Jet-Lagged, Power Outages, and Loving the Cheesesteak

Matthew and Cody stumble through jet lag and questionable airport infrastructure like it's an extreme sport — spoiler: the trains lose.
They trade layover love (Reading Terminal Market) and layover loathing (hotel jail, Houston PTSD) while confessing terrible passenger pet peeves. The episode
ends with a shoutout to a potential Emmy-winning pool buddy, and an open call for listeners' chaotic airline stories.

Transcript

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

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A show about flight attendance at a major American international airline where professionalism is the baseline.

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And humanity is what actually gets us through the day. And this show is about the part of the job that lives just outside the announcements.

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The part where you're exhausted, proud, frustrated, grateful.

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Sometimes all on the same leg.

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Sterile exists just for safety.

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And this show exists for everything else.

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Great. How are you all?

SPEAKER_01 0:55

I'm good. Oh, you sound you sound like you're far away.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Well, I am far away. Far away physically and mentally.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

I know. Well, you just came back from a long you just came back from a very long trip.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Well, not really. It was, I mean, it was a it was just a three-day.

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Oh.

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I started this morning at like 4 a.m.

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See.

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4 p.m. East Coast time.

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Right. And I don't think people realize like how hard that is. I tried to stay up and be perky and lovely, and I was just in bed drooling. Steve was like, what do you want for dinner? I was like, I want to sleep. Well, I mean, when he says you what do I want for dinner? He means, what are you cooking for dinner, Matt? Because I'm the person that cooks generally. So it's it's more of like a please wake the F up so you can cook. And I'm like, my brain, I couldn't. I could. And then Noah, my dog, you know, looks at me and stares at me and just sits there and is like, when are we going for a walk? Where's it?

SPEAKER_00 2:08

It's a lot of pressure. I have a lot of pressure when I come back. Well, I mean, and it's I mean, it's rough because I mean, I you know, I had 30 hours yesterday in Philadelphia, which is great, but you know, you have to be in bed by like 7:30 or 8 o'clock at night to get a decent amount of sleep because uh my van was at 4 15 this morning.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

That is so disgusting. Yeah, I also what's really hard about that is like you wake up at 4 15, and the last time I woke up at 4 15 was when I was 24 and I was going clubbing.

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And it was just yeah, and so it was just it was just a long. I mean, thankfully, every everybody was pretty much for nice for the most part today.

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You mean the passengers were nice? Yeah, oh that's good.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Yeah, it was kind of nice.

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So, you like Philadelphia? What'd you do?

SPEAKER_00 2:50

I love Philadelphia. Um, I went to the Reading uh Terminal Market, which is this huge food hall. If you've never been before, it's this giant food hall with all of this amazing local um food. Like um, there's an Amish uh bakery, uh, there's an Amish um restaurant in there, and they it looks like they serve the most amazing food. That's what I'm gonna do on my next overnight there. So we're gonna go there. And then uh, you know, I'm in Philly, so I had to have a cheesesteak. Um, and that was nice. Um, but yeah, it just it's it's an amaz if you if you get a chance to go to the to Philadelphia, you have to stop by the Reading Street Market because it if it has all the food. I haven't gone there yet. I know that you like to go to Chinatown there. I do. Um, which is a much farther walk than the market.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

I well the thing is, is I like to go to all the Chinatowns and all the towns that I go to. Yeah, I always I always look for the China, I don't because I like Chinese food and I don't know. I mean it makes me happy. So um which which cities do you not like? We're gonna make some people mad, but which cities don't you like going to?

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Uh Florida. As a whole, Florida. Um I mean, I I should say, like, I I do enjoy Tampa. Um, I have some friends that live there, so it's good to see them whenever I go.

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Also, also, I don't we've said this before, but I have PTSD when we go to Houston. Like, I just think that somebody like is gonna come up to me and test me for something, you know. And they did the last time I was there, I got um line checked.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Oh I mean, and I went through Houston this morning. So and then, you know, it wasn't bad. I mean, we were we were 45 minutes early, which I was shocked.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

Um yeah, but usually if you're the first flight out, you're early. Well, all those small towns, like I try and avoid them too.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Which what which small towns?

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Just um uh I don't know. I just I'm not into like I just I just don't like places where you're stuck in the hotel. Like even when we go to Raleigh and you're in the short Raleigh. Also I yeah, I just find it like I find it like you're just like in jail. You're in hotel jail. And I love a hotel, don't get me wrong, and it's very nice the hotel we stay in there for the short hotel, but it's still like it still feels like you're just put in, you know, you just have nowhere to go because you only have 11 hours and and they're just you know.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

Yeah, but don't you do the long rally, which is like at a nice hotel downstairs?

