Nov. 8, 2024

January Jones sharing High-Flying Adventures of a Long-Time Flight Attendant: On Butterflies' Wings

January Jones sharing High-Flying Adventures of a Long-Time Flight Attendant: On Butterflies' Wings

High-Flying Adventures of a Long-Time Flight Attendant
During her nearly 40-year career as a flight attendant, Tania Anderson met everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Britain’s Prince Philip, and five U.S. presidents!
She...

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High-Flying Adventures of a Long-Time Flight Attendant
During her nearly 40-year career as a flight attendant, Tania Anderson met everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Britain’s Prince Philip, and five U.S. presidents!
She can share innumerable fascinating anecdotes about her high-flying life and the many memorable individuals she’s met along the way. She is the author of the memoir “On Butterflies’ Wings:An Anthology of International Escapades

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Who is January Jones. She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is not an older, gorgeous

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exotic dancer from The Johnny Carson Show. She is an

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author and she wrote Thou Show Not Why the Eleventh

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Commandment that rates number one at Amazon dot com. She

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is a reality TV golf personality with World High Stakes

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Golf televised on hd Net. She is a humans and

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Why knowlogist expert. She is your featured host today on

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January Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax, and

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get ready to laugh and listen to Ms Jones with

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her eclectic roster of guests as you learn life's lessons.

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These stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware

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because you are entering the no whining world of January Jones.

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Every one.

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I hope you're having a glowing day. I'm January Jones

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and i'd like to welcome you to our podcast. As

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you can see, I'm launching my new brand, Glitter Granny,

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which we'll be talking about later during the show. Now,

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for my listeners, let me ask you a question. Have

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you ever had a chance to meet a stewardess? Well,

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you know what. Now they're called flight attendants, but when

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I did it, we were stewardesses. Do you remember penn

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Am Airlines or do you remember Eastern Airlines? Tell me?

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Can you imagine what it would be like to fly

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alongside Air Force one and look out the window and

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see them? Have you ever met someone who was in

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Moscow during a coup? Would you like to hear some

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real airline war stories? Tell me? Now? Have you ever

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heard of a book entitled on Butterflies Wings? If you

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can answer yes or maybe to any of these questions,

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I'd like to welcome you to January Jones sharing senior

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success stories today. How it's time rest relaxed. Go get

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some wine, cheese and crackers so you can join us

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in the no wine zone. Now, let me tell you

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a little bit about our guest. She graduated for American

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University in Washington, majoring in political science and International Studies

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with minors in sociology. She has been an attendant at

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Flight Attendant and she has traveled to more than seventy

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five countries based in them and now she spends her

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time between Houston and LA. It's my pleasure to welcome

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to our show today, Tanya Anderson.

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Hello January, Good to meet you again.

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Wonderful we got to chat a little bit before we

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went on the air. You know, I'm so excited. Actually,

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I think you're actually the first stewardess slash flight attendant

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I ever had on the show. And you know, I

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must reveal I was one. I only flew for two years,

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so I don't have as many experiences as you've had.

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But to me, where did it all start? Tanya? Where

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were you born in? Where did your love of flying

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come from? Oh?

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Well, actually it was conceived in croc As, Venezuela. My

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parents very well, but I grew up in McLane. They

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were down there on a business trip, which was pretty

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cool because then you know, it was just it was different,

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all the flora and fauna and the jungly type atmosphere.

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I grew up McLean, right outside of Washington, d C.

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And very causalpault and background. My parents had friends, you know,

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from all kinds of different countries. I was named for

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my Russian godmother, for example, and they used to hold

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joint soires with the Secretary of Dean Atchison and his

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wife and yeah, so we'd have all these kind of diplomats. So,

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and I'm an only child. So that's that's where I

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grew up and the environment I grew up. And then

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I got sent to school in England when I was fourteen,

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and I insisted on co ed school. At first my

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father was talking about girls school. I'm like, oh no, no, no, no, no,

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even at thirteen, I wasn't going to sign up for that.

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And it worked out fabulessly because it was very Causopolitan again,

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and a lot of those people I'm friends with to

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this day. I mean, life on friends and an amazing experience.

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Yeah, you know, I went to an all girls school

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and we're still sixty some years later, connecting on Facebook

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with each other.

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Is that wonderful. Yeah.

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Those friendships, they just stay with you forever. They're the best.

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So how long were you in England are as a child.

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Well, I was fourteen to eighteen, and then I came

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back to the States and that's when I went to

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American University.

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Wow, that's so impressive, but what a wonderful university. And

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tell us about what you studied there.

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Well, it was political science, international studies and in mindor

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like you said, mentioned in sociology and psychology. And for

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a while I thought about being you know, kind of like,

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you know, a psychologist something along those lines. But then

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I realized I wouldn't have used the word m path

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when I was in my early twenties because I, you know,

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I just didn't know the word. But I realized at

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that age that it would probably be draining for me

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not to be selfish. But you know, you can be

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there for your friends all that, and I'm you know,

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intensely loyal, but you know, I guess it just gets

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to be kind of difficult when you have somebody who's

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you know, just really having a really difficult time, no

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matter the reason why.

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You know, you know, sociology, psychology. What better preparation do

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you need to go and work on an airline?

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Right?

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Exactly exactly?

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May I ask how old were you when you made

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the decision to apply to pan Am.

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I was thirty two when I got hired by them. Yeah,

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and it was amazing. Yeah, it was a great from

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the from the very beginning. It was amazing that the

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interview was remarkable in that, you know, they want to

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hear something caused upol that you're saying okay, So for example,

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if your parents are from Greece or something like that,

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you know, they kind of perked up a bit. You know,

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you had to have a language, you didn't have to

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be fluent. But what they asked you the questions in

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the right So what's your language? And they'd say, okay,

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here's a piece of paper and translate line number three

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seventy nine like that.

