Mr Potato Head Meets Projectile Puke...

Somebody claims they got kicked out of flight attendant training for being a straight male, and we’re not letting that one slide. We break down why that story smells like pure blame-shifting, what actually gets people sent home from training, and why dragging an airline on social media with your name attached is a fast way to end your own career before it starts. If you care about accountability, professionalism, and how airline hiring really works, you’ll feel this part. 

From there we dive into the kind of aviation chaos you only get from real crew conversations: adult Disney vacations with no kids, jumpseat therapy confessions, and the surprisingly deep perks of the flight attendant lifestyle. We talk about why international flying can make the job fun again, how the schedule creates a strange kind of independence, and how relationships work differently when you’re gone for days at a time. We also get specific on aircraft preferences from a flight attendant point of view, including why the Boeing 787 is a favorite and why certain planes feel like a never-ending workhorse shift. 

Then it gets disgusting, because airline stories do that. We tell the full projectile puke in first class situation, what it’s like when the smell moves through the cabin during turns, and the simple trick that helps people with a gag reflex. The big takeaway isn’t just “ew,” it’s courtesy: when someone cleans up your mess at 35,000 feet, a thank you should not be optional. Subscribe to Cabin Pressure, share this with a friend who’s always late to the airport, and leave us a comment with your funniest travel experience.

Transcript

Swag Talk And Pressure

Shawn 0:00

Gee, I can't even believe you didn't notice. Seriously, man. I mean, what is this? We're not like boyfriend, girlfriend.

SPEAKER_03 0:18

What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Notice. Look at me, man. All swag. So you're a freaking walking billboard today.

Shawn 0:29

You got I'm like crying out loud, man. It's like, look at me. Look at me, G.

G 0:35

Okay, this is what I need everybody out there to do. They need to write in this week and they need to say, we need to see G and some swag. We never see G and swag. I'm gonna find some boxers. All right. He wants to be an underwear model.

SPEAKER_03 0:49

I'm gonna be with some boxers, man. No, he's like G, the underwear model.

Straight Male Training Claim Debunked

Shawn 0:54

He's like looking at me like, hey, I can't believe you didn't even notice. I'm like, you look like a damn billboard. He's like, pressure here, pressure there, pressure everywhere. You got it. So, man, since we're talking about pressure, I gotta talk about bullshit this week.

G 1:10

Bullshit.

Shawn 1:11

You like that?

G 1:11

Yes.

Shawn 1:12

Talk bullshit.

G 1:13

Let's do it. Let's we're always talking bullshit.

Shawn 1:15

I know every time. We talk about bullshit all the time. This bullshit was this this girl, um, she had uh put out this video about her boyfriend supposedly getting removed out of training, flight attendant training.

G 1:28

Right.

Shawn 1:28

You know why? No, you're gonna love this one. Yeah, pay attention. He was a straight male. Bullshit. So you got moved out, you got taken out of training because you're straight. Now you're talking wait a minute. You're you're talking to two straight guys years ago. Yeah, I mean, years ago. And I mean, it wasn't even common back then. No, and we made it through training, so bullshit.

G 1:57

Yeah.

Shawn 1:57

The reason why you didn't make it through flight attendant training, pretty easy, and Sean. Let's see, you failed the test, yeah, right? You broke some rules somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 2:07

Well, oh, go figure that, right? Wait a minute, rules. There's rules, Sean. Oh, there's rules to the game, yeah. You didn't do what they said to do. No, really.

Shawn 2:16

You're supposed to do what they're supposed to do what they're supposed to do.

G 2:20

Maybe he was uh screwing around in training with all those women because he's a straight male. Because he couldn't. Wasn't focusing on what he needed to focus on.

Shawn 2:31

So we're gonna uh it's simple.

G 2:34

Straight up bullshit.

Shawn 2:35

Bullshit. I you know, I seen that, I seen that and I was like, really straight male. Right. Do you know? I mean, the okay, first of all, you know the gay community was having a heyday with that. Right. They're like, there it goes again. Right. Another straight guy. But you know, we've been doing this so long. It does not matter. It does not matter if you're straight, gay, whatever you are, it doesn't matter. It only matters if you're a good person.

G 3:00

Right. If you're a good, if you're gonna get there, do what you need to do, learn what you need to learn, get through training. Period. Like quit blaming other people for your mistakes.

Shawn 3:09

Yeah, because you're the one that screwed it up.

G 3:11

Exactly.

Shawn 3:12

And then you go out on social media. That's a great that's a great way to get rehired. Yeah, right. The blame, you blame the airline and say, I don't ever want to be a flight agent in my life. You just kind of solidified that, right? Put your name on it. You gotta love that. They put their name on it on social media and it says, hmm, did a background check, social media background check. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't make it. Bullshit.

G 3:40

Right.

Shawn 3:42

So a guy had to talk about this week. Had a lot of the adults been doing the Disney things.

G 3:47

Yeah.

Shawn 3:47

Okay, we talk about kids all the time. Gotta talk about the adults.

G 3:51

Okay, here we go.

Shawn 3:53

What's up with that? What's up with traveling to Disney as an adult and you don't have kids?

G 3:59

I don't know, man. It's like they're fanatical. Right? I mean, I I have friends, I have friends, and I've had friends that like I can walk in their house and like Mickey everywhere.

Shawn 4:14

They get on they get on the plane and you know, they're boring. And listen, right? You do you. Have fun. But you we gotta have fun with that.

G 4:21

Right.

Shawn 4:21

So you you see these people and they're coming on and they're like, oh yeah, we're we we love Mickey Mouse. We go every year.

G 4:27

Yeah.

Shawn 4:28

Like you go to Disney every year.

G 4:30

Yeah, they'll have the thing one churn, I'm thing two.

Shawn 4:34

They got the Mickey Mouse ears, Mickey Mouse ears, and it says, I'm Mickey, you know, and then she's mini.

G 4:40

Right. And the dude is carrying a little mini mouse pack pack and I'm not getting that.

Shawn 4:48

I'm not getting it. I mean, I'd love to see it. They come on the planes, you know, and they're all nice and everything, but I don't get it.

G 4:54

It's like it's fanaticism, like out of out of control.

Shawn 4:57

Okay, so let's go a little step farther. So later on, so you did the whole Disney thing. Does she come out dressed as Elsa?

