GMM 115: Panic Attack on a Plane

our plane ride back calls the panic attack I’m Jackie from Omaha Nebraska let’s talk about that good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by Blue Microphones we’re using the snow balls today to speak into and to speak with you we will not be throwing it we will only be speaking into it we are back I’ve got this lockjaw Oh kind of thing on one side I felt like that only this time my mouth can open where you want me to I can I can slap you on the right side to the left side and straighten it out if I do start talking like this just grab my lower jaw and you start working it as if you don’t do that needed to be lubed or something put some wd-40 on it or something I’m not gonna kill you oh we’re back in California and you know it’s this this is with the saddle it’s an Aerosmith song that’s really just kind of I’m in a folding chair I don’t see you you’re not in a saddle E so you’re also in a folding chair I am lying to the people thanks for watching our commencement address on our main channel if you haven’t watched it it’s never too late to go back and watch that it’s 18 minutes but it flies by thanks to all of you who supported our time in North Carolina enjoyed GMM from the road but now as I said we are back we had to take a plane back we did I would like on this episode to talk about that plane ride and some things that I think I’m learning about myself and I’m curious to know about you oh you’re curious about me again huh after all these years you’re curious about me again yeah it’s the newness of being in a familiar place creates curiosity amongst friends put that on a t-shirt hey well kind of worrying probably would be a horrible t-shirt so what so we had the direct flight back of course I have my family and tell my wife Christy and my kids yeah I left my wedding band there’s another another point of housekeeping I left my wedding band back at home one went to North Carolina link always leaves his wedding band behind when he travels it’s just kind of it’s kind of his thing know what in it I was playing it’s horrible it’s not true I’m joking I was playing a three-year-old in a sketch that we were shooting that you’ll see later can you roll well he turns three I just turned three so halfway through the sketch anyway I have to take my wedding band off because three-year-olds don’t wear those and mineral to it I hit it amongst Lincoln’s Legos and then I forgot it was there until I had already gotten on the plane yeah anyway your Excuse I’m talking about the plane ride back now we take a plane ride back my wife you know she understands and I do have the band back on yeah I have my kids with me and you have your wife and and kids yes you so you give us nine of us together that travel by air and if you didn’t notice there’s not a row in a plane that has nine seats usually I mean 19 planes I’ve been on know so finding a way for us to sit together when all our seats were all over the place we caused a bit of a scene you know save that for later but I was separated from my family the bottom line is I ended up sitting next to an old dude who was kind of really banned and your family dude no cuz my kids wanted to be next to mama you know they got to be next to mama so they can go to sleep and they feel comforted so they put daddy up next this old dude who was just sleeping with his mouth open all time but his head wasn’t making contact with the seat he had the hover head he could hover dead here’s his latest and I felt like it didn’t wobble I felt like I should just push him back a little bit just so he would rest cuz it was making me nervous cuz you didn’t sleep on a plane yeah now I was sleeping on the plane Lily, Lincoln and Locke you’re somewhere in the seat behind me they were sleeping Locke was there lot moved back to where they were sleeping and then Lando is Lando my two-year-old is sleeping between me and Christy so I’m against the thing and we’re you know I’m sleeping it’s probably been at least an hour yes Lando is gonna sleep five hour flight and then all of a sudden that’s my grass my hand I’m like could be one of two people I’m thinking of I’ll take a coke no I realize you know I kind of grog doubt of the sleepiness and I rose it’s Christy leaning over Lando towards me she says I need you to talk to me like once you have a relationship moment no no she said I want to connect with you right now she said I’m having a panic attack well and then I started to realize as I was like coming to out of my sleepiness that that we were experiencing quite a bit of turbulence where you I was I was I was angle headed okay good I was against the that doesn’t make me I didn’t notice there was that much turbulence going on there now I remember this because I can’t you all know this if you watch good mythical morning I can’t sleep on a plane I’m like seven feet long six foot seven but you might as well be seven feet tall I can’t sleep and there was some intense turbulence especially in one section I was like you know you kind of had to like I kind of have like grab onto something but I wasn’t awake enough when she said I need you to talk to me to process what was going on so my first inclination was to laugh I was like if this must be some sort of a joke I need you to talk to you know that’s sweet ha ha ha what and then I look in her eyes in his long deep-seated fear now also joined a little bit of anger towards her husband Oh like you’re not feeling from me in this moment so I grab her hand and I say just put on some headphones and watch that television oh my back to sleep but I like my eyes closed a little bit I wasn’t awake all the way but then bitten it shook again I look over and realize it she would actually what it’s not joking she was having a panic attack so I reach and I get the barf bag I don’t know what to do well you could have just comforted her well I said I said breathe I said breathe through your nose and my my old baseball coach Ken Crowe he used to say this whenever I get winded yeah cuz I couldn’t run like he would say breathe in through your nose breathe out through your mouth no I already got that cuz he was a cut-off date coach he was my cutoff date coach she’s my Facebook though yeah so he knew about that inner self Christy breathe in through your nose breathe out through your mouth and I think that did help a little bit and I was talking to her while I was telling her these things so she actually just called it karate and then it kind of smoothed