Flight Attendants Size You Up in 3 Seconds—Here's What They See

Ever wondered why flight attendants seem to know who you are the second you step on board? We walk you through the split-second scan that crews use to spot potential threats, find hidden helpers like nurses and firefighters, and gauge who’s tuned in versus tuned out. That quick read isn’t about judging your style—it’s the first layer of safety in a cabin where medical events and surprises happen more often than you think.

From there, we open the galley curtain. You’ll hear the “Smurf towel” mishap, a Bloody Mary can gone rogue, and the quiet checks you never see: latches, placards, equipment, and even making sure lavatories actually flush before pushback. We get honest about what’s really clean on airplanes, why headrests and carpets deserve your wipes, and how small courtesies—eye contact, a simple “no rush,” or a heads-up that you’re a nurse in 20D—can change the tone of your entire flight.

We also dig into travel friction points that can derail a trip: Real ID enforcement, the new verification detours and fees, and how border rules can turn a minor record into a major stop. In between, we detour through modern headaches like dealership add-ons and gaming system “compatibility taxes,” because reading the fine print is a life skill both on the ground and at 35,000 feet.

Takeaways you can use on your next flight: keep shoes on for takeoff and landing, buckle up even when the sign is off, use headphones and lower your volume, clean touchpoints people forget, and let the crew know if you can help in an emergency. The goal is a boring, polite, uneventful trip—the kind everyone remembers for the right reasons.

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Transcript

How Crews Read You At The Door

G 0:00

Do you know that flight attendant size you up in seconds? From the moment you board.

Shawn 0:14

Let me tell you, they're deciding if you're gonna be a problem, right? Right. If they like you, are you friendly? There's so many things. There is so many things. When you walk on board that aircraft, you're just thinking that you're saying hello.

G 0:29

Yeah. Every passenger coming on board is being analyzed, right? I mean, we're sizing you up from your demeanor, um, your how you're dressed, like I mean, everything goes into account with what we're looking at. Who who is coming on our plane and what are they gonna be like on this trip with us in the future?

Shawn 0:51

But there's funny aspects. There's all kinds, I mean, it's not just one, right? No, I mean it's not one. We're looking at clothes.

G 0:57

No, we're looking at everything. We're looking at we're looking at how they approach us. The are they being friendly? We say good morning or welcome on board. Are they acknowledging us? Are we showing us?

Shawn 1:08

Are they wearing a tail? Right.

G 1:10

There's like like uh yeah, do they have like how many piercings do they have in their bodies? Tattoos, are they wearing three hats? Do they look uh mean? Are they angry? Are they? Yeah, yeah. There's so many, so many things that we are always looking at to analyze, but it but the number one reason why are we doing that?

Shawn 1:32

Well, I mean, you you're looking for safety reasons. Yeah, aren't they? I mean, you're looking for somebody if you're gonna need assistance. I mean, that's that's the basic thing, right? That if you're if you're gonna need assistance on the aircraft. But when we're when we were just looking at them, there's a there's a lot of shit that goes on with that.

G 1:49

Right, right, right. I mean, we're we're we're analyzing everybody because one, the most important thing is safety. So we want we want we want to know what we're up against, first of all. Right. Okay. Second, the second part is the assistance, right? Yeah, so then we want to know who can we come to if we need assistance. And so anybody coming on the plane, if you're you know, a medical professional or if you're a firefighter or somebody that deals with first response type of thing, like we want your help. Like, and so we like when people come on and they're like, Oh, I'm a nurse, and uh, if you need my help, I'm sitting in 20 D. You know, like that's what we we're looking for. Not that everybody has to do that, but that's super helpful to the crew. But then there's the opposite of that, right? So there's a safety aspect of it, like we're like, oh, this person might be a threat. Yeah, drink coming on intoxicated, intoxicated, yeah, some mental illness of some sort. Gives you a stare down, right? Uh, there's there's all there's uh, or we might just think like characterize you as a threat to you know my biggest peeve is what's that? No eye contact. No eye contact.

Shawn 3:00

Yeah, when they don't have I mean, you say good morning and they don't even look at you. Yeah, I hate that. Yeah, they don't even look at you. I mean it's not their headphones. I mean, some of them they're not tuned in, you know that.

G 3:09

What I hate the most is the parents that are teaching the kids the same damn thing. Yeah, they have the kids, each one's walking on, they have their little iPad on, the headphones are on, walking on the plane already.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Right.

G 3:22

Like already teaching them that this is the normal, proper behavior of like somebody asking telling you good morning in the morning, and they zero acknowledgement.

Safety First And Finding Helpers

Shawn 3:31

But then you have that group right behind them. The little kids are like, Good morning, good morning, right? Hi, how are you? Everything's good morning, right? You have one group, nothing. And then all of a sudden you got this other group, and you're like, hey, listen, can you go back to row like 26 and talk to them people?

G 3:47

Yeah. And you know that good morning in the morning, you know, when you're coming on board too, is like we are the best, I mean, we are the best group of employees as a whole. I'm gonna say this as a flight attendant at sensing emotional distress. Right. I mean, we are like attuned to that. Over 30, I mean, we're 30 plus years of flying. We could tell when somebody's mourning. We can tell what somebody's like they're upset about something. They can be upset or we know they could be upset about a million different things, but we know they're upset because we interact with each person coming on board, right? And so part of our training and part of being a flight attendant, I mean, I I I think that's a good, you know, like people should understand, like when you're coming on board, we're analyzing.

Shawn 4:32

We're reading, yeah. Reading, we're reading body language, facial expressions, the way that you react with us, and even simple things. One of the one of the things they they they come on is uh you you always see the gift cards, right? Right as a gift. It's appreciation thing. Yeah, it don't don't ever expect, I don't expect anything. Yeah, you guys just come on board the aircraft, but when they come on, they they spend their hard earned money.

G 4:56

Gee, we really like it.

Shawn 4:57

No, I no, I said that. I said, I mean, it it's really cool because they bring them on, and then you know, they they bring the different candies on, you know, because you get those Lindor chocolates and stuff like that. Yeah, they always bring something on, and then um uh then you have like the variety of candy and stuff like that that that they bring on. But no, we appreciate all that. Don't expect it, but we appreciate it. But the first thing that that is done is what communication to the other flight attendants. Hey, just want to tell you 24 Charlie, they left us some candy up front. 24 Charlie left us some uh some uh gift cards up front. You might want to stop by and tell them thank you.

