Please Keep Your Rats, Your Pepper Spray, And Your Politics Off The Plane

The week snowed sideways, the runway sparked, and comfort food did the heavy lifting. We kick off with a rejected takeoff that ends safely but rattles the nerves, then dive into a whiteout commute so bad it makes four lanes feel like one. Between a smoky, wobbling rental and holiday lists that never end, we find sanity in big-batch wedding soup and bread that takes days to coax into life—small rituals that steady the hands when everything else shakes.

From there, the skies and headlines collide. A flight attendant job portal opens and slams shut in 38 minutes with 5,000 applicants, proving the cabin still has its mystique. A KLM flight gets waylaid by a rat. A cross-country arrival at JFK becomes hours in limbo thanks to snow removal shortages. And a 777 sheds an engine cowling near Dulles, throwing sparks and igniting brush along the runway. We talk about what passengers can’t see—staffing, ops, and the reality that crews are stuck in the same jam—and how empathy goes further than volume when the seatbelt sign won’t turn off.

On the ground, accountability becomes impossible to ignore. A drunk dad turns a warning into handcuffs in front of his kids. A delivery driver sprays pepper spray on someone’s dinner and blames a spider. A viral restaurant fight costs a tech worker her job in a day. Even a first-class flex tied to politics backfires when the next leg vanishes. Cameras are everywhere, and choices travel faster than we do. We ask what it means to keep your cool, protect your people, and pick your moments in a country where everything trends.

We end on something quieter: a 92-year-old who still walks fairways but has outlived most of his friends. It reframes the whole season. Weather will pass. Delays will end. What lasts are the hands you hold and the meals you share. If this ride made you think, laugh, or nod along, tap follow, send it to a friend who needs a lift, and drop a review—what story hit you hardest this week?

Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open: Travel Mayhem Teasers
• 1:07 Show Kickoff And Holiday Overload
• 2:06 Rejected Takeoff And Comfort Food Mode
• 3:40 Snowstorm Commute Horror Story
• 6:55 Gifts From Mom And Health Scare Relief
• 9:22 Clean Kitchens, Wedding Soup, And Bread
• 10:28 Galley Messes And Crew Pet Peeves
• 11:47 Flight Attendant Hiring Frenzy
• 13:03 Longevity, Isolation, And Aging Parents
• 15:05 Minor Leagues Pay And Scraping By
• 17:04 Crime, Accountability, And Tough Headlines
• 19:09 Drunks, Delays, And Ground Ops Chaos
• 21:24 Engine Failure, Rats, And Smuggled Dogs
• 23:08 DoorDash Pepper Spray And Viral Backfires
• 24:55 Politics, Flexing Status, And Consequences
• 26:18 Closing Quote And Sign-Off

Transcript

Shawn: 0:08

Welcome back. So, gee, what's worse this week? Dealing with car insurance after your accident or a massive rat shutting down the flight? Honestly, the rat probably a better customer service, and at least it got everyone's attention. Fair point. Speaking about attention, we've got 5,000 people trying to become flight attendants, porch pirates getting shot, and one guy who lost his first class seat after flexing his Trump boarding pass online. And a doored ass driver who got caught spraying a mystery liquid on someone's food. Her excuse? She was killing a spider. Another week of questionable life choices at 35,000 feet. Let's go. Hey everyone, welcome. This is Cabin Fresh. Every week. What's going on, man? Dude, you know, it's uh the same thing as that freaking holiday shit. You know? It there's a list. Dude, there's like so much stuff. It's like, do you have that like same thing where it's like like the holidays just start like it's like a building, building feeling? Like, like the more closer you get to the 25th, the more shit, like you feel like you have less and less time, and there's more shit building onto it. Do you remember when you were a kid and you started rolling that little bitty snowball? Yeah. And the shit got bigger. And it got bigger, bigger, bigger. Like a dung beetle. And it got rolling up. You couldn't even push the elephant dung.

SPEAKER_03: 1:55

That's it.

Shawn: 1:56

That's the holidays anymore. I know, I know, I know, man. Yeah. Right now we're at like that little bitty snowball, but it's starting to get bigger. Right, right. It's dude. It's just that whole entire shit has been going on. But anyways, I've been flying, and uh, when I flew this last week, I had a rejected takeoff. When was the last time you had a rejected takeoff? Been a while. Been a while, yeah. I mean, I I don't I can't remember ever having one in my my career. I've had lots of I had lots of like rejected, you know, landings, right? But not rejected takeoff. Okay, was it high speed? No, it wasn't high speed. So that would thank goodness, because that would have been a whole shit show in the whole nine yards. But just the whole the whole experience of it like spooling up and then all of a sudden you're down, you know, rolling down. It was uneventful in the whole nine yards. It was just like an indicator light came on that they were like, we're not taking off without that. It was actually a fire indicator, yeah. Small, yeah, small little thing, but uh yeah, they uh they fixed it and all that stuff. So, anyways, um yeah, so I was I had that happen and I've been flying like a ton. And um the other thing is right now I'm in that comfort food mode. Like I'm making all this comfort shit. I know like like pot roasts and noodles. I've been I made a big huge thing, uh Tiny wedding soup you experienced last week, right? I'm gonna talk about that one too. You're gonna talk about it? Yeah. All right. And then um, and then so like I've been like making all this like good ass food, and I'm like, this is this is good. I know it smelled good when I came in. Yeah, yeah. I was looking for I was looking for the food. You're looking for more food this week? Well, yeah. Well, I mean the kitchen smelled good. I was like, there's gotta be food in here somewhere. He's cooking something. Anyways, so uh You know both of us cook, so I I go I'll find the food. Yeah. Then the other part about this week was the commute. The commute sucked, man. All that freaking snow and stuff. It was like like here in Ohio, we were like, we had to like I I got up, I gave myself like an extra, I knew the storm was coming and all the stuff this week, and I got up, gave myself an extra like 20 minutes, but it was like that was barely enough time. So the drive in. Yeah, the drive, to drive in, not the not to commute over to like going into new work or any of that type of stuff, you know. Like it the drive in was like a stressful, a little bit of stressful situation, right? The drive in this week, Sean, was a complete shit show. It wasn't a little stress. No, a lot. Yeah, it was a lot. Like I just I was like, you know, this has got to be freaking, you know. I I was thinking about being based somewhere else. It's it's funny that you're talking about that because I'm gonna talk about a little that commute too. That commute too, yeah. But anyways, so the the commute was a bit a little heavy this week. And uh also um I've been getting all these gifts coming, you know, coming into the house. And the uh and so I got all this gifts and we got a gift. We did? Yeah, us Us. Mom? Number one fan. Number one fan since since a gift. I can't wait. Is it for Christmas? Some shit. Oh my god. Twizzlers, got all this stuff, and then wait till you see this. It's a the you've got it, she got it like sent a bin. A bin of stuff, okay? And in this bin. Oh my god. We are so set. We were so set. We are I would I want to dive in that Tootsie roll. Like, yeah, you can dive in Tootsie Rolls right now. I'll start chewing on them. But the yeah, he'll be smacking on it in a minute. Even the mini blow pops. Look at them. Yeah, dude. Those are sweet. She did it, did this like sent this whole thing out of the room.

