Why Some Flight Attendants Are Just Plane Rude

Are some flight attendants just plane rude… or are passengers missing what actually happens before that “attitude” shows up?

In this episode of Cabin Pressure with Shawn & G, we get into the real reason flight attendants sometimes come across short, tired, or fed up. From passengers ignoring a simple “good morning” during boarding to sneaking into exit rows, refusing safety instructions, arguing over overhead bin space, and getting mad when the answer is “no,” this one is all about perspective.

Shawn and G break down the difference between a bad attitude and a crew member simply doing the job, enforcing rules they did not create, and trying to keep the flight moving safely. We also talk about why flight attendants sometimes need a minute in the galley, why “why aren’t you smiling?” is not the compliment some people think it is, and why shared overhead bin space seems to create more drama than it should.

Then the episode takes the usual Cabin Pressure turn into burnt toast on vacation, commuting nightmares, missed flights, Yorkie chaos at 3 a.m., lawn-clipping revenge, intermittent fasting gone wrong, and one road-rage apology that actually restores a little faith in humanity.

We close with Around the Globe stories, including airlines charging for overhead bin space, a plane boarded with no crew, laptop battery fire safety, forgotten jet bridge bags, Penn State fraternity trouble, and a dating app dinner disaster involving way too many oysters.

If you like flight attendant stories, airline humor, passenger etiquette, crew-life chaos, travel frustrations, and real talk from inside the cabin, this episode is for you.

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Chapters:

00:00 Are Flight Attendants Too Rude?  
00:46 Boarding Attitudes and Setting the Tone  
01:54 Emotional Baggage Walks Through the Door  
02:04 Sneaking Into the Exit Row  
02:40 When Passengers Get Told No  
03:20 Chirping, Pouting, and Bad Attitude Claims  
03:36 “Can I Move Up Front?”  
04:00 Situational Awareness on an Airplane  
04:20 Flight Attendants Don’t Make the Rules  
04:47 Take Your Headphones Off  
05:00 Where Did the Flight Attendants Go?  
05:38 Why Crew Sometimes Needs a Minute  
06:12 Safety Rules, Tray Tables, and Seatbacks  
06:35 People Hate Being Told What to Do  
07:11 “I Know” After Being Asked Five Times  
07:35 Commuting Story: Close Connections and Passenger Chaos  
08:05 Sit Down Until We Reach the Gate  
08:45 Letting Tight Connections Off First  
09:03 Why Aren’t You Smiling?  
10:00 You Don’t Know What Happened Before You Boarded  
10:49 Flight Attendants Do Smile and Laugh  
11:31 Why Is a Crew Bag in My Overhead Bin?  
12:14 Shared Overhead Space  
12:56 Burnt Toast on Vacation  
14:48 Shawn’s Commuting Nightmare Begins  
15:40 KCM Random, Security, and Missing the Last Flight  
16:30 Standby Lists, Jumpseats, and Getting Home Late  
17:23 G’s Much Easier Trip Home  
18:04 The Reality of Choosing to Commute  
18:42 Flight Attendants Know How to Figure It Out  
19:32 Gemma the 3 A.M. Yorkie  
20:31 Lawn Clippings and HOA-Level Revenge  
21:40 Intermittent Fasting and Burger Regret  
22:13 Road Rage Turns Into an Apology  
23:43 Around the Globe Begins  
23:52 Airlines Charging for Overhead Bin Space  
25:07 Color-Coded Bag Tags and Boarding Chaos  
26:18 Plane Boards Without a Crew  
27:20 How Crew Verification Used to Work  
28:39 Laptop Fire and Lithium Battery Safety  
29:29 Forgotten Jet Bridge Bags  
30:49 Penn State Fraternity Trouble  
32:50 Cash App Records and Bad Decisions  
33:21 Dating App Dinner Disaster  
34:06 The Oysters, Crab Cakes, and Vanishing Date  
34:08 Dating Apps and Bad Profile Pictures  
35:31 Inspirational Quote and Final Perspective  
36:17 Website, Platforms, and Goodbye

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Transcript

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All right, brother, you're going to love this one. Are flight attendants being too rude? Oh boy, here we go. See, we haven't even started yet.

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And boy, you got an attitude. Boy, who you calling boy? You see what I'm saying? That's exactly how it starts on an airplane. It is.

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I mean, you know, we talk about this all the time. Right. Now, flight attendants, I'm not telling you that flight attendants don't have bad attitudes sometimes.

