Aviation Adventures & Exploring the Highs & Lows of Flight & Borders

Imagine being a door greeter at 30,000 feet." This week on Cabin Pressure, G regales us with his latest airborne escapades, capturing the quirks and chaos of life as a flight attendant. From battling with seat layouts on a wide-body aircraft to the unexpected jolt of an early morning in Newark, Shawn's tales promise a blend of humor and the unpredictable reality of airline adventures. Together with G, we navigate the whirlwind of last week's events, offering laughs and insights along the way.

We shift our focus to the pressing issues of immigration and border security, delving into the contrasting landscapes of stringent customs protocols and the challenges of illegal border crossings. Through thoughtful dialogue, we explore the implications of these issues on national security and the lives of those involved, enriched by personal anecdotes from a family member entrenched in immigration enforcement. This candid conversation seeks to unravel the complexities of modern immigration laws and their impact on society.

As the episode unfolds, expect an eclectic mix of stories ranging from cultural quirks like the iconic red Solo cup to poignant reflections on space history and aviation safety. We honor the legacy of Kobe Bryant, delve into the tragic events of the Challenger explosion, and share a laugh over retail checkout blunders. With humor and depth, we tie together stories of the past and present, inviting you to ponder the cultural and historical threads that connect us all. Join us as we explore the absurdities and wonders of the world, one story at a time.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

A $69 apple what Barbecue. And a pink Cadillac Red Solo Cup is a souvenir. All this and more. Next, on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome.

Speaker 2 0:39

This is cabin pressure another week gone by sean another week, man, lots of stuff happening this week.

Speaker 1 0:46

I mean we are, we are like busy and news, and it seems like everything right now in the whole entire world is like on fast motion, like there's just so much shit going on, like to me news can't keep up with like the new, like it's just everything's. Like I'm almost overwhelmed with it, but at the same time it's like some of the stuff is like I'm applauding that shit's getting done, you know like and stuff is happening. But yeah, so what have you been up to?

Speaker 2 1:16

Well, I got back flying, Car got fixed, so that was phenomenal, they did a great job. Oh, you got your car back. Yeah, they did a great job. I mean it looks perfect. I mean they, they, they really did. They did a great job. Um, but yeah, back to flying. I mean I've been, I've been doing all kinds of crazy shit. I was doing a couple of the turns, but then I you know, this is out of my norm I did a three day a three. What are you?

Speaker 1 1:40

yeah, it gets better. No, it gets better, man, I did this to myself it was one of those.

Speaker 2 1:42

It was one of those high money trips. You're like a what are you? Yeah, it gets better. No, it gets better. Man, I did this to myself. It was one of those high-money trips.

Speaker 1 1:49

You're like a sadomasochist flight attendant, right yeah.

Speaker 2 1:53

If you know, I'm on a three-day. It's a high-money trip. I will not be on it unless it's a high-money trip.

Speaker 1 1:58

I actually know.

Speaker 2 2:07

You didn't have to tell me that I'm maybe the audience needed 20.

Speaker 1 2:09

It's a 26 hour flight trip. 26 hours, yeah, and three days. Hours and three days, that's boom anybody knows that.

Speaker 2 2:12

That's, that's.

Speaker 1 2:13

That is a kick-ass trip yeah, for the non-airline people they'll be like 26 hours, you know, but yeah, you're airline people, they'll be like holy shit, that's a lot of fun you're gonna love the destination.

Speaker 2 2:24

So this isn't me. You know me in the wintertime, right, let me go tell you the destination LA LA.

Speaker 1 2:30

That might be me yeah.

Speaker 2 2:32

But then I had to go to Newark.

Speaker 1 2:33

No way, oh hell no.

Speaker 2 2:40

First of all, that's the last flight to Newark in the wintertime.

Speaker 1 2:43

Hell. No, there's no way I'm going to be on a flight that long anymore in my whole entire life.

Speaker 2 2:49

Okay, no wait, wait.

Speaker 1 2:51

Working. You might see me in first class or something, but not working it for sure You're going to love this.

Speaker 2 2:56

So, okay, I was the. When you're flying the 7-8, because you know how we fly different planes.

Speaker 1 3:04

Right, I was a low position oh fun, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:05

So when you're the low position, you know who I am right door greeter. Yeah, door here. So now I get to see every person that comes on that airplane you're the face of the company yeah, but where we're at, we usually don't fly wide bodies no so it gets a little better.

Speaker 2 3:21

What's that? Well, when you know, when you're the door creator, you're standing there and the right side of the plane you got like ABCD and then goes E, f, j, k, l, n, o, p, o, all the way to the other freaking side and then you turn around. First class is like a, b, j, l. What the fuck? What is that?

Speaker 1 3:39

And people you don't. You don't know where you're going.

Speaker 2 3:41

You have no flipping clue, right? So you're standing there and I'm going what? I've got to have cheat sheets on this damn thing. I mean, I've only been doing this. How long you needed a map, it gets better. Though. I'm standing there, the girl is right next to me. She's laughing because I told her. I was like, oh my God, this is unbelievable. And she goes, it happens all the time. So they, they were coming on on board the aircraft and there's two e seats too. What the hell? Two e seats, e, e. So you got a, b, j, l, and then you got some e seat up front too, like comes on. She was like e seat and I was like I don't know, are you on the right plane? Because I don't even know if it's an e c a, b, c, d E, no, no.

Speaker 2 4:23

No, it was A, b, and then like J, l, I mean you know how they had the first class. Yeah, it was some big gap. I don't know who designed that, but it was crazy. So here I'm going, you know, and they're coming on 7-8. So, like A, b, I'm like right, left, go this way, go this way, and all of a sudden You're sending people in any direction.

Speaker 1 4:43

you can Just act like you know, even though you don't know.

Speaker 2 4:48

Fake it till you make it man, fake it till you make it baby. So she comes on. She says E. I'm like I have no flipping idea. And she looked at me and then Flight Attendant goes around the corner. I started busting up laughing. I looked at her. I was like I don't know how the hell the E seat was on this one. I didn't even know there was an E seat. I'm like why did they do?

