Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard - Armchair Anonymous: Airplanes II
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous.
I'm Buck Rogers and I'm joined by first captain Monica Padman.
I made it first captain because it's airplanes.
Oh, that makes sense.
Yeah, and that was the only word I could think of
in the airplane world.
I think everyone can listen to this one.
I mean, look.
Yeah, I mean, it's scary.
If you have a fear of flying, you might not wanna listen.
Yeah, and there's pootie.
But I think we don't warn about pootie, right?
Yeah, no.
There's no way you could have a trigger of pootie
and listen to Armchair in the Monomist
at this point, right?
I really don't think so.
Okay, yeah, this is okay to listen to.
Please enjoy Crazy Airplane Stories. plane stories.
Hi.
Is this Shivani? Oh my God.
It is. How are you? I'm Shivani? Oh my God. It is.
How are you?
I'm so excited to be talking to y'all.
Us too.
Monica forgot that she wears headphones in this.
I did.
I'm so sorry.
I got so disoriented.
Is that a dog bridle hanging off the doorknob or a bra?
A bathing suit, yeah.
A little bit of both.
I'm at a cottage about two hours north from Toronto.
So I just got out of the lake.
On Muskoka?
Yes, Muskoka.
Yes. Wonderful.
Oh my god. What a fun summer you're having.
It is a very fun summer.
Have you been in the lake a bunch and boating?
Yes. Can't get me out of the lake.
Now we're talking girl.
Do you know how to swim?
I'm a very poor swimmer. So people do worry about me when when I swim but I love to do it. Oh good for you. Good that you're scaring everyone as you swim. You
and Monica should start like synchronized swimming or something. We should and like the really
kiddie pool. Yeah I'll do that with you. And people will be watching so nervous like it's a high dive
like a high wire routine even though it's very... Like a platform dive., even though it's very simple.
Like the Olympic diving team, but it's just us like splashing around.
Yeah, exactly.
People who can't swim.
Okay, but alas, you have an airplane story.
I do.
Kind of related.
There's a lot of seaplanes flying in and out of Muskoka.
That's true.
And this took place on a flight into Canada.
So it's all a little bit related.
I actually live in New York, but I'm a dual citizen,
which is why I'm here. So this story starts out in New York City. It was January 2020, so right
before everything was about to go to shit, we had no idea. You were probably on the plane with an
early COVID person and didn't know it. Oh my God. I'm one of those people who I'm like, I had it at
that time. Like I had such a horrible cough. Like of course I can never prove it, but yeah. So I
might've been the person on the plane with it.
Yeah.
So I was already having the most horrible day.
A cat had spilled a glass of water on my computer and so it wasn't working.
On the plane?
This is leading up to the plane.
No cat airlines.
That'd be crazy.
So I kept trying to buy a new laptop.
My card kept declining because I thought it was fraud.
And I literally called my mom and I said something horrible is going to happen on this flight because that's how bad my day has been.
Oh no. So I don't know if I manifested it or if I was having a psychic moment. Neither's a good
option. So I go to the airport. It's a flight from New York City to Ottawa, Ontario, which is
about an hour. We're about 50 minutes into the flight. Everything's been smooth sailing,
totally good. And then suddenly the flight attendant gets over the loud speaker, but it's so choppy.
You can't hear barely anything.
I just hear the words emergency landing, loss of air pressure going down.
Oh, my God. Oh, oh, my Lord.
Right when she says that the plane literally dives down and is also shaking side to side.
I get like whipped to the side, which I later found out
caused me to break two ribs on the arm rest of the plane.
I broke a nail, which was obviously much less significant,
but still notable.
But real quick, was this a big airplane
or was this more one of those commuter,
propeller, smaller planes?
It was two seats on each side
and then maybe like 12 rows or something.
Yes.
One that's likely to go down.
Right, more likely.
I've flown a lot in my life,
and I also have really bad flight anxiety,
but I'm usually able to like talk myself down
or distract myself.
But this was the first time that I truly was like,
I have to start drafting text messages,
saying goodbye to my loved ones.
I literally wrote a text to my mom, I wrote a text to my best friend because we're literally
plummeting down and nobody's saying anything or just staring out. It's foggy. It's dark.
You can't see a single thing. So after about five minutes, that felt like 25 years. The pilot gets
on over the loudspeaker and they are clear as day. thank God. And they say we tried to land in Ottawa.
It didn't work.
So we have to emergency land in Burlington.
But everything's fine.
We're fine. And we're going to land safely.
We're just going to go to Burlington.
And for a little bit of Canadian geography, Burlington, Ontario
is about 30 minutes outside of Toronto.
So people on the plane start to like make plans and they're like, OK, you know what?
Like we can easily get to Toronto Pearson, get on another flight to Ottawa,
still get there tonight. This isn't the worst thing in the world. We finally land and everyone's just
like, thank God we're not dead. But then they come over the loudspeaker and they say, welcome to
Burlington, Vermont. And everyone on the plane is like, oh, fuck. So not only are we now in a different country than we intended to land on, they tell us
that we actually can't disembark from the plane because we flew into Canadian airspace,
which means that we now need to go through customs.
But because the Burlington airport is teeny tiny, the airport was closed, locked down,
key lights off.
So not only did they have to get airplane staff to come unlock the airport,
they also needed to wake up all the customs people, change from their pajamas and get back to the airport.
It's about like 12 30 a.m. at this point.
So we end up having to sit on this tiny plane where we've all almost died together
for I want to say like an hour and a half, two hours.
So they finally let us off. We have to go through customs, but they're just asking the basic custom questions.
Like, what did you purchase while you were in Canada?
Are you bringing anything back?
And it's like we were in the sky crash landing.
Nobody did any business while they were in Canada.
We finally get to go through and they ship us off to various hotels.
I get to go to the Windjammer Hotel, which looks like a log cabin.
Could have been fun on a different occasion, but I was like, I just wanted a nice hotel
if I was going to have to stay the night in Burlington, Vermont.
And they tell us, we're going to send a shuttle back to the hotel at 9 a.m.
Your flight will depart at 10 a.m.
Burlington, Vermont is even closer.
So now it's like literally a 25 minute flight.
So I get maybe four hours of sleep, get back on, get to the airport.
The airport is also only open for us. No flights were scheduled to leave that Saturday. We're
sitting in the terminal for like three hours. They're not telling us anything. Finally,
they come on the loudspeaker and they say the pilot overslept and he's not coming.
It was not coming. Yeah. I don't understand that whole like they timeout.
