Welcome everyone . This is cabin pressure with Sean and G , and you are in the galley . What's up , sean ? Hey , g , what's up ? Not much man . Hey , where'd you fly today ? Today I flew to Fort Myers . Silver sneakers , silver sneaker express .
Speaker 2Hey dude , I love old people . Old people are cool man . Old people want to tell you anything and everything that's on their mind and they want to give you a story after story , whether you want to hear it or not they , they do , but you know the the my favorite thing about old people what's that ?
Speaker 1no filter , no filter . They have none man . I mean they come , when they come on board , they'll sit there . They're the funniest thing .
Speaker 2I mean that old person will pass gas and say oh , I farted yeah , I mean , they don't always admit it on the plane , that's for sure .
Speaker 1But uh , but they're gonna do whatever they want to do but they have no filter man , yeah , there's no filter on this stuff I do , I do love old people , but hey , we've been doing this job a long time , folks I've been doing this job for 34 years okay , Okay , I've been . I started 38 last month 38 years in the industry .
Speaker 2We are two flight attendants and we are going to be here to tell you some stories about our lives and the industry of the flight being a flight attendant .
Speaker 1Yeah , how long have we been friends though ? I mean it's been like 30 , a little over 30 years , right .
Speaker 2Yeah , we've been here . We've been friends for over 30 years . That's about as far as I can remember .
Speaker 1You know , what I remember is that we didn't like each other when we first met no , no , let's just say we definitely were destined to be friends in the beginning it was two very A personalities . You're being really nice . Yeah , I'm being really nice . You stuck two bulls in a ring and you expected them to get along .
Speaker 2Well , ladies and gentlemen , he was the asshole , and I was just coming in the new guy .
Speaker 1Sean . When he came in , Sean had an attitude .
Speaker 2Yeah , Just a little one though .
Speaker 1Hey , I . He came in . Sean had an attitude .
Speaker 2Yeah , just a little one though . Hey , I was coming in , I was right from the military and here I got into this job by accident and it was you know . You come in with this military attitude .
Speaker 1I'm going to take charge right .
Speaker 2That's a little understatement of what it was . Oh yeah , yeah .
Speaker 1No , that is an understatement , but you know something . We'll have that story another time . Actually , it is really funny how we started off our friendship . But yeah , we've been friends over 30 years and in our job , you know , we've gone through so many different things and we talked about this all the time is what we talk about in the galley right .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And what goes on on airplanes crazy things that go on on airplanes that people they really don't know about . You see some of the things that's on the news , but there's so many things that go on on the plane every day .
Speaker 2And the funny thing is that most people on the plane don't even realize that these things are happening , because if you're not in the area of these , these situations , you're not aware . Right and and in today's world , right , everybody's on the plane . They get on , they put on their headphones , they tune everybody out . You know , leave me alone , give me my coke and I'm good type of thing right right but uh , but yeah . What we're going to be doing is telling you some good stories about the experience of being a flight attendant .
Speaker 1Yeah , but you know , first you've got to go back , right , you've got to go back . How do we get into this profession ? Because , truthfully , whenever when I was young , I knew nothing about the aviation industry nothing .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1I didn't know about flight attendants . You knew pilots because I mean nothing about the aviation industry , nothing , no , I didn't . I didn't know about flight attendants . You knew pilots because I mean , we looked up , we were in our backyard , look up and there's planes flying over . That's about it , other than a crop duster . That's about all I knew about aviation industry .
Speaker 2Yeah , I know . No , I was that young kid . I was enamored with aviation . I built every model plane and known to man at the time and uh , I was like thought , oh , I'm gonna grow up and be a pilot , I want to be a pilot , and that's all I had in my mind as a little kid .
Speaker 1Now , that's great sean I . I made paper airplanes .
Speaker 2That's good yeah , but as far as the uh commercial airline industry , nothing . I knew nothing , nor did I pay attention to it . I really wasn't aware of it . I didn't even fly on my first plane until I think I was maybe in junior high . It was my first time I flew on a plane . How about you , gary ?
Speaker 1I go back and I think a lot . When I was young , our first transportation it was not an airplane man , it was a Brown Station wagon . Right , we had five kids . Three of us were facing backwards honking our arms down for semi guys to honk their horns . That's about as much transportation that we had . We went to Florida . It was a long trip because we were back there the whole time . Planes did not exist in my world when I was young ?
Speaker 2No , nor did it exist in my world . I mean , I come from moderate means .
Speaker 1So how does two guys that have been doing this so long end up in the airline industry ? Now , I'm going to have to go , we're going to have to go back , we're going to have to go back in life just to look at this , because I know a little bit with with sean from knowing him so many years . So you got a guy that he was a military brat uh , he was army air force .
