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Green Day rushed offstage in Detroit as drone delays show · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Hey we're back John, look you here on AM eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred c KLW. That's what it sounded like last night
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit when Green Day was rushed off the stage
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  Speaker 1: due to a drone delay. Is what we found out
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  Speaker 1: after the fact. Joining me right now is someone who
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  Speaker 1: was their concert attendee as well as co producer of
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  Speaker 1: Just Cake Productions, Kristin Siapis. Hey, Kristen, what happened? What
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  Speaker 1: was it like?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? Uh, it was strange. It was a cool concert.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we went through most of the concert.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was relatively normal, Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins playing
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  Speaker 2: in Comerica Park, and the concert was Green Day was
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  Speaker 2: playing through all of their Dukey album, all their American
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  Speaker 2: Idiot album, and it was right towards the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: their set. They hadn't been on for very long and
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  Speaker 2: they were in the middle of the song long View.
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  Speaker 2: Everything seemed normal to me, and then all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden security came up risked them off stage. The stage
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  Speaker 2: went black, the bright lights came on, and there was
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  Speaker 2: no music. And the funny thing, I think, because the
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  Speaker 2: audience was so into it, they just kept singing like
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  Speaker 2: they're singing along. It's sort of like that throwback, like
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  Speaker 2: they're playing through their album, they're playing through Dukie. It's
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  Speaker 2: like songs that everybody knows. Everybody's into it, singing along
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  Speaker 2: at the top of your lungs, you know. It was
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  Speaker 2: that kind of vibe. And then the band stopped playing
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  Speaker 2: and the people kept singing, and then they kind of
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  Speaker 2: after a moment that they're not coming back. This is
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  Speaker 2: not a thing. There were a couple of people sitting
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  Speaker 2: in front of me that were like, Oh, they do this.
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  Speaker 2: They just do this. It's like it's for a dramatic effect.
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  Speaker 2: And then as time went on, it became kind of
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  Speaker 2: clear that maybe they're not coming back. Just prior to this,
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  Speaker 2: actually I'm sitting with my husband and I went and
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  Speaker 2: saw the show together. He pointed out that he had
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  Speaker 2: seen this drone. He noticed it before I did. There's
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  Speaker 2: this this drone hanging out, I don't know, in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the the stadium, kind of off to the
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  Speaker 2: side a little bit, And he said later he was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I thought it was like a police
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  Speaker 2: drone or something like. You don't think immediately as an
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  Speaker 2: audience member, like hey, there's something up, you know whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And they've come out now, and they've said that that
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  Speaker 2: drone is the reason why they had to pause the
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  Speaker 2: concert because it was a security breach, I guess, and
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  Speaker 2: we were just kind of left in the dark, I know,
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  Speaker 2: during that pause, the drone was still kind of hanging
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  Speaker 2: out there because we were and there's nothing else for
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  Speaker 2: us to watch during the show. We kind of saw
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  Speaker 2: it there, and then it took a minute or two
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  Speaker 2: for the screens to pop up, you know, the video
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  Speaker 2: screens pop up. Show paused, please wait for further you know,
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  Speaker 2: instruction or whatever it said, and then we just kind
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  Speaker 2: of sat there for a few minutes. It felt I
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  Speaker 2: had to go back to my photos. It felt like
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  Speaker 2: a lot longer than it actually was. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting there. It was probably, i think, judging by my photos,
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  Speaker 2: like maybe four minutes, but it felt we afterwards were like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, it was like ten minutes, fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of a short time. But they did
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  Speaker 2: they they the band rivers were rushed right off stage.
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  Speaker 2: You could see like the golf carts kind of take
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  Speaker 2: them back to whatever their backstage area is at Comerica.
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  Speaker 2: And then it took it took a few minutes and
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  Speaker 2: then the golf carts come back out and the guys
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  Speaker 2: came back out on stage and everything continued as normal.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know. It wasn't confirmed until later
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  Speaker 2: online we saw a few articles that said that it
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  Speaker 2: had been the drone was actually the reason why it
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  Speaker 2: was stopped.
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  Speaker 1: So wild stuff. Glad that it was just a drone
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  Speaker 1: and nothing worse. It always gets you a little worrysome
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  Speaker 1: when you see people get rushed away and then a
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  Speaker 1: show pause. You guys wait around here, though. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: it was just a drone. Glad you guys were kay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad it was a good show for you, Kristin, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: For it was a killer show. It was really good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for setting the stage for us.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Also joining us right now is the owner of Hit Films.
