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Speaker 2all this , next on cabin pressure hey , what's up ?
Speaker 1everybody , you kill me , man , every single time . You know what you gotta . You gotta like keep it fresh , keep it fresh people . You gotta keep the , the volume , the energy up . Let's do it . Let's do this you know . So I don't care , I always laugh , you get a kick out of every time we start this show , man .
Speaker 2So what's been going been going on , sean ?
Speaker 1Oh , you know , life in general , you know , still trying to do all that stuff . Unfortunately , bad news in the family front Father-in-law passed away last week . So all the complications of you know dad , you know the whole , you know just , you know human reaction to that as far as family and stuff , you know everybody goes through this in life and we're in a state right now with our life and our age and all that stuff A lot of people in the world are . You know we're all doing . This is not anything strange to anybody . You know he was 95 years old . He had a wonderful life . He has a great family everybody's there to support . It was just , you know , chaos and the whole thing . But like he passed away , on tuesday and saturday we had the wet and the um funeral and yeah , it's just like , you know , just wild stuff . But then you know that away for , uh , we were gone for the whole entire week and then , uh , now back to trying to regroup and resettle and all that stuff . You know .
Speaker 2I think a lot of times with uh , when we lose our parents and I go back to when , when I lost mom um , it's hard , right , I mean it's . It's just one of those things . It's hard and it doesn't matter what anybody says to you , it's a difficult time and you know they're just not there and it's just a hard time .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , you know I lost my father when I was 16 . So , you know , being an adolescent at the time and , you know , just beginning to understand the world and life and all that stuff , you know it took me , like , I would say , a couple of years before I got over my father's death , you know . So you know it's totally understandable and normal for anybody to be like . You know , this , this is not just going to go away .
Speaker 1You know it's going to , it's going to linger on and you know your feelings and thoughts and all that stuff are going to continue , no matter who you are . But it's natural .
Speaker 2Yeah , the best part of it , though . You know , my mom is always with me . I mean she is , I mean you just believe . If you believe a certain way , they're always with you , they're around you somewhere .
Speaker 1They're in a better place for sure ?
Speaker 2Yeah , definitely a better place . All right , so what else has been going on ? You know the weather is starting to change a little bit . Weather's been doing some psycho stuff here in Ohio . Little Punxsutawney Phil was right though , wasn't he ?
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah , it was like it got warm , it got cold .
Speaker 2Just leave his ass alone .
Speaker 1Quit pulling his ass out of that freaking hole . My lake in the backyard it freezes over unfreezes . You know like you know , crazy Ohio weather over unfreezes , you know , like you know , oh crazy ohio weather though . Man , yeah , ohio weather's been just nuts lately . I mean the wind last night . The wind in the house was just like ripping everything apart I , it was like our garbage day . So , um , the wife was like , hey , you got to put out garbage . She's always on my ass to get put out garbage , man is your wife the same way ?
Speaker 2um , hey , listen , I'm always . I'm always the one that pulls it down there .
Speaker 1Yeah well , mine likes to remind me . Like you clean out the refrigerator , do this , do that . I know that's the same thing .
Speaker 2Yeah , you got to clean all that shit out of there , right ? Don't forget that . You take that down and then you take it down or you put it on the curb Next thing you know , oh , you forgot this , you forgot that can take that out too .
Speaker 1Yeah , I get , I get the reminder , can , continuous reminder , you know , but you know everybody that's married and in relationship , we all know you know .
Speaker 2Going back to punk satani phil , it's so funny . Up here in ohio , even , uh , in pennsylvania , we wait for that damn day right . Oh yeah , stupid thing . Look for that thing to come up out of the ground that's funny .
Speaker 1So you bring up hug satani . So my father-in-law just passed away . He was born that day . Really yeah . So him and one of our good friends that's been on the show , g Gary . He was born on February 2nd too , but I called my father-in-law this last February 2nd . I'm like you're the oldest damn groundhog that I know .
Speaker 2We need to get G like a T-shirt right A Groundhog's Day T-shirt , That'd be perfect for him too .
Speaker 1Yeah , it'd be perfect . It'd be perfect , yeah , but he'd be like always staying in his hole all year round .
Speaker 2He don't come out much , does he ? Yeah , he ain't no punks atonic pill , that's damn sure . Hey , have you ? You've seen a lot of this . Uh , all these incidents in the , in the airlines right going on . I mean passengers , planes , all that stuff .
Speaker 1So much shit happening every in the whole airline . It's like it feels like it's under like this magnifying glass right now , like everything's happening with it . I mean it doesn't matter whether it's aircraft incidents , past your behavior , you know , crew , it's crazy . Everything
out there is going .
Speaker 2It's going nuts right now okay , now I got something on that because you know me , I'm on the planes every single day . I truthfully , folks , I want to tell you every single day because , when he's talking about the wind blowing , yeah , my ass was up in the plane yesterday and that freaking wind , he ain't shitting you . That wind was blowing . Yeah , we were all over the place and we were hitting all kinds of crazy turbulence . So , yeah , he was right about the weather there . But with the incidents with the airlines , let's talk about that for a minute . Sean , there's 45,000 flights a day . Right , 45,000 flights a day .
Speaker 1Something's going to go wrong .
Speaker 2All the time . You know what they're doing is that they're blowing this up in the media . You know that they are . I mean , you know they are . Let's just talk about a few things .
Speaker 1Well , they're just sensationalizing anything they can find just to make it like news , right ? So I mean you kind of like got to take everything with a grain of salt . There's people that are having bad days every day , every place , every industry , right ?
Speaker 2installed . There's people that are having bad days every day , every day , every place , every industry , right ? Yeah , we talked about it on the last , uh , the other podcast about the , the incident with the airplane that that flipped up upside down . That was a miracle plane , right . But let me all this other stuff that's going on when they , when you see an incident and they sit there and it's like an aborted landing , rejected too close , whatever it is . How many times does that happen , sean ?
Speaker 1Dude , it happens all the time .
Speaker 2We're in final approach , and then what happens ?
Speaker 1Yeah , we get rejected like a rejected landing . We go around all the time . I mean we don't have enough fingers and toes in our we're way past those .
