October 14, 2024 • 8 mins
Jay was in Chicago over the weekend and had the worst flight home ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It has been like raining since Saturday and hasn't stopped.
It's like scattle here. So it is.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's it's been nasty. But it was cute at first
because Saturday we had a celebration of life for our
friend Mark and we got there around five or something
for thirty something like that. But anyway, and they started
the bonfire out in the backyard kind of early. Yeah,
I'm typically good to stay somewhere for a couple hours.
(00:27):
I leave, I come back at like three in the
morning to pick up Warren and our friend Jeff. And
shortly after I got home, about forty five minutes into
it is this loud, booming thunder thing like out of nowhere,
came out of nowhere. But at the celebration of life,
everybody was like, the reason it was cute for a
minute was it because everybody went, oh, that was Mark,
(00:49):
like because it was a sunny day and it was
super nice, and it was like, oh, and then it
wasn't cute anymore when it went on for thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh well, then let me restart my story by saying, hey,
Mark up above, thank you for what you did to
me on oh on Saturday, I'll explain you know. So
we last talked what Thursday? Yeah, Thursday. So after I
talked to you guys on Thursday, I went to the
airport with Sarah Douglas, the actress from Superman and Christmas
(01:20):
Prints and all of our friends. Sarah Douglass and we
flew to Chicago. From Chicago, we went to a town
called Naperville where we stayed, and then from Naperville, we
went on to do a charity event for the United
Way at Batavia at the Imagine Batavia where we showed
Superman two on the Midwest largest screen with a bunch
(01:40):
of fans. I got to see the movie, ask her
questions and get autographs and did this nice donation to
the United Way. So that was that was when I
That's why I was gone. And then Friday morning was
a little tough because I told her, well, NBC wants
to interview you in Chicago, and they want to have
you on live at six fifteen am. The other thing
(02:00):
is when you stay out near Naperville and Batavia, that's like, yes, Chicago, No,
it's like staying in Brighton. Yeah. Basically we were, like
I said, Sarah, we're basically going to be leaving Brighton
and going to Detroit, like that's how far it was
to downtown Chicago for a six fifteen interview on NBC
with Evrod who used to work at Channel four and yes, yes, yes,
(02:21):
and now is in is in Chicago. So had a
great yet, she had a great interview with him. We
had a good time in the city there, and then
we went back did that event. So on Saturday morning,
we're like, okay, so here's the lay of the land.
You have this autograph signing today that you're going to
do and that is happening from eleven to one. And
then I'm looking and I'm like, you know, there's a
(02:43):
five thirty flight home to Detroit, because our flight was
Sunday morning at nine am, and again leaving super early
to get to a nine am flight to get home
by noon. And then she had a thing yesterday out
in Utica.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You'd be so happy to get home on Saturday, and oh,
she was.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh, I'd love to be to get back to my
room and have a little glass of wine, and you know,
she's very English. I'm like, yes, that'd be great. So
I changed the flights. It was no cost to change
the flights, so I'm like, We got back to the hotel,
packed up our stuff, got in a nice, you know,
metro car, drove to the airport, checked in, no problems,
checked a couple bags, no problems. Sitting at the gate,
(03:20):
no problem. And then all of a sudden it went
from like boarding time at four fifty five to boarding
time at five point thirty, and then it went to
boarding time at six fifteen. Oh No, And all of
a sudden, we're sitting there for about an hour and
a half and then we finally get on the plane
because the other plane arrived from Detroit. And as we
got onto the plane, the flight attendant was like talking
(03:42):
to another flight attendant and she said, in all the
years I've worked for the airline, this was the longest
flight from Detroit to Chicago. So this big storm thing,
well you're talking about, Alison, with all this rain and
all these storms, this big thing developed kind of over
the water and stretched from Chicago to Detroit, the only
(04:05):
part of the country that had red and lightning and horrible.
So because that was such bad storms, the pilot left
Detroit and must have flew up to Canada and like
to Wisconsin and came back like it took them two hours,
which is normally a forty minute flight to avoid right right, right.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So then we get onto the plane and they pushed back,
and he says, sorry for the delay. We're just working
on a safe route to get to Detroit. Now I'm
on my phone looking at radar, going there is no
safe out to Detroit. There's nothing but red thunderstorms, high winds,
and turbulence between Chicago and Detroit. The world's shortest flight.
(04:48):
So he gets back on again and he says.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You say this, it's a forty five minute flight.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, well it is a forty five minute right, yeah,
under normal, under normal circuit. Right, So he says, he goes,
we're gonna drive around for a little bit. So for
like forty minutes, we just drove around on runways, listen,
not the airlines. So there were storms, drove and I
kept saying to myself, it's better than being in the
air circling.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So okay.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So then he says, we're gonna go to a special
parking deck that's here at Chicago O'Hare. And we drove
to what looked like a parking deck and there was
us in twelve other planes just parked there.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Don't love that lights came off.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You're allowed to get allowed to go to the bathroom,
get up, stretch your legs, walk around, just sitting there?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Is that still?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is that better?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Is that a better option than to just be in
the air all it? No?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, no, not going the air. But I mean clearly
you can't go in the air. So we're just we're
gonna sit in the car and wait.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, right? Is it better to just call it though?
