Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

Crew Chemistry, A $600 Dog Bow: Stories At 35,000 Feet

Shawn & G Episode 70

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A 14-hour polar hop to Japan can teach you everything about culture, service, and what holds a crew together when plans fall apart. We open with seniority shock—“Big Papa” bunk choices and how international crews sprint through service to earn real rest—then zoom into the tiny cultural cues that matter, like why tipping in Japan is not just unnecessary but insulting. From there, it’s all cabin reality: a coffee mishap that turns into “warm milk” and a serious midair medical after a concentrated vitamin C chug forces the team to re-crew the galley, call MedLink, and navigate ceiling bunks with someone down.

We get honest about service philosophy. On domestic flights, fairness means reaching the last row fast without shortchanging the front. On international routes, speed doubles as a survival skill: execute, clear, rest. Along the way we trade rookie pranks, talk crew chemistry and the “energy vampire” who can drain an entire flight, and revisit turbulence with the rare sketch that makes it funny. We also point the lens at aviation waste—the billions of plastic cups—and push for a universal paper cup as an obvious first step toward cleaner cabins.

The human stories keep the altitude real: a tiny Yorkie and a$600 bow, scams targeting kind people, and a military cadence playlist that still sparks grit. We break down what’s actually inside onboard medical kits, why epinephrine requires a medical professional, and how travelers can stay safer abroad by avoiding unknown supplements. Underneath the laughs and left turns is a simple code: protect your crew’s chemistry, serve the back like the front, and leave people better than you found them.

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Speaker 1:

Captain.

G:

Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Pressure.

Shawn:

Let's get it started in here. Let's get it started. You have a repeat. Was that a repeat? That's a repeat. Damn. That was the same one you just did. I'm old, dude. That damn. It happens. It happens. Shit happens, right? It just did.

G:

I just was like, you know what? I can't think of anything right now. I'm just like, you know. Okay. Anyways, what the hell's been going on? What's been going on with you? That's a question. Well, I flew to Japan back since last uh episode. Um, my first time been doing uh the Japan leg, it was like 14 hours going over freaking uh over the freaking going up like North America into like the polar cap and then all the way down over and drop down into Japan and stuff. It's kind of cool to track it all in stuff. It was 14. 14 hours. Pay attention. I just said 14. Well, you pay attention.

Shawn:

You look at you, you just repeated your answer. Are you kidding?

G:

Right. So, anyways, so uh yeah, we uh went over to Japan and that whole experience, like this whole trip was just crazy. Three-day trip, real quick trip, like over and back. Uh the flight going over. Um, you know, they were all giving me the lowdown flight attendants, you know, where to do the plane. I'm you know, I'd flown the plane before, so it wasn't anything big with that, and I knew the service, but it was just you know, different crowd, different market, and all this stuff, which is you know, that's a big deal to flight attendants, right?

Shawn:

So, like it is, but you know, you know, one thing I real quick I checked out on your crew is that you actually were one of the senior papas. I was senior papa, and you you bringing that up?

G:

Yeah, like literally they are like pop up pops. Yeah, what when do you want your break? That's how they addressed me. I was like, Motherfuck. Don't get belligerent with me.

Shawn:

That's how it works, though. You know, you didn't you find that was funny though? I mean all of a sudden you're you were the like one of the most senior people and and you had first choice of a break, dude.

G:

It was like uh I mean, it is nice having seniority, the reason why I went, right? Yeah, but it it's a little it it's a little unnerving, you know, that we're getting old. And you forget things, right? Anyways, so we went over there and everything, and uh, you know, it's so cool to experience all the different cultures and everything. And one like a big thing that they told me, they were like, I got to the layover and uh we're like getting on the band and everything, and they're like, John, John, no tipping. And I'm like, no tipping. They're like, no tipping. Did you know that? You're definitely out of the US. Yeah, no shit. There is culturally no tipping in Japan. No, I didn't know that. Like they do not, it's an insult.

Speaker:

Really?

G:

Yeah. So they do you don't tip 'em, you don't give them any uh any type of other other than giving you a thank you, that's what they expect.

Speaker 1:

Really?

G:

Yeah, and so you do not tip in Japan whatsoever. So that was kind of cool. I kept some extra money in my pocket.

Speaker:

Yeah.

G:

Cheap. I thought you'd like that. Keeping your money, keeping money, right? Right, right, right, right. Anyhow, and then um the other thing that uh that happened over there was like on the flight, there's there was a few things that happened that was absolutely hilarious. This lady, you know, when we're going down the aisles and we're picking up trash and all that stuff, and next thing you know, this lady, like I'm picking up trash, and she's like, she's older, older than us. And she's like, uh, I don't know what this was, but she gave me some coffee. And it was like, you look like like milky water and everything, right? And she was like, This is supposedly supposed to be coffee, and I'm like, Well, so she's pretty experienced, she probably gave you coffee. So I go back to the back and I'm talking to the girl, and she's like, Yeah, I gave her. She wanted an instant decaf. She didn't the old lady didn't put the decaf in the water. I was gonna say, yeah. And she's upset with us, like you know, normal, like it was our fault. She just had milk in it, she had warm milk, yeah. Time go night. And I was like, I was like time go night night. You know, you and I know it's like, come on.

Shawn:

Because we got some killer coffee, even deeper. Our coffee is really good.

