Cultural Riches and Safety First Adventures

What happens when bone-chilling cold turns everyday tasks into Herculean efforts? We navigate the icy grip of winter that has swept across parts of the United States, transforming simple errands into daunting challenges. I share my journey of dealing with a persistent ear issue, shedding light on the cautious steps I'm taking with antibiotics, and why air travel is off the table for now. Our story takes a turn as we revisit a recent car accident, offering a candid look at the emotional toll such unexpected events can take. From disrupted sleep to heightened anxiety, these experiences echo far beyond the initial impact.

Unexpected moments often leave lasting impressions, as we explore the unsettling echoes of trauma that can linger after events like car accidents. Even minor bumps can stir up feelings akin to PTSD, altering how we approach daily activities like driving. Shifting focus to the West Coast, we confront the harsh reality of California's wildfires and the urgency they bring to decisions about what to save when everything is at stake. Empathy and resilience become our guiding lights as we reflect on these trials, underscoring the importance of standing together in both personal and natural disasters.

On a lighter note, nostalgia sweeps us away to first dates and the effortless charm of past fashion trends, contrasting them with today's designer-driven aesthetics. Safety takes center stage as we discuss the critical protocols for lithium batteries on flights, sharing a harrowing tale of their potential hazards. Our exploration continues with tales of Omaha's rich cultural tapestry, from the iconic Charles Schwab Field to the revival of vinyl records. As we close, we extend heartfelt condolences for recent tragedies, emphasizing the need for self-reliance and local support in times of crisis. Join us on this heartfelt journey through life's challenges, where nostalgia and resilience meet.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

where was your first date? What do you think is sexy? 81 000 lithium batteries on a flight. Why do you trust what's in your pet food? All this and more. This is cabin pressure. It is freaking, freezing outside, freezing man. This is like the cold blast right now. That's going to happen with us, you know, freaking. One side of the United States is on fire and the other one's frozen.

Speaker 2 0:58

We're the frozen part.

Speaker 1 0:59

Yeah, we're the freaking ice cube frozen tundra. Yeah, we were like we're the freaking ice cube frozen tundra, the lake behind my house. I have like a 57-acre lake behind my house and it's been frozen over for a while.

Speaker 2 1:11

I feel like my house is sitting right in front of a wind tunnel.

Speaker 1 1:16

Oh man, everywhere is a wind tunnel here, like the drifts and stuff from the snow and stuff like it's been snowing here for like last couple days and stuff just like kind of like a fine mist snow. You don't even want to go outside. Yeah, you don't want to go outside, you just want to stay indoors, not move like do I really have?

Speaker 1 1:32

to do an errand. It took a lot for me to get here. I know this is like, like it is. Uh, I ran to the store earlier today and I was like man, it's a shit show out here.

Speaker 2 1:43

Yeah, right, yep, it is. Listen, I still got the ear problem.

Speaker 1 1:48

Man, it just takes time. It's a slow roll with the ear problem. You got to have this like just patience of just you know. Let the body heal itself right.

Speaker 2 2:00

Antibiotics yeah, I'm still taking antibiotics. I think I got like another three, three days are you still feeling like the pressure on it? No, it's, it's getting a little bit better, but I noticed this morning everything was draining, so I mean it was uh, everything was. It was a lot better this morning, but we'll see. I mean it just takes time and and like we said before, I won't get back on a plane till I know my air is good.

Speaker 1 2:22

Right, right, that's smart.

Speaker 2 2:31

Be smart. Yeah, you know um one thing. Uh, you remember last week when I was telling you about the car accident?

Speaker 1 2:35

Yeah, it was crazy. I noticed that happy time in your life.

Aftermath of Trauma and Looting

Speaker 2 2:37

It's still really getting to me, I mean really really bugging me, but, um, I'm getting through it. But what I noticed something is is that when I was getting back in the car, I felt kind of funny. Yeah, and have you been in a car accident before? Oh yeah, now did you ever feel funny? Were you driving?

Speaker 1 2:56

So my car accidents have been. I've been rear ended a few times and I rear ended somebody one time time, okay.

Speaker 2 3:05

So when you, when you actually did it, did you feel funny, like getting back in the car. No see, it was really weird because, like I told you before, um never even had a parking ticket. So, uh, when I started getting back in the car and started driving, I started feeling a little bit funny, apprehensive. I'm like what the hell is this?

Speaker 2 3:26

oh, like your cautious level, just like yeah, yeah, it came up, you know right yeah, no, I always pride myself on, on, on uh being a careful driver, but man, this really felt weird. Yeah, so I started looking into this. Do you know that people actually, after accidents, they actually they have some kind of form of P PS or P PTSD?

Speaker 1 3:47

Sorry, yeah, ptsd, yeah, the um that you know that can happen to anybody, like it's. Ptsd is an. You know we everybody associates that with the military right. I mean, obviously we're talking about extremes, but it doesn't matter if you're in a uh uh, just a minor, a minor argument. I mean it can be anything like anything that like shocks you to a point where you're going to have some type of, you know, residual effect of that. That's PTSD, right.

Speaker 2 4:17

I'm getting. I'm getting better, but it's been jacking up my sleep. I mean really, I mean it's been crazy, but I noticed it more when I got into the car and, as as I'm getting the car, like when I came over here I was good because I had made. When I kind of woke up this morning, I was like you know, I got this, I, I I've been doing this forever. I'm not going to feel weird about getting in a damn car.

Speaker 1 4:36

Yeah, so that that cautiousness is kind of kind of in height heightened right now with your driving and making sure that you're you know you got it, dude, you're good.

Speaker 2 4:46

Oh yeah, no, it wasn't that and, like I said, you know, I just wanted to bring that because you know, you know I've been feeling kind of funky about it anyway, Right, and I just wanted everybody else to know that if, if this ever happens to you, it's not abnormal, it's very normal. I did a lot of reading about it because it was bugging me and I just wanted to know and what I've, what am I feeling is? Is it normal? And it is, it's a. It's a normal feeling.

