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Should Planes Size Up to Fit Fatter People?

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0:00 No, I mean that's what they like when you go on an international flight to Asia, you know how they'll be like 20 senior citizens? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> They just all park all of them in the front. And they just stare at each other. >> Yeah, it looks like it looks like the the the return of Enterprise. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> All right, can I tell you guys a story of something happened that on the flight when I went to visit Subin? >> Yeah. >> Okay, cuz I wanted to see your opinion on on how you how you feel about this type of thing. This 100% really happened. So me and me and Subin are in the terminal. I just finished visiting him for his military graduation. And um >> So this is on the way back? >> On the way back. Yeah, we're at Atlanta Airport. We're just waiting by the gate. We're on different planes. He's not on the same plane as me, but we're just chilling together while we wait for both of our flights.

0:50 And then like on the side, you know when there's like people that are in wheelchairs? So they they don't get in line, they wait on the side of the line. >> Mhm. >> And then as soon as it get opens, they're usually the first to like get in. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Um so on the side of the line, there's these two women that are like my 600 lb life level fat. >> Woah, like >> gigantic, yeah. >> And their wheelchairs are struggling. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're both in these wheelchairs and they're they're waiting like right in front of where like you know the the attendant would probably lift the rope up and they'd be the first to go. So um me and Subin are sitting like directly in front of these people cuz we're also waiting in the chairs just kind of you know, just chilling. And then they just start like getting pissed off. Like they were like, "How how could they just leave us here and just like drop us off here and just like nobody's here to like help us get on the plane." Like they were just like

1:40 audibly pissed off and and kind of like yelling. And they were just like, "I'm going to write an email for sure. I'm going to write a letter. I'm going to call the number." Like >> That's what they always do though. >> Yeah, basically being Karens, right? Like um >> No, I mean that's what they like when you go on an international flight to Asia, you know how they'll be like 20 senior citizens? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> They just all park all of them in the front. And they just stare at each other. >> Yeah, it looks like it looks like the the the return at Enterprise. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> But then we were just like we didn't pay it any mind. We're like, "Okay, that's pretty funny." Like we we also were too close to say something out loud cuz they're they're like within earshot. So we're just like, "Whatever." And then um uh I get on the plane before them. Like they didn't get let on the way that like I thought they would. I thought they'd be first. >> Yeah, they're supposed to. >> Everybody else was first. They were last. >> Maybe they were too big to go first. >> for sure they were too big.

2:30 >> don't go like that. >> That's what you say. That's what you're saying? Are you making a joke? >> Sometimes like like they do this in Europe a lot too, right? You know when you're at like the front of the plane? In America it's like I'm at the front of the plane. I board first. But it's actually really like inefficient. >> Yeah. >> So they actually board the the latter rows first. So So if you're going to be like a really really large person is going to maybe be accommodated at the front of the plane, then yeah, you should board last, right? >> Here's Here's the part >> Cuz then you're off first. >> Here's the kicker that made no sense. So they're the last to go on, right? Everyone's on the plane already. And then you just start seeing these two those same two ladies uh at the front of the plane. Like I'm already sitting in my seat. And they're just like nobody's helping them get on. >> What? >> holding the like trying to go step-by-step holding each seat going

3:22 like screaming down the aisle because they're having such a hard time with their legs cuz they're so big. >> Wait, are they so big that they couldn't fit through the aisle with a wheelchair? >> They're they have to touch every person. >> why they had to get up. >> They have to touch every person like they're >> They're using their head as a ████ armrest. >> They're using all the like headrests of the seats and they're like barely the progress is so slow and they're screaming the whole way down. Their two seats are in the ████ back. >> No. >> Swear to god, dude. And the whole way through they're like using their hand and put pressing your head like this. >> They might be They might be rolling forearm first, you know what I mean? It's like Spirited Away. >> They're like screaming in pain. >> It covers a hand? >> Everything kind of just >> Wait, how come they didn't board first? >> I have no idea. This on Delta. And then so they're like screaming in the back. The The person announces, um, "Please do not record. Uh, have some

