Denver Chats: Babies, Bassinets, Tunnels, Turbulence & Regional Life vs. Mainline

Matthew and Cody banter from Denver — debating dream homes (Highlands castle vs. Palm Springs pool), LA celebrity tunnels, and the mystery of rain jackets — then tackle babies on planes (bassinet mishaps, ear-popping hacks, and MacGyver bottle-warming), and cheerfully compare regional vs. mainline life (smaller planes, busy schedules, etc...). They wrap by requesting for listener crew stories to fuel Season Two — because life at 35,000 feet is equal parts chaos and charm.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome aboard. I'm Matthew. And I'm Cody. This is Breaking Sterile.

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And this show exists for everything else. Break it still. Hey Cody. You're starting the show off this way. Hi Cody.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Hi, how are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:52

I'm good. We're still in Denver. I like Denver. Denver's great. We had nice Mexican food today.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

I actually ordered a burrito with chicken. And then I finished the burrito and realized that it was not any ground beef in it. So that was the only situation that popped up.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

No, you know, I I love Denver. It's, you know, it's I mean, typically this time of the year it's cold and snowy and gross. But this year has been different.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

It's not cold and snowy and gross today.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

No. It's supposed to get cold, snowy, and gross tomorrow or this weekend.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

It was raining apparently today, and you said Rainer.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

I didn't realize it was gonna stop.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Well, the first time I'm wearing the uniform rain jacket, did you like it? You don't like that one, do you? No. Do you you wear the long winter coat? Yeah, look. I find that so like how am I how am I supposed to pack that? Or like if I'm wearing that and I'm like it just doesn't make any sense for me. Just put it on your bag and walk up.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Anyways, Denver's great. I love Denver. It's it's you should move here.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

I know. Well, maybe one day. Maybe I'll get a place here. Yes, do it. I don't know how Steve will feel about that. Do not Steve. Uh I mean, of all the places in the world you could live, where would you is there a place that you would love to live?

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Oh, in a heartbeat.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Where?

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Uh in the highlands of Scotland.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

Like, do you just want to live totally by yourself and isolated? Or you just like I want to live in a castle. Do you want to like with a Scottish prince?

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Sure, that finds. No.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

No, I just it's beautiful up there. It's absolutely gorgeous. The Scottish men are really hot. It's so I went to Scotland and I was married. And did you is that why you're divorced now? No, I wish. No, um, no, and I did not see one super attractive Scotman. Oh. I was very upset. I was very upset. I saw them postcards, and I'm not sure if you know how long I lived in London for.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

There were plenty of beautiful. I almost married a couple of them. Yeah, no, it would be great. No, no, yeah, no. And by married, I mean go on three dates. If I which is the equivalent of marriage in your 20s.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Um no, if I could live anywhere, yeah, I would absolutely live in the Highlands. It's so cold there. No, it's not. It's cold and wet. And dark. It's it's mild, it's temperate because it's on the ocean. And there's lots of sheep. I'm okay with that. And Highlands cows.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Uh-huh. I love those.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

I have them all over my apartment. You too? I do.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

How have I not seen them? Oh. One over there. I think there are places in Scotland that you can move to that they will pay you to move to Scotland, like to move to a town. Like they have that in Italy.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

They have it in Ireland.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

And they have it in Ireland too.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

But you have to have to have to live on like a like a teeny tiny island. And then you'd have to work for Erlingus? No, no. You have to you have to work on a you have you have to live on a teeny tiny tiny island.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

That is too gem of the shirt.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

That's too secluded for me.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

So you're saying like Aberdeen. No, like New York Town. Inverness. Inverness. Yeah. It's Aberdeen like. Yeah. It's gorgeous up there. I know. I've used to go to actually. I was in Edinburgh. I was at the Edinburgh Festival. Do you know about this? Remember you saw me online? Did I ever show you online? Yeah. There's w only one piece of proof that I was an actor that's available at the time. On the YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

I've other seen seen things that where you've shown me uh.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Yes, but they weren't online. Well, my commercial, I still have the Jota Bay J and B whiskey that we did the J and B whiskey commercial in Spain. And then there's but then there's the musical I did that we went to Edinburgh with, and that is online. Oh, I didn't know that. I've shown it to you, haven't I? The show was called From Hell She Came. Oh yes. Yeah. So everybody can go and YouTube it and see me in my twenties acting and dancing. With all the hair. I had so I had a really nice head of hair. Yeah, you know, it was black. No, it's thin and gray.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

If you could live anywhere, where where would you live, Matt?

