Finding Joy When Every Day Feels the Same

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We've all felt it—that Groundhog's Day sensation where life becomes an endless loop of waking up, grinding through the day, dodging strangers on sidewalks, and wondering when a burger and fries became a $27 investment. This episode dives deep into breaking free from life's repetitive cycles and finding meaning when everything feels mundane.

G shares his experience of entering what he calls a "Groundhog's Day" period—not clinical depression, but that wearing down that comes from life's daily grind. His moment of clarity came after an uncharacteristic confrontation in an airport concourse, leading him to implement his three-step recovery process: performing acts of kindness, practicing gratitude (especially for health), and finding inspiration in those facing greater challenges yet persevering.

The conversation shifts nostalgically to growing up in the 1980s when face-to-face interactions weren't interrupted by screens. Remember playing outside until dark? Cruising in meticulously cleaned cars on weekend nights? Block parties in cornfields? Shawn and G contrast this with today's technology-consumed world where "nobody's breathing anymore"—everyone's head down, scrolling through phones, missing the life happening around them.

Between discussions of overpriced burgers, home renovation projects, and airline passenger behaviors (why do men resist seatbelts?), a powerful message emerges: sometimes the simplest actions break us free from life's monotony. As Shawn quotes, "How do we change the world? One act of random kindness." It's this philosophy—paying forward kindness without expectation—that might be the key to escaping our personal Groundhog's Day.

Try putting down your phone this week. Look up. Breathe. Connect with someone. Pay for a stranger's coffee. The cure for life's repetition might be simpler than you think.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You ever feel like life's turning into Groundhog's
Day?
Wake up, fight the daily grind.
Get shoulder checked by somestranger on the sidewalk Like,
sir, are we in a rugby match orjust walking to Starbucks?
And when did a small burger andfries become a $27 investment?
Why do pastures thinkturbulence is the perfect time

(00:23):
to wander around the cabin?
Like, sit down before youbecome the in-flight
entertainment?
Today we're diving into allthat the grind, the overpriced
fries and the in-flight comedywe deal with daily.
Buckle up, because episode 51starts right now.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey everyone, hey, everyone, welcome.

(01:03):
This is Cabin Pressure.
It's Sh Hector.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Here we are.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Welcome everybody.
Not even quiet.
What's going on, man?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Nothing, man.
I was prepping myself for thisintro because I know everybody's
excited to hear what I've gotfor them, but nothing man myself
for this intro, because I knoweverybody's excited to hear what
I've got for them, but you knowwhat?
Here's the first thing I wantto talk about.
You know what I'm doing allthese freaking projects around
the house right now, and one ofthe reasons why I'm doing these
projects is like Carol and I arelike geared enough for

(01:40):
retirement, because I want thehouse to be tight because we
already made the decision we'restaying at this house.
I need to get shit done.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I thought you were retired already.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
To you.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
No, you haven't seen retirement.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yet, brother, it gets more casual, more relaxing, if
you got any more casual shit.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
You'd be a slug.
You know, I'm never going to bestopping A slug is far from
what we'll be looking like,Anyways, but I'm doing all these
projects.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Man Projects are so expensive on houses.
I got to replace my deck.
We got a patio back in my housethat's freaking.
I got to get it resurfaced andthen I've decided.
I've decided, like all ourfreaking um landscape, landscape
in our house, like everywherearound my whole entire house.
It's 25, it's 25 years old,it's all overgrown, it's all

(02:35):
this stuff just needs to beripped out and redone, and my
back, my back, ain't doing that,just move no, I'm not, no, I'm
not moving, dude.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's the whole point.
This is the thing got to gearup my house.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I got to redo it, so we've been saving up and
preparing and trying to get thisthing ready to go, because
we've got a few years leftbefore we're actually going to
step into true retirement.
But yeah, it's like.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Did you choose a company?
Last week they were here Didyou choose one?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
For the decking.
No, actually I'm still gettingquotes, yeah, but they've come
in all over the place.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So you get a project like this.
Tell these people, how manyquotes did you get?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Minimum for me, like I need three, four quotes,
minimum on a large project.
Because I want to see, you know, they're all basically quoting
the same job, right.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
So the smart thing to do is like be patient set up
your appointments, get yourquotes make sure that you
understand what the projectyou're going to learn some
things along the way.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
This is a funny story .
One of the guys came in and hewas like, yeah, and this has
nothing to do with like you know, I'm not discriminating against
anybody.
But he was like, yeah, and thishas nothing to do with like I'm
not discriminating againstanybody, but he's like I got
this lady that last week thatshe was like I need this quote.
And he, she goes, I've, I'vehad your, your, my Ashlow, like
my eighth quote that I'm getting.

(03:58):
And um, she goes and I have uh,I have construction experience,
so I just want to let you knowthat upfront she's telling this
guy and so he's like you know Iwant you to do, you know tell me
what you want to do with thisdeck.
So he's like yeah we're goingto be doing all this.
You know that we're going totake out your deck, replace it
and all this stuff and she'slike well why do you have to do

(04:19):
that?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
He's like this deck this deck is old and you know
you need, you know thefoundation.
The deck needs to be replacedand supported and she's like,
she's like.
Why is it?
Why is it?
that all of you that came outhere have been telling me that I
have to do this like you know,you know why it's safe like
she's like, he's like, he's likehe's getting to the point where
it's like she says she hasconstruction experience, but she

(04:47):
really doesn't know what thehell she's talking about like
one of your posts is swingingback and forth and the common
denominator that everycontractor comes out here is
telling the exact same thing,but she's not believing them,
right?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm like when you're working with people like that,
that's hard to work with,especially when a contractor
comes out.
Consistency, right yeah,actually, I have had three, four
, getting ready to have fourcontractors coming out here and
as I was actually walking downthe way here looking at other
decks, I noticed that this onecontractor that I bid to I

(05:24):
looked at at the work they didbecause that's how I got their
card and all this stuff was from.
They were out and I was likegive me your card, whatever.
So I went back and looked attheir work.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I realized, I realized that the work was shit.
Like I was like, like I waslike.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Whoa wait, wait, wait a minute.
Some of the builders looked atit and he's like this other
contract, he's like that's noteven allowed anymore.
They literally had theextension onto the deck hooked
on with just one bolt throughthe wood.
That's not even allowed anymore, anyhow so it's good for you to

(05:58):
get quotes.
Do your homework, get somequotes, make sure you're getting
them.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Not necessarily the cheapest price is always the
best price because you don'tknow what you're getting, but
it's best that you go and seetheir work.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Go see the work.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
If you know anything as far as building, go see their
work, because all you have todo is look at certain things.
Even when they built my house,man, I walked in.
They did a lot of jacked upshit in there, oh builders.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
There's no perfect builder.
I mean when you get starteddiscussing like building a house
you're going to have.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's like getting married.
I can't wait to hear this.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
You need.
You're going to have somefights with the builder.
You're going gonna have somefights with the builder.
With the builder, you're gonnahave some arguments with the
builder.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
There's like there's gonna be conflicts.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's gonna happen no, I've never heard of anybody was
like this was the best builderever and it was all magical.
They did nothing wrong.
That doesn't exist in the world, but anyways, yeah, man.
The other thing I wanted totalk about, too, man, was about
our schedule like, like liketechnology and manual scheduling

