Panic Attack on a Plane

our plane ride back caused a panic. attack I'm Jackie from Omaha Nebraska. let's talk about. [Music]. [Applause]. that good mythical morning today episode. is brought to you by Blue microphones. we're using the snowball 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 in the saddle again.

and we're back in the saddle. again I've got this lock jaw kind of. thing on one side I feel like that only. this side of my mouth can open well you. want me to I can I can slap you on the. right side or the left side and. straighten it out if if it's some point. I just start talking like this just grab. my lower jaw and just start working it. as if it needed to be lubed or something. put some WD40 on it or something I'm not. going to that'll kill you we're back in. CL and you know it's this this is the.

saddle it's an neros Smith song well. it's really just kind of a I'm in a. folding chair I don't see you're not in. a saddle it's so you are also in a. folding chair I am quit lying to the. people thanks for watching our. commitment address on our main Channel. if you haven't watched it's never too. late to go back and watch that it's 18. minutes but it flies by uh thanks to all. of you who supported our time in North. Carolina and enjoyed GMM from the road. but now as I said we are back we had to. take a plane back 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. it's the newness of being in a familiar. Place creates curiosity amongst friends. put that on a t-shirt it's well kind of. wory and probably would be a horrible. t-shirt so we're so we had the direct. flight back of course I have my family. and to my wife Christy and my and my. kids uh yeah I left my wedding band. here's another another point of. housekeeping I left my wedding band back.

at home when we 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 no what and 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 two-year-old well he he. turns three he does turn three so. halfway through the sketch anyway I had. to take my wening band off because. three-year-olds don't wear those I I hit. it amongst Lincoln's Legos and then I. forgot it was there until i' had already.

gotten on the plane anyway excuse I'm. talking about the plane ride back now we. take the plane ride back my wife you. know she understands and I do have the. band back on yep I have my kids with me. and you have your wife and your kids. with you so there's nine of us together. that travel on by air and if you didn't. notice there's not a row in a plane that. has nine seats usually I mean not in any. planes I've been on no so finding a way. for us to sit together when all our our. seats were all over the place we caused.

a bit of a scene we'll save that for. later but I I was separated from my. family the bottom line is I ended up. sitting next to an old dude who was kind. of you abandon 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 to this old. dude who was just sleeping with his. mouth open the whole time but his head. wasn't making contact with the seat he. had the hover head he had a hover head. it was just like this.

and I felt like I wobble I felt like I. should just push him back a little bit. just so he would rest because it was. making me nervous cuz you can't sleep on. a plane yeah now I was sleeping on the. plane lilan Lincoln and lo your son were. in the seat behind me they were sleeping. lock was there lo moved back to they. were sleeping and then Lando Lando my. 2-year-old is sleeping between me and. christe so I'm against the thing and we. you know I'm sleeping it's probably been. at least an hour since Lando's going to. sleep 5 hour flight and and then all of.

a sudden somebody grabs my hand and I'm. like could be one of two people I'm. thinking I was like I'll take a Coke and. then uh no I realized you know I kind of. grogged out of the sleepiness and I. realized it's Christy leaning over Lando. towards me she. says I need you to talk to me I'm like. what was she having a relationship. moment no no she said I want to connect. with you right now she said I'm having a. panic attack and then I started to. realized as I was like coming to out of.

my sleepiness that there we were. experiencing quite a bit of turbulence. now were you hover heading or were you I. was I was I was anglehead okay good I. was against the uh that doesn't make me. I didn't notice there was that much. turbulence going on 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 s feet well. I'm 6' s but you might as well be 7t. 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 like grab on to. 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 it. this must be some sort of a joke I need. you to talk to me oh that's sweet what. and then I look in her eyes and it's. this deep-seated fear now U also joined. with a little bit of anger towards her. husband like you're not feeling for me. in this moment so I I grab her hand and. I say just put on some headphones and.

