Trash Talk: The Art of In-Flight Comedy

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Take flight with veteran cabin crew members Shawn and G as they pull back the curtain on what really happens at 35,000 feet. Their candid conversation offers a rare glimpse into the world of professional flying that passengers rarely witness.

The duo shares hilarious stories from their recent flights together, including Shawn's now-famous "taking trash, talking trash" announcement that has passengers recognizing him in airports years later. They discuss the mummified mouse discovered during Shawn's podcast studio renovation and explore the unexpected treasures found at local auction houses where flight equipment and furniture can be purchased at deep discounts.

What truly makes this episode shine is their unfiltered take on crew dynamics. From the "chia pet" flight attendants who refuse to communicate to those who won't set up galleys because "I don't do that on the ground," Shawn and G reveal the personality types that make or break the in-flight experience. They also tackle serious topics like managing in-flight medical emergencies with limited resources and how airlines could dramatically improve boarding procedures if they would only listen to frontline staff.

A touching segment explores how youth baseball teaches crucial life skills beyond the diamond, as G reflects on seeing a young player carefully protecting his A2000 glove during a flight. The episode wraps with a look at global aviation news, including the fascinating comparison of international air force sizes and the recent delay in implementing secondary cockpit barriers across all aircraft.

Whether you're a frequent flyer curious about what happens behind the galley curtain or simply enjoy authentic workplace stories, this episode delivers insight, laughs, and a new appreciation for the professionals who make air travel possible. Subscribe now and join the crew for weekly flights into the heart of aviation culture.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A baseball glove, a boy, and it's simple.
How did that mouse getmummified?
70,000 lollipops how many doesa kid need?
All of this?
Next, on Cabin Pressure withSean and G hey, everyone welcome

(00:40):
.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
This is cabin pressure I'm here.
I knew everybody was waitingfor that.
I was like freaking, take herback.
It's a magical thing, peter Panor something Came through the
freaking window.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Right, right, Welcome everybody.
We are here at Cabin Pressurehaving a good time this week.
Lots to talk about.
I'm still getting over thatentrance.
That shit was killing me.
We are here at Cabin Pressurehaving a good time this week.
Lots to talk about.
I'm still getting over thatentrance.
That shit was killing me.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I don't know why you're getting like.
You're so shocked.
You're like freaking Tinkerbellcame in.
I mean, that time you were likeTinkerbell or freaking Peter
Pan.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, whatever your imagination takes you.
Shit was funny, though Go, Ilike that.
So, man, catching up, man, oh,I've been like busy dude, busy,
busy, first of all, um, workingon our new studio.
You have been, yeah, so, likeit's been on my mind.
I'm like trying to like focuson doing all this stuff, cause

(01:39):
there's like a million differentthings to make, think about, to
put together a studio.
But, uh, I do have a fun storythat came out of it and like, so
we're building the studio in mybasement and, um, the basement
has this, you know, uh,insulation that goes around the
top of the basement, and sowe're trying to, I'm trying to
prep this room to like paint thewalls and get it ready, and I

(02:01):
bought some carpet and you knowjust, we got to soundproof all
this stuff, right.
So I'm in there, man, and I'mpulling down this installation,
and I've been in my house forlike 25 years, right, right.
So, and so I'm pulling downthis installation, like get it
off the walls, because I gottaget prepped this wall, and out
pops a damn petrified mouse.

(02:23):
It was alive, no, it waspetrified, oh petra, I thought
you were scared or something.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, no, no, not like scared too.
It wasn't like that.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
This thing was like dead and like starting to turn
into rock, like it's like thisguy has been so dead for so long
, like wood.
But he was stuck in theinsulation up there like it's
who knows what year he died, butit was.
It was like mummified into theinsulation did you tell carol?
no, no but, if my wife was thereit would have been shrieked

(02:53):
throughout the neighborhood andprobably there'd be a for sale
sign in the house, but all kindsof shit.
But you know, you know,everybody reacts different mice
and stuff.
I'm not.
I'm not the person that uh isafraid of mice.
How about you?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm just the guy, because I already picture you
picking that damn thing up gohow long have you been up there?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
no I didn't touch it, man, I thought it was gonna
crumble or shit.
No, I'm not afraid of mice, no,no, no, I I did get a paper
towel and like pick it up andput it in the garbage tub, but
you know years, years ago.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You know, I ran a garbage route years ago when I
was a kid and one of the thingsyou used to have to do you know
the old cans you had to pickthat shit up and throw it into
the truck.
So I'm going through there andI'm like, yeah, early in the
morning, throwing this shit, andI pulled the lid off of one of
them, sean, and this big ass ratjumped out.

(03:51):
It jumped out, ran right up mydamn shoulder, over the top of
my neck.
I felt the.
I could still feel the damn.
Did you like fall on the groundlike no, hell, no, I froze.
That damn thing ran up my.
It ran up my shoulder.
You just froze, yeah, and I andI felt that damn tail just ran.
It slid right at my neck.
Dude, I was done with the trash,I was like job over oh, hell
yeah, I was like okay, you'relooking for a paper route.

(04:13):
Don't mind them.
Do you not mind a mouse but afreaking rat?
No, I ain't doing it.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, not doing it, man I don't get freaked out
about them, but uh, I know mywife does and this is hilarious
because I know my nephew.
He listens to the show.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
And he is deathly afraid of mice.
I mean, this dude's a big catand you bring a mouse in the
room and he is the first onejumping on a table, like he's
knocking down women to get up onthe table.
That's just him.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But I'm like I don't know why you're afraid of this
stuff.
But uh, people are, people are,hey, you know, dave's dave's
pest control down in florida,yeah, okay, so he, he's talking
about the funniest shit you everseen is when they go and they,
they tent a house.
Okay, so everybody's watching,you know, because the whole
neighborhood's like oh yeah,what's wrong with that?
right, there's something wrongwith they got roaches yeah,
everybody comes out and theywant to see, right, because you

(05:06):
know curiosity.
So he's like they'll tent thishouse and they'll get it all
tented.
And then they start pumping thegas in there, right, okay.
And then as soon as they startpumping the gas in, out runs all
these freaking rats out fromunderneath this tent Everybody's
running Everybody, thesefreaking rats, out from
underneath this tent.
Everybody's running, everybodyin the whole freaking place is
like screaming and running Right.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Neighbors are saying mother, Don't send them over
here.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Kill them, they don't get far right.
They're dying already.
But it's just funny how peoplejust they're like oh the
curiosity.
Oh, I'm looking at rats.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, no, no, but hey , hey, listen I ain't dealing
with rats, no, no, but now, yeah, I'll deal with that, so that's
one thing that happened thisweek was uh that that that
happened as I'm preparing our uhstudio and trying to get that
in order and to bring you guyssome live video.
But uh, the other thing that Ifound, too, was this is cool,
man.
I um, I've never been really uhone to like jump on, like I've

(06:12):
done ebay, you've done ebay notreally.
You haven't done ebay yeah acouple times, not really ebay
used to be like the big shitright out there and all this
stuff.
But there's all these new umauction sites that are available
and I did not know this.
Like in our town, like rightdown the street here, the next
town over, has this giantauction site called bid btf and

(06:35):
I never even heard of it before.
But uh, this other flightattendant we were sitting on the
jump scene and she was tellingme about this that she she goes
to this place and she was likebuying stuff on these cheap
auctions and then she'll resellthe stuff because it's nice
stuff and they have everythingelectronic equipment, tools,
furniture, all kinds of stuff.

