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What Never to Say at 30,000 Feet: Shawn and G Unpack Airline Stupidity
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Ever wondered what flight attendants talk about when they're not telling you to fasten your seatbelts? Welcome to the unfiltered world of Shawn and G, where vacation mishaps and workplace nightmares collide in spectacular fashion.
Shawn returns from Florida bursting with stories about his discovery of Bucky's convenience store ("departments in a convenience store!") and a beach adventure gone wrong. Picture this: a family minivan sinking into soft sand, panicking relatives, unhelpful onlookers, and salvation coming from three elderly women armed with rubber floor mats. Add a stubborn baby bird camping under the tire, and you've got the vacation disaster story that'll make you feel better about your own travel mishaps.
Meanwhile, G explains why he needed four days to decompress after a week from hell. From passengers ignoring potentially life-saving medical advice to dealing with a "service animal" that bit someone, G's patience was tested repeatedly. The final straw? A teenager's dismissive attitude when asked to stow their tray table before takeoff. The hosts' discussion reveals the genuine frustration flight attendants experience when passengers refuse simple safety instructions.
The conversation takes several unexpected turns, including a candid discussion about recent teacher-student scandals and the potentially catastrophic consequences of making bomb jokes on aircraft. Shawn and G pull no punches as they explain how a single thoughtless comment can lead to SWAT teams, airport shutdowns, and lifetime flying bans.
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G needs four days to decompress. Stuck in the sand with a minivan. Teachers having sex with students all this next on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G hey, everyone welcome. This is cabin pressure you guys, welcome to cabin. What's going on? Coming back, man, from vacation, it was a crazy, fun, exciting week of vacations and, man, I got so much stuff to talk to you about in this vacation stuff that happened you won't believe it. First of all, the one thing I got to talk about big time is I got to experience a Bucky's.
Speaker 2:You know something? Actually, Carol called me and told me she couldn't get your ass out of Bucky's.
Speaker 1:Dude, it is crazy. I mean I have never like so. We live up here in the Northeast and there's no Bucky's up here. Now I've heard about Bucky's and friends tell me about Bucky's, but the experience of Bucky's I was like what the hell? I mean this place needs to be up here.
Speaker 2:I was waiting for this one, because I have no idea what a Buc-ee's is.
Speaker 1:You don't know no.
Speaker 2:I've heard about it. Yeah, I've heard about it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to show you a picture here. Bucky's, is this like the Walmart of like convenience stores? It's, it has got everything in this in this store. But here's the thing Snack City. You know me, I like my sweets, I like my snacks and all this stuff. But is this like a truck stop? No, trucks are allowed. Oh, ok, and that's the beauty of it, it's like this giant. It looks like a truck stop, right, but it's only for cars, okay, and you go into this place. I mean they got people running around, they got departments, they got like, I mean, you're gonna see a whole wall of just flirpies. You're gonna see a whole wall of like beef jerky counter where they have like 50 beef jerky types. You know, you're gonna see the whole section in the middle of the store they got.
Speaker 2:They're just sitting there making pulled pork so you're standing in the middle of this by and go. Damn dude, I, I, my head is like someone around there's like a thousand people in this place.
Speaker 1:You'd like to get in and out of the parking lot.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was a traffic jam carol, come here, look at these hot dogs dude, it was a traffic jam.
Speaker 1:Carol, come here, look at these hot dogs. Dude, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, I could so see.
Speaker 1:And here's the crazy thing about Buc-ee's. I was like you know. The volume of stuff being sold there was just insane. But I ran into what they're known for at Buc-ee's A package of 20 Duracell or Energizer batteries. How much are we going to pay for that? 20 Duracell or Energizer batteries? How much are we going to pay for that? I?
Speaker 2:know you're not the shop in it. I know you're not the shopper.
Speaker 1:It's normally like 25 bucks, something like that Home Depot. You can go to Costco, get them somewhere around the 20 range or something like that Buc-ee's $9. Where are they from? They're a name brand, really name brand nine dollars. I went and got a. Here's another, here's another one. Uh, acetaminophen like, or ibuprofen you know, bottle of 50, 50 tablets. You know how much you're gonna pay for that. If you're, if you're playing the name brand, it's usually like oh, like 15 bucks or something like that, right. And then if you get the off brand, it's like $10, maybe $12. Right, bucky's $2.
Speaker 2:Like I said, I could so see you looking at Carol going. Hey, come here, Look at this dude.
Speaker 1:It was unbelievable. I mean, I was just like we spent almost an hour in that store, like an hour just like goofing off, seeing all this, this stuff, buying our snacks and stuff the freshest, like, if you want some candy dude, the freshest candy, because the volume of turnover that's happening there is like it's just going crazy. Like you're just it was an amazing bucky's and everybody that's listening to the show that knows a bucky. They're like oh hell yeah yeah, welcome to the family.
Speaker 1:I cannot get him out of bucky's no my friends were like the first time you go into bucky, sean, I know you're gonna, you're gonna drop 100 bucks for sure. Did you get a slurpee, dude? I got a slurpee, I got the bucky. They got these cinnamon bucky popcorn bites, dude, out of this world. Out of this world, I mean, they got like whole walls of like nuts and candies, like the bucky packages of that stuff insane. But here's the other thing. So bucky, walking in and out of it, they had this giant sign in there and it was like this uh, sign about, like you know, come work for bucky's. Tell me what an assistant general manager makes at puckies starting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, starting pay probably about 38, 39 000 yeah, 38, 39, no, no, 125, 125, dude.
Speaker 1:What's the general? What's the general manager make?
Speaker 2:I'm guessing probably about 160 now 225 really, yeah. But you know something it's almost like a huge ass walmart, though, because they're packed right. Yeah, they gotta be packed're packed.
