The Strangest Aviation Story Yet

A tin foil cap shows up at work and somehow sparks a chain reaction: conspiracy jokes in the galley, memories of the “bunny ears” TV era, and the timeless question of whether anything can truly block the chaos of airline life. We lean into the weird crew personalities that make flying bearable, then take a sharp turn into something every traveler recognizes: the way words, titles, and “professional” labels keep changing while the job stays brutally real.

From there we get into passenger behavior and the new-school idea of airline etiquette enforcement. Think yellow cards like soccer, except it’s row 28D and someone’s filming you with a phone. We talk what would actually happen onboard, why old compliance cards never worked the way airlines hoped, and how quickly a simple correction can become a viral confrontation. If you care about airport etiquette, flight attendant duties, and why inflight conflict spirals, this one hits close to home.

We also trade stories from the trenches: maintenance delays and deplaning, Cancun delays and overflowing customs lines, Tampa airport upgrades that finally make sense, and the overhead bin moment that instantly changes the temperature of a flight, when a passenger kicks a bag at a crew member like it’s a service bell. Then we bring it home with jet lag truth, technology failures that feel straight out of a warning siren, and practical retirement planning for flight attendants, including why 401k strategy shifts around age 59 and a half and how an IRA can add flexibility.

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Transcript

Foil Caps And Crew Weirdness

Shawn 0:00

Alright, brother, so last week, man, we were talking about these flight attendants that were levitating inside the rooms on a layover. Do you think it's hard to actually recognize one of these flight attendants when they have like one of these little quirky things about them? Nope.

G 0:16

But this thing's damn tingling on my head right now.

Shawn 0:30

Man, you remind me of one of them damn remember when we was kids when we used to have to hook that shit up to the TV? Use like one of them bunny ear things from the 50s. That's right. I do feel like a TV. So we're talking about uh today we're talking about these these these flight attempts that believe in foil caps.

G 0:48

Yeah. Not me. I'm just a uh innocent bystander.

Shawn 0:53

He's a demonstration.

G 0:54

This is a demonstration only. We got this from one of our coworkers. Um we borrowed it. She she's into this type of thing. Yeah. So do you feel like do you feel like it's blocking any of that government surveillance shit? I feel like I'm uh like um uh I feel like that I could feel some like um microwaves happening right now, and there's like there's like a a foil, like some electromagnetic waves, or they're this is actually protecting me from those spies from the company. Oh, that's that's what it is.

Shawn 1:28

I don't know, you know, they're always trying to tap into my mind. No, we did this one time. We had a flight attendant that she, you know, she buys into all this, you know, foil capping and stuff like that. Right. So we had to we had to talk about this a little bit. We we actually made foil caps inside the galley. When she came to the back, we all were wearing foil caps and go, yeah, we're all here, we're here. So, but we always have we you get these people that have these little quirky personalities. Yep. Right, and one of them is well, we have levitators and and we have foil cappers.

G 2:00

Dude, there is bad shit crazy in our galleys. Yeah, like I mean, you know, people are always talking about like what's going on in the galley. That this is some of the crazy shit. It's not just the customers, it's not out in the customers area only.

Shawn 2:13

Could you imagine your crew walking out with that shit on? Just have like every every crew member walks out. You think this is company approved?

unknown 2:21

I think so.

Shawn 2:22

No, because they want into our brain waves. Exactly. See, but it blocks them. It blocks them. So this is also protects from radiation. All right, you got to be careful taking that thing off because you know that's that's we it's a loner. Yeah. Delicate. Oh, yeah. Yeah, don't break it. Ah that was killing me, man. Levitators and foil cappers.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Yeah, the world is crazy.

Shawn 2:54

Yeah, this this flight attendant, um, they they had put this advertisement out, and uh, I was reading it and said they were looking for a residential cleaning technician. Oh shit, no. Residential cleaning technician? That's a maid.

G 3:11

I was like, we got these titles. Why do why do titles have to change? It's like, you know, like, you know, even in industry, like we had all those different title changes of our career. Like we had a first it was like when we came on, it was like steward and stewardess, right? And then they were like, oh no, that's offensive. No, we're gonna be flight attendants.

Shawn 3:31

Gotta have a flight attendant. Then we had the the remember that used to use have the cock cockpit. Yeah, cockpit. Oh, it's gotta be the flight deck. Yeah, gotta be a flight deck. So I was thinking maybe Because everybody on the flight deck doesn't have cocks. No. That was bad. I'm just saying. That was bad. That's how they changed it. That was like a bleep moment. You're gonna be like beep, one of those things, like, you know, can we bleep that out? It was like, okay, it's flight deck.