(06:56):
But as I found this, I decidedwell, you know what, this would
be a good thing to like try tostock our studio that we're
building here, find items andstuff.
So I thought it was kind ofcool.
But there's a place right downthe road here called Mac Bids
and Mac Bids they do big itemslike tools and electronics and

(07:16):
cabinets and tool cabinets andall kinds of big items electric
lawnmowers, you name it freakingpowered scooters.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
They're bidding on them now, are these things that
okay?
Is this products that that umpeople just returned, or are
they just?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I don't know where they're coming from, like I
don't know if this is like anamazon dump like of, like return
by products, or this like fromcoming from big department
stores, targets and walmart's orwhat I don't know now, do you
take a chance if they're broken?
No.
So, like the bids actually showyou if it's new or if it's an
open box or if it's missingitems or like it's only pieces

(07:54):
of this box, you know, type ofthing.
So they let you know ahead oftime and then you bid on them
and you have three days to pickthis stuff up, bid on them, and
you have three days to pick thisstuff up and uh, yeah, it's
cool.
So, uh, we picked up some realcheap items, a couple of things
like picked up a chair that waslike 300 chair.
We got it for like 20 bucks,cool.
So, yeah, it was.
It was super interesting.
But I didn't know these thingsexist and they're all over the

(08:17):
countries, like they're alldifferent states have these, uh
bid sites.
You got to check it out ifyou're, uh, if you're looking
for some cool items and stufflike that because I was I was
shocked at what it was on there.
I started getting a littleaddicted to like I was scrolling
at night like looking for shitlike you.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
You're gonna have all kinds of shit down here.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, I started thinking like I'm like, well, I
don't want to, I want to bid onthis because one of the things
is like you bid on it, you havethis three day window and if you
don't show up, like they keepyour money and they put it back
into the bid, you know.
So I'm sure that happens.
But you know I was like I ain't, I'm coming to get my shit.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I mean, if you need it, yeah, I could understand it,
but trying to resell it that,that sold before.
Well, no, no, some of thesethings are like I mean, it's
legit, look at, look at thesites.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, I mean I, I get you'll be like, wow, people do
want this, there's people outthere that want this.
But like you can transfer thatstuff from like these super
cheap, you know low cost bidsites.
I mean people have been buyingthings for like a dollar really.
Yeah, I mean, and you know ifit's worth ten dollars and
you're selling it even in in agarage sale for $10, you just
made $9.
Right, so if you want to gothrough the trouble to do and

(09:28):
all that stuff, cool, you know,but I thought I thought it was
interesting.
Um other thing, man and I youknow I have been working, we
just flew together, right.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
We did, we did fly together.
Yeah, that's always comical.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, it was always comical.
We had a fun.
Uh, ran into some.
Uh, the one thing I like likewhen we fly is like running into
people that we know and likeyesterday when we flew together
I ran into a guy.
It literally lived across thelake here from where my house is
.
I've known this guy and knownabout him for like 25 years.

(10:03):
We're not like close friends oranything, just acquaintances
through golf and all that stuff.
And then come to find outyou've been flying with this guy
and knew him for like 20 years,over 20 years.
Yeah, we never made thatconnection, like we had no idea
that we both knew this same guyright.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
He started laughing because whenever I started
talking, he's like you've knownhim I was like yep, and he's
like I've known sean for over 25years and I said well, I've
known his ass for 35 I mean you,you.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
It is funny, I mean because it's just wild how the
world works, like we've known,you know, we're good friends and
all that stuff, and we can't.
We're like how do I, how did wenot know this?
It's crazy, but but that's whathappens in the airline world.
Like we do make friends andacquaintances of frequent flyers
and people that you see, youknow the longer you're in this

(10:53):
business not not for the newflight attendants, new flyers,
everything's brand new, but forus, older flight attendants, um,
we get to be have someacquaintances I was laughing
yesterday, though, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
When you're walking through with the headsets yeah,
we were up front, I was justdying, man.
When you're walking through,hey, get your headsets here.
Get your headsets Last timeyou're going to get them.
You ain't going to be like themanymore at a time during the
flight.
Get them right now.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Now's the time.
One thing on the plane that Ihate we both hate what is
headphones headphones.
I'm not talking about giving outthe headphones, I'm talking
about people wearing headphonesand ignoring us.
I'm like I ain't got time forthis shit, because every flight
what happens?
And we get on the plane, we gotto do this, you know board them
up, put them on the plane, allthat stuff.

(11:45):
We'll be talking about that alittle bit later.
And then also, you know, we onour airline we have amenities of
screens and stuff that you canlisten to, so we pass out free
complimentary headsets, butpeople, they can't get connected
.
Like we can connect tobluetooth and all that stuff.
They can't connect.
Oh no, I need a headset.
My mind's not connecting orthey're ignoring us.

(12:08):
And so we get done.
It just tires me.
It tires me.
So my spiel, I go down and I'mlike listen up folks.
Today we have a snooze you loserule Highly enforced.
So get them while you can.
And people are looking likelike, what is he talking about?
I'm like get your headsets.
You want a headset?

(12:29):
This is the last time you'regonna hear it on this flight.
Right now, get them where theycan.
They make great stockingstuffers.
Kids go crazy for them.
Electronics, all that goodstuff, get them they're cheap,
but you can have them.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, re-gift them.
I was dying kathy's up frontthis kathy right she was in the
lead she was in the lead and sheleaned over and she's like what
is that?
Yeah, and I was like, oh,that's sean, yeah, and she goes.
What is he doing?
He's announcing that he'scoming through with headsets.
Is what he does?
People?
They actually they get thebiggest kick out of this.

(13:02):
You guys, I'm not kidding.
You know, when he walks it isfreaking hilarious.
That's the same thing as whenhe picks up trash.
He's like you know, takingtrash, talking trash.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Taking trash Dude, this is how crazy it is.
So we've been flying for solong.
I have been out in Cleveland.
I've been walking around andpeople will walk up to me and go
taking trash, talking trash,like, pointing at me and I'm
like you're the trash guy.
Yeah, you've been, I had you ona plane, exactly yeah, like
it's yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
But hey, we always got to, you got to have fun.
We have fun all the time.
Like I told you, your assdidn't come up to the front but
one time.
On the second one.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I was like like when you do these little things and
this is a good hint for, like,other flight attendants are out
in the world, stuff like I, youcan go down the thing and like
you get the flight attend, theywalks down and they have the bag
open and they're like takingtrash no, they don't they don't
say that they're just like uh,trash, trash, you know trash.
But then there's people like meand I'm like taking trash,

(14:15):
talking trash, and people likethey, they key into that, so
they're like whoa, and then thenthey find it funny and all that
stuff.
And you know we go down andlike I actually have people that
they'll come back to me andthey'll be like yeah, yeah,
you're trash.
You know they'll be.
They'll be talking trash to me.
You know like, and I'm likewhat?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
and they're like we're talking trash you come
back with a full bag, they comeback with a half bag.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right, because nobody's listening, because
nobody's listening what they'resaying and then there's still
like tons trash.
But when I go through the cabin, dude trash gets picked up
because people are payingattention.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's really humor though.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
But it's fun.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
We're having fun with it.
I mean it's just humor.
I mean I get the biggest kickevery time, but it was funny.
Kathy was like what is?