Speaker 1:They've got to be packed. Listen, this is a convenience store that has departments in the convenience store. They can sell clothes, they sell snacks, they've got all of the food stuff and everything. They have managers for each one of those sections. You have an assistant manager to the store, you have the general manager to the store. There's like 50 employees going there. I mean it's a big operation. It is constant. The employees are like just okay, what's the gas prices?
Speaker 1:because I mean, right, they're supposed to have like a cheap it was down to like I want to say it was like below three dollars for sure when we were there, right it. I mean it's an experience. Anytime you can get to a bucky's and stop at a bucky's, like you, do it. You will like it will blow your mind. And I know you can get to a Buc-ee's and stop at a Buc-ee's, do it, it will blow your mind. And I know you go down to Florida. They're in Florida, right.
Speaker 2:Well, listen, before we get to your whole Florida experience. Let people know our required duty items.
Speaker 1:Our required duty items.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's the one thing that we usually have to have all the time? A flashlight no, that's bullshit. What's the one thing on you that you've got to have all?
Speaker 1:the time. No, our ID, oh no.
Speaker 2:Your ID. Oh, id, yes, we have to have that your.
Speaker 1:ID. Right, I know where you're going, son of a bitch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead Talk Talk about it. Let me tell you so you're supposed to. When you travel with the airport, you're supposed to travel with your ID, right?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, when you're an airline person, we have our airline ID.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, because we go through known crew members. Well, it gives us all our airline privileges. Known crew member.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Jump seat privileges with our airline.
Speaker 2:Exactly, or if you get random, you got to go through. Sure, go ahead when else. So you go through all that right yeah. Okay. So when you started your trip, yeah, and Carol was going into the airport.
Speaker 1:I was packing up, I was thinking, I'm going on vacation.
Speaker 1:I got ready, I'm out of here, I got all my stuff, it's packed up, ready to go. I get all the way to the airport and what do I forget? Hmm, my ID, yeah, your ID. And here's the thing. The crazy thing is that, like, we always go through, you know known crew member and we get the bypass. And even if we get random, you know we get to bypass and still step up to the front to get through and all. So it goes pretty quick. But when you really have to go through that, like in certain airports, I mean and I got pre-check because I got global entry and all that stuff, but it it took me like a good 20-25 minutes to get through. My wife had parked the car, came back to the airport, went through kcm and got down to the gate, was texting me. I was still in line because you didn't.
Speaker 2:You didn't remember your one thing, right id?
Speaker 1:your, I your identification okay so.
Speaker 2:Has this ever happened before to you?
Speaker 1:yeah, this has happened several times. I need to develop a system. You think after 30 freaking five years of flying I can figure it out, but I remember this.
Speaker 2:wait a minute, we're in the same car. Oh man Gee, I forgot my ID. We had to go back get your ID right, Yep, and then recently.
Speaker 1:Recently you were going to work. Yeah, yeah, got in off of a vacation and walking in with the wife.
Speaker 2:And you were just getting back to work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just getting back to work, tapped my chest no ID, no, no ID, no ID. Boom, missed trip. It is a bad habit. So what happens?
Speaker 2:What happens whenever you forgot your ID. Then what did you do? You call your buddy up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I call my buddy up. I said, gee, you got to help me out. I'm gone for 10 days and I got to come back through Orlando. First of all, orlando everybody out there that knows Orlando security and TSA insane Crazy. Orlando everybody out there knows Orlando security and TSA insane crazy. I thought I was like I went through Cleveland and I was hitting 25, 30 minutes going through there. I mean Orlando. It would have been a nightmare.
Speaker 2:That would have been like waiting for the millennium at Cedar Point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like wait a minute, I got to get Carol. Carol was actually the one that she was like you got to get your ID, like you got to call GE. We got to get this figured out. Blah, blah, blah. And who came in? The knight in shining armor comes in, goes, takes my IDs, flies down to Florida on his trip.
Speaker 2:Okay, wait a minute.
Speaker 1:Goes to beyond the reach of anything and gets my ID to me.
Speaker 2:If you can't hear it, I'm reaching around patting my ass on the back. Because it wasn't only that. When I got to his house, he had his security system on and I told Carol. I said, Carol, listen, you get on the phone and shut the security system off, because I don't believe his ass will do it. Listen, he forgot his damn ID. He'll forget to turn the security system off. My ass is going to go to jail because Medina police is going to come get my ass because they're going to see me on his camera.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would have been like ugly ass white man in my house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, put him in jail. Put him in jail. But anyway, I flew that thing down the floor and threw it into the to to the mail and sent it directly to UPS.
Speaker 1:UPS, yeah, yeah, UPS. I wouldn't listen. I am not a fan of the U? S postal system. They like if you would have gave it to them literally I probably not not shown up to work this month, Like they would have lost that son of a bitch for sure. Yeah, definitely, but anyway, listen remember your ID, sean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got to remember, okay, so go ahead. And what about your let's? Let's start with your trip, trip man.
Speaker 1:The trip was amazing. You know, my little niece, milia, she, we took her to Milia Island and you know everywhere she was going on the Island like we did all kinds of activities and stuff, just like a normal vacation type of thing. But you know she would walk up to him and she's like hey, hi, my name is Amelia and this is my island, like it was. It was the cutest dang thing. But she was just like like everybody she'd meet was like my name is Amelia this is my island, like the whole trip.
Speaker 1:It was awesome. But, uh, you know, that is, this is the reason why we work hard and we save up our money and be able to do family vacations like this, because, I mean, this is a memory for the, for the ages. You know, we'll always remember this vacation. But one thing that did happen. So this is crazy.