Speaker 2Yeah , basically , basically both , both services right graduated college a brat in the army , I enlisted in the air force , got got into college , all that stuff . Yeah , it was . What did you major in college ? I was in political science and physical education , believe it or not .
Speaker 1So poli-sci and physical education Physical education . So you get your degree , you go to the service . Did you go to service afterwards ? No , before .
Speaker 2Oh , afterwards , yeah , I went to the service . No , here's the story . The story is I enlisted first , went to college because I enlisted , because I couldn't pay for college , and then I got an ROTC scholarship and then went to college .
Speaker 1All right . So ROT scholarships , go through the military college and you come out , you're ready to take on the world and you become a flight attendant .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , kind of like that .
Speaker 2What happened was , you know young 19-year-old Sean was partying and doing the normal things of a 19-year-old right and I hook up with this gal and me and her started dating for a long time and the entire time I know her , for like five years , we dated . She wanted to be a flight attendant . So I kept telling her just apply , apply , apply . I said I don't know anything about it , but if they , if you don't know anything , they're going to tell you what you need once you apply . So if you have any deficiencies or anything like that , you're , they're going to tell you . And so , um , she finally applied and this is after I've gone to college and all that stuff and I was trying to figure out what I was going to do in my life and she became a flight attendant . So she takes off and flies away and we yeah , that's good , Sean .
Speaker 1Sean's left in the middle of Nebraska trying to figure out what to do Sends your girlfriend away on the plane Right At a point .
Speaker 2And so , yeah , about six months , something like that . Later she comes . You know , this is way before what we have today in technology no cell phones , nothing of that . She calls my mom to get a hold of me and then she says hey , I became a flight attendant , I'm moving to Denver , why don't you move there with me ? I go and I do it . And long story short , here is I'm at work one day in Denver and I open the paper and I see this giant ad . So I'm sitting at work and I see this ad about wow , this airline needs flight attendants .
Speaker 1Yeah , and it's a major carrier right .
Speaker 2Yeah , major carrier , and it's the same carrier she got on . So I'm like , whoa , you know what ? This would be cool . We could fly around the world , be together , all that stuff . Let's do this together . So I go home and tell her all about it . I'm like , hey , you know , come on , let's do it , we can do this . And she looks at me and you know what she says Bye , no . She says no . No , I'm not good with that .
Speaker 2And I'm like why you know Sean running around . I was built , I was fit , all that good stuff and she's like you . Remote destinations , women there was a bunch of women on the plane folks , so she wasn't comfortable with that .
Speaker 1Now , I can see that definitely With you . I definitely can see that Right .
Speaker 2So , anyways , the long story was , I convinced her that I should go and be a flight attendant and so I went to training and we went through our training . You know , our training was six weeks long and in the middle of the , you know , like two weeks in , they make you do all this evac evacuations and it's our big day , like to prove ourselves of what we learned , and all that stuff . And , um , right in that morning I get a phone call at the hotel before I'm taking off to go do this big test , and , uh , she breaks up with me there's a sad stories right there and I want to tell you I wasn't upset well I was in a class .
Speaker 2I mean you're in a hundred women , right ?
Speaker 1oh yeah , you're all broken up about it , right ?
Speaker 2yeah , I was crushed . Yeah , I could see you just completely crushed at that point right , started screaming freedom , right , right , right , so , uh , so that's how I became a flight attendant . Let's talk about your story , gary .
Speaker 1Mine's a little different , a little different . Oh my God , how did that happen ? How ?
Speaker 2did Gary get to be a flight ?
Speaker 1attendant , all right .
Well , I was a young gun back then , I was only 20 . I had headed down to Florida . I was working , I was working . Well , I came out of college , got bored with it , went down to Florida , started working construction . Was working at a few restaurants waiting tables and a couple of friends of mine convinced me to go to this interview and I was like for what ? And they're like a flight attendant , I was like I don't know .
Speaker 2Now you had other friends that were going to do it too . No , she was a flight attendant . I was like I don't know . Now you had other friends that were gonna do it too , or was it just , they were like she was ?
Speaker 1a flight . This fits you , but she she was like you should go to this and I was like why ? And she goes , you'd love this . And she's like there was gonna be tons of girls there and I was like I'm gonna go I know you were gonna go .
Speaker 2I mean you know me , I was going yeah , so so I it was really funny .
Speaker 1I had no idea . Again , I had no idea with the industry . So I grabbed a suit um , took a resume and I showed up in tampa and let me tell you folks , it was crazy back then .
