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Wicked Radio 1-31: Fear Not. Competency Is Coming To Air Travel - And Other Things · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: I'm almost positive this is gonna be the word where
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna piss a lot of you off if I
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Speaker 1: haven't already. But I'm gonna take the angle on this
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Speaker 1: horrific plane tragedy and let's call it what it is.
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Speaker 1: It was absolutely horrific, and actually look at the positive
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Speaker 1: on this. Oh, that's just ridiculous. We should be mourning
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Speaker 1: the victims and have heard that already, and I understand,
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Speaker 1: and we are. But here's something different that's happening here,
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Speaker 1: and this is something that should give you hope. Competency
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Speaker 1: is coming Hiring people in really important safety positions based
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Speaker 1: on merit instead of what they look like, instead of
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Speaker 1: what they sound like, or you know what category they
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Speaker 1: fit into. Common Sense is coming back, and it sucks.
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Speaker 1: And I get it that it took a tragedy like
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Speaker 1: this to get to that point to make most of
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Speaker 1: us say enough is enough on this. But here we
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Speaker 1: are and it should give you hope. It should just
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Speaker 1: it'll all make sense. Stick with me on that. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of hope or all that tragedy, we'll actually talk about
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Speaker 1: an amazing super Bowl. I love the part of the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl lead up these couple of weeks where there's
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Speaker 1: nothing going on, but they have all the feel good stories,
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Speaker 1: a lot of charitable events, you know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: like human interest stories. There's a great one coming out
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Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Eagle side of things. This should give
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Speaker 1: you a smile today for this young kid that's been
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Speaker 1: in the hospital. Well he's going to the game. You
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Speaker 1: know what that means. Chiefs fans, step up your game
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Speaker 1: because the Eagles have you beat so far. So we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that as well. And so far anyway, you
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Speaker 1: know how they always release the Super Bowl adds early.
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Speaker 1: I think they got the best one so far. When
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Speaker 1: Harry met Sally's back. It's pretty good. It's not too bad.
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Speaker 1: We'll we'll play that up as well. We got to
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Speaker 1: get to the big story of the day, and I
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Speaker 1: knew it was going to be like this too. It
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Speaker 1: took a day just because the timing of it, for
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Speaker 1: all the press conference is to happen to the statement
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Speaker 1: from the administration, to happen for former whistleblowers in that
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Speaker 1: industry to come out, and it did, and we got
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Speaker 1: that today. Let's start with the press conference from the
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Speaker 1: administration yesterday for President Trump. And here's the first thing
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Speaker 1: that happened. That was a little bit different that we're
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Speaker 1: not used to. We're not used to seeing this right away,
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Speaker 1: people taking responsibility in saying what's going to be done.
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Speaker 1: And here's why I say, and take the politics out
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Speaker 1: of it. I'm just talking about comparing now to four
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Speaker 1: years ago. Here's a good example. Do you remember in
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Speaker 1: East Palestine as Palestine, Ohio, with that horrific train accident
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Speaker 1: that happened and released all kinds of toxic chemicals. We
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Speaker 1: didn't get a press conference on that till two days after,
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Speaker 1: and then we know that with lack of government response. Okay, Now,
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Speaker 1: the amount of people that came out yesterday from the
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Speaker 1: administration talking about it was really actually kind of stunning,
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Speaker 1: And we shouldn't be stunned, because that's the way it
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Speaker 1: should be. Let's start with the president's words first, and
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Speaker 1: it's all about taking responsibility. And he started to dig
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Speaker 1: in and even I said, whoa, Okay, wow, this this
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Speaker 1: kicked up a notch. Started talking about the problems in
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Speaker 1: hiring in that industry and how things are going to change,
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Speaker 1: Like right away, this is the first press conference out
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Speaker 1: of the president that we'll hear from the Transportations Secretary.
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Speaker 2: Then my administration will set the highest possible bar for
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Speaker 2: aviation safety.
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Speaker 1: We have to have our smartest people. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: what they look like, how they speak, who.
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Speaker 2: They are matters intellect, talent, the word talent.
