Recorded in the beautiful home office of Chateau’ Relaxo, FL.
Believe it or not, I’ve spent a fair amount of nights away from Chateau’ Relaxo over the past 30 days. Looking to combine that with some CEO travel that we’ve done over the past 6 or 7 months and turn that all into some sort of an episode in the coming months.
Onto the April crazy travel roundup.
Starting off with a recap of episode 166 Travel Randomness where we discussed the roadmap of the federal mask mandate over the past 10 months and I, the prognosticator of all things great ended the segment with this - I’m not a betting man but I’m willing to bet that the mask mandate will again be extended and one of the main reasons is that there isn’t a collective mask mandate across the world, it seems that each country offers up their own individualized plan.
Talk about missing the mark, damn.
In case you missed it as well, or missed the news clips and avoided TMZ this is one of the best headlines posted - Florida judge voids US mask mandate for planes - A federal judge in Florida struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit Monday, and airlines and airports swiftly began repealing their face covering requirements.
First, thank you Florida.
Second, The judge's decision allowed airlines, airports, and mass transit systems to make their own decisions about mask requirements, you heard that right, “make their own decisions”, what could possibly go wrong? If I owned an airline, an airport or a mass transit system I would, in an odd way welcome someone besides myself issuing the directive…… notice I didn’t say the government issuing the directive I said “someone” and here’s why. If a passenger throws a fit it’s easy to say “Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger” if they vocally support the mandate, it’s easy to say, “Damn right, masks for everyone”.
Responses to this change were mixed, my personal favorite was from flight attendants walking the aisles of the planes as they collected masks from passengers that no longer wanted to wear them.
I began to compile a list of airlines that were no longer requiring masks, and I soon discovered that most had lifted the requirement to wear masks.
Here’s my take, in case you’re interested. Will I wear a mask on a plane, no. I honestly can’t remember the last time, besides being on a flight, that I wore a mask. I have a box of them in my car, and I carry a handful in my laptop bag just in case, but when I walk into Publix I’m not wearing a mask.
That being said if someone asked me to wear a mask for their own protection I would. If a store, restaurant, or meeting site required masks I would. If I wore a mask during those interactions it would consume at most four or five hours of my day….roughly 20% of my overall day, I think I can handle that in order to put someone, besides myself at ease.
I’m a fan of quotes, and one of my favorites is from Mike Tyson, “Everyone has a plan: until they get punched in the face.” some purists will argue that it’s “punched in the mouth” and not “punched in the face”. I’m not a purist, and for me, the face is a much bigger target than the mouth.
Early April, life imitated art, or if not art at least it imitated this quote. In case you haven’t heard during April Mike Tyson got in a fight. However, instead of the squared circle, it was on a JetBlue flight from San Fransisco, CA to Fort Lauderdale, Florida…. Thank you, Florida.
These are the CliffNotes -
JetBlue business class, Melvin Townsend, III was sitting behind Tyson and wouldn’t stop talking with him.
This is a classic example of no good deed going unpunished as Tyson agreed to take a selfie with Melvin Townsend, III, but when Melvin Townsend, III wouldn’t leave him alone Tyson let them know he’d had enough. Of course Melvin Townsend, III continued, and at some point, Tyson went full UCF on Melvin Townsend, III’s head.
In itself, this is a great story, but there’s more, there’s always more. Allegedly, Melvin Townsend, III was intoxicated. Another alleged example of why “Plane Dranken” never works out. In addition to the fact that Melvin Townsend, III, has been convicted of fraud, grand theft, burglary, possession of controlled substances, and trafficking in stolen property.
The tip-in is this - Melvin Townsend III, has “lawyered up” with Attorney Matt Morgan from Morgan & Morgan, based out of Florida, thank you Florida. Matt added, "Our client is a big Mike Tyson fan. When Mike Tyson boarded the plane, he became overly excited”. Melvin Townsend III here’s a life tip, Next time you meet someone that you’re a big fan of….. Learn to keep it in your pants.