Speaker 2When they were doing this , I was watching in the news and the whole time these people were like oh , I don't want to fly , I don't want to fly . Quit doing this , because you're scaring people and this shit happens every single day .
Speaker 1Yeah , Some of these things that they sensationalize , kind of like go-arounds , it's like that's normal , like that's normal procedures in the airline business . There's so many reasons why a captain in charge of aircraft coming in for a landing is going to reject a takeoff . I mean reject a landing , yeah , I mean , if they even think it's going to be close , whatever it's their call , the pilot has total authority there . They can decide . Hey , I'm going around .
Speaker 2Yeah , if the distance itself is too close right .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , you know the plane's not configured right . The wind blew us off course , more than we thought , like there's all kinds of different variables that can happen . But I mean , if I'm with a captain that goes around , I'm like , yeah , that's an inconvenience to our schedule , right , that's . That's the biggest gripe there . The biggest gripe in everything is everybody's . Oh , you're gonna make me late , but I mean you . How many times have we heard that when we're like you know , 15 , 20 minutes early ?
Speaker 2yeah , exactly . But you know , the funny thing too is like you'll see these incidents where , like , ground equipment hits a plane , yeah , and somebody goes how the hell did you , how'd you miss that right ? And then you see a stupid video of a truck that goes underneath the bypass , that's stuck underneath bypass . Well , how in the hell did you not go underneath that bypass , right ? Because they end up busting up a wing or they tear up a plane . Or you see some cart that you know that it just takes off and starts circling around . You see that video that one baggage cart just starts spinning around a circle . Nobody could get on that thing . You can't figure out what happened . But then it spins in and it hits an airplane yeah , I saw .
Speaker 1I saw one like a tug . It was pushing a plane and it started spinning out of control and the tug like flipped underneath the wing , like between the wing and the engine like it was .
Speaker 2Like that's crazy .
Speaker 1I was like wow , you know , like all these type of incidents happening . I was on the aircraft one time where I was at the gate and it was windy out , I mean really windy out , and you know we're deplaning the aircraft and as the plane was getting lighter and lighter , people don't realize all these . You know , the freaking plane wants to fly . Yeah , it wants to put its nose into the wind and it wants to fly . So as soon as that wind kicks up like that , this plane we were deplaning , the actual tail of the plane , started spinning away . So the plane was at the gate . But now the plane was actually pushing away and actually spinning away from the chip bridge and uh , man , I literally grabbed a lady before she like walked right off the edge , off the door , like not even painted . She just turned the corner and started going . I like grabbed her , boom , and uh I I didn't realize what was going on at the time . I knew like we were moving away from the gate and there was a big gap and all that stuff .
Speaker 1I didn't know if it was me moving or the jet bridge movement , you know . You just don't know which was going on , but uh yeah but the news just blows it out , though .
Speaker 2right , I mean seriously , they just blow it out because they want to hype everything up . I mean , I remember years ago , you know the little wheel on the jetway that keeps it right on the plane . The auto level , the auto level , yeah , for the jetway .
Speaker 1Sure To the door .
Speaker 2We was on a plane and they didn't put the auto leveler on there . Oh geez , ripped the door right off , sean , yeah , ripped the door off . Yeah , that the door off . Yeah , I mean it folded up like a freaking accordion . Wow , I mean , it was millions of dollars worth of damage that was done just because of one wheel that wasn't on an aircraft . And these are incidents , but this happens . I mean , this is a business to where you know there's going to be incidents happen , but folks , trust me , still is the safest way to travel . Don't listen to these guys , man . I I drive into this airport every single day . I worry about deer on 71 .
Speaker 1I mean I got to tell you , like people don't realize , like there are , like I would say , on average about 30 people that are inspecting that plane every time it touches down lands , de-planes , re-planes , everybody like there's a whole team of people that are checking this thing . I mean Indianapolis doesn't have shit on us on the pit top . Oh yeah , we got so many people checking a plane . I mean , just imagine that , like your car , Every time you parked in your garage there's like 30 people checking every instrument and every freaking system on your car .
Speaker 2You don't do that . But you got flight attendants , even like me , and you , you're checking stuff . I'm checking stuff , I mean , as even we're walking through , we're looking at wings . Yeah Right , I mean even as a crew member .
Speaker 1There's so much redundancy in our safety system for flying . I mean , incidents are going to happen , right , but come on , you've got to look at how many don't happen , right . There's so much . It's like winning the lottery when things are happening .
Speaker 2It's just like it's just irritating , though . When they start hyping it , I mean I'm like you guys are just hyping this up and I get it , but there's 45,000 flights a day . Man quit hyping it up when an incident happens like that . It was phenomenal , those people lived , it was great . I mean , it was just an incredible situation on that airplane , but now , rest assured , this crap happens every day . This other stuff that we talk about , right .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Passengers . I mean , we talk about this all the time . This week was just full of all kinds of crazy-ass people
.
Speaker 1Crazy-ass people everywhere . Man , you can't get away from this shit .
Speaker 2No , every airline . I mean , they were covering every airline . They were just spanned over all the airlines . Florida couple they tried to push past the gate agent . They were denied boarding , going to Cancun , right . So let's just look at what this person does Instead of hey know , hey , I'm really sorry , could you put me on the next flight ? I apologize , I won't do it again . Nope , I'm going to take my hot coffee . I'm gonna throw it on your ass . Oh , geez .
Speaker 1Right , you know people are so stupid , stupid , Like I mean , what's that solving ?
Speaker 2coffee , right ? Okay . So now at what point do you think you'll get on that airplane after you threw that coffee , right ? So you throw the coffee on them and you know who's coming next ? Yep , they're calling the police , right ? So for this stupid , stupid response , you're going to get two counts of a battery charge , right , both of you are . You got one count of trespassing and one count of resisting arrest because you didn't want to go with the police officers either .
Speaker 1You know what they were really doing ? They were dousing their vacation , Putting their vacation out . The dude really probably didn't want to go . There's some ulterior motive . This is so stupid that you're like why would anybody do this ?
Speaker 2Okay , let's go back to what we were talking about with the media . So what we're talking about right now is passengers in the news , right so ? Now they're blowing this up in the news too , because you got passengers incidents and they just love to hype that up . Right , right , so they have another passenger . She has a Louis Vuitton bag .