G:

It's a good coffee. It's a killer coffee. But I'm like, no way, like this girl's been like flying 30 years, right? She she knows what she's doing. She didn't not give you a chance. She got night night milk. Yeah, no, no, yeah. Anyways, so that was crazy. And then the big thing that happened on the flight was something that we don't encounter like domestically, like, which we which we do encounter domestically, but not in the way we had it on this plane, was we had a flight attendant get sick. Really? I'm talking about sick to be an incapacitated. No, yeah. So like we had to call Medlink, we had to get eventually get a doctor involved, she had to get injections, all this stuff. And what had happened, and this is like a PSA to everybody that flies abroad to anywhere. Like, don't eat shit and drink shit that you don't know about. That's my that's where this is gonna come down to. You she went into the like the store there and bought this little bottle of vitamin C. Not the flight attendant. You know, you've been here with with me. Right. Not a flight says, uh, oh, this is really good. Take this, you know, keep you from getting, you know, keep you healthy and all this stuff. So she's like, Oh yeah, I just drink the whole bottle. So the girl's like, Yeah, okay, cool. So she gets on the trip, right? Coming back, she gets on the plane, she drinks this whole bottle of vitamin C. Next thing you know, we're in our meal service. I come back to the back of the uh plane, and here she's in the galley. Probably a concentrated vitamin C or something. I don't know what it is, but she's having a huge reaction to it, right? Yeah, so so so much that it impacted her, yeah, so that she's like just throwing up, then later she got shits, then she then she's like running to the bathrooms, and like it was it was a so we put her up in the bunks, and uh literally she slept the whole flight, and eventually we had like get her down because she was still sick and all this stuff, and yeah, we were worried about getting her down from the bunks because that's a whole spectacle, too, and people don't know this. But like the crews have bunks on these large aircraft, and sometimes they're in the floor, sometimes they're in the ceiling, and this one was in a ceiling. So, like to get her down from there, now it wasn't gonna be a problem for me. I just lift her down, but yeah, for some tinier flight attendants that had that situation, they'd have a definitely a problem. Anyway, so she was incapacitated, we were short crew on our international flights, and now we're all taking over all these extra duties because she was our back galley, and so she was in charge of like getting all the meals ready and all that stuff. So now we had to take it over as a crew. So but did she drink it?

Shawn:

Okay, but did she drink it on the plane or did she drink it before?

G:

I think she drink it before she got on the plane.

Shawn:

Okay, right because I was like, Did you guys have the bottle to look at it? You know, for the for medlink. I was just curious. It was in Japanese. Well, yeah, we have filters and stuff.

G:

Yeah, but you got speakers. I mean, she'd be able to take tell the milligrams. So here's the funny part about it. So, you know, she's sick the whole flight, and by the end of the flight, she was like doing okay and everything. Yeah, but one of the passengers gave me one of those little bottom bottles of the vitamin C thing that she had drank.

unknown:

Yeah.

G:

And so I kept it. And so when she's getting off the plane, I'm like, hey, um, I wanted to give you a little going away present, something to remember the flight by, and I give her the bottom. She gave me a look like you motherfucking.

Shawn:

Did you ever have vitamin C though on an empty stomach? No. I mean, you take vitamin C, it just jacks your stomach up. Yeah. Without eating. I mean, so if that was, I mean, say that as a concentrated vitamin C. That just tore her stomach up. And that's what it did. Right? Tore more than it went into end. That's what it does. That's what vitamin C does.

G:

It's like a clean out. So, anyhow, um, yeah, that was a crazy thing. Um, you know, another thing too that you know what people don't know is our crew rest areas, which I think one of these days we're gonna have to like give them some pictures of the inside of the crew rest. We got some we got some sweet crew rest. Yeah, I mean they're they're cool because where they're they're like little bunks that are in the ceiling, and there's actually six beds in the ceiling that up to six flight attendants at a time.

Shawn:

Chosen by seniority, too, right? Chosen by seniority. That's another thing.

G:

Big Papa got the big one.

Shawn:

I know you did. I knew you knew where the big bed was at.

G:

Number five, baby, on that aircraft. Each aircraft is different, anyways. And then and then here's another crazy because it's such a small world, you know. Like, um, I get on the flight, uh, we're we're you know, coming back, and we get close the door and everything, we're taxing back, and I'm walking down the aisle doing my checks and all this stuff, and all of a sudden I'm looking down and then boom. Here's an agent from Cleveland that I know. She's on the flight. She's like, Sean, and I'm like, what? I'm like, I can't believe this. You know, she's like, I can't believe I'm seeing you here in Tokyo. Like, this is crazy. And I'm like, it's a small world, yeah. That's our life. Right. You see people all over the place. It doesn't matter where you go. So, what else has been going on with you, man?

Shawn:

It's been a crazy week, but a great crazy week, man. I I um ran into uh some people coming down uh from Florida, and I've known these people for years and years, and it was so nice to seeing their families and uh the kids, grandkids, and everybody was traveling. Yeah, but what was really cool is the other day, um, guess who contacted me? Remember Sheila? She the shuttle driver? Yeah, the cart driver. Oh, yeah. What did you say? The cruel driver? The cart driver. I said the cart driver. You're not paying attention again. I heard you. No. But anyway, Sheila uh used to drive the cart for passengers up and down the terminal. Okay. And was one of the sweetest ladies there was, right?

G:

Sheila Sheila was or is so sweet. Like every she called us our our her little uh flying angels.

Shawn:

Yeah, flying angels.

G:

Yeah, and so like every holiday she would um bring us like candy, and she'd be like for Christmas time, she'd give us little teeny little like little bags of candy and stuff like that, and like the sweetest lady. Always a hug, always uh nice to see in the tournament. In fact, here's how nice she was. When she retired, they our our airline got together a huge donation and gave her a going away present that she was shocked. Yeah, like how much it was. But, anyways, uh she's a sweet lady. That's cool.

Shawn:

It is. I mean, and I was surprised she she reached out through Facebook and and it was it was and she wanted to be your friend? There you go. You're starting again, right? I got that one friend. You're just jealous because you're the only one. Do you know I like this? Uh okay. New Year's resolutions. Did you make one? No, you didn't make one.

G:

No, really?

Shawn:

You know, don't even do you don't even participate.

G:

Listen, I've tried like when since when like in my 20s, I was a you know, typical normal, you know, male American. There's you know, I'm gonna work out.

Shawn:

There's nothing normal about you. There's nothing normal about you. I'm gonna work out. I'm gonna get healthy.

G:

I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna drop some pounds. Shit never worked. All right.