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Um well, you know what? I really do like Palm Springs, and I didn't think I was going to like it as much as I liked it. Because the other day, yesterday, the weather was 80 degrees. It was perfect. That sounds amazing. I went swimming. I did my laps in the leisure center pool, which I go to as much as possible. Um, because it's an Olympic size pool. Right. And uh, so I did my 50 laps and I take my time. I'm like the turtle. Everybody else is like swims fast. I just swim, you know. Just do it just do my own pace. Um, which is fine. So Palm Springs, every time I go to Honolulu, I say I'd love to live here, but then I realize I'm just probably not. It doesn't seem like a place for me.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

I wouldn't mind living on a different island, but not on a Walking.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Um I do, you know, I still love London, but I'm I'm older now, so I don't know if I would love it as much as I'd loved it when I was younger.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

If I had a cute walk-up, I would totally live in London.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

But those are like a million dollars.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Like a billion dollars. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

I can I I don't have I never understood how anybody affords affords London. Even back then, I never understood it. Every time like the tube fare went up, I would like complain incessantly. And it would only go up like 10p, 25p, whatever, and I'd be like, what? So when I left London, I think one of the things that I remember like making it justifying it in my head was the tube fare was going up again. And I thought, well, I'm leaving just in time because the tube fair is going up, and I and it was like it was so expensive. And then I moved to LA, which is just you know a different different kind of expensive. Yeah. You know, and I loved LA for a very limited, you know, for a l a time, and then I grew out of it much quicker than I thought I would. And I um but I was already entranched in my job there, and I couldn't really unwind that. So And you're and I was married, yeah. Am married. And so I think all like life stuff happens, so then you're just sort of going with the flow. And if if Steve and I were being, you know, if we had even thought about where we would have moved to, he he would never the East Coast was not a thing for us because New York was too I don't know. I don't know. Like not Texas, not Florida. No, exactly, and not New York, because as much as I love New York, it's it just I my allergies in New York are awful.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

I love upstate New York. I would live in upside New York.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Yes, but then you know it's cold there too. I don't know. I think I think I'm good with San Francisco, is always a possibility. That's expensive. Um that is expensive, but I think I'm I'm happy. I think I found my happy place. I think Palm Springs may be my happy place for now. I'm genuinely happy there.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Like I don't think I've ever felt this way about living somewhere. I will say, whenever I go out to see you, you are a much happier person than when you were living in LA. It's hard. Well, it's not it's also it's also a different lifestyle there. It's a different pace there.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Yes, and you you can't see people It's a much slower pace in Pellet Springs. You think, yes, it is much slower. But LA, the problem with LA is you can have friends everywhere and not be able to see them because they're all 45 minutes away from each other. And you're driving, yes, and you're driving everywhere to get anywhere. And I just read this thing that apparently there's secret tunnels under the ground in L LA. Do you know about this? No, that all the celebrities use to get around town, which makes sense because I'm always wondering how the F somebody gets from Santa Monica to, you know, to the east side so quickly that there must be secret tunnels down there because it's impossible to get from one side to the other in a meaningful in a like apparently like Will Smith has access to the tunnels. And I know I I watched too many conspiracy theory weird things online, but apparently there's these tunnels, and if you know anything about these tunnels, please email me at breaking sterile at breakingsterile.com so that I can show Cody what I'm talking about. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Also, speaking of emailing us, if you if you would like to connect with us, you can go to uh Breaking Sterile Podcast on Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 9:41

Oh, that's right. We have an Instagram page.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Yeah. It's not super active.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

I was I was I was thinking of starting an X page, but it's just like there's so much social media to manage that I don't want to.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

I I hate calling it X, I just call it Twitter. Because X sounds kind of X-rated. I know.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

I mean, I'm not a fan of the person who owns X.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Babies.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Babies is our next topic. Cody. You don't like babies on airplanes?

