Two Intoxicated Passengers, First Class Chaos & A Lesson On Safety

What happens when a viral stunt collides with a 30-minute boarding window? We unpack the headline-grabbing case of two intoxicated passengers who plopped into first class and spun their removal into clicks and cash—then walk through the quiet, unglamorous reality of how crews make safety calls that keep hundreds of travelers moving. No drama, just decisive risk management when bag space, time, and judgment matter most.

We start with the boarding question everyone asks: why load front to back? The answer isn’t ego; it’s overhead bins, cabin flow, and protecting customers who pay for speed and predictability. From there, we dissect how flight attendants assess intoxication, loop in teammates, brief the captain, and act fast before pushback. You’ll hear a clear hypothetical that shows what’s at stake if crews “let it slide”—diversions, injuries, missed cruises, and a wave of downstream cancellations. Copycats see a $500 fine; crews see the cost the entire cabin pays.

On the practical side, we share travel tactics you can use today: how to spot same-day alternatives before lines form, why carrying essentials matters when aircraft shuffle, and a galley-tested food hack that keeps burritos intact from hotel microwave to onboard oven. Weather whiplash gets its due—how a whiteout can vaporize the best plan—and we talk candidly about the moment you arrive at a gate to find no plane and no answers yet. Spoiler: operational updates often hit crew and customers at the same time.

Threaded through it all is the culture that makes tough days workable: pilots and flight attendants who know each other, trust each other, and move as one. That bond turns split-second calls into calm outcomes. Expect some levity, too—Orlando souvenirs, Stitch sightings, Reacher debates, and a little Elvis—because laughter is how we reset between storms.

If you value clear-eyed travel insight with honest crew perspective, tap follow, share this episode with a friend who flies often, and leave a quick review. Your feedback keeps this Ohana strong and helps more travelers get where they’re going—safely and on time.

Chapters

• 0:00 Kids, Jeans, And Family Stories
• 4:05 Why Airlines Board Front To Back
• 8:40 Travel Disruptions And Smart Rebooking
• 13:45 Crew Tips, Food Hacks, And Weather
• 17:25 Intoxicated Passengers And Safety Decisions
• 24:30 Copycats, Consequences, And Protecting Everyone
• 30:20 Reacher, Soundtracks, And Nostalgia
• 36:00 Crew Culture And Pilot–FA Communication
• 43:05 Around The Globe: Elvis, Speeding, Candy Spills
• 49:20 Quote, Laughs, And Closing CTA

Transcript

G: 0:00

What would you do if two intoxicated women board the plane? It's not the party they thought it would be. Next on Cabin Pressure.

Shawn: 0:19

Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Pressure. Hello, pretty ladies.

G: 0:25

Gentiles. What is wrong with you?

SPEAKER_03: 0:30

What is wrong with you?

G: 0:31

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03: 0:32

Who are you talking to?

G: 0:33

Dude, I'm talking about it. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking. I'm talking to those honeys out in the in cyberspace. You gotta be talking to somebody who usually shit ain't talking to me. What's going on, man? Dude, uh, you know what? Everything. It's like um, you know, doing the same uh going over to Indiana, hanging out with the family and all that stuff. You know, I was hanging out this weekend with the the the girls, the uh Reagan and Mila. Yeah and uh man kids are just amazing like what they pick up on. Oh yeah. It just like every little thing they they'll tell you about. And the craziest thing, they came out, like we visited a whole day and they come back to the room later in night and we uh we're playing games and all this stuff, and um their mom's like, you know, I think they I think the girls got something to tell talk to you about. And I'm like, what's that? And they're like, Uncle Sean, we've never seen you in jeans. I'm like, like, I'm literally like totally did not, you know, consciously think about it, but I guess you know, like for years now, I'm only wearing like, you know, I've been into the Lululemon, you know, those type of slacks, you know, comfortable stuff, stretched slacks, things like that. And I stopped wearing jeans. And then just this last weekend I wore jeans, and I can't believe it's like been their whole life.

Shawn: 1:57

So out of everything they looked at you, they they know I was wearing jeans.

G: 2:00

He was wearing jeans. Yeah, like they're my whole fashion.

Shawn: 2:03

But you're like this big kid. I mean, seriously, with with kids, these guys don't know. You guys don't know really, he's a big kid. Yeah, so the kids actually it's like they gravitate towards him. When my youngest, I mean, actually, my oldest boy was young, he came over and he used to remember we used to play in the backyard? Uh, we were killing dragons. Dragon Slayer.

G: 2:24

We were dragon slayer. That's right. Florida. We had the big plastic, big old that was oversized plastic baseball bat. Yeah. And we're in the yard and we're running around. I'm like, kill the dragons, slay the dragons, and he's smashing, trying to hit the geckos, and he wasn't fast enough to catch a gecko, but but he had them fine.

Shawn: 2:41

He always wanted Winston coming over so they can go slay dragons, geckos, little geckos. He's chasing out the backyard. No wonder the kids were wondering what they're doing.

G: 2:50

The nieces are just the same, they're the exact same way. Like, I'm I get show up and we're having fun. I mean, we could zoom call and like Carol be talking to him, she's right next to me, and I'm like, making faces at him, and they're making faces. You know, hey, you gotta love kids. You gotta you gotta love kids. But it was just I was just that whole like it like caught me off guard because I was like, man, they really like are looking at you. Yeah, you know, it's it it really has something to go to where you know, people like people that you know who's looking up to you and who who do you look up to and who's your role models and all that stuff. Like who's goofy? Well, yeah, that's you.

Shawn: 3:32

That's you. No, I mean it's who goofy because you're like the big play toy with them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like having a romper room that's mobile.

G: 3:39

They're they're like every time we show up, uh, we're like trying to bring new games and new new stuff and fun stuff to play with, and they're always but just like the and they remember everything, everything. So you can't get away. Like they're gonna be like, oh no, no, no, you said this and then like they'll call you out in a split second. But uh the other thing that happened was uh one of my friends uh asked me the other day, and they were like they were puzzled, they're like, I got a great question for you. Like, why do they board the plane from front to back? Why don't they do it from back to front? We've never heard that one. Yeah, that's new. Yeah. To us, right veterans, like we're like, we're like, this is this is stupid. Like, I mean, I'm trying to explain to her, and I'm like, you know, you know, it's like any business, you know, you cater to your highest clientele, the people that are paying your bills, the people that are spending money at your your establishment. It's like any, like, it doesn't matter where you go, like the highest people that are paying the highest price, they're gonna cater those people and give them benefits or whatever higher benefits. Well, airlines do the same thing, and that's who dictates who our uh how our boarding process is. And it doesn't matter what level of airline you're flying with, doesn't matter if it's low, you know, low-cost carrier to a high cost carrier, it doesn't matter. It they're all dictated off how the biggest moneymakers, you know, that are contribute to the airline. Space for your bag. Right. Yeah, it comes down to space for a bag, right?

Shawn: 5:06

I mean, really, I mean, when you think about it, everybody rushes to get on a plane with what? Their bag, their roller bag. They want to get their bag on. Yeah, they're worried about is uh, you know, when when is the cutoff?

G: 5:16

Well, and and I was explaining to her too. I'm like, you know, if we boarded from front back to front, I said, so most people then back in the plane are like the lower fare ticket, right? Yeah. I said, and by the time we filled up that plane, the people that are sitting in front, which are the higher fare ticket, right, they wouldn't have any space for their bag. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, so that one make that one work. You know, like I'm like, the people that are paying, if you're paying a premium price, like you go on vacation and you buy that one-time first-class seat, you want to be speeded, you know, you want to be treated special, right? Right. So um it's not that we're treating them special, it's just that that's how it works, right? Yeah, yeah, bag space. Yeah, it's it's all about bag space.