SPEAKER_03: 5:51

You're amazing, man. You are amazing. What'd you get Sean? Yeah.

Shawn: 5:58

She like, she like baked me some stuff. She baked me um some uh pumpkin bread, some cookies and stuff, you know. Some in some sent us some like mugs and cocoa and stuff like that. So if anyone wants to outdo this, go ahead and try. Yeah. Give it a shot. Right, give it a try. Mom, hey, listen, mom, want to tell you, hey, appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah, yeah. That's incredible. But mom right now is actually um in the hospital. Really? Yeah. She's my mom's diabetic, and so she's been having some uh issues, whatever, with all that complications from that. And uh, she's got some little little things going on, but they got her in the hospital to checking her out. She's okay and everything, but you know, it's that diabetes is kind of a weird disease, you know. So we're sending prayers out to mom. Prayers to mom. Yep. Take care of yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So uh, anyhow, so that was that's what's been going on with me. The number one fan sent us a big old huge thing. You got twizzlers to go home with you, all that good stuff. I'm so happy. I'm probably gonna get some of your food. I got twizzlers. I'm set. Mom doesn't even realize like you're you're he should be drooling. He's drooling right now. He's trying to resist from like it coming out for you to be able to see it.

SPEAKER_04: 7:14

Those little Tootsie Rolls, Matt. I remember those because they like they're perforated.

Shawn: 7:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love I love I love me some Tootsie Rolls. There, yeah, I'm gonna eat some too. I'm gonna get I'm getting into it. So, what's going on with you? You were talking about the drive. Yeah, okay, the commute in. This is how bad it was. This is northeast Ohio. We had a front come through in the one that you were talking about.

SPEAKER_01: 7:39

Yeah.

Shawn: 7:40

And what it was, it was coming off the lake. Normally, what it does, it goes up to the snor snow belt. Okay, didn't this time. You know it didn't. It came back where we live at in Medina. It came out to the border of Medina in Brunswick.

SPEAKER_01: 7:54

Yeah.

Shawn: 7:54

And then what it did is that it the other end of it was on uh like Berea, on the other side of Berea. Yeah, so basically it was like it like normally it's up by the lake and everything, and like, but it like dipped down towards south towards us, and so we had like we got like all the brunt in the snow instead of normally like the east gets all it. It was a crazy front, Sean. I mean, when when I come to work, I drive 71 every single day. So I I'm pretty familiar with the weather pattern. So I'm looking at the radar and I see this big trailing thing of white coming through like um Brunswick, and I'm like, that's not good. Brunswick and Strongsville on 71 is a freaking nightmare during the winter time. So I'm looking at this, and and from Medina, I mean the the the whole uh interstate was clear. So everybody's going like 60 miles an hour.

SPEAKER_01: 8:42

Yeah.

Shawn: 8:42

And as I'm close getting closer to Brunswick, I'm slowing way down. I'm like 40 because I'm looking at this, I'm going, this isn't good. All of a sudden, do you remember Mad Max? Remember they had that sandstorm? Oh, yeah. Okay, when you hit that sandstorm, that's exactly what it was, but it's snow. Oh. All these cars that blew past me. It was like a whiteout. All of them that blew past me were strewn all over the interstate, everywhere. Oh, dude. Not one of them made it through. I mean, there was probably anywhere from 12 to 14 cars all over the interstate, but this was the crazy part. There was one person they stopped in the middle of the interstate and put their flashes on. Now they went from four lanes of traffic to complete white out that you can't see. And this person decides to stop in the middle of the interstate and put their flashers on. That's one person that wants to die. Everybody, how many people you people you kill doing something stupid like that? Stupid. So I crawled all the way into the airport the whole time thinking, I'm gonna die. Am I exaggerating? Yeah, I'm gonna go. No, no, no, no. I get it. It was bad. And I did this, I did this four trips back and forth for two days in a row. Now, this is how bad it is. You know how how I am about flying.

SPEAKER_01: 9:53

Yeah.

Shawn: 9:54

I put my trip in on the on the next day, the fifth leg, which would have been the leg coming back. Yeah, I put my trip in for somebody to pick up. Oh shit. For me to do that, yeah. I cheated death four times. I'm like, I'm not rolling that dice. That's that's a rarity. Nope. And then you know what happened? What's that? Didn't snow at all. Oh, coming, oh yeah. Not one freaking piece of snow came down. Yeah, we just had that one day that was like just crazy. And it and like it was it was just like what you're talking about. It had that like you hit these walls of snow where it was just white out.

SPEAKER_03: 10:29

Yeah.

Shawn: 10:29

And then like you couldn't see, and then the lanes like got down to one lane, and it seemed like they like only plowed one lane. And then, like, I don't know of you, but like they were like plowing in the wrong direction. Like they were like everybody was commuting in towards Cleveland, and uh plow was on the other side. Yeah, right. Yeah, they're going it's going south, and everybody else is going north. I was like, Well, what the dude? Stupid over here, dude. Yeah, this is where we're at. Yeah. Well, that's like when you get to Strongsville, you're lucky if they they actually plow A-lane. Yeah. I mean, it it's horrible. As soon as you get there, yeah, all you're thinking about doing is you better slow to a crawl.

