A 76-year-old and her emotional support parrot gets grounded Literally . Why your in-flight omelet tastes like cardboard with a hint of turbulence , the legendary Juicy Lucy Burger and Minnesota's Best Bites . Flying turns you into a cosmic ray sponge . Don't worry , you're still safe , mostly so . Buckle up , put your tray tables in the upright position and prepare for takeoff . We're cruising through laughs , travel tales and enough snacks options to fill a carry-on . Let's fly . Prepare for takeoff .
Hey , everyone welcome . This is cabin pressure hey , what's people ?
Speaker 1It is cabin pressure time .
Speaker 2You know , every week now I wait for your new little intro . I'm not shitting you , I do . I wait for your new little funny intro .
Speaker 1Hey , we got to change it up , man .
Speaker 2I love that man .
Speaker 1It sets the level of energy .
Speaker 2But it's you , though , see , these guys don't know , they don't know , I know but , it is you .
Speaker 1It's 100% you .
Speaker 2That's what I said about loving this . The further we get into cabin pressure , the more our personalities come out .
Speaker 2Like you calling me out last week , which was bullshit about talking . Don't think I forgot about that , man . I mean , you know I'm coming back after you for that one , right ? So what's been up , man , shoot man . I again doing a multiple day trips , but you know what ?
Speaker 2The one thing I said about our industry is ? You know , the operation of of flying , uh , it's like playing a game of chess . I I say this all the time , right , flying is like playing a game of chess . The way that our operation runs and scheduling puts crews , it's like taking three pieces of the chessboard and throwing the shit underneath the couch and then starting the day . Right , because most of the time when they move you around , sometimes you're a king or queen , right , your day gets really good , and then other days you're just the freaking pawn that they move from place to place to fill a spot and at the end of the day in the airline industry , there's three spots still missing and the shit starts all over again and the game never finishes . That's the industry . So this week , I mean , I was king .
Speaker 1No , I wasn't . Most of the time there were more pawns , more pawns , austin .
Speaker 2Always pawns . That's right . That's why I said about the game why were you a king ? Okay , so I was on a three-day trip and we got into Denver and we were on the Airbus and they had a maintenance Airbus . You know how the Airbus ? Right , if Airbus goes down .
Speaker 1Not a fan .
Speaker 2Yeah , I know , but if it goes down it cancels . So it canceled and we were supposed to actually go to Indy and then come back to Denver the next morning . Canceled , Stayed in Denver , Started in Denver Next day . 26 and a half hours I think it was spent in Denver . All right , Way better trip .
Speaker 1Yeah yeah , better trip . Yeah yeah , it's fun , you know , when those uh changes in your uh freaking schedule , changes like that and you got those longer layovers and stuff I mean , and it just is like those hard working trips to this , like now I got it like nice chill layover but those don't they always got .
Speaker 2They come when you don't expect right , because we had no clue . On this one we we had no idea at all got a modification , had no clue that it was coming . But when you want it , that one minute difference never happens . You become the pawn . You're sliding right over into another position . But it was good . I mean , the day went a lot better ended up heading down to Cancun . Cancun is always interesting passengers from different destinations . That went pretty good . And then you know you have to sit down in that customs area because nobody wants to clear customs now . So we sit in that little hallway until the flight comes in . Good trip , though , I mean three-day trip and then back to the turns . So what about you ?
Speaker 1Man , you know , just wrapping up life here , Went over to Indiana this last weekend and doing our visit over there with the mother-in-law and all that stuff . She's 94 . And yeah , we're just , you know , doing things in life like that . But something really fun happened when we were over there . Uh , because my niece is there , I have one that's five and one seven , and one of my nieces she was , uh , she has , she has a birthday party coming up and so next few weeks or whatever , we're going to go back over for her birthday party , and so she was giving out invitations and everything and she said so , my wife , my wife is , she just turned 60 , which , you know , 60 is a hard number . You know everybody has a difficult you know when they hit ?
Speaker 2Damn , you are so in trouble . You just told her age .
Speaker 1It's OK , she ain't going to be on the show and never . I'm going to tell her and so , and then , and then I'm 59 . Ok , so you know , this is , this is age , and we have our little niece and nephew and the vision of a child is just precious Right . So she was telling the story and she was like , yeah , you know , my aunt Carol , she's like 50 years old and my uncle Sean is like he's 30 ? She's like 50 years old .
Speaker 2And my uncle Sean is like he's 30 .
Speaker 1She looked at you and said 30 and everybody , everybody was just like . I mean , she like told this story so many times . It was like it was so funny to hear and like their perspective of like how they , how they see age . You know , and it is , you know , there's like one year difference in our age but , um , it's just because of our attitudes , you know , because Carol take back her present you know , she said she's not going to go to her birthday party , so then the whole weekend so the whole weekend she just kept trying to , like you know , like to get herself on the good side , like , change her story up throughout the weekend when she's talking about different stories , because my wife just kept bringing it up .
Speaker 1Yeah , what did you say I was ? How old did you say I was ?
Speaker 2I bet you ran with that one too . Oh yeah , Saying you were 30 years old . Yeah , that's a stretch .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's all in the mind , man , it's all in your mind
. In your mind , your mind would be about 12 . Then , hey , stay young at mind . That's all I have to say to everybody , because I'm telling you the body goes to shit , but don't let the mind go .
Speaker 2These people don't even know you . That's why I said all you have to do is listen to the entrance of this . This is truly you anymore . I mean he's 100% a goofball .
Speaker 1Hey , you do anything you got to make life good fun . You know , don't be all , don't get too serious . That's my two cents for the day . But the other thing is that , man , I finally got my office finished . I got it all done back in our space and we're back in our the studios , back in the office now .