(07:13):
is a um.
Manual scheduling, I think, is athing in the past, like old
school people that are in ourage group and stuff.
We walk around with our, likeyou know, open schedules, books,
you write into them and allthat stuff.
A walk around with our, likeyou know, open schedules, books,
you write into them and allthat stuff.
A lot of people still like todo that type of thing but but
technology really has, um, somehelp where it can help remind

(07:33):
you of things.
And and my wife is gonna belike laughing her ass off about
me talking about this because Iforget to do shit still when I
have tech, I know where you'regoing I know where you're going
with this.
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I just wanted to say that you know when are you going
with this.
Sean, I know where you're going.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Where am I going?
I'm going to let you tell me.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
All right.
So we scheduled our podcast andwe schedule it the month in
advance and Mr Technology overhere goes okay, we're going to
do it this day, this day, thisday, all right, I got you.
So when I'm doing my flying,which is every day, and it's
trip trading, I accidentally puta trip on one of the podcasts.

(08:17):
Will you guys get rid of that?

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't know.
I never tell him to get rid ofanything.
What I tell him is that we haveboth of us we're doing shit
just like everybody else outthere.
We've got to figure our stuffout.
Both of us are super busy.
We've got to commit to eachweek.
We try to do it a month and ahalf in advance.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
You're funny as shit man.
You have this long-ass pause.
He's got this long-ass pause inthe text going.
It's like he's waiting for youto sit there and go.
Oh, I'm getting rid of my trip.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
I didn't tell you to get rid of it, you didn't have
to.
You know you needed to.
That's what it was.
It's like ding, ding, ding,ding, little pause.
I screwed up.
Okay, I got rid of the trip.
It's not hard.
It's not hard.
I mean, it was an LA turn.
Yeah, that was like gone in ananosecond Boom.
Somebody was like what, yeah,g's giving up this.
What?
What happened?

(09:11):
And the funny thing, about it.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
you'll get a call, are you okay?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, is Deb okay, is Deb okay.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Is in there.
That's the first response thatI get.
That's awesome.
That's where our flightattendant group is.
That's awesome.
But, hey, you're right abouttechnology.
I mean it is good but as far aswith the scheduling, I probably
still won't do it.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
You got to do it, man .
I've even seen you.
I'm sending you links to like.
All you have to do is click onand add it to your phone.
Yeah, well, now I'm going tohave to stay in links that have
put alarms in.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'll still have to deal with a little pauses.
We got to get rid of it again G.
That's all right.
That's all right.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Hey, because what happens is when we schedule our
podcast days and stuff, whenwe're going to record, we
literally like as soon as that'sset up, like my schedule just
starts filling in from thereBecause I have, like I, got
doctor's appointments.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I got starts filling in from there because I have,
like, I got doctor'sappointments, I got people to
see, I have golf to do, I gotplaces to go, there's a lot to a
podcast.
A lot of people don'tunderstand that.
I mean, it's not just like youjust get on the mic and just
start talking.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
No, there's a lot to.
I mean you gotta put together ashow we take literally the week
before the plan for the nextweek.
So it's a week process of uslike gathering information,
figuring out our content, whatwe're going to do, making sure
we got the dates, guests linedup, all the logistics that go
into all the stuff to geteverybody into one spot to like
start talking and that's why youget a text going.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I told you that was good.
It's always that pause.
We get that little pause, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
So what's been going on with you, man?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
you know.
You know it was.
It was funny.
It was funny.
I was looking at some of thesocial media sites a few days
ago Actually, it's been about aweek ago, but I was going
through a period that Ireference as Groundhog's Day.
I think I talked about thisbefore in another podcast, but
what it is is that these peoplewere talking about depression.

(11:04):
You know, flight attendantswere talking about depression
and I was realizing.
I go through this every once ina while and you wonder why you
do what you do, right?
I mean, you feel like you'rejust spinning your wheels.
Sometimes You're out there,you're busting your ass and
you're like for what?
Why do you do it all?
I mean, you know we've got allthis stuff You've got a house,

(11:25):
you've got cars, you've got allthis For what You're going to
die one day, I mean.
And you go through this time inyour head and what it is is
that it's the grind of life.
It's that grind because you'redoing it every day.
It's that repetition every day,the beat it is, and what
happens is it starts reallygetting to you.
And I was reading these and Iwas like God, this is exactly

(11:47):
what I've been going through andI haven't verbalized this until
now.
I labeled this Groundhog's Dayin my head and I've been doing
this for a while because ithelps me deal with this daily
grind that a lot of people thinkthat it is a depression.
I don't think it's a depression, sean.
I think what it is is.
You go through this grind oflife and how do you deal with it

(12:10):
, and if you don't have a gameplanned, a lot of times it
really affects you.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, so I'm just going to stop you one second.
We are no specialists, we knowno clinical blah, blah blah.
You know people out there,maybe psychologists, saying you
know that's what it is, what itisn't, all this stuff, we're not
here to do all that.
We're just saying we're justtelling you you know, we have
you know we have the ups anddowns of life and it gets to you

(12:35):
.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Right and, like I said, I'm not telling you that
you've got to do what I'mtelling you to do it's just what
I do.
And when I was reading this itjust kind of cued me in not to
their situation, but mine and Iimmediately went to my coping
mechanisms and I was walkingdown the concourse and this is
when I knew the realization thatsomething was wrong.

(12:58):
And when I was walking down theconcourse, you know how a guy
is walking at you and, forwhatever reason, men have this
space issue Right.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Right, and they won't move.
Yeah, you're going to stay onyour ground, yeah Right.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
So you know I'm walking, I'm thinking, okay, I'm
going to give you some space,but I'm not going to give you
all the space because that's notright.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
What you're doing, I know what you're doing yeah,
there's, like it should be, amutual respect of okay, hey,
you're coming at me, I'm comingat you, I'm gonna step to one
side, you're gonna step to theother, whatever like how many
times?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
like how many?

Speaker 1 (13:28):
times have there been like that jog step, like we
both step to the same side, likeoh yeah, like we're like oh
yeah, and you and you laugh, butwhen it doesn't happen, yeah
yeah, that's exactly it.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
And the thing is that I'm walking there and I'm
thinking to myself I'm not in agood mood and you're doing this
and that's fine.
But I gave you some space and Iguess it wasn't enough space
and I was like okay, fine, youwant to go shoulder to shoulder
with me?
I'll go shoulder to shoulderwith you, that's fine.
I spun your ass around like atop At that point.