G 5:36

You're gonna that is the fastest way as a crew member to get better service. Yeah, you're gonna be definitely gonna be taken care of on that flight. I mean, I haven't found a crew ever. You give us something, we're definitely gonna take care of you. Right. The other thing is that that goes hand in hand with that with the uh safety, the first responders, too. Like, we want to take care of those people too. Yeah. Like when they go out of their way to tell us, hey, we're here, if you need help, you know, because I would say, you know, 10% of our flights, we're gonna have some type of medical emergency.

Shawn 6:08

I got more than 10%. Shit, everybody knows I have medical emergencies all the time. I have used so many doctors and nurses, paramedics. I I can't even begin to tell you. I come in all the time and I have at medical emergencies, and these people come up and uh what we've had it. You've had one pass away in the jetway, right? Yep. I've had them pass on pass away on a plane, and we're we're doing full-blown, you know, CPR on them. Yep. Um, I mean, they they're they're pass out from uh blood pressure. Well, there's numerous things, but always doing it.

G 6:42

Endless amounts of things that can happen on a board of aircraft. But but I mean, the point here to what we're talking about is that you coming on and identifying yourself is a huge important aspect of our day. Because not only when in us analyzing everybody coming on board, we're not always just looking for handouts or all that stuff, but we're also looking for people that are gonna help us, assist us in emergencies. Emergencies happen in a snap. I mean, it is like we know, you know, they happen at any time, any time of the flight, any part of the flight. You know, we've had it happen in every phase of flight, right? So, so it's a good thing.

Shawn 7:22

Calm, polite, and aware. Yeah. That'd be probably the the three things that I look for with people are are they're calm, they're relaxed, yeah, right, polite, and they're they're in tune to what's going on. Because that's the one thing that we we have a huge problem with all the time because they they're always putting their headphones on, they're never tuned in.

G 7:41

Yeah.

Shawn 7:42

Always uh and and those that's like big things for us.

G 7:45

Yeah. But I I will say, like, I'm guilty of that that that one. When I get on planes, like the first thing I do is tune myself out. Like I do that as a crew member. Like, I'll come on and I let them know, you know, hey, I'm a crew member, you know, the company I work for, and uh I'm sitting at this seat. If you need help, let me know. Because I know I like that when somebody does it for me. And but I will tune out the rest of the flight. Like I turn on my headphones and you know, I'm a no-nonsense, don't bother me type of person.

Shawn 8:15

But when you see the crew coming though, you acknowledge them. Oh yeah. Oh, that's what I'm saying. I mean, you know, that's all passengers have to do too. Even if you you're tuned out, if your headphones, you know we're around. Right. I mean, we're coming up, just acknowledge. You don't have to, you don't have to take your headphones off.

G 8:28

No.

Shawn 8:29

I mean, if you don't want anything, just shake your head. Yeah, no, no, thank you. It's an easy thing, right?

G 8:33

Yeah.

Shawn 8:33

And the easiest way too is to make friends is if you're asking for something, hey, no rush, but if you get a chance, just the words. Sure. Isn't where I mean words change everything when you're when you're kind when you're talking about customer service, everything is how someone words it to you.

G 8:51

Yeah, your approach. Yeah, your body language.

Shawn 8:54

Simple words. It's like don't rush, thank you. Um, I mean, those basic things.

G 8:59

Yeah, those acknowledgments are like uh important to us.

Kindness, Acknowledgment, And Better Service

Shawn 9:02

Yeah, they're really important. But um, have you ever had one of those oh shit moments on a plane? I mean, really like an oh shit. Something happened. What do you mean by oh shit? It's an oh shit. Yeah, I've had a lot of oh shit. Okay, that's what I'm saying. An oh shit moment. Like you gotta take a shit? No, what's wrong with you? Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit about what? No, no, it's one of those funny, funny moments. Um, I I was uh I was thinking this one that I had a few years back. This passenger came to the back and we were talking about you know being sick and everything. Yeah. And this guy comes to the back and he's he's like uh he's not feeling well. He's he's kind of jaundice looking. Yeah. So sitting in on the jaundice looking? Well, you know, like yellow and all that. Yeah, yeah. You know, he looked like he was getting sick. So um this other flight attendant's in the back, I'm like, let's get a cold compress on this guy. So he sits him on the lab seat, and he's sitting there, and I'm like, Are you all right? And he goes, Yeah. He goes, he goes, I'm just really nauseous. And I'm like, okay, let's put a cold compress on. So she reaches in and she takes, remember that you know the curtain, the curtain naps, those blue naps? Yeah. So she takes this thing and she dunks it into the um the water, the ice water for with the beer and the wine and everything. She gets to, I'm not thinking right now, right? I'm not even thinking. We're just trying to help. Yeah, I'm not even I'm I'm like just grabbing this thing, putting this on this guy's face. So this guy, he puts it on his face, and I'm talking to him, like, you how you feeling? He goes, Yeah, a little bit better, blah, blah. So, well, keep it on your face, you know, it'll help you, you know, not be so nauseous. And so I'm starting talking to him. And he and he takes this off about, I don't know, three or four minutes, and he goes, How do I look? I'm like, dude, you dude, you're blue. And he's like, What? He goes, What? Is that bad? Is that bad? Am I blue? I'm like, no, dude, you're like smurf blue. That damn rag stained his face. Right. She's busting up laughing because I've got a guy that looks like a smurf. No, he looked like a flipping smurf.

G 11:06

Dude, that is funny as hell because like in the moment, we're trying to help the customer, and you're trying to like let them like try to get them down, you know, and and and take care of all their needs and stuff. But we grabbed one item that was a mistake, and that's as he's blue. We have a blue cloth that are like over dyed, so they like are just saturated in blue ink. And as soon as you wet them, anything that touches them turns or anything turns blue.

Shawn 11:34

Turns blue, but you don't think about it that moment. So, anyway, so she she's she's laughing. I'm like, quick laughing, get some alcohol wipes or something. So we're grabbing alcohol wipes. It's not coming off. Oh it's not coming off.

G 11:46

So he's got to go to a business meeting.