SPEAKER_01 10:08

I like babies in general.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Really? Okay, I always say that.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Hold on. So, okay. I was flying with two of my friends, and I was the lead, and I was standing in the doorway. The first individual on the plane was this like toddler, right? He comes like toddling onto the plane, and I look down, I had apparently I had a a look of disgust on my face. Because one of my one of my friends was standing in the aisle and she like looks at me and she goes, Cody. And I was like, What? She's like, fix your face.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

And I did. Because of the because a toddler was on toddlers are different from babies.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

No, it's a child, right? Anything under like three, nine is annoying.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

You know, I uh I always feel that way initially, but if I'm holding a baby, I get very like I love you hold them?

SPEAKER_01 11:05

I can. Never well, I'm not touching them.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Oh, well, sometimes I've held them because the parent has to go to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Not my problem.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Especially when they have chubby cheeks and they're cute.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

I held a baby once at my first hairline because the mom had to use the restroom. Uh-huh. And the baby like woke up and realized I was not its mother or its father and lost his mind. Complete meltdown. And I was like, oh my God, get rid of your. I mean, I love my niece and nephew.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

And I love my nephews from my previous same. But children that are not mine. I understand. And you know, and and babies I don't mind because they're cute for the most part. Right. If I don't have to touch them, they're fine.

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Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

And I always have this like, I hate children, blah, blah, blah. Right. And I have this very like staunch, staunch uh outlook on them. But then when they come on the plane, I'm just like, well, hi there, how are you? Oh my gosh, you're so cute, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I like make faces with them and I whatever. And it's very, it's very baby dependent.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Well, you know, when it when like when the plane becomes screaming baby airlines, and I always see like people getting upset about it or whatever. And I always say to them, like, nine out of ten times the engines turn on, we take off, babies fall asleep. Yeah. They do. They do. Well, and occasionally there's the one that doesn't fall asleep. The whole floor. The whole flaw. The whole experience. And everybody's like looking back. And I feel really bad for the parent, genuinely bad for the parent, because it's you know, it's it is hard to there's there's things you cannot control. Yeah. And it's not the baby's fault, it's just the way the baby is.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Well, and the baby doesn't understand, you know, and especially coming down, like you know, when you're when we're changing altitude, you know, a lot of times the air pressure doesn't, you know, doesn't it gets clogged in their ears?

SPEAKER_00 12:57

What is it, the Etruscan tube? Uh huh. The atruscan tube, the tube in the ear. The tube in the ear.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I know what you're talking about, but no. Um, and so they don't understand. And so a lot a lot a lot of times when I see parents who have infants who don't have a sucker or a bottle or whatever, a big whatever, I tell them just before we start start descent, I'm like, hey, just FY, if their ears are hurting them, just like have them stuck on something because it'll that'll help. And I go, Oh really? Yep. And how do you heat the bottle if they want a bottle heated? I mean, like if they want like hot water in it, no water in it.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

No, but don't they like want the bottle? Like, have you ever had somebody give you like they want the bottle heated?

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Nope. I will say I can put hot water in it for you. I I can do half hot water, half cold water so that way it's like not burning, not burning their mouth off. Right. But that's not uh I don't have the ability to make a heated bottle of water.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Yes, you do. You wanna know how?

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Not putting it in like 13 hot cups.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

No, you just put it in the in the um silver you put the hot water in like the you know, the silver container like in first class that has that you put cold water in when you're pouring it out. You can just put hot water in there and then submerge the bottle. No one's ever really asked me. I mean, this is probably like a really esoteric way left field thing, but in case it ever happens to you, that's how you could do it. Nope. You know what I don't like though is when they um when they want the what's the thing that's the the the thing that's connected to the bulk? The bassinet. Yeah. I am terrible with the bass okay, so in training, so at our airline we have bassinets, and the bassin depending on the plane, some bassinets are built into the actual seat. So like on our 757 in the front, they have it. You can just lift yeah, you just lift it up, and that's I still don't understand. Like, do they put a blanket down or something? Or there's like a netting there's a netting, yeah to stop them from flying up in the air. Yeah. And then, but um, on our triples, you hook it into the bulkhead. Right. And if anybody has a kid, just make sure and you want a bassinet, just make sure you're sitting in the seat that has access to the bassinet.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Yeah, just just because you request it doesn't make it. Because if you're in like 26E, it's not gonna happen. They're not gonna get a bassinet.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

