Nov. 25, 2025
Why You Should Stop Wearing Your PJ’s To The Airport
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RSS Feed Apparently how you dress for your next flight, matters. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy released a 1960’s style PSA just in time for holiday travel asking you to add some class, mind your children and dress to impress next time you travel. Citing in-flight fights and outbursts at airports, Duffy says dressing with respect and saying please and thank you will go a long way to bringing back “The Golden Age of Travel."
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. It is almost Thanksgiving and that means a lot of you are hitting the roads or hitting the air and you are heading to the airport this week. It is Tuesday, November twenty fifth. Welcome to this edition of Amy and TJ. And the government wants you to do better, to dress better, to take care of your kids, better, to be kinder. They are saying, the golden age of travel starts with you. TJ. We have been traveling a lot this year, and we have seen a lot of bad behavior. We haven't seen the brawls and the fights that you see a lot online, but man, it gets tense.
00:00:47
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's the airline's fault. So no I said that we were in the frustrating money. Everything costs money. You got to get there earlier. Richard Reid screwed us all those years and taking our damn shoes off. All this stuff collects and it costs money and shut down. You add this all and it's freaking stressful. It's annoying. So we have to I want to concede and give some I guess some credit to passengers out there. Travelers. Yeah, we get it, we get frustrated, but there's still some of the behavior we have seen, there's absolutely no excuse for it. And Sean Duffy, who is now for whatever reason, become the most I guess, most popular person in the administration to a certain degree, he is out there once again this he just continues robes, in my opinion, to nail it, and he nailed it with this video. Given people, he's giving you not just suggestions for what to do. He almost appeals to your humanity and to a better time when we were we treated each other better in this country, sure, but better when we travel together.
00:01:48
Speaker 1: That's right, And we have been applauding Sean Duffy. He has gotten in front of all of these issues. He's taken ownership of some of the issues. And I appreciate we talked about. I appreciate what he said in this nineteen sixties style PSA because it starts with the way it used to be. Air travelers dressed in suits and hats, putting on their Sunday finest to go to the airports. And I have always believed in TJ I know you do too. How you dress is a reflection of the care you've taken to go somewhere, to be somewhere, and it creates a different atmosphere. It creates a different attitude. If you're dressed up, you act a little more formally, you act a little bit more politely.
00:02:35
Speaker 2: Do you not, I don't know. Some people are assholes no matter what they're wearing. I get what he's saying, and I appreciate it. I mean I don't. Yes, it adds to an atmosphere. You feel different about the room you walk into when it's a kid's playroom versus a formal dinner, not just because of the behavior, but because of how people are dressed. It does you walk into a room, and it does set a mood. I don't know. We've become accustomed to what is the standard dress for anybody under the age of twenty one to an airport. Probably pajama bottoms in a hoodie.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, pajamas, sweatpants. Look. We love to people watch everywhere, but especially at airports. And look. I have always been somebody who likes to Yes, I want to be comfortable, but I also want to look cute. And I am amazed people roll out of bed and just walk into the airport a little disheveled, a little unkempt, and a little, uh, just hectic. I think it adds to this like feeling, this frenzy feeling, and that creates some negative energy, and that can create some of the heated exchanges we've seen.
00:03:43
Speaker 2: I actually the address.
00:03:45
Speaker 1: I do agree that your general way of presenting yourself, even the carr you take, getting your kids rate all of that. I do think you're bringing an energy into the airport. I do think that you disagree.
00:03:58
Speaker 2: I would yes, one hundred percent. No matter who you are and how you dress, you can be the light in any room. Now, if you have a whole collection of people at six a m. In a security line bumming it, then yes, it does add to a a casualness of the experience, but it goes beyond beneath casual. I could say it doesn't feel like a and a lot of people say it shouldn't like a formal or an experience, or anybody took care to put themselves in front of the biggest audience you're going to see most people every day is the people who see you in an airport and look to each here's or her own. But yes, you will not ever ever, ever, and I have I can't remember the last time I did it fluent sweats No, No, I get that, but yes to why are we not presenting ourselves the best way we can in front of the largest audience we see And a lot of people simply say, I'm going a flight for five hours.