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  Speaker 1: He's a drone videographer, been on the show before, Drew
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  Speaker 1: hitting Rah. How you doing, Drew, Hey, John, I'm gone
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  Speaker 1: really well. So when I first saw that this was
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  Speaker 1: a drone, you know, my first thought was this could
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  Speaker 1: be an issue because of a concern by police that
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  Speaker 1: this thing is flying over ahead of people, or the
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  Speaker 1: concern could be that it's IP infringement and someone's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go and videotape this and put up the best Green
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  Speaker 1: Day video that you've ever seen on YouTube. What are
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  Speaker 1: some of the risks about flying overhead a large group
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  Speaker 1: of people if you're not sanctioned to be doing so.
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  Speaker 3: Well under the FA's part one those seven rules. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, it's an absolute no no for flying
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  Speaker 3: over people, and you have to get the correct, correct,
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  Speaker 3: you know, certification to be able to do that. And
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  Speaker 3: if you don't have that, you know, there could be
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  Speaker 3: fines up to thirty thousand dollars or more for doing that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely not safe to fly over people, and
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  Speaker 3: definitely get the right certification to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: So typically like this has probably looked like maybe a
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  Speaker 3: Mavick or sorry, a DJI Mini four pro based off
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  Speaker 3: the lights that were flashing. And that's still a heavy drone,
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  Speaker 3: right If that falls, that could hurt someone, And we
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  Speaker 3: have smaller Sidney Whoop drones that are made for flying
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  Speaker 3: over people specifically for this, so that guy is probably
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  Speaker 3: going to get a knock on the door from the FAA.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any ways to bring down a drone safely
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  Speaker 1: if they are flying overhead like does law enforcement have
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  Speaker 1: any tools.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of stadiums have anti drone tech, which is
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  Speaker 3: basically you can imagine kind of a kind of like
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  Speaker 3: a rocket launcher signal that over the drone controller and
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  Speaker 3: then they can safely point the you know whatever you
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  Speaker 3: want to call it a drone gun down and it'll
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  Speaker 3: actually land the drone safely. In this case, it didn't
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  Speaker 3: look like they had that, but a lot of stadiums
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  Speaker 3: do have that tech.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, So that tech does exist, so you can
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  Speaker 1: take control of it and then direct it to where
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  Speaker 1: you want it to be. So when you first saw
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  Speaker 1: that this was happening, when you first heard that this
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  Speaker 1: was a drone that caused this show pause, Like, what
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  Speaker 1: was your first thought about it?
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  Speaker 3: I just went on, no, not another one. You know,
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  Speaker 3: reckless pilots like this should be charged it and I
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  Speaker 3: kind of hate that it's going to make it worse
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  Speaker 3: for all the responsible pilots out there. You know. That's
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  Speaker 3: why the FAA's Part one of seven certification exists and
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  Speaker 3: it's becoming more difficult to pass, which it should be,
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  Speaker 3: but you know it's you see this happen a lot
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  Speaker 3: of concerts and no one thinks otherwise. When they see
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  Speaker 3: a drone flying in the sky. But I guess that's
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  Speaker 3: probably a good idea for them to pause the concert
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  Speaker 3: and figure out where the source of the drone was.
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  Speaker 3: And I read that he wasn't arrested, but they forwarded
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  Speaker 3: the case to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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  Speaker 1: So do we have an equivalent organization here to the
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  Speaker 1: FAA that oversees drones and has regulations like saying you
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  Speaker 1: can't fly over people. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. In Canada, we have Transport Canada, and you have
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  Speaker 3: a basic or Advanced operation. So there's two different license
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  Speaker 3: you can get. Basic is prohibited from flying over bystandards
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  Speaker 3: and crowds at any time, and then there's the Advanced operation,
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  Speaker 3: which you would file a special flight Operation certificate which
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  Speaker 3: ISFOC and then you get the certification to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do that. In this case, obviously this person did not,
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  Speaker 3: so wake me up. When September ends, well, hey.
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  Speaker 1: We will leave it at that. Drew, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for joining us to give us your perspective and
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  Speaker 1: your technical expertise on us.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Thanks John, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It was a wild night last night everyone when that happened.
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  Speaker 1: I wat was watching videos again. We just we heard
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  Speaker 1: there at the top of this segment. What happened when
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  Speaker 1: the when they were playing there longview and then when
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  Speaker 1: they sort of all stopped playing and singing but the
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  Speaker 1: crowd kept it going. Uh it was. It was interesting,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least. Again, glad that nobody was harmed
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  Speaker 1: by this at all, But yeah, drone forcing Green Day
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  Speaker 1: from the stage at Comerica Park concert with smashing pumpkins