Shawn:

So news resolution. Did you know that like 45 to 50 percent of all resolutions that are fitness? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. Fitness resolutions.

G:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's the biggest resolution.

Shawn:

Everybody, you know, yeah, gyms get packed, right? My gym was packed.

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

And a lot of people when they when they look at packed gyms, they make fun of people like that because they're like, oh, they're all they won't be here long. Here they are, right? They'll be gone next week. They'll be gone next week. But I don't look at it like that. I I really don't. I they say that only 10 people actually survive the the year of of that fitness trip.

G:

Yeah, that's good. That 10 more percent, right?

Shawn:

That's exactly what I thought. You know, I always think that the most important thing is those 10% that actually make it. Not the 90% that that might have failed, right? But the 10% that made it.

Speaker:

Right.

Shawn:

So this year I thought I'm gonna do something different. Because I've always been into fitness. I mean, and I work out all the time. But um, so they say my optimum weight for my height and age. You know what they say that 190. Dude, I'll never see you at 190.

G:

190. You're not gonna go to 190. Okay. First of all, like 190 on you, it would be like um, you'll start looking like a bicycler, you know, like the skinny, like a skinny guy. So, okay. Wait, wait. You'll be going back to spaghetti arms.

Shawn:

Shout out, Jeff. Boom. I I don't think so. I don't think so. But anyway, I I decided to make this uh this little resolution. Yeah. So at New Year's Eve, when I went and away myself the night after eating and everything, I was like 213. Okay. So I'm like, okay, here I go. I'm gonna see if I can get to 190. Yeah. Currently, I'm at 204. Yeah, I'm telling you, those last It's bullshit. The last 14 pounds are almost impossible. It's bullshit. Yeah. Because you got to cut out the sugar, right? The sugar's gone. You feel like you feel like you're you're uh going through withdrawal. It's not sustainable. Okay, I'm not done. Okay, it's like you're going through withdrawal, right? No snacks, and then all I could think about was them damn Tootsie rolls that your mom sent. And and so which mine are gone. Mom send more, right? Not yet. So I'm I'm going, I'm this this teeter totter. Am I gonna be the 90% or am I gonna be the 10%? We'll see. Right now, 204. And you're right, you start feeling I don't feel as strong as I did. I don't feel, you know, I don't. And and um, you know, and it's only like a week. Yeah, it's crazy.

G:

So we'll we'll find out. Here's the thing about those like all those BMI things and the charts and everything. Like, as of today, I don't know if you know this, but today, you know, they just changed the whole food recommendation, you know, the plate. This is what you should have on your plate, you know, this much protein, this much vegetables, all that stuff. So, you know, in our lifetime, how many times has that plate changed? Like in different, you know, quantities and how what to be healthy and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. So that's what they're saying and recommending right now. Like 10 years from now, they'll be like, you know, 205 is your right weight. Yeah. And you'll be like, damn.

Shawn:

You'll see me bail on it and hit some crispy creams here pretty soon.

G:

Oh, dude, I don't see uh we'll see you. You're not gonna be the 10% that sticks.

Shawn:

We'll see what happens. But anyway, you set yourself up for the I'm gonna make 10% now.

Speaker:

Yeah, you've got to piss me off.

Shawn:

So the other night, Gemma jumps up, jumps to the end of the bed. The dog. Yeah. Well, everybody knows Gemma. I've told you numerous times.

G:

We have a lot of new people coming up.

Shawn:

Okay, Gemma is my little like five-pound Yorkie. Right. Those of you that are just joining us, she's this little bitty Yorkie uh killer dog. She's about that big. That big yeah, she's killer. Palm size. But anyway, she jumps up, uh, gets to the end of the bed, and and her ears go and she all you hear is growl. I'm like, what are you what are you growing about? Nothing, can't hear anything. I'm thinking she, you know, she's gotta go downstairs. So I take her downstairs, she runs right to the door, pins her nose against the door. I'm like, the hell is she doing? And I shine the light in the back, freaking pack of coyotes all the way in the back part of the property. Whoa. A pack of them. How in the hell did that little dog in my bedroom hear that freaking coyote? She's got little sonar ears.

G:

Dude.

Shawn:

I know she's got little sonar ears.

G:

I know, I know you don't I don't have to explain to you that dogs hear better than us.

Shawn:

I understand that. I was just making a point. The little sonar ears. We're gonna get back to Gemma because there's another little story on Gemma. Again? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What Gemma did. So um we had these uh also this week, we had we had some new hires come in. Oh, in the in the R base? Yeah. Yeah, we had some new hires come in. And we met one of them on the plane. We were having a lot of fun with him. I'll tell you that in a second. But we had a great conversation with some of the new people down. I love new hires.

G:

Oh, yeah. I do. They're excited, they're all like energetic. They're like, oh, this is such a cool job and it's glamorous. Yeah.

Shawn:

There's a lot of good things about it. I mean, I I really do. I like new hires. I mean, they're their attitudes.

G:

Wait till they're holding the bag while somebody's throwing up or they're still fun.

Shawn:

They're still fun. The conversations are fun.

G:

Cleaned up the shit off the ground.

Shawn:

We were messing, we were messing with the one guy. You're telling them all the exciting things that are coming. But no, this this this guy was on on the flight. He was coming into uh Cleveland, he comes to the back galley, so we're talking to him, and uh also the phone rings. Okay, and one of the flight attendants, you know her, she's really funny. But she picks the phone up, she looks at me and she's like, Oh, oh god. And and I'm like, what? And she goes, Code Yellow, Gary, Cogello. I'm like, oh no, Code Jellin'. And I said, You do they tell you what Code Jell O is? And he goes, No. He goes, should I sit down? And I said, Yeah, you might. Pilot's got pee.

G:

Is that you know, because in 9-11 there's that dark door and it's all locked. And so if they have to go to the bathroom, they have to ask. Right. And we are in command of that door. So we're we're screwing with the new hire saying this code. There is no such thing as a code yellow. Nope. But it was fun.