out and I went back to sleep and everybody was happy everybody’s alive got my wedding ring back marriage isn’t more than intact there’s no hard feelings don’t worry about me but it occurred to me that my reaction in those situations to turbulence is the polar opposite of Christy’s yeah you know when she loses he’s commenting like they actually comforts you well no it doesn’t cover me but I’m just like I have no control over this I might as well just go to sleep and die in my sleep I guess is what I was thinking so when you were experiencing the turbulence did you experience fear mmm fear um I mean yeah I mean my fear dial you know if it blips a little bit I mean yeah I don’t think I think only if you were you know dense or a monkey or something would you not have a little bit of fear and that’s see you don’t have any control over it you might as well not fear it your just accept it well you got to get there first I mean the first thing when I’m sitting there I’m reading I’m doing one of the seven things that I did repeatedly doing to make it through the flight playing games and reading books and I think I was reading a book at the time and it’s you know okay hold on I’ll be honest with you the first thing that always goes through my mind when there’s intense turbulence is is the plane going to rip in half like on lost because you know that’s what happened on lost that’s the video opening episode of music thing just snaps in half like a pretzel and it was the pilot episode so that’s also cool get it pilot yeah that’s I wasn’t thinking that so it kind of in my mind like how much torque would we have to experience too for this thing to snap in half and then would I be separate I actually thought about this would I be separated from my family what I don’t know others they were eight rows back like when my family end up being like the others and then I would be like your base camp you thought about this yes and here’s my question because I think that would suck if my kids and my wife were of the others and I was at base camp it would wreck but it would make a great television show yeah I don’t think about any of that I’m just like I’m just gonna go back to sleep I mean there’s nothing in the placard that tells you what to do when the plane trips apart anyway I’ve looked at it when Lando before he went to sleep before we took off I pulled off the placard and I said oh count the planes find the kids and then I realized it was kind of morbid that he’s like pointing out kids with like oxygen masks on yeah he has no idea what’s going on find the kid that’s panicking and in a near-death situation it’s in this entertaining that’s all a placard is for me it’s not something to help me err and even if it was it wouldn’t prepare you for that lost situation so for me I would like to think that I am Jason Bourne that I would be prepared but I’m coming to grips of the fact that when my wife looks me in the eyes and I’m ill-equipped to help her that I am Jason Bourne I am I am ill prepared to the point right it’s just I’m just gonna go to sleep zombie character sounds like I maybe I need counseling Jason Bourne do you study the placards and know about the evacuation routes let me know in the comments do you know do you have a Jason Bourne type of contingency plan and I mean for real don’t don’t give me that I’m red and I know everything really do you know well I thought about this because people went in in emergency situations people look to the tall people studies show this could wait I can see they find the tallest person because they think that tallest person is gonna be able to do something it’s like is there a no I’m not gonna what is there a tall person in the house yeah I am not capable of many things yeah I think about a lot of things I don’t do a lot of things well but I’m very tall and so I know that people will expect me to do great things and mert in emergency situations so when you were thinking through the plane ripping apart did you come up with a contingency plan a Jason Bourne moment no but I did the end ins I did think beyond the plane ripping apart and if we had to do like a water landing or we had to do an emergency landing and then an exit I was really close to the exit row my kids were in the back and I thought should I let hover head out you see I was thinking I didn’t think about this I got to get into the aisle so hover head can get out and go out and then I got to get back in the eye away from my kids to come because I can’t just go out leave my kids in the back of the plane but hover ahead really screwed the whole thing up because I’ve got to get into the aisle to get laid you know I thought about that a little bit but you didn’t you didn’t think about a minute to reach your conclusion because what are the chances that we’re gonna wreck well that makes me feel better you know I write the chances are so low but somebody should be thinking about it pilot I appoint you to think about in the flight attendants you’re taller than me so yeah you think of at least things listen if we get into a bad situation just looked at me I’m tall I’ll figure something out but if your wife or your loved one says she’s having a panic attack just hand her a bar she didn’t use it but I gave it to her you know the irony and exercises really helps as we in this episode the ironic thing is I’m too tall to be in the military why would people look I can’t even be in the military Utley 6 4 you can’t be a really 6 4 I mean you can’t be a pilot but can you not be in the military that’s true get me over 6 Lord I can’t be in the Marines he can Jason had to be in the Marines I can’t be honest I can’t be honest up yeah too tall for a sub C submarine so what good am i and you can’t be a fighter pilot alright we’re gonna to news reporters in a hurry oh here we go thanks for having this and suggesting and on Facebook or Twitter or wherever the heck you suggested it was blown this way oh hello this is liqui montt and reporting from the eye of the OE yeah we’re in the heights Oh totally calm in the hurricane here baby won’t you have to talk now when you’re hurrying we’re in the eye now though oh you may be wondering why my hair is not moving at all that’s because I use Gorillaz not Joe no it’s go away doesn’t really need to be two of us no in fact okay there he goes all right I’ve been I’ve been looking for this gig for a while [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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