Shawn: 6:01

It's about bag space.

G: 6:02

Another thing, like, as I was like thinking about it and everything, is like it's interesting how like you go to different depending on how the airport's set up to, depends on how we board the plane too. Right. Because like we can go down to like you know, some uh foreign countries and they'll board the plane from front and back. Yeah, you know, yeah, and then sometimes we'll have where the jet bridge where it's just like there's no jet bridge, and then they gotta go outside and walk up the ramp and all that stuff. Yeah, they pull up air stairs.

Shawn: 6:27

Sometimes, I mean, if if if there's not room, they'll pull air stairs.

G: 6:31

Right, right, right. So, I mean, there's all these different factors that go into it, but I mean, I was telling her, I was like, this is you're thinking too logically, like it makes sense. Like, okay, if we're just trying to load the bus and nobody had a bag in their thing in their hand, yeah, sure, back to front works, but that's not how it works. Yeah, we never hear that question though. Yeah, we never hear that. Nope, nope. First time.

Shawn: 6:53

Anyways, what's going on with you? Well, you know, I I was talking to you about it all day yesterday. Oh, yeah. All day yesterday, all he heard of us I I was doing this trial triangle. Okay. Day from hell. Yeah. So we do these trips called a triangle, it's three legs in a day. Right. So I the first leg I had was heading down to um Orlando. It was cool. I mean, everything went fine. Then we had to go up to Chicago. Weather was shit.

G: 7:18

Right.

Shawn: 7:18

Weather went to hell. So we were delayed right out of Orlando, going to Chicago. Um, passengers, they're fine. I mean, you know, you you had a few people that were getting a little out of sorts because of the delay, but it was it wasn't that bad. Then we got to Chicago, and then man, did it take a slide.

SPEAKER_01: 7:36

Shit show.

Shawn: 7:37

We got over, we got over to the gate. We got there and we're like, okay, plane's coming in. We were like, it said that the plane was in, no plane. So you show up at the gate, no plane. Look on, look on the app, no plane. Yeah. Says it's supposed to be a plane, right?

SPEAKER_04: 7:54

Yeah.

Shawn: 7:54

Said plane came in, no plane. No plane. Now everybody around there is seeing you're the crew. Where's the plane? I don't know. Says plane's on the ground. I know. But we don't know. We don't know. Nobody told us. We know exactly what they know. You know. It's not like all of a sudden we got this little bitty, you know, person in the in the corner going, hey, the plane's over on the right.

G: 8:15

Yeah.

Shawn: 8:16

You know? I mean, we we know exactly what the passengers know.

G: 8:20

For the most part, like everything we do in our job, we're like, it's the same time, same exact time of communication. You they're getting it, we're getting it. Right. Type of thing. I mean, it's I mean, outside of like security, like that, all that stuff, like that, of course, is going to be shared within the inside the confines of the company, whatever. But I mean, outside everything else, like normal operation.

Shawn: 8:40

Usually what happens, it's operational.

G: 8:42

Yeah.

Shawn: 8:42

Right? Something that they they either needed a flight. I have no idea what happened over our plane, right? But it something happened where they needed it or whatever. They took it, they used it, they brought us another plane from the hangar that came in. And so the but there was a there was a good part of it too, because we had a lot of passengers going to Cleveland, and I knew a lot of them. A lot of them are are uh elite passengers that've been flying for years. And they came up to me and they were like, Gary, what's the problem? I said, I have no idea. And they were like, I don't I don't know what to do. And I said, I do. There's a plane that's leaving in about 50 minutes, and there's plenty of seats on it. So go take yourself over there because as you can see, we don't have a plane.

SPEAKER_01: 9:24

Yeah.

Shawn: 9:24

And go over there, get yourself on that. If you got all your bags with you, go over there, there's plenty of seats. You're gonna get home about at least an hour earlier.

G: 9:31

That's one thing. Like everybody needs to know like how to travel and how to like put together um, you know, like a plan, a pre-plan. Because every flight, like, doesn't matter if you're you think it's a nice day out day, the that day, or you know, you know whatever's gonna happen, anything we know that anything can happen. Mechanicals can happen, weather can happen, uh, whatever there are events in the area which you're operating out of can happen, you know, like all kinds of things, and you need to have a plan. Uh, one of the things that I'm trying to come up with right now that we're very close to is that we're doing a uh travel guide with cap cam pressure. Perfect.

Shawn: 10:07

Yeah, yeah. But the great thing going back to what I was talking about with this is that when you take that time with those people goes a long way. Oh, yeah. Right? They will remember though there's probably there's probably about four to six of them that went over there. And trust me when I'm telling you, they will remember this the next time that they see me.

G: 10:25

Oh, yeah.

Shawn: 10:26

Because you took the time to communicate with them. They've been with our company, I mean, for many years flying.

G: 10:32

Right.

Shawn: 10:32

And the reason why they do that is because we do. We take the time that to help them out, even though my my day went the shit, yeah. At least you take a few minutes to make their day go a little bit better.

G: 10:44

A little bit better.

Shawn: 10:44

And they re they remember that every single time. So anyway, we uh we boarded up, uh went into Cleveland, and the plane in front of us blew a tire.

G: 10:53

Oh no. Dude, you had like there was like one event after another event, and it like kept going and kept going. Like it was unbelievable yesterday. Yeah, and then I get this text, what are you doing? It's him. He's like, stop doing those. I'm doing stop doing these stupid triangles. Okay, so we're too senior to be doing stupid stuff like that.

Shawn: 11:13

They snuck that in on the line. Oh, gosh. Okay, so I didn't realize that until about two days.

G: 11:18

And you can't get rid of it.

Shawn: 11:20

No, I could have probably got rid of it, but you know, I was trying to trade it for a two-day trip, didn't work that way. So anyway, I did it. It it went to shit. It was like riding Millennium over at Cedar Point. It was it was crazy.

G: 11:32

I mean, it was absolutely crazy. I mean, part of it was weather, part of it was company, part of it was like, you know, mechanical. It was like you had everything. Right. It was that's crazy day.

Shawn: 11:41

Yeah, it was it was a crazy day. I won't do a triangle again for a long time.

G: 11:44

You you got your triangle fix?

Shawn: 11:46

Yeah, I did. I'm completely reminded of why you're not doing this. Completely full of it. I ain't doing it. I ain't doing it. I'm doing I'm going right back to my Florida turn. Exactly. Real simple.

SPEAKER_01: 11:56

Right.

Shawn: 11:56

But last week, when uh I I got a touch on this one because you went and you uh made a comment about spaghetti arms. Spaghetti arms. Shout out to Jeff Jay. Jay. Right? Yep. Shout out. You had to do a big shout out to him. So this one's for you, buddy. You never thought that in a million years over a national podium that you would hear this story. So with the guy that he's talking about, Jay, I've known him about as long as I've known Sean.

G: 12:26

Yeah.

