Holiday Chaos, Airline Wisdom and Drunk Raccoon

Holiday chaos, stadium misadventures, and a house full of colds set the stage for a fast, funny flight through the realities of airline life. We break down the surprisingly tender moments—like a frequent flyer’s familiar smile after 25 years—and the gritty parts travelers don’t see: pets that can’t sit in bulkhead, medical scares triggered by “just in case” motion meds, and the sprinting pajama crowd that misses connections because peak season waits for no one. Add a snack-happy passenger who mistakes row 12 for a buffet and a bathroom break during takeoff, and we’ve got teachable moments with a wink.

We lean into the viral stuff too. Jet2 “holiday” memes that mash cheerful ads with airport meltdown clips. The meme-worthy debate over 100 men vs a silverback. Dogs photobombing proposals at the exact wrong moment. A raccoon passed out by a liquor store toilet after a one-marsupial tasting tour. And those tiny AI face-swaps that make us want to spoof surf scenes and championship reels as we pivot to video. Even the robotaxi gridlock during a city power outage becomes a parable: AI freezes at edge cases; humans improvise and keep rolling.

Then we answer the question we get asked most: why do so many people still want this job? Travel benefits that actually change your life. Reciprocal jumpseats and ID90 discounts. Layovers that turn weeks into Dubai, Tokyo, Manila, and back in time for dinner. Real-world education in culture, food, and empathy. Situational awareness that becomes second nature. Flexibility that lets you stack work and still make space for family, projects, and rest. The downsides are real—long days, jet lag, weekends, holidays on the road—but the stress doesn’t come home with us. The play is the same; the actors change every day—and that’s the magic. Thinking about applying? Keep trying. If you get in, don’t bail before you’re ready. The runway ahead is worth it.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open: Holidays And Sick Households
• 0:41 Welcome Aboard And 2025 Tease
• 1:30 Halftime Shows And NFL Catch-Up
• 4:55 Parking Fiasco And Stadium Experience
• 7:35 Holiday Traditions And Seafood Feasts
• 11:00 Video Is Coming: Show Updates
• 12:02 Candy Roulette: Warheads Regret
• 14:04 Comfort Movies And Griswold Energy
• 18:09 Holiday Flying Realities And Pets In Bulkhead
• 21:36 Medical Emergencies And Motion Sickness Tips
• 24:16 Airport Timing And Frequent Flyer Friendships
• 26:18 Snack Hoarders And Critical Phase Etiquette
• 29:45 Viral 2025: Jet2 Memes, Gorillas, And Dogs
• 34:36 Drunk Raccoon And Tiny AI Edits
• 37:59 Why People Want The Job: Perks
• 44:05 Layovers, Culture, And Situational Awareness
• 49:29 Flexibility, Benefits, And Real Downsides
• 55:16 Don’t Quit Too Soon: Career Advice
• 57:24 Around The Globe: Robotaxi Gridlock
• 1:00:10 Chipotle Brawl And Quote Of The Day
• 1:04:15 Sign-Off And Website CTA

Transcript

Shawn: 0:09

Well, the holidays are over. My house is full of sick people, and apparently my Christmas spirit now lives in an airport lost and found. Well, that's better than my week. I had to explain to a grown man why his dog can't ride in the bulkhead. Sir, if you can't fit underneath the seat, neither can your poodle. Oh, the joys of the friendly skies, where people bring pets, their problems, and apparently their entire pantry. Yeah, shout out to the guy who ordered three snacks, two ginger ales, a coffee, and still had the nerve to ask if the bathroom light meant it was occupied. Welcome back to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G, the only podcast where turbulence is expected, sarcasm is complimentary, and emotional support raccoons are always welcome. Buckle up, folks. We've got a 2025 recap: dogs ruining weddings, a drunk raccoon, and maybe even some life advice. If we call it that, let's climb the cruise altitude. Let's go.

