Someone Nearly Got Fired AND a Denver Runway Breach in One Episode

Somebody nearly gets tossed into human resources in the first minute, and somehow that is still not the wildest part of the hour. We start by sending real love to Shawn’s mom and asking for prayers, then we jump straight into the kind of airline stories you only hear when the mic is on and the crew is off the clock. 

We talk haunted layover hotels in Rapid City, including the infamous eighth floor and the eerie history that has crews asking for room changes. From there, we meet a gate agent whose work schedule sounds impossible, but her attitude is so good it forces you to check your own complaints. That leads us into something we care about in aviation: giving recognition, not just criticism, and making it a habit to write people up for doing a great job. 

Then the travel stress hits hard. One lost wallet turns into a TSA identification mess where a paper temporary ID works in one airport and gets rejected in another. We break down what that means for real travelers, what backup IDs actually help, and why inconsistent rules can turn a routine morning into a problem. We also get into cabin temperature wars, crew communication, and the serious aviation safety shock of a Denver runway breach where a person is struck during takeoff, raising brutal questions about perimeter security and reaction time. 

We lighten it up with throwback Omaha stories, Rapid City surprises like the presidential walk, Mount Rushmore facts, and a handshake deal with an old-school farmer that restores a little faith in people. We close with Hantavirus hype versus actual risk, a Kentucky Derby moment worth rewatching, and an inspirational quote that lands because it is simple and true. Subscribe, share with a friend who always has TSA problems, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

Transcript

Shout-Outs And Off-Color Banter

Shawn 0:00

Something else before we even get started. This one's got to be the most jacked up beginning that we've ever had. What's that? Well, first of all, you're lucky we don't have human resources. All right. Hey, listen, before we get started, I just want a quick shout out. Sean's mom, she hasn't been feeling that well, and she is in the hospital. She is my number one fan. So I am definitely reaching out to you. The prayers are going out to you. I hope that you're doing better. Uh, you know, if you guys at home send prayers to his mom, she could use them. Yeah. And uh, like I said, I got to keep my number one fan going. So you uh you take care of yourself, and uh, we wish the best for you. Yep. Hang in there, mom. Definitely. She's my number one fan, man. I have to address it. Hey, listen, you know, I I was something else before we even get started. This was got to be the most jacked up beginning that we've ever had. What's that? Well, first of all, you're lucky we don't have human resources. Right. No, I'm serious. Because he he was a little racist today. Towards me. Look at my color. Towards me. Am I a little darker than G? He was calling me Casper the Ghost.

G 1:21

He is Casper the Ghost.

Shawn 1:22

So this whole this whole time we were going back and forth. I get if I get illuminated and I look good, then he looks like you're going to human resources, man, after this. I'm telling you, mom. He was like, oh, look at me. I'm too dark. I'm like, okay, go tell mom. That's not my fault. You and this is what he's been doing the whole time 15, 20 minutes about how how white I am or my head's shining or something like that. Dude, this is uh it's a genetic problem he has. See what I'm saying? Human resources. Cabin pressure will have human resources. Sean will be in human resources with sensitivity training. That's what you're gonna have. Sensitivity training.

G 2:03

Yeah, I would put this white hat on you, but didn't he disappear?

Shawn 2:09

Okay, the part that he didn't say is at one point he disappeared, too, because he went so dark you couldn't even see his face. We had so much fun uh before you guys even got here.

G 2:21

We're jacking this up, we're having fun doing it.

Shawn 2:24

You guys are not even trying to get the technical parts right, but you know, but this this week, last week he wasn't a nice tech guy. This week, he's a little funny tech guy this time. He went he's a little island guy. I'm having fun. I know you was. But hey, listen, I gotta tell you

The Haunted Rapid City Layover

Shawn 2:40

about this. So a girl, she went out the window. It wasn't to catch fresh air.

G 2:44

Yeah.

Shawn 2:44

What was it to catch? Well, she either committed suicide or she was tossed out the window. Suicide or window? Yeah.

G 2:53

That's some crazy shit.

Shawn 2:54

You're not wondering why.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Why? See, you always wait for that.

Shawn 2:58

It's a layover. It's haunted. You're that layover was haunted. I did not know it. So I had this really cool captain, this really cool first officer. Right. And he starts telling me, he's like, gee, do you know that this hotel is haunted? And I'm like, what? And he goes, the hotel is haunted. Where's this hotel? It's in Rapid City. Rapid City? Yeah. Iowa. Yeah. Wow. Haunted. I know. It's cool. Ghost are hanging out in Rapid City. So we get we start getting this conversation. What a cool captain. But uh he goes, First officer, you're gonna stay in there? And first officer, hell no, I'm not staying in that damn thing. And he turns around to me and he goes, There's no way you're gonna stay in it. I said, shit, game on. Yeah, and he goes, Are you serious? I was like, No, I'm that serious, game on. So we go to this hotel.

G 3:48

Okay, I just gotta stop you for just one second, man. So you're all game on. I'm going for ghosts. But you ain't jumping out of a plane? Nope.

Shawn 3:57

I know, I knew you were gonna say that. I knew you were gonna say that. I was waiting because yeah, I'm like that Ghostbuster one. I want to be in that room. And you know, you know, you see that paranormal activity. Yeah, I'm gonna be on there going, Ghostbuster pack on you. Yeah, there's all that stuff. I was looking forward to it. But no jumping out of plane. No, not jumping out of plane. That makes absolutely no sense at all. No, no, it doesn't. Makes no sense. But let me let's go back to the plastic. All right, go back to the ghosts. So we go to the front desk.

G 4:27

Right.

Shawn 4:28

And uh he goes right up to the lake because he doesn't think I'd stay there. He goes, Can he stay in the haunted room? And she goes, Yeah, he could, but I can't let you. Why? Our contract states that they can't put us on the the eighth floor.

G 4:47

Oh, so they're a missing crew member in the morning?

Shawn 4:50

Yeah, with the paranormal activity that happens in that hotel. And I'm like, I'll sign a waiver. Yeah. And and she goes, I can't. I was like, come on. So they wouldn't let you do it. Well, the downstairs, they have the really cool old marriage certificate.

