From Septic Fails To Sky-High Frights: Halloween, Asylums, And Airline Madness

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Start with a septic pump failure, add non-rev roulette, then shake in a first-class passenger drying her hands with a toilet seat cover. That’s our week. From the ground-up mess to the sky-high absurdity, we pull back the curtain on why people lose their cool on airplanes—and how to keep yours when elbows sprawl, feet roam, and someone mistakes the cabin for a yoga studio.

We also lean into the season. Halloween in our neighborhood is a full-on production: hayrides, smoke, blow-ups, fire pits, and an “adult boos” cooler that turns trick-or-treat into a two-hour festival. Candy nostalgia flows—popcorn balls, wax lips, double bubble—and so does a real conversation about why we love fear. Anticipation, jolt, release: haunted houses are roller coasters in the dark, and that dopamine hit is part of the draw. We trace the shadow to its source with haunted histories: Eastern State Penitentiary’s brutal isolation, Italy’s Poveglia Island with plague pits and a later asylum, and West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny, where overcrowding and crude treatments turned suffering into legend.

Back on the ramp, we talk cabin etiquette and common sense: no baby on the floor while the dog takes the seat, no man spread on jump seats, and please find the trash bin. We tackle real headlines—a passenger triggering a slide by yanking a door on the taxiway, another blocking the aisle to “save” deplaning for her daughter—and a spicy take on service culture after an Olive Garden gratuity blowup. Good hospitality is in the small details, and so is respect for the people doing the work.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Hey everyone, uh welcome back.
Boy, do we have a week to tellyou about?
It starts with G's septic takewent out.
So if you think your Monday'scrap, well, G's got your beat.
And uh oh, then there's this uhyoga enthusiast who thought road
12 was her personal studio, themom who put her baby on the

(00:21):
floor but kept her dog in thelap, and somewhere in there a
flight attendant who I'm prettysure was on her third espresso
and her second personality.
So buckle up folks.
I mean that literally, becauseapparently some of you don't
know how seat belts work.
It's episode 58.
We're talking Halloween, why didit asylums, and why people lose

(00:43):
their minds on airplanes.
Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 (01:16):
He's just a thing.

SPEAKER_02 (01:18):
It's a good thing that you don't get paid for
that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:21):
I know.
But I had to do something forthe theme of the thing.
You ain't making any money.
I had to do one for the theme.

SPEAKER_03 (01:26):
It was a good one, though.
I like the freaks come out atnight.
Right.
The freaks come out at night.
I mean, not how you sing it, butI like the song.
Uh I was just gonna start withjust uh he's just a tela.

SPEAKER_01 (01:41):
You love that one.
I know you do.

SPEAKER_03 (01:45):
You don't have to worry about like Tay Tate.
Remember Tay Tay last week?
It's spending three days to getyou get you uh uh started,
right?

SPEAKER_01 (01:53):
Yeah, no, nobody's going to the theaters to watch
me get my intro started.
That's pretty good, though.
How we did the how we do theshow.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02):
That was a good one, though.
I like that one.

SPEAKER_01 (02:04):
Yeah, I mean, so um just got back from um Georgia.
We went down to Lake Oconee.
You ever heard of Lake Oconee?
Nope.
Lake Ocone is like the secondlargest lake in Georgia, and the
coolest thing about this lake,and mind you, there's like
multi-gazillion dollar houseseverywhere on this lake, but

(02:27):
it's a this huge lake, and thestate of Georgia regulates the
height.
So it never goes down more thana foot ever.
Ever because they use the theyuse the lake for uh energy.

SPEAKER_03 (02:41):
So is it like locks or what are they how they no?

SPEAKER_01 (02:44):
It's uh like this uh they got a big dam there that
they regulate all the flow andstuff, but it's like regulated
constantly.
Oh, okay.
And so this this it I mean canyou imagine living on a lake
that never goes down?
Like how many people in theworld have uh outside of a I
mean even the ocean recedes andcomes back, right?
And it's like but this lakealways stays constant.
So how big is the lake?

(03:05):
Oh, it's big, dude.
I'm talking gigantic.
It's a I don't know thoseexactly like the what the square
mileage of this thing is, but Imean you can be on a jet ski for
hours, like running around inthis lake.
It's pretty it's that big.
But uh yeah, we went down there,man.
They have the beautiful house.
It's right on the lake, a littlepontoon boat, beautiful place.

(03:28):
I mean, um it's it's awesome.
They want they're keep on liketrying to push us to go down
there, but I'm I'm like, it getshot.
So you were on another vacation,another vacation.
Yeah, man.
This sounds familiar.
Yeah.
This is this is um how you'resupposed to live life when you
get older.
But you're not retired.
No, but we can we can get close.

(03:52):
We're warming up.
Practicing.
You're like hot.

SPEAKER_03 (03:57):
I wouldn't even say you're warm, dude.

SPEAKER_01 (03:59):
I'm like, you're damn hot.
Here's the cool thing aboutthis, like if anybody's never
been to this area, it's calledReynolds, and uh, it's on a uh
Lake Oconey, and um this placehas at this present moment, they
have eight golf courses on thein this neighborhood.
Eight.
And so you're member to eightgolf courses there.

(04:19):
It's unbelievable.
They have they actually havethey're planning on two more.
It's unbelievable.
I mean, the courses are justamazing, picturesque.
A lot of the holes and stuff gocome down to the water and all
that stuff.
So it's just it's a magicalarea.
But I mean, Georgia gets way toohot, and then the other thing
they don't like about it bugs.

(04:40):
You poor thing.
Bugs, lots of bugs, lots of bigass bugs.
There's spiders, bugs, and lotsof critters.
Yeah.
So I'm like, you know what?
I can visit this anytime I want.
They got extra rooms.

SPEAKER_03 (04:57):
You know, I'm sitting across from you
listening to this, and I knowthat everybody that listens to
our show is thinking the samething.
Still, Sean's on vacation again.

SPEAKER_01 (05:07):
Don't be a hater.
Don't be a hater.
And he's talking about bugs.
You know what else happened onthis uh trip that uh was just
crazy?
Was um, so we flew a differentairline, you know, doing a
little non-rev path travel.
That sucks.
Non-rev?
Dude, it sucked.
It goes like you you can fly onother airlines, like being a

(05:29):
member of an airline.
You can fly on other airlinesdoing non-rev travel, but this
non-rev travel, man, you're thebottom of the bottom.
Like I mean, you are the bottom,dude.
I mean, in on every flight.
I so we get to the airport, andthis is a first that we get
there, and we're we're the nightbefore it says like 14 seats or

(05:51):
whatever open.
So I'm like, all right, cool.
We get there.
There's like 14 seats minus, youknow, they needed they needed
more seats, right?
And so there's only a handful ofpeople getting on.
And we got all the way down tous, and when we got to the
airport, Carol realized that shehad forgot her ID.

(06:12):
Dude, it was Carol this time.

SPEAKER_03 (06:14):
That's you too, man.
Both of you guys got thatproperty.

SPEAKER_01 (06:17):
So she'd never have done this before, but she got
there and she didn't have herID.
And then so we they had oneseat, and so I could get on the
plane and we would have gonestraight down to Georgia, right?
And if she had her ID, she couldhave jumped seat because she can
she's a pilot and she can jumpseat in the cockpit.
And so no.
So she goes on the plane and Igo home to get the ID.

(06:39):
So then I come back and Iproceed to get bumped off of two
flights, dude.
I'm sitting around the airportall day.
It was a big suck, non-riftsuck.
And so then finally I was like,So she got there and you didn't.
So she got there like at noon,right?
I I was at the airport waitingaround waiting for a plane, and
finally I got bumped off thisother airline's list, kept gonna

(06:59):
get, and they kept on showinglike they're like, Oh, you're
gonna get on the next one.
Oh, yeah, you'll get the nextone.
Bump, bump.
Finally, I said I called Caroland I'm like, I'm like, I'm out
of here.
I like I'm getting I'm goingback to my airline and I'm gonna
get down there at this timebecause I know I can get there
because I got some past travelbenefits.

(07:20):
You can jump seat.
Yeah, I can jump seat.
I have a little bit moreflexibility and more power to
get get to where I need to go,and that's what I did, man.
So she got there at noon.
I got there at like eighto'clock.

SPEAKER_03 (07:32):
It was suck.
Hey, did you when when sheforgot her ID?
Remember when you forgot yours?
Right?
Did she ever say, How could youhave forgot your ID?

unknown (07:42):
No, she didn't.

SPEAKER_03 (07:44):
I was gonna say they kind of come back to bite her
on.