G 4:02

Right. Yeah, flight deck.

Shawn 4:04

So we were thinking, how could we let's let's change a flight attendant?

G 4:08

What we're gonna do today.

Shawn 4:10

We're getting the next generation.

G 4:11

Yeah.

Shawn 4:12

If you can say the next generation, I was sitting there thinking, I want to be a CBO. CBO. Yep. What's that, G? It's a chief beverage officer. There you go. Yeah. Chief Beverage Officer. Right. I mean, it's just like a title. Can you imagine that? I walk on there and get a shirt and got a CBO.

G 4:32

Yeah, you'll be the supreme leader of the cabin. That's you.

Shawn 4:36

That'd be you. Supreme leader. Supreme leader of cabin control. Right? Right. We could also use we could use things like uh director of butt club. Right. I don't know. Okay, here's a five-star admiral of in-flight control.

G 4:58

Well of the friendly skies. Yeah. Add to it. Good job. Good job. Yeah, we're gonna have to start having like rank all over our flight attendant will be gone.

Shawn 5:10

Stewardess is gone. Right. The it's flight deck. Now don't say it again. Yeah. So it and and now I'm gonna have CBO.

G 5:18

Yep. Chief Beverage Officer.

Airline Etiquette And Yellow Cards

Shawn 5:21

Chief Beverage Officer. So I see Spirit is introducing this new etiquette program. Oh, that's a company that for etiquette. Don't be knocking, don't be knocking it, don't be knocking the bumblebee.

G 5:35

They're trying to instill the foundation of etiquette. Let's let's hear it.

Shawn 5:40

So they're starting this new program. I don't know exactly how it works, but I remember years ago the airlines did have etiquette programs. Right. And they didn't work.

G 5:51

No.

Shawn 5:51

No, they didn't work. Do you remember them?

G 5:53

No.

Shawn 5:54

They did. They had an etiquette program. What was it? Well, what it was, it was recognizing when you did certain things right and you did certain things wrong.

G 6:02

Oh yeah.

Shawn 6:03

So they that that's what they were doing. They were emphasizing on what you should be doing on an aircraft. On an airplane on an aircraft, and they were presenting it to them, right? So instead of doing that, what they're doing is that they're gonna give them a yellow card. Is this like world soccer time? Like I mean like now wait a minute. Could you imagine? No, seriously, could you imagine getting on an airplane? Right 28 D4, you've got a ray yellow card. Don't make me pull another one. Okay, that's it. That's the funny part. So, first of all, could you imagine? First of all, you get into this altercation with someone, and you're like, okay, I've had enough. What's that? That's your yellow. Don't make me pull this out of the air. Now I gotta explain. You're one away from being injected out of the game. If we go red, you're in the middle seat. Right? Your ass is going from No, you're gonna be injected off the aircraft. No, you're gonna go for no, that that was a your ass is off card.

G 7:04

Because of red card and soccer, you're out of the game. So, like, you're off the plane. Okay, so what would be the second level?

Shawn 7:11

Second level would be another incident. Okay, so you're gonna be moved from the ILC to the middle seat. Yeah. That's your punishment. Right. How do you think that's gonna work? Third time, you're ejected. Yellow? You know the the YouTube videos are gonna be of this. Does the does the flight crew like have a pocket full of yellow and red cars? You're gonna see that big rip, right? In the YouTube, you're gonna be like this. Really? Yeah.

G 7:38

Here's your here's your yellow.

Shawn 7:39

Oh no, hell no, you're red now. Your ass is gone, right? That's what it's gonna be. Your ass is out of here. I can't even imagine. You're making flight agents into referees. I could not, I could not even imagine how that's gonna work. Yeah. Who knows? It's not gonna work well.

G 7:53

How would you like it if I stuck a yellow card right in your face? Right? Dude, it takes me back to the day like when we first like got like what was it? Um uh the headset days. Remember when we started like you have to put on the headset, it has to be like, you know, electronic devices have to be off and all this stuff. Remember, we used to like uh we used to have to like give them an explanation card. Oh, yeah. You're in violation of these rules and everything, and people would literally like toss is on the ground.