Shawn: 12:27

He is uh a ground person that we've been friends for a long time. We used to play uh softball in this uh international like softball competition between the airlines, and they used to have these competitions down in Fort Lauderdale. Jay and I went down to Fort Lauderdale and we were playing uh in this tournament. So we got done, we were heading over to one of these little uh clubs, right? And they had this cute little waitress come over there. You know Jay. Yeah. He's he he won't miss an opportunity, right? So he sees this little waitress, she comes over there and and he starts, you know, being flirtatious with her and everything, and uh, and he's like cutting on me, saying, because I was thinner back then, and he said about spaghetti arms. I said, Oh, okay, that's funny. So I looked at her and I and I said, Hey, can you can you um answer me a question? She goes, sure. I said, when you look at a guy, would you rather date a guy that has smooth skin, right? Muscular, sure, you know, more trim, but really built, or would you like some burly, you know, hair growing down your back, you know, look like a brillopad, a sasquatch looking man? Would you like that? And she goes, ooh, gross. I said, That's Jay. So oh my god, you're shedding. Seasonal.

G: 13:55

Sure. Sasquatch. I didn't know Jay looked like that. So I'm gonna now I'm like, I'm gonna look at it. Throws out the back of his neck. I'm gonna look at him a whole different way now.

Shawn: 14:03

Back of his neck. And and mark my words when this video comes out, mark my words. You are so putting a picture of our little Sasquatch brother up on the up in the corner because Big Ugly is coming your way. Big Ugly. He's he's my other brother too. So anyway, it that was I had to touch on that one, and then I had to touch on this one because you and the tech guy, we had a tech guy that was working with us. He was cool last week, and you kept on and on how Gary G doesn't know anything about technology. G don't know. G don't know technology, and I and you're just sitting here, and you're getting this beat up thing. You ever just got got beat up and you're sitting there going, wait a minute, I am I getting the shit beat out of me right now?

G: 14:47

Yeah, like we were talking like tech like back and forth, all this different stuff. And I'm sure some of the terminology we were talking about, you weren't following what the hell we were talking about.

Shawn: 14:56

No, but it it no, it that didn't bother me. It was it was the part of this. Well, don't worry about it. Gee, he's not the technical guy I am. I'm this, I'm the I'm like, okay. So just beat up on me a little bit more. It's kind of fun. So I had to run, I had to run home afterwards. I had to bring up the old Stuart Smalley's uh daily affirmations, right? And what what'd you go home and tell yourself? I had to go home and tell my tell myself that I'm good enough and I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.

SPEAKER_01: 15:32

He thinks people like him.

Shawn: 15:33

If you guys haven't seen Stuart Smalley, check him out, man. He's got these daily affirmations, and if you have a buddy like Sean, you'll often have to go to Stuart Smalley's daily affirmations.

G: 15:44

Yeah. Right.

Shawn: 15:47

That that heart inside of me was just it was crushed for a moment.

G: 15:51

That whole mad uh skits and stuff with Stuart Smalley are hilarious. You can sit there and watch those things forever, and they're just funny.

Shawn: 15:59

Pull that one out of the trunk. Yeah, just because you and your technology. So anyway, I've been doing a lot of the Orlando's other than that that nasty little triangle. And you know what I love about that is the kids in there, and it was funny you were talking about that because I love the kids on the Orlando.

G: 16:15

Dude, that's the only reason to do the I do.

Shawn: 16:17

I love the kids, and and the best thing I love about them, I love the character that I always care around. Stitch.

G: 16:22

Stitch.

Shawn: 16:23

Then they come back from Orlando, they got these big stitch animals, right? And you know that damn thing costs the parents like 150 bucks. Yeah, they're not cheap, right? They're not cheap.

G: 16:32

I mean, you you know they didn't get the bobo stitch. Everything when you come back from Orlando, like not only Stitch, like all those different like you come back with the they have the lightsabers, they got all those things. They have got robots, they got like it's unbelievable the amount of money that's coming back from Orlando. They have debt, yeah. They have a lot of debt. Yeah, we know we know his crew because we've seen this so often talk to him, right? Like how much these things cost. It's a lot of money.

Shawn: 16:59

Anyway, love Stitch, absolutely love him. But you know, you he was a little character that crash landed on Earth. He was uh he was uh adopted a Leela. Right. Yeah, I love that little alien blue. But what I loved about him both most was uh the phrase Ohana. Because you know, I lived on Hawaii, my first year flying. I lived in on the island of Hawaii, and Ohana means family, family means no one gets left behind. And when I always think about that, that's like me and you, because we go back a long time, and these guys really don't understand. When we first met each other, excuse my language, but Sean was a dick.

G: 17:34

No, you took the words out of my mouth. You were the dick. Oh, you were the ass.

Shawn: 17:38

Right? No, we didn't like we didn't, I mean, seriously. I mean, what it was, it was like it was two uh testosterone-driven bullshit that just didn't like each other, like clashing heads, banging heads, but yeah, but uh we got over it pretty quick. We did, but it was one night uh in a uh in a uh parking lot that we faced insurmountable odds, and I wasn't gonna run. My brothers were there, and Sean, uh you didn't move, man.

G: 18:08

Yeah, you stayed in it. You can find out about that if you l listen to some of the older podcasts.

Shawn: 18:14

But it's the reason why I always think when I think of Ohana is with you because you know, even though we're different mothers, right? Yeah. I mean brother from another mother. We've been brothers for a long time.

G: 18:24

Hey, um, but you know, it's funny that you should bring that up because I have that Ohana sign over my office, and and it's like uh a surfboard that I had made in Hawaii. Really? Yeah, so it's like this like little mini surfboard, maybe like maybe three feet long, if that. And and this dude would like carved all these like you know, like turtles into it and all kinds of cool stuff. But then I they had this whole thing and they they put like uh the Smith Ohana. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 18:49

Let's Velcro a stitch. A Velcro to stitch. We'll Velcro a stitch to it.

G: 18:54

Yeah, so it's it's pretty cool. I I mean, yeah, Ohana's really cool uh saying in Hawaiian.

Shawn: 19:02

All right, man. Now I gotta tell you about my resolution update. Uh-oh, here we go. Yeah, you know I was gonna bring it up. So last week I was uh 204. 204. Stepped on the scale this morning, and I was 200.

G: 19:15

Boom.

Shawn: 19:16

Down 13 pounds. Dude, you're doing good. 13 pounds. Spinach, egg white bites in the morning, chicken, all the boring shit that you gotta eat. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm not no sugar, cut out all the snacks, and just is dropping weight. So uh got another 10 pounds to go to 190. I probably won't make it because I'll probably tap out around 195.

G: 19:37

Well, you you get so I'm I'm thinking, so you get down 13 pounds. Yeah. So like five of that was like the shit this morning, right? You're funny. No. No. No, that last 10 pounds, dude, is hard, hard, hard. I can't believe it. Like, I'm I'm I think that like that whole BMI and the weight thing and what we should. Be at. I th I think that's a bunch of shit right now. Yeah. Because I mean they're always changing all these things, like metrics over our lifetime. We've seen it change so many times. And so, yes, Americans are fat, you know, yeah. You know, compared to the rest of the world and all that stuff. But I mean, there's a certain weight that looks good on you.

Shawn: 20:18

Right. You know, it's a healthy. I don't care. I honestly don't care. As long as somebody's happy in life, you do you. I've always been about that, man. I mean, you do you. I don't care. Hey, listen, I love all that shit. You know I do. I'll I would kill some crispy crammes.

G: 20:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shawn: 20:32

But you know, I went through that that sugar withdrawal. That is like that first like 12 days. Dude, you're like a you're like a crack addict going through withdrawal when it comes to getting rid of sugar.