SPEAKER_01 (07:47):
I told yeah, I told her already.
I was like, I was like, you'rehanging around me too long.
Yes.
She didn't have me to bring theID though this time.
No, no, no, no.
It was uh dude, and we werethere down there too short at
time to like do what we did lasttime, but it was it was just uh
it was a total so at what atwhat time did you think that
this was just complete bullshitsitting there?

(08:09):
Oh the second flight, like likeum that was by like around three
o'clock.
I was like, okay, I'm out ofhere.
I am freaking out of here.

SPEAKER_03 (08:17):
I'm telling you, anymore, like you you'll you
that night before you get on aplane, you'll you'll see 20 or
30 seats.
Yeah.
And in the morning time,negative five.
Yeah.
What is it?
Stub hub?
I don't know what to do.
What do they do?
I mean, seriously.
I mean, it it's like all of asudden.

SPEAKER_01 (08:32):
Somebody ran a discount somewhere.
No shit.
Like it was it was amazing.
People can showing up from outof any, I don't know where they
were coming at, coming out ofwork.
But I was like, I was pissedbecause it doesn't matter who
shows up there.
I'm behind all those people.

SPEAKER_03 (08:47):
The best thing about being a crew member, flight
attendant, or pilot, one of thebest things other than pay,
which is gonna get better, butum the best thing is the travel,
right?

SPEAKER_01 (08:57):
Yeah, the travel to be able to get all the benefits
to get on the plane.

SPEAKER_03 (09:00):
You can't get on a damn plane.
Try to get try to get your assout of Vegas anymore.
No, I mean you'll show up,you'll show up like anytime in
the evening time, and it'll saylike it'll say 25 seats, right?
Start in the morning time.
Yeah, and then as the day goeson, it goes 25, 10, 2, negative
6.

SPEAKER_01 (09:21):
Dude, it is it is so crazy.
Like I'm uh and being outside mycomfort zone of being in my
airline and be able to know howthings work and stuff, and then
you go to this other airline andthey're they operate a little
differently.
Uh it was just, you know, youit's in it makes that more more
of an uncomfortable experience,right?
So it was like, oh shit.

SPEAKER_03 (09:43):
Now when you when you traveled on them, did you
did you have to buy did you buya ticket?

SPEAKER_01 (09:47):
No, the non rev non-red pass.

SPEAKER_03 (09:48):
So the non-rev pass.

SPEAKER_01 (09:50):
Yeah, I think it cost us like uh 90 bucks or
something like that.
So you just lost that.
No, no, no.
You get a refund.
You get a refund to the to thepass that we didn't use,
whatever.
But um, like so Carol used hers,I didn't use mine, and then
well, it is what it is.
But we did we took them on ourway home and we were able to get
back straight from them, and sothat was it was it was a cool

(10:11):
experience.
Got to fly on that new uh Airbusat uh 321 uh Airbus that we're
doing.

SPEAKER_03 (10:17):
There wasn't nothing cool about getting down there at
8 o'clock.
That's bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 (10:20):
What's that?

SPEAKER_03 (10:21):
You did it's a cool experience.
You spent all damn day at theairport.

SPEAKER_01 (10:25):
No, no, no.
Uh the back end was a coolexperience where uh it things
went normal.
We got on the plane and we cameback.
The front end sucked.
Okay, let's let's clarify thatbecause you're like, oh yeah, it
was a good experience.

SPEAKER_03 (10:38):
It was nothing good about that.

SPEAKER_01 (10:40):
The experience coming back was just fine, but
the the experience going downthere was just a sucking suck.
Anyways, yeah, man.
So then the other thing that wasgoing on, like the wife is uh
really allergic to cats, and ourfriends have two cats, and these
two cats they have like asiamese, and the other one, I

(11:00):
don't know what the heck it'scalled, baby doll cat or
something like that.
It's like this white, fluffy,blue-eyed cat.
Beautiful cat, like super chill,but the siamese was a fucking
psycho.
It wouldn't have you ever seenthe cat?
This cat would not let you touchit.
Okay, if you even came close toit, it would be like and then it

(11:23):
would like swat at you, andthey're all declawed, so it was
okay for them to swat.
But um, yeah, and it wouldn'tlet you touch it, didn't like
being pet at all.
He was like a skittish littleson of a bitch, but he ran
around just like crazy, and he'dhe'd do like run by and swats,
like just run by you and belike, SWAT, get away from me.

(11:43):
I'm not a cat person, dude.
It was the I'm not a like catsare okay to me.
I do like playing with cats andall that stuff because they're
they're fun to like goof offwith and all this stuff.
But these people are likeserious, like our friends are
serious cat people.
That I'm ever since I've knownthem, they've had cats, and
they've all their cats have hadlike some crazy personalities.

(12:04):
Most of them have been good andlaid back and chill and all this
stuff.
But this new one, skit, just acrazy son of a bitch.
Cat hair, man.
Can't do it.

SPEAKER_03 (12:14):
Can't do it.
I can't do it, man.
I mean, I've had friends thathad cats, and as soon as you
walk in the house, you know howa cat just circles around your
leg?

SPEAKER_01 (12:21):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (12:22):
And then next thing you know, you look like frickin'
Bigfoot down there.

SPEAKER_01 (12:25):
Not this cat that I just had.
That cat like didn't circlearound and didn't even get close
to you.
So you can't.

SPEAKER_03 (12:29):
Oh shit.
That one was swiping you.
Yeah, she was.

SPEAKER_01 (12:33):
Uh yeah.
See?
The other one was like she she'dcome up and love on you and
stuff like that.
Like, look like you walk awaylooking like Bigfoot.
Yeah, I don't like I don't likeanimal hair.
That's a big like that's a bigthing to me.

SPEAKER_03 (12:47):
You know what it is for me?
It's it's um it's in the kitchenbecause cats get on everything.

SPEAKER_01 (12:52):
They get everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 (12:52):
Right, and that's well, the hair gets everywhere.
That's what I'm saying.
The hairs, the hair is flying intheir food and shit, and I'm uh
uh uh uh uh they ain't doing it.

SPEAKER_01 (12:59):
Well, here's another cool thing about the this
beautiful house we went to, liketheir whole entire house was all
wood floors.
So that helps too.
Then you don't have like the thedander and the hair getting
caught in like the the the uhcarpet and all that stuff.
Like it they they were able tolike always keep it clean.

SPEAKER_03 (13:20):
Well, if you got an electronic robot like you, man,
there ain't no way to knowbecause you walk across the
floor with your socks with that.
No, it's all of your socks, evenon a floor hardware floor.

SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
I'm gonna tell you, it was there the whole time.
I didn't have a cat hair.
Yeah.
Because they were like alwaysthey they must always like
bistle or whatever, you know, dothe little wet mop thing,
whatever, just to kind of likeclean it up.
But these the you know, it'sworse in different seasons,
right?
Yeah, yeah.
So I mean like when the when thecat's shedding and all that
stuff, that's when it's allover.
But you know, like I have aniece and she has a dog, and she

(13:53):
just got a new car.
And I don't know if she listensto our show or not, but but I
opened the door to her new car,and we were checking it out this
a few weeks ago, and I was like,oh my gosh.
Like there was like thedashboard was covered with hair.
Like every there was haireverywhere, like her body had

(14:16):
hair all over it.
There was dashboard hair.
So there's like the there's thepeople that like manage that and
like try to keep it to asomewhat of a tolerable level,
but then there's some peoplethat they don't care.

SPEAKER_03 (14:27):
Open the window and the shit just blowing like all
over the place.

SPEAKER_01 (14:30):
Like open the car, and I was like, Whoa.
This I go, this is new?
Because it was that hairy.
Like I was like, it was crazy.
But I mean, people are likethey're they had that comfort.
It always surprises me like whenyou see the people walking
around.
Like we see them in the airportall the time, right?
And then you know who's has theanimal who doesn't.

SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
Like the same thing with flight attendants, so they
walk in the crew room and all ofa sudden you look at the back
and they look like a like like arug.
They look like a rug, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (14:56):
Especially the cat owners, right?
Like they they have the hair allover them, and I'm like, and
they got one of those lintrollers too.

SPEAKER_03 (15:03):
Yeah, you need a lint roller, they always have
one.
You will not know I got one,they just don't reach the back.

SPEAKER_01 (15:07):
Not always, they don't always have it.
They they they should alwayshave them.
Look a little fuzzy, right?
They have a little they're alittle bit um furrier.

SPEAKER_03 (15:17):
So you need those cats that like the one that was
hissing.

