Laughter and Drama Across Generations

Ever wonder why some responsibilities seem to pile up faster than dirty laundry? Join us as we navigate the maze of generational responsibilities, from the joys of celebrating a 94th birthday to the humorous trials of parenting in a tech-driven world. We share personal anecdotes that highlight the stark contrasts between the freedom of our childhoods and the digital experiences shaping today's youth. Prepare for a heartwarming and laugh-filled reflection on how quickly life changes and the unique challenges each generation faces in keeping up with life's demands.

Curious about the latest buzz in renewable energy and pop culture? We'll take you on a whirlwind tour, critiquing the efficiency of the Ivanpah solar power facility and the not-so-rosy side of wind farms. But it doesn't stop there—we throw in some Grammy Awards drama featuring Kanye West's girlfriend, Bianca, whose presence sparked a hot debate about public decency. This segment is a clever weave of technological innovation, environmental concerns, and the spicy escapades of pop culture that are sure to keep you entertained and informed.

Thinking about career paths or reminiscing about fun memories? We explore the demanding world of air traffic controllers, highlighting career education's importance in high schools while sharing nostalgic tales of Chattanooga's cultural and culinary offerings. From exploring Lookout Mountain to savoring the local delicacies, our trip down memory lane is a delightful twist of educational insights and cherished memories. Whether you're considering a non-traditional career path or just love a good story, this episode is packed with laughter, nostalgia, and food for thought.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

What's the best type of energy today? Atc Pilots, flight attendants, aviation jobs how do we promote these positions? Who only takes three baths in their whole life? All this next on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.

Speaker 2 0:46

Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Pressure. What's up? What's up, what's up. You know something? I was just sitting there and I was like, does the time fly? I mean, it goes by week to week fast, fast man.

Speaker 1 0:58

I mean, I feel like sometimes we don't even have time to do this.

Speaker 2 1:01

It's like, oh, we've got to do our episode, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 1:06

And then when we get one done with one, it's like okay, when are we doing the next one?

Speaker 2 1:10

It comes easier, but it's still though. I mean, it flies. I was sitting there thinking that the other day I was like we just did this and now we're getting together and doing it again. It just went by quick, anyway. What's been going on with you?

Speaker 1 1:21

Oh man, it's just. You know, life is happening. I got a leak in my basement and that's a big suck.

Speaker 2 1:28

Yeah, I got a wet foot.

Speaker 1 1:29

Yeah, yeah, I told you there was a leak over there. But yeah, I got to freaking fix that. And still, kind of like on the remnants of my last week project of the rerouting all my wires and stuff, everything, I'm finding out that there was a couple of wires that weren't connected up. One you needed yeah, one I needed like was connected to my fax machine.

Speaker 2 1:54

For those that have fax machines in the world. That shit always happens. Right, you're running shit and then you're like, the one thing that you did need, you didn't run.

Speaker 1 2:01

Yeah, I mean, but it takes a while before, like you, get to that point where you recognize, oh crap, I need this. Yeah, like when you're ready to hook it up, yeah, when you're ready to hook it up. And then on top of it, I got the compound binding that I had to leak.

Speaker 1 2:18

So you know, that shit's always fun, it's life and all that stuff you know just trying to. You know we're we're uh still on the move with the, the in-laws and stuff handling. Uh, I got a sick father-in-law and you know working on trying to get him back to health and stuff. But my man just turned uh, on Groundhog's day turned 94 years old.

Speaker 2 2:38

Wow, 94, 94, man, I'm just.

Speaker 1 2:41

I'm just wishing I could get there.

Speaker 2 2:43

I'm wondering if we will. It's a big if it's a big if.

Speaker 1 2:48

And hopefully you'll remember it. Yeah, I mean, you know, reflecting on this stuff like you're talking about, like you know life and all this stuff, and you start thinking about all these different ideas and stuff about life and like you have kids, like I mean, I don't know if they all like you, but you have kids.

Speaker 2 3:06

Well, you know they're learning to like me now because they're a little bit older, so when they're younger they probably didn't yeah yeah yeah, but my youngest actually. You know it's funny. You just said that because just the other day he's actually visiting me right now. Jackson, oh yeah, yeah, he came from Vegas with his girlfriend, came home to introduce her. His girlfriend came home to introduce her. But the funny part of it is he was talking the other day and he said I'm not liking growing up very much.

Speaker 1 3:31

He's got to pay for stuff. You know that song by oh God, who's the? Ain't it Fun, yeah, that song Ain't it Fun. I always think about this generation. You know, ain't it fun to be an adult.

Speaker 2 3:46

Well, they start realizing well, you're paying for their cell phone, paying for their insurance, paid for their car. They still got their health, medical and dental vision, everything I still got a nephew.

Speaker 1 3:58

I mean, they hang on until they can't.

Speaker 2 4:02

Exactly they do. I mean you can't blame them. I mean seriously, it costs so much money. You can't blame them for hanging on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 4:09

Wait, wait, wait. Let's back this up a little bit. Did you have an option? Nope.

Speaker 2 4:13

There was only option A get your ass out there and make it for yourself. But see, that's a different world. We talked about that. It different world, man. And I'm not saying that it's good Cause you know I think it's bullshit. You know it's not good. And when you, when you look at these kids and you don't see anybody play outside, you don't see any of that interaction is not anything. Hell would they. They text each other, they don't talk, they can't even look at each other in the eyes. It's all bullshit.

Speaker 1 4:38

Yeah, I mean I have, I have some like so I have a few great nieces and stuff and like they're like in that grade school area still, you know, and those kids love to play outside. Like it is amazing, like out of all of them and they're all girls and they just love to be outside playing. They want to be playing basketball four square, whatever you know, whatever they're entertained by sports, but out of all them, like only one of the girls are like hooked on video games.

Speaker 2 5:09

That's that's amazing.