4:12 respect and please do not record them." >> No. >> yeah. Just straight up as a courtesy asking people to not record and not, uh, like make a spectacle by like looking. >> Cuz there were hella people recording. >> No, no one was recording at all. No one >> Let's not make a spectacle, but let's make a public announcement. >> was like this. Everybody was like trying not to like, you know, like, uh, even be noticed because it was very clear that, uh, that they wanted to like ask for help from people. But because everyone knew how much of like they were kind of like ████ earlier, >> Uh, no one wants to. >> wanted to be involved. >> Oh, no. >> Everyone was just kind of like this, like, oh, ████ And so, they get to the back. One of them gets into her seat barely. She's like I And I'm across the aisle from one of them. Like literally, and it feels like I'm sitting next to them. >> So, you were in the back, too. So, you just watched this whole thing, and it

5:02 just kept on getting bigger and more in focus. >> But then, one of the second lady, her legs just completely like give out or fail. >> Oh, no. >> falls, um, like a slow fall. She doesn't like go like this, but she just like kind of melts down into the aisle like floor screaming. And there's It's six people came, like actual, uh, EMT people or whatever. >> Oh, yeah. >> They couldn't pick her up. >> Well, yeah, she's probably like 700 lb. >> Cuz there's no room, and they couldn't like And she was screaming the whole time, just like yelling at the top of her lungs. >> What do they have to do? Like unbolt the chairs? Create space? >> No, she I don't know. So, she was just laying there, and we The flight got delayed almost an hour and a half. >> So, you were there You were just there the whole time? >> on the tarmac, and I was giving Subin the play-by-play of everything was I was like, "Bro, this is what's happening right now." And so like it

5:52 they were trying to pick her up and then I'm hearing the discussion from like the pilot comes to the back and he's like, "We just got to get her off the plane. Like there's no She's not going to be able to get in the seat." >> split her up. One stay One was able to leave. One >> One was able to stay Well, what happened is they asked the other lady. They're like, "Do you want to stay or do you want to leave the plane?" She's like, "I'm staying." >> I ain't going through all that ████ >> So like the other lady, they're like siblings. They look exactly the same. And it's so like the the pilot's like, "Yeah, we're just going to have to like get them off the plane somehow." But I think like when they reconvene cuz they're like having these meetings in the aisle in front of all of us. And then as they're talking about it, one of them is just like, "It's just so much easier to try to get her from this spot onto the chair than it is all the way off the plane." So they tried to bring this like uh it's basically like a wheelchair thing that fits in the aisle of the plane. I've never seen it. >> Like almost like a stretcher type

6:43 situation? >> Yeah, but it's it's a seat and it like rolls >> of food in it and drinks on it. And duty-free tobacco. >> Basically like a rolling chair and they were going to get They were going to get her on that and then like wheel it out of the plane to get her out. >> crazy? She's uh uh endangerment to not herself not only herself but the other passengers cuz imagine when she's stuck in the middle of aisle, if someone else had a heart attack, the EMT can't even get through them >> Yeah. >> to help the person with the heart attack. >> Yeah, but at the same time imagine like somehow there's like a hole in the plane there's like water leaking in and then she just plugs it. >> Plugs it. With the forearm? With the elbow? >> So she can be a hero. >> Like it's just circumstantial. >> In a Looney Tunes cartoon. >> can get there. >> But you know how like if a door opens on accident, like the air just sucks all the people out, but if she's by the door

7:33 >> Boom. >> Yeah, vacuum sealed. >> Yeah. >> And then she's a hero. >> It raises the air pressure outside. Yeah, so um so they bring that seat that rolls all the way to the back. >> What the ████ >> And I think they just at that point they were just kind of assessing it. So she's not even she's laying like there's a few times I was like that's just a look, right? >> Yeah. >> She's laying on her stomach on the aisle like and just could not even move. >> there's not that much space in between the aisle. >> Dude, it's so tiny and imagine a person who's probably like 600 lb like >> So what happened? Her legs couldn't handle the pressure? >> Yeah, I think they they're just >> So so fat >> They they clearly never walk anymore. >> Yeah. >> So because they were forced to have to like do these like they look like the first time walking. That's why they were just holding every single THING AND GOING LIKE THE WHOLE WAY DOWN.