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Right. Because we do. We get some flight attendants that have a bad attitude.

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Well, yeah, it's hard not to. When you're dealing with the public, you can have a bad attitude. I mean, sometimes you have to contain your attitude, right? Yeah, but let's talk about it.

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So first, when you start and you board an aircraft, you got a crew standing at the front door and you're saying good morning. First thing is either get a good morning back, right? Right. Day starts off good or you get nothing.

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Right. A look, a stare. Or the total ignoring that sets us off.

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Right. Right. So who gets that attitude? We do.

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I know. So did we start it? No, it started by like, it's like a give and take relationship, right? You like setting the tone. Like each passengers coming on the plane should have like, you know, they're setting the tone or what type of flight they're going to come on, whether they're carrying baggage.

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And I'm not talking about luggage, physical luggage. I'm talking about like emotional baggage or attitude or whatever from what happened prior to the flight. They're stepping through our door and then all of a sudden they're bringing all that shit with them.

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And that's just starting. I mean, they just start that. Yeah.

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So that sets the tone for us. And then so they're like, yeah, if you have a bad attitude, OK, I'll match it. I was thinking about this week.

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It was crazy how many times I was looking at like situationally. Yeah. What changes our attitude? Right.

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So I had a couple of passengers. Again, they snuck into the emergency exit row. We check.

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It's something that we do every single week. OK. And it's fine.

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You try it. You get caught and we move you. It's no big deal.

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I mean, that doesn't change our attitude. No, but I get why you do it. But when I walked up there, I'm like, hey, you guys, you're not here.

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Your seat assignments aren't here. And she goes, well, you need somebody here. And I said, well, if we have to evacuate.

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Sure. And she was like, well, why can't we stay here? And I said, well, you can't. You just got to take your seats.

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So anyway, she goes, takes her seats. And then all of a sudden you get the attitude. Right.

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You get the emotional thing. You get I don't want anything. You get the pouting.

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Yeah. You're being mean to me. Yeah.

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Like I'm being discriminated against. Or let's even go further. Oh, you're being racial.

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How about the chirping? Yeah. And all that chirping. No, the chirping starts is did you, this is what happened.

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Did I own stock? Right. Was I some head of the airline? Yeah. Okay.

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That you hear this throughout the flight. The little bit of chirping. Yeah.

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And then they won't want anything. But then I'm the one that has a bad. The murmurs.

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Yeah. Murmur, the bad, the bad attitude. And they want you to hear like they're acting like they're saying it to themselves, but they want you to hear because they're trying to like, you know, you know, be pissed off and be snotty being shitty.

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How about being told? No. Yeah. Oh, they love that.

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Don't you love that one? Can I move to the front? No, no. Yeah. Can I talk on my phone? No, not now the door closed.

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Right. Right. Can I go to the bathroom? You know, we're just taxiing out.

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Right. No, no. Yeah.

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It's, it's funny to me. Like, like all that whole subject about that, like no part is that there's all these passengers that don't understand like situational awareness. Like there's certain times in a flight.

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You can't do shit. Like, it's just normal. Like nobody's like, this isn't, isn't about me or you or them.

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It's about, these are the rules of flying. That was the key right there. The rules.

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That's what I was going to get to because we didn't invent them. Right. We didn't invent them.

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It was just, we have a job that flight attendant has a job to do. Right. We didn't invent these rules.

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If we don't make sure that you abide by the rules, we're the ones that get in trouble. Oh yeah. So then again, there it goes.

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Bad flight attendant. You a bad flight attendant. You a bad flight attendant.

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Horrible, horrible. And then, okay, wait a minute. Then you take your headphones off.

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For the record, I just want to say you're not a bad flight attendant. No, I'm not. Okay.

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We're going to the next one. Take your headphones off. Oh my gosh.

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No, wait a minute. Where in the hell did they go? Yeah. Right.

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Where the hell the flight attendant goes? Right. They're in the back galley. They're probably sitting on their ass eating.

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Right. Maybe. Maybe.

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Because it is one, wait a minute. It is one o'clock and we did get on the plane at five. Right.

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And we've been going since 5 AM and we haven't had anything to eat. Yeah. So you might be sitting back there.

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You're not supposed to be eating on the job. No, I might be eating. I need a soda.

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They're probably sitting back there. They're probably sitting back there doing nothing. You could have done that some other time.

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Not in my time. They're sitting on their ass doing nothing. There's a good chance sometimes we might be sitting back there doing nothing.