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Speaker 1: Just from talking to aviation people over the past few years,
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Speaker 1: just going back to the radio world, you know, I've
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Speaker 1: heard many anecdotal stories about what's been hired within the
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Speaker 1: Federal Aviation Administration, you know, let alone the airlines. So
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Speaker 1: I've heard like these stories. Then you hear the President
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Speaker 1: come out and say that and pretty much doing everything
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Speaker 1: but blaming incompetence for what happened here. And the one
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Speaker 1: steady phrase that kept on coming out of anybody that
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Speaker 1: spoke about this from an official standpoint yesterday was this
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Speaker 1: was completely preventable. But then I'm like, you know, after
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Speaker 1: the President's words and the Transportation Secretary, we'll hear from
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Speaker 1: him in a second. Here started thinking, well, how bad
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Speaker 1: is it? Somebody sent me this. I had to go
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Speaker 1: back and rewatch it. Michael Pearson is a former air
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Speaker 1: traffic controller. You might have caught him last night. I
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Speaker 1: think he was on a couple of different networks because
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Speaker 1: he's been trying to like blow the whistle on this
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Speaker 1: stuff for a long time. Michael Pearson is a former
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Speaker 1: air traffic controller. Here's what he said last night. This
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Speaker 1: clip is from Fox.
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Speaker 3: This is a preventable disaster. This is the system has
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Speaker 3: been under attack through the DEI and the FA bowing
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Speaker 3: to wodness since twenty ten, since the Obama administration. The
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Speaker 3: lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama administration
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Speaker 3: terminating the lists of eligible well trained air traffic control
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Speaker 3: statements in thirty six universities across the country and twenty
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Speaker 3: thirteen because they were too white.
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Speaker 1: WOA.
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Speaker 3: The FA also at the same time implemented an immunity program.
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Speaker 1: Well, and he went on, it's a little long. The
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Speaker 1: immunity program he's talking about was the most shocking thing
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Speaker 1: to me anyway, besides the fact that you know, you're
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Speaker 1: not hiring people who were qualified because of their color.
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Speaker 1: I thought were supposed to get away from that no
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Speaker 1: matter what the color is. Anyway, off topic, you talked
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Speaker 1: about this immunity program where where they can pretty much
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Speaker 1: fudge the numbers for near missus and near accidents to
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Speaker 1: cover it up. So anybody that actually was incompetent and
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Speaker 1: made mistakes, weren't held to the carpet or held to
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Speaker 1: the fire. It was covered up like he couldn't go
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Speaker 1: after him, not to prosecute him, but actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: get rid of them. I mean I was concerned before
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Speaker 1: about this kind of stuff. But how about that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: then you follow it up with this. Here's the brand
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Speaker 1: new press secretary, Transportation secretary. This guy, Sean Duffy just
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Speaker 1: got confirmed in his new role. Jet this is his
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Speaker 1: first day on the job. Imagine that, Hey, welcome, here's
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Speaker 1: your office. Oh oh well, we're getting word now we've
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Speaker 1: had a major air tragedy. Can you put some facts
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Speaker 1: together and get ready to speak tomorrow on that. But
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Speaker 1: here he was yesterday again echoing the same thing, and
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Speaker 1: it was a consistent message from everybody in any kind
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Speaker 1: of a position of author. Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary. Again
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Speaker 1: not playing politics. But compare this to the last one
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Speaker 1: we had where it was passed the buck and literally
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Speaker 1: months later before they started to get some answers on
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Speaker 1: it months later. That's different.
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Speaker 2: That's not acceptable, and so we will not accept excuses.