Yeah, it was one of those situations. So they're like, he's not coming. He's not coming. Yeah. I don't understand that whole like they time out. Yeah, it was one of those situations.
So they're like, he's not coming.
So now we have to call every pilot in Burlington and see who wants to take this flight.
Another hour passes, they find a pilot. Finally, we board the plane.
He sobers up. They pull him out of a bar.
I'm sure that's what it was.
He got a little too excited at the windjammer.
They get us on the plane.
Then they have to get the customs people to come on, check the
manifest and check all of our names to make sure we all boarded on the flight.
Because since we've been in Canadian airspace, not going back would have meant we were like
stowaways or something.
So they're going through the list, they cannot find one guy, they keep recounting as if that's
going to change the outcome of when this guy's here.
At some point, the flight attendant just goes, we've all had a really long 24 hours
and just pulls out the bucket of alcohol on the flight.
And it's like, anyone take whatever they want.
So I'm chugging like mini bottles of chardonnay.
Good and bad idea.
I don't know if like adding drunkenness
to this scenario is gonna make anyone behave better.
But at least people feel seen.
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Which is a huge deal.
We felt like we were getting
at least a little bit of a reward.
I also feel like most of the people on the flight were Canadian,
and so they probably would have just gotten more happy with some alcohol.
Right. Right.
I'm having my Chardonnay.
Finally, we take off.
We get to Ottawa 25 minutes later, and basically it's been a 24 hour ordeal.
I've come out with a two hundred and fifty dollar bill from the Windjammer Hotel, two broken ribs.
They charge you?
Yeah, and $250, I would have liked to spend that
at a different hotel in a different city.
Yeah. Sure, sure, sure.
Not the Windjammer? For four hours.
What the fuck?
So came away with that, broken ribs,
had to get my manicure fixed, but I survived.
And so I guess that's the good part of the story,
but it was definitely the most unpleasant
flight experience I've ever had.
Did you submit your doctor bills?
Or is there any kind of effort made
to make everything good with you guys or no?
No, because it was like,
it fell under the act of God category.
Oh. So basically that means
they don't have to compensate you for anything.
That's insane. They're like,
not our fault. Wow.
Lower ribs, I guess. Yeah, lower ribs. I like, it's not our fault. That's insane. Wow. Lower ribs, I guess?
Yeah, lower ribs.
I mean, it's not the worst thing in the world.
It just meant I like couldn't work out for a little bit
and I was uncomfortable sitting most of the time.
Ribs is terrible.
Your breathing hurts.
And because I had that crazy cough
that I suspected was COVID,
it also didn't make it feel better
because I was like hacking.
Oh, sure.
Did they ever explain what happened to the aircraft
that caused the emergency landing? This is my armchair theory I will say because I was going
to fly to visit my dad and so he was like tracking my flight because we just went off the grid for
like half an hour and so he was worried but he was saying every other flight was landing in Ottawa.
It wasn't like there was actually some big weather problem.
So I think it might just not have been a very good pilot.
I think she like tried and things didn't go well.
Well, she was tired.
She needed to sleep, clearly.
Well, she got her sleep.
She got a big sleep.
I don't know the reasoning
and people were generally pretty chill about it.
Like nobody caused a fuss, but it was definitely unpleasant.
They couldn't have had any customs workers at the Burlington, Vermont airport.
It's not an international airport under normal circumstances, right?
I think it technically is because they have like one flight every other day to Montreal.
Oh, OK. Last question.
When planes get crazy in movies, everyone screams, but it sounds like everyone got really calm.
I don't know calm, but everyone got very quiet.
Like I feel like you almost have to keep to yourself
to be like, this isn't happening, this isn't happening.
Whereas if you start to talk to people,
I was also traveling alone,
so I don't know, you know,
people who are in couples or in families,
but it sounded very quiet.
And I think everyone was just like,
pretend it's not happening, pretend it's not happening.
Oof, I do not like that.
2020 was not a good year.
It was wild.
I think maybe my bad energy.
The whole thing.
That one flight, this was a butterfly effect.
When you told your mom this is gonna be a bad flight,
your computer had already been ruined.
I too have had a couple things go wrong.
I think we've even been traveling at some point.
I'll get weird, where I'm like,
God, I keep getting signal after signal.
Like I'm forcing myself to make this flight
or I'm forcing this situation.
That's the only time I get really kind of spooked.
I'm like, am I ignoring these signals?
I feel bad because I've done it a few times
where I've canceled flights really last minute
because I'm like- Oh, because of that feeling?
Well, it's like, I don't feel that good.
Maybe it's the world trying to tell me not to fly.
Like I've done it a couple of times, which that's bad too.
Yeah, you've been answering that call and responding,
I haven't, and we're both alive.
Right, so we learned nothing.
And you're alive too.
Yeah, we are all alive.
I think it's that weird thing where it's like anxiety
versus intuition.
Hard to know.
Probably a bit of both.
We were one time in Chicago,
we went to the wrong airport maybe,
and we were fucking racing to go to Minnesota.
And I was like driving down all these arterial roads
at a million miles an hour to get us there.
Midway airport.
Yeah, and I was like,
wait, am I supposed to just accept the will of God right now?
But that, and then we had shows.
We had shows, we had to die.
Even if we knew we were gonna die.
You guys are dedicated to your craft, I appreciate it.
Well, thank you so much.
Shivani, it's lovely meeting you. Thanks so much,. I appreciate it. Well, thank you so much.
Lovely meeting you.
Thanks so much.
And I know everyone says this,
but I've been listening since the very beginning.
I loved Parenthood.
My mom who's actually been sitting here listening.
Oh, hi mom.
We watched Parenthood together every single week
when I was younger.
So you're a big part of our lives.
Well, tell her Crosby says hi and I love you.
Crosby says hi. Oh my you. Crosby says hi.
Oh my God, Crosby!
All right, well, wonderful meeting you
and thanks so much for telling us that story.
Enjoy Muskoka, you brat, I'm so jealous.
Brat summer!
All right, bye-bye.
Bye.
Oh, hi.
Hello.
Where are you, Aubrey?
I'm in San Francisco.
Oh, wonderful, and are you a native to San Francisco?
I'm from Palo Alto and then moved to San Francisco. Okay. Okay. Do you love it? I love it
I was in LA for college and couldn't get out of LA quick enough
To the bay what college you go to USC. Oh sure sure sure sure Trojan. Yeah fight on we're enemies
Oh sure, sure, sure, sure, Trojan. Yeah, fight on.
We're enemies.
You guys are big enemies.
Yeah, we're big enemies.