Speaker 1:You know, we stayed at a beautiful hotel on the beach. We had a great experience. You know, actually, the water in the ocean was like the perfect temperature, like wow. I mean I've never you know you don't get to rarely get an ocean water temperature where it's just like perfect. It was perfect. It was super cool, refreshing, all that good stuff, not too cold, not too hot. But the pool at the, the hotel, dude, it got to be like I felt like it was in the high 80s for sure. I mean, it wasn't even like refreshing. I was like me and my, uh, my nephew, he was like, yeah, we got to go to the ocean, like we would leave just to go to the ocean, just to and I'm not a big sand person, like I hate sand, I like invasive, you know right.
Speaker 1:But speaking about sand, this is what happened on our vacation. We were out driving, experiencing the island, deciding like we're going to go see some different beaches. We went to this like Black Rock Beach and kind of walked out and all this stuff, beautiful beach, you know, no animals allowed on the beach, which is odd in Florida, right, um, beautiful beach. We leave, we run into these ladies that are bird watchers and they start telling us about these birds because we were like we, we saw these pink birds and we like I turn the car around. I'm like, oh, we got to go back and see these, uh, flamingos, right. So we get out of car looking and we're like, oh, that's cool, I'm taking pictures, these are cool flamingos. They're like, no, no, no, no, those aren't flamingos, those are spoon bill cranes or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they're giving us the whole education.
Speaker 1:So the girls just like dive into it and they like loved it, because we're like seeing all this, you know wildlife, and so they were like you should go down the road here to this other beach and this other beach, you can drive your car out on the beach and you can go see. And right now they're like hatching thousands of birds and all this stuff. So we're like, okay, let's do this. Okay, we're in a minivan and we decide we're going to drive down on the beach, which there's hundreds of cars out on this beach, and we drive down and the sand's packed and all that stuff. I get all the way very down to the very end, because I'm thinking I, you know, gotta watch myself.
Speaker 1:I'm in this minivan and it's driving fine down the beach. And I get down there and I said, okay, I'm gonna turn this around. So I turn it up where I see all these cars parked and I kind of pull up to there and I start backing out and my wheels start going. I'm like, oh shit. And now I like go forward. And it goes forward and then it just like literally sinks. I literally hit the pan of the front of the car. The wheels are into the sand. We're stuck, dude. If you could see my face right now I was at that moment I was shitting bricks, dude. I was like I could not.
Speaker 1:I'm like you had the girls in the car and they had signs. Yeah, I had a whole crew in the car and they had signs. You know, don't get stuck, we don't tow. It was, it was a fun so when you become part of the beach.
Speaker 1:So I stopped the car. I'm like everybody out, I'm like running out there. I'm like, oh my gosh, I want to get to get this out, all this stuff. I'm looking, I try to get my niece to get in and she tries it. I didn't realize that the van door, when it's open, it wouldn't like it actually stays in park. It will not go. So driver's doors open, it wouldn't go. So I was like what's going on with the car now? I'm like I got mechanical problems, you know like well, you're not familiar with the minivan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm like so hyper focused about like we got to get this damn van out of here, right? That's where ty comes in and I'm thinking I'm thinking I just bought a minivan, like I'm gonna get they're gonna need a helicopter to get this whole bitch out of here. I'm going to need to be rescued and the good thing is that all vacation there was helicopter patrols from the Marine base going up and down. Is anybody looking at you? People are looking at us. People are ignoring us.
Speaker 2:So nobody's like hey, I want to come help this guy.
Speaker 1:So three elderly ladies, these ladies, there you go they're in like the 70s.
Speaker 1:yeah, they come over and they're like oh wow, you got yourself stuck here. This is bad. I don't know, we might have a tow rope over here. You know they're in a jeep and so they're like we got a tow rope. Maybe we can help you out. This van has not a hitch on it. They don't got a bumper on it, like. They're like I don know we might tear this van apart. And so then one of these ladies look at it and they're like you know what we should do? We'll get the rubber mats out of our car. We'll dig out the tires, put the mats under the car and we'll get it up out of the sand. Dude, like a charm, dude it like bam, they gripped, they gripped, we bounced out. I didn't like gun it, I just kept accelerating, kind of like wheezed my way through the sand, got up to the hard pan sand. Boom, I'm like I'm getting the fuck out of here, get in the van.
Speaker 2:Everybody get in the van, I'm out. But you know the funny part? You would have thought like, you know, I got three 70-year-old ladies. They ain't no damn help. No, they're the only people on the beach that were helping us Smart enough to sit there and grab something.
Speaker 1:If you three ladies and I didn't get their name, nothing. But if they know who they are, the where's the beef ladies? Yeah, I think. Thank God for you, yeah.
Speaker 2:Thank God for elderly, educated, experience, intelligence, yes, right sometimes, sometimes, you don't need the bra.
Speaker 1:So then here's the other thing that happened. Now I want to get out of there, right? And so now everybody, they're trying to calm the girls down, because I didn't wasn't focused on this, but they're like balling their heads out. They're like, and my great vacation so my little amelia that's been telling everybody that this is her island, she's like crying over there and she looks at my wife and she's like all I want to do is have lunch.
Speaker 2:Uncle Sean just messed it all up.
Speaker 1:Why can't we just leave and have lunch, like she has no idea of the magnitude of what we're in.
Speaker 2:Jack the shit up Right Just as soon. So I'm like what's Carol doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Carol's trying to calm the girls down and they're like getting them wading in the water and stuff like that, like because it's a very, you know, shallow, docile beach and so, and then there's just birds everywhere. So I'm like, listen, everybody, let's get back in, let's get out of here, I gotta get out of here. Like I'm thinking just like, get off this beach. Yeah, definitely right, you're like, I'm like I, we gotta get out of here. And so there's like hundreds of cars down this beach on the hard pan sand and I'm like weaving through these cars.
