The Small World of Airline Life: Disney, Destinations, and Disasters with special guest Blake

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What happens when 10,500 flight attendants walk off the job simultaneously? Shawn and G kick off this episode celebrating the Air Canada strike's remarkable success, where crew members defied government orders and forced negotiations in just two days—a watershed moment for airline labor movements everywhere.

The conversation shifts into hilarious territory as G recounts surviving an unbearably hot flight with what he describes as "Satan's ass air" filling the cabin, while Shawn shares his Colorado adventures during stage three fire alerts. But the real gem comes when G reveals being mistakenly introduced as a "pilot" to 2,000 concertgoers at a Journey tribute band show, leaving him awkwardly accepting applause for a job he's never done.

Special guest Blake joins the crew, bringing tales from his whirlwind adventures to 35 countries in just 2.5 years as a flight attendant. From his master's degree studies in Scotland to his Eagle Scout background that's proven surprisingly useful in airline emergencies, Blake offers a fresh perspective on travel. The trio discusses favorite destinations (Sydney gets high marks), places that didn't impress (sorry, Brussels), and Blake's heartwarming birthday cruise with his grandmother.

Between laughter-filled stories about passenger entitlement, rental car breakdowns in Lake Tahoe, and debates about Disney attractions, the hosts deliver valuable insights about air travel today. Whether you're a frequent flyer or aviation industry professional, you'll appreciate their reminder that 99% of passengers are wonderful—it's just that memorable 1% that creates the unforgettable stories.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Air Canada flight attendants, you rock.
Who was the big star at theJourney Escape tribute band,
balake, visits the podcast.
All this next on Cabin Pressurewith Sean and G hey, everyone

(00:38):
welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
This is cabin.
Pressure boom, shakalaka lagaboom.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
The return of Shawnee .
It's here, it's time, it'scabin pressure.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
You know, sometimes it seems like it's been forever
since we talked and then itseems like the other day I know.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I know Time really flies when we're in here talking
about this stuff, right, tryingto catch up on all that stuff.
And speaking about catch up,man, what's been going on with
you?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
First of all, we got to do a huge shout out to the
Air Canada flight attendants.
Before we even start anything,man, let me tell you something
that was freaking incredible,wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Oh man, I was so excited, first of all, for all
those people that arenon-airline people and the
people that are airline people.
I mean, it means a lot whathappened up there, because
flight attendants need to getpaid for flight attendant work
time.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Right, but what they did by sticking together, man,
that was incredible.
All the years me and you'vebeen in this business, man, that
was the top of the mountain onthat one.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
And here's the other thing, too, like people don't
realize this, about this wholesituation you know, like Air
Canada, they were able to walkout right, but we're here in the
united states, are not able todo that, you know, and so we
have laws and restrictionsbecause of the railway labor act
that prevents us from, like,walking off the job.
But we do have another means ofstriking, called chaos striking

(02:00):
, which I hope it doesn't happen, but united States companies
are able to do that at least.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Still was amazing that this employee group even
the government.
The government tried to deterthis employee group by telling
them they had to get back towork and they basically said F
you to the government.
They stayed out.
And wasn't it amazing, sean,that two days I mean two days
after they went on strike, thatall of a sudden there's a
mediator, there's a room andeverybody negotiates the shit

(02:27):
and the shit gets taken care of,when 100,000, 200,000 people
are not moving per day.
It's amazing when the shit getstaken care of, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, that's exactly how this whole thing works.
If they have the ability todrag their feet and deter this
whole thing for the company tosave money, they're going to do
that.
That's what a business is doing.
If I'm the business owner and Icould see you know like I
empathize with that side of theargument as well.
Like they, they have the rightto conduct their business

(02:55):
however they want to conduct it.
But there comes a time in lifewhen you just need to do the
right fucking thing.
Right and and people are whatmake businesses run.
You need to treat people right.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Right, and I'm never down to CEO for making the money
that they make.
I never do.
We all make decisions and wemake choices about what we do in
life and I get that.
But in the same breath you makeyour money, you have to be
willing to share that money.
When the people's backs thatyou earn that money, you have to
be willing to share that money.
When the people's backs thatyou earn that money, you have to
be willing to share that.
Right For sure, and that's it.

(03:28):
And when that doesn't happenand the first time in all the
years that I've been flying thatI've seen 10,500 flight
attendants walk out at the sametime Shit.
We talked about technologyshutting the airline down.
They shut that shit down fast,didn't they?
Yeah, that's sweet man.
That was unbelievable, hey.

(03:50):
But here's the one thing thatwasn't unbelievable I got my ass
on this hot-ass airplane.
Now I got to tell flightattendants this you guys listen,
if your airplane is so hot it'snot safe to be on.
Do not let anybody on thatplane.
Don't let them on there.
Because, let me, sean, I wasgoing back and I wasn't even a.
I was a, a non-working crewmember and I was basically
deadheading back home and I hadgotten on the plane and first

(04:13):
thing I did was I startedsweating I know this just
happened to me, like I'm gonnatell you about it here on my
little catch-up here going outto denver.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Just so happened.
But here in cleveland there wasa crew and the plane was
roasting.
They didn't have the air hookedup, pilots weren't around, none
of that type of stuff.
The plane was so hot.
They delayed the boarding likethey started boarding the plane.
Then all of a sudden you sawpeople coming back up the jetway
.
Yeah, I was like.
I was like what's happening?
I'm thinking mechanical, isthat?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
no, it was hot ass airplane right and I'm sitting
there sweating my ass off andI'm sitting in the center seat
and I'm thinking there's no waythey're going to board the rest
of these passengers while theystart boarding.
And I'm sitting in the centerseat and the first thing that
you do you start sizing up thepeople that you know are coming
on the plane.
You're hoping that's a smallperson sitting next to you.
Yeah, so where were you sitting?
A center seat in?

(05:04):
In the front center seat yousaid that about five times
already.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, so what?
Hey?
So you were sitting in thecenter seat.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Shut up, sean so my my seat mates came in.
They were sitting next to meand, uh, it was still hot yeah,
really hot.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, really hot, really hot.
Yeah, like ass sweating hotunder pits shirt soaking hot.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Very hot.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
That hot Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
So anyway, I was really tired, so I fell asleep.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
About 20 minutes into the flight I woke up to this
god awful smell.
I mean, I'm telling you thefirst whiff was it was pure
regret.
In my lungs it was filled withthe smell of Satan's ass air.
After taco Tuesday and at theall you can eat bar, that's a
smell.
It was bad, I'm telling you,listen that.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
you know, every time I walk in the plane it's like,
oh yeah, the smell of ass.
No, it was bad, like it wasworse than that.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, I'm telling you it really was.
No, it was bad, like it wasworse than that.
Yeah, I'm telling you it reallywas.
I mean, it was like Satan's assthere and the thing all I could
think about was I took theVicks out of my bag.
Oh dude, it was disgusting, Imean it was killing me.
It was like someone was livebeta testing some nuclear cheese
or something.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm telling you right now, like I can't travel
without my poop, I'll, I'll,I'll spray my poopery when I'm,
wherever I'm sitting?
Yeah, did I tell you likefucking around with giving us a
gassing?
Yeah, I'm going to do that.
Did I tell you it was hot?
Oh, yeah, and you're in themiddle seat?
Yeah, and it was a nasty butyeah.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
So anyway, that was a .
That was my little catch up forthe flying, but I had to tell
you this one I got a little faketitle this weekend.
A fake title, yeah, a faketitle.
What was that about?
Well, I was over at Blue Heron.
They have this outdoor venueand remember that van escape
that I used to?

Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean, I'd always go see yeah, like a bunch of
T-shirt man, you're like numberone fan.
Journey, yeah, journey.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, these guys are legit, but anyway, go to see
them.
And didn't realize they had tohave reservations to go eat
inside.
So we were standing over by oneof those beer barrels and we
were eating on the beer barreland this guy asked us if we
wanted to take his seats.
But he was at the bar and Isaid sure, it was really nice of
him.
And he looked at me and he goes, why do you look so familiar?
And I said, sure, it was reallynice of him.
And he looked at me and he goes, why do you look so familiar?
And I said, well, I'm, I'm thecrew that took you down to Tampa

(07:30):
, that you were playing at Bush.
Are you sure he didn't recognizeyou from cabin pressure?
Yeah, no, so he goes.
Oh my God, that's right you.
You took us down to Tampa and Itold him.
I said, yeah, I made thatannouncement and I told
everybody that you guys were thebest tribute band for Journey
I'd ever experienced, andincredible.
So he goes.
He's going on and on about thisand he said, yeah, he goes.

(07:52):
We really felt like superstarsso it was kind of fun, you know.
He gave us a seat and then theshow started.
Well, I'm sitting in the verymiddle part on this uh hill
facing the band, and this guystarts telling this story about
what I just said to him.
Right, and he's telling 2 000people this story cool, and he

(08:12):
goes, and he goes, and he goes.
The coolest thing about it hegoes that.
How cool is it to have a yourpilot?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
a pilot.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
He had no idea I'm like who the hell said pilot
every?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
every male flight attendant on a plane is
initially a pilot, until youactually tell them you're not a
pilot but the thing that suckedis there's there's 2 000 people.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
What am I supposed to do?
You got to raise your hand uplike hell yeah, here I am.
Yeah, you're non-pilot.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I didn't fly one damn minute.
Dude, have you been in the backof the plane?
How many times has thishappened to you?
I know it's happened a hundredtimes or plus.
You're sitting there on thecart and you're going down and
you're serving a plane andthey're like wow, I didn't know.
The pilots do this Exactly.
Are you a?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
pilot.
Oh yeah, We've got an autopilotright now.
We're just back here doing ourservice.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, the perception of the public is just so funny
sometimes Like you're likereally.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, that was my fake title.
I was pilot for a minute.
Pilot for a minute.
Did everybody clap for you?
They did oh, there you go.
Exactly, did your face turn red?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I was sitting there going.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, my hands were up.
I was like damn, this sucks.
I ain't no damn pilot, I'm likeare you kidding me?
I mean we had friends of oursdown there and they're like
ain't no damn pilot, ain't nopilot.
But anyway, what's going onwith you?
What'd you do?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
well, you know, last week, man, I went out to
colorado and uh, you know, oncea year we go out with our
friends and uh, go doing thegolf and all this stuff, and uh,
I'm the tag along like tagalong husband, because carol's
out for a golf tournament, andso we went out there to colorado
and all this stuff, but it was,uh, I cannot believe how dry it

(09:53):
is out there right now, likethey're in stage three fire
alert out there, wow, and Iguess there's a one fire that's
going on right there.
That's like 100, not controlled, like it is just going and they
have got nothing going ontrying to, you know, trying to
control it, but it's just out ofcontrol and all these fires
were started by lightning.
So it was one of those likequestionable things like

(10:15):
california had last year and allthat stuff.
But, um, it was crazy.
So we were getting ready to godo razoring and you know those,
uh, we get those like dune buggy, two pasture vehicles and we go
up on the trails and we couldsee all kinds of wildlife.
And then what happened was wewere, it was so dry, I was like
you know what, I don't want to,I don't want to go do this
because it's going to be sodusty and I'll be eating dirt

(10:37):
the whole time and it's notgonna be that fun.
So we decided to go golf and weget up on the course and this,
this pro, that's course we'retalking about it.
She's into wildlife and allthis stuff.
She's like hey, you, um, youguys know you can't go razoring,
because we had mentioned wewere, we were going to do that
and we're like what she's likestage three improved roads.

(10:57):
You can't have any vehicles onimproved roads just because of
the sparks of the vehiclehitting rocks and all the stuff
could start fires and everything.
And I'm like what, what that is?
This is that's crazy man.
We could have been arrested,like, like, like, smoky the bear
ranger would have came in andlike, took us away and impounded
our vehicles.
We were like, damn, we made theright decision today.

(11:18):
But then we were.
I was like, wow.
I'm like, well, what's stagefour?
I'm like, is that like like nohot chicks out, like they can't
have their stilettos might startfires and stuff like that, like
I don't know it was?
It was crazy, man.
We got a little bit of distancewith this hot chick thing and
so my buddy was like tellingeverybody oh yeah, yeah, we can

(11:39):
take our wives outside stagefour because we can't have hot
chicks out here, you knowcarolyn hills anyhow.
Uh, the other thing too.
I was on a plane and, uh, and,and, like you and the band, I
ran into a couple that literallyI run, I fly three.
I'm this week, month I havevacation, so I have three

(12:01):
flights that I did this entiremonth because I'm stuff to do,
it's like a common denominatorthat we talk every week.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, you vacation you fly, I enjoy Exactly Right.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
I live, you work, go ahead.
Well, some days you'll figureit out.
No, whatever, we're trying toget you there, you suck.
So, anyhow, but I rented hisfamily that was on my flight
like two weeks prior to and, uh,that was the family I was
talking about last time.
But uh, the guy thatinterrupted me and I was trying
to do my job and I was like,will you just let me do my job?

(12:31):
You know, it was that familyand she was like, yeah, I just
told my whole family about you.
This is the nicest flightattendant.
Oh my gosh, you know?
And?
And shout out to that familybecause I didn't give them our
QR code to be able to see thetwo shows.
But they were on a flight againand she was so happy and I was
able to do the same exact thing.

(12:51):
They had a kid.
We had a full flight.
Ended up, not having a fullflight Moved some people around
and they got a whole row, so itwas cool.
Shout out to everybody outthere Be nice to your flight
attendants.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
You guys, we can help you out.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Super stew for the day, right dude, I was like, but
I don't know if they'll write aletter or anything.
Who knows?
We don't get letters unlessthey're bad, bad letters.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Maybe a stick them note.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, anyways, yeah.
So when I was out there, thelast thing I'd say was um, my
buddy, he's like, he's a, he's acharacter and everything.
He's like I got just joke foryou, you know, and this is kind
of a a golf joke, but I thinkyou're in, you're enjoying the
joke Cause I was like I gotta, Igotta tell G about this and I
was like so here's the joke.
The joke went like this thisgal, she got stung by a bee on

(13:38):
the golf course and she goes indoctor and she's like I got
stung by a bee and I don't knowwhat to do about it and
everything.
And he's like well, where didyou get stung?
And he, she says I got stungbetween hole one and hole two.
And she, he, the doctor, looksat her and says um, maybe I
think that your stance is toowide how did I know where this

(14:02):
was going?
I love the jokes.
I had to bring it on.
Here's the best part.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I told.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Carol about it last night and we were Carol's.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Like don't do that.
Well, listen, that's not funny,sean.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
This whole joke and all of a sudden, I was with some
friends the other night, lastnight, and uh, I tell carol and
we're driving home, and carollooks over, man, she's like I
don't get that joke it's notfunny, sean, it's not funny so I
had to slowly say it to her.