Shawn 11:48

I have no idea. I didn't care about that. So it's not coming off. So he he's sitting there going, Oh, you know, he's looking. And um, so I ask her, Do you have these those makeup wipes? So she goes and gets these things. Thank God. She starts wiping his face. I'm wiping his face, trying to get this shit off. It starts coming off. So he takes them over, he goes, Here, let me do it, let me do it. So he starts wiping them off. Sean, I swear to God. When he looked up, he is like, How I look now? He had the shit over his eyebrows. He looked like one of them damn 70s drag queens. I'm like, smeared it all. I'm just like, I gotta get that shit off your eyes. I can't send you back to your seat looking like a freaking drag queen now. I went from Papa Smurf to a drag queen.

G 12:33

I I could look at listen, it I can see the report now. Like you're you're feeling the report. The guy calls in and he complains to the airline.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

Yeah, turn me into a drag queen. Yeah, freaking I was a smurf at first, and I turned drag queen. Drag queen.

Shawn 12:50

Man, when you think about some of the shit that's happened on the plane. Oh my god. Okay, this this one girl, she was telling me she was like, Oh, she goes, I've never dropped anything. I'm like, Really? She'd never dropped anything. We're in the galley, and it's not even, you know how when you say something, you ever said something, and then all of a sudden, whatever you said, now you look like an idiot. Oh yeah. Okay, so you do that all the time. Shut up. I knew, I knew you were gonna do that. I knew that. I knew it. I knew it. I uh you know, some I even set myself up for that. You're just like you were like sitting back waiting for that shit. No, I'm not done yet. You you were you jumped all over it. I'm gonna still stay with it. But anyway, she was um she was saying how she never dropped anything. I bet it wasn't even three or four minutes later. She dropped a can of that bloody merry mix and it pierced that shit and it spun around. Have you ever seen one of those cans that just starts spinning? So it starts. It starts spinning. It had a piercing, just like a pinhole. It's spraying bloody merry mix all over that flicking galley, all over that shit. It looked like the the ending of the chainsaw massacre in there. So I'm covered in bloody merry mix, she's covered in bloody merry mix, and she's looking at me, she's like, I'm sorry. I'm like, I'm covered in this shit. Yeah, I gotta work for the next 12 hours. Could you imagine coming on the plane? Imagine coming on a plane, you just see these speckled flight antennas, all this shit just coming off of them. You didn't like McCologne.

G 14:26

I didn't be doused with tomato juice.

Medical Emergencies And Real Stakes

Shawn 14:29

They we had the we had the um uh the lights, man. The lights were covered in this shit. Oh my god. It was so bad. I mean, it just spun around.

G 14:36

You know that that goes to like the whole thing. Like the planes, they're they're not like the cleanest, right? No. Like, I mean, but it's it's because shit like that happens.

Shawn 14:47

Like every flight, there's crazy stuff like that happening. Well, you you you see passengers when they come on, we give them those wipes. First thing they do is they do what? Tray tables. Now, you tray tables are probably the most wiped thing on that aircraft.

G 15:02

Yeah, right? But they're in the next one. But what would you say?

Shawn 15:05

Yeah, but what would you say then the something that's not wiped?

G 15:10

Um armrest, foot rest. Hmm. I'm even more what the head?

Shawn 15:17

There you go. So think about this. Right. Your head. Yeah. How many flights we do in a day? And honestly, right. Do they wipe? Does the headrest get wiped? I mean, you see people every now and then do that.

G 15:29

They do that. But for the most part, like the the clean crews don't wipe down the headrests. I know. Right? I know. Period. I know. Yeah, like I mean, there's like the sanity.

Shawn 15:41

That's like going like nappy head, nappy head. Yeah. Right? Because you got that back of that head, and you know, we take people from all over the world, and some of them, they they're not exactly the cleanest little people in the world.

G 15:53

Uh that was just taking me back to like in the days. Like, remember the Afrochene? Yeah.

Shawn 15:59

Oh, yeah. Jerry Curl shit.

G 16:01

Jerry Curl spraying on the colour. That would be on the collar. Unless it was on the colour, it would be like dripping on your collar and all shit. Rick Jane, remember? Can you imagine the seats back then? Yeah. They were like laying back. Dude. It gives you like the heebie jeebies. Dude, it was just like, but I mean, the planes just there, they try, but they can't. There's just no way possible they would be able to like keep it as clean as possible. The one thing that like I I saw some type of rating the the other day. They were talking about like different airlines, and they were ranking airlines on like which ones were the cleanest and which ones, and it's all just on a appearance of being clean. And it was very interesting when you see like the how how all these airlines kind of like run down on, but we live it.

Shawn 16:45

Yeah.

G 16:46

And we know what's clean and what's not clean, right?

Shawn 16:48

Yeah, bathrooms are not clean. They end up looking like the filling station.

G 16:52

Yeah.

Shawn 16:53

Those are some nasty things. I don't, you know, I that's one thing I never understand is that when you walk in a bathroom, it's clean. How do you just throw shit on the floor?

G 17:01

Dude, don't even get me started with that nonsense.

Shawn 17:04

We can talk about bathrooms every episode on every freaking podcast, how nasty they get. And then people, when you just walk in though, I mean it's clean. It's clean.

G 17:14

Right.

Shawn 17:15

Why would you just jack it up?

G 17:17

Yeah.

Shawn 17:18

Why would you just jack it up? I mean, what's the purpose?

G 17:21

And deposit things in sp any spaces they can find, like putting their tissues into like any cracks and crevices they could still like it's like they they don't know what a trash receptacle looks like, you know. And like I I will give it to you. Like some aircraft, when you get in there, I'm sometimes like where is that flush button? You know, like you're looking, yeah, but you're looking for it, right?

Shawn 17:49

There's no way you're walking out of a toilet after you went. No. I'm pushing everything.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

No.

Shawn 17:54

I don't care what it is. I'm I'm pushing down, I'm pushing. Right. There's no way am I letting somebody else. That's behind your deuce, man. I don't know. That ain't no way in the hell. There's no way in hell. But you know, what else? I mean, okay, so we know the lavatories, you know the headrest, the armrest, the tray tables, right? Carpets.