G 5:04

Maybe.

Shawn 5:05

If you're lucky, she better not be saying it's a small world though, because then all the shit's gonna go downhill.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

No, she comes out and she's like, Oh, Zamamba!

Shawn 5:20

I see Oh, did you oh you know Globe Globetrotters say you just said that yeah globetrotters? The the new Globetrotters, they had they were doing this video, and they did that. They from the lion can all of a sudden that music came on. Yeah, so they start going through the stands. It was so cute. They go through the stands and they're looking and they're looking, and he finds his little baby, and he goes, raises this baby up. And they're like, their hands are going down. I used to love the globe. Did you ever go see them when you were young?

G 5:56

Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. They're awesome. The real thing guys, right?

Shawn 6:00

Original Globe Troppers was like metal arc lemon.

G 6:03

Um I couldn't tell you one Globetroppers a day.

Shawn 6:06

Oh no, oh no, but they were funny. Oh, that shit was funny, though. No, Lying, when they held that kid up for the Lying, and they were like the hair hands are coming down. It was so cool.

G 6:17

Yeah, but man, these adults so come on the plane and they're just like over the top Disney. I thought they were. But you know who you know who loves Disney though. Who's that?

Shawn 6:31

Blake. Oh yeah, Blake! Balaki! Malaki! Balaki! If you listen in Balak, listen, we we know you love Disney because you know, I just I took him down um a few weeks back. The money and his sister.

G 6:45

The money that these adults put into Disney is just mind-blowing to me. Yeah, like they have like season passes, they have the the tire. Oh, we don't forget all the pins. Yeah. I mean, they let me know. I know, I know I see. I mean, they'll open up these like books and pages and dude, it's wild.

Shawn 7:09

But when they come on with the the ears and everything, I just can't, man. I mean, so many things run through my head. When you see these different couples, right? Yeah. And I don't care what anybody does. Well, here's it's it is fun.

G 7:23

I mean, here's the one thing that I gotta say. I hope that all this pays off and there's some serious fantasy play being on happening. I was like because that imagination Run and Wild, right? I mean, if I'm running Disney.

Shawn 7:41

If I'm going to Disney, right, later on, we're switching it up. I just had to had, I'm sorry, but I had to run it.

G 7:50

I was more into like Jessica Rabbit.

Shawn 7:54

Jessica was the most smoking. She's probably the most smoking, hot animated cartoon. Because you know, you know the guys are like, you're you're watching that in bugs, you're like, yeah, whoa, damn.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

Damn.

Shawn 8:07

Damn. Damn.

SPEAKER_03 8:11

Didn't you like when he was like bugs?

Shawn 8:16

Jessica was hot.

G 8:18

Yeah, Jessica was hot. Yeah, yeah. That that's such a fun flight.

Shawn 8:22

See how we spooled over to this animation thing. It's like all of a sudden we just went up, we went from freaking Disney over to us. We could be hot in and out.

G 8:30

Well, we we just went to imagination.

Best Part Of Being A Flight Attendant

Shawn 8:32

Exactly. We're we're going out there. So anyway, we were emailed, we were emailed uh a question. It was uh about flight attendants. What is the greatest thing? What's the greatest thing about being a flight attendant?

G 8:45

Dude, I really just love the lifestyle. I mean, the lifestyle for me, like, is like the best. To be able to get on a plane, go to work, and like really now that I'm doing international, like I'm having more fun with the job, just like going places and be able to, I'm like stepping off this weekend in Rome, you know, and you know, next week I'm in freaking Dublin, you know. Like it's like you can go and do whenever wherever you want. That to me is like the best part.

Shawn 9:13

Don't you think though, from years ago when me and you were running around, right? It's like different kinds of fun, right?

G 9:19

Yeah. Well, and it's also like the other part of it, it's like when you got a you got a buddy that you're doing it the job with, and that's makes it even more fun. Right.

Shawn 9:29

Because when we were young, we were running around. We did a lot of shit. We did a ton of shit. Shit, we can't talk about no, we can't talk about it. Just thank God there wasn't phones. We say that all the time.

G 9:39

If we had phones, I'm so glad there wasn't like pictures, like the the pictures that we have right now.

Shawn 9:44

Wow. But at least we'd have been smart, we wouldn't have posted them on social media.

G 9:49

So that is definitely Are you gonna be like that senator that was just like resigned that he like sent a dick pic out? I was like, for real. I didn't want to go off to the political, but that like lined up.

Shawn 10:06

You just did, right? Right? You just shot off to the the political part of it.

G 10:11

I mean, like how many people like it doesn't matter, it could be a Hollywood star, it could be like you know, anybody, it doesn't matter, you know. But anyways, back to the job. The best part about it is, you know, I think all those new experiences we get to do, right?

Shawn 10:24

There's so many things about this job that's amazing. Um, and you know, you you can't just say one because the funny thing about it, you you're in a relationship. Yeah and the one thing I I've always said about being a flight attendant is um you're very independent as a as a person. Because, okay, we've we have been um in this game for a long time. So we we've had conversations with a lot of flight attendants on the jump seat, and sometimes your life doesn't go the way that you want it. No, right? Never does. But you don't in this job, you don't need a man. No. Because you're financially independent. No, I'm just saying for women. Oh, okay. Okay, financially independent. I just thought I found something out right now. You just went, you just went there, right? You just went there. You're very oh is G gay? No, G's not gay. It's okay. No, he's not. But let's go back to a stay staying. Yeah, stay in. I'm staying focused. So the You're taking me all these places. I know, but we're just like we're left, right, left, right. We're gonna do this a lot. So you're you you have a you have your personally significant other. Right, you know, and but you don't you don't need them if you want them there, that's that's perfect. But you don't need them because you're financially independent, right? You have you have medical dental vision, you have a retirement program. You're every I mean you have everything that you possibly need in a job, and it's all wrapped up in one little package.

G 11:55

Yeah, I mean not I mean not to say we don't need those other relationships and stuff, like like we all need relationships and everything else. Yeah, but at the at the um talking about the job, you like you are a very independent individual in this job because and you have to be pretty secure with yourself, right? Right, because every day we go to work, even then when we're even when we know everybody at work, you still don't know everybody at work, you know, like all the ins and outs stuff. Like, but I'm going to like crew, I'm at a crew base now, like I don't see the same people every time I go to work now, right? And I don't know everybody.