(14:00):
I'm sitting there thinking oneor two things are going to
happen.
Either this person will keepwalking or I'm going to get
jumped from behind.
It's going to be somethingthat's going to go on in the
concourse.
Don't get me wrong.
I didn't want any of this tohappen.
It was a realization at thatpoint that something was going
on in my head.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Talk to that point, that something was going on in
my head, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean talked about at one point like it's
like a millisecond for you toknow, for you to know, like if
this person, if this person isacknowledging you like you.
You see, if you see each otherlike it's one thing, like it's
one thing that you're walkingdown and somebody's.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
They're engaged in conversation or whatever.
They're not paying attentionwhatever and they're not giving
that way.
You know to you like you'rewalking down the same space and
they're engaged, you knowstepping out of the way and you
see that they don't see you,type of thing.
That's, that's one thing.
But when you know, no, they'veseen you, we're both, we're both
coming to each other and youtry to step out of the way and

(14:53):
they don't move Right, that'sthe, that's the situation we got
.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
And that's exactly what I was saying the situation
we got right here, and that'sexactly what I was in and what
happened was it wasn't the dayfor you to be doing that with me
, but what I did do is Irealized that you know I had to
implement my coping mechanismsbecause something wasn't right.
What it is is that you dealwith people that are lazy.
You work with people that arelazy.

(15:18):
You deal with situations on theairplane.
You deal with your life outsideof the airlines.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
You deal with all these things and somehow you're
supposed to keep it together andthen you're feeling this
feeling of okay, what is it allfor?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well, then I have to sit there and say, okay, I
recognized it, so I called it myGroundhog's Day.
And after my Groundhog's Day,the first thing I need to do
because I want to get back tomyself is I have to do an act of
kindness to as many people as Ican right away.
Because as soon as I startbeing kind, I start feeling

(15:53):
better.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, for sure man.
You had that personalrecognition to identify that
you're doing something.
One like at our age, you knowlike we did those type of things
and that male testosterone backwhen we were in our 20s, right

(16:14):
so?

Speaker 2 (16:14):
it's something that it's great.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
It's great that we're old enough and wise enough to
identify.
Hey, things are piling up.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Life is piling up.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
We need to get away.
I'm not behaving like Inormally do.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
No, but I accepted my feelings and I do it without
judgment, so I'm good with that,okay.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
So then I do these acts of kindness.
Wait, wait, you're not judgingyourself.
No, I don't.
No, I don good with that, okay,so then I, I do these acts.
You're not judging yourself.
No, I don't really.
I mean here, let me do it foryou, yeah, shut up when?

Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm going through this.
Yeah, put me right back in.
So, uh, anyway, so I go, I goand I do these acts of kindness
to people on the plane anywhere,just just to make myself feel
better.
Then, then, right away, rightaway, I start thinking about
gratitude how lucky I am, andI'm lucky that I have my health.
One of the most importantthings I think in life is your

(17:08):
health.
You have the ability to changewhatever.
As long as you're healthy, youcan do whatever you want to do.
So I'm healthy man, and thereason why is like I love my gym
and my gym has always been whatI reference it to as being my
church.
I go exercise every mental demonoutside, you know, inside that
church to get it outside of mybody.

(17:29):
So that is my church.
Sometimes I'm in there on aFriday night, there's nobody in
there and I'm texting a pictureto one of my boys and they're
like what are you doing, dad?
I said I'm in church, man, it'sFriday night of my boys.
And they're like what are youdoing, dad?
I said I'm in church massFriday night.
Ain't nobody in here?
I'm about ready to get ugly.
So you know, get all thesedemons and you get them outside
of your body from the gym.
So I love that.
But inside the gym I also findinspiration and a lot of times I

(17:52):
get inspired.
And one of the persons I alwaysget inspired by is my sister
who has MS, and the way shelooks at life every single day.
These people are amazing.
They go through other thingsand they look at life
differently, and she wasinspiring to me.
But then there's this guy thatcomes to the gym.
He is in a wheelchair and hecomes there, he gets out of the

(18:13):
car, he gets in the wheelchair,he wheels himself into the gym.
He does all this on thatwheelchair and I'm like man, my
life isn't bad.
This guy's out here doing thesame thing that I'm doing and
he's in that chair and he can'teven move.
So your inspiration comes whenyou see someone else is not as
fortunate as you, but they'reout there doing the grind, and

(18:33):
so all of a sudden I'm inspiredto be more, to be better, and
then I'm feeling good.
I'm starting to feel good and Ifeel this start passing.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
And I realized that you know, just like anything
else, this will pass.
This is a blip, you guys.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
This is a blip in life, and if you realize that
and if you identify it and thenyou can work on it, you can get
through this and as soon as youget through it, things start
turning better.
And that's exactly whathappened with me Is that this
week a lot of great thingshappened this week and it
happened because of karma, thedoing things.
That's nice, the gratitude andthe inspiration that I have when

(19:10):
I felt the worst and then Iwent back and the one thing I
felt bad about was spinning thatguy around in the shoulder and
I realized that that might havebeen me when I was young, but
that's not me today.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now will I do it again.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Probably I'm not saying that I won't.
I'm not perfect, I'm a humanbeing but I'm not saying that
I'm not going to feel thisGroundhog's Day again because
I'm going to feel it.
It's a repetitive feeling andthen there's nothing wrong with
you.
It's just life.
We go through these things butwe can make it through it.
And I was looking at thesecomments thinking that these

(19:45):
people were going through thesame thing.
But another video came out andI thought it was kind of cool
and for me and you we both cantalk about this one it was being
an 80s child, yeah, yeah.
And one thing about being an80s child is, you know, when you

(20:06):
talked about technology andthis deals exactly with that
when we were in the 80s it was aface-to-face.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
We talked with everybody right, but we didn't
have technology.
That's the thing about likebeing in the growing up in the
80s and stuff.
We didn't have the technology,Technology was just starting.
We didn't have the technology,Technology was just starting.
We were just getting the tasteof what technology and where
technology can go and how it canentertain us and those type of

(20:29):
things.
Video games are just startingto happen.
You and I started off on Pong.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
They don't even remember Pong.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Pong was a table tennis game, it was just like
these two blip screens goingback and forth, and you know
like it's a basic programmingyou write on any computer today,
but it's it's like that waslike that was our big
entertainment, right?
I mean, we said, there arehours doing the trying to keep
that ball back and going outfrom going out.
You know um.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
It was like air hockey on the tv you know, like
just it was, it was, it wasfascinating.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
It's still fascinating, like technology, to
me.
I grew up.
I grew up in the age wheretechnology, like all the things,
all the things that havechanged since we were kids to
what it is, to what it is today,like a computer.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Like a computer filled up this room and the
first and the first computers weever saw right, like it was
like.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
It was like these giant computers, like ibm had
these monster cabinets and thatwas a computer and blah, blah,
blah.
And now we got these likethings, things that we carry
around our hand, these phonesthat are like has more power
than any of those room computerscan even do, because we've
everything's micro-sized now.
Um, but it was becausetechnology advanced and stuff.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
So it's fascinating to look at all that stuff, but
it's not like the end-all,be-all.
I think technology shouldalways be something to assist
you in life, but you shouldn'tbe consumed with it right, Right
, but in our lives today, it hasconsumed us, and this is the
point that I'm making.
When we were kids, man, wedidn't come in until the

