Patriotism Under Attack—Here's What's Really Happening

Happy 250th birthday, America! 🇺🇸 Shawn and G kick off this episode with Fourth of July traditions, family cookouts, fireworks, childhood memories, and appreciation for the military, law enforcement, and everyone working to keep major summer celebrations safe.

Then the conversation turns to the summer travel disaster season. From driving through blinding Ohio rain to thunderstorms shutting down airports hundreds of miles away, we explain why clear skies at your airport do not mean your flight will leave on time. Shawn shares what happened aboard a 13-hour flight from Japan with no Wi-Fi or outside connectivity, and the guys discuss aircraft maintenance schedules, weather diversions, cascading delays, and why airlines need to give passengers better real-time information.

Summer vacation plans lead to a debate over Disneyland versus a Disney cruise, followed by a flight attendant commuter story that turns into the airport version of The Hunger Games. Oversold flights, limited jumpseats, a crew still listed on the manifest, and one captain willing to step in make this a story airline employees will understand immediately.

The episode also covers tribute bands, concert line-cutters, forgotten Broadway tickets, and whether couples should be allowed to skip events they simply do not want to attend.

Finally, we go around the globe with some unbelievable travel stories: Would you delay your trip for a $4,000 airline voucher? What happens when Americans get arrested after a brawl in the Bahamas? Why was someone traveling with 150 venomous scorpions? And how did a passenger carrying a fake boarding pass manage to sneak onto an airplane?

Celebrate safely, be careful with fireworks, learn the laws before traveling internationally, and remember that summer travel requires patience, flexibility, and a sense of humor.

Transcript

Fourth Of July Traditions

G 0:00

Hell yeah, man. USA brother, it's uh it is coming up on the 4th of July. Yeah, 4th of July is coming up, and we are celebrating our asses off, man. Like uh I'm always about USA patriotism. Thousand percent. 100% supporting all the men and women out there, armed forces that are helping us to keep us safe and have our way of life.

Shawn 0:26

Absolutely. What is your what's your favorite thing about the fourth? Um celebration, I know, but what is your what's your favorite thing? I'm off. Oh, come on.

G 0:47

You still don't like the fireworks? Uh no, no, no. I like the fireworks. Like the fireworks are like cool. Like, I'm I'm uh I I gotta tell you, I'm just like honestly, I'm being super honest. It's a I don't have to go to fireworks. Yeah, like Carol.

Shawn 1:03

You don't ever have to go with the fireworks everywhere.

G 1:06

I know I understand, but Carol loves the fireworks. Yeah, like I mean, she wants to go to fireworks and she wants to go to multiple. You know how like the cities all have them on different dates and stuff leading up and they kind of spread them out and stuff. Like, dude, what would we do with fireworks for a week? Yeah, like I'm like, okay, that's another firework.

Shawn 1:23

Well, you'll see that leftover shit for a week because people just are like, Oh, I got a I got an extra M80, blow it off. Dude, on the lake here, like Roman candles, shoot them off.

G 1:33

So I'm at the highest point of my, you know, our county, right? And so we could sit on my deck and I can see every night, and I guarantee you, from the next probably, you know, from from this point on, we're gonna start seeing fireworks building up to this weekend, and then it's gonna be a weekend after that where it's still fireworks, but we could see them all over the place for a long way. So it's it's pretty cool.

Shawn 1:55

I still like I still love though, I still love that the family thing though. Yeah. Because even when we were kids, it was a big thing that you piled into the car. You went down to the lake. Yeah, go go to go to Green Fireworks. You grabbed the remember the do you remember those uh sodas that we used to have? They didn't have a name, they just have like cream soda. Oh yeah. You you put those things in a in a um uh one of the carriers or whatever as a cooler, yeah, and you throw that in, get popcorn and everything. I love it, man.

G 2:24

I got all you know those lawn chairs, you know, those pop-up lawn chairs and stuff they have now. Like, so our club here has a fireworks display that they do too, and then that whole thing goes on, but the club does like extra, you know, celebration to it. So they'll have like the blow-up pits and stuff for the kids and all that stuff. The fire department will show up, they'll have like cotton candy, hot dogs, you know, so that was just when you even said the lawn chairs.

Shawn 2:52

Remember the old lawn chairs that we had compared to today?

G 2:55

The metal ones like and then the ass will break right through because they're so damn old.

Shawn 3:00

Yeah, yeah. And now they got these high-tech, they got these like high-tech swing shit like that.

G 3:05

Dude, you got the ones that are like they rock now. You got the ones that have like the hammock, the hammock looking ones, they got ones that like shade you, they get like the ones that actually zip up in a box in case it rains. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

Shawn 3:19

They got all kinds of shit. Yeah, but no, the 4th of July is so much fun. Yeah, I love the 4th of July. And this shit. And then the cookouts, yeah, food. Favorite 4th of July, man. What do you what do you normally cook? Do you do brats or anything like that? I'm uh, you know, hamburger, hot dogs.

G 3:35

I'll throw ribs. I love brats. I love brothers, but I've so I like I do all that type of stuff. Like, I'll have a mixture of stuff. Yeah, but like normally I haven't done any like personal parties. Like, you you don't do personal parties at your house, do you? No, I I I rarely go to parties, you know that. Yeah, no, no, but like they have the like the family over. Like you don't have your family gathering at your house and you're having to cook out.

Shawn 3:56

A little a little small thing, but nothing, nothing big. If they come over. I mean, usually like we'll go somewhere. Yeah, we'll you know, we'll go over to a family.

G 4:04

We'll go to somebody else's, like they having a party or whatever that, but but we don't personally do that too often, but I do enjoy all those things. Like that's that's that's awesome. I love I wish my like the family, all of our family was closer to be able to do that because I know if we were like in Indiana, yeah, dude, that'd be on. Oh, yeah. We'd be throwing a big old party. Yeah, the barbecues, the hamburgers, hot dogs, brats. Yeah, I love that stuff, but yeah, 250th USA's birthday. Shit, what the hot dogs gonna be eating on that day. This weekend's gonna be it's on. Yeah, there's so much stuff going on, like TV and celebration in the Capitol, and all like it's just it's crazy.

Big Events Need Big Security

G 4:43

And here's the thing, too. You know, the World Cup, it's in full swing still right now, right? Like that stuff is still happening, and now you have all these events with the Fourth of July and I mean to be a police officer right now or any of our any of our law enforcement agencies out there right now, man, tough job.

Shawn 5:01

Well, I mean, uh go back with the with with even with the NBA, okay, the Knicks. That's over with. That's been done. I know that was two weeks ago. I know that. I know that. But that's not what I'm talking about. You're talking about the World Cup. Yeah. But the point that I was making is that when they these championships, these people that destroy the city when they win.

G 5:19

Oh, yeah, that's stupid.

Shawn 5:20

It's just stupid. The same they do the same thing in the soccer, though.