SPEAKER_01 (15:20):
That that damn thing won't even come near you.
And he was a siamese to it'slike super short hair, like
super tiny.
So it's uh yeah, that's the typeof cat.
One that stays away from you.

SPEAKER_03 (15:31):
Just saying.
You'd be good, you'd be allright.

SPEAKER_01 (15:34):
Yeah, it's it's cool.
Anyways, cat I like playing withcats.
Like, I have fun.
Cats crack me up some of thestupid things they do and weird
things.
I got a picture of that Siamese.
She was sitting on their floor,gee.
Literally, and if you canimagine, like us, we're sitting
right here, and we have our legwrapped around the back of our
neck.

(15:56):
She's just sitting there on thefloor looking at us with her
back.

SPEAKER_03 (16:01):
We're in the ER, brother.
If if that leg is in the back ofour neck, that means that we're
broken.

SPEAKER_01 (16:07):
I'm looking at this cat and I'm like, really?
Like, no, this is comfortable.
She was just chilling there.
I mean, for a long time with herleg behind her head.
Yeah, we're in the ER.
How did you get to thisposition?
Reminds me of our story of Oma.

SPEAKER_03 (16:22):
Yeah, I know.
Where's it?
Where do you put the dollar?

SPEAKER_01 (16:26):
Right.
All right.
Oh my gosh.
Anyhow, man, what's been goingon with you?
Shoot, man.

SPEAKER_03 (16:31):
I this this week has been a week.
And uh it all started off withuh septic pump.
You don't have septic.
No.
Okay, damn septic pump went out.
Alarm system didn't work.
If you guys that that don'tknow, those of you that do know
septic, I have a septic pump.
I've got an alarm that'ssupposed to work that didn't

(16:54):
work, and what happened is yourseptic fills up, uh, the pump is
bad, the alarm float is bad, andthen the electrical gets burned
out.
So just to say in the least, Istarted in the shit for the for
this week.

SPEAKER_01 (17:10):
So that's a total shitty situation.

SPEAKER_03 (17:12):
It was so bad because you got to pump all that
nasty gray water out just to getdown to the pump.
Then you got to change theelectrical, you gotta, you know,
put put new plugs and stuff out.
Then you got to pull that nastyass pump out of there, you gotta
you gotta redo this whole thing,and then you you have to redo
this electrical float.
Anyway, no fun at all.

(17:33):
Zero.

SPEAKER_01 (17:34):
I mean how often do you have to pump a septic
system?

SPEAKER_03 (17:38):
Um, probably it depends on how many people are
in the house.
Usually four years, that that'dbe the max.
If you had if you had a fullfamily, yeah, four years, about
about four years, that's amaximum you go.
They pump it out, and yeah, theyjust pump it out.
They just it it's like you gotlike a four-trap system, right?
And they'll come in in the firstone, they just pump all that

(17:59):
shit out.
I mean, it's all the sedimentthat sets on the bottom.
And it about four years.
But if you have if you only havea couple of you, you're gonna
get away five or six years.
I mean, easy.
But a lot of it, you know, thedetergent that goes in it and
stuff that jacks up, you know,your septic systems.
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, but anyway,um, yeah, that pump went out.

(18:20):
That was nasty.
That was just gross.
Dude.
Start you start your week off ina shit.
That's a shitty start.
Now, here's another shitty onethat was it was pretty funny
though.
So, this lady, she comes out ofthe lavatory and she looks at me
and she goes, Um, I'mcomplaining to your airline
about all this money that Ispent for sitting in first

(18:43):
class, and you have the worstpaper towels.
They don't dry your hands forcrap.
That's what she told me.

SPEAKER_01 (18:51):
Really?

SPEAKER_03 (18:52):
Yeah, and she had it in her hand.

SPEAKER_01 (18:53):
This was her complaint.

SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
Yeah.
And I said, ma'am, and she goes,Yes, what?
And I said, Those are not papertowels.
And she goes, What?
And I said, They're they'retoilet covers for your butt.
Oh, I love people.
She pulled the toilet cover outand was drying her hands.

SPEAKER_01 (19:14):
Drying her hands like with the butt cover.
People can't see in the bathroomor something.
I don't I don't know what theheck it like.
Do they need like big signs likewhat each bin is or something
like that, labels on the bins orsomething?
It's it's it's it amazes me likehow people just grab shit in the
bathroom and just try to likeyou know, dry their hands off

(19:36):
and all that crap.

SPEAKER_03 (19:37):
See, me, I was thinking, okay, do you think do
you actually think that she'sgonna go back and tell her
friends?
No, right?
Tell her friends going, yeah, Iwas really pissed off.
And uh and you know, I thoughtthey were paper towels and they
were toilet seat covers for mybutt.
Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 (19:54):
People are people are nuts.
They, you know, the here's itthe bathroom is one of those
places in the plane.
Like, people can't figure itout.
I don't get I don't quiteunderstand what it is.
Like it's not highlycomplicated.
Everybody's used the shitterbefore.
Just flush it.
The the flush usually saysflush, right?

(20:14):
You know, it doesn't likehaven't been on the airline
where it doesn't say flush ornot illuminated square or
something.
Right, something to show youthis is where you flush.
Take a minute, yeah, push.
It's like, yeah, it's weird.
Like I've had those fights whereit was like they can't find the
the trash can.
Right.
So they just throw it on thefloor.

SPEAKER_03 (20:32):
Or just had that.
The guy, you okay, he comes outof it and has has it stuck on
his foot, and he and what hedoes is he opens it and he kind
of kicks it and throws it rightback in on the lab floor.

SPEAKER_01 (20:43):
Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 (20:44):
Doesn't even pick it up, just throws shit right back
in there, like some marathonstation.

SPEAKER_01 (20:49):
It's weird.
Yeah, it's weird, dude.
I don't know, I don't get it.
But we all come from differentplaces.

SPEAKER_03 (20:55):
No, yeah, and this crew member did too that I was
flying with.
You ever fly with somebody thatthey're completely wired
differently?
I mean, wired, wired, wired.
Uh yeah.
So so like one, I mean, everyonce in a while we'll come
across those and and and we'llwe'll think that, right?
I mean, but when the whole crewthey're all all their eyes are

(21:17):
just like wide open, go, whatthe f what did this person come
from?
I mean, they're just wireddifferently.
It was like it was theequivalent of having a
hyperactive person on speed.

SPEAKER_01 (21:29):
You know, it's a it's like uh it reminds me of
that Sesame Street song, it'sone of these things just don't
belong here.
No, one of these things is notlike the others.

SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
No, it's one of these things and not like the
other.
Yep.
Right.
That that's exactly that was onour plane the other day.

SPEAKER_01 (21:48):
Oh, great.

SPEAKER_03 (21:48):
Yeah, everybody was it was looking at each other
like, what the hell?
Where'd this person come from?

SPEAKER_01 (21:53):
Like, are you an imposter?

SPEAKER_03 (21:55):
Good thing about it though, you know, in our job is
that usually you get away withlike one flight with that
person.

SPEAKER_02 (22:00):
Right.
And then they're gone.
And then they're gone, and thenyou don't see them no more.

SPEAKER_01 (22:04):
Right.
But when you're stuck with alike on a trip where you're
multiple-day trip, can youimagine?
Yeah, that's so long.

SPEAKER_03 (22:12):
I mean, you get with that person in our job, that's
what a lot of people don'tunderstand.
In our job, all of a suddenyou're you know, have you ever
gotten to a crew and you thoughtthis one person was supposed to
be there?
Yeah, and you got there and it'slike they got swapped out.

SPEAKER_01 (22:26):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (22:26):
And you're that yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (22:30):
Well, and and you don't know if you're getting an
upgrade or a downgrade.
No, you did that sound like anupgrade?
No, I didn't, I'm just saying,like, I'm just talking about
that situation.
Like that you get there and thenboom, all of a sudden you got a
new person there, and you'relike, thank God.
What the hell do I got now?

unknown (22:46):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (22:47):
Well, what's gonna happen now?

SPEAKER_03 (22:49):
It's gonna be a long day.
We're gonna put out a lot offires.

SPEAKER_01 (22:52):
For the most part, like on the the higher
percentage, we get people goodpeople, but um, yeah, there's
this.

SPEAKER_03 (22:58):
We get the one percenters, we talk about all
the time.
Hey, if we're gonna talk aboutone percent of the passengers,
we're talking about one percentof the crew.

SPEAKER_01 (23:05):
Yeah, the crews and we got them one percent.
We probably have a higherpercent than that, but I was
being nice, right?