00:05:07
Speaker 1: I want to be comfortable. I get that. But this reminds me of the broken window theory, and it's this idea that when people see signs of neglect, even if it's on your own person or just when people aren't taking care of the things around them and even the airport itself, then you perceive neglect and then people are more likely to participate in antisocial behavior. They're more likely to just have a bad attitude when they're surroundings or even what they're presenting are not at their heights. There's a reason why there's a dress code at work, there's a reason why there's a dress code at school. It does affect behavior, and it's pretty remarkable. In this PSA, they actually show some of the meltdowns we've seen online, things that have gone viral, and so they splice what it used to be like when people we're excited to go to the airport and got all dressed up and had everyone presentable versus now where people are throwing punches and you know, just on edge basically, And they coupled this PSA with some real statistics that, look, we know things are up. Air rage became much more common during the pandemic because people were upset about folks who had their masks on or didn't have their masks on, And somehow it just became more common and the numbers don't lie. Twenty twenty four saw double the number of unruly passengers compared to twenty nineteen, the year before the pandemic. Does that surprise you, uh, surprised?
00:06:39
Speaker 2: No, We've been going this way for a long time. I mean people, this is the pandemic was awful, and right after it was awful. And to see every single flight that some flight attendant, some poor flight attendant who's already suffering through and has her mask going and have to keep dealing with this. The whole pandemic is your fighting her because you don't want to put your mask over your nose and think you have a right to tell that. I don't know. I know, you pay all that money and you feel like these are your servants now you can't treat them that way, ye, and that's too often what I see.
00:07:12
Speaker 1: To your point, one in five flight attendants, This is directly from Sean Duffy's press release. One in five flight attendants experienced physical incidents in twenty twenty one, So they actually were a part of, or witnessed or saw That is a remarkable number. One in five flight attendants in one year experienced physical incidents. And they said there have been They actually have number thirteen thousand, eight hundred unruly passenger incidents since twenty twenty one, and they want to put an end to it. And I appreciate the fact that Duffy is making this his mission. He said, we are bringing civility back. It enhances travel experience for everyone, the flight attendants, the pilots, the passengers. And so he said, let's maybe go back to an era where we didn't wear our pajamas to the airport.
00:08:03
Speaker 2: Sure people will take offense to that. Dare you tell me what to wear? And he's not telling people. He made a suggestion. He's making a suggestion for what could make the experience better for everybody. Obviously, nobody's gonna listen, I say, nobody. But it's a message where if anybody watches this what minu and a half video, Yes, you will think differently about how you carry yourself at the airport.
00:08:25
Speaker 1: I do. I think so too, and I appreciated it. He had the what was it a Frank Sinatra's Come Fly with Me playing in the background, and look, we have severe weather that is threatening much of the country. There are going to be massive delays. We just came off the heels of all of those delays and cancelations with TSA workers calling out, air traffic controllers calling out. So it has been a tumultuous fall, and now when you have bad weather, added to the fact that this is supposed to be the busiest air travel in fifteen years. I know we've joked that Triple A always comes up with a record setting number of travelers this year, but truly they say this year, when it comes to air travel, it will be the busiest in fifteen years. Coupled out with weather woes, and you're going to have frustrated folks. So it it. I think it's cool to have him ask folks to be intentional, be intentional about the experience and the energy you're bringing to the airport and to the airplane.
