Holiday Turbulence,To Smart Investing And MH370’s Unsolved Trail

The holidays don’t just bring twinkle lights and travel deals—they bring maximum turbulence. We open the cabin door on real frontline stories from winter ops and half-empty flights to the non-rev legends who test every ounce of patience. There’s the first-class vaper who learns the hard way that status doesn’t outrank rules, and the quiet logistics behind weight and balance that keep a light load safe when passengers want to play musical chairs. Underneath the humor is a clear map of how modern air travel actually works when weather, policy, and human nature collide.

Then we pivot to money and why this season’s most hopeful news might be about investing, not shopping. Michael Dell’s $6.25 billion commitment to seed children with starter funds sparks a bigger conversation about compounding, low-lift automation, and the stigma that keeps too many adults from asking basic questions. We share simple, realistic steps to start small and stay consistent, because time—not timing—is what builds financial freedom for families who feel locked out.

The heart of the episode dives into one of aviation’s deepest mysteries: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. We trace the final timeline, from the calm sign-off to the transponder cut two minutes later, the hairpin turn, and the satellite “handshakes” that suggest a long course into the Indian Ocean. With a new performance-based search contract on the table, we explore what recovery would mean for safety, closure, and the systems we rely on when planes leave radar and enter history. Along the way, we highlight an Airbus software recall that shows safety culture in action, a Crayola magnet recall that reveals hidden risks at home, and a sobering remembrance of the Clinton 12 that reframes courage as an everyday choice.

If you were here for laughs, you’ll find them. If you came for clarity, you’ll leave with it. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who loves aviation or smart money talk, and drop your take: what’s your leading theory on MH370? Your voice keeps this cabin lively—rate and review to help more listeners find us.

Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Holiday Banter
• 2:04 Flying Weekly And Houston Breathalyzer Crew
• 5:20 Ditzy But Beloved Coworker And London Bus Story
• 8:10 Non-Rev Nightmares And Boozy Retirees
• 10:30 Holiday Decor Meltdown And Garland Gripes
• 14:20 Department 56 Overload And Family Traditions
• 17:20 Snowstorm Commutes And Car Troubles
• 21:15 ER Ordeal And Practical Accident Tips
• 24:00 Dumb Gifts Season And Social Media Overshare
• 26:10 First Class Vaping Disaster And Consequences
• 28:20 Light Loads, Weight And Balance Shuffle
• 30:05 MH370: Timeline, Theories, And Search Resumes
• 36:40 Deep Ocean Realities And Black Box Hopes
• 39:10 Airbus Software Recall And Cabin Quirks
• 41:20 Viral Gate Bribes And Internet Cable Fears
• 43:10 Crayola Recall And Hidden Household Risks
• 45:00 Remembering The Clinton 12 And Progress
• 49:40 Newark Tops Stress List And Closing Quote
• 51:20 Wrap Up, Website Plug, And Sign Off

Transcript

G: 0:09

Welcome back to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G, the podcast you keep coming back to like a bad habit your therapist hasn't cured yet.

Shawn: 0:16

We're flattered or worried, it's hard to tell. But welcome aboard. Please refrain from trying to bribe your way into first class with a damp $20 bill.

G: 0:24

Today we're diving into airport disasters, social media truth bombs, and whatever other chaos life has hurled at us this week.

Shawn: 0:32

Basically, everything that proves people are out here navigating life with the confidence of someone who didn't read the instructions. Grab your seat, blow your expectations, and buckle up because sarcasm and wit is the in-flight snap.

G: 1:07

Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Pressure.

Shawn: 1:10

Bells will be ringing. Oh, what a Christmas. To have the blues. Go ahead, keep going. I was digging it. Man, I had to come in. It's the holidays. You're getting that jazz thing. It's the holidays. I love that song. Like, yeah, that was good. I love that song. I like that one. And uh so, man, what's been going down?

G: 1:39

Nothing. It's a holiday. I was waiting for you to keep going. I was like, come on, man. I would probably go.

Shawn: 1:45

I would probably keep going, but I didn't know the words. I'm a one-hit wonder, but only the only ten words into the first beginning of the song. It's kind of like everybody knows the you know the chord. Like jingle. The rhythm of the song, whatever. Right. That was good though. I like that one. Anyhow, man, I have been flying this last week four days out of the five days. Are you shocked?

G: 2:12

I am so shocked because actually people have told me, they're like, you know something? I spotted Sean.

Shawn: 2:16

Yeah, there was a Shawn site.

G: 2:19

It was like Sasquatch. Right? I mean, in our base, it was like, hey, you know something? Guess what I did the other day? I was like, I don't know. I I seen Sean. They were they were like, they're like, again? Really? Wait a minute. I said at the airport. Now was he dressed in uniform or was he in regular clothes? Right. And they said he was in uniform. I was like, damn. I've been working, man. Couldn't have been that. Doing this freaking crazy snowstorm. We'll be talking about that and all that crap and stuff. But you know what? Here's so my my first flight this week, I had the weirdest experience. We're down in Houston and we're walking through the airport. And you know Houston, that international terminal in Houston where they like all the uh you know every other airline like flies out of that airline? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're walking down this terminal and we're walking past this A flight attendant group, and they're all huddled around in a circle, and each one of them is holding this like little stick in a box with a tube on it, and they're like everyone's like putting it up to their mouth, blowing into this thing, and then showing each other like the results. It was like the whole entire crew with breathalyzers. Really? It was like we had to stop and take a duplicate. We were like, what? What's going on? Like, is this like a requirement before they go to work? They all have to like breathalyze and make sure that they're clean before they were. But I was like, damn, don't let my company see this shit. It'd be like, maybe it's a halitosis. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

Shawn: 3:59

Stinky breath. Yeah, you got how bad is your stink breath?

G: 4:02

Ugh. You got bad breath. No, I've not I've never heard that. Never seen it.

Shawn: 4:07

To see the whole side of it. They were like in a big huge circle and they were all doing the same thing.

G: 4:12

They're doing it in public too, right?

Shawn: 4:13

Yeah, right. They were like out like off the side of gate or whatever, and you're like, this is weird.

G: 4:18

But you've seen a lot of like different um countries crews right when they do briefings and stuff. Yeah. Right? I mean, they do that and they circle up.

Shawn: 4:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, like it's not a crew briefing is normal, but I mean, when we walked by, it was like I like i each person in a crew that we were walking by, all of us like stopped and kind of like turn to each other and we're like, Did you see what I saw?

G: 4:43

There's a bad breath test.

Shawn: 4:44

Like it was it was weird. It was it was it was so abnormal that we like caught it, you know. Like I realized.

G: 4:49

I'm surprised you didn't go over there and go, hey, listen, I got a question.

Shawn: 4:52

I wanted to take a picture. I know. That's what I was like, yeah, but I didn't know they spank spoke English. But anyways, man, it was it was just crazy, man. And then then I, you know, I got the privilege of flying with one of our crew members here in the uh base that all of us like this this lady is the like one of the kindest persons you will ever meet in your life. Like, just so sweet, so kind, but she's one of those people that just everything that comes out of her mouth is nothing. Like it's it's that that uh Charlie Brown thing. It's like and this happens the whole flight. Like she just is talking about nothing. She started talking to me about like she's just kind of like Ditzy, like a ditzy funny thing.