Shawn 12:31

But I'm gonna clarify what I meant by that when I said need. Okay, a lot of times your relationship isn't what you want it to be. Right. Okay. So you don't have to stay in it because of you need somebody's support that way. You can you're independent, you can go out and do it on your own. And that's what I mean by need, because if if the relationship isn't what you want it to be, you know, you could you could actually go out there on your own, and a lot of flight attendants have, and and their lives have gotten so much better, and they realize that they can do it on their own because in this job you have everything, it's all wrapped up in one.

G 13:05

You know, doesn't don't you find like being a flight attendant is like I feel like I can be kind of risky in life.

unknown 13:13

Yeah.

G 13:15

Like because of that security of what we have with the job. Yeah. You know, like so I can go out, I can do a lot of things independently and be very, you know, risky with where when I want to go and explore and stuff like that.

Shawn 13:30

Right.

G 13:31

You know.

Shawn 13:31

Oh, I know, because you took us to San Pedro Sula to Gusagapa. That was fucking risky as hell. Yeah, no, no, that was risky as hell.

G 13:39

We're gonna do some more risky.

Shawn 13:40

No, no, no, no, that's bullshit. We we we we did some risky shit. But you know right, um, but no, the the other thing, too, every flight tenant's done this. Okay, your your other person, right? You notice how I'm saying that now. Yeah.

G 13:56

He's being careful.

Shawn 13:57

Yeah, exactly. They just pissed you off. Right. You just picked up a trip and left. Oh, yeah. You just packed your shit up.

G 14:04

Yeah, you can do that.

Shawn 14:05

Right? And then if you piss them off, you know what it is? On Friday, you don't fly until Monday, and they already got your shit packed on Friday. So it works good for both people. So if if they're pissing you off, you pack, and if you piss them off, they're already packing your shit.

G 14:22

And you bring out a good point too. Like, you know, relationships in this industry is like, you know, it's a um it's not like that traditional racial relationship that most people have where, you know, you're coming home and you're seeing these people, you know, five days, seven days a week, whatever, you know. Like as a flight attendant, as a pilot, as a you know, you are gone periods of time. And you're always gonna be gone. And you get used to that routine of I might get pissed at my significant other today, but you know, I'm going on a trip, I'm gonna be able to cool down for two or three days, yeah, uh, come back.

Shawn 15:00

Your life's not a crime show.

G 15:01

Yeah, exactly.

Shawn 15:02

It's not a crime show, right? We hope not. You're not, it's not a crime show. No, and and it and it's so true though, too, because uh that what I found out is that when you have a family, especially when you're traveling a lot when we're young, right, and you had a family, when you come home, you disrupt the flow. Oh, yeah. You disrupt the I mean you jack up the whole household because you know you're you're used to doing things like your way, and then you can't do that. You have to let you kind of have to let mom take over because it's been her she set the routines, she set the schedules, she set all that stuff.

G 15:34

Yeah, you come home. Yeah, you gotta be you have to be cognizant of what you know how what things are happening in in your family dynamics.

Jumpseat Therapy And Oversharing

Shawn 15:42

Yeah, you'll jack shit up, but that's why we have um it's called jump seat therapy. We have this, we have this program that we're all we're all attuned to that we we talk about. It's amazing also in this.

G 15:55

And it's a benefit of the job, it's free.

Shawn 15:57

Yeah, but but you know it's crazy though, you just meet somebody, yeah, and they'll tell you every damn thing underneath the sun. Personal stuff. Every I mean, so shit, you don't even want to. Yes, sometimes right?

G 16:14

Because now you look at them differently. Many times you, yeah, you're gonna be like, like, I didn't need to know that. Nope. Nope. That was a need to know. Yeah. Your fetish that you just told me about. I don't know. Yeah. I don't want to know. But that's the truth, though, too. Didn't know it existed.

Shawn 16:27

It is, yeah, it's the truth.

G 16:29

Yesterday I was a virgin to gerbils.

Shawn 16:31

Yeah. You get these guys. You get you gotta love it when you get these guys. You get these guys that they don't look maybe as good as they used to look. Right. And they start telling you, like, man, in my day, yeah, how many women I used to have. And you get into these whole conversations on the jump seat. Hilarious.

G 16:49

Yeah.

Shawn 16:49

Jump seat therapy.

G 16:51

Dude, it always happens, uh, you know, whether you like it or not.

Favorite Planes And Worst Aircraft

Shawn 16:56

All right, here's something that happens. What is okay, what's your favorite plane to fly?

G 17:03

Uh, right now, my favorite plane to fly is probably the 787.

Shawn 17:09

787? Yeah, it's a nice plane.

G 17:11

I mean, it's a nice plane, it's big, it's comfortable. You know, and and like it has that humidification system on it, so like you feel different on it. Like, you know, on a long flight, you don't like feel like you're groggy and all that stuff. You don't get super dehydrated like we always do on the flights, you know. So I that's probably my favorite plane right now. Yeah. What's your least favorite plane? Neo. Oh, I can't stand that.

Shawn 17:36

Least favorite plane. Let me tell you, that's so easy. It's Neo. And I can tell you the the the favorite thing that the favorite thing I I love doing on a Neo. The favorite thing. Leaving. That's the favorite thing that I love have to do on a Neo. It's like, no, seriously. It is like, you know how you're out and about, and you see you see an old girlfriend, right? And she's with somebody else, yeah, and you're like exactly. That's the way it's like flying with a fucking Neo, right? You get on a Neo, and that damn thing, I don't know. I'm not shooting you. Yeah, this shit goes forever. Yeah, it's a good thing. And then you get then you get two flight attendants. Right. You get two flight attendants, you know why? Because the other two are hiding up front.

G 18:22

It's 321, Airbus 321. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it goes on forever. Every company has them configured different and all this stuff, but it's just a workhorse plane, and it's just it sucks.

Shawn 18:33

I want to get the engineer who put the bathroom in the back on the jump seat. Yeah. Okay. Stupid. Who put a jump seat on the bathroom door? Dude.

G 18:45

All of all of them stuck, suck.

Shawn 18:47

It's they suck.