SPEAKER_03 (23:12):
One percent.
But just say one percent.
Yeah, no, but then then I hadthis this woman.
This is the one that alwayskills me, and you see these on
the flights, but I had toaddress it because you know it
happened.
I'm I'm looking up the cabin,and this lady's feet are up in
the air.

SPEAKER_01 (23:27):
Ugh.

SPEAKER_03 (23:28):
It's seat yoga.

SPEAKER_01 (23:29):
Dude, I don't get this.
Why?
I don't get the seat in the backof the seat.
Like, I'm gonna slump down andput my knees in the back of your
seat, and I think that's okayfor the person in front of me.
Like, I don't quite understandthat.
I don't understand what peoplethink that their feet shouldn't
be clothed.

SPEAKER_03 (23:47):
Could you imagine if you were sitting in front of her
and her foot bumped your head?

SPEAKER_01 (23:50):
Oh, dude, I'd be you might see a video.
You would definitely, you mightsee a video.
That would be fun.
That would oh no.

SPEAKER_03 (23:59):
But yeah, then she got up, then she got up and she
started uh she started doing astretch in the aisle.
Now that's somebody's butt inyour face.

SPEAKER_01 (24:08):
Yeah.
That's right, you know what thisreminds me of?
It reminds me of like even uhwhen I'm in the jump seat with
another per another flightattendant and they cross their
legs.
And they cross their legs andthey put their like the flat of
their foot towards you.
That pisses me off.
Yeah.
Because I mean, we know what'son those galley floors.

(24:32):
Right.
And now you're like rubbing thatgalley floor shit close to me,
like gonna put your nasty footon my next to me.
I'm like, can you cross yourlegs the other way, please?
Like, I don't need that.

SPEAKER_03 (24:43):
You know the biggest problem that women have with
male flight attendants, and Ihave it too.
Why like spreading open thelegs?
Man spread, man.
Don't fucking do that shit, man.
If I gotta share a jump seatwith your ass, you you you know,
you need to close it down.

SPEAKER_01 (24:58):
Yeah.
I I was sitting when I came backfrom uh Atlanta there in
Georgia, it was like I wassitting next to a dude that was
like the man spread, and he keptbumping my bumping my knee, and
I, you know, I'm I was in amiddle seat, so it was I didn't
have too much to go, and I'm abig dude anyway, so it's like
you know, like, dude, slide overto the window.

(25:18):
Yeah, you're like get out of me.

SPEAKER_03 (25:21):
Well, I mean, you you see the partition of the
seat and it goes straight.
I'm like, I've done that too ona on with a passenger, you know.
I I sat next to somebody andtheir leg was constantly on my
leg.
I'm like, nah, that's not cool.
I hate that.
I'm not that's not cool.
That man spreading thing thatdrives me nuts.

SPEAKER_01 (25:36):
No, close it down.
Yeah, I've I've been, you know,there's a few male flight
attendants that have flown withit.
And there's one in particularhere in Cleveland that is like
Mr.
Man spread.
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
He has to sit sideways becausehe's gotta he's gotta do like
the like butterfly spread.
Yeah, the yoga spread.
Right.
I don't know what the heck thatis, but it's like I'm like,

(25:59):
really, dude?

SPEAKER_03 (26:00):
Close the shit down, close it down, man.
Girls hate that shit.
They can't stand it.
Women cannot stand a man'sspread.
Yeah.
Your junk your junk is not thatbig.
No.
Go check yourself.

SPEAKER_01 (26:12):
Yeah, you got issues.

SPEAKER_03 (26:16):
Hey man, okay, so I'm gonna end this one with I
had Mom of the Year on board.

SPEAKER_01 (26:20):
Mom of the year?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (26:21):
What what made her mom of the year?
She took this baby, laid it onthe floor.

unknown (26:27):
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (26:28):
On the plane?
Yeah, we're on the steelbrackets, no seat belt, no
nothing, right?
So you go back there and said,ma'am, listen, you might want to
pick the baby up and put the dogon the floor.

SPEAKER_01 (26:38):
She had the dog up on the seat and the baby on the
floor?

SPEAKER_03 (26:40):
Yeah, yeah.
And she said, No, it's fine.
It's fine.
Yeah, d uh that pause, it'syeah, it's fine.
So the baby's on the floor, andyou know I'm a dog driver,
right?
But come on.
The dog's on the seat, thebaby's on the floor, and that's
fine.

SPEAKER_01 (26:58):
It ain't common.
It ain't common.
Common sense is just not common.
I mean, people, come on.

SPEAKER_03 (27:06):
The other flight attendants are like, hey, they
have to do this.
I'm like, no, we're here toinform, not enforce.
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (27:13):
Right?
Well, to a certain extent,there's there is a time for
enforcement, but that ain't oneof them.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (27:22):
Poor baby, but mom of the year.
Yeah.
You should, you know, a lot of alot of parents, when when you
think about some of theseparents when they fly, right?
And they have kids, you thinkthey they should have had to go
through a class.
Dude.
They have a kid.
They should have.

SPEAKER_01 (27:36):
There's uh so many, so many areas.

SPEAKER_03 (27:38):
Because they'll let them be rejected.

SPEAKER_01 (27:40):
Yeah.
More training and more.
Yeah, you should have a uh birthcertificate should come with a
certification too.
Yeah.
Certification of uh I can be aparent type of thing.

SPEAKER_03 (27:50):
How about this?
A how to clean your shit up 101.
101.
Yeah.
Because you know, they theyleave their shit all over the
plane.

SPEAKER_01 (27:59):
Here's the thing.
Like, our people so this lady'snot thinking, like, she doesn't
know what we know.
Like, one every freaking seat onthat plane, somebody's probably
threw up on that plane.

unknown (28:12):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (28:12):
Nasty fake.
They clean it up.
Yeah.
There was the last last toadgunge was there.
Right on the last, you know, itwas freaking, you know, flip
Fred Flintstone came in.
He had a big old crusty toes outthere laying on the floor, you
know.
Mama was doing her yoga.

SPEAKER_03 (28:31):
And got baby's head right down there smelling it.

SPEAKER_01 (28:33):
Yeah.
The nastiest stuff goes on thefloor.
And we they cleaned it up, butit's not like sanitary or
anything like that.
Like, just do you want the babylaying in all that shit?

SPEAKER_03 (28:43):
Well, but you got metal brackets down there.
That's what I was telling her.
Any bump.
There's metal brackets.
If you hit any turbulence, thatbaby's head's gonna slam against
one of them brackets.

SPEAKER_01 (28:52):
Yeah, any little bump in the room.

SPEAKER_03 (28:53):
But the dog is safe.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (28:56):
Parties, man.
Not smart people, though.
They get it all straight.

SPEAKER_03 (29:01):
Hey, you know what, you know what time it is, right?
It's what it's close to.
What's that?
Halloween.
Halloween.
We said we're gonna talk aboutthe spook tacular.

SPEAKER_01 (29:11):
Yes.
Right?
Heck yeah.
Spook.
I gotta like I gotta startgearing up where it is.
Um our neighborhood does umHalloween at a specific time and
it's not on Halloween.
And so it's usually theWednesday before Halloween we do
it.
Uh, but I think this year it'sthe maybe the one before.

(29:33):
Anyhow, but it's a middle of theweek, Wednesday, and we live in
like a little circle, uh, onestreet in, and then it goes a
giant circle around all these.
There's 120 houses, and they dotrick or treat.
So they bring them down on ahayride to the entrance of it,
and they drop all these kids.
We now have like two, threehundred kids coming here, and

(29:54):
uh, I gear it up, man.
I got all kinds of blow ups andsmoke and hiss and.
Spiders.

SPEAKER_02 (30:00):
When did that shit start?
That all you okay, we're gonnahave Halloween, but not on
Halloween.

SPEAKER_03 (30:05):
Okay, all these uh development too, they they do
the same thing, but nobody doesit on Halloween.
So shit, Halloween comes, ain'tnobody out.

SPEAKER_01 (30:13):
Well, it it you know what here it depends on the
area, like so.
When you're in like the city,right?
You're in city atmosphere, thehouses are close, and you know,
kids are running.
I think they're doing Halloweenmore that way.
But the further you get them outin rural areas, like they
regulated like when they'regonna do it and stuff.
Because like still doesn't makesense on Halloween.