Speaker 1 5:10

Yeah, it's amazing because I mean, it's what? Back to what I was saying, it's like, you know, it's the parents, like you grew up in that era, like saying, hey, you know, you know, did we have a choice? I didn't have a choice. I mean, when I turned 17, which I graduated high school at 17, and it was like you know what my parents were like, they didn't tell me get the hell out of the house. Yeah, but, Sean, we had Pong.

Speaker 2 5:37

Come on, man Dude, we had table tennis. We didn't even have that at my house, I didn't even have that P house.

Speaker 1 5:41

I didn't have that pong, had just like uh, it was like an old game, we were just into atari that then atari commodore 64 was the uh, the area when we graduated. But anyways, uh, yeah, I mean it's just amazing how the generations are different. Because I didn't have that choice to stay at home and I mean, if I would have had the choice and I know you and you and I both if we had the choice, I would have stayed at home.

Speaker 2 6:07

But yeah, and I get that, you know, with, with the kids, and I can understand why they they do hold on, I do. I understand that we were, we grew up in a whole different generation and I can tell you this ours is way better. I don't care.

Speaker 1 6:22

Well, I mean here. Here is what I think about this thing. It's like um, morally, ethically, work ethics, all that stuff involved into it. Like um, I feel like our generation is more responsible. It's just like you know it's not to say that like new generation kids. There's a lot of responsible kids out there, a, a lot of kids are doing good stuff, but an overall, if you like, blanket that error, that generation. They're just like. They don't have a lot of responsibility. They just don't want to. They don't want it.

Speaker 2 6:53

But they end up having to play catch, up, though they do because it's life, right, you, you, I mean. Eventually you have to buy a house, you got to do things, you, you. So you, you end up playing catch up.

Speaker 1 7:01

Yeah, Get a job, got to have your place to stay, place to eat. I mean, one of my big things when I can like, my big thing when I grew up was when I was leaving the house there was my biggest fear was what am I going to eat? I still think of that man, I'm like what am I going to?

Speaker 1 7:19

buy Before, before I left the house, like one of the things that one of the skills that I made sure that I knew how to do was, I had to learn how to feed myself Like I had to cook.

Speaker 2 7:31

Well, you know both me and you do there ain't? No, there is no question. Both me and you cook, I mean we're going to eat, we eat.

Speaker 1 7:38

I mean, that was a big worry of mine when I was in that age, it's like wanted to make sure that, one, I had a place to figure out where I'm going to live and two, a big two. What am I eating? Because I want good food.

Speaker 2 7:52

All right, real quick, before we move on from this staple thing. If you're just saying just real quick, what would be your staple food that is going to be in your kitchen In my kitchen all the time, yeah, all the time. Staple, I mean come on quick, go to.

Speaker 1 8:09

Steak is my staple.

Speaker 2 8:11

Now see, I knew that was going to happen. Right, mine is peanut butter and jelly, mine is like my go-to is like peanut butter and jelly and a glass of milk and he's got to say a damn steak Dude, steak potatoes, I knew that was coming.

Speaker 1 8:25

Like peanut butter and jelly and a glass of milk, and he's got to say a damn steak dude, steak potatoes, I knew that was coming like the go-to meal, like in my, in my house, and this also, you know, is a generational thing, you know, or an age thing, you know as the hell is a generational thing between peanut butter and jelly and steak. Well, no, no, hear me, it wasn't. It wasn't generational, it was more of a um an age thing. You know, it's it's like a financial state of worm.

Speaker 2 8:45

Now you say I'm a financial state of peanut butter and jelly and you're a steak I afford steak.

Speaker 1 8:50

You afford peanut butter, oh my.

Speaker 2 8:54

God, I love that one.

Speaker 1 8:57

No, this boy can buy anything he wants to buy.

Energy Innovation and Grammy Controversy

Speaker 2 8:59

That was too damn funny. Alright, man, listen, we gotta get moving on. You know, this week I was telling you it was funny. A few weeks ago we were talking about Ivanpah.

Speaker 1 9:09

Yeah, ivanpah, the big blinding mirror as you fly across the country, out there in Nevada.

Speaker 2 9:16

The $2.2 million or, excuse me, $2.2 billion, bust Bust. Yeah, they were just talking about it all over the news. They were sitting there talking about how it was just a big waste of money.

Speaker 1 9:28

You know, this is something that I like. We talked about that right, yeah, we talked about Ivan Paul and all the birds burning up and the reflection.

Speaker 2 9:37

What it takes to actually operate it, how much it costs to operate it Non-eco-friendly shit.

Speaker 1 9:43

Here's the thing like now, this new administration here you know we're not trying to get political and stuff, but you know this new administration, their agenda they're, you know they're they're opening the eyes of some of these things that we thought were good and we were like being forced to like this this is good, we should have electric cars and we should have all this. You know wind energy and all this stuff. And they're now backing up and like, wait a minute, is this really productive?

Speaker 2 10:12

Is this really, you know, giving us what we need? I just thought Ivan Paul was kind of ironic. We were just talking about this a few weeks ago and then it was all over the news about how it was a $2.2 billion bust and all the wildlife and what they had to destroy to make this, all the birds that died, all the non-eco-friendly products that it takes to operate this to have a big steam engine.

Speaker 1 10:37

Basically, it's still there, so they're going to shut it down. Now you've got a big old Then what are you going to do with it? Ecological mess in there.

Speaker 2 10:42

A big bunch of mirrors. What the hell are you going to do with it? Ecological mess. A big bunch of mirrors. What the hell are you going to do?

Speaker 1 10:46

with a big bunch of mirrors. Man, yeah, it was just Sell them.

Speaker 2 10:48

Yeah, I was just thinking. I was like man, we just talked about that, it's great, but you know what's next? What's that?

Speaker 1 10:54

Damn, windmills, the windmills yeah, you know, I've windmills. Like the first time I ever saw a windmill, you remember? Like the first time you ever saw like one of those wind farms when I was flying.