Speaker 2That's what they call a cattle call yeah , cattle call is what both of us went through . Yeah , it's different .
Speaker 1It's different today , right , I mean they , they do all the zooms and everything that . No , that wasn't it no you show , you showed up and and I'm telling you , there's like 12 1300 people at this oh yeah , they're probably mine .
Speaker 2Had probably 500 people in it , it's nuts .
Speaker 1I mean you , you go there and you , just you . You see all these people and and you're thinking now , they're not gonna pick me exactly .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't know .
Speaker 1I don't know why I'm here , but no experience , this thing gonna happen right so I'm sitting there and uh , and , and I'm talking to all these people and it's actually pretty cool . Now I again knew nothing . So I went up to the interviewer but I I was listening to um , other people say what they said to the interviewer , and her name was Roni . I remember it because she asked me . She said why would you want to be a flight attendant ? And I looked at her and I said well , you want me to tell you the truth or me lie to you ? And she goes the truth .
Speaker 1And I said well , the truth is I had no idea what this job entailed . Really , I didn't even know if I wanted to do the job . She just looked at me and she started laughing . She goes you're serious . I was like , yeah , I came here and I started meeting all these people . I was like I've got so many people's phone numbers . Even if I don't make the job , I'm going to have a bunch of friends after this . I said so it's pretty cool . She starts laughing , she looks at this other guy across from her and she , she , she must have got a kick out of me because , um , afterwards I'm thinking I'm going home yeah , yeah there's no way .
Speaker 2After that , I'm going home yeah , yeah , yeah , you were sitting there . And my answer to their first , like why do you want to be a flight attendant ? I was like , well , because I like to fly .
Speaker 1You know like yeah , that was everybody else's .
Speaker 2Everybody else had the same exact answer and I'm like , how are they like weeding out who said I like to fly ?
Speaker 1Right , that's the same . That was the same stupid answer that I heard everybody say Over and over . How do I say I love to fly when I've never even been on a plane ? Right , I can't even tell them I love to fly . I was like I'm like sitting here going I have no idea , probably scared to death when I get up there yeah , wasn't it funny like during that interview process ?
Speaker 2I remember like going in there like what did you tell them ? No , I told them I like to fly afterwards ? Yeah , it was like and we were like , and then you're all sitting there like y'all gave them the same answer . Right , how they pick us .
Speaker 1Yeah , because I'm sitting there and I'm thinking you know , this is it , I'm out of here , right ? And then afterwards , what they did is they took us and they separated us , they put us in three different rooms and after that they came in and they said congratulations to one room and they erupt and then , I'm sorry , the other room .
Speaker 1You didn't hear anything out of them and then they came into our room and they said congratulations . I was like , okay , so we go through this . So we went through this whole process Back then the cattle calls . The process was like 10 hours . It was ridiculous , I mean , how long it is . And at the end of this whole process they hired like 13 of us . Yeah , yeah 13 or 14 .
Speaker 2So here's the difference .
Speaker 1But here's the funny thing , right One of the dudes that was in my hiring class still here today . Wow , still flew with him . Yeah , still here today . Wow , still flew with him . He's still flying today .
Speaker 2I don't think I know anybody from my hiring class , but I definitely know some people from my class .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , and the dude was . And here's the funny thing right Now , we'll get back to that too , but this dude was my roommate in training . Oh wow , that's how crazy . I mean , that's how crazy it was . Yeah , destiny Right oh yeah , so that's a shout-out to Jim .
Speaker 2You know who you are , yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , but he's my roommate .
Speaker 2He's super cool man . Yeah , it's funny how you're going to hear a lot of different processes from different flight attendants and how they became a flight attendant and the steps that we went through to get there , because my steps varied just a little bit of Gary's they , like I knew I had a heads up and Gary will totally relate to this because he knows that normally when I get into things I come very prepared for what I'm getting ready to do .
Speaker 1And I already had some notes like in my situation .
Speaker 2So I went through that first question . They put me in that said room . There was maybe 10 of us . They were sitting in the hallway and we're waiting . Like , oh yeah , they told us to wait here , but what are we doing
Next thing ? I know my process was I went from that first interviewer to the person that was the vice president of the flight attendants of the company . She's sitting in front of me and she's like you know , tell me a little bit more about being a flight attendant , all that stuff and she's like , hey , uh , do you have any questions for me ?
Speaker 2and I reach in my suit pocket and I pull out this whole list of questions that I had already pre pre , pre done , you know , like I you know . Hey , you know I had already researched the company , figured out what he hasn't changed today .