Speaker 2He's not kidding man , it really looks . They did a good job .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , it's a . It took some time . I mean it's just a long , slow process . And we had that heavy rain and everything the other day and I opened my window here and I'm on my windowsill here and in my new office , um , some rain came through because I had window open . But I didn't realize . Oh wait , I had the window open and then I looked down on the seal of the thing and there's this like pot of water . I'm like son of a bitch , don't you ? I just finished this thing . Do not give me some leak and damage on this , but it was just my fault because I opened the window , but uh , it was . It was , uh , it's so good to be back into my space and stuff but uh , I'm sitting there thinking you , you self-blamed , you did it yourself yeah , I totally did it myself and I looked at it and I had to think about it .
Speaker 1Is this really a leak or there's something stupid ?
Speaker 2I did it was something stupid we do a lot of stupid things as we get older .
Speaker 1You can do that , man , it's amazing .
Speaker 2I told you I just did a stupid thing with the show . I was on the show , had the show completely written out , ready to go and you text me . Hey brother , what's up ? I need the notes . Shit Freaking , left them on a plane in the jump seat and gone . Yeah , man , that was like gone .
Speaker 1That is the worst . I mean , I'm telling you how many times have we been on a plane and we left something ?
Speaker 2That , but you know , it can be anything .
Speaker 1I mean , I know you just did your notes , yeah , but this one was bad .
Speaker 2I mean because it's like the day before we're supposed to come in the office and do this and I left the shit on the plane .
Speaker 1Dude . I mean I don't know how many times I've left stuff on a plane . It's normally like my panic is always like something technology , like I love my iPad , I love my iPhone , I love my freaking , you know , like whatever on the plane and you like just have like this sinking feeling of loss , you know .
Speaker 2But okay , but that you have your personal sinking feeling , right . My sinking feeling is not just me , but you're on the other end going tick , tick , tick , tick and I'm like you're like waiting for the notes and the notes are never going to come . And you're like , yeah , our asses are getting old . But yeah , that was the no fun for me was leaving my notes in the jump seat . No fun at all .
Speaker 1No fun at all , man . I mean , it's freaking ridiculous .
Speaker 2So what's ?
Speaker 1been going on in the news . News man , did
you hear about that lady ? She's stuck in Puerto Rico because she took down an emotional support animal that was a parrot and they won't let her return . How'd she get it down there , though ? The airline actually flew her down on the plane with the parrot and she got down to puerto rico and when she got there , um , she was planning on , you know , she had done her visit , whatever , and she's coming back in the airline . And when she got to the airport , they denied her to go on the plane and , uh , the reason was they said that it was her pet , was not checked properly . So , for whatever reason , she's like I'm not leaving my pet , like this is my emotional support animal or whatever , and I want to bring my parrot , and I've had this parrot for X amount of years and I want you , you know . So she's stuck down there and it's and it's making every news outlet out there has been running this story and it's it's wild , but is that ?
Speaker 1legal though I guess I mean , uh , I mean you can have an emotional support parrot . Yeah , really , I mean there's . There is a lot of like . If you look in the emotional support animal list that each airline , they have like a list of all their different animals that they'll accept Right , and birds are one of them . Really .
Speaker 2Yeah , I didn't know that .
Speaker 1But yeah , I mean , parents could be mean .
Speaker 2Parents could be mean man , Especially if they're not let back in the United States .
Speaker 1Have you ? Have've seen the funny ones no the ones that try to bite you .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1Oh , those son of bitches , I mean , they're bad .
Speaker 2I've seen that one video with the one that the guy's smashing the cage and the parrot's like cursing him out . Do you see that one ? He's like son of a , you know . Oh , my God , that was hilarious when animals talk .
Speaker 2It was just so funny . The guy's like smashing the parrot's old cage and the parrot's just completely cursing him out . It was hilarious . That's awesome . Yeah , I just keep watching that one . But you know , I came across this story and I thought this was funny too , back in 22, . You know they were talking about the air raids , the drunk passengers , wing walkers , and they talked about this one and I thought this was hilarious . Someone was airdropping nudes to the pilots .
Speaker 1Oh , that is priceless man , I mean so when did this happen ? A while ago , or was this recent , in 22, ?
Speaker 2yeah , but you know how we talk about incidents today , but then we also talk about funny stories . Years ago that happened . But I thought about the airdropping and you know just to talk about that a little bit on the show today , because this was freaking hilarious . These guys were ready to turn the plane around because they were getting nude pics airdrop to their their phones from someone in the back .
Speaker 1So , technology wise , I mean , I'm asking that question because you know , in today's world and technology and stuff like airdrop right now , you can like restrict it . You can only restrict it to like only the people you know , or you can open it up to the public . You know it's a settings in your phone but you know , when an airdrop first started it was like open to everybody and so , um uh , I used to get airdropped on the phone on the plane .
Speaker 1You've never been airdropped no , no yeah , yeah , like I'd be sitting there and my phone didn't had it open and then all of a sudden , like it was like bling and people would like send you normally picture pictures , right , and uh , um , I got these like pictures of , like like these aliens with , like they look like a little maggot with like eight arms and glasses , and you know , like or or like , um , one time dude , like or somebody , I don't know if it's girl or guy aaron dropped me a picture of like this dude . Uh , fucking santa , cause I'm telling you like that is the crazy ass shit that happens , like they'll send you these like obscure , crazy , weird pictures .
Speaker 1You got a picture of what yeah Say that again it's this dude and Santa's bent over and he's screwing Santa Claus .
Speaker 2What kind of weird , freaking crazy-ass mind would ever even take that picture ? Your ass needs to go through the plane and get them off .
Speaker 1That's the point of this whole airdrop . It's like anonymous . And so you know , what was really interesting is like in the social world of everything , like people would do this in clubs . Like I was out in a club back in the day , right , and when this airdrop first happened , and you'd be in a club and people would literally airdrop people in the club , so they'd they'd like scroll on their airdrop to see all these people that are on the on the contact list of the airdrop and they would try to figure out who it is and then , like they drop , drop a nude pic of themselves or something you know . Like it was just weird , it was just a bizarre .