Speaker 2 11:07

Actually, yeah, you're flying we're flying in.

Speaker 1 11:09

I remember coming into, like uh, coming into, uh, palm springs. Yeah, when you're coming in arrival there, there's, you pass this huge wind farm that's right there on the side of the hill and I mean it's just like hundreds and hundreds could you imagine what it? Sounds like. I like I don't know if there's like a huge sound to those things.

Speaker 2 11:27

Yeah, there is, there is. Yeah, yeah, there's a huge sound to them. Yeah, I mean, I mean they're metal, I mean it's going to make a big sound.

Speaker 1 11:34

Yeah, there's got to be some type of hum or some type of something to it.

Speaker 2 11:56

There it is.

Speaker 1 11:56

It is I mean, like I said, I'm not a big fan of the windmills either, but they have them.

Speaker 2 12:00

They got Ivanpah, which is a bus, but still they say the's safe.

Speaker 1 12:03

It is safe. Um the problem, the problem with this is that it's got a bad. You know history as far as like the the meltdowns, like when it does have a problem, it has a huge problem. I mean there's like three big, huge nuclear you know problems over our history, right, that we know of, right that one you know, like when they had the freaking tsunamis over in in uh, japan, there, and it flooded the nuclear facility there, I mean that place was wiped out for years and years.

Speaker 2 12:29

And I'm not saying nuclear is the way to go either.

Speaker 1 12:31

Right.

Speaker 2 12:31

I'm just saying that this is what they're saying. I mean, at one point they thought Ivanpah was going to be good. At one point they thought the windmills would be good.

Speaker 1 12:37

Yeah, you got to keep on trying stuff. I mean I do believe that innovation and like the, the whole energy and trying to find out what's the next type of energy, to try to try to figure it out, and you gotta, you gotta spend money, make money, and things are going to fail, right, we're going to make mistakes and all that good stuff. But yeah, I mean you can't like. Just, I'm not the person that says shut down something you know like no more oil. I'm not the person that says shut down something you know like no more oil. You know, come on, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 13:07

You know, like we tried that before, didn't we?

Speaker 1 13:09

Well, no more oil. The common person doesn't understand that everything in the world that we are like, everything that's around us, I mean everything in this room Oil-based products. Yeah, oil-based products Is made with oil, Yep, Like it's. You know, like we can't just shut off that type of energy source.

Speaker 2 13:26

All right, Now here's another one. I got to go straight to this one. We're talking about everything that's been going on this week the Grammys. Did you see any of that?

Speaker 1 13:34

No, I've been so distracted with other stuff.

Speaker 2 13:37

All right, just going to touch on a couple of that.

Speaker 1 13:46

Kanye West's girlfriend, that Bianca, stands there freaking naked Sean, basically no clothes on. I saw one photo of it and I literally like it. I was walking through I think I was walking through the room and it stopped me because I was like is she naked?

Speaker 2 13:51

Yeah, but how could they let that happen? I mean, just right there. I mean you don't know how many kids, whatever she's standing there, damn naked Dude you know Kanye, he's a lot of strange. I know he's that area of the United States. And oh, did you, did you see Will Smith's kid? One of them was wearing a damn hat with the. It was like a house, oh, black, it was like a black house.

Speaker 1 14:13

That was his kid. Yeah, yeah, it was like the hair. It would look like like the hair was made into a house.

Speaker 2 14:21

It was a house, it was a hat right, exactly with his face sticking out of him. I'd be like, yeah, that's my damn boy up there. That's my boy, he's in the house. Yeah, he's in the house. I didn't even think of that. That's a good one, I like that one.

Speaker 1 14:33

He is in the house, isn't he? Yeah, he is in the house.

Speaker 2 14:42

Record of the year. Record of the year Country.

Speaker 1 14:45

Beyonce Dude. First of all, I'm reflecting on last year and all I can remember is her singing that one freaking country song off the tank.

Speaker 2 14:54

How in the hell did Beyonce win country music?

Speaker 1 14:57

Maybe the cover of the album.

Speaker 2 15:00

It was going around saying George Strait won hip-hop, yeah. And then Oteyte sat there with a big old goose egg goose egg.

Speaker 1 15:10

How, first of all, how is that even possible? I have no idea, man taytay rage last year was out of like. It was so astronomical. I've never heard of any star that was of this level right now, I mean since like the beatles, like I mean it was that huge. I mean every country every you know.

Speaker 2 15:32

Could you imagine being sitting there, sitting there going okay, I'm over five right now I got one more. I'm going, I'm going, I'm walking up this one, right, well, and she, and during the tour she put out a whole new album.

Speaker 1 15:38

Yeah, she like added an era to the heirs tour, but then you went over six over six Not a good night.

Air Traffic Controller Challenges

Speaker 2 15:45

She can't win every time. She didn't win at all. They proved that to her Also with this accident that happened this week. What brought to light was air traffic controllers.

Speaker 1 15:57

Yeah, you know what? This is an interesting thing. When I was a young buck and I was down in Louisiana, at one point in my life I had this regular customer came in. He was an ATC guy and he was trying to talk me into becoming an ATC. I found the whole thing was very interesting, but at the same time it's like people that are people that do ATC, I mean it's a special person.

Speaker 2 16:22

You're like a cubicle. I mean, you're constantly looking at a screen.

Speaker 1 16:26

I mean to be locked in, you're talking about locked into a screen, and then you're trying to you ever play that game, that little ATC game, with the planes coming in from all the different sides and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 16:35

No, I couldn't imagine I could not imagine there's a game out there that's like on your iPad or whatever you can do it on your phone and like planes come, come in from all different directions on the side of the screen and then you got to take your finger and you got to like hit the path in of where they're, they're, they're going to land, and you had to keep them from crashing and stuff and that's basically atc. I mean, they're not drawing their fingers on screen, but it's like that's what they're doing with all these uh, you know, channels and stuff, and to imagine the uh amount of like, uh tension that you have to put into the job is just like wow.