For enemies.
For enemies.
Can you tell us what you do in San Francisco?
I do commercial real estate.
That seems like a good place to do it.
Pretty pricey up there.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, so you have a crazy airplane story.
I do have a crazy airplane story.
My fiance, boyfriend at the time and I
were at a wedding in Seattle
and we're on a Sunday night, 8pm flight.
It was a smaller airport, it was Payne Field, so 30 minutes before we're boarding, he gets
a text on his phone that he's been upgraded to first class, seat 1A, and he's like, you
take it, and we're being polite, and I'm like, no, you take it.
I end up boarding the plane first to make sure he takes that seat, so don't come for
him when I say he was in seat 1A and I was in the second to last row of the plane first to make sure he takes that seat. So don't come for him. When I say he was in seat 1A
and I was in the second to last row of the plane.
I'm not gonna come for him because this has happened to me
and I go, I'm so much bigger than you.
It makes sense for me.
So I've been very selfish.
That's bad what you did, Dax.
This guy seems nice.
He's really trying to give you the seat.
I know, he's a much better person than me.
Yeah, I leveraged my size in this situation
to get the seat.
Yeah, so he's better than me.
I'll remember that.
30 minutes into the flight, everything's totally normal.
We're in the air and the flight attendant gets on the PA system and I've never heard
a flight attendant so frantic in her life.
She says, we have an emergency situation.
Everyone prepare for an emergency landing.
And I just feel the plane just turn and dart down.
And I saw my life flash before my eyes.
I was like, we're going down.
This was right at the beginning of everything happening
in the Middle East.
I was like, there's an attack and my boyfriend
is at the front of the plane
and I'm gonna die alone back here.
How big of a plane was it?
It was like a big plane, two by two,
and then he was sitting alone.
Okay, so one seat on the left in first.
Yeah, not small and completely full.
So she gets on and
We don't hear from her again for 20 minutes, but it was so frantic that I was like something is terribly wrong right now
This is how I go. So I'm texting my boyfriend and I'm like what the hell is happening. This is the end
Are you okay? And he's not replying to me. So I start gaslighting myself. I'm like, maybe I'm dramatic
I'm on the verge of a panic attack and I'm like doing breathing exercises and I see this guy
Walking from the cockpit to the back of the plane the flight attendant made it pretty clear
We need to be in our seats right now. Everyone around me is pretty quiet
But I'm fully turned around in my seat watching this guy interact with the flight attendant. She zip ties him what he's
Hysterically crying she's talking him. What? He's hysterically crying.
She's talking to him like, we're going to get you down.
I'm feeling like an asshole.
I'm like, oh God, maybe something happened with this guy.
And she gets back on the PA system and she's like, we have a medical emergency.
It's just for one passenger.
Everything's going to be okay.
But you can still hear she's like terrified in her voice.
Oh my Lord.
I can't gauge what's happening,
but as we're about to touch down,
I get a text back from my boyfriend
and he's like, wait, where are we?
And I was like, bruh.
He was alcohol?
He was asleep the entire time.
Oh, good for him.
We touched down, the doors open
and five cops like fully armed rush onto the plane
and like sprint to the back where I'm sitting
and escort this guy who just looks dead in the eyes
off the plane.
Oh my God.
Same guy that got handcuffed?
Yeah.
So he was kind of by you this whole time.
Yeah, I was peeping.
I was getting all the tea.
That's when the whispers start and we're like,
what happened?
He had the employee badges on,
so he worked for the airline, which is why when he was out of his seat I was like maybe he's
allowed to be. At that point it's midnight we need to get on another
flight. Well really quick did you land at the airport you were destined for or have
you stopped short of there? We were in Oregon we were supposed to be in San
Francisco. Okay okay okay. We get off and my teeth are like fully chattering. I'm not recovered
from the situation and my boyfriend who was asleep at the time was just holding me while I was
profusely shaking and I was like, sorry if I'm being dramatic. I just feel like that could have
gone really badly. I don't know what happened. They book us on the next flight, the new flight
attendants trying to get the scoop from us and she's like, I heard he might have had a knife.
Oh. Rumors were flying and she
was like I don't know what I would have done in that situation and we're like ma'am that's your
job you're supposed to know what to do in that situation. We land in San Francisco it's 2 a.m.
we're delirious we go to bed and we wake up to 30 text messages from our friends and family to this news article and the headline says,
"'Off-Duty Pilot Charged With 83 Counts of Attempted Murder.'"
What?
This pilot who was off duty hitching a ride
from Seattle to San Francisco
was sitting in the jump seat.
He had taken shrooms two days prior
and never snapped out of it.
What?
He thought he was having a bad dream
and he reached for the emergency levers,
which shut off the plane entirely.
Oh my goodness.
What?
So he successfully pulled them.
What you have to do is pull and then twist,
but the two pilots flying the plane managed to wrestle him
and like push them back in so that the
engines didn't entirely shut off. And your boyfriend was front row to all this and missed it. Thank you for recognizing that.
Oh my god. Yeah, he missed a scuffle. And it was a big scuffle because we lost like 15,000 feet of altitude during the scuffle.
Oh my god. And he was asleep with his noise canceling headphones
and missed the entire thing.
Oh my lord. Wow.
And so I'm assuming the pilots helped restrain him
while the flight attendant put the cuffs on?
No, so the flight attendants were in the back of the plane.
Oh.
The pilots fully wrestled him,
like full MMA match in the cockpit,
pushed him out, locked the door behind him,
and then he like kind of snapped into it, I guess,
and walked himself all the way to the back of the plane
and told the flight attendant,
if you don't zip tie me right now,
this is gonna be really bad.
Oh my.
Cause she was saying to him, don't worry, right?
Like we're gonna get you.
We're gonna get you help.
Yeah.
That's how we survived an attempted hijacking.
Whoa, by a delusional,
the shrooms part of the story
does not make sense to me.
Yeah, I don't like that.
I don't know if he's using that as some reason,
but there's no way shrooms are lasting for two days.
That feels crazy.
Yeah, there's gotta be something else going on.
He must have just done the shrooms.
Yeah, and said they were from two days ago.
Yeah.
I don't know, I took them two days ago.
Yeah, he's still a pilot,
he's not supposed to be taking trains at all.
That's so scary that that person flies planes.
That's not to think about that aspect.
But I wonder what happened,
because there's no way it's going to hold up
to charge him with the attempted murder of 35 people.
83.
83, sorry.
Do you ever get any updates beyond that
of what ended up happening?
Yeah. I mean, we were contacted by the FBI.