(14:41):
You, she got stung between holeone and hole two.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Oh, oh, the no-no zone.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Oh, her hole.
One and two.
Yeah, I get that Okay.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Anyways.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Ann.
Joke 101.
You know you got people likethat too.
I know, right, you're like, youtell a joke and they're looking
at you like I don't, I don'tget it right, I don't get this.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I don't understand it anyways, man.
Um, you know what's happeningright now on our show.
We've got a special guest and Ijust want to introduce him.
He came all the way out here tobe on our show and Balake,
balake, it's Blake Balake howare you?
Doing it's.
Blake, okay, I said no, no,announce it with me, Balake.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, you're not pronouncing it, right.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Balake.
No, say it right, balake.
Okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Balake, welcome to the show.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Blocky.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
We love that.
All the Key Peele audience outthere would love that part about
it.
But, blake, how you doing bud,I'm good how are you guys?
Outstanding man.
We always love to have guestson our show because it gives
another perspective than ourcrazy asses, right?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Exactly.
But you know something?
Here's the funny part Blake isis one person that me and Sean
both agreed that we wanted to onthe show.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh yeah, Hands down.
I was like this, this is a,this is a great contribution to
flight attendants all over theworld.
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, oh.
It's not just that, though.
I mean you come across thesepeople, and Not just that,
though.
I mean you come across thesepeople and you know you have bad
flight attendants.
Blake is completely opposite.
He is actually nice toeverybody, he's great to his
crews, he's very polite.
I couldn't say enough about him, good worker.
Yeah, and me and Sean neitherone of us actually knew that we

(16:40):
flew with him and I told Sean Iwas like have you ever flown
with this guy named Blake?
I said Malake flew with him andI told sean, I was like have you
ever flown?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
with this guy named blake and I said I said yeah,
I've flown with black yeah, buthe was.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
I mean his personality.
He has such a great personality.
And then we started talking andthis guy goes everywhere really
.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yep, blake, blake.
Tell us about it, man, tell usa little.
First of all a little bit aboutyourself.
How'd you become a flightattendant?

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, so I got my master's degree when I was in
Scotland.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Scotland yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, you were in there , you live in there, or what?
I moved there for my master'sdegree.
Oh, that's cool.
And what was your master'sdegrees in Intercultural
business communication, boom.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Love it.
Intercultural businesscommunication.
Boom Love it, I love it.
Blocky was talking, blocky hewas so yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
So I was over there for about a year and COVID
happened, so I had to come home,and as soon as I was done with
my student loans I said I needto travel again.
So I became a flight attendant.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Really yeah.
Was this like something thatyou were aspiring to do, like
this is flight attendants withsomething?
Or is this like how did youjust how did show up on your uh
spectrum of finding the job?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
so I was on a flight and uh talked to the flight
attendant the whole time and sheconvinced me to apply that's
cool yeah yeah, before we evengo farther, I had to ask you
what was your favorite thingabout Ireland, though, Scotland.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Scotland he said it's Scotland.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Oh, did he say Scotland?

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Yeah, we're going to get you to the right country.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
No, I mean, yeah, I'm sorry, but what was your
favorite thing?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
about it.
So I lived in Edinburgh.
I think the culture and thehistory I'm a big history buff
so I think that just beingimmersed in that culture was
just my favorite thing.
Going to castles yeah, reallyyeah, europe is cool.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
I mean so cool for all the people in the united
states and there's so manymillions of them that have never
been outside the united states.
They, I mean they're so missingthe cultural history that's
abroad.
You know, like you go to allthese different countries and
we're going to talk about that alittle bit more, but I mean
just to experience the historythat they have there is like so

(18:51):
awesome and when you compare itto our history, it's like we're
a little blip.
The US is just a little blip ofwhat they have experienced.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
What do they say?
The US has the miles, thatEurope has the history of Right.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
There you go.
So how many countries have youbeen to?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Blake, I think I've been to just under 35.
35?
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow.
So is this a thing like?
I have a I don't have ithanging up here in the office,
but I have this thing where I goto all the national parks.
Is that the country you'regoing to.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, the country is the same thing that you're doing
, yeah, and so I collect flagsfrom each country that I go to,
so I have them on my desk.
Uh, so it looks like the Unitednations.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh, that's cool.
So you can go like real sizeflags or just miniature flags.
Miniature flags, oh that's cool.
I got a funny flag story foryou.
So I I lived abroad, in italy,and was going out one time and I
decided, you know, me and myboys are out running around the
the countryside and we see thisbig, huge party in one of the

(19:54):
squares which squares areeverywhere over europe, right
and so we go in there and we'relike man, this is a cool party,
we're jumping, bouncing around,jumping, we're drinking the
whole nine yards.
Then we kind of started lookingaround and there's all these
flags surrounding the wholesquare and they were all like
these red, hammer and sickleflags.
Oh, and we instantly figuredout we should probably leave.

(20:19):
This is a communist party thatwe don't want to be at.
But then we decided that, as wewere leaving and we exited the
whole thing, that we reached upand snagged one of their flags
and ripped it that will be good.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
You see what happens when, when, when people do that
right, they go to prison.
Yeah, nice sean you gotta catchfirst.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
The only people that are caught get to go there.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
So you did this.
So 32 or 35 countries.
You did this in the two and ahalf years of flying.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
So most of them I did since I started flying, but I
did a couple whenever I was inScotland.
I would just travel on theweekends because it's so cheap
to fly in Europe.
Yeah, like 20 bucks roundEurope.
Yeah, like $20 round trip.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, that's awesome.
I know my nephew did that studyabroad and he'd every weekend
go to a different country.
Absolutely Because theireconomy carriers there are just
so stupid, crazy, cheap.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
But you think about how long we've been doing this
job and I was looking at Blake'slist of countries they went to
and there's only a few of themthat I haven't gone.
But I've been doing it for 39years.
He's been doing it for two anda half yeah, two and a half.
This guy's moving, he's moving.
I mean that is crazy.
That's a crazy amount ofcountries.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
What's your favorite countries?
Oh, I just did Australia.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
That was amazing, australia is on my bucket list.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I still haven't gotten there when at in
Australia.
I spent time in Sydney and inMelbourne, but Sydney is the
best.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
No kidding, okay, the harbor.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Bondi Beach yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Did you go to Manly?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
No, well, we took the ferry, but we didn't stop.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Manly is incredible, so we used to stay right up from
the opera house.
Okay, did you go see the operahouse too?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
We walked into the opera house.
We didn't see anything.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, yeah, so we used to.
We stayed right there at thatpark.
There was a park right thereand then we used to shoot across
to.
It was King's Cross.
Yeah, did you go down there?
Yeah, was that pretty seedy now, or was it?
Was it still the nightlifescene?
It's coming back, okay, becauseback then it was the nightlife

(22:35):
scene.
We used to go to this, uh, barcalled osbrock's a lot of fun it
was.
It was a dance club.
Don't remember it much becausehe's old.
I wouldn't know.
My ass was drunk.
Oh, there you go that too I meanI was drunk, I, I was looking
up, I was that.
I asked this guy.
I was like hey, where's osrocks?
And he's like you're in frontof it, mate, and I was like damn
, I couldn't.