Speaker 2 17:07

Well, what they brought to light, though, was the the how they're understaffed.

Speaker 1 17:11

How understaffed they are because there's nobody that wants to do that job.

Speaker 2 17:16

Three years. I mean you first, you go. I think the certification is like three years, but then there's only they. Usually they said that there's. They only take like 60% Right and 40% don't even make it.

Speaker 1 17:28

Yeah, there's a huge washout rate to it. I mean, that's what the guy was telling me down there when he was trying to get me to do it. He was like I think you'd be good at it. He goes, you should try it and all this stuff. But then also they have a very short career length.

Speaker 2 17:50

You know they can only be from 30, right from 30 to like 56 56 is they got to retire by 56? Yeah, retirement yeah, but they have an accelerated pension too, I mean, but they?

Speaker 1 17:55

but regardless of that, how many jobs in this world that, like the life of your job, is 26 years, it's stress.

Speaker 2 18:01

I mean imagine, I mean they, these planes land every 30 seconds. Yeah right, depending on where you're at, they're stacked on top of each other. There's lots of different.

Speaker 1 18:08

You know ATC duty stations. You know you can have the one that you're in the middle of Iowa sitting there, you know doing the planes going overhead and there's no airport involved whatsoever. But then there's airport people and there's all those different layers of ATC.

Speaker 2 18:22

Well, the scary thought, though, truly is that, fully staffed, it's 14,300, controllers 14,000. Wow, we only currently have 10,800.

Speaker 1 18:31

Yeah, I mean that's crazy. I mean that goes to show you that there's certain places in this government that need to be, like, very overwatched as far as, like, I mean there's somebody that should be, you know, their head should be rolling for not having staffing. I mean it's like our military, if our military starts dropping down. I mean somebody's out there, you know, in the recruitment staff we're going. You know we need to get more. You know what do we need to do?

Speaker 2 18:57

There's got to be an incentive, though. Right, I mean when you give them incentives Exactly, you know, like signing that I've never, ever, have you ever seen an advertisement to become an? Atc Nope, never, never.

Speaker 1 19:08

But we're understaffed and it's an area of the government that we need to have staffed.

Speaker 2 19:11

High-end pay of air traffic controllers $158,000 a year. People don't know that.

Speaker 1 19:17

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:18

I mean I wouldn't want the job, Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 1 19:27

I mean I would not want to do what they do because I mean it's crazy. Well, they start off. They start off in like 60 right?

Speaker 2 19:30

something like that 60 000. Yeah, they start off at 60, but that's why I said, at the high end it's 158. Now if I, if I'm in a, um, if I'm in a in a field out in kansas where I'm just kind of regulating two planes going by, I'm good, right, you're a central controller, just you know that, pay and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 19:47

I'm good I'm perfect take that same person, you put them in new york exactly.

Speaker 2 19:51

Your tower ain't as big, but you know that's, that's fine well, here's the thing I mean.

Speaker 1 19:55

It's just like kind of like in our job, you know, you put those people in these places that are high populated, very expensive to live in and stuff. Now you have controllers. We're like how do we get these controllers here? Because we need to pay them. If 158 is the top end for somebody in New York, uh, skate airspace, I mean I'm not going there. They're not paying enough.

Speaker 2 20:15

Well, think about this, for for uh 2024, they had 1800 new trainees, 1800. Now think about that. 60% 60% actually make it through the program. 40% either retire or they quit or resign or they stay in training. So 60% of that, even if you put those out there, you're still understaffed and then you have retired. I mean that's a mess. I mean that's truly a mess. And these guys are at the FAA training facility in Oklahoma City and you know they're required to pass an assessment test, a drug test, a personality test. Could you imagine that, like why, I don't know, I mean your personality sucks.

Speaker 1 20:58

Well, you're talking to people all day on the radio.

Speaker 2 21:00

Yeah, I get it. Oh, that's true, but how would you consider the personality, though, for that?

Speaker 1 21:05

There's personality there, like but how would you consider the personality though? For that there's personality there. It's funny just in these briefs.

Speaker 2 21:09

Hey, hey, what you doing out there, buddy.

Speaker 1 21:11

Well, you've been in the cockpit before when they're talking to ATC. So depending on where they're at and where they get in, like if you're in that station that we're talking about, like out in the middle of freaking Iowa, Kansas, wherever, and you're not, you know, you got just planes flying overhead that you're kind of like monitoring, then they might have a chance to be able to have a little bit longer talking than just a brief statement.

Speaker 2 21:34

All right, so that covered the personality part of it. You have to have a medical and a physical, you have to be fingerprinted and you have to have a background check, which is definitely a must in that job have to have a background check, which is definitely a must in that job.

Speaker 1 21:47

Yeah, I would think drug testing and background check is like a no-brainer.

Career Education in High Schools

Speaker 2 21:53

But that's one thing that I think that you're absolutely correct is they have to start giving some incentives, especially go even in the high schools, man. Let the kids know that there's jobs. When we was in high school, did you ever know about any aviation jobs? Truthfully, I didn't know shit about any aviation jobs. No, there's never been. I told you that before.

Speaker 1 22:12

There was a dude in our era. It was all about manual labor stuff. People come in, come and be a plumber or be high-end. What you're doing talking doctors and lawyers and things like that. I mean higher education positions or it was all manual labor type of things. Come in, be a welder, go in the military. Right, be a soldier.

Speaker 2 22:36

Catch these kids before they go to college, because they waste all their damn money in college. I mean, why not catch them? Because you might have some kid that goes that shit is really interesting to me, right, might have some kid that goes that shit is really interesting to me, yeah, right. And then he thinks that at a young age he can go. He can go, you know, do you know whatever the training he needs to do and and get that job, yeah.