G 18:48

Yeah. And every time they like try to improve it, like they got to now the new one with the with the instead of being on the door, yeah, you're on like on a on a board that's in the aisle. Like you're just attached to the floor there, like it's uh fold-down irony board.

Shawn 19:04

It's great. I mean, it's great for passengers.

G 19:06

Yeah.

Shawn 19:06

Don't get me wrong.

G 19:07

I mean, you know, it's they have lots of room in it if they get past the sounds, and we've already been into that talking about it.

Shawn 19:12

Yeah, this is this is strictly a flight attendant's point of view as far as working the plane and um and and leaving the plane.

G 19:18

Yeah.

Shawn 19:19

Because I can't stand that.

G 19:21

Like I know you said Neo's your least favorite. Like, my least favorite would be um 7-6 right now. Like, it's just an old plane, it just needs to leave the system, period. They're just why they're just they're old, they uh don't have uh like all the modern things that we are getting accustomed to and like all of our jets and stuff. Yeah, so it's like you get onto a plane and it just has old systems and old, you know, like it's you can see you can feel and see that it's like just ready to go. You know, it's gotta get out of here.

Shawn 19:52

So I'm thinking like flight attendants like that too, man.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Have you ever seen a flight attendant? Maybe it's just you're ready to go, right?

Shawn 20:02

It's just time. Maybe they're gonna look at me and you like that in a couple years and be like, you know, those two shit, their asses need to go.

G 20:09

Right.

Shawn 20:10

That's a first, you know. You know, we're at that age. Right. Because when a flight attendant, the front flight attendant is like, how long you've been flying, then you tell them, they're like, um, well, when are you retiring? Shut up. Do you realize? Listen, do you realize it took us forever to get to this point? Right. I mean, to this point, and and my seniority, which you don't know, but if you did, understand, I'm holding weekend turns.

G 20:37

Right.

Shawn 20:40

Weekend turns. Now, if I was based anywhere else. If I was based anywhere else, they're speaking a different language where I can fly. But in my base, I can do turns during the weekend.

G 20:55

Yeah.

Shawn 20:55

Because I'm senior.

G 20:56

Yeah. And I'm staying. It's funny. Like, I was talking to a crew the uh the other day when I'm flying, and they and I had all these junior flight students. We're talking about this whole thing, and they're like, Yeah, so when are you leaving?

SPEAKER_03 21:07

I know that's for sure. And I was like, shut up. Right? Shut up. So what? And then I'm gonna young junior three-year-old. But we were misbehaving to get out of here.

Shawn 21:22

We were we were there. Now we're like, wait a minute, now we're we're we're actually the old guys.

G 21:27

Right, right. It's that point. Like, you you it's funny how like companies like we go these through these cycles, and like for the young flight attendants, they don't just know yet because they had they're just like starting the cycle. But we've been through so many like contracts and different rules and different like different companies, and you know, we've morphed over our tenure here, right? So it's like we've like earned this where we're at right now. We can turn the best, the best process.

Shawn 22:00

Part of it is when you come across these young flight attendants and you tell them how how long you've been flying. They're like, oh God, I wasn't even born.

G 22:08

Yeah.

Shawn 22:08

Wasn't even thought of yet. I wasn't, I wasn't, I wasn't born then. Yeah.

G 22:13

We're getting a lot of that lately.

Shawn 22:14

And we and we had we already were here for like 10 years. It's so bad, man.

G 22:20

But dude, you know, it it's uh they're the whole system and everything is like, you know, it this this is how it's work, it works, you know. Seniority happens, it comes in time, comes in a flash like that.

Shawn 22:33

Yeah, it goes by fast. I mean, your our lives, I say this all the time, and see if you agree. We a flight attendant lives goes by fast. And the reason why is because there we we really focus on three days a month, and and pay attention when I'm saying this if you're a flight attendant. The first, we're getting paid.

G 22:54

Right, right. Right? Just like anybody else in any other job. The 16th, we're getting paid. We're getting paid.

Shawn 23:01

And the 17th, we're fixing our next month to get paid.

G 23:07

Right.

Shawn 23:08

Because our new bid comes out, and we're already thinking of the next month. Yeah, we're we still have 10 days.

G 23:14

Our heads are always thinking months. Ten days in advance, month, yeah. Month.

Shawn 23:19

And and and we're still and we're focusing in on the next month, on the 17th, and we still have like 10 days, 11 days left in that month. And by the time we get it all figured out, we're thinking about the first again.

G 23:33

Right.

Shawn 23:34

So three days.

G 23:36

Yeah. It's a it's a vicious cycle, but it keeps keeps you going.

Shawn 23:40

Oh, it's fun. I mean, that's why I said I mean our lives fly by so fast. All this the I mean, my life has flown by in this job. I mean, it really has. I mean, if I go back and look at our pictures when we're young. Oh, I was looking at them today. Damn.

G 23:53

I was flipping through pictures, I was talking about my family and all this stuff, and then all of a sudden I saw our pictures, and I was like, dang, dude.

Shawn 24:00

Weird thin, no wrinkles, running and gunning. Right. Now we're like creeping and walking. He came in here, he's like, Man, you're moving a little slow. I was I started well, I started running, I started running and and and I a few days ago, you know, back to the it builds up like from your ankles all the way to your head. So I I was dealing with that, and then I had to go out there and I was putting that damn weed and feed down. There's just another another painful little thing to do, dude.

Rome Layover Adventures And Food Smuggling

G 24:32

You're talking about this sore and all this stuff. So last trip, I go to Rome, right? I get to Rome, I'm like, I'm gonna go out and do something. And I look which I always do, you know. Like, I don't ever spoil a layover. So I go out and I'm walking, and I'm like, I got my camera, I start seeing all these things. I'm like, I hit these different places, really cool police display they had going on in Rome and in one of those squares, and I was like, this is cool. So I hung out, and like another thing that crossed my mind when I'm like walking around, just like doing some like you know, flight attendant therapy where we have our own time, like we've just been talking about. And uh, and I'm realizing like the last time I was in Rome was when I was like a teenager, you know, and I really had some time in Rome. And how much has changed is amazing. Yeah, it's like there's so much the last time I was in Rome, there was no McDonald's that ever existed in Rome. Oh, yeah, yeah. They didn't even allow chain restaurants in Rome.

Shawn 25:32

Yeah, I believe that.