Shawn:

But rookie, yeah, but you know something such a good personality.

G:

We you know, that takes me back to like all these crazy rookie things that we used to do in the past. I mean, and we like today, you know, HR and all that stuff, we gotta be kind of like a little uh, you know, hesitant. But back when we like HR really wasn't that powerful. Like, I remember like we would, you know, we got those like a cup, like a plastic cup, and like on a four-day trip, the new hire would come on board and we'd be like, Hey, you know, um, here, here, this is for you. Um, just keep this. We need you tonight to um pee in that cup, and at the end of the trip, they're gonna collect it from you. And so they'd be like, every day we'd be like, You got your cup, and they pull out the cup and all that stuff, and then at the last day of the trip, they'd be like the whole crew would get off before the new hire and be like, where do I put the cup? Where do I take the cup? And we'd be all like, Rookie!

Shawn:

They had the other one testing the air in the cabin. Yeah, testing the air in the cabin.

G:

Stupid, all kinds of stupid.

Shawn:

Yeah, we had fun. Fun.

unknown:

Right.

Shawn:

So go back, let's go back to Gemma. Oh, okay. My dog again. All right, so this is what Gemma does. Uh, I'm looking at for this bow that's in her hair. Nowhere to be found. She swallowed it, Sean. What? Swallowed it. Yep, and I brought one in. This is it. You guys see this? You see this? That thing's tiny, dude. This little metal clip. You were asking for it. This wasn't even funny. Uh-huh. I can't find it. I'm looking and I can't find it. Um I realize she swallowed it. She swallowed it five pounds.

G:

Dude, I don't even know how she gets that down her throat.

Shawn:

Right, and she swallows it and it goes down the curvature is like this, and it comes up. Well, Medvet had to go to the Medvet, spent the whole night. In the ER of this little dog. Right? We go in there, they show the uh they show the x-ray. X-ray shows this thing. Like perfectly clear. Right? Perfectly clear. Bo. You see the metal clip, the whole shit right there in the back of it. So here's this, here's this uh vet. Uh there's either one or two things. You do the endo, you know, they go in, they pull it out, or they induce, uh, induce vomiting. Now they're worried about it getting stuck because she's so small.

Speaker:

Yeah.

Shawn:

Well, I just happened to feed her before then. I knew her stomach is full. And I'm like, I looked at the looked at the x-ray, seen the way the position this, and I and I was like, is that her esophagus? And they were like, yes. And I said, Is that positioned that way? And they go, yes. And I said, induce. That thing's gonna come out like a canoe. Right. And uh they went in there five minutes later. Here she looks, she looks like a drunken sailor when they brought her back in. She was so nauseous.

G:

So that bow is in her.

Shawn:

Threw it right up five minutes later. If that didn't you watch that before you brought it in? No, this is a different bow. I just brought it in. I just brought it in. But you know what this little damn thing cost? No. 600 bucks.

G:

Oh, that's an expensive bow. 600. I know you won't be I know you won't be so cute with that. She ain't boggy bow anymore. No bows in their hair. No, no, no. She she's not wearing that one. You need one big ass bow that just flaps over on her. Yeah.

Shawn:

She won't swallow that. All right. So, yeah, that was enough excitement for for Gemma for a couple days. But I did run into. Do you remember Daisy? Daisy. Yeah, Daisy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I used to drive in this flight attendant for years, and me and her uh we used to commute in and uh fly together. Well, I just ran into her the other day, and um she was telling me that her husband, Tom, do you know Tom? Yeah.

G:

So Tom had Tom, by the way, for you male flip people out there, he uh you can find him in uh what's that? No, you don't want to just playgirl. He's a he was a center pole in player girl. Yeah, he was. You can look that up yourself.

Shawn:

Yeah, but um uh it's not what I'm gonna look at. I've known Tom for the time. We're not that type of flight attendant. No, no, no. I used to, I used to uh I used to lift with Tom all the time. He was he was like this ripped up shredded dude, man. And uh Yeah, I know Tom.

G:

I mean, you know, they they owned the Dairy Queen after the city.

Shawn:

He was Tom was just bit I mean, in the gym, he was a beast. Yeah. So I seen him and uh and he was diagnosed with uh scoliosis of the spine. And you know something? The guy is incredible, such a nice person, right? But what that did to him was unbelievable. I mean, what that what that does. And I felt so bad for him. But what what was worse is when Daisy was telling me this story about this group of kids in Home Depot that were waving their phone around Tom, and uh, and they were they were saying that they were you know they wanted money, they wanted $200, and he said, I'm not giving you $200. And they said, Well, you just did. And they they tried to pull that Apple Pay bullshit thing, you know what I mean?

G:

Take your to scan your wallet.

Shawn:

Yeah, they can't do that, but I mean, he he probably didn't know at the time. Well, in the shape that Tom's in because of what's happened to him, uh, there's not a whole lot he could do about it, and it really pissed me off because I was thinking to myself that if you knew Tom when Tom was in his prime, he'd have taken them damn phones and he'd have shoved them up where only a doctor could reverse them. That it never did that, never did it. And I mean, it just absolutely pissed me off when I heard this story because why would you do that? Yeah, I mean, I I don't understand why why people think that that's okay.

G:

Takes me to like any of those like videos or any of that type of stuff you've seen when people just take advantage of people. Like when you hear when I hear about the scams and like you know, I live in a retirement neighborhood, right? And there's we've had people scammed here in the neighborhood and stuff like that, and then and all that stuff is just so I I wish there was a like a uh like a squad that could hunt them down. That that should be like a movie. Remember that John Travolta movie that they had like a there's a squad that went around the world and just like took people took people out and stuff like that? They need that for the scammers.

Shawn:

You know, in in our job, they say if you see something, say something, right? Right. Most people in the world, if you if you come across something like that, you'd never walk away from that. I mean, if somebody was doing that to somebody else, you'd never walk away. Neither will I. It just pissed me off. No, really, I hated that because it's such a nice people. Yeah, he's a good guy, man. Yeah, very good. So question for you have you have you ever had a crew member that completely drain drain the crew of oxygen? I mean, just you know what I'm saying? When they come to crew.