SPEAKER_01: 11:05

Yeah.

Shawn: 11:06

Strongsville's really bad.

SPEAKER_01: 11:07

It was bad.

Shawn: 11:08

But also dealing with uh car insurance companies. Car insur my remember a car accident? It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. I mean I don't know anybody like you have a lot of accidents. You've had a lot of accidents in the last few years. I've had two. Two accidents in the last two years? Two. Now, up to this point, I've never had a parking ticket. Oh. Ever. The other two, the other two that you're talking about were I've never had a I've never had a parking ticket. Yeah, you're you're thinking about you're thinking about the the two deer that I hit. Well, you hit a lot of deer. Okay, well, I'm going seven. From they see G coming down the street, and yeah. Well, if I had my envoy still, you would. That's right. What he's talking about is uh a year, well, two years ago. Yeah, I took a deer off the right. So you're not counting the deer accidents as accidents? I mean, that wasn't that wasn't. I mean, you what are you gonna do with a deer? You're going 70 miles an hour, deer runs right into your car. Right. What are you gonna do? I mean, what is your ass gonna do? There, I mean, how could you avoid that deer? I don't know. The damn thing ran right in my car. But that's an accident, too. That's an accident. It's not an accident. Regardless, regardless, keep on with your other accident stuff. You brought the show. I segue to your deer stuff too. You did. Now let me get back to the insurance company. So dealing with the insurance company, they they have everything set up, right? So I take my car in and I take it to the shop, give it to the shop, get it right over to the rental car, go to the rental car place. Oh, yeah, uh, Mr. Miller, um, you have to pay for it, and then they reimburse you. I was like, no, that's not what they said. They said I just come here and pick the car up. Nope. So I'm I I have no idea. I can't get a hold of the insurance company. So I gotta go back, get my car, go back home, set this shit up all again, come back in, do it all again to get a rental car. And then you know the rental car I get? A Malibu. Did okay. So uh if you don't know what a Malibu is, first of all, it smelled like smoke, which you know you would agree with. Dude. I mean there's no way I would even get it in the car. Right. So it smelled like smoke, and so I called them right away, and they were like, oh, we'll we'll give you another one. I'm like, it stinks.

SPEAKER_01: 13:25

Yeah.

Shawn: 13:25

So then I'm driving down the road, and as I'm going down the interstate, it I'm getting a wobble. In the right will well. Right will well wobble. Wobble wobble. Wobble wobble. So I'm going, I'm going down the interstate thing, and this is great, man. Dude. Another accident waiting to happen right here. Uh listen, I'm gonna tell you something. This is I had the not quite the experience you had with the rental and all that stuff, but like my insurance, like that when if I ever change insurance or like I move to another insurance, the one thing that I like have to like point out to the agent, I'm like, listen, I want coverage so that when my car gets damaged, I'm getting the same type of damn car. I'm not getting a Malibu. Don't give me a little uh smart car, yeah, or some bullshit like that. Like, I want a nice car. I'm driving a luxury car, give me a luxury, you know. And they're well, that's gonna cost more. No shit. Yeah, give me that. That's the policy I want. You know, like it's like unbelievable. But I I understand what you're saying, but like my insurance, like I just had that happen in uh the last time that guy uh rear-ended me. Right. Yeah, yeah. So they um they gave me a premium car. I think they gave me like one of those um uh Land Rover Discoveries or something like that. That's great, Sean. I'm driving a Malibu that from Mississippi that smells like cigarettes and a wobbling wheel. Well, on the right hand side. The only thing that that I thought was kind of funny is when I opened the trunk, it reminded me of one of those trunks in the Sopranos. You know what I mean? Where like two or three dead bodies can be thrown. I'm like, what how the hell is this trunk so damn big? Yeah, man. Have you seen these? Those cars are huge trunks. The trunks are so big. I mean, it's like three bodies could lay in that abnormally large. Yeah. Sopranos. Yeah, but you know, okay, through all this, though, I did find something out, and I didn't tell tell, well, I told you, but I didn't tell a lot of people. But um, when I had a CT scan, they they seen nodules.

SPEAKER_01: 15:30

Yeah.

Shawn: 15:30

And they had to do a check, and um, and it took like five days to follow up. But um, you know, they were telling me that most people they they find these nodules in circumstances like this is when they go to the doctor and stuff. So I really didn't think about it until I knew for sure because I don't I don't like self-diagnosing anything. Right. So they had two nodules and it came out um to where they're not cancerous. So that was good. Oh, that's good. Yeah. I mean, that was that was a good thing. So did they do that from like the scan or didn't they did they do a biopsy or something like that? They seen it, they they seen it uh on the CT scan. Right. And then I had to go do an ultrasound. Oh, oh, and then the ultrasound like gave them more detailed pictures so they could see what's going on. Yeah, because in the CT scan. And they said no, no cancer. Yeah, the CT scan s showed actually one nodule. But when they did the ultrasound, they seen another one. Okay. And then they they had uh said that no, I didn't have to worry about it. So what is it? It's just nodule. Just a nodule? Yeah, they didn't I mean they didn't say what exactly it was, they just said it was a nodule that uh it wasn't something I had to follow up on. So I'm I'm like, well, that's good. Yeah. No follow-up is really good when I don't have to come back. Oh yeah. But I had to mention this your wedding soup and Kerr's jalapeno bread. You're not kidding, man. Your wedding soup was off the chain, brother. Dude, I got some more in the freeze. It was good. I'll give you a bag on the way out. No, it was really good. No, I'm serious. I'm looking at it. So I can cook. I got some, I got, I got a uh what I did was I made a huge pot. Right. And Carol's not a big fan, which I don't care. Because I'm gonna eat it. And so I froze like all this soup. So I got like two big bags of soup still in there, and I'll give you one. Are you picky about are you picky about eating from other people's stuff? No. Really? Say I am. What do you mean, my picky bag?