(30:36):
I don't think I've ever had a Ithink I've had one kid over the
last 25 years in this houseknock on my door during
Halloween.
That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 (30:43):
I mean, when we were kids, it was Halloween night.
That's what we used to do.
I mean, it didn't matter whatneighborhood you lived in, it
was Halloween.
Now it's like, oh, we're gonnado Halloween two weeks before
Halloween on Sunday between sixand eight.
Make sure you have your light onand make sure that you do this,
this, this, and this.
I'm not angry about that.

SPEAKER_01 (31:01):
It's that's crazy though.
But I like the like the I likethe control of it because what
happened is like you know, likewe grew up, like it started off
Halloween for us as kids.
We were like bouncing arounddoing the trick-or-treat on
Halloween, and that was uh, youknow, we had our little school
parades at school andeverything, but we never had any

(31:22):
of this new stuff.
Like there wasn't trunk ortreats, and there wasn't like
you know, go around to the youknow, the the the car backs of
cars to do a little round circlein a parking lot, and you know,
none of that type of stuff washappening.
But so then it got to the pointwhere you know it started
getting crazy where all the kidswere like it was getting two old

(31:42):
kids trick-or-treating, and thenthere was the abusers, and then
we got the freaking psychos outthere that started putting shit
in the candy and trying to screwkids up and people shit like
that, you know.
Like, so it it was it got tothis like there was this danger
involved into trick-or-treating,and so like you know, you you

(32:02):
had to do it, you know.
How did your mom have to gothrough your candy?

SPEAKER_03 (32:05):
No, they did, I know.
Yeah, I mean, when you got thesecrazy put razor blades and shit
in there, I know.

SPEAKER_01 (32:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, so then now we'readults and older and been doing
this for a long time.
It's like the control of havingthis, like uh, you know, if this
is a safe environment, prettysafe environment that we can
take all these hundreds of kidsand have a nice event.
And it's a neighborhood thinghere, so it's a big event here

(32:31):
because like people are out inthe I'm in the golf court uh
golf course community.
So people like people decoratetheir golf carts up with lights
and all this stuff.
They got the kids runningaround, and it's a big event,
but it's only for two hours.
Well, you're gonna have to tellme so I can get some candy,
dude.
You can get well, I'll tell you.
It's gonna be a big deal becausethe nieces are coming in this
this year, so they're gonna bedoing it.

(32:53):
That'd be cool.
So normally what I do is I haveum I sit is set it all up
outside, so I'm not openingdoors in my house all the time.
I set out in the driveway, wedecorate up, I've got the music
going, we got the lights, we gotblow-ups, we got all kinds of
stuff, right?
But I also do I got a fire pitgoing.
So I got a fire pit, and then Igot two things of booze.

SPEAKER_03 (33:16):
See, we're gonna talk about that in a minute,
too.
Yeah, because that that that'suh that's exactly what we're
gonna get into is about, but youdid you know before we get into
that, did you know that it's oneof the most called off of for
sick days?

SPEAKER_01 (33:29):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (33:30):
Halloween?

SPEAKER_01 (33:31):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (33:31):
Because of that, right?
I mean, you think about that.

SPEAKER_01 (33:34):
I mean people are trick-or-treating and drinking
beer.
There's always parties, right?
There's a party everywhere andall that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 (33:40):
Yeah, so the the reason why people like Halloween
so much is because you you do,you get to dress up.
You get to dress up, being afool, act a fool.
Hey, do you remember, do youremember, okay, every Halloween,
there is like you you have likespecific people that dress up,
right?
I mean, they're like costumes.

SPEAKER_01 (33:58):
Oh, yeah, like there's the the favorite costume
of the year.
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 (34:02):
You're so they they were just playing this.
Do you remember the movie It?
It, oh yeah.
Remember who who that was?
Who it was?
Pennywise.
Pennywise.
Yeah.
Remember the clown?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It so years ago, Pennywise isstill around.
They they've been playing thatmovie.
He's a scary motherfucker.
He is a scary ass clown.

SPEAKER_01 (34:20):
He is a scary clown.
People people that are scared ofclowns, that's the reason.

SPEAKER_03 (34:24):
Yeah, no shit.

SPEAKER_01 (34:25):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (34:25):
I mean, he he he was like I remember he he was in he
was in the woods, and this kidwas looking at him and he was
waving at the kid holding anarm.

SPEAKER_04 (34:34):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (34:37):
Like he just ate this thing.

SPEAKER_01 (34:39):
See, I grew up with a it's funny how like people are
scared of clowns, and it'sbecause I think of Halloween,
you know, like that that wholeyou know genre of clown.
But I grew up, you know, myclown when I grew up was Bozo.
Right.
You know, Bozo was a fun guy, hewas funny.
He was a you know, clowns aresupposed to be funny, likable,
you know, what little wacky guy.

(35:00):
And that's the clown that thefeature of clown.
When people started saying, Oh,I'm scared of clowns, I'm like,
what's to be scared of?
They just juggle.

SPEAKER_03 (35:09):
Pennywise, Pennywise was probably Bozo's inbred
cousin, right?
He was juggling limb parts andshit.
Exactly.
But man, you had the GrimReaper, remember?
Yep, Jason.
Jason, Michael Myers, yep,Freddie Krueger, Kruger, Chucky.
Chucky.
Remember Chucky?

SPEAKER_01 (35:28):
Yeah, that little son of a bitch dog.

SPEAKER_03 (35:30):
Did you ever understand?
I mean, okay, this doesn't makeany sense.
How did Jason and Michael Myers?
They all got these people andthey killed him.
They never ran after him.
No, they just showed up.

SPEAKER_01 (35:41):
Well, because all those people were those stupid
people, like that commercial.

SPEAKER_03 (35:45):
But they did you back in the movies, they're
like, oh my god, they're good.
Jason never ran.
Yeah, he never.
He just had to walk over.
Michael Myers never ran.
All of a sudden he just came outfrom behind a tree.
Right, boom.
Axe.
Right?
Dude.
But you did see Pennywise.
Pennywise ran.

SPEAKER_01 (36:01):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (36:01):
Pennywise is he's a little energetic.
Pennywise is a clown.
And then the and it came withthe candy and the treats, man.
Do you remember the wax teeth?

SPEAKER_01 (36:12):
Oh yeah.
Love the wax teeth.
They used to love those littlevampire teeth and uh in the wax
lips.
You'd chew that shit forever,right?
Yeah, they didn't taste stuck toyour teeth.
Yeah, just it really didn'ttaste much of anything.
Like it was, it had like aflavor for a second, and it was
just you chewing on wax.
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (36:29):
But we liked it.
But when we weretrick-or-treating, they used to
throw like, remember pennies?
Yeah.
Who in the hell throw pennies inthere?
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (36:36):
No, that's bullshit.
I don't see anybody throwingmoney in bags now.
And you know, here's the otherthing.
Like, the kids nowadays, youknow, they all come around with
their like decorated bag, or youknow, this like time, like I
used a pillowcase.
Did we use a pillowcase?

unknown (36:52):
Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_01 (36:54):
A pillowcase is what we use.

SPEAKER_03 (36:56):
That was like that was a standard bag back then.
You know, the reason why Istopped there, I just remember
that the um the little girl thatcame up to your house and was
like, You're on the list.
Yeah, right.
I'm thinking, could you imagineif you do like apples and
pennies in someone in the bagand that kid just looks up at
you and is like, the fuck isthat?
What you on a list?

SPEAKER_01 (37:16):
Yeah, you're on my list.
You going down.
You know, these these penniesaren't even gonna be they're
gonna be obsolete soon.
You threw a damn apple?
What the hell is a penny?
I should go to the apple farmand get a bag bag of apples and
throw apples into their bags.
Remember the popcorn balls?
I love dude.
We were just talking about that.
Popcorn balls is like was myfavorite thing, and like people

(37:37):
would make the homemade popcornballs, you know.
Yeah, that's how it all started.
Like people were like, oh, andI'd be like, oh, this is
amazing.
I love popcorn balls, and thenyou can finally they like you
know, commercialize and got thepackaged popcorn balls and all
that, but you hardly ever seethose anymore.

SPEAKER_03 (37:53):
Yeah, I mean you go up there and they had they even
I remember uh one year they didlike the rice crispy treats and
they just wrapped them up inlike plastic.

SPEAKER_01 (38:01):
Well, threw them in your milk.
Rice crispy, you got one, youknow, they they got the
Halloween wrappers now, right?

SPEAKER_03 (38:06):
But it I mean, but people used to make them at
home.

SPEAKER_01 (38:08):
Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (38:09):
Remember Hubba Bubba?

SPEAKER_01 (38:11):
Hubba Bubba.