8:23 >> WAS MAXING OUT THE whole time? >> Yeah, she's walk maxing. >> That's crazy. I can't believe this situation. >> Yeah, so like there's those six guys or whatever talking about it. Uh eventually they they managed to get her like up just enough to where at least most of her body is in the aisle of the the row of the seats. >> down though did snacks fall out of like around parts of her clothing? >> Dude. >> I chewed up ████ Ding Dongs and a Hostess. >> It was literally like look at this way, this is a great way to say it. So it's almost 30 straight minutes from the front of plane to the back of two people full on screaming. >> DAMN. >> HOW LONG IT TOOK? >> long it took them to get to the where she fell. And then that was even more screaming. >> dude. >> That's full workout. So like it's it's got to this point where like uh well, let me just finish

9:14 what happened. So they basically were able to you know I think it'd been like an hour 15. They were finally able to get her onto the the chair and then they were just like, okay, the pilot's like, I just got to go. I got to take off. These people have to do like the layover in Oakland. There's like a bunch of people needed to go to Oakland. They're all pissed off. So they they they eventually got her on there. You just hear her screaming the whole time even after she's in the seat. We take off and everything. But the funny thing is like, man, it's gotten to that point actually where like this is so clearly like a horrifying situation, but everyone was acting like it wasn't happening. >> Cuz they're like, we need to go. >> Well, I know I mean I mean the political correctness of like, oh, this is just a normal person trying to get on the plane. It's nothing crazy, you know. >> how they were acting like? >> Yeah, like every all the passengers. Like nobody's going like, oh, like let me like acknowledge this and and help you and and uh figure something out with

10:06 you or nothing. >> What do you think would happen if I said, "Hurry up, fatso." >> They You would have got a standing ovation from the plane. I don't know. The pilot would have shaken your head. >> Cuz the policy of might have been our better policy maybe you got to just let them sit in the front and board them first. >> I think like it's it comes to that point where like um it's it's like you probably at that point should buy a specific ticket. >> Like a double seater. >> Or like a fur Maybe you have to fly business. >> Were they even those big business seats like those slate >> Yeah, in the front in the front, yeah. Not like the you know, with not like Singapore Airlines with >> Oh. >> Big two two seats like two and two. >> Yeah, you know people they have like support animals and stuff. I've seen people say like their husky or their great danes are support animal and the whole flight they're like this. I'm

10:57 like, bro, what the ████ Imagine this fool like like good thing that dog that was on my flight didn't cause no problems. But imagine like 2 hours in it takes a fat ████ on the You're like, ████ dude, like where do we draw the line where a support animal is? >> I know. I just It was just interesting to me like the sociology of it when you're just watching people kind of like no like no one wants to acknowledge that it's this is not normal. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. Dude, usually what they do is uh people that are disabled or like need wheelchair assistance, them and children and like families with children, they go first. At least that's how Hawaiian Airlines always boards. They're like the elderly, all of them go first. Sometimes you see some big people cuz they need assistance, they're on a wheelchair. But they should have boarded first or figured it out. >> have boarded in the cargo area. >> They should have boarded the bottom.

11:49 But then if they're that big, I'm thinking that they couldn't be wheelchaired in. Because they the aisle they couldn't fit the aisle. >> You think though like if it took them 30 minutes of like and everybody's just trying to pretend like you think that 5 minutes into that maybe there should have been like a reconvene. >> I'm saying. >> Yeah, like flight attendant should have been like actually. >> Dude, they didn't say one word. That's why I was so surprised because it's that thing of like oh we don't want them to feel like they're different. >> Yeah. >> So they just pretend like nothing's happening. This is all normal. >> That's why it was 30 minutes from the front to the back because everyone's just like oh you know boarding, that's all. Boarding. >> Oh, I thought everyone was just like stop lying, ████ >> That would be better. >> I thought that's what they're acting like. They're like just hurry up like >> Everybody was like clearly like and then

12:39 the fact that they have to say on the thing please do not record any of this with your >> I feel like that's the part where like the line was like the the wall was broken. You might as well let loose there because it'd be like hey everybody, don't acknowledge it via this public announcement of acknowledgement. It's like the stupidest thing ever number one. >> recording. It was like a preemptive of like hey if you're thinking about it, don't do it. >> worse by the way. >> Cuz nobody was doing I was waiting for one person to do it so I could. Nobody did it. I was like all right. >> Was that a flight from Atlanta to Vegas? >> Atlanta to Vegas, yeah. >> Do you think they're going home or do you think they were going on a vacation? >> I don't know, man. But they were like so this wasn't like they didn't look like if I describe them, right? They didn't look like poor slovenly like big depressed people. They were like mega

