May 12, 2025 • 55 mins
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The skies get turbulent in more ways than one when Shawn announces his decision to transfer to international flying after 35 years as a flight attendant. This major career move sparks a conversation about seniority, schedule control, and why some flight attendants commute across the country for better work opportunities.
The episode takes a dramatic turn as Jean recounts a harrowing medical emergency when a passenger passed out mid-flight after having just one mimosa. The hosts share vital advice for travelers experiencing light-headedness on planes: get down immediately before gravity makes the decision for you. And just when you think the flight couldn't get worse, a passenger's dog leaves a nasty surprise in the aisle during deplaning, creating a stomach-turning cleanup situation that will make you appreciate flight crews even more.
Between discussing the remarkable story of a mother who found her missing son after 27 years through a TikTok video and debating who truly deserves the basketball GOAT title (Michael Jordan or LeBron James?), the hosts reveal the bizarre phenomenon of "jump seat therapy" – where flight attendants inexplicably share their most intimate personal details with colleagues they've just met. The conversation shifts to current aviation challenges as Newark Airport operates with just one runway while suffering from critical air traffic controller shortages so severe that airline CEOs are advising passengers to avoid the airport entirely.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Medical emergency at 35,000 feet.
Waking up late on a layover, ohno, mom finds a missing son
after 27 years apart.
All this next on Cabin Pressurewith Sean and Jean.
Hey, everyone welcome this iscabin pressure.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's cabin pressure today.
Baby, here we are Welcome.
This is Cabin Pressure.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's Cabin Pressure today.
Baby, here we are.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
everybody excited.
Are you excited about this?
Because I am.
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Every week.
I look forward to your introevery single week.
What's been going on?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh man, like all kinds of stuff going on this
this last week I have um.
So I decided after many yearsof flying, that I'm gonna start,
I'm gonna go international yeah, and that was bullshit.
You didn't say anything right,you, you're, you're that I
didn't tell you that.
Yeah, you didn't say anythingall of a sudden, you were like,
(01:19):
hey, I got my transfer itliterally happened three weeks
before, three weeks before Idecided I was mad as hell
because we got this last bid andI didn't get anything I wanted.
And I'm like 35 years, a flightattendant and I'm just like
this is total bullshit.
I call bullshit on you too.
And so then I was like I got toget out of here.
(01:40):
I got to get out of herebecause I cannot control my life
.
I mean, the one thing aboutbeing a flight attendant is
having control of your schedule,right.
I agree I mean that's thebiggest benefit of this job is
that I can have this flexibleschedule.
But where we're at right now, Ican't have that schedule, so
I'm like I got to get out ofhere.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You just missed it though, man.
I mean, you're just missingthat day, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But here in this base because it's so small that just
miss is like a miss by a mile.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What's funny what's really funny, it's that home run
.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's going, going, going.
Oh, he caught it at the fence.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, but you know, what most people don't
understand in our business isthat we've been doing this a
long time and what we consider,especially in Cleveland, right,
right.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What we consider seniors.
Four to turns on the weekendsright, and other bases are like
laughing because they're likethat stuff is so junior.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh hell, yeah, we'll be going.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We'd be going to africa if we were over in newark
right I mean we.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean we'd be going somewhere in in asia somewhere,
but here we, we hold a four toturn yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So I'm gonna go over there and start doing some
international.
And you know, one of the thingsabout like going to the bigger
base is that, yeah, I can dointernational travel and all
that stuff, whereas I've neverbeen able to do that out of
Cleveland.
And so for 35 years, in 35years, I've only done two truly
international over the, you know, over one of the oceans.
International trips, because Imean we go south all the time.
(03:03):
Right, like going down toPanama.
We go international tripsbecause I mean we go south all
the time, you know, like goingdown to panama, we go down to,
you know, mexico, we do all thatstuff.
Go up to canada.
You know that's internationaltoo, but a real international
like going on these long trips.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So you see you on a safari with a lion exactly, I'll
have my camera check me, checkme out seanosmithcom running
your ass from some.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You'll love the pictures yeah, I, I love it, man
, but anyways.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, I mean, I get it.
I mean and a lot of peopledon't understand that that is
about our job we chase, we'reline chasers.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Right line chasers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
We chase certain things because you know you want
so many days off and we want acertain lifestyle.
We you know there's certainthings that we we want about
this job and a lot of ourfriends already you know they
chase those lines over in theinternational base already.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, They've been doing it for years.
I mean, that's the, that's the.
The angst of this whole thingis that, like these much junior
flight attendants than me,they've got a better flexibility
than me because they're in abigger base, they have more
trips and you know all thatstuff.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
When I started my career, when I first came to
Cleveland, I commuted for like10 years.
I will never, ever commuteagain.
I'm telling you never commute.
I mean, god bless you, but Iain't doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So here's my plan, man.
So I'm not going over thereflying Like I don't want to go,
like on a monthly basis.
I'm not doing that commute backand forth.
That's just not me.
I want to dump all my trips.
I'll pick up something out ofCleveland here if I need to fly,
and there's so much stuff rightnow Like there's so much stuff
to pick up, and then when I wantto come back, like in six
(04:37):
months, I can come back right.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So it's like yeah, but you commute too will be
totally different than what wewere doing.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm not running for a jump seat, I'm not doing all
this stuff.
Literally I'll probably buy aticket to go over there and I'll
buy a ticket to come back andthat'll be my commute.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't want the anxiety of not being able to get
on a trip and all that stuff.
No, yeah, especially if you'regoing to go once a month to
actually do the trip.
Yeah, I get that.
I mean I get buying the ticketin advance.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know one of our friends, uh, mr, uh,
jimmy, jimmy G, down in Florida.
You know, he, uh, he.
I just was talking to him theother day and he's been doing
this for years and everything.
And he does the same thing fromflorida.
He's buying this like 89 ticketback up to newark and, uh, he
commutes back and forth.
There's a guaranteed seat,doesn't have anything to worry
(05:31):
about, and you know he doesn'tdoes his trip.
It's worth 30 hours of time.
You know what's 89 and 30 hoursof time?
You know it ain't nothing no, Iget it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I mean, like I said, I'm especially in our, in our
line of work.
It is about the schedule andthe trips.
Yeah, the schedule trip.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The other thing, man, that that's been happening was
you know I was, we were, we weredown in Florida visiting some
friends this last weekend and wewere hanging out and all this
stuff.
And I gotta tell you it doesn'tannoy you when, like, you're
texting somebody and they youlike you text them back and
(06:11):
forth, back and forth, and youtext them and then there's like
dead silence, like no response,zero.
Yeah, yeah, that annoys you.
Yep, then quit doing it,motherfucker hey, I knew it was
you.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I knew it was you.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I knew it was you you are like I was like I'm like
trying to like get into like aquick answer out of you and I'm
like, okay, here's, why did yourespond?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
here's a little freaking insight for you, right,
all right, okay, you were downin florida vacationing, your ass
okay, okay, yeah, that's what Idid, my ass was working.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's what I did, Okay that's the difference right
.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So if there's a little bit of a pause, deal with
it.
You're going to have to dealwith that shit, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Dude, I know you have that phone stuck to you like
glue.
It doesn't come out of yourhand.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It might have been stuck to me like glue, but my
ass was still at work and yourass was down there playing golf.
I know that, hey, you knowsomething, but I I heard that
you had a great trip coming back, though what's that?
A great trip when you came back, when you came back from
florida what was it?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
oh yeah, yeah, you were my flight attendant.
You know shit, right, I wasworking your trip coming back
from florida yeah, I gotta tellyou, man, when I did the review
it was like suck.
One star, two star.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I got five stars.
They bypassed your ass.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There ain't no way.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That was pretty funny that you guys coming back on my
flight.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, that's the business right here.
That's the cool thing beingsenior and being able to have
the experience of knowing peopleand stuff.
You get on these flights andknow we're like all family.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh yeah, that is definitely the best, especially
when you're going to tell youanother funny story about me
going down this weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So we get, we get like I'm going down and, uh, our
the, the crew.
I knew the crew going down andso it was Patty that was up care
package.
And then when she, patty, givesyou a care package, like go on
your trip, I mean every bottleof vodka that was in the first
(08:12):
guy's galley I don't think theyhad any vodka coming back from
the flight.
I mean, that's how much vodkashe gave me and I'm not a big
drinker, but it was like that'sPatty.
And so I'm walking off theplane, I have a garbage bag of,
you know, vodka and all thisstuff.
I got mixers, I got everythingI want for drinks, and so I'm
taking off, I'm getting ready tobe there for four days, all
(08:32):
this stuff, right.
I go to my rental car and I'mlike jogging around, I'm dude
national, so I'm like checkingout different cars.
Which one do I want?
Whatever I, whatever I figureout, oh, I want this one.
But then I was like, wait, wait, this isn't quite big enough
because my wife carries too muchluggage.
And so I'm like I got, I gottado this another.
So I change cars, everything Iget all the way to my
(08:53):
destination where I'm like theguy I'm visiting.
I realized that that whole carepackage, bag of vodka I left in
the other car so you gave tosomebody else.
basically, somebody got in arental car with a whole like 50
bottles of vodka.
Yeah, I'm like this is great.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Jackpot.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, jackpot man, this is a bonus rental if they
like vodka, but anyways, man,that was.
That was like you know thewhole thing.
And then going down to Floridaand stuff this weekend was
awesome.
I mean, the weather was cool.
We did a boat trip, we wentdown to the Everglades and we
(09:36):
just picked a beach and thenthey did a big grill.
We brought grills and we didall this stuff.
Burgers and hot dogs sittingout on the beach shooting a shit
, playing cards, having fun.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And you're worried about me freaking, pausing.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's bullshit.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
No, when it's like tech, tech, tech, tech tech, Did
everybody just hear all thisand you're worried about me
pausing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'll pause the next time.
Next time it'll be a pause fora damn day.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You got to be kidding me yeah, man, hey, this is,
this is what it is.
The other thing that happenedto too.
This is like one of my petpeeves too.
Like, do you hate?
Like we were in this restaurantand you know florida's gearing
down down there so like it'snormally like during the uh, you
know, winter season, it's likea mess down there.
It's like you go to arestaurant, you have to book or
(10:22):
you know, get a reservation thewhole nine yards, but right now,
may, may is the time to go toflorida because you go to the
restaurants, nobody's there.
So we walk in this restaurant.
There's nobody in thisrestaurant.
There's there's like 25, 30tables, right, the next people
that come in, they send themback to back to us.
I'm like I do, do you like?
(10:46):
I totally I cannot stand havingsomebody like especially like
restaurants that were in a boothand you're back to back and the
person's leaning in the boothand you're like playing tug of
war, like leaning back and forthand they're banging the booth.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I hate that shit see, I am absolutely a booth person,
though I cannot and I get whatyou're saying, because they do
that in restaurants because,with the waiters Right, they get
their sections and all thatstuff Right, but it's like, but
I'm like Back to back.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Back to back and nobody's in the damn restaurant
and there's like there was likea row of booths and like her
section was like four or five ofthose booths, whatever, and I
knew I was like why can't youjust do one booth over?
Like why do we have to be likeright on top of them, Right, and
the restaurant's empty yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Anyways annoying, Like some big mad rush is coming
in there.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Annoying For sure.
So what's been going on withyou, man, man, how much have you
?
Been working, See that's what Isaid.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's just bullshit, man.
I mean really, that is justbullshit every day.
But I was going down to Floridaand before I brought you guys
back we had a medical emergencyman.
This is one of those days, sean, I was working up in the front
in one of the flight attendantsand then I came back to help him
in the back.
As soon as I got on that barcart, one of the flight
(12:01):
attendants was like Gary, weneed your help.
Turned around, went back to theback.
This lady had passed out.
She had thrown up all over thefront of herself down the seat,
back of the back of the otherseat.
I told them to call for medicalassistance right away and again
I wanted to say thanks for allthe medical people that help us
(12:23):
out every single day.
I mean, as soon as we call,they always show up and we
appreciate you guys more thanyou'll ever know.
But these guys jumped up, theystarted helping this woman.
I immediately went back to theback, got a cold compress, put
it on the back of her neck.
She started coming around.
It goes back to what we weretalking about with blood
pressure.
Right, A lot of times of timesfolks listen to this.
(12:45):
With the blood pressure, justmake sure, hydrate yourself,
make sure that you're eating andtry, really try, not to drink
on an airplane.