G 5:04

Okay.

Shawn 5:05

So they you've seen this old marriage certificate is really neat. And they have all these different things downstairs in the lobby. One of the things that I didn't know is there is a book in the lobby that every person that stays on this floor or in that room that has paranormal activity goes down and signs the book. Oh, and states whatever. Yes, states. It tells her the story of what happened. Yeah, states whatever it is. How cool is that? I did not get to see that.

G 5:31

That's wow. I know.

Shawn 5:32

I was so you didn't get to read it or anything. I did not, but I guarantee you the next time that I go there, I'm gonna read it. But I yes, I did. Did I go up to the eighth floor? Yes. At nighttime, yes. Did I see the woman in white roaming the halls? No. The only ghost was G. I didn't. I did not see her. They said, aren't you afraid? They said that she is. Did you miss that? What's that? I said the only ghost was G. See? Racism. That's why he's like, you're going to human resources.

G 6:00

There was a really a glowing white dude flying that hall. You're horrible. Yeah, you're horrible. Did you it'd be really cool if like the next time you go back, you go in and you read that logbook, and that night that you were there, they were like, saw a glowing white dude.

Shawn 6:17

No, it would be funny. Right in there goes, She said that that I was whiter than her. She actually talked to me. No, but they they go, Aren't you worried about? She's they said that she's searching for the person who killed her. I said, only if that that person's name's Gary. Right. Other than that, I'm having a conversation. I'm good with it. Right?

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Right.

Shawn 6:40

So I go back to my room and I'm laying there, and you know how it's like one of those European rooms, smaller. And so they have the the glow of the lights coming through the windows. So I woke up like four times. It's an older hotel. Sure. So you can hear the creeks and the water and the pipes and everything. And you know, I was like flushing the toilet from people were like, oh shit. Screw it. They were like all the other night, but like they're hearing the pipes, and they're like, damn, there's something in in the walls. But uh, no, I didn't see anything.

G 7:09

Oh man. That'd have been that'd have been that would have been priceless. It was legendary, right? Legendary. But there was Did you like research to see if like this uh hotel was on like that ghost show? Yeah, it was. Oh, was? Oh yeah. Oh, cool, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shawn 7:23

You can I mean you can search it and look it up. Very so did you watch the episode? Not yet.

G 7:28

Okay, yeah, because I like to see what they like if they found anything.

Shawn 7:32

There's a bunch of there's a bunch of history of paranormal activity on the the eighth floor and from even people that worked there.

G 7:39

Okay.

Shawn 7:40

And in that room uh where it where it happened also. But um uh as far as on my floor, nope.

G 7:47

Yeah, nope.

Shawn 7:47

I didn't see a ghost, no ghost busting, no talking. I didn't get to come down here. I don't have a fun story jelly gangster running down the side. Yeah, I was like, I I was just hoping like an you know, like just see that thing in the corner, right? You know, kind of moving through and going, okay, trying to talk to him. No, it didn't happen.

G 8:06

Didn't happen.

Shawn 8:06

No, it was legendary. But there's there was one legend that did happen in Rapid City, and this woman has no idea

A Gate Agent’s Relentless Work Ethic

Shawn 8:16

I'm talking about her. Okay. So we go to the gate and we go to scan in, and this gate agent, she was amazing. It was real early in the morning, and uh, she had this great positive attitude. So we got in this little conversation as we're there. Well, she's a grandma of eight. Oh, wow. Yeah, a grandma of eight. So we started talking about, you know, getting up early and working and everything. This woman, this just tells you a little bit about uh a woman, right? The strength of a woman. She got up, she's doing a four to one shift for the airline. Wow. Okay, goes home, sleeps for a few hours, gets up, goes from 6 p.m. to one o'clock in the morning, a security job for apartment complex, goes back home, sleeps another few hours, comes back and works another shift for the one, and she has this amazing personality. And you know what she did, you know what she said? What I only do it three days a week like that, and the rest of them I just have regular shifts.

unknown 9:23

What?

Shawn 9:25

Right?

G 9:26

Right.

Shawn 9:26

How old was she? She was she was an older woman, but you know, when I was looking at her, you're just amazed by these incredible people that you come in contact with. And and she also works for our airline. And I thought, you know, people bitch about like working a little hard. And here she is, eight grandkids, giving money for eight grandkids, watching the eight grandkids, probably on the days off that she doesn't do these doubles. Dude, moms and stuff are amazing.

G 9:59

I know, I know it. It's like they do so much and they don't get enough recognition for that. Like, I mean, the all the like multitasking and stuff that they're doing and stuff. Like, we we work with so many moms. We work with, you know, we come in contact with so many people that multitask and doing so many, so much stuff. Like me going to school right now. There's there's moms out there, not only being a mom, staying home mom, taking care of the family, they're actually going to school too, doing the same thing as we're doing, you know, but they're doing compound more stuff. Right. It's it blows my mind sometimes like when I hear some of these stories, kind of like this lady you're talking about.

Shawn 10:35

Yeah, she was amazing. I mean, but we come across those people, and I just had to mention her because her attitude is what is infectious. Because, you know, you're getting up in there early in the morning and you're thinking, oh, you're a little bit tired, and she just tells you this story, and all of a sudden you're like, uh, it's time to buck up, right? Yeah. I mean, I just got my ass up. I'm here, and she already been here like three hours, came from a security job that she worked, she worked all night.

G 11:02

And you were thinking, um, I just need a cup of coffee.

Shawn 11:05

I just want a little cup of coffee, maybe a little tired. I gotta get per cup. Yeah, exactly. You'd be like, man up, man. This woman's over here, she's freaking knocking it out of the park, and here it is. That's awesome. It's like we're just talking about, you know, being a little tired. No, absolutely amazing if um if you guys ever in Rapid City, this gate agent, amazing.

G 11:26

Yeah, amazing. You know what? Um, on top of that, so you know, our company has this thing where you can actually like write people up and like give them good recognition and stuff. And I'm sure other companies have that too. But I've made a point like last month, I started my first one, and I think every month I'm gonna like pick one person that I come in contact with, take some time out of my day, write a nice letter about that employee, yeah, and send it into the company. Yeah, you know, so that those people get recognition. Because how often, how often have you heard another employee recognizing you for what you do?

