July 21, 2025 • 55 mins
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Ever been corrected by someone only to wonder if they genuinely wanted to help or just make themselves feel superior? This raw, unfiltered conversation between flight attendants Shawn and G explores this universal experience through the lens of aviation culture.
When a listener pointed out G's tendency to say "me and you" instead of "you and I," it sparked a powerful conversation about authenticity versus polish. The hosts dive deep into how such seemingly minor corrections can trigger childhood feelings of inadequacy—especially for those who grew up facing educational, social, or racial challenges. Their candid reflections reveal that sometimes the grammar police aren't offering constructive feedback but instead reinforcing arbitrary rules that diminish authentic voices.
Between heartfelt moments, the episode delivers practical travel wisdom. Learn why you should pack substantial snacks (airport sandwiches now cost $20+!), which foods travel well, and how to survive the chaos when weather diverts flights and strands passengers. The hosts' survival guide for airport meltdowns comes from decades of experience navigating the unpredictable world of aviation.
Humor lightens the mood throughout as Shawn and G share passenger behaviors that drive flight attendants crazy—from wearing headphones during safety demonstrations to the dreaded finger-snapping summons. Their "blue surfboard" derby car story perfectly illustrates how substance often triumphs over style, much like their podcast philosophy.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When someone says something to correct you, did
they do it to make you feelbetter or are they just picking
someone apart?
What are some of the best foodsto travel with on a plane?
How to survive a meltdown inaviation travel All this next,
on Cabin Pressure, with Sean andG.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey, everyone, welcome.
This is Cabin Pressure.
It's a bird.
It's a bird, it's a plane.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, it's Johnny, I'm here ready to talk and fight on
the forces of flight attendantperspective.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What's going on?
Happy Gilmore man, your golftournament.
What happened?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Dude, I had like a great weekend.
It was like this turned off,Like I had this big golf
tournament this week and Idecided the night before there
was this like that concert thing, the music that we like to go
to down the road here Mabel'sSide.
Yeah, Mabel's Side was happeningand it was a motorhead and I
(01:32):
said you know I'm gonna go overto motorhead, so a bunch of
friends and stuff they're likegoing, let's do, let's do this.
And literally I got in my car.
Then this is the night beforethis big tournament and I drove
down and I got to the middle oftown here and I said what the
fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
and I just had this like a reality.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm like why, dude, this is not a good idea.
This is a big money tournament.
I need to get my ass home, getsome sleep, get ready for a
tournament, right, and dude, itall paid off.
It was awesome.
I mean, I had a my tournament.
Um, it was a two-day tournament.
Um, we won our flight.
We won first place overall theentire tournament the first day.
(02:11):
Second day, we uh won ourflight.
Then we uh, we got, I think,fifth overall in the second day,
but we won second place overallfor the entire tournament, damn
.
And then we got into theshootout and the shootout's just
like this Each further you goin the shootout, the more money
you make, and we got pretty farin everything.
(02:32):
So we were real happy witheverything that happened.
So it was good.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You didn't buy lunch.
I didn't see you buy lunch.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, dude, I'm not buying you lunch.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Shit.
You made all that money, youdidn't buy lunch.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Dude, you're, you're so tight you need to be buying
me lunch.
What?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
are you?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
talking about, I spend my damn money.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The funny, the funny thing that you were talking
about, that all I could thinkabout all all they were showing
was the the, the new happyGilmore movie.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, yeah, tournament.
He was like taught we weretalking about happy gilmore and
all that stuff and the uh.
He was like, yeah, my um, Idon't know somebody in his
family would ever bought hisdaughter a, uh, happy gilmore
putter.
Right, they make these puttersright now that are for the
hockey stick.
It looks like a hockey stickthe putter does.
(03:17):
It's pretty cool, but they'reexpensive.
They're super expensive andI've seen them all over the
place but it was like upwards often thousand dollars for the
stupid butter.
Like I don't know who would payten thousand dollars for a
putter.
Was it signed?
I don't know, dude, I'm justlike I it had to be signed.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Shit for that much, that much money, it's gotta be
signed yeah, it's gotta besigned or something like that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But I mean cool, I gotta tell you the motorhead,
you didn't miss anything no, no,oh see that my reports were
like okay, so you don't likethat music, right?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, it's not that.
All the reports that you'rehearing the same ones that I
heard last time inside, likewhen they played inside the bars
, they were like they werereally good and I was like, well
, you guys are drunk.
Well, that's the point of thatplace, right yeah but you're
drunk though, because I'msitting right in front.
You've seen where I was sittinglast time.
I'm sitting right down in front.
(04:07):
If you're good, I'm stayingthere.
Right, but Motorhead halfwaythrough it, I'm down there going
.
Yeah, they're not good.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They're not good.
See, I hear people that arelike, oh yeah, they're great,
but I and it's like sing-alongmusic, you know, like everybody
likes a sing-along dance.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We're past the middle-age part to where we just
enjoy to get your ass out everyonce in a while, right?
So when you're out there andyou're drinking which you know
shit they all do that.
So they're out in lawn chairs,they're drinking and they're
eating.
They're having a good timeregardless.
And Motorhead, yeah, they'renot that good.
(04:46):
You didn't miss anything.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know what you missed at the last time we went
up there.
You're talking about the lawnchairs and all this stuff.
So we were on the side of thehill there.
This place is like set up on anoverlooking a valley, looking
west, and you get thesebeautiful sunsets at night and
concerts right there, the bandsright in the, the sunset it's
awesome.
(05:07):
But the hill, you know, there'sso many people.
You can get on the side hilland I put my chair on the side
hill.
I was drinking a little bit andI dude, I fucking rolled right
down that hill.
My chair tipped over.
I couldn't even stop myself.
I was like tumbling and Itumbled into like five people
like they were like what justhappened?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
well, there was this lady that was in front of us
that she had one of those rockerchairs, yeah, and the whole
time that I was looking, becauseyou know it's angled down yeah
and and I I was looking at hergoing that that's going to be
the most miserable chair to bein for the next few hours.
She switched with her husbandright next to her and he was
like, yeah, this sucked.
So he, he got the shitty chairand she got the good one.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And also what I didn't tell you was we brought
our chairs popping up right andwe did like a little tailgate
beforehand and our chair waslike I've had these things for
like 20-25 years, right, I sitin this chair and the damn thing
collapsed like I broke thefucking chair and carol's, like
we didn't bring any extra chairsand I'm like, no, I'm like this
(06:13):
is ridiculous, like literally,like the plastic in the chair,
the connectors to the you knowthis fold up chairs, it like
just like gotten hard and justcrumbled did.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did you have that feel good moment?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And I was like yeah the feel good, I'm a fat ass
moment.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, in front of all my friends.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It was great, it was a special feeling.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I would have loved to have seen that one.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, there's some funny things that happen.
So what else?
What else happened with you?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Man quite a bit.
So this week I was going to theairport and the funny thing
about it, I walked into theairport and it was like it was
taken over by the Cub Scouts.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I've been in an airport where you've got like 50
troops of Cub Scouts.
Exactly Every time I think ofthe Cub Scouts I always think of
like what's that movie Up,whatever?
Oh, yeah, you know what I'mtalking about.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, the little kid, yeah because you got those
little shorts on with the littleshirt and everything.
Yeah, it was completely takenover the whole airport area.
Out front they had all theirbags, so you knew that they were
going on like an outing.
They do these outings wherethey fly somewhere and they go
out.
But man, did that take me backbecause years ago I was forced
(07:27):
and I'm telling you forced to gointo the Cub Scouts with my son
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, dude, I'm so glad I never had to do that
experience, forced, forced.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah.
So you know you have to go tothese meetings and then when
you're going to the meetingsyou're in the back because they
have to do certain things toearn these little like badge
clips, things for their belt andshit like that.
So you know, I'm back therewith a couple of the other dads
and they're pretty funny.
So me and these other guysdidn't want to be there either.
So we're like razzing eachother the whole time and we
(08:02):
constantly get in trouble.
We were like the bad kids inclass.
We got in trouble by the scoutmaster you know what I mean and
they were like oh, you guys gotto keep it down.
We're like whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We don't get here in the first place.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But these guys, they're doing all their stuff.
But some of the funny things Ihad to tell you about this one,
okay, you know that they do thisthing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's called the derby , the derby, yeah, oh, when they
make their little race cars andstuff like that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay.
So they give them a block ofwood and they give you the
wheels, some pins, some weightsEverybody gets the same thing
Materials, right, yeah, so whatyou have to do is that you have
to create this car, and thiswhole time I'm not doing it.
I'm not doing it.
I mean, you know it's going on.
It's weeks and weeks.
And you know Deb's brother,danny, yeah Right, he's doing
(08:51):
all this work on this car.
So he's making this carunbelievable like um Derby car.
It looks like something thatgoes out on the racetrack.
Sure, he's whittling this thingdown.
He's shaving it down.
He's doing all the need.
Meanwhile, mine is a block ofwood, still Okay, and, and she's
like you got to do somethingwith this, he's got to do the
(09:12):
Derby and I'm like I don't wantto do this.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It's funny because they're like.
It's funny Like your wifesaying Like it's funny, like
your wife's saying you got to doit.
Like this is the Cub Scout.
Stuff becomes your, you're theCub Scout.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And I got stuck in it .
It wasn't like I signed him upfor it, like I just you got to
go.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Jackson should have been doing the freaking
whittling Right, like he's theperson that should have been
like working on this car, notyou.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, that's the same thing as danny, but that you
know that ain't right.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So anyway, he's designing this whole car, he's
got actually sean, he had actualworking lights on it.
Oh, believe me.
So so we go in, you have to go,you have to go into this.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Um, but I thought it was only like limited to the
materials, you only can usethose specific materials it is,
but he had, he had added thesetwo little light things because
they they could have to do itfor their weight and balance and
then they have to do it forshow they have ones for the show
oh gotcha, okay.
So he does it.
He's looking for the show, sohe's looking for the
best-looking one.
So we go in and they weightthese things and they do all
(10:15):
that.
And Danny comes in with thisprize trophy car and I mean
literally it looks like a stockcar.
And so Jackson comes in.
You know what Jackson's was?
A square brick with wheels.
He looked like somebody justtook his favorite toy away from
him and he had his head downwalking in and I'm like why do
(10:36):
you got your head down?
He goes Dad, it looks stupid.
It's called the blue surfboard,the blue surfboard.
And what this was is that I hadto cut this thing down.
And then I had some blue spraypaint that I had and I spray
painted that damn thing with theblue spray paint, put the
wheels on it and everything.
So he walks in and they're likehey, you know what?
(11:02):
What's, what's this?
What is this?
And he goes it's a bluesurfboard.
And they're like what Bluesurfboard?
And he just looked at me andhe's got this look on his face.
Danny's over there andeverybody's looking at him.
He comes over and looks oh man,that's a stock car.
It lights everything.
Yeah, really cool.
So the first thing that they dois that they, they go and they,
(11:22):
they say which one has bestestshow, and you know who got that
yeah, danny so he's over there,stand, they're taking pictures
of that.
Jackson's over there with hishead down.
I mean it's horrible, deb.
She's looking at me like youknow I'm the worst dad in the
whole freaking world and so youknow he's like I just want to go
home.
I don't even want to put it upon the track because they've got
to race next Right Now.
(11:43):
They've got to race it.
They've got to go put thisthing and they race this thing.
He walks up there reluctantly.
He doesn't want to go up there,right, he sits this thing up
and he's like stupid thing, thewhole thing.
(12:05):
He's saying this a he didn'thave an overall enjoyable
experience.
Oh, it's horrible, it'shorrible.
So he gets up there and he putsthis thing up there and and, um
, you know he he's in the firstrace and he puts it up there and
deb's like the we need to justgo home.
And I was like just wait tillit goes.
I mean, yeah, he's like I'mgonna lose some and there's no
way, and then all of a suddenthey release it.
Jackson's takes off like a batof hell out of hell, man this
thing goes down there, sean.