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What was your language?

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Well it was Spanish, but I had had Spanish from

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high school, so it had been like more than like

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twelve years or something. You know, So but then we

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had to study. You just don't get off the hook.

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So they gave us four hundred and fifty vocabulary words

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that are airline related including like all our entrees are worldwide,

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because we were some boy to eighty two countries. Then

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you know, when I got hired and and you know

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how to say mal tormentoso like you know, turbulence, You

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know all these because you know I was After three years,

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I became a purser, which you're in charge of the flight.

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And on a seven forty seven it would see four

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hundred and twenty five people in three classes of service.

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So you had a lot of responsibility. You had the

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landing cards, you had the duty free, and I had

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to I was taught how to slice the chateau beyond

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you know, don't don't solve the meat, you know, and

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they even taught us you're gonna like this. They even said,

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if you're a smoker, this is how you smoke a cigarette.

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So you sit on your jumpsyat and you get a

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cup with some water in it, and then when you

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let your cigarette, you bring it up to your map

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like this, very lady like, and then you know, and

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then you.

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Use the little cup to every stewardess. I remember on

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our I was on I flew long before you. I

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was on constellations, and you know, we'd go in the back.

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We'd have our little cup, we'd light up our cigarette

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and we do all our smoking before the seatbelt sign

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and smoking, and then we'd put it out.

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It's funny, you know when you think about it and

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pandem for example, about again about the languages, we always

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had at least one fundy time on board that spoke

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the language of the country we're going into. Yeah, because

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it's good to have somebody who really speaks at language.

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But if not, you know, I could say enough in Spanish,

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any man can read the announcements and things like that.

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But also in our like survival guide they had in

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like ten different languages how to Yeah, once you've got everybody,

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let's say, you know, God forbid you ditch. Everybody's in

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the raft. This is how to organize it, you know.

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So like if you had to still do some duties,

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like you know, somebody, you know, somebody got injured on

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the way out of the airplane, you can like delegate

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authority and give the survival manual to somebody and have

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them read it. It's kind of well, in a way,

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it's kind of therapeutic because you're getting engaged, you know, so.

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It's now let me ask you did you train in Miami.

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Oh, yes, we did.

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That's where Eastern trained and I lived in one of

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those incredible stoozoos condos apartments. I came from Michigan, So

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getting down to Miami was like going to paradise.

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What is I've been going to southern Florida my whole life.

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But I mean we were all excited down there. I

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mean we're having pool parties and everything. Like you say,

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it's really exciting.

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Yeah, we had. It was such an international city and

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we had where we lived in Miami Springs and the villas.

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We had flight attendants from you name it, everyone from

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around the world. It was such an incredible place. I know, now,

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how long did you fly for a pan am Only

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six and a half years. And you want to hear

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boy talk about a dichotomy. So I was on a

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White House press charter carrying President Bush Senior from Andrews

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Air Force Base down to Sarasota, Florida. He was going

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to go to the Tropicana planet and then after that

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we were going to fly to Meridian Air Base, Mississippi.

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And that well, I had the fun because i'mer news house,

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so you know, all the press who was on my

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PanAm airplane flying alongside Air Force one.

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Uh you know, I knew they works. I'd seen them

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on TV. So it was very interesting. And then from

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Sarasota to Meridian Airbase, Johnson Unu gave his resignation letter

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to the President Senior. So now every my my passengers

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that the journalists they came away to get off and

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go down to their bureau, and you know that's going

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to be the lead story, you know, yeah, yeah, So

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you know it is exciting. But the thing I was

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going to say too, is like that I knew that

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day that we were bankrupt because the pilot came out

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he was listening to the radio. Why the president was downtown.

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I went over to the two Air Force ones. You

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probably know some four seven identical inside and out tail

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twenty eighty twenty nine thousand and so I went over

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and I'm just chatting with the Air Force flight attendants

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and they're wonderful and Colonel Danny Barr was was the

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chief pilot for the President, and they're so welcoming. So

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you choose that with them. I went back to pan

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Am and the pilot comes out of the copet. Now

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we knew we were a very serious financial and you know,

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we'd been watching Eastern went bankrupt eleven months before we did.

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And then the pilot came out just white. He said,

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well that's it for us. Delta pulled out of the

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pan Am to a deal and so we're finished. So

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I went back to I went back to Andrews because

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I parked my Chevette there because I lived only like

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about forty five minutes away, you know. And it was

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a cold January sorry December night, January. It was a

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really cold night and it's sleeping and everything. I was

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just crying so hard. I'm glad I didn't run off

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the roapuse I was just so upset. But we know

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it was coming, but it's still when it happens. And

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then the next day I'm in the unemployment line in

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a dangerous part of DC and thinking, well, what a

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dichotomy is this? Twenty four hours ago I was talking

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to you know, air Force one flight attendants to two

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in the fat and here we are in the unemployment line.

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But it's like, it's just you know, you just deal

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with it the best you can.

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Oh. I know, my husband, we're an airline family. He

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flew for United for thirty two years. Wow, and yeah,

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and then when he retired, about two years into retirement,

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they filed bankruptcy. And it is such a devastating thing

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to happen to families, in individualist families. Everyone when an

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airline goes under like that. How long did it take

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you to find another job? Actually?

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I was hired to buy American about six months later,

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and I was really happy. But then it's just domestic

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bebop and I don't go for that. I'm an exotic girl.