G: 1:30

Should all the acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mine. Are you ready? You got a great voice. You got a great voice. Should old acquaintance. They should have had you at the halftime show. And the days of old hangs on. Did you see Laney at the halftime show? Laney. Yeah. Laney Wilson. No. You didn't see her? Uh-uh. Oh, you know what? At the halftime show for uh what are you talking about? Football. Yeah, what football game? There's a lot of football games out going on. What was Snoop Dogg? The hand game. What was Snoop Dogg out? I don't know because I didn't watch any of it. All right. So which game was that? Do you know? Do you remember? No. Who was playing? No. Nope. Nope. You know why? We don't give a shit. No. But I did watch part of the halftime show, though. Yeah. And she is she's incredible. Laney Wilson? Yep. Yeah. That's cool, man. I love um we we were at that uh speaking about NFL games, we were just at that last Monday night football game. I was thinking about I was sitting here watching it, and you know, I haven't watched the game in a while. Yeah. And and Jackson called. And he was like, Dad, you've got to watch this guy, this old quarterback, right? Rivers. Right, Rivers. And they brought him back at what, 47? He's been gone for five years, retired, like fat and happy on the couch. He was getting ready to go in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Didn't they? He had to rescind that, right? No, no, not rescind it. It resets. Oh, resets. Yeah. Yeah. So what happens is like, yeah, he was eligible coming up and getting ready to just tick that I'm eligible to go in. Right. Now that he goes and plays again, it resets. So now he has to wait that again that another five years or whatever until he's eligible. I was impressed. Yeah, he, I mean, he did a pretty good game and everything. I mean, uh the on the freaking defense on both those teams sucks. Sucked. It was like uh it was an offense freaking frenzy on both sides. Right. But um unfortunately for my wife, her team, and my team lost. But I was thinking about you there though. But yeah, it was it was fun, man. I was looking for you. I will tell you, like, it is the go-to NFL experience for anybody out there. If you haven't done it, you should do it. And it is the when you have an indoor stadium like Indianapolis, wow. I mean, it's such a different experience in the middle of winter, you know. It was cold walking there, and why we had to walk there, that's a whole nother story. Like we we prepaid for tickets for parking because I was thinking it's gonna be crazy, all the stuff, right? So I went on this freaking parking app and bought expensive parking and all the stuff, and I bought it at the JW Marriott there in Indianapolis, right downtown, big old huge hotel. It's not too far from the stadium. And I'm thinking, I got a reservation, I'm good. I come pulling up in this line, I'm waiting, I gotta get into this line. First of all, the entrance where I was supposed to go in, where it took me to, was blocked with cement barricades. That was the first clue inclination that pr things weren't quite right. Yeah. And so then it said, if it's you know, something's wrong, go to the valet, whatever. So I pull up the ballet, and uh he's like, Yeah, we're full. I'm like, Yeah, but I got a reservation. No, we're full. Like, we we don't have a reservation for you. Yeah, that app, that's not that's no good. I was like, What? Damn. It was like it was like 50 bucks. So your your your money's gone? So I was like, so he's like, go around to this one. There's a public court garage over here on this other side, and just tell them the story, and they should let you in and all this stuff. So I go over there and the guy's like, I tell him the story. He's like, bruh, you need to you need to get a refund. You know that. I'm gonna let you in, but uh, you need to get a refund. So he like punches a ticket, give me a ticket, I go in. We end up parking for free. I got a full refund. Like, didn't have to pay anything for parking that night. So it was all good. But it started off like a little very questionable. Yeah, you're like, you were like, dang. I was waiting for the end of it. And I'm like, okay, did you get your money? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He was like, Don't, you know, don't forget to get a refund. Like, this is the parking tent. Like, he was concerned about me getting a refund. And he said, bruh. Yeah, brah. Was he in Indianapolis? Oh, yeah. Bruh. Yeah, yeah. He was a brother. Oh, I got you. I gotcha. Okay. What is the other part about it? You sounded like you sound like like a California brah. Bruh. That wasn't what you were talking about. Bruh, man. All right, I got you. Anyways, so uh then going down there, driving to the freaking game, my nephew, which listens to the show all the time, shout out Cameron. He was hacking and sneezing and coughing the whole way, man. It was like, whoo! Then he was like, then he gets a had you ever known anybody like when they start like like sneezing and coughing and stuff where they make themselves throw up. No. Yeah. My my nephew does this. And like we all like walked like 50 yards in front of him, and he was back behind us, like hacking. So, okay, what's the purpose of throwing up? No, this is how he gets. Like, he gets like um like he gets like coughing and sneezing, and his body, like the how it reacts to this whole like drainage and all this stuff. It's a it's the a very crazy thing. And when when did this happen? Going to the game. Like before we parked. All right, I think. Before the parking adventure. I just want to make sure how close I'm getting to your ass because I'm like, damn it, you're gonna get me all sick. You're getting us all sick, Cam. And Cam, you got one of us sick. Carol got sick. Carol's a little sick up there. She has a little bit of a little bit of inkling. She's fighting through it. She's doing that now? Yeah. Don't touch me. Yeah. She already told me today. She's like, oh, those poor, poor first officers. She's got six days going. I'm thinking of you right now. Not me, man. I'm healthy. Yeah, whatever. You probably all hear these lungs. You're probably a walking virus right now. No worries. No worries. And then the other thing, man. Um do you have traditions, you know, like uh things that you do with your wife on uh like what do you do for Christmas? What's your Christmas day? Same thing, family. I mean, it's a family stuff. Like, who come who comes over with you? Like, is it a media family? Is it just your kids? Is it what? No, it's usually it's usually her side. They come over for uh Christmas Eve. Together for a couple hours, you know, play games, exchange gifts. So it's a Christmas Eve thing, so you guys do it before Christmas and then before Christmas. So Christmas Day? What's that look like? Christmas Day, you know, uh the kids are gone, so really we don't have much on Christmas Day. Uh usually I work because, you know. Yeah, we get bonus pay. We get bonus. Bonus. Yeah, extra. So I'll I'll usually do like a four-durn. I'll I'll get back by like one fifty or two o'clock, and then um then we head over to uh her other side of the family and we go over their house for a few hours. Okay. That's about it. So it's just like family get together and everything. Well, Carol and I, we normally like every holiday is always done before Christmas comes. So by the time