Speaker 1 (14:55):
that.
Well, kathy, kathy went.
What is that?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Oh, when you were making the PAs it was like oh no
, sean, you can't do that, nomore.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, don't enforce, quit it.
You can't enforce, I'm like,I'm not enforcing, I'm informing
.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I'm informing, sit down.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, she couldn't say anything back because she
knew I had the right answer.
You did.
I am informing the pastorsabout their safety.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I was listening to the conversation secondary Right
, secondary right.
It was funny.
I was like, okay, I wonder whatsean's gonna say this is gonna
be fine.
No, I'm gonna give you theinformation right now.
They're gonna sit their ass nowright, that was funny exactly.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
but anyways, man, the other thing that happened to me
was, uh, we had this dude and Idon't know, you know, I know
you've had this happen, but assoon as we take off, you know,
we like pulled out the cart anduh, ding, and they're like, and
then I, you know, then I'm justpushing up the cart and all of a
sudden PA comes on.
Do we have a medical doctor onboard or a nurse or a paramedic?

(15:51):
And then our airline, it's likeding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
They're everywhere Cleveland Clinic.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it's like Cleveland Clinic out of
Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
There's some medical people on our flights all the
time, if you're going to have amedical situation, have it going
in or out of Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
And people are like trying to jump out of seats.
I'm like, okay, wait, we gotone up front.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Everybody else are cool, chill.
Do we have a specialist?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Right, right.
So then this guy, he's up infront and he's having a panic
attack, you know, and so we're.
You know he calms down, and weget him calmed down, and then
the medical professional that avolunteer came up talk to him.
But they're like he's having apanic.
It's okay, you know, we're okay.
So but we decide to put him onoxygen, which always helps, you
know, oxygen up at altitudehelps period, and so we start

(16:36):
giving this oxygen.
So then bottle runs out, youknow, they only last about 20
minutes or so, right, and thenbottle runs out.
He's like I need another bottle, you know.
Next thing, you know, we're likegiving oxygen service on this
flight.
We don't have that many oxygenbottles on the plane, and the
thing that people don't know isthat those oxygen bottles that
we're giving you are the extrabottoms that we use as crew in

(17:00):
an emergency, in an emergency,yep.
So, like I'm telling you rightnow, if I got four flight
attendants, I'm not going lowerthan four bottles.
We have many bottles on plane,but not enough to like service a
four-hour flight, right.
So anyways, the point I'mtaking is that, like, then this
guy goes, I don't want anymedical uh help or anything.

(17:21):
When we get there we're like ifyou're taking oxygen, you're
getting, that meant you'regetting help.
You know we're going todocument this, all this stuff,
but uh, it was, it was, it waswild that I was like you know,
this runs, we run into this allthe time with the uh pastures.
They ask for oxygen orsomething like that, and we've
got to, like, service themthrough the whole flight.

(17:41):
Now I have a little bit of aproblem with that.
How about you?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
It's.
It's because what they're usingis supplemental oxygen and yeah
, I, I.
You know that that's what Idon't run into that.
That much we used to back.
You know, back in the day we'drun into that a little bit more,
but now they're I With hisfirst travel.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So like we don't that is a goodpoint.
Like back in the day when wefirst started getting oxygen on
a plane and all that stuff a lot, we would run into that Right,
and especially when we were backin the day when we actually
offered that service Right, likethere was that you pay for
medical oxygen, you can have iton board the whole time, and
there's all these kinds ofpeople that have you know,

(18:22):
respiratory problems, that havethose portable oxygen things,
but now they can bring their ownyou know they're allowed to
bring those own their ownportable options.
Yep, so we don't run into thattoo much anymore.
But it was just interesting.
When we ran into that I waslike they brought up some old,
you know memories of like peopletrying to abuse it.
I don't want to pay.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I'm just going to get it free from you, but it is
funny, though you know when itwould.
What you just said aboutcleveland, when you're flying in
and out of cleveland, that isfunny.
If you have a medical emergency, it is kind of funny in a way,
because you'll ask for medicalassistance and that cabin will
light up like it's like bing,bing, bing, bing, bing.
It's like just choose.
I heard a cardiac surgeon.
What do you got?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I mean mean right, I heard the uh there's this
comedian the other day it was, Iwas watching YouTube, whatever,
and this guy was like talkingabout spirit, right, you know?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
and he was like.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
he was like you know, uh, pa comes on and is is there
a doctor on board?
And he's standing back and he'sthinking we're on Spirit, are
you?
Kidding me no doctors flyingSpirit, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (19:28):
This is not your clientele.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
No, bells are going off, we're on.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Spirit.
It's not going to be a good day.
It's not going to be a good day.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Not that we're trying to bash Spirit, but it's funny
there's other discount carriersout there too that probably
doctors aren't flying, but onours it'll ring off right,
you'll be okay, out of clevelandexactly.
So what's been?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
going on with you, man shark, week short shark week
yeah, shark week.
What's that load position?
I was out.
I was out in the ocean, man, Iwas testing the waters, testing
the waters.
Yeah, load position for us isanytime you get out of Cleveland
, because we've been flyingtogether for so long.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, but first of all pause.
What are you talking about?
People don't know what loadposition is.
Are you talking about somebodygoing to the bathroom or what is
it you're talking about?
A load position is the extraflight attendant.
He's kind of like the floaterin the system.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do you ever notice how you jump in the shit and
then you don't even?
Let me finish.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
No, I just yeah, but you're not explaining.
I'm going to.
I know you're going to explainyour story, a story I just want
you to know, remember Redmond.
Yeah, jen yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay, me and her used to play a game.
It was called shut the hell up,it's your term, go all right,
but a load position is is anextra person on an aircraft and,
uh, and, and what they do isthey float a lot of times so
you'll be on different airplanes.
Uh, you could be on three,three different airplanes in a

(20:59):
single day.
So what it was is that I pickedup this, this position, that
was a load position, and I waswith different crews.
I was with like three differentcrews all at one time.
So I had gone on this one flightand this girl that I was flying
with, she had been out on amedical for like five years and

(21:19):
she was really sweet.
I mean, you know, we weretalking and she had gotten
concussion on the aircraft andshe had a lot of medical issues.
And we were talking and she hadgotten concussion on the
aircraft and she had a lot ofmedical issues, and we were
talking about that.
And it's just too bad, becausesometimes that happens.
Right, you get these situationsand you know you get hit in the
head.
Hers was.
She got hit in the head and shehad a really bad concussion,

(21:41):
suffered from really badmigraines.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Is that what happened to a lot of our employees?
They got hit in the head.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, they got hit in the head.
I know we got so many of themright, we do, we got so many,
but then you have legit ones andthis girl was legit but she was
out for five years, came backand I got her first flight back.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Lucky you.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
And you know, sometimes when you come back
you're not quite on your game.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, first of all, being gone for five years,
there's a lot of changes that'shappened in five years.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
You're not on your game, right, trust me, you're
not on the game.
But you know she came back withthe right person not being on
your game, because I get a kickout of those people a lot of
times, you know I don't get allfrustrated and mad or anything.
So we get out there and and thefirst thing, sean is, I went
through my, my ice, and then theevery bag of ice on that cart
was on dry ice.