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Even I looked up and it wasjust all these lights.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
But anyway, kings cross was amazing, yeah so, uh,
now that you guys have bonded onaustralia, what was the worst
place, like what's one of?
Now that you guys have bondedon Australia, what was the worst
place, like what?
What's one of the places thatyou were like surprised and like
this isn't great.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
I would never talk bad about it anywhere, but, uh,
I didn't love Brussels.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Why I felt like there was a lot of um, a lot of
people that didn't speak English.
Okay, so that was difficult, um, and yeah, I didn't think that
it was the cleanest place,gotcha.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
It wasn't inviting, it didn't really welcome the
American tourists.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Not me, see how polite he is.
No, no, no, say it like it is.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
When you say not me, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I didn't enjoy it.
Other people might.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, gotcha, I will tell you.
This is.
This is like, speaking fromexperience of traveling, all
this stuff Americans, when wetravel, we always want everybody
to conform to us.
It's like we're even we're intheir country.
It's like they're the foreigner.
Still, you know, like that,that attitude is out there, but,
um, it's not so like we should.
I mean, we should be morerespectful of these other

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countries but at the same time,yeah, some of them aren't so
inviting to us.
Right, we're the enemies comingin.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Any country that you didn't feel safe in.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
The United States Boom.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
What city?
Seattle, seattle.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Did you ever go to the murder capital of?

Speaker 3 (24:31):
the world.
No, no, that was you all.
Yeah, there you go, sean, doyou ever go to the murder
capital?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
of the world.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
No, no, that was you all yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah Well, you know everybody's got to visit places.
You know everybody needs atourist.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Do you travel with anybody?

Speaker 3 (24:42):
I travel with a few other flight attendants in my
family.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Okay, wow, cool.
Is this a like?
You have a travel companions asanother flight attendants that
like frequently try with you.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, yeah, so a couple of times a year.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
How's that work out Like?
How's that play out?
Like is like you just likeshooting off a text.
Let's go to you, know you backa stand or whatever.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
We got to align our schedules and then we just pick
a random place and figure outhow to get there.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
So you just go to the airport, look at the board and
travel.
That has been done.
Yeah, there you go.
We've experienced that too.
I like how you just threw inUzbekistan there you go, Are you
going to like, change it up?
You can't just be like oh, youwent to Paris, you haven't been
to Uzbekistan, have you no?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Blake, that's where you're going.
He's going to Uzbekistan, Blake, and we still haven't heard
back from him.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Shout out Whoever's listening out there.
Give us a shout out, uzbekistan, and we expect you to shout out
in English.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
So you did these trips with your family, right,
yeah, okay, is there a trip thatyou guys didn't stop talking
about that?

Speaker 3 (25:47):
everybody loved.
So we did a Mediterraneancruise a few years back and that
was probably the best trip thatwe did as a family.
Not having to worry about foodor accommodation leaves a lot of
fighting out of it.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh, who'd you guys travel on?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
We did Norwegian.
I like Norwegian.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, I'm not a big.
I'm not a big cruise person.
I mean I'd see that aspect ofwhat you're saying like having
the having.
I'm not a big cruise person.
I mean I'd see that aspect ofwhat you're saying like having
the having everything that youdon't have to really worry about
.
Like my favorites, worst, myworst thing that I have to do
every day is figure it out whatwe're going to eat every day,
and so having that ability tolike, take all those factors out
there is is good but Iappreciate the convenience, but

(26:27):
it's not my favorite.
Yeah, it yeah, just like I don'tmy big deterrence is the, the
boarding and the unboarding ofthe boat, like the ship or
whatever you want to call it.
It's just like it's such a pain.
And then like, if you getstatus, I guess on those, just
like the airlines, right thatyou can get on first and get off
first, right, but um, but whenyou don't do it, you know it's

(26:50):
not a good experience.
I don't know how they keeppeople captured on them, but
yeah, there's that anyways soyou, you took the whole family
right.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, and, and it said that you took your grandma
on it so that was a differentcruise, but yeah so so on the
cruise with grandma rightwhere'd you go?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
so it was her 80th birthday and I booked a cruise
Just the two of us.
We went to the Bahamas.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oh, that's cool Like a bouncing Bahamas like to
different islands.
Yeah, oh, that's cool.
How long was the cruise?
Just five days, all right, yeah, cool, yeah, I love the Bahamas
.
Oh, not right now, at thismoment, and seeing that they're
getting hit with a hurricaneyeah, yeah, I mean, I've been to
some of the bahama islands andI and some I like better than

(27:35):
others, of course, um, but uh,yeah, I have a horrible story
about one of the abaco.
Have you been to abaco?
No, yeah, it's not a cruiseship, stop, okay.
So nobody should stop there.
Don't, don't go there.
We did a vacation and we got uhlike literally eaten from our
ankles all the way up to ourknees with um, no, seems.

(27:56):
Oh, it was awful but, you'veseen them afterwards?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
no, I seen their um carnage of my legs, but no, they
were gone you see how he missesthe shit.
You just I mean you just giveit to me and they were gone, all
right, all right, gee.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Anyways, yeah, but Bahamas is awesome, man, oh yeah
.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
So who picked it?
You or Grandma?
I did, I surprised her.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
That's cool.
So you were just like, hey,Grandma, let's go on the cruise.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yep, that's awesome.
We were both in bed by 8 pmevery night.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Drunk.
Um, we were both in bed by 8 pmevery night, drunk.
No, no, uh, I don't know howgrandma rolls, you know like I'm
just asking questions here.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
No, I love my grandma , but me taking care of her
exhausted me as much as herbeing there.
Oh yeah, she was tired.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
I was tired, no but it was a good time.
Yeah, that's awesome man.
I grandmas are awesome, period.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
I think it's cool that you travel with your family
, though.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
I do.
I think that's phenomenal.
So you came from West Virginia,yeah, okay, one thing that
we're all from different partsof the world, right, and from
West Virginia.
There's certain things aboutthe people of West Virginia.
What would you say thatfollowed you around the world
that you could take from your?
So, I would say that WestVirginians are uncommonly kind.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
I've never met anybody from West Virginia.
That's not just the mostwelcoming person, and I know
that I've been all around theworld.
Everybody's nice, right, butthere's something special about
the people in West Virginia andjust how welcoming and
considerate and just friendlythey are.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
No, I can attest to that, because that's exactly
what I told Sean about you.
I mean a hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Oh yeah, he's totally representative of exactly what
he just said.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Now this one now, this part of it didn't didn't
surprise me.
You're an Eagle scout.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
There you go, you an.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Eagle Scout Sean no Dude, I joined.
We've been through this, I knowyeah.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
I'm not even a Cub Scout either.
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, I never did it, but it's a great organization.
I mean, I think, first of all,any organization, whether it be
the scouts or the military, orthe scouts or the military or
any big, you know, fraternity oranything that can guide young
men in their early adolescence,I'm for it.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Now, you had as an Eagle scout, you had to do.
You had to do something at thevery end, right, was it?

Speaker 3 (30:26):
a big project.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, what was your project?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
I did.
I built a fire pit and benchesat my church.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah See, I didn't even knowthat.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, eagle Scout, they have a project to do and
the thing I think is amazing,when you get to that level, they
always do something just likethat.
Yeah, it's something that isgiving back to the community,
right?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I think that's cool.
I mean, the one thing I dothink about that is that when
you do the project, it's alwaysto give back to the community.
Yeah, okay.
So we're on a plane, you're ona desert island, first thing
that you do to keep everybodyalive, being the Eagle Scout.
There you go, you're on, okay.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
I would probably assess the situation, break
everybody into teams and thenhave them disperse.
So one team would be gatheringfirewood, One team would be
looking for fresh water and orshelter.
Another team would be lookingat the supplies that we could
take from the plane.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
You go, man, you go.
That's where you go.
That's why these organizationsare so valuable, because not
everybody would even think thatway, right?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
off the cuff.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, I mean, like I know, as flight attendants we've
been trained on a little bit ofthe survival stuff, but really
I mean outside of, like gettinginto our rafts, right, yeah, and
outside of, you know, gettingoff the plane, that step beyond
that.
They really don't focus toomuch on that, do they?
No, not really.
Yeah, I mean like it's not,like we're gonna always land at

(31:52):
the airport, no, you know, andso it's.
It'd be interesting to me thatif they would give us more
training along the eagle scoutroute, you know, I mean yeah
like I mean, it's the thepercentage of that happening.
It's so random, right.
I mean it's like highlyunlikely, but we should be
trained for everything you know.
It was just a thought that justpopped in my head right here.