Shawn 8:24

Yeah, so I said could you and now we got phones, yeah. So you there, you know, there's gonna be somebody like this, they're holding their phone up, they're like, dude, wait a minute, he's giving me a yellow card. Let's watch this. This is gonna play out, man. This dude, this dude is drunk. Watch this. Please send us a yellow card video. You we don't have to, it's gonna be on. We're gonna be able to talk about it. They know shit. We're gonna be able to talk about this one. So it'll be interesting to see the future of this yellow card etiquette program.

Man Child Behavior On Planes

G 8:52

Oh, it is gonna be shit, show. Dude, you know what? This last weekend, man. Uh, have you ever encountered, and I know you have because we've seen him on a plane all the time. A man child. Oh, you mean like the guys that haven't progressed past middle school? Yeah, that guy. That guy. That guy doesn't know still know how to tie his own shoe, nope, wipe his own ass. Nope. Like, I mean, it's ridiculous. I don't I it blows my mind when I get to like I see a man that does is like incapable. Incapable.

Shawn 9:28

But there comes man child because you can't really give him the title of man because you're looking at him like right.

G 9:35

He he just he hasn't learned. Yeah, and and and and when you got this man child that is like they're in their 40s, 50s, 60s. Yeah, and they still haven't learned anything through three decades for that juice box. What the fuck? Like it's like, come on. Yeah, I mean, it it's it's so that that person that like uh you and I are that like total opposite. Like we look at things and typical guy, we're trying to find the solution, right? We're trying to fix it, we want to make it better, we're trying to help be helpful, the whole nine yards. Men, child, they just sit there like blank scare. What's happening? What how how'd you do that? Yeah, well, it's a napkin and you kind of wipe your face. Yeah. This shit, it'd be toilet paper, wipe your ass. Right. Like, I I don't know how these people get along. Like, get through life and complete being a human.

Shawn 10:41

That'd be like a person, that'd be like a person going to a fast food place, right? They pick up like the food, yeah, and you got like French fries, and you say you have like a sandwich in there and requires like say Arby sauce and ketchup, and they get home and they're like, um, where's sauce?

G 10:59

Yeah. They're clueless. Have no clue. Zero. Right? I don't it just it just it just blows my mind because I mean, everybody in life doesn't matter what form of human you are, you're learning all the time. And you're always like trying to figure out, you know, you know, how do I do things? How do I get through life? How do I take care of myself? But it's just how do I take care of others, all these different things. And you think they would like start continue to learn this over time. It doesn't matter how you don't have to be intelligent or like super intelligent to be this, but just to be have to be able to know the basics of life and stuff like that. But when you get you encounter this like grown adult that has no concept of something that you should have learned in freaking junior high, you're like shaking your head. What happened? You're shaking your head. How did the system break that bad? Yeah, how did you get this far? Yeah, you know, how how did you get skipped over? Who allowed you to get this far? Yeah, you know, it's like it's irritating. I I was like irritated, like no nobody's business. You get that on your cruise though, a lot of times. Yeah, man. I mean, like, that's true. You like we encounter that every now and then, but normally it's normally it's that young crew member, yeah. But every now and then, like you were saying, like uh that first international trip I did, I encountered this super senior gal, and she was a freaking man girl or woman girl, woman child, woman child, woman child, yeah. Because you can meet you, yeah, a woman child. Yeah, man child, woman child. You guys are. It's irritating to me. You're gonna pay for that one.

Shawn 12:51

Oh, dude. The blondes are gonna hit you on that one. Bring it on.

unknown 12:55

Yeah.

Delays Cancun Customs And Meals

Shawn 12:56

So you as you can tell, we don't care for man child. But um, you know, this weekend uh it was been doing the uh Florida routes, and then I did Cancun.

G 13:05

Okay.

Shawn 13:07

Two delays back to back. Now, when you're when you're doing uh a flight and you have a maintenance delay, sometimes we have to deplane the aircraft, right? I mean, that's just a that's a norm. So we we deplane the airplane, we got everybody back in the terminal, they come back in, it's like an hour delay. They fix it, and they board everybody back on the plane.

G 13:31

Right.

Shawn 13:32

It breaks something else. Judge I just spit across the room. It'll make you spit. Yeah, no, because I just did, man. I just launched spit across the room. No, but when you're you're on the plane, do you ever like you're in the shadows? Yeah, you're kind of like, oh no. Damn, here we go, right? The snowball effect.