Speaker 1 5:09

Yeah, man, this is total normal. I mean people, people get PTSD from like shopping, you know like you know like that, that after a purchase you know you don't want, oh, should I have bought that? Should I have not bought that? And then you're going to be like worried about it, Things like that. Like people get it for all kinds of stuff, but it's normal.

Speaker 2 5:30

You know what changed my whole outlook on it, though.

Speaker 1 5:33

What's that?

Speaker 2 5:34

Last week we were going to talk about something and we didn't get to it. What's that Was the fires in California, oh man.

Speaker 1 5:40

Fires in California right now are just. It's unreal to be able to just imagine or fathom the situation that people are in. You know, like I was thinking about that the other day too. Like imagine, my, I was sitting here in my office and I was like imagine if my whole entire house just burnt down.

Speaker 1 6:01

Decimated, that would be like this whole studio area right now, nothing's, yeah, nothing's here like, like you know what I was thinking about, like the people that had time to grab stuff and the people that didn't have time to grab stuff and, uh, you know, if you had that time to grab, like, what would you grab?

Speaker 2 6:17

it was decimated.

Speaker 1 6:18

I watched uh no, the question was what would you grab I?

Speaker 2 6:21

don't know, I don't know I I truthfully don't know what I would grab, because the the way it happened with them.

Speaker 1 6:28

Most of them only had minutes, yeah, I mean like you get you, you, the I'm just like passports, yeah, passports, stuff like that yeah, I mean like that, that is like I kind of like you know being being airline and stuff, we got our like kind of our go bags right, right where we like we have all our shit backed and ready to go and ready to go.

Speaker 2 6:45

I definitely grab that, no doubt.

Speaker 1 6:47

Like you, like it's like what are what's so valuable that I needed to take with me in an instant that I can just carry and be able to get out of the house and like people were talking about some of the stories where the the people were just grabbing photo albums.

Speaker 2 7:01

I grabbed a computer cause I got it all downloaded on there, just like you do.

Speaker 1 7:04

Yeah, I need one computer. One computer is going to go with me and you know that because I have access, everything's in cloud and all that stuff. So you know, burn them all, I still got access.

Speaker 2 7:13

But you know, it's crazy though, you go through this thing, like I was telling you I was feeling a certain way, and then you look at these people's lives, this whole area, 40,000 acres decimated, completely, completely gone. I mean, the only thing that was standing were, uh, were chimneys.

Speaker 1 7:30

Yeah, I mean just to watch the news and stuff it's heart-wrenching you to, to hear all the uh stories and stuff about it. Did you see that one guy that had, like he was in the neighborhood where his house is the only house standing? Did you see that one? Yeah, I, I did it, I did. He was showing you know, like here's this house, it's burned his house, nothing.

Speaker 2 7:49

I know there's a miracle, there's miracles like that but then you look in the street and the cars are melted.

Speaker 1 7:54

Yeah, I mean just everything was just like totally nothing. The other part about this thing too that, the other part about this thing too that like pisses me off is that the people that are looting and all that crap, you know like people that are. I hate when people are trying to take advantage of a bad situation and that's always. We've got the scammers and stuff out there.

Speaker 2 8:15

You've got to be the lowest scumbag part of the earth, that when people are down that you go steal from them.

Speaker 1 8:23

Yeah, yeah, I mean, you are nothing but a complete dirt bag. Yeah, man, you know what? Unfortunately, we live around all of those type of people. I mean, they're in the world, they're out there because, you know hell, my phone's ringing all the time with stupid scam stuff.

Speaker 2 8:40

Yeah, but you know, when you're a scumbag like that and you take advantage of a person like that, trust me, especially in a fire situation, get used to the heat, because you sure in the hell going to somewhere, to where it's going to be hot on a regular basis.

Speaker 1 8:52

Yeah, I was thinking about this, like in other countries like United States. It's kind of like I was listening to news and how they were like we're going to throw the book at you If you do this, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna incarcerate you. We're gonna, you know, you know, do everything to the fullest of extending the law and all this stuff. You know.

Speaker 1 9:09

Now take this same situation, put it into a foreign country you're dead, they just shot, yeah, just shot you right there, just shot, you've been laying in the rubble like they're lucky they're here in this country because, um, we go easy on people like this where you know I mean, there's thieves. Back in the history of a time, what did they normally do with thieves, no matter where you were in the world? Like chop off their hands.

Speaker 1 9:34

Stuff like that, those type of punishments I mean to a certain extent, is like man. I hate to say that I would like to see some of it back, but I mean at the same time it's brutal, but at the same time I'm thinking, you know, the country's gotten to a point where it's like they've taken advantage of every loophole they could take. We're like we're a loophole nation.

Speaker 2 9:58

There was one family. They had posted a sign on the outside of their house and it was perfect. It said looters, beware, we're actually home and you've been warned. Yeah, so definitely you're going to get your ass shot if you come inside. Yeah, you know, like I said, that's the biggest scum of the earth. Are those people? Do you know, sean? The intensity of that flame is incredible. You know, a few years back I had some pine trees that had died and I piled these on top of each other. They have a big burning pit in the back. I was watching a video and they showed one of the spiral flames. The intensity of those flames, yeah, from the wind, it's absolutely incredible. Like I said, I had like 20 pines when I set this up. It was the most intense 12 to 15 seconds I've ever seen, I mean, and I was clear, everything was safe. I mean, I was in a burning pit and everything, and the flame was going straight up, but it raged.

Speaker 1 10:54

Yeah, I mean the intensity of like kindling wood and you know dry woods in the forest and stuff and the things that you know the foresters like they go in and they get that dry brush and they like police it up. You know the fallen trees and all that stuff try to keep it down to. You know low, uh, low. You know level um is super important. You know people don't realize that we need to.

Speaker 1 11:22

Also, the forests are beautiful to see and all that stuff, but there's also some maintenance required for for us to have them you know and people, just because they're there, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be trying to take care of them, especially when they're close to populated areas.