G: 20:45

Body's hurting. You're thinking of Tootsie Rolls.

SPEAKER_03: 20:48

Mom. Mom, Tootsie Rolls, man. You're thinking, all you're doing is like, not a warheads.

Shawn: 20:53

Yeah. Not Warheads. Warheads will get me down to 190. Right. Mom, one warheads 190. That's not gonna do it. But hey, listen, I had a tip also. Because flight attendants, we bring our food a lot on the plane. This is just for the flight attendants, and you can take it if you're not a flight attendant, too. Right. But if you heat your food up on the airplane and you're bringing it, wrap it in parchment paper first. Oh, heck yeah. And then wrap it in foil and then throw it in the oven. Yeah. Because let me tell you, nothing will stick. It's gonna taste exactly the way it did, right? Yep. And it is perfect that way. And here's the other part of it that's great. You can take it, the microwaves we always have them at the hotels, right? So you take the take it to the microwave, pull it out, put the parchment paper in, heat it up, wrap it up back in the foil. You're gonna take it back up your room. It's gonna be hot.

G: 21:40

Yeah.

Shawn: 21:40

So a little crew tip. I mean, just take it if you like it. If you don't, forget it. No, dude.

G: 21:44

I do my um every morning I wake up when I'm going to work and I make myself a breakfast burrito for the road, wrap it up, same thing. Parchment paper, foil, wrap them up, boom. I and then I can throw it in the oven at work, it still warms it up, ready to go. Yeah, doesn't stick. But if you do, if you don't put that parchment paper, you gotta stick. Oh, yeah. Like it's gonna stick to the foil or whatever you wrap it in.

Shawn: 22:07

It's it's doesn't matter, even if it's a sandwich or anything. It's a good tip. Uh but yeah, anyway, that's that's my tip for the the week for the flight attendants. One more thing I want to talk about the crazy ass weather we've been having. This has been the most roller coaster time that I've been around in the last probably year or so, at least, right? Yeah. Because we went from 60 degrees, winds, right? Sweatshirt wearing, got out of the car, didn't need the jacket, didn't need anything. That way I was like, oh God, I love this, man. Everybody moved to Cleveland weather like that. Tomorrow morning, white out.

G: 22:41

Yeah, white out.

Shawn: 22:42

White out blizzard, white knuckle driving, wondering if I was gonna get the get to work alive, seen the Amazon jackknife semi on the side. Oh, geez. Thinking, thinking it goes down, you know, when it goes down to like one lane and all you see is like tracks.

G: 22:56

Yeah.

Shawn: 22:56

And you don't know whether those tracks are actually going straight.

G: 22:58

So I was driving to work for a I drove Carol to work this morning, and like, you know, all the tracks on the highway are like, you know, normally there's like one and two tracks, you know, and the tracks kind of wave and everything. But you get those semis and they start like getting close to you and further, like it's nerve, it's it's unnerving. Like you're you're like, wow, like you gotta watch. Like, I'm always like, okay, I got a window, let's get by the sermon. And I so you like kind of like speed up just to get by and then slow back down and pull over in front of it. Like, and then you look in your rearview mirror, man, and there's that redneck, right? He's like driving that big old. And look, they're coming like zoo barreling, like barreling on right.

Shawn: 23:33

And then just then they shoot all that crap on your windshield, and now you're covered in uh slush, slush, and salt, salt, yeah, soot.

G: 23:42

Yep, you can't see everything and everything, praying, body parts from animals hit, all kinds of shit.

Shawn: 23:49

Anyway, that was my fun week. Yeah. All right, guys. Could you imagine that you're this crew, the first thing that you gotta deal with before you even get your coffee? Two intoxicated women plop their butts down in an open first class seat. What would you do? How about you, Sean? What would you do?

G: 24:15

Uh, first of all, radar's gone off. But are you talking about those OnlyFan girls that went crazy?

Shawn: 24:22

The only ones that have been all over the damn internet? Yeah, I'm talking about those two.

G: 24:27

Yeah, those two, those two are like they're out of control. There's so much to like, so much to even talk about those the those girls. Like, first of all, you know, they come on if they come on the plane and they pop down, and and we know we get like all kinds of people in first class, right? Right. I mean, it's not it's not a it's not unusual to have like you know people that we don't think look like first class pastors, you know, in in there. But it kind of your rate off radar goes off, right? Like this doesn't look quite right. So I mean to like find out and confirm we're gonna be doing that first class ticket.

Shawn: 24:59

Yeah, you don't want to jump the gun.

G: 25:00

No, you don't want to jump the gun, you know, like like they might have all the right in the world to say they might have bought a first class ticket. Yep. You don't know, but you just need to confirm, you know, if you have, especially if you have uh because that happened to me recently with uh two guys that were from like Australia or some of the they plopped down in the seats and we we booted them out because the agent came down and they're like, you know, let me see your tickets. And we we hadn't even like the radar didn't even go off on us. Yeah, they were like, and he's like, here they are, and they were in like a row 38. And you know, like, but these girls do the same thing, but what they did afterwards with their drunk asses is ridiculous.

Shawn: 25:39

When you if you've seen this video, and this is something that unfortunately we have to deal with, there's a couple things, right? The people that plop down in in places that they shouldn't. Okay, that's one. Two intoxicated passengers. Is is an intoxicated person allowed to be on the plane?

G: 25:55

Oh no, like why well we don't know what they're gonna do, right? Right. I mean, the whole point, the whole point and the the policies of the airline is that you can't border aircraft intoxicated, and the reason why is because we don't know how it's gonna affect you later. And we both have been in situations where we've seen people get on and they might have been a little they're borderline, not like we wouldn't say they were intoxicated, but they had already started drinking, and then they get on the plane, drink some more, and then they go over the edge. Right. And then they do all kinds of stupid shit.

Shawn: 26:25

So, what usually happens in the boarding process, if they're not stopped by the gate agent, okay, and they get to us, and then we find out that they appear to be intoxicated. First thing that we do is do what? We go get somebody else. Oh, yeah, and then we ask them to kind of verify it. And then we go get the remainder of the crew, and then we make a decision, right?

G: 26:48

And then that decision that on to the captain.

Shawn: 26:50

That decision goes on to the captain, and then after that we decide whether we remove that person off an aircraft. Right. And the reason, and we're gonna get to that too, the reasons why, because I'm gonna give you guys a hypothetical situation that we kind of have to deal with, and the window that we have to deal with it in because fight attendants have to deal with these situations in this small window, don't we?

G: 27:12

Oh, yeah, the snap decision that we have to make. And that's the whole reason why we don't let people put us in those situations. Small window. Right. So boarding process, how long? 30 minutes tops. So 30 minutes tops. Yeah, on a narrow body aircraft.

Shawn: 27:25

Okay, and then uh say that this person boarded at 20 minutes uh into the boarding process, so we got 10 minutes left, right? Right. What's going on?

G: 27:34

Everything.

Shawn: 27:35

Okay, but what? What's going on? They don't know what's going on.

G: 27:38

What's going on with the the boarding?

Shawn: 27:40

I mean, what are we doing? What's the whole thing? We're trying to get it closed like the door.

G: 27:44

The door closed, right? Make it make it happen. Get these point people from what they pay for, go to point A to point B. Right. And once we have a disruption like that, then that just like totally stops the whole wheel.

Shawn: 27:55

There's that small window that we're talking about. Right. And this person throws chaos into this. And they injected chaos into this. And I think personally, what I think, if you've seen this video, and you know what they did afterwards, we're gonna talk about that too.