And here’s yet another mega-star, which Tyson is, flying JetBlue.
I’m a fan of automation. If there’s a manual process that can be automated, and it makes sense I’m on board.
As someone that spends countless hours driving while staring through a windshield autonomous cars gathers my interest. However, according to BoingBoing automation might not be so great. Somebody summoned their Tesla at an airport and it crashed into a $2 million jet.
Here’s what I know - No one knows how the Tesla got on the tarmac, but apparently its "Summon" feature mode was active. The summon is where an operator can hail the car from a nearby parking spot, with the car then driving itself to the location of the user. If only there was a summon feature here at Chateau’ Relaxo.
If you watch the video a Tesla Model Y roughly a 60 to 70k vehicle depending on the website you check comes across the tarmac and drives under the tail of a Cirrus Vision Jet, a 1.7 to 2.1 million dollar jet depending on the website you check.
What makes this even better is that the Tesla tries to continue forward after smashing the tail section of the jet. This might suggest that Tesla's sensor suite isn't designed to sense taller objects hovering above the ground aka… the tail of a 1.7 to 2.1 million dollar jet.
I wonder if Elon tweeted about this?
Live and let's fly threw this our way - SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PASSENGER RELIEVES HIMSELF IN FRONT OF FEMALE SEATMATE, SMUGLY DEFENDS IT AS “KINKY”
On April 2nd, Antonio Sherrodd McGarity one of the three named people allegedly exposed himself, then proceeded to relieve himself four times on a Southwest Airlines flight from Seattle (SEA) to Phoenix (PHX). His female seatmate sat petrified as he engaged in his act. According to an FBI report:
If you choose not to read the FBI report the word “relieve” translates to - solitary sex, punching the clown, or self-gratification? If none of those terms makes sense ask your local 11th grader and they will gladly offer the translation.
Antonio Sherrodd McGarity defended his actions as kinky, and while I often say that there’s a kink for everyone I never say that you’re entitled to share your kink with everyone, much less an unwilling seatmate on an airplane.
If Antonio Sherrodd McGarity wasn’t enough, an elderly Florida man was arrested after allegedly exposing himself and then punching his clown on a flight from Newark to Boston on Friday, April 8th.
Donald Edward Robinson, 76, allegedly flashed his genitals to a 21-year-old female passenger seated next to him. This was followed by the victim alerting another passenger that she was seated next to Pervy Mc Pervyington.
Robinson was charged with one count of lewd, indecent, and obscene acts. Here’s a life tip from one dude to the rest of the dudes….. Women, thank God, are built differently. They have different chips, things that we find appealing, insert your own definition, aren’t always appealing to the opposite sex….. Such as the previous two stories.
Alex, I’ll take “things not to talk about in mixed company” for $500.00. What is religion?
Religion similar to politics is a minefield of fun, especially at family gatherings.
So here’s a chip that I do have it’s the disturbing chip, and it’s not that I’m disturbing it’s when someone's behavior disturbs others. It’s the person that creates a scene at Publix when someone has 11 items in the 10 items or less lane. It’s the parent that loses their mind when their kid drops an easy pop-up during the first inning. On a plane, there are plenty of opportunities where one's behavior can easily disturb 100 people…. At the same time.
Mid-month there was a smash-mob Christian-themed musical performance on an EasyJet flight. Seriously, the performers should have known better, but get this, they not only got the blessing of the captain, the captain even introduced them prior to their performance.
How much would you enjoy working in the EasyJet marketing department after this video went viral, did I fail to mention that there’s a video?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions which this group had, unfortunately, their intentions infringed on everyone else. If you find people singing in sync irritating just wait til they allow phone calls during flights….. Believe me, it’s coming.
I’m a fan of Reddit and since I rarely post I’m what they call a lurker. I found this on the FlightAttendants sub-Reddit.