Speaker 1:But but before I get there, when I get everybody in guess what? One of those little son of a bitch birds, the babies. He decided he was gonna camp out right underneath my car, underneath the tire. He's in the front of the tire and now I can't move the damn car. So then my niece is like, okay, we'll try to coax him. I'm like coax him. So they're literally pushing the bird, the bird's like stepping out of the way and stepping back in by the tire. I'm like I dare you to run over. I'm like there's going to be a dead ass bird. Somebody's going to be upset.
Speaker 1:But I'll be continuing to go on Well there's a little bird watching.
Speaker 2:Ladies, man, be chasing your ass down the beach yeah.
Speaker 1:So we had to. We had to like, um, she had to literally coax him away from the tire. And then, at the same time, I had to like, I was like tell me when he's away, because I'm gonna move the van. But he was trying to get out of the sun, right you know, because it was hot and stuff quit moving the damn van sean.
Speaker 1:So I I got it moved. Everybody jumped in the van. We got the hell out of there. As soon as I get in the van, everybody gets in the van. What's my million, say I gotta go to the bathroom. I'm like here, we're not stopping on the beach for you like we're good.
Speaker 2:Well, she got all worked up.
Speaker 1:Man next stop is um asphalt turf and I'll stop at any place that has bathroom on asphalt dirt. But man, was that experience? Man, I was in like panic mode to be like. I was like I can't. This is going to be. We'll be here all day trying to get this thing off the beach, right?
Speaker 2:Carol, check the tide.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Luckily it was low tide. We would have been screwed later on, but that was like the big trauma experience. But Million islands is amazing. I would highly recommend that to anybody who wants to get away and just like. It's a cool place in florida. That story was priceless, believe me, I had. I would have loved to seen your face. I I thought about that. I was having nightmares like the next fall of the days, but I was trying to keep it, keep it cool with everybody, like I was like it's okay, kids, it's okay the car's sinking well, I just felt it was like I stop it and I'm like get out, and I'm like I'm screwed.
Speaker 1:Sand man, you're screwed. Yeah, anyways, that's pretty funny though you're not getting towed.
Speaker 2:No, we didn't get towed and we got out of there. No, I'm just saying a sign that says you're screwed, yeah, anyways, that's pretty funny, though you're not getting towed no, we didn't get towed and we got out of there.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just saying a sign that says you're not getting. Yeah, so the sign going like this happens right must happen a lot, and so you have to provide somebody else to get you. And I don't even know how they would tow it. I've been like thinking this over and over. I don't know how they would have towed that van out of there.
Speaker 2:Somebody's got experience. They got for three little old ladies.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And some rubber mats.
Speaker 1:And some rubber mats, yeah, but anyways, man, what's been going on with you?
Speaker 2:Too much shit. I mean, you know it took the last four days off. There's a reason.
Speaker 1:There's a reason.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:First of all, you don't take a lot of days off. No, no, no, no. Anybody that knows G, he flies every day. He can possibly fly.
Speaker 2:But you know, like anything right, there comes a time that's like you know that you've got to basically go decompress. And from this last week, man, I needed to decompress. First of all, it started off, had a medical emergency on the plane, that's fine. But you get to this guy and this guy is pale, he's sweating and everything. And the first thing I did is I tried to get him to lay down and get his feet elevated because I figured it was like blood pressure or something was going on. And he doesn't want to believe me and he's like yeah, whatever, I'm fine. And I'm like listen, let's just lay down, it's going to make you start making it feel better right away. And and he keeps telling me, no, and I'm getting my ice pack and I'm trying to convince him to lay down, they're making a PA.
Speaker 2:We get a doctor come up. She comes up and she tells him she goes look, we need to get you to the back, get you, get your feet elevated. Listen, wait, this is where the hell did you hear that from? Right, right, yeah, seriously, where did you hear that from? I'm sitting there going damn. And I told him that, sean, I was like damn, where did you hear that from? Huh, where did you hear it? Get your feet elevated. I told you that like 10 minutes ago, yeah, so, anyway, so we get him to the but you know, okay, that's irritating, I know.
Speaker 1:You know, this subject of what you're talking about is like our level of perception of authority on the plane. Like people don't like. I feel like they don't give us enough authority or enough respect in our position that we know what we're doing, because everybody on the plane as a flight attendant isn't a new flight attendant Like we. There's a lot of experience on that plane. I mean between you and I and we're looking for a doctor.
Speaker 2:Trust me, you know, we're looking for a doctor right away. I mean, we're making calls but until the doctor comes, sometimes there's not a doctor on it, right? So we have to initiate. So one of the first things when you notice certain things, so one of the first things when you notice certain things and I've been on the plane long enough and I've seen this many times, right, right, and one of the first things that you do and even if you're wrong, you're fine is get your ass on the ground, get your feet elevated, get your legs above your heart to where it's not working so hard, and you're going to start feeling better right away. But do you want to listen? No, and this goes the whole week, sean. Okay, this is the whole week going with this.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, this guy ended up being fine, I mean, and and he gets back to his seat. He, you know, says how much he appreciates it. But I'm like you know, that's just the stupidity of that. People, people don't listen. They just, they just don't, do not listen. They want to believe that they know exactly what they're doing and they don't listen. So, next thing so get a call to the back. We have a service animal on board, right Okay, service animal bit a passenger.