G: 28:08

Yep.

Shawn: 28:08

What they did afterwards, um, it there is intent. They intended to do this.

G: 28:13

Yeah, I mean, so you know, these girls, they once they once they came on there, they we know after now looking at the video, right, that they had intent to try to um boost themselves up on their OnlyFans, you know, site. Right. You know, so I mean, everything they were doing was to play to that because they were trying to make money. Like their whole motive is to make money. Right.

Shawn: 28:38

Okay, now now with that, right, okay, because of what they did, and they they they made money, right? Because they're mug shots. They they got arrested. They only had to pay five hundred dollars, right? Five hundred bucks to get out. Now, they knew when they were walking out of there, they were getting all this free publicity. Why? Because everybody's got a phone.

G: 28:58

Oh, yeah, right?

Shawn: 28:59

So they have all these phones out, and what are they doing? They're tagging on all those phones and they're pulling off all that stuff, throwing it to their their fans only, right? Making more money from everything that they're throwing out there. Took their mugshots, making money, took their mugshots, throwing them on a shirt, making money. Now, what what is the biggest problem that you see that's gonna happen from this for us?

G: 29:20

For Chris, copycats. Copycats, copycat, copycat's gonna happen, continue to do this because one, the punishment wasn't severe enough, right? So, I mean, if if if you did you know what they're gonna, if you're only gonna throw$500 fine on these people, they're gonna be more people that are gonna do this. Like, that are in the same situation. They're like, oh, oh, we can boost our, you know, this will make our popularity. We can make them make we can be the victims, all that stuff. Well, that isn't, you know, that isn't what we should be uh setting precedent on, you know, to the public and let them know that hey, if you do this, you're only getting a slap in the hand of$500 fine.

Shawn: 29:59

You know, do you know what they did the next day? Promoting themselves? They flew on the same airline at home. Yeah. Yeah. How how do you do that? How do you allow that? I this is the thing. All the all this stuff, all this stuff that happened, how do you allow that?

G: 30:14

Well, here's the thing people don't understand when you get removed from an aircraft, it isn't permanent, right? So we know it isn't permanent. Like you get bounced off an aircraft, that doesn't mean you're on a list saying you can't fly that airline ever again. It depends on what the situation is before you ever make that type of list. So a lot of times they're always trying to re-reaccommodate that person, you know. Oh, they're drunk today. We'll send them home, sober up, whatever. Those guys went spent uh night in a hotel jail, you know. But it's a little different.

Shawn: 30:45

It wasn't like you're drunk and you left on your own, you left in handcuffs, right? Doing the splits.

SPEAKER_01: 30:50

Yeah.

Shawn: 30:51

Saying you're doing yoga.

SPEAKER_01: 30:52

Yep.

Shawn: 30:53

It I mean, it was utterly ridiculous. Now, let me give you the hypothetical situation. Yeah. And I was telling, I was telling you guys that flight attendants have to deal with this small window. Now you have to make a decision in that small window. Do you pull them off the plane or do you leave them on the plane? If you're intoxicated, you come off. Period. Yeah, because there's no, there's no, there's no there's no gray area here.

G: 31:13

We're as a crew are thinking about long term. We're thinking about well, how is this going to impact a flight? Are these people gonna like impact, like do something on the plane later on? So like like that's all the things that are running in our head. We have to make that decision. And our and policies now on most airlines are you know, if you've you're drunk or intoxicated in any fashion, you don't fly.

Shawn: 31:38

Yeah. So you guys remember this, and and this is what I'm telling you about this hypothetical. Going down to Fort Lauderdale, you have 120 people that are going to go on a cruise, right? Out of out of the port down there. Sure. Now you have another group that's got a vacation out of Miami, other ones that are meeting family, right? Right. So you allow this person to go on the plane, kind of ignore them. Say it, well, whatever, it's fine. I don't want to deal with it. So you let them on the plane. And then they brought their own alcohol on, they were drinking more, and they they got belligerent. Say they attacked a crew member, injured a crew, what happens?

G: 32:13

Yep. I mean, now we gotta like them decide are we diverting? Injured crew, what's gonna happen? Oh, you're gonna remove the the it's gonna cancel. Yeah, you're gonna divert. Yeah, you're gonna land the plane. Most likely you're gonna divert, you know, it depends on where the situation happens. I mean, if it's in the air, you're gonna divert. If it's not in the air, you know, and you the crew's injured, now you're not gonna you're just gonna cancel a flight because if you don't have a crew to replace that person, the plane doesn't go anywhere.

Shawn: 32:36

Now, who pays the price? Everybody in the plane, every single person. So you got 120 people that just missed every vacation.

G: 32:44

Right.

Shawn: 32:44

Right? All these people that missed their vacation down with their family, all these people that are not getting home on time the next day for whatever reason, could have been a family emergency, all because in that little window, you have to make a decision. Now, when you see someone getting pulled off, always realize it's you that we're protecting.

G: 33:05

Yeah. It's you. And the public sometimes thinks that just because we're doing something, you know, they're gonna pull out their phone, they're gonna record all this stuff, and that you know, bad airline, bad airline, but really the airline's trying to protect everybody.

Shawn: 33:18

Yes, we're we are doing this, we are doing this really to protect you. We don't want you to have a flight that is in chaos. We want you to sit there, enjoy yourself, get to your destination, that's it.

SPEAKER_01: 33:29

Right.

Shawn: 33:30

Really simple. Right.

G: 33:30

I don't know. So in this olding fan thing, do you know if they uh actually like did they cause a delay or anything or anybody get impacted by this? Because honestly, that$500 fine is nothing. But if if I were on that whole thing, they should all be suing those girls.

Shawn: 33:46

Well, that was the whole thing, is that it was delayed. The flight was delayed because they had to get the police to remove them off because they weren't they weren't coming off on their own.

G: 33:54

Yeah, but I don't know if like that like your hypothetical happened, like people got left. No, no, no.

Shawn: 33:58

I mean, no, they were delayed. Right. Okay, but they I I I just gave them the hypothetical if you allow them to stay on. The hypothetical was if you allow this intoxicated person to stay on board the aircraft and something happens. Yeah. That and and that could you I mean, you've seen that. You've seen that where planes, you've had someone that get violent and they had to divert. And they did that internationally, right? Right? They've they've had it internationally where they had to divert because someone had gotten physical with a crew member or another passenger had gotten injured. You got to divert. Yep. So now you got 300 and some people now. Yep. Misconnections, everything. Yeah.

G: 34:36

So all because of one person. One person. But my point to this whole thing, G, is this is that for these copycatters out there that might think about copycatting, think about the repercussions of this. Because not only maybe it might be a$500 fine, but honestly, everybody on that, if you if you cancel a flight or if you or you impact a flight where somebody they're all losing money and all this stuff, like the airline can probably sue you too. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, there's more repercussions to this. These girls kind of like squeaked into that like little window of opportunity for them to make money off of this and think they're cute and all that stuff. They're kind of hot, but anyways.

Shawn: 35:16

I'm gonna follow up on it. I'm gonna I'm gonna see if anything does happen to them. But listen, any of the copycatters that you're thinking about, don't do it. Man, it it's not worth it, it's not worth it. Don't do it. Um, you're gonna get pulled too. Yeah. So so the weather had been all over the place. So, you know what I did? What's that? I had what I actually watched a couple shows. What? Yeah, I did. First of all, don't start it. Don't start it. Here we go. How do you have time to watch a show? Here we go. I knew it. I knew it. As soon as I said it, I I knew it. How in the hell do you got time to watch a show? Because there there was one show I had seen this, and I I had always wanted to see some of these episodes because this dude is just badass. What's the show? Reacher.