But do you so we have the hook in bassinets, which I'm petrified of, put it first of all, in training, I could never make it work. I was like, I don't know. This is if this is how I fail out of training, so be it. I was like, I it was like a Rubik's cube, but I mean I was like, No, they're pretty they're pretty challenging. They're very challenging. I mean, they're probably not as challenged, like, but just for me, it was a problem. But did you see have you seen the bassinets that just lay on the floor? Do you know we have those too?

SPEAKER_01 16:01

They don't lay on the they're they're they're like they're floor-mounted. Mounted, I would say mounted, but but but but they just sit on the floor, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Yeah. Now, do you put those only in the bulkhead row as well? So it's if they have multiple kids, you can you can put one of them.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Well, no, but like I mean, uh every time that I've that we we've had to use this, the the floor one is because the the the bulkhead one's broken.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Oh, so it's like a backup.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Gotcha. Or if you don't know how to put a or if you don't know how to you don't want to put it and you get me as your flight attendant that day. I'm like, oh, I don't know. I thought this is the only one we have. Oh god, so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

But like but it's interesting because because when when you you when you do ask for a for a bassinet and you and we can accommodate you for it, you can't have your child in it for turbulence. Correct. So if they're sound asleep, you have to wake them up.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

Which is and then they're gonna cry.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

And then defeats the purpose of putting them in the bassinet in the first place.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Yeah. Do you know do you know but also but also yeah, buy an extra seat, put them in a car seat.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

And this is what I say all the time. And last time you were like, well, some people can't afford it.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

No, no, and and and I and I and I understand, I get that, but then don't fly. Don't fly, don't fly at all.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

But you know, what I always find, I don't know if this happens to you, but when we're doing our briefing and someone says, and the purser will be like, oh, we have a customer that wants the bassinet, and everybody turns around. Like they don't want nobody wants to put the bassinet up. This isn't just a me thing. I think this is a general like everybody just pretends that they don't hear it, you know, and then it's like and then and then I end up doing it because I feel bad.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

So why don't we you have I'm glad that you have feelings.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

I do have feelings. I'm not emotionally and cold and dead inside like I pretend to be.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

No, that's just me.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

Yes. Hey Matt. Hey Gotty.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Um question. So how often do you fly on a express carrier?

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Um probably like once a month, and then occasional like for deadheading purposes to get to Denver. Um, from Palm Springs, we have at least one flight a day that's not on mainline. So deadheading or commuting. Commuting. Okay. And then deadheading, occasionally I'll like get that weird deadhead like from Norfolk to somewhere. Some to New Orkers. Newer, and then you're on the CRJ 700. I just had to find one those the other day. I was not comfortable.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

You're too tall to be on those planes. I I I I think I took a picture of it, and I was like, if I sit completely straight up, I am an inch from the pasture service unit.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Even if it's on the reconfigured 550.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Yeah, that's what that's what it was. It's a 550.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Were you on Gojet? Yeah. Oh fuck. Was it nice on the inside though? Because it looks like same.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

But they have like CRJ.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

I know, but they have like closets in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Yeah, same CRJ.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

But they didn't redo the inside, like make it prettier? No. Oh, that's a missed opportunity, I think.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Um, anyways, so the reason why I asked you is because you used to work for a regional.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

I did. I worked for Compass. You did?