I I know that you, you're goingsomewhere and you're having a
lot of fun, but if you've seen apicture of this woman showing
covered in her own throw up,yeah, and now she's passed out,
she's she's had thrown up all ofherself and she only had a
(13:05):
mimosa, she only had one.
But what happened is her bloodpressure dropped.
And then you, you, what happensis you get hot, you'll get this
um, closed down feeling andyou'll pass out.
But she threw up.
I mean, she threw up all overherself.
We got her back out of there and, uh, you know there's nowhere
to put her.
So they went, took her to theback and here I am cleaning up
(13:27):
all that shit, man, I'm carryinga throw up everywhere.
And God bless this nurse manshe was.
She was like I'll clean up.
I said, no, you clean enough,enough shit on your day.
I'll clean this stuff up, don'tworry about it.
So I'm over there and I'mcleaning all this, uh, cleaning
all this puke up, and thislady's in the back and they're
taking care of her now and she'scoming back around.
(13:48):
Everything's good.
I mean, again, blood pressure.
Now, if you start feeling thisway.
Realize this is with your bloodpressure dropping.
Lay down, get your feetelevated, because if your heart
isn't working as hard, you'regoing to come back around a lot
faster.
Oh yeah.
If you ever feel like this folksand you're anywhere and you
start feeling lightheaded.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You need to get down on the ground quick.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, exactly Because you're going to get on the
ground.
Whether it is now or later,you're going to be on the ground
.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Either gravity is going to help you or you can
help yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Exactly.
So just lay on the ground, getyour feet elevated and, trust me
, you're going to feel a lotbetter.
But anyway, she came backaround, got everything cleaned
up, that that situation, uh,ended up being okay.
Now, here it comes, the end ofthe flight.
I'm, I'm thinking, okay, whatelse could have happened?
So we're in final, we land and,um, and this lady comes out of
(14:40):
her seat we're deplaning and shecomes out of her seat in row
eight and she had a pet in thecabin.
Pet in the cabin is what, sean,it's in the bag.
Yeah, and you know I love dogs,I'm jemma's, my girl um, but
she took this little dog and shepulled the dog out and the
first thing that she did, firstthing she did, she sat that dog
on the ground and you know whathe did I know what he did?
(15:02):
what'd he do?
Sean, sean Been a big dump, heshit right in the middle of the
freaking aisle.
And let me tell you somethingit wasn't the normal dog poop,
oh no, it was the.
His stomach was all jacked up.
So it was that runny crap.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wet and loosey, oh my .
Speaker 2 (15:17):
God it was so bad.
I mean, the smell of an upsetdog's stomach is unfreaking,
believable Dude the smell ofanything.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
is this upset stomach ?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It went from that whole cabin that was in a line,
everybody putting their handsover their nose and this woman
bends over.
I don't know what she had inher hand, but she didn't try to
Sean, she wiped it into thecarpet.
I'm like don't do that.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Let's soil it in a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Let's leave a really good scent for everybody in the
next fight.
So she just does this wipe intothe carpet and then she's like,
well, her stomach is upset, shepicks the dog up and she walks
off.
Now, everybody coming off thereis smelling this dog crap all
over the floor.
Their hands are on their face.
So I grab a blanket, I putacross the top and I'm like
picking people's bags up becauseI don't want their bags to roll
in this dog crap.
(16:06):
Right, there you go.
I mean, do I need to go anyfarther?
I mean, that was my, my four,that was a uh shitty flight that
was a four to turn.
So yeah, I mean blood pressure.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, nothing to mess with, just make sure, lay down,
get your feet elevated, dude youknow, right before I got in
your flight, there was a ladythat was, uh, bored near the
flight coming back home and, uh,she had a dog and a carrier and
this dog literally like well,first of all, the poor dog, the
dog was in, it was just a softside carrier, no wheels, no,
(16:39):
nothing right.
She's literally dragging it onthe floor.
I know, I seen her?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
yeah, like she did.
Here is his dog like floor.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I know I seen her.
Yeah, like she did.
Here is his dog.
Like the agent stopped her andmade her zip up the you know
little dog.
But the dog literally was justsitting in there going for the
ride and she's just draggingthem on the floor.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You should have seen her when she came on board the
aircraft throw it.
I mean dropping her bags andeverything she had, like four
different bags and she's tryingto maneuver this dog carrier,
and those dog carriers don't fitunderneath the seats.
I mean these new seats, theydon't fit underneath the seats.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
No, I mean, I honestly think that the airlines
should like be lobbying allthese luggage things, saying,
like you know, these are thedimensions that fit in the seats
now and they may be restrictedto even lower than that because
now we got all the likeelectronics and stuff underneath
the seats.
That's why they don't fit theydon't, they don't fit at all.
And then we require them to notbe in the aisle, so they they
(17:30):
got to fit underneath the seat,and you know, you need just a
pretty damn little dog to beable to go under there like you
need a gem that chihuahua yeah,you know, like a little tiny dog
, right, right that those dogswould go in there.
But people, people aren't doing.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You know, people are bringing big-ass dogs, big-ass
dogs in there, right, yeah, Ilove dogs, though I mean I'd sit
them on the seat if we could,but we can't, so you know.
But I do love them.
I mean they're the bestpassengers in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, man, they're like animals on a plane.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's on plane, that's a, that's a whole episode
we can do.
Yep, it is, but hey, did yousee this?
Did you see that?
Um, that uh video of that woman?
She had lost her, her son.
She was getting off of a uh abus and he he vanished without
trace 27 years ago 27 years?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
no, I didn't see this like.
27 years ago, this lady, likeher, put her son on a bus and he
just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He was stepping off of the bus coming home and the
bus driver said that they hadseen him step off the bus.
He disappeared.
Wow, yeah, 27 years ago.
She looked for him all thoseyears couldn't find him.
She looks on a TikTok video andthere's her son singing on
TikTok.
That's crazy video.
(18:47):
And there's her son singing ontiktok.
That's crazy.
She noticed, uh, he had a, uh, abirth mark and a gap in his
teeth, just like her son and itwas exactly.
And they went back and they,they found him and they did a
dna test and it was him.
Wow, how freaking crazy is that?
Now, they didn't go into thedetail of this of because I was
of curious about that.
Okay, who took him?
Where did he go?
How did he live?
(19:07):
So this was a blues guitaristfrom New Orleans and, like I
said, he had the same birthmarkas her son and a gap in his
teeth and, like I said, they didthe DNA test and it was him.
But they didn't give the fullstory and I really wanted to
know.
I'm looking forward to findingout exactly who took him.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, you're thankful for having your son back.
At the same time, you're like Imean, and I would be like who
took him?
And I want repercussions.
I want to know.
They took 27 years of your lifeaway from me, right?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I mean.
So it's like you.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You want to know that part of the story, like you
know because usually they don'thave good endings like this, I
mean, usually they're bad right,exactly well, people don't come
back, that's just, that'snormal, right.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But the this is amazing story.
I mean great ending to thestory, but there's all that like
gap, like you want to know more, right, if anybody finds out,
I'm gonna still look into thisstory.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But there's all that like gap, like you want to know
more, right, if anybody findsout, I'm gonna still look into
this story.
But if anybody finds outexactly who took him, uh first
sent it to us and so we can.
Uh, we can talk about a littlebit farther because I I was
looking forward to it and I wasI was reading looking forward to
finding out who took this kidand if they, if they had, if
they found him it's sointeresting too about the story
is that, like he was, he wastaken.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He was like eight years old, right, right.
So like, how does somebody inthe world all of a sudden have
an eight year old?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I don't know, how do you?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
explain that away, Like I'm going to grab this kid
and kidnap this kid and raisehim as my own.
It sounds like he was kind ofthe story might evolve from this
, but it's like how does thathappen where somebody just like,
all of a sudden, I got a kid.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But also as far as an eight-year-old boy.
How do you not I mean, even ateight you're going to remember
your mom, right at eight, you'renot?
How do they tell them thatstory?
How do they bury that story intheir head to where mom doesn't
exist anymore?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Or keep him from trying to run away and things
like there's lots of.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
There was so much I was thinking the same thing as,
like all these things, that Iwas looking forward to them
filling in, just didn't find out.
And I was looking for it butdidn't find the information out.
But it was really cool that ona TikTok, this guy's actually
playing music on a TikTok videoand his mom ends up finding him.
That is incredible, wow, allright.
(21:32):
Another thing we were talkingabout GOAT, the GOAT, the GOAT.
All right.
Since basketball is going on,basketball is going on right now
, right, right.
So we were having a discussionin the back of the galley and
who's goat sean?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
man, that's a such a heavy conversation.
I mean to me, listen, listen, Iknow where you are and I know
where you're going.
But to me there's like there'sso much like uh time in the nba
right now and there's a lot ofpeople that you got to consider
as they go, and to me it's likethere's a um, there's different,
(22:08):
like in different times anddifferent areas in the nba there
was, there was different, youknow abilities go to the time.
I get that, and just becausewe're in this era, right now,
and the people are still aliveright now, or whatever, you know
, you got to.
You got to remember everybodythat's, that's played.
If you're saying go greatest ofall time, right, right, so all
(22:30):
time, I mean to me, you know,michael Jordan is the first
person in your mouth, the wholedamn game.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I mean, you know, I mean, but I know where you're
going with this and we'lldiscuss that too, because we had
this discussion and I totallyagree with what you're saying.
But the GOAT, the greatest ofall time not just of that times,
but of all time Jordan changedthe game more than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Well, that's your perspective, right?
So that's what I'm saying.
So I the game more than anybodyelse.
Well, that's your perspective,right?
So that's what I'm saying, like.
So I mean, lebron is the secondperson everybody's like right
now because he's like, he's,he's in everybody's face and
he's in the news, I callbullshit all that stuff right,
bullshit, right.
I'm gonna tell you right now,if you want to say goat and you
know who's made the most money,I'd like to see which who's made
(23:15):
more money MJ or LeBron.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I would say MJ, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know, we'll see.
I don't know, that's veryinteresting, but there's other
people that you've got toconsider.
Okay, you had.
Dr J I know what you're going.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You had Larry Bird, Dr J.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You had Kareem Abdul-J, mvps like he.
If you look at kareem's stats,he's up there with michael I got
it like that's what I'm saying.
I know what you're saying likeyou if you're looking at all
time and all that stuff and thenyou got kobe bryan like there's
great bryan was the showman ofthe showman well, they're great
as eric col I mean Colby to mewas like the next Michael Jordan
(23:58):
.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I mean the way that Colby played.
Look, michael Jordan, one ofthe hardest players is Colby.
One of the hardest players isLeBron Soft, he's soft, let me
tell you he's soft.
You know he's soft.
Don't sit there.
He's the biggest flop artistthat there is.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Lebron has a ton of talent.
He is a great basketball player, but when he came into the NBA,
(24:20):
the NBA went downhill and youknow they went downhill.
The people don't watch them asmuch anymore.
They only watch the playoffs.
And you know, back in the day,me and you used to watch it
Detroit Pistons.
Come on, rodman, the way Rodmanplayed back then, rodman is the
best rebounder in the game.
(24:40):
I mean bar done, he is the bestrebounder ever played this game
.
I mean, yeah, he's a freak, yes, but he's still one of the best
rebounders played the game well, I mean like it's just, it's
just, it's a good discussion.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I mean there's so many people like you see this
all the time, espn.
There's all these different.
You know, everybody's alwaystrying to negotiate this thing
and it's so interesting, likewhen you start thinking about
different sports, like who's theGOAT of hockey, who's the GOAT
of football, who's the GOAT of?
You know, like when you start,like as soon as you do that,
it's like bam, names pop outlike Gretzky.
(25:11):
Yeah, names just pop out right,but in basketball it's just
like there's so many greats.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
All right if you go down to inner city basketball
court, right?
How many of them are wearingLeBrons?
Probably a lot, no bullshit.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
When was the last time you were in the inner city?
You go down there.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Look, they've even said this, they've even done
tests about this.
It's MJs.
They all wear Michael Jordans.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They still do well, here's the, here is the thing.
So you're saying that, thatwhat number 23?
Number 23.
Let me get to what my point is.
My point is this is that thereis a market.
You're fighting marketing rightnow, so lebron is in it right
now because 23 is not prevalentas more as lebron is marketing
right now.
(25:57):
I mean, I'm going to tell you,right now LeBron makes a lot of
money marketing and MJ startedall that stuff.
Okay, but he's not playing.
