Transcript
Danny Austin (0:00)
Foreign podcast is a dear media production. Hello and welcome back to your favorite podcast de Influenced. We're happy to be here.
Jordan (0:18)
We're happy to be here.
Danny Austin (0:20)
It's. It's crazy. We've had a wild week. Lots to. To be grateful for. Thankful for Jordan.
Jordan (0:30)
I almost died yesterday.
Danny Austin (0:31)
Yeah, sure. Do you want to tell the story of what happened?
Jordan (0:35)
Yeah, I feel like a lot of people are asking questions. So.
Danny Austin (0:40)
There was obviously a. A plane crash.
Jordan (0:43)
Yeah, there was a. I'll just preface by saying there was a plane crash and the pilot passed away. I did not know the pilot, but prayers for his family. I don't, I don't know who his family is or if he has a family. I don't, I don't know any details. But yeah, there was a plane crash on the news yesterday and it was a small plane out of Mesquite Airport. And so I've only flown on this plane about five times. Usually it's for work if we have to do like a same day trip.
Danny Austin (1:14)
Well, you've. But we've flown out of that airport.
Jordan (1:18)
Yeah. So usually. So there's a small plane that's. It's called a dry lease. So basically an owner, usually someone, a businessman or something owns this plane and he leases it out to other people who need to use it when he's not using it. Right. So it's a small airport in Mesquite. Several people have been on this plane. It's a. I think it's a Citation plane, which is like the kind of F150 of planes. Like it's a super reliable plane, like a Cessna. No, Cessnas are not reliable. Oh, yeah, those are the small ones.
Danny Austin (1:51)
Oh, didn't we take a Cessna last time?
Jordan (1:54)
No.
Danny Austin (1:54)
Okay. Sorry.
Jordan (1:56)
And so it's like a reliable, pretty much private plane. And so it's, it's really helpful to us if I have to go with a group of the DIVI team to somewhere or we have to go with a group to do a same day business trip. So I've done it like five times. And we always leave out of an airport in. Outside of Dallas, Mesquite. And we needed to go up to Pennsylvania, which is where QVC is located, for a meeting. It was me, our CFO at divi, our head of people. And then your mom and her team. There's a cool project. I'll talk about a different time that we're working on potentially with QVC and Divi and everyone. So we had had this trip planned and when I was planning it for some reason, I was like, I'm gonna fly out of Addison. Like, I never, which is another small airport. Never fly out of Addison. Never have flown out of Addison. Yeah, extra had to pay extra. But just my gut was like, I feel like we should fly out of Addison. It was also slightly more convenient for everyone else involved. It's less convenient for me almost to the point where I was like, maybe I'll drive to Mesquite, hop on the plane there, park my car there, and then fly to Addison and pick them up. And that was a very serious thought. And yesterday morning, we all meet at the Addison airport, and I was texting the pilot the night before, and the plan was he was going to take off from Mesquite and then land in Addison, pick us up, and then we were going to go to Pennsylvania and come back. And around, I. I think I texted him that morning and I just said, hey, on our way to Addison. See you soon. And the night before, he had said, looking forward to flying with you. And around 7:45, we all get there. I tell the Addison airport concierge, I said, hey, just let us know when the plane's here. Eight o'clock rolls around. Hey, is the plane here? No. Plane is shovering, showing that it's hovering over Addison.805 rolls around. 8:10. Hey, is the plane here? No, still hovering. And then I got a text from my friend who sent me a tweet that a plane had crashed, taking off in Mesquite. And it very quickly dawned on me that that was our plane. And there were a couple people in our group, mostly on your mom's team, who were already pretty worried about getting on the plane. I think when you fly, like, on smaller planes, even if it is private, you know, people get scared about that instead of commercial. And so, yeah, we basically found out that the plane had crashed. And then we all kind of had to go about our day a little bit. And it was just. I think we were all in shock. And then slowly we all started opening up about what had happened, kind of realizing that, you know, all six of us, realistically, if I would have sent one logistical detail different, either in my life or for the life of the other six people, we would have all been on that plane. And I think we all started opening up about it. I told your mom, and your mom was like, oh, my gosh, I had this terrible nightmare last night. And I Woke up at 3:30 and just started praying. And she said that she had felt like there were going to be Technical issues with the plane or something with the plane. And she just had this really bad spirit. And then I called you and I said, hey, Danny, I just want you to know, like, I'm okay. You know, there was a plane crash in Mesquite. That was our plane. You know, we're flying out of Addison. Because you didn't even know where I was flying out of. Like, for all you knew I was still flying out of Mesquite.