(22:02):
streetlights were on, right Imean we didn't.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
No dude, I would stay out until the freaking night.
We would play kick the canRight.
Like people don't even want tokick the.
What?
Like kick the can Football inthe yard?
Like playing touch football inthe yard, Playing tag High and
seek you ever go to the park andthrow in a Frisbee.
Oh yeah, don't get me startedwith that.
Me and Gary went and did thatin the park several times and he

(22:28):
can't throw a Frisbee.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
How many times I was climbing a tree or on top of a
building trying to retrieve myFrisbee.
That's a whole other segment.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Anyways, but yeah, like we did things you know you
got out and the other thing.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm just going through some of these things and
I'll get to the reason why.
But when we were younger we hadto buy our own cars and the one
thing that we did on Friday andSaturday night is we go
cruising.
We go cruising down.
For us.
We went cruising down El Doradoand Decatur, illinois, and
there was two McDonald's at eachside and you go, turn around
and eat at the McDonald's and ineach of the McDonald's there's

(23:04):
two different schools that eatat McDonald's.
So you check the girls out orthe guys out at each of the
McDonald's and you talk, right,you see guys that you've played
sports against or youcommunicated, but your cars were
immaculate.
Man.
They were spotless Friday,saturday night.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Man, you put a shine on those things Because we
bought our cars To this pointthat you're talking about buying
cars and stuff, I want to saythis my wife and I came from two
different walks of life and shewas given her cars and her
parents bought her cars and allthis stuff and I'm going to tell
you right now like my car, mycars and, even to this day, like

(23:43):
you, go in the garage my car.
Normally it's cleaned up, it's.
I wash it all the time.
I take care of it because Ibought it man it took me hard,
money, time, time served, to getthat car and she's, and she's
always been given these cars.
Like you know, she gets her carnow.
Now she buys her own cars today, you know, like we're too old
for that crap, but um, she'salways been given to it.

(24:06):
But it's interesting becausewhen I look at her entire family
, like, like, most of them don'tclean their cars yeah, they're
like it's just a just like athing to use and like and like
her will get.
I don't know.
I haven't got to a level whereshe finally says, okay, enough's

(24:27):
enough, I've got to clean mycar Like I don't know if that's
possible, like literally trashcould be all over the floors and
everything and she still wouldget in and drive and it blows my
mind.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Right, but it goes back to again when we grew up.
I mean certain things aboutwhere you grew up and what you
had to do, but, like I said, mymoney was always spotless.
But the thing is that todayyou're stuck on your damn phones
.
There's nobody chasing dreamsanymore.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I mean, what they're doing is they want so many likes
, they want all this crap and Iget it.
I mean that's fine.
I mean that's what you do, butyou're not even going to trying
to make a dream happen foryourself, because you don't have
any.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
You don't have any dreams, nothing.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
I mean, you know, we had block parties, we had things
that I mean we had parties inthe freaking cornfields when
everybody just hung out.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
I mean, what I realized was when I'm going,
through all this stuff and whatit is is that back then we could
breathe right.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
You go outside, you enjoy the moment that you're in
going swimming, going in theparks, playing.
You weren't stuck on a phone.
And today if you go into anyplace, any establishment, I
don't care where it is everybodyhas their phone stuck to their
face.
Nobody's breathing anymore.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Every time I go to work, man, I get on the shuttle.
I mean it doesn't matter whatshuttle you're on, whether it's
an employee shuttle or a parkingshuttle, whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Literally look around .
I mean everybody is on thephone In the airports.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Everybody's on their phone Like everybody's looking
down.
There's very few like innergate.
You know people inner Engaging,Thank you, engaging with each
other.
And yeah, I was like they don't, they don't.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
And that's.
That's exactly what I wassaying this whole thing about,
and it goes full circle intothis Groundhog's Day.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
So what I had to do is I had to breathe, man, I had
to get back out, I had to get inthe gym, I had to get outside
and I put my damn phone down.
I'm like you know, screw thatI'm not answering the shit.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I got to for a minute and I started being more
concerned about other peoplethan myself and started feeling
a lot better.
So, like I said, I had theGroundhog's Day.
You guys, you might have thissame feeling, but realize it
might just be a blip and if it'snot, if it's more than that,
there's a lot of people that outthere that can help you.
I mean they can.
I mean they can, oh yeah.

(27:04):
There's lots of professionalsout there to help you with this
stuff and like you feel likeyou're getting into depression
stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
There's depression hotlines and all that good stuff
to go to go to, but you knowwhat it's, it's self, it's self
help and being able to have that, have that ability to recognize
and acknowledge that you werelike not yourself, not yourself,
and to adjust, that's growth.
You know that's, that's thepoint of life where you've
finally gotten yourself intolike we all are going to be, up
and flow and highs and lows toto life.

(27:28):
Like I mean, I get into theseand my wife will point it out,
like I get into the like notquite panic mode but I start
getting little anxiety happeningand stuff about stuff and step
back and be like wait a minute,you know, you know how gifted,
how blessed, how blessed.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Am I right, you know, like I don't, I shouldn't have
this, this, these type of thesetype of worries and my wife is a
big worrier, like her entirefamily.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Worry, worry, and it's you know, you know.
You just like pause justrecognize.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
As soon as you recognize it and you start your
way back.
And, like I said, one of theeasiest things to do is kindness
and gratitude and if you dothat, you'll see, start thinking
of other people.
It will change.
Everything will change.
You'll be a blip in your life.
You'll get past this and you'llmove on, and the next time
you'll recognize it a little bitquicker.
But we're going gonna go onfrom there.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Now, sean and I wanted to add to you know,
sarcasm and humor is a good tooltoo that's why I got you.
That's sarcastic that's you 100.
But listen, man, you know whowas on my plane.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Who's that?
Who's that?
M m g k what, what, yeah, mgk.
Mgk is on your plane, man Itook you back and forth from
from cleveland.
Did you get it?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
did you get a pic?
Nope, nope.
What the what?

Speaker 2 (28:51):
are you kidding?
I knew you were gonna say that.
I knew it.
I knew it.
I was like I didn't want totell him because I was like you
get a pit.
You gotta like seize the momentI mean one of the the best
things about being a flightattendant.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I'm not that person.
I know you aren't either.
We're not all Google-eyed aboutpeople and all that stuff.
It's fun to see them.
It is entertaining.
It's cool because we get to seeso many people that we totally
understand that they're justpeople too.
I like to seize the moment,like, if I get that opportunity,

(29:23):
you know like I'm not gonna runup to them and be like can I
get your autograph?
you know like that, that's notwhat I always like to get a
picture with them, like, hey,you know when you're leaving out
the door, or if you get amoment here when you're standing
talking to us in the galley, orsomething like that you know.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
If you know, if they come, I'm like, hey, you mind
snapping a picture with us.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, and you know they love that stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I knew I was going to hear shit about that, but you
know, the one thing he's reallynice, Nice guy.
I hear, I hear, I hear.
I mean he really is.
He's kept to himself but verypolite.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
I was pretty impressed.
That's most of them, aren'tthey?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Most people that get on.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
They treat us nice and they're nice people.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
We say that there's only 1%.
Yeah, there's that 1% out therethat we talk about all the time
.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
We'll continue to talk about them.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Machine Gun.
Kelly, it was nice having youon Next time.
I've heard it as if he's everlistening to our podcast.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
You never know, you never know, you never know.
All right, I've got to tell youabout this.
Five Guys, five Guys, five Guys.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Not five regular guys , you know, five Guys burgers,
the burgers yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Do you like?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
them.
Do you like them you?