We were supposed to be part of a lawsuit.
We were on CNN at one point.
Like it was a whole thing.
And where's the guy at now?
He's home.
I guess they validated his shroom story.
I mean, the poor guy, he has a family and all that.
Oh, I'm happy that he told them to restrain him.
He knew enough to know somebody has to stop me.
After he got beat up by the pilots.
I hate hearing a story like that.
It's very 80s propaganda show about the-
Drug war.
Yeah, someone taking acid and trying to fly.
I know, it is that.
I guess it does happen.
Or maybe he had way more stuff going on.
I don't know. Oh my God.
Also, why do they let him up there?
Like he should just sit in the regular seats.
Well, I think they changed that whole law,
and now they don't have off-duty people in the cockpit.
Oof.
Mm-mm-mm.
Oh man, that's a crazy story.
That's kind of my dream, of course.
Knock on wood.
Okay, I'll knock on wood.
I just hope I get called on to restrain somebody
that's a threat, you know?
I don't want anyone to be in danger,
but if someone has to be in danger,
I wanna be a part of that team that takes them down.
Okay. Okay.
I learned that I was no use in a terrorist situation.
Yeah, maybe it was a blessing
that your boyfriend fell asleep
because maybe he wouldn't have responded,
and then he would have felt guilty
that he wasn't in the mix, who knows?
Can I bring him in to say hi?
Yeah, sure. Sure.
Hey. Wow, I can't believe you missed such an exciting thing. I know, I was having great dreams. Who knows can I bring him in to say hi? Yeah sure hey well
I can't believe you missed such an exciting thing. I know I was having great dreams. Were you also on shrooms?
Now let me ask you this had you been awake, and you saw the scuffle would your instinct have been to ignored or get involved
I'd like to think like you Dax. I would jump in there and do something
Maybe even fly the plane if I could
Yes, ideally. I might have just watched it go down
Hard to know until you're in this situation until you're awake. I have a little fun fact
I've actually been in your attic before. How? What? That's scary
Yeah, when you were sleeping
I work for Dr. Michael Gervais and then when you you had Pete Carroll on, I came in and took photos.
No way!
That was a very fun episode, I remember it well.
So fun.
How crazy, you should have saved that for the prompt.
You could actually give us behind the scenes,
because my theory on that interview
is that Pete Carroll was being told the whole time,
like, you should go do this,
and he was like, what the fuck is this?
And then he got here, and he's like,
oh my God, someone's addict. And then And he was like, what the fuck is this? And then he got here. And he's like, oh my God, what is this?
Someone's addict.
And then about midway through,
he started really enjoying it.
And like, I count him as one of the people we won over.
But I do think leading up to it,
he was like, what the fuck is this?
He had a preseason game like two hours after.
He was probably like, what is going on?
I'm in an addict.
I can't blame him, but he was great.
Well, nice meeting both of you.
And I'm glad you survived.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, well be well, everyone. Have a great rest of your day.
Fly next to each other in the future.
That's what we learned.
We do now.
No more headphones.
Be on high alert.
All right, take care.
Thanks, guys.
You really cock-blocked a joke.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay.
What were you gonna say?
Say it now.
I started to say you should've saved it for the prompt,
and then you started talking.
But the rest of the sentence was,
tell us what time you were in our attic.
Oh, that would be a scary prompt.
Let's talk to Neil, maybe he'll remember.
Neil, my brother?
Your brother's on.
It says Neil P.
Does it really?
Oh my God, I was like,
is this the time where he accidentally
snuck in a box cutter?
Oh, that could be one.
He could be the problem.
Yep.
Hi.
Hey, back. Monica.
It's so great to meet you guys.
Yes, how are you, Neil?
I'm great. Wonderful.
Where are you?
Atlanta. What part?
In Decatur, so like 15 minutes east of downtown.
It's turned into such a cool spot.
It's very cool.
Really nice restaurant.
And did you grow up in Decatur?
I grew up in East Point, which is south,
and it's kind of a rough area,
and moved to Decatur when I went to school.
Okay.
What high school?
I went to all Catholic high school. So I was raised Catholic, hardcore. Not Catholic anymore, of course.
But I feel like everyone goes through Catholic school and then they realize how crazy it is.
Are you Italian?
Italian.
Stallion style.
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay. So Neil, you have a crazy airplane story.
Yeah, so it actually happened about nine years ago.
My wife was about to have our first kid.
She would do like a week later. Oh, wow.
You're not supposed to be flying, right?
You were cutting it close. Yeah.
Exactly. But it was the work trip and my boss, basically,
I mean, the narcissist is just absolute crazy person.
When you have crazy bosses next, I'll apply for that one.
That's a good idea.
Oh yeah, crazy bosses.
That's a great prompt.
We were going to fly into Pennsylvania.
He's a pilot, so we were in a private plane.
I don't know if you know a serious style plane.
Yeah.
It's like a single prop.
And so we're going to see this client about vanilla.
We were in the vanilla business.
Oh, interesting.
Oh.
Vanilla extract?
We imported vanilla from Madagascar.
I was a purchaser.
And so like I spent a lot of time in Madagascar.
So we were going to visit a client
that buys the beans from us and they extract it.
That sounds tasty.
Yeah, really quick, because I'm curious.
So I wouldn't have even known that.
So vanilla is a bean and you would travel around
Madagascar in search of the most delicious vanilla.
And then how do you qualify it?
How do you tell if it's good or not?
Do you smell it or you crush it up and eat it?
What do you do?
When I would go to Madagascar,
the main thing was to protect our money.
Honestly, that's the main goal.
Cause you have to pay like hundreds and hundreds of dollars
in advance and you're there to like watch the guys,
make sure they don't steal all your money.
Oh.
I know a lot about vanilla,
but your guys on the ground are the ones
that are qualifying everything. Got it. Really vanilla extract is actually the shittiest beam. It's
the industrial grade. Oh, so is there really high end beautiful vanilla we're not getting?
Yes. Or maybe what your chefs are using to make creme brulee. That's the greatest. And
that's when they're scraping the seeds out of the vanilla beans and putting it in the
actual dish. That's the premium stuff.
Okay. I want ice cream. You want ice cream now? Okay. I want bananas foster. Would that work?
Yeah. But yeah, so we were flying from Atlanta to Pennsylvania. The trip didn't start out good
because the console in the middle is missing. My boss's name is Rich. I'm like, Rich, where's
the computer? And he's like, oh, don't worry. It's getting repaired. Oh, oh my God. But he's
like that. He does have the other instruments, the manual
instruments. I'm already like a little scared. I've been with him
flying before. So it's not like my first time. And then we take
off. And right away I hear this really loud noise. And I'm like,
what is that noise? And like, shit, the doors open to the
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Is it just you and Rich on this plane?