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You know why? Right. Because we've been doing a lot of something for a long time. And then you could have been getting yelled at about telling somebody no, about having an attitude.

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And then you had to go through this whole thing. I'm just giving you a for instance. I mean, you go through all this.

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So maybe, just maybe you needed that 60 seconds of a little quiet time. Reel it back in. Decompress just for that couple of seconds.

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So the remainder of the two hours is a good flight. Right. It's a good flight.

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Could be that. Yeah. How about safety rules? Oh, safety rules, man.

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They're continuously like, you know. Put your tray table up. Yeah.

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They don't want to like abide by any of that stuff because they, you know, like. Tray table. I'm doing what I gotta do right now.

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What? We're on a flight going where? Seat back has come up. Make sure that you unplug from the outlets. Right.

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People hate being told what to do. Oh. Men.

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Men freaking hate it. Right. No.

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Women. Women do too. I don't think it's actually a sexual thing.

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I don't know. I think it's people do not like being told what to do. Yeah.

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You know, or made to do a specific thing. Right. So when you make them, especially when we get to the point where we're like now have to get to the enforcement level, you know, that's when it's like, oh, now it's like super confrontation.

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You remember when you went a few podcasts ago, you go, would you say you said, yeah, I know. Yeah. I know.

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But five times, five times we've been asked you to do it five times and then you're mad. Now you're the bad flight attendant. You're the bad parent.

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Yeah. I'm bad. So far you've been four bad flight attendants.

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I'm not saying, I'm not saying that we don't have a few bad apples. Every industry, every job has bad apples. Right.

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So last night commuting, here's a perfect example. The flight attendant is trying to do his right, like the right thing. Okay.

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And we're on a delay, close connections. We're coming into that, you know, coming into the gate. He's trying to, he had made announcement before we met.

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All the passengers going to this, raise your hand. All the passengers going to this, raise your hand. And he had all these people raising their hands.

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He's like, all these people have very close connections. Please let these people off the plane. So then we get to coming to the gates and then like, we're not even to the gate.

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People are jumping up, trying to get in a bin. He's like, sit down. You know, we're at the gate.

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Sit down. We need to be safe. He's like, you need to listen to us.

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We are safety professionals. You need to listen to us. But how he did it, it was so priceless because I'm listening to this and I'm cracking up because I'm like, I thought I was in like a airline episode of the office.

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Like he was like this geeky kind of like nerdy flight attendant, but how he was saying it was just, it was so comical, but it was like, you already knew this. Yeah. We knew that everybody's going to jump up.

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They're all like, I got to get out of here. I got to get out of here. Yeah.

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Fire drill. Now they're going to leave me. And you got that one person that goes, no hell with them.

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Yeah. They're bored. They're boarding in five minutes.

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I'm going to miss my flight. Yeah. Well, yeah, there's 45 minutes or an hour after that.

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You still have. Yeah. You got a little bit of time.

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That was good. But anyways. Yeah.

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Now here's my favorite one. Great. Why aren't you smiling? Oh my goodness, please.

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That one. I don't mind. Wait a minute.

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First of all, it's not Disney. Yeah. We're not the happiest.

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You're not the Disney. You're not Disney. What do they call themselves? The happiest place on earth.

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Yeah. You're not a Disney character. That's not a smile.

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You're not going to smile. That's not any airline slogan. Eight hours a day.

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That's a short day for a flight attendant. Wait a minute. I said eight hours a day.

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That's a short day. Right. So you're not going to smile.

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I mean, you knew. Well, you don't have to. We're not going to be walking around smiling like freaking Stepford Wives and like, hey, welcome aboard.

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All day, hey, hey, hey, hey. Can you imagine me just like for eight hours? Hey, hey, oh, what? It's like it comes off so ingenuine after like two minutes. But you're not, I mean, the flight attendant necessarily isn't mad or angry.

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Right. You're just the next person in line. You don't know what the person in front of you, six people in front of you, just told that flight attendant.

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Yeah. Told her like the situation, like we're still processing what we're doing. And the next person's already coming to us.

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You know, like that's happening. Like how many hundreds of thousands of times in a day? Like we're continuously, one person's fire here. One person needs help here.

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One could have just lost a mother or father. I mean, one could have just sit there and said your airline sucked. Yeah.

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I mean, you don't know exactly what these people are going to come up and tell you. You're just the next person in line sometimes. So don't necessarily think just because you're not smiling.

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Yeah. That's so stupid. Right.