Speaker 1 5:06

that that was just stupid. Yeah, hey man.

Speaker 2 5:10

Well, I wasn't done All right, so I went to Newark minimum wave over, had to get up 5 am. Wake up, All right. 5 am, show 5 a.

Speaker 1 5:26

Back to the West Coast. Oh yeah, and I had some new people.

Speaker 2 5:28

Great On a white body Nightmare. Not good. Well, they're good. No, the other side was good because they weren't new. My side was new. Oh yeah, so you got on the sucker side. You know, everybody takes the time and it takes a little bit of time you know I made two services through the whole transcom. It was tough, man, it was rough. It was rough Cause, you know me, I'm ready to get going. So as soon as I get up in the air man, I'm like, let's get this, let's get this done.

Speaker 1 5:58

There's like a uh.

Speaker 2 6:01

You had Speedy Gonzalez over on the left of me and I had Slowpoke Rodriguez. You know what I mean? I mean it was like completely polar opposite of who I had, and it's fine, she was new, whatever. I mean, I just make fun of it because it's a new person. You know she was just having a tough time with it, but you know how you get locked in behind them.

Speaker 1 6:23

Yeah, man, I mean, one of the things about like the new employees, whatever when you're working with them, is that they just they don't have that sense of urgency where we're just like when I just get it done, we can get it done and be friendly. You can get it done Like you know and everybody be happy about it, Right, you know. But or you get the people that are like you know just they they're they're doing like that out of by the book for the what they taught you in training, you know, hi, would you like a choice?

Speaker 2 6:53

I know I'm like oh man guys, we're gonna be here all damn day oh, you know what? The choices are here. Let me tell you this even gets better, though, because you know when you're going to the west coast and everybody knows this, right it is you have to have coffee you have to have brewed tea, you have to have, uh, hot water, I mean you have to have all this shit.

Speaker 2 7:15

And then you get to the rose and his damn headphones. Right, oh my god, those headphones absolutely flip and kill me. Then they take them off and then it's it. It's like three drinks. They're like you're, you're never coming back, sean. Three drinks, but anyway, yeah it, that was my catch up trans cons back and forth West coast, uh, 26 hours. Uh, anybody knows that you're earning your money If you're doing that whole trip, if something messes up, I mean you're golden dude, right, you ain't doing it.

Speaker 1 7:45

Dude, stick needles in my eye. That was me.

Speaker 2 7:48

I'd be happier I had to do the whole damn thing.

Speaker 1 7:51

It was not good man, all right.

Speaker 2 7:53

What about you? What's been going on?

Speaker 1 7:55

You know I've still got school going on right now, so I'm doing a really cool class. I got this physical computing class going on and and, uh, it's taken me back, you know, like back to my old, uh, air force days when I was like messing with all those mechanics and electronics and stuff and got to can repair stuff and doing all this shit. You know, it was just I like that type of things. You know, like just fixing thing. There's like this, the satisfaction of like when you get it fixed. You know, I, I did that type of thing Working with your hands, yeah, just working with your hands and it got me into that whole thing.

Speaker 1 8:24

You know that feeling, and so I got this idea. I'm like you know what? I was listening to you oh no. You actually listened to me. Yeah, I actually listened to G and he was doing some cleanup in his house, so I was like you know. So I decided to dive into my networking in my house and that was a total crazy turned into, turned into, turned to, okay, but it started off kind of shit show, ish and he actually showed me.

Speaker 2 8:57

This is is actually incredible, man. If you've seen this this little, it's like an electronic bay back there Now.

Speaker 1 9:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean I made a professional-looking network system in my house, put a rack system in there and all that stuff for anybody that's a network geek out there that knows what I'm talking about. But I just kind of like was cleaning up everything because when I built my house I had all this technology built into the house, so I had like cat five. I had coax cables, all the phone stuff. You know everything that was normal at the time. I built it in 2000. Well, in 2000,. I mean we're sitting here 25 years later. I mean right now, coax cable which is for those people that don't know what coax cable is is the cable that we used to use to plug in our tv into the, the tv box, you know, to get cable in our house, yeah that's what we would refer to as cable.

Speaker 1 9:48

Well, the coax cable, we don't even use it anymore nobody yeah, I mean, everybody's streaming now, yep.

Speaker 1 9:52

So, um, all I'm doing is, you know, I was like I need to just clean all this stuff up because that was like rat nest in my basement. So, yeah, I was doing that. That's one of the things I did. And, uh, while I was doing that, this would be very interesting. It's been cold as hell here. Right outside the back of my house is this big old lake and I look out the window. The other day and these two kids had went out on the lake and cleared off a huge section of the lake and they're out there playing hockey.

Speaker 2 10:22

Really Right here in my backyard.

Speaker 1 10:23

Was it that cold? I mean, it was that cold Really, right here. I skated right in my backyard here.

Speaker 2 10:28

Good thing you could see them, in case their ass fell through.

Speaker 1 10:31

Dude, that day it was like four degrees, oh wow.

Speaker 2 10:33

It was so cold.

Speaker 1 10:35

I mean, you only need like three inches of ice, like two inches of ice, something like that. It's something ridiculous. But yeah, they were out there skating and everything and cleared off. They had shovels and they were like just going down the ice, clearing off the ice and skating around.

Speaker 2 10:48

I bet that was cool though, because you don't see kids out very much.

Speaker 1 10:51

No, no, no.

Speaker 2 10:51

So when you see them out there, it's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 10:53

It was really refreshing to like see kids out doing something, especially getting their ass out there in four degrees.

Speaker 2 10:58

Shoveling anything. You shitting me. They wouldn't shovel anything. You kidding me.

Speaker 1 11:02

After they got done and as they were walking back towards the house and stuff, I opened my window and kind of yelled through and I was like, hey, you guys are having fun, look good, it's great You're out there skating and stuff. And they're like was it okay? I'm like I don't give a, somebody needs to use it. I'm just sitting there thinking most kids you look at you be like what is this for? Right, right, but it was, it was really cool. I was just it was something to happen. That was very unusual. I've been here for 25 years in my house right now and never, ever have I seen somebody ice skate on the lake well, your ass ain't gonna be out there.