SPEAKER_03: 17:18

Like, like I gotta know they're clean.

Shawn: 17:23

Sorry. It's the truth. I mean, I know you're clean, right? I cannot eat. I mean, there's people that we know that have like all these damn cats. Dude, um, yeah. I'm not eating cat. I'm with you there. I'm not eating cat. You know, I'm totally with you there, because like if you're dirty, yeah, you're dirty. Even if you're not dirty, probably not eating your food either. Still the cats run all over the shit. Right? I mean, they jump on countertops and everything. Nope, not eating it. But I'll eat your wedding suit because ain't no damn cats. That reminds me of like uh us being young. Like when you go over to like friends' house you've never been over before, and then you get there, and then you know, they have a nasty, they live nasty. Yeah. And you're like, ooh, ooh. I got a whole I got a I got a whole new view. Dude, I tell you though, I had to tell you, Kerr had this jalapeno bread. That that shit sounds good. Okay. It took her like three days of stretching all this shit out. She was telling me this whole process that she takes making this bread. It's like three days. Right. I I'm like, I just go to the bakery. Yeah, but then you didn't do it. I know it. So you appreciate it's the like it's that it's kind of like that uh construction project. You know, you're building something, you're trying to make it happen, then you boom. I just gave you credit and her credit. Right. You built it, I took it, I ate it. Right. It was good. Props. Her jalapeno was props. Very good, Ker. Very good. Okay, so it had to talk about um a pig pen galley person. Oh, okay. Right? This flowed right into it. No, I know. It leaves stuff all over the place. Dude, I can't stand it. Okay. So I flew with one uh this past week. They leave crumbs from one end to the other. If you can go back and think of one person, who would that be? What do you mean? Pig pen galley person. Oh, a pig pen galley person. In the history, like of us flying. Can you think of one? Stick out in your head? I'm gonna give you a name. Alright. Lord. Who? Lord. Lord? Yeah. No. You never remember Catherine? Oh. I love this girl. I mean, I'm telling you, I absolutely love this girl. Okay, but when it came to the galley, messy as well. Holy hell. I mean, I was I was actually I was actually ashamed to standing there and thinking we're delivering food from this thing. Yeah, she used to always work in like the first class galley, so she's like the first galley you see when you're walking on a plane and she she had a shitty ass galley. Right. Like it was always messy. Yeah, it's like Mel's Diner. It was bad. It was worse than Mel's Diner. It was really bad. But anyway, that that kind of concluded my uh my little week. So had a lot of fun. Had a lot of fun this week, though. Yeah. Yeah. I I I'm uh Yeah, the the whole cooking thing and gearing up. Like we're going like I'm getting ready to go to uh Indiana this weekend. We're gonna do our Indiana Christmas and all that stuff. We're gonna make Cumpers. You know what Cumpers are? No.

unknown: 20:24

Yeah.

Shawn: 20:26

It's for a whole nother show. I mean it's well you gotta tell people what Cumper is. Cumpers is like the traditional Norwegian dish that is made with like ground-up potatoes that is basically made into like a potato dough, like with salt and flour. And then you take those, that ground-up raw potato, and you put a piece of salt pork in the center of it, and you boil it. And then when you boil it, it turns into like a big, huge, like uh baseball dumpling. And the baseball dumpling, once you take it out of the pot, some people like pour hot butter over it. But what we do is we just get sticks of butter and we siphon off big old chunks of it, and we eat butter and pieces of the cumper. It's low fat. I didn't say anything about being healthy. I didn't say anything about being low fat. I didn't say no. This is like this is like crazy ass, like uh, I mean, it's like a brick in your stomach. No shit. A slice of butter. I and I'm not talking about like a slice, I'm talking about we do a chunk, like you get a square chunk, like you're doing like two, three teaspoons of butter. Right. And you're eating that butter and potato. I gotta admit though, you know, when it comes to like fresh bread, yeah. I love I love butter on it. Yeah, man. I don't, I mean, I don't eat a lot of it because I would kill it. Yeah. I would, I'd kill it. No, I'm I'm with you, but but uh we're we're getting ready to go. I'm like, I'm like, I just made homemade checks mix. I made uh, you know, the I'm getting ready, I bought all this stuff for Cumpers, and we got this whole Cumper factory getting to happen this weekend. And uh Yeah, the other thing that we're doing too is we're getting ready to go to the Colts Monday night game coming up, which means nothing. To Carol, it does. No, it means nothing. Like they're out of the playoffs, nothing. Like they they're playing with a like a quarterback that they called off the couch from five years ago. And I'm I'm serious about it. Like he's been retired for five years, they probably called him back. Yeah. So you'll be out there freezing. Total shit. Yeah, we paid a lot of money for these tickets too. That's a feel-good moment. It's uh no, we're not freezing because it's indoors. So I wouldn't even go if it was uh it was outdoors. Forget that. I'd be like, we lost some money. Now, talking, talking football. Yeah, did you watch that Heisman? No, no, no. I didn't watch any. I wasn't I've been busy, dude. Busy. I've been I've flown like four times this week. Okay, so I just caught a couple clips of that. Did you catch that um what that Diego Pavia? No, that I think it was a Clemson quarterback. Yeah. He walks in there, and I swear to God, he looked like Joe Pesci and Goodfellas. Really? He walked in with his brothers, and he had like this gold chains wrapped around his neck and his and his brothers on each side of him, and they were little. I mean, they had him listed. Okay, let's be fair. They had him listed at six foot. That dude ain't five nine, Sean. He's not five nine.

SPEAKER_03: 23:18

I mean, on platform shoes, he's six foot, but he ain't he's five nine. Yeah, it always blows me away when they like they inflate the stats.

Shawn: 23:26

Liar. Yeah. He just lied. But anyway, he came in there. He did. He looked like Joe Pesci and Goodfellas. And I was looking at this guy. You know who you reminded me of? What's that? Johnny Manzel. Oh, really? Waste of money. Yeah. You know what it was? It was a Cleveland waste of money. Dude, we can talk for years. I know. I'm just talking a little bit of football, but stupid football. Yeah. Quarterbacks. But when I seen when I seen this Pavia, it just reminded me of Joe Pesci going, Do I look funny to you?