(32:13):
So, uh, blocky, you were adisney fan yeah awesome, cool.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Tell us a little bit about that, like how that
happened oh goodness, uh, my momwent to disney world right when
it opened back in the seventies, and so she was raised at
Disney.
I was in Disney in the wombbefore I was born and then every
couple of years when I wasgrowing up, we went uh, my
family sings a lot, so that wasa big part of it growing up to

(32:45):
church family, yeah, yeah, Imean most families that I'll
sing a lot.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
They're all church.
It starts in the church, right,yeah, that's cool, man, I mean
I've uh, so I haven't had muchexposure to Disney, is like
throughout my entire life, likeit's only been when I wanted to
go there, top of thing, you know.
And parents, I think, took usmaybe twice to Disneyland.
Yeah, you know, um, we didn'treally have the means to do it,

(33:15):
but I mean those disney'sexpensive, so expensive, you
know, that is uh.
So so what's your favoritecharacter at disney?

Speaker 2 (33:20):
mickey, mickey, of course, dude, come on g I have
got a mickey, an old mickeymouse watch okay, that's your
favorite character no, no, I'mjust saying.
I mean he was talking aboutmickey.
I've got a very old vintagemickey mouse watch and a little
bitty mickey mouse.
It's a vintage um fishing poleoh nice, that's cool, I'll show

(33:42):
it to you because, since you'rea mickey mouse fan and and don't
tell me my character, yeah,what's your.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
What's your?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
favorite.
Well, I mean, everybody lovesmickey though.
Okay, we're right back to thequestion what's your favorite?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Well, I mean, everybody loves Mickey, though.
Okay, we're right back to thequestion what's your favorite
character?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I would say Mickey.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Mickey.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Dude, come on.
Everybody knows my favoritecharacter, tigger.
Come on, tigger, bouncy,trouncy, fun, fun, fun.
It would be the fun andwonderful thing about Tigger is
he's the only one, hey, sohere's a Tigger story.
There's a pilot out here thatwe fly with.

(34:18):
Do you know Dan?
Yeah, captain, yeah, dan wasTigger, really You're more.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
You got to talk to him now.
You got something to talk tohim.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Next time you see him he was Tigger.
He actually had a gig at Disneywhere they were flying these
modified aircrafts, you knowthose like little uh uh scooter
things with the fan on it, yeah,and then you do the parachute
on top, whatever.
Well, disney actually hired abunch of pilots to go and do
these fly arounds, but they hadto fly around in characters and
so he was tigger and he was totigger flying around the whole

(34:49):
area there.
It was really cool.
He had like video and all thisstuff, but you could check it
out.
Tell Dan, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Tigger, you're Tigger , man, you're Tigger, that's
right.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I'm looking at you, thinking piglet.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Piglet, you're thinking that's my favorite
character.
All right.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
All right, all right, all right, eeyore.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Okay, go the.
Uh, so walt disney parksoutside of the us.
Is there a bucket list for that?
Yeah, so I had tickets fordisneyland paris.
The never got to go because ofit, so I'm hoping that they're
going to honor them.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Okay, but disneyland hong kong, that's it so I went
yeah, not hong kong, I went intojapan okay, tokyo yeah, tokyo,
okay, and we did the whole daytrip, get on the trains and
everything.
But the cool thing well, theuncool thing that you don't
realize over there is that wegot to the front door and it was

(35:46):
sold out.
No, we were like disney exactlysold out, sold out, that's how
many people are over there, wow.
So be aware when you go abroadto these disney parks that you
might need a ticket to get inbeforehand and make sure that
they're gonna let you in becauseyou can have a ticket and they
still won't let you in.

(36:06):
That's crazy.
It was crazy.
I mean, I mean to understand,like the spaces in japan and
over in asia, areas like thepopulations or something.
I mean the trains.
You get on the trains andthey're pushing you in with a
stick to get the doors closed.
You know, like that's how manypeople but nobody argues over
there.
You can push it in and they'reall they're all okay and polite

(36:27):
and they'll scoot in and squeezeup next to you and you know all
that stuff.
But it's like it was amazing.
I never heard of a sold outDisney.
I didn't know that that waspossible.
Oh but and I guess it doeshappen here in the States too on
holidays, that makes sense,yeah, so I've been down to
Disney world and like we gotthere at noon and they're like

(36:49):
right now we're not allowing'regonna need to wait till some
other people come out, I feltlike I was going to the
nightclub, you know anyhow I wasjust listening to you and I was
sitting there thinking I knowyou kind of looked up at me like
well, what did you just say?

Speaker 2 (37:05):
no, because when you start thinking about disney you
know you kind of you you go backin your head and you, you, you.
You see it's a small world andyou're thinking about all these
little bitty rides and stufflike that.
It's a small world, right, doyou like all that?
Yeah, of course it's a classic.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
What did you like about that?
Well, the song gets stuck inyour head all day.
Yeah, but no, seeing all thedifferent countries Going over
the countries.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Right, it's like what we do every day.
That's what I liked about it'sa Small World, because I was
thinking exactly the same thing.
The right it's a Small World isperfect because you traveling
and us traveling all over theworld you're actually flying all
over it.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yeah Well, I kind of thought it was more like Chinese
water torture.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
You see what we got to deal with Blake.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's a small world over and over and over.
I was having nightmares thatnight about it.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
See, two of us are thinking it's kind of cool,
we're flying over all thesecountries and everything, and
he's thinking he's gettingwaterboarded.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, I was thinking about taking out some
animatronics and get me off thisdamn boat.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
All right, let's talk some flying stories.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, man flying stories.
So when you're flying somewhere, do you ever get jealous about
passengers, or just well thatwant to get off the plane or
anything like that?

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, I would say that a lot of places that we get
to fly to are pretty gooddestinations.
Yeah, I think the biggest thingthat's a turnoff is like when
they're like yeah, you get tostay over in Cancun for a day
and then last minute they'relike actually, you're going to
go to Minneapolis for 10 hours.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh yeah, yeah.
And then last minute they'relike actually you're going to go
to Minneapolis for 10 hours.
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
The change of the schedule.
Change of the schedule.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
The company does to you.
Yeah, that stinks Like whenyou're anticipating going
somewhere and you can't stay.
Yep, yeah, I know likeeverybody always thinks like
when they talk to me about myjob, they're like hey.
So how long did you get to staythere, you know, and I went to
cancun and came back.
Yep, you know, like I didn'teven look outside what the

(39:16):
weather was.
We got so much stuff going onlike you're getting on the plane
.
You're, sometimes you never getoff the plane, you just turn
around, come back, or peoplewill be like you know what was
it like that down there, thatyou know what?

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I didn't even look outside but you know, I love
that about, love that about ourjob.
Though it's crazy like that, Ilove all the craziness in it.
I mean it's not normal, right,I mean it's not normal.
There's nothing normal aboutour job.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
So, talking about not normal, what's one of the
flights that just completelywent wrong up top of your head?