It kicks the shit out ofeverybody's really.
(12:25):
Now he's sitting there lookingat it and all of a sudden he
went from the being this bigdowner to like oh hell yeah,
this kid, yeah, like bluesurfboard brand blue surfboard.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Now right, so he's ready to print shirts pass out
flags.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He goes through this thing.
So, anyway, he takes secondplace in this thing.
That's awesome, and so thefunny part about it is is danny
goes well, how in the hell didyou do that?
And I said, well, you was doingthat.
I was looking online at one ofthe national winners and how he
he actually designed his uh, hiscar right and he was an
engineer yeah so I just did itexactly the way he did.
(13:00):
It put it on there right, theydidn't they.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
They didn't know what was coming.
That one that shit didn't lookpretty, but it won.
Yeah, it did right.
This reminds me of you know,you're talking about scouts and
all that stuff my, mybrother-in-law, when his
daughter was young, you know,indian princesses.
Have you ever heard of thatgroup?
No, there's like a young girlslike they have this Indian
princess group and all thatstuff and they go like it's kind
(13:24):
of like a Boy Scout thing, it'sjust not as big.
But they had this Indianprincess group and one of the
things is that like he wasreluctantly has to go with his
daughter because it was kind oflike a daughter-father thing,
right, and he had to go to thislike sleepover thing and all
that stuff.
And he had to go to thissleepover thing and all this
stuff.
So they had to give the fathersIndian names and so his name
(13:46):
was Caged Animal.
Caged Animal yeah, that's whathe was Just remind me of this
whole Dude listen.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
There's one more, though.
I got to tell you that happenedwith this show.
I mean, before we go on to thenext thing.
Okay, so I was doing a doublered.
I was doing this all-nighter soyou had to leave from Cleveland
LA back.
Okay, he had one of thoseoutings that you had to go to,
so I had to do red.
I came back in.
I was late.
Loser dad I'm in the loser dadat this point.
(14:18):
Right, somebody else had totake him to the outing.
Why?
Because I was late.
Okay, so they had to take himout to the Boy Scout camp and
everything.
So, can I go home, go to sleep?
No, I got to run to the BoyScout camp.
Now it's like 45, 50 minutesaway, driving like a bat out of
hell again to get to this thing.
So I, I get there.
I'm like okay, where's thistroop at?
(14:38):
And they said they're at thearchery range.
Okay.
And I said, okay, where's thearchery range?
And they said on the other sideof the camp.
I was like okay, can I drivethere?
And they're like no, I'm likehow am I supposed to get there?
They said follow that path.
This is all the way on the otherside.
Now it's hot, I mean it's now.
I come up on this whole groupand they're at this archery
(15:00):
range.
Now this thing was.
It was closed in with theselittle ropes, right Sticks.
Nobody knew I was back there.
I was like this is perfect, I'mgonna sneak in the back,
nobody's going to know, I'm justgoing to slide right in the
back of this thing.
Right now there's this onesergeant at arms guy at this
little loop door thing and it'sat entrance of the archery range
.
So I walk over and I step overthat loop.
(15:23):
Biggest mistake I made in mylife, sean.
What happened you have?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
entered the archery range without asking permission.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh shit, I turned around, I was like what this is
like.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Military Joe at the gate right.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Everybody and their mother turned around and they
were all staring at me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Now you know how I'm looking at this dude and
Jackson's over in the room justlike dipping his head.
He put his head down again.
Right, that's my dad.
There's my dad, right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And I'm looking at this guy and I'm standing there,
he's in his little shorts andhis shirt and I'm looking at him
like dude.
If there wasn't so manywitnesses right now, I would go
get that extra bow and arrow andshoot you like a Thanksgiving
turkey.
That's right, brother, I'mtelling you.
Man, I was looking at him and Iwas like and he goes, you need
to leave the archery range andask for permission.
(16:12):
So I stepped back over thatdamn loop, sean, and I looked at
him and I said may I enter thearchery range?
You can enter the archery range.
I'm like son of a.
So I stepped in there and thefirst thing this one guy said
right, his name was Brian.
He said Gary, do not kill him,right.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Exactly Like I'm going to get in this archery and
I'm shoot this motherfuckingdad.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So that was the end of my Cub Scouting.
Oh, geez, right there, I'm justtelling you.
But Cub Scouts, yeah, it's agood organization.
It just wasn't for me.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's good man for these young boys to get out
there and experience andunderstand, and you know we all
need more male guidance in thisworld, right?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, you do.
I mean, it is a greatorganization, like I said, it
just wasn't for me, and I have abunch of funny stories that go
with that.
But I'll give you those tworight now.
Maybe a few other later.
Right, we got a few otherthings to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We do, and skunk, weed, skunk, weed.
Dude, I can't stand it.
Can't stand it.
Can't stand that crap man.
I can't stand the smell likethe.
It's like it's weed.
I was talking to somebody theother day about this whole thing
because, like I grew up incalifornia, weed was everywhere,
right, I mean, uh, I'm a 60schild, uh, like weed when
smoking weed was it neversmelled like this back then?
(17:36):
No, okay, it's like changedover time and it's turned into
this very skunky smell.
That like like when I'm outdriving and stuff and I do the
uber e thing and stuff, like Igo in apartment buildings or
anything like that.
It's like you could just smellit everywhere.
It's like it permeates it.
Or like you get the passengerson the plane that they've been
smoking and then they come onand they, I don't know, it's
(17:58):
just like a smoker, like anyother smoker, right, they don't
realize they stink.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No, I was laying over at the Galleria downtown in
Houston.
I got out of the van and, sean,I was like what the man?
That shit smells, what the hellis that?
And I turn around and there'sthese two people over in the
sitting area at the entrance ofthe hotel smoking weed and I'm
like that freaking stinks, man.
(18:23):
And and the the van driverslike this is where they, they
sit and they smoke that and I'mlike man people realize this,
okay, when you smoke weed, youstink your breast, stinks your
air, stinks your clothes theclothes stink, the car stinks,
everything stinks and you makeeverybody suffer for that nasty
(18:43):
ass.
Skunk weed smell.
Can't stand that.
Yeah, cannot stand that I meanit was just nasty.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That to me, is just exactly like the uh, uh, just
cigarette smoke period.
I mean those two hand in handlike I just I'm not a smoker
period, so it's like I justcan't stand the smell of it.
And then when it permeates offpeople like you get I don't care
if they get, you know theysmoke a weed, they smoke a
cigarettes.
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I walk into the airport and you know, you know
that that people working on theairport are smoking it because
it's down, it's down in the uh,down in the airport area.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, yeah, or you're walking down to concourse and
you can.
It's just like waving, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
like you know, you're following walking behind
somebody that smoking weed so ifyou smoke weed, just realize
this you stink I'm straight, youdo you stink man I mean you do,
even if you don't think thatyou do, you stink, and trust me,
you do.
But hey, listen, I had to tellyou too you know this family
(19:39):
came on, okay how many kids youthink they had um, I don't know
four eight, eight kids, eight,freaking, kids, eight.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Wow, dude that is first of all.
I mean I don't have any kids,so I don't, I can't, I can't.
I can only talk to you fromoutside, looking in perspective
here, but eight kids I would gofreaking insane.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Eight is not enough.
Eight is way too damn many.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, way too many.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
You should meet.
It was not the Brady.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Bunch either.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It wasn't Greg, jan, cindy and Marsha for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now, you know, it's funny that you say this I've had
those families where they take,you know they take up, you know
, a whole row, that's like sixon our narrow body aircraft and,
uh, you know, or they'll have,like I had one family that
literally was 12 people, right,you know kids, and so 10 kids,
one, two adults.
And those type of families likewhen I see them a lot of times
(20:39):
it's like the family's workingtogether, like everybody, from
the littlest one all the way tothe big one, have jobs to take
care of each other.
You know, like it's likeeverybody's got to be taking
care of each other in order forit to happen, because it's just
out of control.
And it sounds like this familywasn't like that.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
No, that you're thinking years ago, man.
That's how my mom was, becausewe have five kids.
Okay, we had five, but my momhad it under control.
There was no control here.
I mean, this was absolutelycrazy.
But what really killed me wasthat he came back and he was
talking to me and he goes.
Can I ask you a question?
I said sure.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, the father.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, and he said can I ask a question?
He said why don't you guys doanything special for families?
And I said well, what do youmean?
He goes?
Well, we bought eight tickets.
And I said okay, well, whatkind of tickets did you buy?
And he said the economy tickets.
He said because I wasn't goingto spend $100 for the economy
plus so we could all sittogether.
And I said, well, okay, butthat's kind of your fault.
(21:36):
And he said yeah, but he, hegoes.
You should just move peoplearound, let the family sit
together.
Yeah, and I'm like that's nothow it works here that's kind of
like.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like that whole point right there, that that whole
perspective to me is like thatguy that comes on that seven
foot that's sitting in economyyeah, and you're like are you
stupid?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
you had those legs.
When you like, yeah you.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You've been seven foot for a long time.
Yeah, yeah, you know you're notgoing to fit in these seats,
right, you know, like you thinkwe need to move you, no, you
need to buy the appropriateticket.
Like we don't need to solveyour problem and you don't need
to like get away with it withoutpaying, type of thing.
But I mean, that's life, likeyou got to go through it in your
(22:19):
own way.
But it's like, come on.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But the airline.
I mean even with these guys,the airline, not us, but the
airline.
The gate agents got threetogether, three together, and
then two of them had to sitseparate.
That's a miracle in itself on afull plane.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But they always act like, when they purchase these
tickets, when there's a bunch ofseats open and, as you know,
there's not many seats openanymore.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And if they do travel like I don't know if it's like
a first time for this family totravel, but it's like if it's a
first time, okay, I'm going togive them a little slack here.
But if it's not their firsttime traveling, like they're
used to going places, have tosip separate, you know, that's
just they're too big of a group,right?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
so I mean that's that's just, that's just
craziness, but anyway, yeah, itwas like I said, eight was way
too damn many for these guys.
That's for sure right.
But you know something, I hadto tell you something.
You know, last week, wheneverwe got done with our podcast,
yeah, when we walked outside,you had told me, uh, something
that kind of triggered somethingin me and I was like we got to
discuss this one.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was talking to you about some
feedback.
The feedback was they werewanting me to tell you that you,
like you always say me, and youRight.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
My grammar.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, and they were commenting on grammar.
And this is not the first timelike somebody from the show was
like there's been other peoplelike have commented about
grammar on the show and stuff.
But honestly, you know, I doall the editing to our show and
you know, at first, when I firststarted, when we first started
a podcast, I thought, okay, youknow I should think about this
(23:58):
and do this, and it's up.
And then the the more I thoughtabout it, the more I was like
you know what?
This is a real show?
this is me and you this is youand you, you know, I'm saying
like this is how we talk and,however it comes out, um, the
intentions are like thisatmosphere that we're in right
now.
This is a place of like reality, like we're talking to you from
(24:20):
, for real, from our heart andyou know, giving you the real
stuff here.
We're not in a classroomteaching grammar, right, right,
this isn't.
This isn't where we're.
The, the, the platform.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So this is one of those things.
Normally I just brush it off.
But you know, I had to go backand I had to reflect for a
moment.
So I started thinking.
I said at first, why did I dothis podcast in the first place?
It wasn't to be perfect, butshit, I'm not perfect, by no
means.
It wasn't to sound polishedlike some broadcast news anchor,
(24:52):
because that shit definitelyisn't me.
It was to be real.
It was to be the person that Iam and hopefully I was going to
connect with people that theywere going to see exactly what
goes on in our lives in thegalley and what we talk about on
airplanes, and sometimes it'sjust about life itself.
Then I asked myself, well, whydo they pick me apart?
(25:13):
Why don't they just enjoylistening to it?
Why do they just wait to catch amistake?
Or they just didn't want tolean in to hear the story?
And the truth is, it brought meback all the way back to when I
was a kid, when I'd saysomething and someone would
correct me, not just the wordsbut the way I said it.