G: 35:57

Reacher. Oh, yeah. Yes. Reacher is like it goes way back for me. First of all, I read all the books before the shows came out. Of course. You did. And and the only reason I like I don't do a lot of reading. First of all, I mean the the for me to read a book is like it's gotta be pretty damn good as far as like keeping my attention and stuff. Because I don't know about you, like when reading, I I start reading, I it make it puts me to sleep. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 36:23

Are you the same way? Oh yeah. Yeah, that's me. 100%.

G: 36:26

But my wife is exactly the opposite. Like she reads and she stays awake. Right. Like I'll wake up in the middle of the night and she's sitting there reading still. Sometimes I'm jealous of them though, because they're they're so well read. Oh, that's well, there's a giveaway.

Shawn: 36:40

No, I mean there's there's there's the give and take because we're the type that we fix things.

G: 36:44

So here here's here's the well-read thing for my wife. Like, she loves to read and she loves a good story and she's interested in it. Yeah, but I'm telling you, by the time she hits the back cover of that damn book, she put it down and she doesn't know what she just read. She doesn't remember shit. Like, I mean, it is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Like reading retention and what she does, like she cannot tell you what it's about. Really? It it blows my mind. I mean, I'm like, so why do you read it? Like it's just the story at the moment. And then as soon as she's done with it, gone. Which is good because she can recycle and it's like a whole new story. So get back to Reacher. But, anyways, Reacher. Uh, I read this book and um they started making those uh seasons and everything. And you know, the big thing was like, who's gonna play this, you know, this this character? Right because in the book, you know, he's badass, he's a big dude. He's like six foot five, six crafty. I mean, he was Alan Richardson. Yeah, he is like a freaking beast, man. Right. And in order to fit the character of the book, that's how the character was written in the book. Everybody was scratching their head, like, who's gonna do that? Yeah, you know, I mean, there's all kinds of names coming up, like The Rock and all, you know, like you know, some wrestlers and different things like that. But to be 6'5, 6'4, whatever, and be the giant, you know, it's it's I seen his interview with him, his calorie count was ridiculous that he had to eat to get to 250.

Shawn: 38:07

I mean, uh, and his workouts were were unbelievable. But in that, now Reacher's like a military, ex-military boys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

G: 38:16

So um uh it's CID is the um uh name of the the department of the military was basically they're like uh you know the NCI department in in the military. Okay, so they just like NCI's Navy, right? Right, he he was the army part of it, and so he's this like wondering uh wanderer that has a lot of freaking um garbage, you know, in his past that's affected everybody that gets close to him kind of dies. So he's like, I don't want to be attached to anything, I don't want a house, I don't want anything, I don't need relationships, I don't want anybody. Don't get close to me because you're gonna die. Yeah type of thing. That's it, that's his like MO. But um he can't stop finding trouble because he's a good guy, and anybody, anything that he thinks is like bad, he's gonna step in. He's the guy who's definitely gonna step in and like, you know, oh no, you're not gonna hurt that person, right? Like a big guy. So the so the first season of Reacher was great. Yeah, the second season was good, and the third season was kind of like uh funny.

Shawn: 39:22

They said in the third season, I read I read the thing, and they said third season, I think it was episode eight, was like one of the most talked-about episodes. Uh I don't know exactly what eight was, but I thought I thought I said something about something about they they faced some Xavier Quinn. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember that one?

G: 39:39

So so this Xavier Quinn character is like it runs through this whole thing because it goes all the way back to his like oh okay military. That makes sense. So it's all through the story. So this Xavier Quinn was like the finally this person is revealed type of thing. But I'm gonna tell you the first season is great, second season was okay, and the third. Season I thought it was kind of shit because it started getting too corny, you know. It was being too repetitive, and and you know, they were doctoring it up to be Hollywood and all this stuff. But I mean, this is a good good show. Uh you know, I'd I'd recommend anybody to watch it. I liked Reacher.

Shawn: 40:15

Yeah, it's I thought it was really good. So the other one was 1984. I I wondered if you if you watched this one. Streets of Fire. Oh.

SPEAKER_01: 40:23

Do you remember that one? I I probably watched it, but I can't remember too much about it.

Shawn: 40:29

So uh Michael Perrier played um uh Tom Cody, and then they had they had William Defoe. Do you remember do you remember uh he played no, you don't actually remember the movie. There was um he played a biker uh gang uh leader, he was named Raven. You had Bill Paxton, he was in it. Oh yeah, there's a ton of stars in there. He was he was a bartender in there. You had uh uh Rick Moranis as Billy Fish, he was like the manager of Diane Lane, who is Ellen Ames, but the it wasn't that the the movie itself is cool. I mean it's a this is a biker movie, and and and it's about a a singer, and that's who Ellen uh Ellen Ames is as a singer, and they steal her. But the soundtrack.

G: 41:12

Soundtrack's good.

Shawn: 41:14

Dude, me and you have danced to so many songs from the soundtrack from that soundtrap track I Nowhere Fast, I Can Dream About You, Um Sorcerer from Stevie Nicks. I mean, it was unbelievable. But it was so much fun because I was watching this. I was like, every time this thing came on, I watched it. Oldie, oldie movies are fun.

G: 41:31

I love them. Like it like brings up memories and stuff, and you know, with me, with movies like that, like all movies, because I like retain the story, unlike my my wife. Yeah um for the most part, I can remember, oh yeah, I've seen this, I can tell you about it the whole nine yards. Uh, but it always puts me in a time or place. Right. Like, do you attach yourself with that movie to a specific time in your life or like a place? I do that with music and I do that with movies. Like you can mention a movie that a old that's an old movie, and I'd be like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I know exactly where I was, what I was doing.

Shawn: 42:06

From us, so many years of going out to the clubs and stuff for me and you dancing. I mean, when I was when I was looking at this, it it goes back and it reminds me of like so many nights we were we were at clubs dancing. Some of these songs, right? I mean, that's we were dancing to them. Yeah. I mean, and it was cool because you go back and you think, man, that that was that was so much fun back then. Yeah. Because we were out all the time. Oh, the time dancing everywhere. I don't care where we laid over. Me and that that boy, it was I don't care where it was, we knew where to go to dance.

G: 42:38

Every night we laid over, we went somewhere. The dance. There was uh yeah, we were always going to find some place to dance, go out to the club to all the whole night. It was crazy.

Shawn: 42:45

Yeah, I it was so much fun back then. Yeah, so uh let's switch it up a little bit. Uh last thing before we get to around the globe. I want to talk about how important uh the pilot and the flight attendant um communication is.

G: 43:00

Oh, it's the most important uh aspect of our whole entire job.

Shawn: 43:04

Right. And we joke about it sometimes, but just because we've known each other for so long.

G: 43:08

Yeah. I mean, you know, I think that companies today, um, and you know, we've been with several, yeah, you know, over the years, and I could tell you, you know, when a company invests into their the their the culture of their crews are this very synergetic thing where we're all you know kind of like we are here in Cleveland, right? One big family and we know each other, like the dynamics and the safety level is like off the root scales.