G 5:23

Yeah. When they when they win, they they have, but in the past in other countries and stuff, yes, that's happening. Right, that's what I'm saying. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. They ain't destroying shit here in the US. No, maybe over in Mexico, maybe in Canada, not in the US. This is like this doesn't make any sense. Uh there's too much security going on right now at this moment. Yeah. Like right now, I would say most of the events that you go to, probably the most secure events that you're gonna have to go to because there's so much support to what's happening. And uh, I was just looking at a um uh show the other day, and they were they were interviewing like Secret Service and Border Patrol and local authorities and FBIs, and they were all talking about all the different developments. Like they there's things that are going on right now we aren't even thinking about. Right. Like the cyber stuff that's happening right now. They have drone interventions that they put all these agencies through just for this World Cup time and the and uh 4th of July celebration that's out there that they have like you know all these different tools to like shoot down drones and all kinds of wild stuff, right? Yeah, so I mean there's a there's a whole nother level of this, like, and we know with being airlines, you know, it's this layer of security.

Shawn 6:40

Oh, yeah. I mean, even with the drone technology though, they can fly in there. Greatest thing about it is that you know they don't have to make the arrest right then. No, they can fly in there, take the video of the person, know that your ass did what you did, right? And they come get you later. Yep. Because that's that's one of the best things about that drone technology. Well, just you don't have to take them now. Yeah, you don't have to take them now. You you can't take them later though. Right. And they'll definitely do

Driving Through Sudden Downpours

Shawn 7:04

that. But summertime, summertime also was driving to the airport um the other day. Now, coming off the lake, driving to 71. You ever drive in there and you see that big dark blue haze in front of you? So in Ohio, we we'll we'll get these storms that come off the lake, and you'll see that dark blue.

G 7:22

And I'm I'm driving into first of all, you're saying dark blue. I see a lot of dark black. But it's like I mean, it's like I don't know if it's dark blue.

Shawn 7:30

Crazy dark dark exactly. It's one of those crazy ass colors that you're looking at, you're like, this shit ain't good. Yeah, yeah. So you're driving, and we're about 25 minutes from the airport, right? Yeah, so I'm I'm looking at it, and the closer I get, then you see a haze. Yeah. And you're just waiting because you're right on a cusp. All hell is gonna break loose in just a minute. So I ran into this wall, and it was a shit storm of rain. Couldn't see shit.

G 7:56

Isn't it amazing? Like in an instant, boom, like even the highest setting on your car, right? The wipers can't clear it off. Doesn't do it. Yeah, like you need to like slow down and almost come to a stop because you can't see.

Shawn 8:10

It's the only time, I know that I don't know if you'll agree with this, but it's the only time I get behind a semi.

G 8:16

Oh, I don't get behind semis.

Shawn 8:17

Now see, I won't get to the side of them because the mist, I get tucked in right behind them, and I'm not going, I'm I'm not going fast, but I'm tucked in behind them because that mist on mine, because my car, I can't see shit. Here's my thing with semis.

G 8:32

Don't trust the motherfuckers. I get that. They swerve all over the place. Right. And semis are always throwing rocks and shit. I don't want, I don't, I don't get around a semi everywhere. Yeah, it's like with all my cars and stuff. I'm like, I'm super sensitive. And me and my wife have had arguments about this. Yeah. Like, I don't like to be behind. She likes to do like you just said, she likes to roll up behind a semi and just sit there. Dude, that's just like rock city to me. Like, I'm like, Well, I agree.

Shawn 8:58

No, no, I agree with you like on any other time. This time, this time. Even in weather, I don't want to be. This time, man, when I was when I'm on the left or right, I'm catching all that freaking shit coming off that quarter semi. And so the safest place. Safest place I was in this instance was like right behind him. And I wasn't going that fast, but I I was tucked in behind the semi. I'm like, shit, I'm staying here until we ride this storm out. Dude, I I it was bad. It was bad.

G 9:25

I mean, when it gets that bad, I just pull over. I know. That's hazards on and done because there's too many fools out there. There's idiots that are just trying to continue to go. Yeah, and guess who one of the biggest fucking idiots are? Truckers.

Shawn 9:38

Oh, yeah, I know. I know you're gonna, I'm gonna tuck him behind them. No, well, no, it is not like that. It is not like that. Man, I ain't riding a damn bumper. Shit, you act like you act like my feet are on the bumper I'm holding on to the back of it.

G 9:53

No, no, no. I'm not getting close to it. Like, if it gets up that bad in the weather where we can't see, like, just get off the road, people. Yeah, I'm not getting off the road, but I'm gonna tuck in behind. No, I'm gonna get off the road because I've been like, I mean, it's rare that I get off the road. Yeah, but if it gets that bad, like I don't want to be hit.

Shawn 10:12

Yeah, but they hit people sitting on the side of the road because they're they're sitting they're not paying attention to them. That's been, I mean, they they've there's a lot of accidents where people got hit.

G 10:21

Again, I mean I who the people are hitting are the fools that are trying to get through this that continue to drive through. That's what I'm saying. Like, if you you're on the side of the road and you got flashers on and all that stuff, you know, they're and sometimes you can't see them till the last minute. Yeah, that's something like that's the problem. It's like if it gets to that point, everybody needs to just get over and stop for a moment.

Shawn 10:41

So the summer shit show. Summer

Why One Storm Breaks Everything

Shawn 10:44

shit show. The weather sucks, man. All over the system, right? It does. Well, especially, okay, this time of year, you number one, number one place. If you could, if you could think, which one is the worst place during summertime for storms? Worst. Easy, it's not hard. What do you mean? Chicago's really bad. Yeah, but no, worst place for summer storms. Chicago's really bad. It's bad, yeah, but it's not the worst. It's not the worst. Well, who do you think? You get lake effect out of Chicago. Who do you think is the worst? Orlando. Yeah, you do. I just it comes right off the Gulf, man. The summer summer storms come in, yeah, and lightning. I mean, they it's like But Orlando's like not right on the coast.

G 11:26

That'd be like Tampa might be the better, or you know, like we what we experience in our system, like Orlando's like the worst. You think? Yeah.

unknown 11:36

Yeah.

Shawn 11:36

Lightning, everything shuts Miami down. Miami's bad too. Miami's bad. I think they rank Miami like number three, but Orlando, Orlando's number one. I mean, you got Orlando, okay. Any place, let's let's put it this way any place down south that has a major airline in it, right? And where you have Orlando, you have like Atlanta, yeah, okay, you have Miami. Yeah. Any it's a total disruption of the system. Yeah, and anytime there's a storm coming up. Yeah, but it could be clear everywhere else. And this is where a lot of people don't understand. They're like, why are you late? Well, did you see the weather down in Texas? And they're like, well, what does that what does that have to do with us? Well, because your plane went from Dulles to Houston, Houston to here, Houston up the your plane had to go through Houston.