Speaker 1 22:55

I mean one of my, one of my big things now, like as far as my uh, um, what is it Like? I wouldn't say pledge, but just like a uh. I think that more corporations, more jobs, the government, everybody should be giving these educational and, um, any type of growth, life, growth, possibilities.

Speaker 2 23:18

They need to do it in high school because these kids are wasting the flipping money in college.

Speaker 1 23:23

but it needs to be advertised Like all of it has to be advertised, like I mean, I'm like right now I'm enjoying this, uh, I'm doing an uber eats scholarship through uber eats that end up happening through covid. But I already I already finished one degree, I'm going for my second degree right now and, like so many people and kids in the world don't know about that type of stuff and I think that that's right falls on the same ears of the ATC, like the government should be out there incentivizing these things, trying to get these positions up, and there should be a department like that, just like the defense department has. Like people that are recruiting. There should be recruiters for the ATC that does and has a funding to recruit this. The staffing, because aviation is not going anywhere. Aviation is going to get nothing but bigger right, because the corporations that are out there that are flying and want to fly in the skies are just going to grow.

Speaker 2 24:14

I think one of the biggest problems that we have in in the schools today, one of the biggest problems is, is exactly that is that there should be. There should be some class at some point in time for maybe juniors and seniors where they discuss potential jobs after high school. I mean, take an hour of the day because they're learning. I mean, sure, they're being educated throughout the day, but why not sit there and educate these kids on other opportunities instead of just thinking, well, they're going to know, they're not going to know, so why don't we educate them? So when they do, they, they, they leave high school, they're like, hey, I got, I've got a plan.

Speaker 1 24:55

Yeah, you know what It'd be really cool to be like have this vocational aptitude or a vocational exploration class that was in high school where you can go in there and be like, hey, here, you know, first of all, the instructor to this thing can be, like they can have a current. You know, job openings thing. Like this is how many jobs are in the world? Like these are the types of jobs that are out there. These are all the different places that we need people to go into. And if you don't need, if you don't know about this, like what are these things? You know, I'm always interested in like what cracks me up. Like when I'm on the plane I'm always approaching people, when I see or hear people that do, or when we're talking to the pastors and stuff, and I hear people that you know are doing some of the jobs I mean, one of my first questions is like, like what was the road to get to that job? Like you know, how did that happen? You know how that job, like you know how did that happen?

Speaker 2 25:46

you know how did you find out about that?

Speaker 1 25:47

well, we did that with gary brekker. Yeah, I mean gary brekker, exactly. Yeah, he, you know like we don't know like what, where you know the how these happen. I had a guy on the plane met him, uh, his name is paul vogel. He, uh, he's a shark photographer. I mean his facebook site, you blow your mind, but he's actually his real job's a lawyer, but he, he became a professional shark photographer.

Speaker 2 26:08

But they wouldn't know. That's. My point, though, is that in the schools, they got to do something different, because these kids are going out from high school and they have no clue. They have no clue, I mean, so they go to college? No clue, they wouldn't even have to go to college. They save a shitload of money. They already have some kind of path. If they just started educating them in the junior and senior years about all these different jobs. I mean, could you imagine just talking about aviation, so you have more pilots, more flight attendants, more maintenance guys, more controllers, just because their eyes were opened up to aviation, and then none of these kids knew about it? Or guess what? Hey, listen, and none of these kids knew about it. Or guess what? Hey, listen, you want an education? Uber, do this. You know why? Because this guy, what he did, is he got an education by doing what? Four hours of Uber Eats.

Speaker 1 26:55

Yeah, four hours of Uber Eats and then I'm paying for my college.

Speaker 2 26:58

They would not believe this. They would not believe it, sean, I don't care what. They would not believe it. But see, that's the stuff that needs to get done in these schools junior and senior year. They've got to educate these kids. They got to start telling them about what jobs are out there, giving them opportunities, other than just say, hey, you got to go to college and that's the way to go, because then you go to college and you spend four years not knowing what the hell you're doing. You come back out and you got a job that does nothing that you went to school for.

Speaker 1 27:25

Well, it's like that first year of college, like I think the whole system is broken in the infant. I'm like in total support of what you just said it's there should be some type of vocational career path, um, education of just just not the people that are the highlight jobs in our world, in our life, like you know, like the normal traditional things, be, grow up, be a doctor, be a lawyer, you know, whatever all these different things. There's just so many career paths that people can take that people aren't aware of.

Speaker 1 27:56

And that might be people might be very interested in. I mean, I'm an explorer, like you know. I like to find out and learn all kinds of stuff. I'll be learning the rest of my life, until the day I die. But it's like there's a lot of kids out there that are like that too, that they want to explore and find out about the world, but because they're in this um uh area of life or they're, they're what, what's the word I'm trying to come up with Like the bottleneck, or secluded from that experience, they don't. They don't know. You don't know what you don't know.

Speaker 2 28:29

Exactly, and I was watching this program the other day and they were talking about this woman. She's one of the richest women in the world and her business is construction.

Speaker 2 28:40

You wouldn't think that right but she's one of the richest women in the world. Someone told her there's a shitload of money in whatever the construction part she was it was actually in a lot of the products and stuff that they use and a lot of the equipment that they use but one of the richest women in the world. Someone told her you can make a shitload of money doing that. But see these kids, like I said, they're in high school. They don't know what they're going to do and no one educates them on the jobs and the opportunities that are out there, and I think that we're missing the boat big time in our country with that.

Speaker 1 29:14

Well, the internet's, I think, also. I'm going to put some blame on the internet, just because of all these get-rich-quick things that we constantly see.

Speaker 2 29:23

Well, they see one TikTok thing. They think they're going to make that money.

Speaker 1 29:26

You know I'm going to become this through TikTok and you know like it. Just, you know they really need to look at like what's the percentage of people that actually are being successful in these platforms? You know what's the percentage of? You know how much work did they actually have to do? And that's another thing. They think that, oh, I'm gonna do this one little thing.