Christmas comes, like we've already checked that block on everybody in the family. Sent off packages, we've got together with families in Indiana, like no there's nothing to do but her and I. So we have this tradition that we're on Christmas Eve, we always eat cumpers. Remember, I was telling you about making cumpers last week, that we were making making all these cumpers and and which is these like boiled potatoes and all that stuff. So it has meat in the center and all that stuff, right? So we fry them up for Christmas Eve and we'll sit around, we'll watch a show or something like that, just lay around the house, fireplace going, all that stuff. And then Christmas, we wake up, we ain't got nothing. Like, we ain't like exchanging presents and stuff. We buy our shit when we went on by. So then um I make a big dinner. So we throw down like she likes lobster, I'm a crab guy. So we we do steak, lobster, crab, I do the corn, baked potatoes, like it's it's on. I mean, it's a butterfest. I mean, I know you're licking your chops right now. Yeah. I was thinking more like you know, you know how people have their certain traditions. One of the flight attendants was telling me they go out for Chinese. Chinese, yeah, yeah. Or you can eat Chinese food. Yeah. Everybody has like had these like different traditions. That's what I was asking you. Like, do you guys have because normally like if I don't cook a steak or something like that, like we go to Fleming's. We'd have like a standing reservation, we're gonna go to Fleming's or a nice steakhouse, right? Is that the whole thing? Like, if you don't know what Fleming Fleming's is, it's a nice steakhouse. So yeah, it's it's it's total chill for us. Christmas Day was a seafood fest for you. Not just seafood, we do steak, man. I had fillets, I got the you know, steak and lobster, you know, surfing turf. Yeah. The whole thing. Well, you didn't buy. Yeah, so the new year's we're running it back. I didn't have anything to do for Christmas. I could have came over. I didn't know that. Yeah, you did. You worked. Uh we're eating. When you were working, like you were coming back, we were on eating. Feeling left out. No, that sounds cool. Yeah. The other thing I wanted to talk about too is that you know what? You know what's coming right now. The new year. The new year, and the new year's bringing what? Big changes. Big changes to cabin pressure with Sean and G. Oh, yeah. Because we are going to turn to video. Yeah, we're gonna go, we're gonna go uh semi-live. Right. In the next week, two weeks, tops, none for sure. From now on, it will be video. You can see our ugly mugs. Yeah, you'll be able to see how we um age and uh we're scruffy, we're old. How many bad looks I give Sean? Yeah, the bad looks and the snarl and a sarcasm back and forth, um, the spitting we do. By the spitting. We're not that old, Jet. No, yeah. We might scratch our crotching every now and then. Some of that. Who knows? We're old. That'll be underneath the table, so you're okay. Oh, yeah, you won't be able to see that. No, you're good. You're good. So, anyways, so what's been going on with you, G? Okay, one, well, actually, one, yeah, one word. Your mom had had had sent those. Uh, those were warheads. Warheads. You had the warhead experience. Okay, she had put I'd never had one. You never had a warhead. No. Okay. And you know, I love I love hard candy and all that. Right. So I'm like, oh, I'm gonna try this. It said sour. I'm like, okay, a little bit of sour, but damn. Yeah. They explode. I put it in my mouth. Sourness. You know that look you get, you're like, it's like you just want to scrape it off your tongue. This is where we need video right now. It was horrible, man. I was like, oh my god. You pucker up like a fish or it's like that for the next minute or so. What happened? What was and it's instant. Yeah. It's instant. I mean, it's just right away. Dude, I don't like that shit. Stay away. Stay away. First of all, any candy that's named Warhead. Right. You gotta suspect something. I was I was digging through looking for one of those little pops. One of those little remember those little dum-dums? Dum-dums. Yeah, yeah. Dum-dum, yum, yum. Yeah, I was looking for one of those because that warhead was so bad. Dude, that candy. I've been like kill I killed probably every Tootsie roll in that bag. Like everything I had. Oh we split it. Yeah. So it was like we I was killing that candy this week. I did kill the Tootsie rolls. Yeah. I have to admit. It was good. They were really good. Yeah. All the candy and everything, mom props. It was awesome. Except the war. I think Sean gave me all the warheads. I don't literally honestly. You didn't have any warheads, did you? The mix of candy that was in here, I've never seen a bag of candy like that. So I don't know what she did or like she did a bunch and mixed it all up. You didn't have any warheads. I did have warheads, but did I eat any warheads? None. I ain't stupid. I'm gonna take them downstairs. You know, I'm gonna take them downstairs to the crew room. Yeah, I'm gonna put it down in the dish. Yeah, I'm gonna put them in the dish. Let everybody have some. The kind generosity of flight attendants. It was funny though, you when you're talking about traditions and the holidays. Do you do you watch like certain programs? Yeah. Which ones? Right now, man, my uh show is I love Plurbus and I love F1. No. You're talking about during the holiday should holiday shows holiday shows. There's certain ones that I watch. What do you watch? Do you watch any holiday shows? There's only one really uh that I really like is that the you know um uh what is it that is it Rudolph? Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? I think it's really I'm gonna the old the old claymation things, you know, that whatever, but it's the one about that has Santa in there and uh Yeah, it has Abominal Snowman. Mr. Heat Miser, yeah, Mr. Heat Miser, you know, the land the misfit toys. Nobody wants to be a Charlie in the box. I like that one. Yeah, I didn't see that one this time. Yeah, yeah. Those that's like my one of my favorite ones. Um that's probably all I watch. Like I'm I'm not like I have to watch, like, you know, vacation, Christmas vacation, or any of that tough. But okay, there's there's a have to watch for me. And that well, it's um you you have It's a Wonderful Life. Love that one. Right. Every year gotta watch that one. Classic. Yeah. Uh a Christmas story. Yep. Now a Christmas story it takes me back, you know, when we were kids. It always reminds me of when you was a kid, your your parents would wrap you up in those clothes. Oh yeah. All tight, right? The wonder bags would be put on your feet, tie you up, send your ass outside to do stupid shit. Yep. Right? And we did stupid shit. We always did stupid shit. Right? We didn't have video games, we didn't have anything to keep us inside. So we did stupid shit inside and out. And we didn't even come in. We looked at our fingers and they were frozen and red. Right. Didn't we want to come out? Yeah. You ship her in. Go, you go, Sean. No. You want to go outside again? Yeah. All wet and everything. Yeah. So I love Christmas story because it takes me back every time that that I've seen that one. And uh, like I said, uh uh Chevy Chase. I was watching this again this year. I watched it a couple times, but I started looking at it differently, like, why do I love this so much?