(22:32):
Oh no, yeah, it was.
It had been dry ice, it wasfrozen solid.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, so that's.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Ricky, she was, so she was so cute.
She comes up there and shestarts hitting it with a can of
lemonade, with a can of lemonade.
That's what we used to do.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's what we used to do?
I was like don't do it Like weused to, like we didn't have a
mallet, Like today, we gotmallets Right Right on board,
but it used to be the only waywe did it.
We'd drop it on the floor orwe'd freaking pound it with a
can, Right.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
But I was like this is going to go everywhere.
Right, I'm going up front, I'mtaking this thing of ice trying
to bash it with a mallet.
Shit wouldn't even break.
Oh yeah, it would not evenbreak.
It had been sitting on dry iceso long, couldn't even break.
So you know, the service isn'tquite what it normally is.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, it wasn't flowing the way you want it to
flow.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
So we got to the back of the aircraft and this poor
girl I was having to call her,you know, and say, hey, I need
this, hey, I need this and.
And we're going to the back andshe just looks at me and she's
like, well, what did you think?
And I was like, do you have?
Yeah, we just give you a littleadvice for the next flight.
And she was funny and and she'sprobably going to listen,

(23:40):
because she wanted to listen to,uh, the podcast.
So sure, this is not a bashingher at all, this is actually
just a laughter, because it doeshappen to where you've been
gone for a while, but then youget real back in, you make a few
adjustments and then you'reback in the game but be in a low
position.
You never know what you'regoing to get, and a lot of times
it's personalities, but she hada great personality.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, I mean I have nightmare load stories.
I mean you go from one crew tonext crew like one crew.
You're like this is the bestcrew.
Can I wish I was hanging withyou all day.
The next crew you're like Idon't ever want to see your
motherfuckers again.
Don't call me, don't text me.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
A lot of times, right , people bash the, the, the
younger flight attendants.
I flew with this group andthese guys were spot on man and
I was so impressed with themthat when I got off the plane I
said I had to tell you guyssomething.
You know, you probably don'thear it a lot, but I man, I
really enjoyed flying with eachand every one of you guys are
exactly what flight attendantsshould be.
You have great personalities,you have a great work with

(24:41):
attitude and that leg it was.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
You just wanted to fly with them again because they
they were a lot of fun, they'rethey?
Well, they must have had agreat work ethic.
If you're saying oh, yeah, Imean you're like g is a get it
done flight attendant.
You got to be level 10 man.
Yeah, you got to be ready to goand let's go, yeah and there's
no hesitation here, like have itand it's full, throttle out the
door and I hate the bullshit.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Flight attendants, the ones that you know have a
personally, just to say apersonality deficiency.
No, I'm serious, you know yousit there and it's like you.
You, in this job, one of themost important things is do what
?
Talk, right, okay, communicate.
Your ass turns faces the otherdirection, towards the door,

(25:26):
like a damn chia pet yeah rightand oh, they and they, they say
nothing to you and you're likeuh, are we going to start the
service?
What are we going to do here?
I mean, are there's anycommunication?
And then they get up and theysay nothing they're a chia pet.
A chia pet, they're justsitting there growing these are
things people don't see in theback right.

(25:46):
I mean, unfortunately we don'thave a lot of these, but we got
them.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, and then we got the personality where it's like
they don't want to do anythinguntil we reach altitude, like
they want to sit there for 30minutes or so.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
What are you in a rush for?
Well, we've been in the air for45 freaking minutes.
Get up.
I don't do that bullshit.
I don't take that damn card outmyself.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
I had a flight attendant the other day.
She did not want to like Idon't get up, I don't get up
until we're up, but she wouldnot sit her ass down until like
the last second when we'relanding.
She's like it's unsafe.
I'm like well, what about theback end?
Like you're coming down, you'redescending.
Everybody else is in our jumpseat.
She's still standing in thegalley.
I'm like you're wacko, youdon't know.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
How about the ones that don't do shit?
I mean, you're a galley personand one of your jobs, your job,
your only job, is to do what Setthe damn galley up?

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Right.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then you get back there and you you're like, okay
, um, where's tray?
Well, there, there was one upthere.
Yeah, what do you mean?
There's one up there?
Well, there's a tray up there.
Where's it?
It's not set up.
Oh no, I don't do that on theground yeah, I don't do that on
the ground.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
It's not me, you know me.
I'm gonna like, I will you're,you're gonna get full force
shawnee attitude coming at youif you give me this thing.
I don't do it on the groundwhat the?
Hell were you doing?
Because I'm gonna say guesswhat I don't do?
I don't assist you in the airlike, get your ass up, start
setting up your galley and do itlike I ain't gonna.

(27:16):
I'm not coming back here to doyour job too see, isn't it funny
?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
this is, this is what you guys, the um, the
passengers you guys don't see issome of this stupid bullshit
that we got to deal with with aperson, just because they're
like, oh, I'm not doing that,I'm not doing that, I'm not.
Whatever it is, it's like I'mnot doing that.
You know the worst team playerthat there is.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, this is so relatable.
I mean, it's not just flightattendants like any.
I can imagine this in in anywork environment, any office
like it's's.
You're trying to do something,that you have a job to do, that
you're doing along with otherco-workers, and you have the
co-worker that's not do you know?
They're not giving it their,they're not necessarily have to
be all, but they're notassisting and doing their part,

(27:57):
and that's what's happening likeyeah, they're not doing shit,
sean right, exactly, no, no, I'mrelating it to other other
industries like that's the thing.
You got the weak link.
Who is the weakest link?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Right, I'm thinking weak Shit, they're not doing
nothing, they don't do shit,they don't.
But you know something?
But I had some good ones.
I had her.
That was funny.
But I give her a break becauseI actually was laughing.
I mean she made me laughbecause five years of medical,
you're out of the game and she'sback in it.