SPEAKER_01 19:19

Um what is there a big difference between a regional and a obviously besides the aircraft size? Right. Is there a big difference between the regional lifestyle versus the mainline? A huge difference.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

First of all, let's talk about the aircraft size. Technically, the seats were 18 inches wide in economy, which is often an inch wider than mainline. Oh interesting. So whenever someone would come on and be like, this is such a small plane, I'd be like, yes, but your butt's gonna be happy because it's like we you get very defensive when you sit work at a at a regional because the from a working point of view, you're doing all of the service. So you you're at Compass, we were responsible for knowing Delta procedures or service and American Airlines service.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

And Alaska too, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:07

No, we didn't do Alaska. And uh no, that's Skywest. That's Skywus. And so occasionally from a personal point of personally, after a while, when you realize you're doing like the actual first class service, like serving soup and and we had soup and uh a main course, and we had the ovens on the Delta plane. We had ovens. We had ovens on the Delta 175s, not on the American ones. Those those were cold meals, but full first class cold meals that were served. You start to resent being paid a third less. Oh, I get it. That you know, like over time you start realizing, or at least I did, and I was like, and so when I was applying to American and Delta, and truth be told, I got rejected by both of them, uh, because they didn't see me as a you know, I don't know, but but I was upset about it because I was like, I'm actually already doing the service for you guys. I should be hired, at least interviewed.

SPEAKER_01 21:11

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Um and I wasn't, and I got very sad about that, honestly, you know, because I felt like I would, you know, I knew I took it seriously. Like I knew that they that the customers don't realize that they're flying compass, that they're flying, they think they're flying Delta, they think they're flying American.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Um, you see it on the news all the time. They'll say, This happened at American Airlines and it's Sky West.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Like when that when that Endeavour plane flipped over in Canada. Yes. They said a Delta Airlines plane, which it wasn't a Delta plane, but it was a Delta Play.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Endeavor's wholly owns a subsidiary, which is a little different, just like with Americans PSA and Envoy, they're wholly owned subsidiaries. But when you're Sky West or you or Compass, right, um or Republic, or Republic, you're owned by some another entity and you're l essentially. Licensed out. Right. So the different so there's so service-wise, they try and keep everything similar to what's happening on mainline. Scheduling wise, it's a whole different ballgame.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Why is that?

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Because you were regularly scheduled lines were very high, like high timeline, like 80 hours was normal for just the schedule.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

And one of my friends used to work for ExpressShep back when Express Chef was uh under Continental. Yeah. And she came, we had a crash fight together and she um came home one night and she like had a mental breakdown because she she was on for four days with like four legs or five legs every day. Yep. She got extended two more days with four, I think five legs each day. And then her last day, she came home and she was just zong. It's a lot.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

I don't think people realize what that life is like.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Yeah, it's I mean, I I can't even imagine. I did it.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

I remember, I mean, we talk about having 120, like how many hours do you have this month?

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Like 144.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Right. But it's different because you're getting 24 hour rests in a lot of these places.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

Every one of them.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Right. Right. You do 120 hours at Compass.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

You're doing 120 hours.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Real hard 120 hours. You're not getting 24 hours rest at any station. Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Because at Frontier, we used to, again, before the pilot rules changed. Yeah. We had the same crew for the whole trip. Right. And it was lovely. Right. And then the the the rest rules changed. And then we we had, you know, new pilots every couple of legs. Right. At our current airline, I'd uh it's very rare that I have the same pilots for more than one leg. Yeah. And which is a which is frustrating for me because I typically fly lead. Right. And so getting to know the flow of the pilots and the how they like their things and like how they do their things, I have to it has to it's constantly changing. Yes. So I I kind of wish we still had those restaurants the rest of the thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Is it just because the rest the rest the timing's changed?

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

For who? The pilots or for us? They got more rest?

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Yeah, they get more rest. And they can't work as many hours as well.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Right. Well that I know. So well anyway, that's regional versus. So I would like to apologize to a flyaton. Oh no, what did you do? Okay. So you know how we have this thing called end-of-month conflicts?