Speaker 1 11:34

Your damn gimp knee there's no way my gimp ass is gonna be out there ice skating, but it was fun to watch do you know?

Speaker 2 11:41

the one thing I really want to talk about it's's been in the news a lot and I know that we don't get real political here, but this is kind of like a right and a wrong and a law thing is the mass deportation.

Speaker 1 11:53

Yeah, man, that stuff's been going on everywhere. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 11:56

The only reason I want to talk about it is that there's a lot of people saying, hey, you know, they're not criminals.

Immigration and Border Security Discussion

Speaker 1 12:02

Not well, no, hell, no, you know, they're not criminals. Not well, no Hell, no, okay, they're criminals.

Speaker 2 12:07

And I just want to say this because you know we travel through US Customs all the time. Yeah, a lot we do. I mean you know we do and when we go through we're required we have to have our passports. Now, they do a facial recognition.

Speaker 1 12:22

Yeah, that's a really nice system though. Yeah, it's great A new facial recognition system. I mean you just kind of like walk through and look at the camera. They take a quick snapshot. They're like green light, you're good.

Speaker 2 12:30

Yeah, because it's facial recognition.

Speaker 1 12:32

So much quicker.

Speaker 2 12:34

Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. If we, as a crew member, went through US Customs and we just ran right past the US Customs agent, headed for the doors, went to the doors, we would have been tackled right, Right, taken down, we would have been handcuffed to a bench somewhere, yeah, okay, and there would have been federal charges against us for trying to evade customs in the United States, correct, am?

Speaker 1 13:02

I right. Not to mention, you just made everybody's day really bad because they just locked down everything and everything went to hell.

Speaker 2 13:08

Completely bad. And you are a United States citizen that holds a passport and you just became a federal criminal in their eyes, right, Right. So I just want to talk about these people that have been saying that these people are not criminals when you just cross across a river and think that you can come into the United States and do everything that is completely illegal for immigration and not be considered a federal criminal. That doesn't make sense, Sean.

Speaker 1 13:39

Well, first of all, a criminal once you break a law, you're a criminal. It doesn't matter what period. I mean, that's the law, that's our law. So they're coming with, whatever country they're coming from, whatever their laws is, we don't give a shit, we only care about what our law is Right, right. So as soon as they break that law, they're a criminal. Yeah, I mean, I totally, 100% agree with you. I mean, but any of those people out there that say that they're not criminals and you know they're criminals If they've broken the law, they've broken the law period, right, and they don't need to be in our country. Get your, you know, come to United States, come to America and get your citizenship or whatever you're trying to do, come here as a student. There's all different types of reasons. If you're not doing it, if you haven't done it the right way, you're a criminal.

Speaker 2 14:32

And guess what, sean? These people are the people that were on our planes in 9-11. And I don't want them back on our planes again. And I'm not saying about. Of course there's a lot of people that you know just want to come to our country and make their lives better. I get that, don't get me wrong. I really do, but you have to do it the right way. We have laws. You have to abide by those laws, just like me and you. We have to abide by them, and that's the only thing I mean. That was the only thing that really got me this week is when I listened to all this and there was people saying that they're not criminals, and I'm like they are criminals yeah, they're criminals and they need to go back to their country.

Speaker 2 15:12

They need to apply to come to the United States and if you can come in, welcome in, come in, but do it the right way, don't do it the wrong way.

Speaker 1 15:20

I agree, man, I mean just, I mean all these deportees right now and all the like, uh, what Trump's doing with the whole, uh, you know targeting the most, uh, you know, violent of the criminals and all that stuff. Um, I mean thank God somebody is doing it now. I mean because there are so many people that have been affected by this. I mean, I know flight attendants have been affected by this. Like, people have been attacked and stuff on their layovers and stuff, and it was, you know, illegal aliens coming into the country, right, but yeah, I mean that whole thing with them sending them back to Colombia and the Colombian president like not saying hey, hey, we're not taking them.

Speaker 2 16:01

Can you imagine that didn't last long. Yeah that didn't last long, that did not go well, right A few conversations and he's volunteering his own jet, his own jet to bring him back? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Do you want me to send my jet? I'll send my jet.

Speaker 1 16:13

But that right there, that shows some authority and power. That's where the US should be. It should be A power leverage state.

Speaker 2 16:23

And we shouldn't even be talking about this, but anyway, I just want to touch on it, because the only thing that really bothered me I know we're going to go through this, but the only thing that really bothered me is anyone that doesn't think that they are criminals, because if you would try to bypass customs, trust me, you're a U S citizen, you're a criminal in their eyes, you're a federal criminal at this point. So anyone that does the same thing in our country is considered a criminal.

Speaker 1 16:49

Yeah, and I like what they're doing right now with the whole Gitmo thing too. I mean the worst of the worst for putting them in.

Speaker 2 16:56

Gitmo, I mean.

Speaker 1 16:57

Hey, that is a Guantanamo Bay Lockdown, is what is it? They said like 300,000 or 3,000 or something like that. New beds or something like that they were looking for. There was a lot of them, whatever it was, whatever the number is. But I'm happy that you know that I have a brother that's. He actually works ice, he's an ice agent and, uh, he's in, uh, denver, and so I've been looking for him on the news. I I texted him the other day. I'm like where, when is he in your face? He's like we tried to avoid that and I'm like, dude, come on, this is your opportunity, you're in the sky. But he, but he's like I'm just, I was just wishing him well and, you know, making sure that he was being safe and all that stuff. But he's like like, yeah, we're busy. He's like we're just busy.

Speaker 2 17:41

They're going to be busy for a long time. But, like I said, whether it's them or anyone else, if you break the law you go to jail. I don't care if you're in the United States. If you're a citizen of the United States, break the law, go to jail.