Speaker 1:What Wait? First of all, service animals don't bite people. Service animals don't service people. Right, Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you, you know already, when you have animal on an aircraft and bit another person, yeah, it's just not good, no, it doesn't matter, service animal, not service animal, the whole situation not good, because you, you know you're going to go back into a hot situation where somebody's pissed. Hell, yeah, okay. So then you have to go through all the reports and everything and the guy's like, oh yeah, no, it's fine, it's fine, blah, blah, blah. And then he thinks of the airline First thing, you know that's coming and they think of the, the airline and the situation and everything. And all of a sudden yeah.
Speaker 1:Well then he's thinking about oh, maybe I can get some money out of this or I can get something out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know it's an opportunist and that's fine. I mean, you know I get dog bit you and you're an opportunist and you're trying to get something from it and that's fine. But then what you do is that you key all these things and I was explaining to the other flight attendants OK, all this stuff's got to happen now. We got to happen now. We've got to call paramedics, we've got to call med language. There's all this whole procedure we've got to do Now. All the T's have got to be crossed, the I's are dotted. And let me tell you something it's got to be done exactly the way you're supposed to do it, because it's going to come back and bite you in the ass. You know that. You know that. So it's all this paperwork and how much fun is paperwork, sean oh, it's a joy, this bullshit.
Speaker 1:I hate doing paperwork. I do, I hate.
Speaker 2:The worst thing that we have to do is paperwork but seriously, people with this with service animals, if it's not a service animal, okay. If it's not a service animal, don't list it as a service animal, because dogs, if dogs get spooked, they're gonna bite. They're gonna just react and and I know that I have a dog and they're going to react and they're going to bite. But you know, the thing is is that you're the one that signed that paperwork. You're responsible.
Speaker 1:Well, the one thing that I have to say about this is that the dog is not a service animal and no matter what I mean my, my, my suggestion to a crew is you need to document that dog, no matter what, whether, whether the guy wanted to report it or not. You need to document it because that person's dog is not a service animal. We already know that you know as crew. Um, and then needs to go on the record. Like that needs to be tracked in the record, saying like somebody needs to go into question that they're carrying an animal that's violent to people that bit someone yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean, regardless of them trying to scam the system and get their puppy from a to b or whatever they're trying to do, I mean that needs to be documented, just because, uh, and I get to get the guy's angle too, like he's just looking for something, a free ticket or whatever he's looking for, but, um, or maybe he's looking to sue the lady I, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were going to make sure that the dog was documented. It's not the dog's fault, it's the owner. Not bad to animals, bad owners. But anyway, it wasn't a service animal. People just don't do it. If it's not a service animal, don't list it as a service animal, because this could happen. You're going to get sued. I mean you're going to get sued. I mean you're going to get sued, but anyway you've got to deal with all that crap. So next, okay, and this one is the one that sent me over the edge You're having a doozy week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just said it Right.
Speaker 2:You're sinking in the sand. It made me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1:Right, okay, I'll just let you know.
Speaker 2:Okay, you sinking in the sand made me feel a little bit better about my week, but anyway, now people, the first thing that we tell them to put their seat bags, tray tables, phones put them away, put your bags underneath your seat, simple things, right before we take off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, simple things. Mandatory safety FAA.
Speaker 2:We say it a few times, right, we tell them a few times, and then we go through and we have to verify that all this is done before we take off. And there's reasons because for safety of flight Okay, people just get pissed if you tell them what to do, right? Oh yeah, they get pissed the defiant Stupid. Don't tell me what to do, it's just dumb. It's just dumb right, they give you attitude.
Speaker 1:Leave me alone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, attitude, attitude. Don't they look at you getting off of getting getting off the phone, right? Oh no, you're talking to me, yeah.
Speaker 1:I got a, I got a call, I got to take care.
Speaker 2:Girl was sitting there and ask her to get off the phone. She just looked at me and she gave me that that. You know how do you roll your eyes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Continue talking.
Speaker 1:That dismissive added like you know, Completely Right.
Speaker 2:Like she was talking to her man or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, honey, go away. Yeah, get away from it, go away. I got things more important going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that doesn't work, Sean. No, not in that environment. No, it doesn't work. So you know, I told her, or with you or I?
Speaker 2:No, not at all, not at all. Especially, especially, in the mood that I've been in this week. So I looked at her and I told her. I said now here's your one opportunity. Right, you got a choice to make. Now, if you see me go to the front of the aircraft and this aircraft turns around, you're getting off, you're leaving, or you're getting off that phone right now and you're not getting back on it. Because if you get back on it and we turn this plane around, what do we do, sean? We take them off.
Speaker 1:You're going to be off.
Speaker 2:We take them off If the plane turns around, you're leaving, it's too late, right? So it's a simple request. Okay, simple request Put your bags on. Don't plug into the outlets in the emergency exit. Why? Because people will trip if we have to evacuate an aircraft. So this was all week. I mean this was all week. I mean this is all week, and usually it happens every once in a while you get one or two.
Speaker 1:What was in the freaking water this week, Dude? Who knows Pastures? You know what the rules are even before you get on. It's pretty common for the airlines. This is not unique to any one company. Is what we all do? We do the same exact thing. You have to follow these rules that are mandated by the rules that govern the airline. You know it's like I don't know what people are.
Speaker 2:You know it's summer, though but the one that set me off, though, is a little teenager one, the teenager that's traveling with mom and dad, and, and when they have their tray table down, uh, you can see that I'm eating.
Speaker 1:Oh, hell, no, I'm like oh, mr mr miller needs some time off yeah, yeah, oh no, oh, I maybe I can't see that I need my glasses here. Let me put them on. I-ass. Flight attendant. Let's see what's happening.