Speaker 1Now , I know there's no way y'all didn't see this one dude first of all , when you say louis vuitton , it cracks me up because I was like I had a passenger once and then nowhere this is going . You know people are always like it's a louis vuitton , it's so expensive . But then you know how many times do we see like louis vuittons on the floor and you know they kick their bags on the floor Like it's so crazy . But I had this one pastor one time . She was like she had just gotten like her new coach purse and she was like I am not putting this bag on the floor , you know .
Speaker 2I'll blame her .
Speaker 1It's like I am not putting this $300 bag on the floor . I'm like my wallet was more expensive than that damn bag . It's so funny , like the value system on the clientele that are on aircrafts that are different value systems than we all have .
Speaker 2When you watch this video that was going on between this passenger and this gate agent . There's no space on board the airplane , right . Where the hell are you putting your bag ? You're not . You're going to check that shit . Nope , there's no policy , she said . For that , show me the policy . There ain't no damn policy , right .
Speaker 1I love when people will ask me like where's the rule , Where's the stuff ? Like as if we're supposed to just flip it out of our freaking pocket or something . Right , here's the rule .
Speaker 2Here's where it's written yeah , show me where it's .
Speaker 1Just because you don't want to put that louis vuitton down in there , I mean , okay , don't have a louis vuitton bag , then right , if you don't want to check that bag , don't have it yeah , if you don't want to like , uh , check the bag or you know , place it in the luggage overhead or place it on the floor or whatever you think that is going to damage your bag , keep that shit at home .
Speaker 2How about getting an Amelia Earhart bag ?
Speaker 1What Amelia Earhart bag ? What's that ?
Speaker 2Yeah Well , she's been lost for like what ? 100 ?
Speaker 1years . No , those bags that get checked turn into Amelia Earhart bags . Right , I just thought Amelia Earhart .
Speaker 2That would be kind of funny getting a bag like that . What is that ? That damn thing's been lost forever , so what difference does that make ?
Speaker 1Yeah , that agent or the fly agent , they're going to Millionaire Heart . That bag , that's what they're going to do ?
Speaker 2Those two were going back and forth , though , man , you guys want to see a funny video . That was actually pretty funny . Were going back and forth , and do you think she won ?
Speaker 1No , they're not going to win .
Speaker 2No , no , no . You're never going to win that battle . Man , I don't care , a thousand times over , you're not going to win that battle .
Speaker 1Yeah , he removed her from the flight . She doesn't even understand the repercussions or what's going to happen . She's going to be listed as a non-flyer , competitive , all this stuff . A non-flyer , you know ? Competitive , all this stuff like , just because she caused a stupid incident , just like it's just not worth it .
Speaker 2It's a small percentage , though , right . Right , I mean it is a small percentage because we got great people . I mean I , I just got off a three-day trip and let me tell you , almost every flight I had some really cool people .
Speaker 1Yeah , man , though that's the beauty of our job . We love people and we love to , like you know , talk to them and communicate , interact with them and all that stuff . I mean , that's the fun part of our job and that happens 99.9 of the time . You know , like not even one percent of the time do we have to deal with , you know , some type of craziness like this , but you , the news things makes it happen , you know , think that it's happening like every day .
Speaker 2Yeah , every second they blow it out .
Speaker 1Doesn't matter what flight you're on , something's going to happen .
Speaker 2They blow it out of proportion , man , every single time . But I'll tell you what , man . We talk about this all the time Y'all got to quit . I mean , I understand you got gas , stop , stop it , man . About threw up the other night when I was coming in , you're talking about farting yeah , I mean it was just so bad , sean . I mean it was so bad
, you know . I mean it really was . I mean like I was like about ready throw , it was like coming up into the galley yeah you know how could you do that , though ?
Speaker 2I mean you're sitting next to somebody . I mean that is , we talk about this all the time and I guess if your body releases it , you know like once , but it's like a free-for-all up there well , I mean technically speaking , we're all off gassing all the time , like your body always is like expelling gases , right , but I mean there are .
Speaker 1I will give it you a uh like benefit of the doubt . Like there's a lot of people out there with you know the bowel problems and things like that that you know they just can't hold it , and it just happens . You know , like I , bowel problems and things like that that you know they just can't hold it , and it just happens . You know , like I got a buddy that we , we traveled , we literally did a car trip down to Florida , dude , I mean , half the way I had the windows open he had uh um , um , freaking , uh , whatever colon cancer , and he , he , just he couldn't hold it anymore .
Speaker 1Like it would , just like it happened , and he just couldn't hold it anymore .
Speaker 2It just happened .
Speaker 1I was like dude , you got to stop eating , getting on some type of diet .
Speaker 2It was terrible . It's horrible , man , I'm just telling you it's horrible . I mean , we talk about that all the time , but that is probably one of the nastiest things . If you can try to control it , try to control it , because that is just straight nasty .
Speaker 1Altitude does some shit on your body , though . Oh , it did some shit on that person's body . That's right , that's for damn sure .
Speaker 2But they had this other first-class passenger . Now this is a ding-dong right . This guy was vaping up in first class .
Speaker 1Come on Vaping . First of all , he shouldn't even have had that on the plane , right ? What would you ?
Speaker 2do I mean ? You know ? I mean , if this big cloud of smoke comes out of there , right , I mean , what would you , what was your reaction on ?
Speaker 1that I mean , my reaction always is to find out where it is , where it's come from , Right , and then then first I'm trying to identify it . Because , you know , first thing we're doing is we're we're sniffing , we're trying to figure out is this real smoke or not smoke ? And all that stuff smoke on a plane . It shouldn't just happen to be there , period you don't want to see .
Speaker 2It doesn't matter what it looks like , but you want to .
Speaker 1You know we're trained to do . You know , identify what it is . But I mean , I've had people on the plane and the first thing I do is , you know I'm like , give it to me , give it me you know , like I'm either getting I mean , there's no choice . Like this , is you ? They know they're not supposed to have it . Give it to me and uh , we're going to talk about this at the end of the flight .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1You know like I don't deal with that nonsense , but if he's not going to give it to me now , Okay .