Speaker 3 (39:54):
I know that a lot of flights.
It seems like whenever onething goes wrong, then it's just
a snowball effect.
Yeah, one thing after anotherafter another I can't think of
any flights specifically thathave like continued.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
That stood out in your head like this is like
trauma ties you and no, but I'mstill new.
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, how longhave you been flying blake?
Just two and a half years, twoand a half years, and so two and
a half years you haven't hadtoo much of a roller coaster
going no, it's been pretty goodno crazy turbulence no, really,
wow, that's good, that's good,that's good.

(40:23):
Yeah, because when you have thatfirst, uh, big turbulence, and
when we say big, like it's muchdifferent than the public says
crazy, you know, like we've beenfloating in the air, yep,
slamming down, hit the ceiling.
Yeah, hit the ceiling.
All those type of things havehappened.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
All those things that you don't want to happen, yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
It will happen and you're going to be having a new
perspective.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yeah, can't wait.
Yeah, you'll come back and talkabout that one.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah, you'll definitely come back and talk
about that one, but I mean,that's awesome In two years you
haven't.
I mean, everything's gonepretty smooth right, yeah, any
weird things.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Last night I ran into a customer at the gate waiting
to get on the plane.
She said that she was abductedby her mother when she was born,
brought to the United Statesfrom France, and she didn't find
out until she was like 30.
Her mother told her that herfather was this horrible person.

(41:23):
She finds out.
Nope, he's great.
She was coming back from afamily reunion in France, wow.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Wow, that's crazy man .
That's some crazy shit rightthere.
I mean, I, I have a personalstory about the DNA stuff, but I
mean to be find out later inlife and, oh yeah, I was, I had
been abducted by the person thatshe probably loves, right, and
uh, that would be like Whoa yeah, but that's the cool thing

(41:52):
Another cool thing about our jobbecause we run into all these
super interesting wild storiesabout people's lives that happen
all over the world, right.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Airplanes, you cross paths.
I mean, that's what it is.
We cross paths with thesepeople and what I found out
throughout the years is there'sa reason.
There's always a reason why wewe cross the path of someone and
, um, you know, just like I wastelling you about the band
member, I mean all the flightshe ends up on my flight yeah and
you know.

(42:21):
Then I end up at his, at his uhshow and everybody thinks
you're a pilot.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Now exactly, that's cool, yeah.
So see, it's cool that you getto be that in no training.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, not one hour.
See, there's a reason foreverything, sean.
There is man, I get a littlebit of a title.
Yeah, smartass.
So okay, you've had to have acrazy layover, right.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
Okay, give us one.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Okay, I was in reno.
I love reno, by the way, I lovereno, but it's in its hate reno
.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I don't get it well, so we could pause for one second
.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Reno's disgusting I was gonna say it's like a
lowercase vegas.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You walk out of the hotels and it's.
It's very riffraffy there,right it, it is Okay.
So from that perspective, ifyou can see through the fog, I
mean that's cool.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah, but they had.
I mean they kind of as long asyou stay inside right, it seems
like a little city inside therewith all the casinos and
everything.
As long as you stay inside,yeah, but when you go?

Speaker 1 (43:29):
outside.
When you go outside, though I Ijust said, the area is okay,
but I mean the river that goesthrough the city, right, that's
kick-ass.
Have you been?
I mean, that whole area isawesome, yeah, yeah, but so go
ahead tell us about your renoyeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
So reno is an hour from lake tahoe.
So I had this crazy idea I'mgonna rent a car and drive to
lake tahoe.
I talked to the flightattendants who I was working
with.
One of them was like yeah, I'llgo too.
So we go get this car, drive tolake tahoe, spend a couple
hours on the lake.
Beautiful, yeah, water'scrystal clear, cold, it's a hot

(44:06):
july day, perfect.
So we are uh driving back upthrough the mountains and, uh,
the car runs out of oil.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Oh shit, completely damn I checked the like seize
engine type of thing done, wow,wow this is a rental, yeah so I
call the guy.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
I'm like what am I supposed to do?
He's like can you get to a gasstation and buy oil?
So I am like coasting,terrified that this entire
engine is going to burst intoflames.
Yeah, we somehow made it, butthat was a crazy layover I'll
never forget yeah, that's crazyyeah tahoe is awesome.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Did you do any hiking up there?
No, no, just just the lake touraround the city, check out the
casinos over there and all thatstuff.
So you were on the south sideof Lake Tahoe, yeah, yeah, if
you ever get a chance, go backthere.
Instead of going south andgoing to the city, which is it's
got some stuff to do, try todrive around the lake, just the

(45:09):
different stops and thedifferent areas around the lake,
because you're going to go intocalifornia and come back and
then divide and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
It's um, it's awesome just make sure the car has yeah
, and check the oil yeah allright, blake, you have a shih
tzu.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
I do right his name's , sammy, yeah he has a.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
What shih tzu?
Is that a digestive problem?

Speaker 2 (45:30):
see what I'm saying, right, not Right.
Not a dog lover.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Oh, you're talking about a dog.
Okay, Blocky, give it to us.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah, his name's Sammy Sammy yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Sammy.
Okay now, if Sammy could pickyour next destination, where
would he pick?

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Sammy's a lap dog.
He sleeps most of the time, soanywhere that he can sleep he'd
be fine.
But uh, I think it'd be fun tobring him to like ireland.
Let him run around in the sheepfields, right, yeah so why?

Speaker 1 (46:01):
why do you know why?
Like they've uh named thatbreed shih tzu, I don't.
It just kind of occurred to me,like, like, how did dogs get
their breed name?
You, you know?
Like, well, mine's a Yorkie, soYorkshire.
Somebody had a bad experiencewith this breed.
A shitty.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Like a whole zoo shit .
We're going to get into thiswhole deep conversation, aren't
we, Sean?
It's just a damn shit, Sean.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
I don't know.
I think there's other peopleout there asking this.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
They come from China.
They were bred to be theemperor's lap dogs cool, but I
don't know why they're calledshih tzus.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Maybe he took some shit on the emperor's lap, I
don't know.
I'm just throwing it out therelike this is a.
I know other people want toknow this information, but just
saying all right man.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
You are two and a half years into this job.
Did you make the right decision?

Speaker 3 (46:55):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
That's cool, you think you made the right
decision, yeah.
I'm 39 years into this job.
I think I made the rightdecision.
Oh yeah, how about you.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I made the right decision the second I walked
into the lobby getting the jobwhen I saw a hundred girls in
this lobby and it was me threeother guys.
I like I was like I thought Ihad gone to heaven because I

(47:27):
just had left a military andbeen with a whole bunch of
swinging dicks and it was just adifferent atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I was neat in need of , but anyway you know what I
love about our job, though likeI just told you guys before is
that it's crazy, though I mean,you know there's nothing.
There's nothing normal about it.
No, and that's what I likeabout our job.
The best is is that there isn't.
There isn't anything normalabout the job.
Yeah, everything changes.
I mean tomorrow, when you geton a plane, or Sean gets on a
plane, or I get a plane, we'regoing to have another story to

(47:56):
tell and uh, and it's just goingto be one day away.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Right, I mean, you know, we could hit that
turbulence, we could see thatdog, we could see that crazy
person.
Uh, all these crazy videos thatyou see, the YouTube channels,
we experience that daily, everyday, right.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Every day, man, there's something crazy going on
in the world.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
So, Blake, here's the last question, and then we're
going to go around the globe.
You've flown with Sean andmyself, right yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Who's better Really At the job?
You're putting him in thatsituation.
Yeah, who's better Really Atthe job.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
You're putting him in that situation?