Speaker 2: 16:16

Yeah.

G: 16:17

And I realized this because it's me.

Speaker 2: 16:19

Yeah, it's you.

G: 16:20

It is. Who's you? Chevy Chase? Clark Griswold. Clark, Clark Griswold. Now think about this, okay? You go to your families too. Right. Okay. And this is why it's almost like you can relate relate to Clark. Yeah. Okay, so you start off with the Christmas tree. When you put the Christmas tree, does it always go up right? Uh everything go up perfectly? No. No, shit always goes wrong, right? Yeah. So Clark has a tree, shit goes wrong with the tree. Oh yeah. Okay. So when you come in and then uh and then you you'll have like he puts all the lights on the house. What happened this year with your lights? My lights? Yeah, the garland. Oh, shoot, dude. I'm a like busted a finger doing it. Like that's damn metal garland and shit. That ain't like my fingers, my fingers and my nails were so sore. But with the lights, yeah. The lights were ever I had to replace every light on the whole string of garlands on like four strands. Clark? Yeah. Right? On the lights, had had all kinds of problems with the lights, right? It was it was a nightmare. Okay. So then you have Uncle Eddie. Now, did you when you went to other families? Extended family. Not yeah. Not naming any names. Right. Was there an Uncle Eddie around? Uh no. We don't we don't have quite an Uncle Eddie, but really? You didn't have any Uncle Eddie on your side, anybody's side? No, we got it, we got something different. What's that? It's kind of an opposite Uncle Eddie. What? Like he we got we got like a Scrooge. Or we got like a freaking Grinch. Oh, okay. Like the opposite. Like he's coming in, hey! You know, like we don't got one of those. Okay, well, congratulations. We got we got an Uncle Eddie. So you have that, you go there, then you see the grandparents. Oh yeah. There's always some grandparents that food's fine out of their mouth. Oh, dude. Right? Talking loud. Yeah. I don't like watch old people eat, man. Putting their finger into something. Dude. Right? Just all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You get that too? Yep. There's a dog named Snotz. Snotz. Right? So you you look around there and and everybody's got a dog. Yep. Dogs run around sniffing on everything. Oh yeah. Wants a piece of everything. Yep. Right? Clark goes up into he goes up into the attic and he's he's trying to hide the presence. Now have you ever during the holidays, you started doing something, you started doing something else, you completely forgot the hell you were doing. Yeah. Oh yeah. And then you start doing something. That's a daily event. Right. But then you start doing whatever it is, and you completely forgot what you're doing. I think he did it twice today already. Clark's upstairs in the attic watching old movies. Right. Because he's stuck up in the attic. So I realized this Christmas vacation, the reason why I live this. You relate to it. No, I live it. You live it. Every single year. Because nothing, nothing goes right. Right. Nothing goes right. You start the holidays. Okay, when you start the holiday season off, you're thinking, okay, it's the holidays. You get the tree out and all pain in the ass, and you garland, pain in the ass, all that stuff, right? Well, then I had an issue with the water softener right at the beginning of the holidays. I've been dealing with that, right? Any house problems during the holiday, like any of that type of stuff, garbage puzzle, you know, lights, whatever, like anything like that is just a pain in the ass. In the holiday season, though. Because like you need one more thing to add to all the stuff you have to do. That's why I said Clark. Yep. I'm I I'm gonna get a shirt that says I'm a Griswold. You're a Griswold. Yeah. That's what it felt like. I mean, I that's why I love that. I I absolutely love that movie. Movie because I can relate to it every single year. Yep. Every single year. Shit happens. Yeah. So then we had we had the holiday travel. So I've been flying back and forth uh down the Florida all week during this holiday. Okay. It has been absolutely crazy. But this is this is one thing I don't think that people know that travel with their animals. So I had to make a point about this. Um so people can't travel with their normal animals in a bulkhead seat. Yeah. And there's a reason, right? Exactly. The animal has to go under the seat. Okay. There's no under the seat. Right. So we had we had uh passengers up in first class, they were sitting at one ENF. Now there's only one exception to that, too. Because people get on a plane and do see that. But there is one exception. Service animal. Yeah. Yeah. If it's a service animal. If it's a service animal. But this isn't there, they're in a kennel. But they have to go underneath the seat. No one, no one would move. They didn't want to move. Yeah. So finally I got to. And it's the holidays. Happy holiday. So I went to those the people that were in 4 ENF, and I'm like, look, would you guys move? Because we're not getting out of here until the they're like, okay, we'll move. So as soon as they moved, I told them, I'm like, I'm going to give you guys compensation. Make sure you get compensation for moving. The lady in 3E or A and B was like, Well, why do you tell us there was going to be compensation? No. We're not incentivizing you to be have bad behavior, bitch. Are you kidding me? I told her that's what we would want to say to him. No, I told her I said it was the goodness out of your heart first. Yeah. Yeah. We were looking for the kind people first. Exactly. It was it was funny you said that because that's exactly what I said. I said it was the goodness out of your heart first, compensation came second. Right. So yeah, so we compensated them. Yeah. And normally, and everybody should know this, like normally, if you help a flight attendant out in any way, we're gonna help them like any way, you're gonna get taken care of. We are. I mean, we're not we're not like uh we we want to make our job as easy as possible, but I mean when you're not willing to you know assist when need those or needs arise, whatever the situation is, and then you ask afterwards, well, you didn't tell me about compensation. Exactly. I want something. That might be the video where the the lady gets slapped into place. So I'm always shut up. I'm down. I'm two for two the last two days in medical emergencies. Oh, really? Yeah, dude. Yeah, two of them two for two together. Yeah, you're on a roll. You got one more coming. Two for two. The guy's guy's heart rate. Uh you know, I got his feet elevated. He was he was getting lightheaded today, and had his feet elevated, um, brought his heart rate, got his heart rate back down, and thought, well, we'll just sit him up, see if see his heart rate started going back up. Yeah. And I was asking him, did you take any meds or anything? And he was like, first, he said no, and then I found out he had taken dramamine. Oh yeah. So, you know, his heart rate was jacked up. Jacked, yeah. So um, yeah, had his feet elevated. Every time I I I brought him back up, his heart rate would jump back up over a hundred. And finally I was like, okay, I called medicals. I because I told him I was like, I'm calling a doctor. Because you every time I bring you up, your heart rate's going up. Yeah. So they came back, same thing, though. They said the same thing. It was it was the uh the medication. So I just wanted to give like an F little FYI. If you are if a person that you don't experience like um uh any type of motion sickness, don't take that. Yeah, don't take it. Because I mean, this guy ended up on the floor for the next 30 minutes. Yeah, if you don't need it, you don't don't take it. Just don't take it. Yeah, because I mean I like get sick. I have been sick in motion sickness and like on boats and uh very rarely in a plane. I think only once in my life on a plane, but it's because I was sick, though even before. And so but taking dramas or taking some medicine like that uh when you don't need it, you know, like just in case, that's not good. Right. And and okay, here's the other thing. Uh today, running, you should have seen how many people were running to their gates in the airports, in their pajamas? No, just running. Their asses were late. There's so many people misconnected this morning, Sean. I mean, 20 people misconnected to Newark because they they didn't make it through security. Uh, even we talk about this all the time. Nobody listens. You guys got to go to the airport, especially during the holidays, you gotta go early. Yeah, in peak seasons, like people aren't, everybody's flying. Yeah in the news, like everybody everybody tries to get the information out there. It's gonna be a heavy travel season. There's millions. From last year to this year, there's gonna be this schedule. You know, like everybody tries to give you a heads up. And if your ass is late, you're gonna miss it. There was a bunch of them that were late. I mean, I watched them run down the terminal this morning. Uh, there was also a gentleman that I've known for 25 years. His name was Gowrie. He was an Indian gentleman, hadn't seen him for a while. It was so nice. That's one of the great things about our job. Um, I've come in contact with so many really cool individuals over the years, and Gowrie has never changed. I've probably known him probably at least 25, maybe even 28 years. Um, and I see him all the time. I see him on the on the Tampa flight. It was so nice to see him. He's never changed. He's got this, he's got this phenomenal personality. He is probably one of the most elite members that we have. Yeah. And he he never changed. Always always got this big smile on his face, and it was so nice to see him before the holiday. Our frequent flyers come on, man, and they're like, it's almost like family, you know. You get to see family. It's just like us seeing the other flight attendants we haven't seen for a while. We see them on board. It's like, hey, how you been? Yeah. We give hugs, you know, all that stuff. It's uh it's fun. Gowry, I mean, like I said, he he is such a cool individual, but it was so nice to see him on the Tampa flight. Had this other family. Now, I don't you like I know you do. You love messing with people. Oh, yeah. Anytime I can. Yeah, walking through, talking trash, taking trash, talking trash, taking trash, taking in, talking in. That's what I'm talking about. You love, I mean, we absolutely love messing with people on the plane. So had a I love when just like going down the aisle when I'm saying that, and people are like start giggling. Yeah. They find like they take some a little bit before they understand what I'm saying. Right. Takes the edge off sometimes. Kind of open up conversations. Well, they they they had a family, and the dad, the dad was like, hey, um, can I have like three snacks and two cups of uh ice and then two gingerels and a coffee? Now this was all for him. I looked at him, I was like, Did when you walked in, did it say golden corral? Yeah. Because you sure as shit thought this was all you could eat. Yeah. I don't get it. He was so funny though. I know. We we actually, I mean, we were we were dying laughing because we we were just joking around. He goes, I he goes, I guess I did ask for a lot, didn't I? Yeah. You're a little needy right now. Yeah, just a little bit, but it's a holiday. I'm just pointing it out. All right, last one. Guy comes to the back, and one of our flight attendants, we'd just taken off, and we're probably like not even four minutes in the flight, and he goes to the bathroom. The flight attendant nicely stands up and tells him that you shouldn't be up because it's not safe. Sure. So condescending remark thinks because she's a female, he can say, Really? Is it that dangerous? I gotta pee. And he just walks into the bathroom. Yeah, I can't let him get away with that. Yeah. So I wait for him when he came out of the bathroom. And I just nicely told him, Hey, listen, to answer your question, yeah, it is dangerous. It's called critical phase of flight. And you were up during that critical phase, which made her get up and put her in jeopardy too. So the next time you want to sit down with seatbelt signs on. So he went back to take his seat. He just looked at me and sat back down. When I came up there with the bar cart, this is what's amazing because some people, when you do put them in check, right? Yeah. Because some of us need to be put in check every once in a while. Totally. Even me. I mean, you know, someone needs to be put in check every once in a while. We're not all paying attention. Yeah. Right? And so when I went up there, he looked at me and he goes, I want to apologize. And I said, What for? And he goes, because I was kind of an idiot. Yeah. And I said, Well, you were. But I, you know something? I can appreciate your apology. But it's not to me, it's to her.

Speaker 2: 28:38

Yeah.