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Yes, yeah, I like that one.

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Yeah, see, I I this is probably gonna come off come out really weird, but I love our short Detroit layover right next to the um airport. Oh, um, because there's a really good um restaurant like just on the street.

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Okay.

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Again, I'm very food driven, so you know it's great for me. Um and they have got really good cheese curds there.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Well, you were just in my other favorite place, Bentonville.

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Yes.

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But I but you have to go into Bentonville to like it.

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Well, I've got family there, so I've been there.

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Oh well, but did you go in, you know, like that nice square? There's like it's there's like a section of Bentonville that's that has like nice restaurants, and it's you have to like you can't you either have to walk there or take a car. Well, are you talking about Roger? You're talking about Bentonville. Bentonville. Oh no, where you where you where they put us, they put us a little bit outside of Bentonville.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

No, it's nice because it because it because you know they have the Walmart Museum down there, which is actually a really cool museum. I did not think I was going to like it, but it's actually a really cool museum. It shows you how they started and then how they created the Walmart brand, and then what Walmart was, and then how and then what what it came to. And it's actually really interesting, which I was not thinking was gonna it was gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

But it was cool. We we when when where I went to college, the all like back in the day, long time ago, like Walmart was the only thing that was in the town, yeah. Because I we were I was I went to school in Greencastle, Indiana, and uh like when Taco Bell opened, it was a big deal. So imagine when Walmart was there, that was like the only way to get anything, sort of like you know, all your stuff into your own.

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Like you had to go to Walmart to get everything, or you could go to Indiana, Indianapolis, but when when I lived in Drago years and years and years ago, they um opened up a sonic. Uh-huh. And the line for Sonic was like a mile long. Oh a legit mile long. Um when I whenever I go to uh Oklahoma City, you know, that's where Sonic was from. Oh, and they have uh they used to have a Sonic in the airport.

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Uh-huh.

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And when I when I would work when I worked at the airport there, um, I would go in between our flights, I would go into Sonic and get they used to have the um trades of biscuits and gravy. And then I would get a Route 44 soda, so this giant trough of soda, and then a bit I think of biscuits and gravy every day.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Wait, so you worked after this was after your stint in Anchorage? You worked at an airport at Oklahoma City Airport?

SPEAKER_00 8:05

I worked for yeah, my for a frontier at that.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Oh, that's right. Oh, because you were married. Did you live in Oklahoma City? No, that wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

I wasn't married then, though. But I was saying I moved to Oklahoma City for somebody. Oh, you did? Yes, never again.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Well, that's it's never really it's never how long did that relationship last?

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Uh a while. Yeah. Oklahoma City did not. I left after like nine months.

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But you stayed, you stayed with him for that whole time, like afterwards?

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Yeah.

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And did he leave with you?

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No.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Oh, that's why. Well, that's why the I mean, well, yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, you basically were like, I'm leaving. I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Well, no, no, no, because I mean, like, we we made it work and we were gonna try to make try and make things work. But you know, when you're long distance things, either things are gonna go really well and you're gonna it's gonna work, or they think things are not gonna go well and things didn't go well.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Steve and I almost Steve and I almost moved to Oklahoma City because his sister lives there.

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I know every you know, it's not I don't mind Oklahoma City as a whole, um, but there are no mountains for miles, and the wind just blows.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Well, also, when my brother, my brother-in-law was like, they don't like the gays in Oklahoma City, they like the gays in Oklahoma, right? And so he was like, he's like, Are you sure you want to move here? And I said, I'm not trying to move here. I'm just like this is this is an option that we're discussing. He was being very protective, which is super sweet. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

No, I mean it's not, it wasn't great when I lived there. And that was back in 2008.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

It's not the most, I mean, I'm sorry, people from Oklahoma City, but it's not the most welcoming place.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

I mean, everyone, whenever I work the flights, everyone's super nice.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Oh, uh, yes, that's different. I'm just I'm not talking about the customers that are on our flight. Yeah, I'm just saying like the state of Oklahoma.

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I do like by our hotel, there's a really good uh uh pub well brewery, private brewery, and I love going there.

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They have the best of they have they have really good restaurants there, and it's down in Bricktown.