Speaker 2So this guy apparently didn't give it to anybody . He wouldn't stop vaping , so they had to make an emergency landing .
Speaker 1Yeah , but that's when a skilled seasonal flight attendant is going to turn the rest of the cabin on that guy .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , but you're still .
Speaker 1You're going to have to . I mean you might have some Still diverting .
Speaker 2Diverting . Let me tell you something Diverting is a very expensive thing for you being a passenger . If they have to emergency divert because of you , oh yeah . I mean the fines that you're going to get , man .
Speaker 1You're going to get a fine because , I mean , the cost of that , doing just a , just a sheer cost of that , is ridiculous . Not only are you not getting to your destination , your inconvenience and all the other passengers on the plane which you know how many times have we encountered the um , the bubble boy your girl . You know , this is their world and we're just living in it .
Speaker 2All the time .
Speaker 1You know , it's ridiculous .
Speaker 2Well , it's like this guy . I mean , when you're talking about this guy , this guy was the same thing . It's like he didn't care . You told him not to do it . They don't give a shit . We come across those all the time , right , we just tell them simply to put a tray and then they look at you like you're stupid . I don't understand that . Everybody else you got 99% of that cabin will do exactly because you're just telling them nice , can you put the tray table up , seat back up . And then you get to that one person all the time and it's like you ask them to give them their right arm .
Speaker 1Yeah , Right . Or like I didn't do anything , Like why are you talking to me ? Yeah , why are you ?
Speaker 2yelling at me . You got your headphones on . You can't hear a damn thing . Right , you're all the way across at the window seat , nobody can touch you . But then you touch you . You're like what the hell are you touching me for ? Well , because you're not paying attention .
Speaker 1Right .
Speaker 2Right , I mean you're not paying attention because that's what they do . They don't pay attention and we're supposed to do what we need to do . They still don't pay attention .
Speaker 1I've been on planes like I'm screaming at a person , sir , sir Ma'am , I want to say bitch , asshole . But you know it's like— . I've been with you too . Right , right , you're screaming at her and finally , you have to reach over and touch the person and like get their attention because we got a job to do right .
Speaker 2We need to—you know something , we need to get one of those little extension sticks with like a hand on it , with a cattle prod maybe on it .
Speaker 1No , like a little hand , right hand extension hand like an extent we would just like tap them on the shoulder right .
Speaker 2That'll do . That'll work yeah so like did you touch me ? No , I didn't touch you . I didn't touch the hand , did this . But hey , they had this woman . This was good , right . She wanted to get off the plane .
Speaker 1They told her no , you know what ?
Speaker 2she did what's that ? Got naked . Got naked , she started stripping .
Speaker 1Well , that's either a good thing or a bad thing . I mean , either you're going to cause the plane to evacuate . The only way you're getting off this plane is you start taking your
clothes off . I don't know how that action is going to make you get off the plane .
Speaker 2Just recently she started stripping . They got her off the plane , though .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean it will get you off the plane . Somebody will be like you are butt-ass and freaking crazy .
Speaker 2They pull back up , they take her off the plane . But the funny thing about it is , this is what kills me , and you know this happens sometimes too no charges , no charges . Not even in decent exposure . She must have been fine . All that incubation . How ?
Speaker 1did ? I know that was coming , man , come on .
Speaker 2How did ?
Speaker 1I know that was coming .
Speaker 2There's something that somebody was like didn't stroke that keyboard for a reason . Decent exposure instead of not decent right .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's decent exposure .
Speaker 2All right , let's talk one more thing Norovirus .
Speaker 1Norovirus .
Speaker 2Yeah , that was going on the cruise lines .
Speaker 1Dude , there's so many bugs going around right now . I mean it's unbelievable . Everybody in my family and stuff was like sniffing and coughing and my nieces are getting sick and you know it . It's been going around everywhere .
Speaker 2Yeah , but you ever want to see bookings go down in cruise lines . Yeah , do I ever want I said if you ever want to see them go down in cruise lines , tell them that they had a norovirus on that cruise .
Speaker 1Norovirus dude . Well , first of all , anytime you're in any type of isolated situation where you're on a ship or a plane or you know it's just like a train , it doesn't matter . You don't want to be confined with some type of virus , right ?
Speaker 2No , you don't want to be confined with gas either , but we are .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's going to happen .
Speaker 2It's stinky as gas man .
Speaker 2But you know we are . I mean we're right there and you know , but they we are . I mean we're right there and , and you know , now they're hacking all over the place . I mean the kids are sniffling . You gotta , you gotta watch all the time and we're constantly telling each other when we see someone that's sick , but yeah , norovirus on the cruise lines , man that right there , that will definitely dampen their uh , their little , uh , the amount of people that we put in bookings . Are you a cruiser ? Yeah , I do like it . I mean we only did it a few times , but I like it yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , I need to do it again . I went on one cruise and the experience was just semi-okay . I think it's just the way we did . It is more so because I'm looking at some of these different friends of ours and stuff and we've got a lot of people that we know that do cruises and stuff and uh , I just think that I think I need to just give it one more chance , but it's well , okay , now me and you know this number one thing if you do a cruise , it's the food man .
Speaker 2Let me tell you , if you're going to go on that boat for seven days , make sure they got good freaking food .
Speaker 1Yeah , the food was . I mean the food . I had no complaints about the food because the food was always available .
Speaker 2Yeah , but good food not just available though .
Speaker 1Yeah , no , no , it was good food . I didn't have any complaints about the food whatsoever , and I can have as much food as I wanted to , but it was more of just like the . I didn't like the . You know , a ship is like our aircraft times 25 .
Speaker 1Yeah , but there's a lot of things to do on that ship though , I know , but just like the getting on and getting off and all those like thousands of people getting on and off , I was just like that . It was terrible , terrible , but anyways , that was just my experience at one time , but we'll give it another shot one day .
Speaker 2I bet , if you went with a group of people , that was fun . Yeah , because then you go on excursions and everything would be fun .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean we did it , listen . I mean we did our first cruise . It was like excursion city . We did all kinds of excursions . I did some scuba diving , we did all these boat things and snorkeling and you know , got off the ship and did the different destinations . The experience was okay . It was just I didn't like the on-off of the ship and it was constant on-off . That's how it kind of felt on this cruise .