Speaker 2See , I could see you going into the cockpit and the captain going . Sean , go back and ID this person .
Speaker 1Yeah , but the the hard thing is is really it was . It was anonymous , like you could not figure out who it was that it was coming from , Cause normally it wasn't like a name , that was , it wasn't like an ear and put their name and address on the damn thing they're . It wasn't like they're going to put their name and address on the damn thing . It's going to be like some obscure or it's not going to be labeled at all .
Speaker 2But yeah , airdropping is a weird thing . I just thought it was hilarious that these guys would have turned the airplane back around . Pilots , old days . No , they ain't turning it back around .
Speaker 1First of all , come on , how's that ? Interfering the flight ? Like quit ? Answering it ?
Speaker 2yeah , like literally you didn't have to . Don't answer the phone , turn your damn phone off . You shouldn't be on your phone , right , right , I mean , why are you on your phone in flight ? That would be the first
question , right ?
Speaker 1yeah , especially if you turned it around , you had to like write this thing , hold the whole thing up . That's crazy man , but anyways , uh , other thing that's happening in the news is , you know , kcm is getting ready to change Really and they're getting ready to get rid of KCM and I guess they're going to start a new KCM program . And the reason why they're doing this is because there's so many crews violating the rules of KCM and you know myself and I know you as well , have seen crew members do some stupid ass shit .
Speaker 2They have ruined this . I mean , we've seen this not just us , but they've seen it in the news how crew members have done the dumbest things right . They get involved with these drug running . They get involved with , you know , taking money .
Speaker 1Black market stuff .
Speaker 2And that's at the high end . But see , what we're talking about is the low-end stupidity .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I think the program should be called Weeding Out the Stupid .
Speaker 2Perfect . That's absolutely perfect , because we got some really dumb people that go through KCM .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , you know there's obvious things that you can't bring through KCM . One like you can't bring other people's shit , you can't bring knives , you can't bring guns , you can't bring all this stuff . But we know employees ourselves that have done this , Like they've actually taken steak knives through the KCM or taken like you know they'll take the silverware that's off the aircraft and they bring these metal knives and stuff and put it in their lunch bag .
Speaker 2A butter knife is not allowed the .
Speaker 1the thing about it is that I , I , you it's just because it's a company has it on the plane doesn't mean that you're allowed to bring it through security . There's a lot of stuff on the plane that we can't bring through security , but it's already been screened prior to In other areas of the airport to be allowed on the plane . So that doesn't give you the ability to have that permission to bring that stuff through .
Speaker 2But you see these real dumb people . How did you accidentally bring a gun through KCM ? How did you accidentally put ammunition ? Now , I know you and I know me my bags . Never would a gun , any ammunition , anything be anywhere near my flight bags Anywhere .
Speaker 1Dude . First of all , I don't use the same bags for my guns and my daily travel , like I don't non-rev with the same bag that I'm going to be taking on my hunting trip . You know what I mean ? It's just they're just two different things . I mean you , just you should be . I understand , economically speaking . You know everybody doesn't have the ability to have all these like different bags and all this stuff . But you got to start thinking , hey , um , you know , don't get caught .
Speaker 1But this new program , if you get caught , you're now going to be suspended from the program and they have not said how long . It could be years , I mean . They're talking about like literally withdrawn . You will be going through security like everybody else coming into work . It's going to be a definite . I mean there's going to be a lot of people and and the funny thing to me is like there's one thing to be random , you know , but it's going to end up that we're going to start seeing the same people coming through security , like we're going to be going through the KCM system , whatever that is , and then you'll have the the line of stupid .
Speaker 2Yeah , you know , when you , when you uh was talking about this . I go through every day . I know most of our TSA people , um , and and our airport and you know they're they're just doing their job . But , man , this is a benefit that the airline crews have had and and it they always ruin it . Yeah , they always ruin it , they do . It's always somebody . It's like that one percent that we said that's on the airplane that we don't want to fly with . There's also that one percent of stupidity that goes through kcm , but there's probably a few more percentage than one percent yeah , I mean ,
my thing is that I hate that the few screwed up for the many .
Speaker 1You know , like you , you can't . You know you got to start thinking about just you know you need to start a little bit more than just yourself . You know , I mean people . Just you got to stop and think about this stuff . This is a privilege and , um , you know , quit fucking it up .
Speaker 2Yeah , Well , their privilege is soon to change . So , hey , let's talk about , uh , the airline food man . Your favorite topic is you love to eat on layovers ?
Speaker 1Well , before we talk about that , I want to talk about one last thing about in the news and that kind of like applies to this show , and that is employees and social media and how the stigma of this , the company's riddled fear into the poise to not come on our show .
Speaker 2We've been talking about that and we talked to a lot of crew members all the time . You guys realize this on our show . This is not about an airline , a specific airline . These are incidents that happen on airlines . These are accidents that happen on airlines . These are accidents that happen on airlines . These are funny things that happen on airlines . These are things that you guys are not privy to . That goes on in the galleys in airlines . We will never be airline specific about anything . You've never heard us talk about a specific airline . But we do laugh and talk about incidents on airlines and that's what we . That's what we wanted to bring to you . We wanted to bring what we talk about in the galley to your house . So don't ever be afraid of coming on a show and talking about these , because they're just funny things that people talk about every single day . But we're not talking about a specific airline . We would never we'll do that .
Speaker 1Well , one of the things that I , you know , the points I want to make out of here is that , you know , companies have installed this like instilled this fear into employees , and they've got these social media policies that if you , if you do something I mean I mean like the girl twerking in the back of the you know plane , on the plane that got fired you know all these little things that you do in social media the company's trying to keep face , trying to make themselves professional and all that stuff , and I get that .