Speaker 1 (30:34):
know what I do like Five Guys Burger every now and
then.
They're definitely not my like.
I would not frequent thembecause they're too damn
expensive, but they're a goodburger.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Would you compare it to like In-N-Out?
That'd be like our version ofIn-N-Out Burger.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Well, you know, here's the difference between
like In-N-Out and Five Guys tome, because me like burgers.
There's all these huge range oflevels of burgers.
You know, to me it's like youwant your bottom line McDonald's
burgers.
That's the standardfactory-issue burger.
But, then, as you go up thechain, you've got the In-N-Out's
.
I love In-N-Out burgers.
They're one of my favoriteburgers period.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
And they're coming to Ohio.
I heard that Whoop, whoop.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Anyways.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
But then Five Guys is like that.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
They're known for it.
It's a handmade patty, it'sreal beef, the quality of the
food and all this stuff, butyou're paying a premium for it.
So it's like going to arestaurant and paying for an
expensive burger.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, I've got to talk about this now that
we've told you a little bitabout Five.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
So we go to the Five Guys to get a couple burgers.
The other day and I'm lookingat the menu the regular burger
is like $9.
$9.
Okay, now this burger lookslike the little cousin to the
White House slider, damn thing.
Okay, me and you, that shitain't going to fill us.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well, I mean, first of all, their normal burger is
two patties.
They don't give you one patty,they give you two patties.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Two patties should be one.
Yeah, they smash them.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
It's like smash burgers.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
It doesn't matter if it's two.
There should only be one, butanyway, what they're known for,
they have all the natural fries,right the potato fries yeah,
the fries are pretty decent.
So one of the things that theydo is like, if you order a small
fry, which is like $5 andsomething, you're going to get
like two servings becausethey're going to overflow the

(32:35):
cup and all that.
Okay, that's my point.
They always dump the secondamount in there.
That's about the same size asthe cup, so at least you feel
like you're not getting slightedby the slider burger that
you're eating and you're gettingat least double the fries.
So we get the oversized Dixiecup of fries, the small one, and
it's still like $5.
So we get the bag and the DietCoke and the receipt comes, it's

(33:01):
$27.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
For a Diet Coke, two burgers and a Dixie Cup thing of
fries.
And when I looked in the bagthere was no double amount, sean
.
There was like four extra friesin the damn bag.
Oh, they didn't give you the dothe search.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
No, four extra fries in the bag.
Now I was told you need to goback up there and tell them I'm
not going back, I'm not comingback, I'm not coming back.
I'm not coming back Because theonly thing that was big on that
whole meal was the receipt.
No, the receipt was like threefeet long.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I know your point here and we all hear it clearly
that this is an expensive burger.
But let me tell you what and Ihave friends out here.
They're going to laugh becauseif they're listening to the show
, they're going to be like.
We've seen him do this.
I will check them.
I don't give a flying fuck ifit's $27.
That burger is going to be aburger that I want to eat, I get

(33:52):
it.
I will, literally.
I don't care what the exceptionis.
I went into McDonald's.
You know how you get toMcDonald's and you go through
the drive-thru and you open upthe bag and you're driving away
and the burger patty.
They couldn't even line up thebuns and it's all slid apart and
it's wrapped up into a mangledbunch of ball.
I will drive back to the damnMcDonald's, I'll put it on their

(34:14):
game corner and be like you seethat picture up there.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Does that look like?
Does that look like this burger?
Is this a burger that I justbought because?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
this is what you just served me through the
drive-thru, thinking that I'mjust gonna keep carrying on.
You know?
No, no quality, quality andcustomer service and all that
stuff, especially if you'repaying the prices that you're
talking about in five guys it'sbetter, it's better, it better
happen.
I would have walked my ass upthere and be like listen, you
shortened me on fries, but mypoint is this is that a lot of?

(34:47):
People don't complain aboutthat type of stuff when you're
paying the prices like this.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
You've got to complain.
Don't walk out.
Normally I am going to complain, but in five guys they are
known to double up the friesRight.
So I shouldn't have to tell youto do your damn job All right.
So the shouldn't have to tellyou to do your damn job, all
right.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
So the kid?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
that did it this is the big.
Fyi People, people.
I get that you have to hireyoung people to do a job, but
make sure, if their pants don'tfit, to wear a damn belt.
Okay, because this guy hadthese freaking gloves on, was
pulling up his pants every 30seconds because they were
falling down.
Now he's touching food withthese damn gloves on and pulling

(35:26):
his pants up.
Yeah, yeah, it's disgusting.
I'm looking right at you and Iam the person that's going to
check that person, because thatkid's got to learn.
He's got to learn.
This is unacceptable.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
He doesn't know who's looking at his ass pulling his
pants up and stuff behind him.
Right, we are we are.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
He doesn't realize that.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
He's too young to even identify that that's not
good customer service, that'snot good hygiene like if you
don't point that out, nobody'snobody's gonna check it.
That's a manager's job, likeyou're saying that's a manager's
job, but it's also us as acustomer to be able to go in
there and tell them.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Like listen, this is unacceptable.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Like look, this gentleman right here is pulling
up his pants with the glove he'sserving my fries on, he's
putting whatever he's beentouching on his ass and his
stuff back onto the fries andthen you're going to throw them
into the bags and then you'regoing to short me on fries in
the first place, which I'm angryabout in the first place.
You know like come on, we gotto check them.
I'm not going back.

(36:26):
No, dude.
I will tell you, I have afriend right now.
They laugh all the time becausethey love the line it's like
does that picture.
Look like this picture BecauseI will use that every time,
because, listen, we pay a lot ofmoney for this right now.
Food is not cheap right now.
If you want quality food andyou want quality you know I'm a

(36:50):
big, you know I work hard.
I'm going to eat hard.
Right $27 for two sliders and ahalf a spud Dude in the airport
put that five guys in theairport and now it's like $37,
right, no kidding.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Even in LA.
The reason why people eat onthe airplane is because in Los
Angeles it costs $22 for alittle bit of hamburger.
You come on the airplane, it'slike $10 for a Vendaburger.
Yeah, dude, I mean, I'm tellingyou that's why they wait, it's
so expensive in the airports?

Speaker 1 (37:18):
I mean, you're talking about five guys outside
of the airport, but when you goput them in the airports it is
crazy expensive.
Because I just did that LAthing I think I talked about it
in a few episodes ago where itwas like I got off and they
wanted $28 for the hamburger.
No fries, no, nothing, just thehamburger.
I was like hell, no, hell, no.

(37:39):
Hell no, I'm not doing that.
That's too much money.
But if you're trapped andyou've got to do whatever to
survive, you've got to do whatyou've got to do, all right.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Let's talk about a little bit on the plane.
Okay, how could you be in thisjob for three months and your
ass be lazy already, dude?