Speaker 1 17:53

Yeah, one of the things that he's super happy about it. Like he left, he was border patrol and so he was border patrol in Arizona and he was. He was the guy running around in the bushes and chasing these guys. I mean, my brother's built, he's fit. I mean he was like he just turned, he got into his forties and he's like I'm getting too old for this shit to be running around in the bushes. She's shaking up. Chasing these people in the bushes, you know, was like I gotta get out of here and go go to somewhere a little bit easier. And so he went to uh, ice and uh.

Speaker 2 18:24

Now he's chasing him again in the bushes and everywhere else. I was in there going wait a minute. He just jumped right back in the fire, right back in a bigger fire than that. It's like a forest fire right.

Speaker 1 18:35

But here's the thing before he was like catching them and releasing them, and now he's keeping them and deporting them. So that's good.

Speaker 2 18:42

Absolutely perfect. All right man.

Speaker 1 18:44

Anyways, we want to talk about this week, man, you know, like we were talking about our last episode, we were talking about some fun things, or you know some historical stuff that's happened as far as this week in history and one of the things that was recorded this week uh, in history, in 1887, the largest snowflake was discovered. You know how big it was. No go ahead. First of all, I'm like in my mind I'm thinking how do they measure a snowflake? You know, like in my mind.

Speaker 2 19:12

I'm sitting there thinking are we like chevy chase's vacation here, the biggest house of mud, or what go ahead?

Speaker 1 19:20

exactly the biggest um ball of twine, but they're. They said this thing is was 15 inches wide and eight inches thick. Dude, that's like.

Speaker 2 19:31

That's like a cannonball how would you discover that? You look at on the ground I mean I mean at the.

Speaker 1 19:38

I was reading this story and they're saying you know um, the next biggest snowflake that they found was like 0.39 inches. Did they keep that?

Speaker 2 19:48

though did they keep that?

Speaker 1 19:51

snowflake, there's a little bit of a skeptical. Uh, you know, believe belief in this record, but it was in 1887 recorded, so you know it know it's in somebody's freezer. Nobody had an iPhone to record the flake, you know.

Speaker 2 20:05

There's some guy got the damn thing in his freezer right now, right.

American Souvenirs and Space History

Speaker 1 20:08

Exactly, probably he's got it. This is my grandpa's grandpa's biggest snowflake moment, all right give me the next one. Anyways, and you know, one of the things that people get as souvenirs here in the United States but red solo cups. They're coming to America and they want to take back to Europe or wherever country they come from.

Speaker 2 20:35

Alabama.

Speaker 1 20:36

Yeah, that's not a country I know, but it's.

Speaker 2 20:41

I'm sitting here thinking to myself. You know something, souvenir. Have you ever heard that song? Red Solo Cup right, your souvenir is writing your name on the damn thing that's in every trailer park there is.

Speaker 1 20:51

Yeah, you do everywhere you can name it. I love that one Because the party scene and the movies that like publicized the Red Solo Cup. It's like it's become a novelty item for people to bring it back.

Speaker 2 21:03

You know, there's just some damn hillbillies holding his up and saying I got a damn souvenir too. I drank all the damn beer First of all.

Speaker 1 21:11

I could just like can you imagine like walking? I would lose my shit if I walked into like some European house. And here's the red solo cup sitting on like their mantle.

Speaker 2 21:22

Oh, you got one too. Did you put your name on it?

Speaker 1 21:26

Here, I got everyone for a whole sleeve, one for one, for each person in family.

Speaker 2 21:31

I love that one man Anyways.

Speaker 1 21:34

January 31st 1961, a chimp named Ham. 21st 1961, a chimp named Ham. I don't know who even thought of him. Who's going to name a chimp Ham?

Speaker 2 21:49

Could you imagine if the chimp actually knew it? I mean he said hey, what's your name, ham? What the? What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 21:58

Yeah, poor Ham. Anyways, this primate was the first primate in space. He was on the Mercury Redstone 2 mission and he actually survived. You know a lot of those early missions and stuff. They'd send dogs up and all kinds of stuff and they didn't always survive, but this chimpanzee did and he actually um, actually uh, resided in, uh in in the DC DC zoo and um so he was the first ham in space.

Speaker 1 22:26

He was the first ham in space, baby, the space ham who now named him. Who does this? Who does this? Here's another story. Let me tell another story to tell you how far we've come in in uh, in politics and uh our rights and stuff. In 2013, which is not too long ago, the french government just made it legal for parisian women to wear pants all right, I got a question.

Speaker 2 22:54

What's that? What were they wearing before?

Speaker 1 22:57

they wear them before.

Speaker 2 22:58

I think, gauchos culottes, you have no idea dresses if you're like oh yeah, you're, you can wear pants now yeah, I don't know, but it was.

Speaker 1 23:08

It was illegal to wear them until 2013. Then that was just like yesterday I like that one go ahead. Those french are crazy anyways. Yeah, 1803, ohio became the 17th state in the United States, and we're going to shift into a little bit more sober stuff here. Well, in 1986, and I don't know about you, but I know myself and I sure many americans can tell you where they were at during this uh event but the space shuttle challenger exploded and um 73 seconds after takeoff I remember seeing it.

Speaker 2 23:53

I remember it um watching it on tv. I can't tell you exactly where I was at. I know that I was in front of a TV watching it. Don't know exactly where I was.

Speaker 1 24:05

Well, I was in front of a TV but I was off at Air Force Base in 1986, and I was doing a weapons training class and I was sitting there in this weapons training class and the TV. Remember how, like in school rooms, training class and the tv, um, remember how, like in school rooms, and stuff the tube tvs, they put them on a cart. Yeah, you know, because they were so heavy wheeling around the cart and stuff, plug them in.

Speaker 1 24:30

Well, there's big, this tv is in there and they wheeled it into the garden. They're like, turn, turn on the tv, turn on, turn on the tv. And they turn on the tv and boom, you see the TV and boom, you see the shuttle explode it was, like everybody in the room, drop jaw dropping moment.

Speaker 2 24:47

Like I said, I remember watching it. I can't tell you exactly where I was at.