G:

Are you talking about just talking too much or just like they're exhausted because there's always too much going on with them?

Shawn:

No, when when they come to your crew, your crew has this great chemistry.

G:

Right.

Shawn:

And everybody's in a great mood, and you're you're getting ready for the day. Everybody's laughing, joking, and then you have that other crew member come in. That brings everybody down, and just it sucks the oxygen out of the whole crew. Yeah. And now everybody is is on edge. Yeah.

G:

You have I mean, you know, I got big ass lungs. I know. So ain't suction on my oxygen.

unknown:

Right.

G:

I normally don't let people get to me like that, but I know what you're talking about when like you get that one crew member that's just like bringing it all down.

Shawn:

They're on they they bring the whole crew on uh eggshells.

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

Everybody, everybody is worried now about this one person, okay. Their their personality just uh just blew up this whole chemistry of the crew. Yeah. And it just happened uh this this past week, and it and it's upsetting. It is. I mean, I I can't tell you the one the one thing I mean, we talk about passengers, but when any anybody that's a crew member knows what I'm talking about. Yeah. You guys know what I'm talking about. I mean, it is a person that just completely destroys the chemistry of a crew in a matter of minutes.

G:

Yeah, but you come how do you how do you combat that, right? You listen, you literally try to take them out of the equation. Yeah, but you focus in you focus in on the crew, you don't focus on the you start talking, you know, you're like you you try to uh you like ex exclude them from what's what's happening because you need to isolate them from the rest of the crew, really, right? Because or they're gonna continue to make it negative. And when you're on a it's it's different for us because we don't need to like a turn, you know. We're we're down and back, you know. But when you're going to multiple-day tricks and you got that person with you for three, four, five, six days, can you imagine?

Shawn:

Yeah, they affect the service. That's what I'm saying. I mean, they always when you have them on on their crew, they affect the service. Yeah. With the with customers. Yeah. I mean, it's it's horrible. And I thank God we only had this person for a few legs, but you know, you just wonder why are you doing why are you doing this job? Really? I mean, why are you doing this job? If I mean I understand back to who hired them on the side. I know, but you know, I understand people having bad days. I do. Everybody has a bad day, right? But not like that. Right. Not like that. Not when you just come, you don't want anything to do with your crew, you don't want anything to do with any kind of conversation, right? You just you just go ahead and uh, you know, you just kill the whole chemistry and go sit in the corner by yourself. Sure, sure, sure. It was it wasn't good. But uh also this week had uh quite a few military people come on. Really? Yeah, had them a few traveling. And my brothers, you yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking, right? And I did come across this cadence video. So I came across this, and this guy right here, I love his cadence.

G:

Well, first of all, everything this guy does, because when you brought it to me and told me about this, I was like, uh, I wonder who this guy is. And as soon as I saw that it was this guy, and what's his name? Um Jonathan Michael Fleming. And uh, you know, his all his stuff is patriotic. Like every thing, every song he does is it doesn't, it's not just a cadence, it's like country songs to dedicated and all this stuff. But this this video here is an excellent tribute to the military.

Shawn:

He's got this whole hour, and I listen, I actually started listening to it working out.

G:

Oh, okay.

Shawn:

It's got it's it's an hour of like all these cadence videos. I mean, there's cadence songs, different ones in the military, different branches of the military. Absolutely incredible. You know, I was blowing cadence in the military. Oh, I know. That's why the first thing I thought was you. I mean, you know, you know, you know Dalton. He's my my son is also when I had to do it a lot, yeah.

G:

Like when we when I was going through officer training and uh doing ROTC in uh uh college and stuff, like that was like every morning. We were always making up new cadence and new stuff, and you know, off the top of our head being funny and stuff, you know, like everybody yelling the same thing. Yeah, you're like stripes.

unknown:

Yeah, exactly.

Shawn:

The Bill Mur Murray of the of the uh army. So, you know, also um this past week, a lot of people I've been talking to, uh they they were talking about they didn't know know exactly what they could bring through TSA. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So what I what I thought was we we go ahead and uh put a link. Oh yeah. On uh the TSA link so these uh these people can actually go and click on it and they can see what they can bring through bring through.

G:

Yeah, one of the things that we're trying to work on here at uh you know here at um Cabin Pressure is that we're trying to actually put together some PDFs, um, some information for people to be able to come and get some of these tips, and they can just come to our website and boom, click and get that thing. I know the TSA changes that list every year, right? And I think the last time I looked at it, it's like 945 items that they've got on there. Like each individual has a like link to each one showing you their pictures and all that stuff, what you can and can't do, what you need to do if you have them, and all that stuff. So it's uh it's pretty interesting.

Shawn:

Yeah, but it when you're at home and you're you're wondering what what the compliance is, you can uh you can click on this and you can just check what you put in your bag. You don't have to worry about it when you get to the airport. You definitely don't have to get pissed off of the TSA people.

G:

Yeah. Right? That that reminds me of like what was it last year? They had that people down in um was it uh Aruba or something like that? I'm thinking it was Aruba, where they the the family had he had a cartridge, like a it was already a discharged cartridge, but it was just a shell. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. And they locked him up in prison, right? Yep, they did. He was stuck down there for weeks. They did. You know, and that was like a rash of it was happening. It was a spent shell. Yeah, it was a spent shell, but it was just happened to be at the bottom of his bag and he didn't even know it was there.

Shawn:

Yeah, yeah.

G:

So uh you gotta be aware of the what's in your luggage that when you're going international.

Shawn:

Yeah. Aware we what's when you leave too. Do you ever check your bag? Did you like when you're in when you're in international, do you like say say that you you left your room?

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

So before you actually came back through customs, do you look in your bag? You check it all?

G:

I don't like detail check. Like if if there was something like that in my bag, I wouldn't even know. But I almost totally disassemble my bag during the layover, no matter no matter what, because I'm taking everything out, using what I got, whatever, um, and then putting it all back in.