SPEAKER_01 24:37

Oh, I so I was wrong on this too.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Yeah. So I told you wrong. Yes, which is probably why I told the. So at our company, if you have a trip, let's pretend the month ends on the 31st, and the new month, scheduled month is on the first, and you have a trip that goes from the 31st to the second. That's you could potentially, when you're bidding, get a trip that's assigned on the first. And so when the when the schedule comes out, you'll see that your flight on the 31st to the second is on the schedule, and your trip on the from the first to the third is on the schedule, and you are supposed to figure out how to move that around, maneuver that around. I thought that the trip, the second trip would automatically be dropped.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

It's so funny because I thought the same thing because that's what I was told.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

So then I just drop the trip. Please don't make, but no, we have to go through a whole process. And uh it's not as easy as that. You have to sort of there's like two things you have to try to do to keep the hours and move things around. And when you're a line holder, it's it's challenging because the days off that you think you have, you're not gonna have now because you have to put that trip in there. Yeah. So um I try to bid schedules that don't have end-of-month conflicts in them.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

That's also why I don't I typically don't bid for tri for lines if there's a carryover.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't bid for carry-on carryover, except again this month I picked up a trip that turns into a carryover because I got greedy and was like, I want to go to Maui. And so it happened to be on a trip on the 31st, but I get to fly with my friend if she still ends up flying it. And I don't even know why I picked it up, knowing that half the time you pick up something, half the crew leaves that trip anyway. So then you probably you also I will probably be by myself, you know, and not with my friend. So um, which is fine. And I had to do that this time, this month, and it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Well, because we will well, because that's because we both had the wrong information. Yes, but the my point is that I gave the wrong information to the flight attendant, and then I couldn't remember who it was that I gave it to because you're But if you if you're up to date on those informations, like even when we get revisions to our to our manual, yes, I look at all of that.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Yes, I do too.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Because if you don't look at it, you're going to go, oh, that's what this is. Yes. Like if someone has a question, you go, this is that that's what this is, and then you're completely wrong because they've changed it for you. You have to look at the revisions, you have to look at the revision technique because or the revision sets the revision summary, yes, because that tells you what's changed. Yes. Um I love doing these podcasts, they're fun. But we're talking about this the stories that happen in our lives and the stories that that we've seen happen, right? With our own ideas.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

There's only so many.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

And there's only so many, I mean, I've been doing this for a long time and I I can we are digging deep to entertain.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Which is why we may have to finish this season and like you know, fly a little bit before we start season two.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

Well, but what I was thinking is is that what if we have flight attendants or pilots send in stories about trips that they've had or things, deals that or issues that not issues, challenges that they've had. Yeah. Stories that that they've gone through. Yeah. And then we can kind of read them online.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Read them online, talk about them, see what they're and maybe we'll like actually interview them. Yeah. They can be guests. Yeah. We can have guests. I figured out how to do that.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

I have the technology. You know, and it's the great thing about being um independent entrepreneurs of the podcast region.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Because we're making so much money doing this.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

So we're doing so well with this. But no, yeah. So if you if you have a have a fun story or a story that that you think is relatable to this podcast, send it to uh Breaking Sterile at breakingsterile.com.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

Stock Star Breaking Sterile at Breakingstarl.com.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Or Breaking Starl Podcast on Instagram. And um who knows? We we might uh we might feature you. Feature you we don't have to say, you don't have to say your name, you don't have to say what what what airline you work for. No, you can make just send it through a face very, very nondescript as you'd like. Yeah. Um, but it's always fun hearing um other perspectives and other stories from past from from black members because I mean there's a there's a million stories. There's a million stories out there, and it would be great to hear.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

And Cody and I only have a limited amount at this point.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

I mean, I have a lot, but a lot of them aren't very appropriate.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Or maybe they are. Maybe we should maybe maybe in our next season we'll you know start getting you know spicy.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

I don't know about all that.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

And by spicy, I mean the food that we eat.

SPEAKER_01 29:45

Yeah. So again, so breakingstrail or breakingstrail.com or breakingstrail podcast on Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Tell us your stories. That's our descent. Thanks for flying with us. Behind every uniform is a real human doing their best at 35,000 feet.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Be kind to your crew. Hydrate, we don't just fly the world, we live in it. Sterile keeps us safe, breaking it keeps us human. This has been breaking sterile.