Right now LeBron is playing.
I understand that.
And all these youth kids.
There's a lot of people like mylittle nephew.
For a long time he's thebiggest basketball fan.
Right now he could sit herehours and hours, days, talking
(26:18):
about basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Me and you are going to get back on that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
He did not know what the freaking MJ.
This Air Jordan symbol was.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
We are going to get back on this one.
We're going to find out.
We are going to find out Me andyou are going to find out the
marketing on this one.
Yeah, because I do want to know, if you're looking at these
kids and playing basketball, ifyou're looking at these kids and
playing basketball, who wearsmore LeBron James shoes or who
wears Michael's.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'm telling you, it goes by like youth and
generation.
They just don't know who it isand we're talking about.
Now we're back to the GOATconversation.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So one of us is going to have to say that we're wrong
.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Who's right in front of you right now doing it, like
you know, in our generation, youknow, I say michael jordan
right michael jordan.
But in these new, you know themillennials, and right now
people will be talking to lebron, lebron, lebron, right, so it's
like, but it's, it's aninteresting conversation, but uh
you know me, me and you wouldargue about this all day long
(27:12):
and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We were going back and forth in the galley because
you know, it's just like we weresaying mj was uh of our era,
but you know, I always loved drj yeah, remember he, he was, uh,
he was something else hugehands that dude, that dude's
hands was huge.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well see, I like magic man, I did like magic,
like magic was like he was sucha character and then the whole
rivalry between him and bird wasjust like, you know, like that
was that was just precious.
That was just a great era ofbasketball, because you're like,
you know, you had these people,the rivalries of the, basically
that each coast and all thatstuff.
So it like played in all thatstuff.
But yeah, I mean that's, that'sthe thing about you know, these
(27:52):
like sports and it's a timeit's like the error who's.
When did you live and when didyou?
What did you experience?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
well, you can see why this was so long in the galley
man because we were going backand forth.
Yeah, someone was saying thisperson, that person.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I was like bullshit, michael, I'll take michael all
day long so, speaking aboutthings in the galley man, why is
it that when, uh when we, whenwe get on the jump seat, that
these flight attendants, they'llsit on the jump seat and tell
us their whole damn life in asplit?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
second and you just met them.
It just happened the other day,yeah, Just happened the other
day.
The flight attendant was in theback and she was having a
conversation with this otherflight attendant.
And they come out and they'lltell you it's jump seat therapy,
that's what they call it.
But they'll come back out andthey'll tell you it's jump seat
therapy, that's what they callit.
But they'll come back out andthey will tell you everything.
I mean everything.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, it's like to a perfect stranger.
You're like literally divulgingeverything about your life, and
sometimes it's stuff that wedon't want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Exactly their kids, like their kids in trouble.
How bad their kids are.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, my spouse is in prison.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
My kids are like in juvie, you know and that's the
truth too, because your, youreyes are just wide open, because
you just met this person yeah,yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And then they'll talk about all their medical history
what what's what, what theirproblems, their ailments are,
and stuff you know this.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
it was funny, though, because this one attendant she
came up to the front and thisother flight attendant was
talking about her ex-husband andhow much they didn't like each
other.
Well, you're divorced.
That's apparent, right?
You don't like each other.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, that's a gimme.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So you know, he moved or she moved away, and then the
husband kind of moved a littlebit farther away from town and
when she came back everybody was.
They were surprised.
Do you know what they weresurprised about, Sean?
He had told everybody that shedied.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That's awesome man.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
She's dead.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, you can do that , I guess, in a small town.
Yeah, she died yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But could you imagine telling somebody that?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
on the jump seat.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I mean you just you know we were only on the plane
with this person for a couplehours Now you went into this
whole conversation about yourdivorce, your husband and how
your husband said you were deadIn two hours.
That's crazy, man In twohours's crazy in two hours it is
.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It is.
It's amazing, like the detail,like people's lives, that we get
on the jump seat therapy, as wecall it like it is.
I mean, you are sitting, firstof all, you know for those of
you that don't understand,flight attendants like how, how
it's happening like we're, wecome into these aircraft and
we're sitting shoulder toshoulder literally on these
aircraft, and so you sittingshoulder to shoulder literally
(30:38):
on these aircraft, and so youknow it's already uncomfortable
situation.
But then they get a perfectstranger and they start talking
to you and all of a sudden, justspilling their guts about their
life.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
You're like wow, a lot of things you don't even
want to hear.
Right, right, right.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I don't need to know if you have hemorrhoids.
I don't need to know if youhave your sexual preferences I
don't need to know what happenedlast night nope what you did on
your layover last night.
Yeah there's certain thingsthat, uh, I don't want to know
I'll never.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You know this is a little bit off subject, but you
know, the flight attendant wascoming, uh, into um, into the,
the van on a layover, rightright, and we were sitting on
the van and everybody's waitingfor her and I was like where's
she at?
So I went up and I made a phonecall and I'm like, hey, you
know, you got to get down hereand she runs down and we're all
(31:29):
waiting for her in the van.
She gets in the van, she'scompletely disheveled, right
Right, she forgot the alarm,everything, and here's
definitely one of those onesthat you didn't need to know.
So she, she comes on.
She's got a big red muffles spotall around her face, sean
really yep, and she walks on andthe first thing she sits down
(31:52):
she's like oh my god, like, ohmy God, my knees are killing me.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Where is this going?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It goes to that need to know.
This is what happens all thetime in our job, these flight
attendants and these otherflight attendants.
They'll come in, they'll tellyou things you don't need to
know.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
In the morning at 5 am.
Why are you telling us thisstuff?
Nobody needs to know what youdid on your layover last night.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
This reminds me of a story.
I think it's going to take youback a little bit, that
disheveled part you're talkingabout the flight attendant
coming down.
Yeah, I'm on this layover onetime and I'm like you know it's
a good layover.
The crew gets together, we allgo out to dinner the night
(32:43):
before.
We're all sitting aroundchilling out, having a few
drinks, all that good stuff, youknow, like a typical flight
attendant layover, whatever.
And uh, I set my alarm to go getup and all this stuff.
And do you know this?
I get this phone call.
I get woken up by a phone callJohn, where you at, where you at
, we'll meet you at the airport.
I'm like, oh, all right.
(33:03):
I'm like, wait, wait.
I'm like my alarm didn't go off.
I'm looking at my light, so youknow, boom, just like anybody
else, I wake up.
It's a panic.
I'm running around, I'm flyingon, my clothes are flying on,
I'm throwing shit in my bag andall this stuff.
I run downstairs.
I'm trying to get that next van.
I'm like this is all of that 15minutes.
I get downstairs and I'm like,okay, come on, what happened?
(33:26):
Like I'm trying to regroupbecause I got a few minutes
before the van shows up.
So as I'm sitting right there,all of a sudden my phone rings.
Guess who called me.
I'm waiting you, motherfuckingyou, you freaking you, and the
rest of the crew.
We're flying together.
We're in boston, you guys allall get up, you early birds, and
(33:51):
get up and go downstairs andyou get on a van, get to to the
airport.
And it wasn't until you get tothe airport that you guys
realize that you guys were anhour fucking ahead.
You'd woke me up on thefreaking layover, like I was
like late to the things and thewhole damn crew went early and
(34:12):
so they're sitting around at thegate.
I took my ass back upstairs, Ijumped in the shower, I started
getting ready and I was cursingyour ass.
I love that story.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Hey, you know something that just reminds me.
Okay, would you leave a crewmember?
Would you leave a crew member?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
That has a lot of variables.
If it's international, probablynot.
I'm going to pause and try tofigure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay.
So this flight attendant askedthis other flight attendant
about putting their food on ice.
We always do that, right.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
So they come off the plane.
I think it was an internationaldestination, so they cleared,
got out of customs and this girlgoes, goes.
Oh, you didn't remind me aboutmy food, and so the the girl was
like, wait, it's not my job,right, and she goes.
Well, I got to go get back andget my food no, yep, and an
(35:09):
international destination.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
She's gonna go back through securities and go back,
go down to concord to get to theplane.
Maybe catering hasn't alreadydone this.
Yep, if it's in Mexico, it'sgone.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now would you, I know , but would you wait for that
person?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Maybe not.
It just depends on thetransportation situation.
Like is this contracttransportation, all right well
this person.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
they weren't waiting, so anyway, they took off.
The girl goes back and gets herstuff and, uh, operations calls
when the van was halfway thereand they had to turn back around
and get that girl.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Oh yeah, could you imagine?
Could you imagine that littleanimosity between that crew
right there?
You pissed off cause I'm likehalfway to the hotel and this
other one's pissed off cause youleft me.
Yeah, that's just going to comedown, right.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Somebody, somebody, somebody.
When you get in the van,somebody's gonna say something.
Well, there's, there's,somebody's gonna say something.
And then now you're also gotthe dynamics of like, if this is
an international destination,are we traveling with the pilots
?
Without the pilots you know?
Like, are you, are you how manypeople?
Have you just inconveniencebecause you left your food?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
forget that imagine the pissed off these two.
It'd be like a damn cat fight.
Yeah Right, you know it's goingto happen, it's just brutal.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
It's going to be a very comfortable trip for the
rest of the trip, All right.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
What the hell is going on in Newark Sean?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Dude, newark is a freaking mess.
I got to tell you right now, ifanybody's out there traveling
right now, you must avoid Newark.
You do not want to go throughnewark.
Newark's down the one.
Okay, so the whole problem isstemming from this whole entire
summer.
They're down to run one runwayand so all the companies decided
(36:47):
to like down, you know,downgrade their like how many
flights and all this stuff.
And this is all planned out andthey're trying to figure out.
You know how they're becauseone run like normally two
runways.
You have one runway taken off,one runway landing, so you can
have that operation going on.
And Newark is already a tightspace.
There's not many runways here.
There's only like four runwaysin the whole place.
(37:07):
So, depending on the winddirection and where they where
they got to land.
But now they got one runway,they're operating the entire,
everybody, every company,company, every place out of this
one runway.
And it is a shit show man yeah,but something else happened too
.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
What's that?
20 of the atc air trafficcontrollers walked off the job.
Whoa 20.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, that's just because I mean like that, can
you imagine the stress right nowmeltdown?
First of all, we can't affordto lose any ATC personnel.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We talked about that.
We talked about that somepodcasts ago.
I mean they were already short.
They were short.
What did they say?
Like 3,500 positions of airtraffic controllers remain
unfilled in the United States.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah 3,500.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's pretty scary when you think of how many
flights are out there.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
It would be interesting to hear what the
airlines are doing as far asaddressing this issue.
Because here's my thing If Igot a business, if I don't care
what it is, you know if I'm, ifI'm making donuts, if I'm doing,
whatever the business is,whatever's supporting my
business, you gotta you have toinvest and you also have to make
sure that those supporting andall those supply chains and
(38:16):
stuff that I need for mybusiness are working.
I mean, it's kind of like thetariff thing right now.
Right now, you know everybody's, it's like up for speculation.
You know, nobody knows what'sgoing to happen.
Everything, day to day, hour tohour, things are changing.
But here's the thing when Ihave something like this, where
I got a, I know there's a knownproblem, it's going to be a
(38:36):
long-term problem.
I got to help this thingAirlines right now they rely on
ATC.
So they should not not only belobbying in Congress for them,
like for the government to helpout with this, you know, because
it's also a partial governmentproblem, like they have to.
You know they have to influenceor try, try to recruit people,
things like that, to get theminto ATC.
(38:58):
But the airlines this is theirlife bane of their business.
They can't move without theseguys.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
But you think that they would start programs in
high school?
I talked about this in theother podcast.
A lot of these kids don't evenknow about the jobs in the
airline industry.
Well, that's what my point wasI know, but that's what I'm
saying.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
They've got to start this early.
They can't wait.
They got to start this rightright now.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Well, actually they should have been doing this many
long long.
They're behind the whole longway.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
yeah, in addition to like, they're so focused on
pilots, right so, the pilots areso this technical career that
you had to take time and moneyand effort to get somebody
trained and up to the speed tobecome an airline pilot.
Right now, the flightattendants we don't have to, we
don't have that problem becausethere's not a technical gap to
(39:47):
that stuff.
They train you, they, they putyou into the job.
So there's the hundreds ofthousands of people that are
trying to become flightattendants, right so, but the
atC is exactly the same as thepilots.
So you?
I mean, why aren't the airlinescollectively getting together
and recruiting for ATC?