And, man, that used to botherme a lot.
(25:34):
It made me feel a little bitsmall.
You ever felt like that, alittle bit small, like I had to
earn the right to speak Somehow.
I wasn't good enough, I wasn'tperfect.
But you know, then you start togrow kind of toughen up and you
learn I don't give a shit whatthese people think At least
(25:58):
that's what we tell ourselvesthat we don't care.
But sometimes something littlelike grammar correction it gets
under your skin, not justbecause of the words, because of
what it represents.
So here's what I've come to.
Why do people do that?
Maybe they want to feel smart.
(26:19):
Maybe they've been taught tofollow the rules so closely that
they can't see beyond that.
Maybe it's just a pet peeve, ormaybe it's just correcting
others, giving them a falsesense of power that they don't
feel anywhere else in their ownlife.
And sure, maybe, just maybe,they think they're helping.
(26:42):
But if you're listening andyou've ever been corrected in a
way that makes you feel less,know this your voice is valid,
your story it's worthy andnobody has the right to make you
feel small for sharing it.
So, the person who corrected meI'm not mad at you, in fact,
(27:08):
thank you, because this smallmoment made me check back in
with my purpose.
It reminded me why I do thispodcast.
It reminded me to give peoplespace to be human.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's right, man.
I mean, you know we getcorrected about stuff as we are
growing and coming up as a childand stuff.
But it also made me reflectabout something too, like in my
life when I was a kid, I, um, Ijust you know I had this.
(27:40):
I had this experience where itwas a, I always got corrected
and I always felt like the dumbkid in the class and, um, I, you
know, coming from, I'm going totell you there there's some
social aspects here that peoplemay not, may not know about a
show.
Like I grew up in a family of amixed race kid.
You know my mother's white, mydad's black and the dynamics of
(28:01):
that as a child are, you know,there's a lot of navigation
going through there and you needto and you're just trying to be
a kid and fit in and you needto and you're just trying to be
a kid and fit in, but to putthis thing of like, you're like
inferior and you don't, youdon't have, you know, you don't
have proper grammar and all thisstuff.
It made me reflect back Like Iremember when I was young I got,
(28:24):
I had to go for about a year tothis doctor.
That was a psychologist that waslike analyzing me, as being
like there was something wrongwith me.
And I'm telling you, like thatyear was like one of the longest
year of my kid being a kid,because I was always worried
about like you know what's wrongwith me?
Why?
Why don't they fit in?
You know like what, what'shappening?
(28:46):
Why do I have to go to thisplace?
And then the other kids werethere.
They had like I could clearlysee that these kids that were
here with me had like lots ofproblems and stuff.
But it really got to you like Imean, I was like emotionally
like damaged by this whole eventthat I was made to go to this,
(29:06):
uh, this clinic and all thisstuff, but it was.
And then, like right after that,then they put me into speech
therapy and then I had to gothrough that and then I was
always like the kid that likeI'm gonna tell you right now,
like spelling, I was the worstspeller in the world, still am
the worst spelling world.
I'm.
I'm 60 years old, I can't spellworth a damn right.
But unfortunately, orfortunately, I have overcome all
(29:30):
those different obstacles andstuff like that and gotten to a
point where it's like you knowum be you.
You know those things.
You gotta be you.
You gotta continue to be youand and say and feel and um talk
, at whatever level you are inlife.
And when you get to a pointlike if this person that you're
(29:51):
talking about had the intentionof you know ill intent and like
to like knock people down, well,fuck you is what I say.
Right, but if the if they havethe intent of they're trying to
make us better and they'retrying to improve us and all
this stuff, you know the personthat you're talking to also has
to be a willing recipient of it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
But why?
Would you see?
The one thing that I don'tunderstand is why we just pick
out the grammar.
But going back to when we was akid, because this took me back,
it really did.
When we were going, when I wasdriving down the road, I was
sitting there thinking to myselfwell, I got to get better, I
got to do this.
And I thought to myself no, youdon't, Gary, Fuck that.
No, you don't.
No, you don't, Because when Iwas a kid, I dealt with all that
shit.
(30:32):
I'm telling you, I dealt with it.
I was on the outside of this incircle, okay, and I tried to
fit in.
I tried to look a certain way,talk a certain way, be a certain
way.
And then I realized I had thisphenomenal mom and she used to
tell me all the time because Iused to get migraines.
Migraines are where I'd throwup, I have to stay in a dark
room, and it was horrible.
And it was all because of thestress of trying to fit in,
(30:55):
trying to do what someone elsewanted me to do or say what they
wanted me to say.
So I got these migraines allthe time, but I had this mother
that kept telling me the mostimportant thing, Gary, is to be
a good person, to be someonethat other people want to talk
to, that they can depend on, andthat's it.
That's life.
That's the most important thingin life is to be a good person.
(31:17):
So I spent my life trying to bethat good person.
But still, it's amazing, thoughthese little bitty words, when
somebody says something, it goesall the way back to when you
was a kid.
So if you see that your kid'sdealing with something, just
realize this you being there forthem.
That kid's going to getstronger, they're going to get
(31:40):
tougher and the outside shell isgoing to get to where people
don't bother them anymore.
Because let me tell yousomething as much as I
appreciate you right, I don'tgive a shit.
I really don't.
I mean, if you don't like whatI say, if you don't like how I
say it, you don't have to listen.
You don't?
I mean, you do not have tolisten.
And if you're just doing it tohelp, I appreciate you offering
(32:01):
your help.
You know, but a lot of timeswhen you do that, maybe you
should talk about the show first.
Sure, Maybe you should talkabout what we talked about.
Are the content of the show?
Not exactly?
Am I using the correct grammar?
Because that did affect me in away?
And?
But you know what you didtruthfully, you made me stronger
.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Absolutely.
You know what.
That's one of my things, like Iwas telling you, uh, we were
talking about this before Um,you know, my wife used to
correct my grammar all the timeand she was.
She was doing it and she wasdoing it from the heart, like
she was trying to.
She comes from a different, youknow part of the world than I
do and she wanted me to fit intothat world that she wanted, but
(32:47):
at the same time, she wasn't,she wasn't ashamed of what it
was, but she was like, just likeshe wanted me to be better,
because she knew that I was verymotivated to better myself.
I was reading books and I wastrying to teach myself all these
different ways of becoming abetter person.
I was doing all thisself-reflection and trying to
(33:08):
like, build myself up.
And when you're in a in, whenyou're in a um atmosphere or the
um, you know a state of wantingto improve yourself and you're
trying to do that type of stuff.
Those type of comments are okay, you know, to me like it's.
It's okay that she was likedoing it.
It would make me mad and itwouldn't make me reflect on, you
(33:29):
know, my childhood and thingslike that, but it was.
I wasn't, I would check myselfbecause I was like, wait a
minute, I'm trying to makemyself better.
This is what I want to do.
This is what I'm trying to domyself and she's trying to help
me.
So this is not malicious oranything, but yeah, this whole
thing, honestly, everybodylistening out there on our
(33:50):
podcast, we're going to be us.
We're going to be us.
We're going to talk abouteverything and anything.
We're going to bring you ourexperiences and we're going to
say it how we want to say it andfuck it.
If you don't want to listen,don't listen.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Don't listen, because I guarantee you I'm 58 years
old.
My ass, the grammar is notgoing to be right.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But if you want to hear something, real.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, listen to us all right.
So here's a real helpful bestfoods to travel with on a plane.
Yeah, let's talk about somepositive stuff, man, you know
what?
There's a lot of stuff likebringing.
I was just at the airport theother day and, um, I did this,
uh, orlando turn, and I got downto orlando and I didn't bring.
We got on delay and so I didn'tbring enough food with me and
all that.
So I went to buy some food.
Man, I went to buy a sandwichand a bag of chips.
(34:39):
Tell me how much that costs inthe airport.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Depends on what airport you're talking about
Orlando, Orlando Chips and asandwich $20.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, it was $20.
I got a discount.
I got it for 15.
Right, that was that'sridiculous.
Yeah, I mean, these are theairports.
The airports are like so, sodamn expensive.
I was in la the other day.
I wanted to get something toeat too.
Went to go get a burger burger25 dollars.
I was like, come on, this iscrazy.
But we wanted to give you sometips about foods to travel with.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
We pack our own stuff .
We bring our stuff all the timeand the reason is for regular
flights.
But a little bit later in theshow you're going to understand
why we're telling you this today.
But sandwiches and wrapsdefinitely, man.
A wrap will last you throughoutthe day.
It's good to have.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean fresh fruits, cheese cubes
or a stick, cheese sticks andstuff like that.
That's great, and all thesethings we're talking about are
things that you can bringthrough to TSA checkpoint.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Right, you want, you want a nut mix.
Uh, veg, I always have veggies,veggies or cut veggies.
Um, you know, I'll have themwith hummus.
Uh, I have them with a littlebit of ranch dressing every once
in a while.
And here's one of my actuallyone of my favorite quinoa bowls.
Yeah, your quinoa bowl atticLove freaking quinoa bowls.
(36:00):
Hey guys, I'm telling youquinoa, little cucumber, little
bit of onion, tomato, chickpeas.
And you got it, man, I'mtelling you, put a little bit of
dressing on it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
You're, you're set, yeah, and then always you know
you need the sweet stuff, thedark chocolate, some snack bars
come with you, uh, all those,all these different things.
You just need to, like, thinkabout things that you can get
through the tsa checkpoint,because you definitely don't
want to bring liquid.
So, like you know, you know,bringing veggies with a ranch
dip, that might not work, no, no, no.
(36:34):
So just think about it.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is the most important thing.
Bring a container that you have, a water bottle that you can
fill up, because, let me tellyou something, hydration on a
plane delays Everything aregoing to happen every single day
.
Most important thing bottles ofwater for you and the kids.
Make sure that you have them.
Just bring empty ones throughTSA Nine times out of ten.
(36:57):
Now that the airports havewatering stations, you can go
fill it up and then you've gotenough water on the plane.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, I don't know an airport in the United States
that does not have water.
You know areas like fountainsand stuff that fill up the water
bottles in the airport.
I was just on a plane the otherday.
The this lady had her and herkids and they all had the water
bottles and everything but forwhatever reason not one of them
were filled up.
And she was like can you fillup our water bottles?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
and I'm like no do right outside, right outside, I
know the plane.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
the plane only has so much.
We only can stock so much andeverything.
And when you're talking about200 people on an aircraft and
you're one of the person and youwant to take a giant portion of
our supplies, that's not goingto happen.
No, Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So here's the other part.
Don't be this passenger, sean.
What's that?
Okay?
Here's that Okay.
Here's some of the things thatyou guys this does not want to
be you on an airplane.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, these are things that you just behave
better.
That's what I got to say.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Here's your favorite Don't wear your headphones
during the safety demonstration.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, man, first of all, don't wear your headphones
when anybody is talking to you,period.
I mean, there's so many thingshappening in the beginning of
the flight, and during theflight as well, that you need to
be paying attention.
But when somebody is looking atyou and you see lips moving and
you have the headphones on,yeah and each person all seems
(38:32):
like 200 of them are you know?
We talked to them.
Would you like a snack?
it's funny how we take theheadphones off and you're like,
huh what?
What'd you say exactly?
What was that?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm gonna reach over and smack shit out of you doing
shit man, we, we go over thisall the time with you guys about
the headphones.
Take the damn headphones off.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, Just be be respective of people, period.
It doesn't have to be justflight attendants like in the
world.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Okay, I love this one .
When you, when you're servingfood in the back, you know
you're selling food, what's that?
What do you have?
Yeah, what do you have?
Uh, yeah, but what's on it?
What's on it?
Uh, it's, it's right there,it's got, it's got pictures on
it, um, but um, so, do you haveum this?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
uh, no, it's not on that menu dude, I literally hand
that menu, like I pull it outof the seat and I just hand him
in you and I'm like I'll be back.
And I just get, and I literallylook at the next person would
you like something to drink?