G: 5:45

That's more like it, right? I mean, she's she's actually very sweet. Yeah, she's just so that's what I'm saying.

Shawn: 5:50

Like, she's the sweetest person you'll ever mind. Like, she'll she is so kind, she would do anything for you, just a like a nice person. But to this point, she started talking to me about this. Like, she's like, I wouldn't you, you know, I've been doing these international things and all this. She's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I loved international. You know, I did international for all this time and all this stuff. She goes, and did I ever tell you about us getting kicked off the double decker bus in London? And I was like, What? What happened? She goes, Yeah, we sat back behind the driver in the double decker bus, and then you know, they're going on the wrong side of the road, and so we kept on like every time, like there would be a like a bike, you know, like in Europe, how it's like they like ride real close to a bike, and they're like, Oh, watch out for the bike! Oh no, the bike, bike, oh my gosh, and then they'd be like, Oh, whoa, whoa, here, there's it's easy, easy, easy. We're getting really close to that car, you know. Like, and you know, she verbalizes everything really like all the time. Finally, the bus driver he stopped the bus and told him to get off. He said, He said, You're distracting me. Get off. And everybody in Cleveland has heard that story totally understands. It wasn't just wah wah wah wah wah. It was like a distracting wah-wah, wah, wah. You know, she listens to our podcast, right? She'll be cracking up laughing because I told her I was gonna tell this story.

G: 7:19

Exactly. And you know that we love you because I love flying with you. I've known you for years, but I can so see that happening. I can see, I can see this, right? Open door, get off. Now, now get off. Oh, that's when the rest of the crew just turns around and says, You couldn't just shut up.

Shawn: 7:45

And then you just couldn't shut up. Can't you just shut up?

G: 7:48

Right, just that one last look, right? Stop. That one last look he gave us, and then the handle went on that door, okay? Get out. So, anyways, that's gonna be hard to get kicked off of a double bus, so right? You got pretty much a big thing. It's legendary. You you've got to really screw up to get kicked off of a double bus.

Shawn: 8:05

Right. So, anyways, then then then there was a you know, like the opposite happened on my flight today, uh the other day, was um, do you have these non-revs on your flight? And when I say non-revs, like emplo like for all those people that listen to and don't understand airline charting, that's a crew or uh or an employee of the airline that's flying for free, basically. And they're on air flight and they're like the neediest motherfuckers. Yep. I like they were not properly trained. That's the problem, dude. No, no, no. These are retirees that come on and they're like, oh, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. And like we got we got a couple that uh go back and forth to Florida, right? And I know you know who this is, but every time they get on a flight, I'm like, oh no, here it comes. They're gonna be asking for everything in the world. Now, is this re this recently? Yeah. Okay, was it like a Hawaiian shirt? Maybe. Like bluish? Because I just seen him in the terminal, man. I just seen him in the terminal. And and you do you know, do you know when he travels? What's that? It's the same damn shirt. Oh no, no, yeah, dude. I mean, same shirt.

G: 9:16

What is that? You've got no other shirts?

Shawn: 9:19

Both of those those people are like driven by alcohol rules their life. And it it's bad. Like it's like they come on and they're just like they're half lit already, and they want to drink off everything in the plane, right? And then they want you to give everything for free. And you know, it's just you know, we don't give no, you know, I don't give a shit. Like normally, like if you come on and we know you, like you're gonna get treated like royalty. Right. But when you come on and you're like demanding it, you know, that's when it's like everybody's like, no, no, no, we're that that ain't happening. Shut down. Shut down, right? But it was just like I was like, uh, I hate this feeling. And it was so wild because like everybody in the crew was like, Did you see him? Did you see him?

G: 10:05

You already knew what's coming. You already knew what's coming. Yeah, as soon as you get out there, um, all you gotta do, uh, would you like something to drink? There you go.

Shawn: 10:12

Yeah.

G: 10:12

Opened up that Pandora's box, didn't you?

Shawn: 10:14

Yeah, that's freaking crazy, man. Anyways, and then uh the other thing, uh, you know, holidays are happening, and uh I'm I'm I'm uh putting up holiday decorations and Carol Carol's flying a hundred hours this month, which is for a pilot, is like that's a lot, like unheard of. Yeah, and she wanted to push herself to get to 100. And I told her, I was like, why are you doing this during December? You know, like this is not the best month. Do it in January, you know, there's too much crap going on. So she's stressed out and all this stuff, and she's like, You got you gotta put up the decorations, and you know, when you're off, you gotta do this for me. I'm so I you know, I don't have time. And so today I've been putting up the Christmas tree and putting on the garland. And do you like garland?

G: 11:06

No, it's bullshit. Um I I mean it's straight bullshit. I hate garland. I do. I mean, and and I'm we could talk about this all damn day because I have to, I'm required to put up real shit. Uh okay. I used to have the fake stuff that you had. Yeah. And what I hate about that shit, it ends up everywhere, just like the real garland.

