? Well, as a crew member, I hope we would know. A lot of water in between those three and a half hours, Sean. Sure. A lot of water for sure. Okay, so you have an upset woman that was uh because the woman next to her was gr you're gonna love this one, was grinding her dead skin, calluses on her feet next to her. Oh, gross. I'm not a vomit. The skin was flying everywhere. Her bare feet was on the floor of the pile of dead skin she had just shaved off. Oh, nasty. I keep going, I love doing this to you. Nasty, dude. She was very upset that the flight attendants didn't intervene. Intervene what why? Just scraping the dead skin off her feet. But you'd have told her. Dude, I'm not gonna be around that shit. No, but you'd have told that woman to stop doing that. Yeah, I would have told her. I'd have told her too. That's nasty. That is nasty. That is just gross.

SPEAKER_01:

That between those feet and people trying to clip their nails on a plane. Like, I'm like, come on. This is the most inappropriate place in the universe to do this activity. Like that's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02:

Every time I read one of those things, especially when it comes to feet, I think of you. How much you love bare feet on a plane.

SPEAKER_01:

Gross.

SPEAKER_02:

Now they're shaving, now they're shaving their shit off, leaving it on the floor.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, just a little bit for everybody. Callous grossness on the floor.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, unexpected scare when the pilots reported a rare electrical malfunction shortly after departure.

SPEAKER_01:

Nobody in the world would ever make mistake me as Jesus. Because I ain't washing feet. I ain't washing my friend's feet, nobody's feet. Still stuck on that feet. You see why I did that.

SPEAKER_02:

But anyway, we're going back to that scare with the pilots reported a rare electrical malfunction shortly after departure. So the aircraft was shortly after departure, they they said that they had to turn back around. You know why? They only had 25 minutes of battery life. Battery life for the plane? Yeah. So the audio for the ATC was, do you need to dump fuel? And calmly the response was we need to turn around. You're delaying already what we need to do. Uh 25 minutes.

SPEAKER_01:

Did you 25 minutes? That's all right.

SPEAKER_02:

We need to turn around. It's an electrical problem. 25 minutes. That'd be a little, that'd be that'd be a little nerve-wracking. For sure. I mean, if you heard that, that'd be really nerve-wracking.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Depends on the plane, right? I mean, there's all that different technology of planes. Like they have the Ramair turbines now on planes, so that you can deploy them, and um, that will give them enough electricity for us to land the plane, type of thing. Yeah. You know, but you know, anyway.

SPEAKER_02:

First time I ever heard that one, though. Yeah. Okay, this one was good. The shocker of the week. They they they they found the big scam going on, Sean. Where's that? It was with the wheelchairs. The wheelchairs. Yeah. I'm like people using wheelchairs.

SPEAKER_01:

There's so many scam going on.

SPEAKER_02:

No, a big scam.

SPEAKER_01:

Right? The wheelchair scam. The wheelchair scam. Well, tell me about that.

SPEAKER_02:

And they found they they found it out because they said that 40% on the India flights, the passengers use wheelchairs. 40%. 40%.

SPEAKER_01:

That'd be a nightmare, first of all. Nightmare.

SPEAKER_02:

But they they found out it was just a scam. Oh. That's a shocker. Yeah. Everybody walks off whenever whenever the plane lands. Have you ever been to Florida? Yeah. The jetway Jesus.

SPEAKER_01:

Right? Exactly.

SPEAKER_02:

Everybody walks.

SPEAKER_01:

We can cure them on one flight. Hallelujah. Yeah. Get on with the wheelchair, walk off at the end.

SPEAKER_02:

So had a celebrity sitting in first class and they got into it with another passenger. This happens all the time. Refused to put their headphones on because they were listening to something on their phone and they had the volume turned up. Altercation happened.

SPEAKER_01:

With some celebrity? Yeah. And it was a celebrity that was doing it? Or was it some other passenger? Celebrity that was doing it. That's ridiculous. Yeah. That was a shocker, though, right? Yeah. Yeah. Nice to be important, but much more important to be nice.

SPEAKER_02:

And the last thing we're going to talk about this week, you guys pay attention to this one because a lot of times you think that your bags didn't get to your location. Well, the Denver police are now searching for a man. They say has been stealing luggage from the travelers at Denver's International Airport for at least five months. They got pictures of this guy. You got to go online and see him. Uh it's in any airport, first of all, let's explain. It's an easy grab and go, unfortunately. Oh, yeah, unfortunately. You know, I mean, even in Cleveland, do you remember there for a long time we had that homeless problem in the airport? And the airport was just inundated with all these homeless people. And they finally had gotten rid of them because one of the homeless people had ended up stabbing someone because they were they were actually trying to they were trying to steal one of the bags.

SPEAKER_01:

Steal one of the bags, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And when I used to come into the airport all the time, you would see these, they would they would take these bags off the off the the belts and they'd walk them right down and and they'd take them on the tram.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And I mean you know what? There's like a um I'm sub I'm surprised that the airlines don't do a better job of the security for all that stuff, like everywhere, because like I this is back taking me really way, way back, but uh I knew a guy in my lifetime that would scam the airlines like that. He would literally take his bag, check, you know, check his bag, and then he'd walk in, literally go put it in the car. He'd walk back into the airport, go in there and say, Hey, I can't find my bag. And they would be like, Oh, you know, do the trace and everything. It's not like all the tracking they do now, but they do the trace and all this stuff, and then he would file a complaint uh claim on it, and then the airline would pay him money for his bag. Yeah, you know, and it was a it was a total scam.

SPEAKER_02:

So point point being on this one was is don't ever just think that we didn't, I mean the airlines didn't get your bag to your location. There's a lot of these thiefs. Yeah. Unfortunately, this guy, they're gonna catch him. Hell, they got all kinds of pictures of this guy. They're gonna catch this guy. Just a matter of time. But anyway, it's gonna be a great holiday, you guys. Um, I had a lot of fun this week. Sean, go out with the inspirational quote.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so either that's this is the quote. Either you run the day or the day runs you. That's what I'm feeling like today. Best choices we make. Yeah, man. It is uh the holidays are busy.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And we we are right stepping foot first into them right now. And uh gotta kind of keep ahead of everything and let don't let the day run you.

SPEAKER_02:

I guarantee you the next couple weeks will be interesting because we'll have a we'll have a bunch of crazy ass interesting stories. At least I know I will.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, content is coming up. Are you going anywhere? I am, I'm leaving. I'm going to Indiana for the holidays.

SPEAKER_02:

Right, but are you gonna fly anywhere after that?

SPEAKER_01:

Next month I have a schedule of flying. Where are you going? Yes. Um, I have uh I'm doing some dim returns and doing uh I got a two-day I'm doing, and uh I'm actually going to Dubai.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that's the more important one. I want to see where you go your international.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. So we got stuff coming up. I got material. I'll be working. Make sure you take I got stories, take your jacket.

SPEAKER_02:

All right, guys. You guys have a great week. Have a great holiday.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Don't you know you're gonna hear this after Thanksgiving. So uh I hope you survived.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, you know, and I forgot to tell you, you know when I came in today? What's that? I I took a bite out of your pie. No, you didn't? Yes, I did. Oh, hell no. Oh, hell yeah. All right, guys, you guys have a great week. All right, see you later, guys. Bye.

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