Speaker 2 29:44

I'm going to and I'll be the next multimillionaire. There might be a few of them, but you know something I mean more power to you. I get it Don't get me wrong, but the majority of these kids. You got to go out there and you got to get a job, you got to go to it.

Speaker 1 30:06

Yeah, I mean, here's a prime example, Like our show right here. We think we're going to make a bunch of money from the show and we've made 57 cents, right.

Speaker 2 30:12

I love that man, I told you I love. The fact is that, no, the best one was the ad that we got for like 13 cents. Yeah, that was the best. I said that we had to actually screenshot that and put that on the wall, but you know, that's a fun part. We don't care, we're just having fun doing this and you know, if something would happen, great, but it's not going to change me and you. We're going to be the same exactly kind of idiots we are now. I mean, it's not going to change anything.

Speaker 1 30:39

Right, I mean I just had to throw that in there because it's just that shit was funny though. Yeah, it's so funny we haven't split the money, yet it's actually still in the account.

Speaker 2 30:50

We spent that money already. That's too funny. All right, listen. You know what happened this week in history. We talked about a few things that happened in history. This was a big one the day music died Buddy Holly, richie Valens, jp the Big Bopper, richardson's crashed.

Speaker 1 31:08

Bye-bye, miss American Pie. Oh my God, there you go, you got it.

Speaker 2 31:15

Everybody remembers the Buddy Holly, richie Valens and the Big Bopper Dude you know what?

Fun Facts and Nostalgic Memories

Speaker 1 31:20

It's amazing. So when I was growing up as a kid I was like a big record collector and all this stuff and you know all those different. You know music, I love music. It was like I just would dive into all this stuff and so I'd collect all these albums and so I'd go out you know, I had my paper route or whatever spend my money in albums and one of my albums that I got still I have still here in my house right now I have an original album of the first buddy holly album buddy holly was it, was it?

Speaker 1 31:50

oh, actually, all of them were really good, you know I mean all the people that were on the plane there. Uh, you know, richie balance, big bopper, all that good stuff. You know I mean it is. I love all that music and stuff. I mean any anybody that listens to the music, doesn't matter what kid you know, new generation, whatever. As soon as they hear it, they'll be like oh yeah, I get this.

Speaker 2 32:09

And La Bamba. Remember the Richie Valens story. That was really good yeah.

Speaker 1 32:12

La Bamba.

Speaker 2 32:14

Yeah, that was a great movie.

Speaker 1 32:15

Yeah, man, I mean, it was a sad day, sad day.

Speaker 2 32:21

It was All right, give me some fun facts. Oh, I got one. I got the first fun fact. The first fun fact. You're going to love this one Shoot King Louis XIV, 1638 through 1715. He was so terrified of bathing he only took three baths in his whole life Disgusting. They believe that taking a bath that transmitted disease. Yeah, that's that. That was one stinky ass person that was stank dude. I mean, think about that for a minute.

Speaker 1 32:56

No, I could just.

Speaker 2 32:56

I could still smell him that would be the I mean, could you imagine?

Speaker 1 33:02

the pneumonia smell that came off of every ounce of his being. He was like he was Pepe Le Pew.

Speaker 2 33:11

Could you imagine the girl?

Speaker 1 33:12

Maybe that's where they came and got the whole thing about stinking skunks and stuff.

Speaker 2 33:16

Could you imagine the girl?

Speaker 1 33:17

though this is who you're going to marry Dude. Yeah, that's nasty.

Speaker 2 33:22

That's some stank.

Speaker 1 33:23

Yeah, we won't even get into about stink and all that stuff, but I mean it's Wow, all right, you got the next one. Three baths in the thing, I mean. So here's some other fun facts. 2004,. This week, you know, in history, facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. I mean, that's a big, huge. When it first came out I was like you know before, facebook was what was that? Everyone, MySpace, yeah, yeah. So it was like MySpace accounts and all that stuff. That was kind of like the first thing that would happen. And Facebook popped out and thing. And you know, I wasn't a member of Facebook at first, were you?

Speaker 2 34:03

Yeah, I was, because I loved it, because you were able to actually keep in touch with people watching their family.

Speaker 1 34:08

No, like in 2004, you jumped right into it. No, no, no, that's what I'm asking. At first it was just like this teenage thing.

Speaker 1 34:18

It was like all teenage because I remember my buddies no, you know better than that. Yeah, like my buddies, son and daughter, taylor and Shelby they were like telling us, you know about Facebook and I signed up for the Facebook account and they're like, really, you know, like you're an adult, you shouldn't be here. You know, it was like it was that generation trying to make it theirs. You know, like I was like, oh yeah, I'm still part of it. Yeah, well, the idea, the behind it, like the idea of being connecting to people and all that stuff and for me at the time, especially like my family's military and we're all spread out over the world and for us to have a central point of connection, it was just a cool idea, right that's the reason why I was on there.

Speaker 2 35:00

I thought it was really cool.

Speaker 1 35:01

yeah, yeah, yeah, I still think it's kind of cool.

Speaker 2 35:03

I mean, you know there's a lot of different things that go with it, but you know it's still cool watching people's families as they you know they get older grandkids, all that stuff I still like it.

Speaker 1 35:14

Oh, we think we like it. In fact, we just got over 1,000.

Speaker 2 35:18

Yeah we went over 1,000 Followers.

Speaker 1 35:20

Followers in our Facebook account.

Speaker 2 35:22

That's pretty good. Whoop, whoop.

Speaker 1 35:24

For us?

Speaker 2 35:25

Well, that's the only gram we got because we still were talking about like 57 cents.

Speaker 1 35:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's the other thing too, some other fun facts. 1869, like last week, we were talking about the world's largest snowflake, the world's largest gold nugget.

Speaker 2 35:43

I'd rather see that one, I'd rather find that one than the snowflake. Could you imagine that shit? Could you imagine just seeing it? I mean, you're just your face when you're digging, you see it?