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Speaker 2: We will not accept passing the buck. We are going
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Speaker 2: to take responsibility at the Department of Transportation and the
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Speaker 2: FAA to make sure we have the reforms that have
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Speaker 2: been dictated by President Trump in place to make sure
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Speaker 2: that these mistakes do not happen again.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well that's what we want to hear. And now
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Speaker 1: you get to follow up with it, right and the
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Speaker 1: actually I actually get it done. So whatever changes are
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Speaker 1: coming to that industry, that branch of the military as well,
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Speaker 1: let's not forget about them. And the FAA with the
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Speaker 1: air traffic controllers has to happen, right, And before I
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Speaker 1: get to the what you're going to think is an
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Speaker 1: insane take about this, how actually believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: there's going to be some positive stuff to think about
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Speaker 1: this at the end of it. I know it's insane
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Speaker 1: until you hear me out what are some of the
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Speaker 1: other mistakes. And we knew it would take a couple
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Speaker 1: of days, but here you go. Now this is a
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Speaker 1: Daily Mail article. They're usually good with this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: But what they do is they collect all the other
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Speaker 1: stuff that's been printed so far with all the investigative journalists, right,
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Speaker 1: all the catastrophic mistakes that led to the DC plane
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Speaker 1: crash is revealed well, they're all coming out now, and
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Speaker 1: you may think, like I am, what kind of mistakes?
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Speaker 1: Here's one. This was a New York Times discovery, by
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Speaker 1: the way, it's in their story, and the Daily Mail
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Speaker 1: just kind of republished it. An air traffic controller was
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Speaker 1: reportedly allowed to leave their post early just before American
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Speaker 1: flight fifty three forty two collided mid air. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's not good. And then the first thing we heard
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Speaker 1: was a lot of blame being placed on the actual military.
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Speaker 1: It's also emerged at the army helicopter, which was carrying
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Speaker 1: three soldiers, deviated from their path, reportedly from where they're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be at first, coming down to the same
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Speaker 1: thing that no one was talking to each other. Okay,
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Speaker 1: when they say those kinds of mistakes can't happen and
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Speaker 1: are unacceptable and changes will be made, I think that's
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Speaker 1: what they're talking about. What surprised me yesterday was how
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Speaker 1: many people I heard of in my personal life and
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Speaker 1: reading online and I like serious, and there were pole
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Speaker 1: questions put up saying would you ever fly again? And
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Speaker 1: the amount of people that I heard personally saying no,
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Speaker 1: that's it, I'm not, nope, done whatever, I'll drive I'll
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Speaker 1: drive to wherever I have to go, I'll take a train,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. I understand that reaction, and I get it,
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Speaker 1: but I honestly think this is where you gotta think
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Speaker 1: I'm insane. I honestly think we're never going to have
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Speaker 1: the kind of safety we've ever had compared to what's coming.
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Speaker 1: In other words, it's going to get a lot safer.
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Speaker 1: And it sucks that it takes something like this, an
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Speaker 1: actual tragedy and people lost their lives for all of
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Speaker 1: us to wake up and to understand and demand answers,
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Speaker 1: because that's what it takes. We all have to demand
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Speaker 1: answers on this kind of stuff and demand changes. But
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Speaker 1: that's coming. I feel really, really confident just reading the
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Speaker 1: tea leaves on this and looking into this story so
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Speaker 1: much and other stories like it. This kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: is gonna be really rare. And it was rare already.
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Speaker 1: I mean it, what it was, the second worst crash
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Speaker 1: since nine eleven, second worst aviation incident, whatever. But this
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff is going by the wayside. And if
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Speaker 1: there were still a bunch of us out there saying
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Speaker 1: I don't understand this day, what's the big deal about
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Speaker 1: this DEI thing, what's the big what's the big thing
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Speaker 1: about quotas in hiring and these positions. Now, it's hard
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Speaker 1: to find anybody that doesn't understand that, because this is
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Speaker 1: exactly what went behind, what went on behind this in
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Speaker 1: competence people based on people hired at putting these positions
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Speaker 1: based on what they look like or how they identify
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Speaker 1: instead of the best and the brightest. They all said
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Speaker 1: it right there, it's exactly right. And then like the
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Speaker 1: former air traffic controller said, to have an immunity program
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Speaker 1: set in place where you can't hold them responsible. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff is going to stop. So this
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Speaker 1: is why I say fear not. I think truly believe
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Speaker 1: this is a watershed moment. And it sucks that it
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Speaker 1: took this to get here, but in this particular industry,
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Speaker 1: it took a watershed moment like this, and a horrific
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Speaker 1: one to turn things around and get us all to
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Speaker 1: open our eyes and realize, wow, okay, so it's not
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Speaker 1: only wrong to disqualify people because they don't look right,
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Speaker 1: they're not the right gender or race. It's deadly. It
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Speaker 1: leads to things like this. Unfortunately, for whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: we all know how it works in the real world.