Shawn 12:04

I've gotten I've gotten a few um uh recognitions from employees. Right. And when they when they when they do send them out, I mean you do really feel good.

G 12:13

Yeah, it makes you feel really good and stuff. So I was like, you know what? I don't do enough of that. Like we should be doing this. No, absolutely. I think I think everybody should be doing this. Like, give give recognition. As much as you give criticism, give recognition. Yeah, because we can like our our population, like flight attendants and pilots and all that stuff, we can bitch. Yeah, right? Oh, yeah, we do. Like we we are pros at that, but we are not pros at shit. We're not pros at giving recognition.

Shawn 12:44

Yeah, we need to not be in technical work all day long, right? But no, you're absolutely right. And and you know something now you made me just feel bad because I should have just gave her I should have just said her. I know, and I'm going to. I'm gonna actually send recognition to her because you're right. I should have done because I was amazed by this woman's attitude. And you know, I I'm amazed sometimes, and truthfully, we do work with a lot of women. A lot of good people. And you hear about you know, single moms, how they, you know, they they work, they raise their kids, they come home from from uh from flying, they got to do all this shit. Then they have the washer break or something doesn't work, and and the it's just amazing.

G 13:24

The car breaks, the wash, yeah, yeah, all the life happens, right? Yeah, but they just keep on going. They keep going.

Recognition Culture And Quirky Coworkers

Shawn 13:31

Okay, so we're going over to uh I had a little quirky flight attendant alert. One? Yeah, I thought every if we if we come across one, we're you know, we're gonna have a like a little quirky flight attendant. So um had a flight attendant. Now you before you answer, okay, I gotta go down the list of of a few things. Okay, okay, and then you tell me what you think at the end of it. Because I ask other, I cut ask a couple other flight attendants, okay. When I ask you this, tell me what you think about this person.

G 14:01

Okay.

Shawn 14:01

All right. So I had the female perspective, and then you're gonna be the male. All right. All right. So she watched Top Gun Maverick 25 times and ate a thing of popcorn each time at the cinema. Not at home, at the cinema. She sent a personal message on the glasses of risky business glasses to Tom Cruise. A personal message. She took a picture of his favorite bun cake, chocolate, coconut, white bun cake, and sent it to him and told him that she had a great idea for the sequel to Risky Business. Tom Cruise. Yeah. I'm not done.

G 14:46

Okay.

Shawn 14:47

She was at a layover and she purchased a surfboard key ring with his name on it and sent it to him. Tom Cruise. Key ring. Well, you know, he's got a lot of cars. Well, he does. I gotcha. And so this week is the 40th anniversary of Top Gun.

G 15:04

Right.

Shawn 15:05

So she took the whole week off to watch Top Gun at the cinema, and she's gonna have a bucket of popcorn and watch Top Gun at the cinema. Now, I I'm an open person, right? You're an open person. Sure. So I asked a couple females, what would you say about that? What would you think of that person? And one of the females' perspective was, oh my gosh, she's so she's so driven. She's a real driven individual. Driven. Yeah, that's what you said. Driven. And then uh another female said, gosh, she sounded really passionate. Passionate? Yeah. And then so we had the female perspective. And what what do you think? I think she's batshit crazy.

G 15:51

That's exactly freaking maniac, fanatic, stalker. Stalker. Oh my goodness. I love that though. Dude, flip this story. Switch the story. Just turn the switch. Yeah. It's you or I, and we're doing this to a female.

Shawn 16:11

Her hands are unbressed. They're putting us in a damn stretch. They're going to jail. They're like stalkers. Shit was like back here, right? And seriously, I didn't mean it was a damn bun cake. It was a bun cake, y'all. Leave me alone, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:25

All I was doing was a key ring, man. It was a key ring.

G 16:31

I ate the popcorn. I only sent a message when I thought it mattered. I know. I know.

Shawn 16:40

I love her quirky flight attendance. No, she's actually, she's a funny person. But no, I I love her quirky flight attendants. We they everybody has like a little bitty story to tell. And I got her, I got the approval from her. She gave me the approval to tell the story. So, you know, I I did get her approval, but um, yeah, a little quirky.

G 17:00

We got so many crazy ass flight attendants. I mean, like OCD people out there. We got all kinds of stuff. I had a flight attendant once, literally, you know, the three fold napkins that are in the lavatory. Yeah. You know, the stack of the paper towels and dry her hands with all that stuff. Well, she would get on the plane before every flight and take the packages out and refold them. Okay. Like a little bit of an issue.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

What?

G 17:35

There's little bit of an issue. There's a little problem.

Shawn 17:37

I mean, like, this is like you gotta keep your eye like this. Yeah, yeah. You had to watch, like, there's some quirky shit out there. Yeah, you do. You got some crazy ass stuff. I you know, okay, but you you didn't say anything. Dude.

G 17:50

He didn't say, look. Okay, listen. I live in Ohio, all this shit, but don't bring that shit on the show anymore. See?

Shawn 17:58

I knew it. See, I I had to represent. I'm moving over here a little bit. Going left center. Oh Hio. I knew he'd hate it. Oh my god. There's two things he doesn't like about this shirt, and I I wore it both. Well, let's just talk about one Ohio State.

G 18:16

No Ohio State. Yeah, he doesn't like the OHIO.

Shawn 18:20

I had to represent Ohio State.

G 18:22

Forks up, baby. Forks up.

Shawn 18:24

Yeah, whatever. All right, what's been going on? Go ahead, man.

Lost Wallet Crisis And TSA Reality

SPEAKER_01 18:29

What have you been doing?

G 18:30

Dude, okay, you're gonna love this. You're gonna love this. We are going on a trip. Last six days, it was crazy. I mean, like, this is our our sixth days. Drove to Indianapolis, flew to Vegas there one day, flew back from Vegas to Indianapolis, drove up to northern Indianapolis, drove back home after six days. It was like we were on the move constantly. But here's how it all started. We got to go from here down from Cleveland all the way through Columbus and all the way over to Indiana, right? And what do we pass on the way?