00:09:22
Speaker 2: And you know what, you you will get much further by being nice to people. And I know it is all is flying ever fun and not stressful? Maybe if you I guess we make it fun, well, we always do, but let's I mean, look, let's be clear here. We have been privileged to five first class, yes, almost one hundred percent of the time, certainly these days. That does help the experience a whole lot. But it doesn't change the traffic we had to get to. That doesn't change how long the line was. It doesn't change what mood the gate agent might have been in. It doesn't change the same babies I gotta pass eyeing right, It's yes, the airport is chaos. We have found a way to enjoy. Yes, we enjoy each other. But the people watching and the fun we have, it's just a good time. And I love you know this. I go out of my way with flight attendants. You do the things I have gotten in life on a flight because all I did wasn't crazy. Just she's use or he used to people treating them like shit. Right, somebody walks on and looks them in the eye, ask them how they're doing and waits for the answer. You won't believe how much you'll get.
00:10:31
Speaker 1: It's so true. And I've always looked my kids have realized very early on what a please and a thank you will do. And flight attendants specifically seem to be like jaw drop that someone has actually said please or thank you to them, and yes, look them in the eye, in the eye, it doesn't take that much. When we come back, Sean Duffy gave a list of questions he wants you to ask yourself before you head to the airport. We'll tell you what they are when we come back, all right, Transportation Secretary Sean Deffy has asked all of you to take ownership of what you're bringing to the airport. He says, the golden age of travel starts with you. They want to change the way we interact not just with flight attendants and pilots and TSA workers and airline workers, but honestly the relationship you have with yourself, with your children, with your family. He's really trying to push this personal responsibility when it comes to making air travel better. And we know this week is going to be a hell of a week, as it is every year, and so Sean Duffy put out this PSA. And he is asking you to ask yourself some questions, and Teja, I already know how you're going to answer all of these, because I think you pretty much have the correct answer each time. The first question, he says, you should ask yourself, are you helping a pregnant woman or the elderly with placing their bags in the overhead? Bind?
00:12:07
Speaker 2: Always?
00:12:08
Speaker 1: Always?
00:12:09
Speaker 2: Oh, and not just that you know what I've had to do. Now, be careful about asking any woman to put it up there, because for some reason, some people get offended. Now I'm notve talking about yes, me and you, babe, that's a different thing, and we joke about. But some people, Now, some women get offended. Well, you don't think I can get my bag, I can't carry mine. I don't know's it's. I'm careful now about asking. I'm hesitating to ask a woman if I can help her with her bag because she might get pissed because I look at her as weaker.
00:12:37
Speaker 1: Well, that's on her. I will tell you it's always kind to ask. And even if I'm fine getting it up myself and I don't want to put anyone else out, I will say thank you so much for asking. But I'm good, and I think it's always good to ask. That's that's phenomenal, all right. The other the next question that Sean Duffy wants you to ask yourself, are you dressing with respect? Always?
00:12:58
Speaker 2: Respect? Obviously, I surely am. I mean you know this. In the in the warmer months, every time I go to the airport, I have a sports jacket on. You do in the winter. It's a flighter, it's a leather jacket or something like that. But I will wear a sports jacket every single time, head to toe, put together like I'm going out on for a night out, for dinner or something. I see it as such. It doesn't matter if I'm flying five hours to La or if I'm flying to Turk. So we're flying to niece.
00:13:30
Speaker 1: I'm dressed, yes, And people always notice they're like smart dress and brother. They always come up and say something to you. Yeah, because you do stand out because most people do not well.
00:13:40
Speaker 2: You, we say me, but you always do the same. You put yourself together and going out, and we see plenty of people who do. And I want to make sure we're not getting onto anybody else for not doing so. But these are the choices we make.
00:13:50
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, are you keeping control of your children and helping them through the airport? We have seen remember when those kids were on They're on top of their suitcases racing down basically. Oh that was in La There's like a decline, right, and.
00:14:10
Speaker 2: They were going down that thing constantly as we were at a restaurant, And like, why would anybody allow your children to behave this way in the middle of an airport. They're riding down.
00:14:19
Speaker 1: On their Look, it blows my mind.
00:14:22
Speaker 2: What are you supposed to say? I don't know, Hey, let them do their thing and stay out of their business.