Speaker 2 11:35

You know, the other thing I hate too is that there was like a group of people that you know they. They're like oh it's California, oh it's, it's a rich or it's this. You know how could you even think about that? This, it doesn't matter. Those people lost their lives, their homes yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 11:50

I don't even, um, like that whole entire topic of, like you know, I've seen some brutally terrible stuff out there. You know, politically speaking, and all this stuff, you know, oh, you know, they're a bunch of liberals, they, they got what's coming to them, things that you know like just awful statements, that, uh, it really shouldn't matter.

Speaker 2 12:11

These are all humans, you know but then you see, then you also see the good side of humanity, right, there's so many people that stepped up and started helping all these people.

Speaker 1 12:19

Yeah, the small businesses out there. I mean, I love those stories about like they've opened the doors to try to take care of the people out there and make their facilities welcome to like whatever they can do, whether that's just space to put up tents, space to, you know, get supplies, have water drops, all these different types of things.

Speaker 2 12:36

Jay Leno was down there serving the firefighters, that was actually pretty cool. Yeah, and then even I noticed online he had flight attendants that were donating things or taking donations for families that lost everything.

Speaker 1 12:50

Yeah, this whole thing is so tragic but at the same time, like I do understand, like people, um, you know, we this is so pronounced right now in the news, like everybody, everything that's right is about the fires right now, but I feel like people always forget about the last tragedy, tragedy that we had. I mean, the Carolinas right now are suffering, there's still people in tents, there's still people out there that need help and, you know, the focus now has gone totally to the West Coast.

Speaker 2 13:19

Well, it becomes accountability right. I mean, now we're at the stage. I mean the fires. Well, they're still burning, but now it becomes accountability, right.

Beauty and Simplicity

Speaker 1 13:29

I mean, you know that's that's the important thing with putting in the right government and the right leaders, and to make sure that you know they're taking care of the people in their area and all that stuff. So, yeah, it's bad man.

Speaker 2 13:42

And we said we don't get. You know, don't like getting political on our podcast, but listen, keep the damn money in the United States.

Speaker 1 13:52

Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:52

I mean until our people are good. Our people, I mean no one's hungry. They have homes, they're not burned out of their homes, they're not flooded out of their homes. Keep the damn money in our country and stop sending our money everywhere else but in the United States. Take care of our own people. Yeah well, I think that's going to stop here soon I hope the Lord above it does, because you know something I'm tired of seeing our people suffer.

Speaker 1 14:22

Yeah, I mean we really need to take care of our own and all these special interests stuff to me is a that's a whole other subject. Let's not go political right now, but anyways, what else has been going on?

Speaker 2 14:31

Well, you know, I was looking at these pictures the other day. Now this is completely away from what we were talking about, but it was some really funny pictures and I thought to myself do you remember your first date, my first date?

Speaker 1 14:44

Yeah, first date you ever had Dude. So with that question you need to qualify it First date, like I had a date.

Speaker 2 14:52

Then, then you drove, let's say, when you, when you had, because I had like puppy love.

Speaker 1 14:55

You know? Fourth grade you know, you went over to my you know, went over to the girl's house, brought a teddy bear with me, you know, no, when you drove. So when I drove first date, yeah, yeah, I remember my, I mean all right, give me a little short thing of it.

Speaker 1 15:11

So this is interesting scene because, uh, you know, you're quantifying this thing through, like when you first drove, right? So I grew up as a military brat and I was in Italy, and so you can't drive in Italy until you're 21. Really, yeah, I didn't know so. So, like you know, driving wasn't a thing over there, like we none of us had drive If all of us had, like mopeds or motorcycles or something like that that we drove around on but you can drive over there until you're 21. So it wasn't a thing like that. Like my first date there, like you know we we jumped on a train, we headed over to Venice, we had dinner.

Speaker 2 15:51

That was your first See. I knew it wasn't going to be normal. I knew it. It just was not going to be normal. Dude, Right, there's nothing like mine. I mean I'm sitting here, going really. I mean that's unbelievable, that's nothing like mine.

Speaker 1 16:07

Right, right right.

Speaker 2 16:09

Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 16:11

But these are the privileges of being a military brat. It's bad that you're running around all over the world and you don't have this. Military brats are one of our things. We don't have any place to call home.

Speaker 2 16:22

I thought something was going to be good with this and you just come up with that. I'm sitting here thinking of mine here. Okay, I got to tell you.

Speaker 1 16:29

Let me tell you about your little silly one.

Speaker 2 16:35

All right. So I'm bewildered with yours. So mine was. I had an old brown station wagon that was my parents. All right, okay. And so if we wanted to go on a date we had to drive the brown station wagon. So real quick went over to her house. I went to pick her up, I went outside. The parents were all out there and they were looking outside, so I went to get in the car. She's sitting next to me, she's smiling. I went to turn the ignition and it didn't start.

Speaker 1 17:03

Oh no, dude, that's the worst, right the?

Speaker 2 17:08

dad had to come out and jump my car. Oh no, I thought, well, if I bring her home late, you know why.

Speaker 1 17:14

Right, at least you got a sumptuous excuse, right, well?

Speaker 2 17:16

the reason why I brought this up, really because I was looking at these pictures and years ago, in this little quote that they had and it showed this picture of this young girl and she was in little jean shorts that were cut off jeans and she had a crop top that was cut off a shirt and it said this is now someone's grandma and I thought this was what we looked at years ago and we were.

Speaker 1 17:46

That was hot. Yeah, man, the daisy duke.

Speaker 2 17:47

Days like you know nothing, nothing. They all they had was cut jeans, a crop top shirt and this blonde flowing hair, dark hair, whatever it was like like daisy duke and uh, um, what is it? Uh, dukes of hazard but now everybody's got it. They have to spend all this money for what? Yeah I was thinking. I was thinking that's not we. We were looking at that with nothing, just just the, just the little jeans and top.

Speaker 1 18:12

Yeah, nowadays it has to be like it has to have Versace gas, it has to have some type of designer on there. I don't want to date myself with calling out names here, but whatever has your Louis Vuitton bag, whatever, that's the generation today.