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Dude, they came here lazy.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
How do you come to any job?
And last, and you're just lazyafter three months.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
They put up the phony front.
They get the job.
They get in the door.
And that's why we got probationright.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I mean, we call out pastors, but we also call out
crew.
I mean, listen on cabinpressure, we'll call crew out
too.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Dude, I can't tell you how many times I've told an
absent flight attendant like isthis really the right job for
you?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Do you think that's wrong?
People don't like hearing it.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
I will take confrontation on face on.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
I know you do.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I'm not going to back down from that.
But I'm going to call a spade aspade If you're a lazy-ass
worker.
I'm going to call a spade aspade If you're a lazy ass
worker.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
I'm going to call you a lazy ass worker, but your ass
isn't even off probation yetand you're already lazy.
Do a thing that you shouldn'teven do and then someone has to
call you out for it.
It's ridiculous.
When you get these people outthere and we have to actually
call them out, it's bullshit.
They haven't even been at thejob three months, and I think
what you're talking about too.
You think a lot of it.
I mean, I know just who you arebut we have a small base

(39:09):
mentality.
We call each other out.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Hey, I know for a fact and I know people that
listen to the show Sean, you'rea lazy ass too.
No, I've had slumps where lifegets you down and all like this
stuff like g was talking about,and you know, you come to work
and maybe I'm not pulling myweight, whatever that's.
That's happened in the past.

(39:33):
I've been doing this for 36years.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
That's happened right , I'll walk back and go.
Are you busy or what?
Are you back here?
I mean you might.
I mean you might, you want toget your ass up for a minute,
but then you, you get.
But you snap out of it you snapout of it.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Oh shit, I got to do what I got to do.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, exactly, and you know like, so you know that
happens.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
But I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean when you're new at
a job.
You shouldn't be lazy already,you should be energized ready,
enthusiastic to find out.
Because?
To find out, because this isthe one the best thing about our
job is that every day we go totheir job, we learn something
new.
Yeah, it is it I mean and Idon't say that, say that with
like, just like being trying tobe funnier.
I'm telling you every, everyday, I go to the job.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
If I'm talking to a pastor, I'm gonna find out
something new, like like, howdid?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
you?
How did you become thisbiological tester of amoebas or
whatever?
Whatever their job is?
You know like.
But we engage, we engage allthese people and we find out
cool things and learn new things.
Like I had no idea that evenexisted.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
But a lot of them they don't even engage.
But we do.
But we also engage with ourcrew and that's the one thing
that happens a lot on the plane,Because in our little world,
especially in our small base, noone is done until everyone is
done.
Because if I'm walking up tothe front and we've been busting
our ass in the back of my gate,what are you guys doing?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, what are you doing?
You know?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
it's the same thing if you're working in the back
and you walk through the frontof the cabin and you're working
through first class.
It's really annoying.
Pick a tray If you see trash,pick it up, Because you come to
the front of the aircraft.
They're going to pick yourstuff up in the back and pick
their stuff up going to thefront too.
And that's what I love aboutbeing in a small base we hold
each other accountable.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, I would have to say, like it is true in this
base, that we're different thanthe rest of the airline.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Really.
Yeah, they call us special.
Yeah, we're different, we havea reputation here in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
That was like oh yeah you're working with Cleveland.
They're going to make you work.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Well, it's because we won all the awards.
I mean seriously we won all theawards when it comes to
customer service, and the reasonis that we act like we are.
If we're a customer, how do wewant to be treated?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
And that's how it is in.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Cleveland.
But we also hold each otheraccountable.
So if you're not doing whatyou're supposed to be doing
somebody's going to call you out.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
It might not be this flight but somebody's going to
call your ass out.
He's going to catch up with youeventually, and hopefully it's
a fellow employee catching youversus management.
Yeah Right, yep, that's whatthose young cats don't
understand.
I've got to talk about this oneguy.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
It was so funny.
He was sitting walking to theback of the plane with his wife
and they start getting into therow and he gets in,
automatically, starts going tothe window seat and she looks at
him and she goes.
You didn't even ask he goes,ask what she goes.
You didn't even ask me if Iwanted the window seat and I'm

(42:34):
listening to this and he goes.
Well, my seat says A.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
And he goes, that's my seat and she goes this is the
first time I've been on anairplane.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
It's my birthday flight and you didn't even ask
me if I wanted the window seat.
Now I'm sitting there listeningto this and I immediately go to
him, do you think?
You made the right decision.
And he goes what?
And I said, well, think aboutthis.
How long have you guys beenmarried?
She goes 10 years.
And I said this is yourbirthday trip.
And she goes yes.
And I said your first time onan airplane, she goes yes.

(43:05):
And I looked at him and I saiddid you make the right decision
Because it's very imperativethat you think about this right
now.
And did you make the right calland he looks right at her and he
goes would you like to have thewindow seat?
She goes?
I would.
Would you like to have thewindow seat?
She goes?
I would.
And I told him, I said did yousee the elephant her face turned

(43:29):
into?
Because let me tell yousomething, women, they will not
forget.
That little moment right therewould have cost him months, oh
yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Months right no-transcript.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
She got the window seat though.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Right, I mean it took somebody else to interrupt into
this, but it was really funny.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
I was like you're in such deep shit right now.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, we go through this in my relationship as well
and we're in a little differentdynamics there and my wife is
always like she wants the windowseat she always wants the
window seat.
And for all you out there thatknow my wife's a pilot, she gets
to do her work and she gets tosit in front of a window all day

(44:17):
and look out the damn window.
And every time I get on a planeI never get the window, because
she wants the window.
I'm like really I never get thewindow because she wants the
window.
I'm like really.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
I go, how much viewing of the world I get to
look at when I'm working, okay,but my point is I get asses and
elbows all day long and neverget to see blue skies until I
actually look out the freakingporthole of the door.
Okay, so where did you?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
sit Aisle, aisle.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
See, you're a smart man, because you'll never hear
the end of that.
Carol's going to look at youlike what's your point?

Speaker 1 (44:55):
So here's where it all pays off.
So when we do get on planes andwe're sitting, and now we don't
have that seat empty in themiddle and we've got to sit
together in an aisle, whateveraisle window, Now, if we're, in
a row and there's three peopleand we're all stacked in there
now she's going to give me thewindow because she's smaller

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than me.
The big guy doesn't go in thecenter seat, so she will do that
in that situation always.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
But if we've got a row to ourselves, you're in the
aisle.
All right, man.
They had this really cool thingout on the island of Kauai and
I was reading about this and itwas really neat.
You could check a dog out forthe day.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Check a dog out for the day.
It's like a library book.
Are you talking about dating orare you talking about like?
This is just a companion?
It's like a library book.
Are you talking about dating?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
No, it's a shelter.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
You can go to emails and fly in on this one.
What did he say?
I just had to throw it outthere, that's cool man.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
That's cool.
It was really cool.
I was reading about this.
You can go to the shelter andyou know how.
You walk around the island andyou go on hikes and everything.
You can actually check a dogout.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
That's cool man.
I never even heard of anythinglike that.
But as I started talking aboutthis, you brought it up last
week and I was like that'sreally unique and everything.
I guess you can do this aroundthe country too.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Yeah, they started this program.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
They started Brewing the Brooms where you can help
the kennels out and help theSPCA or the Maine Society out by
taking the dog out for the day.
That's kind of cool I wonder ifthey do it with all animals,
like cats and dogs.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Not sure, but I know what the dogs they do and they
said that it really helps themget adopted.
It makes sense.
I just thought that was so cool.
I was like, forget a librarybook, man, I get to go get a dog
.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
How does that happen?
So I'm on vacation in Hawaii.
I check a dog out for the day,I fall in love with this dog.
Now I've got to pay for a dog.
Get back another ticket.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool, but you know the dog gets
adopted, so that's cool.
I thought that was really neatyeah, all right now all right
now.
This is one.
This is one weather delay,weather delays, because we just
had this this past week too, um,um why?

