WEBVTT - How to Survive a Plane Crash

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<v Speaker 1>It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know?

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<v Speaker 1>From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, welcome to the podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Stuff you Should Know. And I'm Josh Clark

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<v Speaker 1>and that's Chuck Bryant, Right, Chuck. That's a very formal introduction. Josh,

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<v Speaker 1>I like it said, I'd loosen up a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>made you're good. Check you remember we're talking about like

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<v Speaker 1>the worst way to die in a podcast several podcast back,

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<v Speaker 1>and uh, I said, for me, the worst way to

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<v Speaker 1>die would be a plane crash, right, because you're on

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<v Speaker 1>your way down and you're fully aware of the whole time,

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<v Speaker 1>probably of what's about to happen. I can't think of

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<v Speaker 1>anything worse than dying in a plane crash with a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of strangers. Yeah, you know, you don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>die with people you don't know. Um, okay. So one

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<v Speaker 1>of the reasons I said that was because I've had

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<v Speaker 1>a terrible experience on a plane and nothing really untoward happened,

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<v Speaker 1>Like there wasn't a lot of turbulence or anything like that. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>but I I know it the hard way that I'm

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<v Speaker 1>actually afraid of flying. Most of the time. When I fly,

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<v Speaker 1>it's too you know, if I fly at all, it's

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<v Speaker 1>to Europe or to Mexico or something like that. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>so it's a long flight, I'll take a callot of

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<v Speaker 1>pin and you know, drink some Scotch and then that's it.

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<v Speaker 1>I wake up and I'm where I'm supposed to be.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like a time travel machine to you pretty much. Yeah, so, um,

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<v Speaker 1>and it works like a champ right. Um. But the

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<v Speaker 1>thing is that I'm never conscious or at the very

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<v Speaker 1>least cognizant or you know, doing anything but drooling the

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<v Speaker 1>whole way right. Well, on the way back actually from Mexico,

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<v Speaker 1>we had to lay over in Miami. I had no

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<v Speaker 1>pharmaceuticals and uh I didn't have I think it was

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<v Speaker 1>a cash flight, cash bar flight. I didn't have any money. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>what's the point. I just shelled out like half of

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<v Speaker 1>my life savings for this flight from Miami to Atlanta.

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<v Speaker 1>And you can't give me liquor for free, right right?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? So anyway, this this perfect storm of horribleness

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<v Speaker 1>transpires and I'm in the air and all the way

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<v Speaker 1>from Miami to Atlanta. Um, I'm I'm just completely convinced

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<v Speaker 1>over and over again, the plane's about to go down, right,

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<v Speaker 1>And I was actually looking up how fear works, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and I found out that when you have a fear response,

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<v Speaker 1>there's two things going on. Number one is this real

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<v Speaker 1>quick knee jerk reaction that alerts you to danger, and

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<v Speaker 1>our old friend fighter flights and um um fight or

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<v Speaker 1>flight response perks up. And then you've got a more

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<v Speaker 1>thoughtful process that takes a little longer, that's really analyzing

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<v Speaker 1>context and stuff like that. And then if it if it,

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<v Speaker 1>if it concludes you're not in danger, it tells your

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<v Speaker 1>your hypothalamus to settle down, be rational, right, and then

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<v Speaker 1>you calm down. But this kept happening over and over

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<v Speaker 1>and over again. So for three hours, it was like

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<v Speaker 1>every twenty seconds I was cresting the hill of a

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<v Speaker 1>roller coaster. It was one of the worst things that

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<v Speaker 1>ever happened to me. So a lesson learned. As far

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<v Speaker 1>as I'm concerned, I'll never travel. I'm prepared again. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>But but it turns out from what I understand, that

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<v Speaker 1>the chances of me actually going down in a plane,

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<v Speaker 1>but this isn't These facts and figures don't make me

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<v Speaker 1>feel any better at all. But rationally speaking, I have

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<v Speaker 1>a very little chance of going out on a plane,

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<v Speaker 1>don't yeah about you want another number? Are you speculating? No? No, no,

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<v Speaker 1>I know that. You know I was setting you up