Speaker 2 18:28

I absolutely love those pics though, Sean, because it showed that girl, and then it had this other one like the 70s into the 80s, so they had the hip hugger jeans and then the little bikini top.

Speaker 1 18:41

Right. So a lot of that stuff's coming back. Man Depends on where you are in the United States, because I mean, if you're in certain climates, for that stuff I mean you go down south you're going to see some Daisy Dukes running around.

Speaker 2 18:53

Yeah, well, the only difference is that you're paying about $150 for those and they just cut them off because they were all torn up. That was the difference. And what we called sexy was that girl standing next to a GTO, a 67 GTO or a 66 Mustang. I mean, that's what we considered sexy.

Speaker 1 19:15

Yeah, now, now you get the same girl, you get a. They're designer wear and they're sitting next to a freaking uh fake, eyelashes fake nails, lamborghini, fake everything, everything's sexy.

Speaker 2 19:31

But it's true, just there's nothing real yeah.

Speaker 1 19:34

It's nothing real yeah it's all fake it is all fake, but you know, you know that whole thing, this whole subject like reminds me of I love watching those uh, you know, uh the tiktok. Or you know instagram videos of the you know gold diggers. Yeah, I mean like. So you get these gals and they're all like whatever they're wearing for that day and and the dude's like you know tricking them to, you know he's homeless or something like that, and then he like walks over and jumps in his Lamborghini and then they want to talk to him and stuff you know like girls any day of the week, because any girl and this goes for just today if you can rock a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, you can wear anything, I don't care what it is.

Speaker 2 20:19

If you can do that as a woman a pair of jeans, t-shirts you don't have to spend a lot of money. Hell, you can get that for shit from Walmart. But you know, if you can do that, that's it right there. You don't need all that money.

Speaker 1 20:33

Dude, you don't have to be a Victoria's secret girl. It's kind of like a what's her name? It has a Victoria's secret song. You know, like the manufacturers are producing all this stuff, like they're they're in these young women's heads and boys and they're they're producing these. You know, this is what, this is what's good looking, this is what's sexy, this is all this stuff, but it's just a bunch of bullshit really. I mean, my favorite thing is simple, like I want L natural.

Speaker 2 21:00

Less is better. I sent you the picture. What did you think? Yeah, less is better, man. I told you she blue jeans, crop shirt, long blonde hair, and it was simplicity, but, man, she was beautiful.

Speaker 1 21:14

Yeah, yeah, I just don't. I'm not. I'm not one of these like you got to have all this makeup on and all this stuff and cover up all your like. I want to see your freckles.

Speaker 2 21:23

You don't need. You don't need all this. You don't need those giraffe eyelashes. No, no, giraffe. Those are the ugliest damn things.

Speaker 1 21:30

I'm sorry, now we're getting into a subject that I get, like it's like I have, like I cannot. I cringe when I see this. First of all, I don't like just as much as I don't like feet, I'm finding out that I don't like long nails. Like, how do you feel about long nails? I'm right there with you. I told you when I sent you that picture that's exactly what I think is sexy simplicity. Yeah, like, the longer the nails, the like, the more I will get a gag reflex. Like it's just nasty. And uh, I just do not like long fingernails whatsoever. I mean moderate, like you can take care of you, you can paint them, you get all this stuff. They could be nice moderate length to your hand, but when they start getting longer than, like you know, inch or two, like I'm like but now you got those.

Speaker 2 22:16

You got even those videos that show that before and after these, these women that have gotten so good at makeup, then all of a sudden shit, they, they don't look anything like they. Yeah, they look nothing like they really do absolutely nothing like they did.

Speaker 1 22:28

That's pretty freaking scary that's one of those, one of those videos where you should be like. You know you go out and you meet this girl. In the video you wake up in the morning, roll over.

Speaker 2 22:42

I'll tell you a thousand times, I'll go back to our time any time of the year, because it was all natural, it was simple, man. Yeah, if you can rock simple, you can rock anything. All right, listen, let's go. Let's start talking about some airline stuff.

Speaker 1 22:55

Yeah, what's going on in the airlines these days?

Speaker 2 22:59

Well, you know, there has been a big issue about, like they are talking about lithium batteries.

Airline Safety Hazards and Caution

Speaker 1 23:06

Yeah, man, those damn things are dangerous. People don't realize how dangerous they are. They're like um, you just have to be cautious with them. There's a reason why the airlines are always making rules and stuff about the lithium batteries. Like you have to, you have to bring them on with you, they have to be on in your control. Um, they can't be checked in your baggage, all that type of stuff. So you know they're, they're nasty, but what's up?

Speaker 2 23:28

so this, this rule hasn't been in place since 2010. But a lot of people they get mad because of their check bags. They had lithium batteries in it and sometimes they've had to pull them to remove the batteries and sometimes they have to go without their luggage because they had a battery or something in their bag.

Speaker 1 23:49

Yeah, those smart bags, yeah, real smart ones. Yeah, those smart bags, yeah, the real smart ones. Yeah, those smart bags that have the lithium batteries implanted into the bag and stuff like that, so you can charge your phone, and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 23:59

So I just wanted to give people a reason of why they don't allow lithium batteries in the check luggage anymore. This flight happened. It was 22 minutes in flight and they received a fire warning from the main deck. There was smoke in the cockpit and they declared an emergency. This is the reason why they don't have these on the airplanes anymore. The captain's oxygen mask failed, leading to his incapacitation, and the first officer had to assume control. Incapacitation and the first officer had to assume control and shortly after that, the aircraft it actually plummeted and it crashed into an unpopulated area. But the reason what they found out was they in the cargo part of this thing, they had 81,000 lithium batteries. What? 81,000 on a pallet? No, that's Never knew that. Now we learned this. The reason why's never knew that we now we learned this. The reason why I was saying this? Because we learned this in training all the time about lithium yeah, but I don't know how the carrier even allowed that.

Speaker 1 24:59

Like there's a certain amount of restriction. I don't know what the number is, but there's a restriction of like the volume of how many batteries and stuff you can be different countries though yeah, different country. Yeah, it's true, different countries, different country cargos right.