Speaker 1 35:52

Yeah, I want to say it was like 18 pounds of some some of that it was. It was crazy It'd been gigantic piece of gold, I mean Awesome. But anyways, february 7th is a. You're going to love this. Wave all your fingers at your neighbor's day and send a card to a friend day. Who made that shit up?

Speaker 2 36:16

That's the dumbest damn day, Seriously. Who made that shit up?

Speaker 1 36:20

Why is wave all your fingers a thing? How do you wave without using your fingers?

Speaker 2 36:27

That's stupid, that's dumb. All right, just go past that one, because that one was really dumb Well today has been recorded and it's February 6th.

Speaker 1 36:36

I'm going to tell you right now I'm not sending you a card tomorrow.

Speaker 2 36:40

Don't wave your fingers at me either.

Speaker 1 36:42

I want to wave your fingers as you leave my house, yeah, wave fingers, yeah go ahead 1992. Uh right, uh said fred. Man hit number one with the I'm too sexy for my, too sexy for my you are fucking killing me today.

Speaker 2 37:02

oh, my god, my God, dude that song.

Speaker 1 37:05

You know what it's like. How many of these songs come in history where they just repeat the same thing over and over?

Speaker 2 37:11

I can just picture you in a club. I can picture you in a club dancing to that right now. Oh, I saw you dancing to that before. Don't be like you picture. I'm too sexy. No, I don't think I danced to that one. No, I don't think.

Speaker 1 37:22

I danced to that one. No, I didn't, but go ahead. Yes, you did Anyhow. 1894, my favorite point in history. You know, hershey founded the Hershey Company. I like a good Hershey bar Dude, I do.

Speaker 2 37:35

I love that little thin Hershey bar.

Speaker 1 37:37

It's a standard chocolate to me. Love that one Like. Is that like your favorite chocolate, like you're talking about? Like any chocolate in the world? I mean there's some good chocos out there. Swiss chocolate, I'll stick with the Hershey bar. Doves Hershey. I'll stick with the Hershey, you know, like there's Do you put them in the freezer? Dude, I do it all. You snap it. Yeah, you snap it, break it. I mean a Hershey bar squares All right now tell me this right.

Speaker 2 38:03

So when you eat that first Hershey bar, right, and it goes by fast.

Speaker 1 38:06

Yeah, melts quick. Did you think about another one Before it was even done? Right Before it was even done, you're already thinking about putting another piece.

Speaker 2 38:14

I'm thinking about the second one. Man, I'm looking for peanut butter.

Speaker 1 38:16

I mean Hershey's is like the staple, the standard, gold standard of chocolate for us, I'm certain I mean there's some other fantastic chocolates out there, because I can name some other ones like dove is like dove chocolates hey, they're the shit too, right? No, it's not the standard like I would take marketing and like the all over the united states. And then we're we're speaking from a united states perspective here. I mean, you're talking about europe and stuff. You, you know, the Swiss are me like oh, hell, no, oh no, we got Hershey's All right.

Speaker 1 38:48

Hershey's. Anyways, Hershey was there and this is a crazy one, and you're going to think about this. You know the inventor of Frisbee? Okay, he decided that when he passed away he wanted to be turned into a Frisbee, and they did it away.

Speaker 2 39:13

He wanted to be turned into a frisbee and they did it.

Speaker 1 39:14

I. I have to ask okay, how in the hell did that happen? I mean, they're saying like they're, like they, this dude wanted to be.

Speaker 2 39:18

Like that was is what he wanted to be remembered as so so they took his ashes and they made his ashes into an actual Frisbee.

Speaker 1 39:27

Not from. What I understand is like they put his ashes into like a series of Frisbees, so they're like there was like a series of Frisbee.

Speaker 2 39:38

So nobody. So they gave him out, I guess.

Speaker 1 39:41

I don't know, man. I mean it's weird, it's a quirky shit.

Speaker 2 39:43

That's some quirky shit, All right man, I mean it's weird, it's a quirky shit, some quirky shit, All right, man. Good, that was strange, that was strange. Wow, all right, that was strange.

Speaker 1 39:52

The other thing is like you know. Like you know, did people think that chimpanzees have more hair than humans?

Speaker 2 40:02

That's I don't know?

Speaker 1 40:08

Well, you know. In this week they found out that that's a false statement, like they were. People used to think that there's more hair on a chimp because, you know, they're so hairy their entire body's all hairy that they have more hair than humans. It's just that we actually have the same amount of hair, do you remember?

Speaker 2 40:20

kojak ko Kojak. Do you think he qualified? Do you think Ham had as much hair as Kojak?

Speaker 1 40:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you remember Ham Dwayne, dwayne the Rock? Yeah, some of the. There are exceptions to the case, but I mean, on average, the human body has as many hairs as a chimp. It's just that we have different hairs. Like we have, like they're like small follicle hairs, for their likes is long hair, hairy hairs, like on top of our head.

Speaker 1 40:47

We talked about some real weird shit today, dude, you know, hey, we will talk about anything. I didn't like that one, though. In fact, if you want us to talk about something, send send us a message at Facebook and be like hey, and be like hey, talk about this.

Speaker 2 41:02

We talk about some crazy-ass shit, but hey, let's go to the destination.

Memories of Chattanooga and Retirement Plans

Speaker 1 41:07

Destinations man. This week we're going to do Chattanooga, tennessee.

Speaker 2 41:10

Chattanooga, Tennessee. Man, We've been going there since I was a little kid. My grandparents lived there.

Speaker 1 41:16

Oh, that's awesome, man. You know what? That's one of the things. My grandparents lived in Arkansas, just outside of this little lake I can't think of the name. I want to say Lake Bolshuls for some reason comes to mind, but it was in the Ozark Mountains. It was just cool, going to visit the grandma in the south. I'm just wondering who named that. What's that? Bolshuls, dude, bolshuls, bolshuls that's how I hate it. It's a lake.