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It's good.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Yes, you know, they're they want to build the tallest building in the United States in Oklahoma, the city. Well, they already have one. No, they want to build a bigger one. Oh my god. Why? Why don't you want to see because they want to prove the no, because they want to prove the world is flat.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Oh lord. Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna I I I'm gonna I I I really would love to be there when they look out and they go, I can't see over there because it's of the curvature of the earth.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

Yeah, no, there's no there is no curvature of the earth. Yeah, that's yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think of other cities that I don't particularly like. Oh, Grand Rapids.

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Bedford.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

Oh, you know what?

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I don't mind for it's just because it the showtime for there is like is so early. It's a 4 15 show.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

I I think it's more about the early show times than anything. Like even when you know, what like when we have a full Chicago layover, you know, and you have to be on the 440 bus van, I mean you have to wake up at 3:30 or set your alarm for 3.30 because it takes me 20 minutes to get out of bed. And I and I set like five alarms plus the plus another phone alarm plus the hotel calls in, you know, like there's a lot happening in 20 minutes to get me out of the building. Yeah, I'm not an I'm not an easy person to get out of bed.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Which is funny because whenever you stay with me, when my alarm goes goes off, you're up. Oh, really? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Maybe it's because I'm you know, I'm in your space and I don't want to be in your space. Like I don't want to bother you too much.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Yeah, because you're clearly bothering me.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

I know.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

No, I don't I mean, I don't know, like like there's a lot of places that that I haven't been yet that I would love to go to. Yeah, um, and a a lot of the places that that we go to that are smaller, we have really long overnight zone, and I just don't particularly care to do those. Have you done the the McAllen uh that one's actually really cool? There's again food to driven. There's a really cool um food truck vendor space across the park from our hotel. Yeah, and our hotel is haunted and fun. It's great, it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

I have uh Wichita layover this week. I do too. I like that hotel. I love that hotel. I like Wichita. Here's why I like free breakfast. And here's why I like Wichita. They have great pizza there. I don't know what what you're talking about. The pizza place? Yes, I have no idea. You walk over the river into the town. Why is that happening? It's so close. It's this but it's so pretty. You have the walk uh on the river. That river walk is really nice.

SPEAKER_04 12:53

Yeah, that is.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

I agree with that. It's not a reason to live there. I don't understand what's there. I guess there's a university, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

There is okay Spokane.

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Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

There's a place by a hotel. Um, and it's on certain nights of the week, they do dog rescue there. And there's a dog rescue like like built like built into it. So you can go pet dogs and wait for your wait for your table. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Is Spokane where Nike is?

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No, that's uh Bend. That's really pretty. Yeah, gorgeous.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Yeah, I like all those Minnesota like uh Minnesota. Not Minnesota, the um Montanas and Oregon. Yeah, Boise and like Oregon, those are pretty.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Um if you if you do the boise overnight, you can go and uh walk by the zoo. And there's a portion of it where if you uh you can lay down on the grass outside the zoo and walk a fence, and there's giraffes that will look over the fence. Really? Yes, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

I know it's amazing. Um, Cody.

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Yeah.

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Were you in Denver when the electricity went out?

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I was at the airport.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I was.

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That's the day, that's the day I came back from um.

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Yeah, I said I sent you a message and I was just like, oh my god. I missed it by like an hour at the airport. No, you missed you were already, I think you were already on you're almost home.

SPEAKER_04 14:21

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

Um yeah, no, it was it was crazy. I mean, the airport didn't have power in the concourses on the train. ATC still had power, um, but it it affected the the entire airport. And then I they just found out that today it was or they found out they published today that it was a uh the power provider here is called XL and it was one of their substations that apparently blew up or went down or something. Um I said blew up like it, like it just didn't not like it did like blow up.

SPEAKER_01 14:52

It's like in the scene in airplane where the guy pulls out the plug and everything goes dark.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Exactly, yeah. Um, but but there but it was down for night for 90 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Um how did they get I'm looking at the photos, like the train situation is like how do you even like looking at just looking at at the photos of those gives me such anxiety. And who dealt with that? Like, did the did the airport police like deal with this?

SPEAKER_00 15:20

I don't well, but the thing is is that like if the police weren't on I mean, I I mean they they can obviously drive on the drive on the ramp to get to places, but they couldn't even get in, yeah. Yeah, but there's no way to yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's a way to get for them to get in because they're they're they're law enforcement. Um but I mean there was there was like 600 cancel or there were 600 delays and I think nine cancellations. And I know that um air traffic control was diverting flights, obviously. Um, and then the planes that had just taken off from their from whatever whatever city they were at were told to go back to that city.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Right.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Um it kind of I I don't say worried me, it worried me because I didn't want it to affect my trip.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Yeah, you don't care about the people who are stuck in the elevators.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Uh well the that is crazy to me.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

Like they were there must have been some people stuck in elevators, right?