Speaker 1 (47:17):
is it?
Why is it that majority, themajority of?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
men always have always have an attitude when
you're asking them.
Just simply put the seat belton.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Listen, I mean, the seatbelt thing is like my number
one pet peeve on a flight and Ido not roll, and you know we've
worked together so many times.
It's like it doesn't matter ifthe seatbelt sign's on or off.
I'm going to tell you can youput your seatbelt on, can?
I'm going to tell you, can youput your seatbelt on.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Can you put your seatbelt on Because?

Speaker 1 (47:44):
they have not witnessed what we've witnessed
Like when that turbulence hitsand you're on the ceiling.
And if you're in charge of theloved ones little kids or any of
that stuff believe me, I don'tcare how big or small or strong
you think you are, you're notgoing to stay in that seat, and
it's just common sense for us.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
But I guess the public they just you know, I
just don't understand theattitude, though.
I mean, I'll never understandwhy all we're doing is our job.
They're smarter.
Yeah, it's almost like thismale engaging thing, and I'm
looking at them like it's almostlike you want to fight me.
I'm like I'm just telling youto put your damn seatbelt on.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
No, they're more educated than us.
It just doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, Doesn't make any sense.
Doesn't make any sense.
They have more experience thanus too.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
You're bouncing around, you're going through
turbulence.
No, go ahead and keep it off.
It's their kids.
They know better.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Yeah, things that people don't realize.
It's like listen, my onlyconcern on this plane is to keep
everybody safe.
I don't give a shit if you geta Coke.
I don't give a shit if you getsomething to eat.
I do give a shit about yoursafety.
This is the one thing that I'mgetting paid to do is make sure
that you're safe, you know?
Respect us out there.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
This is our job.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
We're not trying to pick on.
You.
Put on your seatbelt.
It's that person.
You tell them to put on theirseatbelt and they put it on, and
then you walk back 15 minuteslater and they have their
seatbelt on and you're like whatthe hell, I don't know?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Simple request, but it's always an attitude that
goes with it.
But, you know, okay Now talkingabout that Dumbest talking
about that.
Dumbest comments boarding theaircraft.
I gotta, I gotta say this one,this one happened a pilot you
know.
They walked on board andthey're like hey, didn't I just
see you in the bar a few minutesago?
You know what happened that.
A passenger said that to one ofthe pilots yeah he was.

(49:35):
They were just getting in thereto do a pre-flight.
You know what happened canceledcanceled that pilot picked his
bag up and he and he turnedaround, he walked off and
they're like what is he going?
I was like well, you justaccused him of consuming alcohol
.
Now he's going to walk off thisaircraft.
He's going to request analcohol test, because you just

(49:58):
said something that that wasn'ttrue and you thought it was
funny.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
He was like oh, I was joking well congratulations.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
You just canceled this damn flight and that's
exactly what happened.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
I mean people don't understand.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
I think we've talked about this once before.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
You just can't say certain things on a plane period
.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
No.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
You have to be able to understand that there's a
time to joke and there's a timenot to joke.
And it's time to make commentsthat have repercussions to them
and if you say these things,people are going to be very.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
What's the?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
word.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I'm looking for Analytical about their You'll
have a lot to say because you'llbe sitting out at the damn
terminal talking about this shit.
No, that's.
My point is that when you makethese dumb comments like that,
think about it.
Funny ones, I mean, we getfunny ones all the time.
What am I going to have?
Lobster steak after takeoff?
Okay, you always get that.
That's the older guy's comment.
They always sit there talkingabout the lobster and steak.

(50:59):
What am I going to have?
Lobster or steak, Okay, butwhen you talk about a pilot
being in a bar a few minutes ago, be careful because, you just
might end up sitting in someJackson Hole little bitty
airport for the next seven hours.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
It can happen with a flight attendant too.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Somebody ask me about that.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Literally, I'm going to be like okay, I'm done, I'm
done, I need to go get drugged.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Funny.
They just asked me on the plane.
This woman goes oh, can youhave a drink with us?
And I'm like no, and she goes,why you don't fly the plane?
And I said, well, it's afederal offense, I'll go to jail
and she goes why would you goto jail?
You're not flying and I waslike I am, I'm working the jail.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
I'm responsible to get your ass off this aircraft.
Do you want a drunk guy tryingto get off the aircraft or do
you want a guy that has all hisfaculties?

Speaker 2 (51:51):
It just shows you they really don't understand it
a lot of times.
I mean, some of the things thatthey say, they just don't
understand.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Well, the importance of the position is what's going
on with our society and it'swhat's going on with our society
Like they, they, you know, and,and it's and it's, you know,
partially the blame to the, uh,marketing departments of the
airlines, right, like in the,historically it started off, you
know, flight attendants, werethese all females?
And then we, um, then we didthe whole, you know, made them

(52:18):
sex symbols and put them ingo-go pants and boots and all
that stuff.
And you know, and you know,back in the sixties, and fifties
.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
You know the guys slapping the girls on the ass
was like that was acceptablebehavior back then.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
You know like so you know, that's all you know,
that's all just cascaded to this, like the meaning of a person
on the plane and their positionand the real reason why they're
there for you, and so that wholestereotype's kind of continued
on.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
So we you know we've got to fight that and continue
to fight that, because when theyget on a plane they expect to
see two blondes, right, and thenthey see me and Sean and then
they're like what the fuck isgoing on here?
I'm getting off this damn plane.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
What is happening?
Is there a?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
threat on this plane.
Why are these two bigindividuals on my plane?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
I had that question one time.
They were like is everythingokay in this light, because it
was you, I and Gary with us, allthese big guys.
And they're like this is likethe biggest spirit we've ever
seen.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Everybody's just sitting down going no, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I don't even listen.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
I had during uh, during uh, covid I had this, I
had this, uh, this neighbor,this neighbor here, that he was
convinced like convinced that Iwas, that I was an air marshal.
Oh really, oh really you'relying, you're lying.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
You're an air marshal you're not a flight student.
I know you're.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
You're like last week I was a pilot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Yeah, they think and dream up whatever they think
about the whole thing but, it'ssuper interesting Like this
whole, this whole stigma withthe position and all that stuff
it goes back to and, like I knowright now, like the.
Afa, the airline flightattendant union, out there
they're out in DC and they'vebeen fighting for this for years

(54:07):
as trying to label flightattendants as first responders.
And there's something to thatbecause when you have an airline
incident, we are the firstresponders in an accident.
There is no fire people there.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
There's no pilots for you.
The pilots are flying the plane.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
We're the one, we're the ones actively getting you
off and rescuing you and tryingto get you to safety.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
You know that is our specific job on the plane if
that job, if that job stops, andthey figure out how to do that
with a robot me and you are me,and you are on a beach.
We'll be gone by then All right, let's go around the globe,
yeah man, let's go around theglobe, man.
All right, this woman down inFlorida, she was arrested.