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Speaker 1: It takes things like this, unfortunately for us to turn
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Speaker 1: things around. And what it takes is all of us
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Speaker 1: to demand something better. They always love to talk about
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Speaker 1: people in the administration, the American people set a mandate
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Speaker 1: for President Trump to get things done. Oh, this is
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Speaker 1: a real mandate. This is it. This is all of
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Speaker 1: us together saying can't have this, we can't accept this,
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Speaker 1: it's not good enough. That's why I say, going forward
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Speaker 1: from this point on, from this, from this moment in history,
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Speaker 1: I think at least flying is never gonna be safer.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna be so much better than it
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Speaker 1: was before because the people behind it are gonna be
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Speaker 1: better at their jobs. And now we've got to work
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Speaker 1: on customer service for the airline industry. That's the next
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Speaker 1: thing we have to We have to. Let's hope it's
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Speaker 1: not in a watershed momber for that one. We've already
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Speaker 1: had it. Right. If everybody demands better service and better
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Speaker 1: things out of the airline industry, just on that end
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Speaker 1: of it, that's how things get done. So fear not
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Speaker 1: have hope. Things are gonna get a lot safer going forward.
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Speaker 1: I truly truly believe that. So if you can, if
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Speaker 1: you can allow me optimism through a horrific situation, sometimes
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Speaker 1: you got to get through the darkness to get through
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Speaker 1: things get things better. That's just how the world works.
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Speaker 1: But it is gonna get better, all right. Look, let's
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Speaker 1: get out of that for a second to talk about something.
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Speaker 1: It's the weekend where what I don't know, a week
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Speaker 1: and change away from the Super Bowl. We're all excited
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Speaker 1: about that, but this is that time of the year
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Speaker 1: where it's kind of like, Okay, there's the media day,
12:03
Speaker 1: waiting for the game to start if you're interested, whatever,
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Speaker 1: but there's not a lot going on in sports if
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Speaker 1: you're a sports fan. Here's what comes out now though,
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Speaker 1: to kind of like fill the gap. And it's a
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Speaker 1: really good one. It's a really good feel good story
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Speaker 1: coming out of the Super Bowl week. And this one
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Speaker 1: is coming for and I'm sure the Chiefs will have
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Speaker 1: some of their own, but this one is coming from
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Speaker 1: the Eagles side of things. So congratulations, Eagles fans. You're
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Speaker 1: leading this one so far in the feel good stories.
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Speaker 1: This one's about a young Eagles fan. He's been spending
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Speaker 1: time at a hospital. Will hear how much time. He
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Speaker 1: just got free tickets to the NFS to the championship game.
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Speaker 1: He's going to the Super Bowl. Now, there's some kind
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Speaker 1: of a guy, an internet do gooder, who actually gave
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Speaker 1: him these tickets. I need to discover who this guy is.
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Speaker 1: But he's the guy that came up with the entire thing.
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Speaker 1: But here's the kid. He's eight years old, Zach darren Nowski.
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Speaker 1: Shoot me. He's the feel gooder MD motivator surprising a
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Speaker 1: kid name Declan LeBaron. He's the kid in the hospital
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Speaker 1: with these Super Bowl tickets. And this is freaking awesome.
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Speaker 1: This is how it should be done. And you've been
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Speaker 1: in the hospital seventeen times. You've been in the hospital
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Speaker 1: seventeen times. Yeah, close your eyes and on the count
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Speaker 1: of three, say fly, Eagles Fly, one, two, three.
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Speaker 3: Eagles fly. Thank you?
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Speaker 1: Was the ticket You're going to the game? Man? I
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Speaker 1: love you. Bro. Listen there it is. It's the best
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Speaker 1: day of his life. I can understand that too. So
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Speaker 1: he's going to the game, which is fantastic. Here's what
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Speaker 1: he has, Like he said, he's been in the hospital
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Speaker 1: seventeen times. Uh, Declan has a form of arthritis, juvenile arthritis.