G: 28:39

So you need to apologize to her because you were condescending to her. I I just heard you and I just wanted to straighten, you know, your thought process out because that was just ridiculous. Don't get up on critical phase of flight. You're gonna get hurt. Well, and and you don't understand too the other thing is that like like most flight attendants aren't gonna jump up and uh say something to you as far as like if it's in critical phase of flight, we're not gonna like put our lives in jeopardy. But for those overly caring flight attendants that are especially new, they do that. Yeah, you know, like they think that their job is to be, you know, they have to do that. We don't have to do that. Our companies tell us we don't have to put ourselves in if it's an unsafe situation, that's where you will hear announcements like you know, a call bell during the critical phase of flight, we just take off. Is like if this is an emergency, ring your flight attendant call button again, right? You know, and so because we're not gonna put ourselves in that situation or try not to, but I mean, people gotta realize, you know, and also be attentive to the time. That's a bad time management. Take a piss before you get on a plane. I just don't understand. I I don't understand, you know, as far as like the um saying something to someone like that. I don't understand. Well, you know how to be conscious. You don't talk, you don't like you don't have to talk like that. No, not at all for for no reason. Hell no. So thought we'd do like a little recap for 2025. Some fun, some fun things that that happened in 2025. 25 things that are stupid crazy in 2025. Did you have you seen that jet two holiday? No, but I just kind of recently saw some of it. And that's you too can have a jet two holiday. They had this it was this it was this ad that went out, and what they did is they did a meme behind the ad. And it just happened to be a lot of a lot of those memes behind it was like travel. Yeah. So like when when shit would go down in an airport, they too they said you too could have a jet 2 holiday, and it shows this woman came in out, coming out with like this fire extinguisher, blowing everybody away with it. Yeah, so to make this funny, and if you don't know what jet two, because I didn't know what jet two was, it was it's an airline out of uh England, and they had these funny little commercials and they have these little peppy attitudes where like you too can go on a vacation, you know. It's like being very like energetic and all this stuff, but they flipped it and took this the audio to it and put it to like you know, people doing stupid shit, like fighting at the gate or uh getting drunk off the plane, or they've got some of the best little videos, and they're all out there. You you had to see Jet 2 Holland A. Yeah, and if you didn't look it up, it's it's actually really funny. Yeah, it it is funny because um there's some funny crap out there, but it it's it's their real announcements, like their commercial announcements of like them trying to promote themselves, but then it's all the bad shit that's happened. And there's a lot of stuff with the airlines, yeah. The girl coming on the jet bridge, like shooting off the fire extinguisher is hilarious. They got they got one where the girls actually swinging poles from the podium. Right? I mean, anything, anything that happens in an airport is gonna do be a jet two holiday. Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of like you know, everybody tries to be uh sarcastic and like you know swing a uh a slogan or something back. I mean, how many times have you seen like the the friendly skies being slammed, right? Right. That happens all the time. So yeah. Jet 2 holiday. Yeah. They had another one, a hundred men versus a gorilla. Did you see this one? No, but that sounds crazy because I'm telling you right now, I'm not the first motherfucker. Could a hundred men, could a hundred men, I was just I was thinking about this. Could a hundred men take a gorilla? I think you know what it is, like if they could find like um those hundred guys that were driving that boat across the Gulf, um, and they can those idiots can go and try to fight a gorilla. Yeah, because I ain't I'm thinking the recruiting part of this. So, okay, you got a hundred of these guys, you know, lined up. Yeah and then you're like, okay, you got your uh you got everybody got their money. Yeah, you got your money for this. What we're gonna do is there's a hundred of you guys, and uh there's gonna be one silver bat gorilla, and we're gonna see if you guys can take the gorilla. Now we believe that you guys can, but we want to see uh show of hands who's going in first. We got medics on the side just for in case you get bit. What a great conversation that was, right? Could you imagine just looking at each other? I mean, the sheer numbers, it's it, you know what it reminds me of too is like those zombie movies. Right. Like you always think Oh, you can need this, like you can you can take them all, you know, just kill them all, boom, boom, boom, boom, right? And all this stuff, and then it doesn't matter because the sheer numbers are gonna overwhelm you eventually. You know, you're gonna take something out, maybe a lot about, but eventually they're gonna get it. It would be the one time, Sean, if I was in the group of hundred, um, I'm I got your back. I got your back. Literally, I'm like 99. I got your back. I'm 99. Brother. I'd be 99. There's no way. Any other time but a gorilla? Silver back looking at you like, yeah, bring your ass. I'm on King Congress. The funny thing is, like, the gorilla's like scratching his head after he's gone through like 95. And those last five dudes are right there looking at him. Yeah, I'm looking at my watch. You gotta go. I kind of timed out. Wait, my mom's calling. Yeah, gotta leave. No. There ain't no way. This one I love. 2025 was the the year of dog pooping at weddings. Poop. Poop. Dude, they were they were poop crushers. That one, that one dog, the guy was proposing, and they're like, oh, this is the most magical moment. Not one, there's many. I know, but that that one, it was it was the most magical moment. You see the dog just all arched up pooping. And the person that's filming it is not like they don't even have the like wherewithal to like zoom it in, like to like take the dog out of the picture or anything. No, it's just like that wide shot. Full dog lays a dump right there in the middle as they're like, he's getting down on one knee. 2025 with the dog pooping. Yeah, or the or the dog that was on the beach where the he runs in, like he's filming the whole thing, and all of a sudden he just has his shot and it's the moment everything, and the dog runs into the corner of the picture, and like gotta go. You just see poop poop just shooting out of the ass. He's like, Yeah, gotta go. Here's my spot. I love that. That is a true photo bomb. 2025, man, the year of the animal. Canine photobomb. Oh, this one was great. The raccoon, the drunk raccoon. The drunk raccoon. That Virginia liquory store. Dude. I'm sorry if a raccoon butts in. Have you ever seen like raccoon damage, like anything? Have you ever experienced that? They'd tear shit up. They tear shit up. My buddy, he has a uh he bought his place down in Atlanta uh area there on a lake, and he bought a brand new pontoon boat, and the first night they like pull it in, park it at the dock and everything. They had a cover, it's all brand new. Morning they wake up, all the cushions are ripped. Ripped, torn up, like dog just tore apart. Damn raccoon. This raccoon was. But this raccoon got into the the liquor store and started busting busting bottles and just drinking it up. Yeah, lapping up the moonshine. Yeah. The opening picture to the story was the raccoons in the lab, like flat face, spread eagle on the floor. That was the best. He was he was passed out by the toilet. Passed out by the toilet. I mean, you could have been passed out anywhere else in that whole place, right? I mean, you destroyed the whole liquor store and you're flat out by the toilet. Do you suppose he like he got sick and he went to the toilet and tried to throw up? Oh, what's this? I gotta throw up, man. I gotta throw up. Shit. I ain't gonna make it. That was Marty.

Shawn: 37:01

Marty ain't gonna make it. Where are you at? Help me.

G: 37:04

You're the animal. That was good. All right. Did you okay? Nana, nano banana. Did you see these like tiny AI? That was so funny. I want to do that this year. I wanted to do that. Like nano banana, like like you put you into wherever. You can like go into any movie or whatever and put yourself in there. I want to do that with us. Yeah. Like do some do some videos like that. Stupid ones. Yeah. Stupid videos, just having fun. Goofing out. Me and you like bad mitten champions, right? Put some pictures in there. Hey, we'll hey, we'll put them on some surfboards too.

Shawn: 37:41

Yeah, yeah.

