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Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on the CEO of Boeing being grilled in court · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Newstalks ed be follow
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  Speaker 2: Dan Mitchinson US correspondence with US Now Hi, Dan, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: hither on a scale of one to teen, how tough
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  Speaker 2: was the time that the Boeing CEO had?
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  Speaker 3: I guess it depends on how you look at it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, doesn't it because he's still going to walk
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  Speaker 3: away with that thirty seventhing million dollar paycheck. We're talking
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  Speaker 3: about David Calhoun, who was before the Senate Subcommittee on
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  Speaker 3: Investigations today and he apologized to the families of the
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  Speaker 3: victims who died in the Boeing seven thirty seven Max
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  Speaker 3: crashes or two more than five years ago. He hasn't
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  Speaker 3: spoken directly, he said, to any of the whistleblowers who
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  Speaker 3: have alleged to have taken shortcuts and jeopardize the safety.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the big takeaway that I got from
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  Speaker 3: this was the acknowledge that the company had retaliated against
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  Speaker 3: employees who have raised safety concerns. And you know, many
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  Speaker 3: of the families who showed up at this hearing said, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: there's got to be kind of criminal prosecution. They say
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  Speaker 3: the executives have been held accountable and like you just
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  Speaker 3: heard their outraged at Calihoun's salary, which is almost thirty
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  Speaker 3: three million dollars a year. Yah.
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  Speaker 2: And so did he outline exactly what kind of action
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  Speaker 2: they were taking against whistleblowers?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, not exactly. I think he kind of talked his
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  Speaker 3: way around that a little bit. But he has he has,
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  Speaker 3: you know, said that, Okay, we did offer this kind
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  Speaker 3: of retaliation and that could be a number of things,
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  Speaker 3: from you know, a demotion in in your position to
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  Speaker 3: being let go when they did a number round of
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  Speaker 3: cutoffs during the pandemic. You know how these things work.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's always a way around it without it
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  Speaker 3: actually saying well, we're retaliating against you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough. Ho did the apology go down?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody, I think they took it at
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  Speaker 3: face value. I think most of the people that you know,
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  Speaker 3: thought it was just him, you know, saying what he
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  Speaker 3: had to say. And you know, nothing's going to be
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  Speaker 3: taken away from him. I mean, it's not like the
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  Speaker 3: board or Boeing is going to cut his salary by
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  Speaker 3: any means. But you know, there are changes at the
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  Speaker 3: at the top, and I think there will be more
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  Speaker 3: investigations into this, and not to mention, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people are concerned, especially going into summer over here, about
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  Speaker 3: flying some of these aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: Jan is justin Timberlake having a hard time or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on with him. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was arrested early this morning in sag Harbor, New
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  Speaker 3: York for allegedly driving while intoxicated. And then a couple
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  Speaker 3: of hours later he made his first court appearance and
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  Speaker 3: he's he's been arraigned on one count of driving while
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  Speaker 3: under the influence, and he was released without bail. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's no big deal about that. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 3: who he is and where he's going and whatever. And
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  Speaker 3: according to the you know, a statement that the Hollywood
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  Speaker 3: Reporter got, I guess there was an officer that saw
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  Speaker 3: him failing to stop at a posted stops sign and
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  Speaker 3: then he couldn't stay in his lane, and so they
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  Speaker 3: pulled him over, and you know, oh, it's justin Timberlake.
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  Speaker 3: And he had bloodshot eyes and he couldn't speak, and
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  Speaker 3: he was slurred, and he filled all the sobriety tests.
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  Speaker 3: So he was cuffed and taken in by police. And
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  Speaker 3: he'll have another court appearance coming up on the I
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  Speaker 3: think the twenty sixth of July.
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  Speaker 2: Apart from remember that that prisoner who became a model
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  Speaker 2: after he was released because he was such a hot.
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  Speaker 2: Apart from him, this is the hottest mug shot yet,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't bad. I mean, I guess you
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  Speaker 3: could say it was. I forgot about the guy you
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  Speaker 3: just mentioned about until till you you said it.
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  Speaker 2: I've got it a filed in my head. Oh, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't bad, Dan, Who was better? How was your much?
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  Speaker 3: One of the two?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, you know if the guy didn't smile that the
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  Speaker 3: first one he was okay, there was something I can't
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  Speaker 3: remember if he was missing some teeth or not when
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  Speaker 3: he smiled, or what it was about him. It was
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  Speaker 3: kind of strange, but you know, fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, so what's going on in Wyoming? Are they gonna
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  Speaker 2: they're not seriously gonna elect an AI bot as the mayor?
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  Speaker 2: Are they?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? There's there's I mean, the guy that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: saying this is that maybe this is kind of a stunt,
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  Speaker 3: But the question is can of bot powered by artificial intelligence?
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  Speaker 3: We're on a city. So this guy named Victor Miller
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  Speaker 3: says he thinks so, so he filed paperwork for him
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  Speaker 3: in his customized chat bot named Virtual Virtual Inner Graded Citizen,
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  Speaker 3: which is VIC to run from Air of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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  Speaker 3: So he found out all the paperwork, and he says
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  Speaker 3: he's going to serve as sort of an avatar for
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  Speaker 3: the boss, so he'll do the ribbon cutting stuff. Bot's
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  Speaker 3: going to handle all the decision making if he wins
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  Speaker 3: and advances to the November election. But there's a speed
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  Speaker 3: up in this because the Secretary of State of Wyoming
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  Speaker 3: says this is not legally. He says, it is very
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  Speaker 3: clear that we have a law that AI is not
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  Speaker 3: eligible as a candidate in any office. But the guy
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  Speaker 3: that's trying this is saying, you know what, this bot
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  Speaker 3: could be impartial, He could make somewhat rationalisms, but then
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  Speaker 3: you have others that say, you know what, data alan
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  Speaker 3: doesn't result in better decision making, especially if you don't
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  Speaker 3: have real life experience or common sense, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of ironic when you think common sense and politicians. But
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  Speaker 3: you get what he's.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, Dan, thank you very much, appreciate it, mate, look
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  Speaker 2: after yourself talk to you on Friday. That's Dan Mitch's
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  Speaker 2: and US correspondent.
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