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The more exotic the better, you know. I've now been

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to seventy nine countries. It was seventy five, but not

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seventy nine, and I've been based in five and I've

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really had an amazing experience of it. But when I

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was an American, I had a wonderful supervisor I loved,

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who was absolutely fabulous. And so what I did was

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they had a liberal leave policy. So that's when I

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took like three months off and I was still in

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touch with my pan am buddies, right, you know, and

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my dear friend the Lake Camilla Crawford, said, hey, you know,

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we have some things coming, you know, So we did

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the Hodge. I was the first time I ever did

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the hodge And that's when you go around the world,

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pick up the Muslims and take them into Saudi Arabia

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for the pilgrimage. Oh my god, I want to hear

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about that one. I mean, and that leads you. As

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you know, one thing leads to another, leads to another.

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And that was an amazing experience. So now all the

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panaem people, I mean, okay, so we were mixed, we

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Wow. Well, it takes me a long time to write

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it because there's so many things that I talk about,

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and he's traveling to all these countries, flying special assignments

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with them, and the people that you meet are remarkable. So,

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like I was talking about Nigeria, the PanAm people were

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all reunited for that, but we had mixed groups. So

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we'd have like the pilots were all PanAm, the mechanics

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were former PanAm, and we'd have four Americans on board

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and then ten Nigerians, and so that it was kind

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of funny because Okay, you could tell who's got money

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of the passengers and who doesn't, but I didn't know

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who was So who's the Sultan, who's the mirror, who's

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the chief? And well we were introduced the chief pretty

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early on. So we were flying for Chief Cabo and

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then some of his aides went to him and said,

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the tall white woman is very good with our people

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meeting weeks. I'm almost six feet tall, so he came

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looking for me and then we ended up being friends,

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and then his brothers well Garba, and so what happened

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after that? Our operation was over after about three and

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a half months, and we all went back to the States.

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But then a good friend of mine, Cisow, was going

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to marry another chief's daughter, and so since and sister

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was former opinion too, sister and I went back to Nigeria.

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And then that's when the chief and he was always

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waving his hands around. He had an oil company, he

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had small hotels, he had clinics, and he owned the

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banks too. So he said, we would you like to

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come back and work for me and bring a friend

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and I said, yeah.

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I'd love that.

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And when we started talking about money, and he said

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how much salary do you require? And I said, well,

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three thousand dollars a month and he said, oh, it's

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too much. I said, Chief, that's what you were paying

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this during dodge. He wasn't even aware of it. It

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was so funny. You just write the check and that

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or come with the cash, you know kind of thing.

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So it was so so that led to other things

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because his brother Garba gave me it, gave me a

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car and driver, you know, and then he invited me

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to three two different palaces, and then I went to

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a third.

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The first palace was up in Sokoto, which is northwestern Nigeria. Okay,

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Now this is what's so different about Nigerian weddings and

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American weddings or maybe Western weddings. So they're all Muslim

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up north pretty much. And it was the Sultan's palace

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and it's all marble. It's really amazing. He's been given

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a lot of gifts over the years, so he has

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poets just stacked on the hallways. Is kind of funny.

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It hasn't even bothered like putting them up everything like that. So, uh,

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my friend Bellow, who was an assistant to the governor

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of that state, so they have a little bit of

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a brittish system too. He picked me up at the airport,

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came up from Legos and we're we're in a Honda car.

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But all the locals, you know, they've heard that this

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is like going to be the wedding of the decade,

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So all the locals are pressing and I can't even

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get out of the car because who's the white woman.

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So it turns out that I'm the only white woman,

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the only woman, the only white person, the only Christian

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and what was the fourth thing? The only foreigner in

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the entire But I didn't know that in the entire

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palace when I went in. So we go in and

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he introduces me. Now I see them kind of kneeling down.

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So the Sultan is in, he's like a dwarfed by

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this big throne, and it's all it's it's like dark

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red velvet. But then it's got like gold trim on it. Okay.

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So so I see them taking off their shoes and

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doing different things. So and I'm wearing long I'm for

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the occasion. You know, I'm in a palace after all,

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you know, so I could be in any place in America.

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So I started to take off my shoes and bow

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becsuse I wasn't quite true what the protocol was. And

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so the guy introduces me and he goes you imagine,

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see Tanya, Madam Tanya has come all the way from

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the United States of America on the occasion of your

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daughter's wedding. But the thing was and he kind of

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went with, you know, like a big deal. But it

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wasn't true. I was there working for Chicago. But it's

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a funny thing. Then it turns out his So I

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wanted to know where the bride was. I really wanted

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to meet her. You know, I can greet them in

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their language, sanuka Azua, you know, and I'm very very

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polite and gracious, and i just wanted to meet his

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daughter because that I'm fascinated by culture, you know. And

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he said, oh, no, madam, you will not see her today.

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I'm like what he said, Well, you know, in Nigeria,

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you know, you separate the brides and the bride's party

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from the men. So that that's why I was in

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the palace with just the minute, She's in a completely

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different location drinking sprites and phantoms with her girlfriends. Like

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that's a different world from me. But you you accept it.

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And out of curiosity, I've witnessed uh wedding in India

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where the bride or gorgeous and everyone had jewels and

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the women were incredible. We did, how long did it

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take before you got to see the bride?