Speaker 2But you know , nor of ours is bad on cruise , though , because you know everybody's touching everything . Anybody is yeah , it's going to spread fast . Yeah , not good , but it was actually kind of spread around that boat , so they had it in the news there you go .
Speaker 1It was funny that you brought up to you were talking about farting my nieces . I just wrote them this little story about , about , because they always call it tooting . So , I wrote them this little Story about trying to teach them that , you know , tooting is not cool , because they're always tooting , dude , they're constantly . We can go out to restaurants and these little girls be like . And they were like yep , that was me , you know like . They're like proud of it , bears make sure they ain't dating much when they get older .
Speaker 1So I wrote them this story about these two princes fairy princes that lived in this land and all this stuff , and they had this tooting problem and what they had to do about it Root tooters Yep , they got a kick out of it .
Speaker 2But anyways , hey , I had to tell you went on a three day trip . Yeah , right , was telling you what are you ?
Speaker 1doing these multiple days . Man , that thing was worth a lot . It was worth . You know if I'm worth . You know . You know if I am on a trip for three days .
Speaker 2You're working . It's worth money .
Speaker 2I getting on that plane . You ain't sightseeing most of the time . Nope , I'm basically I'm , I'm spending a lot of time on that plane , but I worked with these two guys . It was a lot of fun . Um , you know , you know , you know one of them rich , and uh , this other guy's name his name is blake , but it was a lot of fun . Uh , we were flying together on this three-day trip and , uh , and we ended up overnight . One of our overnights was Seattle . Right Now , you know what's in Seattle , right ? Well , where do you want me to start ? Well , what are they known for downtown ?
Speaker 1Well , you know the fish market and then all kinds of cool stuff . You know Starbucks started there , all kinds of fun stuff . But what else ? What are you getting ?
Speaker 2at . Well , blake wanted to go down . He to go to see the um the space needle , space needle I've never done that yeah , space needle . Seattle , uh , you know , it's a , it's a big iconic thing downtown . And seattle , it's a , it's a big landmark built in 1962 at the world's fair . Uh it , it was 605 feet tall , 360 panoramic view of the city of Mount Rainier . And then what is it ? Just pronounce that , sean Puget .
Speaker 1Sound Puget .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's what it is , Puget Sound . I thought you'd get a kick out of that . See , I told you to go ahead and pronounce it Puget Sound . So I just threw it out there for you to pronounce it anyway .
Speaker 1So there for you to pronounce it anyway . So good , laugh about it . It's one of the icon signature outlines of the city line .
Speaker 2I always do that , I love . I love doing that with you . Sometimes , go ahead , just pronounce for me . Anyway , they had a an elevator ride up to the observation deck and it was known as the first rotating glass floor in the world . That's cool . So these guys wanted to go see it .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's cool . I've been on many of like rotating restaurants and stuff like that . That's kind of cool , like you're just sitting there and you know I don't know how I can't go around and around .
Speaker 2It would get me sick .
Speaker 1No , no , no , it goes so slow , dude , it's not even like . Oh really , it's like just moving , like just inches at a time , like it's just a very , very gradual you know , like I don't know how , like a rotation takes you 30 minutes maybe .
Speaker 2Oh , really , yeah , it's like .
Speaker 1It's not like even that you're moving Philly .
Speaker 2So check this , you got it , you got it . You know we always love a good story though , though Right . So we get off the van and these guys they're like , hey , Gary , you want to go . And I'm like , nah , I ain't going . I ain't going downtown Seattle . First of all , there ain't me .
Speaker 2Yeah , if they were , if it was me , and I was telling you your ass is gone , yeah , I'm gone . I mean , well , that's different . Though , I mean that's different , that's me and you . But we get out . We get out of the hotel van . What do you think ? The first thing that we smell overwhelmingly .
Speaker 1Dude .
Speaker 2Weed , weed . I'm just going straight to weed , I know , right in front of the hotel . You can't get away from it now . Freaking hate that , sean , I do . I can't stand the smell of it .
Speaker 1For me , this is the crazy thing about weed . Like you know , I grew up in California the first part of my life and weed was around right . I mean , I was born in the 60s , there was lots of weed in California and I don't know what it is . But the weed has changed smell . The weed when I was a kid did not smell as bad as it does today . The weed today , oh , it stinks . It stinks man .
Speaker 2It's just nasty , it stinks , and here's the worst part . Here's the worst part . There was this family getting out of this SUV , right , and they had like four kids . The smell was coming out of the SUV . Sean , yeah , how could you do that ? How could you put your kids in something and , like , you got four kids coming out of this SUV and all those kids out of the suv . In the suv smells like weed . They don't give a shit . It's freaking horrible . I don't , parents don't care . It's horrible , I know , but anyway , let's go back to the story . Yeah , so these guys going downtown , so they have to go down , they have to jump on the train . Okay , so the train ride down was uneventful . Yeah , that's unusual for seattle .
Speaker 1No , no , the no . The train to Seattle is cool . Have you been on it ? I have , but I'm saying the ride down is uneventful is surprising , right ?
Speaker 2So , anyway , they get down there and they get on the bus . Now here comes the part of Seattle . So as they sit down next to them , this guy starts tweaking . It's just another friendly neighborhood Seattleer . Yeah , yeah , he starts tweaking . He , he , he's just going , he's just going crazy . Now these two are looking at him and the first thing that they're thinking is is this guy's going to reach in his bag , grab some knife and start stabbing people ?
Speaker 1Yeah , you got to keep your your . Uh , situational awareness starts like going off there , right .
Speaker 2That one thing you don't want to do is what Eye contact ? Sure , because you don't know what this crazy person is going to start doing . You have no idea . So the whole time on the bus they're looking at this person and they go down to that carry part to the overview . Okay , so they get to the bottom of the overview and and and rich looks up and he's like they got four hills to climb . Dude , they're like 80 , 90 degree hills they gotta climb there's nothing flat in seattle .
Speaker 1I mean , if you go to seattle you better have some good hiking or walking shoes and on , because uh called an overview for a reason right right , there's a lot of hills there they climb up .