Speaker 2 25:10

Because they had other combustible materials that was inside the cargo unit too, but they had 81,000 lithium batteries and it was a complete runaway of a fire inside the belly of the aircraft.

Speaker 1 25:24

Yeah, if you have never ever seen a battery runaway fire, like a lithium battery runaway fire, google that shit. I mean you're're gonna be surprised, you're gonna see how fast, like a laptop, like such sets on fires, the ones that, uh, you know those air purifiers that were like the big things back in the day here where they everybody hung around those then, oh yeah, neck and stuff yeah, so they get on the plane and they have these little air purifiers and it would be, you know, blowing purified air up in their face like a little bug zapper around your neck

Speaker 1 25:55

yeah, yeah, well, the airlines out did out, you know, logged all those things, because those things, if google it and you'll see people's like chest setting on fire, you know, from these freaking little lithium battery, uh, air purifiers. But yeah, lithium batteries are not to be messed around with. I mean, people don't realize how fast they can do it, but when they see it, or they ever have seen it, then they'll understand.

Speaker 2 26:20

Like it's part of our uh, it's part of our flight incentive training. But listen folks, just real quick, uh, lithium batteries, just don't, don't put them in your check bags at all. Really, just don't bring them. Actually, I mean, that'd be the best thing.

Speaker 1 26:32

Well, I mean you can't help from bringing lithium batteries because you got your. They're in your laptops or in your phones and all this stuff, but they need to be just with you so you can monitor it. That's the whole point. You have to be in your possession, you know, within your arm, you know reach, be able to deal with anything that does happen, because these computers and stuff, man, it can happen.

Speaker 2 26:52

Bad situation, bad All the way around. And another bad situation Sean the flight attendant was killed in Denver. She's on a layover. It really really was sad.

Speaker 1 27:01

That was mind-blowing man. I'm like thinking, you know, safety is like our number one thing.

Speaker 2 27:09

We talked about that in the cities.

Speaker 1 27:10

Yeah, I mean when you're in the cities and stuff and like we talked about that in the cities. Yeah, I mean when you're in the cities and stuff and like we talked about this in previous episodes, like we, you know, you need to be cautious. When you're like in the um, when you're in hotels, you know, never think you're in a safe space. That's if you start from there. If you just like when you're, when you're out and you're about, and you think I'm never in a safe space, you know, know, then then you're, you know you're, you're on alert.

Speaker 2 27:34

You need to keep yourself on awareness at all.

Speaker 1 27:36

Have that situational awareness and the stuff I got this like a crazy story Like this happened to me back in the day and we were on a layover. It was in Columbus, ohio, and we decided we're going to go down to there's a. There's a really cool area in Columbus called Germantown and we were in down to a bar, a little place that got something to eat and the whole crew. It was about maybe um three, four blocks away from our hotel, so it wasn't a big deal. But and Columbus, if you've ever been there, it's pretty, you know Midwestern town, not too crazy, you know all that stuff. So, uh, we, we all walked down and went to the bar and everything. And we were sitting down there drinking, eating, and one of the gals decided that she's going to walk back to the hotel and she was like I'm done, I'm going back to the hotel. I was like you know, I'll, I'll, I'll walk you back. And she's like no, no, no, no, no, need, you know, I'll be, I'll be fine.

Speaker 1 28:24

And I was the lead flight attendant at that time and so I was like dang, you know, this is not good. She should be walking around in the middle of a city by herself. So I kind of like hightailed it all the way back to the hotel, like four or five blocks. I get to the hotel, she's walking into the hotel. I walk into the hotel and I'm like you know you could have asked. You know it's not smart to be walking by yourself as a female in the city the whole nine yards. It doesn't matter female or male, it doesn't matter, you shouldn't be by yourself. And um, and she was new and all this stuff, she's like oh, you know, I'm okay. I'm like all right, cool, I'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 29:08

Next morning we wake up, get down to the van. You know the whole drill. We're all in the van, everybody comes in. She comes walking in and she's like you're not going to believe what happened last night. I'm like what do you mean? I said I saw you at the hotel and you jumped in the elevator. She goes yeah, when you left me, I stepped in the elevator. When I stepped in the elevator, there was another guy in the elevator Mugged her.

Speaker 2 29:37

You never go to your room when somebody walks off the. You just get back in the damn elevator. Let him go.

Speaker 1 29:41

Yeah, I mean it was, it was, it was, it was terrible. So she was up all night with the police and all that stuff it was. You just never know, man, you got to stay on high alert in these situations. But that flight attendant in Denver, man, I just feel for her family everybody 36 years of flying and she was just on a layover.

Speaker 2 30:01

I mean prayers go out to her, her family, her friends. Just a sad situation.

Speaker 1 30:06

Wrong place at the wrong time. I mean just like ugh.

Speaker 2 30:09

Another sad situation, really, but this one is controllable. There was a pilot that was arrested for a DUI. Tried to operate the commercial airplane.

Speaker 1 30:20

Come on man.

Speaker 2 30:20

No, no, I just did. I mean, whenever I see this, I mean I'm completely in disbelief because it takes a lot to be a pilot.

Speaker 1 30:28

Well, yeah, it takes a lot to be a pilot, and I mean I just to imagine or even fathom the thought of people willing to put their job on the line. You know, knowing, because all of us had training and there's nobody excluded from training we know the consequences, like that's ingrained to us, but to get to have a problem that is going to be to the level that you're going to put your job on the line.

Speaker 2 30:56

If it's a problem, that's one thing too. So if it's a problem, that's one thing too. But even if you say that it's a mistake, a mistake, that's the dumbest mistake you ever made in your life. Yeah, it doesn't even make any sense, but it just. I mean, every time I see that it just really bugs me, because I've known so many of the pilots over the years and that is just plain stupidity.