Airline Accidents and Aviation Safety

Speaker 1 24:51

Yeah, I mean it was, I mean for those people that were alive during that time. It was a very sobering moment in the space age and in the united states and stuff. But another sobering moment, too, that just happened not too long ago, 2020. You know, this week, uh was the uh anniversary of kobe bryant's helicopter crash that was completely gut-wrenching.

Speaker 2 25:14

Yeah, one of the best athletes, um one of the best basketball players to ever play the game, uh, he was. He was amazing as a person, amazing athlete, he was, uh, one that that, um man, so many of those kids could just look up to. You know, he's just one of those ones that you know, he, he, just he, they could you just wish that your kid could grow up with his debt, with his dedication.

Speaker 1 25:41

Well, he knew he wasn't going to be just a basketball player, he's more yeah. I mean, that's, that's the beauty of Kobe Bryant. He, he knew that he needed to take this vehicle that he got his fame from and use it for good. You know, like he did his, he took it to a whole nother level and made you a um, um, a sports um. You know hero. You know he made him, made him people think about. You know how you should be, uh, presenting yourself as a professional athlete.

Speaker 2 26:10

Yeah, he. I like I said Colby missed, uh, I'll miss, I missed Colby. Oh, I mean when, when it happened, I mean you just miss him from the game, just him playing.

Speaker 1 26:18

I mean it was was, it was horrible yeah, every time, every time I hear a you know about, um, aircraft accidents and all that stuff, I mean, yeah, I'm, I'm like this and I got this like analytical mountain mind, where I'm like first I'm always trying to figure out, like how in hell did this happen? Like that whole helicopter crash in california, I was like, how did this happen? You know, they're not, they're there. Their mountains aren't that big out there, they're. You know, this is a you know, and this helicopter pilots flying through the fog and you know, didn't have the really the ratings that he needed to be doing what he was doing and uh, there's just, it's just sad.

Speaker 2 26:55

But unfortunately, in our industry and what we do, uh, that's part, that's part of it. I mean, I tell people that all the time you might think that we're just up in the air and we're serving this or we're doing that. You do realize this. We go up in that cabin, we're at 35,000, 40,000 feet every day in a pressurized tube with a jet that's full of fuel and engines on the east side. There's a chance you might not come back today. Oh heck, yeah. So you know, there is that chance of what we got and unfortunately this week we're going to have to talk about a few of those.

Speaker 1 27:27

Yeah, we're going to have to talk about it. The first thing that happened this week that stood out in my mind right here was that F-35 jet fighter that crashed the pilot like ejected out of the—did you see the video?

Speaker 2 27:44

Yeah, I did. The plane just spiraled down. It was amazing, though. I mean, where it landed, though. Right, I mean, it was like in an open field. Well, it was in Alaska.

Speaker 1 27:52

So I mean there's a lot of open space in Alaska, I know, but still though.

Speaker 2 27:56

I mean they had a full view of it. That was incredible video.

Speaker 1 28:00

Yeah, ellison Air Force Base is what had happened, which is about 25 miles south of Fairbanks, alaska. You know the pilot ejected out in a freaking plane. You know those planes if they're not moving, you know it's a flat spin coming down. And you know one of our friends that we've known for a long time in the industry, one of our retired pilots, a good friend of mine, bill Hafner. You know Bill.

Speaker 1 28:25

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was a F Wild Bill. Yeah, he was a F-14 pilot and had to do that exact same thing, but he did it in the Pacific, ejected out, did he really? Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, he ejected out of the F-14. And I don't know if you remember this, you know, like in the movie Top Gun, yeah, you know, like they were doing those flat spins. Yeah, well, the F-14, there was a time in history where that jet had a problem, you know, and there was pilots all over the world that was actually ejecting out of these things and these jets aren't cheap, know, and, uh, he injected out his, you know, we know no one loved this guy he's a shout out to bill if he's.

Speaker 1 29:05

If he's listening to our podcast, he's spending the water. Uh, I have no idea, but I mean it messed up.

Speaker 2 29:08

That'd be some scary shit right there his back and everything like.

Speaker 1 29:10

He had to have surgery and it was it's bad yeah, but that'd be some scary shit, man yeah, hidden in the ocean. I mean, if you look at that video, this guy, this is this F-35 pilot. I mean how quick was it?

Speaker 2 29:21

You see him like pop and then the jet's on the flat underground blowing up. Yeah, I mean I'm sorry man. I mean I know you survived.

Speaker 1 29:30

He wasn't out there that long because you know he was on a train mission and it's like there was rescue. You know they had helicopters out there picking them up and all that good stuff. When you go, fishing.

Speaker 2 29:39

if you throw something out there and you go fish, it don't take long for something to go bite on it. I know what you're saying. I mean that's cool. I didn't know that I'm going to have to ask Bill about that, because that shit would not be any fun dropping in the water.

Speaker 1 29:52

He wasn't out there that long, I know, because he had a rescue. They came out to rescue him, you know, picked him up by helicopter and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 29:58

Well, how much did that plane cost? That went down?

Speaker 1 30:01

The one that went down. So you know, here's some interesting tidbits about, like, the cost of these foot jet fighters that protect us. F-35 comes in three different models the A, b and the C. And the first one is just one that just like is a normal you know Air Force, it takes off from a runway right. The second, that's the a model, the b model, that that one costs 82.5 million dollars per jet. Now that's now. The second one is the b model. The b model is kind of like that one that it can take off vertically right, so like if it's on a hair car aircraft carrier, you can go like straight up and like a hover.

Speaker 2 30:37

Yeah, like a hover, that's pretty cool like the old harrier aircraft.

Speaker 1 30:40

That's pretty cool, right. So, um, that one costs 109 million, right. And so then there's the c model, which is like for the aircraft carriers they have the tail hook and, uh, they're reinforced landing gear and all that stuff, and that one's 102.1 million.

Speaker 2 30:58

So which one was this one?

Speaker 1 30:59

This one was the first one, the 82.5 million one.

Speaker 2 31:02

Okay, so this was 82.5 million. So if a pilot, if a pilot ejects out of that and spins in it and it crashes, is that payroll deduct.