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Buckys. Oh, damn. It's the Bucky's, baby. I was like, oh yeah. Did you get anything new?

G 19:13

Dude, I went in there, I got my Bucky bites, I got the little cinnamon puffs and all that stuff. You think about the Bucky wedding, weren't you? I get in there, like, I'm like, I go in the store and like the wife is in the store and she's running around. She's seeing all these like little shirts and stuff for our nieces and stuff. Bucky shirt. We got it, we got a Bucky, Bucky for America. And like, you know, all this crazy stuff is like it's awesome, man. So I'm getting in there and I'm running, grabbing stuff in my cart and all this stuff. You're like a kid in candy shop. I reach down.

Shawn 19:43

Don't get your damn wallet. Are you kidding me? You're fucking kidding me. You don't have your wallet? My goddamn wallet.

G 19:50

Again. Again. No, I got a compounded problem at this point. One, okay, I got I got Apple Pay. Like everybody's got a you know a little Apple Pay on their, you know, I could tap and pay, right? We're gonna go suck to the doctor after this. I've got to get on a plane. And guess what I need when I get on a plane? ID. You need ID. What a dumbass. Dude. I was like, what? I'm like, I'm gonna have to. I'm in Dayton. I'm gonna call G again. Three hours away. I'm like, what the hell? So I'm like, okay, how do I fix this problem? I'm like, I think I'm gonna have to stop by a DMV and get like a temporary eye license or something. I don't know what they can do. So we, I'm like, honey, we gotta leave Bucky's early. I had to leave Bucky's early. We went to the closest DMV. We get there, and I'm like, listen, I gotta travel, I gotta get an ID. Oh, yeah, we can replace your ID. It's 21 bucks, whatever it is. And they're like, we'll get you this. So they print me off a paper ID. Yeah. Because they don't print your IDs right at the DMV anymore. Right. Right? So I have a paper ID, has my picture on it that says this is illegal certificate from Ohio, whatever, all this stuff, right? I go to drive to Indy, I go through TSA, right through, dude. Not a problem. You didn't even need it? Dude, nothing. I show my normal credentials, you know, my airline ID and all that stuff, and I go. We go on our flight. We fly out to Vegas. I get to Vegas. We have our little little time in Vegas. I get to the airport to get in the morning. Here I come walking through, boom, boom, boom, show my ID. Oh, guess what? We don't take paper IDs. I was waiting for that one. I'm like, what the fuck? I'm like, wait, that's all you have. The TSA in in freaking Indiana took it. Why ain't you taking it? We can't take this. I'm like, but you took it like two days ago. Exactly. Do you need me to call a supervisor?

Shawn 21:55

Going into handcuss.

G 21:56

I'm like going into hand, Cus. I'm like, okay, call a supervisor. Supervisor. So like supervisor comes over and I explain the situation. I'm like, here it is. This was I left my ID at home, blah, blah, blah. She's like, we don't take paper IDs. I'm like, well. Why though? I mean, that's the only thing they that's what they do now. That is what they do in all the states now. They print these IDs if you lose your ID, it takes 10 days to get your ID to your house. Right. So I'm like, this is crazy. Like, be aware, people. If you lose your ID, paper ID is not going to be able to be valid through it. You need another type of ID ID. So you can use a passport, you know, all that stuff. But guess what this lady says, supervisor says to me? She says, Oh, do you have your little green little uh card? Yeah, the little license that you have? Yeah. Which uh pilots and flight attendants, we have a government ID. Does it have our picture on it, G? No. No, no, but guess what? They can use that as an ID. They can use it as an official identification. I'm I'm like, what the hell? But you can't take this picture with the paper with my face on it?

Shawn 23:00

Exactly. Big ugly mug.

G 23:02

Dude, I was like unbelievable. I go so Hey, was Carol on the other side of security though? Is this going on? Carol was already and she's like now calling me. Right. And she's like, Where are you at? Yeah, exactly. Where are you at? I'm like, I'm still at TSA. She's like, what? I thought you went to the gate. No, I'm at TSA still. I'm trying to figure out how to get through. Yeah. So, anyways, they I had to go back through the normal line, and they accept my global entry ID, and they only need one ID to get through. And I got through. They took, yeah. Yes. And so here I am on the show. Made it. Don't take a paper ID. Dude. You don't have a choice, though.

Shawn 23:39

No. The moral of the story is quit losing your damn wallet, Sean. Yeah, that's stupid. I'm a dumbass. Right? We should get you. I'm a dumbass shirt.

G 23:49

Uh, dude, I need to like, I can't tell you how many hundreds of times. And this isn't recent. Like, this has been happening my whole life. Forget my wallet. How old are you again? Remember Warren? Yeah. Buddy of ours. We used to go out like, I'm talking like two, three times a week. We'd go out as a group eating. I can't tell you how many times I reached down. I'll get my wallet. Hey, can you uh spot me some money? It was like routine.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

I paid him back, but it was like routine. So now people go out with you, like, hey Sean, how you doing?

Shawn 24:24

You got your wallet? Before we go to the restaurant. Smith, you got your wallet? Dude.

G 24:30

I can't tell you how many times that happens to me. It was so, anyways, that happened. Great. And so then um the other thing that happened is um dude, do you get first of all? I

Cold Cabin Politics And Crew Communication

G 24:45

know I I know you and I know you for a long time. But people on the plane, and they ask you, hey, it's cold on the plane. What do you do?

Shawn 24:56

Well, if it's actually cold on the plane, if it's cold on the plane, we'll have them warm it up a little bit. Yeah.

G 25:02

Yeah. So you go and you like, depending on the model, the aircraft, like sometimes the flight doesn't have control, but the cockpit has mostly crows on the narrow body domestic flights.

Shawn 25:12

And which I never understood that. Yeah, I don't know what that's a design plan. Yeah.