Shawn: 43:39

That's what a lot of you guys don't understand about Cleveland, okay. This base. Yeah. Explain it to you because I've been here since day one, okay, since this bait, this base opened up. But the cool thing about it is the pilots that we've flown with over the years. Um there was uh a dad. He uh the flight attendants are cool too. I know, but it's it's not that you know what I'm talking about. You know, smart ass. No, what what I love about it is it we have this this uh family, and just like we had one of the one of the pilots, he was a dad, and his son came over and he's first officer, and I watched him come in and start as being a first officer. I watched his dad retire, and then I watched this young guy is now currently number one.

G: 44:28

Yeah, right? Yeah, I mean the that whole uh dynamics that you're talking about there, and that's part of the communication stuff, but that whole dynamics of our life right now, yeah. Like we're in that stage where we've seen people, and it's like it's unbelievable how like we've seen like now there's there's flight attendants and pilots, their kids are now working here with us now, and then it keeps on going. And the crazy thing that just happened like yesterday, I get an email through cabin pressure, and I get this little email saying saying, Hey, is is uh is G this person, you know, um is this this is this who it is? And I'm like, yeah, that's I I didn't connect who it was at first, and I'm like, you know, yeah, it is. And then she replies back, she goes, Oh yeah, he used to come over and he helped me with her mom. It was it was Haley. Haley. Yep, yeah. Hey, Haley, yeah, and and I could not, I was like, wow, like I as soon as I you know, and we knew and that when she was born, yeah, her mother worked here, yeah. Her mother, her, her mother's mother was here, which is her grandmother mother, and then her aunt was there too. Yeah, it was like I used to go over to her house when she was a little girl, yeah.

Shawn: 45:43

And you'll remember this, Haley. I used to go over her house because I used to actually I used to do remodeling stuff too. I used to help a lot of uh single moms, right? Because they they needed help, right? Right. So um I used to go over there and and do work on their house. Haley would sit there, she had she's a little girl, and she would sit there and just watch me, and then all she did was just talk. She just wanted to have a conversation. Yep. That was it all the time. And then I I sat, we were in her closet, she had this little nook. I don't know if you remember this, Haley. You had this little nook, and you had like your little hiding spot, you know what I mean? They had build their little Ford area and stuff like that. But she was so adorable, and then I watched her grow up to be this incredible woman. I mean she's she's an incredible person.

G: 46:25

You know, she has a daughter now. No, no, right. Are you kidding me? Reach out.

SPEAKER_01: 46:32

Oh my god, Haley, I got to see my god, I did not know that.

G: 46:36

Anyways, well, but that's the whole thing about this whole thing. Like, airline business is like this one big family. I got another one. I got another one.

Shawn: 46:43

Yeah, I got another one though. I got another one. So so I walk into the cockpit like six years ago. Yeah. And I turn around and I'm like, said this guy's name. He turns around and he goes, and then the captain goes, How do you know him? I said, This little squirt used to come over my house all the time. I used to tell him to take his damn shoes off. Oh, wow. And now here he is. This kid goes through the military, goes into the um uh, goes into the service, gets all of his ratings, everything comes back out, and here he is in the right seat, first officer. And now I think he's he's um I think he's fine international, but his mom's a flight attendant too. Yeah. I mean, it it's and then and then his sister's a flight attendant. Yeah.

G: 47:24

That I mean airline business in general, like there's so many families that are like airline families, right? Yeah. It's kind of like like I grew up in a military family, and there's like everybody in my family. We were all in the military, pretty much, you know. So, but the airlines are the same way. Like once you're airline and that gets into a family, like it's inevitable that other people you're gonna influence other people to be in there, right? But back to our communication or our communication with the pilots.

Shawn: 47:50

Well, it goes back to everything. I mean, look look at your wife. I've known your wife for how long? I I know this when she's when she's up there, I'm I don't ever worry about anything. Right. Hell of a pilot.

G: 48:00

I mean, she's by she is I never worry about it. It is it is absolutely vital that a company should tap into that more because that type of synergy and us like knowing each other, like when you go to the bigger base, it's not like that. No, it's not like that at all because I'm over in Newark right now, and I probably won't fly with the same person for the next 10 years. Right. Like it's just that big, right? I'm going from a 200 plus base to a 6,000 plus base, right? You know, so it's like you're just not gonna we we fly somewhat with the some we'll see a few here and there because we do it goes with seniority, but outside of that, you know, we we jug everything around. But it's it's really important that a company like really should be tapping into that more and like pilots and flight attendants should be laying over together. I mean, I I don't we know our company, I don't know if that's true with all the companies. Like I know with the the smaller one, the regional jets and stuff, they're all they're always together. Yeah, but the bigger airlines, they tend to sometimes separate the pilots and the flight attendants, and I think that's terrible for big mistake communication.

Shawn: 49:10

Um, a little funny story since you're you were talking about that. 5 a.m. in the morning. We didn't have phones back then. So it was five o'clock, everybody's piling into the van. That's when the pilots used to stay with us in the hotel. And you know um Bill. Yeah. So phenomenal pilot, biggest smile in the freaking world. Everybody knew who he was, right? All you had to do is say, Bill, smile. There it is. He's got this freaking smile that lights up a damn room. So he gets into he gets into the van. We're all in the van, we're starting going down the road, and then all of a sudden you you hear this doom. Your mama don't dance, and your daddy don't rock and rope. Your mama don't dance, and your daddy don't rock and rope. So this whole crew, this whole crew now is going down with the van, going, your mama don't dance, and your daddy don't rock and rope. And this van's going like this. The van driver's like moving the wheel back and forth. It looked like something out of a cheat and chong movie. Right? We were go we were cruising down there, and at the very part of it, here's Bill.

G: 50:16

Ah yeah, you know, the the the best part about the whole crew communication synergy thing is that like we are family. No, it is. We're all family, and and that's it is it's awesome when we get that bonding going on because when we are in situations like we're talking about with the girls on the plane and situations that we have to make split decisions, like credibility goes a long way in this business. Yeah, and when we know each other, you and I we talk to probably 99% of the pilots here know us, right? And we tell them something it's done, it is done because they know who we are, what we are, what we do and don't do. Not even a question. I mean, we they don't question us, yeah. So it's like the respect level is like way up there, opposed to a company where we're we're all flying with a bunch of strangers. And when you come back, you have to actually second guess that person to be like, um, okay, well.

Shawn: 51:15

So this is on both sides of the fence. Crew communication, cockpit, flight attendants, one of the most important things. Yep, right? For sure. All right, brother. Let's go round the globe. Round the globe. It's that time, man. Hey, do you like Elvis?

G: 51:31

Yes, baby.

Shawn: 51:33

You sound like a damn big bopper. I do sound like Big Bopper. You sound like Big Bopper.

G: 51:37

I know, right? I don't got an Elvis for you. But I love a peanut butter and banana sandwich. What? A peanut butter and banana sandwich and bacon. And that's Elvis' favorite food. Come on. Really? Dude.

Shawn: 51:52

Now, you know something. I'm a huge Elvis fan. I did not know that that's what he ate.