Calm, Polite, Aware: Passenger Habits

G 18:16

The carpets are so filthy, man. And I can't, it blows my mind that like families let their kids crawl around on the carpets and stuff like that. I'm like, they are they barely vacuum those carpets, right? Right. Like, I mean, the cracks and crevices of underneath a plane airplane seat, dude.

Shawn 18:37

Well, that's when they take a diaper bag and they set it, they set it right outside the lavatory.

G 18:41

Yeah, there's there's there may be plague or bublonic whatever underneath in the cracks and crevices of airline.

Shawn 18:48

Yeah, it was just nasty.

G 18:49

It's nasty.

Shawn 18:50

I I mean, I I we could talk about, like I said, we would talk about that all day, man. It's still nasty. I mean, but a headrest, I think that's one that people miss a lot.

G 18:59

Yeah. I'm glad that most airlines have gone to like some type of synthetic pleather type of seat, you know, that you can wipe at least.

Shawn 19:08

You just said cherry curl crap, not yeah. Remember when it's it doesn't matter what you put on there, it's gonna you're gonna get nasty.

G 19:14

But remember they used to be cloth. I know. Like the things they'd be stained. They were stained. Oh, they were stained and uh cloth seats is the worst idea on an airplane.

Shawn 19:24

Yeah, they were stained.

G 19:26

Yeah.

Shawn 19:26

They were uh and and they just just absolutely nasty. So what's been going on with you?

G 19:33

Well, um one we finally got a car that we ordered like almost six months ago. You got another car? We got another car. Carol got a car. Carol's Carol's car, her car she's been driving now. She we bought it back in 2014.

Shawn 19:52

Are you starting a BMW dealership? Not yet. It's starting. I'm gonna come use one.

unknown 19:58

Right.

Shawn 19:58

You got one spare. We got a couple extras. I'm gonna go get that spare. Where's the keys at? Yeah.

G 20:04

Carol, that's Carol's airport car right now. That's gonna be mine. No, it's she's using that because she's not driving her new car. Her new car. Do you want me to experience driving a BMW? Uh, you you get rides in it every now and then. That's a golf cart. No, no, no, no. You you don't get rides in that. You get rides in our BMWs. Anyhow, uh, Carol got a new uh BMW 7 Series. Crazy, I mean, technology out of the this car is it's like made for like a really should be like a chauffeur type of thing. Like so hers is better than yours. Oh, yeah, her hers is like a thousand. She has like automatic opening doors, closing, everything's soft closing. The door closes itself.

Shawn 20:46

Automatic doors.

G 20:47

Yeah, you can you push a button and the door literally opens up and it has sensors on it so it won't hit something and it will stop. It will like flash red lights if it's like too close to the things. It has it has massage and all the pick you up at the front of the terminal. It will pick you up wherever you want it to.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

It's got like auto drive too.

G 21:08

No, it doesn't have auto drive. That would be that'd be awesome, right?

Shawn 21:11

Yeah, you can drive that damn thing from the parking lot, right?

G 21:14

Cars are good, cars are getting there, right? That'd be kind of cool. That's uh that that's one of the like, you know, me being in school and everything, uh, they're talking about all those like, you know, AI and automation, everything. And you know, one of the big next steps in cars is that, you know, and Tesla's on the forefront of these things because Tesla wants to do the automatic, you know, autonomous cars and all that stuff. But here's what they're thinking the next step is you're gonna have cars that are autonomous where I park it in a garage, I can be like, go to work. And it goes out and does Uber. That's what I said. It's gonna drop you off with the you'd so yeah, yeah. Like, no, no, no. Like I'm sleeping and he's gonna be working, my car's working, doing Uber runs.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Well, there's a shocker. No, that's your top of the car.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

That's just awkward.

Shawn 22:02

No, I was just sitting there saying that you could I could see you getting dropped off at the front of the terminal. Right. This damn thing just driving home. Right. No, he's not driving home.

G 22:09

He's gonna go to work. Go do some hood runs. Do something.

Shawn 22:13

Damn, even car work.

unknown 22:16

That's right.

G 22:17

You got to earn a living. That's what they're talking about. Like, that's the next like level of like uh all this stuff. And like cars become autonomous where we'd be like, I'm you know, just tell your car uh, you know what, go pick up Johnny at school, you know, and the car goes. That's what that's where it's going.

SPEAKER_03 22:35

They're like and they're going, you send him out for Uber.

Oh-No Moments: Smurf Towel And Spray Disaster

G 22:39

Yeah. I'm telling you, but can you imagine? I mean, that that'd be like, oh yeah, uh, on my taxes.

Shawn 22:46

I could imagine your car when you came back in. They were like, This is bullshit. You've been gone for two days. I've been out here doing all this work. I've been up all night, Sean. Right. I've been all up all night.

G 22:56

If they could talk, but hopefully they're not gonna have any AI.

Shawn 23:00

Talking to you, yours would be telling you off all the time. You put some stinky ass people in me, Sean.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Yeah.

Shawn 23:09

So they were smoking stuff in here, right?

G 23:13

So, anyways, Carol got this new car, and uh, it's the shittiest time of year. I mean, right now in northeast Ohio, like the snow and all that stuff. I don't even want to take it out. Like, I already got a ding in my car. Did I tell you that? You got a ding in yours? Yes, it chipped the paint of my car. I'm like going nuts. All I could I could think, all I can do is you know how you get one one something in your head and you just can't stop thinking about it. Did you know when it happened? No, I have no idea. I don't know when it happened, who was driving the car, whether it was Carol or me. Like, I don't know. Okay, but it was it's like this little tiny little fine. I had already I already got it repaired, but it's like I just could not believe I was like, got a chip in my car already, man. I haven't even had it. How'd you even notice it? Because it was I was I was washing it and uh I looked in it, I'm like, oh, you know, it was like, you know, because I had some bird shit on the car or whatever, trying to clean it off. And I'm like, I see this and I'm like, washing. I'm like, what is it? What is it? I have a chip, damn it. And I couldn't stop thinking about it. You're like, like, keep it's in your head. You can't get it out. It's terrible.

Shawn 24:19

Anyhow, you should have drove the airport car, dude.

G 24:23

I don't know when it happened. Like, it's just been like I was telling you last week, like the wife driving too close to trucks and all that. Like, I've been like, it's been on my mind. Like, it's been on like stop. You're trying to blame.