00:14:26
Speaker 1: Fine, you get to stay out of their way. That's the problem trying to avoid. It's just yeah, but it's one thing you should ask yourself. Are you keeping control of your children and helping them through the airport? The next question, are you saying thank you to your flight attendants? This is so important, so so important. They are there to keep you safe, they are there to help you in the process. But they are not your servants.
00:14:52
Speaker 2: They are people who deserve your gratitude and your mercy. Quite frankly, you see what they're doing. You see what they're doing in this damn airplane. If you see probably everybody around hardly you know what, not even you pay attention to how other people treat the flight attendant, and you'll go Jesus right, I don't want to be that ever.
00:15:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Sometimes it is just about taking a moment and observing and then recognizing what your role in all of it is and how you can like that is something that I think, man, every time I take a step back, it is like, whoa, I now know what I don't want to do, and maybe I've done it in the past and it stops now. The other thing, are you saying please and thank you in general, just to anyone, to everyone? If you bump someone, Like how many times do you get hit with someone's backpack or bumped along the way and you don't even get the excuse me or pardon me, or it's or I'm sorry. It's it's remarkable somehow, Like when we're in our vehicles, people are the same way. There's some sort of anonymity where it's just me versus them, every man for himself, and that's what collectively makes the airport so difficult. Sometimes sometimes it's just saying please and thank you and excuse me, and so yes, obviously he is putting the onus on path messengers. But I think maybe some people get offended by this. I actually think it's empowering. It's a recognition and a recalibration of what we can do, like we can all make it better by individually deciding to do so.
00:16:14
Speaker 2: You offend it? You think offended by as a few?
00:16:17
Speaker 1: Oh, I think people might be offended saying, who are you to tell me how to dress and how to act? You're not my dad? Who do you think you are? I think some people might get offended by that PSA.
00:16:26
Speaker 2: But the folks who have that reaction, don't you need to stop and ask why you're reacting that way? You can just keep going about your life. But why do you have an angry reaction to him making a suggestion? I love some stuff. I mean, we hear stuff from the administration and suggestions and this and that all the time. Take them or leave them. We you and I just happen to be on board with almost everything that this man said when it comes to the experience at an airport, and if nothing else, folks, if you're flying, just give it a shot once and see how your experience might be different. If you walk in there, your best dress to the nines, not bumming it not when you look like a slouch, You're probably gonna behave that way. Try it, I encourage everybody. Just try it once and see if it changes your experience. Try it. When that TSA agent who barks at you a little bit, don't push your don't push your car, not yet, don't leave, take your shoes off, go back, hands off that person, Just say, sure thing, what do you need me to do? Do you need me to do here? My apologies, I didn't know. I ah. Just give kindness back to these folks who just went a month and a half damn near without a paycheck. Yeah, just give everybody a break. Your experience will change when you change their experience. What's the line, robe, The best way right to get yourself out of a funk or depression is to serve yes right. This is the same thing if you're pissed at the airport about what time you had to get up the line was too long? Man, look at somebody and help them smile at a TSA agent, they don't smile back.
00:17:53
Speaker 1: Oh well, I love this, and I do think it's something we have to remind ourselves, because the instinct is to get angry, to get defensive, to think, how could they? How dare they? How are they acting? All I can say is when I feel myself thinking and feeling those things, I say, wait a minute, what can I do? I'm going to change this right now? And I do think that's kind of what this PSA is saying. And if everybody could just take a little bit from this, I think it could just I applaud the effort put into empowering the passenger to help create a better environment.
00:18:25
Speaker 2: Can do it. While he's at it, we should bring back smoking on planes.