G 13:58

Because the feeling for us is that that, you know, like we've got to deal with the situation, even though it is not a right, it's a mechanical situation. We're gonna get the re blow back on this. Like all the badges are coming right.

Shawn 14:11

And we just boarded them and telling them, yeah, we're getting ready to go, we're getting ready to go. And we were like two seconds from deplaning them again.

unknown 14:19

Oh my god.

G 14:20

It's and it's a credibility, credibility issue, you know. Like you get that, and you're thinking, okay, we got this under control, we know what we're doing, all this stuff. And all of a sudden, we're telling them, okay, we're ready and we have confidence to do it. And then all of a sudden, pop, no control.

Shawn 14:35

No control. It was one of those things where you kind of like pull back from the shadows, and all you're doing is sitting there going, hmm, yeah, this is gonna be a good one. Yeah, right? This is gonna be a good one. So that wasn't bad enough. So we get through that one. That was the the Orlando fun this week. Right. And then uh heading down to uh Cancun, get ready to come in. Cancun this time of year, you guys realize it's an hour delay because of flow going into Cancun. So when you go to Cancun, the other thing is you'll you'll think that you're just gonna get fine, you'll finally get in there. Yeah, and then have you ever gone down in the customs area during this time of year? Dude, I try to avoid that customs area. It looks like flipping Cedar Point millions of people Saturday at noon.

G 15:21

Millions of people.

Shawn 15:21

And you'll get downstairs, you'll go down the escalator, and you'll be all excited because you think you're gonna go grab your bag. Yeah, next thing you know, you're like zip, you're going back and forth like this for the next four hours until you get through the customs to get your bag. It's crazy how insanely packed it is down there.

G 15:39

Yeah. Well, all those flights are coming in. They didn't they get bombarded with flights from everywhere.

Shawn 15:45

So all this month I'm planning on I'm planning on being at minimum, minimum an hour delay going to Cancun. So, but the one thing I do like about Cancun is on a service because you're going in there, you know, we have like these multiple, you can order everything now. Yeah. I mean, you the other day I had a list, I ain't shitting it was like this long of all these special, special order meals. Oh, really? Yeah, it's like 12.

G 16:08

Oh, geez.

Shawn 16:08

They have all this shit that I've never even heard of. I'm like, what the hell is that? Yeah. So you had 12 different ones. Greatest thing about Cancun? Chicken or pasta. Chicken or pasta. Oh, yeah.

G 16:18

Coming out of Cancun. They don't they only give you those two choices, yeah. Yeah. Chicken or pasta. Chicken or pasta. There it is. I love that.

Tampa Airport Upgrades And Rat Pickup

Shawn 16:24

So have you gone through Tampa lately?

G 16:26

No, no, no, no. But you had told me that they had done a renovation there.

Shawn 16:30

Loving, loving, loving Tampa. If you guys ever have gone through Tampa Airport, um, they they had revamped the security over like on the jet blue southwest side over there. They used to have this big cluster, you know what, man. It was just a big mess. And what it was is that you'd walk around and had a small little lane getting out of there. It was like this big tunneling effect. You come off the tram, and it was just a mess. I mean, it was all loaded right up there. And what they did is it was amazing. They opened up the whole freaking area. Now, when you're walking out, you got this huge area that exit. And then what they did is they tucked the security back in the corner. So now you got KCM, you got security tucked over in the left-hand side of the corner, and this wide open area. It's probably one of the best things that's nice. I had seen that they've done that.

G 17:24

It's good when you get like encounter an airport that like has like good upgrade grades to our the whole system, right?

Shawn 17:30

Right. We were talking about on the plane, and one of the flight attendants brought back a memory because you know, when you laid over in Tampa, do you remember how we used to have to go through those doors and then you take hit the double doors, go downstairs?

SPEAKER_01 17:41

You go into that service elevator, it smelled like somebody pukes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because somebody probably did. Exactly.

Shawn 17:47

And you go down there and then you go outside and you get picked up over by the garbage can. Yeah, the rats are running.

G 17:53

Jump over a rat or two. Yeah, there's palm rats are down there running around with the room.

Shawn 17:58

They're running around with shit in their mouths. Oh, yeah. I mean, and you're you're over there waiting by the waiting over this.

G 18:03

Well, I've seen I've seen them with signs like welcome to Tampa.