Speaker 2they climb up these four hills , they get up to the top of the four hills and then they got a whole other staircase about 50 , 60 staircases to go up to the top of this damn thing .
Speaker 1Now most flight attendants they're going to have a heart attack when they get up there , most people are going to have a heart attack . It's a lot of up and down there , dude .
Speaker 2Yeah . So they get up to the top , they start looking around and they're looking around the city . It's a good view , though it's a real nice view . I mean , they were showing me the view of it and it's actually really nice yeah .
Speaker 1I mean I think I talked about this before where , like Seattle , has like some panoramic views and cityscape views that are just like awesome . I mean they're just signature . I got a picture that I took there in Seattle that's like amazing . I mean I caught Mount Rainier , the cityscape , you know there's a moon in the picture . I mean it was beautiful . I mean if you could catch it on a nice sunny day where it's not freaking . You know overcast and rainy , you know Seattle's beautiful .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's a beautiful city , except for a few other things , but anyway . So they had to go to the needle now , right . So they were like well , let's just take those scooters , because you know those scooters are all over the place .
Speaker 1Yeah , scooters are the way to go , man .
Speaker 2So they take that scooter , they jump on the scooter , they go down there and they're like it's like I don't know . 10 minutes down , 12 minutes down , they jump off there and they had to pay nine bucks One way , one way $9 for a damn scooter down a hill .
Speaker 1Dude . First of all , if you're a scooter and you're traveling hint , hint all flight attendants and people that travel if you're going to use those scooters in the city , there are like deals where you can get them like cheaper for like I bet you anything . There was like a deal for the whole day for that was like 15 bucks .
Speaker 2Oh , yeah , Well , no , the fifth . They could get it $15 for 30 minutes .
Speaker 1Oh okay , yeah , I mean they have these , I run these things and I'm , I'm , I think I subscribe to like I have the apps for all of them , because when I get in the city , the last thing I want to do is be like looking for the app and you know what companies here in this city and stuff .
Speaker 2I just want to jump on , scan my phone and go Listen . If I'm going to pay $9 for a couple minutes , I'm definitely paying $15 for $30 . Right , right , right . So then they get to the needle . All right , they're all ready to go in , they're all excited , they get to go up to the top . Yes , $23 .
Speaker 1And they look at it like no way , hell , no , I'm not going up for $23 .
Speaker 2The whole purpose of this trip .
Speaker 1Yeah , they spent all that money to get there .
Speaker 2You go on a train , train , bus , bus , climb up the hills to the overview right .
Speaker 1Scooter .
Speaker 2Scooter , $9 for the scooter . And you get down there and you're like I ain't paying $23 to go up . That damn thing , dude , I'm going up , I know you are .
Speaker 1I am going up I know you are . If I'm doing all those different transactions , $23 does not keep me from it .
Speaker 2They're down there justifying a pizza , a burrito , something that they can eat . So just to say that they went inside the building , they had to go into the little store that's down below there .
Speaker 1I'm sure Rich was in the freaking store taking pictures and stuff . I'm here .
Speaker 2He kills me , man we're going to have Rich on here sometime . I was talking to him about it , rich , we'll get back to the story , but Rich is a guy . He rode his bicycle all the way across the United States . I know that boy . He is like our Forrest Gump .
Speaker 1He is crazy , crazy , crazy . He does everything . He is like our Forrest Gump . He is crazy , crazy , crazy and he does everything . He's a dude . He's the cheapest kid that can be . He is . I mean , love the dude .
Speaker 2He is a character , but he is as cheap as he is . I was dying , Sean . You know what he did . Okay , listen , you're going to love this . He brought a rotisserie chicken with him for three days .
Speaker 1He looked at me and he goes , he goes . Hey , at least I kept it on ice this time . Yeah , man see , that's my , my comment proven right there . Like you and I , you and I bring food and stuff , but we don't bring no rotisserie chicken for three days on the third day , man , he was still picking that .
Speaker 2He was killing me . He's so funny , such a nice , though , but his story
when we talk about this later about him going across the United States , will be absolutely crazy . Yeah , we had to get him on the show .
Speaker 1I'm so looking forward to that one .
Speaker 2And he's a funny person . But anyway , they went to the needle and Rich was just sitting there saying it's funny . They called it the space needle because there's a lot of people that were spaced out from needles .
Speaker 1Yeah , I'm sure there was many needles laying around the Space Needle area .
Speaker 2That's the sad thing about Seattle , though I mean a lot of these cities , and we said it before , man , they really jacked them up . Yeah , they did , they jacked them up .
Speaker 1You know , between the homeless problems that these cities have and you know , just like the riffraff that goes with it , and then you get into the mental problems and drug problems . I mean it's sad . I mean when we go on these layovers like we get , we get to see all of us , like you get to see the real rawness of the city and and and most people are in a bubble . Sean , yeah , I mean , cities are , cities are beautiful and visit and stuff that you're going to those areas to see are going to be usually cleaned up for the most part . But I mean , when you get into the city and you start transiting throughout the city and stuff , man , you just get to see it's real , real and raw .
Speaker 2Yeah , it is Okay . So the ending part of this is the train ride back . What happened ? It was real simple . A guy was trying to light up a meth pipe did you try to share with him ? I'm sitting here going . Wait a minute , you got weed going , right , weed walking , uh , tweaking on the bus . Scooters didn't , didn't get up in a needle and a meth pipe coming home .
Speaker 1That's an adventure man . It cost him a lot of money actually to go and do nothing .
Speaker 2You know what I did , sean . What's that ? I stayed in a hotel , yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , that was a good trip missed .
Speaker 2Those two were great , though , man , I had a lot of fun with you guys , flying with you guys . I do it again a thousand times over , rich , looking forward to you being on the show . What ?
Speaker 1Let's talk about some fun things , fun things man , fun facts , some stuff that I've pulled up out of the freaking archives here . Did you know on this day in 1931 that the uh us first adopted our national anthem ? Nope , but I'm glad they did yeah , man , I mean , that's 1931 , like you wouldn't think that our national anthem's been around that long , you know , right , because uh , you're like , well , first of all it's 1776 , right , so that so it's been around that long , but it just , it's a . It's amazing that it took that long to adopt .