Speaker 1 31:13

I hope not. You're going to be in the. You're going to be there for a long time. I had to At a military pay rate. You're going to be there for a long time.

Speaker 2 31:22

As long as he was good, that's it. Man Long time I just had to make a little funny. Sorry, all right.

Speaker 1 31:28

Go to the next one.

Speaker 2 31:28

Oh, you know something, the next one, I mean this next one folks is really really sad.

Speaker 1 31:33

This is today's event. This is what we woke up to this morning, happened yesterday evening. The commuter carrier you know, for American Airlines out of Wichita, kansas, flight 5342. It was a CRJ700 operated by PSA Airlines, you know, lost 60 passengers while they collided into a military Blackhawk on the Potomac and it's been super, super sad.

Speaker 2 32:07

Folks, you know about this. I really don't like talking about airline accidents that much, because it's just what we do and I don't like talking about it. I mean, prayers go out to everyone involved. We don't know what happened. We're not going to speculate. What happened is something that horrible. That happened today. Everybody can see the videos. We don't even have to post one, because all you have to do is just go look and it is so sad. But it goes back to what I said before. Every day, when we get on these airplanes and this goes out to every person that works on an airplane we just don't serve little bitty peanuts or pretzels or whatever it is, and sodas. This is what we do every single day, and some days we don't come home and this is one of those days, and prayers go out to all those people.

Speaker 1 33:00

It's horrible Family crew, you know friends.

Speaker 2 33:03

Blackhawk, crew, everyone.

Speaker 1 33:04

Everybody, everybody involved or connected to this in any way. Our hearts bleed for you. I mean, this is a total tragedy, shouldn't have ever happened. I hope they quickly resolve and try to figure out, but I have a feeling about this, not a good feeling, but I have a feeling that this is going to be one of those. You know, there was a human error and this is how we change our rules. You know the unfortunate, the dark side of aviation is that rules get made when people die.

Speaker 2 33:35

Anytime mistakes are made. That's the only thing, that's the only way that things are changed, because people make a mistake and then they correct the mistake, right, right. I mean, that's what really. Everything is made up that way we make a mistake and then we correct it, and then we try to not make the same mistake again.

Speaker 1 33:52

Well, talking about correcting mistakes, we're going to move on here. When I say correcting mistakes is our next thing we're going to talk about is that they're getting rid of a known crew member.

Speaker 2 34:04

I'm totally fine with that. I mean, I really am. And the reason why? Because I know, kind of, what they're going to do. What's that? They're going to have a separate line for the crew, it seems like. Is that right? I mean, that's my understanding.

Speaker 1 34:17

So they're going to have this new system called the Crew Access Point Program. It's basically what it sounds like and they haven't given out all the specifics and everything, but basically it's going to be a crew line in the security area. We're going to have our own crew line for that, where you're still going to be able to go, you're going through security, but there is a where we're going to be able to scan our badges, just like we do today, and be able to go through and some are going to be randomized and all that stuff. But I mean to go to making the mistakes. You know, for many years the TSA has been saying, hey, you know, for many years the tsa has been saying, hey, you know, we're going to get rid of this if you guys stopped being caught with stuff.

Speaker 2 34:54

I mean abusing your privileges.

Speaker 1 34:56

Abusing the privileges bringing things in that they shouldn't be bringing into. Uh, bringing other people's bags just that money.

Speaker 1 35:03

Guns, weapons, all kinds of crap yeah, all this crap that they shouldn't be doing. But, um, you know, you keep on pushing, keep on pushing, keep on pushing. They take it away. So those privileges get taken away. But it sounds like they're now transferring to a new system, which is, in one way, for me, it's a good thing, because you, like, you know you don't want to always stay in the same system for too long, because now your adversaries, the bad guys, understand your system and try to figure out how to get through it. You know, as we've heard, um, some of the crew members and you know people getting through that, like we were talking about that pastor getting going through it.

Speaker 2 35:39

So well, let's understand. Uh, about people like me that go through that damn thing every single day that I'm number 10 or 15 in line and my ass gets random every single time. I got to take my ass back through security anyway.

Speaker 1 35:53

That's just because they should be checking you.

Speaker 2 35:58

Every single flipping day, man. I mean, they've bumped up the checks on crews so much it's like you get random all the time. The one day we went through there, Sean, there was five in a row. Five in a row.

Speaker 1 36:12

Yeah five.

Speaker 2 36:13

But you know something I'm good with this. I'm absolutely good with this. Go ahead and do it, give us our own line.

Speaker 1 36:18

It's not supposed to happen. This isn't going to be implemented until the end of the year.

Speaker 2 36:23

Don't care, that's fine.

Speaker 1 36:24

They can do it now, whatever they get to do I mean, you and I are one a flight attendant we just do what you have to do and get get it done, but yeah do it now.

Speaker 2 36:38

I'm good with it. Exactly All right. So we, we, we talked about uh, some of the uh bad stuff. Now let's talk about something a little funny again.

Speaker 1 36:42

All right, let's do that.

Speaker 2 36:43

All right. So I was on a plane and one of our buddies we were sitting back in the back when we started talking. I was like, hey, you know, let's talk about something funny. He was like, okay, I want to talk about self-checkouts. And I'm like that doesn't sound funny. He goes self-checkouts, self-checkouts.

Speaker 1 36:58

When you asked him about something to talk about, funny he said self-checkouts. Yeah, he said self-checkouts. Keep on.

Retail Checkout Frustrations and Memphis Culture

Speaker 2 37:04

You're going to like this. Let me hear the story, all right? Well, what do you think about self-checkout? First, self-checkout Okay let's just go Costco's and Sam's and, like Walmart, I'm going to put those three because don't tell me about a damn grocery store when you go in there. You got your designer grocery store because they don't check your ass.

Speaker 1 37:19

Well, first of all, it's the neighborhoods that I hang out with. Oh, shut up the ones that I shop in. I can just get my shit and get out of the store All right. But for these other ones you're talking about I guess you know this like double check system that they do with you when you like check out and you do that self-checkout and then as you're walking out the door you have to like show your receipt again, like I'm like what the no, it's bullshit.