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You're just not smiling all the time. But we smile and laugh a lot. Oh, I'm laughing and smiling all the time.

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It's like yesterday I'm doing, or a few days ago, I'm doing like my pre-orders before we take off and all that stuff. And you know, I'm laughing and joking with all the passengers coming on board. Like that sets the tone.

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Like you're like, yeah, but was I doing that the entire flight? Hell no. They gotta, there's no one to sleep. You know, people don't want to be bugged and all this stuff.

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Imagine me being that happy flight, the whole flight. No, that's not you. Hey, how you doing? Nope, not you.

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Not you. Hey, you're sitting there sleeping. Hey buddy, you want something to eat? Yeah, definitely not you.

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All right, here's the bonus one before we get onto the next subject, is why is a flight attendant's bag in my overhead space? Oh, that's crazy, dude. Shared space. Yeah, shared space.

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Shared space. You know what, like- It doesn't have to be shared. We can actually check that bag.

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So here's your bag. Here's a really interesting thing because like, you know, you fly domestic, I do international. So like the international planes, the bigger planes, we have spaces that are specifically for the flight attendants.

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There's usually not that conflict of like a bag, our bag in their overhead space type of thing, you know? And not to mention there's tons of overhead space on a big flight. But the narrowbodies, this is like an everyday thing. Every day.

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Every day, like our bags are in their space type of thing. Well, guess what? You're not going to get anywhere if we don't have our bags because now we're not going. Yeah, I love it though when they open up the bin that has our luggage in it.

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And they're like, what? And that's our seat right underneath that bin? There are like 50 bins that have nothing in them, right? Nothing in them. Yeah, but those old school people, it's like, I sit here. And they're looking.

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This is my bin. I sit here. This is my bin.

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The flight attendant's got their shit in there. Anywhere on the day I'm playing, you want to put your luggage, put it. But the best part is like, you're like, well, we can just check your bag.

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No shared space is good. Yeah. I'll use this shared space over here.

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That's a good one. So what's been going on with you? Oh, dude, man. It's been like crazy.

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You know, first of all, last time I recorded all this stuff, you know, coming off of vacation and everything. I had one of the funniest things happen on vacation that you're going to appreciate this. Because you know, my wife is not a cook, right? No, she don't cook.

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She don't cook. She can order. She can order.

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She can like do all this stuff. She don't cook. So I'm going to give you a little scenario here.

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We're sitting. We're getting ready to go out golfing. We're on vacation.

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This place that we're at where this country club and we're having breakfast before. So, and this is a little light breakfast, you know, grab some toast, grab some bagel, grab some yogurt, whatever. So we're always sitting around.

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Carol comes waltzing in. She's like, oh, I want some toast. So she boom pops into toast.

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We're sitting there. We're talking everything. All of a sudden, the entire club starts to smoke up.

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Guess what was burning? She burnt toast. The whole damn club. Okay.

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Smell like dirt. Was it a timer one? All of them were time. I know, but, but no, I mean, some of them like a generic ones.

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They have like a certain amount of time, but they're all great. But they have minutes. Yeah.

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So it wasn't, it was like all of us had used the same toaster already before. Okay. Okay.

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So it was not digital. Yeah. But she happened to burn the toast, stink up the whole entire club.

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She literally pops a toast, puts it on a plate, comes over, gets a knife. She's like, scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape. She looks at everybody.

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She's like, I've done this before. Charcoal's good for your teeth. I was like, this is, yeah, it's good for your digestion.

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Yeah, exactly. You heard that when you was a kid. But yeah, my wife, she doesn't cook for me.

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But anyhows, the other thing. Another thing happened was just like last night, man. This is awful.

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This is like a classic flight attendant. You know, this whole community of our airline community, like pilot flight attendant, the commuting total failure. Like I'm coming in, coming in from our flight.

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It doesn't matter if it's domestic, international and all that stuff. And I've got to now run to my commuter flight. People just like you on the plane that need to get off, that raise their hands and they're all jumping up.

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We have to connect too, right? So the same thing's happening. And I'm like, I got to connect. Well, of course, we come in on my flight.

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Of course, the jet bridge breaks down, right? So we can't get off. And I'm waiting for them to fix that, to get it up. So that stalls.

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I've got like an hour to connect. And I got to go from one terminal to three terminals over. And I'm like, I got to get on a bus.

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I got to go through the security, got to go through customs. Like, I'm like in a rush. I'm like, I know I got to get this.