Speaker 2:No, Sean, I was like I need a few days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes you need to decompress before you blow, right. Because we might say something or do something that would get us in trouble.
Speaker 2:We don't want to do that. You had that vision of, like that throat-punching thing yeah.
Speaker 1:That kid needed a throat punch.
Speaker 2:Exactly. But no, it was a freaking, crazy-ass week, man, I needed some time off. So I took the last four days off and I kind of decompressed a little bit. But as I was taking that off, you know, I kind of watched a little bit of the news.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mm-hmm, lots of stuff happening in the news, a lot of fun stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh crazy, but you know, when you went to school, when you were in school, what did your teachers look like? Old Crumpy Kangles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 2:Some of them were a little wrinkly, those long-ass dresses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or he was big and fat, elderly age, balding, receded hairline.
Speaker 2:There was absolutely nothing to look at.
Speaker 1:No, no, there wasn't anything interesting other than like what they were telling us sometimes.
Speaker 2:This week they had crazy these freaking hot teachers that were messing around with their students.
Speaker 1:Dude, like three of them, dude. That's like every teenage boy's fantasy, right? I mean like hot for teacher, especially in our generation, with the song and everything you know. It's like I was always, like I don't see any teachers like that. I'm always envisioning, like you knowing, for all those Catholic people out there, the nuns walking around with the rulers and shit like that, like these old people, frumpy old. No, no, I didn't have anything like that.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, there's moms at home right now going. That's not funny. Those young men are going to be traumatized, my ass.
Speaker 1:No, the're not. The only trauma they get is not missing out.
Speaker 2:We're going to go over that one too, Because I was sitting there thinking about this and you've seen this, and this one was having sex with a 16-year-old boy.
Speaker 1:Dude.
Speaker 2:Sister 2023.
Speaker 1:Wow 2023. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's a run. The one had like 50 counts. Wow, 50 counts Sean.
Speaker 1:Well, that wasn't an account. That was a relationship she was having with a young kid.
Speaker 2:So these girls were freaking, these teachers were smoking hot. Not one of my teachers, one of my teachers. You know what her name was. What's that? Dead Fish Ragner. Dead Fish Ragner.
Speaker 1:Dead Fish Ragner Was she a Viking with horns on top of her head.
Speaker 2:There's nobody that you're sitting there going. Oh yeah, you know, I really want to go to sleep with her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't have any creative names for our teachers, cause I will tell you that, like in high school, when I got to the high school, like I didn't pay attention to teachers until high school really, cause, like in high school, you get more like that interaction with your teachers and a little bit more personal Right, right, like. So that's when you when I really like recognize teacher other than you know that teacher I call pig in fourth grade.
Speaker 2:But um, we already went through that right, you got a trip down there to the prison right.
Speaker 1:So you know most of my teachers I was in italy and in italy it's so cool because one, there's no drinking age there, so all the teachers know that right. So like it was very common in our school that we were at, that we actually would get together with our teachers and go out to dinner and stuff like that as a group and talk about life and they'd give us guidance and stuff like that. It was cool and I will admit we sat around drinking and all kinds of stuff, but it wasn't like out of hand. It wasn't like the American kid drinking that we're thinking about, like over there in europe. It's like not a big deal, right, you know.
Speaker 1:So like people didn't drinking wasn't even a thing. The only people that thought it was a thing were the kids that had just transferred in from over the united states. You know, like they just got there and they're like I could drink. Oh, you know they're the ones that are binging and passing out and you know getting in trouble for drinking and stuff. But yeah, the teachers were not like I didn't. I had one teacher Think about this that had a wife that was hot, yeah.
Speaker 2:But seriously, I mean when we were in school none of them look like this. No.
Speaker 1:None of them. I mean I have young teachers.
Speaker 2:Well, you always hear about the male teachers, right Right, and if you start really Googling, there's a lot of women that actually have sexual relations with these young boys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean this week. So I'm doing research for this whole you brought up, and so I found three that just happened this month that are all being on trial in jail whatever that have been doing this partaking in the student body. I think we got cheated.
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, if there was somebody there in my generation that, okay, look at this picture, sean, and tell me that you wouldn't be traumatized, well, no, I wouldn't be traumatized by her, and no, but she is a uh, yeah, we're gonna be so much shit for this one.
Speaker 1:I'm very upset that I didn't get it, wasn't she picked?
Speaker 2:They sat there and said this one boy, on this one, you know the 50 counts that he's going to be traumatized for the rest of his life. And I was sitting there thinking the only thing that this guy is going to be traumatized is he shouldn't have said anything. That's number one. Number two he thought he was going to get this through his high school years. And then he thought he was going to get this through his high school years, and then he thought he's going to get it when he came home from college.
Speaker 1:And now he's got reason reason to be traumatized yeah, the crazy thing is how these people get caught right. So the latest gal, she gets taught because she tells another fellow teacher about her excavates with this student and then the teacher's like I gotta turn this in you got away with it and then you had to tell somebody yeah, you had to open your mouth, it wasn't even the student Right right, the student. I don't think any of these students came forward.
Speaker 2:That was a smart, yeah, that was a smart student, right, he was like oh hell, no, I learned. I've seen that in the news. I'm keeping it to myself.
Speaker 1:So here's the crazy thing too, as I'm thinking about this thing, like most of all these cases that we're talking about, it's female teachers with male adolescent boys, right, but you don't see the reverse. I haven't seen any reverse stuff, because when you switch this script to that reverse, now it's male, you know teachers raping girls, you know so like, and I guess it's female teachers raping boys, right, and that's what they are accused of and stuff. But uh, and that one gal, 50 accounts of uh rape, whatever, but it is a uh, it's, it's. It's a very interesting dynamic. But remember that one teacher that actually, like this happened, I don't know, this was like 10, 20 years ago, but she ended up marrying the student. Oh, yeah, yeah, like that, that's wild we still got cheated.