Shawn 24:34

I want a chip. I know you do. I know this whole time, I didn't have definitive proofs. The whole time you're talking to me, I'm sitting there going, You're blaming Carol. You're already blaming Carol.

G 24:42

I didn't have the definitive proof.

Shawn 24:44

Carol doesn't have a chip in hers, but you got a chip. You're trying to blame her.

G 24:48

Yeah, anyways, but we got through that, and then you know, uh, when we were out in Vegas uh the the last week, and uh, dude, my nieces, like so all my nieces, they're they're all the that gaming age, you know, and you know I love video games, right? So, you know, these freaking game companies, they're a racket. They're just as bad, if not worse, than the freaking cell phone companies. Yeah, like it is crazy. So we I buy this new well, first of all, let's back it up here. My niece and nephew buys a new Switch, Nintendo Switch. You know what I'm talking about? I know what you're talking about, but you know I'm not a gamer. I know you're not a gamer, but it's the latest, greatest thing for the family entertainment route. They get this little switch, it can be portable, or they can have it at home and they can play these Nintendo games, right? So I have a Switch myself. I have the Switch, the first original Switch. Imagine that, right? So imagine you having freaking Pong. Right. So I am, I am, I've got this system, the Nintendo, the first Switch, and they are like, oh, Uncle Sean, can you play? We can play online, we can play together. You got a switch, I gotta switch, let's play it. So I go to the store, I buy this game, I buy this Mario World Kart, you know, Mario Golf Kart. Well, not like a golf cart, a Mario World Kart, okay? And it's basically a little racing game. You play in racing with Mario Kart, okay? You've seen that before.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

Yeah, yeah.

G 26:12

Okay. So it's the new version of that. So I walk in, I buy it in the store, I bring it back home, I put it in my machine. Guess what? Machine says, incompatible. You gotta buy a new machine? You get it's you need a switch two, not a switch one. So now I'm like, mother. Are you kidding me? They do the same thing with tools, dude. Yeah, no, then no, no, no, no, no, no. So then I decide, like, after agonizing, we figure out, we buy, we get some games, and we get a couple games we play online together, and I'm like, it's inevitable, like, we gotta buy a new system. So I buy a new system, right? So I get this new system, and I swap all the stuff, download it, make it happen. I get in this thing, right? Oh, guess what? The controllers that I have, the extra one, they're compatible, but guess what? The machine that I gave up to get the new machine, um, that's where you charge it on. Now I gotta buy a damn charger for the damn old controllers. I gotta have like you all this extra stuff. You gotta like they nickel and dime you for each one, everything. It was like, I'm like, these son of a bees. They like, I mean, it's a racket. I mean, parents out there right now, like with these video systems. I'm just like, wow.

Shawn 27:40

They did the same thing. Uh Jackson just bought a car. I I didn't I didn't get into that. What you're talking about with the car. So he bought it, he bought a car, and I'm I'm just gonna go over this real quick. They they say they do this 160 point check. Right. Right? It's a used car, it had like the certified pre-owned type of car. Certified, whatever it is. So he um they they went and um did all the paperwork and everything. He sent me a couple pictures, 160 points, my ass. Now, they probably didn't do anything. He got it home. It had a maintenance light as soon as he got home. They didn't even change the damn oil.

G 28:15

Oh, geez.

Shawn 28:16

This is how ridiculous it is. They didn't change the oil. Now I'll give it to him after he took it back.

G 28:21

You this what manufacturer was this? Let's start with that. Toyota. Toyota.

Shawn 28:25

Yes, okay, Toyota. So he opens, he opens up the um the central console. Okay because the guy told me he said, hey, you got charging ports and everything. Oh yeah, he had holes where the charging ports were. Were? There was no ports. There's no ports.

G 28:43

Dude, I drive that car right back to the dealership.

The Real Cleanliness Of Airplanes

Shawn 28:46

I I told him, I said, take it right back, go right up to the the the head guy. Don't mess around with the any of the salespeople or anything. So the head guy was he was pissed because whoever it was dropped the ball. And he had this, he had this car that I mean, if you've seen it, I'm like, it is ridiculous. And then on top of that, I started looking at his paperwork. And he, you know, he's a he's a younger guy. He they don't, you know, they don't pay attention to the paperwork. All the freaking add-ons. All the add-ons, right? Gap insurance. Yeah. Is that bullshit?

G 29:22

Dude, here's the thing. I'm I'm a uh I approach car buying in a totally different way, you know, because we have experience, right? Right.

Shawn 29:33

Like, but they see them coming, that's what pisses me off.

G 29:36

And it pisses me off that all these different dealerships that are out there, they they get they see you walking in and they just like, oh, here's my next victim. No shit, but listen, but listen to Sean.

Shawn 29:47

Not just that, it was a tracking system.

G 29:50

Yeah.

Shawn 29:51

Okay. That you, you know, it they put their individual tracking system on it, and then they send the sell the package deal. Well, they're telling him, well, it's already on the car. Well, you're charging them like$1,600 to put this, that the tracking system's already on there. So you're saying that it costs sixteen hundred dollars plus another$199 to activate this. You could take an an a little Apple uh uh tag, yeah, throw it in the glove compartment and track the damn thing yourself. But you almost$2,000 on that. So you put a few thousand dollars, all your few thousands between gap insurance and that shit, it's already gone.

G 30:30

Yeah, dude.

Shawn 30:31

They they see these kids coming. Yeah, and you guys, if you ever do that and you go for a used car, look at the paperwork and and make sure that well, you need to have somebody with you that has some experience in this. But they still don't do that, man. I mean, most people, most of them, I mean, I that's a good thing, and I I agree with you.

G 30:48

If you have somebody that's experienced with you, then a lot of the a lot of times the dealers aren't gonna pull that stuff because they know because you need like you are gonna be there, be like, what is this? Bullshit. What what is don't don't need that, take that off. Yeah, nope, and then they're not gonna argue with you. Yeah, they're not gonna argue with you or I understand that. But yeah, they just take that off. Capture. Oh, yeah. We don't need that. Take that off. Yeah, like that's a like the the the beautiful thing about the car we bought, like, we didn't have any of that crap. Well, no, none of that none of that is a different level.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Yeah, that's a totally different level.