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I never did. I never did. They took me and

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this is the second thing that was totally different about

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the way we do it. Very interesting and very cool,

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actually a very cool custom. They took me to another

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part of the palace and they had this whole buffet

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out okay, and they impoverished from that area would come

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and stand in lize. All men, it's not women, stand

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in line and they would get get a plate not

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only for themselves but to take back home. And the

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guards were there so like if they're lingering a little

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bit too much, like a little bit too much stuff,

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the guards like kind of keep moving, you know what

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I mean. But I thought that was amazing because I

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went to another pre wedding lunch and in Kaduna and

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they did the same thing. It was very interesting. This

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was a house, not a palace, but yeah, it was

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really remarkable.

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Okay, Now how did you suddenly escape from Nigeria? Is

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that some part of the same story or is this

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a different No.

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It's a different chapter because time went on. I was

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there for six months working for the chief and that

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that's when he sent the housekeepers down to the market

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to get me a pet chimpanzee because the TV hadn't

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been hooked up yet, so I needed some entertainment. So

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that's a chapter about it. And I called her Princess

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Kai because my language house, the Fulani language means surprise.

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And you never knew I mean she slept on the

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veranda every night January. You never knew what kind of

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mood she was going to be in the morning, so

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she'd press her face in the glass when when the

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servers would bring me like a little coffee and stuff

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in my room, and so I'd open up the door,

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and sometimes she calmly walk in, you know, and then sashet,

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and then other times she would just go willy nilly

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and start, you know, moving lamps around, stuff like that.

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So because she never broke anything, so that that was

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the good news. So time it was so funny. I mean,

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it was just amazing. It was amazing. You know. In

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two days I had her walk. I was walking around

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with her on my hip because you see, Americans like

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to get their hands on everything. But I treated her

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like she was a little kid. So I sat next

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to her when I was first introduced, and I talked

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to her like, hey, maybe you're so cute some free

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but I didn't touch her. And two days later I

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was walking around the compound with on my hid.

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Did you have to house train you? No?

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She was fine. Gee, she never she never goofed up.

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Wow, that's impressive.

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And the houseboys were so funny because they said, but dog,

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she likes you because you're white. I said, you guys,

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you're nuts. I said, she likes me because I'm treating

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her with respect. Even at that young age, she understood it,

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just like a little kid, you know. So time went

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on and I was there six months, and I would

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go down to Legos. I went down to our embassy

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to make a presentation on behalf of the chief to

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our number three man because there had been our competitor

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had a really bad crash now and she wanted me

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to go down to the embassy and convince them that

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our airplanes were safe, which I did, and I was

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flying on the airplanes too, so you know, and then

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time went on and then the Psycho fan. So what

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I was trying to do January is I was trying

461
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to make myself kind of like the liaison between the

462
00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:54.720
flight attendants and the chief because I had trained them,

463
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:58.000
they remembered me from the Hodge operation, you know, and

464
00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:00.160
I just not to make extra money, but just to

465
00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:02.480
kind of make things easy for them, because you know,

466
00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:05.960
Payday's Friday. Maybe you go and there's no money, you know.

467
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.039
I just want to kind of like smooth that out

468
00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.279
for them, and then the psycho fans around the chief

469
00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:13.160
because you know, when you have he was making like

470
00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:16.000
twenty twenty million dollars a year, so you know, that's

471
00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:19.240
that's that's good in our in our society. But you

472
00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:21.960
know in that society where you're you know, you paid

473
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.319
them made twenty five dollars a month, You paid the

474
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:27.359
chauffeur twenty five bucks a month. Yeah, it goes too far.

475
00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:33.319
So uh, there always cycle fans around him and they said,

476
00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.480
you've been duped the white woman. The white woman works

477
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:41.240
for the CIA. Well, I am from Clay, Virginia, but.

478
00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:46.599
I kind of know a little bit about that. Virginia

479
00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:48.880
is pretty much where they all live.

480
00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:51.440
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean one of my best friends

481
00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:53.759
is with the FBI. I mean been with them since

482
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.160
the seventies. But but you know, it's one of those things.

483
00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:58.519
It comes with the territory. You know that that's you

484
00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:01.599
know what happens. But anyway, not with me though, because

485
00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:04.079
first of all, there's nothing to spy on. What would

486
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:06.279
I be spying on? And secondly, I have to speak

487
00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:08.920
their language fluently because if you're going to recruit people,

488
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:11.240
get info, that's what you do. You don't go bubbling

489
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:12.880
around like you're gonna have to speak English because I

490
00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:16.119
don't know any house of Flani. But anyway, so he

491
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.240
came out to his plane one day he bought he'd

492
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.599
gone up to London and bought this be well, it

493
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:23.720
was a used airplane, but it was really cool as

494
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:28.319
a bout one eleven and it had it was really cool.

495
00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:29.319
It had.

496
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.480
Mother pearl inlaid furniture. Oh wit. I think the minute

497
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:36.839
he saw that, he was like, oh, I'm buying this.

498
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:39.880
And he was getting with December. He was getting ready

499
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:45.039
to fly to a Nairobi for a vacation. So I

500
00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:47.200
go to the airplane to make sure it's clean, and

501
00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:49.880
I'm training a couple of his security guards and telling

502
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:51.680
him that this is how you use a halon and

503
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.000
that sort of thing. And I'm dressed nicely and I'm thinking, well,

504
00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:58.279
I might be able to go to the trip myself,

505
00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:00.759
you know, or pick two of my favorite Nigeria flight attendants,

506
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.400
you know. And then he came out in a rage

507
00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:05.400
at the airplane and I could see he was mad,

508
00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:07.359
but I just left. He was mad something. Why wouldn't

509
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:09.240
he be mad at me? I had done anything wrong?

510
00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:11.640
And he said, what are you doing on an airplane?