Yes, that's not their bottomline, yes, that's it, but you
(40:09):
can't operate without them.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, in ATC you know that they have a a bigger
failure rate than they have inthe pilots, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Oh sure, and their lifespan of the career of an ATC
person is much shorter than apilot.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
But you know, going on in Newark going back to what
you were saying in Newark is oneof the airlines they had to
cancel 35 daily trips out ofNewark.
And then you know it's bad whenthe CEO of that company comes
out and tells people to avoidNewark.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, avoid Newark.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
I mean, that's your business and you're telling
people to avoid Newark.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, I'm telling you right now, if you're flying
right now and you're trying togo international destinations,
there's a lot of internationalflights going in and out of
Newark and international flightsin and out of Newark take
priority over domestic.
But you have to get thedomestic flight there to connect
to the internationals.
But I'm going to tell you rightnow, there's a lot of airports
(41:05):
in the US and a lot of differentcompanies out there that
connect internationally that youcan go out to different places.
There's Atlanta, there's Miami,there's Boston, there's DC,
there's all kinds of differentother hubs that you can go
international.
So you might want to thinkyou're planning out your trip
and think maybe I don't want tobook through Newark this summer.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
And if the Cleveland congressional people are
listening bulldoze, freaking theairport, get rid of the IAC
Center, put a whole freakinginternational airport in here,
because Cleveland has runwaysthat can take wide-body aircraft
and they could fly to anyinternational destination.
It's actually a perfectlocation to fly anywhere in the
(41:49):
world.
Yeah, I mean they missed thatone a long time ago.
I mean, I say that all the timebecause they screwed that up in
Cleveland.
They should have had aninternational airport here a
long time ago.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Well, you know that problem is more bureaucratic
than it is airlines.
I think the airlines haveattempted them over the years
various airlines, they expand inhere and stuff.
But Cleveland's wholegovernment system and how they
run their airport is a totalshit show.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
It has been ever since.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
They've never figured it out.
I mean, nope, like we just flewout of fort myers.
Fort myers right now, if peopledon't realize this, a lot of
the florida airports, becausethere's so much land down there
the airports have, they'rebuilding new terminals,
terminals right next to theirterminal.
So fort lotter, fort myers, isgetting ready to have an entire
brand new operation.
Brand new terminal is gettingready to come here in the next
(42:39):
few years and they're going toand they're not even going to
shut down the old terminal.
It's just an expansion.
There's going to be a giantmore bigger, more gates, more
operation, more expansion.
You know, like I'm going to seesome, like there's going to be
some Florida destinations thatare going to turn into
international destinationsbecause they have the room to
expand.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Well, that's going to be in the future, that's going
to be a future podcast, becausewe'll be talking about what's
going on in the industry.
You know later on.
But you're absolutely rightthere.
Cleveland missed the boat.
All they do is put a Band-Aidon a big cut.
But anyway, hey, did you seealso that video of that woman in
the wheelchair trying to bypasssecurity?
(43:17):
That pisses me off.
You know these people that tryto use wheelchairs, you know my
sister has MS and let me tellyou something, she will walk
anywhere and she does everythingto never have to, ever use a
wheelchair.
And these people that just tryto bypass, uh, security and get
(43:39):
in a wheelchair, they piss meoff, sean.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It really does so here, here's the thing like just
coming back from fort myers andlike at the gate that we were
sitting at there was like 15wheelchairs like piled up there
because they use wheelchairs, sooff, but it's just like known
scam too.
That's that.
That's another thing, that theaspect, that's it.
It's one thing like this ladyyou're talking about she had,
(44:02):
she was trying to like, shewanted to like have special
preference to get throughsecurity and all this stuff and
blah, blah, blah.
But she like got up and walkedthrough the security centers and
all this stuff.
But here's the thing you peopleare out there scanning or
scamming the system because theyunderstand the game of the
(44:22):
airlines and so they know thatthey could buy this little cheap
coach ticket in the back of theplane.
But then if they just say, hey,I need a wheelchair, so then
they get to board the planefirst, a wheelchair, so then
they get the board to planefirst.
So all these people that aregotten these privileges to be
able to board the plane firstand all that stuff, or got the
(44:43):
miles and stuff whatever to getthat privilege, they're
bypassing that just because theyjust asked for a wheelchair and
so they know the game.
So then that's why there's somany times when we're you know
and we see this every day youknow we'll have 20 wheelchairs
getting on a Florida flight andwhen you get there, there's
three people with a wheelchairgetting off.
You know it's a total, but it'sa total scam.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
But you go through, you go through customs, you'll
see, like you know, you'll see aline of a hundred wheelchairs
down through the customs area.
But they screw up when they getdown to customs because they
keep them the same line.
So a lot of times those customslines are really long.
You just don't know they'relong till you get down there.
But she was just, she was sorude.
I mean, this woman was so nastyto the, the guy that was
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pushing her.
Finally they just they werelike we're not taking you, they
just locked it up and she gotall pissed off and guess what
she did, sean, what's that?
Got her ass up and walkedthrough security.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, yeah Right, this is.
This is the scammers man, thescammers out there that I just
can't stand.
It's kind of like.
It's kind of like that.
Uh, you know, the handicapparking in the, in our local
grocery store, and land handicapparking all over the United.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
States?
How about handicap parking inthe employee lot of an airline?
Speaker 1 (45:58):
an airline, like I mean, yeah, yeah, so like you
can get handicapped passes allover this.
So people, you know, just forthe convenience of it, they'll
put it up there and they'll usethe handicapped parking spot.
You know, like I just had myknee replaced and I qualified
for handicapped spot, right forfor that.
Like the doctor actually askedme do you want a handicapped
pass?
And so I was like, yeah, I'lltake a handicapped pass because
I was handicapped for so manymonths, but they issue it for a
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year, sometimes two years.
So like in that whole time Igot a handicapped spot.
If I wanted to scam the thingand use my handicap tag, no
problem.
But they're everywhere, it'severywhere and you can get
handicapped spots.
Like one of our good friendshas a handicap tag and he's got
it for life.
Life because, and he just had aknee replacement.
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You know why do you need it fora whole.
Like your knee's not going tobe bad for life.
He had it replaced, right.
But if the doctor writes off,boom, you know here's another
scam, but you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
No, no, no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
It's just that.
That's happened everywhere.
How many times have you seenpeople in handicapped spots jump
out of their car and like runinto the store?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
I have and, like I said, I think the same thing as
this woman is bullshit.
Yeah, you know, I was just gladthat she had to get up and walk
her ass through security.
So that was a happy ending tosee her little nasty butt that
was making fun of thiswheelchair pusher doing his job.
But those guys just pissed meoff anyway.
When they get in thosewheelchairs.
It makes me mad.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Yeah, did you see that off-subject here.
Onto the next thing here.
Did you see that private planeland on a golf course?
Speaker 2 (47:31):
I did.
What happened to that?
I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
They had some type of mechanical failure.
But it was like here, theseguys on a tee, and he's like, oh
, that plane's coming down andhe starts filming it.
And you see this guy likebouncing down the fairway,
bouncing up and down and planetipping and all this stuff
eventually spins aroundeverything like no crash, the
guy's just handling it.
Boom, it was wild.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Now would you, would you?
Speaker 1 (47:54):
continue to play through.
Um, I would be like, damn, youhad a bad day, and as long as
he's not in my way, I'm going.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I might buy the guy a beer before I leave too.
You might want to, but probablynot a good idea for him.
He's probably going to get drugtested or whatever.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
You're like I can chip it over the plane, that
would be you out in the golfcourse, right, all right.
What about the?
What about the?
The knucklehead that was, uh,smuggling cash and drugs through
Dulles airport?
Dude, I didn't hear about this,oh my God.
They the the an airline.
It says an airline um employee.
(48:35):
It didn't say where, what heworked out of, but what was
amazing, he was coming out of Ithink it was Panama City and he
had four bricks concealed andone of them was actually in a
cake, and then he had $55,000 incash on him.
Airport employee.
Okay, so he says that thiswoman had given this to him.
(48:58):
Well, when they confiscated hisphone, the first thing they do
is they go back and they look atthe text messages.
Now, this is when I believethat this guy was a complete
idiot, sean.
I mean a complete idiot Becausewhen they read it back, he
agreed to do this for 200 bucks.
Stupid, you're an absolutemoron.
(49:18):
You got four bricks of cocaineand you've got $55,000 in cash
and one of those bricks is in acake, and you did it for 200
bucks.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
I'm not smart, me not smart.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
But you know it goes back to the same thing.
I mean, we don't know if hewent through as far as like
known crew member or anything,but that's the reason why
they've screwed up known crewmember for us and now they gotta
have to have a different knowncrew member because these ding
dongs, they keep doing thesedumb things like taking drugs
and and cash through oninternational flights or other
flights.
So, mr Luis Costello Rojas, youjust got yourself the Sean and
(50:05):
G's Stuck on Stupid Award.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Stuck on stupid, you stupid, me stupid.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
That guy's a moron, Sean 200 bucks, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah, man, I said moron Sean 200 bucks, you're an
idiot.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Yeah, man, Anybody that's going to risk their
freedom taking drugs or cashanywhere.
You're just dumb.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
You're dumb, well you know.
Don't make stupid moves likesnap decision moves.
Change your life in a splitsecond.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
No, it's changing his life.
He's going to have a new friendin prison, that's for sure.
Right, All right.
So Honolulu to Tokyo flightJust before landing, phone
caught fire in the aircraft.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
Man, that's something that's happening more and more
nowadays.
You know, like these phonescatching on fire and have these
runaway batteries and stuff.
That's why people until theylike actually, that's why people
don't until they like actuallysee it, they don't realize, like
dang, this can happen.
I mean, how many times have youhad your phone like my, my
phone, like in my hand, and itgets so hot and I'm like whoa,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (51:07):
that's gonna ask you that too.
You know that the chargers,those magnetic chargers yeah,
you put those on the back of it.
Them damn things get hot, theyget hot I mean if you pick that
phone up, I mean it gets prettydamn hot.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
Yeah, I mean you're doing it like this is all
electricity, man, yourconductive lesson.
Electricity is happening rightthere, back and forth between
those walls and barriers of thephone.
But you know they're made andtested to do that.
But there's still things thatgo wrong.
You know electronics are, theycan be fickle.
But uh, yeah, this, this issomething you've got to be aware
of.
Like that's why the airlinesare always telling you you know
(51:40):
you have to have your lithiumbatteries, you have to have them
with you.
So just in case these thingshappen it, can you know we can
deal with it right.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
And they did.
They did a good job.
Now the other one was Kona tothe Denver.
Flight was diverted to SanFrancisco because of the cockpit
received an indication that thecargo door was open.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
That's crazy man.
Yeah, I know I mean thesethings happen like that, but I
mean better safe than sorry,right?
I mean it's like you might haveto divert or whatever, and
that's a company and pilot call.
They had a long time betweenKona and San Francisco before
they had to like.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
There's a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah, there's a lot of water.
Not a lot of places to like,just divert to.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Well, the other thing , too, is that think about that
a cargo door open and there's alot of water.
No, not a smart idea because,there's a place for all that
water to go.
If that cargo door actually wasopen, but it was a false alarm
indication, false alarm, butthat's the reason why there's
not even a question about that.
If the car, if it's a cargodoor that, sean, that that
(52:44):
indicator that it was openyou're turning around and going
back because there's a shitloadof water between you, uh, denver
and Kona.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah, I mean, well, here's the other thing too,
other thing too that peopledon't realize too, that like the
cargo cabins in the main cabinare pressurized in two different
systems, like there's twodifferent, there's two, like,
just because the cargo door isopen, maybe they lost all your
luggage in the land or thepacific, whatever, but uh, you
still might be able to fly, youknow.
And also, once that door opensand stuff, you, you know they
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could feel it.
It's kind of like a you knowdriving your car and you open
the window and number seven, youstill feel the drag and all
that stuff in the, in the feeland the steering of the car.
It's the same thing with theplane.
So, yeah, I mean, as long asthey were safe and they weren't
getting any indications likethat and like press on, you
didn't have to like turn aroundand go back to honolulu false
(53:35):
alarm.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Safety first man, we always man.
We always say that.
But hey, listen, I had a greattime this week talking, had a
lot of fun talking about theGOAT in basketball which is
still MJ, mj.