Speaker 1No , no , so I had , uh , you know , I had already researched the company figured out what it is .
Speaker 2He hasn't changed today . No , no , so I had you know . I said I'm not going to ask you all these questions , but I'm going to ask you the two most important . And so that's how I started and she offered me the job and said hey , when can you start ? And I said today .
Speaker 1You know that's a crazy thing , right ? I mean , when you think about it and you talk about , how did people get into this profession ? We've got so many Folks . If you don't know about aviation , we have so many different people from all walks of life , right , yeah , and professionals .
Speaker 2We have nurses , we have lawyers , we have police officers former , former , former military firefighters I mean , if we go through a list of friends , of all the people that we've known over the years and where that could be thousands of people , um , there is no one uh template to be a flight attendant no right , no , not at all . I mean they want everyone , they want everyone , and anyone that has a , a personality um is very well , well immersed with people yeah , oh yeah .
Speaker 1I mean , if you , if you truly like people , if you like being around people , I mean really it is an excellent job , an excellent career because you're going to meet new people every day , and every day you go to work you're going to meet somebody new yeah , I , you know I'm always amazed , though . Um , every time that I get on a plane . Everybody has a story , right , we all have stories oh yeah , there's so many stories .
Speaker 1I mean , every day we go , go to work we're gonna hear a story about something and or or something that's gonna relate to how they got on that plane . Yeah , how they got the job . I mean , because the first thing , believe it or not , some of the first things that we say is what did you do before this job ? Right , I mean , that's one of the first questions .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's one of our jump seat questions to our fellow employees . So what , we're sitting on the jump seat to break the ice , is you know ? So what did you do before this ? Yeah , and then you get that look like what are you looking at , right ? Or some people , some people look at you and they're like I ain't gonna tell you . Yeah , yeah , yeah , that's the , or uh , yeah , they're gonna ignore you type of thing .
Speaker 2Yeah , and that's always a comfortable situation , folks . You know when they were sitting on the jump seat and trying to break the ice and they're just not wanting to talk to you .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , they get that stone . Look in their face .
Speaker 2Yeah , we have a lot of back to the point , a lot of different personalities here .
Speaker 1Yeah , but that's the great thing about this job is that you do . But I think that goes back to having people so many different walks of life come into this , this job , right . We have young people , we have middle age , we have older people , we have retired people .
Speaker 2Um , it's incredible really yeah , there's no limitations to this job as far as age , sex , gender , whatever you know , whatever you , anybody can be a flight attendant . That's it . You just need to want to do it . So you know , whatever you , anybody can be a flight attendant . That's it . You just need to want to do it .
Speaker 1So you know , the one thing that I love about like what we're doing right now is a lot of this conversation that we're talking about it occurs in the galley . So through this , if you guys like what you're hearing , trust me , stay tuned , because we in this galley , we talk about everything . When I mean everything , everything underneath the sun .
Speaker 2There's nothing really off limits . We're gonna not try to make it so political never . No , we're gonna stay away from leaning to the religion or anything like that , but outside of that yeah , it's game on yeah exactly because we we have .
Speaker 1We have so much fun talking about everything in the galley , right ? So actually what we're doing is actually we're bringing the galley to your house .
Speaker 2That's what we're doing . We're going to let you have some insight to what a flight attendant actually what we're doing on a day-to-day basis , some of the adventures we've had , the experiences that we've encountered in our adventures over these last 30 plus years for both of us and in addition to that , we're going to have stories for you too .
Speaker 1We're going to bring in some guests too .
Speaker 2We're going to have some guests to talk about some of the subject matter that we think is super important and people want to hear , but we also have .
Speaker 1we have a lot of things that we are going to cover too , even even personal person's lives . I mean we deal with everything . I mean just like everyone else , but we deal with a lot of funny things , we do some serious things and we deal with a lot of emotional things . Flight attendants and pilots very unique group of people , wouldn't you say .
Speaker 2Yeah , they're a unique group of people , but you know what ? They're all good people . Yeah , they all like people . They want to help people . Each person out there on it doesn't matter , you know , it doesn't matter where you come from , where you've been , all that stuff we know when we get on the plane and we have this synergy of working together and and making this flight the best flight for that person . Now , just like everybody else in the world , we have good days and bad days , just like everybody else , because I'm sure many people can tell you stories of their bad flight attendant , right ?
Speaker 1Yeah , but we can tell you some stories too . You got bad passengers too .
Speaker 2We got bad passengers , too Bad passengers will make a bad flight attendant right there Exactly .
Speaker 1A bad flight attendant will usually usually a bad flight attendant . You know , something happened .