Speaker 2 37:43

We get in a line. You've been through Costco's right, right, okay, it's bad enough to get your ass in that line for the self-checkout or to get in the line for the people that actually check you out.

Speaker 1 37:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:53

Now the receipts. The color of the receipts are no different, right.

Speaker 1 37:57

They're white receipts, but they do that little line, they put a line on it or whatever.

Speaker 2 38:01

Right, look follow me on this. They're basically the same thing. They put a line right through it, right, but when you go out the damn door, you still got to get in the same damn line.

Speaker 1 38:12

Yep.

Speaker 2 38:13

So you got to wait behind everybody else that now they got a random check. There's nothing fast about that, Sean. There's nothing fast about that.

Speaker 1 38:20

That's why I hate going to Costco. I don't think it's about you being speedy.

Speaker 2 38:23

I don't give a shit. I mean, you know something I hate going to Because you get in those damn lines Sam's, the same thing, sam's, you go through, sam's, you go through the self-checkout line. You're like, okay, I'm self-checkout. Nope, go out there. There's two damn lines, they're not just one, there's two.

Speaker 1 38:39

So let me tell you a little bit of story here. I'm going to be on the side of the stores here. So I'm with this buddy that I used to know and he would go through and he would intentionally try to get through without them marking the receipt right. And so as soon as he would get through and that receipt wasn't marked, he'd go in and he'd load up his shit on the car and stuff. He walked back into the sam's and he'd pull out a cart and he'd go down the receipt list and he'd put it all back in his cart and he'd wheel back out to the exit and he'd have him slash receipt list and he'd put it all back in his cart and he'd wheel back out to the exit and he'd have them slash it again and they'd walk out the door with double items.

Speaker 2 39:18

All right, that shit ain't going to work. Now, I mean these guys, I mean these guys have this shit down on lockdown. You kidding me? I get one damn thing. I got one thing of orange juice.

Speaker 1 39:27

One thing, sean you had to wait in this line.

Speaker 2 39:29

I did, and then you know what they did.

Speaker 1 39:32

They scanned it.

Speaker 2 39:32

Scanned it, yeah, I'm like are you shitting me? You're scanning for one. Yeah man, this is what happens, but this was the best part of this. So we were talking about the self-checkout and we were just like bashing it back and forth, just like we were just doing right now. And well, walmart does the same thing. Right, you have one damn thing outside your Walmart cart and that little dude's out there going, come on over here, and he goes well, that's not in a bag. And I said, well, no shit, it's not in a bag.

Speaker 1 40:01

I mean, it's so big it won't go in a bag, it's not going to go in a bag.

Speaker 2 40:04

There's no bag. So what do? What do you got to do? You got to check my receipt, but now all the shit's in the bag of this person. They got like 500 bags, but they let them leave the store with 500 bags full of shit, but mine's got one thing that's not in there, that won't fit in the bag.

Speaker 1 40:19

GG, just play the game, I'm just telling you, man, we were just having fun talking about it.

Speaker 2 40:25

Relax, relax, but anyway. So this is the funny part. He but anyway. So this is the funny part. He's going to a store that we have over here. It's called Mark's. So he was out there shopping and so you know, folks, when you go through a store and you're not thinking about it. Well, he wasn't thinking and he rung out and the girl rang him out, he got his stuff, she said goodbye and he went on to his way. So he unloaded all of his stuff at home. He started going through his banking statement. He looked through it and he was like what the hell did I spend in March for $114? When he went back and he started digging through all the plastic bags and he was looking at the receipts and he had purchased one apple.

Speaker 1 41:04

One apple.

Speaker 2 41:05

You know what they charged him.

Speaker 1 41:06

No $63.

Speaker 2 41:07

$63. What.

Speaker 1 41:17

The girl rang in $63. Yeah, girl rang in 60. Yeah, rang in 63 bucks. Dude, that's like an alpa orchard. He could have been like the freaking. Uh, he could have bought it for the freaking home so he went back.

Speaker 2 41:26

He went back to the store and he showed the manager the thing, the, the receipt and and he goes look, I'm being honest and he goes. Well, I, I think that you are too, because that'd be like 43 pounds of apples he goes nobody, nobody buys 43 pounds. So anyway, who in the hell wouldn't look at the receipt?

Speaker 1 41:44

first of all, I'm walking out the store like that and I mean that much. So what was it? 60. What did you say? It was 63 bucks, 63 dollars. For an apple, so he had a 63 dollar difference in what he should have been. You know, like in your head. I mean most of us, when we go to the store, when you like you're ringing stuff up, you probably have an idea, like what the range should be or how much this is.

Speaker 1 42:06

You start looking around like he was 63 dollars off. Much to say, you know. You start looking around like 63 off. I mean, dude, and it didn't. He had to look at his bank statement and be like what's like you need to be, get a little bit more situational aware it was funny, but you see, we had.

Speaker 2 42:21

We had a funny conversation.

Speaker 1 42:22

It was a simple one about self-checkout right right all right, man, let's go to the destination destination this week, man, we're gonna go to memphis, tennessee, memphis. I man, we're going to go to Memphis, tennessee, memphis. I love Tennessee, memphis, tennessee, man, you know what I really like about Memphis is that it's got so much culture there. There's like such, it's just a good vibe. It's like Music Town, usa. It's got all that soul and blues to it and stuff, and it's got deep history.

Speaker 1 42:52

Elvis and then you know, you can't think about memphis if you're not thinking about elvis. Elvis, I mean elvis. Everybody thinks that you know, the only thing in memphis is elvis. But there's actually a lot more than in memphis than just elvis. Bb king yeah, man, bb king was from there. Johnny cash recorded his well, he wasn't from there. B BB King and Johnny Cash recorded albums there at the legendary studio, sun Studios, where Elvis Presley recorded his music and stuff. Elvis Presley's Graceland Mansion is there. It's a popular attraction and in fact the airline that we work for we lay over like really, we lay over at Graceland Hotel. Did you know that?

Speaker 2 43:32

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 43:34

So, like it's right next door, you literally walk right next door to Graceland and everything and go there, but they don't give an airline discount for us for sure.