I don't got time for that.
They don't understand.
We have certain.
We only have a window If you'reon a two-hour flight.
We've got about an hour toservice 200 people on the plane.
(39:46):
And we're going to ask everybodywhat you'd like to drink and if
you'd like a snack.
I mean, depending on theairline, like some airlines
don't give that stuff right, butfor our airline full service
airline we're going to give,we're going to do this, but we
only have a certain window to doit right and that is a time
that you have to beparticipating right.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
What would you like to drink?
Uh can I have pepsi?
Uh, it's not on the menu.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Yeah, coke yeah, here's another thing you'd never
do on a plane don't snap yourfingers at me.
Oh, that's a bad one.
Yeah, that's a bad.
That may not.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
You know some of the locations is like this what the?
What was that?
I?
Had a dude on it sounds likeair came out of somebody.
I had a dude on a plane itsounds like air came out of
somebody.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I had a dude on a plane last week I'm like on the
cart and I just had talked tohim and then, like the person
next to him needed something orwhatever, and the motherfucker
poked me.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Don't touch the nice flight attendants, Dude I was
ready to break his freakingfingers.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I'm serious.
First of all, he was annoyingme initially just because of how
he was like just talking andthe whole nine yards.
Then I turned around I'mtalking to other people and
service other people and the guypokes me.
I'm dude.
I almost like I wanted to smackhim.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
So the one thing that you don't do on an airplane is
don't touch the flightattendants.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Don't touch them.
There's no reason to touchanybody, it doesn't matter, not
even flight attendants, anotherpassenger, don't touch people,
exactly, leave them alone.
I mean, obviously we have toshare armrests and things like
that and you're in thoseconfined spaces, but outside of
that, there's no reason tointentionally poke someone to
get their attention.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
And don't do this, Don't blow the lab up in the
morning.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Oh dude, that's a nasty one and I listen, I have
all people have got the mostincredible, terrible digestive
system.
I got bathroom issues all thetime I go to I got I got my
(41:51):
gastrointestinalologist.
I got a doctor that I go toregularly that's dealing with my
shit, all right, but I'm goingto tell you right now like there
are times where you got thatsituation but for some reason on
the aircraft there's always aperson in the morning that comes
on the plane and they want totake a shit on the plane.
The first thing before we evenpush back from the gate.
And all those bathrooms in theterminal.
You're like why would you wantto take a shit on the plane, the
first thing before we even pushback from the gate?
And all those bathrooms in theterminal.
(42:11):
You're like why would you wantto put it in this confined space
?
Come on, Come on bro Don't doit, man Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Hey, can you move that crying baby to another area
?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
That's a great one.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yeah, oh sure man, I'm going to grab this infant.
I'm going to grab this infant.
I'm going to go shove him uphere in the overhead bin.
Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, I'm sorry, man, but your little crane, little
shithead needs to move a couplerows.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, these people back here are mad.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
They're a little irritated by that.
Can you help us out?
No, Shit.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
First thing when you walk on the plane in the morning
time hey, good morning, whatare you doing?
I like my steak medium rare.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, that's so original, that's original.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
That's a great one, thank you.
Thank you for sharing.
This is what I love.
This is all the time.
You know this one.
Can we see the Grand Canyonfrom here?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah, we get those tough ones.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
We'd be going to London man.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It'd be going to london, man.
It'd be like do we could flyover the grand canyon?
Yeah, uh, no.
So you know what I used to dowith all those people like or
your or or the where are we yeah, yeah where are we?
I would like open, I would likeopen your window when you went
out.
I go, I go, look over there,see that, see that down there,
right there, I go.
If, if you look real, real hard, I go.
You'll see those big the, theletters.
You know that you see on themap that says the states.
(43:33):
You'll see them as we flyacross.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
You know, this other one's good too, when you're
flying over like Nebraska yeah,are those alien circles they
talk about?
Yeah, okay, no, that's calledirrigation.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's how we irrigate crops in america.
Guys, I I personally respondwith yes, this is a very high
level of alien encounters andnobody ever sees them.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
You can't of them, just.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
They just land everywhere but in our business
we get to see them where they'relike concentrated.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
This is the best one in Cleveland.
This is the best one inCleveland I had in Cleveland.
Excuse me, what was the oceanwe just flew over?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Ma'am, that's a lake.
That's a lake.
That's a lake.
It's not an ocean aroundCleveland.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I give you Listen, we're having poking fun and
stuff and I know people arefirst time flyers out there and
they don't get it and like thefirst experience and and believe
me, I am one of the most I'mthe advocate for like, I love
first time flyers becausethey're fun, they're having good
time.
This is all experiencing theexperience, the whole thing.
You know like I get it.
(44:47):
There's they don't know andstuff like that.
But this isn't from people thatare first-time flyers usually.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Every bit of what we're telling you makes our day,
believe it or not.
I mean, you know, if you havethe attitude in this job which I
do, sean does is that we havefun.
I mean, we do, we have fun andwe make fun of ourselves and we
make fun of situations and wemake fun of stuff that people
tell us and this is some of theshit that we hear on airplanes
all the time.
But into Cleveland and theocean in Cleveland, that one was
(45:16):
good.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I always liked that one.
Yeah, but then you know there'sthe other aspect of this
airline business is that we havemeltdowns and freaking.
The industry goes up into a bigshit show all the time.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I wonder what we're talking about this week.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah Well, we're going to go around the grill up
here and we're talking aboutlike meltdowns of like how to
deal with that stuff, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, what he's talking about is Newark was a
complete, complete shit showthis week Again.
I mean what happens?
This is what happens when astorm goes into the East Coast.
Let me explain what happenswhen a storm goes into the East
Coast.
Let me explain.
I want to explain it to you.
So when you're flying in becausethis just happened with someone
that was traveling non-revtravel that I know the situation
(46:00):
.
So they were flying into Newark, everything was great.
They were coming out of Vegas,the flight was great, they were
supposed to land in Newark.
The weather moved in to Newark,they had to divert.
They didn't have enough fuel,so they had to actually go to
Albany.
Now this person was supposed tomake a connection going to
Savannah.
Now they were right on time,everything was perfect, but then
(46:21):
they had to divert, so thenthey had to go to Albany and
then they had to fuel up Albany,sit there, and then meanwhile
the flight that she would havebeen on time with to Savannah
was coming from Boston, shortflight.
So you know it was getting in,but it was getting in a little
bit late.
But by the time the flight tookoff from Albany, got in there,
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this person was already late, sothey weren't making a
connection.
You're going to spend the nightin Newark.
At that point, I mean, it was acomplete shit show in Newark
and what we want to try to do istell you how do you survive the
shit show?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, and before we get into that, like how I got
impacted with this whole thingthat you're talking about, I was
doing the turn down to becausethis goes back to me buying the
sandwich in Orlando.
We were doing a turn down toOrlando and they took half my
crew and they sent them toNewark because the other flights
were late, trying to get in andall that stuff and they were
(47:22):
trying to get Newark back inshape and so they delayed us in
Orlando to get another flightgoing to Newark, to get that in
on time and yeah, so how I endup buying a $15 sandwich.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Well, that's the part that they don't understand is
that sometimes we just gethandpicked.
I mean they'll pick you rightout and you're going somewhere
else Because we just fill spotshere.
When all this big snowballeffect happens in the industry,
flight attendants everybody issubject to change.
I mean it doesn't matter whoyou are, you're subject to
change.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah, you may think you're going down to one
destination and coming back homeand you're going to come home
that night and stuff.
You might not come home thatnight and that's what we deal
with every day.
That's the possibility of everytrip, as soon as we check in
for the job.
You might not get home thatnight.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
All right, so let's talk about how to survive this
shit show, Sean.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
All right, let's try to do that.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
First of all, if you're in an airport and you see
this is going on, the easiestthing to do no planes are going
out.
You can see that what you wantto do is you want to basically
go secure an area of seats anddon't move.
Don't move because I'm going totell you something all those
seats are going to be takenbecause you're going to see a
big wave of people just floodingan area coming off of airplanes
(48:39):
and you're going to havenowhere to sit.
So make sure that you get it.
First of all, get a centrallocation of a place you can sit.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
You can just relax yeah, if you, if you have a
group of people and like do asmuch as you can, if you're
traveling by yourself, it'sgoing to be tough.
But yeah, that's a good pieceof advice there, because the
airports I mean, if you've everbeen in an airport when the shit
hits a fan and like I've beenthere they're bringing out cots
(49:06):
and stuff in the airports andmaking the airport an emergency
housing area because it's so bad.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Right, well, and here's another one too, though
If it's going to be an extensivedelay and you're going to need
something to eat, something todrink, send only one person in
your group with a cell phone andtell them make sure their cell
phone's turned on and they canhear it.
Send them for food and water.
Keep your spot, because I'mtelling you, man, you move, you
(49:34):
lose it, and they ain't going tomove after that point.
So make sure you only send oneperson, and then you can keep in
contact with them with a cellphone.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah, the other thing you need to do is just travel
with appropriate attire, for,however you are, as far as cold
and hot like have a blanket,have a sweatshirt, hoodie,
whatever, and the plane getscold.
But if you have to spend anight in the airport, it's going
to be real cold in that airporttoo.
(50:02):
So you need to have that.
You get to have those tools,that to take care of yourself.
So, people, when you'retraveling, I mean, make sure
that you have that, becauseplanes are, you know they're,
they're all over the place,they're like hot, they're cold,
they're up and you know trust meon on what he just said there
always, always, always, take asweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
I don't care, I don't care if it's freaking 100
degrees outside sometimes inthat aircraft and man, it is
freaking, freezing, right.
So take it.
Take a sweatshirt because youmight need it when you're
traveling.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, and if you are on a plane, remember, until
you're airborne everything'ssubject to change, and even when
you're airborne it can changetoo.
I was thinking about that and Iwas like, yeah, I mean, it can
change in an instant, just likethere's people diverting and
just know that we're at the whimof Mother Nature, it's out of
(50:56):
your control.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
I mean, that's the one thing that you better
realize when you fly.
You don't have any control.
You might think that you do.
I mean, look, me and Sean havebeen doing this a long time.
We have zero control of thisshit, zero.
All we do is that when they saytake off, we take off.
When they say land, we land,that's it.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
That's as much control as it is, and hopefully
it's going to be on schedule Yep.
And we're doing everythingpossible to help it to be on
schedule.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Right.
And here's one thing before yougo and actually know your
airport, Know their information,Know hotels, Know things around
there, Believe it or not, havea plan If this happens.
Have a plan because you'regoing to survive this plan.
If you know that there'scertain hotels, say that you
have a list of five hotels inthe area and you have that list
(51:42):
with you, or car rentals, a nameof car rentals or whatever it
is and you have it with you.
You did your due diligencebefore because you have your
family and everything, eventravel by yourself.
But you have this readilyavailable when that shit show
happens.
You don't have to look for it.
You don't have to search for it.
You can just call it and thenbook a room.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Yeah, a lot of these tips and stuff we're telling you
right now are big and like justfrequent flyers.
Like frequent flyers, a lot ofthem do this.
This is how I travel, like wedo everything that's on our list
that we're talking about rightnow.
I make sure that because I knowit doesn't matter if I pay for
a ticket, if I'm flying non-rev.
(52:21):
Everything can go wrong anduntil you arrive at that
destination, you know it's kindof out of your control.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
You know, the one thing that I've always said
since I've been doing this job,and this is true, this is, and
actually this is in the best waywhen I come to work, I plan on
everything going wrong, becauseairline industry and then it,
when it goes right, it's a greatday.
So I mean it goes right waymore than it ever goes wrong,
but I still plan on going wrong,so I'm not upset, I'm just
there, I do my job and then I gohome Right, right, all right
(52:55):
guys.
Hey, listen man, we've had agreat time this week.
Sean end it with a quote.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Hey, our quote today is many of life's failures are
people who don't realize howclose they were to success when
they gave up.
Thomas edison, thomas edison,love that man.