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So then, you know, we get to go through KCM, right? Which is no crew member, right? So we go and I get there and I get random. So now I've got to go through the security line. So I get there, get on the bus.

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Anyhow, I missed my commute, which is the last flight of the night, two minutes. I get to the gate, planes, jet bridge is pulling away. That was a bucket of suck.

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I'm like, the whole feeling right there, like anybody that can relate to that situation was like, I'm like, oh shit, the last flight. So now I'm thinking, is there any way to really get home? Can I? And there is a connection. I can go through Washington.

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So I'm like, okay, I'm going to do this. And that hour connect, well, there's weather in Washington. And then we get delayed going out and all this stuff.

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And then the commute flight going to Washington from Newark, there was 27 standbys. And then there was seven people on the jump seat. So I put myself, list myself.

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I'm number one on everything. You're senior. Right, because I'm senior.

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You're old. Nobody wanted me to show up on that flight. No, you're old.

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But end up like seven people got on the plane with seats and then everybody got jump seats and all that stuff. So it was like, it all worked out and all that stuff because people were misconnecting and all that. So I got to Dallas.

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I ended up last night getting in at like 1.30 in the morning to the airport, right? So now I got to drive home. I'm not, I'm rolling in here like two o'clock. So yeah, it was a nightmare, man.

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You know, we were flying on the same day. Which way? I got in, I got in that same day. Last night? Yeah, I got, well, I got in like mid afternoon.

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You know what I did? What's that? I walked out in my car and I drove home. Right. You're an ass.

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Look how long his story was. Just to get home. It sounded like shit.

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Just to get home. And mine was, I just took my bag out to my car. Right, yeah.

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The joys of commuting. But you know what, that's- I know you get, I mean, you got some cool flights. Yeah, so here's the interesting thing about our industry.

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People that are listening, that are not flight attendants and are interested in this whole thing. You make that choice, whether you can commute or not commute. And that's the cool thing about our whole job is that it's so flexible, right? It is flexible, yeah.

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We can do, we work on the days we want to work on. We choose if we're going to commute or not commute, the types of flights we're doing. As seniority goes, you get all those choices.

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And you get more choices, the more senior you get, right? Right. So, but, and honestly, in the last year and a half now, this has happened once. Right, but you got to put, when that happens though, you got to put your big boy pants on.

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And you got to go like, what am I going to do, right? You got to figure it out. All the, yeah, you got to figure it out. You got to figure out the situation.

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What am I going to do? What's the audible? What's my plan B? I said a thousand times, a thousand times over, the most comfortable place for a flight attendant is inside of an airport because- Oh yeah, we know what we're doing. It will be complete chaos in there. And they're like figuring out.

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They're plotting. Yeah, we're not panicking. We're just like, okay, we got to figure it out.

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We're on the computer checking out. Completely, completely. I was looking at my other airline options and all the whole, the whole nine yards.

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I was like, okay, I got to sit down and figure this out. What's going to go on. And then my last resort was like, I'm going to stay here.

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Go to my crash pad. Yeah. I just didn't want to stay there type of thing.

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So yeah, it's kind of, this is just interesting, like lifestyles of the rich and famous flight attendants. Okay. My lifestyles of my rich and famous.

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So you're going to love this one. So Gemma, which is my little five pound killer Yorkie. She decides she's been getting up at like 3 a.m. Wakes up, goes downstairs, three o'clock in the freaking morning.

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You can't get mad at this dog. She is like the most loving little thing. But she gets downstairs and my God, she wanted to go at it.

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She wanted to play. Three o'clock. Three o'clock in the morning, I'm laying down.

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Rough housing with this little Yorkie at three o'clock in the morning. But you don't sleep. So I don't.

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But I mean, three o'clock was a little early. A little tiny bit early. But you can't, you got that.

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I know, but it's a lot. You're a better owner than me because I would have probably just been like, Oh, Gemma, get away. Yeah.

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And she'd probably peed on your bed. Go, go, go lay down. Okay.

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I did love Gemma. What I didn't love. This is a little rant.

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What's that? Okay. You live in a golf course community. They take care of your streets.

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Mine is an HOA. So just a little information. If you mow your grass and you're one of those people, that last strip, the final strip, right? Blow that shit back in your own yard.

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Yeah. Okay. I have a neighbor that has a tendency of taking his last strip of grass and blowing all the shit in the road.

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Wow. I know, I know. It's a vending thing, Sean.

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I mean, it's a vending thing. So I came home and first of all, it's not legal. You can't blow that shit in the road.