And call it? Don't what though? They get everybody they
we're all getting hotels. No, yeah, that's what I'm asking. Yeah,
so I think it's not. I think after a three
hour delay, maybe they will call it. I don't know
what the rule is.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Okay, so time was all of this at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's hard to say because it's Chicago time. I mean
it was I don't know, Yeah, maybe five thirty six,
it's probably seven thirty now. It's like seven thirty now.
So he says, Okay, we cleared up some space and
we're gonna we're gonna do this. We're gonna do this,
and we're gonna head back to the runway. Flight attendants,
I'm gonna ask you to please clean everything up, and
(06:20):
flight attendants won't be getting up on the flight. So
so flight attendants were not allowed to stand on the
flight before we even took off, and could not stand.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Until we landed in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
To tell a guy like me this who has a
car at the airport, so it means I'm not drinking anything.
I'm responsible for actress Sarah Douglas and being like her guy,
so I gotta make sure like I'm tip top shape
and all this. So so he takes off and it
is turbulent for sure, and I mean within fifteen minutes,
he's like, we're gonna begin our descent. Well that descent
(06:55):
it was, by the way, this was about a fifty
five minute flight, so it's not like we flew for
two hours. I mean, he flew above this storm and
I was looking at the raid, so he went around
it and all that. But it looked like the reason
he left was because there was a patch of no
storm around the airport for a little while. And I
got nervous because I was on the aisle looking at
(07:15):
through the other guy next to me, who good lord,
ate every peanut with every finger he had, and and
through that window.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well you were a channel.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People that hold the peanut bag to their mouth and
keep hitting it like this when when you know there's
only eight peanuts in there. So I look out the
window and I'm like, my god, we've been turned like
this on our side for a really long time.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, he to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Land through that storm. He did a circle landing. He
just did on its descent. He did a descent in
a circle all the way down to the ground. I
was like, oh my god, like I was on pins
and needles. And then we landed there in pouring rain,
and then it was fine. I got home at twelve thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
That's amazing. It is only twelve thirty. Twelve thirty that
was supposed to be our big like, hey, we're getting home.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
World, So you didn't get home much earlier than if
you'd left Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I should have just drove.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But you know what, all in all good, went to
Sergeant Register or the toy shop, had a great time there,
and uh and today we're onto filming our big Imagine.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Commercials, so it's going to be back in the swing
of things. But that's the last time I'm flying Util
Jays junior's FYI
It has been like raining since Saturday and hasn't stopped.
It's like scattle here. So it is.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's it's been nasty. But it was cute at first
because Saturday we had a celebration of life for our
friend Mark and we got there around five or something
for thirty something like that. But anyway, and they started
the bonfire out in the backyard kind of early. Yeah,
I'm typically good to stay somewhere for a couple hours.
(00:27):
I leave, I come back at like three in the
morning to pick up Warren and our friend Jeff. And
shortly after I got home, about forty five minutes into
it is this loud, booming thunder thing like out of nowhere,
came out of nowhere. But at the celebration of life,
everybody was like, the reason it was cute for a
minute was it because everybody went, oh, that was Mark,
(00:49):
like because it was a sunny day and it was
super nice, and it was like, oh, and then it
wasn't cute anymore when it went on for thirty six hours.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh well, then let me restart my story by saying, hey,
Mark up above, thank you for what you did to
me on oh on Saturday, I'll explain you know. So
we last talked what Thursday? Yeah, Thursday. So after I
talked to you guys on Thursday, I went to the
airport with Sarah Douglas, the actress from Superman and Christmas
(01:20):
Prints and all of our friends. Sarah Douglass and we
flew to Chicago. From Chicago, we went to a town
called Naperville where we stayed, and then from Naperville, we
went on to do a charity event for the United
Way at Batavia at the Imagine Batavia where we showed
Superman two on the Midwest largest screen with a bunch
(01:40):
of fans. I got to see the movie, ask her
questions and get autographs and did this nice donation to
the United Way. So that was that was when I
That's why I was gone. And then Friday morning was
a little tough because I told her, well, NBC wants
to interview you in Chicago, and they want to have
you on live at six fifteen am. The other thing
(02:00):
is when you stay out near Naperville and Batavia, that's like, yes, Chicago, No,
it's like staying in Brighton. Yeah. Basically we were, like
I said, Sarah, we're basically going to be leaving Brighton
and going to Detroit, like that's how far it was
to downtown Chicago for a six fifteen interview on NBC
with Evrod who used to work at Channel four and yes, yes, yes,
(02:21):
and now is in is in Chicago. So had a
great yet, she had a great interview with him. We
had a good time in the city there, and then
we went back did that event. So on Saturday morning,
we're like, okay, so here's the lay of the land.