Speaker 2 43:43

Yeah, right now I'm just thinking Elvis man, I love Elvis. I grew up with that man. I mean, my family was like Elvis, my dad, my mom, everything, yeah, love.

Speaker 1 43:52

Elvis when you go into Memphis. It's like Elvis everywhere. It's like Elvis has the brand everywhere. Everybody and anybody is making their money off Elvis.

Speaker 2 44:02

And if you didn't watch that movie man, watch that movie Elvis, because I'm telling you what that was unbelievable.

Speaker 1 44:16

Just throw it in there. It's a of uh cool like uh information about what you know elvis and everything in. In august it's elvis week and uh, I didn't know if you know this, but in memphis there's like two weeks, so there's elvis week in. Uh, you know that happens in august, but there's another like a festival or something like that they have there, but two weeks out of the year the whole place turns into nothing but thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands of Elvis's walking around the street.

Speaker 2 44:37

Oh, I can believe that shit. When we were kids I mean on the TV they used to have Elvis week all the time.

Speaker 1 44:42

Yeah, I mean, is it I mean? But from what I hear is like I've never been there and I haven't experienced this. But I can't imagine just everybody walking around looking like Elvis hey baby, hey, baby, love that. Yo, you guys in Cheeseburg, anyways, yeah, it's known for live music too. They got these clubs there BB King's Blues Club, alfred's, silky O'Sullivan's Rum Boogie I love that name, that's cool Rum Boogie.

Speaker 2 45:10

I love that name. That's cool. Rum Boogie, rum Boogie.

Speaker 1 45:14

Yeah, ernestine and Hazel's. There's so many other clubs and stuff there, but they have lots and lots of live music. In fact, last time I laid over there one of our good buddies a shout out to Steve, he's from there and he went out with his boys there that night and he's like I was like what'd you do last night? And he's like, oh man, we had a little jam session. We just went to this bar and I jumped in. We start playing.

Speaker 2 45:38

I'm like what you know, like I was sitting there thinking, if I'm ever there and I'm gonna get a rum boogie shirt, rum boogie baby I like that I do. I like it's fun to say rum boogie yeahet yeah it is. I'm going to have it on a shirt, Rumbuget.

Speaker 1 45:52

Museums are there, man, the Rock and Soul Museum, the National Civil Rights Museum? Is there? Lots of civil rights in Memphis, you know? Martin Luther King, all that stuff right there. The riverboat rides that's historical. Right there um, the riverboat rides, that's historical. And, uh, you know, the one thing that you can't pass up in memphis is getting some memphis barbecue you just, I mean, you cannot go there and not get barbecue, barbecue man there's a bear.

Speaker 1 46:23

So here's a really cool thing that you could do when you're near graceland, if you you're anywhere staying close to.

Speaker 2 46:29

Damn, I'm hungry too right now. I am, I am, I'm like barbecue would be really good.

Speaker 1 46:34

I got some. Krispy Kremes oh you're so damn wrong. We'll talk about that in just a second, but anyways, the barbecue here. There's a. If you stay close to anywhere close to Graceland, there's a barbecue joint that they're called Marlowe's Ribs and Restaurant and Marlowe's, if you call the restaurant, they'll come and pick you up at a pink Cadillac.

Speaker 2 47:00

No shit, I love that man, I love that and it's absolutely free. I'm still thinking about the barbecue.

Speaker 1 47:04

They work on tips, you know whatever for the whole thing, and you know they come pick you up at Pink Cadillac and you go there, you eat and they take you back to your hotel, wherever you're staying in a Pink Cadillac. It's like part of their service. They've been doing this for years and years. They have a little fleet of Pink Cadillacs that just takes care of their customers.

Speaker 2 47:23

I'm just thinking of like a big barbecue sandwich, some like mac and cheese.

Speaker 1 47:34

Brisket, some uh, like mac and cheese I'm killing me right now. Little pecan pie afterwards. Yeah, I got you. So marlo's is actually a restaurant that elvis used to actually frequent. So I mean it's right down the street from bracelet. It's been there long. It's a big staple.

Speaker 2 47:45

You got to get some ribs when your knee is fixed, me and you, if we lay over there, we're going to go there.

Speaker 1 47:51

Why does my knee have to do anything with?

Speaker 2 47:52

it. Well, because you have got to be back to work, we're going to do this at work, oh gotcha. We're going to do this at work because you know that would be fun to actually do a little bitty thing and throw something out there.

Speaker 1 48:05

I called the pink Cadillac for myself last time I was there. I was buried by myself. I was low.

Speaker 2 48:09

Of course you did.

Speaker 1 48:10

And I was like Marlowe's can pick me up, Of course you did, why would I think? Anything else. Big baddie Sean was in the back of the pink Libu. You're just looking at all the ladies.

Speaker 2 48:21

Oh my God, we got to go. We got to go to the quote, man, because you are absolutely killing me.

Speaker 1 48:26

What do you mean man Come?

Speaker 2 48:28

on, you gotta be Dude. We are old, ain't nobody ain't no killing anything, alright alright.

Speaker 1 48:35

What's the quote?

Speaker 2 48:35

Folks, strength is keeping it together when everyone expects you to fall apart.

Speaker 1 48:42

Absolutely Amen. You got to keep your shit together.

Speaker 2 48:46

Hey guys again, everyone that was affected in what happened today prayers out to you, your family and you guys stay safe.

Speaker 1 48:56

Yeah, everybody that's out there that's been affected by this, I mean not only the people that were lost in the crash, but all the people affected by the crash, the friends, the family I mean it's just so broad, it's just. I mean this has affected so many countries now too. I mean it's just broad, it's just. I mean this has affected so many countries now too. I mean it's just wild. Just this amount of people can be so impactful and impact so many people.

Speaker 2 49:20

We love talking about a lot of things on this podcast. That's not one of them, no, okay, so you guys take care of yourself and we will definitely see you back here next week on Cabin Pressure. All right, next week.

Speaker 1 49:35

See ya. 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.