SPEAKER_03 (38:12):
The gum that you chew it and like two seconds
later it just tasted likenothing.

SPEAKER_01 (38:15):
Hubba Bubba.
And your jaw hurt.
Hubba wasn't that too bad.
No, it was.
That wasn't like double, you'rethinking about double bubble.
Double bubble was bad.
That was jaw chewing hard.
Yeah.
The taste went crazy.
Hubba bubble was the first likesoft gum, right?
That's right.
You're right.

SPEAKER_03 (38:34):
And I was I was thinking about I was thinking
about double bubble.
Double bubble.

SPEAKER_01 (38:37):
Now double bubble.
That shit was hard.
Carol buys those double bubblebags, especially during
Christmas.
I mean uh the Halloween time,because Halloween, you know,
double bubble has that, it's thefreshest you're gonna get it.
Right.
Right?

SPEAKER_03 (38:50):
And then it turns like rock.

SPEAKER_01 (38:52):
Yeah, and then it turns rock hard.
It is, it's literally like afreaking stone.
All right, here's here's a fewother ones.
The pixie sticks.
Love them, brute beer barrels.
How many times have you chokedon a pixie stick?
Coughed it right out.
Dump that powder into the and ithits the back of your and then
like a puff of smoke.

SPEAKER_03 (39:12):
And you're like, I just ruined all that.
Yeah, that was my favorite one.
I love that cherry one.
And then the last one, hey,remember Tootsie Rolls?
Everybody had Tootsie Rolls.
You had the minis, you had thethe the big Tootsie rolls.

SPEAKER_01 (39:26):
I think where Tootsie Roll went bad was when
they decided they were gonnachange the flavor.
Like Tootsie Rolls is chocolate.
Right.
Leave a chocolate.
Yeah.
Like I don't need a blueberryTootsie roll.

SPEAKER_02 (39:36):
Yeah, but those are good though, too.
They're good though.

SPEAKER_01 (39:39):
I mean, I I I can say I'm a traditionalist when it
comes to my Tootsie Roll.
I need I need a big, juicy, softTootsie roll.
Love a Tootsie roll.
You know, uh one of ourlayovers, uh, was it Chicago?
We used to lay over right nextto a Tootsie Roll factory.

SPEAKER_02 (39:57):
Really?

SPEAKER_01 (39:57):
Yeah.
It was that was pretty cool.
I used to always be like, youknow, I need to roll over there
and get like that.
It's like fishing, you know,catching that fish and getting
it fresh, having that fit.
The closer you are to theproduct, the fresher it is.
So I was like, I gotta roll overto the Tootsie Roll factory, get
some fresh Tootsie Rolls.
Never did it, but I alwaysthought about it when I got

(40:20):
there.

SPEAKER_02 (40:20):
It's just funny watching you.

SPEAKER_01 (40:21):
Right.
I get excited about camp.

SPEAKER_02 (40:25):
I bet, man.

SPEAKER_03 (40:27):
The spooky fun that we used to have though on
Halloween.
Did you did you ever you didn'tTP trees, did you?
No, you were in the you were theTP.

SPEAKER_01 (40:34):
You're a mischief.
You're a mischief bunch oflittle rat rat rats.
You never soaked a car?
No, no, dude.
Really?
No, dude.
I was not.
Listen, I was not.
What did you do on Halloween?
I trick-a-treated like I was anormal kid.
I was going down the street andI had I was in a pillowcase like
you didn't like egg a house oranything?
No, I was more interested involume of how much candy I can

(40:56):
go.
I was motoring.

SPEAKER_03 (40:58):
See, when we were kids and you and you got caught,
you had to come back and cleanthat shit off.

SPEAKER_01 (41:02):
No, yeah.
I don't first of all, thatdidn't like I had no desire to
do any of that stuff.
I had friends that were like, ohyeah, let's go do this.
I was like, why?
Yeah, we did that.
Like, why do I do that?

SPEAKER_03 (41:13):
But we got caught though, too, and we had to clean
that shit off.

SPEAKER_01 (41:16):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (41:16):
That's no fun, especially when it rains.

SPEAKER_01 (41:18):
I've seen don't get me wrong.
I think the one time, there wasone time I TP'd a house, but
that was like when I moved hereto this neighborhood, and it
was, I think it was Arthur'shouse.
Right.
We TP'd it.

SPEAKER_03 (41:31):
Now going back, going back to um what you're
talking about, it's also uhHalloween's a huge social
connection, right?
Because when thetrick-or-treaters come out, you
get all these adults that comebecause adults are walking right
up with the kids, because theyalso know that hey, uh the the
Sean Sean's got jello shots.

unknown (41:50):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (41:51):
So what I do with my uh mind thing, I got that fire
pit going, and usually we got itkind of set off to the side so
it's not in the like walkingpath of the kids and all that
stuff.
But like the families will comein and everything, and so I got
it cooler, and I have, you know,it has a sign that says adult
booze E-O-O-S on the and peopleare like, Oh, I love that.

(42:14):
Love that.
And so I'll have usually onethat's filled with beer, yeah,
and then I'll have another onewith like I'll go down to the
store here and they'll have sometype of like seasonal wine, you
know.
So they'll have like witchesbrew or some wild stuff like
that, and then I'll get thischeap wine, whatever.
And just like I love, I'm like,hey, you want some?
Here you go.

SPEAKER_03 (42:33):
Right.
They have the beer barrels, andthen I think you ever do like
the hot cider rum?
Oh, I love that stuff, man.
Right?
Because the, I mean, on on thecoal nice, because it's getting
it's getting colder right now.

SPEAKER_01 (42:43):
I gotta tell you, falls like one of my favorite
seasons.
Getting colder.
Like just everything, like food,hot cider cold, the hot cider.
We got a that cider place thing.
You haven't hit that place yet.
Not yet, but I wouldn't.
It is like all that type ofstuff is great.
Like to have a like a warm firesitting around and get that
cider and you know, spiked it alittle bit.

(43:03):
Spiked it a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 (43:04):
A little bit of rum.
A little bit of rum.

SPEAKER_02 (43:06):
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (43:07):
So but the other thing they do too is a lot of
people they like exploring thedark side, right?
Because they when they're go itwhen you just don't dress up
like penny wise because youyou're normal.
No, you got a little freakingyou, right?

SPEAKER_01 (43:20):
Grim Reaper.
Yeah, right?
That side of you get the that'sthat's the the whole draw to
Halloween.
Everybody gets to like let theirinner whatever mischiefs, you
know.
Do you remember we used to go tothe kids that used to run around
the neighborhood toilet paperand egg and stuff?
Those are the people that dothis weird shit.

SPEAKER_03 (43:38):
But you go to the bars.
Remember when we were in the20s, right?
And the girls in the bars wouldbe like, a vampire?

SPEAKER_00 (43:42):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (43:43):
Like a female vampire.

SPEAKER_01 (43:45):
Dude, let me tell you first of all, I ran into
this girl the other day.
Where was this?
I gotta remember my mind becauseit freaked me out.
She had she had literally shehad those teeth where they
ground them down to like spikesand all that stuff, right?
She had that, and then she hadtaken something and put in, she

(44:07):
had put these like spikes in herforehead.
Like she had I'm notbullshitting you, like I was
like, this is some like it was apiercing, but she had like
normally like they'll do like aneyebrow or they'll do your nose
or through your nose orwhatever, and all that stuff,
lips and all.
She had it like spikes all inher forehead.

SPEAKER_03 (44:29):
I said the dark side, man.
It's uh like I'm like, somepeople some people live there.
Yeah.
We're just uh we're justvisiting.
Remember the purge?
Remember the purge?

SPEAKER_01 (44:40):
The what?
The purge.

SPEAKER_03 (44:41):
Oh yeah, the purge, right?
Yeah, dark side.

SPEAKER_01 (44:45):
We need the purge for different reasons.

SPEAKER_03 (44:48):
Yeah.
So what do you think?
You know why people like to bescared though.
It's that adrenaline to thebrain.
Oh, yeah.
That crazy release, thatdopamine feel.
Because okay, you know when uhyou go to the woods or you go to
a haunted house, you know it,you you already know you're
gonna get scared.
Yeah.
So you're you're you're so it'slike a roller coaster.

(45:08):
Right, you but you can alreadyfeel even if we know that that
they're they're gonna be there,you you already feel it like in
your arms, you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
You feel the hair stand up,right?
Yeah, or you feel like the goosethat the anticipation of it.
Yeah, you get that chicken skin.
Yeah, and then you know it'sgonna do it, and and all of a
sudden that person jumps out orsomething.
Sure.
It's that big dopamine rush.