G 25:17

But anyways, anyhow, cold planes, hot planes are happening right now. I get on a plane, I'm asking this dude, I'm like, hey, it's cold. You know, if I'm saying it's cold, it's cold because I normally want it cold on a plane. Like I want it cool, but it was like just blasting. And you know how like on a 737 where like that one zone in the front, yeah, just blowing down the colour. Yeah, well, it comes down through the vents or the vents and all that stuff, right? Right. Yeah. This dude, this flight attendant I ran into, would not call the cockpit. What? Wouldn't call the cockpit. Why? I have no idea. I'm not doing it. He was I don't he just went, he was just giving me the like the one-off, like, oh yeah, I'll tell him about it. Then I'd watch him walk up to the front. He wouldn't grab the interphone or anything of the stuff. He would just start doing his services up. Then every time he got to me, I'd be like, it's cold. Oh yeah, we told him. I said, You did. I was watching you. No, I didn't tell him he was watching you. I was just like, oh, you did. Oh yeah. I just said just like that. Oh, you did? I know, I know who's flying. So then what happened was every time he came back to me, I was like, it's cold in there. Yeah. Would you like something? Yeah, I'd like some heat. Yeah. Like it kept happening over and over. I got snot sickles. Dude, it was like a it was about like a third of the way through the flight that it was like finally the temperature was okay and everything, but that's a flaw in our system.

Shawn 26:47

That's when you should have gone, it's too hot in here. Man, it's too hot in here. But that's coming.

G 26:54

Exactly. That is coming. Yeah, soon. The season is coming, and now you're gonna be like, it's too hot in here. Can you get some cold in here? Can I get some area in here?

Shawn 27:02

Can you get to turn up the fan? Yeah, but they do that too. Unfortunately, we have we have crew members that they just ignore them. It shouldn't. Because sometimes a section of the plane gets real freaking cold.

G 27:13

Right.

Shawn 27:13

And you got you gotta bring the temperature down.

G 27:15

So depending on the model of the plane, depending on who controls it, whether the cockpit is controlling or the flight attendants are controlling, that like matters. Like the planes are all like they're they're they're regulated by one of those bodies, right? Right. And then but here's the thing is that it depends on who's there and the flight attendant or the pilot that you're talking to, whether they want to cool it down.

Shawn 27:36

I know. Don't you hate that we don't control it though on the other planes? I hate it. I mean, on the on the big planes, you control it, but on the on the smaller ones.

G 27:43

But now on the big plane, what happened is like you'll get a flight attendant that, like, I want it cold in here. Yeah, I'm working. I want it cold.

Shawn 27:49

Hitting it button and making it cold.

G 27:51

You'd be like, boom, boom, boom. I'm like, 68 is not a good degree for people sitting on a plane. No, exactly. It's cold.

Shawn 27:56

You're freezing. Yeah, you're freezing. Like and those blankets are so damn thin. Oh, they're thin. It was like they're like that thin. Yeah, so I was like, uh, this is this is this is crazy.

G 28:05

Like this is stupid. Anyhow, um, the other thing that happened

Denver Runway Tragedy And Security Gaps

G 28:10

is um one of the stories that's in around the globe today, I was transitioning through this, you know, going through week went through Denver. Uh huh. Well, we flew in the morning of when the plane hit that person.

Shawn 28:24

Really?

G 28:25

Yeah. Wow. So they if you did hadn't seen this yet, I'm sure it's all over the news and everything. But plane hit a person in Denver. Person jumped the fence, ran out on the runway, and right on as they were getting ready to take off, engine hit them.

Shawn 28:43

Yeah.

unknown 28:43

Done.

Shawn 28:44

Yeah, we're gonna talk about that one in a little bit.

G 28:46

No, we're talking about it right now.

Shawn 28:47

Oh, we're gonna talk right now? Yeah. Oh, so we're just gonna jump right in. Yeah, we're jumping right into it. Okay, so that goes into, excuse me, but what the fuck were you thinking? Right. Okay, when you jump a fence of an airport, first of all, you know there's barbed wire. Oh, yeah. Okay, so you clear barbed wire, you go across, and you've seen you've seen those videos. Yeah. Right? And they show that this person walks right in front of that aircraft. Now, the pilots, imagine that. That's like seeing a deer, right?

G 29:14

A deer crossing in front of you have a split second. Well, there's no there's no split second at all because you don't have a plane, isn't like you're gonna like swerve tonight. No, that's what I'm saying. Like, yeah, you're gonna swerve. Yeah. You know, like that's it. You're gonna hit you have no choice.

Shawn 29:32

The the view of that pilot is one split second, and that person's view is gone. I don't even know if they said they they No, they they they think that you know they say they thought it was a person. Because they said they radioed that back. Yeah, they did. They think that they hit someone. Someone and so they seen the the And they're like, where? On the runway. On the runway.

G 29:49

Yeah. And then they were like, boom, uh, our engine is on fire. We're evacuating.

Shawn 29:53

Yeah, it took right, yeah, through the engine.

G 29:55

Yeah, it was. I mean, some of those videos and stuff that are out there, I don't know if you've seen all the the ones that are happening. They had the ones where they were evacuating and people were going over to the engine looking at the engine.

Shawn 30:04

I was like, that would you last thing see that that is the last thing that I ever want to see? Because thinking of a human being that went through that ground up, yeah. That that was I I'd seen that too. Yeah. And I I didn't even want to look at did you did you even want to look at the picture? No, I didn't want to like I was like, I don't I don't see that.

SPEAKER_03 30:21

I don't want to see that.

Shawn 30:22

Yeah, I don't know because we know we know the end game of that one. Well, I don't even know how you identify that person.

G 30:27

You don't, right? Because there's nothing left. Well, the only thing is left is DNA. Yeah, that's it, yeah. That they could possibly if they wanted to take it that far. Yeah, right.

Shawn 30:35

So I'm like, but and why they were anything have they even identified the person yet?

G 30:40

I don't think so. I haven't heard anything.

Shawn 30:42

Yeah, I don't think they did.

G 30:43

But my other thing is like like, is that a suicide? It it sure shit was.

Shawn 30:49

I mean, I I know I jumping in front of a bus.

G 30:53

How many times have we heard that?

Shawn 30:54

The person wasn't running though, they were just walking. Yeah. And they walked right in the path of an airplane.

G 31:00

Yeah, it makes there's no there's there's no answers to this. Like you're you're never gonna get answers to this, like how the why this happened or anything like that, or what was the person doing? Like, this is so obscure and strange. Yeah, like I just thought I was but we were there that morning. Yeah, and so there was a little buzz in the air there at the airport in Denver airport with the whole thing happening. People were like, What? What happened? What just happened?