SPEAKER_03: 23:56

You like funny? Do I look funny? You remember that episode? Yeah. When he's standing there. You think it look you think it looked funny? You look like funny? You you a funny guy? Funny guy. Funny guy, yeah. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, I bust your bulls.

Shawn: 24:10

That's what Pavia looked like. You should have, you know, I I'll I'll I'll bet he it's gonna be tough for him to get drafted. It'll be interesting. But anyway, yeah, I got a kick out of that one. Watch this, this, um, this one video. They were talking about um about wanting to be a flight attendant. Oh, really? Yeah, this was crazy. They just recently opened up a hiring website for one of the airlines.

SPEAKER_01: 24:36

Oh, okay.

Shawn: 24:36

You know how long it was open? Minutes? 38 minutes. 38 minutes. 38 minutes. They had to shut this thing down. 5,000 applicants. Dude, it is it's unbelievable how many people want to be a flight attendant. They had 10,000 referrals. Yeah. 38 minutes, it was shut down. No more. That you know, that's what I was like. I talked to all these new hires and stuff about the process of them getting hired and all this stuff. And I wouldn't get hired. No. No, I'm not sure. I mean, in today, in today's world, like I there's no way that I would be hired in this process because I mean, what they've got to go through and what they've got to weed, and you have to be like that spurt certain person that they're gonna be like for whatever reason stands out to them and they select you. And you're just lucky, really. I mean, because there's so many of them. Could you imagine us doing Zoom? It'd be like poltergeist. Excuse me. Is this on? Can you hear me?

SPEAKER_02: 25:37

Do you remember Wayne's World Garth? Or why do you want to do this job? Uh, because I like people. I love to fly. That was such a standard answer.

Shawn: 25:50

Cool, dude. It was really cool.

SPEAKER_02: 25:52

It was crazy.

Shawn: 25:53

But 38 I mean, 38 minutes, 5,000 applicants. That was nuts. That's crazy, man. So I send down to Orlando, had a passenger. Now, this was kind of interesting. He had a passenger. He was going down to visit his dad. His dad was 92 years old. Well, yeah. 92. Yeah, my mother-in-law is 95. Just turned 95 in uh November 29th. Okay, women, that that's right. I mean, that's but being a guy, 92? 92. There's there's very few of them. And that's the point we were talking about. And and I really didn't think about it until me and him got in this conversation. And he said that what was amazing is this is the part that his dad's having a problem with. His dad is actually in good health. He plays golf every day. He walks.

SPEAKER_01: 26:39

Yeah.

Shawn: 26:39

Right? He walks a lot of the holes that he he plays. And um, but he's outlived all of his buddies. All of his buddies are gone. You know what? You know what the that whole entire scenario is for everyone that's up there. Yeah. Like, you know, all my in my in-laws, they'd all say, you know, they'd say it over and over all the way up until my my father-in-law passed away earlier this year. Um, he'd be like, you know, all my friends are gone.

unknown: 27:04

Yeah.

Shawn: 27:05

You know, they're all they're all passed away. You don't really think about that. I mean, I started to think about that, and I was like, God, you know, 92 is friends are gone. If you're gone, then I ain't got anybody. I got I got like one. I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I know. So live it up, live it up while you can't.

SPEAKER_02: 27:26

I'll have at least video of you.

Shawn: 27:30

No, but well, you know, you know me. I got one good friend, that's it. Right. Um I'm I'm a hard person. Dude, you know what's really amazing about the um that whole statistic of that is that um like I go to visit my mother-in-law and she's in the nursing home, and that she's got dementia and all this stuff. But you walk around the halls there, it's only women. It's only women. When I went when my mom was alive, there was one old guy, and let me tell you, those little old ladies were around him like a vulture.

SPEAKER_01: 28:03

Yeah.

Shawn: 28:03

Right? Like fresh meat. And he wasn't doing nothing. He was just like a little old guy. That was it. And the guys that come in, they're not there alone. No. Like it is, it's it blows my mind. The week that my father-in-law passed away, there was um the place that they were in, they were in assisted living at that time. Right. And uh there was four other men in that place all died in the same week. But you know something, okay. I I know, but for me, you you know me, that'd be a blessing for me.

SPEAKER_01: 28:37

Yeah.

Shawn: 28:38

If you stuck me in one of those places where, you know, that's where I gotta live, that's a blessing. I mean, if if I if I go in a month, that'd be that'd be good. I'd be like, Yeah, so you don't have to be in there that long. No, because I would I I I don't want to live like that. I I I I'd like to be like this guy, 92 years old, walking around, even though you're missing your buddies. I'd still want to be, you know, walking around functioning. Because he says this guy, you know, his his dad stretches, eats right, does all these things. But his biggest thing was that he outlived his buddies. And I thought, man, I didn't really think about that. And that's actually true. Yeah. You know what it's gonna be like. So you gotta be around here a lot longer. Because when am I gonna do that? So uh uh yesterday, or uh actually day before yesterday, right the um the the Cleveland Charge. You know who they are? No, the Cleveland Charge? Yeah, Cleveland Charge. Who's that? It's the G League team for the Cavs. G League? Yeah. Never had them. I have never had them on all the years that we've been in in Cleveland. I I didn't know there was a G League. Right. Like what's a G League? Okay, that's where they like when they when they um they don't make it to the Cavs. Oh, okay. Like it's like the minor leagues of their like their Cavaliers. Step down their step-down league where they kind of like farm from if they call up when they need somebody. So I was wondering, because it just curiosity got me, how much they make. Right. So the average player makes like 3,700 bucks a month. That's not bad. 3,700 a month. Five months is what their contract is.

SPEAKER_01: 30:08

Yeah.

Shawn: 30:08

They get um housing and they get medical for those five months. But yeah, their average, their average salary is like$3,700 a month for that.

SPEAKER_01: 30:18

Yeah.