G 12:26

I gotta tell you a story because this is connecting all this shit. And this just happened to me recently.

Flying Blind Without Wi-Fi

G 12:33

Okay on a plane, we're in Japan, and we're coming back. The aircraft has zero Wi-Fi. Totally shut down. And when I say totally shut down, you and I know no crew Wi-Fi, there's no patcher wifi, there's no connectivity. The plane, and people don't understand out there, the pilots right now use iPads and connectivity to help fly the plane. Okay? So we're taking off, it's 13 hours before we're gonna land, and they have no front weather report. Like they don't they know that uh when we take off, yeah, there's predicted weather coming in there, right? But we the only weather that's on the plane is the radar that's on the plane, and the radar that's on the plane is only good for 300 miles, and 300 miles is really short on a plane going 500 miles per hour. Easy. Okay, so yes, it it was it's wild that you have this like whole thing and that people are continuing to press through. The pilot I was flying with, she was pissed. She was like, This is like the fifth time the company's doing this to me. I don't have I don't know what's gonna happen when I get there. I gotta make all these quick decisions, all this stuff. It's like that truck driver. Yeah, still gotta plow through because it's gotta get that load to the destination, all the stuff, and then you got those little idiots following them, you know? So catch that?

Shawn 14:07

Did you catch that? I'm letting you finish. I'm letting you finish. Don't think for a minute that I didn't catch it. Did you just did you notice a stare? Did you did you ever see like a stare when somebody stares through somebody? Yeah, it would just happen right there.

G 14:20

Right, right, right.

Shawn 14:21

So so you might you might realize did I realize your comment? Did you realize my stare? Which one did which one went first?

G 14:28

Right. So, anyways, it's it's oh it blows my mind that like we are still trying to push through this weather and all this stuff in this time, like each location, doesn't matter what big major airport you're getting, if it has weather coming through, it could be the worst, right? You know, I'm like like it's it's it's bad, right? And luckily, by the time we got there, our weather was okay enough for us to get through and we didn't have to divert and all that stuff because international planes, you know, we only got so much freaking gas, and by the time we get to the end, we're really you know thin on gas, and so we're gonna they're making quick decisions, they're not gonna be like circling and like we are domestically, and but there's a lot of things that people don't understand about airlines, and they the one thing they don't understand is how airplanes go on a maintenance schedule.

Maintenance Rules That Cancel Flights

Shawn 15:15

Yeah, that's how they are they're they they fly on a schedule, yeah. And because they can only have so many takeoffs, so many landings, and before they have to have certain things checked out. So when you run into these problems, fluids changed, maintenance, all that stuff. But when you run into these problems, like where you have a a ma I mean there was a situation one time that we diverted, we were supposed to go to um Orlando, and we had to divert to Tampa because Orlando had bad weather. Right. Tampa was okay to land. We landed in Tampa, you know what happened? We canceled. Because of maintenance. Because the plane only that was the last, that was the last landing that plane had.

G 15:54

Oh wow.

Shawn 15:54

So that plane before it had to have a certain before it had to have a it had to have one of its eight-hour checks. Yeah. So before it could take off again, it had to have it had to have that check. Okay. So that the flight canceled. We couldn't take those people over to Orlando. And that's exactly how the the airplanes, you know, they're they're set on a schedule for maintenance. But when when you have these disruptions, and especially this time of year, the summertime. I mean, think about I mean, really think about that. Uh Orlando, when the storm comes in, it's not just the rain. So if you have rain, okay, they they deal with that. But torrential rains, nobody can do shit. So if you don't have the rains, then you have lightning.

G 16:36

Yeah. And then the ramp lightning shuts everything down.

Shawn 16:39

Everything down, right? So you got the lightning capital. So the lightning shuts it down for what? Is it is it 15 minutes? 20 minutes? It's 15 minutes from the last the last you know, last reported strike or something like that. So when it's happening every 15 minutes, it just resets the clock. Yeah, it just resets the clock. So it it's an absolute nightmare. So it doesn't matter if it's Houston, if it's Newark, whatever it is, the whole system goes to shit.

G 17:05

Right.

Shawn 17:06

But someone over in Montana that hasn't is having a bright sunny day doesn't understand why we delayed has no clue. Right. And then the the the abuse that everybody takes from that stupidity is is incredible.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Yeah.

Using Apps And Screens For Transparency

G 17:21

It would be nice, you know, you know, at the gates.

Shawn 17:24

Yeah.

G 17:25

We have all like every I think pretty much every airline now has that. The the screens at the gates, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Yeah.

G 17:30

They have all the stuff about the boarding of the gate and all that stuff. But it would be really nice to also throw up the weather plan. Yeah. Like so that people could see this is your destination. This is your this is where you're uh or you know, you're originating from. Here comes the AI you talk about. Yeah, but here comes the AI and so now we can see in the screen. Oh, we're experiencing delays as you can see in the weather, the weather, you know, like that would be very helpful at the gates in all destinations to be like, oh, you know what? Oh yeah, we do have weather en route, right? So they not not and there's there's a certain element like people get panicked about a lot of stuff too. Is it safe to fly? Are we gonna make you know we're gonna get those questions, of course. But um, for the for the general public that understands everything and how this w industry works, right? It'd be super helpful.

Shawn 18:18

It'd be perfect for like when you're talking about the AI, right? Yeah, AI information that you have that posted up there, and it says the reason why this aircraft is delected.

G 18:27

It should be on our app, too. Yeah, I mean showing us like this is the radar to from point A to point B. Right. Boom. This is what you're we're experiencing. And at the gate. So you have two two forms of information for it also makes it very uh transparent, you know, for everybody to be able to see all that stuff, and then then gives us credibility, right? So we're not just like telling them a story type of thing. Yeah, right. Or, you know, also information goes a long way. They can do graphics on the whole thing, like hey, hey, oh, this airport experience ATC delays for whatever reason.

Shawn 18:58

Or your plane shows that your plane before was going into this mess and is sitting there in this in this uh you know there's a airport that's completely uh covered with storms.

G 19:08

Yeah, you know there's that app right now, and I can't I can't think of it off the top of an uh flight link or something like that. Or there's a travel app right now that shows like all the you can see all the little planes. Yeah, it's flight link. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. But uh that's super helpful. They they should be literally that should service should be in you know intertwined into our whole thing. That would be super helpful in

Planning A Packed California Vacation

G 19:33

our thing. But dude, talking about traveling and summer and all that stuff, my ass is on vacation. All right, here soon. And we're doing the California vacation, and you're talking about all that stuff. I'm exhausted thinking about it. Where are you going? Going out to California to uh Newport Coast and we're gonna do everything Disney. Uh we're doing we're going three baseball games, we're going to the World Cup is happening simultaneously as we're there. They're gonna be the LA is just gonna be nuts. Right like it is gonna be we're going to zoo, we're going to Reagan Library, we're going to freaking anything else they can think of. We're every day, we're there. Here you go. 10 days. Uh Carol's family, our nieces that we always travel with in summertime. So yeah. So last year was Amelia Island. This year's Reagan's Library. That'd be cute. Yeah. You can get a picture of that one. Yeah. Oh, we did. So we did we like last year. We did like um one of my nieces is the vice president of uh Jersey um shirts. Yeah. You know, they do those like vacation shirts with the destinations on it. So she did vacation shirts for us for a million island. Now she's doing shirts for us for Reagan Library. That'd be cool. Yeah, so it should be pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Yeah.