(54:55):
She's an unlicensed dental workperson that she was found to
have super glued the victim'sveneer teeth.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Dude she was doing those press-on nails and gluing
them to their teeth.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
That's what they were doing.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
She started taking a jewel thing and putting, like
diamonds and stars, on theirteeth.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Sean, if you were going to go have your teeth done
first of all, would you pullinto the tap-in beauty bar?

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Dude, I'm telling you right now, first of all, I
don't into the tap-in beauty bar, dude.
I'm telling you right now,first of all, I don't skimp on
that type of shit, no.
But.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
I'm serious.
I mean, so you're pulling inlike where are you getting your
veneers done?
Oh yeah, I'm going to thetap-in beauty bar.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
I heard baby she over there she can do a magical job
like anything you want.
Exactly how much did you pay?

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, mine were $1,500 to $2,000 a tee.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
See At the Tap-In Beauty Bar you can get the whole
set for $2,500.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
And they put that Lee press-on nails under your tee.
They glue it on with some superglue and file it down.
And you were like out theresmiling and they're like whoo,
you got a mouth full ofchicklets it down and you were
like out there smiling and belike.
The crazy thing is that whenshe smiles and then one of them
pops off and hits somebody inthe face, you're like what the?
Hell just happened, so thesepeople were getting sick.
Why Super good?

Speaker 1 (56:16):
On your teeth yeah, chemicals that I'm eating and
digesting continuously in mymouth.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
But again, if you went to the tap-in beauty bar
and you only pay $2, bar and youonly pay 2500 and you didn't do
your research, maybe it shouldhave been said a dental network.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now, like
there's probably a reason,there's a reason why they don't
show us, like, how much we payfor medical bills and all that
stuff.
Because, um, you know, it'sthese people that are always
trying to skimp on things likethat, I mean like these these,
these, these, these people goingover to different countries to
get it like these dudes that flyover to Hungary and get hair
plugs and or and or, you know,the girls go down.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
And all the plastic surgery and shit like that.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Like doing all these like cheap moves and stuff like
that.
I'm like I don't know if Ireally trust that type of stuff.
You know, like the-in beautyparty is another place I'm
probably not frequenting.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
But who would go there, though?

Speaker 1 (57:10):
First of all, the name of the beauty party is in
question.
Tap-in, like when you're doingwhatever beauty thing that's
happening, they're going to.
I got the rest of this for you,honey.
Tap-in.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
We get your nail too.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Tap-in like it's a wrestling match or something.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Is that, or it's like a bar yeah, I don't know.
On tap, get drunk and get teethat the same time no way.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
First of all, no way, all right.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
All right.
This flight attendant had seenthis passenger coming into the
lavatory wearing white socks,and so they told this person you
might not want to wear thosewhite socks, and whatever's on
that fork is going to soak upand destroy those white socks.
And the passenger said thankyou very much, took the socks
off and walked in.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Disgusting you, you Disgusting human.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
You don't want your white socks to be soaked in
urine, first of all, but anybodycan.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
No one on the plane should allow their children
themselves or anybody to walk inwithout shoes into the lavatory
on a plane.
I mean it is literally anouthouse, I mean it gets clean
and everything.
But I'm guarantee you, I willtell you right now, they don't
clean the floor every flight.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
No, because at least 50% of it's pee.
Oh dude.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
I mean, people are like bouncing around in the air
sloshing.
They're peeing on the sidewalls.
Shit's running down.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
You got women that squat and miss the whole thing
yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Trying to hover on it and start shaking.
And it's spraying everywhere.
It's not water, no.
And it's spraying everywhere.
It's not water, no.
It's like.
Don't go in the laboratorywithout some freaking cushion.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
That shit was funny, though you took the socks off,
but your feet's okay.
That was so gross.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
They're gross man.
And then he kind of came outand put it back on oh, let me
save this Dry them off.
I can keep those right in myfeet.
Yeah, you're nasty.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
All right.
So this passenger, hesupposedly was slapped by this
flight attendant.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
And he said it was so embarrassing and so severe that
he thought that he deserved oneday of the airline's profits.
Please.
And that was a big airline,real, big, real, big.
No, you know what I feel likethat every day I go to work I

(59:33):
deserve a day's profit of theairline, the abuse I get taken.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
For every day going to work I should get a day's
profit, especially if I'm on aplane with you, you're going to
take a shitload of abuse A day'sprofit.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
These people don't even understand.
They don't understand.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
You know something?
He probably deserved to getsmacked if he thought like that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Do you have a videotape of this?

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I don't know, look that one up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
I'm claiming that you know, slap me, Slap me.
There's probably some bigperson walking down the aisle
and they'd frigging put a bellyinto him or something.
He thought he got snapped.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
All right Sean.
Quote of the day man.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Quote of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
man so here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
How do we change the world?
One act of random kindness.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
And you guys going back to when I started this
whole podcast with Groundhog'sDay.
If you guys recognize this,trust me, one random act of
kindness would put you back onthe road.
Trust me, it does.
It does to me every single time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Pay it forward, man.
If you just pay it forward,it's such a good feeling.
Have you ever done this.
I've walked into like I do thisa lot with military, for sure,
but I'm in a restaurant orsomething, or I'm getting a
smoothie or everything and theperson behind me.
I pay for them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
I have not done that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
I know you haven't.
You should try to do that I do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
I have not done that.
I know you haven't.
You should try to do that, butI do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
I was in a movie shop and I'm like you know there's
some young gals behind me, oryoung boys, it doesn't matter
who it is.
Whatever I'm in that mood, Iwant to pay it forward.
I put theirs on mine too.
Whatever it is, I'll charge itto my car.
It's just kind of a coolexperience, because it's

(01:01:28):
happened to me before.
Like somebody paid for my meal,I'm like, and I'm like what?
Why?

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
why, what that happened what that?
Happened.
You know, like yeah, wow, andlike I said that that's, that's
a road to actually recovery,believe it or not, because as
soon as you do, you're going tofeel better about your day and
better about yourself.
So, random act of kindness,guys.
So you guys have a great week.
It was a lot of fun talkingthis week, sean, and I will see
you next week with yourtechnology and the schedule.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Yeah, and I'm going to perform a random act of
kindness right now and we'regoing to stop letting Gary talk
at this time, or G?

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
I like Carol bye.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
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