Shawn: 30:18

And I was thinking of, you know, when Jackson was with the Raptors, his was$1,300 a month.$1,300 a month. Oh my gosh. So when you're thinking about, oh, I made it to the minor lease, I laughed about this with my son because he would call home and he'd be like, Dad, we're eating out of a crock pot.

SPEAKER_01: 30:35

Yeah.

Shawn: 30:37

We just went and bought some box of ramen. They they no, they got like a they got like a stack of Subway sandwiches stacked on some bench. And they don't even know what they are. That reminds me of me and uh me and uh Gary that uh when we first got hired when we were in Newark, that like we lived for a month off of tasty cakes. I'm a bullshitting it. Like literally, we pulled our money together because we didn't have any money, and we were like, How much money you got? How much money you you got? And we're like together we had like about 20 bucks, and we all went down, we're like, Well, what can we buy with$20? I was getting you. Literally, we started just buying boxes of tasty cakes. Butterscotch crumpets was our thing. Shit. When I moved when I moved down to Florida, when I first went down to Florida, I didn't have any damn money. No, I I I had a I had a little bit of money. I mean, I lived off of the ramen noodles, the the baloney, baloney sandwiches. And then you're playing food. Anything. No, I wasn't, no, I wasn't even flying this. Oh, you weren't flying then? No, I moved down to Florida. I moved down to Florida and I had no money. Yeah, we were we had like beg scheduling, like, please give us a trip so we can eat. Right. And you never there's not have you you've never gotten assistance, have you? Ever? Assistance, we mean like public assistance? No. Oh no, no, no, no. Like you're talking about you would never even think about that. I've never been like taking uh food stamps or any or um you know unemployment or any of that type of stuff. Now, growing up, yes, that you that happened when we were young and all that stuff, but not since I've been out of the house. See, when I was down in Florida, it was it just meant another job. Right. Get two. I never, you know what? The the interesting thing, like you say that, I like I never even think about that. Like I if I was like if I was out a job or something, like I was like, shit, I gotta eat, I gotta find a job. Exactly. Like where like who where can I go? Yep. I need to go work at McDonald's so I can get a Big Mac soon, you know, or something. It gives you something free. Right, right. Uh yeah, I'm with you, man. Right. Okay. That's crazy. Now, something this week that happened was kind of crazy too. You've seen with uh Rob Reiner got killed with this. Yeah, that's awful. Okay. What would possess a child to kill their parents? I don't understand that. Dude, this is just straight up. I mean, it's it's all gonna come out, and I guess there's a movie, you know, that he made with his dad about mental health and all that stuff. And it everybody said it's actually a very good movie and everything, but this is you know, mental health in this world, there it's it's a serious issue. Like people have mental health problems, but they didn't realize what they didn't realize that it was gonna get to a violent stage. And and he wasn't violent with all this thing, you know. He had problems, mental health problems, but he wasn't violent, and they just didn't uh anticipate him being violent. You know. When I when I heard about that and I read that he'd used a knife, I I was like, that'd be horrific. That's your mom and dad. It's so personal. I I just couldn't even imagine. I could not imagine, but then you know, in the news, you're seeing all these things. We talked about the football, the boys' football team, you know, the stealing at dicks. And then you had this this chef down in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_01: 33:47

Yeah.

Shawn: 33:48

He has these 15, 16-year-old boys, and they come out and they okay, you you have your packages out in front. Right. Hey, they came out there and they started stealing the packages. Oh, they were doing some porch pirating down uh down at the wherever they're at. Yeah, and he shot them. Oh shit. Yeah, he shot him. So there comes a question, okay? I I know that's extreme.

SPEAKER_01: 34:11

Yeah.

Shawn: 34:11

That they they're they were stealing it and you and you shot them. I I get that. But where's the accountability for these kids, man? I mean, you don't steal people's shit. Are you talking about accountability like where are the parents that are of these kids? Well, the kids gotta have some accountability too. All right, yeah, all right. You're 15, 16, you know right and wrong. Right. You know that shit ain't yours. Yeah. And I I know I know that people say, well, they don't deserve to get shot. Yeah, I understand that. But they would have never got shot. He would have never been going through this if they'd have stayed their ass off his porch. If they didn't put themselves in that situation, right? Yeah. Like, I mean, that's that to me, that's like, you know, we all have choices all every day, and everybody we're all making choices, right and wrong, and all that stuff throughout our day. And all you have to do is make that one wrong decision, and stupid shit like that happens. You know, like somebody comes out and freaking shoots you because you're stealing their shit. Well, you shouldn't be stealing their shit, right? Yeah, and that and that's what that's a point, is you know, every everyone is always they they're looking at this person that shot them, gun control and all that. And I get that. But what about the kids that shouldn't be stealing? They uh every time these kids they get a hall pass. This is the first time. That football team that we talked about last week, it's the first time that you've seen them actually post pictures of them. Oh yeah. Right? Because they're kids. And this time they're saying, No, you're not getting away with it.

SPEAKER_01: 35:41

Yeah.

Shawn: 35:42

There's accountability. Right. But now you got this guy down in Atlanta, his whole life changed because he made a really bad decision and he shot these porch pirate kids 15 to 16 years old. And and I don't know how I feel about that. Part of it, you know, I'm like, okay, I'm glad that these kids didn't get killed. You know what I'm saying? Right. But there's some accountability. Well, I'm I'm I'm with you on the feelings of the whole situation. Like, super unfortunate that these kids are in this situation and this guy went to the extreme of shooting them. You know, it gets to it, you get to this uh level where you're like thinking, you know, there needs to be better parenting out there. You know, there needs to be more guidance, and that and that's part of our issues here in the United States, right? That we have a lot of children out there that's not being guided and mentored to do the right things, and then they find themselves in bad situations. And so, yeah, this is it it's it's a terrible situation, but let's talk about something else. All right, man, let's go around the globe because they we had so much around the globe this uh this week, it was crazy. All right, did you see this viral video of this woman that was refused service in the San Francisco restaurant? No, no, no, no. So she goes in with her boyfriend and she's intoxicated. And uh and they're refusing her to be served any alcohol. You know, we do that all the time on the plane. Right. Because she's intoxicated. Well, she gets pissed. She starts going off on these people and they're asking her to leave. She's not leaving. So then they basically drug her and her boyfriend out of the restaurant. Oh, was there a video? Yeah. Yeah. She actually works. This is like Dr. Dow. She works for that Strava Fitness. Okay. So there was a big deal. So they showed this video. She was grabbing the hair of this bartender trying to rip this guy's hair out. Oh, dude. And she and they're trying to break, they're trying to break her grip. Anyway, he takes her phone, throws her phone, she goes over there, gets tripped, goes face first, plants it onto the concrete. So for this stupidity, this is what we talk about on the airplane.