Shawn 31:23

Well, the first thing you're the first thing you wonder is how who in the hell gets on an airport. How does a person get on a runway? Where is the security?

G 31:29

Any, I mean, you you know how airports have security driving around. Yeah, but there that's the huge gaps. Like there's it's not like patrol, like a it does it's not like the uh uh you know, like a concentration camp or somebody.

Shawn 31:41

Oh, I understand that, but you you'd think you'd think that somebody taxing out would have been like, I mean, the chance of not well, I guess they're in the field, it's dark. Right, right.

G 31:50

I mean, like they patrol every now and then, you know, they they do a perimeter patrol because they're looking for animals or whatever that's out there. Not a human. Not a human. Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah, that's just weird. I mean, this is this a weird uh I I'm I will enjoy to hear what the NTSB and has to say about the conclusion of this whole thing and just the identity of the person because I'm there's probably a story. Well, there's probably a story behind it because if they do identify the person, like you know, say they do go to the DNA part, and by chance this person is in a DNA record somewhere, right? Right, because everybody's not, yeah, right, you know, maybe we find out more about this person. Yeah, or there was maybe there's some problems or whatever.

Shawn 32:38

There'll be a there'll be a story behind it if they find out. I mean, with with today's technology, I think they'll find the person.

G 32:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Omaha Nights And A 30-Year Joke

G 32:46

yeah.

Shawn 32:46

So I had to tell you, I went to uh Omaha this week. Omaha, baby. You know, every time that I go there.

G 32:56

Every time. You just you just uh boy avoided the uh horti virus. No. Did you hear you knew I'm talking about?

Shawn 33:03

I know we'll get to that. But no, every time I go to Omaha, it it takes me back to when we were young. Me and him went running around in one of the places we went to. Oh, geez. Remember those. We went to a couple a couple places. That's what it does. You ain't nothing but a haircut. Do you remember that? So the we okay, I've I just remember that one. So we were out, we were out running around this this uh over in Omaha. He wants to take me out and show me around.

G 33:29

Right. So, first of all, the like preface the story. I went to college in Omaha. Right. Okay, so I it was back in the day when I was younger, I was a server, I was bartender, I was mixed into the scene. I knew what was going on.

Shawn 33:44

So being in the mischief.

G 33:46

Yeah, so we were like, I'm gonna take him out and I'm gonna show him a good time in Omaha because everybody's give it's down on the big O. And I'm like, no, no, no. Big O's, there's fun to be had in big O. Yeah. So anyway, so then we go out and we hit bars, we hit, you know, we went to the restaurants and did all that stuff. We did the after-hour bars, we did the gay bars, the night bars, we were dancing, we were doing all kinds of stuff. We hit the strip clubs.

Shawn 34:14

He was in, he had me in every freaking club that there was.

G 34:17

Any club there was in in Omaha. Exactly. Yeah, you were having it. Exactly. But uh that's a that's the time where we would we went into the strip club and it was dead because it was so late at night. Yeah, and we're in there, and the girl comes over, you know, and she's trying to get a dollar from us. And what's she do, G? What'd she do?

Shawn 34:36

So she she she's like, is what do I have to do to get a dollar from you guys? And we're like, I don't know. What can you do?

SPEAKER_01 34:43

You have to impress us. I don't know. Yeah. So she's like, What? Put one leg behind her head. Took her leg and it's like, boom. The other one back in here, boom.

Shawn 34:52

And started moving her midsection. And we were like, oh, we gotta give her a dollar. We were so young. We were like, we had no money. We was like, oh hell, here take a dollar. We were so probably was one of our last dollars, but it was so we come out of the we come out of the strip club, and this this guy's out on the street, and he's he's uh he looks like a street person. Yeah, and he comes up to me and he goes, Hey man, you you you got you got a smoke, you got a light, man. And I was like, No, I don't have a smoke and light. Man, you ain't nothing but a haircut for 30 years. 30 years, dude. He says, You ain't nothing but a haircut.

G 35:33

He kind of ruined the story. You ruined the story. How did I ruin the story? First of all, the guy was like, he was like just bugging us. Like, we're come on, you gotta smoke, you gotta smoke, you give me a smoke, give me a smoke, man. You know, why you be like that? Why are you doing this, man? I just want to smoke. We're like, we don't smoke. Yeah, we don't have a smoke, we don't have anything on us. Like, why do you what do you want? And it was like a pause, yeah. And the guy just like points right to G. And he's like, You ain't nothing but a haircut. That's what he says for 30 years, man.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

30 years. I ain't nothing but a haircut. G's been nothing but a haircut, man. Ain't nothing but a damn haircut. Every birthday, every single time. Every single time. So give him reminders.

G 36:17

Remind you, you ain't nothing but a haircut.

Rapid City Surprises And Mount Rushmore Facts

Shawn 36:22

All right, so anyway, going to Rapid City, had to go back and talk about the Rapid City layover. Do you know there's a presidential walk? A presidential walk? Yeah. No. In Rapid City. So, right downtown in Rapid City, if you ever, you know, in a hotel down there, go outside, on every street corner is a bronze statue of the of every every different president. Oh, like a bust of their of the president? No, a whole body. Oh, like a whole yeah, it's a whole body. A whole statue of the person. And what's cool about it is that you can do this whole presidential walk, two modern presidents, and they have a QR code. You can scan on your phone, it tells you about the president. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So you do this whole presidential walk. They have like a movie theater downtown. They have a place where you can go get a hamburger. But I thought, how cool is that?

G 37:08

They have hamburgers and rapid cells.

Shawn 37:09

Oh, shut up. But you can go have a hamburger and do this this little presidential walk, smart ass. He's always the smart ass. Why did I why did I not know this was coming? Right? You can have a hamburger. Maybe a pizza G? Damn.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

In Iowa?

Shawn 37:26

Yeah, you're something else. Okay, so also learned about a little bit about Mount Rushmore. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did you know that behind Lincoln's head, there's supposedly a room? It was never finished. Really? Yeah, they were supposed to put like um uh store like uh historical things in the back of it.