Shawn: 11:24

But the the mess does not bother me. That is not my problem. My problem is that like that like fake garland, it's like made out of wire and plastic. And you you're trying to bend it and fluff the garland, you know, and then you got the lights that go out, and then you can't figure out what light go, you know, what which one's out and which one's not. And um, it I have spent all day replacing bulbs trying to get the garland working, and I just it just pains me to put the shit up. Like, and then in addition, like you said, it makes a total mess. I don't know how fake trees and all this stuff, like they shed just as much as real trees. I don't know if that was like uh something the inventor like put into the whole thing. Yeah, like it should act like real. They could have skip skipped that shit. You ever notice like when you get in people like, oh, you should get in the holiday spirit? Well, when your ass is putting all the shit up, right? I mean, you know, they're like, it's not like the Chevy Chase, you know, holiday vacation, right? It's more like Uncle Eddie. I got the Chevy Chase National Lampoon Christmas upstairs. Yeah. That tree. Yeah. Yeah, like a million lights on it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. I got that tree. I hate the, I mean, I I put up with all the real shit. It gets you got to put plastic on the floor because the damn sticky. I mean, it all falls, it looks pretty when it's all done. You're like, oh yeah, it looks really pretty. Then what happens after about three weeks? Right. All the shit dries out. Tink tink tink ding. You gotta go put this shit all over the floors to take all this shit back down. Dude, pine needles and they like get like into your carpet and they make like they they're like needles into the sewn into there. Happy holiday. Yeah, yeah. I just like I'm not I'm not trying to be a Scrooge. No, your garland look good. Yeah, I'm not trying to be a Scrooge, and I don't mind. And here's the crazy thing. So we like normally, if we had this uh normal D December where we had time off and took time off and took a slow month instead of flying all the time, normally she has this thing that the department 56, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, she's got like thousands of these things. I'm talking this whole house, three stories, can be each level filled with every freaking flat service will be a department 56 on it. That's my parents it takes three days to put assemble it. Yeah, my parents used to have like, you know, the um the little snow houses and all that. That's what this is. I know, I I don't know. They just had yeah, they like the whole villages and everything all lit up and all. Yep. Nope. Dude, the garland's bad enough, Sean. I know. She would make I would literally assemble t I had I have tables that I build just for the Department 56 shit. And I was like, about I put a big squash on it about five years ago. Do you have like an ice rink too? I got dude. We got we have a we have all those series. We have like the whole entire uh Department 56 Scrooge series where it's all like animated and all this stuff. We got Snow Village, we got like the ice skating ranks, we got dude. Wouldn't you like to sell that? I would love to sell the show. I was actually thinking about burning would be bad. You know, it you don't mean to be that way. Um not trying to be a scrooge. I'm not trying to be a scrooge. I mean, I do enjoy the holidays, but you know what I enjoy about the holidays is just celebrating the reason of holidays, like you know, being getting into the season and celebrating Jesus and you know, and be real about it, you know, and be with people, you know. You know, that whole part of it is that the all the decorating and all that crap, and the presence are nice, but it's like I just I'd rather like the just the community of the whole thing. You know why this bullshit now, though? Because for years, years as the kids are growing up, I'm out there putting all these damn lights on the house. Our old house looked like a damn gingerbread house, right? Oh, wow. Lights everywhere, up and down, you had the candy canes, all that shit. Well, in the middle and at nighttime, you came in, say I came in from a flight, it's like 9 30, 10 o'clock. Hey, yeah, how you doing? Uh, the strand of lights went out on the top. I'm like, okay, well, I'll get out there tomorrow. Well, yeah, but you can see them, then they're out. Wait a minute. So this is how dumb we are. This is how stupid we are when we're young. We get that big ass ladder out. It's like 10 30 at night. You double double this thing up to the very top to go up there, find that one damn bulb. Yep. And all it is is a misstep, and it's a helicopter ride. Oh yeah. Right? If if you're lucky. If you're lucky, it's a helicopter ride. If not, it's a wagon. Yeah. So I don't do that shit no more. I you see you see the outside of my house. I know, that's my. I mean, I haven't I do uh like I will put up like uh I have some lights that uh are like projection lights and stuff like that that I'll pop out eventually. But it's like yeah, so it's just too much. Like Scrooge, we we can sit there and say that we got smarter. Yeah, right? They're like, Oh, you got to be a Scrooge. No, I got smart because my ass was up there about 30, 40 feet looking down, going, This is stupid. Here's the other thing that I did. So I I I put the whole squash on this thing because excuse me, the uh um wife was like, she she loves all this stuff. I mean, when it's all up, it is it's cool, and everything when everything's assembled, it's all great. But I would say, like, we had like a few years where we did all this work, three days of putting up villages, putting up lights outside, do the whole day. It's like a whole week of just assembling, right? Right. And not one person came to visit our house. Nope, just get to look at it, just us looking at it. Yeah, that's it. And yeah, people driving by. Yep. And as soon as the new year starts, what do you got to do? Sometime rip that shit down. That's what I'm saying. It's horrible.

G: 17:24

Anyway, uh holidays. Yeah, the holidays are all good and all that stuff.

Shawn: 17:29

But you know what else that happened that this holiday season that just happened? Um, did you hear about that Michael Dell investing that uh money to children uh for their investment funds?

G: 17:39

Yeah, I did, yeah.

Shawn: 17:40

That I think that is the coolest damn thing in the whole universe. Like I was I'm talking to these other flight attendants, and one of the flight attendants, actually, a lot of flight attendants I talk to are not financial savvy. You know, like they just don't get how to invest, how to do it. They don't know who to talk to. And I bet you this is this is everybody out there. A lot of people in the world, especially in America, don't understand who to talk to or go get help or afraid to ask because you know it's a uh money's a stigma thing. So it's like you're afraid to ask all that same, how do I get this? And then we don't teach it to our kids either. Like if you don't know it, you don't know it. Right, right? Yeah, and even as as the older we get, we're kind of afraid. Like if you don't, if you haven't done investment when the time you should have done the investments, um, you're afraid to ask because you know you're embarrassed that you're like behind the curb and all that stuff, and then all that whole thing snowballs and cascades. But this whole thing where they like Michael Dell is like starting off and saying, hey, every kid that's born between now and 2028, he donated 6.25 billion dollars of his own money, no government money, and the government's basically saying they're putting a pro together program that's gonna support this thing that it's no taxes, no government taxes, and all this stuff, and it's gonna launch these kids financial future so that whether they go to school or whether they go, you know, they want to buy a house later, they can't touch it until they're after they're 18. That's cool, which is super cool. But if you do the math on just putting in a thousand dollars and what that if one kid doesn't do anything, doesn't contribute anything, that a thousand dollars in 18 years is gonna be quite a bit of money. It reminds me of the um the book Rich Dad Poor Dad. Ever read that? Oh, yeah. That's a good book. Yeah. Well, that's a book real that's a book that a lot of people, everybody should read. Yeah. You know, it is Yeah, because we do, we bring we actually we bring our kids up to be poor. If you rate if you read about it, we do. We bring it up that we bring them up to be poor. You don't understand that until you actually read the book. Yeah. But we w that's what we do because we don't educate them how to actually make money. Right. Well, how to make your money make money. Well, that's what we don't make. How to make money with your money. Yeah, we educate them how to make money. We don't educate them how to manage their money. And how to make their money make money. Right. And so it, you know, I just it's cool. And, you know, the the other thing, wonderful thing about this is it's a on the political thing, like it's a total bipartisan. Like, no, nobody could say shit about this. Like it's just somebody starting up. Donated. Yeah, it's just donated money. Like, hey, go into the government saying, hey, yeah, I want to start this program. This is what I want to do. I want to give all the children in America born in this time this much money. Now, okay, so this this amount of money, now is it like an investment fund that he just they they that they actually control? No, so it's like one of those uh you know uh growth funds that they're gonna be able he doesn't control whatsoever. He has nothing, no party about it, other than he just started the program. Right. Right. And so they're gonna have each one of them have this investment fund. It's kind of like an IRA or something like that, that that will grow over time. It's gonna be kind of cool to track that and see exactly how much money these kids are gonna be. In 18 years, it'll be see that I'd love to see what the news is, the report is, like what the average kid got out of this whole thing. We were born at the wrong time. Uh you know, we all got our place in the world. Yeah. That is amazing, though. A thousand bucks and what it's gonna do for the future. Oh man, it's just it's it's awesome that people I I was I was just telling uh a flight attendant, I use um I do lots of investments, all kinds of different stuff. But have you ever heard of Stash? No. So Stash is this cool little app, and there's a bunch of different apps that are out there, but Stash costs you three bucks a month, and um you can go and put whatever you want into it and automate it from your checking account to like invest. And so, like 20 months ago, I decided, you know what, I'm gonna try this out, check it out, and I was like, you know what, I'll throw ten dollars a week in it. Ten dollars a week, right? Who misses that? Nobody, I mean, like, dude, we spend that in Starbucks, right? Right? I mean, like ten dollars a weekend, whatever. But I just kept doing this and literally just forgot about it, and literally looked at it yesterday, and it's over a grand. Yeah, so it just came right out of your check account? Comes right out of your check account, and you set it up with the app, you sign up. The cool thing is is that once you sign up and you tell a friend, then the app will give you $50 and they'll get $50. Oh, that's cool. And then you start this growth thing, and and it also has education stuff in the app about how to invest and how to watch your you know, money, and you can adjust it to like how you know, you know, what that's what the word I'm looking for, uh strong or how whatever like aggressive you want to be about your investing. You just got me interested. Dude, we're gonna sign you up. Exactly. Well, you only have 50 bucks, cheap bastard. You just want to get a thousand fifty in yours. And that's how you hook them, people. Exactly. Wait a minute. I just feel like I just got rolled on that one. My day man, yeah. No, actually, it sounds good though. No, it is it's a really cool, and that's kind of like the Michael. You're kind of stashing away. Yeah, yeah. And so that's how the Michael Dell thing should be. Like, I mean, it will really be really cool, I think, if they tie this into like, you know, seeing that he, you know, does computer stuff, you know, tie this into an app like that where they have that money, and then they can also do some self-education and stuff. That that I haven't heard that that's where they're like where they're going. It's kind of like this is in the launch phase right now, but it would really be really cool if that's how they kind of like did it. So then the kids can actually see their money grow and see, like, hey, maybe I can add to this. And the cool thing is that whether they add to it or not, they can't touch it until like doesn't matter what happens, you can't touch it until you're 18. But they can actually add to it? Oh, yeah, you can continue. That is absolutely to add to it, right? And that's the whole idea. Now, can like you know how when they buy gifts, can some somebody like put $25 in for that's cool. That's the I mean that's the whole thing. This is like trying to teach America how to invest and grow their money. That is cool. And if you don't know about it, find out about it because I mean I don't I have no kids and I'm gonna get no part of this whole thing. Like this doesn't benefit me whatsoever, other than I think it's smart for everybody to understand to have an education about investing. For young parents. So, I mean, that's something to look into. Yeah, one other thing before we get on to what you've been doing is I heard this podcast and it was a um um this guy was talking about how this whole thing was like really, you know, he was talking about he's an investment guy and you know, stock market, and he was talking about how this is really cool, but this is something that we should have done also with social security. We should he proposed a bill back in the Clinton days that if they took two percent of the total gross sum of Social Security and invested it into the stock market, that that two percent would literally drive the market with Social Security and keep Social Security funded over the compound interest of time until you retire, until all the people retire, you know, and the cycles of it. And I was like, wow, that's super smart. Like, why isn't why aren't why isn't the government doing this? Sean, we could we could sit here and talk all day and we don't want to get that political on this, but I mean, no, no, no. But I'm saying we can talk all day about how stupid our government is about money, money, period. Period. I mean, I'm not even gonna get into that because our government as a whole is just stupid when it comes to money. Well, it's it's they're stupid about like um they keep it all to the different level of classes, you know. Like it's we we we're not gonna get into that in that we got other things to talk about, but but yeah, this new Michael Dale thing is awesome. I think that's incredible. I really like that. Yeah. Now my week. Yeah, what have you been doing? It's almost like this rundown. You know, you like to have this thing, and I was I was sitting there looking at um the list of stuff. I was like, shit, I got a rundown of stuff. You know, like you knew ESPN, where like, oh, okay, what we're gonna do. This is the rundown. Yeah, that's what I feel like my my week was this week. It was like the rundown. So I'm gonna start off the week. Okay, did you drive in that shit ass snow that we got? Oh, yeah, that was so crappy. It you guys, let me tell you what I'm telling you. It it was one of those drives. When you're driving in, you had those thoughts, those last thoughts. We had a snowstorm here. Last thoughts. When I'm driving in, I'm sitting there thinking that this is it, right? I'm gonna die today. Today is a day I'm getting into a major accident. Forget about the deer. I'm lucky if I can see the damn road.