G: 37:42

I mean, it looks it it does. The AI does such a good job of replacing the faces and all that stuff. It's unbelievable. You guys gotta check that out. That is nano, nano, but nana tiny AI edits. That was so funny. But the best one I think of 2025 reaction. If I if I could say any one out of all the little videos I've seen was the Cold Play Kiss Cam. Oh, that was brutal. You're like dancing. Woo, yeah. Got it, got, oh damn. Yeah. Dude. He shrunk down. Talk about the snag of the century, right? The dude like he can't like lost his family, got divorced, lost his job. Like, I mean, but the video, though, I'm not talking about that. I mean, that shit happens every day. I'm not talking about I'm talking about the video. The guy was like dancing, like, yeah, I'm gonna have a good time. Can't oh right. Oh, damn. Hide wait, fuck. That's like those guys that are at like these sporting events, and the kiss cam gets on, they're like, oh yeah, uh my sister, man. It's my sister. Speaking about that, they had at the game when we were at, they had a kiss cam, you know, so they were going around and everybody's like, Oh, I'm on I'm on the jumbo trend and they're kissing, right? And this one gal literally just like flipped out this big ass tongue and licked the whole side of her this dude's face. It was so nasty. I was like, and they kept going back to her and she'd licker him again, and he'd just be sitting there. I don't know if I'm watching that one. You didn't he didn't have a choice, it was on the dumb jumbletron right there in front of you. You'd already been sh shot. Those are I I love those Jumbatron shots. They're hilarious. The funniest thing that they do at that game, those games, is that they the now I know the Colts do this, um, but they have these little kids draw a picture of a player and then they get the team to guess who the player is that was drawn. It's funny shit. I have not seen that. Like, I mean, uh yeah, yeah. It's like you know how a kid draws a picture, like stick person with like maybe you have beard, facial hair, something like that. They make big giant angle like this. Yeah. So they're trying to long locks are hanging out. That'd be an easier way. We're trying to figure out who so they're everybody's trying to guess who this picture is. Um the person, and then the last person always in the film is the actual guy, you know.

Shawn: 40:15

Oh, that's me.

G: 40:19

It's it's awesome. All right, man. Now 2025, to end this thing. Um, last week we were talking about uh one of the airlines had their um had their site up for 38 minutes for job of being a flight attendant, and and they had to shut it down because they had 5,000 applicants. I want to talk about this year about why so many people want to do this job. Yeah. And what are the upsides and the downsides to being a flight attendant? Because we've been doing it for so long. I know. And I just finished like December 13th was 36 completed 36 years. Right. And I'm coming up on 39. I've got 38. I'm coming up on 39. Yeah, when's your anniversary? Um, it is June. June. I it's like in June. So it'll be like 30. I start 39, 39 years in June. But why so many people want to do this job? I mean, you know, we when we started, we had no idea about the airline. I I didn't have any idea about the airline industry. Dude, that was stupid, young, and had lots of testosterone. I know we definitely did that. There was, it was just I had no idea what I was getting into. Nor had he even like for me, I had no desire to even be a flight attendant. It was like I just it just dawned on me one day. I was like, oh, you know what? Oh, my girlfriend does it. Maybe I could do that, it'd be cool. We could fly together. That'd be oh yeah, you think about it more, and the more you think about it, oh yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. Not thinking about any of the other stuff that goes with it. No, like I mine was like a convention center full of women, but that would have been it right there. Yeah. I mean, so but why do other people want to do it? Dude, the travel benefits, right? Travel benefits. I mean, when the number one thing that people talk about when they talk about being a flight attendant is the reason is the benefits. Yeah. The number one benefit is travel. What's the what's so cool about it is like when you're when you're talking to somebody else, and I was talking to somebody this uh last weekend, and I was telling them my schedule for this next month, and I was like, Yeah, this weekend I'm going to Dubai, and then uh the following week after that, I'll be in uh uh Tokyo, and you know, and then that when you tell people that they can't process that. No, they're like, I what you're doing, like how's that happen? Right. Like that, and then they're like, you know, and you tell them like the story, like, oh yeah, yeah, how long's that flight? Oh, that flight's uh you know, that's a 17-hour flight. Oh man, you gotta work for 17 hours? Like, you know, like they have no concept of what we how we do our job. Well, on Christmas Day when we went over to uh her family's, they're like, Oh, uh have you flown lately? And I was like, Yeah, this morning.

Speaker 2: 43:20

Yeah.

G: 43:21

And they're like, What? I'm like, Yeah, when you guys were asleep and your ass was asleep, and I was flying down to Florida, and then I flew back and I was back by 1.50 in the afternoon. I already done that flight. They can't even fathom that. They have no, they have no idea what what our lives are like. But the number one thing that we talk about is travel, the travel benefits, right? It's the benefit to being able to get on an airplane, walk to an airport. I mean, walk in an airport and choose a destination, because me and you used to do this when we were young. When we were young, we used to have to write our destination on a ticket. Remember that? Yeah. We had a like a the old credit card and you slide it back and forth on the credit card slider and embossed onto like the whatever the what's that stuff called, that uh uh blue carbon the carbon copy gate. That's what I'm I was trying to get. The carbon copy stuff. And we used to have to have multiple. We had like five or six tickets, and then you slid it across, and then you'd have to write in your destination where you wanted to go, city codes. You had to go. Me and Sean would just show up at an airport, and we then we just wrote in where we were. Yeah, where you want to go. Okay, you just walk to a gate. Where do we even go? Oh, yeah. Let's go here. Yeah, we'll go there and just write it in. And then uh, oh, that one's full. Just mark that out and go right this other one in. Here we got it. We in a different city. But we used to just walk up to the gate and we could go. Now you have to you have to do a little bit more, you have to list yourself on flights, you check them. But it's the travel benefits of being able to just go to an airport. And the other part of this is, and we're talking about the pri travel, your family. Yeah. So if you have family, your family gets to travel too. Family gets to travel, or spouse gets to travel, kids, parents, significant others get to travel. Like you don't even have to be married. No. You know, you get if you're connected to us, we can give you travel benefits. Yeah. You know, like so it's uh yeah, it's it's awesome. So number one, the number one reason people want to do the job, travel. Okay, that's that's number one. Now let's add on to the travel. So as a flight attendant, as a flight attendant, you you can also jump seat on other airlines.

Speaker 2: 45:26

Right.

G: 45:26

Another benefit. So if you can't get on your own airline, you can go to another airline, jump on theirs, and they can jump on ours. Reciprocal cabin agreement. So we have agreements so we can just go flying ourselves. Now the family can't, but the but you as a crew member can. Yeah. Okay. So another thing is But we can also fly uh airlines for discounts, other airlines for discounts. So we have the ID 90 rule where it's like a 90% discount off the ticket type of thing. Yep, you can. You can do you, there's a lot of discounts for flying. Yeah, and we can bring family with that. Yeah, you can. And then uh another one is independence. So if you're if you're not an independent person, you become one very quick in this job.

Speaker 2: 46:07

Yeah.

G: 46:08

Because you're you're thrown out to the wolves. Well, it can be a lonely job too. Like at times, like there's been times when I'm on a layover when I was younger, I was like, damn, I'm lonely. I don't got nobody here. I get that. But it's not a good thing. But then like the next section, I was like jumping on top of a speaker dancing. But you know, that's when a flight and chin does stay on track. I am so you get you get this strong sense of independence, which they you they develop in this job.

Speaker 2: 46:38

Right.

G: 46:38

Because like I said, you get thrown out in the woods. You're out there, sometimes you're at an airport, you and you're not with a crew.

Speaker 2: 46:44

Right.