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<v Speaker 1>right there. Yeah, that's a good one. UM. I appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 1>Your chances of dying, I'm sorry, no, I'm dying. Your

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<v Speaker 1>chances of even being involved than an airline crash, um

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<v Speaker 1>are one in eleven million. Uh And when you compare

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<v Speaker 1>that to your chances of actually been killed in a car,

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<v Speaker 1>And this is the one you always hear airline versus

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<v Speaker 1>car or one in five thousand. But for some reason,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm not driving the plane,

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<v Speaker 1>so I have no control over its a car. It's

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<v Speaker 1>I can maybe steer my way out of it. You think, well,

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<v Speaker 1>that's one of the big reasons. It's not me thinking this.

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<v Speaker 1>It's you know, people have studied this, and the lack

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<v Speaker 1>of control has a huge uh part at place, UM

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<v Speaker 1>as well as the fact that UM negative bias. So

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<v Speaker 1>a plane crash gets a lot a lot of coverage,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, so it seems like they're dropping out of

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<v Speaker 1>the sky with regularity because they don't you know cover

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<v Speaker 1>the news. The news didn't cover car crashes like now,

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<v Speaker 1>you're definitely not going to see that in the NBC

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<v Speaker 1>Nightly News. That's true. I've got I've got another another

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<v Speaker 1>way of looking at it. Um, with numbers. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>know you would have to fly on an airline every

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<v Speaker 1>day for thirty five thousand years to be guaranteed up

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<v Speaker 1>to that you're going to be in a plane crash?

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<v Speaker 1>That isn't to becoming evidence. That is an awesome, awesome staff.

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<v Speaker 1>That one came from air disaster dot com and um,

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<v Speaker 1>that is a site that I would never recommend anyone

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<v Speaker 1>go to if you have a fear of flying, because

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<v Speaker 1>you don't because you sin, well, yeah exactly. I like

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<v Speaker 1>to fly and it doesn't freak me out at all.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually I don't like to fly. I hate to fly,

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<v Speaker 1>but has nothing to do do with fear of crashing. What

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<v Speaker 1>is just the long process of it? Yeah, the process,

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<v Speaker 1>and I hate that and being stuck on the plane

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<v Speaker 1>next to people and uh, touching strangers and people are

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<v Speaker 1>obnoxious and the smells and I just hate it. Man.

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<v Speaker 1>I think you're at a club, rubber, how you don't

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<v Speaker 1>like to touching strangers? No, all right, well, good to

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<v Speaker 1>know you see a little by the little club rubber.

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<v Speaker 1>I've never heard that. Oh, I'll explain it later, okay, um,

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<v Speaker 1>so okay, well, all right, we understand that there's very

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<v Speaker 1>little chance that you're going to get into a plane rack,

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<v Speaker 1>but they still happen. It does happen. Some people have

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<v Speaker 1>a much closer relationship with fate and coincidence and chance

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<v Speaker 1>than others. So let's say one of our listeners finds

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<v Speaker 1>himself for herself in a plane that's going down. There's

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<v Speaker 1>some things that you may or may not want to do.

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<v Speaker 1>And actually before you even board, when you're booking a

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<v Speaker 1>tap you made, there's some stuff you want to take

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<v Speaker 1>into consideration, right, very true? Well like what uh, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>before we get to that real quick, people should know

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<v Speaker 1>just because your plane crashes doesn't mean you'll die either,

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<v Speaker 1>just so reassuring I know. Uh. In fact, between nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty and two thousand, there were five six crashes in

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<v Speaker 1>the US and more than of them survived. That's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>Most of these, I have to say this, we're take

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<v Speaker 1>off and landing crashes, but of the twenty six extreme crashes,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think that means you're at thirty three thousand

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<v Speaker 1>feet and then you go to zero feet. Uh, you

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<v Speaker 1>have more than fifty chance of surviving that. Even I

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<v Speaker 1>would lose my mind. Yeah, I would lose my mind

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<v Speaker 1>as I was walking away from that, you would. So.

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<v Speaker 1>Having said that, if you are on a plane and

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<v Speaker 1>you're a fan of ours and you're going down, we

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<v Speaker 1>feel very bad for you. But future you unless you're

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<v Speaker 1>actually listening to this on a plane that's going down.