Speaker 1But at the same time , it shouldn't be suppressing your First Amendment rights , like you should be able to talk about what you do and the experiences of what you do and how you did that , and I don't think you need to be afraid , especially when it comes to our show is you will not be afraid of ever talking about what we do , and this is a great opportunity , I'm telling you , uh , for all those listeners that are out there . Just , you know it , it's also therapeutic to be able to talk these things out and talk about it in open , where we've never been able to do that . And we protect you by keeping this whole thing generic , as it's just airline talk , and so one of the things about I just hate that people are not like . I really think that one of the best parts of our show is when we did have guests on that . They're just talking and being candid about their experiences and stuff . It's super interesting .
Speaker 2Right , but I do understand on the airline part of it . As far as the industry and the business itself , if you are in your uniform and you are on their aircraft taking a video on their aircraft , I do understand that . I mean , I get that because you're not supposed to be doing that .
Speaker 1They tell you that from the very beginning .
Speaker 2You're never going to see me and you in our uniform on board an aircraft taking a video or taking pictures doing anything like that and seeing it on our show . You're not going to see that because we know what we're allowed and what we're not supposed to do in social media and we just want people to understand is that , especially with our show , we want you to come on the show to talk about these funny , funny things that happen on airplanes . That's it .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah . I mean that I'm always surprised when I see and usually see young new crew members that are doing that , that taking those pictures , and you know they're excited , they're happy to be at work and they're taking pictures of themselves and and some of lot of it . The majority of it is positive and the companies probably do want that type of advertisement for them .
Speaker 1you know , because you're the you in flight attendants , we are the face of the airlines absolutely , we are the frontline employee of the airline , so people are seeing us more than they they see anybody else . And we're also like , because of our um area of employment . You know people are , you know , they fantasize about that . That being that , you know , oh , wouldn't be cool to be a flight attendant , and all that . You know all that . Whatever this , whatever those dreamers are , they're dreaming . But uh , yeah , I mean you , just you've got to uh you know what's funny , though , sean ?
Speaker 2I mean not to interrupt you , you , but even with social media , because a lot of times I don't comment on any of it , but I actually like to scroll it just because , with the show , I like to see what people are talking about they were talking about . It was funny .
Speaker 1this week they had a whole blog thing that they were talking about people that were wearing pajamas on airplanes , and remember we did that podcast early on and that was fun , it was enlightening , it was like we had a good time with it and we talk about past years in the galley all the time right .
Speaker 2That's the whole purpose . That's what this show is about .
Speaker 1It's what gets talked in the galley all the time , every single day . Nobody , you can use a different name . We didn't , you know , johnny rocket ? We don't care exactly like you just , but we'd like to get those experiences out there because I think the world would like to hear these stories , and they do . They enjoy them because our show's doing well , yeah , anyway . So back to the . What we're talking about you started talking about was the airline food airline food .
Speaker 2Man , I , you know , we , we talk about a lot of different things , but you know I wanted to talk about this because passengers , you know you need to know a little bit about the airline food and why do you feel the way you feel after you eat certain things on an airplane ?
Speaker 1So why am I farting ?
Speaker 2That's a big one , right . That's a big one , right . I mean , truthfully , it is such a big one because , do you know ? Do you know how long it takes for for gas to really get out of your body after you fly ?
Speaker 1It's like seven days , sean , seven days . Seven days actually expel all the gas , all the gas pressures , from the flying .
Speaker 2So I would never know how I feel not bloated because I'm on that plane every day . I was thinking about that . I'm like I'm . I feel bloated every day and the only time that I don't feel it is when I'm off for vacation . If I'm off for like 10 days or something like that for a vacation , then all of a sudden I completely deflate and I don't feel any of that gas in your body anymore .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , that is the worst experience as a flight attendant . Like , if you , you know , I remember in my career where , like , I was not really aware of that bloating and that I just kept getting that sensation of like you know , all that pressure and stuff built up on you and it's not like you don't always release it . Right , that you know , so that that pressure isn't just an always an immediate release of like you're gonna belch or get or fart or something like that . It's gonna be like you just have that bloated feeling . And I didn't . I didn't identify with that for a long time and then , when I finally did , then I started really watching , like what am I eating ? What am you know ? Do I need to be taking medicine for this or something you know ? Because I mean , like taking gas x before a flight is actually super helpful it is .
Speaker 2But you know you still get bloated , because I've tried that too , and and and you still get bloated . I understand that . But you know , even when you eat healthy , believe it or not , you're going to get bloated , even eating healthy well , eating health is actually worse .
Speaker 1Yeah , because of the organics and the naturalness of your body digesting and all that stuff . So the healthier you eat , the more the gas effect is going to happen and , uh , you know , flying with that the whole situation is , it can be painful at times I thought so let's run through a little bit of uh fun with the breakfast .
Speaker 2okay , so we're going to run through the breakfast , lunch and dinner , kind of cover it a little bit and what we think about the food in those . Okay , so the majority
of parts of the breakfast you get the eggs , yeah , sausage , right .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2And now they're throwing some spinach in there Spinach yeah , some peppers . Oh , and then you get potatoes .
Speaker 1Yep potatoes , and then you're going to throw all that on again , dose it all with some carbonated beverages Because of the air pressure , the airflow , dehydration , all these reasons of why it kind of your taste buds go down in flight . Yeah , they're saying in this . As I research some of this stuff is that your taste buds in flight , you know , they partially go numb because of the dry air and stuff like you're seeing , pressurization in the cabin , but also airlines also heighten the salt content just to compensate for that .
Speaker 2I know , and that's the other part . That's why . That's why I want to talk about food so much , because the number one things that you'll see in these is salt , sugar and butter .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , if you want to know why it tastes the way it tastes salt , sugar , butter yeah the one thing is that , like I'm I am the uh non-rev um a traveler that when I get up , you know I don't eat on the plane . Like that is not my . The only reason why I'm gonna ever eat on a plane is if that I'm traveling , I don't have a lot of time and I gotta grab something to go , type of thing , and I gotta bring it on the plane to eat . But normally I grab something off the plane and eat it , because the food on the plane it's crap .