G 25:33

And so now you go there and you see chain restaurants and stuff all of a sudden. It's amazing how these like times have changed and they've allowed like this morphing of their world to happen. But as I was walking around, I'm thinking, I need some good Italian food, I need a pizza, all this good stuff. And I get, I'm like walking miles away from the hotel. And my old ass knees are like, okay, Sean, you need to go home, you need to get a taxi. I sit down a little bit. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, you know, like it I'm feeling old, right? And I'm I'm I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna jump on one of those little lime scooters and I'm gonna go back, you know, and I so I go in and I'm like, go over to the lime scooter and I'm like, look up the lime app. And the line, I've used it like, I don't know, a hundred times, it seems like. And all of a sudden, boom, it pops up. You need to verify it that you're over 18.

Shawn 26:24

I said, does it every time that he leaves the country, some stupid shit happens? I'm like, every time, every time you leave the country.

G 26:31

So then I'm like, I'm like, oh, okay. And I reach, and I reach, and I forgot my damn wallet in my hotel room.

Shawn 26:41

All you gotta, my shit's gonna happen all you gotta do is wait.

G 26:47

Now I can't verify that I'm over 18. And now I gotta muck. Now I gotta walk my ass all the way back to the hotel. Uh yeah, it was an adventure to say the least. But I was like, every every layover is an adventure.

Shawn 27:04

You gotta show those pictures, though. He has some of the coolest pictures of these old police cars. And then those high performance police cars, those things were Lamborghinis. Crazy. I mean, crazy.

G 27:16

They had Lamborghinis, they got Rain Rovers, they had um sidecar motorcycles, motorcycle classics, they had all these different Jeep. Like, it was cool. It was a cool display of those. You gotta show some of those.

Shawn 27:27

Those are those were really, really cool.

G 27:28

Yeah, I'll post some. Yeah, yeah.

Shawn 27:30

High performance vehicles.

G 27:31

Yeah, high performance. I mean, shit, like what police department in the United States has a Lamborghini? Right? We'd be police officers, right?

Shawn 27:42

Imagine. We would already signed up. We already had we already had cop uniforms. Much earlier.

G 27:47

That's maybe a way they can recruit. Start buying some Lamborghinis. People are gonna join the police.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

We've been like Miami Vice. Look, see? Look at this. This is the Miami Vice. We could be Ohio.

Shawn 27:58

The Lamborghini version.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

There you go. Ohio Vice. Yeah, exactly. It'd be the old version.

Shawn 28:05

But now we'd be on like golf carts. Yeah. That's right. Get like a little beeping thing. Oh my god. No, hell no. Yeah. So what else? I mean, okay, so you told me uh what else did you eat though?

G 28:19

Because you you said Oh, I I was in uh so food was like my goal being over there. And so I was looking for all this good food and stuff, and I got over there and I said, I gotta go to the grocery store. So I bought these Roman artichokes. Yeah. And if you don't know what a Roman artichoke is, it's like a marinated whole artichoke that they've like trimmed down, whatever, and it's an oil. Uh dude, it's and it has the stems on them like unfortunately.

Shawn 28:47

You guys gotta understand this about with food with me and him.

G 28:49

Yeah.

Shawn 28:50

Since we've been uh friends, he's introduced me to so many things, and it started, it all started back with spaghetti.

G 28:57

Oh yeah.

Shawn 28:58

Because when we first got when we when we first was at Ben apartment, and we're like, oh, we're gonna make spaghetti. And the first thing is like, gee, that's not spaghetti. Shit, that ain't spaghetti. You don't make spaghetti like that. It's a tomato base. He goes, only Italians they have it like this. That's the sweet sauce. You go through this whole damn thing. Okay, fine, Sean. We're not using ragu. Just say we're not using rag. Do you remember the can, the can one that you used? I remember what it was because you went on and on about it.

G 29:28

I don't remember what I used to do. You're shitting me.

Shawn 29:30

You went on and on about that, and you don't remember. Yeah, I don't know. It was hunts.

G 29:32

Hunts. Oh, yeah, it was a hunts, yeah. The tomato base. The tomato base. Because it was the uh dice. All I heard dice, little dice tomatoes, because it was raw tomatoes. I was like, you gotta start your base with raw tomato. Yeah. You know, you can't.

Shawn 29:44

That's all I heard about was that. So now I stopped with rag do and everything's tomato bed. So here's the thing. But I do understand that because no, I I do understand because um like it's true, authentic Italian places, spaghetti. Right. You could definitely taste the difference.

G 29:58

Yeah, it's like it's uh it doesn't have all that extra sugar and stuff. No, no, no, all tomato American pastas and all that stuff, they've like enhanced all that stuff with sugars, and I I just, you know, you get over to Italy, you're gonna have that raw taste of like the vegetables, you're gonna taste the vegetables that are in it. Right. You know, like that's how it should be. But um, it's funny that you've we're talking about this. So I go to the store. This is a funny ass piece of it. I buy all this stuff. I get the artichokes and all this stuff. I see this big ass salami, like hard salami, you know, it's in a wrapper. I'm like, oh, I got some real Thai in good salami, right? I buy them, I buy it, dude. I'd I bring it back to the hotel, we go out to dinner.

Shawn 30:38

You're like, you Scooby, yeah, right? You mouse.

G 30:40

I'm like, I'm wondering, I'm like, I want to cut in this. I literally at night, I was like, I want to get into this salami, I want to get it going, right? And so we go out to dinner and everything, and I start telling them, yeah, I bought all this food, I'm gonna bring it back and all this stuff. And they're like, I'm like, yeah, I got this great salami. I can't wait to have it. Every person on the crew, the speaker, everybody, they're like, you can't bring that back. I'm like, how big was it? What dude, like a foot, foot and a half, like a big old salami. So I'm like, I'm like, what? They're like, you can't bring that through customs. They won't let you bring back meat. I'm like, I thought fruits and vegetables were their focus. It's sharing time.

Shawn 31:23

It's called now, I'm not even gonna say that. I'm not even gonna say that.

G 31:27

I'm gonna tell you right now, if you're traveling abroad, just do a little bit educated what you can and can't bring back because you don't want to buy stuff that you can did everybody eat. Hell no. Did you eat it all? No. I took my chances with that slami, and that slami made it home. So don't be messing with a mandolin's food. That's what I got to say.