G 31:25

Like, and I hate that like these like young kids that that's how they get introduced to this, you know, car buying experience and stuff. And it shouldn't be like that for any level of car, right? That you buy. It's just no, it's bullshit. They should be more honest. No, they take advantage of them, take advantage of all this stuff. But yeah, the the back to my video game thing. I'm got sucked into buying a new Nintendo Switch, and it's just because of my nieces and nephew. And and Carol was just laughing at it. She's like, You're gonna buy a new system, and they're gonna buy a new system. So you now you gotta buy all these new games, too. No, no, we we have I bought the game, and luckily I'm keeping the game that was incompatible, remember?

Shawn 32:02

Yeah. But are it works on the game? Oh, okay. Uh well then you're good.

G 32:08

Yeah, we're we're okay, but it's like just they start nickel and diamond you, all those different little things that are the ones that what's compatible, what's not compatible, you know.

Shawn 32:17

You just got at home and you had that son of a melody. Yep, son of a so what is a flight attendant's real job? I mean, what would you say? I mean, if you're sitting there saying, what would what would be their real job? Safety specialist.

G 32:33

Safety, right? Period. Like, uh honestly, like everything that goes on in the plane that every passenger is worried about, the Wi-Fi, the drinks, the service, the thing, that's like 50th in line to what are what's really important about our job. Right. Safety is it, period.

Shawn 32:53

But they only experience that when it happens. Yeah. Right? They only see that when it happens. It happens in a medical emergency.

G 33:00

But here's the thing you're saying when it happens is it's an incident that's happening. Right. But safety is happening all the time.

Shawn 33:08

Right. But period. They their view of us and seeing us at doing our job only happens when the incident happens. Right.

G 33:16

That's only their opinions, their opinions completely. Yeah, they only acknowledge a safety incident as an incident. Safety is happening from the time we start our job. Right. Like we know that everything we do and every activity we're doing is all implied to the safety of our job. Whether we're latching a freaking carrier in the in the galley to checking our equipment on the plane, to you know, analyzing the passengers coming on board. How would they like it? Everything that we're doing is safety.

Shawn 33:49

How would they like it if you didn't check the toilets? Oh, they wouldn't like it. You didn't flush them.

G 33:53

Yeah.

Shawn 33:54

And then all of a sudden you get in the air and they don't flush. And they don't flush. None of them.

G 33:58

Yeah.

Shawn 33:58

Simple thing, right? Just pushing a just pushing a button. That's that's one of the things we do, is that you go in there and you push the button, make sure that the light flushes.

G 34:07

Yeah. They people don't see the job from within that a day at work with a flight attendant, you would see that every time we come on a plane, we're kicking to put it bluntly, we're kicking the tires and checking you know the oil pressure on everything. Like everything in the plane has to be, everything that's a safety system on a plane or is there to protect us for safety has to be checked.

Shawn 34:32

Just the amount of checks, I mean, that's that's pretty substantial.

G 34:36

Yeah.

Shawn 34:36

Everything that we all the equipment, yeah.

G 34:38

Equipment, galleys, like all the stuff that we have, all the equipment in the galley. Right. The coffee makers. Yeah. Like everything. Does a latch work? Does it correctly latch? Does it not latch? We anything that we can identify that's there for the safety of that flight.

Shawn 34:57

Any placard, anything. Yeah. I mean, there's so many, there's so many different things uh that that no one ever sees.

G 35:03

Yeah, they don't they don't quite understand, but they only see the safety when it's an incident.

Shawn 35:09

Yeah.

G 35:10

You know what I'm saying? They only recognize, acknowledge the safety is the incident. Yeah. And we and it's not. No. It's the entire job.

Shawn 35:18

Yeah, it is a job.

G 35:18

Yeah.

Shawn 35:19

So you know something else they don't see? This is a hit, this is a hidden little gem. The outside lock on the lavatory.

G 35:26

The outside lock on the lavatory. They do not see that. There's some people in the world that have privy to that, but uh the outside lock on the lavatory is not there.

Shawn 35:36

That's that's that's uh years ago um we caught you in the lab with somebody.

G 35:42

Right.

Shawn 35:43

Right? Right. We could catch you because we could we could unlock it. Yep. But that's for safety though, too.

G 35:49

Yeah, we can take off the entire door of the lavatory. Like we've had to do it. Yeah, people don't realize it. Like you get stuck in a lavatory, the door can come straight off. You're vaping? Yeah, you're you're like, we can remove the entire door.

Shawn 36:04

Yeah. They were saying, yeah, like the kid at home, right? I'll take a damn door off. A few latches. Right. You'd be peeing in there with no door. Right.

G 36:15

There's all kinds of things that are happening in that.

Shawn 36:17

Like, uh Did you ever did you ever get one of those things times they with a pastor, like you lock it for them and they unlock it? You lock it and then they unlock it. You're playing this lock and unlock game with them.

Car Talk: Tech, Autonomy, And Dealership Traps

G 36:28

Yeah. The lavatory is that weird spot on the plane where you're just like, uh, you know, we we have to have access to it, and we also need to know who's in it, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we're paying attention to who's in it.

Shawn 36:44

Well, if they're alive in it.

G 36:46

Right.

Shawn 36:46

Because some of them stay in there for a long time. Dude, yeah, that's that's when you're like cringing.

G 36:51

Yeah.

Shawn 36:51

Right? You get that, oh God, spray comes out. You ever want to see a passenger? They're in some of the first thing that they say is, hey, that person's been in there a long time.

G 37:03

Right.

Shawn 37:04

It's a knock-knock, you're okay, and then go get your spray.

G 37:07

Right.

Shawn 37:07

Because you know it's not gonna be pretty.

G 37:09

Well, that is the normal response. You know it is. But every now and then you get that knock-knock, and you're not getting a response, and you're like, I don't know, you get that, you got that oh shit moment where you're like, There's nothing. Are they alive?

Shawn 37:24

Yeah, but then they didn't answer, and then you uh unlock and see them on the toilet. That that sucks.

G 37:31

So Carol had an incident where it was unlocked, and the dude's on the toilet, and he's gone. He was dead? Yeah. Really? That's what I'm getting at. It was it was a no shit moment. Well, that's why we do that. That's what I was saying. Like, I mean, we're doing a check. People, uh, you know, it's amazing how many incidents happen on a toilet. We're gonna leave it right there.

