How to Stay Off the 'Passenger Shaming' Naughty List
Talking Points
The Points Guy
4.8 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Does common sense go out the window when people get on an airplane? We've seen passengers end up in jail for painting their nails, play barefoot footsies and even use the air vent to dry their underpants. There is a place where these passengers can be held up for internet ridicule. On this episode of Talking Points, Brian Kelly — The Points Guy — sits down with Shawn Kathleen "SK", the woman behind the hilarious and cringe-worthy Instagram account Passenger Shaming.
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| 0:00.0 | The sense of entitlement is really high with a lot of people these days and they feel like, |
| 0:08.0 | hey, you know, I spend a few hundred dollars from my ticket, like I can do whatever I want on this plane plane if that means take my bare feet and put them up on the headrest or you know whatever. |
| 0:17.2 | Clip my toenails because I'm a busy girl on the go. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to this episode of Talking Points. I'm your host Brian Kelly. the point's guy. You know I get to travel a lot and for some reason it seems like people's |
| 0:28.0 | a lot and for some reason it seems like people's behavior on planes is getting worse and worse. |
| 0:34.1 | And even though I'm an eternal optimist |
| 0:36.1 | and I do believe we are in the current golden age of travel |
| 0:39.4 | because air travel is safer than ever before. |
| 0:41.8 | It's more accessible and cheaper compared to deregulation. |
| 0:45.8 | However, airport behavior and flight behavior seems to be getting worse. |
| 0:50.3 | And the reason why I know this is because of an Instagram account I follow that pretty much confirms it |
| 0:56.1 | Passenger Shaming is one of the fastest growing aviation Instagram accounts out there and it covers all bad behaviors of passengers. |
| 1:07.0 | Today we have Sean Kathleen who is the mastermind behind the passenger shaming brand. Sean SK. the SK and BK. Let's just talk about your background. |
| 1:23.8 | So you used to be a flight attendant. |
| 1:26.4 | I was for seven years, but prior to that, |
| 1:30.2 | I was a police officer and a paramedic. |
| 1:32.8 | Oh wow so you're used to just bad behavior period. |
| 1:35.8 | Correct. |
| 1:36.8 | Especially though on metal tubes so you're just right. |
| 1:39.4 | So you've seen it all. |
| 1:40.4 | I have I have seen it all and I can say with pretty much 100% certainty that being a |
| 1:48.9 | flight attendant would probably be a lot worse than being a police officer. |
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