Shawn 20:58

Now you're going to Disney. Yep. Now kind of funny you're saying that. So, you know, I've been doing the Orlando's

Disney Parks Versus Disney Cruise

Shawn 21:06

back and forth. Right. So you have to weigh this back and okay, the Disney, going to Disney or a Disney cruise. Have you been to Disneyland? No, no, California. I've been to Disney and Orlando. There is a different experience.

G 21:20

There is a major different experience than land than world because world is really spread out, and you got multiple parks and all this stuff, and land is like just everything packed into one thing. So it's a little bit bit a little bit different, but still it's to your point.

Shawn 21:36

We're gonna get to that. Yeah. So talking to these parents on boat Disneyland, you talking Disneyland, they sweating their ass off. Yeah. They go to the the resorts, they got all the f the costs, they got the park passes, they're chasing down the animals and all the characters and everything, finding things to do, standing in line, doing all this this Disney adventure and Frustrated as hell. Oh yeah. It's a frustration level of like but then you have the Disney cruise people.

G 22:07

Yeah.

Shawn 22:08

These guys have a great time. And the I think Why? Well, they have kid clubs on the cruise, right? Right. So the kids can go do their kid thing, right? Right. They have adult areas. Separate. So they can have separate entertainment during the same time. So they they have a little bit of like family time.

G 22:26

So you can drop the kids off. The kids do the Disney thing, they jam with the characters and all that stuff, and then the fan and the adults can go drink and yeah.

Shawn 22:33

And then they have the they have character meet and greets. Yeah. So they don't have to run around the park to worry about pictures.

G 22:38

They bring all the characters to the camera.

Shawn 22:39

Yeah, because when we were when when Jackson was little, we took the pictures of them. It was a pain in the ass. Been there. It was a pain in the ass in Disney World. Because we're like running over the, you know, from this side of the park, like this character's over here, this character's over here. Did you see this character? Oh, they're over here. So you've got to run back and forth across there to get these pictures. Well, the Disney crews, they had them all in this little area, so they took all the pictures in this area. So the kids, the that Disney moment for the parents, it was easy to capture because they could just take the pictures like that.

G 23:12

We we did like three days of princess chasing.

Shawn 23:16

Yeah. But this parent, I was listening to this mom. I was listening to this mom, and it made so much sense. So she she she was talking about they they you know the slides, all the fun that these kids had. Then they had the Broadway shows at night. Oh, yeah. Because they had Frozen, they had like Beauty and the Beast. Dude, the Disney wrapped up is the shit.

G 23:35

Everything I have never experienced it, but I know many people in our family have. A lot of our nieces and nephews and stuff have gone on Disney cruises, and they all talk about how amazing it is for everybody.

Shawn 23:47

Listening, listening to these parents and watching them, if I if I was to go back and say, Did we all do it? Oh yeah, it would be a Disney cruise. Disney cruise. No doubt, man. Because these parents come back, they're like amazing. They had they had the best time.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Yeah.

Shawn 24:02

And you get the other ones going, it was hell. I'm just gonna be going home.

G 24:07

Here's also something to think about, too. Like when you go on a Disney vacation, you're not necessarily everything inclusive Disney.

Shawn 24:15

Yeah.

G 24:16

The hotel you're staying at, transportation, that's all not Disney. Oh, I know.

Shawn 24:20

Like you're piecing the part, all these different things that have to like you're it all starts at the airport when you go down because we know because you go downstairs and you you get out of the airport and get all your shit, and then you got you got to go find your bus. Yeah, the cruises, it's like the cruise bus is there.

G 24:37

Yeah, they got all the transportation to and from. You're being transported throughout your whole entire adventure. Your stay is all being accommodated by like it's 100% Disney versus doing the parks. Yeah. You know, it's like that hopefully all your coordination works out and all that stuff, but which normally doesn't. But no, no, yeah, yeah.

Shawn 24:57

But no, the summer travel is absolutely crazy.

Summer Commuting Gets Brutal

Shawn 25:00

I mean, and and the the storms coming in. Well, you got hurricane season. Yeah. Right? That's always fun. Dude.

G 25:07

I remember any of that stuff.

Shawn 25:09

You know, you know, me and me and Carol, I remember uh last year we were flying together during hurricane season, and we we like the storm, and she flew like right, she had an area of a gap, and we flew right through that area, no turbulence, nothing, not one little bit of turbulence. It was amazing. You're looking at left side of you, the right side of you, like all you see is all this shit, and we're like going going right through the middle of it.

G 25:38

Shot the gap.

Shawn 25:39

It was amazing, yeah. But that's summer travel, right?

G 25:42

Dude, summer travel. Summer travel sucks. Not not only does summer travel truck suck is we because now when everybody is traveling in the summer and everything, which makes my commute shit, right? Dude, commute, commuting can suck. Yeah. Okay. I know I've told you that. That's why I ain't doing it. I know you say you're not doing it, but you're gonna do it. No, I'm not. Um, so here's the thing. Like, I just got the experience, the craziness of commuting. Community's been like pretty okay for me, like, because I have so many options and stuff like that. Yeah. But when you get into that situation and you get home on a flight, and then all of a sudden, like, I thought, you know, this is kind of cool. I got all these Cleveland people with me. I'm gonna go, you know, we're gonna go out, have a good time. And we did. We all had a good time, visit each other and everything. And we get home and we get off the plane, and we're getting ready to go home. Yeah, and then we all realize we're on the same damn plane. Oh, hell yeah. And then I'm like It's Hunger Games. Wait a minute.

Shawn 26:40

Hunger Games.

G 26:40

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Shawn 26:41

Jump seat authorization. I'm number there's two jump seats, and I'm number three. Mm-mm.

G 26:47

That's how's that working out? Yeah. I hope you get drug tested. A world of suck. Yeah, yeah. You were thinking anything. Hey, I hope when you go out there to the airport, you trip. Exactly.

Shawn 26:57

Yeah, like you are no longer friends. You just all you wanted to do is see the the the one drug person out there doing a test.