Speaker 2Right .
Speaker 1Sure , right , right . So , uh , 2018 , there was a bottle discovered by a couple walking on the beach in Western Australia . It's known as the oldest message in a bottle Genie , I would . There was no genie in it , but I mean , when I was a kid , didn't that kind of like fascinate you , like you're like , I've always wanted to , like you know , be walking around and you find some treasure , right ? I'm always been that like cool . I think that stuff is cool .
Speaker 2Those gold doubloons . They found those too , you know , like on beaches and stuff , because with the ocean churns up and it comes from the bottom .
Speaker 1Yeah , there's all kinds of stuff , like you're walking down a beach and you find shells . People always want to look for that , but finding a message in a bottle would be super cool . Yeah , I mean , first of all , I don't know , even if I wouldn't be picking up the freaking bottle .
Speaker 2Normally people don't pick up trash right . You would consider that trash right . I found a fit bit in there . I mean it's actually in the sand and in the water yeah , there's not a treasure not a treasure . Sorry it wasn't . It wasn't a note in the bottle , but that'd be kind of cool .
Speaker 1Right , find an old note dude and they found this note . But what I didn't tell you was the note was from 1886 .
Speaker 2That's crazy , that is absolutely crazy . That is , you wonder . Would the paper actually fall apart , though ?
Speaker 1Yeah , well , I mean , it depends , you know , like , the elements is what kills all this stuff . It breaks it down , right . So I mean , if it's in the bottle and it's corked off and it's , you know , sealed off from all elements , you know when , all that stuff , you know maybe .
Speaker 2I guess it did . It's kind of cool though .
Speaker 1Yeah , anyways , uh , 1912 , man , this is all about me right here . Oreo sales went on sale for the first time in 1912 I wonder when they had double stuff oh , that didn't . I don't know . That's a , that's a google and that's a google question . I hate the shit out of some google double stuffs , I mean you don't like .
Speaker 2No , I love oh man . Oh , I was gonna say I know I love double stuff . I normally have a package upstairs and downstairs , yeah , double stuff , man , I'd kill those , yeah I , and downstairs , yeah double stuff , man , I'd kill those .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , I love , but I haven't . Nabisco just came out with this new the thin ones . Have you had the thin ones yet ? Yep , yeah , the thin ones . I'm starting to dig that
Even you know . It's the opposite of the double stuff . It's more cookie than it is the creamy stuff . But yeah , man .
Speaker 2Add a little peanut butter .
Speaker 1Peanut butter on Oreos . Yeah , really , yeah , dude , that's your staple , I'll take peanut butter on anything .
Speaker 2That's your staple man . I love peanut butter .
Speaker 1You and peanut butter on this peanut butter on this Shut up .
Speaker 2I like peanut butter .
Speaker 1Yeah , go ahead , we can talk about steak . We're going back a couple weeks here , all right , anyways , night 1897 , uh , a doctor , john kellogg , served the first cornflake , and the crazy thing about it is that the doctor believed that a strict diet of these cornflakes would benefit his patients at a mental hospital . How crazy is that .
Speaker 2Well , that's kind of crazy . Just a mental hospital and crazy In the same sentence , right and cornflakes .
Speaker 1Well , I mean , we go through all these remedies and different things that are out there , right , and you start thinking about how , how , like science has changed . But here's a doctor back .
Speaker 2He made that shit up , Sean 1896 .
Speaker 1He still made a cornflake is going to like help your mental acuity or whatever you know like come on .
Speaker 2Well , they , you know , remember the the little snake bite serums , what they had too , yeah , I mean , they had all kinds of shit that they've snakes there , yeah right yeah like a cornflake man , help your mental .
Speaker 1I'm gonna get you a box you need one after that , but your face is gonna be on the box , not mine all right man anyway 1979 . Uh , phillips demonstrated , uh uh , the first compact disc publicly for the first time . Isn't that crazy , you ?
Speaker 2had it 1989 . You had it then . I probably had it right after that . I guarantee it was in your house .
Speaker 1Dude , it's so funny . I can walk in my closet back here in my office and I can go through technology . I got Walkmans . I got freaking I got . I got Walkmans . I got freaking Gameboys . I got freaking like history of electronic history . Electronics is like all this stuff Compact .
Speaker 2MP3 players .
Speaker 1Look right behind you . We got a whole shelf of CDs .
Speaker 2I use it all the time Gee , you got to get this , gee you got to get this . I'm like shit , you got everything coming out . This guy's got every damn thing , from I bet back to eight tracks .
Speaker 1I don't got any kids .
Speaker 2Man , you probably still got them all . I got toys , I got toys . Yeah , you still got them all . All right , let's talk about the destinations .
Speaker 1When's the last time you used a CD ?
Speaker 2I can't even remember .
Speaker 1Like the last time you actually picked up a cd and put it into a cd .
Speaker 2I can't remember , I mean hell , remember the little mp3s or the before then it was the , the um , what was it ?
Speaker 1the , the before that we had seen cassette tapes yeah , because that takes and then a tracks yeah , I got a . I got a freaking . A rack of cassette takes in storage Really yeah , and I think we have one cassette tape player upstairs in one of the old stereos .
Speaker 2I have Remember when you used to sit there and record all that shit .
Speaker 1But yeah , that was fun . It's crazy , man , yep , technology and how it works and all this stuff . And you were talking about MP3 players . Mp3 players , man , that was something that came and went , I know , boom like snap . Yeah , they were fun , though , but now we got freaking everything's on our phone . Yep , it all went obviously to one device . Now , pretty cool , yeah , it is .
Speaker 2All right destinations .
Speaker 1Destination man , and today we're going to be talking about San Antonio .
Speaker 2Texas .
Speaker 1San Antonio Riverwalk San Antonio has . I have so many mixed feelings about San Antonio . I got good feelings , I got some screwed up , crappy feelings about San Antonio . But this is all personal to me , the bad ones , the bad feelings . Here's my bad feelings . I'm going to throw it out there because we're talking about San Antonio , because I got some strong feelings about this .