511
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:14.400
Just shouting me and his age and I knew all

512
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:16.559
of them. I knew. I knew his lead attorney, I

513
00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:20.160
knew his managing director. I knew all the air Oh

514
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:23.720
and Garba wasn't there. His favorite brother, Garba was on

515
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:26.359
vacation in Miami. Because if Garbut had been there, and

516
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:28.160
see I didn't have a cell phone in those days,

517
00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:33.440
but I could have gotten hold of gardens anyway. Yeah,

518
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:35.759
so I fled that night. I was really scared. I

519
00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:38.839
went to the KLM office. The manager was there and

520
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:40.960
he said, oh, I was on air plane the other day.

521
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.119
You greeted me so nicely, and said, oh thank god.

522
00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:45.799
He got me out that night. And that was December

523
00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:48.640
twenty first. Yeah, and I fled, and I haven't been

524
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:54.960
back since. Well, I was really afraid. I was really afraid.

525
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:59.000
Yeah, yeah, that sounds very, very scary. You know, we're

526
00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:03.000
going to take a break. And like Tanya, I've also

527
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:08.440
written a book. And in my book there's a chapter four.

528
00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:15.960
It's entitled Eastern Airlinesducing.

529
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:20.079
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530
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531
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532
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533
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535
00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:10.160
Welcome back, and I'm so enjoying visiting with Tanya Anderson.

536
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:13.400
You know, Tanya, I was a stewardess, that's what we

537
00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:16.680
were called back then, for only two years. But then

538
00:30:16.759 --> 00:30:20.759
two of my daughters became flight attendants for United, and

539
00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:23.359
of course my husband flew for United, so we're a

540
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:28.880
total airline family. And I just love hearing all of

541
00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:34.480
your adventures. Now, let's talk a little bit about Madagascar.

542
00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:38.599
How did you get their building houses for Habitat that's

543
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:39.240
so cool?

544
00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:45.480
Not your line related, but so I joined Habitat for Humanity,

545
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:50.279
and you know, they you go for three weeks, you

546
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:53.359
spend some time building houses, and then and then you

547
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:54.839
have a little bit of a tour of the country,

548
00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.200
so you get to know all that. So I went over.

549
00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:01.799
I joined the team. You can pick whatever country you

550
00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:04.240
want to go to, and I wanted to go to

551
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:07.400
Madagascar because the animals are so cool. Those lemurs. Oh

552
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:09.079
my gosh, I thought I died and going to heaven.

553
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:10.920
I just love them. They're so they're so cute, they're

554
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:14.279
so sweet. So we built the houses. And I've always

555
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:18.359
referred to that as the best kind of a pr

556
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.559
there is, or or or It's like, it's like the

557
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.279
best kind of diplomacy there is. That's what I really mean,

558
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:27.839
because they know why, they know why you're there. You're

559
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:30.599
not there to sell weird computers that I'm having trouble with.

560
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.000
I'm going to sell you some some funky thing you're

561
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.960
You're there to build houses. And the children were darling.

562
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.960
They speak French, but the word for farner was something

563
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:44.640
like fassah. So every day, and it's so funny because

564
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.160
in the US I've worked for Habitat, a volunteer for

565
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:50.200
Habitat for Humanity. You know, you're not let onto the

566
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:55.279
construction site unless you have a hard hat and good shoes. Right,

567
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:58.680
we go to Matta Gascar. I'm wearing a sarrong and

568
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:03.640
I'm wearing flip flops. They different and the the scaffolding

569
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:07.400
is lashed together. It's branches that are lashed together with ropes.

570
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.920
Just amazing. And the team was it was we were

571
00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:15.839
like twelve twelve Americans and two Canadians, and then we

572
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:19.960
had uh Claude our bus driver, and then we had

573
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.680
Edwin who was one of our guides, who were fabulous.

574
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:26.799
I mean, it's just such a great experience and I

575
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:29.599
just loved every minute of it. It was just you know,

576
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:32.799
everybody's working. I mean I saw a little five we

577
00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:34.759
all did this, a little like five or six year

578
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.480
old kid picked up two bricks which were for that

579
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.559
size is really and carrying along trying to help us.

580
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:45.640
And therefore exactly just love that sort of thing, just

581
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.240
love it.

582
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:51.440
We we have a niece who went into the Peace

583
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:55.319
Corps and she went to my Asia and we were

584
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.960
able to go visit her with our four kids, and

585
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.359
actually she ended up marrying a Micronesian and raising her mouth.

586
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:09.799
And what an experience to go into these cultures that

587
00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:15.039
are so primitive, uh, to get there. We were landing

588
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:21.839
on islands where people were in loincloths. You know, what

589
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:27.279
an amazing experience. And of course habitat for Himmanny, I mean,

590
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.559
what an incredible operation. And I think a lot of

591
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:37.319
it goes to Jimmy and Roslyn Carter how they promotedly, Yeah.

592
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:38.920
That's an amazing legacy.

593
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:39.799
Uh.

594
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.279
And many Well, here in Long Beach, which is a

595
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.839
suburb of l a kind of we built. We had

596
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:51.680
a blitz built and uh, the same guy that wrote Braveheart.

597
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:55.319
I can never remember his name. They had it was

598
00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:01.279
they called it Hollywood for habitat, so Bramble wall Randall Wallace,

599
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:05.160
very very well connected. Okay in Hollywood, but this is

600
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.920
two thousand. He went out and got all these people.

601
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:14.159
Dustin Hoffman came and Agassi's brother was there. All these people.

602
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.079
Every time you turn around, here here somebody else and

603
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.920
see we have white hard hats, which means okay, brand new.