Speaker 2 41:49

You know, one of the things I remember the most about um chattanooga was lookout mountain. Very, very cool man. You get to take this trolley up the side of the mountain to the very top and they have um these big, uh, uh, high performance um uh binoculars up there and you can see those ones that you could like stand on, and the, yeah, the binoculars, you kind of.

Speaker 2 42:08

You put the quarter in you could see for miles and miles you don't know how you're looking at, but it actually seems right, right as a kid, like those things were everywhere.

Speaker 1 42:15

Yeah, you go into like parks now and I don't think I don't know the last time I saw one of those, just to just thinking about that it was just something.

Speaker 2 42:22

You put a quarter and put your eyes in there and you're like, look, look at that. You're like you don't even know how you.

Speaker 1 42:26

They had those everywhere, like in the corners of the empire state building, like anywhere that was up high. They had those binoculars, you stood on them and you would put the quarter in.

Speaker 2 42:34

And you can get so much time to look through these damn things but as a kid taking that trolley up up the side of the mountain, that was absolutely cool that sounds cool.

Speaker 1 42:41

Lookout mountain's super famous.

Speaker 2 42:43

I mean come on but the best part of lookout mountain ruby falls ruby falls I mean, I, this one, we did, sean.

Speaker 2 42:50

I'm telling you, if you ever get an opportunity, go to ruby falls, because it is the coolest thing. You're going down underground and you're getting these caverns and as you're walking through, you know how they do that. Um, they're talking to you and they're telling you about, like when the miners first came into these caverns and and all of a sudden, as they're talking, all the lights turn out in a cavern. Dude, you can't even see you, you can't see shit. I mean, it is pitch black. And as you're as, as you're, you're standing there, they're still talking to you. They're like it's safe, just keep walking, keep your hands on the side of the wall and you're sitting there, going. You know this is nuts, and you're feeling this cold wall. It's wet and damp and as you're getting closer, you hear this water and it's gushing. I mean it is just gushing, yeah. And you're like what the hell, are we?

Speaker 2 43:39

doing. You're kind of like circling around. You're walking around in a circle and then they tell you they said, well, in Ruby Falls, when the miners first broke through, this is the first thing that they've seen, and they flashed this big spotlight up on this hole up in the top. Now it's still black. You can't see anything.

Speaker 2 43:55

Yeah, you just see the spotlight of the hole where the miners came through. And then all of a sudden they turn the lights on and here's this freaking geyser, gusher water coming out of that side of the mountain and it comes, it comes in one hole goes out another hole. Most amazing thing, man it is absolutely beautiful. I mean, it is so cool. It's one of those things if you're, if you're at lookout mountain, don't miss it, because it is very cool. You, you will remember it are you, are you a spelunker?

Speaker 2 44:22

a spelunker. Yeah, are you a spelunker? I I would say no, because I'm still trying to wonder what the hell you're talking about spelunking is cave diving like going into caves and like checking out caves and uh do I look like a damn spelunker to you?

Speaker 1 44:36

you are a spelunker it's a spelunker ruby falls go to it.

Speaker 2 44:40

If you, if you, if you want, if you're at lookout mountain, definitely go into rub Falls.

Speaker 1 44:44

Yeah, the other thing, chaginou has all kinds of stuff. I mean we're just going to briefly touch on Chaginou, but they got the aquarium there to see. They got other museums and stuff to see, but one that you definitely, if you get a chance to stop in, is the National Medal of honor heritage museum. It is Wow, wow.

Speaker 2 45:09

Now see, I haven't seen that, but I would love to see that.

Speaker 1 45:11

I would. I would love to see it too. I mean, as soon as I saw the pictures and read about it and stuff, I was like Whoa, this is like crazy. I would like I would. That would be amazing to me. It's always interesting to me to see, um, um, brave valor, the men and, you know, women of the country. I don't know. Has there any been women medal of honors? I don't know, I don't know. That's a good question, but I mean it. The wow honor room. I would definitely, uh, stop in to see that museum that's our history, man.

Speaker 2 45:42

That is our history. All right, let's go to places to eat this is you, man, dude?

Speaker 1 45:48

top three places to eat in chattanooga place called stir stir, stir, 1885 grill and the public house. These are pieces that are like but the highly rated places into chattanooga that you should check out. There are hundreds of restaurants there and stuff like that, but those are three that are the big highlights of Chattanooga.

Speaker 2 46:11

Love Tennessee, love Chattanooga. The state is beautiful and it is definitely something. If you are in Tennessee, stop at Lookout Mountain, stop at Ruby Falls. Definitely hit that national Medal of.

Speaker 1 46:24

Honor Go.

Speaker 2 46:24

Splunking and Splunking.

Speaker 1 46:27

The other thing about Tennessee. I'm going to tell you Tennessee is actually a place that we're considering retiring to. I mean Tennessee, it is a beautiful, beautiful country From end to end. The state has just so much to offer. I mean, if you get out there to see the Smoky Mountains, to see Chattanooga, to see Nashville, to see all the you know, asheville, you know all these different places you know that are in the Tennessee region, I mean, check it out, it's a beautiful state. But anyways, let's wrap it up here and let's talk about the quote of the day, quote of the day quote of the day.

Speaker 2 47:06

The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up. Don't give up. I love that one. That's actually a really cool one.

Speaker 1 47:17

All right, guys it's just like it goes. It's apropos for what happened at the beginning of the thing my freaking basement's flooding. I got a leak in my basement. My foot's still wet. Yeah, there's a struggle, but uh, I'm not what happened at the beginning of the thing my freaking basement's flooding.

Speaker 2 47:26

I've got a leak in my basement.

Speaker 1 47:27

And my foot's still wet. Yeah, there's a struggle, but I'm not going to give up All right guys.

Speaker 2 47:31

Hey, it was a lot of fun. You guys have a great week, can't wait until next week, and we will see you again next week on Cabin Pressure.

Speaker 1 47:41

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.