Shawn 38:01

I'm like, I'm not even going any farther with that. What is going with this real ID roulette? What is that?

G 38:08

Dude, here's the thing. Real ID just started, man. February 1st was the first thing to happen, right? Yeah. And so, travelers right now, like you get to the airport and you don't have a real ID, which in most states has that little teeny star on the corner of it. Yeah, um, if you don't have that now, now the TSA is gonna be like, sorry, you can't fly. You're not gonna be able to go through TSA. You're gonna have to go back to the ticket counter, you're gonna have to get this uh ID verification process done, and the airlines are gonna charge you$45 to do it. And then you're gonna have to go back through security and get through to get to your flight. But you have to go through a whole entire question process and they're gonna ask you who you are and all these different things in order for you to fly. There's a big delay to it. But the airlines right now, I don't know if you've seen this, when you check in for them now for your tickets and stuff, they're actually asking you if you have your real ID. So if you don't have your real ID, you can now, prior to even coming to the airport, you can do that ID check, whatever, for$45.

Shawn 39:14

Oh, and do it online and check it.

G 39:16

Yeah, and then they can get it processed and do it online and get through the whole thing so that you have the certificate so that you can get through security because you have to have the real ID now in order to travel in the city.

Shawn 39:27

Man, yeah. I mean, going in the wrong security line is one thing. Going in the the security line and not having that ID.

G 39:32

Well, just I don't even know, I don't know how long the process takes to go through to get the certificate to be able to prove you're an American citizen or whatever, to be able to fly. Yeah, like it's it's a a delay. So that's why they're all over, like trying to make sure everybody knows. Hey, we've been warning you, you need this real ID.

Shawn 39:52

You you know what it's like when you forget your shit at home. Oh, dude. Worst? Worst feeling in the world is when a crew member leaves their ID.

G 40:02

Anybody doesn't matter how to be a crew member, it could be if you leave your ID at home, you got issues.

Shawn 40:07

But crew member is it's bad. It's bad. Bad, it's really bad.

G 40:13

That's like a required duty item. We have to have that in order to fly. You're not going. Yeah, you're not going anywhere.

Shawn 40:18

Yeah. I mean, you it's not about no 45 bucks.

G 40:21

Oh, no.

Shawn 40:22

Your ass is going home.

G 40:23

I wish that was the case.

Shawn 40:25

It'd be cheaper. That would be much cheaper. It'd be cheaper than like a friend bringing your shit down to Florida and shipping.

G 40:32

Oh, I knew you're going there.

Shawn 40:33

Well, so what? I'm gonna go there. That's what a good friend would do.

G 40:38

Right. Yeah. I've had a group friend or two. Did you just say good friend would you help me out in desperate times of need? Yeah.

Shawn 40:52

I'm thinking about that one now. Oh my god.

G 40:56

So, anyways, uh yeah, man, you have to have that stupid ID now to travel. And you know what?

Shawn 41:03

Um at least maybe they gave him a$45 option.

G 41:06

Yeah. So talking about this forgetting stuff reminds me of the time that I left my my ID at home and I flew to Cancun.

Shawn 41:17

Yeah.

G 41:18

Did I tell you about this?

Shawn 41:19

I know that one.

G 41:20

You know that one? Tell me about it because you're not involved in this story.

Shawn 41:23

I know. I know exactly what it was. You went to Cancun, you left your passport. Right. And when you came back in, and you came back in, it was it was brought to you at to the door of the airport. Of the cabin. So we don't have to go through the whole thing. Right. We don't have a good exactly. Let's just say, let's just say that was the miracle flight.

G 41:45

Yeah, that was a miracle flight that I can't happen.

Shawn 41:48

That was shit would never happen. And I mean, that that never happened. That would have been a bad story.

G 41:54

No. And you know what? And that's the that's the thing. You can't even get through to the flight now. You know what'd be worse through.

Shawn 42:03

You know what had been worse than that story?

G 42:04

What's that?

Shawn 42:05

If you canceled it in Cancun.

G 42:07

Oh, that would have been worse. Terrible.

Shawn 42:10

Sean speaks Spanish? Yeah. That would have been bad. You would have had a story to talk talk about now. Do you got a$45 pass? No, ain't no$45, man.

G 42:22

I'll do a 45 peso pass, please.

Shawn 42:27

You'd be telling everybody what they actually serve in the jail.

G 42:31

Yeah.

Shawn 42:34

That would be that would be a story. You got lucky on that one. That shit was lucky.

G 42:40

Yeah. I mean, that gives like all those things like being a crew member and traveling. Like, we got to think about all of our IDs and all that stuff too. But at the same time, like one of our friends that we know, like, he wasn't even thinking about his record, his uh previous um uh juvenile record, and got imprisoned in Canada.

unknown 43:05

Yep.

G 43:06

You know, like there's all these different aspects of flying and flying them to different countries and different laws and all that stuff that we gotta worry about.

Shawn 43:13

Okay, you gotta if you if you're traveling, you got a DUI. Right. You got DUI in Canada? Right. You ain't coming, you you're not coming out.

G 43:22

Yeah, you're not coming out. They're gonna detain you. Yeah, there's a lot of countries that are like that where you just you'll get you're not you're not leaving.

Shawn 43:29

It's gonna be a bad day.

G 43:30

Yeah, a misdemeanor here in America might be a major felony over in another country.

Shawn 43:36

But as a crew member, now me, I know you don't, but you because you put your ID in your bag. Yeah. The first thing I do is like I check before I I walk out the door, make sure I got my land on, I got all my stuff, right? I'm checking my I'm checking my wallet, I'm checking, make sure I got I got two, because I gotta have two phones. I got I got my my little onboard computer and my phone.

G 43:57

Yeah, mine my mine 30 second review as I'm going out the door, is I'm like wallet, keys, phone, ID. Okay, I'm ready to go.

Shawn 44:07

Yeah, you need to do that.

G 44:08

Wallet, keys, phone, ID.

Shawn 44:10

Yeah, keys.