604
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.480
You got to teach me everything on a newbie. And

605
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.320
then the yellow ones would be supervisors. So they also

606
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:27.000
had a whole bunch of people that own their own

607
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:29.599
construction companies. They would come along and say, okay, you

608
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:31.159
got to do this, You've got to move that or

609
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:35.280
whatever it is. And then so they had they got

610
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:40.039
a strip of land from from the LA and they

611
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:43.440
built twenty six houses on that whole. It was fabuless.

612
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.719
So I was they just assigned me. So I was

613
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.800
assigned on the house where the women are building is

614
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:53.599
all women built. Obviously, the Jane Harmon came by at

615
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:56.360
the time and she autographed like the wall, but it's

616
00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:59.199
going to be covered up with drywall pretty soon. But

617
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.880
what was really cool bo Dairy worked on my house

618
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:07.719
with her sister and she was so sweet because you know,

619
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.039
she wanted to work. And the guys the word got out,

620
00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:13.760
the guys bow Derek's on the woman's house and so did.

621
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.079
They'd find their way to come around and they'd pick

622
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:17.960
up like a you know, a little block of wood,

623
00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:20.559
or you would ask her to autograph it or take

624
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.840
their helmet off. Can you autograph this? But I have

625
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.199
to tell that she wanted to work, and I took

626
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:27.400
a good picture of her. I said, like, it's okay,

627
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.400
She's like yeah, and I uh. Then because I blow

628
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:33.400
the screen after school, I got her addressed. But this

629
00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:35.960
is years ago, and I sent her the picture and

630
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:37.840
she actually sent me a thank you. Does I thought

631
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:41.320
that was very cool. But yeah, that was a wonderful build.

632
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:45.360
Well, you know we were based in la for over

633
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.559
forty years. Oh really, Yeah, we were out in Westlake

634
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:53.519
Village and a thousand oaks and the most amazing things

635
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.159
about living there is you kind of get to be

636
00:35:56.320 --> 00:36:01.480
a little blase about the Hollywood people because they're all

637
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:06.320
over And remember going into Gelson's and you know, you'd

638
00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:09.400
be pushing your car and then all of a sudden,

639
00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:12.360
all the women in the aisles. It would be passed word,

640
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:16.679
it would be passed around. Tom Seleek in produce.

641
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.320
Right right, I know, I know.

642
00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:24.519
That Stampagne down to produce just so you could look

643
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:28.079
at him. You never would talk to him or interfere

644
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.519
in his privacy. That was never done. But it was

645
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:33.559
a fascinating place to live.

646
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.079
You know. It's funny. Yeah, I know. I mean there's

647
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:38.159
so much going on out here.

648
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:42.400
I love it. Yeah, we loved it. Actually, we didn't

649
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:46.639
retire in California. We retired to Arizona. But then we thought,

650
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:49.159
oh could we go back, and then we figured it

651
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:50.679
out we could never afford to.

652
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:55.280
Oh it's crazy, it's crazy. Well, I flew five and

653
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:57.719
a half years out of Van Ece, you know, a

654
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.440
corporate and one time I was on the phone, just

655
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:03.679
on the ground, you know, and to Tom Sellick walked

656
00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:07.760
in and I was like, oh, hi, you know, but

657
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:11.079
we had that Robert Redford walked in Teddanson come. They

658
00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:13.239
all come in sooner or later, and Margaret came in

659
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:14.920
one time, so you know, you always have your eyes

660
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:18.519
open obviously. But then about ten minutes after he came in,

661
00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:22.000
I got a phone call and she said, Hi, I'm

662
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.840
just checking to see if anybody who was his personal assistant.

663
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.039
I'm just checking to see if Tom Sell got there.

664
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:32.760
And she said, you've seen it, haven't you. I said, yes,

665
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:34.920
it was so funny.

666
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.760
So it's so cool because they just walk around and

667
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.119
guess what, they're regular people right right, Well, most of

668
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:47.800
them are nicest can be. And you sometimes things come

669
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:49.960
full circle too, because you.

670
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:51.800
Know, I had a lot of very well known people

671
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.360
at my school in England, and two of them were

672
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.039
Lizabeth Taylor's two sons, Mike and Chris Wilding. So when

673
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:00.800
she was married to John and he was running for

674
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:03.639
Senate Virginia, I went down to Gunston Hall and I

675
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:08.079
was wearing bright green silk, emerald green silk. And what

676
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:09.920
I said to her, everybody says, all your eyes are

677
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:11.800
so blooble. I just looked at it and I said

678
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:13.440
I was I mean, I was twenty six. I go

679
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.360
I went to school with Mike and Chris in England.

680
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:18.280
She said, you must have gone to Millfield. I said, yes,

681
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:21.719
I did, And so she looks at John Waris says, Darling,

682
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:24.000
give her our phone number, you know, because Chris is

683
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:26.360
coming to town soon. I just about fainted on the spot,

684
00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:29.639
believe and it was it was our private number in Georgetown.

685
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:31.440
So I was like wow. So I did call and

686
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.400
I had a little party a couple of weeks later

687
00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:36.000
my little modest apartment in Christen come. So it was

688
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:36.920
quite remarkable.

689
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:40.199
That's a sweet that's a sweet story. You know, this

690
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:43.679
whole week has been so crazy with the elections and

691
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:47.119
all this political never. I don't think I'm ever going

692
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:49.199
to do another political show again.

693
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:53.559
I know it's multi faceted, it really is.

694
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:58.320
This is so much more fun. But talk about share

695
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.880
with us a little bit about your your career on

696
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.840
Capitol Hill for international Human Rights. What did you do there, Tanya?