Speaker 2But we're going to still talk about that too , because even what you eat off the plane and you come back on the plane , how you're going to feel afterwards , or sitting on that plane , you've got to be careful , because are you flying for two hours , four hours , whatever it is , it's going to affect your body . That food that you ate off the plane is going to affect it on that plane too . But anyway , like I said , we're going to go to the breakfast . So we know that the eggs , it's all butter . You've got the fat with the bacon , you've got the carbohydrates with the potatoes , and then you've got the spinach , which is going to blow you up like the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory , little girl . All those things are going to blow you up . So then you go to Veruca salt .
Speaker 1That's right . It's the Veruca salt on your body I love that too .
Speaker 2But you go back and then you look at the steel-cut oats . Oh yeah , Okay . So you're thinking this is a healthy thing , right , but on the outskirts of that steel-cut oats and in the middle of that steel-cut oats is it's a um you , you have a mango sauce yeah all sugar , right , all sure .
Speaker 2Then you have chips of mangoes , then you have kiwi which is good , the kiwi's good . But then you have chips and mangoes . Then you have kiwi which is good , the kiwi's good . But then you have cashews thrown in there , yeah , nuts and a big thing of fat . So when you're looking at this you're thinking , well , yeah , this is really good , but it's not good for you . No , I mean , the steel-cut oats are good for you with the chia seeds , that's good .
Speaker 1But as soon as you add the mango sauce and all that , then and and they just jacked it all up , yeah , I mean , that's what the oliver food is like , right , they um add additives to make it taste better . And once you make , you want to uh , you know , because even eating good food nor isn't always the best you know tasteful thing , right , like it doesn't taste great , but it does . But in order to eat that stuff , some we like compensate by adding on this extra bullshit yeah , no , yeah , butter .
Speaker 2Like I said , if you look at most of those , most of those meals , they're gonna see like a sauce on the side of it . But then also it depends on how the flight attendants cook them , because you know there's flight attendants that will will cook meals and they'll bake the crap out of those meals . I mean there's no freaking sauce left .
Speaker 1Let's talk about flight attendants cooking . They suck man .
Speaker 2They will kill meals , they will absolutely kill them .
Speaker 1This reminds me of the like . You know , everybody thinks that a flight attendant goes through training and we're going to . You know , this is part of what we're going to be trained on how to cook a meal in flight and all that stuff and I'm going to tell you right now we spend zero time in training , training on how to cook a meal in a flight . I mean , there was never , ever , any instructions on like given to me , in that They've always , like you know , it's just follow the package , follow whatever they tell you to do . You know , if it says warm it up for 20 minutes , warm it up for 20 minutes , warm it up for you know like . But then what happens is all the flight attendants and we know this , it's like you know you get the flight attendant is like they just put the meals in there and throw it on for 30 minutes .
Speaker 2They don't care what's on top , what's on the bottom . It gets hotter on top . And here's the other thing . Here's a big FYI . It's already cooked , yeah , already cooked , yeah , it's just being warmed . All you're doing is just warming it up . So here's a little FYI . There's two buttons on there . There's a 350 and a 250 . Hit the 250 , turn it on for 20 minutes and let it warm up . Because , let me tell you something , you do not need to freaking fry this food . The food is already cooked , people .
Speaker 1I have flight attendants out there that I know that I fly with , that I will not let them cook Like . I will literally be like can I just get my crew , I'll cook this myself , you know , like , because I know they're going to screw it all up . I mean , there's one flight attendant I know . Every time she gets on a plane , every meal , she just throws everything in there and she flips it on for 30 , 40 minutes . Right , it comes out burnt and crusty and I'm like and then you got to serve this stuff to the passengers . And if you're working with that person and we're doing like the service together up in first class , it is like it's embarrassing .
Speaker 2you're like oh , I wouldn't eat this okay , we have sandwiches on board the aircraft that we serve a beef sandwich right there . I see them cook that with the same heat on on the other meals instead of just taking them and put them with the bread and all you have to do is warm them up for 10 minutes . 10 minutes , and then when they put their finger on the bread , it's actually soft . Yeah , instead of some crouton that you just made into their beef sandwich . It's absolutely horrible and we've both seen this . They destroy , I mean sometimes , airline meals . They're not the best anyway right , there , I mean they're regulated .
Speaker 1The point of what we're talking about . Yeah , they're not edible . Yeah they're . They're edible and they're probably not the best content for you , but there's something to sustain you till you get to your next destination , type of thing if flight attendants , the majority of us , we don't eat them , right , we do not only at the last .
Speaker 2I mean , if it's only the last thing that we have and and we're starving , will we eat that airplane food ? Because we we know that it's preservative , packed um a bunch of sodium and fat and everything else yeah , it's gonna bloat the shit out of you .
Speaker 1I mean that's horrible . I mean most of the meals and stuff that were on there , that's good . That's the effect , and you know it's one thing . When you're a passenger and you eat this and you're going from point A to point B but we're doing that two , three , four times a day up and down an aircraft and going up in pressure and down in pressure , I mean it has a totally different effect on our bodies versus just a passenger that's doing one flight . You know like it is . You know you got to watch what you're doing as a flight attendant because if not you're going to have your co-workers saying , damn , will you quit farting , You're killing me , man .
Speaker 2You do blow up , but okay , you're going to agree with me on this one . Okay , out of Mexico when you come and get those sandwiches in the back of the aircraft just happened a few days ago , so we were getting these sandwiches First of all . What's turkey ham ?
Speaker 1Turkey ham sandwiches First of all . What's turkey ham ? Turkey ham First of all . Deli meat in Mexico is just first of a no-go .
Speaker 2Okay , you didn't explain what the hell is turkey ham ? How do you cross ham and a turkey ?
Speaker 1Well , you put them in this pin together and you got this turkey and this pig I don't know Exactly .