G 37:46

In the back of his head, like a time capsule type of thing.

Shawn 37:49

But they they never finished it. And then did you also know that 90% of the Mount Rushmore was made from controlled explosions? So they made it sound like they chipped this shit away. Yeah, right? And they're like dink dink dink breaking this away. And the whole the whole thing was supposed to, they were supposed to have like the top torsos, you know, the body, but the the rocks were, you know, yeah, it just wasn't stable enough. It wasn't stable enough to do. But um, I thought that was interesting. 90% of it was controlled explosions. Controlled explosions. If you think about it back then. Yeah, that's dude. That's well, you what do you got? Like dynamite?

G 38:24

Yeah, that's pretty much what they got.

Shawn 38:26

I mean, you're like, okay, we're gonna put this much here. Drill a hole here. If you screw up so much, you blow out a nostril.

G 38:32

Right. Screwed the whole thing up. We could have had like presidents and like Scooby-Doo, and then we could have had like, you know, like a half nostril, Casper the Ghost.

Shawn 38:43

Use too much TNT on that nostril. So they and right down, supposedly down the uh way. I didn't see this one, but do you have you seen the uh there was a crazy horse? They're doing a crazy horse monument. Oh no. So they're doing one of uh Crazy Horse, and it's supposedly gonna be bigger than Mount Rushmore. Really? Yep. Of Crazy Horse. Yeah, yeah. It was supposed to be it was supposed to be bigger than Mount Rushmore. So I thought that was actually pretty, pretty cool.

G 39:11

So it's like I'm trying to think of the uh you're you're saying it's supposed to be bigger than so they get just found another mountain that's bigger and they're gonna make crazy horse in the mountain?

Shawn 39:19

No, they they it was it was uh from the rock formation to mountain, but they they're they're making the the um uh the figure of crazy horse, a memorial. That's been going on. I didn't I mean I didn't know. Oh, so they're up there chipping at it right now. Probably controlled explosions.

G 39:37

All right, to be to be seen. Controlled explosions, controlled explosions.

Shawn 39:42

You like that, huh? All right, and before we go on to um around the globe, I

Handshake Deals With An Old-School Farmer

Shawn 39:49

had to say this. Growing up, I worked with a lot of farmers, okay? And just recently I had a farmer approach me from the back of the property. And I just want to say this because I love farmers. Wait, wait, I'm timeout. What property? Back of what? What are you talking about? Yeah, I know he's gonna do this. On the back of my property in my house, I have a water issue. And I have a farmer that just purchased the farm around there, and he came to my house. All right, and and what he wanted to do, he wanted to tie into the sewer drain through my property.

G 40:19

Right.

Shawn 40:20

And we both know that I had a water issue on the back part.

G 40:23

Right.

Shawn 40:24

He comes in, he tells me what he wants to do. I asked him, you know, about building this swell back there and put a catch basin in. But uh what I loved about this, actually, we worked this whole thing through. I told him he could come through the property. Did we do it on a contract?

G 40:39

No. Nope. Why? Because we shook hands. You shook hands? Yeah. That's uh we're we're you're okay to do that.

Shawn 40:48

Yeah.

G 40:49

All right.

Shawn 40:49

Yeah. Because, you know, working for farmers my entire life as a kid. Yeah, and this is the amazing thing about him. He was an old-time farmer, right? You don't need a contract. If he said he was gonna do it, he's gonna do it. Now let me explain this to you. Three days later, he's back in that field, back hose, dug through the trench, put a 16-inch sewer line in there with a catch basin, made a 40-foot swell on the back of the property from all the way from both sides of the property to protect four homes all the way down. Oh, that's awesome. Never signed a piece of paper. Well, that's good, man. Not one time. But he was doing this on his property, on his property. Well, he needed to move the it was scratch, you scratch my back off scratch yours. He had to get the water off of his property through my sewer line.

G 41:38

Right.

Shawn 41:39

Okay. And to do that, he had to come through my property.

G 41:42

Yeah, I got you. You gotta do something for me. I'll scratch your back, you scratch my back.

Shawn 41:46

Yeah, but the the amazing thing is like I said, no contract sign, that just tells you about the farmer, right?

G 41:52

I mean, it's just amazing people. Hey, here's the thing. So last week you came at me and you're like, this farmer, man, I'm not it ain't gonna happen. It ain't gonna happen. He's gonna bring from me, there's all this stuff. But here's a prime example. Yep. You know what? People in the world, if you just calm down, talk to each other, we can normally work things out. Right. Because when you stop all this other bias feeding into whatever you think you're uh pre-prejudice or any of that type of stuff to the problem, absolutely, you can probably find a solution.

Shawn 42:29

Absolutely, because uh the the first thing that I thought when they started destroying the back of the property, right, that they were gonna ruin the back of this property and we were gonna we're gonna get inundated with a lot more water. Well, I reached out to him and then he reached back, and then we both met to talk, and we both walked back there, and we came up with a solution and we shook hands. And that's it it's amazing. It's absolutely it's absolutely true what you said is that you know, you took you we both took a step back because you know he felt the same way, right? But we both took a step back and we benefited each other and and we didn't need a contact.

G 43:06

Yeah, find a can find a mutual solution to the problem.

Shawn 43:09

Yep.

Hantavirus Hype Versus Actual Risk

Shawn 43:10

So another problem coming up is this this is it, Hantavirus?

G 43:14

Hantavirus, yeah.

Shawn 43:16

Yeah, there's always some kind of virus coming up now.