I mean, I'm gonna tell youright now, like, if you, it's
like what we're doing right now,you keep trying and you're
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trying to improve yourself andyou try to make it.
Uh, you know right, and you'regonna continue to fail, fail,
fail.
You're gonna do a lot morefailing and actually winning and
uh, keep trying, man.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
You and I will work on that.
We're working on it Did youlike that?
Did you like?
Speaker 1 (53:35):
that I like that man, you like that, you and I.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
You're improving.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
Till next week, guys.
All right, guys, you guys havea great week, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
See you next.
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey, everyone, welcome.
This is Cabin Pressure.
It's a bird.
It's a bird, it's a plane.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, it's Johnny, I'm here ready to talk and fight on
the forces of flight attendantperspective.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What's going on?
Happy Gilmore man, your golftournament.
What happened?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Dude, I had like a great weekend.
It was like this turned off,Like I had this big golf
tournament this week and Idecided the night before there
was this like that concert thing, the music that we like to go
to down the road here Mabel'sSide.
Yeah, Mabel's Side was happeningand it was a motorhead and I
(01:32):
said you know I'm gonna go overto motorhead, so a bunch of
friends and stuff they're likegoing, let's do, let's do this.
And literally I got in my car.
Then this is the night beforethis big tournament and I drove
down and I got to the middle oftown here and I said what the
fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
and I just had this like a reality.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm like why, dude, this is not a good idea.
This is a big money tournament.
I need to get my ass home, getsome sleep, get ready for a
tournament, right, and dude, itall paid off.
It was awesome.
I mean, I had a my tournament.
Um, it was a two-day tournament.
Um, we won our flight.
We won first place overall theentire tournament the first day.
(02:11):
Second day, we uh won ourflight.
Then we uh, we got, I think,fifth overall in the second day,
but we won second place overallfor the entire tournament, damn
.
And then we got into theshootout and the shootout's just
like this Each further you goin the shootout, the more money
you make, and we got pretty farin everything.
(02:32):
So we were real happy witheverything that happened.
So it was good.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You didn't buy lunch.
I didn't see you buy lunch.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, dude, I'm not buying you lunch.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Shit.
You made all that money, youdidn't buy lunch.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Dude, you're, you're so tight you need to be buying
me lunch.
What?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
are you?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
talking about, I spend my damn money.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The funny, the funny thing that you were talking
about, that all I could thinkabout all all they were showing
was the the, the new happyGilmore movie.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, yeah, tournament.
He was like taught we weretalking about happy gilmore and
all that stuff and the uh.
He was like, yeah, my um, Idon't know somebody in his
family would ever bought hisdaughter a, uh, happy gilmore
putter.
Right, they make these puttersright now that are for the
hockey stick.
It looks like a hockey stickthe putter does.
(03:17):
It's pretty cool, but they'reexpensive.
They're super expensive andI've seen them all over the
place but it was like upwards often thousand dollars for the
stupid butter.
Like I don't know who would payten thousand dollars for a
putter.
Was it signed?
I don't know, dude, I'm justlike I it had to be signed.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Shit for that much, that much money, it's gotta be
signed yeah, it's gotta besigned or something like that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But I mean cool, I gotta tell you the motorhead,
you didn't miss anything no, no,oh see that my reports were
like okay, so you don't likethat music, right?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, it's not that.
All the reports that you'rehearing the same ones that I
heard last time inside, likewhen they played inside the bars
, they were like they werereally good and I was like, well
, you guys are drunk.
Well, that's the point of thatplace, right yeah but you're
drunk though, because I'msitting right in front.
You've seen where I was sittinglast time.
I'm sitting right down in front.
(04:07):
If you're good, I'm stayingthere.
Right, but Motorhead halfwaythrough it, I'm down there going
.
Yeah, they're not good.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
They're not good.
See, I hear people that arelike, oh yeah, they're great,
but I and it's like sing-alongmusic, you know, like everybody
likes a sing-along dance.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We're past the middle-age part to where we just
enjoy to get your ass out everyonce in a while, right?
So when you're out there andyou're drinking which you know
shit they all do that.
So they're out in lawn chairs,they're drinking and they're
eating.
They're having a good timeregardless.
And Motorhead, yeah, they'renot that good.
(04:46):
You didn't miss anything.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know what you missed at the last time we went
up there.
You're talking about the lawnchairs and all this stuff.
So we were on the side of thehill there.
This place is like set up on anoverlooking a valley, looking
west, and you get thesebeautiful sunsets at night and
concerts right there, the bandsright in the, the sunset it's
awesome.
(05:07):
But the hill, you know, there'sso many people.
You can get on the side hilland I put my chair on the side
hill.
I was drinking a little bit andI dude, I fucking rolled right
down that hill.
My chair tipped over.
I couldn't even stop myself.
I was like tumbling and Itumbled into like five people
like they were like what justhappened?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
well, there was this lady that was in front of us
that she had one of those rockerchairs, yeah, and the whole
time that I was looking, becauseyou know it's angled down yeah
and and I I was looking at hergoing that that's going to be
the most miserable chair to bein for the next few hours.
She switched with her husbandright next to her and he was
like, yeah, this sucked.
So he, he got the shitty chairand she got the good one.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And also what I didn't tell you was we brought
our chairs popping up right andwe did like a little tailgate
beforehand and our chair waslike I've had these things for
like 20-25 years, right, I sitin this chair and the damn thing
collapsed like I broke thefucking chair and carol's, like
we didn't bring any extra chairsand I'm like, no, I'm like this
(06:13):
is ridiculous, like literally,like the plastic in the chair,
the connectors to the you knowthis fold up chairs, it like
just like gotten hard and justcrumbled did.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did you have that feel good moment?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And I was like yeah the feel good, I'm a fat ass
moment.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, in front of all my friends.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It was great, it was a special feeling.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I would have loved to have seen that one.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, there's some funny things that happen.
So what else?
What else happened with you?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Man quite a bit.
So this week I was going to theairport and the funny thing
about it, I walked into theairport and it was like it was
taken over by the Cub Scouts.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I've been in an airport where you've got like 50
troops of Cub Scouts.
Exactly Every time I think ofthe Cub Scouts I always think of
like what's that movie Up,whatever?
Oh, yeah, you know what I'mtalking about.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, the little kid, yeah because you got those
little shorts on with the littleshirt and everything.
Yeah, it was completely takenover the whole airport area.
Out front they had all theirbags, so you knew that they were
going on like an outing.
They do these outings wherethey fly somewhere and they go
out.
But man, did that take me backbecause years ago I was forced
(07:27):
and I'm telling you forced to gointo the Cub Scouts with my son
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, dude, I'm so glad I never had to do that
experience, forced, forced.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah.
So you know you have to go tothese meetings and then when
you're going to the meetingsyou're in the back because they
have to do certain things toearn these little like badge
clips, things for their belt andshit like that.
So you know, I'm back therewith a couple of the other dads
and they're pretty funny.
So me and these other guysdidn't want to be there either.
So we're like razzing eachother the whole time and we
(08:02):
constantly get in trouble.
We were like the bad kids inclass.
We got in trouble by the scoutmaster you know what I mean and
they were like oh, you guys gotto keep it down.
We're like whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We don't get here in the first place.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But these guys, they're doing all their stuff.
But some of the funny things Ihad to tell you about this one,
okay, you know that they do thisthing.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's called the derby , the derby, yeah, oh, when they
make their little race cars andstuff like that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay.
So they give them a block ofwood and they give you the
wheels, some pins, some weightsEverybody gets the same thing
Materials, right, yeah, so whatyou have to do is that you have
to create this car, and thiswhole time I'm not doing it.
I'm not doing it.
I mean, you know it's going on.
It's weeks and weeks.
And you know Deb's brother,danny, yeah Right, he's doing
(08:51):
all this work on this car.
So he's making this carunbelievable like um Derby car.
It looks like something thatgoes out on the racetrack.
Sure, he's whittling this thingdown.
He's shaving it down.
He's doing all the need.
Meanwhile, mine is a block ofwood, still Okay, and, and she's
like you got to do somethingwith this, he's got to do the
(09:12):
Derby and I'm like I don't wantto do this.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It's funny because they're like.
It's funny Like your wifesaying Like it's funny, like
your wife's saying you got to doit.
Like this is the Cub Scout.
Stuff becomes your, you're theCub Scout.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And I got stuck in it .
It wasn't like I signed him upfor it, like I just you got to
go.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Jackson should have been doing the freaking
whittling Right, like he's theperson that should have been
like working on this car, notyou.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, that's the same thing as danny, but that you
know that ain't right.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So anyway, he's designing this whole car, he's
got actually sean, he had actualworking lights on it.
Oh, believe me.
So so we go in, you have to go,you have to go into this.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Um, but I thought it was only like limited to the
materials, you only can usethose specific materials it is,
but he had, he had added thesetwo little light things because
they they could have to do itfor their weight and balance and
then they have to do it forshow they have ones for the show
oh gotcha, okay.
So he does it.
He's looking for the show, sohe's looking for the
best-looking one.
So we go in and they weightthese things and they do all
(10:15):
that.
And Danny comes in with thisprize trophy car and I mean
literally it looks like a stockcar.
And so Jackson comes in.
You know what Jackson's was?
A square brick with wheels.
He looked like somebody justtook his favorite toy away from
him and he had his head downwalking in and I'm like why do
(10:36):
you got your head down?
He goes Dad, it looks stupid.
It's called the blue surfboard,the blue surfboard.
And what this was is that I hadto cut this thing down.
And then I had some blue spraypaint that I had and I spray
painted that damn thing with theblue spray paint, put the
wheels on it and everything.
So he walks in and they're likehey, you know what?
(11:02):
What's, what's this?
What is this?
And he goes it's a bluesurfboard.
And they're like what Bluesurfboard?
And he just looked at me andhe's got this look on his face.
Danny's over there andeverybody's looking at him.
He comes over and looks oh man,that's a stock car.
It lights everything.
Yeah, really cool.
So the first thing that they dois that they, they go and they,
(11:22):
they say which one has bestestshow, and you know who got that
yeah, danny so he's over there,stand, they're taking pictures
of that.
Jackson's over there with hishead down.
I mean it's horrible, deb.
She's looking at me like youknow I'm the worst dad in the
whole freaking world and so youknow he's like I just want to go
home.
I don't even want to put it upon the track because they've got
to race next Right Now.
(11:43):
They've got to race it.
They've got to go put thisthing and they race this thing.
He walks up there reluctantly.
He doesn't want to go up there,right, he sits this thing up
and he's like stupid thing, thewhole thing.
(12:05):
He's saying this a he didn'thave an overall enjoyable
experience.
Oh, it's horrible, it'shorrible.
So he gets up there and he putsthis thing up there and and, um
, you know he he's in the firstrace and he puts it up there and
deb's like the we need to justgo home.
And I was like just wait tillit goes.
I mean, yeah, he's like I'mgonna lose some and there's no
way, and then all of a suddenthey release it.
Jackson's takes off like a batof hell out of hell, man this
thing goes down there, sean.
It kicks the shit out ofeverybody's really.
(12:25):
Now he's sitting there lookingat it and all of a sudden he
went from the being this bigdowner to like oh hell yeah,
this kid, yeah, like bluesurfboard brand blue surfboard.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Now right, so he's ready to print shirts pass out
flags.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He goes through this thing.
So, anyway, he takes secondplace in this thing.
That's awesome, and so thefunny part about it is is danny
goes well, how in the hell didyou do that?
And I said, well, you was doingthat.
I was looking online at one ofthe national winners and how he
he actually designed his uh, hiscar right and he was an
engineer yeah so I just did itexactly the way he did.
(13:00):
It put it on there right, theydidn't they.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
They didn't know what was coming.
That one that shit didn't lookpretty, but it won.
Yeah, it did right.
This reminds me of you know,you're talking about scouts and
all that stuff my, mybrother-in-law, when his
daughter was young, you know,indian princesses.