(28:30):
She'll do, she's going to befine.
I mean she'll be right back init.
Just a couple flights and yourgroove comes right back.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, she'll catch her wind.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yep, yep, but you know something?
The other thing, when me andyou were walking out, and the
one thing that both pissed usoff was again the way they board
aircrafts.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Dude, I don't know if there's a right answer to this.
It's like there's like I just Iknow one thing that marketing
should never be involved in anydecisions with a aircraft
boarding procedure.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
No, they shouldn't.
But the funny shit was we werewalking out of there and Sean's
like I so want to mow thesepeople down.
Yeah, they covered the wholeterminal Again.
We could not get through.
We were leaving and there'speople.
That was just complete.
It was a complete shit show.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, you're talking about the planing now.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
No no, I'm talking about the boarding process.
They were standing there and meand you were trying to go
through and the shit wascompletely across the whole
airport.
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
The other airlines.
As you're walking through theconcourse and you're seeing
different airlines and differentairports, they all manage their
boarding procedure in adifferent way, like they all
manage their boarding procedurein a different way.
So, like our boardingprocedures pretty, I would say,
like organized and like you'dline up and put all these things
.
And there's several airlinesthat do this, like they line up

(29:57):
and they have like call them indifferent groups and stuff like
that.
But then there's the airlineswhere it's just like they don't
know what the hell they're doingand everybody just stands in a
mob in the middle of the airportand then they stand there
waiting to try to like if I'mnext, they're like you know me
yeah, no, it's bullshit.
It's bullshit, I mean, it's justthen they stand in the way of
the whole entire concourse andyou can't even like the traffic

(30:19):
going back and forth trying toget through.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
They can't get through and then people look at
you like uh, excuse me, I, I washere first.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
And what pisses me off is that the airline that's
doing it.
They should be controlling it.
You and I had that conversation.
It was like they should be outhere at least saying make sure
the aisles are clear, step tothe aisle.
If you're waiting, step over tothe side.
But people just stand therelike freaking lemmings and just

(30:44):
wait.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's annoying as hell man.
You're trying to fight throughthis crowd and it's annoying,
but part of it, too, is theboarding process that we were
talking about.
And just real quick touch onthis, I would love to see an
airline allow gate agents andflight attendants to get
together for a week, come upwith a boarding process and then
put it against any boardingprocess with any airline and I

(31:08):
guarantee you it's going to be10 times better than any
boarding process that they have.
Our boarding processes foryears have just been bullshit.
The way we board airplanes isjust a bunch of crap.
We run out of bin space,there's a bunch of stuff that
goes on.
Everybody gets pissed.
Well, if you really want toknow how it would work, well,
take a group of flightattendants, take a group of gate

(31:32):
agents, give them about youknow they don't even need a week
, but you give them a week andthen set them side by side with
your boarding process and watchhow efficient the gate agents
and then the flight attendantsboarding process is and stop
doing this bullshit boardingthat we do on airplanes all the
time.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, board the aisle first.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
They're stupid.
We got some of the dumbestthings.
I mean we really do.
We got some of the dumbest waysto board an aircraft.
But, OK, enough about that.
Let the agents and the flightattendants take it over and
you'll have a lot better processprocess.
But I had to ask you thisquestion and you see your
response because we did.
We did have a a question andhow how you would respond to

(32:14):
this sean, oh really, yeah,what's?
that okay.
So you have a 98 year hire.
Now they're hired in 98 seniorpapa flight attendant comes on
board and says he hasn't flowndomestic in quite a while, Sean.
How would you, how would yourespond to that?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh hell, no, I'm going to tell you right now,
this, this guy that thinks he'sa senior Papa, I mean, this guy
is, he hasn't even been down tohis frigging training pans yet.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I mean, come on, he hasn't even got everything in
his feet wet in this industry.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
98 okay if if you were considered um being senior
in our airline at 40, 50 years,I mean that's a senior, that's a
senior flight attendant.
Yeah, I mean that's a seasonal.
They've seen stuff.
They've seen the world change,the airline industry change all
those different things.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
But come on, 98 senior listen the only way with
that type of attitude.
And the other thing is that ifyou see senior flight attendants
, you know you'll recognize themoh yeah, they're the ones being
dropped off by the assistedliving senior bus at the front
of the airport, right andthey're ushered to.
They're playing with awheelchair, right right and the

(33:27):
first thing that they need issomebody to help them up with
their bag.
Now, that's senior at ourairline, that's senior.
That means that your ass hasbeen around a long time.
Exactly Did you like thatsenior's living bus?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
You know that shit is real.
You forgot the walker.
They might have a walker or, ora cane hold on to the bar cart.
That's senior, though.
If you want to know 98, youain't senior.
Yeah, yeah, if your hair isstill the same color as you uh
were born with, then it's not.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
You're not senior yet yeah, but it's a good try right
, good try, uh 98er.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
But uh, yeah, that's.
That's.
That's crazy, man.
I mean seniority in the airlinebusiness.
It's funny like each airlineruns like different, you know
different seniority levels andall that stuff.
To be be real about it.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Like uh me and you laugh at.
Yeah but.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
But 98 is that's.
Come on, we'd laugh.
You got a little bit of.
You got a little bit of dirtunder your fingernails, but not
enough yet maybe did you seeozzy oz warren passed away oh
man, how sad.
Prince of darkness, the princeof darkness dude crazy.

(34:36):
Yeah, man, I mean that thatintro, done on, done on, done on
, done on.
Anyways, yeah, it's awesome man, he, he had some awesome,
awesome music.
I mean, I'm not the funny thingabout this, like that, I

(34:57):
thought, or the coolest thingabout this is that he's he's a
heavy metal rock star and hebecame relatable to everybody in
the world.
That's what, like everybody, itdidn't matter you can be a
country western music lover, youcan be whatever you're into man
, but Ozzy, everybody knew whohe was, everybody could relate
to who he was and he was alwaysrelatable, like, just like.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Well, when he was young man, he just looked on
about being this crazy wildindividual, right, because he
hit the head off of a bat whenhe was younger and he said.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
He said he thought that was like a stage.
Like you know, it was just likea pretend bat and stuff right I
guess until he bit into bloodeverywhere and forever be known
for biting into a bat but youknow.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
But the thing is is that when they they had the, the
show the osbournes, you kind ofgot an insight of his humor.
He's funny as hell.
Yeah, he is funny.
I mean he was like Sharon, thedog shit on the floor.
Sharon, You're right.
Bloody hell, get in here.
This is the dog shit.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, I mean all the crazy stuff they did.
I didn't watch that stuff, butI did see the clips and stuff
that were funny on there.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
He was just relatable like there's like every uh, you
know, crazy american family inthe world and the fight.
And he just did care about hisfamily.
He didn't really, I mean, heloved his music, he was all
about his music, right, but he,he just cared about his family.
And then, you know the the thething was is that um, crazy
train was performed by thisgroup of kids years ago and it
was amazing, man, they had thiswhole group of kids.