G: 27:02

Yeah.

Shawn: 27:02

I mean, you you know that there's three lanes of interstate here, but you see like two like little things going through, and you know you can't get off the interstate because if you do, you're gonna end up in a ditch because you can't even see the freaking uh you know off ramps. Because they no snow plows. Yeah, there's that one snow plow that like he's out on the road, and guess where he's at? All the way on the other side of damn interstate, going the other direction. You know what? I was had the same thought. Like I was like, why is this plows? Like I saw the power. They're going away from the commuting traffic, like nobody's on that side of the road, they're all going on this side. Yeah, like why isn't it over here? Yeah, and that side, our side was shit. It was complete shit. Oh my gosh. And all the way in that I'm I'm sitting there thinking I'm gonna I'm gonna die today. Dude, here's something else that happened with that for me was you know, I bought that new car. Right. So the evidently the the windshield wiper fluid that they put into it isn't rated for that coldness. And I was like spraying ice sheets onto my windshield. It was it was like, motherfucking like uh I'm like, are you kidding me? This is a German-made vehicle. Why are you you don't have like good antifreeze windshield wiper fluid in here? Right? I was so mad. Top of the line shit.

G: 28:25

So mad, dude.

Shawn: 28:26

Well, mine's treacherous. You were like mine didn't freeze, but I was constantly hitting the damn thing because you know, as soon as salt gets on the road, it gets on your wind, you can't see shit. Yeah, you can't see shit. You can't see anything. I mean, salt, and all you're seeing is two tail lights. Dude, that was that was one puckered up, like your ass cheeks were like tight. And then you get in, you get into the parking lot and you start thanking God. Right? You're like, I I listen, I appreciate it. I just want to tell you, I really appreciate the drive in today. Yeah, my my knuckles are white. I I can't stand it, I'm clenched. Then you step out of the car and slip on your ass. It's bad. It was so bad. It was so bad. Okay, so I had to follow it up with the these people that are so transparent on social media. Yeah. So it had to I was reading these comments from a person about their life. Why would you go on there and and tell people how messed up your life is? I mean, it's supposed to be therapeutic, right? I don't know. I just think it's bullshit. I was reading this on it on social media and I'm like, I would never do that. Yeah, dumb decision making, and and you're just letting everybody know about it. Instead, you have a podcast and you do it. Yeah. That's easy. That's easy, right? I'm just I had to walk through that door. That's okay. That's alright. I like that. So that's okay. I seen I I was thinking of you again this week. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, what was that? Well, they had this Uber driver. Really? Yeah, because you you know, I I've never, ever, ever got Uber Eats. Really? Yeah, and after I seen this peak picture, I never will. Why? Well, they had the guy standing at the urinal with the McDonald's bag right next to his feet. Oh, he was just trying to season his Uber library. He had his Uber egg tag Uber tag on that thing, and I'm looking at him sitting there going, Okay, you know, that's going to somebody's house and they're like, why is the bottom wet?

G: 30:22

Yeah.

Shawn: 30:22

Right? Why are my fries extra seasoned? What is that smell? So these Uber drivers, these Uber Eat drivers, all of a sudden got to go to the bathroom, take your Chipotle into the bathroom thing on the side. Believe me, we're not trying to pick on just Uber Eats, but it's like it that was a picture of that guy. But I mean, you there's so many idiot drivers out there that are doing this DoorDash and Uber Eats and Grubhub and all that shit. It made me think of you, and it made me think that I will never ever do that. Order food and have somebody the chance that somebody had to go pee. Yeah. That's like that's like a flight attendant before we um uh serve the tray out to first class, we like take it in the bathroom with us and go to the bathroom. That's just so wrong. Set it on the uh changing table. You know, I said I sent that to Jackson because Jackson, you know, he gets DoorDash and the food. So I sent him a picture. I'm like, was that your McDonald's?

G: 31:21

Yeah.