Have you ever heard of thatgroup?
No, there's like a young girlslike they have this Indian
princess group and all thatstuff and they go like it's kind
(13:24):
of like a Boy Scout thing, it'sjust not as big.
But they had this Indianprincess group and one of the
things is that like he wasreluctantly has to go with his
daughter because it was kind oflike a daughter-father thing,
right, and he had to go to thislike sleepover thing and all
that stuff.
And he had to go to thissleepover thing and all this
stuff.
So they had to give the fathersIndian names and so his name
(13:46):
was Caged Animal.
Caged Animal yeah, that's whathe was Just remind me of this
whole Dude listen.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
There's one more, though.
I got to tell you that happenedwith this show.
I mean, before we go on to thenext thing.
Okay, so I was doing a doublered.
I was doing this all-nighter soyou had to leave from Cleveland
LA back.
Okay, he had one of thoseoutings that you had to go to,
so I had to do red.
I came back in.
I was late.
Loser dad I'm in the loser dadat this point.
(14:18):
Right, somebody else had totake him to the outing.
Why?
Because I was late.
Okay, so they had to take himout to the Boy Scout camp and
everything.
So, can I go home, go to sleep?
No, I got to run to the BoyScout camp.
Now it's like 45, 50 minutesaway, driving like a bat out of
hell again to get to this thing.
So I, I get there.
I'm like okay, where's thistroop at?
(14:38):
And they said they're at thearchery range.
Okay.
And I said, okay, where's thearchery range?
And they said on the other sideof the camp.
I was like okay, can I drivethere?
And they're like no, I'm likehow am I supposed to get there?
They said follow that path.
This is all the way on the otherside.
Now it's hot, I mean it's now.
I come up on this whole groupand they're at this archery
(15:00):
range.
Now this thing was.
It was closed in with theselittle ropes, right Sticks.
Nobody knew I was back there.
I was like this is perfect, I'mgonna sneak in the back,
nobody's going to know, I'm justgoing to slide right in the
back of this thing.
Right now there's this onesergeant at arms guy at this
little loop door thing and it'sat entrance of the archery range
.
So I walk over and I step overthat loop.
(15:23):
Biggest mistake I made in mylife, sean.
What happened you have?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
entered the archery range without asking permission.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh shit, I turned around, I was like what this is
like.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Military Joe at the gate right.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Everybody and their mother turned around and they
were all staring at me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Now you know how I'm looking at this dude and
Jackson's over in the room justlike dipping his head.
He put his head down again.
Right, that's my dad.
There's my dad, right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And I'm looking at this guy and I'm standing there,
he's in his little shorts andhis shirt and I'm looking at him
like dude.
If there wasn't so manywitnesses right now, I would go
get that extra bow and arrow andshoot you like a Thanksgiving
turkey.
That's right, brother, I'mtelling you.
Man, I was looking at him and Iwas like and he goes, you need
to leave the archery range andask for permission.
(16:12):
So I stepped back over thatdamn loop, sean, and I looked at
him and I said may I enter thearchery range?
You can enter the archery range.
I'm like son of a.
So I stepped in there and thefirst thing this one guy said
right, his name was Brian.
He said Gary, do not kill him,right.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Exactly Like I'm going to get in this archery and
I'm shoot this motherfuckingdad.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So that was the end of my Cub Scouting.
Oh, geez, right there, I'm justtelling you.
But Cub Scouts, yeah, it's agood organization.
It just wasn't for me.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's good man for these young boys to get out
there and experience andunderstand, and you know we all
need more male guidance in thisworld, right?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, you do.
I mean, it is a greatorganization, like I said, it
just wasn't for me, and I have abunch of funny stories that go
with that.
But I'll give you those tworight now.
Maybe a few other later.
Right, we got a few otherthings to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We do, and skunk, weed, skunk, weed.
Dude, I can't stand it.
Can't stand it.
Can't stand that crap man.
I can't stand the smell likethe.
It's like it's weed.
I was talking to somebody theother day about this whole thing
because, like I grew up incalifornia, weed was everywhere,
right, I mean, uh, I'm a 60schild, uh, like weed when
smoking weed was it neversmelled like this back then?
(17:36):
No, okay, it's like changedover time and it's turned into
this very skunky smell.
That like like when I'm outdriving and stuff and I do the
uber e thing and stuff, like Igo in apartment buildings or
anything like that.
It's like you could just smellit everywhere.
It's like it permeates it.
Or like you get the passengerson the plane that they've been
smoking and then they come onand they, I don't know, it's
(17:58):
just like a smoker, like anyother smoker, right, they don't
realize they stink.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No, I was laying over at the Galleria downtown in
Houston.
I got out of the van and, sean,I was like what the man?
That shit smells, what the hellis that?
And I turn around and there'sthese two people over in the
sitting area at the entrance ofthe hotel smoking weed and I'm
like that freaking stinks, man.
(18:23):
And and the the van driverslike this is where they, they
sit and they smoke that and I'mlike man people realize this,
okay, when you smoke weed, youstink your breast, stinks your
air, stinks your clothes theclothes stink, the car stinks,
everything stinks and you makeeverybody suffer for that nasty
(18:43):
ass.
Skunk weed smell.
Can't stand that.
Yeah, cannot stand that I meanit was just nasty.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That to me, is just exactly like the uh, uh, just
cigarette smoke period.
I mean those two hand in handlike I just I'm not a smoker
period, so it's like I justcan't stand the smell of it.
And then when it permeates offpeople like you get I don't care
if they get, you know theysmoke a weed, they smoke a
cigarettes.
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I walk into the airport and you know, you know
that that people working on theairport are smoking it because
it's down, it's down in the uh,down in the airport area.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, yeah, or you're walking down to concourse and
you can.
It's just like waving, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
like you know, you're following walking behind
somebody that smoking weed so ifyou smoke weed, just realize
this you stink I'm straight, youdo you stink man I mean you do,
even if you don't think thatyou do, you stink, and trust me,
you do.
But hey, listen, I had to tellyou too you know this family
(19:39):
came on, okay how many kids youthink they had um, I don't know
four eight, eight kids, eight,freaking, kids, eight.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Wow, dude that is first of all.
I mean I don't have any kids,so I don't, I can't, I can't.
I can only talk to you fromoutside, looking in perspective
here, but eight kids I would gofreaking insane.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Eight is not enough.
Eight is way too damn many.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, way too many.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
You should meet.
It was not the Brady.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Bunch either.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
It wasn't Greg, jan, cindy and Marsha for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Now, you know, it's funny that you say this I've had
those families where they take,you know they take up, you know
, a whole row, that's like sixon our narrow body aircraft and,
uh, you know, or they'll have,like I had one family that
literally was 12 people, right,you know kids, and so 10 kids,
one, two adults.
And those type of families likewhen I see them a lot of times
(20:39):
it's like the family's workingtogether, like everybody, from
the littlest one all the way tothe big one, have jobs to take
care of each other.
You know, like it's likeeverybody's got to be taking
care of each other in order forit to happen, because it's just
out of control.
And it sounds like this familywasn't like that.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
No, that you're thinking years ago, man.
That's how my mom was, becausewe have five kids.
Okay, we had five, but my momhad it under control.
There was no control here.
I mean, this was absolutelycrazy.
But what really killed me wasthat he came back and he was
talking to me and he goes.
Can I ask you a question?
I said sure.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, the father.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, and he said can I ask a question?
He said why don't you guys doanything special for families?
And I said well, what do youmean?
He goes?
Well, we bought eight tickets.
And I said okay, well, whatkind of tickets did you buy?
And he said the economy tickets.
He said because I wasn't goingto spend $100 for the economy
plus so we could all sittogether.
And I said, well, okay, butthat's kind of your fault.
(21:36):
And he said yeah, but he, hegoes.
You should just move peoplearound, let the family sit
together.
Yeah, and I'm like that's nothow it works here that's kind of
like.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like that whole point right there, that that whole
perspective to me is like thatguy that comes on that seven
foot that's sitting in economyyeah, and you're like are you
stupid?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
you had those legs.
When you like, yeah you.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You've been seven foot for a long time.
Yeah, yeah, you know you're notgoing to fit in these seats,
right, you know, like you thinkwe need to move you, no, you
need to buy the appropriateticket.
Like we don't need to solveyour problem and you don't need
to like get away with it withoutpaying, type of thing.
But I mean, that's life, likeyou got to go through it in your
(22:19):
own way.
But it's like, come on.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
But the airline.
I mean even with these guys,the airline, not us, but the
airline.
The gate agents got threetogether, three together, and
then two of them had to sitseparate.
That's a miracle in itself on afull plane.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
But they always act like, when they purchase these
tickets, when there's a bunch ofseats open and, as you know,
there's not many seats openanymore.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And if they do travel like I don't know if it's like
a first time for this family totravel, but it's like if it's a
first time, okay, I'm going togive them a little slack here.
But if it's not their firsttime traveling, like they're
used to going places, have tosip separate, you know, that's
just they're too big of a group,right?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
so I mean that's that's just, that's just
craziness, but anyway, yeah, itwas like I said, eight was way
too damn many for these guys.
That's for sure right.
But you know something, I hadto tell you something.
You know, last week, wheneverwe got done with our podcast,
yeah, when we walked outside,you had told me, uh, something
that kind of triggered somethingin me and I was like we got to
discuss this one.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was talking to you about some
feedback.
The feedback was they werewanting me to tell you that you,
like you always say me, and youRight.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
My grammar.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, and they were commenting on grammar.
And this is not the first timelike somebody from the show was
like there's been other peoplelike have commented about
grammar on the show and stuff.
But honestly, you know, I doall the editing to our show and
you know, at first, when I firststarted, when we first started
a podcast, I thought, okay, youknow I should think about this
(23:58):
and do this, and it's up.
And then the the more I thoughtabout it, the more I was like
you know what?
This is a real show?
this is me and you this is youand you, you know, I'm saying
like this is how we talk and,however it comes out, um, the
intentions are like thisatmosphere that we're in right
now.
This is a place of like reality, like we're talking to you from
(24:20):
, for real, from our heart andyou know, giving you the real
stuff here.
We're not in a classroomteaching grammar, right, right,
this isn't.
This isn't where we're.
The, the, the platform.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So this is one of those things.
Normally I just brush it off.
But you know, I had to go backand I had to reflect for a
moment.
So I started thinking.
I said at first, why did I dothis podcast in the first place?
It wasn't to be perfect, butshit, I'm not perfect, by no
means.
It wasn't to sound polishedlike some broadcast news anchor,
(24:52):
because that shit definitelyisn't me.
It was to be real.
It was to be the person that Iam and hopefully I was going to
connect with people that theywere going to see exactly what
goes on in our lives in thegalley and what we talk about on
airplanes, and sometimes it'sjust about life itself.
Then I asked myself, well, whydo they pick me apart?
(25:13):
Why don't they just enjoylistening to it?
Why do they just wait to catch amistake?
Or they just didn't want tolean in to hear the story?
And the truth is, it brought meback all the way back to when I
was a kid, when I'd saysomething and someone would
correct me, not just the wordsbut the way I said it.
And, man, that used to botherme a lot.
(25:34):
It made me feel a little bitsmall.
You ever felt like that, alittle bit small, like I had to
earn the right to speak Somehow.
I wasn't good enough, I wasn'tperfect.
But you know, then you start togrow kind of toughen up and you
learn I don't give a shit whatthese people think At least
(25:58):
that's what we tell ourselvesthat we don't care.
But sometimes something littlelike grammar correction it gets
under your skin, not justbecause of the words, because of
what it represents.
So here's what I've come to.
Why do people do that?
Maybe they want to feel smart.
(26:19):
Maybe they've been taught tofollow the rules so closely that
they can't see beyond that.
Maybe it's just a pet peeve, ormaybe it's just correcting
others, giving them a falsesense of power that they don't
feel anywhere else in their ownlife.
And sure, maybe, just maybe,they think they're helping.