G 27:05

You see all the people that are listed for the flight, and not only your flight, now you got other flights of people coming in on the same flight, trying to get on the same flight, and the flight is oversold because guess what? There's weather. Yeah. Summer weather. So now it's all screwed up. Yep. And so now we're like, now we've got two flights. And the earlier flight, we get there, and it's like, okay, the six o'clock flight now is leaving at nine o'clock. Yeah. Oh, wow. Well, there's a seven o'clock flight. Well, let's go over to the seven o'clock flight. See if that one. So we run over to the seven o'clock flight. Guess where the seven o'clock? We're in Newark, right? I'm at the A gates. The uh the seven o'clock flight is going out of the C135, right? Opposite end of the entire airport in Newark. And so now we got to get on a bus, go back over there to connect. And we get over there, we're like, I hope we're making the right decision. Are we making the right decision? Like, dude, it was like there's so many things. So many variables happening. Then get this. So now we get to the plane, we're thinking, okay, we made the right decision. And the people, the one girl that was senior to me coming in off a different plane, she's not showing up. So there's only two jump seats. I'm thinking, okay, I'm good. I'm good. And you know, we have the 30-minute rule right now. Yeah. Once you get a list, and once 30 minutes, you can't like jump the list on that. So I'm like, get to that 30 minutes, get to that 30 minutes. We make it to the 30 minutes, right? I'm like, cool. Well, they replaced the whole entire crew that's on the flight that we're doing because the inbound crews stuck in the storm, right? Yeah. Well, guess what? They didn't do they didn't take that crew off of the manifest. So they wouldn't release the jump seats. And there's nothing they can do about it. And they're like, and I'm like, we're not we need to get on this jump seat. This ain't fair. This isn't that fair. Do you see? You have 10 people as crew members on this crew that needed four.

Shawn 29:00

Yep.

G 29:00

Right? And I'm like, they're like, they're like, oh, we're trying, we're trying. I'm not so then they call in flight to call scheduling to get new. Because they're getting pushed by another. You know, everything's going on.

Shawn 29:11

They're getting pushed by a flight attendant, right? Right. To do that. So then's that flight attendant they're getting pushed by. Me. Yeah.

G 29:18

So then here's the thing. Here's the thing that saved us. The captain that was on the plane was a commuter. And he walked up to the gate and he said, I hear you're having troubles with the jump seat. And I'm like, I'm like, thank goodness, you know. He's like, he goes, just to let you know, we're not going anywhere until you get them on our jump seat.

unknown 29:38

Boom.

G 29:38

Enough said right there, right? There goes a hammer that comes down. Now, now scheduling's over there. What? We're going to delay like a chance. Taking care of like real quick, right? Zip zing zoom. Gone.

Shawn 29:48

Boom. Get the jump seat. It's opened up. Just like Moses did the C. Yeah.

G 29:53

So that that for all those people that may or may not have understood everything that we were talking about because we were talking airline stuff here. Uh, but all the airline people out there get it.

Shawn 30:04

Like that's the power of a decision.

G 30:06

Yeah. It is commuting can suck. It can suck really worse than the case.

Shawn 30:11

Now I've got there's even more when it comes into tech. Now imagine all the shit that you just said. You load it up and then you're ready to go, right? After all that. And then all of a sudden you hear this big jolt in the front of the plane. They snap the tow bar into the front of the wheel. Well, the flight freaking plane cancels. Did so you go through all that. This was commuting, too.

G 30:33

I know.

Shawn 30:33

You screwed.

G 30:34

Yeah, you're screwed.

Shawn 30:34

You're screwed.

G 30:35

Well, and I'm not screwed. I'm just like, okay, heading to the crash pad. Let's try to do tomorrow.

Shawn 30:41

Well, yeah, but you're but tomorrow's gonna be messed up. Because it goes all the way back. See, cascades. It's that snowball effect. It's that snowball effect. And you know that even you as a commuter, when you go back there, you start looking at who else was on that plane. Right. Because now you're gonna have to look at, okay, tomorrow's jump seat, because you know your ass ain't getting no seat. No. You're gonna be on you're gonna be on a jump seat somewhere. So we get to experience the same thing in the summer.

G 31:10

We're trying to get back and forth. I'm trying to get to Cleveland, right? And our friends, they're all trying to get down to Florida. And and it's Ken and Anthony. Yeah. You know who I'm talking about. And so they're like, oh yeah, we got our commuter flight here. Look at our commuter flight. And they look pulled up. They have like 25, 30 seats open on their flight going down to Florida because everybody's coming up and not going down.

Shawn 31:33

Okay, anymore, anymore, even with the the flying today. You'll have 30 seats available. By the time that you get to departure time, it's like minus five. How in the hell is that? That happened to me good. I know it happens all the time.

G 31:44

I mean, the other day I had like 14 seats open. I'm left home. It's 30 minutes to get to the airport. I get to the airport, I walk to the gate, not even thinking about looking at the app. I get to the airport, I pull up the app, negative six. Yeah.

unknown 31:58

What the fuck? No.

G 32:00

What the fuck?

Shawn 32:00

Yeah. But you know, you know the best part of that?

G 32:03

Yeah.

Shawn 32:04

I walk to my car.

G 32:05

Yeah, you walk to the motor car.

Shawn 32:07

Right? Because my ass does I don't commute. Commuting. Yeah. I fly with your I fly with your wife, man.

G 32:13

I don't commute. But guess how many days I work and how many days I don't give a shit.

Shawn 32:18

I don't give a shit. Now he's gonna sit there and brag about guess what I do? I take a nap when I fly. I go in there and I I sleep on my padded cushion.

G 32:27

Hey, speaking about like nap and

The Peace Of No Wi-Fi

G 32:29

all this stuff. So this flight had um, we didn't have any Wi-Fi and all that stuff on the on the plane. It was amazing, amazing. First of all, normal Japanese flights and stuff are always chill, chill, chill, right? So I'm like, no Wi-Fi, and we made that whole announcement, you know, they made it in the gate, there's there, there is no Wi-Fi, there is no Wi-Fi, there is no Wi-Fi, dude. We had the most chill flight without Wi-Fi. It was amazing. Yeah, not one little flip of any any incident happened, like everything. Because they already knew, right? New it was. Um, you know, they had the entertainment system on the plane and all that stuff to see movies and all that, but but they, you know, we weren't hearing the my Wi-Fi's not working, you know, for 13 hours.

Shawn 33:19

It goes back to exactly what you were talking about earlier. It's information. Once you get them the information, yeah, Wi-Fi's dead, 100% dead, ain't working, not intermittent.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

Yeah.

Shawn 33:29

Then no question, right?

G 33:30

Dude, it was amazing. Amazing.

Shawn 33:33

Not one question.

Concert Lines And Fast Pass Drama

Shawn 33:34

But okay, summer times also, you know, I do that summer band series out here in Ohio. Oh, yeah, yeah. Love that. I like doing that. Hey, I just went to see uh Escape, my one of my favorite ones, Journey. That is your favorite one. It is my favorite one. Number one. Period. Yeah. Yeah. But I do like, I do like the disco one that um the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees one I like. They they only come here like one. Not the disco inferno one. No, no, no. No, they lip sync. Well, no, they're linked. No, no, okay, I take that back. They don't lip sync, but I don't like when they play the mu original music in the background. I love the bands, you know what I mean? I love the bands playing. The escape journey, best one. They they play everything. This guy sounds like Steve Perry.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

Yeah.