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Yep, okay, go for it, go ahead, obviously, sean,
there you go.
Boom, boom, shakalaka, people,people.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Block, a damn block.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
I take everything back that I said, no, we're both
good, you're both top tier, I'mleaving.
No, I love, I had to do that ifyou guys couldn't imagine this
right now there was like thisgigantic hell head swelling and
everything and block it, justpopped it.

(49:13):
When we get to video, you guyswill be able to see all this
shut up all right, man, let's goaround the globe.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Hey dad, here's a stepson tells his mom to chill.
That would be an ass whoopingsean.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
No there's a video out on this whole thing and the
son came back and was like chill, Will you just chill?
And like out of that, I knowlike social media went fucking
nuts.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Well, that's the point, blake.
Would you tell your mom tochill If I want to walk again?
No, exactly that's what I'msaying.
If you just read, you don'teven have to watch a damn video.
Okay, I got that story.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
This is what happened .
The guy goes in and he thekid's like in the kitchen with
the, it's a video.
And he's like, tells this kid.
The kid goes, you know, tellsmom, you know, will you just
chill?
And dad's just like, come here.
He's like how do you talk toyour mother?
And he's like giving him thewhole thing.

(50:15):
He says, all right, get downand do me some pushups.
Boom, do you talk to yourmother that way?
Blah, blah, blah.
And he's giving him this wholething and he's making him do
this physical exercise.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
And at the end he said uh-oh.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
And then he stands up and he's like you know it was a
stepson.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah, you know it was a stepson, I get that.
Yeah, it's still being asswhooping.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
But then the whole entire internet just went crazy
because they were like you knowhow?
You know you're, you're gettingthis kid and you're giving them
physical torture to be like thediscipline them.
You know.
But if you see the video andyou ever see this video and how
it came out, like I gave thisguy so much kudos.
He just handled it so well andmade the kid do.

(50:56):
I mean, there's all kinds ofways to discipline a kid, but
it's like this kid.
He just was like this is whatyou need to do regroup, refocus.
This is not how we talk towomen.
This is not how you talk toyour mother.
You don't talk to any type ofauthoritarian people this way.
I thought it was an excellent,excellent job of what this guy

(51:17):
did, but we need more of that inthe world.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
We do.
But, Blake, what was that ifyou told your mom to chill?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Oh, I wouldn't be able to walk for a week.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Yeah, exactly Sean Old school, it would be a
Virginian ass.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
We would just tell all those people to keep their
damn opinions to their self,because they wouldn't freaking
mad.
We would just tell all thosepeople to keep their damn
opinions to their self, becausethey wouldn't fricking maddle.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
But this is all in video.
That was, you know, like himbeating the kid.
Probably would have had adifferent response on it, but no
, just he was.
It was just really cool.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
It was a cool video.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
And I was like man man that we need more of that in
the world, Like check thesechildren and check these
adolescents and how they do youknow?

Speaker 2 (51:53):
see, we just didn't have videos back, or?

Speaker 1 (51:56):
or just send them to idiot scott eagle scouts.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
We didn't have videos , man, they had a belt right all
right.
So this guy, did you guys seethis guy that was vaping in the
in the bathroom?
You ever have that?
You ever have somebody vaping,oh, once or twice.
All right, did you catch him?

Speaker 1 (52:14):
yep, what'd you do take it away then?
What?

Speaker 2 (52:18):
did you ever have to?
Did you have to have himarrested?
Did you need to have the?

Speaker 1 (52:22):
airplane met.
I've always went to route like,and I wouldn't have done that
because of the vaping, like it'sa little different than smoking
a cigarette type of thing.
Um, I just take it away fromhim and then I'm like, then I
will explain to them therepercussions that could happen
if I went forward with this.
But if they're being umreceptive to what I'm telling

(52:44):
them, normally I'm like at theend of the flight I might give
you this back, right, you know,but um, most of the time I'm
like I don't need to like send,set up a three line fire.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Blake?
What about you?
Did you?
Did you handle that the sameway?

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Yeah, basically, as long as it's not a real fire,
Most of the time it's just.
Don't do this.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, don't do this.
This is not our rules.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Well, this idiot was taking a video of himself with
the flight attendant and itbackfired on him.
Did you see that?
Did you see the video of?

Speaker 3 (53:21):
him no.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Okay, so he's in the bathroom.
He got caught and did you seethis, blake?
Yeah, and it backfired on him.
The social media just lit himup because he was sitting there
saying that he had 25,000followers.
Do you know what?
25,000 followers in media isNothing?
A blip, it's a blip, yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
It's like your cousins yeah.
Right, so you go to a bar, yeah25,000.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
And now he's got like two, his mom and his dad.
That's about it, because he gotlit up on social media.
I mean this guy was an absoluteidiot.
But yeah, just don't do it.
Don't vape on an aircraft, okay.
And then the other one.
I seen this woman.
She had this huge wild tiradein Orlando's International
Airport.
Did you guys see this?

Speaker 1 (54:05):
No.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
She went apeshit, man .
She missed the standby list twotimes.
She starts yelling at this gateagent, tries to kick him Wait
standby list.
Starts yelling at this.
This gate agent tries to kickhim wait, standby list.
What do you mean?
So, whatever happened withtheir flight, you know how
they're put on the next list.
They go to standby on the nextplane.
Well, she didn't make it, sothe planes were full and so she

(54:26):
didn't make the the next flight.
So two flights later, she'sstill not getting on.
So she goes crazy, startskicking this uh gate agent,
loses it, smashes a couplecomputers and then she is
arrested.
Now, all of this, you end upwith a $5,000 bail and she was
allowed to return home.

(54:46):
What an idiot, idiot.
What an idiot, I mean seriously.
I mean all you're doing istraveling, so you're trying to
get home, and out of that youend up going to jail.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Yeah, this situation happens so many times in the
airline business that theairlines shut down for whatever
reason.
There's technology glitches,there's weather, whatever but
then there's only so many seatsand so many planes leaving out,
and so that's sometimes cascadeswhere people can't get on a

(55:18):
plane for days, you know right.
So we've been in thosesituations for numerous
different reasons, whether it bea hurricane, or whether
technology shut down or whatever.
I mean you need to keep yourshit cool, right?
It's affecting everybody, youknow, but I mean when you can't
get your shit cool right, it'saffecting everybody, you know,
but I mean when you can't get ona plane, there's no reason.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
No, I mean, and like I said, you know, we see a lot
of these different things happenall the time on the airplane
and in the gate area.
But man, this was absolutelycrazy.
I just don't understand thesepeople.
I mean, you've seen enough ofthese videos that you're going
to jail.
I mean, everybody has you onvideo, they have you on their

(55:59):
phones, they have all thisinformation, the court.
All they do is basically say,okay, you're guilty, that's it.
I mean, you're going to jail,you're paying whatever fines is,
and that's it, I mean.
But I don't understand whywould you do that?
Why would you just keep doingthis?
I mean, we see these videos allthe time and these people end
up going to jail.

(56:20):
Don't learn the lesson at all.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
I understand when, like well, Ican understand this happening
when, like, people are beinginfluenced right Drugs, alcohol,
all those types of stuffInfluenced right, drugs, alcohol
, all those types of stuff butwe're just getting more and more
sober people out here, justlike you know, just losing their
shit.
Entitlement yeah, entitlement.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
We have a lot of those people flying.
Yeah, okay, really, it'sactually about 1%, because we
say that all the time.
It's 1% of the flying publicthat has that entitlement issue.
Yeah, 1%'s, one percent of theflying public that has that
entitlement issue one percent,because 99 of the people we we
fly with are phenomenal.
I mean we have a lot of greatpeople we fly with yeah, blake,
have you?