697
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:11.599
Oh, okay, well that's actually all volunteer and the ngocre

698
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:17.079
that I sent packages to well actually air dropped and

699
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:20.360
then had the care meals after World War two ended,

700
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:24.320
because the civilians in Germany were really in dreadful shape. Okay,

701
00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:28.480
so that's how they got started and they lobby on

702
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.320
Capitol Hill for international human rights. So what they do

703
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:33.519
is they have an annual conference where they train you.

704
00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:36.039
I did it for about five or six years, so

705
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.360
it was for Education for All Act, Child Marriage Act.

706
00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.000
I did on my own civil rights, Tax Relief Act

707
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.320
of Violence Against Women Act. And so what you do

708
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:52.280
is you get together. They divide us into what your

709
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.880
state is, and then you say, well, where do you

710
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:55.679
live in Arizona? Where you know, like that sort of thing.

711
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:57.440
And I did it a couple of times for Arizona

712
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:01.719
because I had a condo in Tucson on and uh yeah.

713
00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:04.960
So the California group is usually pretty big, about fifty people,

714
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.639
and the Arizona group might be eight or something. So

715
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:09.840
I kind of fattened up a little bit, you know,

716
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:13.840
and it's very good experience. So they teach you how

717
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:18.280
to approach the legislator or the legislative aid and then

718
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:21.480
you but you look at the resume, so you say

719
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:24.000
something like, uh, you know, miss Jones. You know, I

720
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:26.400
had to look at your resume and I was pleased

721
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:28.960
to see that you supported blah blah blah act. And

722
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.960
this is the one that I want to talk to

723
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:34.480
you about today is similar and these are the reasons.

724
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:36.719
This is what I think is that the similarities are.

725
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:38.639
You kind of approach it like that and then you

726
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:41.719
just have a chat. And so when I was I

727
00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:44.400
can't even remember what senator's office I was in, but

728
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.039
I was telling his aide, who's pregnant, that she'd been

729
00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:50.760
with him for some time, about a little groom that

730
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:55.760
I met. You just got married in northern Northern India, okay,

731
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:59.599
And we got their attention because they they the bridal

732
00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:01.679
party in a little Honda car but all made up

733
00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:04.119
with Mary Gold. So pulled off the street to see

734
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:06.880
what we were doing. I mean, obviously we're from somewhere else,

735
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:11.000
you know, and perfect English, and he said, I said,

736
00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:14.000
can I get a picture of your bride? And he said, oh,

737
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.360
she doesn't stop crying. Why is she crying? He said,

738
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.760
because she's ten years old and we just got married.

739
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:22.400
She didn't want to leave our parents. Yeah. When I

740
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:25.360
said that to the Legislative Aid, they went, you don't

741
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.320
need to say any more because she's pregnant herself, so

742
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:29.159
she could really identify me with it.

743
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:33.480
Oh gosh's you know. I said, I would go stay

744
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:37.079
away from politics, but I've been a little depressed this

745
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:41.800
week because do you ever think we'll ever have a

746
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:43.880
woman president in this country?

747
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:48.199
Boy, it's hard to say, it really is. I had

748
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:52.960
a really great few days leading up to this because

749
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:58.000
I'm supporting the congressman from the next district over and

750
00:41:58.079 --> 00:41:59.880
he's a super guy, used to be chief of Stephan,

751
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.400
so he sees very very bright. And actually I checked

752
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:06.719
this morning and it's still it's still too close to call.

753
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:07.480
Uh.

754
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.840
And then I saw Adam Shipp who just became our senator.

755
00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:14.840
Actually I saw him Saturday night, I saw Monday night,

756
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.880
and I saw him election night, obviously three different things.

757
00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:20.199
I went to a comedy show and laugh for two hours,

758
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:22.440
which felt really good. I was by myself, but I

759
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:26.519
went it was it was really really good. I know,

760
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:29.639
it's kind of tough. There's a lot of variables in there,

761
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:33.559
I think, and so, you know, it's hard to nail

762
00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:36.119
down exactly what it is. Is it macho men that

763
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.480
don't want to vote for a woman? You know what?

764
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:38.760
You know?

765
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.400
What are all? The Dynamics series is kind of multifaceted.

766
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:45.760
I know. I mean, I was just hoping in my

767
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:48.960
lifetime that I would be able to see a woman

768
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.679
run this country, because I don't think men have done

769
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:55.800
that great of a job. I mean, some of them

770
00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:01.280
have been just let's get for a chance, let's see

771
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:04.760
what a woman could do. But hopefully I'll live long

772
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:10.519
enough to see that happen. You've had such an amazing life.

773
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:13.239
How long did it take you to write your book?

774
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.679
And well, I did it. I did it in parts,

775
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:20.159
you know, as things. A lot of times I would

776
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.639
send a chapter to somebody who had the same experience

777
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:24.719
that I had had, like them like the Hodge and

778
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:27.480
India or or okay, my Catholic friends. I'm a Bisca pitt.

779
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:31.400
I sent my first chapters about being blessed by Mother

780
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:33.599
Teresa at her home in Calcutta. So I sent it

781
00:43:33.639 --> 00:43:36.199
to three Catholic friends, and I said, please tell me

782
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:38.880
how I can tweak this, what's wrong, what's right, and

783
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:41.199
what you would add to it, you know, and to

784
00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:44.480
really polish it up. And they did because they started

785
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:47.840
using some Catholic vernacular that I, you know' about the

786
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:50.719
different kind of chalice, that sort of thing, and so

787
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:53.320
that that was that was very cool, and I actually

788
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.920
stayed in touch with Mother Teresa's one of her nuns

789
00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:59.280
that I met one of her sisters and that sister

790
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:03.119
only passed away like last year, a sister and teres.