Shawn 32:00

Oh, you're killing me. You're absolutely killing me. He said, he said he had ordered, you ordered a bunch of those um uh artichokes too.

G 32:08

Yeah, yeah. Before I even left, I was like, I'm ordering these artichokes. I got on, I got on like Amazon over there. So when you get on Amazon over there, you get all like all this Italian stuff started coming up. You know, you're like, this is a this is a different Amazon that I'm looking at. But then I start like looking at it, I'm like, I need to get some of the Roman artichokes. Yeah. I ordered this like giant package of Roman artichokes. They're already here in the house.

Gate Times And Being Late

Shawn 32:35

Salami and artichokes. All right, before we get into some of the shit with with me this week, um, I real quick question. So flight attendants were required to be at the gate, and this is a little off the cuff, so I'm switching gears. And this is for a specific person that watches us every single week and you know you know who you are. As a flight attendant, when you show up at the gate, okay, and you you and you swipe your yourself in, okay, to clock yourself in.

G 33:03

Right.

Shawn 33:04

If you're one minute late or 15 minutes late, are you late? Oh, you're late. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. I'm looking straight at you. So this is one minute late or 15 minutes late.

G 33:21

You're late.

Shawn 33:22

You're late.

G 33:23

You're late.

Shawn 33:23

You're late.

G 33:24

So I I just had to throw it out there. There's nothing in the rules to say that there's a um, you know, a buffer. Yeah. No, I like a little give to it.

Shawn 33:35

No. You're late.

G 33:36

You're late.

Shawn 33:37

No, but I honestly I love this girl. I we have so much fun. Every time that we fly together, her face is hurting because she's laughing so much uh from the shit that we talk about. And we talk about stuff, but I told her I said, this week, I'm directing it straight at you towards you about the one minute. Yeah, she was late. Yeah, she's late. Late. So this week, um projectile puking.

Projectile Puke Story And Courtesy

G 34:02

Dude.

Shawn 34:03

Okay. No, projectile puking. Now you're taking it places and um dry heaving, gag reflexes, and a lump of clay.

G 34:13

Ugh. Let's start with gag reflexes.

Shawn 34:16

You just wonder what that is, right? When you're sitting there going, okay, what is happening? He's like talking about projectile puking and okay, so we're we're getting we're getting ready to, we're taxiing out. Uh, all of a sudden we have this big situation. This baby is sitting on top of a mom, projectile puked in first class in row two. Uh, and it was so much that when I got back to her, she had her hands together. It was like a soup bowl, okay? It was completely full, spewing over the top of it. And I'm giving you a little bit, yeah, you know, you're getting an idea about what's going on. Details and gravity. Okay, this is this is the glory of the job, right?

G 35:01

Thank God we can't. This isn't smell-ovision.

Shawn 35:03

Yeah. So, so it's all over the back of the seats, it's on the floor, it's on, it's all over her flip-flops, all over her. She's standing there dripping, and then the husband's over here, and he's like a lump of clay. He's not even moving. Okay, I'm gonna get to that in a minute. I I I just I have to address that with men.

SPEAKER_04 35:24

Yeah.

Shawn 35:24

And this is this is just like a men thing. So I told her, I said, I'm sorry, but you know, we're taking off, right? This has all happened with the biggest. Yeah, we're taking off. We can't pull over. I'm like, as soon as we get up, I'll I'll be right back.

G 35:39

Right.

Shawn 35:39

So we got up and uh right up out of the room.

G 35:42

She's holding the soup bowl the whole time.

Shawn 35:43

I can't do nothing. Right. We're we're taking off. It's either that we got to circle back around.

G 35:47

Right.

Shawn 35:47

So anyway, I jump up, I grab a bag, she dumps it in it. Anyway, I clean all this up. I go in there, sprinkle the stuff at now. Meanwhile, row one, whoo, row two and three, whoo, everybody's dry heaving because the smell is so bad.

G 36:04

Here's the thing, too, that people don't realize, too. It's like when you're in front like that, and that plane turns and like it starts rotating, and that cabin turn tends up in the air, where does all that warm, nice smell go? Yeah. Straight up to the front, just like all the way up to the front of the cabin. So the first class is getting it really.

Shawn 36:26

I know why everybody's like, yeah, it's hit and it's hitting us, and it's hitting us, and the person I has gag reflex too. So the one thing, the one thing the gag reflex, if you do, if if you take those little alcohol wipes, give it to them, break it open. Put it underneath your nose. You start smelling, start smelling. So, yeah, so they put the alcohol wipes underneath their nose. So I'm cleaning all this shit up. Now, I'm a person, I always help people. I always will. It it doesn't matter, it's just me. So I'm cleaning all this up. Now, meanwhile, not moving. Not looking. Moving the clay is over. Not moving, not wanting to look. So, so you gotta sprinkle this shit, clean all it because it solidifies, put it, you know, clean it all up. I'm putting uh blankets down. I take her flip-flops into the bathroom, clean them inside the toilet because they're fill it full of puke.

G 37:14

Right.

Shawn 37:14

And then rinse them off, alcohol, rinse them, gave them back to her, got her all cleaned up, got the seats all wiped down, everything done. Not one thank you. Now, I'm not a person. What? Listen, I'm not a no, I swear to God, I'm not a person, I am not a person that requires a big passion. Yeah, no, no, no, you don't need it. Not at all. And I'll do it again, I'll do it a thousand times over. But where have we gotten to a society to when someone does this for you? I mean, really goes out. I mean, goes out.

G 37:49

Yeah, because our job is not to do clean that shit up.

Shawn 37:51

Yeah, and goes out. And and not one, not from mom, not from Lump of Clay. Lump of clay.

G 38:00

No.

Shawn 38:01

The whole flight. And we and we were let's call him Mr.

G 38:04

Potato Head.

Shawn 38:05

But we we were on a three and a half hour flight. Yeah. And I gave you every opportunity just to come up and say, Yeah, thank you. That's it.

G 38:12

Now I but I just anybody else in the cabin say thank you.

Shawn 38:16

Row one, the it very uh it was incredible. She she just kept going on and on. She goes, Oh my God. The guy over here goes, My wife has a gag reflex. Thank God you jumped up and did that because she was about ready, she you were about ready to clean up in aisle one now. Yeah because she was about ready to throw up, and then the the row three were thanking me too. But here's row one, row three, nothing and row two.