G: 46:44

You get thrown out there by yourself, and you gotta go find out where the hotel picks up. You have no idea. Some of these cities is crazy, isn't it? Oh, it's hella crazy, man. I mean, there's so many times where you like like you are left by yourself, so you're not traveling with a whole crew. So that's another dynamics to this job that's people don't understand. Like you're navigating all by yourself. So everything they taught you, you're by yourself to like put it all together and get from point A to point B and get yourself to the transportation and read the instructions and all that stuff. But have you ever got on the wrong hotel? Um, I don't I've never done the wrong hotel. Because you know, like in Newark, how they have Newark, the Elizabeth, and all that. I stepped onto the wrong bus before, but I never stepped on and got to the wrong hotel. Like I figured it out. Oh, wait, wait, I'm on the wrong bus. No, I got I went to the wrong hotel and it was Newark because the way Newark is with all their marriottes and everything. Yeah. Wrong damn hotel. I had to come back to the airport, big pain in the ass. But you it it you develop this strong sense of independence, even if you didn't have it, because you have to you're thrown in all these different uh circumstances. And even the morning time, what we just told you, too, you're you're by yourself and you come back, you gotta figure out what time you got to be back at the um the airplane. Yeah, and to meet your other crew and and you gotta be there on time. Other part of it is the layovers. Layovers are phenomenal. You get to go all these different cities, these different countries, and like Sean was just saying, um, they can't fathom, okay, tonight I'm going to Dubai. Yeah or I'm going to Beijing. Right. Right? Yeah. Taipei. Yeah. I'm going to uh Manila. Yeah. Right. Going to Australia. Right. New Zealand. Guam. Yeah, you don't the people don't can't comprehend that you're just going there for this little short period of time because most people think that when they go somewhere, you go there and you're there for a while and then you're going to come back. Right. And sometimes we get that type of layover, depending on like how far it is and the frequency of our flying schedule with whatever airline you're with. But but most of the time it's just usually fly down there, you've got 24, 36 hours, whatever, to oh, go out and see the see the place a little bit and get you know get a taste of their food and hop back on the plane and come back. That's the other part of it, right? The different cultures that you get the experience, the different foods, which we love. Dude, the one thing being a flight tenant, that you get exposed to every culture. Yep. I mean, the only ones that you don't are the ones that are like in the Amazon forest that don't use planes. Like, you know, like everybody and anybody that you know will get on a plane, all different cultures. And it's interesting how they when they all mix. Yeah. Well, you get to experience things that most people they'll see it on the news. We get to see it firsthand. Yeah. Now that's that's the same thing in the cities. Because we talk about this all the time. Even when the problems in in these cities that you get to see on the news, we get to experience them firsthand with even the homeless in cities. Because we see these different things that happen in our own. Yeah, we get to see the real story. And a lot of people don't understand that. They only see what is on TV. Yeah, what the TV, what the news is showing you. Yeah. Right. And so when you go to these different countries and you see, like I used to see in Manila, these poor kids that that um are starving on the streets, it's sad. I mean, it you get to see what goes on in in this world. Dude, it's it's you get to see the the lows and the highs. You get to oh your eyes are opened. I mean, truly open. The one good thing that comes out of this job, though, after as years go by, is that our awareness, our situational awareness is like the best. Period. I won't tell I would tell you, if you're in a room with the flight attendants, we can read people or read rooms like nobody's business. Like you can know when something's wrong with somebody instantaneously, where other people would be just like ignoring it and not intentionally, just they're just not aware. Right. Like we are so attuned to the behavior of people, people, and cultures, and that's something that like you grow and learn in time, but you know, old flight attendants, we know. Yeah. Especially when you've been around the job a long time. But it's also the appreciation because for me, there's nothing normal about our job. No, I love that there is absolute somebody asked me this the other day, and they're like, What do you love about it? And I said, There's nothing normal about what I do. It's different every day. There's nothing normal about it. And I I absolutely love that because um I remember being on the the top of a hotel in Chicago on one of the treadmills, and I looked across at a high-rise, and all these people were in these cubicles. And I watched them for a couple hours as I'm doing my cardio, and nobody moved. Yep. They had their lunches there, they were at their computers, and the only thing that they had was the for excitement was that window washer that comes once a month. You and I can never do that job. And I thought any of those jobs in 30 years I'd be jumping out that window. Yeah, there's no way. You know, and they sold it as being you get you get a view of the city. Well, that view would be my end because I jumped right out of that damn window. So there's nothing normal about what we do, which is I absolutely love it. Flexibility of your schedule is crazy good. You can decide what you want to do. Like we just got done, and I just ran over here. I flew, I flew this morning, came over here and did the podcast.

Speaker 2: 52:15

Right.

G: 52:16

I mean, we have the flexibility to do anything we want with our lives. So that's that's my beauty of this this whole entire thing. Like, they sold me when I first got this job was like, you know, as you get more senior, the how longer you stay with the job, the more control your schedule, the more flexibility, the more you have total control of whatever you do. And that's pretty much how it is. I mean, you can do whatever you want, and you make the time to do whatever you want with your life. Now, here's the here's the big part of this health benefits, yeah. Retirement, retirement, vacation accrual. Oh yeah. Day your days off, which is huge. Any any day off you want, really. You have, I mean, as a new hire reserve flight attendant, you have a minimum of 12. Right. That's a nurse working a double. Oh yeah. Okay, yeah, so you have a minimum of 12 days off. And you have in and developed in in this job transferable skills. Tons of them. Tons of them. That you learn you learn in this in this job. Yeah, the teamwork, the customer service, the situational awareness we always talked about. Yep. You know, all those different types of the leadership skills, your uh all your uh ability to be uh uh a leader and um and take control of any situation, like you, it doesn't matter how introverted you are as a flight attendant or how like extroverted you are, any one of us can take control of the situation, right? Yeah. There's one thing that I that I say all the time about this job is the play is the same, the actors are different. Sure. That's the one thing about our job, right? The play is the same. The flight, it's just a flight, it's a service, the actors are different every single day. Yeah, but the actors are different because all the people that we get on the plane are different, different actors. That's it. But it's exactly the same play every day. Now, the downside long hours, long days. Jet lag on your feet, right? Yeah, on your feet all day, dealing with people, locked in a tube, you're locked in a tube. You're you spend a lot of holidays alone. You're working working weekends. That's funny because here it is 38 years, right? I'm still this is this is how senior our base is. I am still working weekends. Yeah. After 38 years. Now I can go anywhere else. But by choice. I know that's why I just I just said that because of where I'm based, yeah. And how senior our base is, right? That I'm still working uh weekends, but if I went anywhere else, right? You didn't have to. Well, I mean, you you you're senior enough to have weekends off. I'd be going to Beijing. Everybody's listening to this is like, hell no, Gary. You can work, you work any day you want to work. Don't give me that shit. You work on weekends. You work here because you want to. I work every day. You work every day. During the weekend, he works every day possibly. But I hold the weekends. I don't hold during the week. If this airline we work for was named Turnip, that motherfucker's bleeding. I'm telling you right now, because he's squeezing it hard. No kidding, man. I will I will drain it. Is draining every ounce of juice he can get out of this place. I will drain it. But you know, that's the best part of this thing, too. And I'll tell you this before we move on. The best part, I say this a thousand times. You can make as much the independence is so phenomenal with this. It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, okay? You don't need anyone in your life because you have that medical benefits. You have the retirement, the vacation recruitment, every benefit anybody needs everything that you need, okay? Yourself supporting. It's the most self-supporting job that there is. I will tell you that that you know, when you're talking about benefits, like and we're only like scraping this the top layer of the benefits. The benefits here, there is no other job that has more benefits than us. No, there's zero. No. I can't think of one. And I challenge anybody out there, the you know, contact us. Tell us a job that has more benefits than we have, because there's not a type of insurance out there. There's not a type of like we are not like all this stuff that's going on with the insurance in the world right now here in the United States, we don't care. We got insurance. Right. We got we got insurance, we got every type of insurance, health, cancer, uh, longevity, you know, like you we got everything. It's unbelievable. Yeah. Everything. So that those benefits of this job is just amazing. And there's and you know the other part of this too is that we see everyone else that does every other job on the airplane. And trust me when I'm telling you, the money to me is not worth it.