791
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.639
But she was amazing because she was glowing. I write

792
00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:09.800
about it my book when I met When I met

793
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:14.159
the sister at Mother Teresa's home in Calcutta, we had

794
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.719
a little bit of a conversation and right away hears

795
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:19.599
my accents, said what part of the states you're from?

796
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:21.719
And I said Washington, DC. And she said I was

797
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:24.599
in Washington, d C. With the Missions of Charity. But

798
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:27.840
I write a that I'm describer because she was glowing

799
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:30.480
and she had a glow at the time. I mean

800
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:34.400
that was like ninety six, okay. I couldn't tell if

801
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.800
she was forty or sixty because she just glowed. She

802
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:41.599
just people that carry that good energy any kind of

803
00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:43.400
in anywhere in the world. I look for it. They

804
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:45.079
have light in their eyes. I've seen this at the

805
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:47.639
temples and Nepaul. They have light in their eyes and

806
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:49.840
they have a glow. I can't see oars, but boy,

807
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:50.599
I can feel them.

808
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.840
These These are people that one time Amazon on the

809
00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:00.679
flight with Dali Lama, and these are people who are

810
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:05.639
old souls who are holy these are the blessed ones,

811
00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:10.960
and they're here not to learn, but they're here to

812
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:15.840
teach and just you. When you're in the presence of

813
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.840
one of them, you know, there's no question and they're

814
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:23.440
they're just uh. It's what a blessing to have been

815
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.079
able to be near even near them. Okay, now this

816
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:33.519
is my last question. If you could choose one person

817
00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:37.199
in the world, living or dead, besides me that you

818
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:39.880
would like to have dinner with, who would it be?

819
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:41.639
Oh, boy, Daniel.

820
00:45:41.719 --> 00:45:45.679
That's a really tough question because everybody, I like to say,

821
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:49.320
everybody brings something to the table, you know, and altogether

822
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:53.559
we're one hundred percent. I say those two things. So many,

823
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.440
just so so many. But it will probably be some

824
00:45:56.559 --> 00:46:00.920
kind of world icon like MLK or Gandhi, you know,

825
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:07.519
Mahama Gandhi, somebody who's really walked the walk somebody and

826
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.920
somebody who's been very spiritual and really you know, like

827
00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:13.920
my mother said to me when I was sixteen, darling,

828
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:16.239
I have to have a talk with you. Im thinking

829
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:18.159
what have I done that? And then she said, I

830
00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:20.280
want you to start thinking about what you're going to

831
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.360
do in your life, because I want you to leave

832
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:25.159
there I want to encourage you to leave the world

833
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:28.039
in a better place than what you found it. So

834
00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:32.199
that's what leads me to somebody who's very spiritual and

835
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:36.960
really devoted their life to bringing people together, really bringing

836
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.079
looking for the common denominator that binds all of us.

837
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:43.239
Well, you know pretty much that's what we're trying to

838
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:49.400
do here today. Yes, absolutely, And we're getting ready to

839
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:52.199
start booking shows and too. I can't believe it. The

840
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:56.400
next year is coming so soon, and I want to

841
00:46:56.679 --> 00:47:00.679
and definitely invite you back. And before you come back,

842
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:05.159
I intend to read your entire book from front to back.

843
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:09.400
Did I say the pdf? I can't remember.

844
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:12.119
No, I didn't get it yet. But then I want

845
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:16.239
you to read my book, okay, and we will have

846
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:23.519
a conversation about senior successful women who write books.

847
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:27.119
That's a good one. Yeah, well, there's a lot of it,

848
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.199
because I notice a lot of boomers who particularly of

849
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:35.039
help vibration, people that have been mentors or psychologists or

850
00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:38.760
psychiatrist or nurses, all kinds of healers.

851
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:43.119
Yeah, in my book, I have a lot of magic moments,

852
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:47.519
and I think you not only will have magic moments,

853
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:53.440
you have incredible memory, memorable moments and what a wonderful

854
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:57.519
thing that you put it down. My book took probably

855
00:47:57.639 --> 00:47:59.320
thirty years to write, so.

856
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:02.960
I know because things come to you too. You tell

857
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.199
your friends about your book, right, and then they said,

858
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:08.039
but Tani, you forgot to My friend with the FAA

859
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:10.559
said this to me, Tony, you forgot to mention that

860
00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:14.320
da da da about buzzing the village before we landed.

861
00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:18.719
And I had what a thing because we know all

862
00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:20.519
the Nigerians are like, what is going on with this

863
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.760
giant bird?

864
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:27.480
Yeah, I know it kind of takes on a life

865
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:32.079
of its own. Thank you Tanya Anderson, and we definitely

866
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:35.840
will have you back in the new year twenty twenties.

867
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:38.119
I love that. Thank you, and I want to wish

868
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:40.039
you a happy early Thanksgiving.

869
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:43.440
Oh thank you, Thank you well being a big littering

870
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:44.559
all over the place.

871
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:45.280
There you go.

872
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.880
Then, remember, my dear listeners, hope you have had enjoyed

873
00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:56.199
our wonderful time together. We've tried to be informative and inspiring.

874
00:48:56.880 --> 00:49:00.719
Next Thursday Live at three pm. So now thank you

875
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:04.679
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876
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:09.599
and our podcasts with everyone you know. Remember stop whining,

877
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:13.480
start smiling, and If that doesn't work, then you can

878
00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:19.159
just start eating chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate. Be

879
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:24.079
sure to glitter and glow until we meet again. Bye bye.

880
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:31.079
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