G 38:41

Nothing, nothing from the people that were actually causing a whole zero, absolutely zero. Mom and Mr. Potato had big failure.

Shawn 38:48

Wampuklay. I mean, dads, seriously, you gotta do better, man. I mean, I I know this isn't all dads, and I know a lot of you guys are gonna jump up and and you're gonna do what you gotta do.

G 38:58

It doesn't cost you to be courteous. No, right? I mean, you could say thank you, you could say, oh, you know, please and thank yous go a long way in in this world. Like you people just don't understand.

Shawn 39:09

If that was your kid, if that was my kid, I would have been like, no, you're not doing it, I'm doing it. I'm clean, and I still clean it up. But I would have jumped up and said, No, that's my kid, I will clean that up, right? And don't you worry about it, I'll take care of it. Sure. I appreciate you, but no, but no, that was that wasn't it. But anyway, so that's that's one of the glories of the job.

G 39:28

Yeah. That's what we like the best.

Shawn 39:33

No, what I like the best.

Winning Over Kids On Flights

SPEAKER_03 39:34

Our favorite experiences we like to share.

Shawn 39:36

What I love the best this week was this group of kids that came on, and like I've been telling you, I've been doing the Orlando's. This one came out of the East Coast.

G 39:43

Right.

Shawn 39:43

And they came down, it was like recess let out.

G 39:46

Oh, hell no.

Shawn 39:46

Yeah, well, it's Orlando. They're coming in. I know, I know, I know they're kids that come in. Proper room is not on the plane. Well, they they're coming in, they're a little loud. Right. So when when they were coming on board, I was like, hey, you guys gotta bring it down a little bit. And there's this one kid. I love this. He went from he no, he went from this this school kid to Cyrus the virus on on Con Air, right? No, he was like, he was eyeballing me, Sean. He was like oh he's like looking at me like this.

G 40:18

That's some funny shit.

Shawn 40:20

He was looking at me like this, and as he's walking away, he's looking like this. I'm like, is he eyeballing me? He's squaring me up, right? This little dude squaring me up, he's like four years old, right? And I'm I'm he I got you, right? So you know I gotta go find him. I love that. I love that kind of personality though, because he, you know, he just funny.

SPEAKER_04 40:41

Sure.

Shawn 40:41

So I had to go find him. And um, so he he's in the back and I'm looking at him. As soon as he seen me, as soon as he seen me, he's like that. He's looking at me like, I'm like, oh, he's got those eyeballs. So I I brought him back and I had I had some um I had some stroop waffles. And I looked at him, I said, You like these? And he goes, handed to him, I said, We buddies. And he came, he gave me a little fist bump. I'm like, all right, cool, man. Transition of flight. I love that because you get the even with the kids, man. You can change the kids, you can change the kids a whole flight just by going up a damn stroop waffle.

G 41:24

Yeah, I always, I always like one of that's actually like one of the fun challenges on a flight. Like that, I find that fun. Yeah. I know you do too. Yeah. To like, I'm gonna flip this attitude around, right? Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, it's like you gotta, you gotta like flip it. It's like, I know all that's I don't know where, what happened to you before you got on a plane and all that stuff, but now you're in my world.

Shawn 41:45

Yeah, I don't want you to have it. We're gonna have fun. Yeah, no, exactly. I want you to, when you leave here, I want you to think that, you know, shit, I had a good time, I'm gonna come back.

G 41:53

Right.

Shawn 41:53

Because that's how we get paid. I mean, I don't care what anybody says. Hell, that's how we get paid. People come back, that's how we get paid. If people don't come back, you don't get paid.

G 42:01

Right.

Shawn 42:01

Right? I mean, even that little kid, that little kid like that. I mean, you see, you see that in your eyes.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

You squaring me up, boy.

Shawn 42:11

You square me up, right?

G 42:13

The funny thing.

Shawn 42:15

You know he was out there taking his crayon, going like this.

G 42:17

Yeah.

Shawn 42:19

Hey? Man, he's taking my name, Daddy. He's taking my name, Daddy. That dude, you know, this uh this dude ends up being like uh Cyrus the virus. He'd be like, Yeah, I remember that one flight attendant. He's probably like 90 years old now. I'm gonna hunt that mug down.

G 42:36

Dude, the things that we had to deal with, the things we had to deal with at work is fun.

Hotel Sprinklers Insurance And Weird News

Shawn 42:41

No, it's a lot of fun. I I love it, man. I love that. I love it. But um anyway, we've been talking a lot. We're gonna have to go around the globe. Yeah, Southwest, a Southwest uh flight attendant and and Southwest Airlines are gonna get sued because um a flight attendant had messed around with one of the sprinkler systems, flooded a couple rooms. Oh, really? Did you see that? No, yeah, it happened in it happened back in 25, in February of 2025. But whatever they did, they messed around with the sprinkler heads and they ended up flooding a couple of rooms$215,000 worth of damage.

G 43:15

Dude.

Shawn 43:15

That's is that payroll deduct?

G 43:20

You know what? There's some companies that would do that.

Shawn 43:22

Yeah. I'm gonna be like, so when they take it out, is it like$10 a month?

G 43:28

Dude. I had I had that experience in a hotel with like that, like the the whole thing, the room flooded. Yeah, like out from under the room door, you could see water was like it was a river of water. So I was like, wow, you know, like these things can happen, but you know, they're gonna write all that stuff off insurance. Yeah, insurance gonna take care of all that stuff.

Shawn 43:50

I don't know. I thought it was interesting though.

G 43:52

I mean, you know, I don't think they're I don't think they'll get sued. It's just like they might lose their contract, right? There's flight attendant staying there. Or something like that. Well, they're getting sued, whether they get the money or not. Yeah, the insurance company might, might, I doubt it. Get a little bit of cash.

Shawn 44:07

I thought it was funny to pay real.

G 44:08

Today in today's world insurance and stuff, dude, they'd steal cars and stuff, and you can see where they're at and tracking it. This is going out to my good friend Angel out there.

SPEAKER_04 44:18

Yeah.

G 44:19

You could see the car where it's at and be like, calling the insurance company and be like, there's my car. It's right here. Send the police. Send the police.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

Send the police. And they'll be like, you know. Hers was crazy, but it had the ID in it.