The Bag Kick Overhead Bin Standoff

Shawn 18:07

You got food? Tampa Bay Bucks. We need food. We have the butts. That was true, though. We'd walk over there and we're like waiting, we're waiting for the the hotel van, and you're like just watching looking right, and you'll be like, Well, look at that rat. There's a whole family gathering going on. Exactly. Didn't matter what time it was. Right. Just rats running in and out of that thing. Yeah. So um, I love that. I mean, that they did that. But um, I was on a flight, yeah, and this you'll love this one. So, you know, the over overstuffed bags. So I'm I'm working the aisle. You guys don't do this. This is the easiest way to make a flight attendant upset. Don't you're gonna love this one though. Yeah. So I'm standing there, and and they're getting ready to get in the road. This lady takes her bag, and it's one of those four-wheel bags, and I'm standing there. Do you ever notice why is it that when they see male flight attendants on on board a plane, know where this is going, they think it's your job to pick their bags up and throw them in the overhead bent. Yeah. Okay. Now, I don't mind helping people.

G 19:08

I don't mind helping people too, but I'm telling you right now, I'm not gonna do what they want me to do normally 99.9% of the time.

Shawn 19:16

Never mind helping people. I don't she she looked at me, and this is what she did. The four-wheel bat, she kicked it and rolled pushed it towards you and rolled it to me. And you know when you like freeze for a moment, you're like, I'm sorry, did you just kick that bag at me?

G 19:35

You literally, Lily, the response should be, and what destination did you want that check to?

Shawn 19:40

She goes, she goes, put it up in the overhead bin.

G 19:43

Oh no, yeah. Nope. That ain't gonna happen.

Shawn 19:47

Now, that's not the way to get help.

G 19:50

Yeah, that's not the way to approach the situation. Yeah. I mean, honestly, like we will assist, right? Yeah, we're supposed to assist. So, like, if you try to lift your bag and you're having you're struggling, we're gonna help you out. But we're not gonna do all the lifting for you.

Shawn 20:05

No, if you even even if you just grab it, but truthfully for me, if you grab it by the handle and you even look like you're trying, trying, I'm gonna help you. Yeah, I'm gonna help you. Right, right? But when you kick your bag, yeah, and it rolls into my the my feet, the bottom of the bag. There you go, gopher. Then you start getting in your row. Like you just get in your row. And walk away? Yeah.

G 20:25

That ain't happening. Yeah, just get in your row. That's a sure way to check a bag. I'm guarantee you that that would have happened to me. I'd be like, and you can get that uh baggage claim in. Just going to Guam. Yeah, in Tahiti.

Jet Lag Complaints And Motel Era

Shawn 20:38

No, that'd be a good vacation. You're bag sitting in Tahiti. So this flight attendant, she put this, she put this uh this post out and she's she was talking about jet lag. Jet lag? Yeah, how tired she was. Oh. Now, from flying, well, yeah, but you know, from flying, you I mean, you get tired.

G 20:54

Dude, you're not talking to me. Um, you're talking at a choir air. So I mean, being an international flight attendant, jet lag is what we got to deal with all the time, right? We gotta like manage that out of our lives.

Shawn 21:04

But it's kind of funny though, when you see a young person and they start talking about how tired they are from flying. I mean, you get an old flight attendant. That's like that's like basically you're a you're an iPhone on 1% and you left the charger at home.

G 21:17

Yeah.

Shawn 21:17

Right? That's that's how we are as flight attendants. Yeah, we're operating on about 1% because we're our ass is dragging because we're just old.

G 21:26

Dude, yeah, it depends on where what stage of the flight you get. If you give me in the beginning when we're freshly charged, we got that 99%.

Shawn 21:35

We're good. She was talking about well, she was talking about about how you know her layover and everything. And I I started thinking, wait a minute, she she was saying so her layover made her tire. She didn't have much of a layover. Right. And then I I went back to the days like when when we were in bankruptcy. Remember bankruptcy when we we talked about that in the some of these hotels that we stayed at? And those outside hotels. Some of those things are so nasty. Well, yeah. But it was the you go into that room and if if you didn't have the air conditioning unit that was rattling because you'd have to kick it in the middle of the night. Yeah.

G 22:09

Leaking or you know, like or your rooms like covered the windows, you can't even look at it because they're uh like covered up with hum you know uh condensation all over your windows. Oh yeah.

Shawn 22:20

But you always had to make sure that you pinch those those clothes because people would walk by and like do a side peek.

G 22:26

Yeah.