(26:42):
But if you're listening andyou've ever been corrected in a
way that makes you feel less,know this your voice is valid,
your story it's worthy andnobody has the right to make you
feel small for sharing it.
So, the person who corrected meI'm not mad at you, in fact,
(27:08):
thank you, because this smallmoment made me check back in
with my purpose.
It reminded me why I do thispodcast.
It reminded me to give peoplespace to be human.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's right, man.
I mean, you know we getcorrected about stuff as we are
growing and coming up as a childand stuff.
But it also made me reflectabout something too, like in my
life when I was a kid, I, um, Ijust you know I had this.
(27:40):
I had this experience where itwas a, I always got corrected
and I always felt like the dumbkid in the class and, um, I, you
know, coming from, I'm going totell you there there's some
social aspects here that peoplemay not, may not know about a
show.
Like I grew up in a family of amixed race kid.
You know my mother's white, mydad's black and the dynamics of
(28:01):
that as a child are, you know,there's a lot of navigation
going through there and you needto and you're just trying to be
a kid and fit in and you needto and you're just trying to be
a kid and fit in, but to putthis thing of like, you're like
inferior and you don't, youdon't have, you know, you don't
have proper grammar and all thisstuff.
It made me reflect back Like Iremember when I was young I got,
(28:24):
I had to go for about a year tothis doctor.
That was a psychologist that waslike analyzing me, as being
like there was something wrongwith me.
And I'm telling you, like thatyear was like one of the longest
year of my kid being a kid,because I was always worried
about like you know what's wrongwith me?
Why?
Why don't they fit in?
You know like what, what'shappening?
(28:46):
Why do I have to go to thisplace?
And then the other kids werethere.
They had like I could clearlysee that these kids that were
here with me had like lots ofproblems and stuff.
But it really got to you like Imean, I was like emotionally
like damaged by this whole eventthat I was made to go to this,
(29:06):
uh, this clinic and all thisstuff, but it was.
And then, like right after that,then they put me into speech
therapy and then I had to gothrough that and then I was
always like the kid that likeI'm gonna tell you right now,
like spelling, I was the worstspeller in the world, still am
the worst spelling world.
I'm.
I'm 60 years old, I can't spellworth a damn right.
But unfortunately, orfortunately, I have overcome all
(29:30):
those different obstacles andstuff like that and gotten to a
point where it's like you knowum be you.
You know those things.
You gotta be you.
You gotta continue to be youand and say and feel and um talk
, at whatever level you are inlife.
And when you get to a pointlike if this person that you're
(29:51):
talking about had the intentionof you know ill intent and like
to like knock people down, well,fuck you is what I say.
Right, but if the if they havethe intent of they're trying to
make us better and they'retrying to improve us and all
this stuff, you know the personthat you're talking to also has
to be a willing recipient of it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
But why?
Would you see?
The one thing that I don'tunderstand is why we just pick
out the grammar.
But going back to when we was akid, because this took me back,
it really did.
When we were going, when I wasdriving down the road, I was
sitting there thinking to myselfwell, I got to get better, I
got to do this.
And I thought to myself no, youdon't, Gary, Fuck that.
No, you don't.
No, you don't, Because when Iwas a kid, I dealt with all that
shit.
(30:32):
I'm telling you, I dealt with it.
I was on the outside of this incircle, okay, and I tried to
fit in.
I tried to look a certain way,talk a certain way, be a certain
way.
And then I realized I had thisphenomenal mom and she used to
tell me all the time because Iused to get migraines.
Migraines are where I'd throwup, I have to stay in a dark
room, and it was horrible.
And it was all because of thestress of trying to fit in,
(30:55):
trying to do what someone elsewanted me to do or say what they
wanted me to say.
So I got these migraines allthe time, but I had this mother
that kept telling me the mostimportant thing, Gary, is to be
a good person, to be someonethat other people want to talk
to, that they can depend on, andthat's it.
That's life.
That's the most important thingin life is to be a good person.
(31:17):
So I spent my life trying to bethat good person.
But still, it's amazing, thoughthese little bitty words, when
somebody says something, it goesall the way back to when you
was a kid.
So if you see that your kid'sdealing with something, just
realize this you being there forthem.
That kid's going to getstronger, they're going to get
(31:40):
tougher and the outside shell isgoing to get to where people
don't bother them anymore.
Because let me tell yousomething as much as I
appreciate you right, I don'tgive a shit.
I really don't.
I mean, if you don't like whatI say, if you don't like how I
say it, you don't have to listen.
You don't?
I mean, you do not have tolisten.
And if you're just doing it tohelp, I appreciate you offering
(32:01):
your help.
You know, but a lot of timeswhen you do that, maybe you
should talk about the show first.
Sure, Maybe you should talkabout what we talked about.
Are the content of the show?
Not exactly?
Am I using the correct grammar?
Because that did affect me in away?
And?
But you know what you didtruthfully, you made me stronger
.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Absolutely.
You know what.
That's one of my things, like Iwas telling you, uh, we were
talking about this before Um,you know, my wife used to
correct my grammar all the timeand she was.
She was doing it and she wasdoing it from the heart, like
she was trying to.
She comes from a different, youknow part of the world than I
do and she wanted me to fit intothat world that she wanted, but
(32:47):
at the same time, she wasn't,she wasn't ashamed of what it
was, but she was like, just likeshe wanted me to be better,
because she knew that I was verymotivated to better myself.
I was reading books and I wastrying to teach myself all these
different ways of becoming abetter person.
I was doing all thisself-reflection and trying to
(33:08):
like, build myself up.
And when you're in a in, whenyou're in a um atmosphere or the
um, you know a state of wantingto improve yourself and you're
trying to do that type of stuff.
Those type of comments are okay, you know, to me like it's.
It's okay that she was likedoing it.
It would make me mad and itwouldn't make me reflect on, you
(33:29):
know, my childhood and thingslike that, but it was.
I wasn't, I would check myselfbecause I was like, wait a
minute, I'm trying to makemyself better.
This is what I want to do.
This is what I'm trying to domyself and she's trying to help
me.
So this is not malicious oranything, but yeah, this whole
thing, honestly, everybodylistening out there on our
(33:50):
podcast, we're going to be us.
We're going to be us.
We're going to talk abouteverything and anything.
We're going to bring you ourexperiences and we're going to
say it how we want to say it andfuck it.
If you don't want to listen,don't listen.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Don't listen, because I guarantee you I'm 58 years
old.
My ass, the grammar is notgoing to be right.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
But if you want to hear something, real.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, listen to us all right.
So here's a real helpful bestfoods to travel with on a plane.
Yeah, let's talk about somepositive stuff, man, you know
what?
There's a lot of stuff likebringing.
I was just at the airport theother day and, um, I did this,
uh, orlando turn, and I got downto orlando and I didn't bring.
We got on delay and so I didn'tbring enough food with me and
all that.
So I went to buy some food.
Man, I went to buy a sandwichand a bag of chips.
(34:39):
Tell me how much that costs inthe airport.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Depends on what airport you're talking about
Orlando, Orlando Chips and asandwich $20.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, it was $20.
I got a discount.
I got it for 15.
Right, that was that'sridiculous.
Yeah, I mean, these are theairports.
The airports are like so, sodamn expensive.
I was in la the other day.
I wanted to get something toeat too.
Went to go get a burger burger25 dollars.
I was like, come on, this iscrazy.
But we wanted to give you sometips about foods to travel with.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
We pack our own stuff .
We bring our stuff all the timeand the reason is for regular
flights.
But a little bit later in theshow you're going to understand
why we're telling you this today.
But sandwiches and wrapsdefinitely, man.
A wrap will last you throughoutthe day.
It's good to have.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean fresh fruits, cheese cubes
or a stick, cheese sticks andstuff like that.
That's great, and all thesethings we're talking about are
things that you can bringthrough to TSA checkpoint.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Right, you want, you want a nut mix.
Uh, veg, I always have veggies,veggies or cut veggies.
Um, you know, I'll have themwith hummus.
Uh, I have them with a littlebit of ranch dressing every once
in a while.
And here's one of my actuallyone of my favorite quinoa bowls.
Yeah, your quinoa bowl atticLove freaking quinoa bowls.
(36:00):
Hey guys, I'm telling youquinoa, little cucumber, little
bit of onion, tomato, chickpeas.
And you got it, man, I'mtelling you, put a little bit of
dressing on it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
You're, you're set, yeah, and then always you know
you need the sweet stuff, thedark chocolate, some snack bars
come with you, uh, all those,all these different things.
You just need to, like, thinkabout things that you can get
through the tsa checkpoint,because you definitely don't
want to bring liquid.
So, like you know, you know,bringing veggies with a ranch
dip, that might not work, no, no, no.
(36:34):
So just think about it.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is the most important thing.
Bring a container that you have, a water bottle that you can
fill up, because, let me tellyou something, hydration on a
plane delays Everything aregoing to happen every single day
.
Most important thing bottles ofwater for you and the kids.
Make sure that you have them.
Just bring empty ones throughTSA Nine times out of ten.
(36:57):
Now that the airports havewatering stations, you can go
fill it up and then you've gotenough water on the plane.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, I don't know an airport in the United States
that does not have water.
You know areas like fountainsand stuff that fill up the water
bottles in the airport.
I was just on a plane the otherday.
The this lady had her and herkids and they all had the water
bottles and everything but forwhatever reason not one of them
were filled up.
And she was like can you fillup our water bottles?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
and I'm like no do right outside, right outside, I
know the plane.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
the plane only has so much.
We only can stock so much andeverything.
And when you're talking about200 people on an aircraft and
you're one of the person and youwant to take a giant portion of
our supplies, that's not goingto happen.
No, Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
So here's the other part.
Don't be this passenger, sean.
What's that?
Okay?
Here's that Okay.
Here's some of the things thatyou guys this does not want to
be you on an airplane.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, these are things that you just behave
better.
That's what I got to say.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Here's your favorite Don't wear your headphones
during the safety demonstration.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, man, first of all, don't wear your headphones
when anybody is talking to you,period.
I mean, there's so many thingshappening in the beginning of
the flight, and during theflight as well, that you need to
be paying attention.
But when somebody is looking atyou and you see lips moving and
you have the headphones on,yeah and each person all seems
(38:32):
like 200 of them are you know?
We talked to them.
Would you like a snack?
it's funny how we take theheadphones off and you're like,
huh what?
What'd you say exactly?
What was that?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I'm gonna reach over and smack shit out of you doing
shit man, we, we go over thisall the time with you guys about
the headphones.
Take the damn headphones off.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, Just be be respective of people, period.
It doesn't have to be justflight attendants like in the
world.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Okay, I love this one .
When you, when you're servingfood in the back, you know
you're selling food, what's that?
What do you have?
Yeah, what do you have?
Uh, yeah, but what's on it?
What's on it?
Uh, it's, it's right there,it's got, it's got pictures on
it, um, but um, so, do you haveum this?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
uh, no, it's not on that menu dude, I literally hand
that menu, like I pull it outof the seat and I just hand him
in you and I'm like I'll be back.
And I just get, and I literallylook at the next person would
you like something to drink?
I don't got time for that.
They don't understand.
We have certain.
We only have a window If you'reon a two-hour flight.
We've got about an hour toservice 200 people on the plane.
(39:46):
And we're going to ask everybodywhat you'd like to drink and if
you'd like a snack.
I mean, depending on theairline, like some airlines
don't give that stuff right, butfor our airline full service
airline we're going to give,we're going to do this, but we
only have a certain window to doit right and that is a time
that you have to beparticipating right.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
What would you like to drink?
Uh can I have pepsi?
Uh, it's not on the menu.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Yeah, coke yeah, here's another thing you'd never
do on a plane don't snap yourfingers at me.
Oh, that's a bad one.
Yeah, that's a bad.
That may not.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
You know some of the locations is like this what the?
What was that?
I?
Had a dude on it sounds likeair came out of somebody.