G 44:34

Right.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

The dude that stole the car left the ID in it and they still didn't do shit. Still didn't do it. They didn't do shit.

G 44:42

And the insurance just bought a new car. Bought a new car. That's what I'm saying. Like, this would be insurance. Yeah.

Titanic Exhibit And Life Or Death Ticket

Shawn 44:48

But okay, this week. Do you know what happened? Actually, today.

G 44:52

What's that?

Shawn 44:53

The Titanic sank.

G 44:54

Ooh, dude.

Shawn 44:56

It hit the iceberg on the 14th, but on the 15th, it sank.

G 45:00

On the 15th, it sank. Yeah.

Shawn 45:02

So yeah, they had they they actually they had a hundred uh I scored, they had 1,500 die. And they had like uh what 710 survived? Survive. Could you imagine being out in that shit?

G 45:12

I mean, have you ever been to that exhibit? No. That's a really cool exhibit. Is it? Yeah, they have a traveling Titanic exhibit that kind of like travels the world and all that stuff. But I did I did it, and you kind of like go in and you get to see some of the like uh, you know, what it looked like, how the Titanic and all this stuff, you get to read the stories of people that individual individuals. What is it though?

Shawn 45:32

I mean, is it like a truck or what?

G 45:33

No, no, no, it's like they set it up in normally like in a museum somewhere, and you go into it's like an exhibit in that a special exhibit to that museum. Like they had it at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame here. Okay, and it was a special exhibit to it. Anyways, you go in, and the cool thing about that exhibit is that when you get your ticket for the to go into the exhibit, you get somebody's pastor's name. That's who you are. And so when you get done with the exhibit, you get to find out if you're dead, are you part of the 710? Are you part of the 1500? Dead or alive. Right. It's pretty wild. It's kind of it was kind of like a different twist to that whole.

Bucky’s Proposal And Gas Station Devotion

Shawn 46:13

It's like you were Slytherin. Remember that one? Slytherin. Put the hat on, find out if you're Slytherin. The only difference here, you find out if you're dead. That's it, that's exciting. Did you make it? Didn't you know? No, I'm dead. Damn. I bet that I was gonna be alive. So I I had to talk about this one because this was definitely you. Uh, this uh it was the ultimate wedding proposal. So your wife, do you think that if you'd have gotten down your on one knee in Bucky's, that she would have said yes?

G 46:47

Dude, it'd been done.

Shawn 46:49

So she'd have said yes.

G 46:50

It would have never happened.

Shawn 46:52

She wouldn't have like next to the little mini hot dogs.

G 46:55

First of all, she ain't hanging at Bucky's. You find me at Bucky's for sure. I'll be getting some Bucky bites, some barbecue, I'll get some beef jerky, I'll be hitting the Bucky's hard. But my wife, she'll be sitting in a car. There's no proposing to me.

Shawn 47:13

The ring, the ring was just bizarre.

G 47:15

Yeah. What was it?

Shawn 47:17

It I don't know. It was like this, it was almost like a gothic type ring.

G 47:20

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Shawn 47:21

But yeah, they so she got proposed at Buckeys.

G 47:23

By Buckys.

Shawn 47:24

Had to talk about that one because you're the you're the Bucky.

G 47:27

Yeah. Do you know people got married in Buckeys? They've had a marriage in Buckeyes.

Shawn 47:31

You get engaged in Bucky's, why not?

G 47:34

Hey, you can marry you can get it catered. I'm gonna tell you right now, if you have never. What was it?

Shawn 47:40

What are they known for in Bucky?

G 47:41

So they're known for all that stuff.

Shawn 47:43

But what like the what are those like the hot little foods? You said you said some of them.

G 47:47

They had yeah, they have barbecue in there, they got beef jerky. I mean, and when I say barbecue, they got a whole station with like 10 people making barbecue sandwiches because that's how fast they sell them. Yeah, like it's it's crazy. They got this whole thing, it looks like a meat counter. It's nothing but beef jerky.

Shawn 48:03

Perfect! We got a catering club. So it's catered. Yeah, yeah, it's catered by buckys. So you walk up there, you got like little baskets, yeah. Like little paper baskets, dude. It would be amazing.

G 48:14

Wednesday, you'd have barbecue at your wedding, you have some beef jerky for the like appetizers and stuff like that. You got a whole slurpee counter.

Shawn 48:21

And you don't have to clean up, all you gotta do is throw it in the trash.

G 48:23

Right. We can get some bucky bites and bucky puffs. We got bucky everything.

Shawn 48:29

See, I told you, I told you, I told you that it was gonna be it would be a hit with him. It'll be awesome. The Bucky's love affair.

G 48:36

Yeah, I love Bucky's. If you haven't been to a Bucky, get your ass out by it.

Quote Of The Day And Closing

Shawn 48:40

All right, man, let's get out of here before he starts going even crazier on Bucky's.

G 48:43

All right.

Shawn 48:43

All right, the quote of the day success is widely defined as a result of hard work, perseverance, and a learning from failure rather than accidental luck.

G 48:55

Yep. You are always being defined, right? Yeah. By what you do, say, all that stuff. And how you fail. I mean, failure is part of it. Yeah. So it's not it's just not accidental luck. Things are meant to be for a reason, right? Like if you fall in love at Bucky's. Right. That's not accidental luck.

Shawn 49:21

Nope. All right, guys. Hey, listen, we had a great time this week.

G 49:24

Great time.

Shawn 49:25

We actually had a lot of fun. We actually went a little bit longer this week.

G 49:27

Right, a little bit longer than what we normally have been trying to do.

Shawn 49:31

Yeah.

G 49:31

Yeah. So next week we'll see you. Thanks for joining us.

Shawn 49:35

Yeah, see you next week. And he'll show up maybe like the billboard again.

G 49:40

See you guys. Or we get detooed. Yeah, never know. See ya. All right, friends. That's a dose of aviation chaos for today. If you laughed, gasped, or got mildly triggered by airport behavior, hit subscribe and go ahead and watch another episode because we are fully committed to turning your free time into airline stories and bad after decisions. Leave us a comment with your funniest travel experiences and share this with that one friend who's always late to the airport but somehow blames the TSA. Thanks for hanging out with us, and we'll catch you on the next episode of Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.