Cabin Pressure with Shawn and "G"

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This episode starts with a public service announcement from every flight attendant on earth: if you see the lavatory flush button, please push it. Shawn and G kick things off with a very real, very gross airplane bathroom rant that every crew member and frequent flyer will understand immediately. Somehow, that turns into remote-control flushing, Ally McBeal, and a lavatory invention...

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This episode starts with the question every flight attendant answers before the aircraft door even closes: what do you notice first when passengers board? Shawn tries to keep it professional, G immediately goes to smell, and suddenly we are talking about clean passengers, airport outfits, sandals on planes, pajama travel, and the mystery of why some people show up to the airport loo...

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Why do people step off a moving sidewalk in the airport and suddenly act like they just reached the scenic overlook at the Grand Canyon? That is where this episode starts, and honestly, it only gets more accurate from there.

Shawn and G are back with a full breakdown of the human behavior crimes we all witness in airports: people stopping at the end of moving walkw...

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After 96 straight weeks of continuous posting, this is the first time Cabin Pressure with Shawn & G will not have a regular full episode.

This week, G is out sick, and instead of forcing a show that would not feel like us, Shawn checks in with a short update for the Cabin Pressure family. The heart of this show has always been the back-and-forth, the interruptions, the la...

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This episode starts with Shawn and G doing what they do best: turning one joke into a full conversation. From “do-do duty time” to the World Cup, soccer culture, USA pride, and why Americans sometimes miss how big the rest of the world’s sports moments really are, the opening quickly becomes a mix of comedy, competition, and classic Cabin Pressur...

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Doodoo Limitations

One badly pronounced airline term is all it takes to send this episode completely off the rails. What begins as a serious explanation of pilot and flight attendant duty limitations quickly becomes “doodoo limitations”—and, naturally, we never recover.

First, we follow up on the passenger accused of slapping a flight attendant and facing serious fed...

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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 thunde...

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What happens when Shawn promises to attend a party, convinces G to go—and then completely forgets to show up? This episode begins with G calling Shawn out for missing a wild flight-attendant “Return to the ’80s” party while relaxing on his deck without a care in the world.

Once the excuses are over, we get into a serious airline-safety debate: Should overhead ...

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A guy walks into the backyard, looks around for a few minutes, and suddenly removing some bushes costs four thousand dollars. That is where this episode begins: with Shawn and G trying to understand how “just get rid of it” turned into a luxury service. From backyard estimates and junk removal to basement cleanouts, old treadmills, and the things we all keep for no good ...

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This episode starts with one of the hardest things in life: admitting someone else was right. From there, Shawn and G turn that simple moment into a bigger conversation about humility, emotional growth, and why being wrong sometimes teaches you more than being right ever could.

Then the airline chaos takes over. A flight turns around mid-ocean after a Bluetooth device shows up with t...

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A bag tag is supposed to help your suitcase get home, not get you pulled off a plane.

In this episode, we start with a terrifying travel warning about a baggage scam where criminals switch luggage tags, potentially connecting an innocent traveler to a drug-filled bag. We break down what happened, why it matters, and the simple habit every traveler should start doing before checking l...

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You can tell a lot about a crew in the first few seconds, and sometimes one simple smile can change the entire tone of a trip.

In this episode, we start with the real-life airline friendships that come from decades on the job, then jump into something every flight attendant, new hire, commuter, and frequent traveler can use: practical travel gear that actually makes life easier. We&r...

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Somebody nearly gets tossed into human resources in the first minute, and somehow that is still not the wildest part of the hour. We start by sending real love to Shawn’s mom and asking for prayers, then we jump straight into the kind of airline stories you only hear when the mic is on and the crew is off the clock. 

We talk haunted layover hotels in Rapid City, in...

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A brand-new flight attendant walks into training looking like it’s the first day of school, and we immediately get hit with a flashback to how different the job used to be. We talk about hand-me-down uniforms, paying back allotments, and why the airline industry can feel like two completely different worlds depending on when you got hired. Then we run straight into the real qu...

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Somebody can call you an idiot before sunrise and somehow it still turns into a great day at work. That’s airline life, and we lean into it with a mix of window-seat wonder, airport people-watching, and the kind of aviation chaos you truly cannot make up.

We start with the simple question every frequent flyer has asked: why are airplane windows still so small? From clou...

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Boarding a plane is stressful, but have you ever tried boarding a single hotel van with three crews and a crowd of passengers fighting for the same seats? We start with that Nashville pickup-area madness, then pivot into the kind of real-world airline travel tips most people only learn the hard way, like what passport info actually helps if you lose it abroad and why saving only the...

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

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A tin foil cap shows up at work and somehow sparks a chain reaction: conspiracy jokes in the galley, memories of the “bunny ears” TV era, and the timeless question of whether anything can truly block the chaos of airline life. We lean into the weird crew personalities that make flying bearable, then take a sharp turn into something every traveler recognizes: the way word...

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TSA PreCheck vs. Global Entry — which one is actually worth it? This week on Cabin Pressure with Shawn & G, we break down airport security programs, customs shortcuts, and the travel apps that can save you serious time. Then it goes fully off the rails with crew drama, therapy dog Rex, gross passenger behavior, a wild Dublin layover, an accidental kirtan concert, and one o...