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Speaker 1: So once he gets out of this next turn, he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to go to the game with his family,
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Speaker 1: which I think is freaking awesome. So congratulations to you,
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Speaker 1: MD Motivator. I gotta find out more about that guy,
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Speaker 1: because he's doing great work. And then we have, of course,
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Speaker 1: what else happens. I know, I complain about this all
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Speaker 1: the time, but they always release all the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: commercials too early, right because when you're paying that, when
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Speaker 1: you're paying millions was it like seven million this year
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Speaker 1: for a thirty second Super Bowl ad, you want to
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Speaker 1: get more bang for your buck. So they start releasing
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Speaker 1: these things early, so we've seen half of them by
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Speaker 1: the time the game comes around. I had heard rumors
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Speaker 1: like three months ago that this was coming, that there
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Speaker 1: was in production. They brought back the when Harry met
14:21
Speaker 1: Sally theme with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. That's out already.
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Speaker 1: You want to hear how that went. Here's a little
14:28
Speaker 1: snippet of how that went. It's pretty all right. For
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Speaker 1: the ones released so far, it's pretty here we go,
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so good. So this one's real.
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Speaker 2: And that is a sandwich.
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Speaker 1: It's okay, it's pretty good. It's uh, you know it's
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Speaker 1: all right. I think they both look great. I know
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Speaker 1: they've gotten some criticism. Ell they look so old. No,
14:57
Speaker 1: go's how people are on social media. But I think
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Speaker 1: it's good. Here here's the thing. I'm honest to god,
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Speaker 1: I can't remember even what it's for. It might be Helman's,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have this weird block when it
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Speaker 1: comes to Super Bowl commercials. I can never remember. Like
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Speaker 1: people the next day will say, hey, did you see
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Speaker 1: that Toyota commercial? And I'm like, which one? Oh? It
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Speaker 1: is about the one about the monkey and the and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, ye, I remember that one. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It's like the opposite of
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Speaker 1: what the ad agencies want. I can never remember who
15:25
Speaker 1: the sponsor was ever. I think it's a mental block,
15:27
Speaker 1: like going back to radio, because I can't remember. I
15:30
Speaker 1: heard so many commercials in my life I like block
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Speaker 1: out who the sponsor was, and I can't remember. I
15:34
Speaker 1: honest to god, I do you have does anybody else
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Speaker 1: have that? I always block it out. I can never
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Speaker 1: remember who the actual super so I'm the opposite of
15:42
Speaker 1: who they're trying to reach. But whatever we'll see, we'll
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Speaker 1: see at the commercial that's the that's the best one
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Speaker 1: they've released to release so far. Hopefully they hold some
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Speaker 1: back for the big game. I hope. So anyway, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see. I got a week to go,
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Speaker 1: week and change to go before that happens, though, But
15:53
Speaker 1: more importantly, it's Friday actually hanging out with me. I
15:56
Speaker 1: appreciate you as always. The audio version of the podcast
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Speaker 1: is gonna be on what what ever platform you like.
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Speaker 1: It could be iHeart, it could be Apple Podcasts, Spotify wherever.
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Speaker 1: It give me a five star on that too. If
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Speaker 1: you've heard it a few times, that always helps a
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Speaker 1: lot of you have, so thank you very much. I
16:10
Speaker 1: appreciate it and download it. And this is a replay
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Speaker 1: on XIT on Facebook and on YouTube and all that
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Speaker 1: other stuff. So whatever, we got a weekend on our hands.
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Speaker 1: And again the takeaway is, I know it's a horrific,
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Speaker 1: horrific thing with the plane crash, but I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: they should actually give you hope. It's weird to even
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Speaker 1: say it must be weird to even her even here,
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Speaker 1: but through this watershed moment, things are gonna get safer.
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Speaker 1: I feel very confident in saying that, don't fear flying
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Speaker 1: going ahead in the future. Just believe because things are
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Speaker 1: gotta get better from here on out. So that's your
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Speaker 1: first takeaway. The second thing is like always don't take
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Speaker 1: any crab from anybody, but most importantly, have a wicked
16:49
Speaker 1: awesome Friday, enjoy the weekend, Please be safe. We'll catch
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Speaker 1: up again on Monday and I'll talk to you then.
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Speaker 1: Se