G: 51:56

Yeah, first of all, you know I'm a foodie. Yeah. And Elvis was like, he he was like, but he was he wasn't, I wouldn't call Elvis a foodie. He was one of those like picky foodie persons. Like he only ate specific things, hamburgers, you know, peanut butter banana sandwiches with bacon, you know, all that type of stuff. Chicken, fried chicken. He had these like set things. It was a really cool thing. You've laid over in Memphis. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. So we lay over in Memphis and we stay at the hotel that's actually connected to the you know Memphis. Uh what the heck is what's the name of it? Uh Graceland. Graceland. And so um, and there's a barbecue place right down the street from that that they have a pink Cadillac. Really? And they if you call them, there it's a free service, and they'll come and pick you up from the hotel in a pink Cadillac and drive you to the restaurant and drive you back. Cool. Yeah. And Elvis evidently used to always go there and get his fried chicken and his barbecue.

Shawn: 52:56

One of the funniest concerts that I watched with Elvis, um, he had put on a lot of weight. Yeah. And he starts getting down. You know how he gets his microphone? Yeah. I hope these pants don't split out, baby. Oh, he's can you see? Oh, yeah. He goes, he goes down, he goes down and he goes, I hope these pants don't split out, baby. I love Elvis. But anyway, Elvis, they're doing this epic Elvis Presley concert, and they're doing it like at this IMAX. Okay. So we get to see Elvis like on a big screen.

G: 53:30

Dude, like 50-foot Elvis. Why do you need a pelvis to be shaking in your vases like 50 foot? I don't know, it'd be fun.

Shawn: 53:38

It'd be fun. I mean, you know, I mean, you're like the king, baby. Elvis is cool.

G: 53:44

It's funny, it's funny because like right now, our generation, you know, and the people that were like around for Elvis, like, but the this new generation probably won't be going to see Elvis. No, they're not going to. Yeah, you know, like it's like that's a that's a uh yesteryear. That's like going like see like something about Sammy Davis Jr. and the Rat Pack, you know, like people nowadays don't know what that is, right? We do. Yeah, but we do. Right, right. But I don't need to see it in IMAX. No, let's go to Top Gun, though. Top Gun would be funny. Yeah, no, there's a lot of there's a lot of IMAX movies. Like I think uh the last one I did was I I saw was in uh here in Cleveland. Yeah. And it was on whales. And and my and my shout out to my little nieces over there. They love for me to do whale sounds. Yeah. You you know whale whale sounds, right? Yeah, I'm about ready to go ahead.

SPEAKER_03: 54:38

It's kind of like that. Did you get the same look that you got when you started this? Did you see that look that you got at the beginning of the podcast? My nieces will come up to me and they'll be like, do you whale sound? You're starting to see. You see why they get it? He's like a goop ball.

G: 55:00

This is him. But you know, the iMacs, back to the IMAX. IMAX, you want big shit up there. I don't know if I'm Elvis's pelvis swaying. I'm gonna go see it.

Shawn: 55:10

I'll let you know. I'm I don't know if I'll see it in the IMAX, but I'm gonna I'm definitely going to the theater. No, no, no.

G: 55:15

I'll probably see it in my theater.

Shawn: 55:19

All right, yeah. Oh, that's uh yeah, you're gonna go in theater. He just got his own in-house theater. Right. Whatever. So a woman in Florida was caught driving 107 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone. You know what for? No. Gonna love this one. Remember last week? The gravy? Yeah. Okay. This one, Little Caesars. Pizza Pizza. Pizza Pizza. Right? Are you there's a new commercial coming out of that, Sean? What? Yeah. New commercial.

G: 55:46

Yeah. Fast and Furious. 107. I'm thinking that lady that's weirds of beef. Yeah. You know? She could be like zooming. She gets in front of the restaurant. She's sliding in there. Boom. Where's my pizza pizza?

SPEAKER_03: 56:01

Nessie. Nessie, I'm thinking.

Shawn: 56:05

I'm thinking that Dominic Toretto. Oh, yeah. Fast and the Furious 107. Right. Right? Family first. Yeah. Pizza first. Law's optional. Law's optional. So anyway. Stupid people. Stupid. 107. I'm sorry. Candy shark spilled of thousands of pounds of sweets all over the residential street of Lowell, Massachusetts.

G: 56:30

Oh, hell yeah. I'm in. You're in. I'm in. You're in. We're in. Well, I'm what type of candy is it? I don't know. Well, I mean, that kind of matters. Like would it really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, you know, like I'm getting it. You know you're picking it up. If it's a truck of candy corn, I'm not in. You're not in? No. No, I'm grabbing it anyway. I'm grabbing it all anyway. Yeah, yeah. What if it's like a truck of like warheads?

SPEAKER_03: 56:57

You diving in? You stuck in your pockets? I'm gonna go get the shovel. I'm gonna start helping loading it back on the truck. Sorry, mom, but it's going back on the truck.

G: 57:06

It's interesting because like this isn't this is not this is not the first time like a truck has spilled like crazy stuff like that. Like I think Hershey's had one where they spilled Hershey, a whole truck and had a Hershey, you know, sauce everywhere and everything. Oh yeah, like all kinds of things. Like Hershey bars.

Shawn: 57:21

No, we're picking them up.

G: 57:22

Hershey bars, we're we're going for them.

Shawn: 57:24

They'll go right back in the fridge, freezing.

G: 57:25

But if it was just like those big barrels of like chocolate, you know, like everywhere. Yeah, you know. Now, if you had some taffy, some lappy taffy.

Shawn: 57:33

Yeah, might have to be scooping that shit up. I might be eating it now, but sure in the hell gonna eat it as a big thing.

G: 57:41

I'd be diving in. And then some other ones, you might want to get away from like pop rocks, or it was a whole thing of pop rocks. That'd be hilarious.

Shawn: 57:47

I'd be out there with my hose. I'd be out there my host. I got a guard nose sprayed my shit all the way from. Hey, watch this on the news, man. Okay, I came across this story. This was funny. What's that? A 41-year-old Louisiana woman that was arrested, and she was found swimming in her naked neighbor's pond. You know why? No. Her explanation was she wanted to be a mermaid. She was a drunk ass bitch. That's what she wants. That's the reason why. Could you imagine that conversation going on with that drunk friend of hers?

G: 58:20

That's right.

SPEAKER_03: 58:21

I I want to tell you, um, Leslie, you, you, you do exactly what you wanted to do, and you follow them dreams. Right. You be a mermaid.

G: 58:34

Look at my flipper.

SPEAKER_03: 58:35

It's not I wanted to be a mermaid. Be a mermaid.

G: 58:38

Look at my tail. Look at my tail. Why? Why? First of all, um, you know, there's some 40-year-olds. Uh, I wouldn't mind finding my pool back pool. Not in your pond.

SPEAKER_03: 58:53

Not in your pond. If you're looking out in your pond, be like, what in the hell are they doing out there? There's Doug Poop. Doug, Doug Poop.

Shawn: 59:00

Hell with that.

G: 59:01

Doug Poop. If they get in this one behind my house, they might get some leeches on them. That's what I said. Be like, yeah, I ain't touching that.

Shawn: 59:08

No, anyway, crazy people around the world. Yeah. All right, let's go to the inspirational quote. Happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. It's something that you choose to carry with you step by step. Step by step. That's what we do. Happiness.

G: 59:25

Right. Choose to be happy.

Shawn: 59:27

We had a lot of fun today.

G: 59:28

Yeah. I am always choosing to be happy, man. I'm I like, listen, I need to laugh every day.

Shawn: 59:34

You're gonna see a lot of laughing on Cabin Pressure all the time. Oh a lot of goofy shit, but a lot of laughing. Always. So anyway, you guys have a great week. We had a lot of fun, and we will see you guys next week. Next week, Cabin Pressure. See you guys.

G: 59:50

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