It's just me and Rich.
All right, fuck this, okay.
He's like, okay, we gotta land and close the door.
I'm like, okay, great
So we land close the door we take off again about 30 minutes
Passes or flying. I'm trying to calm myself down. And so I'm like, hey man, you want to put some music on
I got the new Mumford and Sons album
Really good. And he's like, yeah, we start playing it. I know Rich really well.
It's a very interesting relationship with that. I hate him to death, but it's also like,
he's my father figure kind of thing. My dad died when I was young. It's a complicated relationship.
So he knows my body language. He's like, you okay, man? And I'm like, no, I'm really nervous.
And he's like, just watch this gauge. As long as it doesn't go below this level, we're good.
So I'm just watching the gauge.
15 more minutes goes by and then all of a sudden the gauge goes below, whatever it is,
20 I think.
And I'm like, Rich, then all of a sudden he's like doing something in his head, trying to
figure out what's going on.
I learned later that he's got these steps to follow when you have an issue.
And at the same time, you start to hear the engine, like, you know when a lawnmower runs
out of gas, it's like, kuk k kuh, kuh, kuh, kuh.
Fuel starvation, yeah.
And then it just dies.
Oh, oh, oh, the engine quits.
It's okay, because this is a glide plane.
We're not like just crashing.
He can land.
Assuming he can find some nice stretch of something.
Right.
I don't really know all this at the time, but later he's like, it's a glide plane, we're going to land.
So he's kind of calming me down.
We're not like screaming.
I'm a silent panic thing.
We're now over the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina.
He finds a small airport in the middle of the mountain.
This is the one time where I get panicky.
He's like, Neil, where's the airport?
I need you to look for it.
And I'm like, OK.
I don't see it.
And he's like, look for the airport.
I'm like, I don't see it. Oh my god. There it is. There it is. And I'm like, okay, I don't see it. And he's like, look for the airport. I'm like, I don't see it.
Oh my God.
There it is, there it is.
And I'm like, okay.
So then we just circling and circling.
And the most emotional I got was my son is about to be born.
The thought in my head was like, fuck,
my son is gonna be brought up without a dad.
Yeah.
And that was the thing that hurt the most.
Oh, and you just said your dad died when you were young.
You're having a kid to heal this thing
and now you're doing the same thing.
Exactly.
Anyways, we start going down and down
and as we get closer, the wind is super strong.
The plane is going like sideways, back and forth
and it's pushing us down and we don't have an engine, right?
So there's no throttle,
there's nothing to get us back in the air.
And the way the runway is on a plateau
and then as you're coming in, it's like a valley below it.
So if you don't have enough altitude,
your plane's gonna run straight into the side of the mountain.
So as we're getting closer and closer,
Rich starts to kind of get a little panicky
and eventually he says,
Neil, we're gonna have to pull the chute.
Oh my goodness.
What's amazing about this airplane is it has a parachute. He pulls this thing kind of like an explosion goes off like you
could feel it catch you and then all of a sudden the plane starts to tilt
forward and I didn't know this at the time so I'm thinking we're dying but
apparently it's supposed to land like with the nose first. Oh. Because that takes the
brunt of the impact. You're just watching the ground come closer at you.
We hit the ground and it literally just lands right on the landing gear.
Really?
Like nothing happened.
We got out of the plane.
I just screamed like a monkey in the middle of a horse pasture.
It's like a beautiful day.
We are in Appalachia.
It's gorgeous.
How far away are you from the airport?
We were pretty close after they picked us out.
It was like a 10 minute drive.
I wonder how frequently planes land in this farmer's pasture.
I know that was it.
My son was born a week later and I named him after my dad.
Really quick.
Did that slow Rich's aviation dreams down at all, or was he right back up in the skies?
Bro, he wanted to fly home.
Yeah.
That's the kind of person he is. And I said, I said, fuck you.
Go ahead.
I'm driving home.
He's like, Neil, you idiot.
It's still more dangerous to go in a car.
I don't know.
I mean, it is a little bit like get back on that horse.
If you're him.
If you're into flying a plane, which I can't relate to on any level, but I guess if that
is something you like doing,
you probably do have to do it quickly
or you'll probably never do it again.
I gotta tread lightly here
because there's a lot of amateur pilots
and they do a great job and I don't wanna offend anyone,
but yeah, I've had some friends that fly in there
like come up and I'm like, absolutely not.
I wanna be with the person
who flew in the military 20,000 hours,
then flew commercially for another 40,000 hours.
I don't need someone an hour 250
dealing with the engine going out.
I've been with friends who are pilots
and I watch them go through the checklist
and clearly shut the doors
gotta be really high up on the list.
So you gotta wonder if Rich missed that one.
Like what other part of the checklist did he miss?
I agree.
I presume you don't work for him anymore.
I have my own business now, so.
OK.
No, I don't.
What an experience.
I cannot imagine nose diving.
I only had a much tinier experience with just Ryan and I hitting this jump in the sand dunes
and this razor over and over again.
It's great every time.
We hit it one last time and yeah, at the peak of the trajectory, the front end just tilted down.
And yeah, we just came smashing down to earth face first.
It's quite an experience to watch the earth close in quickly
through the front windshield.
Then again, at the same time,
if everyone could experience it and live,
it's a great thing to have that happen and survive.
Wow.
Makes you appreciate everything.
When you guys ultimately got to Pennsylvania,
you had a great story to tell the client.
Yeah, you know, he never got that business though.
Oh, he didn't?
Okay.
He risked our life for nothing.
Oh, for not.
Wow, what a story.
Yeah, Neil, I'm glad you made it.
That's harrowing.
All right, thanks guys, it was awesome to meet you guys.
Yeah, nice meeting you too, brother.
Take care.
Wow. Very positive.
I'd be so mad at that person.
Oh, I know, I will say. Go ahead. I'm kinda impressed he landed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd be so mad at that person. Oh, I know, I will say.
Go ahead.
I'm kinda impressed he landed it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm glad he chose to pull the chute.
Yeah, he did do some things right at the end there,
it seems.
Thank God they put parachutes on those small airplanes.
What a cool.
Advancement.
Yeah, thank you, advancement.
Also, I have made a delicious vanilla rice pudding.
With shaving the?
With scraping the beans from the inside
of the vanilla bean, yeah. Really?