00:18:29
Speaker 1: No, I will say this at the end of the news release, the Transportation Department's news release, it did promise that the government was doing its part as well, that they are building an all new air traffic control system, and they say that they are going to increase hiring when it comes to air traffic controllers and that will go a long way to hopefully easing some of these delays, easing some of these cancelations, which creates a lot less frustration among people trying to get somewhere. And so for that, we thank him, and we thank him for the PSA. It would be interesting to see if everyone just takes a little bit of it as they head to the airports this week. Maybe we'll have a calmer and less combative week of flying and without everyone. We hope you have a wonderful travel experience this week. I may be Robach alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. It is almost Thanksgiving and that means a lot of you are hitting the roads or hitting the air and you are heading to the airport this week. It is Tuesday, November twenty fifth. Welcome to this edition of Amy and TJ. And the government wants you to do better, to dress better, to take care of your kids, better, to be kinder. They are saying, the golden age of travel starts with you. TJ. We have been traveling a lot this year, and we have seen a lot of bad behavior. We haven't seen the brawls and the fights that you see a lot online, but man, it gets tense.
00:00:47
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's the airline's fault. So no I said that we were in the frustrating money. Everything costs money. You got to get there earlier. Richard Reid screwed us all those years and taking our damn shoes off. All this stuff collects and it costs money and shut down. You add this all and it's freaking stressful. It's annoying. So we have to I want to concede and give some I guess some credit to passengers out there. Travelers. Yeah, we get it, we get frustrated, but there's still some of the behavior we have seen, there's absolutely no excuse for it. And Sean Duffy, who is now for whatever reason, become the most I guess, most popular person in the administration to a certain degree, he is out there once again this he just continues robes, in my opinion, to nail it, and he nailed it with this video. Given people, he's giving you not just suggestions for what to do. He almost appeals to your humanity and to a better time when we were we treated each other better in this country, sure, but better when we travel together.
00:01:48
Speaker 1: That's right, And we have been applauding Sean Duffy. He has gotten in front of all of these issues. He's taken ownership of some of the issues. And I appreciate we talked about. I appreciate what he said in this nineteen sixties style PSA because it starts with the way it used to be. Air travelers dressed in suits and hats, putting on their Sunday finest to go to the airports. And I have always believed in TJ I know you do too. How you dress is a reflection of the care you've taken to go somewhere, to be somewhere, and it creates a different atmosphere. It creates a different attitude. If you're dressed up, you act a little more formally, you act a little bit more politely.
00:02:35
Speaker 2: Do you not, I don't know. Some people are assholes no matter what they're wearing. I get what he's saying, and I appreciate it. I mean I don't. Yes, it adds to an atmosphere. You feel different about the room you walk into when it's a kid's playroom versus a formal dinner, not just because of the behavior, but because of how people are dressed. It does you walk into a room, and it does set a mood. I don't know. We've become accustomed to what is the standard dress for anybody under the age of twenty one to an airport. Probably pajama bottoms in a hoodie.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, pajamas, sweatpants. Look. We love to people watch everywhere, but especially at airports. And look. I have always been somebody who likes to Yes, I want to be comfortable, but I also want to look cute. And I am amazed people roll out of bed and just walk into the airport a little disheveled, a little unkempt, and a little, uh, just hectic. I think it adds to this like feeling, this frenzy feeling, and that creates some negative energy, and that can create some of the heated exchanges we've seen.
00:03:43
Speaker 2: I actually the address.
00:03:45
Speaker 1: I do agree that your general way of presenting yourself, even the carr you take, getting your kids rate all of that. I do think you're bringing an energy into the airport. I do think that you disagree.
00:03:58
Speaker 2: I would yes, one hundred percent. No matter who you are and how you dress, you can be the light in any room. Now, if you have a whole collection of people at six a m. In a security line bumming it, then yes, it does add to a a casualness of the experience, but it goes beyond beneath casual. I could say it doesn't feel like a and a lot of people say it shouldn't like a formal or an experience, or anybody took care to put themselves in front of the biggest audience you're going to see most people every day is the people who see you in an airport and look to each here's or her own. But yes, you will not ever ever, ever, and I have I can't remember the last time I did it fluent sweats No, No, I get that, but yes to why are we not presenting ourselves the best way we can in front of the largest audience we see And a lot of people simply say, I'm going a flight for five hours.