G 44:10

Okay, the rest of the stuff, we can buy it somewhere. Nothing for 45 bucks. Whether I'm dressed or not, it doesn't matter. But as long as I got that stuff, I'm good for the day. Anyways, man, you know what? Um, I was thinking about this. Like, you were talking about cleanliness on planes and all this stuff. Like, I wanted to put it out there, man. Some of the things that just bug the shit out of flight attendants. Like all the different nasty stuff that we see on a plane that just bug me. What's one of yours number ones?

Shawn 44:48

Um, hygiene.

G 44:50

Hygiene.

Shawn 44:51

Yeah.

G 44:51

Like stinky people coming on the plane, not shower.

Shawn 44:55

Yeah, because everybody, everybody experiences it. I mean, there there was a guy just um just the other day he came on, he didn't have pants, and and and and uh and he went number two in his in his pants.

G 45:06

Oh, dude. Yeah, terrible.

Shawn 45:08

Yeah, he did, but he didn't have any of his pants, but the smell was bad.

G 45:12

Yeah.

Shawn 45:13

I mean, it's bad. There's nothing, there's nothing that you can do about it, but you don't have that. Okay, you you have people that come from hiking, right? They smell like campfires, camping. And then it's like five rows back, man. They they they just think of the whole campaign. And the smokers, yeah.

G 45:27

The smokers are like they just come on, they're like I I I always envision like pig pin from Charlie Brown, right? Where you always sell that like puff of smoke off the house.

Shawn 45:36

And everybody has to uh but then you have the ones that even even overspray with cologne, yeah, overspray with cologne.

The Flight Attendant’s Real Job: Safety

G 45:42

But then the the one my big pet peeve is you know, taking off your shoes. Yeah, that pisses me off. It's nasty. It one, it's nasty, two, it's like really unsafe. Like, and they want to take it off when they get on the plane. Yeah, like the number one thing, if this plane crashes, what's happening? But they're not thinking of that. They're not thinking of that. Right. So they're not thinking, hey, you're gonna be jumping onto the ground where whatever's happening outside, snow, ice, in the incident, glass, metal. Yeah. I need my damn shoes on. Your shoes are gone. Yeah, your shoes are gone because they just went floating 15 rows behind you.

Shawn 46:26

Especially if you're running through fire, it's not gonna be good.

G 46:28

Thank you. People don't realize. I'm like, can you just keep your shoes on? And I don't think the airlines really do a good job on like like they should really prepare, not only give you the safety demo, like they shouldn't be saying, listen, these are good habits to do for the first 15 minutes of your flight. You know, like keep your shoes on.

Shawn 46:47

But if you I mean when you're talking about the safety of that, that part of it too, think about that for a minute. We talk about seatbelts all the time. Right. Walk down the I walked down the the the cabin just yesterday, and I walk down there and the seatbelt sign is off, okay, and you you're walking in through the cabin, there's probably 15 people, at least 15, with their seat belts off. Oh yeah. Now, if you hit that unexpected turbulence, clear air turbulence, at least 15 people are going to the hospital. Oh yeah. Right?

G 47:24

At least 15. And they're blaming the airline, but they're the stupid ass. Right.

Shawn 47:28

You know, like that's it's the most simple thing we talk about all the time is your seatbelt. They still don't do it.

G 47:35

Yeah.

Shawn 47:35

So if you told them about their shoes, they could give two shits about their putting their shoes on in that situation.

G 47:41

These are just things that I'm thinking about on the moment.

Shawn 47:44

I know, but it just, I mean, for them.

G 47:46

Other thing, like, like here's two two big ones for me. Like, don't pick your nose in front of me.

Shawn 47:52

Yeah, that's nasty.

G 47:53

Don't clip your phone freaking nasty ass toenails or fingernails on the plane.

Shawn 47:58

We've talked about these before people still do them.

G 48:01

Yeah. And uh, you know, like that these and and here's the other one. Don't FaceTime with people on a plane. Yeah. Speakerphones don't belong on a plane. No. Like, nobody wants to hear your story.

Shawn 48:12

Yeah, well, they don't you don't even want to Okay, right, we were just in the terminal, and one of the flight attendants was sitting next to this girl. She was eating her food, and she's she's FaceTiming this person. She's so damn loud, and that's rude. You're eating, you're eating, you're food's flying everywhere as you're talking, and and your whole conversation can be heard by five people around you.

G 48:34

Yeah.

Shawn 48:34

And the flight attendant, she got up and left because she didn't want to sit there anymore.

G 48:38

Yeah.

Shawn 48:38

It's rude.

G 48:39

It's rude.

Shawn 48:40

Yeah.

G 48:41

All right, man. Well, we've talked about a lot of stuff here.

Shawn 48:44

We talk about a lot of shit all the time.

G 48:46

All the time. But we're gonna end it with an inspirational quote.

Shawn 48:49

Yeah, you know, we'll get to the inspirational quote. But what Sean said, the biggest thing, don't clip your don't clip your nails. Don't clip your nails on a plane. Right. And then every once in a while, do you know, do a body check. Yeah.

G 49:05

One of these. Yeah. Just check it. Ugh. Just come on. So you're not offending other people in any way. Yeah. Get to point A, point B. You know, boring.

Shawn 49:19

Polite. Boring and uneventful. Uneventful. That's what we strive for. All right, guys. Great things never come from comfort zones because we always get out of our comfort zone.

G 49:29

Yeah. We're all we're out there all the time. Yeah. You start falling in that comfort zone trap. You just like you forget about things in the world, right? Yeah.

Shawn 49:38

I think well, you when you get out of your comfort zone is when you get back.

G 49:42

Yeah.

Shawn 49:42

So you guys have a great week. It was a lot of fun. I hope you guys uh enjoyed listening to us. Hope you come back next week.

G 49:49

Yeah, come back next week. Watch us on YouTube. We will see you again. Thanks. See you guys. And that's a wrap. Another episode of Cabin Pressure with Sean and G. If you made it this far without subscribing to our YouTube channel, uh what are you even doing with your life? Seriously, questioning your judgment. Hit the subscribe button like it owes you money. Ring that notification bell. Do that thing. You know you want to. Because let's be real, finding this podcast was fake. Staying unsubscribed? That's just disrespectful to the universe. We'll see you next week for another episode where we promise you absolutely nothing except more of whatever this was. Until then, keep your trade tables up, your seat belts fastened, and your YouTube subscription. Subscribe. Peace out! And subscribe already!