You have this autograph signing today that you're going to
do and that is happening from eleven to one. And
then I'm looking and I'm like, you know, there's a
(02:43):
five thirty flight home to Detroit, because our flight was
Sunday morning at nine am, and again leaving super early
to get to a nine am flight to get home
by noon. And then she had a thing yesterday out
in Utica.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You'd be so happy to get home on Saturday, and oh,
she was.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh, I'd love to be to get back to my
room and have a little glass of wine, and you know,
she's very English. I'm like, yes, that'd be great. So
I changed the flights. It was no cost to change
the flights, so I'm like, We got back to the hotel,
packed up our stuff, got in a nice, you know,
metro car, drove to the airport, checked in, no problems,
checked a couple bags, no problems. Sitting at the gate,
(03:20):
no problem. And then all of a sudden it went
from like boarding time at four fifty five to boarding
time at five point thirty, and then it went to
boarding time at six fifteen. Oh No, And all of
a sudden, we're sitting there for about an hour and
a half and then we finally get on the plane
because the other plane arrived from Detroit. And as we
got onto the plane, the flight attendant was like talking
(03:42):
to another flight attendant and she said, in all the
years I've worked for the airline, this was the longest
flight from Detroit to Chicago. So this big storm thing,
well you're talking about, Alison, with all this rain and
all these storms, this big thing developed kind of over
the water and stretched from Chicago to Detroit, the only
(04:05):
part of the country that had red and lightning and horrible.
So because that was such bad storms, the pilot left
Detroit and must have flew up to Canada and like
to Wisconsin and came back like it took them two hours,
which is normally a forty minute flight to avoid right right, right.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So then we get onto the plane and they pushed back,
and he says, sorry for the delay. We're just working
on a safe route to get to Detroit. Now I'm
on my phone looking at radar, going there is no
safe out to Detroit. There's nothing but red thunderstorms, high winds,
and turbulence between Chicago and Detroit. The world's shortest flight.
(04:48):
So he gets back on again and he says.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You say this, it's a forty five minute flight.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, well it is a forty five minute right, yeah,
under normal, under normal circuit. Right, So he says, he goes,
we're gonna drive around for a little bit. So for
like forty minutes, we just drove around on runways, listen,
not the airlines. So there were storms, drove and I
kept saying to myself, it's better than being in the
air circling.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So okay.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So then he says, we're gonna go to a special
parking deck that's here at Chicago O'Hare. And we drove
to what looked like a parking deck and there was
us in twelve other planes just parked there.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Don't love that lights came off.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You're allowed to get allowed to go to the bathroom,
get up, stretch your legs, walk around, just sitting there?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Is that still?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Is that better?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Is that a better option than to just be in
the air all it? No?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, no, not going the air. But I mean clearly
you can't go in the air. So we're just we're
gonna sit in the car and wait.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, right? Is it better to just call it though?
And call it? Don't what though? They get everybody they
we're all getting hotels. No, yeah, that's what I'm asking. Yeah,
so I think it's not. I think after a three
hour delay, maybe they will call it. I don't know
what the rule is.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Okay, so time was all of this at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's hard to say because it's Chicago time. I mean
it was I don't know, Yeah, maybe five thirty six,
it's probably seven thirty now. It's like seven thirty now.
So he says, Okay, we cleared up some space and
we're gonna we're gonna do this. We're gonna do this,
and we're gonna head back to the runway. Flight attendants,
I'm gonna ask you to please clean everything up, and
(06:20):
flight attendants won't be getting up on the flight. So
so flight attendants were not allowed to stand on the
flight before we even took off, and could not stand.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Until we landed in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
To tell a guy like me this who has a
car at the airport, so it means I'm not drinking anything.
I'm responsible for actress Sarah Douglas and being like her guy,
so I gotta make sure like I'm tip top shape
and all this. So so he takes off and it
is turbulent for sure, and I mean within fifteen minutes,
he's like, we're gonna begin our descent. Well that descent
(06:55):
it was, by the way, this was about a fifty
five minute flight, so it's not like we flew for
two hours. I mean, he flew above this storm and
I was looking at the raid, so he went around
it and all that. But it looked like the reason
he left was because there was a patch of no
storm around the airport for a little while. And I
got nervous because I was on the aisle looking at
(07:15):
through the other guy next to me, who good lord,
ate every peanut with every finger he had, and and
through that window.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well you were a channel.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People that hold the peanut bag to their mouth and
keep hitting it like this when when you know there's
only eight peanuts in there. So I look out the
window and I'm like, my god, we've been turned like
this on our side for a really long time.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, he to.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Land through that storm. He did a circle landing. He
just did on its descent. He did a descent in
a circle all the way down to the ground. I
was like, oh my god, like I was on pins
and needles. And then we landed there in pouring rain,
and then it was fine. I got home at twelve thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
That's amazing. It is only twelve thirty. Twelve thirty that
was supposed to be our big like, hey, we're getting home.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
World, So you didn't get home much earlier than if
you'd left Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I should have just drove.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But you know what, all in all good, went to
Sergeant Register or the toy shop, had a great time there,
and uh and today we're onto filming our big Imagine.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Commercials, so it's going to be back in the swing
of things. But that's the last time I'm flying Util
Jays junior's FYI
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