SPEAKER_01 (45:27):
Yeah.
But I mean, all that stuff islike it's okay to like uh want
that.
It's all that um, you know,adrenaline and a dopamine rush
that you get from anythingthat's exciting, jumping out of
planes or whatever, you know,whatever you're excited, you
know, popping wheelies on thebike, jumping around across the,

(45:47):
you know.

SPEAKER_03 (45:48):
How do you like those guys that go to the
haunted house and all of asudden that guy comes around the
corner, he throws a girlfriendin front of it?

SPEAKER_01 (45:55):
I love when people like like push their like
significant other in front ofthem.

SPEAKER_03 (45:59):
Or the guy screams louder than the girl.
And then they're all looking atit.
Or they run away and leave thatperson like this.
They're looking at him going,Did that just come out of me?

SPEAKER_01 (46:08):
Yeah, your priority uh level gets uh identified
quickly.
Where you are in their rung.
That's hilarious.
It's that bonding experience.

SPEAKER_02 (46:20):
Yeah, people are just uh Do you remember in the
movies and all those uh thosescary movies, right?
And Jason, there was always thatone person that thought it was a
good idea that we separate.

unknown (46:31):
Yeah.
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (46:32):
Okay, you go that way, I'm gonna go this way.
And we'll see it.
We'll we'll meet back at thebarn.
The house.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (46:39):
The barn.
The barn.
Right?
With all those metal cool ourbig sickle tools and sickles,
hammers, sickles, and kniveshanging from there was always
that one person though, right?
And you knew it's like, oh,you're dead.
Yeah, you're dead.
You're the next one that comesaround the tree, and then Jason
like pulls you up.

SPEAKER_01 (47:00):
Dude.
Halloween is a Halloween's justa freaky, like it just lets you
do you you exercise and get thata permission to just like think
and uh be whatever you want tobe.
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (47:14):
We have a bunch of fun.
Yeah, it's fun.
So some of the scariest placeson the on the on the planet.
Have you ever heard of theEastern State Penitentiary in
Philadelphia?
No.
This is a historic prison.
It's known for its hauntedhistory.
Really?
Yeah, and it hosts what's calleduh Terror Behind the Walls.
It's one of the most intensehaunted houses in the United

(47:37):
States.
Oh, wow.
It was opened in 1829.
It didn't close till 1971.

SPEAKER_01 (47:43):
The um, so they made this penitentiary.

SPEAKER_03 (47:46):
That was the penitentiary, or this is like
like uh it was a penitentiarythat they made into like you
know, they do the haunted house,you know, like they do at
Mansfield.
Yeah, yeah.
Reformatory.

SPEAKER_01 (47:56):
Yeah.
Mansfield Reformatory is reallycool.
Uh like during during uh thistime of the year, they they let
you do sleepovers.

SPEAKER_03 (48:06):
Really?

SPEAKER_01 (48:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (48:08):
But this, okay, wait a minute.
Hold on to that.

SPEAKER_01 (48:10):
A few flight attendants we know, I know, went
down there and did thesleepover, and they had the you
know the ghost um that ghostshow where you they can you know
detect it's ghosts and they gotlike the ghost meters and all
that stuff.
Well, they equip them with allthis crap, right?
And so then they can like creeparound the whole place all
during the night looking forghosts and shit.

SPEAKER_02 (48:29):
They've run around those little machines.

SPEAKER_01 (48:31):
I'm gonna tell you the middle of the day, the
reformatory in Mansfield isscary.
It's the it's the for all those,you know, that's where they film
the Shawshank Redemption.
But um, it's scarier than that.
We need to do that.
Go down there?
Me and you.

SPEAKER_03 (48:47):
It's cool.
I love it.
We need to do it.
I'm serious.
But this, okay, thispenitentiary though, I gotta
tell you about this one though.
It they there it was a separatesystem of solitary confinement.
These guys lived alone, ateeverything alone, exercised
alone, everything was done inextreme isolation.
So bad that they they used to uhit used to cause psychological

(49:10):
damage, and it it was like crazysuicide madness and all this
thing.
And that's why they're sayingthat they had all these
hauntings.
It was, I mean, absolutely crazyplace.
You people weren't meant to bealone.
No, but they did it, you know,back then it was it was amazing
because we talked about that inthe last last podcast, the
difference uh years ago whatthey used to do and what they do

(49:32):
now, right?
For even even the prisoners,right?

SPEAKER_01 (49:35):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (49:35):
I mean Mansfield.
I mean, Mansfield was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 (49:40):
Yeah, just what they well, what they decided, like
you know, it was just ju it wasa like a juvenile detention,
really, at first, is what thisall started off as.
And then, you know, it was areformatory, right?
Right.
And uh then it went to criminaland it became criminal later,
you know, as it went on on, youknow, the different clientele

(50:02):
that came through there.

SPEAKER_02 (50:05):
So so they had this other one that was they I wanted
to see if if I pronounce itright, Povglia Island.

SPEAKER_03 (50:12):
This is in northern Italy.
It's only a few acres, right?
This this place is abandoned.
Okay, it's closed to the public,right?
Okay, and in the 18th century,it was set up as a quarantine
island island for peopleinfected with the bubonic
plague.

SPEAKER_01 (50:33):
Dude, I'm gonna tell you right now, when you get over
to Europe and you see some ofthat midieval shit that they
did.
I mean, they and like theremnants of those things, like
it is yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (50:45):
They were burned in mass graves.
These things, it's no wonderthey say that this place is
haunted.
Right.
Because I mean, the mass gravesthat they did, and they say the
estimated was over a hundredthousand people may have died on
that island.
That is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 (50:58):
Well, if the blue blonde plague was involved with
it, I could see why, but theyhad to figure out where to put
all the bodies and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 (51:06):
So in the 20th century, i it a psych
psychiatric hospital was builton the island.

SPEAKER_01 (51:14):
That's nice.
That's nuts.

SPEAKER_03 (51:19):
Yeah.
There's uh crazy period.
So you got crazy people that'shaunted by spirits of people
with the plague from all thedead people, and you have asylum
patients.
Yeah.
Hey, let's build an asylum onthis grave area.

(51:40):
I wonder what it was like to geta person to go work there.
What was your uh let's see, whatbenefits did you get?
I don't know about benefits.

SPEAKER_01 (51:52):
I don't know what type of benefits they're okay.

SPEAKER_03 (51:55):
So they had this trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
in Western, or excuse me,Western West Virginia.
This place was built in 1858.
Right.
This was one of the historicsites for all these ghost hunts,
this paranormal activity.
Crazy.

(52:15):
It served as a psychiatrichospital, and I thought this was
kind of crazy.
It was designated for 250patients.
Okay.
Right.
It held over 2,400 patients.
Ugh, can you even freakingimagine?
The just the crazy condition.

SPEAKER_01 (52:31):
They were just squeezing them in there.

SPEAKER_03 (52:33):
Yeah.
All those, but here's the funnypart, right?
Some of the patients that werecommitted for minor reasons like
depression, yep, menopause.
Oh, that's how they gotoverpopulated.
And reading too many novels.

SPEAKER_01 (52:51):
Yep.
I know some people that shouldbe going there.

SPEAKER_03 (52:57):
Did you read that?
Uh nope.
Now, now listen.
Now for you, could you imaginemenopause?
Okay.
So the how you how we're gonnatreat menopause or reading too
many novels?
We're gonna we're gonna give youelectric electronic shock
treatment.

SPEAKER_01 (53:12):
Yeah.
Bobotomies.
Nice.
Insulin therapy.
Hey.
You know what?
Anything to stop that crazyfreaking rage.

SPEAKER_03 (53:22):
I would I you know something I'd haunt that damn
island too.
I went there with the uh readinga few novels, and next thing you
know, I'm getting electrocuted.

SPEAKER_01 (53:31):
You know what's the funniest thing is that like
history just shows some of thestupidity that we believed in.
Like it, I mean, this iscontinuing on today.
Like the things that we believetoday, we're gonna look back on
some of these things and belike, that was stupid.
Right?
Like, we already do.
Yeah, it's like here you're justlike, why did why was that

(53:55):
acceptable?
Why was that the norm of beingable to like, okay, oh, she's
having a period, send her away.
Electrocutor.

SPEAKER_03 (54:05):
What the f lobotomizer?
That will work for that one.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's go send them all to anisland.
Hmm.
Yeah, that worked.
I wonder who I'm gonna tell youright now.
Imagine the person who thought,hey, let's take that island,
let's just go ship all thosepeople over there and we'll just
kill them all.