That sounds very tedious.
It is, it's so tedious.
But you love it, you love tedium.
You're a fiend for tedium.
Tdm peen.
Yeah, well it's definitely rewarding
when it tastes so good.
I've probably been in a restaurant
that was nice enough to have that,
but I'm now feeling like I need to try really premium vanilla. Yeah, it tastes so good. I've probably been in a restaurant that was nice enough to have that, but I'm now feeling like I need to try
really premium vanilla.
Yeah, it's so good.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Let's talk to Jamie.
Hi.
Hi. Hello, is this Jamie?
It's Jamie, how are you?
Hi, Jamie.
Good, where are you?
I am in Atlanta.
We just spoke to another Atlanta.
Decatur.
Big airport here.
You know, lots of airport stories.
Huge hub. Huge hub.
You are right.
Where in Atlanta are you?
I'm south of the city.
So I'm actually, it's so funny.
I was listening to the Monday fact check
while I was getting ready.
And Monica, you said you filmed
Drop Dead Divas in Peachtree City.
That's where I live.
Oh, no way.
Did they shoot Walking Dead there or close to there?
So Walking Dead was filmed at Senoia, which is 10 minutes down the road from me.
Okay.
Was that the biggest thing to hit the area?
I mean, that show was huge.
For sure.
Like they still do tours.
I get my hair done in Senoia and they will still have people walking around in like zombie
costumes.
Oh wow, they go in character.
Cool.
Yeah, I've never seen the show and it's the cutest little town.
If you go down to a bottom level,
there's a huge museum with like the clothes
from the show and stuff.
Oh wow.
They really leaned in, I like that.
They really leaned in, yeah.
We have Trillith now too, which is like a huge movie studio.
So we have a lot of stuff filming around here these days.
A lot of good filming.
Unforeseen.
Like if my hometown of Milford became a hotbed of filming,
that'd be the weirdest thing to me.
I grew up here.
It is very strange that like all of a sudden
we have stuff to do in the evenings
and it's becoming this cool little place
because of all this.
Okay, so you have a crazy airplane story.
I do.
So this was in probably 2016.
I will preface by saying I'm a flight attendant.
Oh. Oh, great.
This should be good.
Any party I'm at, people are like,
oh, what's the craziest thing that's ever happened to you
on a plane? Of course.
And I have a lot, but this is like the safest one
to share on a public forum, I think.
But we also want dangerous.
And quickly though,
oh, you can maybe hit us with three or four stories
if you want, but how many flights
do you think you've been on?
Do you know?
Thousands.
I don't know.
My dad's also a pilot.
So I grew up flying everywhere.
And then now with this, when I first started,
I would work 16, 17 days a month flying four flights a day.
Wow.
Oh my God.
That's 60 a month right there.
I've been flying now almost 10 years.
So now I just do day trips and stuff.
I have kids now, so things have changed.
So then this was early in your career.
This was nine years ago.
Yeah, I had only been flying for a couple months.
So I was working a trip to Cancun.
Caribbean flights are just crazy.
People are going on vacation.
And so that's just a thing as a flight attendant.
You know, if you're going to Florida or the Caribbean, you're in for an interesting crowd. On boarding, I had a man who came on board in first class
with a sombrero that was so large, it wouldn't fit in the overhead bin. So I had to put his
sombrero in the closet where our wheelchairs are supposed to be stowed. That's just the
type of flight that we're on. We call these flights turns. That means you just go to the
city, you turn around, you come right back home. So it's just that we're on. We call these flights turns. That means you just go to the city,
you turn around, you come right back home.
So it's just a one day trip.
We had already flown into Cancun
and dropped off those passengers and got new passengers.
And we were flying back to base from Cancun.
And really quick, just tell me the shift in vibe,
because when people are going there, they're so excited.
They may be a little drunk before they can get on the plane.
They coming home, they're just completely rung out,
there's sunburn, what's the vibe?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
It's the same as working Vegas.
Going to, you're running out of liquor,
your drawers are empty, you're going back to the carts.
It's the same with the Caribbean.
And then coming home, everyone's like, I need more water.
Please, just get me water, water coffee.
You're not serving drinks.
You need to keep electrolytes on those flights for sure.
Yes, that would be very helpful.
Okay, so we are in the phase of flight
where it's 10,000 feet and the captain gives us
the double ding, so we go to stand up to set up our carts.
We're setting up our carts in the back galley,
and all of a sudden this passenger collapses
backwards out of the lap.
So we hadn't seen him go in, he had,
but we were just setting up the carts and stuff.
He was luckily fully clothed, like a gentleman probably
in his mid to late 60s, and a kind of bigger guy.
And he just fell out of the lap into the galley floor.
One thing to witness, by the way,
a body flying through that door,
I feel like that would be very comedic.
I'm new.
You just get out of training with all this experience
and they always tell you like anything that can happen
on the ground can happen on the plane.
So like our medical training has to be pretty decent,
but I obviously like lose all of it.
The only thing I can remember is like they tell me to say,
my name's Jamie, I'm a flight attendant.
Like, I'm a flight attendant.
And he's not coming to, he is breathing.
He's just unconscious.
And so flight attendant who's with me, she leaves to go get medical equipment, which is her role in this situation.
And she tells flights on the front who's been communicating with the pilot,
which is all of our procedure to let them know we're having a medical emergency.
But I'm just in the back with this guy.
Reminding him of your name every few seconds.
Just trying to check on him.
Also, there's one detail I need clarification on.
If you guys were just setting up and this happened,
clearly he got up before the double ding.
Like he needed to get to the bathroom
as soon as you took off.
That's right.
So they call for a doctor,
and I'm still just like kneeling
next to this guy on the floor of the galley.
And thank God, this barefooted man comes running down
the aisle to me and I'm like, oh my gosh, a doctor.
Thank you.
And I'm looking at him and he's the man who would come
on board with the sombrero.
Oh.
And he's barefoot?
Are you sure you're a doctor?
But beggars can't be choosers.
I was just so grateful to have company.
He could have been like anybody.
And so he kneels at this guy's head and he's checking for a pulse.
And slowly this guy is like coming back too.
So a minute or so into this, his wife comes back.
So I guess she realized, oh, he got up to go to the bathroom.
They called for a doctor.
He's still not back.
So she comes back and she's like, oh no.
And she said, oh, he's had Montezuma's
and he's been vomiting for days.
And so I think that he has fainted.
He's not been able to keep anything down.
And so the doctor's like, oh, okay, okay, Montezuma's.