Shawn 34:18

So I've seen him numerous times. So they did phenomenal. But they had this new thing, drove me crazy. We went out, we were we were in line. You know how you get in line. We had to get there like an hour and a half early to get in line. They get like two or three thousand people come there. But you know, everybody fast passes now. So, you know, they jumped, Maple Side jumped on the bandwagon. Fast pass now? Kind of like. So anybody that bought it's kind of okay. They they bought the whole season, so they figured if you buy the season, easy access, yeah. Then you have the access pass. Well, it's like a fast pass, but they they allow you to go in 20 minutes 20 minutes early. So us smucks that are just doing the one to one show. I'm sitting there watching, but doesn't it piss you off when you're standing in line? When you when you're standing in line, you watch people. Yeah. What's one of the most annoying things that happen? Like, okay, say that you're like not in the back, but you you sit you've been there for an hour and there's a distance in front of you. Anything ever piss you off? I mean people cutting. Yeah. As old as I am, the one thing that pissed me off is that these people that walk up and sit there and they're like, oh, I like they know Bob and Ginger. And they come in there, and what are they and they start in the line? Right. Bullshit. It's bullshit. I I want to take one of them bull horns. Get your ass out of the line. Where are the line police? Exactly. I mean, oh the rest of us had to get here for an hour and a half. And you know, they'll they they'd get all catty if you got into it with them. But I'm looking at them going, you little bastards. Sitting there and you you just walk up there and and start cutting on it's ten dollars for a damn ticket. Get your ass in line like everybody else. Right. But no, they had the band series. I love that. And but I there's no way I'm paying for that that whole summer series. Because you know, remember last year I got stuck listening to that all guy band that sings all girls.

SPEAKER_01 36:17

Yeah, yeah.

Shawn 36:17

That third Britney song I was out of there. I'm like, I can't, I can't. Can't I can't do it. I mean, there's just no way. There's not enough alcohol, and I don't drink, right? So there's not enough alcohol to make you sound better. Right. So I just pack my shit up and go home.

G 36:34

Yeah, no, I want to just go to the shows. First of all, I don't want to waste my time. You know, like all those shoes, like that reminds me of like we do that Broadway series downtown here in Cleveland, and so we have these all these shows, and Carol is the one that like, if we bought this, we gotta go to all the shows. Right. Oh, this is I gotta bring this up because just because this this came up. So we're doing this whole thing, and so I'm always like, I don't really want to see that show. We're just just bailing a ticket, right? Yeah, and she's like, no, we paid for that ticket, we gotta go, we gotta go. Okay. So Carol, like the party we were just talking about, right? Carol forgot that we had a Broadway play. And literally the next day, she was like, We had Broadway tickets, we had Broadway tickets last night. Lost out money, lost and it was a show that she really, really wanted to see.

Shawn 37:27

Somehow did you forget that?

G 37:29

I don't keep track of this at all. Like, seriously, she just tells me, Hey, we got a Broadway show on this night. Okay, okay. I got I'll block that out to make sure I got you know, I'm gonna go, whatever. But I have no idea. She is a rarity for her to do that. Did you hear about that all day? Oh, she whined about it for days, not all day. All days. Now, okay. At any point, did you get blamed? No, no, no. Really? No, I didn't get blamed at all. Because I mean, she's pretty good. Honestly, I keep out of the table. That's pretty good. Because you know, we get pulled in. A lot of times we get pulled in and get blamed. I don't buy the tickets, I don't do it. Like so this whole thing started like I'm talking 20, 30 years ago, we started buying these tickets, okay? And the whole idea of the tickets was that here in Ohio, when it's bone ass cold and we don't have anything to do, they would have these Broadway shows. Yeah, so we can go down and do these Broadway shows in the winter time, and like there was like four shows, right? And you go do the great. I'm like, okay, it gives us something to do in winter, okay? No, those assholes, you know what they did? They started spreading it out through the whole year. So now, right in the middle of summer, we'll have like a Broadway show, and I'm and I get so pissed off. I'm like, I don't want to go now. This is not what we signed up originally, like bail on this ticket, like give it to somebody or something. I don't want to.

Shawn 38:49

Like, don't okay. Don't you hate that? Yeah, you hate that there's some shit you just don't want to do. Yeah, why can't we just go do our own things and be okay with it?

G 38:59

Our significant others don't think so.

Shawn 39:01

I know that, but that's such bullshit. Go, I don't want to do it. I do not want to do it. Is it not right? Yeah, we paid the money. Don't do anything, you don't do anything, right? That that's that happens all the time. Dude, I am one like the honestly, like you do not make if if if you knew that she doesn't want to do it, right? Do you hound her like, come on, it's not right. You should go. It's not we don't do that. You I know that, but what I'm saying is that there's you you don't do that. No, you just go. No. You're like, okay, I'll just see and it's fine. But if you don't go, if you don't go, you all of a sudden you're like, I know. You don't care.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Yeah.

Shawn 39:44

You don't want to spend time with me. You don't spend any time with me. You don't think of us, you don't think of this, you don't think of that. Yeah, it's just you're selfish. Yeah. You're selfish.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

Yeah.

Shawn 39:54

Why are we wasting this money? That's what you did. I don't want to do it with you anyway. I'm not going. And then they're like, I don't want to go. And you're like, okay, I'll see you later.

G 40:05

Yeah, right.

Shawn 40:06

That's the difference, right? I know. I mean, that's the difference. I know, dude. We get we we get in trouble all the time.

G 40:12

Yeah, they get in trouble for this if they watch that. Yeah, let's quickly go around the globe, dude.

Shawn 40:17

Before we get ourselves in more kids. There's a lot of guys out there going just in case they actually there's a lot of guys out there going, these guys are right. Yeah, they're right. They're right. I'm not telling her. I'm not telling them, I'm not telling my wife. Does your wife watch his show? No.

G 40:31

Yeah, mine doesn't either.

Shawn 40:32

I know that's what I said. We're we're okay. But if they get if somebody tells them somebody tells them, somebody tells them it's like Did you see what Sean just said? Yeah, Gary and Sean are are camping out in his backyard.

G 40:45

Yeah, they're flying with my wife, and they're like, I can't believe Sean said that on the problem. Said what? Yeah. Said what? Don't be doing that to me, people, my fans. Exactly. Don't get me in trouble.

Vouchers Fights Scorpions And Fake Passes

Shawn 40:59

All right, round the globe. Okay. Imagine this. You're taking a video. The the airlines are giving a $4,000 voucher. Would you take it? I didn't say anywhere, just $4,000 voucher. Would you take it? You get you're gonna get your destination one day later.