SPEAKER_01 (54:23):
Yeah.
I'm gonna tell you right now,like the airlines, we wouldn't
have any flight attendants.
No, they don't be exactly.

SPEAKER_03 (54:31):
Especially reading, right?
They'd be sitting over there.
If they added candy crush to it,they're all their asses all be
on the oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 (54:38):
You're talking about some this just I it just blows
my mind when you think about howthe world worked.

SPEAKER_03 (54:45):
All right, man.
Halloween is gonna be a funtime, but let's go around the
globe.
Around the globe.
A 20-year-old passenger wasarrested after trying to open a
cabin door in a 737-800.
Nice.
It was just landing in Houstonon the 5th, man.
And it triggered one of theemergency slides, forcing the
pilots to shut down the engineson the taxiway and call for

(55:09):
emergency crews.
There is a smart guy.

SPEAKER_01 (55:12):
What the hell?
People like it blows my mind.
Like people we will like hit therunway.
The wheels were just boom.
Yep.
You just the jolt of hitting therunway.
And people are on passenger seattrying to go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_03 (55:28):
Like, I'm like, well, put it this way
open that door in front of theengine, you ever seen a paper
shredder?

SPEAKER_01 (55:35):
Yeah, not good.
I think um, so talking aboutthat subject, and we're talking
about Halloween and crazy stuff,like I was a this happened
probably 20 some years ago.
Where the dude was working theflight, and you know, in they

(55:55):
were working a prop.

SPEAKER_03 (55:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (55:58):
And the dude like the hat blew off right into the
prop and decapitated the guy.
Yep.
Like, can you imagine being thepastor on that?

SPEAKER_03 (56:09):
I couldn't imagine, I couldn't imagine just I mean,
even as a crew member seeing anyof that, that would have been
horrific.

SPEAKER_01 (56:15):
Ugh.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (56:18):
But you know, that's just stupid trying to open a
door.
Done.

SPEAKER_01 (56:21):
But you know, you it's stupid to be people don't
people are stupid.
Yep.
That's why we talk about them.

SPEAKER_03 (56:28):
I mean, come on.
Okay, here's another one stupidone.
This is on uh one of the theother airlines going to uh
Baltimore.
This this woman decides not tolet it's like halfway through,
and she she decides not to letpeople off the plane because her
daughter's in the back of theaircraft.
So she she says, I'm juststanding here until everybody

(56:48):
lets her daughter by so she canget off the plane the same time
as her.

SPEAKER_01 (56:54):
Ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 (56:55):
And and so you you've seen this video and uh
this screaming this finally thisflight attendant comes up and is
able to get her to move.
Unbelievable.
I would have loved to have seenyou in that situation on that.

SPEAKER_01 (57:10):
She could she would have been moved.

SPEAKER_03 (57:12):
It's just so stupid.
Some of the dumb things.
I mean, this is every week.
Every week.
But this is my favorite, though.
This is my favorite of all.
The 26-year-old Olive Gardenwaitress.
She was arrested on Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 (57:29):
The waitress was arrested.

SPEAKER_03 (57:31):
Yep.
Okay.
Can't wait to hear that.
It was a gratuity dispute.
All right.
The witnesses, the the thewaitress um said this couple had
ran up a$94 bill with pasta,wine, and appetizers.
Well, it's a la garden.

SPEAKER_01 (57:47):
Cool.

SPEAKER_03 (57:48):
And she said that it uh didn't leave her a tip.

SPEAKER_01 (57:52):
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (57:52):
So she slammed the receipt on the table and she
told them that this is unlimitedbreadsticks that doesn't mean
unlimited free labor.
And she threw the breadsticks athim.

SPEAKER_01 (58:02):
Good for her.
I know, right?
That's what I thought.
A few people in Olive Gardenthat need to be beat with a
breadstick.

SPEAKER_03 (58:10):
I seen the picture of the girl, and she just looks
like a normal girl, right?
I mean, in all fairness, theypaid for unlimited breadsticks.
She just gave to them.

SPEAKER_01 (58:17):
Right.
Right?

SPEAKER_03 (58:18):
Why'd you arrest the girl?

SPEAKER_01 (58:19):
Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 (58:20):
But you know, there's people like that, right?
They go, they go out to eat.
This is what I can't stand.
I cannot stand people that goout to eat and you get good
service and you don't tip thesepeople.
You're lucky that she didn'tshove that breadstick somewhere
else because that's bullshit.
It is I mean, if you don't getif you don't get good service, I
can understand you leave 10%,right?
I mean, that's just basicallysaying you didn't get good

(58:42):
service.
And but you know, I I'll saythis a thousand times over.
You're gonna get a lot in yourtip from me.
I gauge it on that Diet Cokesitting on the table, believe it
or not.
If that Diet Coke remains fullon the table, then your tip is
good.
It means that you paid attentionto small details, right?
In a service.

(59:03):
And and because I'm spending alot of money for that stupid
Diet Coke.
And when you let that thing in,it only gets filled up one time,
and and that's bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 (59:12):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (59:12):
Okay.
But when you don't tip at all,you're lucky that that is the
only thing she threw at you werebreadsticks.

SPEAKER_01 (59:19):
Dude, I will tell you right now, like, so I'm one
that I get pissed off aboutservice because we work in a
service industry.
So we know what service is,right?
Right.
But so I do exactly what youjust said.
Like, if you ain't give me badservice, you're gonna probably
get a 10% tip.
Right.
You know, I can understand that90% of the time, you're probably

(59:40):
gonna get 25 to 30% out of mebecause I'm I'm I'm you know,
I'm I'm thankful for the servicethat you're giving me.
But at the same time, like, youknow, Carol my wife, she won't,
she will never ever under tip.
Doesn't matter.
You can be you'd be you can kickher.
She would she would still giveyou a Same tip.
And I don't believe in that.

(01:00:02):
I'm like, as my friends that Ijust visited down in uh in
Georgia, they always love mylittle one-line because one time
we went out to a fast food placeand they gave me a sandwich, and
the sandwich was like just likea sloppy mess.
And I just I went straight backinto there and I threw it up on
the counter and I said, calledthe manager over and I said,

(01:00:24):
Tell me something.
Does that sandwich there looklike that picture there?
Nope.
I know.
And they were like, they werebeside themselves.
They were like, I can't believeyou had just said that.
I'm like, I at minimum on a fastfood place, you should be able
to assemble the sandwich in arelatively good manner where I

(01:00:45):
can eat it, not where the bunsare slid and it's just wrapped
up in a ball.
Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_03 (01:00:50):
I mean, before we get out of here, I gotta I gotta
say this about okay, the Mexicanrestaurant, any waitress at a
Mexican restaurant.
Okay, you give this big assthing of chips.
Yeah.
Come back with more salsa.
Seriously?
I mean that little ass bowl ofsalsa, right?
We're big.
We're big guys, right?
I mean, are are you a scooper orjust a dipper?

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:12):
I'm a scooper, but I'm like uh I'll ask for more
salsa.
It doesn't matter.
I know you asked for sales.
I'm gonna ask for it, but likebut I don't need to have it like
you know, I get it like therestaurants are like, okay, this
is what you get, and you know,you need to ask for a little bit
more if you want more type ofthing.
It's empty.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:30):
Just bring you got a whole damn thing of chips.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:32):
But is this isn't all every place is an olive
garden.
All right, man.
Just more salsa.
All right, Sean, go ahead.
Inspirational quote.
All right.
Uh inspirational quote this weekis life doesn't get easier or
more forgiving.
We get stronger and moreresilient.
That's me and you, brother.
That's it.

SPEAKER_03 (01:01:52):
More hey, hey, and these guys can't see.
I can't wait for you guys toactually see.
We have got the coolest signhere.
Yep.
The Cabin Pressure Sean and Gsign.
It is awesome.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:04):
A brand new sign for the show.
It's getting ready.
We are we are ready for video.
Sean is coming.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:10):
He's gonna have to take a picture and post it.
But listen, man, I had a lot offun talking about Halloween this
week.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:15):
Yeah.
Heck yeah.
I love that.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:17):
And if you if you're in the if you're in the
lavatories, use the papertowels.
Don't use the seat toiletcovers.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:26):
And find the trash can, please.
Please.

SPEAKER_03 (01:02:30):
All right, guys.
You guys have a great week.
Have a great Halloween, and wewill see you next week here on
Cabin Pressure.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:38):
Bye.
See ya.
Well, folks, that's all we'vegot for this week.
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