Speaker 2:I don't care, man, I'm serious. I mean, when I go back and I think of school, the only thing I mean we had a home economics teacher. That you know back then you know if a girl had big boobs, that that's all you looked at, right?
Speaker 1:I mean seriously. Well, those are the first things that you see.
Speaker 2:Well, I know, but I mean usually, because the way they dress, that's the only thing that would stick out.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to tell you right now. I mean, I know a lot of guys are like into boobs, but I was always into the ass.
Speaker 2:I get that.
Speaker 2:But you, you had a hot round ass. I was like, wow, I know, but I'm talking about my home economics teacher and the only time that I mean she wasn't a looker, Don't get me wrong, but she wasn't a looker, but she was the only one that I mean. If you looked, I was sitting there thinking, was there any of them? I mean student teachers? No, no, there was not one. And then you see the picture of it. How could, how could, the husband walk in with the one that's got like 50 counts against her?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, that's a lawyer's advice. You know like you need some, some support.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine sitting in there and hearing that?
Speaker 1:Hearing all this stuff that your wife just did with this teenager.
Speaker 2:But then you love the before and after pictures.
Speaker 1:Pictures because you know they get before prison and then after prison. Yeah, the mugshot.
Speaker 2:This is what she looked like when it happened because if if it would have looked like the mugshot, it wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1:No, no no, not even close yeah, they're a little rough, although that's a mugshot on that one guy, the most recent one, that's nice. Yeah, right, traumatized Sean Dude. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:Did you get cheated? Did you get cheated? Come on, just say it.
Speaker 1:Did you feel like you got cheated? Any teenage boy out there would be like I'm upset that I didn't get laid, Did you?
Speaker 2:get cheated. Did you feel like you got cheated? You're bullshit. You're saying you got cheated. I'm telling you we got cheated.
Speaker 1:Maybe you need to talk to a counselor about this.
Speaker 2:I was just laughing because I was sitting there thinking the whole time we never, ever, ever had teachers that looked like that.
Speaker 1:No man, I've never had teachers. I saw some moms around school. For sure there were some moms around school?
Speaker 2:for sure, there's some moms, right right. Well, we had, we had some male teachers that you knew they were messing around with the girls. I mean, you heard about that, I mean, but back then they didn't report it not in my school, they're every.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you, everybody was old, it was old yeah, well, we had a couple young.
Speaker 2:We had a couple young, um, uh, physical ed teachers come in and and everybody knew that they they're messing around, but back then they didn't report it. Now, social media, everything, shoot, you're on, you're, you're gonna, you're gonna get posted everywhere yeah, I'd be.
Speaker 1:it'd be interesting to like, like go back to like a school reunion, yeah, and then talk about this, like with the, with the student body that you graduated with, and said, like who knew about some stuff? Like that'd be crazy, like to find out oh yeah wait, Mr who was with her, you know like, and she could miss who was with her.
Speaker 2:But you know, looking at these pictures, I would honestly, I would risk being traumatized though. Sean.
Speaker 1:I've heard this about 10 times. Now I'd say it man. I'm just telling you, we got cheated. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:All right, man, let's go around the globe.
Speaker 1:Around the globe, man. There is all kinds of crazy stuff happening, man. What is the most stupidest thing a passenger could say on a plane?
Speaker 2:Well, you spell bomb.
Speaker 1:Well, that's been happening. Stupidity, Just straight stupid. Yeah, well, that's been happening. Stupidity, just straight stupid. Yeah, people like it's always interesting to me, like even in conversation on a plane, like people will be talking to us and they're interested in our job and blah, blah, blah, what we encounter, and stuff like that, but then they get to this point where they want to like joke about that subject in that environment. There's no joking, yeah. To like joke about that subject in that environment, there's no joking. Yeah, there's zero joking about that in our job or around our job. And once you're on the plane you start talking about bomb is no joke, nope, because nobody's gonna take it as a joke. Nope, yeah, and there's consequences, right?
Speaker 2:big time. Well, look okay first, first one, let let's look at the stupidity of this guy. So he misses his flight, right, misses his flight. So what does he do? First thing he do, right.
Speaker 1:Not call the airline Go book another flight Rebook right.
Speaker 2:Right, Not rebook. I'm going to call. Let's see what am I going to do. I'm going to call in a bomb threat on that flight Stupid. How freaking dumb can you be? Then the next call. You know what the next call was.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing I'm thinking about this. I'm like why would he do this? What's the reason? Is he pissed off at the airline?
Speaker 2:Did he think the plane was going to come back?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what did he think was going to happen when he did this? Like that's my whole point. Like was he trying to be vindictive to try to get at the airline, or was he trying to like, oh, I'm going to manipulate this situation, I'm going to get this plane to come back and get me, type of thing? You know, like what they're thinking in their head.
Speaker 2:Stupid, stupid, very stupid, so anyway. So his next call is to the airline to rebook his flight. So he rebooks his flight. Okay, well, they find out who it was Right, so they come and get him and he admits to calling in the bomb threat on that flight. So then, guess what? They take him off the flight that he rebooked on.
Speaker 1:You missed two of them you're gonna be missing a whole bunch of others because you're not gonna not gonna be spending time at the airport anymore.
Speaker 2:You're an idiot, I mean just afraid you're a freaking idiot.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing too, like the consequences for that and I don't know what the consequences happen to this guy, because we didn't research that far but I mean, or it's still a case going on right now the. You know those people listen, this is a privilege. You know flying is a privilege, right, you know these people need to stop and be like, literally, you know you're, you don't fly anymore for the rest of your life. You know this, this stupid. Oh, this is a nationwide ban for you. You know, if you want to go fly, go fly. Turkish Airline or something like that, somebody outside of the US.