Shawn: 31:21

Yeah. All right. Well, that that that made me think of you. Big Max with extra sauce. Mm-hmm. Well, happened this week. Love this one. I don't know if you did, but Ohio State beat Michigan. Oh, dude. Julian's saying this kid has 78.9% completion ratio. I know, man. And he looks like he's nine. Dude. He looks like he's like nine years old. Uh listen, I'm not letting I'm not a huge Ohio State fan. Let's let them break it down just like that. And uh, but they're a force to be reckoned with this year. Let's, period. I just don't see anyone beating them this year. It's just they're gonna they're gonna win the national championship and it's gonna be, you know, only people getting their ass beat by them. Yeah. I mean, they're they're a force to be reckoned with this year for sure. But that kid is unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, as a quarterback, unbelievable. 78.9% for the year. That's incredible. He's making money. So then I watched a New York's Giants kicker. I love this name. What's his name? Young Ho Koo. Young Ho Koo. Yep. But what he did was he went when he went to kick the field goal, he missed the ball and actually hit the turf. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you see that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hit the turf. Like I it's extremely rare to see that in the NFL. Right. But I mean it happens. Yeah. Everybody makes mistakes. Right, makes a mistake. Everybody. But that's that's not why I wanted to talk about it. I was looking at his name, I was like, Young Ho. Young Ho. Now, if you had a sister, would it be Miho? Yu-ho. No, that'd be his brother. Yu-ho? Yeah. Yu-ho. His brother's Yu-Ho, his sister's Miho. And if they had twins, it'd be Weeho's. We ho's? We ho. Now they all come from the grandpa, it'll be old ho. All coming from Monpaho. So when I was when I was seeing this, I I instantly remind Sixteen Candles.

G: 33:23

Yeah. Right? Oh yeah. Do you remember his name?

Shawn: 33:28

Long Duck Dong. Old pretty girlfriend. Pretty girlfriend. Pretty girlfriend. Long Duck Dong, man. I I I remember that that movie, right. I love that name. That's like that that, you know, it's hilarious. Imagine growing up with your name. What's your name? Young Ho. Yeah. Hmm. That's good. Every time I hear like names like that, I always think of the the there's two kids in my high school class that their last name was Head. Right. And their father was the general of our base. Yeah. And his name was Richard Head. Oh, dickhead. Yeah. General Dickhead. That's so bad. Dude. Can you imagine have the career of like being being an officer? Yeah. And he like new officer. He was like Lieutenant Dickhead, then became Captain Dickhead, then Major Dickhead. And you have a bunch of little dickheads. General dickhead. Yeah, but then you have a bunch of little dickheads.

unknown: 34:27

Right.

Shawn: 34:27

Then you happen dickhead. Sorry, you went there, man. If you're gonna invite me to go that direction, I'm going. So okay. And here's a here's a downside. So went to get the the turkey before Thanksgiving. Oh yeah. Picked it up. Was coming through the the parking lot, was facing um like going to the right, and uh I got hit. Dude. Yep. What again? Yeah, got hit. And the thing was was that I was sitting there and and it it wasn't so much as that I it was hard, but when I got hit, my I was turning to the left, and when I got hit, it was from the right, and it caved in my my back door, and it just jerked me, and then I was like more pissed, and I got out and I was like, son of a bitch, and because it jerked my neck to the right, and I was like, you know how your neck feels funny when it happens. So I get out and I start taking pictures, and just learn this when you're on private property, you know this, right? When you're on private property and you're not on the roadway, the police ain't gonna come.

G: 35:33

Yeah.