I'm going to throw that backout there, it's still MJ.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
I think it's MJ too, but I just think the
conversation has to be likehonestly, you have to take that
whole thing and statistics andeverything and history, and you
got to take the now out of it.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Okay, mj, forget it, mj, but listen, you guys, and
whatever you do this week, don'tbe a Luis Costello Rojas.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
No, don't be stuck on stupid yes.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
Don't be smart, I'm going to be a smart man.
Yeah, all right guys, we had agreat week.
Sean, give us a quote.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
All right, a quote right now Life isn't about
finding yourself, life is aboutcreating yourself.
Speaker 2 (54:31):
I do like that one.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yeah, you know, just go out there, man, and be the
best you can be.
Be you Sean, be me.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
All right guys.
We had a great week.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
A lot of people want to be me?
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Not really.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
Not really All right.
See you later, folks.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
All right, guys have a great week.
See you next time on Capitrash.
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What's been going on?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh man, like all kinds of stuff going on this
this last week I have um.
So I decided after many yearsof flying, that I'm gonna start,
I'm gonna go international yeah, and that was bullshit.
You didn't say anything right,you, you're, you're that I
didn't tell you that.
Yeah, you didn't say anythingall of a sudden, you were like,
(01:19):
hey, I got my transfer itliterally happened three weeks
before, three weeks before Idecided I was mad as hell
because we got this last bid andI didn't get anything I wanted.
And I'm like 35 years, a flightattendant and I'm just like
this is total bullshit.
I call bullshit on you too.
And so then I was like I got toget out of here.
(01:40):
I got to get out of herebecause I cannot control my life
.
I mean, the one thing aboutbeing a flight attendant is
having control of your schedule,right.
I agree I mean that's thebiggest benefit of this job is
that I can have this flexibleschedule.
But where we're at right now, Ican't have that schedule, so
I'm like I got to get out ofhere.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You just missed it though, man.
I mean, you're just missingthat day, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But here in this base because it's so small that just
miss is like a miss by a mile.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What's funny what's really funny, it's that home run
.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's going, going, going.
Oh, he caught it at the fence.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, but you know, what most people don't
understand in our business isthat we've been doing this a
long time and what we consider,especially in Cleveland, right,
right.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What we consider seniors.
Four to turns on the weekendsright, and other bases are like
laughing because they're likethat stuff is so junior.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh hell, yeah, we'll be going.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We'd be going to africa if we were over in newark
right I mean we.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean we'd be going somewhere in in asia somewhere,
but here we, we hold a four toturn yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So I'm gonna go over there and start doing some
international.
And you know, one of the thingsabout like going to the bigger
base is that, yeah, I can dointernational travel and all
that stuff, whereas I've neverbeen able to do that out of
Cleveland.
And so for 35 years, in 35years, I've only done two truly
international over the, you know, over one of the oceans.
International trips, because Imean we go south all the time.
(03:03):
Right, like going down toPanama.
We go international tripsbecause I mean we go south all
the time, you know, like goingdown to panama, we go down to,
you know, mexico, we do all thatstuff.
Go up to canada.
You know that's internationaltoo, but a real international
like going on these long trips.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So you see you on a safari with a lion exactly, I'll
have my camera check me, checkme out seanosmithcom running
your ass from some.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You'll love the pictures yeah, I, I love it, man
, but anyways.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, I mean, I get it.
I mean and a lot of peopledon't understand that that is
about our job we chase, we'reline chasers.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Right line chasers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
We chase certain things because you know you want
so many days off and we want acertain lifestyle.
We you know there's certainthings that we we want about
this job and a lot of ourfriends already you know they
chase those lines over in theinternational base already.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, They've been doing it for years.
I mean, that's the, that's the.
The angst of this whole thingis that, like these much junior
flight attendants than me,they've got a better flexibility
than me because they're in abigger base, they have more
trips and you know all thatstuff.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
When I started my career, when I first came to
Cleveland, I commuted for like10 years.
I will never, ever commuteagain.
I'm telling you never commute.
I mean, god bless you, but Iain't doing it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So here's my plan, man.
So I'm not going over thereflying Like I don't want to go,
like on a monthly basis.
I'm not doing that commute backand forth.
That's just not me.
I want to dump all my trips.
I'll pick up something out ofCleveland here if I need to fly,
and there's so much stuff rightnow Like there's so much stuff
to pick up, and then when I wantto come back, like in six
(04:37):
months, I can come back right.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So it's like yeah, but you commute too will be
totally different than what wewere doing.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm not running for a jump seat, I'm not doing all
this stuff.
Literally I'll probably buy aticket to go over there and I'll
buy a ticket to come back andthat'll be my commute.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't want the anxiety of not being able to get
on a trip and all that stuff.
No, yeah, especially if you'regoing to go once a month to
actually do the trip.
Yeah, I get that.
I mean I get buying the ticketin advance.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know one of our friends, uh, mr, uh,
jimmy, jimmy G, down in Florida.
You know, he, uh, he.
I just was talking to him theother day and he's been doing
this for years and everything.
And he does the same thing fromflorida.
He's buying this like 89 ticketback up to newark and, uh, he
commutes back and forth.
There's a guaranteed seat,doesn't have anything to worry
(05:31):
about, and you know he doesn'tdoes his trip.
It's worth 30 hours of time.
You know what's 89 and 30 hoursof time?
You know it ain't nothing no, Iget it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I mean, like I said, I'm especially in our, in our
line of work.
It is about the schedule andthe trips.
Yeah, the schedule trip.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The other thing, man, that that's been happening was
you know I was, we were, we weredown in Florida visiting some
friends this last weekend and wewere hanging out and all this
stuff.
And I gotta tell you it doesn'tannoy you when, like, you're
texting somebody and they youlike you text them back and
(06:11):
forth, back and forth, and youtext them and then there's like
dead silence, like no response,zero.
Yeah, yeah, that annoys you.
Yep, then quit doing it,motherfucker hey, I knew it was
you.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I knew it was you.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I knew it was you you are like I was like I'm like
trying to like get into like aquick answer out of you and I'm
like, okay, here's, why did yourespond?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
here's a little freaking insight for you, right,
all right, okay, you were downin florida vacationing, your ass
okay, okay, yeah, that's what Idid, my ass was working.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's what I did, Okay that's the difference right
.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So if there's a little bit of a pause, deal with
it.
You're going to have to dealwith that shit, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Dude, I know you have that phone stuck to you like
glue.
It doesn't come out of yourhand.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It might have been stuck to me like glue, but my
ass was still at work and yourass was down there playing golf.
I know that, hey, you knowsomething, but I I heard that
you had a great trip coming back, though what's that?
A great trip when you came back, when you came back from
florida what was it?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
oh yeah, yeah, you were my flight attendant.
You know shit, right, I wasworking your trip coming back
from florida yeah, I gotta tellyou, man, when I did the review
it was like suck.
One star, two star.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I got five stars.
They bypassed your ass.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There ain't no way.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That was pretty funny that you guys coming back on my
flight.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, that's the business right here.
That's the cool thing beingsenior and being able to have
the experience of knowing peopleand stuff.
You get on these flights andknow we're like all family.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh yeah, that is definitely the best, especially
when you're going to tell youanother funny story about me
going down this weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So we get, we get like I'm going down and, uh, our
the, the crew.
I knew the crew going down andso it was Patty that was up care
package.
And then when she, patty, givesyou a care package, like go on
your trip, I mean every bottleof vodka that was in the first
(08:12):
guy's galley I don't think theyhad any vodka coming back from
the flight.
I mean, that's how much vodkashe gave me and I'm not a big
drinker, but it was like that'sPatty.
And so I'm walking off theplane, I have a garbage bag of,
you know, vodka and all thisstuff.
I got mixers, I got everythingI want for drinks, and so I'm
taking off, I'm getting ready tobe there for four days, all
(08:32):
this stuff, right.
I go to my rental car and I'mlike jogging around, I'm dude
national, so I'm like checkingout different cars.
Which one do I want?
Whatever I, whatever I figureout, oh, I want this one.
But then I was like, wait, wait, this isn't quite big enough
because my wife carries too muchluggage.
And so I'm like I got, I gottado this another.
So I change cars, everything Iget all the way to my
(08:53):
destination where I'm like theguy I'm visiting.
I realized that that whole carepackage, bag of vodka I left in
the other car so you gave tosomebody else.
basically, somebody got in arental car with a whole like 50
bottles of vodka.
Yeah, I'm like this is great.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Jackpot.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, jackpot man, this is a bonus rental if they
like vodka, but anyways, man,that was.
That was like you know thewhole thing.
And then going down to Floridaand stuff this weekend was
awesome.
I mean, the weather was cool.
We did a boat trip, we wentdown to the Everglades and we
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just picked a beach and thenthey did a big grill.
We brought grills and we didall this stuff.
Burgers and hot dogs sittingout on the beach shooting a shit
, playing cards, having fun.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And you're worried about me freaking, pausing.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's bullshit.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
No, when it's like tech, tech, tech, tech tech, Did
everybody just hear all thisand you're worried about me
pausing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'll pause the next time.
Next time it'll be a pause fora damn day.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You got to be kidding me yeah, man, hey, this is,
this is what it is.
The other thing that happenedto too.
This is like one of my petpeeves too.
Like, do you hate?
Like we were in this restaurantand you know florida's gearing
down down there so like it'snormally like during the uh, you
know, winter season, it's likea mess down there.
It's like you go to arestaurant, you have to book or
(10:22):
you know, get a reservation thewhole nine yards, but right now,
may, may is the time to go toflorida because you go to the
restaurants, nobody's there.
So we walk in this restaurant.
There's nobody in thisrestaurant.
There's there's like 25, 30tables, right, the next people
that come in, they send themback to back to us.
I'm like I do, do you like?
(10:46):
I totally I cannot stand havingsomebody like especially like
restaurants that were in a boothand you're back to back and the
person's leaning in the boothand you're like playing tug of
war, like leaning back and forthand they're banging the booth.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I hate that shit see, I am absolutely a booth person,
though I cannot and I get whatyou're saying, because they do
that in restaurants because,with the waiters Right, they get
their sections and all thatstuff Right, but it's like, but
I'm like Back to back.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Back to back and nobody's in the damn restaurant
and there's like there was likea row of booths and like her
section was like four or five ofthose booths, whatever, and I
knew I was like why can't youjust do one booth over?
Like why do we have to be likeright on top of them, Right, and
the restaurant's empty yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Anyways annoying, Like some big mad rush is coming
in there.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Annoying For sure.
So what's been going on withyou, man, man, how much have you
?
Been working, See that's what Isaid.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's just bullshit, man.
I mean really, that is justbullshit every day.
But I was going down to Floridaand before I brought you guys
back we had a medical emergencyman.
This is one of those days, sean, I was working up in the front
in one of the flight attendantsand then I came back to help him
in the back.
As soon as I got on that barcart, one of the flight
(12:01):
attendants was like Gary, weneed your help.
Turned around, went back to theback.
This lady had passed out.
She had thrown up all over thefront of herself down the seat,
back of the back of the otherseat.
I told them to call for medicalassistance right away and again
I wanted to say thanks for allthe medical people that help us
(12:23):
out every single day.
I mean, as soon as we call,they always show up and we
appreciate you guys more thanyou'll ever know.
But these guys jumped up, theystarted helping this woman.
I immediately went back to theback, got a cold compress, put
it on the back of her neck.
She started coming around.
It goes back to what we weretalking about with blood
pressure.
Right, A lot of times of timesfolks listen to this.
(12:45):
With the blood pressure, justmake sure, hydrate yourself,
make sure that you're eating andtry, really try, not to drink
on an airplane.
I I know that you, you're goingsomewhere and you're having a
lot of fun, but if you've seen apicture of this woman showing
covered in her own throw up,yeah, and now she's passed out,
she's she's had thrown up all ofherself and she only had a
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mimosa, she only had one.
But what happened is her bloodpressure dropped.
And then you, you, what happensis you get hot, you'll get this
um, closed down feeling andyou'll pass out.
But she threw up.
I mean, she threw up all overherself.
We got her back out of there and, uh, you know there's nowhere
to put her.
So they went, took her to theback and here I am cleaning up
(13:27):
all that shit, man, I'm carryinga throw up everywhere.
And God bless this nurse manshe was.
She was like I'll clean up.
I said, no, you clean enough,enough shit on your day.
I'll clean this stuff up, don'tworry about it.
So I'm over there and I'mcleaning all this, uh, cleaning
all this puke up, and thislady's in the back and they're
taking care of her now and she'scoming back around.