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Oh, had yeah, it had to have been. Also the people that are that were stuck on the trains.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

Like, how because there's definitely people who are probably in wheelchairs and who look, if people need to go to the bathroom all the time when they're when they get to our plane, like can you imagine what's happening? The amount of like bathroom stress that is happening in that in those 90 minutes, right? Because nobody apparently can hold it for you know a half hour. They have to, you know, everybody has to pee when they get on the plane. Yeah, yeah. I'm now resolved. Okay, but I want to talk about this. I know this is off topic, but I want to talk about the fact that I am now at one with the fact that everybody needs to go to the lab once they get on the plane. I'm just deciding that that's gonna be okay because if I fight it in my soul, I will go dark and I will turn into a very bad person. So I don't care anymore. Everybody just go to the lab when you get on the plane. It's welcoming, it says hello, it welcomes you in.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

I mean, I guess it is.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

And also, like nobody I used to care. Also, if they can do it during the boarding process so they can get in the way of everybody else walking down the aisle, that would be really great.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Well, that happens anyways, regardless.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Oh, and if you can also ask for headsets, a barf bag, a diet coke, and water at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Okay, this is what speaking of that, this is what drives me insane. So the sick sacks are there for people to get sick in, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Right.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

I have seen more people use those as trash bags. Yes. I'm like, that's not what that's for. I mean, I get I get the I I get the dirty type, I think, whatever. I appreciate that. But but don't don't put your cups in your cans. That's not what that's for, they're for. Right. But but going back to the go going back to the the power adaptation, like it's crazy to me that that nobody thought, hey, let's add a secondary method of movement on the field. Whether it's a tunnel or it's a sky bridge like they have in Seattle, or it's whatever. Like I it's just mind-boggling me that they that they were like, oh, it's fine. The trains will be fine every day. Because from I I know that there was one day when I was um flying somewhere, I came into the A terminal, and I had to go to the B terminal, and the trains are running slow, and I I waited for four trains, and everyone got off and everyone got on, and I was never one of the ones that got on. So I I took a bus back to my car, back to the parking lot to take a bus to the B concourse. It took me a half an hour to do that.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

I think they should just rip out the trains and put in bigger trains or bigger, you know, just they can't do that because then you can't, then you'll have no way to get from A to B to C. Well, they should keep the what they should keep the A to B to C going, but then they should also make a new like to the right of everything.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Just dig new tunnels that are wider so you can get bigger trains on there.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

Or just build a tunnel for everyone to walk in, like they do in Atlanta. I know, you know, and then you can get your steps in.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

Every every time I get dropped off in Atlanta from from the hotel, I am completely lost. I never because I can't find how to get to the gate. Oh, yeah. No, that's chain.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

That's that's a kind of a pain in the butt. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

And in Tampa too, Tampa's hard as well. And we were we were getting to the gate late, and the gate agents weren't even surprised. They were like, Well, that's Tampa. Like when we got there late, they're like, Yeah, this, you know, they just knew we were gonna we couldn't, you know, find it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Yep, that was about right.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

Um, I want to give a shout out to our first person who commented on our Instagram page. Ooh, but then who is it? His name is Hawker Vanguard, sky dot hawker. Do you know this person?

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Oh, yes. Hey, Hawker.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

It looks like he's having a good time.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

I think he works for he works for another airline.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

Uh yes, he works for another airline. I won't say which I won't say which airline. I will.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

He's great. I met him. Yeah, I did a repositioned cruise from San Diego to Vancouver on uh oh on Virgin? No, on Holland America. Um, and it was supposed to be like a lovely cruise. We're supposed to stop at Kelad Island and then go to Vancouver. And we got out to sea and we hit 40 foot waves almost immediately outside of getting out out in the sea, out out of San Diego. And it took us three days to get from San Diego to the border of California and Oregon. Three days. So we went to the LGBTQ meetup that they have, the friends of Dorothy, you know, whatever. Um and I was like, okay, I'm I'm like was totally expecting to like meet, you know, 50s or 60s, you know, old gay gay guys.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Be careful.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

I'm almost there. You're very much there, but I'm almost there.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

I know I I know I don't sound like I'm 50 something, but and there's this group of like there's a group of older men there, and then there's this like little subgroup of guys that are kind of my age-ish around there, whatever. So we get to talking and and Hawker's there, and we get to find out that he works for the airline. I work for airline. My friend that is also there, uh he's a he works for an an an airline, and all of a sudden there was two more guys that work for an airline, and then there's two more people that work for airlines, and I was like, Oh my god, this is amazing. So we became really good friends on that cruise. Um And I we saw I don't know if you met Hawker at Bob Springsley at the pool day. Did you?