13:29 decked out. They both had blonde cornrows and they just they were like >> rich >> They didn't Well, they didn't I don't know about rich, but they looked like hood rich. You know, they look they look like >> They enjoy themselves. >> Yeah, they looked like they had style, you know? But then they were just ████ 600 lb, you know? >> When I watch that show though, like how much money they get on like disability and all these other things, I was like, "Man, you spent all that ████ on food though." Like they spend hell of money on food. So, I'm like, "What else are they doing?" >> That one person from that show also just passed away. >> A lot of them passed away. >> Like did like yesterday or 2 days ago? She's like 30 years old. >> What do you guys think is like the protocol for cuz clearly they didn't have like a set protocol. I watched this thing unfold in real time and I'm like, "You guys don't have something you do for this." >> I think it should be like a roller coaster ride where there's a ████ weight and height limit.

14:20 >> Yeah, there's like so many things you got to juggle. You got to juggle like operational protocol. But then also like PR and then like humanity so you don't ████ get sued and ████ >> Right, yeah. >> Cuz I think to me I'm like I'm Chinese so I'm just very logical. I'm like, "Them ████ in the cargo, give them some oxygen tanks. They'll be fine." >> I mean, think about it like this. Oversize cargo comes out of a different bin at baggage claim for a reason, too. >> And you got to pay extra if it goes over 50 lb. >> things operationally when there's no emotions involved on the equipment, things happen in a certain way because of that makes the most sense. For efficiency, for optimization, and just it's the the right way to go about it. >> Mhm. >> So, like same thing if you know, if you're like a 600 lb person, you're you're not normal. You're not a a whack

15:10 person. You're just not a normal one on the average scale so you have to have different >> Yeah. >> like procedures to to even be beneficial for you. That's a ████ fire hazard. >> And the other thing is operational procedures, they got to be scalable, too. So, with their lucky, there's only two of these chicks, cuz if you're if you're buying tickets online, and they're being like blind and fair, right? They don't know how much everyone weighs. >> Yeah. >> What if there was 30 of these ████ that are trying to get on the airplane? >> Yep. >> Then what do you do? >> They're all auditioning for the next season. >> You know what I mean? >> Cuz you know how both of them were in the back of the plane? So, when they were taking off, all the people were like >> That's That's crazy. >> But they do weigh the plane, though. Like that's a thing. Like when you're on a small plane like a Cessna, they have to calculate weight. >> Got them on a Cessna?

16:00 >> Cuz 600, that's three 200-lb dudes sitting on top of each other. >> I'm not good with like estimating weight, but it They look like the people from TV shows. I don't know if it's exactly 600 lbs, but they look like ████ celebrities from that show. >> 400. >> Yeah, they got to at least be 400. >> think is fair is because I have to pay for my ████ extra carry-on, which is like less than 40 lbs, and then they're like times three a human being. >> You know what the fairest way? You got to do it like ████ uh ████ Mongolian barbecue style. You pack your style from the way you want, but they're going to get weighed at the end. So, you come with your luggage, whatever, you and all your ████ whatever you weigh, that's the percentage of your flight. So, if you want to spend If you want to spend more of your weight on your body, >> Okay. >> then you better not carry no ████ But if you're only 100 lbs, go ahead and

16:51 bring a piano on. >> Same with the carry-on luggage? I kind of agree with that, but the same with the carry-on luggage, right? You still got to take the carry-on, and can it fit in this little frame? Cuz then if If you're like, "No, I'm not bringing any luggage. It's all on my body." But you can't fit in the seat. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Somebody else is ████ >> and surface area consideration. >> Isn't that one fat girl talking about like how airlines need to make chairs >> to make the The bigger. >> Yeah. And then the seatbelt like bigger and all that. >> Everything bigger, yeah. Basically accommodate her, you know, situation. And I ain't mad at that. I think there can be a combination, but like if there's a market for it, there's a market for it, you know? Seatbelt extender, they have that, right? >> Yeah, they I've seen people use it. >> If everybody's like, you know, mad obese and like do a obese flight company. >> Yeah. >> Like create a whole different like fat

17:42 airlines or whatever it is. >> That's true. >> Be comfortable. >> Fat Airlines. Oh, Anthony. >> Low Altitude. >> Dude, that's ████ up. ANTHONY ████ UP. >> WHAT DO YOU GUYS think in the comments? Let us know how this uh social situation could be better solved than, you know, the idiots in this room thinking of a solution. Thanks, guys.

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