G 41:14

This is really interesting because this just happened on one of the flights that we we had bought tickets, right? And so it was an interesting, like, you know, we've seen that at the gate, they're like, you know, oh, we got an overhoot sales situation, we're offering this much money, type of thing. Well, did you know? And I didn't know this, but our airline actually, prior to even getting the gate, if they have an overhead sales situation that they already see that's happening, they send these emails out to you and or or messages through the app, and they then they do that whole offering thing. But instead of them going, oh, we're offering this much, they go, We are in an oversale situation, and we would like to know what you would like to have in order to be accommodated. Here's and they give you a whole list of all the accommodations to get to the destination in the future, and then you bid on it. Cool. So I think it's a great idea. So then you bid on it, and then it says whoever's the lowest bid will be the first awarded. Right. Right? But you don't know what the bids are for any of the things. Right, it's like a little bit of a cool. See, if I win, if I win the bid. It's this question like you're asking, you're like, if they offer $4,000, you're gonna take it?

Shawn 42:27

Well, it depends on the okay, but verbally, $4,000 for a voucher, one day later, would you take it?

G 42:39

Again, on this, it has to be the situation.

Shawn 42:42

The only way that I would not take it. The only way I wouldn't take that is that if it was a cruise. If it was a cruise? If it was a cruise. No, if I was going to a cruise and I couldn't and and I had to be there, there's okay, but four thousand dollar voucher and get there 24 hours later. Okay, money man. Oh, hell yeah.

G 43:03

Okay, money man. Yeah, here we go. Let me let me go through some more situations other than a freaking cruise. How about I gotta get to somewhere that I have to be at? It doesn't matter. Okay, cruises is you're that's just one thing. What if you're commuting to work? Maybe you gotta work the next day. Maybe you gotta like, I gotta be a business meeting. Maybe that's what I'm saying. It depends on the situation. The value, yes, it is a lot of money, and I would definitely be enticed. I will look at it.

Shawn 43:33

But this is the situation. If you didn't have to be there then, if it wasn't a family emergency. This just happened, but if you were just on vacation, let's let's let's change it up. Right, right. If you were just on vacation. Yeah, if I hadn't I have if I have the time to do it, I would definitely jump it up for a thousand dollars. Definitely. Well, the guy that was taking the the guy that took the video realized it, and he he realized how big of an idiot he was that he didn't take it, but he was taking a video. This thing could post it. Yeah, and then take it. And by by the time that he'd realized that the four the four were already gone.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Right.

Shawn 44:06

Four thousand dollar voucher. You don't see that often.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

No.

Shawn 44:09

You don't see them go that high. No, I I've never seen a four thousand dollar voucher offered. Have you? Um, internationally, yes.

G 44:16

Really? Because they get dude, the international. I know that, but I've never seen I've never seen it. Think about this. So when you're at the the uh gate for an international, and if it's an international oversell situation, an international ticket, you're talking like 10 grand. Yeah, I know. You know, like you're talking about. I guess I I mean I just haven't seen it. We don't see it here in Cleveland. No, you know, not on a domestic flight. No, I'm just kidding.

Shawn 44:39

Yeah, 20 bucks. We'll give you a bag of pretzels. Low bidder, low bidder came in at 20, right? Low bidder came in at 20. You're going tomorrow. Gonna go through Newark during the storms and everything, but you're going out tomorrow.

G 44:52

So that situation I was in, I wanted to consider it. Yeah. Carol had to get to work. She had to go to the sim next day.

Shawn 44:58

Yeah. I can imagine she's not it'd be a shit show for you taking it and Carol going on there. She you'd get that stare down.

G 45:06

No, she was actually she actually considered, she was like, Maybe you want to take it and I'll just go. Because I'd be like, I'll just head to the roll to because they'll give you a hotel and they'll give you all this stuff. Oh, yeah.

Shawn 45:16

That's what I said. But my ass would have been on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'd have done it for sure. Okay, so the the we always talk about the cruise lines. Yeah. All right. So you had what five, it was five Americans. They got in a brawl in uh in the Bahamas. Oh, really? Yeah. On the cruise? No, outside the cruise. You know how they go on their like excursion land excursions? Dumb as dog shit. I'm sorry. Cruise left them? Yeah, but listen to what they did. They got in a brawl. Right. You know that you know this is gonna be bad. You injure four officers, one of them seriously, to where they had to go to the hospital and and have their shoulder.

G 45:53

We already we already talking about this. I ain't going into any foreign country prison.

Shawn 45:57

No. Fuck no. How dumb can you possibly be? At what point in time? At what point in time do you think do you think they that they were thinking we should have just stayed on the damn boat? Yeah, no.

G 46:09

No, see, they weren't thinking, first of all.

Shawn 46:10

Right, but I mean you got a lot of time to think now that you're incarcerated.

G 46:14

Yeah, there's hell no. I don't want to be in any of these prisons on any of these freaking little islands and all that stuff. Just the fines, just the fines alone, because you know, you know they're gonna hit you with heavy ones. So for the crib line. Let me explain something here. Um, you know, the Caribbean and all this stuff, you go on these cruises and all this stuff, and for those cruise lines, they're in like like this, these all used to be pirate things. Yeah, they haven't improved the prison since the pirate days. Everybody That's the prison we go in. I was just you're gonna be in shackles. Listen, you're gonna be hanging up there. Rats coming through. Rats gonna be coming through. Yeah, like you're you're gonna be pooping in some hole. The shit's gonna have little maggots in it. It's gonna have a hole.

Shawn 46:51

It's like a hole, you'll be squatting in front of like uh, you know, 50 other people. Fuck no. No way. No, no way. A drunken bra. Now they're still sitting in, they're incarcerated in the Bahamas still waiting investigation. Now, how long do you think the investigation's gonna take?

G 47:07

Oh, dude. Just this is this is stupid to forever. Yeah. We've seen this on the hook. I know. We've seen this over and over again. Our lie, our uh blah blah blah, our laws don't apply. No, people keep on thinking that Americans do this so often. They go and they travel abroad and they think they're still American.

Shawn 47:28

I know, yeah, you're American, but you're you're living under their laws. My nephew Michael, he's talking, I just seen him the other day, and and Michael, great kid, yeah, he's talking about going down to uh South America to uh go hiking for a month. Yeah. And I'm like, Michael, look, go somewhere else. You can go anywhere. I know you can, but you you it goes back to the false sense of security.

G 47:55

No, no, no. My thing is that you can go anywhere, educate yourself about their laws and their practices and all that stuff before you go, and you you probably won't have any problems and all that stuff. And yes, false insecurity because you don't educate yourself. Like get educated and you can go and have a good time.