Shawn:

I put my zippers in the same location. Oh, really? Yeah. Nobody's touching them. Yeah. Because when I come back in, when I come back in, I know exactly the location of every one of my zippers. Oh, that's good. Yeah.

G:

If I go right the location of my zipper too.

Shawn:

Jesus, you talking about a damn bag.

G:

It's always in the same lo well, sometimes.

Shawn:

All right, let's not talk about your zipper. But you know, big thing with the with the airlines is environmental.

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

And you know, we're always looking at um what could they do differently? You know the biggest thing I I think? The cups. We should have a universal cup. A universal cup or like what do you mean? A universal cup. We should have a universal paper cup. We shouldn't have plastic. We they they Oh no no. So you're talking about we need some type of like uh biodegradable universal cup for for cold and for cold and uh that's just one cup instead of we do have like plastic and hot cups. Yeah, they need to do away with uh the plastic cups. There's like 10 billion cups that are used globally in the airlines. Do you know that? 10 billion.

G:

Yeah. So here's my thing. Like, I think that the airline industry in the whole, like, is one of the most wasteful, uh, productive, like from the from the operation of the aircraft to the operation of the service of the the the the what we're doing or the service we're providing, transporting people, like there's so much waste and so much stuff. I mean, and you times that by however hundreds of thousands of flight we have worldwide. I mean, the amount of trash we create just in our business and the you know, and the you know, uh air pollution, pollution, you know, the all that stuff. Everything can be better, right? Right. We can do better.

Shawn:

Yeah, especially that. I mean, that I I think that that's a huge one. I think cups are big. Cups. You want to start with cups. I do. I mean, I mean, you think about that. Think of how many cups we throw in the trash, how many flights a day, and how much of that goes into the ground.

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

I mean, and all you have to do is just nobody cares if it's paper.

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

They don't care if they do not care if they're drinking cold out of a paper cup.

G:

No, they're I mean, not to mention, like, we cups are one thing, but we got glass, we got we got every like there's everything on that plane.

Shawn:

But they could uh that that's a that's just a big one. I I think that they need to change that. So have you ever heard of a guy named Larry Silverstein? No, you've never heard of him? No. So you got to check out this video of this professor talk about this guy. Is that not a crazy video?

G:

Yeah, yeah, that's good. Listen, after I saw the video, I was like, man, that's like really like a that was the lottery ticket. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I mean, first of all, you invest something that's so bad, like I'm gonna invest in the lease, and then after that, I'm gonna convince the insurance company to like make it more viable, and then 9-11 happens. Yeah, but what would have known that?

Shawn:

I mean, it knowing that the asbestos has has to be removed, right? One of those conspiracy theorists things. Right. Interesting though. Sure. Now, what do you think about um what do you think about service these days? I mean, flights being so expensive. What do you think about our service?

G:

Well, I mean, you're talking about two different things there. Service and economical value. Like, what do you what are we talking about?

Shawn:

Were we talking about No, I said the flights are so expensive. What do you feel about service these days?

G:

As compared to to the value that we're getting for how much they cost.

Shawn:

No, I service. Service, period. What do you think? What do you think about what do you think about the service on the airplane these days with the cost of flying?

G:

There you go. I would say um that it's basically, you know, you're getting what you pay for depending on what what market you invest in, right? If you're going with another like low-cost carrier, then yes. You know, like you're buying no frills, right? But if you're going with a full service carrier, closer to what we fly with, okay, then I think the value in of what you're getting, you're, you know, it's fair.

Shawn:

So okay. So how do you look at service? How do I look at service? As far as like when you're we do a domestic beverage service, how do you how do you look at it?

G:

Well, I look at it like I'm trying to give the best service possible, you know, give excellent customer service, make it enjoyable, make the experience enjoyable, making sure that they're they feel like the value that they they've come to the you know their home. Right. Right?

Shawn:

It's been some it's it's a real simple thing for me. I always think of the last person in the last row of economy. How fast did we get to them? Oh, really? Yeah. You are like no, it is you're blazing fast on the service. But it's it's efficiency of service. Yeah. I mean, you know, nowadays, but there's a fine line. I know that you know if you go back, if you go back years ago, our service was completely different. Oh the point, the point that I'm making, our our service was different. Yeah. Now it's more like a uh express sling and fling type of service. Right. All right. But it's what do people expect from us and do we provide that for them? Sure. And a lot of people, it's like they take their time getting out in the aisles. Right? Yeah. They do. And then you you know it it's it's that I don't know, it it doesn't seem like there's any type of uh um what is it continuity to the whole system? Well, it it it's like there's no there's no hurry up, you know what I mean, to expediency to to get to the the people in the back of the airport, right?

G:

Right, you know what I mean? Just take your time. People in the front row that are paying the premium price are actually on our airline is getting quicker service than the people in the back row.

Shawn:

But everybody is is just as important, sure. So I agree, yeah. I mean, uh and so I when I'm looking at service, I'm always thinking of those those people in the last row.

G:

Yeah.

Shawn:

And when if they if they leave the aircraft and they think they got a great service, I think it's important. Sure. I think it's one of the most important things.

G:

No, I I I agree with you, and and it's kind of interesting that you're bringing up this because I know that you're looking at this from a domestic side, and so now I'm gonna switch to the international side of this equation, and it's coming almost the complete opposite. So the service on the international side is I'm talking like we rotate, and as soon as those double bells are going off, I mean, people are jumping up and ready, and we're going into the service. Yeah, and every crew so far that have been doing this is into it. Like we're we're we're trying to do it as quick and officially as possible and give the best service, right? But it's because of like on a domestic flight, all we're doing is doing the service and going to the destination. Whereas an international, we're all doing the service as quick as possible because we want to get to our crew rest. Right. You know what I'm saying? So there's different motivator, new different motivators there. So that's so that's you're they're gonna see you're gonna see two different sides of it as far as service. I think both sides are giving like trying to do the best they can and give the quality you can because I mean on a wide-body aircraft, I'm well, you got 300 people on a plane, right? You know, narrow body, we got maybe 200, right? Yeah, so I mean, it's hard to get to that last person.