watch that television then I went back. to sleep or like my eyes closed a little. bit I wasn't awake all the way but then. but then it shook again and I look over. and I realize that she actually was not. joking she was having a panic attack so. I I reach and I get the barf bag I don't. know what to do well you could have just. comforted her well I I said breathe I. said breathe through your nose and my my. old baseball coach Ken Crow he used to. say this whenever I get winded yeah cuz. I couldn't run a lot he would say. breathe in through your nose breathe out.

through your mouth you know where he got. that cuz he was a karate coach he was my. karate coach he was my baseball coach. yeah so he knew about the inner so I. told chrisy 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 he actually just. called it karate I just and then it it. kind of smoothed out and I went back to. sleep and everybody was happy. everybody's alive got my wedding ring. back uh marriage is 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. christe's you know when she's loses. control of a situation like it actually. comforts you well no it doesn't comfort. 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 I so when you were. experiencing the turbulence did you. experience. fear fear um I mean yeah I mean my fear. dial.

you know it B it blipped a little bit I. mean I don't I think only if you were. you know dense or a monkey or something. would you not have a little bit of fear. in that situ if you don't have any. control over it you might as well not. fear it you just accept it well you got. to get there first I mean the first. thing 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 was you know and I like okay. hold on I'll be honest 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 opening episode I mean. 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 went. to my mind like how much torque would we. have to experience to for this thing to. snap in half and then would I be SE I. actually thought about this would I be.

separated from my family would I be on. the other they were eight rows back like. would my family end up being like the. others and then I would be like a base. camp you thought about this yes and. here's my question because I think and. that would suck if my kids and my wife. were the others and I was at base camp. it would R but it would make a great. television show yeah I don't think about. any of that I'm just like I'm just going. to go back to sleep I mean there's. nothing in the placard that tells you. what to do when the plane rips apart. anyway I've looked at it when Lando. before went to sleep before we took off.

I pulled out 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 in at in a near-death. situation isn't this entertaining that's. all a placard is for me it's not. something to help me prepare 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. unborn I am I am ill prepared to the. point where I just oh just I'm just. going to go to sleep it's like a zombie. character it sounds like I maybe I need. counseling Jason unborn do you study the. placards and know about the evacuation. routs let me know in the comments do you. know do you have a Jason born type. contingency plan and I mean for real. don't don't give me that I'm and I know. everything really do you know well I.

thought about this because people when. in in emergency situations people look. to the tall people study show this well. they can see your they find the tallest. person because they think the tallest. person is going to be able to do. something it's like is there a is there. a tall person in the house yeah I am not. capable of many things I can 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 in in emergency situations. so when you were thinking through the.

plane ripping apart did you come up with. a contingency plan a Jason Bourn. moment no but I did think 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 see I was. thinking I didn't thinking about this I. got to get into the aisle so. kids in the back of the plane but hover.

head really screwed the whole thing up. because I've got to get into the aisle. to get let you know I thought about that. a little bit but you didn't you didn't. think about it enough to reach a. conclusion cuz what are the chances that. we're going to wreck well that makes me. feel better you know I right the chances. are so low but somebody should be. thinking about it I I appoint you to. think about it and the flight attendants. you're taller than me so yeah you think. about these things listen if we get into. a bad situation just look to 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 barf bag. she didn't use it but I gave it to her. you know the ironic breathing exercis. has really helped as we end 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 really 6'4 you. can't be a really 64 I mean you can't be. a pilot but can you not be in the. military that's true you can't be over. 64 I can't be in the Marines he can J. can't be in me I can't be on a I can't.

be on a sub too tall for a sub yeah. that's true see I can't be on a. submarine so what good am I and you. can't be a fighter pilot all right we're. going to two news reporters in a. hurricane thanks for adding this one. suggesting it on Facebook or Twitter or. wherever the heck you suggest it's blown. this way oh hello this is link Lamont. and Reporting from the eye of the oh. yeah we're in the eyes totally calm of. the hurricane you may be one you have to. talk loud in your Hur we're in the eye. now though oh you may be wondering why.

my hair is not moving at all and that's. because I. use Gorilla. Snot. Joel oh now let going the other way. no does there really need to be two of. us oh fact okay there he goes all right. I've been I've been looking for this gig. for a. [Music]. while.

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