Shawn: 35:34

So what you want to get out to do is take pictures of the accident right away. Don't let them move the vehicle. Don't let them move it. Let's see. I don't care if you're on public or probably. Y'all, I will take today. I will take a video and I will take pictures. Right. But take pictures right away of the vehicle being in that position. Yes. And then, and then uh then what you want to do is you want to get the um driver's license, pictures, and the registration and and um proof of insurance and all that. Anyway, it was a big pain in the ass. But at first I didn't think it was a big problem. Then all of a sudden I went home and I had this uh I started to rotate my left my head left and right, and it's fine. Then I tilted it left and I tilted it right, and I was like, I got this pain shooting down my back. I was like, son of a bitch. So I had to go to the hospital to go through that whole stupid emergency room. You know what they did in the emergency room? They left my ass in the freaking emergency room. I'm sitting in that back room, Sean. They did not even give me a nurse button. Dude. I had to piss so bad, my back teeth were flushed. Oh, you so you got back there and then they forgot about you basically back in the back? Yeah, after the CT scan, yeah. I was waiting back there for them, and I'm like, this was taking forever. So they got me all hooked up to these monitors and shit, and I got a pee so bad I can't get a hold of anybody because they got the turn. You didn't have a bell or nothing. No, they had the door closed, the nurse, nothing. So I'm like, this is bullshit. You have a voice. I took all that shit off and I got my ass out. You took it off? Oh, God. Yeah. I took all that shit off and I walked out. And she goes, like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm going to the bathroom. None of you guys even checked on my ass. And I was sitting in there for the last two hours waiting for you. And she goes, Oh, you're discharged. I said, How the hell can I be discharged? None of you even talk to me yet. Yeah. So then the doctor comes over, talks to me. I'm pissed. I just grab their paperwork and I leave. But anyway, the the what I was telling you is, you know, make sure that you get all the information and accident. It's no fun. I'm going through that crap right now, so I got to get my my car fixed, which is absolutely no fun whatsoever. My neck's my neck's jacked up, so that's no fun. But um, anyway, it'll get better. And and now, so here's here's the funnier thing. The it's a season of dumb gifts. Dumb? Yeah, because because when I was sitting in there, I was looking at my phone and I get all these stupid advertisements. You get those now from for Christmas? I blocked all that shit. Okay, so I didn't. I get these dumb gift things, and it reminded me of Ralphie from uh a Christmas store. Right? When he got that decoder ring. Oh, yeah. And he got it in there from Ovaltine, and and what it was is drink more over teen. And he's like, he got that dumbass look on his face. And then he was standing there in that bunny outfit. When you were a kid, did your parents ever buy you one of them dumbass outfits? A dumb outfit. Who knows? Probably. You didn't have any pictures. We had a picture of uh me, David, and Bruce, and we had these these Russian hats on with those ear muff things that pull down. You look so damn dumb. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you ever have those? I know what you're talking about, like those those uh bunching caps like yeah. And then you pull them down and you get that one picture of them. Yeah, and you and you look stupid. I don't know if I have any stupid pictures like that. Yeah, you do. I have some like crazy uh wardrobe pictures. Like I got a school picture with like my got a button-down, like big huge uh those big tab collars, you know, the big old long butterfly to collars, and and I have orange deers on my shirt. Everybody take a minute right now and think back to the stupid picture that you had that your parents bought some dumbass outfit, some dumb hat that you wore that you got a picture of, and it'll make you laugh because it did make me laugh about them Russian hats with my brothers. But anyway, that was a good one. So, but it is a season of the dumb gifts, and I I'm getting a lot of those dumb emails with with things that you step into a blanket or something like this, wrap a damn blanket around you. You don't need to step into the stupid thing. Yeah, right? You'll trip your ass and end up breaking something. Yeah, the blankets that are the now they got the ones bigger. And you step into them. Well, they got those big ones that are like the big giant robe blankets, too. But you got your feet, you step into them, so you'll trip your ass and end up breaking something. Dumb. Okay, so remember last week on the podcast, I told you guys, do not do this, don't let it happen to you. And I was waiting for a plane um of just a couple days ago, and the door opens up. Here comes this young girl, and she's like whining and crying. My Louis bag, my Louis bag, didn't get my Louis bag. Bag and there's this guy comes out, and he's an older guy, so they're together. Oh, okay. And you can see the younger and the older, right? And she's causing this big scene. Well, I'm just listening to it because we're waiting for the plane. So this girl is in first class with this guy, and she's vaping. Pre-departure vapes. Stupid. Right? What a bone. And she didn't understand why she was getting pulled off because she was in first class and all she was doing, all she was doing was vaping. She's a dit. That's why she can't understand. Okay, so here's this old guy dealing with this shit, right? He gets kicked off with the his young girlfriend and because of vaping. And she's over here crying, talking about her Louis Vuitton bag, and he's more concerned about he's got to get to Houston that day. And this gate agent was being nice, and she was telling him, Well, you're not gonna get there in first class. He goes, What do you mean? And she goes, Well, first class is booked all day long. He goes, Well, what am I supposed to do? And she goes, I've got two basic economy tickets available. With you and your bimbo. So because of that, dumbass was vaping in first class, right? Right. Because you had to have the young girlfriend that wasn't smart enough just to sit her ass down. You could have had one that was your age that was smart enough not to vape on a stupid flight. Yeah. But you had to have that young one. Yeah. Was this guy's name Belichick? Possibly. No, but it wasn't, no, it wasn't. But this guy, this guy ended up having to go go later, like four hours later, on in a basic economy ticket, and he wasn't getting refunded. With this idiot bimbo he got with her. Stupidity. Yeah. That was my week, Sean. Dude. And that was, you know, the funny thing about it, that that was only the stuff that I was going to actually, you know, want to talk about. I had so much stuff this week. Yeah. That was my rundown. This week, this week was like so crazy. Like we, I had, I had like, did you have the full flights and the not full flights? Yep. I had those two. Because it it's the in-between stage, right? I had it's about ready to get crazy. I know it's gonna get ready, it's gonna explode here for the Ohio days, but I had the actual, like, I hadn't done this in years where we had to actually we push back and we had to like adjust people in the cabin for weight and balance. Yeah. We had they had blocked all these rows and stuff because we only had like 40 people on the plane. It was crazy. I was like, wow, we haven't done this in a long time. Isn't it crazy when they they put all these people and they're all in the same rows and then they have all these empty rows? Yeah. And they're just piled in there and they're they're all looking at you going, uh, is it okay for us to move? Yeah. You can move from this section to this section. Yeah, yeah. Right here, over here to this aisle. This is the no-go section. Right. You can do that. Yeah, they were like, we had to make all these announcements about like, you know, don't move. We need you to be there with for landing as well, you know, all this, all this crap. You know, we know the scoop, but uh yeah, that's been going on. So since we we talked about all of our fun this week, did you see more than a decade has passed since they since the the Malaysia flight 370? No, yeah, that I I didn't see it, but um that that's some wild stuff right there. It was. I started more than a decade. Yeah. Dang, time flies. Yeah, so they they started um they're gonna resume the search for this thing. Oh, that's cool. So they they hired this company, it's a robotic company. And what they're doing, the government, the Malaysian government, is going to pay them only if they find it $70 million. If they find it. Oh, wow. Yeah. Because, and we're gonna talk about this a little bit because this flight, if you guys don't know about this flight, there's a lot of mystery behind this. I mean, this is one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. For sure. I mean, next to Amelia Earhart, yeah, it is. I mean it was like on the the uh uh Malay this Malaysian flight, when it disappeared, everybody was like, you know, how can uh the technology of this age that uh you know all this just like a jet disappear? Yeah, no distress call. Yeah, not no hijacking messages. For the longest time, there was like it was just it had just disappeared and gone. And then like later, much later, pieces of the plane started showing up on shores, different places. Right. Yeah, it was wild. So then they knew that I mean about with the plane crashed. So on board this flight, there were 239 passengers, and it was en route from Kula Lupar to Beijing, and it vanished from civilian radar less than an hour after takeoff. Yeah. And military radar and satellite data suggested the plane deviated dramatically, flying for hours into the Indian Ocean. It was incredible, but the minute by minute is the craziness. So I wanted to look at this, Sean, and a detailed timeline of 370's final hours. So this plane took off at 41 minutes past midnight. Okay. Okay. And it departs the the Kulalu Par Airport, International Airport. And at 101, everything's normal. The plane climbs normally, the weather is good. The last A CARS transmission was 107. Now, for those of you guys that don't understand what A-CARs is, it's an aircraft communication and reporting system on the airplanes, and it it reports messages back and forth um from uh operations. Yeah, so the pilots can basically type in messages back and forth towards the operation without actually talking to them. Right. So it's like a double communication type thing. Well, it's uh now it stops transmitting. So it was either manually disabled or it failed. But what happened in the 12 minutes is the big question of this mystery that went on. Because the last voice contact was a co-pilot that calmly said, Good night, Malaysian 370. Now, if you've ever flown international flights and you left at midnight, which I used to do, when as soon as you head over the pond, at some point in time they they're telling them goodnight. Yeah, any evening flight, and any international