G 43:18

Dude, there's so many viruses in the world. I mean, people don't realize, like, there are so many viruses in this world that we have no contact with, or but the CDC and the World Health Department has been like literally recording all these historical data on these different types of viruses because there's historical viruses that aren't in existence today, right? That may re-emerge, right? Over time. But we want to know what they did, how they worked, what was, you know, how those impact on the population, how fast do they spread? Are they, you know, can it become a pandemic? Can it not? All that stuff of thing. And this HATA virus is one of those viruses that's very well known to the World Health Department. And you know, it's not a big deal. First of all. No, I think that's a good idea. So like the news is sensationalized it at first. And they were trying to get some like I think they're gonna get some trying to get some mileage out of this thing, but really they've been doing a really good job of like trying to calm down the media and say, you know, this is not an epidemic. I mean, and and like I was watching somebody on the news the other day, and they were talking about, you know, everybody in the world right now has some type of PTSD from coronavirus, right? So we all are like in this hype state and all that stuff. Mine was wearing a mask. Yeah, yeah. I mean, like we're all there's there's we were all impacted negatively in some way with this whole that whole pandemic, right? Yeah, so yeah, we're we're on high alert and all that stuff, but this this is not a uh this is not a big emergency right now. Like this is gonna get out, and it you have to be in like close proximity to the people, and the people were on the boat, so they were in close proximity, so that's how they were spreading it and all that stuff. But now it's like, you know, they're all separated, they're in controlled environments, they got them quarantined, all that type of stuff. So this isn't going anywhere. No, and that virus has been is all over the world. Yeah. So no worries.

Kentucky Derby Breakdown And Photo Finish Details

Shawn 45:18

Before we get out of here though, um, I I had to talk about this one. Did you watch the derby? Oh yeah. Did you watch? Did you actually watch it or did you No, I actually watch it.

G 45:26

So here's the thing. Every year, my wife and I like for the Derby. Right. Like, we don't we don't like spend a day. Like we're not, this is not derby day for us or anything like that, but we know the derby's going on, and we're like, we gotta be home for the derby for the race, which is like two and a half minutes or something like that, right? But we'd like to see someone lead up to it and all that stuff, and we like that like lead up, see the horses, and every year we are like, okay, we'll see the horses, we'll pick a horse. I got a horse, she's got a horse, and boom, we go. And so, you know, the one that won Golden Tempo, right? Golden Tempo. I like question my wife. I was like, Are you sure you don't want to like pick golden tempo? I'm like, first female trainer, you know, there's all this female things, you know, female power things hooked to it, you know. Then uh, she's not that type of person, you know her. Yeah, you know, she's and I'm like, I'm like, uh, that'd be kind of cool if that happens, right? So then yeah, we pick our horses. And uh, did you pick a horse? I I didn't even I didn't even bet. I'm gonna get to that.

Shawn 46:28

Yeah, but I didn't even bet on the derby this year. I was actually working, but I don't know.

G 46:32

I always bet on the derby. No, no, no. I don't ever bet. Like I'm not a I'm not a betting person because first of all, like I don't I don't have too many addictive things. Right. Other than I'm addicted to life, right? Like, you know, like but uh but those type of things, like I just have never been a big betting person, ever. So not to say that it's you know it's okay to bet and stuff as long as it doesn't become a problem. Right.

Shawn 46:57

As long as I mean as long as you're doing it and and it's uh fun, you're having a good time with it. Yeah, but when it comes to where you're trying to make money and that's it. Yeah, like I'm gonna make a living or I'm gonna like you know, but I had to talk about Golden Tempo and and and this horse in particular because Dave bet Golden Tempo the win. Oh he did? Yeah, and and he goes, Gary, go back and watch, go back and watch Golden Tempo because I I bet on horses for like 30 years. Right, right, right. So he goes, go back and watch Golden Tempo's races. And Golden Tempo always ran from the back. The only difference this time is Renegade, who is Jose Ortiz's brother, was riding Renegade. Yeah. Renegade also got out of the gates back in the back. Right. And Renegade usually is towards the front. Oh, good. Okay, so Renegade was running. If you watch, if if you watch Golden Tempo through that race, he started following, he started following Renegade, right? He had him on the outside and you watched him. The amazing part of it, you watch this whole race as he's coming around, renegades in front of him. And what he did, what what Jose did is Golden Tempo had uh blinders on.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

Right.

Shawn 48:00

Okay. So this last picture, he turns Golden Tempo right at Renegade. So he's looking right at Renegade, Renegade's in front of him, so he can see him. He's just going batshit after him, right? And as soon as he's like this, he's losing him, he's losing him. The last picture of him crossing the line, go back and look at this picture. Right. His Golden Tempo's ears are fully pricked. Yeah. Right? 100%. He's ripped. I mean, he's shredded. You look at his front, he's like this powered up muscles all the way through his body. And then you look at Renegade and his ears are flat. Yeah. Okay, that means he's pissed.

G 48:40

Right.

Shawn 48:40

He just got his ass beat.

G 48:42

Right.

Shawn 48:42

Right. And that is um, it was one of the most amazing pictures.

G 48:46

I was just like literally from the layman's point of view of the race and stuff, like to see that horse in last place to first place. Amazing. From worst to first, right? We've been there, we've done that. Like, it is unbelievable that the horse raced.

Shawn 49:02

Two brothers, first and second, and a female trainer, first time in the history of Kentucky Dorothy.

G 49:07

That's all cool when all those little special things like that happened.

Shawn 49:10

It was so awesome. What an awesome race. But I just had to mention it because I loved when I seen that picture, I seen that picture of Golden Tempo's ears pricked, and I've freaking seen renegades laying back. I'm like, oh, I gotta talk about this

A Quote To Live By And Closing

Shawn 49:23

one. So okay, inspirational quote. Inspirational quote. Give it to us. Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself. I love that. Copy that. Gotta change it. You got it. You gotta change it. Anyway, going back to Sean's mom. Hey, listen, prayers go out to her. Uh, you guys uh can't can't tell you enough if you got time, say a prayer for his mom.

G 49:44

Exactly. Mom, we're thinking about you and saying prayers, and we wish that everybody come out, go to our website, check us our content out, check out what our our merch and all that stuff, support the show.

Shawn 49:58

Yeah, absolutely. You we can tell you get all the support we can get from you guys, and we we appreciate everything.

G 50:04

Yeah, we appreciate it. Like we want you guys to uh we want to continue giving to you guys and listen and having us listen to, right? I don't want to listen to you.

Shawn 50:15

I don't he's not he's not nice. He's only he's only nice when he gets on camera. You get behind the camera, he's not so nice. I'm just kidding, he's good.

G 50:22

We're out of here.

Shawn 50:23

See ya later.

G 50:27

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