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Everything's good.
I mean, again, blood pressure.
Now, if you start feeling thisway.
Realize this is with your bloodpressure dropping.
Lay down, get your feetelevated, because if your heart
isn't working as hard, you'regoing to come back around a lot
faster.
Oh yeah.
If you ever feel like this folksand you're anywhere and you
start feeling lightheaded.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You need to get down on the ground quick.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, exactly Because you're going to get on the
ground.
Whether it is now or later,you're going to be on the ground
.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Either gravity is going to help you or you can
help yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Exactly.
So just lay on the ground, getyour feet elevated and, trust me
, you're going to feel a lotbetter.
But anyway, she came backaround, got everything cleaned
up, that that situation, uh,ended up being okay.
Now, here it comes, the end ofthe flight.
I'm, I'm thinking, okay, whatelse could have happened?
So we're in final, we land and,um, and this lady comes out of
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her seat we're deplaning and shecomes out of her seat in row
eight and she had a pet in thecabin.
Pet in the cabin is what, sean,it's in the bag.
Yeah, and you know I love dogs,I'm jemma's, my girl um, but
she took this little dog and shepulled the dog out and the
first thing that she did, firstthing she did, she sat that dog
on the ground and you know whathe did I know what he did?
(15:02):
what'd he do?
Sean, sean Been a big dump, heshit right in the middle of the
freaking aisle.
And let me tell you somethingit wasn't the normal dog poop,
oh no, it was the.
His stomach was all jacked up.
So it was that runny crap.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wet and loosey, oh my .
Speaker 2 (15:17):
God it was so bad.
I mean, the smell of an upsetdog's stomach is unfreaking,
believable Dude the smell ofanything.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
is this upset stomach ?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It went from that whole cabin that was in a line,
everybody putting their handsover their nose and this woman
bends over.
I don't know what she had inher hand, but she didn't try to
Sean, she wiped it into thecarpet.
I'm like don't do that.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Let's soil it in a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Let's leave a really good scent for everybody in the
next fight.
So she just does this wipe intothe carpet and then she's like,
well, her stomach is upset, shepicks the dog up and she walks
off.
Now, everybody coming off thereis smelling this dog crap all
over the floor.
Their hands are on their face.
So I grab a blanket, I putacross the top and I'm like
picking people's bags up becauseI don't want their bags to roll
in this dog crap.
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Right, there you go.
I mean, do I need to go anyfarther?
I mean, that was my, my four,that was a uh shitty flight that
was a four to turn.
So yeah, I mean blood pressure.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, nothing to mess with, just make sure, lay down,
get your feet elevated, dude youknow, right before I got in
your flight, there was a ladythat was, uh, bored near the
flight coming back home and, uh,she had a dog and a carrier and
this dog literally like well,first of all, the poor dog, the
dog was in, it was just a softside carrier, no wheels, no,
(16:39):
nothing right.
She's literally dragging it onthe floor.
I know, I seen her?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
yeah, like she did.
Here is his dog like floor.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I know I seen her.
Yeah, like she did.
Here is his dog.
Like the agent stopped her andmade her zip up the you know
little dog.
But the dog literally was justsitting in there going for the
ride and she's just draggingthem on the floor.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You should have seen her when she came on board the
aircraft throw it.
I mean dropping her bags andeverything she had, like four
different bags and she's tryingto maneuver this dog carrier,
and those dog carriers don't fitunderneath the seats.
I mean these new seats, theydon't fit underneath the seats.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
No, I mean, I honestly think that the airlines
should like be lobbying allthese luggage things, saying,
like you know, these are thedimensions that fit in the seats
now and they may be restrictedto even lower than that because
now we got all the likeelectronics and stuff underneath
the seats.
That's why they don't fit theydon't, they don't fit at all.
And then we require them to notbe in the aisle, so they they
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got to fit underneath the seat,and you know, you need just a
pretty damn little dog to beable to go under there like you
need a gem that chihuahua yeah,you know, like a little tiny dog
, right, right that those dogswould go in there.
But people, people aren't doing.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You know, people are bringing big-ass dogs, big-ass
dogs in there, right, yeah, Ilove dogs, though I mean I'd sit
them on the seat if we could,but we can't, so you know.
But I do love them.
I mean they're the bestpassengers in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, man, they're like animals on a plane.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's on plane, that's a, that's a whole episode
we can do.
Yep, it is, but hey, did yousee this?
Did you see that?
Um, that uh video of that woman?
She had lost her, her son.
She was getting off of a uh abus and he he vanished without
trace 27 years ago 27 years?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
no, I didn't see this like.
27 years ago, this lady, likeher, put her son on a bus and he
just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He was stepping off of the bus coming home and the
bus driver said that they hadseen him step off the bus.
He disappeared.
Wow, yeah, 27 years ago.
She looked for him all thoseyears couldn't find him.
She looks on a TikTok video andthere's her son singing on
TikTok.
That's crazy video.
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And there's her son singing ontiktok.
That's crazy.
She noticed, uh, he had a, uh, abirth mark and a gap in his
teeth, just like her son and itwas exactly.
And they went back and they,they found him and they did a
dna test and it was him.
Wow, how freaking crazy is that?
Now, they didn't go into thedetail of this of because I was
of curious about that.
Okay, who took him?
Where did he go?
How did he live?
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So this was a blues guitaristfrom New Orleans and, like I
said, he had the same birthmarkas her son and a gap in his
teeth and, like I said, they didthe DNA test and it was him.
But they didn't give the fullstory and I really wanted to
know.
I'm looking forward to findingout exactly who took him.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, you're thankful for having your son back.
At the same time, you're like Imean, and I would be like who
took him?
And I want repercussions.
I want to know.
They took 27 years of your lifeaway from me, right?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I mean.
So it's like you.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You want to know that part of the story, like you
know because usually they don'thave good endings like this, I
mean, usually they're bad right,exactly well, people don't come
back, that's just, that'snormal, right.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But the this is amazing story.
I mean great ending to thestory, but there's all that like
gap, like you want to know more, right, if anybody finds out,
I'm gonna still look into thisstory.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But there's all that like gap, like you want to know
more, right, if anybody findsout, I'm gonna still look into
this story.
But if anybody finds outexactly who took him, uh first
sent it to us and so we can.
Uh, we can talk about a littlebit farther because I I was
looking forward to it and I wasI was reading looking forward to
finding out who took this kidand if they, if they had, if
they found him it's sointeresting too about the story
is that, like he was, he wastaken.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He was like eight years old, right, right.
So like, how does somebody inthe world all of a sudden have
an eight year old?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I don't know, how do you?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
explain that away, Like I'm going to grab this kid
and kidnap this kid and raisehim as my own.
It sounds like he was kind ofthe story might evolve from this
, but it's like how does thathappen where somebody just like,
all of a sudden, I got a kid.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But also as far as an eight-year-old boy.
How do you not I mean, even ateight you're going to remember
your mom, right at eight, you'renot?
How do they tell them thatstory?
How do they bury that story intheir head to where mom doesn't
exist anymore?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Or keep him from trying to run away and things
like there's lots of.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
There was so much I was thinking the same thing as,
like all these things, that Iwas looking forward to them
filling in, just didn't find out.
And I was looking for it butdidn't find the information out.
But it was really cool that ona TikTok, this guy's actually
playing music on a TikTok videoand his mom ends up finding him.
That is incredible, wow, allright.
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Another thing we were talkingabout GOAT, the GOAT, the GOAT.
All right.
Since basketball is going on,basketball is going on right now
, right, right.
So we were having a discussionin the back of the galley and
who's goat sean?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
man, that's a such a heavy conversation.
I mean to me, listen, listen, Iknow where you are and I know
where you're going.
But to me there's like there'sso much like uh time in the nba
right now and there's a lot ofpeople that you got to consider
as they go, and to me it's likethere's a um, there's different,
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like in different times anddifferent areas in the nba there
was, there was different, youknow abilities go to the time.
I get that, and just becausewe're in this era, right now,
and the people are still aliveright now, or whatever, you know
, you got to.
You got to remember everybodythat's, that's played.
If you're saying go greatest ofall time, right, right, so all
(22:30):
time, I mean to me, you know,michael Jordan is the first
person in your mouth, the wholedamn game.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I mean, you know, I mean, but I know where you're
going with this and we'lldiscuss that too, because we had
this discussion and I totallyagree with what you're saying.
But the GOAT, the greatest ofall time not just of that times,
but of all time Jordan changedthe game more than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Well, that's your perspective, right?
So that's what I'm saying.
So I the game more than anybodyelse.
Well, that's your perspective,right?
So that's what I'm saying, like.
So I mean, lebron is the secondperson everybody's like right
now because he's like, he's,he's in everybody's face and
he's in the news, I callbullshit all that stuff right,
bullshit, right.
I'm gonna tell you right now,if you want to say goat and you
know who's made the most money,I'd like to see which who's made
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more money MJ or LeBron.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I would say MJ, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know, we'll see.
I don't know, that's veryinteresting, but there's other
people that you've got toconsider.
Okay, you had.
Dr J I know what you're going.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You had Larry Bird, Dr J.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You had Kareem Abdul-J, mvps like he.
If you look at kareem's stats,he's up there with michael I got
it like that's what I'm saying.
I know what you're saying likeyou if you're looking at all
time and all that stuff and thenyou got kobe bryan like there's
great bryan was the showman ofthe showman well, they're great
as eric col I mean Colby to mewas like the next Michael Jordan
(23:58):
.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I mean the way that Colby played.
Look, michael Jordan, one ofthe hardest players is Colby.
One of the hardest players isLeBron Soft, he's soft, let me
tell you he's soft.
You know he's soft.
Don't sit there.
He's the biggest flop artistthat there is.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Lebron has a ton of talent.
He is a great basketball player, but when he came into the NBA,
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the NBA went downhill and youknow they went downhill.
The people don't watch them asmuch anymore.
They only watch the playoffs.
And you know, back in the day,me and you used to watch it
Detroit Pistons.
Come on, rodman, the way Rodmanplayed back then, rodman is the
best rebounder in the game.
(24:40):
I mean bar done, he is the bestrebounder ever played this game
.
I mean, yeah, he's a freak, yes, but he's still one of the best
rebounders played the game well, I mean like it's just, it's
just, it's a good discussion.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I mean there's so many people like you see this
all the time, espn.
There's all these different.
You know, everybody's alwaystrying to negotiate this thing
and it's so interesting, likewhen you start thinking about
different sports, like who's theGOAT of hockey, who's the GOAT
of football, who's the GOAT of?
You know, like when you start,like as soon as you do that,
it's like bam, names pop outlike Gretzky.
(25:11):
Yeah, names just pop out right,but in basketball it's just
like there's so many greats.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
All right if you go down to inner city basketball
court, right?
How many of them are wearingLeBrons?
Probably a lot, no bullshit.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
When was the last time you were in the inner city?
You go down there.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Look, they've even said this, they've even done
tests about this.
It's MJs.
They all wear Michael Jordans.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
They still do well, here's the, here is the thing.
So you're saying that, thatwhat number 23?
Number 23.
Let me get to what my point is.
My point is this is that thereis a market.
You're fighting marketing rightnow, so lebron is in it right
now because 23 is not prevalentas more as lebron is marketing
right now.
(25:57):
I mean, I'm going to tell you,right now LeBron makes a lot of
money marketing and MJ startedall that stuff.
Okay, but he's not playing.
Right now LeBron is playing.
I understand that.
And all these youth kids.
There's a lot of people like mylittle nephew.
For a long time he's thebiggest basketball fan.
Right now he could sit herehours and hours, days, talking
(26:18):
about basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Me and you are going to get back on that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
He did not know what the freaking MJ.
This Air Jordan symbol was.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
We are going to get back on this one.
We're going to find out.
We are going to find out Me andyou are going to find out the
marketing on this one.
Yeah, because I do want to know, if you're looking at these
kids and playing basketball, ifyou're looking at these kids and
playing basketball, who wearsmore LeBron James shoes or who
wears Michael's.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'm telling you, it goes by like youth and
generation.
They just don't know who it isand we're talking about.
Now we're back to the GOATconversation.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So one of us is going to have to say that we're wrong
.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Who's right in front of you right now doing it, like
you know, in our generation, youknow, I say michael jordan
right michael jordan.