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<v Speaker 1>If so, hats off to you. Right, you've really achieved

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<v Speaker 1>the you know, I don't know what the other two

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<v Speaker 1>things are, but near the other one. The first thing

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<v Speaker 1>most people want to find out about is there the

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<v Speaker 1>safest seat? Yeah? And is there? Well, it depends on

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<v Speaker 1>who you ask. If you ask the f a A,

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<v Speaker 1>their official stances, No, there's not the safest seat exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I think is. They can't really say that

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<v Speaker 1>because people be like, I'm not sitting there, exactly. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to sit in anything but the safe seat. Exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a death seat. But people study this stuff

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<v Speaker 1>like you wouldn't believe. In popular mechanics, Great Magazine did

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<v Speaker 1>a study and over a thirty six year period, they

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<v Speaker 1>studied data plane crashes, commercial jet crashes um in the

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<v Speaker 1>United States, and passengers in the rear of a plane

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<v Speaker 1>are in fact, by their data, more likely to survive

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<v Speaker 1>than those in towards the front of the pretty significant. Yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so I guess any of you guys out there here

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<v Speaker 1>about a book plane tickets, look for the back of

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<v Speaker 1>the plane. Look for the back of the plane. The

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<v Speaker 1>people don't listen to this podcast die right. People like

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<v Speaker 1>sitting up front though, because you get the d board

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<v Speaker 1>is deep board? Is that a word? You get embarked?

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<v Speaker 1>This embarked off the plane quicker, and no one likes

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<v Speaker 1>standing in that long line or everyone down they also die,

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<v Speaker 1>Which one is it? You know you have to hear

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<v Speaker 1>bye bye b bye, like a few more times than

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<v Speaker 1>the people in the front. But you're going to survive

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<v Speaker 1>if the plane goes down. So I've got some tips

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<v Speaker 1>for you though, if you're on a plane before the

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<v Speaker 1>crash ever happens, there's a few things you can do

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<v Speaker 1>to improve your chances. Yeah, you're ready. Uh, this is

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<v Speaker 1>something Actually after I wrote this article, I started doing

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<v Speaker 1>this stuff. Oh yeah, man, definitely. I mean, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not a I don't believe in bad luck in jinxes,

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<v Speaker 1>But I thought I was jinxed I wrote this, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I thought I'm the guy that wrote the article, and

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<v Speaker 1>then I'm going to be the one, ironically that perishes,

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<v Speaker 1>you know from So once you're on board, get to

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<v Speaker 1>your seat, find the exit row. This is a no brainer.

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<v Speaker 1>But here's a little trick. What you want to do

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<v Speaker 1>is you want to count how many rows are between

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<v Speaker 1>you and the exit row and submit that number in

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<v Speaker 1>your head, even if you're hopped up on pharmaceuticals and scotch.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you count eleven rows to the exit row,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of times you might be in the dark.

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<v Speaker 1>You might be underwater, you know. Think about that. You

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<v Speaker 1>can feel the seats and feel one, two, three, five

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<v Speaker 1>up to eleven, and then you know you took a

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<v Speaker 1>left or right and you're at your exit right. And

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<v Speaker 1>don't be misled by you know, a detached arm. You

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<v Speaker 1>know if you're if you're in the dark, know the

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<v Speaker 1>difference between a detached arm and a plane seats right.

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<v Speaker 1>I did not put that tip in the article. I

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<v Speaker 1>should have. The crash position is changed over the years,

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<v Speaker 1>and not a lot of people know this. The did

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<v Speaker 1>you get an impression of why the crash position changed. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>my hope is that it's to make it more likely

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<v Speaker 1>that you'll survive. I doubt if I hope there weren't

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<v Speaker 1>politics or money behind it or anything like that. But

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<v Speaker 1>I think you used to put your head between your

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<v Speaker 1>legs and cover your between your knees and cover your head.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that's not true. What you're supposed to do is

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<v Speaker 1>you're supposed to extend your arms, uh, put your hands, um,

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<v Speaker 1>cross your hands over each other, and put them against

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<v Speaker 1>the seat, the seat back in front of you, and

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<v Speaker 1>then put your head against the back of your hands.

