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FAA Recruits Gamers as Air Traffic Controllers, Kids Behind the Wheel Leave Oakland Woman in ICU, and OnlyFans Model Sentenced in Boyfriend’s Death · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The FAA is turning to video gamers to help fill
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  Speaker 1: a major shortage of air traffic controllers.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a conversation over the course of the last
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  Speaker 2: month about some of the challenges that we're having in
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  Speaker 2: the airspace.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, August twelfth, from the Black Effects Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: Imim Brown. This is front page and here are the
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  Speaker 1: days biggest stories. Stay with me. The FAA is turning
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  Speaker 1: to video gamers to help fill a major shortage of
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  Speaker 1: air traffic controllers. The ideas started with a recruiting campaign
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  Speaker 1: the FAA launched back in April, specifically targeting gamers. The
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  Speaker 1: ad showed people playing fast paced video games along real
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  Speaker 1: air traffic controllers with the message you've been training for this.
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  Speaker 1: When the applications opened in April, thousands came within hours.
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  Speaker 1: The agency eventually capped the applications at eight thousand. The
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  Speaker 1: salary also may have helped air traffic controllers make around
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars a year after
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  Speaker 1: three years on the job. And you don't need a
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  Speaker 1: college degree now being good at video games. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: automatically qualify someone for direct airplanes. Applicants still have to
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  Speaker 1: pass the same tests, medical and security screenings as everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: They also have to complete training at the FAA Academy
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  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City before moving on to training at an
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  Speaker 1: actual facility. The recruiting push, though, comes as the FAA
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  Speaker 1: continues to deal with the major staffing shortage.
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  Speaker 2: Many of you know that we are two thousand controller
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  Speaker 2: short air traffic controller short, and we have sered our
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  Speaker 2: academy to bring more controllers into our system. We are
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  Speaker 2: twenty percent up in controllers through the academy thus far
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  Speaker 2: this year. I've also offered air traffic controllers who are
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  Speaker 2: of the age of retirement a twenty percent upfront cash
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  Speaker 2: bonus to actually stay on. Some of the best controllers
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  Speaker 2: we have, don't retire, keep working for us. All of
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  Speaker 2: that has been reducing the pressure on the staffing side
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  Speaker 2: of your traffic control.
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  Speaker 1: And training is tough. Historically, about a third of trainees
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  Speaker 1: don't finish the academy. The FAA says that number has
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  Speaker 1: improved about one in four. In Oakland, a thirty one
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  Speaker 1: year old woman is fighting for her life after being
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  Speaker 1: hit by a car driven by two little brothers, ages
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  Speaker 1: six and four. Her name is Kiara Bowling. Bowling was
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  Speaker 1: walking a friend's emotional support dog when surveillance video shows
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  Speaker 1: a Toyota Camery side swiping another vehicle before hitting her.
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  Speaker 1: Her sister says she's still fighting for her life.
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  Speaker 3: She is currently suffering from multiple brain bleef and faithful
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  Speaker 3: factors and was just hoping for a true fey recovery.
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  Speaker 1: A source close to the boys family says the six
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  Speaker 1: year old found the car keys in his father's pocket
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  Speaker 1: while the parents sleeping. He then woke up his four
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  Speaker 1: year old brother use a kitchen chair to unlock the
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  Speaker 1: front door, and the two boys got into the family's car.
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  Speaker 1: Their father reportedly uses that car to make a living
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  Speaker 1: as an uber driver. The dog Bowling was walking was
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  Speaker 1: also injured and ran away after the crash. He was
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  Speaker 1: later found and taken to a veterinarian. Bowling is in
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  Speaker 1: her final semester at cal State East Bay. She recently
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  Speaker 1: completed an online pre law program at Harvard Law School
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  Speaker 1: and was crowned Miss Greater Bay Area last year. Her
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  Speaker 1: family says they don't blame the children, but then there
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  Speaker 1: are questions about whether the parents could face consequences. A
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  Speaker 1: legal analyst told a local television station they could potentially
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  Speaker 1: face child neglect charges and civil liability. Bowling's family has
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  Speaker 1: started a GoFundMe to help with her recovery. Lastly, a
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  Speaker 1: former OnlyFans model, Courtney Pliny, has been sentenced to six
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  Speaker 1: years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter and the
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  Speaker 1: stabbing death of her boyfriend, Christian oben Celly. Clinnie admitted
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  Speaker 1: stabbing oba Selly inside their Miami condo in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: but has maintained she was offending herself. She was originally
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  Speaker 1: charged with second degree murder, but took a plea deal
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  Speaker 1: instead of going to trial, and because she's already spent
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  Speaker 1: roughly four years behind bars, her attorney says she could
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  Speaker 1: be out in less than two years. Prosecutors say oben
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  Speaker 1: Selly was the victim of domestic violence and pointed to
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  Speaker 1: videos showing Clinny hitting him. Our attorney says those videos
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  Speaker 1: are wrong.
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  Speaker 4: We've never sat there and said Courtney was an angel.
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  Speaker 4: They had a very combative relationship, but at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, Christian was abusing her.
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  Speaker 1: Oben Selly's family strongly rejects that picture of him. This
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  Speaker 1: is how they described him in court. Everyone who knew Christian,
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  Speaker 1: who truly knew him. Kennet test that he was kind hearted, compassionate,
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  Speaker 1: friendly and respectful and clinting six year sentence is now
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  Speaker 1: drawing comparisons to online cases involving black women like Marissa
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  Speaker 1: Alexander and Santonio Brown, who received much harsher sentences in
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  Speaker 1: cases where abuse was also part of their defense. The
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  Speaker 1: cases are different, but the comparison is fueling a larger
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  Speaker 1: conversation about who gets believed, who gets punished, and who
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  Speaker 1: gets mercy. That's your front page, I Mimi Brown. This
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