Speaker 2:This was a little bit quieter. This idiot made a comment on the plane to one of the crew members, so this is what happened. So he makes a comment about a bomb being on the plane. So they taxi off into a remote area Right and is surrounded by police officers, swat, bomb squad, everybody.
Speaker 1:All crew knows what's happening right now. I mean, you made a comment. You don't even have to, and that's the point here that we're trying to make. You make a comment about a bomb, right, and whether how we react and we don't react or whatever. That crew right there they just listen to your comment, but they relayed that to the captain. The captain takes that as for real and all kinds of things are getting ready to go down.
Speaker 2:So you're wondering what's going through this person's head when they're sitting there going. I wonder what's going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Why is the plane stopped? Why is the plane stopped? This is so weird. Police are surrounded. Swat team is surrounded.
Speaker 2:What's happening, Boy? They're being aggressive.
Speaker 1:Who is the asshole that just did this to us? Did somebody call this in on me? Who was it? Then they find out when they get off the plane. It was you. You're this stupid-ass idiot that started talking about a bomb.
Speaker 2:So they take this ding-dong off the aircraft, right, they walk them off the airplane. But this is not just what happens, because the police don't know it's just him. They don't know if he's traveling with someone, if it was real, if it's legit. So they got to take the aircraft to a remote area. They have to take this person off, they have to deplane, they have to search every passenger, every bag, everything on that aircraft has to be searched. It has to be swept with a bomb squad and a dog and that airport, basically, was shut down from departures for hours. So there was like I don't know how many flights that were delayed just because of that, the vast impact that you're having.
Speaker 1:I mean, this person has no idea Like. This is a serious, serious, Can I say it one more time Serious.
Speaker 2:Shit's going to start for you after this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do not want to be. This is not the environment to be talking about it, joking about it or even mentioning it, Unless you want something to happen like this.
Speaker 2:Well, I can tell you there's in your future, there is. There's one word that will uh be your travel a greyhound, because your ass will never be on a plane again yeah, man, amtrak might be another option I don't know, even they'll let you on a train who knows, they'll probably, I don't know.
Speaker 1:That that's the. That's an interesting subject. Like these people, people that do get banned, you know, because FAA and all this stuff covers all transportation, right, yeah, so it's like, do they get banned everywhere? Like is this person stuck in their state and they can only use a car? Now you know, like I don't know. A bicycle, yeah, I mean, they shouldn't be even allowed on a freaking electric bike, like it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:So let's recap, to make sure that people like me don't have to go take four more days off. You know something? Just pay attention on the planes. Don't say stupid things like a bomb's on a plane or I wish I'd blow something up, or you call in a stupid threat for an aircraft. Don't do dumb things like that. Just get on the damn plane, go to your destination, enjoy what you're doing. But you know something, brother it's coming up the 4th of July weekend 4th of July man.
Speaker 2:What are you doing or do you have any plans Working?
Speaker 1:Working.
Speaker 2:Yeah, working.
Speaker 1:Of course I already knew that you were going to be working because our airline we get paid extra for working on the holiday, exactly so you and my wife are there. You're both working.
Speaker 1:I am not working well I'm going to a party I was invited to and I'm going to attend for a little bit because I do work the next day after um, but I'm not working for the fourth july, but so, and my wife has a like checking at like 5 am, so she's gonna be going like on the fourth july, which is like one of the worst days to go to bed early. Right, she's probably flying with me probably that's nice, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, that's working and you being at home again. Yeah, you guys, have a good day at work exactly there's there's another shocker yeah, I'll be um partaking in, um and festivities all right man, let's get to the quote all right, what? What's the quote we got today?
Speaker 2:it's not over when you lose, it's over when you quit absolutely, absolutely, man.
Speaker 1:It is absolutely. You can't be quitter. Nope, you got to be focused on the goal.
Speaker 2:And I'm not quitting. I'm getting back in the game, man, I just need a little break. But hey, listen, you guys have a great Fourth of July weekend. It was a lot of fun. Don't do stupid things on an airplane because you know something. Flight attendants, they don't like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're going to be hearing this episode after the 4th of July and hopefully we'll have some recaps of what happened this last weekend and celebrating all the festivities of our nation and all that good stuff. But have a great celebration, stay safe out there. And one more time, sean, I felt cheated, felt cheated. Hey, and listen, I want to talk about one thing before, one other thing before we leave.
Speaker 1:I have a friend that has happened right here in my neighborhood and this is just kind of like a warning for everybody out there Be careful with these fireworks.
Speaker 1:I mean, and I know what this is, you're hearing this after the fact and everything but people set these off many days and many weeks after the 4th of July. But I had a buddy that literally he lit a firework and he was like you know, oh, this is, and this one, the big ones, you know they go up and explode and make the big old, you know, boom in the air and all that good stuff, right, but he lit it and the firework didn't go off, and so they waited and waited, and waited and they thought, oh, okay, all right, it's clear to go over here and see it, right, and he gets over there and he stands over the top of it and the thing goes off and literally explodes half his face. Oh my God. Yeah, it was a horrible, horrible accident Happened many, many years ago here in my neighborhood. But it's a warning Be careful. And I hope everybody was safe this week. You know this last past Fourth of July weekend and you know, hopefully we're not going to be talking about any bad stories this next week.
Speaker 2:No, hopefully it's a lot more fun. Anyway, you guys have a great weekend and we will see you next time on Cabin Pressure. See ya.
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