00:05:07
Speaker 1: I want to be comfortable. I get that. But this reminds me of the broken window theory, and it's this idea that when people see signs of neglect, even if it's on your own person or just when people aren't taking care of the things around them and even the airport itself, then you perceive neglect and then people are more likely to participate in antisocial behavior. They're more likely to just have a bad attitude when they're surroundings or even what they're presenting are not at their heights. There's a reason why there's a dress code at work, there's a reason why there's a dress code at school. It does affect behavior, and it's pretty remarkable. In this PSA, they actually show some of the meltdowns we've seen online, things that have gone viral, and so they splice what it used to be like when people we're excited to go to the airport and got all dressed up and had everyone presentable versus now where people are throwing punches and you know, just on edge basically, And they coupled this PSA with some real statistics that, look, we know things are up. Air rage became much more common during the pandemic because people were upset about folks who had their masks on or didn't have their masks on, And somehow it just became more common and the numbers don't lie. Twenty twenty four saw double the number of unruly passengers compared to twenty nineteen, the year before the pandemic. Does that surprise you, uh, surprised?
00:06:39
Speaker 2: No, We've been going this way for a long time. I mean people, this is the pandemic was awful, and right after it was awful. And to see every single flight that some flight attendant, some poor flight attendant who's already suffering through and has her mask going and have to keep dealing with this. The whole pandemic is your fighting her because you don't want to put your mask over your nose and think you have a right to tell that. I don't know. I know, you pay all that money and you feel like these are your servants now you can't treat them that way, ye, and that's too often what I see.
00:07:12
Speaker 1: To your point, one in five flight attendants, This is directly from Sean Duffy's press release. One in five flight attendants experienced physical incidents in twenty twenty one, So they actually were a part of, or witnessed or saw That is a remarkable number. One in five flight attendants in one year experienced physical incidents. And they said there have been They actually have number thirteen thousand, eight hundred unruly passenger incidents since twenty twenty one, and they want to put an end to it. And I appreciate the fact that Duffy is making this his mission. He said, we are bringing civility back. It enhances travel experience for everyone, the flight attendants, the pilots, the passengers. And so he said, let's maybe go back to an era where we didn't wear our pajamas to the airport.
00:08:03
Speaker 2: Sure people will take offense to that. Dare you tell me what to wear? And he's not telling people. He made a suggestion. He's making a suggestion for what could make the experience better for everybody. Obviously, nobody's gonna listen, I say, nobody. But it's a message where if anybody watches this what minu and a half video, Yes, you will think differently about how you carry yourself at the airport.
00:08:25
Speaker 1: I do. I think so too, and I appreciated it. He had the what was it a Frank Sinatra's Come Fly with Me playing in the background, and look, we have severe weather that is threatening much of the country. There are going to be massive delays. We just came off the heels of all of those delays and cancelations with TSA workers calling out, air traffic controllers calling out. So it has been a tumultuous fall, and now when you have bad weather, added to the fact that this is supposed to be the busiest air travel in fifteen years. I know we've joked that Triple A always comes up with a record setting number of travelers this year, but truly they say this year, when it comes to air travel, it will be the busiest in fifteen years. Coupled out with weather woes, and you're going to have frustrated folks. So it it. I think it's cool to have him ask folks to be intentional, be intentional about the experience and the energy you're bringing to the airport and to the airplane.
00:09:22
Speaker 2: And you know what, you you will get much further by being nice to people. And I know it is all is flying ever fun and not stressful? Maybe if you I guess we make it fun, well, we always do, but let's I mean, look, let's be clear here. We have been privileged to five first class, yes, almost one hundred percent of the time, certainly these days. That does help the experience a whole lot. But it doesn't change the traffic we had to get to. That doesn't change how long the line was. It doesn't change what mood the gate agent might have been in. It doesn't change the same babies I gotta pass eyeing right, It's yes, the airport is chaos. We have found a way to enjoy. Yes, we enjoy each other. But the people watching and the fun we have, it's just a good time. And I love you know this. I go out of my way with flight attendants. You do the things I have gotten in life on a flight because all I did wasn't crazy. Just she's use or he used to people treating them like shit. Right, somebody walks on and looks them in the eye, ask them how they're doing and waits for the answer. You won't believe how much you'll get.