Speaker 1 31:19

Yeah, it's so rare man nowadays. It's so rare because of all the training and the education that we get for, um, you know, um illegal contraband and drugs and narcotics and all that stuff. And you know all of our rules that are involved with the airlines. It doesn't matter what airline you're with and where in the world. We all have our different levels of rules that we have to abide by. But, um, you know, all of us fly.

Speaker 2 31:44

We know so you know, we talk about this every single week with, with the airlines, um, and it's, it's like I said, it's almost like blotters, because there's so much that happens every single week. On the, on the 8th, a 737 collided with a Dreamliner.

Speaker 1 32:02

Really, yeah, a stationary Dreamliner. Yeah, so where'd they collide? What hit?

Speaker 2 32:07

what I believe it hit the wings. The wings hit each other, and what happened is they ended up both canceling, but the Dreamliner was stationary. The 737-800 was actually moving. That's a huge cost.

Speaker 1 32:27

Dude. Any of those incursions like that are just super. They cost a lot of money.

Speaker 2 32:34

Yeah, Another bird strike too, January 5th. Grounded in an Airbus.

Speaker 1 32:41

You know, bird strikes are one of the things that happen in airline that probably it'd be interesting to see, like how many bird strikes happen on a daily basis, because they get reported but like it's very rare when they make the news because they're just so common. I mean, like I heard my wife the other day. She flew down to Florida and like going down she hit one and coming back she hit one. But it was like you know, it's just like a normal routine, right, right, you know, I mean, until it like actually does something or it's going to take out an engine or cause a fire or something like that, then it's not going to make the news because it's burger strikes are happening all the time.

Speaker 2 33:18

But, like we said before, it's kind of ironic. I mean, when we talk about these things, it's every single week, right? I mean there's all kinds of crazy crap, like this UFC fighter that was removed from the aircraft in the emergency exit row. Did you see that? No, what happened? So I mean there's a lot to it, but he was in the emergency exit row. We don't know the situation. I'm not going to sit there and say yes or no. Supposedly they had asked him a few times and he didn't respond. And then when he did respond I guess that you know he had told him he said, yeah, I can do whatever it is that you need, and they removed him off the aircraft. But I guess prior when they first asked him, it was like two or three times and then he didn't respond. So then they took him off the aircraft, put him on another plane.

Speaker 1 34:13

Yeah, that's one of the rules in the US that if you're in X-ray, you're're going to have to one acknowledge the crew, because we're going to all they're supposed to give you a briefing and you're sitting by an exit where we're going to might need some assistance. So I mean, if you're going to not acknowledge us, there's an issue.

Speaker 2 34:31

We have those a lot of times too. We have those passengers that that you know, they, they, they don't acknowledge you.

Speaker 1 34:38

Yeah, they're having a bad day or whatever the situation is. I mean, you know, come on.

Speaker 2 34:42

It's just flight attendants doing their job. I mean, you know that's it. Trust me, we don't want to go to the exit row and ask everybody that question anyway, but we're required to do it. I mean, so you know, if you're sitting in the exit row, just respond. It's a simple thing to do and then we don't have to see this in the news again. Like I said, I have no idea exactly what happened in this, but, um, the guy was removed, yeah crazy did you see the picture I sent you this picture about?

Speaker 2 35:12

we were talking about the, the guys that go up in the wheel. Well, did you see?

Speaker 1 35:15

that picture. I sent more wheel, well stuff. Yeah, I saw the picture.

Speaker 2 35:18

I just had to send you a picture because it was so.

Speaker 1 35:20

We were wondering about the space of you know, because we talked about these guys that stowed away in the wheel wells yeah, they're showing the guy that was like he's kind of like crunched up into the space sitting in the wheel, well, and you're like, wow, I mean, yeah, I, I wish I wish it was like, uh, you had like somebody could actually like retract the wheel and put the person in there and take the picture you know like to actually see, because this is a wheel, obviously it's extended down, it's on, you know, the planes on the tarmac, whatever, but they're up in the wheel area and they take that picture or whatever. But I'd like to see what it really looks like inside that picture.

Speaker 2 35:58

Well, they had the guy and he was in the video that I'd watched. He'd showed how he had to like, lay forward, put your elbows in, keep your, keep your legs in, because when the wheels come up they're locked in, he said. But when they fall, they free fall and he goes. You better hope that your legs not right there when that that thing free falls, because you're going to get hurt really bad. Yeah, you're not going to be in the aircraft anymore.

Pet Food Industry and Farmer's Dog

Speaker 2 36:19

No, but he had talked about it. It was amazing we had said about people that didn't make it, but he was talking about a 13-year-old kid that did yeah.

Speaker 1 36:31

I mean, if you look in history and Google this stuff, there are people that have survived this stuff.

Speaker 2 36:39

More survivals back in the day versus today, but I mean but me and Sean talked about uh, there are three for three. That didn't make it.

Speaker 1 36:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:48

It's so much better. Don't buy a ticket. Do it $39, $39 on a uh low cost carrier. Yeah, just just just take the ticket.

Speaker 1 36:57

There's so many airlines out there, you can actually go out, do your little trabago or whatever you want to search online. If you're willing to connect to different cities and bounce around and all kinds of stuff, you can find things that are a week, two weeks out. That's nothing, come on.

Speaker 2 37:17

That's what I was saying, the $39 that you can go inside the plane. But hey, you know every we're going to get to, uh, our destination, but uh, you know we always talk about food, so I thought it'd be kind of fun, since we have a lot of people that that are pet owners and dog owners and uh, so I had to throw Gemma's little food in here for a minute. Gemma's food.

Speaker 1 37:36

Gemma's food. What's Gemma's bite? Spoonful of what?

Speaker 2 37:43

Well, you know, when we took her to the vet they said that put her on all natural foods. So we did a little bit of research. Have you ever heard of?

Speaker 1 37:49

farmer's dog. Dude, I was just about to say farmer's dog is a shit.

Speaker 2 37:54

It's crazy. I mean, it's absolutely crazy. So her food comes with her name on it. It's absolutely crazy. Her food comes with her name on it. It's prepackaged. It's exactly how much food that we should give her. I think it's like $2.30 a day to feed her. It's all natural food. You have chicken, beef, turkey I'm going to try to probably have Sean just post a picture of it on our site and so we purchased a month full of Gemma's food and, like I said, you know, it's amazing how that little dog just stands there. She's waiting for this like crazy.