But in these new, you know themillennials, and right now
people will be talking to lebron, lebron, lebron, right, so it's
like, but it's, it's aninteresting conversation, but uh
you know me, me and you wouldargue about this all day long
(27:12):
and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We were going back and forth in the galley because
you know, it's just like we weresaying mj was uh of our era,
but you know, I always loved drj yeah, remember he, he was, uh,
he was something else hugehands that dude, that dude's
hands was huge.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well see, I like magic man, I did like magic,
like magic was like he was sucha character and then the whole
rivalry between him and bird wasjust like, you know, like that
was that was just precious.
That was just a great era ofbasketball, because you're like,
you know, you had these people,the rivalries of the, basically
that each coast and all thatstuff.
So it like played in all thatstuff.
But yeah, I mean that's, that'sthe thing about you know, these
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like sports and it's a timeit's like the error who's.
When did you live and when didyou?
What did you experience?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
well, you can see why this was so long in the galley
man because we were going backand forth.
Yeah, someone was saying thisperson, that person.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I was like bullshit, michael, I'll take michael all
day long so, speaking aboutthings in the galley man, why is
it that when, uh when we, whenwe get on the jump seat, that
these flight attendants, they'llsit on the jump seat and tell
us their whole damn life in asplit?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
second and you just met them.
It just happened the other day,yeah, Just happened the other
day.
The flight attendant was in theback and she was having a
conversation with this otherflight attendant.
And they come out and they'lltell you it's jump seat therapy,
that's what they call it.
But they'll come back out andthey'll tell you it's jump seat
therapy, that's what they callit.
But they'll come back out andthey will tell you everything.
I mean everything.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, it's like to a perfect stranger.
You're like literally divulgingeverything about your life, and
sometimes it's stuff that wedon't want to know.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Exactly their kids, like their kids in trouble.
How bad their kids are.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, my spouse is in prison.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
My kids are like in juvie, you know and that's the
truth too, because your, youreyes are just wide open, because
you just met this person yeah,yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
And then they'll talk about all their medical history
what what's what, what theirproblems, their ailments are,
and stuff you know this.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
it was funny, though, because this one attendant she
came up to the front and thisother flight attendant was
talking about her ex-husband andhow much they didn't like each
other.
Well, you're divorced.
That's apparent, right?
You don't like each other.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, that's a gimme.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So you know, he moved or she moved away, and then the
husband kind of moved a littlebit farther away from town and
when she came back everybody was.
They were surprised.
Do you know what they weresurprised about, Sean?
He had told everybody that shedied.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That's awesome man.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
She's dead.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah, you can do that , I guess, in a small town.
Yeah, she died yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But could you imagine telling somebody that?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
on the jump seat.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I mean you just you know we were only on the plane
with this person for a couplehours Now you went into this
whole conversation about yourdivorce, your husband and how
your husband said you were deadIn two hours.
That's crazy, man In twohours's crazy in two hours it is
.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
It is.
It's amazing, like the detail,like people's lives, that we get
on the jump seat therapy, as wecall it like it is.
I mean, you are sitting, firstof all, you know for those of
you that don't understand,flight attendants like how, how
it's happening like we're, wecome into these aircraft and
we're sitting shoulder toshoulder literally on these
aircraft, and so you sittingshoulder to shoulder literally
(30:38):
on these aircraft, and so youknow it's already uncomfortable
situation.
But then they get a perfectstranger and they start talking
to you and all of a sudden, justspilling their guts about their
life.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
You're like wow, a lot of things you don't even
want to hear.
Right, right, right.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I don't need to know if you have hemorrhoids.
I don't need to know if youhave your sexual preferences I
don't need to know what happenedlast night nope what you did on
your layover last night.
Yeah there's certain thingsthat, uh, I don't want to know
I'll never.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You know this is a little bit off subject, but you
know, the flight attendant wascoming, uh, into um, into the,
the van on a layover, rightright, and we were sitting on
the van and everybody's waitingfor her and I was like where's
she at?
So I went up and I made a phonecall and I'm like, hey, you
know, you got to get down hereand she runs down and we're all
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waiting for her in the van.
She gets in the van, she'scompletely disheveled, right
Right, she forgot the alarm,everything, and here's
definitely one of those onesthat you didn't need to know.
So she, she comes on.
She's got a big red muffles spotall around her face, sean
really yep, and she walks on andthe first thing she sits down
(31:52):
she's like oh my god, like, ohmy God, my knees are killing me.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Where is this going?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It goes to that need to know.
This is what happens all thetime in our job, these flight
attendants and these otherflight attendants.
They'll come in, they'll tellyou things you don't need to
know.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
In the morning at 5 am.
Why are you telling us thisstuff?
Nobody needs to know what youdid on your layover last night.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
This reminds me of a story.
I think it's going to take youback a little bit, that
disheveled part you're talkingabout the flight attendant
coming down.
Yeah, I'm on this layover onetime and I'm like you know it's
a good layover.
The crew gets together, we allgo out to dinner the night
(32:43):
before.
We're all sitting aroundchilling out, having a few
drinks, all that good stuff, youknow, like a typical flight
attendant layover, whatever.
And uh, I set my alarm to go getup and all this stuff.
And do you know this?
I get this phone call.
I get woken up by a phone callJohn, where you at, where you at
, we'll meet you at the airport.
I'm like, oh, all right.
(33:03):
I'm like, wait, wait.
I'm like my alarm didn't go off.
I'm looking at my light, so youknow, boom, just like anybody
else, I wake up.
It's a panic.
I'm running around, I'm flyingon, my clothes are flying on,
I'm throwing shit in my bag andall this stuff.
I run downstairs.
I'm trying to get that next van.
I'm like this is all of that 15minutes.
I get downstairs and I'm like,okay, come on, what happened?
(33:26):
Like I'm trying to regroupbecause I got a few minutes
before the van shows up.
So as I'm sitting right there,all of a sudden my phone rings.
Guess who called me.
I'm waiting you, motherfuckingyou, you freaking you, and the
rest of the crew.
We're flying together.
We're in boston, you guys allall get up, you early birds, and
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get up and go downstairs andyou get on a van, get to to the
airport.
And it wasn't until you get tothe airport that you guys
realize that you guys were anhour fucking ahead.
You'd woke me up on thefreaking layover, like I was
like late to the things and thewhole damn crew went early and
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so they're sitting around at thegate.
I took my ass back upstairs, Ijumped in the shower, I started
getting ready and I was cursingyour ass.
I love that story.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Hey, you know something that just reminds me.
Okay, would you leave a crewmember?
Would you leave a crew member?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
That has a lot of variables.
If it's international, probablynot.
I'm going to pause and try tofigure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Okay.
So this flight attendant askedthis other flight attendant
about putting their food on ice.
We always do that, right.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
So they come off the plane.
I think it was an internationaldestination, so they cleared,
got out of customs and this girlgoes, goes.
Oh, you didn't remind me aboutmy food, and so the the girl was
like, wait, it's not my job,right, and she goes.
Well, I got to go get back andget my food no, yep, and an
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international destination.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
She's gonna go back through securities and go back,
go down to concord to get to theplane.
Maybe catering hasn't alreadydone this.
Yep, if it's in Mexico, it'sgone.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now would you, I know , but would you wait for that
person?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Maybe not.
It just depends on thetransportation situation.
Like is this contracttransportation, all right well
this person.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
they weren't waiting, so anyway, they took off.
The girl goes back and gets herstuff and, uh, operations calls
when the van was halfway thereand they had to turn back around
and get that girl.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Oh yeah, could you imagine?
Could you imagine that littleanimosity between that crew
right there?
You pissed off cause I'm likehalfway to the hotel and this
other one's pissed off cause youleft me.
Yeah, that's just going to comedown, right.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Somebody, somebody, somebody.
When you get in the van,somebody's gonna say something.
Well, there's, there's,somebody's gonna say something.
And then now you're also gotthe dynamics of like, if this is
an international destination,are we traveling with the pilots
?
Without the pilots you know?
Like, are you, are you how manypeople?
Have you just inconveniencebecause you left your food?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
forget that imagine the pissed off these two.
It'd be like a damn cat fight.
Yeah Right, you know it's goingto happen, it's just brutal.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
It's going to be a very comfortable trip for the
rest of the trip, All right.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
What the hell is going on in Newark Sean?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Dude, newark is a freaking mess.
I got to tell you right now, ifanybody's out there traveling
right now, you must avoid Newark.
You do not want to go throughnewark.
Newark's down the one.
Okay, so the whole problem isstemming from this whole entire
summer.
They're down to run one runwayand so all the companies decided
(36:47):
to like down, you know,downgrade their like how many
flights and all this stuff.
And this is all planned out andthey're trying to figure out.
You know how they're becauseone run like normally two
runways.
You have one runway taken off,one runway landing, so you can
have that operation going on.
And Newark is already a tightspace.
There's not many runways here.
There's only like four runwaysin the whole place.
(37:07):
So, depending on the winddirection and where they where
they got to land.
But now they got one runway,they're operating the entire,
everybody, every company,company, every place out of this
one runway.
And it is a shit show man yeah,but something else happened too
.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
What's that?
20 of the atc air trafficcontrollers walked off the job.
Whoa 20.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, that's just because I mean like that, can
you imagine the stress right nowmeltdown?
First of all, we can't affordto lose any ATC personnel.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We talked about that.
We talked about that somepodcasts ago.
I mean they were already short.
They were short.
What did they say?
Like 3,500 positions of airtraffic controllers remain
unfilled in the United States.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah 3,500.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's pretty scary when you think of how many
flights are out there.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
It would be interesting to hear what the
airlines are doing as far asaddressing this issue.
Because here's my thing If Igot a business, if I don't care
what it is, you know if I'm, ifI'm making donuts, if I'm doing,
whatever the business is,whatever's supporting my
business, you gotta you have toinvest and you also have to make
sure that those supporting andall those supply chains and
(38:16):
stuff that I need for mybusiness are working.
I mean, it's kind of like thetariff thing right now.
Right now, you know everybody's, it's like up for speculation.
You know, nobody knows what'sgoing to happen.
Everything, day to day, hour tohour, things are changing.
But here's the thing when Ihave something like this, where
I got a, I know there's a knownproblem, it's going to be a
(38:36):
long-term problem.
I got to help this thingAirlines right now they rely on
ATC.
So they should not not only belobbying in Congress for them,
like for the government to helpout with this, you know, because
it's also a partial governmentproblem, like they have to.
You know they have to influenceor try, try to recruit people,
things like that, to get theminto ATC.
(38:58):
But the airlines this is theirlife bane of their business.
They can't move without theseguys.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
But you think that they would start programs in
high school?
I talked about this in theother podcast.
A lot of these kids don't evenknow about the jobs in the
airline industry.
Well, that's what my point wasI know, but that's what I'm
saying.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
They've got to start this early.
They can't wait.
They got to start this rightright now.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Well, actually they should have been doing this many
long long.
They're behind the whole longway.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
yeah, in addition to like, they're so focused on
pilots, right so, the pilots areso this technical career that
you had to take time and moneyand effort to get somebody
trained and up to the speed tobecome an airline pilot.
Right now, the flightattendants we don't have to, we
don't have that problem becausethere's not a technical gap to
(39:47):
that stuff.
They train you, they, they putyou into the job.
So there's the hundreds ofthousands of people that are
trying to become flightattendants, right so, but the
atC is exactly the same as thepilots.
So you?
I mean, why aren't the airlinescollectively getting together
and recruiting for ATC?
Yes, that's not their bottomline, yes, that's it, but you
(40:09):
can't operate without them.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Well, in ATC you know that they have a a bigger
failure rate than they have inthe pilots, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Oh sure, and their lifespan of the career of an ATC
person is much shorter than apilot.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
But you know, going on in Newark going back to what
you were saying in Newark is oneof the airlines they had to
cancel 35 daily trips out ofNewark.
And then you know it's bad whenthe CEO of that company comes
out and tells people to avoidNewark.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, avoid Newark.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
I mean, that's your business and you're telling
people to avoid Newark.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, I'm telling you right now, if you're flying
right now and you're trying togo international destinations,
there's a lot of internationalflights going in and out of
Newark and international flightsin and out of Newark take
priority over domestic.
But you have to get thedomestic flight there to connect
to the internationals.
But I'm going to tell you rightnow, there's a lot of airports
(41:05):
in the US and a lot of differentcompanies out there that
connect internationally that youcan go out to different places.
There's Atlanta, there's Miami,there's Boston, there's DC,
there's all kinds of differentother hubs that you can go
international.