Speaker 2Yeah , there's a lot more going on , and that's the beauty of what we're doing right here . We're going to tell you stories that are about flight attendants , who we are , what we do , the experiences we're having , and we want you to actually be a part of it At first .
Speaker 1we want to take you through the process of getting there first . We told you how we started the job . We told you how each of us got here . Next time we're going to talk about training , because there's people out there that are listening to this , wondering am I too old , is it too late , or I'm doing this , I'm doing that ? Can I actually do this job right ?
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah . I mean we're going to kind of step you through the steps in which we traveled to get here to this problem . We're just giving you a little taste of who we are right now and what you know , where we come from . But what the show is all about is really stepping you through the life of a flight attendant how it's how it is in the real world and how we relate to it , and the experiences that happened with us .
Speaker 2So next , next time that we talk , then then I guess it will be about training right , Training Training is probably our next episode and we are going to not probably it's going to be our next episode . We're going to talk about our experiences going through the steps and the challenges of getting through a flight attendant training class .
Speaker 1First day of training . Just even going through , because I'm telling you , when we talk about this , that's the one thing is , people don't understand about flight attendant training . There's a lot more to it .
Speaker 2Yeah , there's a lot more to it . We have to know a lot of information , and there has to be a lot of information that has to be memorized and understood and related to in a blink of a second , because when things happen we don't have time sometimes to go look it up in a manual or something like that .
Speaker 1So so , um , sean , if you , if you'd sit there and and say one of the favorite things that I mean that I really like about doing this job is when we go to these different airports or we go to different locations , right , I mean , over the years we've done a lot , a lot of things but a lot of people out there when they go through these airports , um , they don't know that there's like certain things , that that like a must see right , or something that right , you got to see so what we're going to do is , on this show , we're going to actually give you some good information , also for your travel around the world .
Speaker 2So experience the places that we like food and restaurants we're going to . You know places to go , places , things to see that are close to these airports , because people think airports are just this one place to travel . It's actually there's a lot of stuff around that goes into those spaces .
Speaker 1Also , we're going to reach out to our other flight attendants too . We're going to have them send in information , some of their favorite spots . What we're going to do is we're going to take the tally up and we're going to see which spots they think is the best , because they travel there all the time , they see all the sites and they have some of the best information each time .
Speaker 2Yeah , if you want to know where to eat , follow a flight attendant .
Speaker 1Not only that , though eat the things that do , right ?
Speaker 2Yeah , if you want to know things that do , I mean talk to a flight attendant that are close by .
Speaker 1I mean , we've got a ton of information , but we're going to , we are going to reach out to our other flight attendants from all the airlines and we're going to have you guys send us emails in , give us ideas yourself , and we appreciate every , every bit of information everyone's going to give us . But the end of the show Sean is always going to give us . But the end of the show , sean , is always going to be this the biggest tip of the day I want to start , I want to go with Chicago , chicago , right , we've got to go Chicago .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1All right . So if I was going through Chicago , A land of food . Yeah , but the must see or the must stop right .
Speaker 2What you got to get . I if you're if I'm in chicago , you know airport . If you're in chicago airport , I'm stopping at frontera no no no dude come on .
Speaker 1Chicago airport is known for one thing , folks , that's garrett's popcorn .
Speaker 2Garrett's popcorn . Yeah , I don't know what he was thinking , you know ?
Speaker 1garrett's pop . Garrett's popcorn , right , because you cannot go through there without grabbing a bag . Yeah , if you don't know what he was thinking , garrett's Popcorn , because you cannot go through there without grabbing a bag .
Speaker 2Yeah , if you don't stop at Garrett Popcorn in Chicago .
Speaker 1Families want bags .
Speaker 2Probably children will be crying at home because you didn't bring them .
Speaker 1That's the one thing I'll say . Oprah had right . Right , we're not getting political here , but folks we are telling the truth . And Garrett's Popcorn is for real . That's yeah , but okay , so so . So the tip was garrett's popcorn , sean , what's your favorite one ?
Speaker 2uh , chicago mix , you can't go wrong . And chicago mix is the caramel with the melted cheese mixed together . You put your hand in there and gooey , ooey stuff is all over it and you just all right , he's going a little too far , man , I thought I thought we were telling him tips . He's killing me I like the crisp . Yeah , real simple . Yeah , if you want more description or anything like that , yeah , just email me um . But you're killing me , yeah , all right .
Speaker 1Ladies gentlemen , this is um this is cabin pressure , cabin pressure yeah , hey , I had a great time . I had a great time , sean .
Speaker 2Yeah , can't wait till next time , brother , all right , next time training , stay tuned you .