Speaker 1 38:38

Dude. So here's it. I'm going to give you a little story here. So, um, a little history. So my wife's family is in the has been associated with the pet industry her entire life did you know that?

Speaker 2 38:53

carriers right, yeah, yeah they had.

Speaker 1 38:56

They had a carrier cage uh company. So they built, uh, her father's very uh entrepreneurial he got into this uh business, was trying to, you know, looking for the next thing, and end up, when they bought it, like a uh trash bin, uh, that they were burning trash. You know, uh, back in the day, you put it into like this wire basket, whatever, and they burn their trash. You know when people did that back in the day and anyways, people were buying these things and it all turned into a business and they were using it instead of burning trash. They were using it for dog cages and this is like oh, I'm talking, this is back in like eighties, you know, and so she's, she's to get into the story here. They're very involved in the pet business and all that stuff and they really, you know, they've been integral and on on in all that all that front and stuff. But pet food is awful in the industry. Like, I mean, all these companies out there that we've like grown up with Purina and all these different like uh, you know I can't name all the companies up Purina is the big one. Like you know, I can't name all the companies, purina is the big one. Right, that everybody kind of knows about.

Speaker 1 40:04

But here's a little story from this actually local neighborhood. Purina decided that we used to. This area used to be a big alpaca farm area. Do you remember that? Yeah, like you drive anywhere around this county, yep, I know You'd see alpacas everywhere. Have you seen that there's no alpacas? Nope, Like you don't see alpacas anymore right?

Speaker 2 40:25

No, you don't see them at all.

Speaker 1 40:26

Well, guess why? Well, this happened like about 20 years ago. Purina decided they were going to get into alpaca food, all right. And they decided they were going to like hey, we're going to send free product to all these alpaca farmers. Well, they did that.

Speaker 2 40:48

They send out all this product killed them all. Horrible. I mean that is absolutely horrible. I mean you're laughing? No, I'm not. I mean it's horrible.

Speaker 1 40:55

I mean it's horrible. Yeah, the pet food industry and the shit that they put in the pet food is like, yeah, you're thinking like why. You know they all. You know these are companies, you know professional companies. They should be doing. You know, taking doing the best thing Isn't to this, like right now. And when I talk about this, you're talking about farmer's dog. You know what's it called, farmer's?

Speaker 2 41:15

dog.

Speaker 1 41:16

Yeah, farmer's dog. It's like it took all this time for them to finally say you know what, Enough's enough. Quit giving all those crap, scraps and all this stuff byproducts that we don't want as humans, and giving it to our pets, you know? Now they're finally saying you know what they want real food, just like we want real food.

Speaker 2 41:36

You know what? Gemma is sure in hell wants real food because she sits there and she jumps up and down like crazy whenever, uh, whenever, I get it. But, um, let me tell you something, for if you have a small dog, I'd say, yeah, farmer's dog, a hundred percent, yeah. If you have a big dog, I mean that's going to be your retirement money. It might put you out of it. It's not cheap, man. I mean that, that big dog one packet, he's going to look at it, he's going to pop his chops and it'll be like three times a day.

Speaker 1 42:04

Yeah, I'm like oh hell, no, there's a certain demographic of dogs that this is good for right.

Speaker 2 42:10

I could not even imagine giving a Great Dane. Great Dane would probably just eat Gemma's food for the month. They'd eat Gemma too, that's true, but hey, listen, farmer's dog, give it a shot. I'm going to actually try to make a version of farmer's dog because I've seen it online, because I just wanted to see, like a comparison, how much could I make compared to what they make.

Speaker 1 42:33

Oh yeah, yeah, Like kind of cost it out, Like you know. Hey, here I'm going to make all these same products and stuff. You know, somebody's going to always do that.

Speaker 2 42:39

Yeah, meal prep for my kids. I might as well meal prep for the dog. Heck, yeah, I'm going to give it a shot, but anyway, let's go to the destination.

Speaker 1 42:47

Destination man, as we talked about last week. We talked about how Omaha, there's such a good destination. Omaha's our destination. Omaha, nebraska. I'm telling you right now, like we were telling you, I went to school there, university of Nebraska, omaha. It's right down on the middlearks here and Omaha has always been the home of the College World.

Speaker 2 43:23

Series Right.

Speaker 1 43:24

Yep. So right now, the stadium that stands there is the Charles Schwab Field in Omaha. And I'm telling you right now, I mean it's an experience, have you been there?

Speaker 2 43:36

Yeah, absolutely yeah.

Speaker 1 43:42

Yeah, I mean, that stadium is like a really, really nice stadium, I mean for for a college, um baseball stadium. You're gonna be like so impressed. But uh, if you ever get a chance to do that, it's right outside the airport. There it's like just a few miles down the street from the airport. You, you gotta almost pass it on the way into the city unless you jump on a highway, but anyways, yeah. So the other thing that is due in Omaha is there's an area called the Old Market. Old Market has been there forever and it's just like maybe a four block square radius, but it has all these cool shops and all this stuff and I was kind of like looking at it today, you know because I haven't been to Omaha for a minute, but there was some of my favorite places. You know because I haven't been to Omaha for a minute, but there was some of my favorite places, and one of the places that I absolutely like loved when I was, you know, coming up in college was this little Mexican Tex-Mex place.

Speaker 2 44:27

I was going to say we're going to food. Yeah, we're going to food, man.

Speaker 1 44:30

We're going to food. I used to like literally go there and study at this like restaurant called Julio's right and, and it was right outside, like right in the end of the old market, and it's closed down, Not there anymore. I was like no, no, you can't. Julio's is the. They made their own chips, they made their own, they fried their own chips and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 44:52

That's probably why they're out of business.