SPEAKER_01: 37:49

Yeah.

Shawn: 37:50

These stupid drunk people for this, she's lost her job. They fired her already. Right. If she's representing the company and or had put that out there that the company's, you know, like she's connected. Right. I can see why they fired her. Fired her. Right. Right. Now, your name's all over the place. Everybody knows you. Not gonna be hired. Nope. And here's the other part. The boyfriend, after she got tripped up, she turns around to him and he's like, Are you okay?

SPEAKER_03: 38:22

She's like, Be a fucking man. Be a man! You're not a man.

Shawn: 38:29

So she does all this shit. This is what killed me. She ran totally drunk bitch on him. Yeah. And this is this is what killed me is that a woman will get you in a situation, right? And then like you're forced to suck up that man card. He this guy's wearing a sweater, Sean. And he's got no business trying to fight nobody. And he goes over there and pushes one of the bouncers. And I'm like, oh. No, no, he didn't. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, now you're gonna get your ass whooped.

SPEAKER_01: 38:54

Yeah.

Shawn: 38:55

They didn't show that part of it, but he had to, he had to, you know, suck up his man card and go over there. Because that that girl was telling, you had to see that video. It's actually funny. Dude, how many how many women have put men in situations that like men that want to be like you know, chivorous themselves and stuff, put them in the situation where, oh shit, I gotta get in a fight now. He had a pink sweater on, Sean. It was pink. Dude. Nothing to get pink, nothing against pink. But I mean, seriously, I mean, you're not exactly gonna get rip. No. Right? No. You're not getting rip in a pink sweater. That ain't happening. Nope. They had a massive rat on the KML, the KLM flight. Did you see that one? Dude. No, but any rat on a freaking plane is bad news. So they had a video of this thing, and these passengers were stranded in the Caribbean for more than they had like 250 passengers, and this rat was uh discovered moving through the cabin. They actually had a video of this thing. Reminded me of my flight down in Manila years ago. We're walking down the jetway, and you You know how the jetway they they have those tracks and the they have the drain holes in the jetway and up pops this big old rat and he ran he ran down the track of of the jetway yeah and he went right down that hole and all I could think about was that door's been open that whole time. Yeah, that's how they get on there, man. How many manila rats do we got? Yeah, that was crazy. Did you see that one that uh those two uh the talking about rats, the New York video that happened this week? That mouse? No, there was two rats. No, I didn't see that. There two rats and they had a bagel on the tracks in the train in the subway, uh, and they're these two rats are fighting over this bagel. They're like playing tug of war with this bagel, like no, no, no. Give me this, give me the shit. Nothing better than somebody so New Yorkers are videotaping this. That's their that's their entertainment. Probably betting on who gets a bagel. Right, exactly. Dude, crazy. It is crazy. They had a wet, they had weather that affected this transcon flight also. It was like five points. We were talking about the weather this week. This this flight was like five and a half hours going across going across the United States. As soon as they got the JFK, they got on the ground, they couldn't get to the gate.

SPEAKER_01: 41:12

What's that?