Shawn 22:26

Right? Because they they would look right inside your dude.

G 22:29

I don't miss the days of motels.

Shawn 22:30

Oh no, because you'd hear the argument in the parking lot and then you hear gunshot. You're like, there's no talk about tired. No, you're sleeping at all.

G 22:41

Yeah.

Shawn 22:41

So we used to, I mean, that was hilarious because I I I was reading this, I was thinking, man, you have no idea. Tired.

Tech Fails From Studio To Car

G 22:48

Tired. Yeah. No. Dude, the other thing that was been going on too is like I've been encountering like tech issue, tech issue. Have you been encountering a lot of tech issues lately? On everything. I'm not just talking about the plane, life, everything. Like, it's like I've been like inundated lately with tech issues.

Shawn 23:06

I did because you just told me uh refresh your thing, download this, knucklehead. Well, that was tech help. That was tech support. Tech support. Well, they they're a lot nicer whenever you're talking to them than I don't remember.

G 23:23

True tech support.

Shawn 23:24

Yeah, exactly. Knucklehead. That's what he said. He said, do this, do that, do that, knucklehead.

G 23:29

Yeah, it's you know, like every you know, every week I'm like, I'm producing the show and we're putting it together and all that stuff, but it's like the funniest thing is like technology, when it's just like one little teeny like switch or something, like last week we I was having a little issue with the whole setup we have here in the studio, and I was like, literally, I was like, What did I do wrong? Like, how did I get to this? Because we've done this week in, week out, and then it was just like one switch, just one click, and everything's back to normal. Like, it's like, but it's so frustrating, right?

Shawn 24:00

Now for you it is, it's more frustrating for me because I I wouldn't even attempt it.

G 24:05

So, this happened to us. So, we we went to Indiana this weekend, right? And we're driving over. And you know, Carol's got the new car, right? Yeah, we're like cruising over, we got the fun new car. We're driving down the street, and you know, there's new cars, all like big monitors on them and all that stuff, high tech, lots of bells and whistles, all this stuff. Heading down the highway, you're doing like 75 miles per hour, and all of a sudden, every screen in the cabin of your car, boom, stop controlling the car. Like discontinue use, flashing across the screens, like the whole, like all your speedometer, everything gone. You know how you were talking about the limp mode? This one was scary shit because all of a sudden it was like boom, everything's red screens, and they're just like it was like like you know you're not getting any damn sympathy, but yeah, an air raid was going off. Shut it down, shut it down, we're breaking up, we're breaking up.

Shawn 25:03

You're not getting any sympathy because you last week on limp mode, you're like, oh good. And then all of a sudden, all of a sudden it was like click, it's back working.

G 25:13

Yeah, but it's scary. You're going down the highway at full speed, and it's telling you discontinue use. You're like, what the f I'm driving.

Shawn 25:22

Like, how nervous were you for the rest of the trip?

G 25:26

So they were like, What's gonna happen with this car? Like, like what you know, are we gonna get back home? Or like, what do we need to take it to the shop right now? Like, it was it was uh there's evidently like this new car has like a little glitch going on that they're trying to figure out how to like you know get a fix to it or an upgrade or whatever. But it didn't it didn't go in a limp mode, it didn't like slow down all of a sudden and I'm like creeping down the highway. But it was just weird. I mean, when your whole screen just like it was like air raid, air raid, you know, like you know what that is?

Shawn 25:59

What's that karma? Karma because your ass was sitting there making fun of my car being in limp mode, and then all of a sudden you had this this freaking high-tech, this God knows what futuristic car.

G 26:12

I'm gonna tell you right now, like, technology is awesome when it works, but when it ain't, that motherfucker is a bitch.

Shawn 26:18

I want to see across the front of yours where it goes, uh, you're screwed.

Angel Reese Trade And Hot Takes

G 26:22

Yeah, you're screwed. Actually, I just want to see like on the screen and be like beep, beep. That'd be fun, right? You're just totally screwed, dude.

Shawn 26:36

I see this Angel Reese. Okay, I I just had to mention her. Yeah, I love it when they talk about this girl in basketball. Yeah, so supposedly today she got traded from that Chicago sky to the uh Atlanta dream.

G 26:51

Okay.