So you might want to thinkyou're planning out your trip
and think maybe I don't want tobook through Newark this summer.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
And if the Cleveland congressional people are
listening bulldoze, freaking theairport, get rid of the IAC
Center, put a whole freakinginternational airport in here,
because Cleveland has runwaysthat can take wide-body aircraft
and they could fly to anyinternational destination.
It's actually a perfectlocation to fly anywhere in the
(41:49):
world.
Yeah, I mean they missed thatone a long time ago.
I mean, I say that all the timebecause they screwed that up in
Cleveland.
They should have had aninternational airport here a
long time ago.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Well, you know that problem is more bureaucratic
than it is airlines.
I think the airlines haveattempted them over the years
various airlines, they expand inhere and stuff.
But Cleveland's wholegovernment system and how they
run their airport is a totalshit show.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
It has been ever since.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
They've never figured it out.
I mean, nope, like we just flewout of fort myers.
Fort myers right now, if peopledon't realize this, a lot of
the florida airports, becausethere's so much land down there
the airports have, they'rebuilding new terminals,
terminals right next to theirterminal.
So fort lotter, fort myers, isgetting ready to have an entire
brand new operation.
Brand new terminal is gettingready to come here in the next
(42:39):
few years and they're going toand they're not even going to
shut down the old terminal.
It's just an expansion.
There's going to be a giantmore bigger, more gates, more
operation, more expansion.
You know, like I'm going to seesome, like there's going to be
some Florida destinations thatare going to turn into
international destinationsbecause they have the room to
expand.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Well, that's going to be in the future, that's going
to be a future podcast, becausewe'll be talking about what's
going on in the industry.
You know later on.
But you're absolutely rightthere.
Cleveland missed the boat.
All they do is put a Band-Aidon a big cut.
But anyway, hey, did you seealso that video of that woman in
the wheelchair trying to bypasssecurity?
(43:17):
That pisses me off.
You know these people that tryto use wheelchairs, you know my
sister has MS and let me tellyou something, she will walk
anywhere and she does everythingto never have to, ever use a
wheelchair.
And these people that just tryto bypass, uh, security and get
(43:39):
in a wheelchair, they piss meoff, sean.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
It really does so here, here's the thing like just
coming back from fort myers andlike at the gate that we were
sitting at there was like 15wheelchairs like piled up there
because they use wheelchairs, sooff, but it's just like known
scam too.
That's that.
That's another thing, that theaspect, that's it.
It's one thing like this ladyyou're talking about she had,
(44:02):
she was trying to like, shewanted to like have special
preference to get throughsecurity and all this stuff and
blah, blah, blah.
But she like got up and walkedthrough the security centers and
all this stuff.
But here's the thing you peopleare out there scanning or
scamming the system because theyunderstand the game of the
(44:22):
airlines and so they know thatthey could buy this little cheap
coach ticket in the back of theplane.
But then if they just say, hey,I need a wheelchair, so then
they get to board the planefirst, a wheelchair, so then
they get the board to planefirst.
So all these people that aregotten these privileges to be
able to board the plane firstand all that stuff, or got the
(44:43):
miles and stuff whatever to getthat privilege, they're
bypassing that just because theyjust asked for a wheelchair and
so they know the game.
So then that's why there's somany times when we're you know
and we see this every day youknow we'll have 20 wheelchairs
getting on a Florida flight andwhen you get there, there's
three people with a wheelchairgetting off.
You know it's a total, but it'sa total scam.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
But you go through, you go through customs, you'll
see, like you know, you'll see aline of a hundred wheelchairs
down through the customs area.
But they screw up when they getdown to customs because they
keep them the same line.
So a lot of times those customslines are really long.
You just don't know they'relong till you get down there.
But she was just, she was sorude.
I mean, this woman was so nastyto the, the guy that was
(45:26):
pushing her.
Finally they just they werelike we're not taking you, they
just locked it up and she gotall pissed off and guess what
she did, sean, what's that?
Got her ass up and walkedthrough security.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, yeah Right, this is.
This is the scammers man, thescammers out there that I just
can't stand.
It's kind of like.
It's kind of like that.
Uh, you know, the handicapparking in the, in our local
grocery store, and land handicapparking all over the United.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
States?
How about handicap parking inthe employee lot of an airline?
Speaker 1 (45:58):
an airline, like I mean, yeah, yeah, so like you
can get handicapped passes allover this.
So people, you know, just forthe convenience of it, they'll
put it up there and they'll usethe handicapped parking spot.
You know, like I just had myknee replaced and I qualified
for handicapped spot, right forfor that.
Like the doctor actually askedme do you want a handicapped
pass?
And so I was like, yeah, I'lltake a handicapped pass because
I was handicapped for so manymonths, but they issue it for a
(46:21):
year, sometimes two years.
So like in that whole time Igot a handicapped spot.
If I wanted to scam the thingand use my handicap tag, no
problem.
But they're everywhere, it'severywhere and you can get
handicapped spots.
Like one of our good friendshas a handicap tag and he's got
it for life.
Life because, and he just had aknee replacement.
(46:44):
You know why do you need it fora whole.
Like your knee's not going tobe bad for life.
He had it replaced, right.
But if the doctor writes off,boom, you know here's another
scam, but you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
No, no, no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
It's just that.
That's happened everywhere.
How many times have you seenpeople in handicapped spots jump
out of their car and like runinto the store?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
I have and, like I said, I think the same thing as
this woman is bullshit.
Yeah, you know, I was just gladthat she had to get up and walk
her ass through security.
So that was a happy ending tosee her little nasty butt that
was making fun of thiswheelchair pusher doing his job.
But those guys just pissed meoff anyway.
When they get in thosewheelchairs.
It makes me mad.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Yeah, did you see that off-subject here.
Onto the next thing here.
Did you see that private planeland on a golf course?
Speaker 2 (47:31):
I did.
What happened to that?
I didn't see.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
They had some type of mechanical failure.
But it was like here, theseguys on a tee, and he's like, oh
, that plane's coming down andhe starts filming it.
And you see this guy likebouncing down the fairway,
bouncing up and down and planetipping and all this stuff
eventually spins aroundeverything like no crash, the
guy's just handling it.
Boom, it was wild.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Now would you, would you?
Speaker 1 (47:54):
continue to play through.
Um, I would be like, damn, youhad a bad day, and as long as
he's not in my way, I'm going.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I might buy the guy a beer before I leave too.
You might want to, but probablynot a good idea for him.
He's probably going to get drugtested or whatever.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
You're like I can chip it over the plane, that
would be you out in the golfcourse, right, all right.
What about the?
What about the?
The knucklehead that was, uh,smuggling cash and drugs through
Dulles airport?
Dude, I didn't hear about this,oh my God.
They the the an airline.
It says an airline um employee.
(48:35):
It didn't say where, what heworked out of, but what was
amazing, he was coming out of Ithink it was Panama City and he
had four bricks concealed andone of them was actually in a
cake, and then he had $55,000 incash on him.
Airport employee.
Okay, so he says that thiswoman had given this to him.
(48:58):
Well, when they confiscated hisphone, the first thing they do
is they go back and they look atthe text messages.
Now, this is when I believethat this guy was a complete
idiot, sean.
I mean a complete idiot Becausewhen they read it back, he
agreed to do this for 200 bucks.
Stupid, you're an absolutemoron.
(49:18):
You got four bricks of cocaineand you've got $55,000 in cash
and one of those bricks is in acake, and you did it for 200
bucks.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
I'm not smart, me not smart.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
But you know it goes back to the same thing.
I mean, we don't know if hewent through as far as like
known crew member or anything,but that's the reason why
they've screwed up known crewmember for us and now they gotta
have to have a different knowncrew member because these ding
dongs, they keep doing thesedumb things like taking drugs
and and cash through oninternational flights or other
flights.
So, mr Luis Costello Rojas, youjust got yourself the Sean and
(50:05):
G's Stuck on Stupid Award.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Stuck on stupid, you stupid, me stupid.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
That guy's a moron, Sean 200 bucks, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah, man, I said moron Sean 200 bucks, you're an
idiot.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Yeah, man, Anybody that's going to risk their
freedom taking drugs or cashanywhere.
You're just dumb.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
You're dumb, well you know.
Don't make stupid moves likesnap decision moves.
Change your life in a splitsecond.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
No, it's changing his life.
He's going to have a new friendin prison, that's for sure.
Right, All right.
So Honolulu to Tokyo flightJust before landing, phone
caught fire in the aircraft.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
Man, that's something that's happening more and more
nowadays.
You know, like these phonescatching on fire and have these
runaway batteries and stuff.
That's why people until theylike actually, that's why people
don't until they like actuallysee it, they don't realize, like
dang, this can happen.
I mean, how many times have youhad your phone like my, my
phone, like in my hand, and itgets so hot and I'm like whoa,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (51:07):
that's gonna ask you that too.
You know that the chargers,those magnetic chargers yeah,
you put those on the back of it.
Them damn things get hot, theyget hot I mean if you pick that
phone up, I mean it gets prettydamn hot.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
Yeah, I mean you're doing it like this is all
electricity, man, yourconductive lesson.
Electricity is happening rightthere, back and forth between
those walls and barriers of thephone.
But you know they're made andtested to do that.
But there's still things thatgo wrong.
You know electronics are, theycan be fickle.
But uh, yeah, this, this issomething you've got to be aware
of.
Like that's why the airlinesare always telling you you know
(51:40):
you have to have your lithiumbatteries, you have to have them
with you.
So just in case these thingshappen it, can you know we can
deal with it right.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
And they did.
They did a good job.
Now the other one was Kona tothe Denver.
Flight was diverted to SanFrancisco because of the cockpit
received an indication that thecargo door was open.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
That's crazy man.
Yeah, I know I mean thesethings happen like that, but I
mean better safe than sorry,right?
I mean it's like you might haveto divert or whatever, and
that's a company and pilot call.
They had a long time betweenKona and San Francisco before
they had to like.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
There's a lot of water.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah, there's a lot of water.
Not a lot of places to like,just divert to.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Well, the other thing , too, is that think about that
a cargo door open and there's alot of water.
No, not a smart idea because,there's a place for all that
water to go.
If that cargo door actually wasopen, but it was a false alarm
indication, false alarm, butthat's the reason why there's
not even a question about that.
If the car, if it's a cargodoor that, sean, that that
(52:44):
indicator that it was openyou're turning around and going
back because there's a shitloadof water between you, uh, denver
and Kona.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah, I mean, well, here's the other thing too,
other thing too that peopledon't realize too, that like the
cargo cabins in the main cabinare pressurized in two different
systems, like there's twodifferent, there's two, like,
just because the cargo door isopen, maybe they lost all your
luggage in the land or thepacific, whatever, but uh, you
still might be able to fly, youknow.
And also, once that door opensand stuff, you, you know they
(53:14):
could feel it.
It's kind of like a you knowdriving your car and you open
the window and number seven, youstill feel the drag and all
that stuff in the, in the feeland the steering of the car.
It's the same thing with theplane.
So, yeah, I mean, as long asthey were safe and they weren't
getting any indications likethat and like press on, you
didn't have to like turn aroundand go back to honolulu false
(53:35):
alarm.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Safety first man, we always man.
We always say that.
But hey, listen, I had a greattime this week talking, had a
lot of fun talking about theGOAT in basketball which is
still MJ, mj.
I'm going to throw that backout there, it's still MJ.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
I think it's MJ too, but I just think the
conversation has to be likehonestly, you have to take that
whole thing and statistics andeverything and history, and you
got to take the now out of it.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
Okay, mj, forget it, mj, but listen, you guys, and
whatever you do this week, don'tbe a Luis Costello Rojas.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
No, don't be stuck on stupid yes.
Speaker 2 (54:15):
Don't be smart, I'm going to be a smart man.
Yeah, all right guys, we had agreat week.
Sean, give us a quote.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
All right, a quote right now Life isn't about
finding yourself, life is aboutcreating yourself.
Speaker 2 (54:31):
I do like that one.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yeah, you know, just go out there, man, and be the
best you can be.
Be you Sean, be me.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
All right guys.
We had a great week.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
A lot of people want to be me?
Speaker 2 (54:42):
Not really.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
Not really All right.
See you later, folks.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
All right, guys have a great week.
See you next time on Capitrash.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
If you laughed, learned something or just feel a
little bit better about yourown job after hearing about ours
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