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Oh, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

I think you did.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Oh, I did. You know what? I did because okay, now this is all making sense because you said you you were talking about about mics and because he does pop. Yes, because he said I was not expecting your laptop mic to sound so nice. Oh, you know what? Hi, Hawker. I know exactly who this is. The thing is, is I didn't recognize he looks different in the photos. I'm just looking okay. Now I'm gonna oh and I'm feeling his clothes on. He had his clothes on.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Because we were swimming, folks.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

We were smoking. We were. I was like in the pool.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

But I still need him to help us with our project. Oh, because he's also a news reporter.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Yes, he does. He does freelance digital, yes.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

And he has two Emmys.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

Yes. Wow, that's impressive. He's highly decorated. He's yeah, he's stuck pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

I mean, he should be like a producer of our show. He could take us to the next level. He could talk or you could take us to the next level. Whatever that whatever that level may be. Whatever that level is, yeah. Did you see that um they're talking more about Chicago and the new concourse getting done?

SPEAKER_00 23:07

I was reading the article about it, and it's like you have to go downstairs in the tunnel of light, back upstairs, on the C concourse, down the C concourse, across a bridge, down an escalator to the T-Con Concourse. And I'm like, that's gonna be so locked.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

And it's like a mixed use, like it's it'll be international and domestic departures there or and arrivals, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:30

I I'm hoping that's that would be so smart if they did international arrivals there. Because I know that like in Dulles, they have a customs a customs hall in the concourse, so you don't have to like leave go all the way to the main concourse like they do in Denver. You you have to leave the go all the way and then come back. Uh and I think to me that's that's so that's so smart is to have the international customs hall on the concourse. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Well, the way that the way that you're explaining it, can you imagine if you are not a walker, like very good? Or delayed at any or delayed or like running, or imagine if you're sitting standby in Chicago as a reserve, and they're like, your flight is departing from there in 10 minutes. You're like, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

How am I supposed to get or or if you're flying as a non-read passenger and you're trying to like and you're like have all these options and you're like, okay, well, your your next gate's d D12, and then oh, your your other option is at is it B14.

SPEAKER_04 24:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 24:29

No.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Like, I would I would think that they would that that they they'd have to up the minimum minimum connection time for those.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

So my Hawaii flight, my Honolulu flight landed at B38, and and my palm springs flight was from B8, which is the last gate. Yeah, it's rough.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

It's that it's and you forget how long that walk is. Speaking of that, that trip, that was your was that a Hawaii trip? Was that before that was before the the tropical storm?

SPEAKER_01 24:56

No, it was after the tropical storm. So we we didn't, you know, Honolulu didn't get the same problems that um Maui and Lahue and Kona got, uh-huh, like weather-wise. And I don't know why. I but um at least for the aircraft land for planes landing, but um, but there was a huge strip of of storms all the way from Australia up to Canada. That made it very bumpy for a lot of the flight. We can fly more than two flights from Denver to Honolulu easily with and you could probably do it on the on the bigger on the bigger triple too. Yes, easily. But don't give them any ideas because I can't. I wouldn't mind it. I mean, I don't work at the back of those, but I would I wish we could do like a bigger set, like the 787 10 on that route, because then I would at least be more comfortable.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

But why why why wouldn't it be comfortable?

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Because I think because the air quality in the in that cabin is better than on the older seven triple sevens.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

Well, no, but those those those the big ones that we have are are new ish.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

Not the not the triple no, I know the bigger 77300s, yes. But I'm talking about that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

That's yeah, yeah, use those.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Yes, I wish. Yeah, we too. Well, why don't we? I don't know. That's the end of our podcast today. But if you want to make a comment in our Instagram like Hawker Vanguard did, um breaking show podcast on Instagram and say something nice and give us some ideas for if you want us to talk about certain topics.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Or send in your own stories. Oh, yes. And we can we don't have to we don't have to say what like you if there's airline specific stuff, we can take that out and make it sound very and we can also interview them too.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

We can have guests on the show. Yeah, it's up. I think I I already have a few ideas.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Yeah, I have two too. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:55

Well, have a good rest of your day.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Oh, I'm gonna go take a nap now.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Oh, me too.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

Break is doing break is doing it.