Shawn:

I just think it's important. I mean, you know, people pay so much for their for their tickets these days, right? I think service is is very important still in our industry. So, but um, you know, I I was talking about we were talking about turbulence last week last week. And one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in turbulence was Kian Peel. That definitely was the funniest freaking turbulence video, dude.

G:

I'm gonna tell you right now, like it's the it's the only people I know that can make turbulence funny. Yeah. Right? Because uh the real videos that you see out there, they're scary as hell. Like, yeah, I mean you see people and they're all bloody and all that stuff. Like that was funny. Yeah, Key and Peel, that was that is a hilarious video. Yeah, so it I am uh I'm always you know, we never stop talking about turbulence, right? But I mean, you gotta you gotta hand it to Kim Peel.

Shawn:

They they they put it together, right? So they also had this picture of these uh actually advertisement of um of uh a fighting. Years ago in back 1950s. Okay. Did you see it? Yeah, man. So this advertisement for a flight stewardess, girls, tired of the 9 to 5 routine, want to travel, go places, see and be seen. If you're single, a high school graduate, 20 to 28 years young, 5'2 to 5'7 in height, 130 pounds or less in proportion to height, 2050 eyesight, or better without corrective lenses. That's not you or me.

G:

Dude, okay, let's let's pause right there and look at this freaking thing. First of all, age discrimination, right? Today. Yeah. Like 20 to 28, they can only do this job. And then you know, weight discrimination. They can only be a certain weight. And then the what shocked me in the whole thing was 2050 eyesight? When I'm blind bitches, what was 2050? It was all blurry. Yeah. Like they didn't you gotta somewhat see the exit. You can go to the light. No, dude. Like it is funny. So it's funny how like the times have changed to like the whole thing. And you notice that it was only they're looking for women.

Shawn:

Yeah, it's not your picture.

G:

Yeah, yeah. We weren't we weren't on there. Nope. Us us uh hunks, we weren't like the picture of we came in a little after that.

unknown:

A little bit.

Shawn:

So hey, listen, we both love to cook, so I thought it'd be a lot of fun each week. We throw out a recipe. Yeah. So this week, I uh you you have to check this link out. Have you remember elephant ears at the uh at the fair? Yeah. Okay, there's this I love elephant ear.

G:

Yeah, this is an elephant ear cheesecake. Big cinnamon juicy, like donut, basically fat donut.

Shawn:

Yeah, but this elephant ear cheesecake is easy to make. You guys have to try this. Click on this recipe. Try it, let us know because this thing is the bomb.

G:

Okay, so this week five star. This week, you got to pick the recipe. Next week it's me.

Shawn:

Yeah, that's fine. I'm not eating that one. My two or four. I'm a good cook. Hello. So, hey, let's go around the globe. A group of Budapest monks were walking 2,300 miles from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. to remind people about peace and compassion. Along with them, they had this stray dog. It's a loca, I think his name was. He was a peace dog. But what's crazy is one of these senior monks, he he actually got hit and he lost his leg on the way. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

G:

Yeah, he lost his leg. Dude, that's like first of all, was it did he lose his leg like he walked it off? But he got hit.

Shawn:

No, he got hit. Okay. And he he lost his leg from the accident.

G:

Right.

Shawn:

But what was amazing is that this guy, this guy already forgave the person that that hit him. Oh, wow. The compassion that he had, I mean, for this person that already hit him. It was, I mean, that alone was amazing. But this this walk, when you look at this, it takes like four to five months.

G:

Dude, I would never ever do that. Four to five months. Like it like walking. Um, I'm done with it. I've done too much marching in my life and all this stuff. I can't, you know, there's no way. Yeah. I'm not even thinking about that. But you know, Buddhists, the these monks, they don't they don't have anything else to do. No. Walk for peace. Walk, pray. It's amazing, though. I mean, it's really cool. Too bad one of them got hit, though.

Shawn:

So one out of every 600 commercial flights in the United States has a medical emergency.

G:

Yeah. Mine three out of four days. I mean, look, look what happened with us. Like you you last week with us, and then we had the flight attendant, yeah, and all that stuff. But you know, a lot of these medical emergencies, people don't even like uh, you know, that's only what's being reported. Right. People don't realize there's like so many, there's probably millions more that aren't reported.

Shawn:

But the big concerns is the is the onboard medical kits, the requirements of them.

G:

Oh yeah.

Shawn:

Yeah.

G:

Oh yeah, there's a uh there was a news segment. So, you know, with our uh emergency kid, like this this concern that this father has on this video and everything about like the EpiPen and all this stuff, like we have EpiPins on the plane.

Speaker:

Right.

G:

Right? I mean, not EpiPins, but we have epinephrine on the plane, but it has to be released to a doctor. So the airlines, like they were saying, they said they're compliant with FAA, but they have to, you know, we have all that medication on board, but a doctor has to, or a nurse has to be the one that administers it, some type of medical profession. Because we as flight attendants aren't trained medically on like how to inject and all that type of stuff. Like we can't give an IB. I mean, I would if you want me to, but you might not want that. Yeah, I wouldn't. But yeah, but the but it is like it is a good good big concern, and like the whole thing about the EpiPen, like people are so big about this, like, you know, with uh the drug overdoses and all that stuff. And I had this happen on the plane, like that guy's daughter, and I had a lady that she had um she was uh had just done some type of treatment on her hair, and she had an allergic reaction on a plane. I mean, we had her laid out in the aisle, you know, meddling contact and all that stuff, and yeah, doctors got involved, and in our med kit, we had what we needed, gave her the shots and all this stuff, Benadryl and IB and all that stuff, and she came out of it, you know. So we have it, but it just it's just not readily available. It's not like a flight attendant can grab an EpiPen and just give an administered dosage.