Speaker 2I'm sitting there thinking turkey ham what the hell is that ? First of all . So then we had these sandwiches and nobody , nobody purchased any of them , and and so I was like , okay , I got to see this . So I opened up the bag and then I opened up the sandwich . Sean , I'm not kidding you , there was one slice of this turkey ham folded
over sideways , so it was probably about an inch wide right . So there was this goo goo of cheese just oozing out the side . I opened this up . Do you remember the where's the beef commercial ? Yeah , okay , that was . That was the . Exactly where's the beef ? Because ?
Speaker 1as soon as where it's . Where's the turkey ham ? Where's the turkey ham ?
Speaker 2It's like a strip of this shit in the back of it and this gooed up mess of cheese that was out . And you're charging these people this astronomical amount of money for this shitty ass food that's going to make them blow up . And if you took the , here's the best part .
Speaker 1When I took the sandwich completely apart because I want to see what was left with turkey ham and actual bread it looked like the size of a hot dog . Dude . Let's just start right now . There should be like a 1000 tariff on turkey ham , this shouldn't even enter the freaking country . I mean , what , what the hell ?
Speaker 2I have no idea . That's what I'm saying , especially when you're going out of some of these countries like that . If you were going out of mexico , trust me on this , I would not get the turkey ham , yeah , I mean anytime .
Speaker 1um , yeah , I mean , that's just like , uh , I wouldn't eat anything that was like a beef squirrel , you know like , and that's not , don't you know ? You know , uh , a pheasant rodent , don Don't , don't , some , you know , these combinations , don't do it , people .
Speaker 2But okay , number one thing that flight attendants won't eat on an airplane . You know what that is ? I have no idea what that is . Chinese food ? Oh yeah , yes , Chinese food .
Speaker 1Yes , 100% . I mean , do not eat Chinese food on the aircraft .
Speaker 2You're going to see a young flight attendant and they're back there . They stopped over at the Panda Express and they're eating that big thing of Chinese food and you're just waiting for two hours from now .
Speaker 1Yeah , they're visiting the toilet before we land , for sure .
Speaker 2Do not eat Chinese food .
Speaker 1It is instantaneous . You might as well just push the button and watch yourself reek and bloat .
Speaker 2You are going to blow up like a balloon . You're going to blow up . So the point that we're making with the airline food is the meals in the back . They spend probably about $5 , I bet I think they said the average was like $5 . So if you're going to buy something , it's not the best thing , but if I was going to do something , I would okay . I'd either . If they had a cheese tray , I'd get that . Sure Okay , because basic cheese Right .
Speaker 2And if they had a snack box , I'd probably look at a snack box before I'd look at getting a hot meal on an aircraft .
Speaker 1Yeah , the food in the airline business has totally went downhill . I mean , back in the day when airlines first started , we were serving steak and lobster and all that good stuff and they were actually cooking real food and actually trained to cook the food we used to play .
Speaker 2We cut chateaubriand on the plane .
Speaker 1Yeah , cut chateaubriand on the plane . We were played up the food and serve it into a dish , and now it's all turned into this , literally like we're warming up pre-cooked food for you on the aircraft it's pop-top meals .
Speaker 2Yeah , right , it . Literally . It's like a sling and fling of the airline industry . It all changed and I think because the airline industry now is just point A to point B , getting the people there .
Speaker 1This whole thing reminds me of the Chef Ramsay thing . He goes into these restaurants that are doing this type of shit , where they're doing this pre-cooked food and warming it up and stuff like that , and then he's like what the hell ? What the hell is going on here . Your restaurant , you know cook real food , you know make real recipes , all that type of stuff that's the airline business , is just pre-cooked , pre-wrapped food . Like you know , this is not . Don't don't plan your day around getting it . And it cracks me up too , when we get in like first class and you have this pastures that they get pissed because their food isn't there .
Speaker 2But then they here's the funnier part , though they they asked for one of the packages in the back because they want something that's healthier than that . So let's look at that real quick before we , before we move on , sean . So they have a nut pack in the back . It's like a trail mix type thing . It's only like a couple ounces on this thing and it is absolutely crazy . This thing has 2.5 servings and it has 18 grams of sugar in it . 18 grams and and it has 11 grams of added sugar of it leads up to 22 percent 22 percent in a little tiny bag Of nuts , of nuts .
Speaker 1Yeah , you would think that nuts shouldn't be so sweet .
Speaker 2Right and then okay , so here Pringles .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2That little bitty can of Pringles 360 calories . Wow , that little bitty can 360 in calories .
Speaker 1Of something that looks like a potato chip .
Speaker 2Looks like a potato chip Right Now . Okay , I was going to tell you on this one too , if you were going to have a potato chip on an aircraft in the snack box , kettle chips .
Speaker 1Kettle chips is the most organic way to go . I mean , that's most natural . I mean , the only thing you got to worry about is what has been fried in .
Speaker 2A lot of it is sunflower oil . So the kettle chips in a couple of the snack boxes best chips to have if you're going to have a chip on the aircraft I mean , I'm always suspecting like pringles .
Speaker 1Now , like , like , how do they make a pringle like I'm imagining them taking like some potatoes , some other lots of other crazy weather stuff and it becomes like a mush and it's like fried out into a specific shape . Can't even imagine .
Speaker 2But then , okay , here's one . You've got a fruit bag , sean , like a gummy bear fruit bag . Yeah , okay , 14 grams of sugar . There's only two servings in this thing , 14 grams of sugar , and it has 14 added grams of sugar . It goes up to 28 in this little bitty so it's only a little bit gummy .
Speaker 1Bears are just a little bit over the peanuts , but it's fruit or the nuts supposed to be .
Speaker 2It's like supposed to be this , this fruit , right ? Okay now , and the only one that I had seen , that it was the . The product itself was probably the most natural with these cookies that were there and it was like brown sugar , the wheat , flour , stuff like that . Now , if you're going to eat something bad , that would be the best one to eat . Look at the product on the back of it , because you don't have a ton of these preservatives in the back of this . But even this , even these cookies , you have three servings in this cookie bag and it's a very small little cookie bag . It is total of 360 calories . Now here's the difference in product right , only seven grams of sugar .