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<v Speaker 1>So you got your arms stretched out and I'm pressed

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<v Speaker 1>against seat in front of you and your head resting

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<v Speaker 1>on the back of your hands. That's the new official

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<v Speaker 1>crass position. Yeah. Now I can actually see the lobby

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<v Speaker 1>of the in Flight Magazine Publishers Association having that changed.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you're going down like wow, like can get

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<v Speaker 1>that for that cheap? I want to know who does

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<v Speaker 1>the artwork on those things. It's awesome. It's always the same,

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<v Speaker 1>and there's like there's probably one dude in Vermont that

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<v Speaker 1>does all that artwork. For one for the in flight

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<v Speaker 1>little brochure you get, Oh, the calm ist Hindu cows people.

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<v Speaker 1>The graphics. I love that that drawing, but yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's very Uh. Here's a little tip for you. Before

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<v Speaker 1>you get on the plane. You should dress appropriately. And

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<v Speaker 1>then that sounds silly. If you're going to Maui, you

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<v Speaker 1>want to have on your Hawaiian shirt and your flip flops.

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<v Speaker 1>But during after a plane crash, there's glass everywhere, there's

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<v Speaker 1>jet fuel, there's fire, You're gonna want to be covered.

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<v Speaker 1>So you should never wear open toad shoes. Um, you

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<v Speaker 1>should wear long sleeves and long sleeve shirt as well. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it makes sense if you're smart. Many people want hear

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<v Speaker 1>this advice though, because, like I said, they want to

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<v Speaker 1>be comfy on you know, the transcontinental flights. Uh. If

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<v Speaker 1>you if you have a family family, say you and

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<v Speaker 1>your wife have like three kids, three or four kids,

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<v Speaker 1>and you're getting on the plane, you want to divide

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<v Speaker 1>the responsibility up between the parents because it's a lot

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<v Speaker 1>harder for one like the father to try and wrangle

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<v Speaker 1>four family members. Uh, and you might get separated. So

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<v Speaker 1>Dad's in charge of little Timmy and Johnny, and mom's

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<v Speaker 1>in charge of Sue and uh Jane. Yeah, and if

0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.760
<v Speaker 1>you if you have a lazy spouse, you may want

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<v Speaker 1>to reconsider flying as a family. It's a good idea.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything maybe on your shoulders. Yeah, and uh, listen, and

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<v Speaker 1>this is a big one. Listen to the pre flight instructions.

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<v Speaker 1>And now that's typically I guess you're trying to get

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<v Speaker 1>your scotch Um. I'm annoyed with the people on both

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<v Speaker 1>sides of myself. But this is when you need to

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<v Speaker 1>be listening, because all planes are different, and there actually

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<v Speaker 1>are some variations and instruction depending on what kind of Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I actually, yeah, I thought it was all the same.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's a good advice now. And and if the

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<v Speaker 1>oxygen mass drops, you know you're in trouble, put it

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<v Speaker 1>on yourself first. And if you love your wife more

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<v Speaker 1>than life itself, you may have an instinct to put

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<v Speaker 1>it on her. But you have to save yourself first

0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.880
<v Speaker 1>before you can save any of anounced is the general thinking. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so those are those are starwinistic that last save yourself,

0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.120
<v Speaker 1>save yourself so you can save others. Right, Okay, well, Chuck,

0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.800
<v Speaker 1>as you were saying there, there's a substantial percentage of

0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.040
<v Speaker 1>people who are in serious crashes that have survived, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and one of them, uh was one one specific one

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<v Speaker 1>was made into a movie, One plane crash. Right, what

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<v Speaker 1>was it called Survive Alive? Yes, there's some I've I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's alive. Okay, the the Uruguayan rugby team. You

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<v Speaker 1>want to tell them about that? I well thought you

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<v Speaker 1>were okay, Well, actually he's your favorite there's your favorite story.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a great story. Um, and it's a great movie

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<v Speaker 1>to actually um this Uh, this Uruguayan soccer team probably

0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.640
<v Speaker 1>should have known a rugby team. I'm sorry, Um, they

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<v Speaker 1>probably shouldn't known. They were on a plane for Chili

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<v Speaker 1>and uh they were in the Andes Mountains, which is

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<v Speaker 1>like just the they should call those things the widow makers.