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Yeah. All right. Second of all, I was in uniform.

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Went and got my damn leaf blower. I blew all that shit right back in his yard. Oh shit.

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Damn. I know. That's a little petty thing.

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Hey, I get it though. I mean, don't blow all your shit into everybody's yard. The streets or everybody's yard, right? Yeah.

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See the fun things about being a flatterer? It's a real life. The one thing I love is this is real life shit. What we do outside of our job.

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So I've been intermittent fasting. I'm down almost 20 pounds. I started 215.

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I'm down to like right around 196. Yeah. Had a burger for the first time.

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My stomach was freaking killing me. Flipping it. Oh my God.

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It was horrible. Yeah. It was horrible.

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When you introduced all that shit about like this type of grease and fat and all that shit back into it. It was absolutely horrible. Yeah.

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I was bent over with cramps. Yeah. Killed me.

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I get it. Yeah. And last thing I had to talk about.

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So driving back and forth, this guy cuts me off. Not one time, two times. Right.

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I'm pissed. Yeah. And he drives alongside.

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He rolls his window down. I'm ready for the confrontation. Really? Yeah.

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I'm ready for the confrontation because I'm mad. I used to cut me off twice. It's like, man, I'm really sorry.

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My God, that's okay. Really? Yeah. First of all, when did this happen? Like when you stopped somewhere like at a light or something? From the interstate.

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We got off the interstate. He cut me off. You know, when we were emerging from the interstate.

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I get that. But when did you roll down your window and stop? Was this like, were you driving down the highway? No, we stopped. Okay.

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That's what you think it is. We were like, we're like going down. I don't know, dude.

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I don't know. You're like, you can be Batman, Spider-Man. Who knows? Shut up.

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The whole point of it is I felt kind of good and bad at that moment because I'm like, maybe I shouldn't have got so mad. Yeah. And then realize he just made a mistake.

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Yeah. Well, people make mistakes. It was, but it was cool that he pulled alongside.

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Yeah. Pulled alongside and like admitted it to you. Yeah.

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I love that. I mean, it, it makes you, um, it makes you feel better. I think for the day.

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Cause I, I did. I felt a little bit better. Yeah.

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Humanity. There is humanity in the world. Well, yeah, but I mean, people, people can recognize that they're, you know, they have faults and like, Oh, but it was my own fault.

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Yeah. But it was my own fault because I was actually, I was actually pissed off. Yeah.

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And he realized that you're probably pissed off. So he was like, Oh, sorry, but it was kind of cool. All right.

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Let's go around the globe. Dude. Have you heard about that freaking, uh, the airline that is charging for bags? No, dude.

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Wait a minute. For bags, they're charging for overhead bag space. Okay.

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Space. I guess. Yeah.

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Can you imagine this? Like, I don't know. They were going to charge. They were going to charge per pound.

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Yeah. I mean, well, no, they do that already per pound. Right.

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Right. But they don't, they don't charge for overhead space. Like our airline charges for bags to come on board the aircraft that we don't care where you're putting them.

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But if you have so many bags, certain type of class of tickets, you are either allowed to have bags come on or not have guys come on. Right. Yeah.

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And that's a lot of, a lot of the airline carriers do that now. But now some of these low cost carriers are actually saying, you know what, we're going to actually charge for the space above you. So like, you know, that situation we were just talking about where like people get on and crew bags in our space type of thing.

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I don't know how they're going to do that or whatever, because all seats don't have baggage space available above you. Right. If you think the seat confrontation was bad.

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Right. Wait till you get to the bag confrontation. I can't even imagine being an employee or being a flight attendant dealing with this.

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Every one of those bags would have to have a specific tag on it. Yeah. Because if they didn't have it, that's going to be bad.

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Well, and. The boarding process is going to be all jacked up. Well, so I experienced this with British Airways.

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This is years ago, probably over 20 years ago. And at that point, how they did it was every bag, it didn't matter what you came on board with, every bag had a color tag. I'm talking down to your, the purse.

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Didn't matter what it was. It had to have a tag on it. If you walked through the door and they didn't have a tag, you're like, hey, bag, go back.

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You got to get a tag for your bags. Right. And so it told the flight attendants, color code tags, where bags belong.

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So you have bags that go in an overhead, bags that went under your seat, right? All that stuff. So it was, it was, it's a pretty cool idea. So I could see like, that's how they got it.

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They're going to end up running this whole thing, but. I'm going to go to Amazon and get into color. Color tags.

