Fly With Me – Details, episodes & analysis

This is the audio portion of the last live show I did on April 29.  You can watch the video of it here.   The next live show is on May 13 at 5:00 PM Pacific time.  Watch here.

My guest will be pilot/author Alex Stone. We will discuss his darkly comic "Hauling Checks" - a novel that takes the reader inside the world of the nighttime, shady operators of "Checkflight", a fictitious, but not entirely unrealistic, company of bad actors in the aviation world.  It's part "Catch-22", part "Fear and Loathing..." and nothing like any of the "Fly With Me" stories I produce.  This should be a fun one! Oh - the first two callers to the show via Skype will receive a free copy of Alex's book!

(or you can buy one yourself at www.hauligchecks.com)

I've scheduled two more live shows:

Join us at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fly-with-me-live :

March 20 at 1:00 PM Pacific time with Patrick Smith, author of Salon.com's Ask The Pilot

April 10 at 1:00 PM Pacific time with Chris Christensen of the Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris and I will discuss travel photography - and you can submit photos for us to talk about in this flickr group.

Plus, I included an interview in this podcast that I recorded on my last trip - it's the usual stuff -- there's brain injury, Cowboy poetry, and ladies underwear etc ... all in the same story.

 

 

 

 

Never Say Die

This episode is a continuation of the theme from Episode 19 -- what happens when people have medical emergencies in flight.  I speak with a doctor, a nurse, a flight attendant, and ... Jeanne. 

Medical Emergencies in Flight -- Eye watering tales from 30,000 feet.

Music by Bernhard Drax  His other site: Drax

Also, a message from SCAN Foundation:  check out the fun walk/run on May 24th in Atlanta.

In the Public Eye ...

Stories of flight crew members who find themselves in the public eye , like one flight attendant who worked for National Airlines during their "Fly Me" ad campaign, and another who is a working actress.

Music by Bernhard Drax at cruxy.com

Delta Airlines' latest safety video has been getting a lot of hits on Youtube, and "Deltalina" is the reason.  I talk with Chris Babb, the creator of the video, and with Katherine "Kat" Lee, the flight attendant who is featured in the video.  Kat has gotten the nickname "Deltalina" because she looks like Angelina Jolie.

I have parts of the interview that I didn't use in this short piece -- send me an email at joepodcaster -at- gmail.com  if you want to hear more.

---> OK, OK, here it is --  more from Kat on Youtube.  (This is different from what's in the podcast.)



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Ever seen somebody get so out of control on a flight they were arrested after landing? How about two arrests in the same flight? These are some amazing stories -- even a pilot gets arrested and tells about it.

All music used in this episode (except the intro music) can be found at garageband.com -- links below in the order they were heard in the podcast:
 
John Doll - New York Central
Monkeybacon - Her Secret Masala
Horse Attack - Area 19
Enter the Haggis - Another Round
Ekho - Nocturne
Monkeybacon - Roller
Dynamoe - Said and Undone

Read more of FlyGuy's posts at his blog here: "A Captain's Log" 

I get back to my podcasting roots in this episode, and it feels like I'm starting from scratch ... almost.   You'll hear people telling about various first experiences -- good, bad, and funny --  and how they were affected by them. Enjoy!

All music used in this episode (except the intro music) can be found at garageband.com -- links below in the order they were heard in the podcast:

Colette McKendrick, "Fancy Pants"
Slumberlords, "Rock Shit"
The Habit, "Any Other Love"
Philip Yon, "Stars"
John Doll, "Dog's Life"

Read more about Duncan's exploits in his blog at http://duncanmackellar.blogspot.com/

Singing Skysisters and Season Two

If you heard my NPR piece about mergers today, you heard the Singing Skysisters.  Well, there's more from them in this short episode as well as an announcement by me about my upcoming podcasts -- basically what I say is I'm creating a "podcast season" for myself to avoid podfading.  So new episodes are coming March 1!

I also recorded solo performances (impromptu, on-the-road performances) by Sue from the Singing Skysisters, and you can download them here:

Flu Germs on My Flight
Achy Breaky Cart

You can email the Singing Skysisters at Skysisters@gmail.com

If you missed the NPR story, you can hear it here.

- Joe

For the 60th anniversary of the first supersonic flight, I had a slightly different take on the story than some other people had.

Here's the story on NPR - my part comes after the Chuck Yeager piece.

See Bob Hoover perform his "Energy Management" maneuver on Youtube.