(36:33):
Tribute to Tribute to Ozzy.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Ozzy.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
But he was alive when they were doing it.
It was really cool.
But the coolest thing thecoolest thing was recently he
performed Mama I'm Coming Homebefore he passed away because he
knew he was dying and that wasthe most touching thing that
I've seen, because all thesepeople that loved Ozzy's music

(36:58):
was just emotionally touched byhim coming and it's like his
goodbye.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, he had that.
So you know for people outthere that don't know too much
about it or haven't been payingattention to news, you know
Ozzie was originally in blackSabbath and so black Sabbath and
then kicked him out of the bandand then he went solo and he
blew it up.
That's how he came out and doall these you know crazy train
and all this stuff Sabbath rightbefore he passed away.
The last performance and thelast song he sang was Mama I'm

(37:26):
Coming Home, which is touchingand very heartwarming to hear.
He kind of knew what washappening.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
What was amazing, though, what they said about
Ozzy was Ozzy did so many drugsduring his life.
They said he'd never make it to50, and he made it in his 70s.
Yeah, I mean it's amazing hesurvived.
At one point there was aninterview that he had said that
he had done so much cocaineduring the day that he had to do
marijuana at night, just so hisheart didn't blow up, right, I

(37:56):
mean that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
I mean that is crazy.
I can't even imagine thatfeeling and putting your body
through all that stuff.
Oh, my God no, I can't evenimagine.
Nope, hey, he did him, he's him, he is the guy.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
But yeah, ozzy Osbourne man, rip to him because
he was.
I got a kick out of his showthe Osbournes it really did yeah
.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
He'll be missed.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
But you know, I have to tell you, I was traveling, I
was traveling this week and Icame across this kid.
Now, most people, if you guyswould have seen this kid, uh,
carrying this glove, uh, youjust thought it was some young
boy that was carrying a, um a, abaseball glove.
So, sean, do you know what awilson a is?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I have no idea.
Okay, it's just like a brandedglove, Like when I played
baseball and softball and allthat stuff, like I didn't know
anything about a glove.
All I know that it had to fitmy big-ass hand.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Right, yeah, exactly Right.
I mean, you know, when weplayed ball back in the day, I
mean our equipment, hell, Iremember we used to have this
little bitty bat called anAdirondack and we used to take
tennis balls and throw it ashard as we could and try to hit
the damn tennis ball with it.
Right, our equipment.
No one really knew anythingabout the equipment.

(39:20):
But going back to this was thiskid was carrying this A2000
glove and to everybody else ithad just been a baseball glove.
But you know, to me it really,really hit home and it took back
.
It took me back, um, andanybody, everybody knows me as
soon as you talk about baseball,I can talk about baseball all
day, all day.
And this kid and I, I looked athim and I said, okay, so by the

(39:43):
size of the glove, it's eitheryou play shortstop or second
base.
And so which one is it?
And he just looked at me andgoes, how'd you know?
And I said well, it's an A2000mitt.
That means it's a short A2000.
So it's either you're playingin the shortstop position or
you're playing second base,because that glove is too small
to be playing third.
So which one is it?
And he said I'm a shortstop andhe goes how did you know that?

(40:06):
And I said well, I trained myson from probably six years old
and you know this, sean Jackson,from the time he was six, all
the way up.
So at this part of the podcastyou might think that this
doesn't pertain to you, but theyouth baseball in America, it's

(40:26):
our national pastime.
So you see this kid on boardthe aircraft and the thing that
got me was the way he carriedhis glove.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, okay, he was being respectful for his glove,
his equipment.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
And what it is is that, if you know how he kept
his glove in his lap, he didn'tput it in the overhead bin, he
didn't throw it underneath theseat.
And I knew that he had beenprofessionally trained.
Because I was talking to theparents and I said I know you've
been professionally trained.
And he goes how do you knowthat?
And I said well, someone toldyou that that glove is the tool

(41:03):
to your trade, because you'vebeen doing this a long time and
the way that you respect that isthat you set it in your lap,
because if you put it anywhereelse, the chance of that pocket
getting broke down is highlylikely.
So this kid had this glove andwhat I was looking at just took
me back when I was teaching myson baseball.
You're in training facilitiesevery single day, yeah, every

(41:28):
day, right, and there's over 3million kids that play baseball
in the United States, right?
Over 3 million.
What do you think thepercentage is of these kids that
are going to make it to MajorLeague Baseball?
Extremely low.
There's only out of that 3million, okay, there's only

(41:50):
about 700 to 1,000 that aredrafted into the minor leagues
in one year, and 700 to 1,000,that's into the minors, with all
the minor league teams.
Okay, undrafted, there'sbetween 100 and 200 players.
Now, when you look at thesekids and you tell them well,

(42:11):
there's this small percentage,the chance of you making it is
highly unlikely.
And that's what was told to myson when he was young, and let
me tell you something about that.
Well, jackson, when he wasyoung, he was always told that
you know, you'll make it to thislevel, you won't get to the
next level, okay.
Well then he went into the highschool.
When he got into the highschool level, they do this

(42:33):
evaluation.
Have you ever heard of the PBR?

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
You've heard of the Prep Baseball Report.
So these kids go and they getevaluated by the Prep Baseball
Report and then they get listedand a lot of times this is how
these kids get seen.
So they get seen by collegesand they get opportunities to go
forward.
And this kid was actually partof the PBR because he had a PBR
shirt on too, so I knew that hewas also part of that.

(43:01):
So they get listed in there andthe colleges come in and they
get opportunities that normalkids wouldn't get to go to
college universities and playbaseball.
So they go from that point andthen from college to, from high
school to college.
There's only about around, I'dsay about 7% of them go forward

(43:27):
and that's about like 30, youthink about this all the high
school players in the UnitedStates.
Only 35,000 of them go go playcollege baseball.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, 35,000.
Right, yeah, I mean this.
This to me like is a veryrelatable, like a, not just
baseball.
It's like you take any sportthat that goes professional
right Football, soccer, allthese things, these kinds of
stats are all over the UnitedStates.
So, like you take any sportthat goes professional right
Football, soccer, all thesethings, these kind of stats are
all over the United States.
You can apply this to a soccerkid, you can apply this to a
football kid.

(43:55):
Each avenue has their system tokind of get these kids weeded
out to this pinnacle ofprofessionalism.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Right out to this pinnacle of professionalism.
Right, and what it is, is thatthey're told at each level what
it takes to get to the nextlevel.
But these kids still believethat they have it and every year
they get weeded out and thenthey go from that to.
They go to the collegiate leveland then there's a small

(44:27):
percentage after college thatget taken into minor league
baseball.
Now, jackson wasn't one of them.
Jackson didn't get drafted, butwhat happened was he had worked
so hard throughout his life thathe wasn't going to give up on
it and he kept fighting for it.
Well, he was one of the onesthat was in the 100 and 200 that

(44:47):
went undrafted and went intothe minor league baseball.
Okay, and he played for theOgden Raptors.
Now, I'm not telling you thathe had the greatest part of any
career, even playing in theminors.
The Raptors won the minorleagues and he got a ring, but
he didn't have this illust.
You know illustrious career.
But you know something, sean,what's amazing?

(45:09):
I looked at this kid and I wentback and I thought of my son.
I thought about the road andwhat he did and all the work
ethic.
This is what the point I'mgetting to.
It's a work ethic that thesekids develop right.
They don't just keep it inbaseball, they keep it in life.
And they have a relentless workethic because it was hours upon

(45:29):
, hours upon hours of trainingto get to the next level and
when no one else could believein them, they believed in
themselves.
And he gets there.
And to be able to stand on thediamond and throw one pitch in a
minor league baseball game,that is absolutely amazing.
And when I seen this kid andthat's why I was saying on an

(45:53):
airline that you see this kidholding this glove and there's
this whole story with thisfamily behind that because it's
not cheap.
I mean for travel baseball inthe United States, the annual
the cost for a family isanywhere between $4,000 and
$13,000 a year, a year for thesekids.