The doctor's having me get him stuff,
like an orange juice and some galley wipes.
This guy's pretty sweaty and it's just like a lot of moisture and it seems to having me get a trash bag.
And I'm sitting there and it's getting increasingly more stinky.
OK, so it had started out getting smelly and I had been like, OK, you know, he fell out of the bathroom, whatever.
But it's just getting worse and it's getting worse.
And I look at the doctor and he looks at me
and he kind of nods like,
yeah, what you're thinking is what's happened.
And as that happens, the passenger looks up at me
and he says, ma'am, I thought I'd been passing gas,
but I think that more has been coming out.
That's the most delicate way to say I've shit myself. I thought I was passing gas but I do believe there was more.
So I am kneeling and have been kneeling at this guy's torso for the last 10 minutes and I realized the thing that I thought was moisture from this sweaty man is diarrhea.
Oh no!
And I am just sitting.
Hold on, hold on.
No you're sitting in it.
It's leaked out of his pants
and you were kneeling in it?
I was in a puddle of his diarrhea.
No!
Oh fuck.
Oh.
And you don't have like mops on board or anything, right?
I mean, where do we start?
Or a change of clothes probably.
Oh my God.
Yes, so I am sitting in this man's poop
and he realizes it and I realize it
and the doctor realizes it
and we're all just having this moment
and the wife's like, oh no.
And he looks up at me and he's so embarrassed.
Of course.
And he goes, I am so sorry.
And I just looked and I said, you know what?
Worst things have happened to me.
And in my head I'm thinking,
literally nothing worse has ever happened to me.
Like this is the worst thing that's ever happened,
but I'm trying so hard to make sure that he's feeling okay.
Kind white lie.
It was.
Oh, you should have seen my last flight.
Yeah, this happens all the time.
So just poop everywhere.
So I'm sitting in this man's poo.
So I go to stand up
and I look down and I'm in pantyhose. And from knee to ankle, it's just soaked,
just covered in this man's diarrhea. The doctor looks at the wife and is like,
do you guys have a change of clothes on board? And she's like, I think he has his swimsuit and
his book bag. And the doctor's like, yes, please go get that swimsuit. So he goes and gets it.
And the doctor's like, can we use this space? I'm going to get him cleaneduit. So he goes and gets it and the doctor's like,
can we use this space?
I'm gonna get him cleaned up.
I'm like, okay.
And as he's pushing me kind of into the aisle
and closing the galley curtain, he looks at me
and he says, don't touch anything.
So I'm just standing there
and there's all these passengers trying to get to the lab,
trying to use the restroom.
I don't wanna tell them
that I'm covered in this man's poop.
I don't wanna embarrass this them that I'm covered in this man's poop. You know, I don't want to embarrass this man.
And I know I smell.
The whole plane's probably starting to smell.
Of course.
Yeah, and so the guy gets cleaned up
and he goes back to his seat and the doctor calls me back
and he's like, are you comfortable with me
helping you get cleaned up?
And I'm like, please, I would let anyone
help me get cleaned up at this point.
So we closed the curtain and he's like, do you have a change of clothes? I'm a brand
new flight attendant on this day trip. So I just brought a tote bag. Now I will never,
ever go anywhere without at least two changes of clothing. And that's just like a good rule
of thumb, you know, delays and reroutes. Things can happen. Here I was, so naive, never thinking
I was going to get pooped on that day. So I had
nothing. I just had my uniform. Luckily, we wear flats on the airplane and we wear high heels in
the concourse. So we have our onboard shoes and our concourse shoes. And so I had my concourse
shoes. So I take off the flats, we throw those away. I put on my heels, I take off my panty hose.
And this guy looks at me and he's like, get all the vodka you can find. And so I'm going in all the carts
and pulling out the mini bottles of vodka.
And he just starts pouring vodka down my hands,
down my arms.
Oh, good for him.
He's scrubbing my legs.
Like my skin is raw.
Is this all running on the floor?
You guys are just like, fuck it,
we gotta make a mess back here.
Oh yeah.
I mean, I definitely, we're grateful to have the vodka
that's running onto the poop
because it's like all in the same space,
you know, like the puddle of diarrhea.
And the doctor had so graciously tried to clean that up.
This wasn't his first time getting pooped on, probably.
Right. Right.
At one point, we hit turbulence in the middle of this.
That was pretty moderate.
And I'm looking at this guy, I knew it.
So I keep thinking, oh no, I'm gonna get in trouble.
The seatbelt sign is on and this guy's out of his seat. And he actually told me he used to be a flight
doctor. Like his job had been on helicopters transporting patients after car accidents
and stuff. So he was like, this is nothing. I am always in turbulence. He got me all cleaned
up. But this whole thing had happened like at the first 20 minutes of the flight, as
it was happening, like I had been kneeling in it.
So like it was on my hands and I had gotten an orange juice
and I got pipped out like the whole galley.
I had touched with my poop hands.
At one point he was like, can he have some pretzels?
I don't know what cart, what bin.
My poop hands have touched everything.
And so I'm like trying to explain to the flight attendants
why there's no possible way we can do a service.
And when he had first fallen out, we still had carts out. We had pushed those back in
and then we had passengers who are mad at us because we're not going to make a PA.
Hey, someone pooped all over our supplies for today. So we borrowed water from the front.
I didn't. I was disgusting. I was covered in poop. And so I had to go into hiding. So we had been keeping the captain up to date on all of this
the whole time. And when we landed back to base, I'm the last one to get off because I'm like in
the back alley and I'd waited for everybody. Even as I'm getting off like the flight attendant,
they're all like keeping their distance. It was just the worst feeling.
And I turned the corner to the jet bridge. And there's a man standing there in a full hazmat suit.
He's there to escort me through customs
because I'm a biohazard, I'm covered in poop.
And so they have to take me through a special line.
It was an out of body experience, I don't even remember.
How long is the flight from Cancun to Atlanta?
Two hours.
Two hours. Two hours.
It must have smelled terrible.
What did the other flight attendants doing
to mitigate the smell?
They didn't wanna be involved in it.
I don't blame them, but we have kits
cause people vomit on airplanes.
That part does happen frequently.
So we do have ways to clean it up
and we do have supplies for that.
We had been able to Clorox it and all that.
It was mostly me.
Like I was the only one who hadn't been cleaned.
Oh.
Just my dress covered in poop.
It's also kind of comforting to know
that there's a team on the ground
ready to respond to a duty like that.
There's already people with hazmat.
What's the turnaround on cleaning up that plane?
Like they got to take it out of commission for a minute.