00:10:31
Speaker 1: It's so true. And I've always looked my kids have realized very early on what a please and a thank you will do. And flight attendants specifically seem to be like jaw drop that someone has actually said please or thank you to them, and yes, look them in the eye, in the eye, it doesn't take that much. When we come back, Sean Duffy gave a list of questions he wants you to ask yourself before you head to the airport. We'll tell you what they are when we come back, all right, Transportation Secretary Sean Deffy has asked all of you to take ownership of what you're bringing to the airport. He says, the golden age of travel starts with you. They want to change the way we interact not just with flight attendants and pilots and TSA workers and airline workers, but honestly the relationship you have with yourself, with your children, with your family. He's really trying to push this personal responsibility when it comes to making air travel better. And we know this week is going to be a hell of a week, as it is every year, and so Sean Duffy put out this PSA. And he is asking you to ask yourself some questions, and Teja, I already know how you're going to answer all of these, because I think you pretty much have the correct answer each time. The first question, he says, you should ask yourself, are you helping a pregnant woman or the elderly with placing their bags in the overhead? Bind?
00:12:07
Speaker 2: Always?
00:12:08
Speaker 1: Always?
00:12:09
Speaker 2: Oh, and not just that you know what I've had to do. Now, be careful about asking any woman to put it up there, because for some reason, some people get offended. Now I'm notve talking about yes, me and you, babe, that's a different thing, and we joke about. But some people, Now, some women get offended. Well, you don't think I can get my bag, I can't carry mine. I don't know's it's. I'm careful now about asking. I'm hesitating to ask a woman if I can help her with her bag because she might get pissed because I look at her as weaker.
00:12:37
Speaker 1: Well, that's on her. I will tell you it's always kind to ask. And even if I'm fine getting it up myself and I don't want to put anyone else out, I will say thank you so much for asking. But I'm good, and I think it's always good to ask. That's that's phenomenal, all right. The other the next question that Sean Duffy wants you to ask yourself, are you dressing with respect? Always?
00:12:58
Speaker 2: Respect? Obviously, I surely am. I mean you know this. In the in the warmer months, every time I go to the airport, I have a sports jacket on. You do in the winter. It's a flighter, it's a leather jacket or something like that. But I will wear a sports jacket every single time, head to toe, put together like I'm going out on for a night out, for dinner or something. I see it as such. It doesn't matter if I'm flying five hours to La or if I'm flying to Turk. So we're flying to niece.
00:13:30
Speaker 1: I'm dressed, yes, And people always notice they're like smart dress and brother. They always come up and say something to you. Yeah, because you do stand out because most people do not well.
00:13:40
Speaker 2: You, we say me, but you always do the same. You put yourself together and going out, and we see plenty of people who do. And I want to make sure we're not getting onto anybody else for not doing so. But these are the choices we make.
00:13:50
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, are you keeping control of your children and helping them through the airport? We have seen remember when those kids were on They're on top of their suitcases racing down basically. Oh that was in La There's like a decline, right, and.
00:14:10
Speaker 2: They were going down that thing constantly as we were at a restaurant, And like, why would anybody allow your children to behave this way in the middle of an airport. They're riding down.
00:14:19
Speaker 1: On their Look, it blows my mind.
00:14:22
Speaker 2: What are you supposed to say? I don't know, Hey, let them do their thing and stay out of their business.
00:14:26
Speaker 1: Fine, you get to stay out of their way. That's the problem trying to avoid. It's just yeah, but it's one thing you should ask yourself. Are you keeping control of your children and helping them through the airport? The next question, are you saying thank you to your flight attendants? This is so important, so so important. They are there to keep you safe, they are there to help you in the process. But they are not your servants.