Shawn: 41:13

They spent like three more hours on the plane. What? Why? Couldn't get the snow removal, they didn't have enough people for removing snow, they didn't have enough people on the ground. It was a mess. JFK was a complete mess. Dude, that's some bullshit right there. Three more hours. Especially for JFK, because it's not like they haven't seen snow. Yeah. You know, they should have all the equipment, they should be ready for all those situations. This is that's some bullshit. But you've been in those situations, those people are pissed at you. Oh, yeah. They're just mad. Yeah. So when you guys you ever get in a situation like that and you're on an airplane, realize it's not the crew. Right. Don't be jumping all over in somebody's face because that's funny. We're in it with you. They don't care though. Right. They don't they don't care. Right. They they they didn't they're just thinking about them. You're inconvenienced me, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff. But we're in the same sh we're in the same boat. Another video, father drunk. There it goes again. Another father was drunk on an airplane, so he's making a fool of himself. The police have to come on. They have to they have to pull him off of the airplane. This kid's begging him for the keys of his car. Now, all he had to do, he was intoxicated. All he had to do is walk off the aircraft. They gave him an opportunity. Walk off the plane. Right. And you can you can go. Get an Uber and you'll be on the way. The police are like, we'll get his car keys, don't worry about it. So does he do that? Nope. He ends up getting his ass arrested. Stupid. Now your kids are This is like a drunk week story. Your kids are on a plane. Yeah, this is a week of drunks. Yeah. Well, this is a holiday. This is a normal week. Right. Yeah. Normal week. But it's just sad when you see that and you see a father that, you know, his his kids and you're drunk on a plane. Yeah. And then you're you're arrested. Yeah. That's stupid, man. It doesn't make any sense. Stupid. So, okay, wide body flight bound for Japan was forced to return to Washington afternoon. A Boeing 777 200 ER operating flight 803 lost power in one engine during takeoff from Washington Dulles International Airport, triggering the separation of the engine cover that fell beside the runway and sparked a brush fire. Did you see this? It was crazy. You seen a fire all the way down the runway. Oh wow. It was a brush fire because of this. It was hitting the the engine uh cowling, whatever was like sparking. Yeah, because it was it was dry and it sparked it. That's crazy. Dude, I don't want to be involved with any of that shit. No, but it was it was actually a cool thing. That's some crazy shit. Just cool little video. Yeah. Not the plane you want to be on. No. Not in this one either. This is really dumb. Would you delay a plane? Supposedly, if there's a dog that was smuggled on board. A dog smuggled on board? How do you smuggle a dog on board? They didn't pay for it. You know, I mean, they get one of those bags with, you know, and and they didn't pay for it. Dude, this happens all the time. Right. But would you delay a flight for it? Hell no. They delayed one for an hour. An hour. For what? Because they they wanted people to rat the person out. They they went through individually and checked every one of these people and they found out there was no dog on the plane. They blamed it on a maintenance after that. That's some stupid shit. Then they made up an airline lie. Smuggled dog. We had a mechanical. Yeah. Sorry, uh yeah, it wasn't the dog that we were looking for the whole time. Oh, dude. That's some crazy shit. Yeah, now I love this one. It goes back to our DoorDash people. I've been hitting DoorDash for a while. Uber and DoorDash. Yeah. So they had a DoorDash video of this uh DoorDash uh driver, and they were spraying a mystery substance over these people's food bag. And their explanation was that they seen a spider. Dude, I'm sorry. So spray it with a poisonous spray. Yeah, I saw this video. Like she she sprayed it with pepper spray, their food. And then they had reactions to eating it because they were eating pepper spray. Of course you're gonna have it. First of all, have you ever had pepper spray, tear grass, any of that type of stuff? Have you ever experienced that yourself? No. Okay. No, but I've wiped my eyes with jalapeno juice, so that's pretty bad. Not even close. Let me let me explain this because every guy and female out there that's been in the military that's gone through the gas chamber. Yeah, I've seen that. Crazy. Holy shit. It's not running out of the shit. Dude, every orifice of your body is oozing shit. Like you're drooling, you got boogers hanging down to your belly, like your eyes are watered up, you can't see anything. Now, to ingest this stuff would be horrible. Horrible. I mean, I'm telling you right now, I'd order DoorDash just to get her ass back there so I can bit beat the shit out of that little. Don't give me that. It is stupid. Okay, a spider that just got on the bag that you just sat down. It's a w first of all, it's winter. There's no spiders. No. They already said like in the whole it was like 30 degrees. I was at spiders aren't out in 30 degrees. Yeah. Yeah. They thought it was a political thing. Yeah. What? What no matter what it was, there's no reason. Like that is a horrible thing to do. And you're on video. You're an idiot. Door cam gotcha. You're an idiot. Like my door cam goes, it like whistles at you. I see you. I did I did like the this this pro-Trump guy. It was kind of funny. Pro-Trump guy that he was he was shown um sitting in in first class and he showed his ticket. And he's talking about, you know, his his flight and everything. Yeah. Somebody got on there and they canceled his next leg. So you're out there bragging, you're bragging. And there's a lot of people that, you know, look, we're a political country. There's a lot of people that don't like Trump. First of all, listen, there's times to talk politics and there's time not to talk politics. Especially when you think you somebody can like you can they can influence something in your life like that. Like it's kind of like talking to your server, yeah, you know, about politics, and they're the opposite of you. It doesn't matter what side you're on, and then they're serving your food. It's like you just don't that's not a good time to talk about it. No, because your reservation got canceled. You might get pepper spray in your food. But his reservation got canceled. I mean, you're sitting there going, oh yeah, I believe this, I believe this. And you're trying to go to your destination. It's like, uh, yeah, you don't have a you don't have a reservation. Yeah. It was canceled. The opposite party, somebody click on bags in Tahiti. Yeah, you're going to uh oh, you know something? I'm sorry, that bag was gate checked. Guam. They have a customs there. It's like three months hold. There's a time and a place. And that wasn't a time and place. No doubt. But you did learn a valuable lesson. Right. Right? Yeah, don't talk about your politics. Because there's probably reservationists that's not a Trump person. That's right. Probably a few out there. Just a couple. Just saying. Oh my God. All right, Sean. Inspirational quote. All right, man. So we got an inspirational quote here. Uh that it is um I saw this today, this uh quote. And you know, we're always looking for quotes and everything. This comes straight off the walls of Jimmy John. I love Jimmy Johnson. I love Jimmy Johnson. I do. Hey, we'll do a Jimmy Johns commercial. You got it. You know something? When we do video, we are bringing Jimmy Johns in here. We're doing video. Yeah. Do you now? Right now? Right now. But we're not doing it. Right. Did you know we're doing video? No, we're not doing that now. But you know something when we do it, we are bringing it in. All right. Because you know why? Why is I? I I went to college first Jimmy Johns. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eastern Illinois University. At the first Jimmy John location. EIU, man. I used to eat that. It was two bucks a sandwich. Dude, I wish I was far from two bucks now. Yeah. So go ahead. So, anyways, it says it said there, it said, if you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. If you don't ask, no, the answer is always no. And if you don't go after what you want, you're never gonna have it. I like that one. Yeah. I was like pretty much straightforward. Yeah. Yeah, you sit back and ignore everybody, you're not gonna get shit. Nope. Yeah. But I do love the Hellman's mayonnaise at Jimmy John's. Sorry, I'd throw it in there. I do. I'm the pickle thing. They got the new pickle sandwiches now. That's the one thing I love about with me and you is that me, we are both Hellman's guys. Yeah.

unknown: 49:58

Right?

Shawn: 49:58

Can't have sandwiches. You can't have a sandwich without mayo. Real mayo. Hellman. None of that miracle whip shit. That's salad, Justin. I know. Got that right. All right, guys. Hey, we had a lot of fun. A lot of fun. We will see you next week. Next week. Cabin pressure. See ya. And that's another smooth landing here on Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. Thanks for flying with us today. We hope you had as much fun as we did keeping the turbulence to a minimum. If you enjoyed the ride, don't keep it to yourself. Share the podcast with friends and help our crew grow. And don't forget to visit our brand new website at CabinPressure with Sean G.com for merch updates, our new blog, and a few extra laps. Until next time, keep your trade tables sewed, your seatbelt fastened, and your sense of humor ready for takeoff. See ya up there.