Speaker 1That's wild .
Speaker 2Only seven grams Now , with three servings . Only seven grams . Only seven grams Now , with three servings , only seven grams . Only seven grams of added sugar , going to 14% . Now , think about that . That bag is probably the healthiest bag that you could have had snack-wise . If you're going to eat the sugar and everything on the plane , because the product itself was all natural product that made the cookie , yeah , but you still had three servings , 360 calories . You're right back to the back . You're right back to the pringles . Wow , it is absolutely crazy . So the way that I feel about this , as far as with airline food , if you've got to eat , eat , you know , but if you don't , like you said , stop , pick something healthy and you might got to eat , eat . But if you don't , like you said , stop , pick something healthy and you might want to eat it a little bit before you fly . Absolutely , and drink a lot of water , folks , lots of water .
Speaker 1Hey , let's talk about some fun facts right now . Hey , did you know that we experience more radiation than you do when you have an X-ray ?
Speaker 2Yeah , I do . That's one of those things that we don't talk about a lot .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean the airline industry doesn't really talk about the amount of radiation that we consume when we're flying on a plane . I mean the public . They mention this , but they've always've always said hey , don't worry , you're okay , you're safe .
Speaker 2I'm probably as green as your shirt right now .
Speaker 1Well , I've been meaning to tell you .
Speaker 2Yeah , glowing from the inside out , that's probably what I am .
Speaker 1Yeah , the , the , the hue that you got in the back of your eyes right there is when I'd be no , but like we're exposed , I mean it's going to be very interesting , you know , because of like in our , in our generation , you know the amount of flying and stuff and what's happened over the history of aviation and stuff and flight attendants being up in the air and pilots being in the air so long and stuff . I mean someday somebody's going to really be concerned about this and say like yeah , yeah , that's , that's the reason why everybody , like you know , a third of the population is getting cancer and stuff like that but don't you believe a lot of that too , though sean is uh genetics too , I mean .
Speaker 2I mean , you know the radiation , I get that , but it's the radiation that affects a person , you know .
Speaker 1As far as with the cancer , well , well , I think it's a compound . You know it's a combination of all of them . So , like you know , you can have everybody's gas to succumb to their genetics , right , right , it doesn't matter what you do or how healthy you can make yourself . If your genetics are bad or you're predisposed to certain things , you're going to be that . You know you're going to be that . You know you're going to . You're going to get that , whether you're going to get cancer and like it's runs in your family . But when you get into an environment that increases that or enhances that , you know that's what we're talking about every day . Yeah , anyways , uh , some other fun facts and I don't even know if that was a fun fact we just went over . Oh , that wasn't very fun at all You're talking about cancer .
Speaker 2I don't know how fun that was .
Speaker 1Everybody's out there just slapping their knees that was so funny .
Speaker 2Exactly , I'm dying right now . Yeah , he's over there glowing like a green goblin , but yeah , that was funny .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's fun facts that people aren't like recognizing , you know like . That's what that's all about .
Speaker 2Sean's not very funny today .
Speaker 1No , you're right . So the first airline flight was from , uh , saint petersburg to tampa , florida , and the first passenger sat his ass on what ?
Speaker 2a wooden bench . Now that shit is funny . Could you imagine , I mean seriously , could you imagine you being the first passenger going ? No , seriously , it's safe , go ahead , just sit on this bench well , this is the whole scenario .
Speaker 1Seems like it was a dare , like it was like hey , hey , we're gonna , we're gonna try to fly this flight over here . You want to be , you want to come with us , you get okay here's . Pick up that bench over there .
Speaker 2You can set it inside the cabin don't pay pay attention to that big-ass body of water we got to fly across Right , right , I mean don't even look at that , don't look down .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's not even hooked to the aircraft . You have no seatbelts . I mean it reminds me of like automobiles in the early days .
Speaker 2Don't worry .
Speaker 1It was made of driftwood in case the water it'll float . Just get on in in the car you know we don't care .
Speaker 2You know you're , you're safe , you're okay , you don't need a seat belt , or . This shit was fair . I couldn't even imagine wooden bench dude . Anyway .
Speaker 1Now see , that was a funny one yeah , so that was a funny , fun fact . I mean , uh , that was , uh , that's crazy , especially how far we've come in technology and , uh , the things that we know now , right , but anyways , let's talk about our destination . Our destination this week is Minneapolis , minnesota
. Minneapolis , minnesota that shit's cold in the wintertime . I think it's cold all the time . It feels like they have such a short . They're a lot like Cleveland here , much worse , because they have a shorter season than us . There's good weather and all that this stuff , but it's cold there .
Speaker 1But uh , the one of the things that in minneapolis is that they have , uh , some places to go which most people don't go outside too often in minneapolis , you know , there's only these certain times of years . But they have a famous waterfall they're called minnehaha falls and it's uh has no relation to the henry wadsworth longfellow's hiawatha . Um , actually , he got the name minnehaha from these waterfalls , really , yeah , and so you know that that that literature was all over america , and there's actually many other waterfalls in other states that are called minnehaha just because of the Longfellow . Pretty interesting . Anyhow , some of the things that are like one of the number one things to do is to go to Mall of America .
Speaker 2Now Mall of America . It always takes me back to one story when I was young . What's that ? Do you remember the nightclubs they used to have there ?
Speaker 1I love the nightclubs . I mean , the nightclubs are like wow .
Speaker 2They had some kick-ass nightclubs .
Speaker 1I mean I used to bid those layovers just to go to those nightclubs because I mean we were so close , we were like right across the parking lot , yep , and we could just walk over . We could , we can just walk over .
Speaker 2We can stagger there and stagger back . Okay , so this is a dumbass story of myself . So it's freezing outside and I'm like I don't want to take my jacket , sure , because I was like it's just right across the parking lot . I can run across there , worse , and run back . It's no big deal . So , anyway , I run across there , get inside the mall . It was cold and I went inside the club and had a great time and I came out there and I'm sweating and everything and I was like damn this mall is big .