(46:14):
Yeah, because if you're notbeing professionally trained at
eight years old, you're behindthe eight ball.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yeah, you know, to interject in this whole thing.
Like I have lots of friends andstuff with kids and all that
stuff and they all have likereally put their kids out there
to get this professionaltraining and stuff.
Like you know, I'm a big golferso I definitely got a lot of
golf stories and the equipmentcost and the training and all

(46:41):
that stuff that's involved withthat sport in itself and as well
as, like when you go into othersports so the football, the,
the basketball, the you know allthose sports.
Every family that's out therethat's trying to let their kids
have that dream to become anelite athlete is very expensive

(47:05):
and it impacts the entire family.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
It does.
But the biggest thing when Iseen this kid was when he was
sitting there and I just toldhim.
I said I don't know what youthink about your skills as a
baseball player, but justremember this the only way that
you're going to make it to thenext level is that if you
believe in it, it doesn't matterwhat your parents think, it
doesn't matter what a coachthinks, it only matters what you

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think, because there's going tobe people all the way up that's
going to tell you you're notgoing to make it.
But you better believe morethan anybody.
You better want it more thanyou want breathing to make it to
Major League Baseball, becausethere's the smallest percentage
make it to the game.
Ok, jackson never made it to thegame Now he's, you know, but he

(47:51):
still.
He did stand on a diamond andhe played for a minor league
baseball team.
So you got to believe inyourself and I seen that kid and
all I could think is you know,I hope that you have that same
drive, because it's that workethic.
Yeah, you know, I just lovethat.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Well, he's also starting with the fundamentals,
like exactly what you startedoff with.
He's respecting the equipment,he's starting to live that
journey and you know, andobviously whatever the he's been
taught to that point.
Uh, caught your attention right.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Well, you know, the biggest thing I got to say this
too is the biggest reason isbecause he wasn't playing the
damn game man he was.
He wasn't doing anything butsitting there holding that mitt
and and he looked like a damnbaseball player and he wasn't.
He wasn't doing anything else,not video games, not anything
else.
And I thought that's what ittakes.

(48:46):
Yeah, that's what it takes,right and and it's kind of cool,
all because of a baseball gloveon an airline and and it takes
you back and and that's what yousee, and that's what you
remember is is this relentlesswork ethic that I?
I had the privilege spendingmany, many years with my son in
training facilities watching himgo from this small kid that no

(49:10):
one believed in.
And when I tell you people, noone believed in him.
But I told him a long time agoand I still tell him today,
there's nothing you can't dowhen they put a baseball in your
hand.
All you got to do is believe inyourself and if you do that, if
you do that, there's nothingyou can't do.
So I mean, it was a good moment, it was great, actually it was

(49:31):
a great moment.
I seen that baseball glove andthat A2000 and I can show you
four A2000s sitting in my houseright now.
Cool.
So anyway, a 2000 glove, I hopethat kid, I hope that kid goes
on and plays a lot of years,yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
So well, I'm just oh, you know I'm.
My big takeaway for this storythat you're talking about is I
know you're reminiscing a lot ofstuff, but my big takeaway is
that I love that athleteathletes in the United States
and athletic programs in theUnited States also help to guide
and groom our young adults.

(50:06):
And being this, uh, having thiswork ethic, that that, to me,
is like super important, becauseno matter if you you know you
actually win and you get to andyou achieve this pinnacle or you
don't, the takeaway is thatyou're getting this unbelievable
education of work ethics.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
That's exactly my point.
When I seen the glove, itwasn't.
It wasn't so much as baseballor anything, it was the work
that goes behind it.
Yeah, and that was the wholething that really got me,
because I know the work thatthose kids put in, I know the
work that it takes for theparents, for the family and
everything else.
It is relentless, yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Hey, let's go around the globe, man.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Yep, All right man.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Around the globe.
Man, right now the FAA haswe're like totally shifting
gears here.
We're like totally shiftinggears here.
The FAA has literally given allthe airlines out there a delay
to the second barrier to thecockpit.
Really, yeah.
And so people that don't knowthis, like ever since 9-11, the

(51:13):
airline industry has beenmandated to put into barriers
for the cockpit.
Obviously right, because thatwas one of the failures of 9-11.
Um, so they put those doors infirst and we have those, you
know locked doors and all thatstuff on all the aircraft across
the nation and and that reallyhappened really quick.
I mean, if you recall back likeit only took them a few years,

(51:36):
if not even that, to startputting those doors, like get
those doors in place.
I mean that was like a quickprocess.
But now the airlines have beengiven this really long process
of putting in a second barrierand you've seen this on the
airline, if you fly, you've seenflight attendants blocking the
aisles and doing these thingswhen the pilots come in on the
cockpit.

(51:56):
This is, this is very well known, but we actually are are
developing, or airlines aredeveloping, are mandated to
develop a secondary system thatblocks the aisles for us, you
know to protect the cockpit, butthe airlines haven't really
stepped up, you know, theyreally haven't done their job to
like get it done, and thedeadline was coming up, and so

(52:19):
they had to go in and request anextension.
And so there's a lot of, likedifferent views on this as far
as whether it's really, you know, like why hasn't the airlines
been doing this To?
You know like no, they shouldbe given more time to do this
type of like, then develop, uh,systems and stuff for each type

(52:40):
of aircraft and all that stuff,but it just they just got a
two-year extension on this wholething but do you think it's
because they don't they, theydon't believe in the um, uh, the
barrier that they're actuallypresenting them?

Speaker 2 (52:52):
or do you think it's just that they're just not doing
it?

Speaker 1 (52:55):
no, I think.
I think it's an economicalthing, like I think it's.
It's the airlines.
This is going to cost money,right?
This is another piece of moneythat you know.
This does not bring the airlinemore money, right?
Right, it's a cost that is justbeing mandated on them.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
So you think the barriers are going to be the
same, the engineering of thebarrier, that what we've seen is
going to be the same?

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Yeah, the engineering of the barrier is going to be
developed for each type ofaircraft.
So each, each separate aircrafton every airline is going to
have a different type of system,and that's up to the faa, the
airline, and it's just likeevery system.
We have an aircraft that has tobe approved.
But my point to this wholething is that I think the
airlines you know, know, youknow are are dragging their feet
.
You know, I I would like to seeit already in place, personally

(53:45):
, as a flight attendant, andhaving that protection and all
that extra protection on theaircraft.
Um, I know it's a hassle, likewe have some aircrafts that
already have a secondary barrier, right, yeah, but it's like
there's.
They wanted to cross the wholeentire fleet of every airline,
so it's just an interestingthing that they're giving them a
delay.
So in the next two years you'llsee these things being

(54:07):
implemented and installed and sosomething to be watching out
for and seeing on the aircraft.
But good thing, we were trainedon it, yeah, and now they're
delaying it we hate my smart assremark.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
We hate going to training.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
First of all, nobody likes to go to training, but now
we're getting training thatwe're not even going to
implement it for another twoyears, you know, yeah good thing
we're trained.
That's a big suck wad.
So, anyways, uh, I came acrossthis other article that, um, I
thought was super interestingbecause, you know, I'm
ex-military myself.
But there was this articleabout, um, the air forces in the

(54:44):
in the entire world, and likehow they line up, like how and
in size, like who's the biggestair force in the entire world?
Do you know who?
That is g usa, baby usa, baby.
Like usa, we, we invest a lotof money, billions, if not
trillions of dollars, into ourmilitary, which we should right,

(55:06):
because we got a lot to protect, but at the same time, like the
us air force in perspective tothe next largest air air force,
which is china.
Uh, that we're 2 358 fighterjets.
So we're only talking aboutfighter jets.
We're not talking about bombersor the b2s and all that, all

(55:28):
the other type of aircrafts thatare in the world.
We're just talking about a.
You know, you know the, the,the red barons out there right
of the today world right thoseare fighter jets.
So, and then china lines up at1975 well, let's see what
happens in four years.
In four years yeah, what do youmean by that?
I bet our numbers go up, go up,oh yeah.