flight, they're like goodnight, you know, like signing off from one because there's no uh ATC um you know points that are they're going across. Everything's done with uh radio navigation. So you're you're going across the uh the big the pond, right, and you're not gonna be talking to ATC, but you're gonna be putting in position uh check-in points, like I'm here at this position, right here at this position. So they know exactly where you're at. Now here's the crazy thing. So the last voic voice contact was at 119. At 121, the transponder was turned off. Two minutes. No, that's crazy. Okay. Two minutes. Because when you say a transponder turned over, that's a that's an intentional act. Right. You can't just like slip. Oops. Yeah. That doesn't happen. What happened in those two minutes? That is gonna, I mean, that's that's one of the big things. What happened in those two minutes? Because you had a first officer saying goodnight. Okay. And there's and there's some theories behind this. We're gonna go through that too. But in those two minutes, that transponder was turned off. And the military radar tracks the the strange path of the aircraft. Now, if you guys want to see this, it's actually really crazy. You can bring up if images on Google and bring up um the flight 370, Malaysia Flight 370 flight path. And when you see this, you'll understand this because it when it left, it was leaving on its departure route. And then shortly after that, it takes a dramatic turn left. Like a hairpin turn left. Right. And then it turns around, comes back across land, then it goes back towards the the ocean, and then it goes back towards the deepest part of the ocean, and then during this time, it starts doing what's considered a handshake with the satellites because it's not recording, it's like a ping. Right? So it's recording until the final ping. And then what they figured was the airplane ran out of fuel. Now, what happened? That's one theory, right? Yeah. What well, yeah, I mean, from the distance, I think they figured out from the fuel amount of fuel that would have had it wouldn't have had enough fuel. Right. And and what it did is that it went to one of the the deepest parts of where the the the sea, and this thing is like six thousand meters deep. Do you know how deep that is, Sean? That's 3.7 miles. That's crazy deep. 3.7 miles deep. I mean, that is that's unbelievable. So this what when this plane went down, and it's like Sean was telling you, there was they couldn't there it was just gone. It just vanished. Wasn't like they're a big debris field. No. And so they started looking at this and they they started looking at theories. And one theory was um that did did they lose oxygen in the cabin, or did somebody purposely turn the oxygen off? Yeah, like hypoxia happened and people passed out and all that stuff. Right. But then they had no transponder, they that was physically turned off. And then what they looked at was they they went back to these pilots and the captain had a flight simulator from home, and he had a similar route on his flight simulator. But they couldn't say that it was him because he said there was no reason why he'd want to commit suicide or anything like that. There is there they couldn't find a reason of why. Yeah, they didn't like find a suicide letter or something like that, like you know, that he had intentionally done something. Right. Right. But if you if if you were flying that plane and you and you took that hairpin turn, you had to make that turn. Okay, if you was on autopilot, autopilot only does what you navigated to do. Right? Yeah. So I mean, no, look if you if you look at all the turns that it made. Yeah, that to me, like all the navigation turns of this and like where it was going, you know, it's not going towards its destination. As soon as it makes that turn, it's off course. Right. So like before he ever makes that good night announcement and all this stuff, they were off course already. Right. Yeah. So and like it's weird that he like was so calm and there's no distress to it, and like there's it, there's so many like little uh caveats of like information with this uh you know, disinformation of of we don't know that that's what makes this so fascinating. Like, you don't you can't believe in this day and age there couldn't have been some more information from this flight. What kill what killed me when I was looking at this, and I kept going back to that, was those two minutes 19 to transponder getting turned off. What happened in those two minutes, how'd that transponder get turned off? Something. Yeah. I mean, so it kind of blew me away. But anyway, they they were talking about the deepest parts of of the the ocean and the sea. So this one was like 6.7, 6.8 miles deep to where they figured that this plane in the area went down. Do you know a place called the Mariana Trench? Have you ever heard of that? Yeah. Deepest place in the ocean. 11,000 meters. Yeah. I think there's like spots in it that they don't know how deep it is. 6.8 miles. That could that's that's just mind blowing. Dude, that's where uh Godzilla lives. That's mind blowing. I mean that when watching movies, like there's all kinds of everybody thinks that there's like uh there's alien races down there and all kinds of stuff. Right, just mind blowing though. Yeah, it's way down there. I mean, thinking that the the any part of the ocean being six point. Whatever's down there is down there. I wouldn't want to be there. Yeah. But anyway, this was actually very interesting. If you guys want to see it, I mean go back and and and just Google um the flight path at 370. It's very interesting. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, you'll come up with a theory. They have all kinds of theories out there. Fascinating. But you'll understand for them if they do find it. Yeah. Like if at some time, someplace they do end up finding because they've already found pieces of the plane, like that's washed up in chores in different places. But so they like they know kind of they already have an idea of the area, but it's so huge of an area and so deep that they, you know, it's hard to find it. Finding the black box and that black box actually still getting something from it. Yeah, that would be amazing in itself because that'll be the needle in the haystack for sure. Yeah, I don't even know if a black box should survive the pressure of that. Yeah, I don't think so. Especially the G Force. Can you imagine the impact of that? Crazy. That would have been crazy. Um I mean, that'd be just that'd have scrambled your brains, just the just the G force of going down from that. Let's go around the globe. All right. So this girl started this video and and she she wanted to slip this flight attendant 20 bucks to move into first class. And she couldn't understand why this flight attendant wouldn't just take the $20 and let her sit in first class. She goes, she goes, I don't understand this. What are these these flight attendants? Gatekeepers? A gatekeeper that that why would she just take her $20 and let her sit in first class? Because it was open. There's five seats open. Why? You a cheap bitch. $20? Are you kidding me? You ain't getting up there. $20? Yeah, it's our job. I mean, you need to start putting some uh you know, C notes up there, bud. You're still getting the hell no. And you're still getting the hell no, but $20 for real. No, you're sitting in back. I mean, you might get a snack box. Then you do your dumbass video, and then you get it, you get a thousand and one flight attendants tell you how stupid you are.$20. Stupid. All right. You see the air Airbus had that recall of software. They upgraded over the holiday. You see that? Yeah, that was crazy. I know, dude. I was like, I was like, what? And then they grown grounded them all, but it was all just a software update, glitch, whatever that was going on with it. But good for Airbus to like catch it and like modify it and get a fix to it as quick as possible. Yeah. And no, you know, it had no, it was kind of like a a normal recall in like the auto industry, you know, hasn't had any accidents, no problems, whatever, but they knew this can be a potential. So good for them for doing that because that uh that whether it was inconvenience to the airlines and all that stuff, I'm just happy. Anytime it's gonna improve safety. Did you like do you like Airbuses? Nah, they're not my plane. Okay, I don't like them. So I'm a Boeing guy. So anyway, I just had to throw that out there. Well, I just I don't like Airbus. I don't like like like there's lots of planes out there in the world like that are flown by joystick, and Airbus is that joystick plane, you know? And I'm I'm a video game player player, and like I'm like, uh just like that's just weird to me. Who came up with the idea, Sean, of making one coffee maker brew and the other one won't brew at the same damn time? Yeah, two of them in the back. Now, what freaking rocket scientists put stupid okay. You got two coffee makers, you only allow one to brew at one time, and then you gotta click the other one. One at a time brewing system. But that's a model the model. Like there's other Airbuses that do have double brewing. Still stupid, dumb. Yeah, that's just I'm not a fan. I'm just you know what? Here, here I do I will tell you one thing positive about them. They're they're pretty comfortable to fly on. As a passenger, they're comfortable, except for the only thing the first time I ever flew in them, like I was freaking out. Because all those noises, you're like, Oh, what the fuck? What was that? Yeah, and you're like, are you like, is something wrong with the plane? Right, like it was weird, and when you're sitting over the wings and you're hearing all that shit, you know, all the freaking flaps moving and all that stuff, and you're like, could they dampen the sound on this plane a little bit better? And the ovens in those things are like 90 feet deep, dude. Right? The old ones, the old Airbus it's just a weird place. The ovens just go on forever. Yeah, I don't like them. Well, it's not American made. That's what let's start there. Okay, so we're gonna talk about we're gonna talk about now. Here's funny, we're just getting into this one. So the China built a device that can cut the cables uh carrying 95 of the world's internet, 95% of the world's internet. What uh when you when I was reading this whole thing, yeah, I was like, okay, so who's the genius was like, you know what? I need to invent. Yeah, I need to invent something that will cut a cable to all internet. Yeah. Like you're like, why what who intentionally wanted to do this? Why, like, why was this even invented? Because everybody in the United States will be jacked up. No, why wouldn't they be jacked up? Because it just cut off China. No, but if if you just if you cut our cables, it just cut off China. Yeah. Like, I mean, the internet doesn't work that that way. Like one cable doesn't disable the internet. The internet is this like massive network of technology. That's how like they have that uh you always hear about the um uh what is it, the black, whatever, like what's the word I'm talking about? Like um, you know, the black internet, whatever, the sub-internet, whatever, all that stuff.