Speaker 2I really never walked the whole mall .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , you just can't realize how big this mall is .
Speaker 2Right , and they always talk about the Mall of America . I'm like , how big is this damn thing ? There's this , you know it . Just I was like , well , I'm going to see . So they had the front door or the front entrance where I came in , and they had this back door . So I'm like I'm going to go out the back door , I'm going to walk around half of it on the outside of it just to see , and then I'm going to walk around the front Because it was hot anyway . I'm like I'm going to cool off a little bit and then I'm going to get back to the hotel Dumbest damn thing I've ever done . Yeah , yeah , I walked outside that door , sean , and it was freaking , freezing , freezing , and immediately I was like which is not ?
Speaker 1unusual .
Speaker 2You know , when you knew you made a mistake and you could reach back for the door and you tried to get back in . No , it locked , oh no , I was screwed . So what I did ?
Speaker 1And you're on the opposite side of the mall , opposite side of the freaking mall and center part . I'm dead center , you know , because all the nightclubs are in the middle .
Speaker 2Now , for everybody that has never ever been to mall america , malone america has 500 stores in it and it's five stories high . It is absolutely freaking ridiculous .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean it has amusement park in the center of it . We'll talk about that a little bit more here in just second , but finish your story here all right .
Speaker 2So I had to go around this thing . I swear to Lord above , I thought it was going to have hypothermia by the time I got back around to the middle part in that hotel I looked like a freaking human popsicle .
Speaker 1Dude . Yeah , you could have got hypothermia or frostbitten or any of that type of stuff .
Speaker 2Bright , red , I mean it was . It was probably one of the dumbest , stupidest things I've ever done .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , it's like you . That was not smart for sure , no , no .
Speaker 2Dumb dumb , dumb , dumb , but yeah , that's Mall of America , huge , huge mall .
Speaker 1Right . Anyways , talking about Mall of America , I mean , if you've never experienced it , people literally go there on freaking vacation . I mean , inside this mall is an amusement park it used to have in the in back in the day , when it first opened up , it was like it was all dedicated to Snoopy . So it was like this big Snoopy amusement park . But now Nickelodeon has taken over and it's all Nickelodeon . But inside of Mall of America there's so many things and activities to do . They have 3D virtual realities . They have a zip line thing that goes across , because we're telling you it's five stories high . They've got these walkways and jungle gym things that are all over the amusement park Rides , roller coasters . It's unbelievable .
Speaker 2You can spend the whole day . Oh , you can spend the whole entire day there they have food .
Speaker 1um , there's like there will be duplicate stores of the same store , so , like , if you're going into , you know one store that you were like , like , like , not spit it out sean you know I can see you when you're sitting here talking about that is .
Speaker 2That would be the perfect place for , like , a young dad , when the mom wants to go shopping , takes the kid over there and then you don't have to move , right , oh yeah . I mean all you got to do is turn that kid loose in that Nickelodeon thing and mom can go shop and you can sit there and just watch him .
Speaker 1But it's so big , I mean you can get lost so easily in that place .
Speaker 1It is so big , big and you can go out the wrong door and get locked out shut up , but anyways , mall of america is really cool , but other things to do in many , you know , minneapolis is , uh has this like catacombs . It's like a catacomb city . You can literally take tours of the city that you can walk through all the different uh hallways and walkways that are all connected through the buildings because it , because it's so cold , so much there all year round , everything is inside and even like the university of Minnesota is right there , their entire campus has like catacombs and walkways to their different buildings , just because you don't have to be exposed to the elements .
Speaker 2Or you walk out the back door and try to go around the half .
Speaker 1Yeah , so probably many students have done some stupid shit up there for sure , but yeah , so anyways , there's fun things to do in Minneapolis , just like any other city , and I got to tell you , though , one of their most famous things to do is to eat some of their favorite foods , and one of their favorite foods is one of my favorites is stuffed burgers . Have you ever had a stuffed burger ? Nope , stuffed burgers or something like you got to experience . I mean , they take this hamburger patty and think of like two hamburger patties put together , but they put a big chunk of cheese in the center of it and then they put it all together in a patty and grill it . So when you bite into this thing , just like cheese oozes out all everywhere . It is unbelievable , but they got . They have all kinds of different stuffed burgers , and one I think that you might like would be peanut butter and jelly burger .
Speaker 2You know I love peanut butter and jelly , but no damn way am I putting peanut butter and jelly in a burger .
Speaker 1I think you would experience that no way it's not happening .
Speaker 2You would ruin that for me for life .
Speaker 1I would literally buy it for you just to see you try it .
Speaker 2Nope not gonna happen . Yeah , that wouldn't , because I know you and peanut butter is good . You got a whole like relationship going on , yeah but that , that big chunk of cheese might , might do it . But no , you ain't getting me to take any peanut butter and jelly in it .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah , I mean . So they have other like other famous foods that they have . Up there is their tater tot hash dish . It's like a casserole dish where they put like tater tots with ground beef , cream of mushroom soup and other vegetables all in it and make it into this big casserole . That's kind of like a thing up there . And then the other thing is walleye Walleye . They're known for their walleye . So that's just some of the you know things we're not going to like . Tell you one place to go . There's lots of different places that have these stuffed burgers . I mean pretty much anywhere sells burgers there that are like those local joints . They're going to have stuffed burgers . So , anyways , um , we're going to wrap this up and the quote today is this Lead with kindness , strength and wisdom . Inspire others by being the example you once looked for . Your journey can light the way for someone else .
Speaker 2And if you go out the back of the mall , make sure that you have something to light the journey with , because that was a dumb ass move . Anyway , you guys , it was a lot of fun . You guys have a great week . Man , we had a good time on cabin pressure . We will see you next week . Next week , see you guys .
Speaker 1Bye
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