They have like a team that will come in
when something like that happens in the full outfit.
They did a very good job.
But at some point you need to remove the walls and stuff.
Like there needs to be a refurbishing.
Sometimes it's just a page one rewrite on these things.
Pull the carpet up, put new carpet down.
You know, we just walk around like we're super civilized
and then every now and then you know like,
well, we're still animals.
And the whole system just goes haywire on us animals sometimes.
Well, and it's like people who walk to the lab
without shoes on, you're just like, what are you thinking?
You know, like you don't even know.
Have you ever seen any fist fights on board?
No fist fights, I've seen someone get physical
with a flight attendant who got arrested,
but that was on the ground, thank God.
And then I had someone get arrested one time
for threatening my life on a plane. life on his timing was just bad. He just said it as he was getting out. There was already police
meeting the flight for his behavior, like on board the flight the whole time. And as
he was walking off the plane, he happened to look at the captain and say like, you're
lucky. I didn't choke out your flight. So now it's going to kill her. But the police
were right there. And if you do it on the airplane,
like Hattie said on the jet beret, she would have been fine,
but you can't threaten a crew member on board an aircraft.
Ah.
Is the main thing you're having to deal with
is people intoxicated?
Is that like the number one?
100%.
And also people take like Ambien while they're flying
and they get crazy?
They take something, they're nervous,
they don't realize, they mix it with maybe
the amount they would normally drink and they don't realize. they mix it with maybe the amount they would normally drink
and they don't realize.
Flying a car, you lose all of your control.
You have to listen to these flight attendants and pilots
and I get it, it's a complete loss of control
but that sometimes brings out the worst in people.
I'm impressed, you're a hero.
How often out of like 100 flights,
you identify someone before you take off
as being way too hammered and kick them off a flight?
Is that pretty regular or one in 100, one in a thousand?
Not that regular.
You know, there's a lot of like steps they get through
to get to us.
TSA should be like the first line of noticing
and then if not, then the gate agent.
And there's been times where like the gate agent comes,
I had this happen like a month ago where the gate agent's
like, hey, this guy, I'm not sure.
It's always a guy probably mostly.
No, you'd be surprised.
Girls get wild too.
Oh yeah.
I always say it's such a good job
because you just collect stories, not stress.
Even if it's horrible in the moment,
like you never see those people again.
Even if you don't like the flight attendant
you're working with, you never have to fly with them again.
Like we don't fly with the same people.
You just kind of collect these crazy stories
and occasionally you get pooped on.
I've been talked to.
I was on a flight where I was like,
I had gotten up and I was talking to someone else
and I was pretty tipsy.
And they said like, you gotta sit down.
You're starting to make people nervous.
And I was like, oh, the tone.
Like I was drunk, but I was like, oh, this is the tone
right before you get thrown off a flight.
Did you get defensive or did you?
No, no, I cooperated.
I knew it was, oh, I'm like, oh wow,
they're talking to me
like I've seen them talk to people.
Right, right, right.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
It's hard to navigate too.
You just don't know what people's limits are
or how they're gonna act or respond.
Wow.
I'm putting you up in the category of nurses
because I'm regularly like watching.
Our last dust-up was me like getting kind of protective
over a flight attendant.
When the guy was acting like he didn't know
what dark chicken was and all that.
I know, but he was just being a little rude.
I remember you telling that story
and I was so proud of you.
I was like, yes.
Ah.
But there's also so much time that we don't have a say
in the things they're mad at us about.
I can't control that they've asked me to do these things
or that the weather's bad.
People that will yell at you because we're not taking off because of the weather. I don't want to they've asked me to do these things or that the weather's bad. The people that will yell at you
because we're like not taking off because of weather.
I don't want to take off in bad weather.
Exactly.
You're like, I'm a person too.
He was a bad person probably.
Like he was not nice,
but it would have been way worse to have a huge altercation
in the middle of the first class cabin.
For her too, it would have been worse.
I wanna add a theme to the story,
which was also don't judge a book by its cover.
When I heard about the guy with the sombrero,
I'm like, this guy's a turkey.
Who fucking wears a hat too big
and everyone has to worry about stowing it for him.
And then he's the hero.
I know, and he was my hero and he was so nice.
And he had his shoes off,
cause I often look at someone taking their
Shoes off. I'm like you can't keep those on for another hour. Yeah. Yeah, he was having a good fight
He had had a good time in Cancun. I'm sure
Yeah, sounds like he deserved it. Oh
Jamie that was great. I'm so grateful to be here
I have to say my sister the first time she listens to your podcast like the very first one
She called me immediately after and she was like, you have to listen to this podcast.
Dax interviewed Kristen and it's so good. And so we've been listening since day one
because of my job. I'm always like in a different place and with different people. And I swear
I was an armchair ambassador at the beginning. I'd be like any crew, any jump seat I was
in like, have you guys heard of this podcast? It's called Armchair Experts. It's really
great. And it's been really cool
because now you're on our in-flight entertainment.
I was on a flight the other day and you guys are there
and I just thought, oh my gosh, this is so full circle.
I have loved you guys from the beginning
and so I'm really proud of you guys
and proud to be a part of that experience.
Oh, thank you.
Keep proselytizing, urge people to check it out.
I've seen it on a flight
and it makes me really,
really proud.
I'm like, yeah, you guys should listen to that one.
Oh, well Jamie, what a pleasure getting to meet you
and great story, thank you so much.
Thank you guys, have a great day.
All right, take care.
Oh wow, a lot of stuff happens up in those friendly skies.
Sure does.
When you poop yourself up there, that's the worst.
I feel bad for him.
I'm lucky that it didn't happen to me
on that flight home from Qatar, or rather Kuwait,
that I didn't fall out of the bathroom
because I was bending over and sitting down
and bending over and sitting down.
I could have easily.
Awful, awful.
I was passing gas and I think more came.
Oh, that's sad.
And it makes it worse that he's in his 60s, I think.
I know, and there's like pretty young girls
sitting in your diarrhea, your harness. If you're in his 60s. I know there's like pretty young girls sitting in your diarrhea your harness
Oh, if you're in your 20s, you're like, I'm sorry. I'm a mess. But yeah 60s you're supposed to have your shit together
Figuratively and literally. Oh, that was a good that was a good time. I love you. Love you
Do you wanna sing a tune or something?
Okay, great.
We don't have a theme song for this new show
So here I go, go, go
We're gonna ask some random questions
And with the help of our cherries
We'll get some suggestions
On the flyer, rhyme-dish
On the flyer, rhyme-dish
Enjoy