Here’s the post title, be patient - “Saw this delta pilot on a frontier flight taking pictures of the flight attendant’s legs and butt the whole flight. Have sent it to delta but don’t want them to bury this and don’t want an unsafe and uncomfortable environment for flight attendants” this came from cellinhaluv and it seems that they just might be paid by the word.
A month after this post there’s no update as to whether or not the amateur Ansel Adams has received any disciplinary action from Delta since he was in a Delta uniform.
To start this behavior is not OK, it’s disrespectful to this woman, all women as well as the world, thank you, Norm McDonald.
I get kinks, we talk about them often and there’s a category for all of them on a website…. somewhere. And kinks are ok so long as your kink doesn’t involve unwilling participants or the public. Besides, with all the allegedly free porn available why would anyone feel the need to creep anyone besides themself out with their particular kink…… maybe that’s yet another kink.
Not sure if I should call this next story “Here’s another reason to never fly Spirit” or “Isn’t that ironic” I’ll let you, the listener decide.
Spirit passengers were allegedly notified of flight change after the flight had already left. OK, flight changes are nothing new some flights get canceled other flights have the departure times changed, changed as in normally delayed, not changed as in your flight already left.
In a video posted to TikTok with well over 3 million views, Spirit Airlines passenger Kaley Reed, said she hadn't been made aware of the departure change until after the plane had already left.
"We showed up for our 4:00 p.m. flight at 2:45 p.m.," Kaley posted. "Well, we go to check-in, and they tell us, 'The plane's already left.'"
Kaley went back and forth with a Spirit employee until finally, the employee told her to check her email.
Kaley added, "So, I check my email, and at 3:02 p.m....they sent us an email saying the flight time had been changed to 3:00 p.m.,"
Kaley posted a follow-up TikTok saying that in effect Spirit Airlines ghosted her after her request for any sort of compensation since she and her husband were forced to stay in Las Vegas two additional days before catching a Southwest flight back home. In addition, Kaley’s husband missed two days of work due to this delay.
So where do I come down on this?
At first, my BS detector began to go off, and here’s why.
* When have you ever heard of a plane leaving early, especially an hour early?
* How come Kaley is the only person that’s made any mention of this incident?
* Nothing against Kaley but her smooth TikTok presence reminds me of an “influencer wanna-be”
* And finally, it doesn’t take two days for anyone to catch a flight home from Las Vegas, especially if they really want to get home.
But then I remembered it’s Spirit Airlines and almost anything is possible so I’m 70% Kaley and 30% Spirit.
At some point, most of us have used some sort of an excuse to get us out of an unpleasant or sticky situation -
* The dog ate my homework.
* I’ve already donated
* I’m late because my alarm didn’t go off.
But this one just might take the cake. Tampa TSA officer made up a dramatic burglary story to cover up being late for work, Here’s a life tip, if you’re late for work don’t walk into the office with a cup of Starbucks coffee.
The TSA agent was arrested in late April after falsely reporting she fought off a knife-wielding burglar outside her parent's home.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said her heroic story proved to be entirely fake and was concocted to help her avoid penalties for excessive lateness to work,”.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in the release, “You can’t make this stuff up,”. “I don’t understand why anyone would go to the extent of creating a fake police report to avoid a reprimand at work for tardiness.”
Part of the reason for this post is that I find Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd fascinating. You can agree or disagree with him but he’s going to tell it the way it is.
Here are a few of my favorite Grady Judd quotes…..
* "Having a gun in your hand is much better than having the sheriff's office on the phone."
* A reporter once questioned why Polk Sheriff SWAT shot a criminal 68 times......Sheriff Grady Judd answered, "That's all the bullets we had!"
* "We shot back because he shot at us -- and we shot at him a lot."
* "This fake cop wanted a uniform so much, we gave him one, an ORANGE uniform."
Like Sheriff Grady Judd or don’t like him, I really don’t think he cares, however, he is one of the things that makes Florida….. Florida. Thank you, Florida.
That’s it for the April Crazy Travel Roundup.
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