Speaker 2: 57:03

Right.

G: 57:03

Because the hardest thing I have to do every day is get up and take a shower. Right. And show up. That's all I gotta do. Because I don't take any stress to or from the job. Yeah. That is the that is one big positive that we probably should have threw on a positive list. Right. Is that this as much as it can be stressful at the job, yeah, the distress doesn't come home with us. No, left at the door. Ever. I mean, we might have a fun conversation about what happened, but I don't I don't take shit with me. Yeah. Nothing. I'm snoring at night. Right.

unknown: 57:39

Exactly.

G: 57:39

You did not hurt my feelings because you called me a name. That's right, right? You can call seriously, I've you know, we both said that. You can call us whatever you want, just don't touch me. Yeah, don't touch me. That's it. No touchy touchy of the nice flight attendant. Right. That's it. And everything else is good. I don't care. I mean, you can you can say whatever you want. You're going to human resources, man. All right, but no, seriously, though, you know, that's the reason why 38 minutes, 5,000 people, and it was shut down, and a lot of people were really bummed because they didn't get in.

Speaker 2: 58:15

Yeah.

G: 58:16

And it's one of those things that if you guys, if you're listening and it's something that you want to do, don't give up. Just because you missed it the first, second, or even third time, hey, it might be the fourth time. And and let me tell you this before we move on. If you're fortunate enough, and I say fortunate enough because if you know the process of hiring a flight attendant is a long process to get in. And if you're fortunate enough to get in, don't ever be dumb and leave until you're ready. Right. Because it is one of the best careers that there is. We've seen that so many times. We've seen friends of ours that have like left stupid and then regretted it. Then they try to come back. Some of them do come back, and then they, you know, regretted that they'd come back and stuff like that, and whatever choices they've made and stuff. But I mean, honestly, don't leave until you're ready to leave. So, anyways, let's go around the globe, man here, real quick. We don't have a lot of root around the globe, but uh the big one that happened this week was uh that that kind of put on my radar was the big power outage in San Fran. That shit was funny. I'm sorry, but that was so funny. Those electric cars that just stopped and started blocking all that, all the all the traffic. It didn't know what to do. No, they didn't train it for that. Exactly. Wait a minute. No stop sign, no light. What am I supposed to do? Imagine all the honking. Hey man, it's not me, it's a damn electric car. Yeah. All these people are probably honking at you, and here it is, it's that damn electric car in front of you that's not moving. Dude, you're not thinking about the guy that's in the damn electric charge stuck in the light. That's true. Well you see how does it go? Let go. Let's go. Can you get out? Yeah, you can get out. Okay. Like backup batteries. But yeah. That It's funny because you know, like all this atom autonomy of uh cars and all this stuff, they they are happening everywhere fast. Like you can go to these different cities, like New Orleans and Phoenix and San Jose and Freak, like it they're happening. LA, like they're everywhere. And th they just, you know, they they can't know everything. That's that's the thing about AI. Like AI is good to a certain point, and then there's the part where you just have to be human. I'm laughing, thinking the guy in the backseat. Right. So who who do you yell at when the shit's going wrong? Well, you have Hey, hey, go come on, man, they're all honking at us. Do you know when like when you get in those cars, you you like literally can have a conversation with them? Right, but you can be yelling at the car and be like, why are we stopped? And they probably answering you. The reason why we're stopped is we don't know what to do. Yeah, I don't know. I have never been in this situation before. Everyone is honking at us, they're honking at us. I don't know what to do. Stop. Dude. I can imagine. I would have loved to see the conversation between one freaked out individual in the backseat and the AI driver. The company had to recall all their those cars. So they like they just to get them off the road, like they had to recall them back to their wherever their plug-ins are to charge up just and stop any type of service while that whole thing was going out. Because it I'm still thinking about what you were talking about, the passenger. Could you imagine the video of that? I mean, it's one person that you're the you're just driving behind it. It's another one that you're in the car. You're in the car. You're in the backseat going, man, I any me. It's him. Well, you go, you go. I got I got an appointment. I'm getting yelled. What's going on here? Somebody's got a gun. That's hilarious. It's too funny. Anyways, the other thing that was funny was that damn uh video of the brawl at Chipotle. Now I seen that. I seen this. And I was looking at that, and and I was like, what could you possibly have been pissed off for at a Chipotle person? You didn't like the queso was extra? Hell no. I mean, you're you're you're swinging on a Chipotle person. Yeah. For what? How could you get that mad? Because they got the burrito that only had the fat in it. That bitch said, uh-uh. Could you imagine? Okay. Oh no, you are not. Could you imagine being that Chipotle person and somebody started swinging on you? Dude, that that woman came back behind the counter, and I guess the story goes is that she had ordered it through Uber Eats, and you know, you have to get a refund through the service that you ordered through, and then she went back to the store. And here's the crazy thing that people don't realize that Uber Eats, like if you are ordering Chipotle from we think it's coming from this Chipotle right here down the you know, corner, right? It doesn't work that way with Uber Eats. Wherever their drivers are and how that will work in their system is where they actually order the burrito. So like I might be getting one here in my city right here. This is where I want it, and I think it's coming from that local one, but it's actually coming from two cities over, and it's just on the path of that driver going to another delivery, you know. So people don't realize. So she just went back to Tribotla and was like, this is wrong. You need to make it. And then she started like diving in like his golden corral and like putting double meat on and all this stuff. She was swinging on the Chipotle guy. Yeah. And he's like, No, no, no, you that's not what was on your receipt. And she's like, Oh no, slammed that damn bowl in his face. That was another golden corral girl. Yeah. Right? She went back there like that. No, no, I want I I want extra meat. Extra, right? That'll be double. That's taking advantage of the situation. Chipotle. Gee, what's the what's the what is our uh quote of the day? I love this one. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Hell yes. And what I like about that is because we are getting at the end of the year, we're gonna start our new venture with video. Video. Right? So we don't know how it's gonna come out or how it's gonna look. So we're just throwing that out there right now. Right. So failure is not fatal. Yeah. Don't be making fun of my third eye. We wouldn't care anyway. We have fun doing this. We have fun every single week. So, hey guys, listen, uh, we had a fun time this week. You guys have a great week. Uh, I hope you had a great holiday. Looking forward to the new year, gonna start a whole bunch of new year's resolutions and gonna start it off right, man. Let's do it. All right, guys. You guys have a great week. Great week. See ya.

Shawn: 1:04:54

Should old acquaintance be forgotten.

Speaker 2: 1:05:00

Goodbye.

G: 1:05:03

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