Selects: How Flight Attendants Work
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Flight attendants have come a long way. From having to put up with rampant sexism, to the current incarnation as your first line of defense in case of an incident, they are valued airline employees. Learn all about this cool job in this classic episode.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey, everybody. Happy Saturday. |
| 0:07.0 | Chuck here, delivering a brand new selects episode, but it's really not brand new, |
| 0:11.7 | because as we all know, these are reruns, carefully curated and selected by both Josh and I each week. |
| 0:17.5 | This one comes to you from December 7th, 2017, how flight attendants work. |
| 0:22.8 | I just got back from touring the Midwest, and I went on quite a few flights and made sure I gave |
| 0:28.0 | my appreciation to all the flight attendants because they do such great work, and I think |
| 0:32.0 | are often underappreciated. So if you want to know what they are actually doing on their job |
| 0:35.7 | and a little bit about how you get hired, some behind-the-scenes stuff, check out this episode right now, how flight attendants work. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:01.8 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me as part of your cabin crew is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. |
| 1:08.1 | Building the whole thing out is our pilot, Jerry Rowland. Captain Jair's, as we'll call her from now on. |
| 1:27.5 | If you'd like to return your seat, do its full upright upright position, along with your tray table. If you've lost your device or phone in the seat, don't touch it, just come get one of us. Did that happen to you? It's a new thing. What? Tell me. No, it's like a new thing on Delta and like the safety instructions. |
| 1:34.0 | They actually take a little time to say if you've lost your tablet or phone in your seat, don't adjust it. |
| 1:35.1 | Come get a flight attendant. |
| 1:36.5 | What do you mean lost in the seat? |
| 1:37.1 | What do they mean? |
| 2:01.9 | Like if you have, if you're sitting there and you've got the butterfingers and like you turn into Jerry Lewis all of a sudden sudden your phone slides down into the seat beside you or in between the seat next to you okay your phone is in grave danger if you adjust your seat back upright again oh like they say get a flight attendant because they now have additional skills in their repertoire to get your tablet or phone out safe. |
| 2:02.9 | So at some point a memo went out to these airlines that said, we're breaking cell phones |
| 2:07.3 | because people are like, well, maybe if I just throw them a seat up, it'll pop out. |
| 2:11.1 | Sure, it'll shoot right out. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.