Speaker 1San antonio is where my father died , so it's always been a city that's like got a little stain on it for me . Yeah , the other thing that san antonio had too is when I moved there as a kid and uh , you know , I lived there for about two years it was the first time that I really really had racism thrown right in my face . Really , I mean it was bad . Yeah , we can go into a lot of many , many stories about that , but this is south and it was the uh , you know , in the in the uh 70s and um , yeah , it is what it is . That's history , right . But then san antonio has some cool stuff . I mean the really cool stuff and cool history . Yeah , it's got the Riverwalk . I mean you can't go to San Antonio and not go down to the Riverwalk . I mean Riverwalk's got so many cool places you can walk around there . There's shops , there's restaurants , all kinds of food . You can get into all kinds of stuff on the Riverwalk and it connects like there's a mall on one end of what they're known for down .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's just they're known for that , taking the little cruise on a boat on the river walk , all that good stuff , yep , um , and river walk was cool , um . The other thing that's cool and really was like a uh , anticlimactic for me , for me is , uh , have you ever been down to the alamo ? No , well , the alamo , like you've heard about that right and you heard the whole stories Are you shitting me or have I heard about the Alamo ?
Speaker 2I'm just questioning , dude .
Speaker 1I don't know Davy Crockett . No , you grew up in Illinois . I don't know what you know you ?
Speaker 2better stop it .
Speaker 1So anyway , when you go to see the Alamo , have you been down ? Have you heard of the damn ?
Speaker 2But when you go to see the Alamo , have you been down ? Go ahead . No man , I lived underneath a rock my entire life . No , I grew up the same time as you . You shouldn't meet . We had that in history .
Speaker 1The people listening to the show don't know you .
Speaker 2Yeah , whatever Go ahead , don't know the Alamo .
Speaker 1Remember , this is the guy that said he stayed in his room in Seattle , so anyways , so the Alamo , have you seen it in person ? Yeah , you've seen it in person . How big is the Alamo ? Not big , it looks like a small apartment building , right ?
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean it is so small .
Speaker 1You were thinking like this big , huge , like mission or something like that Ford and the way they talk about it in the stories , I mean it is surrounded by like San Antonio has like engulfed that .
Speaker 2Like a hut .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's just , it's so small and it seems so insignificant , but you got to imagine that , that that mission was sitting there in an area that was just nothing but flat around it .
Speaker 2There was no city around it , hey Sean .
Speaker 1Yeah , remember the Alma , remember it . Okay , I'm remembering it right now .
Speaker 2I know you are . I'm remembering it . I know you are All right , go to the next one , you killed me .
Speaker 1The other thing , about Seattle too , is I mean not Seattle about San Antonio , is my other great fond memory of San Antonio is that's where I went through Air Force basic training .
Speaker 2Really .
Speaker 1Yeah , lackland Air Force Base is right there in San Antonio and you know everybody that is in the Air Force , my son Dalton , yeah , your son , everybody goes through Lackland Air Force Base , absolutely . And so good memories , I mean because you know I remember going on leave and the first thing we did was we went down to the Riverwalk . You know , like as soon as we get off base and get out of there had some , you know , a free minute to ourselves . That's where we went , you know , and if you're ever there on a weekend where the military gets their break , you're just going to see them everywhere in a river walk . No shit , they're going crazy . I mean they're just there everywhere . I mean you're just like whoa , what just happened ? You know , ship pulled in or something . You know it's crazy .
Speaker 1But the other thing too is , uh , has lots of history down there . One of the cool places I always like to visit is this place called the historical market square and it's like this whole , like little mexico there , like it has all these , like like shops and all these , like you can get all that stuff that you get over in mexico , all you know . You go across , you know , down brownsville and you go across the border there all those little teeny shops and stuff has all those knick-knack crap and all this stuff like ponchos and hats and all they got it all there too . Anything historical like Hispanic and stuff is there in that market .
Speaker 1But the food they got all kinds of cool food places and when you talk about San Antonio , the food , I can't tell you just pinpoint one place . You got to go , because the food is . I
mean , you go to San Antonio , you should be eating either Tex-Mex or Mexican , right ? Oh yeah , like that's what you're eating down in San Antonio . But of course they got all the other chains and stuff . You want a McDonald's , you get a McDonald's , right .
Speaker 2I'm still looking at you going . You asked me if I knew the freaking Alamo . I'm still looking at you going . You asked me if I knew the freaking Alamo . I'm like are you shitting me ? You know , folks , we're going to have to end it on this , because I'm looking at him going , are you ? Absolutely kidding me .
Speaker 1We don't have to end it on this , do you ?
Speaker 2remember the Alamo ? Hey gee , do you remember the Alamo ? No , Sean , I don't remember the Alamo . Dude , I'm just , you know , I'm trying to question you because you couldn't even say puget sound history okay , let's just throw with it .
Speaker 1Before we end this thing , let's just throw this out there . We grew up in the same time in history . Right right , eli whitney , sean eli whitney . Yeah right , yeah , go . Who was he ? Um , he's some guy . What ? He invented something I don't know the cotton gin , gin , the cotton gin .
Speaker 2Oh you serious . All right , forget it . He's asked me about the damn Alamo . All right , guys , we had a lot of fun . Let's get to the quote of the week .
Speaker 1Eli Whitney , doesn't make you a historian , by the way . Oh , shut up .
Speaker 2What's the quote ? All right when life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry . All right , when life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry .
Speaker 2Show life that you have a million reasons to smile and laugh and stay strong , exactly Because you know , we've been through so much and the reason why I picked that is because me and you the last couple months , man , we've been through a lot of stuff and folks . We know it . But as you can tell me and Sean always laugh , always smile , and if we think one of the other ones is down , we kind of pump them up . So if you've got somebody out there that's a little bit down , try to bring them up . We do it all the time .
Speaker 1Yeah , you've got to think about the positives in life . I mean , don't let the negatives get you down , because there's lots of all those little incidents and all those things that we talk about . Like along your day there's going to be people that are going to be trying to bring you down and take you down with them , but don't let them do that . Nope , nope , just bring each other back up , man Stay positive , man Get ready for the next day . I mean remember the Alamo .
Speaker 2Shut up . All right guys . You guys have a great week , man . It was a lot of fun , Sean , we'll see you next week .
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