I had a dude on a plane itsounds like air came out of
somebody.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I had a dude on a plane last week I'm like on the
cart and I just had talked tohim and then, like the person
next to him needed something orwhatever, and the motherfucker
poked me.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Don't touch the nice flight attendants, Dude I was
ready to break his freakingfingers.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I'm serious.
First of all, he was annoyingme initially just because of how
he was like just talking andthe whole nine yards.
Then I turned around I'mtalking to other people and
service other people and the guypokes me.
I'm dude.
I almost like I wanted to smackhim.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
So the one thing that you don't do on an airplane is
don't touch the flightattendants.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Don't touch them.
There's no reason to touchanybody, it doesn't matter, not
even flight attendants, anotherpassenger, don't touch people,
exactly, leave them alone.
I mean, obviously we have toshare armrests and things like
that and you're in thoseconfined spaces, but outside of
that, there's no reason tointentionally poke someone to
get their attention.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
And don't do this, Don't blow the lab up in the
morning.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Oh dude, that's a nasty one and I listen, I have
all people have got the mostincredible, terrible digestive
system.
I got bathroom issues all thetime I go to I got I got my
(41:51):
gastrointestinalologist.
I got a doctor that I go toregularly that's dealing with my
shit, all right, but I'm goingto tell you right now like there
are times where you got thatsituation but for some reason on
the aircraft there's always aperson in the morning that comes
on the plane and they want totake a shit on the plane.
The first thing before we evenpush back from the gate.
And all those bathrooms in theterminal.
You're like why would you wantto take a shit on the plane, the
first thing before we even pushback from the gate?
And all those bathrooms in theterminal.
(42:11):
You're like why would you wantto put it in this confined space
?
Come on, Come on bro Don't doit, man Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Hey, can you move that crying baby to another area
?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
That's a great one.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yeah, oh sure man, I'm going to grab this infant.
I'm going to grab this infant.
I'm going to go shove him uphere in the overhead bin.
Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, I'm sorry, man, but your little crane, little
shithead needs to move a couplerows.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, these people back here are mad.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
They're a little irritated by that.
Can you help us out?
No, Shit.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
First thing when you walk on the plane in the morning
time hey, good morning, whatare you doing?
I like my steak medium rare.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, that's so original, that's original.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
That's a great one, thank you.
Thank you for sharing.
This is what I love.
This is all the time.
You know this one.
Can we see the Grand Canyonfrom here?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Yeah, we get those tough ones.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
We'd be going to London man.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It'd be going to london, man.
It'd be like do we could flyover the grand canyon?
Yeah, uh, no.
So you know what I used to dowith all those people like or
your or or the where are we yeah, yeah where are we?
I would like open, I would likeopen your window when you went
out.
I go, I go, look over there,see that, see that down there,
right there, I go.
If, if you look real, real hard, I go.
You'll see those big the, theletters.
You know that you see on themap that says the states.
(43:33):
You'll see them as we flyacross.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
You know, this other one's good too, when you're
flying over like Nebraska yeah,are those alien circles they
talk about?
Yeah, okay, no, that's calledirrigation.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
That's how we irrigate crops in america.
Guys, I I personally respondwith yes, this is a very high
level of alien encounters andnobody ever sees them.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
You can't of them, just.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
They just land everywhere but in our business
we get to see them where they'relike concentrated.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
This is the best one in Cleveland.
This is the best one inCleveland I had in Cleveland.
Excuse me, what was the oceanwe just flew over?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Ma'am, that's a lake.
That's a lake.
That's a lake.
It's not an ocean aroundCleveland.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I give you Listen, we're having poking fun and
stuff and I know people arefirst time flyers out there and
they don't get it and like thefirst experience and and believe
me, I am one of the most I'mthe advocate for like, I love
first time flyers becausethey're fun, they're having good
time.
This is all experiencing theexperience, the whole thing.
You know like I get it.
(44:47):
There's they don't know andstuff like that.
But this isn't from people thatare first-time flyers usually.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Every bit of what we're telling you makes our day,
believe it or not.
I mean, you know, if you havethe attitude in this job which I
do, sean does is that we havefun.
I mean, we do, we have fun andwe make fun of ourselves and we
make fun of situations and wemake fun of stuff that people
tell us and this is some of theshit that we hear on airplanes
all the time.
But into Cleveland and theocean in Cleveland, that one was
(45:16):
good.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I always liked that one.
Yeah, but then you know there'sthe other aspect of this
airline business is that we havemeltdowns and freaking.
The industry goes up into a bigshit show all the time.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I wonder what we're talking about this week.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah Well, we're going to go around the grill up
here and we're talking aboutlike meltdowns of like how to
deal with that stuff, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Okay, what he's talking about is Newark was a
complete, complete shit showthis week Again.
I mean what happens?
This is what happens when astorm goes into the East Coast.
Let me explain what happenswhen a storm goes into the East
Coast.
Let me explain.
I want to explain it to you.
So when you're flying in becausethis just happened with someone
that was traveling non-revtravel that I know the situation
(46:00):
.
So they were flying into Newark, everything was great.
They were coming out of Vegas,the flight was great, they were
supposed to land in Newark.
The weather moved in to Newark,they had to divert.
They didn't have enough fuel,so they had to actually go to
Albany.
Now this person was supposed tomake a connection going to
Savannah.
Now they were right on time,everything was perfect, but then
(46:21):
they had to divert, so thenthey had to go to Albany and
then they had to fuel up Albany,sit there, and then meanwhile
the flight that she would havebeen on time with to Savannah
was coming from Boston, shortflight.
So you know it was getting in,but it was getting in a little
bit late.
But by the time the flight tookoff from Albany, got in there,
(46:41):
this person was already late, sothey weren't making a
connection.
You're going to spend the nightin Newark.
At that point, I mean, it was acomplete shit show in Newark
and what we want to try to do istell you how do you survive the
shit show?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, and before we get into that, like how I got
impacted with this whole thingthat you're talking about, I was
doing the turn down to becausethis goes back to me buying the
sandwich in Orlando.
We were doing a turn down toOrlando and they took half my
crew and they sent them toNewark because the other flights
were late, trying to get in andall that stuff and they were
(47:22):
trying to get Newark back inshape and so they delayed us in
Orlando to get another flightgoing to Newark, to get that in
on time and yeah, so how I endup buying a $15 sandwich.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Well, that's the part that they don't understand is
that sometimes we just gethandpicked.
I mean they'll pick you rightout and you're going somewhere
else Because we just fill spotshere.
When all this big snowballeffect happens in the industry,
flight attendants everybody issubject to change.
I mean it doesn't matter whoyou are, you're subject to
change.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah, you may think you're going down to one
destination and coming back homeand you're going to come home
that night and stuff.
You might not come home thatnight and that's what we deal
with every day.
That's the possibility of everytrip, as soon as we check in
for the job.
You might not get home thatnight.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
All right, so let's talk about how to survive this
shit show, Sean.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
All right, let's try to do that.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
First of all, if you're in an airport and you see
this is going on, the easiestthing to do no planes are going
out.
You can see that what you wantto do is you want to basically
go secure an area of seats anddon't move.
Don't move because I'm going totell you something all those
seats are going to be takenbecause you're going to see a
big wave of people just floodingan area coming off of airplanes
(48:39):
and you're going to havenowhere to sit.
So make sure that you get it.
First of all, get a centrallocation of a place you can sit.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
You can just relax yeah, if you, if you have a
group of people and like do asmuch as you can, if you're
traveling by yourself, it'sgoing to be tough.
But yeah, that's a good pieceof advice there, because the
airports I mean, if you've everbeen in an airport when the shit
hits a fan and like I've beenthere they're bringing out cots
(49:06):
and stuff in the airports andmaking the airport an emergency
housing area because it's so bad.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Right, well, and here's another one too, though
If it's going to be an extensivedelay and you're going to need
something to eat, something todrink, send only one person in
your group with a cell phone andtell them make sure their cell
phone's turned on and they canhear it.
Send them for food and water.
Keep your spot, because I'mtelling you, man, you move, you
(49:34):
lose it, and they ain't going tomove after that point.
So make sure you only send oneperson, and then you can keep in
contact with them with a cellphone.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah, the other thing you need to do is just travel
with appropriate attire, for,however you are, as far as cold
and hot like have a blanket,have a sweatshirt, hoodie,
whatever, and the plane getscold.
But if you have to spend anight in the airport, it's going
to be real cold in that airporttoo.
(50:02):
So you need to have that.
You get to have those tools,that to take care of yourself.
So, people, when you'retraveling, I mean, make sure
that you have that, becauseplanes are, you know they're,
they're all over the place,they're like hot, they're cold,
they're up and you know trust meon on what he just said there
always, always, always, take asweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
I don't care, I don't care if it's freaking 100
degrees outside sometimes inthat aircraft and man, it is
freaking, freezing, right.
So take it.
Take a sweatshirt because youmight need it when you're
traveling.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, and if you are on a plane, remember, until
you're airborne everything'ssubject to change, and even when
you're airborne it can changetoo.
I was thinking about that and Iwas like, yeah, I mean, it can
change in an instant, just likethere's people diverting and
just know that we're at the whimof Mother Nature, it's out of
(50:56):
your control.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
I mean, that's the one thing that you better
realize when you fly.
You don't have any control.
You might think that you do.
I mean, look, me and Sean havebeen doing this a long time.
We have zero control of thisshit, zero.
All we do is that when they saytake off, we take off.
When they say land, we land,that's it.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
That's as much control as it is, and hopefully
it's going to be on schedule Yep.
And we're doing everythingpossible to help it to be on
schedule.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Right.
And here's one thing before yougo and actually know your
airport, Know their information,Know hotels, Know things around
there, Believe it or not, havea plan If this happens.
Have a plan because you'regoing to survive this plan.
If you know that there'scertain hotels, say that you
have a list of five hotels inthe area and you have that list
(51:42):
with you, or car rentals, a nameof car rentals or whatever it
is and you have it with you.
You did your due diligencebefore because you have your
family and everything, eventravel by yourself.
But you have this readilyavailable when that shit show
happens.
You don't have to look for it.
You don't have to search for it.
You can just call it and thenbook a room.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
Yeah, a lot of these tips and stuff we're telling you
right now are big and like justfrequent flyers.
Like frequent flyers, a lot ofthem do this.
This is how I travel, like wedo everything that's on our list
that we're talking about rightnow.
I make sure that because I knowit doesn't matter if I pay for
a ticket, if I'm flying non-rev.
(52:21):
Everything can go wrong anduntil you arrive at that
destination, you know it's kindof out of your control.
Speaker 2 (52:30):
You know, the one thing that I've always said
since I've been doing this job,and this is true, this is, and
actually this is in the best waywhen I come to work, I plan on
everything going wrong, becauseairline industry and then it,
when it goes right, it's a greatday.
So I mean it goes right waymore than it ever goes wrong,
but I still plan on going wrong,so I'm not upset, I'm just
there, I do my job and then I gohome Right, right, all right
(52:55):
guys.
Hey, listen man, we've had agreat time this week.
Sean end it with a quote.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Hey, our quote today is many of life's failures are
people who don't realize howclose they were to success when
they gave up.
Thomas edison, thomas edison,love that man.
I mean, I'm gonna tell youright now, like, if you, it's
like what we're doing right now,you keep trying and you're
(53:21):
trying to improve yourself andyou try to make it.
Uh, you know right, and you'regonna continue to fail, fail,
fail.
You're gonna do a lot morefailing and actually winning and
uh, keep trying, man.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
You and I will work on that.
We're working on it Did youlike that?
Did you like?
Speaker 1 (53:35):
that I like that man, you like that, you and I.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
You're improving.
Thanks, I appreciate that.
Till next week, guys.
All right, guys, you guys havea great week, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
See you next.
If you laughed, learnedsomething or just feel a little
bit better about your own jobafter hearing about ours, do us
a favor subscribe, leave areview and share this episode
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Until next time, stay strappedin, stay hydrated and, for the
(54:16):
love of TSA, keep your clotheson in the terminal.
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