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<v Speaker 1>There's alwaysh yeah. Um. And it was Friday October, which

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<v Speaker 1>if there's a day to not fly, it's that day,

0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:13.839
<v Speaker 1>Friday the thirteenth in October. That's a bad day. Yeah, sorry, sure, yeah, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So their plane goes down, right, there's forty five people

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<v Speaker 1>on board. It's not just the rugby team, but there's

0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.200
<v Speaker 1>there's some others. Um and uh, basically for I think

0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:28.040
<v Speaker 1>seventy two days. Um, the survivors some of them slowly

0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.760
<v Speaker 1>died off. I think twelve initially died in the crash,

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<v Speaker 1>and then over the course of time, another ten died

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<v Speaker 1>over the next seventy two days. They didn't have any

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<v Speaker 1>food or anything, so they ended up very famously resorting

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<v Speaker 1>to cannibalism, which before they were they were finally find Yeah, well,

0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, I love canible ism um and uh, yeah,

0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:53.200
<v Speaker 1>the movie was alive. We hear rumors that there may

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<v Speaker 1>be a follow up documentary about it coming. They're unsubstantiated,

0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.719
<v Speaker 1>but keep an eye out for it. I think there

0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.120
<v Speaker 1>has been a previous documentary some point too. Yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 1>they just had like some some reunion I believe what

0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:09.839
<v Speaker 1>was the maybe reunion or something or reunion because a

0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.880
<v Speaker 1>lot of these guys are still alive and they reunited

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<v Speaker 1>for you know, I don't want to ever be around

0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.960
<v Speaker 1>you people again. To her, right, you know, exactly all right?

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<v Speaker 1>But okay, so what other what other things can you

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<v Speaker 1>do to you know, maybe stay alive besides campbell is

0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.200
<v Speaker 1>um unless you're forced to resort to it. Right, Well,

0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.280
<v Speaker 1>let's say your plane is crashed and you're on the ground.

0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:35.280
<v Speaker 1>The first ninety seconds is vital. The golden what they

0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.800
<v Speaker 1>call that golden time, and uh, airlines are are responsible

0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.680
<v Speaker 1>for getting everyone off in those ninety seconds. That's the

0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.800
<v Speaker 1>goal for the airline industry. Uh. So that's what you

0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.280
<v Speaker 1>really need to be concerned about. There's gonna be fire,

0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.400
<v Speaker 1>potentially jet fuel, nasty stuff burning, So you want to

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<v Speaker 1>get down low because the fumes from this stuff is

0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.000
<v Speaker 1>more likely to kill you than being burnt. Sure. Yeah,

0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.360
<v Speaker 1>so what are airplane and see covers made of. Yeah,

0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.240
<v Speaker 1>exactly nothing. You want to put in your pipe and smoke,

0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.000
<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. Um, So, you know you've

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<v Speaker 1>got all this nasty, toxic stuff in the air, so

0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.760
<v Speaker 1>you want to get low, just like it to teach

0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.600
<v Speaker 1>you at home, you know, stop dropping roll. Well I

0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.320
<v Speaker 1>think it's if you're on fire. Yeah, but they teach

0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.760
<v Speaker 1>you to get down to go under the smoke. The

0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.400
<v Speaker 1>same principle here. Uh. If you do make it off

0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.480
<v Speaker 1>the plane, which is the ideal scenario, you want to

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<v Speaker 1>get the heck away from there because it could blow up.

0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.240
<v Speaker 1>It could you know, any number of things could happen,

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<v Speaker 1>So you want to get as far away from the

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<v Speaker 1>plane as you can safely and get behind something. If

0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.000
<v Speaker 1>there's something there, there's you know, a huge rock or

0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.400
<v Speaker 1>a big tree. I mean, you just want to try

0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.000
<v Speaker 1>and shield yourself in case there's a big explosion, and um,

0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.960
<v Speaker 1>do not do not try and get your baggage off

0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.800
<v Speaker 1>your carry on bags. It's good. What if you have

0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.160
<v Speaker 1>your pet on board? H boy, you're asking the wrong guy.