00:14:52
Speaker 2: They are people who deserve your gratitude and your mercy. Quite frankly, you see what they're doing. You see what they're doing in this damn airplane. If you see probably everybody around hardly you know what, not even you pay attention to how other people treat the flight attendant, and you'll go Jesus right, I don't want to be that ever.
00:15:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Sometimes it is just about taking a moment and observing and then recognizing what your role in all of it is and how you can like that is something that I think, man, every time I take a step back, it is like, whoa, I now know what I don't want to do, and maybe I've done it in the past and it stops now. The other thing, are you saying please and thank you in general, just to anyone, to everyone? If you bump someone, Like how many times do you get hit with someone's backpack or bumped along the way and you don't even get the excuse me or pardon me, or it's or I'm sorry. It's it's remarkable somehow, Like when we're in our vehicles, people are the same way. There's some sort of anonymity where it's just me versus them, every man for himself, and that's what collectively makes the airport so difficult. Sometimes sometimes it's just saying please and thank you and excuse me, and so yes, obviously he is putting the onus on path messengers. But I think maybe some people get offended by this. I actually think it's empowering. It's a recognition and a recalibration of what we can do, like we can all make it better by individually deciding to do so.
00:16:14
Speaker 2: You offend it? You think offended by as a few?
00:16:17
Speaker 1: Oh, I think people might be offended saying, who are you to tell me how to dress and how to act? You're not my dad? Who do you think you are? I think some people might get offended by that PSA.
00:16:26
Speaker 2: But the folks who have that reaction, don't you need to stop and ask why you're reacting that way? You can just keep going about your life. But why do you have an angry reaction to him making a suggestion? I love some stuff. I mean, we hear stuff from the administration and suggestions and this and that all the time. Take them or leave them. We you and I just happen to be on board with almost everything that this man said when it comes to the experience at an airport, and if nothing else, folks, if you're flying, just give it a shot once and see how your experience might be different. If you walk in there, your best dress to the nines, not bumming it not when you look like a slouch, You're probably gonna behave that way. Try it, I encourage everybody. Just try it once and see if it changes your experience. Try it. When that TSA agent who barks at you a little bit, don't push your don't push your car, not yet, don't leave, take your shoes off, go back, hands off that person, Just say, sure thing, what do you need me to do? Do you need me to do here? My apologies, I didn't know. I ah. Just give kindness back to these folks who just went a month and a half damn near without a paycheck. Yeah, just give everybody a break. Your experience will change when you change their experience. What's the line, robe, The best way right to get yourself out of a funk or depression is to serve yes right. This is the same thing if you're pissed at the airport about what time you had to get up the line was too long? Man, look at somebody and help them smile at a TSA agent, they don't smile back.
00:17:53
Speaker 1: Oh well, I love this, and I do think it's something we have to remind ourselves, because the instinct is to get angry, to get defensive, to think, how could they? How dare they? How are they acting? All I can say is when I feel myself thinking and feeling those things, I say, wait a minute, what can I do? I'm going to change this right now? And I do think that's kind of what this PSA is saying. And if everybody could just take a little bit from this, I think it could just I applaud the effort put into empowering the passenger to help create a better environment.
00:18:25
Speaker 2: Can do it. While he's at it, we should bring back smoking on planes.
00:18:29
Speaker 1: No, I will say this at the end of the news release, the Transportation Department's news release, it did promise that the government was doing its part as well, that they are building an all new air traffic control system, and they say that they are going to increase hiring when it comes to air traffic controllers and that will go a long way to hopefully easing some of these delays, easing some of these cancelations, which creates a lot less frustration among people trying to get somewhere. And so for that, we thank him, and we thank him for the PSA. It would be interesting to see if everyone just takes a little bit of it as they head to the airports this week. Maybe we'll have a calmer and less combative week of flying and without everyone. We hope you have a wonderful travel experience this week. I may be Robach alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.