(55:49):
Well, I mean, the production isgoing to go up for sure.
There's always orders, we'realways mass producing and we
have the most elite,technologically advanced air
freight.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
USA has always believed, though, in the
military, sean, and you knowthis is air superiority.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
But here's the thing that I so air superiority is a
big, important thing in the US,but when we compare to like, a
lot of people always thinkRussia is our number one nemesis
right, yeah, but I mean, that'show.
When we were growing up, it waslike russia, russia, unless you
really know what's going on inthe world.
You know it's china, china,china yeah, china secretly kind

(56:25):
of snuck in there and they'rereally the our biggest adversary
.
But, um, russia only has athousand and eight military
aircraft, fighter jets, that's,that's in.
That's amazing to me.
I mean, we, we are more thandouble the size of russian air
force but what's going on withrussia?

Speaker 2 (56:43):
I mean, you, you've seen and you can kind of see the
the um loopholes in theirmilitary well, that is, you know
what it goes to.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Back to like you're going to get into politics of
this stuff.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Like you know, socialism versus yeah, I'm not
getting into politics I'm justsaying but you know, when you're
talking about that I I was justsaying when you're saying about
russia only having a a littleover a thousand, I mean it just
shows a different.
I mean when they actually haveto go fight.
It shows you where, where theproblems are in your military.
Oh yeah so but yeah, I mean itis very interesting, yeah yeah,

(57:16):
yeah, but you never thought.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Japan only has like 253 yeah, that's, and, and we're
just like.
These are the top five largestair fleets in the world, and so
japan ranks up there number five.
India is the number four with542 jets.
But you know what really wasinteresting to me?
That I thought it would be likeisrael, something that would be

(57:38):
in there, they would be in thattop five rank, but they're not.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
I was thinking China for sure, right behind the US.
Everything that you've learnedabout China, I knew that was
coming up.
Dalton's a crew chief on theF-16.
My other son's a crew chief onthe F-16.
Very, I mean my son's, uh, myother son's a crew chief on the
f-16.
So very cool, usa, we got a lotof power, a lot of power other

(58:05):
things.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
Talking about a lot of power.
How about, uh, two days ago,that fight that broke out on the
asian airline?
I told you, did you see thevideo?

Speaker 2 (58:13):
I, I did, I did, yeah , but that was I mean.
You see, see all those fightoffense in the red.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
There it is, that one lady was jumping over the seats
.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Yeah, like what?
I guess what happened was likethe guy was like uh, this row
behind him was being loud.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
No, it's two women.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
No, no, no, there's a .
There's the guy in front ofthem that that he's the one
getting beat?
Okay, and you don't.
You can't see him in the video,okay, but there's.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
there was a row of women behind him that were being
loud chattering whatever.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
They're all chattering whatever and he told
him to be quiet and everything.
And then he ended up callingthem stupid and he told him to
shut up and that that bitchjumped up and start beating the
shit out of him, like he's.
Like she didn't know, you ain't, no, you ain't.
And she just like went crazy.
I mean just bam, they're tryingto pull her off, or the video
chinese whoop ass yeah it was.

(59:09):
It was serious, like she wasjust on it and people were
screaming and yelling.
It was on a wide bed ofaircraft.
I mean, people were on theother side of the aisle, like
the aisle further from them, andand there he's, guy standing in
the aisle yelling at him.
You know I had no idea whathe's saying, but you know you
could just imagine like.
You know you bitch, stop it.
You know like it was crazy.

(59:31):
You know like, but it was wild.
I mean, this is the point I wastrying to make.
Here was um one.
It's not just happening,no-transcript, it's not just
happening in the United Statesright.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
It's all over.
It's been crazy man.
We couldn't even, honestly, wecould not even cover some of the
fights that have broken out inthe in the last week, because
there's two.
There's been way too many on onon the planes, yeah, just way
too many.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
I mean this next story.
I love this next one, thoughthe next one, next story, man,
yeah, go ahead, because this you, you love this one too.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
There's a mother in kentucky uh she received 22
cases of dumb dumb lollipops.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
You know how that happened, g.
I can't wait.
Yeah, yeah, she let her her songet a hold of her her iphone or
her phone, and he ordered up 30cases of dum-dum lollipops 70
000, 70 000 dum-dum like fourthousand dollars in dum-dum
lollipops.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
You know when you said this, right back to nights
of the museum, right?

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
you like dum-dum, dum-dum, dum-dum like, like
who's a dum-dum in the story?
I mean, come on there's lots offirst of all look, mom, like
you don't let your password tobe able to, you know, get into
the account and you know, justcharge stuff, just open, like,
come on, you need to passwordprotect all that stuff my kid

(01:00:55):
ordered 70 000 dum-dums and allI got was this free dum-dum
T-shirt.
Yeah, first of all, it shouldbe like a family vacation
T-shirt with dum-dums, thedum-dums.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
We are the dum-dum family.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
We do dum-dums.
Would you like a lollipop?

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Hey, how about that couple before we get out of
there?
How about that couple that wasarrested, arrested man?
She was giving him some oralgratification in the back of the
aircraft, isn't that?

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
nice, that was nice.
Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't on afamily-ran aircraft or airline
Like I mean come on?

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
What are you thinking ?
You love their mug shots right,because she's always crying and
everything is like, oh, itwasn't a good idea yeah, yeah,
that's, that's ridiculous,especially when kids are on
there, because the charges aregoing up exactly you in trouble
now you're in trouble now.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
First of all, getting caught right.
I mean it's funny like over theyears, like you always hear
about the couples going to thebathroom or something like that,
or it's a red-eye flight andit's dark in the cabin and stuff
you know, like yeah but a headgoing up and down in your lap
right, that would just, yeah,yeah, that's gonna give you away
a little bit, a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
All right, sean, give me this quote all right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
The quote today is to be yourself in a world that is
constantly trying to make yousomething else is the greatest
accomplishment, and that's byralph waldo emerson.
I mean, you just got to beyourself, like, don't let people
tell you what, the, what youcan and can't do, and all that
stuff be it that little kid inKentucky.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
they told him he couldn't get the dum-dums and
his ass got the dum-dums.
So he's good, don't let himtell you what you can do.
You get 70,000 dum-dums.
Hell yeah, hey guys, it was alot of fun this week.
You guys have a great week.
We'll see you next week, Nextweek cabin pressure.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
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We'll see you next week.
Next week cabin pressure, yeah,see it.
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