Shawn:

Yeah, you know, so thank God we have doctors on board.

G:

Yeah, we hope. I know. Well, it depends, it might be also depends on the airline. I think we talked about that before. Yeah, I don't want you giving it to me. No, we were talking about like how we might have doctors on our plane versus maybe it's that low-cost doctor might not be on there. That's that's cool.

Shawn:

All right, a postal driver was arrested after Florida Highway Patrol officials said he tried to run over a 10-year-old. A what? A 10-year-old. Come on, yeah.

G:

That first of all, what the hell would a kid done? What have he done? Like, why are you trying to hit a kid? Yeah. Like, I mean, he had to have known the kid or something. Something. Like, I mean, like, why would he try to hit this? I don't know. Or the kid was antagonizing him every time. That's just not fair. Yeah. Because I mean, just makes postal workers look mean. Maybe they aren't.

Shawn:

They say going postal. Going postal.

G:

Anyway.

Shawn:

Yeah, he I don't I don't think he's gonna go postal very much long. All right, this one you're gonna love. North Las Vegas police said two men faced attempted murder charges after one of them was upset about the gravy he received on his order at KFC.

G:

Come on. First of all, who's getting mad over KFC gravy? I mean, that that like that's not the best gravy. Well, yeah, but think about that. You're going to prison now. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I gotta get back to just the quality of the gravy. Don't why is he getting mad over some bad gravy?

Shawn:

I'm still okay, but you're still going to prison. Yes, you are going to prison. You're going to prison. Right. Right? You're in the chow line. Right. There's a big dude right behind there serving what? Gravy. Mashed potatoes and gravy.

G:

Yep. He's a no. Everybody knows like why you in here. You the gravy guy. I got mad because I got some bad KFC gravy. It pissed me off. Stupid individual. Oh, it pissed you off?

Speaker 1:

Here's some gravy.

Shawn:

Now what you're going to do? Now what you're going to do. Yeah, exactly. Dumb KFC person. What an idiot. Stupid people. Come on. So I was asked why do we do inspirational quotes? And and um it was really easy. My youngest Jackson, ever since he entered high school from his freshman year to his senior year, I used to send him uh an inspirational quote every day. Yeah. And then about halfway through his senior year, I thought, I want to see if it actually resonated with him. Yeah. So I stopped, I didn't send it to him that day. Did he notice? No. Around two o'clock, I got a I got a message. He was like, hey, you know, waited all day. I haven't seen the quote.

G:

That's that listen, that sounds exactly like you and Jackson.

Shawn:

So I send it, I send it to him. I already had it ready, and I and I sent it to him because I think I think that everyone, everyone needs to hear something um good. You know, I think they need to hear something good.

G:

Yeah, no, no, no. First of all, I mean, just to pause on that, just a little bit, like the backstory on that whole thing that people don't understand is that first of all, you've worked with Jackson his whole entire life. He was like a little tiny spaghetti kid. Yeah. Like he was skinny mini and just wasn't, he was just a tiny kid. He was this guy grew up to be a beast. He did. And he little east got into minor league baseball and all of this stuff. And and it's not just him doing it, it was the inspiration behind it, though.

Shawn:

What it was, what it was, and and Sean, what Sean was telling you is the truth. So you look at this kid, and when I first took him into the gym, he said, Dad, I'm a twig. And I said, Look, I said, look in the mirror, and I said, Um, you, you know, shortly you're gonna be a stick, and then we're gonna turn you into um a tree, and then we're gonna turn you into a fucking redwood. Yeah, let's go get let's go make the redwood. And he turned into this beast in the gym, and he got to the point to where he started really believing in himself. Now he he it wasn't that he was the overly talented with baseball, no, but he worked harder than anybody else. Yeah, and he believed in himself. And and that's that was one of the reasons why I I had sent the quotes to him every day because you you have to have this deep belief in who you are and what you do. Exactly. And he did, and that's the reason why he did he did make it there, and he actually uh he's got a minor league ring too.

G:

Yeah, I mean he's he didn't he he achieved a lot, like most the percentage of what you know people who actually got there, and he was also that kid that everybody always doubted.

Shawn:

Yeah, they never they they never thought he was going to. Right, right.

G:

And he always was like that kid, I'm gonna prove you wrong.

Shawn:

Yeah, that's what that was the that was my favorite thing which you said is like he was always gonna prove you wrong. And I love I did love that about him. So anyway, inspirational quote.

G:

He was a chip off the whole block because he wants to be 190.

Shawn:

I'm gonna prove you wrong. I'm gonna get to the 10%. All right, guys. So to make a difference in someone's world, you don't have to be amazing, rich, talented, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to be you and care.

G:

Exactly.

Shawn:

Right?

G:

Be you. Yeah. Always be you. Yeah, exactly. No matter what anybody says, because I'm gonna tell you right now, like growing up on my from my side, like I didn't have a big brother. Yeah, I am the oldest. Like, I was I was the person that I had to be the example, right? I had me and my sister. My sister really didn't look at me as an example, though. I can understand why.

Shawn:

All right, guys. Listen, it's been a great week. You guys, you guys have a great week, and we'll we're gonna see you next week.

G:

Yeah, have a great week. We'll see you next week. Hey, we just wanted to let you know one, we really appreciate you watching our videos, and we really appreciate you subscribing. Please subscribe, it means a lot to us. It helps us to go further and bring you more videos. See you next time, guys. See ya. And that's a wrap, another episode of Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. If you made it this far without subscribing to our YouTube channel, uh what are you even doing with your life? Seriously, questioning your judgment. Hit the subscribe button like it owes you money. Ring that notification bell, do that thing, you know you want to. Because let's be real, finding this podcast was fake. Staying unsubscribed, that's just disrespectful to the universe. We'll see you next week for another episode where we promise you absolutely nothing except more of whatever this was. Until then, keep your trade tables up, your seat belts fastened, and your YouTube subscription. Subscribe. Peace out, and subscribe already.