0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.120
<v Speaker 1>I would try and save my pet, but they say, no,

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<v Speaker 1>matter what it is, leave it behind, it's not worth it.

0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.960
<v Speaker 1>And uh man, I didn't. I wasn't anticipating that. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>beer brush off the Luckily my pets don't fly, so

0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.360
<v Speaker 1>I want to ever have to, uh to deal with that.

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<v Speaker 1>They also say don't drink. I saw that and I

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<v Speaker 1>was no, I just can't. Okay, well I can't normal right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so that makes sense. I don't like to drink aboard

0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.080
<v Speaker 1>a flight. It kind of I don't know. I don't

0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.600
<v Speaker 1>like it so without the pressure, and maybe it's the

0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.840
<v Speaker 1>expense and those little bottles. I just I don't get

0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.360
<v Speaker 1>it to love those little bottles. Uh. They also say

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<v Speaker 1>not to inflate your life fest until um you're outside

0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.200
<v Speaker 1>the cabin, because yeah, I can restrict your movement, but

0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.800
<v Speaker 1>you don't want when you're running out of a plane

0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.480
<v Speaker 1>on fire. No, you don't want to be at the

0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.560
<v Speaker 1>exit and then your life fest gets hung on the

0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.800
<v Speaker 1>seat before the explosion. And I think, Uh, that's about

0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.400
<v Speaker 1>all the tips I have for you. You know, I

0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.600
<v Speaker 1>do have one more thing, chuck. Um. People who survived

0:16:53.680 --> 0:17:00.000
<v Speaker 1>plane crashes actually tend to um to uh score better

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<v Speaker 1>here on emotional quotient tests things like post traumatic symptoms

0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.199
<v Speaker 1>than people who have not been in plane crashes. They

0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.880
<v Speaker 1>actually scored significantly higher. Um. There was a old Dominion

0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:20.240
<v Speaker 1>University study of fifteen crash survivors across the United States,

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<v Speaker 1>and um, these people just basically had a more positive

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<v Speaker 1>outlook on life and didn't show the signs of stress

0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.520
<v Speaker 1>like these people who who served as the control control

0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.520
<v Speaker 1>group flew I think five times a year or more,

0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.920
<v Speaker 1>and who had never been in a plane crash. Um, yeah,

0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.760
<v Speaker 1>it makes sense. They theorized that it was because they've

0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.359
<v Speaker 1>been through this huge ordeal, and um, they kind of

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<v Speaker 1>learned not to sweat the small stuff. Seriously, it makes sense,

0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.320
<v Speaker 1>doesn't it. Um. And people again who had shown control,

0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.360
<v Speaker 1>who were in control, like you you were suggesting, they

0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.639
<v Speaker 1>actually hadn't the highest score of all if they thought

0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.520
<v Speaker 1>of themselves of having stayed in control or maybe help

0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.320
<v Speaker 1>somebody off the plane. Apparently, you just cannot have a

0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.840
<v Speaker 1>better outlook on life than if you've helped someone off

0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.800
<v Speaker 1>a burning plane when you survived a plane crash. Yes,

0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.840
<v Speaker 1>let's seek it out. I wish I knew what that feeling.

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of felt like yeah, kind of but at the

0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.520
<v Speaker 1>same time kind of like kind of not yeah exactly. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's just one more quickie, Josh. And people never let

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<v Speaker 1>these listeners go. I would be remiss if I didn't

0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.639
<v Speaker 1>say that. Um, try to stay calm. That's the number

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<v Speaker 1>one thing you can do because panic. Uh people can't

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<v Speaker 1>even unbuckle their seatbelt many times because they're in such

0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.520
<v Speaker 1>a state of panic. And uh, you know, stay calm.

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<v Speaker 1>If you can, Chuck, you may have just saved some lives. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>you should feel good about yourself. Well, you know, if

0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.479
<v Speaker 1>you have any plane crash survivors that survived because of

0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.160
<v Speaker 1>my advice, please let me know. And I might feel

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<v Speaker 1>like that guy that saved the person from the burning Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>talk about a positive outlook online. And before we let

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