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You're going to be bootlegging color tags. Well, you know, it's going to be a freaking mess. You're such a flight attendant.

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I know it's going to be a mess. That's a perfect flight attendant response right there. It's just going to be a mess.

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Now you, you can already see, you already can see how big of a mess that's going to be. All right. I love this one.

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So this regional plane was boarded and they didn't have a crew. What? They didn't have a crew. They boarded without the crew.

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That was a, that had to be a motivated gate agent. Dude, somebody's getting fired for sure. Right.

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I mean. The realization. Could you imagine? I mean, you got like half the plane boarded.

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So first of all, I made the news. So, you know, FAA and all that stuff, they're aware. So they're getting, they didn't find big time.

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The airline gets fined for any type of thing like that FAA violation. But I mean, it's stupid. Yeah.

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Golly, that's crazy. Like it's kind of funny. Back in the day when we first started before computers and all this stuff, because they have all these technology now in different airlines and how they like manage that, keep that from happening.

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But back in the day, how did they do that? How did they do that? You remember? Yeah. Like, how did they make sure that pastures, they weren't born in a plane without pastures? Well, we had to communicate. I mean, they'd come down, we'd talk to each other.

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Exactly. That's my whole point. The agent had to open the door, walk their ass down to the plane.

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Is there a crew on the plane? Yeah. But now we. Do we have enough crew on the plane? But now you're swiped though.

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I mean, you're, you're, you're actually verified. Only, I don't know. Do you know the other airlines? I don't know.

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With technology that we have ways of like solving that problem. Each airline has their own policies and how that does it. But I'm just saying, I was just making a little juxtaposition of, you know, what we did then and what we do now type of thing.

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But in old days, like just go down and check and find, figure it out. You know, like that, whatever, whoever that was that. Nah, let's just board the shit.

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You can tell the jet waste pulled up. Just. It's really bad when you realize that the whole plane is loaded.

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And there's nobody else. Imagine there's no plane down there and they just freaking walk to the edge of the jet way. I mean, we, we've walked on, you've walked on a jet way before and you've gone down there and all of a sudden you come back up and you tell the gate agent.

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There's no plane. There's no plane. What? There's, there's no plane down there.

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There's no plane. Yeah. And that's, and you know, that's unique to certain situations.

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Like most airports, you can just look, they can look out there. The window and see the plane, but there are gates in a lot of airports where the gate goes around and you can't see where the plane planes are or not in there. Yeah.

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It's crazy. I love when we walk out and there's no plane. Yeah.

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I'm just laughing about that one. Okay. There was a laptop fire on board the aircraft.

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That is a perfect example. Why we tell people to make sure that their laptops are underneath their seats or either that are in their laps. Don't bring the overhead vents.

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Right. The batteries. Well, all those batteries, right? So the batteries didn't start fires and all this stuff.

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And then you get those runaway fires and you know, that's why they're always like vapes. They have to be on you, you know, like, Oh, any of these, like lithium battery type of operated devices need to be where you can reach and grab it because you need to know if it's going to catch on fire or not. Yeah.

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It's gotta be readily available for you. Yeah. But in that incident, you're just talking about that.

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You didn't mention was that what? Five passengers died, right? No, five were injured. Injured from it. Yeah.

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They were injured. Five of them were injured. Because of this fire.

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Yeah. Right. Yeah.

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Then we had, they had a video of this late. I love this goes back talking about the regionals. So, you know, as a regional passenger, when you, they check your bag, they, you have to collect it in the jetway.

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Yeah. Before you leave. Yeah.

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So you get on the flight, you check it, whatever you leave it at the end of the jet bridge. And then they take it down. They stow it on the plane.

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Then they bring it back. Right. And then they leave it on the jetway and you pick it up on the way out.

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So this lady went on this tirade about she was blaming the, the, the airlines that she just walked out of the jetway without her bag on to her final destination. Didn't have her bag. So it got to her final destination.

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Her bag is probably still sitting on the jetway. On whatever connecting where she, wherever she was going. Yeah.

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Had your headphones in? Dude, that's not the airline's fault. You're not tuned in. Tune in.

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You're not tuned. Tune in. Tune in.

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Take the headphones out for a few minutes and tune in. Listen to instructions. Because they make announcements.

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Like they're, everybody's making announcements. The agents make announcements, the flight attendants. You're going to pick up your bags as you get off the aircraft.

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You're going to, you know, the agent's telling them, leave your bag at the end of the red. You'll get it when you get off the aircraft, on the jet bridge. Don't, don't go to baggage claim because it's not going to be there.