Shawn 26:52

Did you ever watch her play? I've seen her play, yeah. What did you think? No, she didn't make she's a good player. Really? Yeah. She is. What do you mean? She's a rebounder. That's about it. That girl can't shoot for shit, Sean. Dude. I mean, Kevin Durant was having. How many people like like Shaq couldn't shoot for Shaq? Okay, but all he was doing underneath the basket all day long, right? But I'm gonna tell you, okay, well, you're looking at percentages, right? She's like 42% in the paint, and that's her that's her house. Right? I mean, she's 42% over her career in the paint. Even Rodman was like 56%. He was the shittiest shoot shooter that there was.

G 27:36

No, Shaq was the shittiest shooter there was.

Shawn 27:38

But Durant said that Reese could be in a room and she could go in there and she'd have 10,000 rebounds and only 10 points. So bad. Anyway, no, I mean, I I I just thought it was funny. They they they actually they they um uh traded her and she's she's getting a little bit more money. It'd be interesting to see what she does.

401k Moves Before Retirement

G 28:01

Yeah, you know, you're talking about this whole numbers and stuff right now. Like uh, I've been doing some financial planning lately, you know, because us old ass flight attendants are getting up here and all this stuff, and you know, we're all talking about planning our futures and all that stuff. And you know, I've been finding out that, you know, there's this whole new set of rules that people don't tell you about. About what? Like, like just about financial planning. Like, you know, when you're when you're growing up in the world and you're young, you're a young flight attendant, they're like, you know, invest your money, get your money into the 401k. Back in our day, it was like, oh yeah, you know, work hard, you're gonna get more pension. Then we switch to 401ks, and then we start putting our money into that stuff. But the world doesn't tell you that once you get to like that before retirement age, which is uh officially for our government, it's like 59 and a half years. There's some like movement you need to make in your financial planning, and people don't understand that because nobody tells us that you need to now move from your 401k and move it into a more um flexible fun like an IRA, right? And then so you have greater control to actually live off that money that you've been saving your whole life, and so just for people that are out there, I was like, this is you know, people need to know this, and I I guarantee you in our galleys, 99% of the people on there don't know.

Shawn 29:28

No, I mean, even when we were kids, we didn't know either. Hell, we just knew that we just put it in the 401k. You don't even know where it goes most time, right?

G 29:35

And here the thing you need to manage that stuff. Like, I highly recommend like if you are a flight attendant or a young flight attendant right now, put your money in your 401k. Yeah, okay. And you make sure that you're trying to get as much as you can afford. It might hurt a little bit, but if it's not hurting, you're not putting enough in.

Shawn 29:54

I always say that when you got when you got a raise, when you got to raise the 401k, up your 401k. Yeah, your 401k should always get a raise too.

G 30:01

Yeah. So like continue to do that through your whole entire cycle. But when you get to that point now, when you're seeing your flight attendant and stuff, you need to actually sit down. When you're at 59 and a half years of age, sit down with the financial planner, like start talking to people because there's all these new things like Medicare, Medicaid, all that stuff. Like, I don't know anything about it. Like, you know, it's like this like mystery zone. Yeah. And you don't want to like, when you get there, okay, I'm here. What do I do? Man, child.

Shawn 30:33

Yeah. So when you guys think of this and you're listening to the very end of this podcast, remember the beginning of the podcast? This is coming from a guy that had Floil on his head just a little while ago. That's right. Right?

G 30:47

Don't make me put on my thinking cap. Yeah, exactly.

Shawn 30:50

See, now, now he makes sense.

G 30:52

Now I'm doing some calculations. I think um I still need some more money to retire.

Shawn 30:58

All right, man, do the inspirational quote. Well, no, no, no, put that back on. You got to do the inspirational quote. Okay, wait. So the inspirational quote is. Okay, wait a minute. First of all, take a quick look at him and listen to the inspirational quote of the of the week.

G 31:11

If you're not willing to learn, no one can help you. But if you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. Don't stop me. Take a screenshot of this. Don't stop. Thanks for coming to Cabin Fresher. We'll see you next week. Tune in.

Shawn 31:35

I can't even top that. You guys are there. We'll see you. See ya.

G 31:40

All right, friends. That's a dose of aviation chaos for today. If you laughed, gassed, or got mildly triggered by airport behavior, hit subscribe. Then go ahead and watch another episode because we are fully committed to turning your free time into airline stories and bad passenger decisions. Leave us a comment with your funniest travel experiences and share this with that one friend who's always late to the airport but somehow blames the TSA. Thanks for hanging out with us, and we'll catch you on the next episode of Cabin Pressure with Sean and G.