Speaker 1 44:53

Dude, no, it was so good. I have no idea I need to research into this, but definitely miss Julio's. No idea I need to research into this, but, uh, definitely miss julio's. But um, the other things that are there, that are that have been there forever, is, old market has a spaghetti works there, they have a omaha um candy company there and they also have this um famous uh record store, homer's records. Have you ever heard of that? Nope, homer's records is like the.

Speaker 1 45:17

The old market used to have like just all kinds of like eclectic shops and stuff like that. You can go in there like they used to. They used to have and they might still have it um a shop where, literally, you'd walk through the door and every single toy that you had ever seen as a kid I don't care how old you are, how young you are, they had all the different eras of people and toys and stuff. You walk through the store and you're going to see stuff that you're like wow, I remember that when I was like five. You know like it was unbelievable some of the old stuff that's in there, but it's a really cool area to like see all this neat stuff and they're really uh big on having record stores and records are making their play coming back right now. I didn't know.

Speaker 1 45:55

I don't know if you know that I can't, I honestly I can't even imagine records coming back yeah, man, they're like a big deal right now, like lps are like the thing right now a lot of all these younger generations or they want one lps. I have a nephew right now. He's out in indiana and shout out to cameron. But um, he, he is like into that, he wants to listen to them, he wants to hear that scratch and pop and all that stuff. Like us, us growing up as kids, it was like we were like the needle run across the record.

Speaker 1 46:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like, yeah, we'd like float across the record.

Speaker 2 46:27

We'd have to put like a nickel on top of the needles keep it weighted down and things like that, or a penny or tape right.

Speaker 1 46:34

We do all kinds of wild things just to like get our music right and we always want to hear it as clean as possible. Without you know, we'd have to clean our records and stuff, get all the dust and dirt, all that, keep it from popping and cracking. But they like all that stuff, but they're making, it's making a comeback and they're like taylor just put out a her, her, every album she puts out, or every um you know lp or whatever she puts out, and it's pressed in a original lp.

Speaker 2 46:58

Now you know it's funny. You just said I just remembered, uh, do you remember molly hatchet flirting with the disaster?

Speaker 1 47:04

yeah, that, I just remember that one playing that one, that that record, oh yeah, like just I just turn it up the whole record, of the whole record, like, um, you know the persona of it and the whole. You know the feel of putting a record on a turntable and putting needle on it and all that's all that stuff, man, it just like it's nostalgic for us but that thing is coming back and so, anyways, the old mark is a really cool place. But not only do they have the university of Nebraska there, they also have Creighton university. So you know Creighton, right? Yeah, yeah, I mean big basketball, creighton, creighton University. So you know Creighton, right, yeah, yeah, I mean big basketball, creighton, creighton. Creighton has a really cool facility. That down right downtown Omaha.

Speaker 1 47:47

The other thing that's really cool is that Omaha is separated right on the border of the most you know, it's the most Eastern border of Nebraska and it's bordered by the Missouri River. Well, across the river is a city called Council Bluffs, and Council Bluffs has to be mentioned in this whole thing because when you are on a layover in Omaha you can walk across. They made a bridge, it's a pedestrian bridge called the Bob Carey Pedestrian Bridge, and Bob Carey is an old, a old center, somebody you know, governor, whatever. Anyways, you can walk across this bridge over to council bluffs. But council bluffs in the history that I've always been there has been like the sin city side of things, like over in council bluffs they got all the bars and stuff. Is that where we're at? What's that?

Speaker 2 48:37

yeah, we've been there that's where you took me, wasn't?

Speaker 1 48:43

it. So, anyways, like so in today's world right now. You go over there, you walk across the bridge, along the whole edge of the river. There's nothing but casinos, really. So there's casinos, there's bars, food, all that stuff. Um, back when I was a young airman and I was based in Omaha, nebraska Air Force Base. There it was before the age of 21 turned in the United States, where all the states turned to 21. There wasn't time. We're showing our age here now. There was a time when, in certain states, you can go out drinking if you were 19, right, we?

Speaker 2 49:22

show our age all the time.

Speaker 1 49:25

We do that all the time the 3-2 beer days, right? Well, you'd have to go over to Council Bluffs to get the 3-2 beers bars. So it's always been related that this is the sin side of the go to Iowa.

Speaker 2 49:38

We're so old I remember Little King's three for a dollar. Oh yeah, yeah I did that's. That's how old we are. When beer, when you get three beers for a dollar, you're old yeah, but omaha is just a really cool.

Speaker 1 49:49

Uh has all kinds of stuff. You know all the you know typical things on theaters, arts, all that stuff that they offer there. Omaha used to be the per capita. You had more restaurants per capita for the amount of people they had there than Omaha used to be a per capita. You had more restaurants per capita for the amount of people they had there than anywhere in the United States. Like there was just so many restaurants there, um, but big beef like they get the cattle yards there and all that stuff, so you can smell the cattle yards there. So big beef cruncher there in Omaha, but anyways, not a vegan place.

Speaker 1 50:20

You can if you want to be that person, but uh, yeah, Omaha, Cool, Check it out.

Speaker 2 50:26

All right, Sean, give us the quote of the week.

Speaker 1 50:29

Yeah, so the quote of the week was um, you can't change someone who doesn't see an issue with their actions. You can only change how you react to them. An issue with their actions? You can only change how you react to them. True, so, yeah, that's our. You know, that's the quote of the day or the week and we just want to, you know, let people know. Hey, you know, it's how you react.

Speaker 2 50:55

It is, and you know, this week we went a little bit longer, we had a lot more to talk about. And again, prayers out to the flight attendant whose life was taken this week.

Speaker 1 51:07

Yeah, and all the people who are out there in the West Coast with fires and Carolinas. We're still thinking about you and we are hoping and blessing and praying for the United States to get better.

Speaker 2 51:20

Keep her money. Keep her money, keep her money in the States. All right, all right, you guys take care of yourself. You guys have a great week. We'll see you next week on Cabin Pressure, cabin Pressure.

Speaker 1 51:30

Thanks for listening to Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Please follow us on Facebook, leave us a comment and we'll see you next week on Cabin Pressure.