Speaker 1 (57:03):
have you, um, had uh like, uh, is that like anything
the big thing or what's a bigannoyance for you being a new
flight attendant?
yeah, people in first classexpecting everything the
entitlement, yeah part yeah Imean, I get like to me like
first class, like, and not everyairline has first class, right,

(57:24):
okay, so we all know that, butthe ones that are paying for
this upgraded service and usgiving the service, it was like
I think that's, you know, likethere's a certain level of
expectations, but sometimespeople are just like taking it
beyond, right, yeah, and that'swhat we're really saying out
there, like we're not, we're notsaying that everybody in first
class are dicks and we hate themall.

(57:47):
We say no, no, no, it's those.
It's the person that comes onboard and they know what the
service is and they know whatthey're supposed to be getting,
and then they're like no, butcan you go back in the back and
I need, you know, snack boxesand I need a cheeseburger and in
addition to the meal I just got, you know, that's when it goes
to that level.
That's beyond what we are likeas a flight attendant, like what

(58:11):
we think is like unreasonable,you know.
So I'm just trying to put aperspective on this or, for
people that are listening, youknow, it's not that everybody's
a dick.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Most people are great .

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Yeah, most people are awesome.
It's just how you treat someone.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
It's never we talked about this on the other podcast
is that it's?
It's not about your title, it'snot about the money that you
make, it's not about any of that.
It's how do you treat anotherperson.
It doesn't matter what theirjob is, because in our industry,
man, you'll get a lot out of acrew member just by being nice.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Yeah, I want to say one thing about that.
So I was coming back fromDenver and the wife and I we
non-rev around places, but everynow and then we buy a ticket,
and so I needed to get backbecause I had a flight and all
that stuff and it was like.
So my wife was like let's buytickets, so we bought first
class tickets.
So the flight attendants did areally good job.

(59:04):
It wasn't like exceptional,where it was like over the top
because I know what their job isright, so I know they were did
they did their job, they did itwell and all this stuff.
And when, when I travel I alwayshave I buy like a whole stack
of Starbucks cards and stufflike that.
So I gave the two flightattendants that were working for
me Starbucks cards and theywere so appreciative.

(59:25):
You know we love getting littlegifts and stuff like that, but
this goes along the lines ofservice.
Anybody that's giving youservice, like I'm, like I tip my
maids, like when I'm on a hotelI always leave five bucks or
something like that.
If I, if the room clean, right,if there didn't, they've done
their job and all this stuff, Ithink, okay, you know these
people are served, given doing aservice for us.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
So I'll give them something you don't have to tip
everybody, but I think it's nicewhen people do something right
or they're doing their job.
You should recognize them.
No, I agree, you bring me aReese cup, I'll be your best
friend for life.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
That's true too.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
They bring us candy all the time too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Yeah, they give us a bag.
Sometimes it's an overload,especially in the holidays.
Like the holidays, we get somuch candy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
It's cool though, but it's cool they.
They walk on board and theyjust hand it to you and you just
kind of stack it up in thefirst class, galley.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
I really enjoy the unexpected ones.
Like in our industry it'salways, you know, the Starbucks
cards, the, you know like thebag of candy and all this stuff,
but I've had like someinteresting original things and
have you guys had anything likethat?

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
What was one of yours ?

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
I got a little prayer quilt that a grandma had made,
that's awesome you gee, well, Igot those.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
You know, they give you these little bags, those
little mesh bags, and they fillthem full of a bunch of
different shit.
So I mean I've gotten all kindsof stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
So but you know and but nothing that's like stood
out to you like this is superoriginal.
Like super thoughtful.
No yeah I haven't.
Like one sticks out of my head,like there was a gal that
actually they put a, ahandwritten note in in the thing
and then they inside they gaveus like a bracelet that they had

(01:01:06):
made or something like that,like a friendship bracelet type
of thing, and I was like this iscool, like this is like.
You know, that's going waybeyond what we're even talking
about here, but it's like it'snice to be recognized, right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
So anyhow, I was thinking, you know Belacke is
going to travel, when are yougoing next?

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
I'm going to Budapest , bratislava and then Vienna.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
All right so when Belacke gets back from Budapest.
Budapesh, budapest, bratislavaand then Vienna.
All right so when Blacke getsback from Budapest.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Budapesh, budapesh, pesh.
There you go.
Well, that is a destinationthat I love.
I'm telling you right now,you're going to love Budapest.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
No, but when he gets back, let's have him back.
Let's do it.
Let's have him back and you cantell us about, um, what you
experienced.
Take some videos and then whatwe'll do is we'll do like, uh,
fun clips and we'll do a clip on, uh, where you're at and where
you're going.
We could call it where in thehell is blake?
Yeah, block, a, block, awhere's block?

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
a where's?

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
that sounds fun.
Let's do it all right, man.
Hey, listen, blocky.
It was a lot of fun having youon the show today.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Yeah, Thanks for having me guys.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got to like, like, tell your
friends, we're friendly, we havefun, come on.
We have this thing where, like,all these flight attendants
don't want to come on and talkabout their own story and stuff,
and it's interesting to seewhere other flight attendants
you know how they got this joband where they're coming from
and all that stuff, becausewe're all different, right?

(01:02:39):
So, blake, hey, I wanted to askyou.
There's one thing that we dowith guests and we like to do a
rapid fire questions.
We didn't give you this, ok,and I want to just you know this
quick questions.
I know we didn't give you anynotes about this.
Give me the answers that youthink, all right.
So, uh, uh, window seats oraisle window window seats and

(01:03:00):
best airplane snack.
Best cough and overpack or underuh prepared over Yep and
favorite digit character.
We already got that guy Mickey,mickey uh, most overrated
tourist attraction.
It's a small word, I know it isDamn Blake, he answered that

(01:03:24):
for you, that's right.
Souvenir You're mostembarrassed about.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Oh, I bought a llama, a llama.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Not a real llama.
Like a like a not a real llamalike a stuffed llama that's
llama.
Yeah, cool, and if you could uhteleport to one place you've
been uh where?
To go back, yeah, prague praguesweet, awesome, there we go.
Wanted to hit this rapid firequestions.

(01:03:55):
What'd you think about?

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
doing the podcast.
It was fun yeah.
Yeah, it's different, isn't?

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
it.
It's a good energy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah, I mean it is a positive energy and we do learn
from it.
As you can tell, we all makemistakes, and I make them on a
regular basis, but I alwayslaugh through them and if not,
sean will basically correct me,I'll laugh at him, that's cool.
He gets a little pain in the assself, but anyway, hey, no,
seriously, it was great havingyou on here.
I can't wait to have you back.

(01:04:23):
And let's end this with thequote.
What's the quote, gene?
Remember, airplanes take offagainst the wind, not with the
wind.
Henry Ford.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
There you go.
You know what.
Take off against the wind, notwith the wind.
Henry Ford, there you go.
You know what.
Don't take off without notagainst the wind, because that's
not going to be helpful.
No, you're going to have alittle trouble getting off the
ground.
You are A little lift problem.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Anyway, hey, listen guys, we had a great time this
week, we are looking forward tonext week and we are going to
have a lot of fun when Belakicomes back.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Blake, blake Later guys.
See you guys, bye.
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