G: 57:56

Yeah.

Shawn: 57:56

And you know, like you see on these like movies and stuff, oh, we can't trace them because they're you know pinging all over the place. And that's just it. The internet is so intertwined at this massive net of internet of connections. So like cutting one cable is like so? Okay, well, you you go talk to Spectrum and my shit goes down and everybody else's stuff is up. You should have had Verizon. Haven't you heard it's the number one networking, you know? So this one woman, I love this video. This woman was standing up, she was on this tirade screaming at this flight attendant, and she was saying all kinds of nasty things to her. And then you know that moment when they realize they're being videotaped? Yeah, you know that song that goes, oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no, right? Oh no. She had that look on her face going, Oh my god, I'm the next, I'm the next Karen. I'm it I'm the new YouTube Karen. Yep, I'm the one that's gonna they're gonna start talking about yeah. Yeah, they had thousands of Crayola products have been recycled nationally due to potential to kill or injure children. Do you see that? Yeah, yeah, dude. This is uh crazy. Like, um I was like, Crayola, I mean, Crayola's been in the instant you hear Crayola, the only thing you think about is what? Crayons, crayons, right? But these had nothing to do with the crayons. Crayola made these like little blocks that have magnets in them, and the box, I guess, are so small that like kids can ingest the blocks. And then if you think about it, if a magnet, if you ingest a magnet, that's like super dangerous because it can like attract any piece of metal. And if you have metal in your body, it can you know actually cause you know digestion problems and all this stuff or blockages. And if you car like two of those little blocks, can you imagine that like snapping together inside your intestines or something like that and blocking it? Like lethal. Yeah, like super. Lethal. But yeah, they they immediately recalled these things and then 9,400 uh toy products. So did you hear about uh Joanne Buys? You know that is no Joanne Buyes was uh one of the original Clinton 12. Clinton 12. I just thought this is super interesting because in this all happened in 1956, and it was when schools were being integrated. She just passed away and she was one of the original 12 kids in Clinton, Tennessee, that end up going because of Brown versus Board of Education decision, okay, that had to be bust in, and she was, you know, a black woman that she had to be going in there. And imagine being high school age, and you gotta all of a sudden go into this whole thing. And in 1956, like the KKK was protesting, they were threatened, burning crosses, um, all that like whole it was horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. And just to think about what what these people had gone through, and I I just like that whole generation right there is like passing away, you know and stuff, but it would just I started thinking how far we've come in in the world right now, you know, like it's out there still, but it it was horrible to hear, and and if you really want to like you know, Google this, Google the Clinton 12 and the whole in the this is just one school of many southern schools that were affected, but this was all over the news and stuff. And uh yeah, she just put passed away, but this lady was like, it didn't matter what had happened to her and everything, and she ended up not graduating high school at this Clinton uh high school. They actually her mom was like, We gotta move away, you know, cross is burned on the lawn. This is not good, yeah. And so, yeah, so she went to California and they ended up becoming a nurse and lived her life out and all this stuff, and she always was super powerful and always was like talking about how you know she used to say that uh uh racism is a disease of the heart because it was taught, right? You know, and it's and it's so true about so many things, and I and we you we can get into this whole thing about like politics and you know religion, all this stuff. You only know what you know because you're being taught it, right? Yeah, I mean everybody's into innocent to who's or or actually being guided by somebody in their life that's taught them to be this way, right? You know, and until you actually step outside of that to be able to educate yourself and to see the other side, you don't realize that you're you may be wrong or somebody's told you something wrong. Right, you know, and it's it was just it was just so fascinating. Uh, when it came up, I had to I had to read the whole entire article about what had happened to her and all this stuff, but she just passed away. And um those are the people um years ago that really dealt with that strong racism. I mean, that was you had to have so much strength today. I think a lot of people they'll hide, right? Do you think that they they they they'll they'll hide, you know, and and them there was no place to hide, like going to school. They had to go to school. What do you mean by hide? Well, you know, some people just they they just they'll just use the word. They'll just they'll say whatever it is and call you racist, you know. I mean, they they'll just they'll hide behind a word and it's not really racism, right? Well, I don't know if it's not racism. I'm like, I'm not just gonna be able to do that. No, I'm just saying, I no, I'm not no no no. I'm I'm just saying that some people what you know today compared to years ago, years ago with the KKK and all that, it was bad for the when they went when when they went to school, I mean it wasn't a question, I mean it was bad. Yeah, there was blatant racism happening where it was public. Like but the behavior of the general public in areas of our country, yeah, that was the norm. Like to be a racist was normal. That was my point. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Years ago, whenever they had to go into these schools and they had to do this, it was I mean, the strength that these kids had to have. Yeah. I mean, you know, you think about this, you get you got 10 or 11 kids come from a black community to go to an all-white school that was just racist. I mean, completely racist. It was crazy, you know. Um my wife, she had she got to experience that firsthand. She she went to school in Indiana, right? And they were doing the busing and uh, you know, because it it just like blanketed across America and you know, spread everywhere. But every place was having their experience of it. And even in the north, it was happening in the north at that time and stuff. And she she she remembers like they had to shut down the school. She went to school when they actually told her to go home and she didn't know what was going on. And you know, you know my wife, she's oblivious to right. She doesn't really pay attention to what's happening and stuff. And then she realized, oh, they were like the KKK was at her school and all this stuff because they had started busting all this stuff, integrating the schools. It is a period of history, and that I'm so glad that we are so far beyond that now, and that the world is getting like we've if you look back to where we were right and where we are today, even though there is still racism out there, right, and it isn't so prevalent as far as um you know how it was then. What they had to deal with. That's that was a point that I was making, is that they they walked into these situations and you know they couldn't imagine doing that today. I mean, what these what these young kids did back then and walking into these schools and what they had to deal with, they were brave. I mean, when when you sit there and talk about these people, they are brave. That's true, brave people that were doing what they did. Those kids were it was amazing. Yeah, and their stories are amazing. If you ever sat and talked, I mean, that's one of the reasons I love talking to elderly people, is that their stories uh of their life is is incredible. You just listen to them, you're just amazed at what they did. Yeah, I I could imagine what her story was. That's what I'm saying. Google, Google this um uh the Clinton 12, and uh yeah, Joanne Boyce of the Clinton 12 just passed away, died at 84. Um, but yeah, it's a it's a part of history that people should understand. This really was a reality of the world here in the United States. And we've come we've come a long way. We have a lot more work to do, but uh yeah. I'm gonna check that out because I mean I I love I love history and reading about history, so I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out. But now we gotta talk about before we get out of here. You know who was just ranked number one of the most stressful airports in the entire world? Entire world. I have no idea. Really? Um, tell me Newark. No, yeah, yeah, baby. The unarmpit of the world. Your place. Yeah. Newark is Newark is just a mess. It's your base. I know. That's where it is. That's where it is. That's where I'm at. You you, the international Newark flight attendant. Yeah. All right, man. Give us international, give us the international inspirational quote of the day. Well, here it is. Change is inevitable, but transformation is a choice. And that's perfect. Yep, it is perfect. Exactly what we were talking about, man. Yep. Transformation is a choice. Like, you made it, you might have been taught a lot of stuff in the world and told a lot of stuff in the world, and you need to choose to educate yourself. Yeah. You know? We learn. Right? We learn from history, definitely. Hey, man. All right, brother. Listen, I loved uh I loved your uh your little intro, your song. Yeah. Yeah. Too bad you're not bells. Okay, that was enough. All right, guys. Hey, we listen, we had a great time this week. You guys have a great week. And later. After my buddy gets done singing, we'll be out of here. You guys take care. Later. See you guys. And that's another smooth landing here on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. 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