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Last couple that we're going to talk about. Ain't G. Stupid is as stupid does. Yeah.

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We're talking about stupid. And that's kind of funny you just said that. So the last couple, Penn State.

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Yeah. And all over the news, right? Just had to talk about this for a minute. Cause we have a lot of kids that either in college, went through college, you know.

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So I'd hate to be in their situation. If you guys haven't been following it, this fraternity group of guys, right. Penn State were caught selling drugs.

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Yeah. But I thought it was kind of ironic was that Penn State. And now you're going to the state pen.

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Yeah. Eventually some people are. Yeah.

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And not to mention like all those alumnus that are from that fraternity. Well, they had 14 indictments and I was going to talk about that for a second. So you had 14 indictments.

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Could you imagine having a son that was, that was, went to Penn State within the last two years? Cause you heard a lot of how the indictments were. Right. They had like pledges, cutting this stuff up and distributing this.

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Right. So say that you had a son that was belonged to that fraternity in the last two years. I mean, man, you have to have a run, sit down with that kid.

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Dude, I'd be so nervous. I had to spend so much in this whole conversation because here's my thing. So kids go to college, we're trying to get better.

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And now all these kids have graduated. They're all fraternity brothers, whatever to this fraternity. And then they've all gone on to their other starting their career professionals or onto more schooling, whether becoming doctors, lawyers, whatever, you know? And so then now all of a sudden this drops and then they're like, everybody in this fraternity is starting to get indicted.

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I mean, I think there's gonna be more people indicted. And then there's going to be all those people that are like the minor people. Like they're not really involved in like the major crime.

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They were participants in it and didn't tell anybody about it. Here's the funny part. With a fraternity, because you're from college, don't they look at GPAs too, right? Some do.

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I mean, a lot of them, they look at GPAs. Some do, yeah. Okay.

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They paid for the drugs by cash app. Yeah, smart. So you electronically kept perfect records for the police.

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You guys are smart. They're going to college and trying to learn. State pen.

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Going to the state pen, Sean. They're being edumacated now. I can't.

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Okay. The last one I had to talk about, because this one was actually funny. So you go on a date, you know how they go on these tender dates or whatever they are the first time.

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So the guy is sitting there and this girl orders like four large orders of oysters, two large orders of crab cakes, three big sides. And the bill came and it was $150 for hers. For hers.

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Just for her. Yeah. Yeah.

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What would you have done? I'm not paying that shit. We're going Dutch. We're going Dutch at this point.

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The brother went to the bathroom. Yeah. He didn't come back.

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That's a smart brother. He did not come back. That was smart man.

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Dude, it's so funny. You're talking, we're talking about this like dating app thing. So this last trip I'm with, one of the gals is like recently single.

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And she's talking to me how like all the dating apps are just terrible out there. Right. They're all just crap.

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So her and her friend is just getting into this dating app stuff. Older flight attendant, you know, us, we're like someone I've never even experienced. I couldn't even imagine.

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So anyways, she's like, we have this competition and we do screenshots of the like most, like the worst guy. Like they try to like out worse, like candidates each other. So they trade pictures and like, oh, this guy tried.

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Oh, from the app. Oh, yeah. Okay.

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They didn't go out with them. No, no, no. They didn't go with them.

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Yeah. This is just like, you know, their profile pictures and like how bad the profile picture and stuff. And she's like.

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The one that would have a shot. So they try to like, yeah, they try to outdo it. Who's got the worst profile picture guy that's on their, their feed.

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I was like, that shit is funny. It would make you feel really good, right? You get this picture of this dude. Look at this guy.

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She goes, you can't even imagine. She goes, I wish we didn't have Wi-Fi on the aircraft. They were flying.

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So she couldn't see, show it to me. But could you imagine? I couldn't even imagine dating with an app. Oh, I don't know, man.

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That's a whole nother episode. I couldn't imagine doing that. Okay.

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Inspirational quote. I love this one. Things are not always as bad as they seem.

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Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light. Yep. That's so true, man.

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The whole point of this podcast was exactly that. Sometimes it's not necessarily that the flight attendant has a bad attitude. It's not necessarily that the person has a bad attitude.

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Sometimes it's what we say and what we do and how we say it and how we do it. Right. And the perspective of what you're looking at, just remember, you know, there's everybody's perspective is different.

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Like my perspective of commuting. Right. You're an ass.

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I am. See ya. Hey guys.

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