Shawn 48:17

We are gonna we did it in a podcast. We haven't done it on the YouTube video, but we are going to talk about Honduras. Yeah, I knew where you're going. Yeah, no, no, no, no. We were gonna talk about it. All right, because we don't even the the funny thing about that is is that we can talk about that one without even thinking. No, yeah, without thinking, and and it'll reiterate exactly what I what I'm saying right now. Yeah, don't have that false sense of security anywhere because you're right about one thing. You're not in the United States, you're not in the United States. And they don't care, they don't care that you're a U.S. citizen. I don't care.

G 48:51

Stupid. Yeah, dumb, dumb, dumb. Stupid. Did you see the dude that tried to smuggle scorpions? Where? On the airline? Where'd you put them? He had them in the suitcase. He had scorpions individually wrapped in plastic. He had like, I don't know what they they said it was like 500 or something like that. Alive? Yeah, they were all alive. You know, snor scorpions like those things that like live underwater. They they're weird, they're wild animals, whatever. But they he had them all individually. Are they were they sealed? I mean, how do you no no oxygen? Look at the picture. It is it is like it is it was the weirdest thing. They didn't tell you like where the you know why it was going there or uh But why'd he do that? It was a hundred and fifty venomous scorpions. The article doesn't even talk about why or anything like that, but he got caught and he was like in transit through another country, he's going through uh Africa and uh South Africa. Why would you? I have no idea, but it was a weird, like this is the these are weird things that happen in the airlines. What would make you think and think, okay, this is what I want to do?

Shawn 50:04

Money, money, 150 scorpions. Money. Somebody was paying him. Listen, I'll go do a trip, dude. I ain't taking scorpions through. I'm not doing that. There ain't no way. There's no way. Okay, before we go here, could you imagine you got one four? Wait a minute. Could you imagine you had 140? Where's the 150?

unknown 50:25

What the fuck?

Shawn 50:26

Where's 150? 150. One got out. Remember, venomous. That's what I said. Yeah. I said one got out. Will you suck the poison? No, you ain't gonna make it. Oh, you ain't gonna hell no. No, you ain't gonna make it, brother. You ain't not gonna make it. You dead. Yeah.

G 50:45

See ya. So one last thing, man. I don't know if you caught this story. This just happened there. Uh, the dude that was traveling and he had a fake boarding pass and tried to get on, he got onto the plane.

Shawn 51:00

We had two guys, we we had two guys two weeks ago try to do the same thing. They and where'd they get caught? They got caught trying to board the aircraft.

G 51:09

Trying to board. This guy was on the plane. I know. I seen that. I was like, and so he was just in court and stuff, whatever, this last week, and it was like, you're like, how does I'm I'm I kept like this, was just rattling my mind. I'm like, how does this happen? So the TSA in the whole thing said he went through, they had all the like screening. He did go through TSA screening. They see they had video of him going through, they were checking his pass, and you know, the whatever the pass line that he went through, it was not scanning his uh ticket, whatever. Yeah, and so then they passed him off to another thing, and then they took his picture or whatever, and they let him go to the gate. And then he tried to get on in one flight, and the the QR code that he scanning was a fake QR code, and it wouldn't, so then he went to another flight, and then when the agent was distracted, he snuck on. Yeah. And then he gets all-seen videos like that. Here's the crazy, yeah. Here's the crazy thing. His defense in the court was I bought a cheap ticket and it was uh it was a fake ticket. Then why did you sneak on? Yeah. Well, he went in the bathroom, right? They caught him when he came out. He was in the bathroom. Yeah, and there was no seats. No seats. And they're like, What are you doing?

Shawn 52:24

Spinner. Right, right. A little spinner and he got caught. You got you got spun your ass right off the air. It just bothered you. But no, if you've seen some of these videos, like when they tried to sneak on, they bum rush. So they these guys that they know what they're doing. So they wait till the boarding, well, they wait till the boarding process gets a little congested. Okay, and they're boarding people, and they have one gate agent that's busy doing it. You know, you could turn away anything. They turn away for one second, that split second they turn away, they're waiting as they're doing that, and there's they walk right off that shoulder. That one lady that they caught numerous times, they've watched her and they know her MO now. So she stands there and she waits till they get an agent that that is getting together.

G 53:07

That's why we need that's why we need a elect those electronic gates.

Shawn 53:11

Yeah. But they turn their shoulder for one second, and she goes right off the shoulder of the passenger as this agent turned this way to deal with this situation, and they they went right, she went right back. I mean, I understand.

G 53:24

I've seen how they're gonna have the electronic gates where they have it. It's all black, it's a permanent structure. Yeah, the only way you can get in and out is by scanning the thing, and the gates open.

Shawn 53:33

I mean, they find out later on because airports have cameras everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's literally it's it's tighter than Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

Yeah.

Shawn 53:41

Truly, right? I mean, when you get when you get past security, they have so many cameras at security all the way through there. They they will track you all the way through an airport to your gate, boarding, everything. Completely tracked.

G 53:52

There's cameras on the gates, cameras on the jet bridges, cameras, yeah. Cameras right here. Cameras on the plane, camera over there, yeah.

Shawn 53:59

Camera here. Here, camera there, everywhere, camera, camera. Let's get to the inspirational quote before we uh really kill this.

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Shawn 54:06

All right, life is too short. Always choose happiness. Don't look back with regrets, look forward with hope and courage. Love in your heart and peace in your mind. Yep.

G 54:19

That's what we all should do. Yeah. You know, keep it peaceful, please, people.

Shawn 54:27

Even during the summer traffic when it's gonna get kind of crazy and you think you're gonna lose your shit on the plane, don't chili odillio. Don't do it, man. You guys get to your final destination. Hey, we had a lot of fun this week. Yeah. Come support us. Check out our go to our website.

G 54:44

Support us a baby. Yeah, you are.

Shawn 54:47

Yeah, 100%. You guys have a great 4th of July.

G 54:52

Keep it safe. Be careful with those fireworks. I can't tell you that enough. Be careful with the fireworks. I have a friend that got very injured, almost killed himself with fireworks. Please be careful, enjoy, have fun, happy 4th of July. Bye. See ya. Alright, before we get out of here, I want to ask you to do something for us. If you enjoyed Cabin Pressure and want to support the show, head over to Cabin Pressure with Sean G.com and check out our gear we use page. This is not random stuff we found online, this is gear we actually use as flight attendants, commuters, travelers, and people who basically live out of a bag half the time. We're adding the things that make travel easier: crew bags, layover gear, tech, comfort items, and stuff we wish someone had told us about years ago. So whether you're a new hire, a seasoned traveler, a commuter, or just someone trying to make a travel a little less chaotic, go take a look. And when you shop through our link, it helps to support the podcast at no extra cost to you. It helps us bring you more airline stories, travel tips, crew life chaos, and whatever else happens between now and next week. So again, go to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.com, click on GearWe Use, and check out the products we actually stand behind. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. Thank you for supporting Cabin Pressure. We'll see you next week.