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Billy Crystal Showing Us We Can Have One Leg Up OVER This Crisis of Convergence 1-29-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, how do you tell
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  Speaker 1: someone after tragedy everything's going to be okay? How do
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  Speaker 1: you do it? Because in the last twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: we've gone from one tragedy to another, tragedy that has
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  Speaker 1: been mourned and now aid relief through Fire Aid LA.
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  Speaker 1: We'll play a little bit of that from Billy Crystal.
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  Speaker 1: It was an emotional speech tonight in La at the
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  Speaker 1: Fire Aid LA concert. It was really a powerful we
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  Speaker 1: play for you here. Imulling up with Alex Garrett, but
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  Speaker 1: he said something about he felt things were going to
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  Speaker 1: be okay. There were signs to him that said, despite
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  Speaker 1: losing his home in the Palaceies, it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be okay. Imagine receiving that message in such tragedy. Because
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  Speaker 1: while La is healing and trying to help each other,
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  Speaker 1: we have a convergence, a literal convergence of tragedies. There's
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  Speaker 1: been a metaphorical convergence between what happened over the Potamic
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  Speaker 1: River and the still very raw heartbreak in LA. But
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  Speaker 1: this convergence calls for you, This convergence of not only
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  Speaker 1: a Blackhawk helicopter crashing into an American airliner, killing many
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  Speaker 1: amongst the figure skating community, including US figure skaters. It's heartbreaking,
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  Speaker 1: but that convergence of the plane and the chopper should
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  Speaker 1: raise real concerns. Finally, because there have been other black
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  Speaker 1: Hawk chopper fatal accidents and tragedies that may not have
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  Speaker 1: been detailed enough, and maybe this convergence, this tragedy midair
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  Speaker 1: at Reagan National well, tell everyone, including the President United States,
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  Speaker 1: to shut the f up and be unified as we
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  Speaker 1: mourn the loss of now sixty seven at least sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven people. Now's not the time to be funny. Now's
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  Speaker 1: not the time to even make if you're an airplane
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  Speaker 1: fan airplane jokes. Now's the time to rally for Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: skating community and other skating communities and just communities that
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  Speaker 1: have lost loved ones tonight, oh well last night into
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  Speaker 1: this morning. So you start out earlier today hearing replays
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  Speaker 1: of this call.
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  Speaker 2: By air traffic control, H.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and we all saw the video of the
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  Speaker 1: fireball that was that crash. So this convergence of not
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  Speaker 1: only aircraft, but of tragedies crashing into each other, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it time to say, let's roll up our sleeves and
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  Speaker 1: truly look out for each other. And I hate to
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  Speaker 1: say it. I hate to say it, but as the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration ended, the Trump administration has found itself in
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  Speaker 1: a convergence of crisis. And we will see how this
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  Speaker 1: present deals with this crisis. But it is a convergence
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  Speaker 1: of crisis because California still has not gone and fully
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  Speaker 1: healed from what's happened to nearly one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: thousand people need to evacuate, mill to acres and houses
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  Speaker 1: burned down. There's still not a resolution there. Now you
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  Speaker 1: add this tragedy and everything literally is a convergence of crisis.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe this convergence of crisis can finally heal us
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  Speaker 1: and we can all just say enough enough, Let's all
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  Speaker 1: roll up our sleeves and work together and support good
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  Speaker 1: citizens who are working as first responders, as just good samaritans,
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  Speaker 1: to continue to find information, certainly on this tragedy in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, but also to allow citizenry to help rebuild
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  Speaker 1: LA on their own without government interference saying well, if
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  Speaker 1: you do this wrong, you're cann get up fine, if
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  Speaker 1: you do this a certain way, you're gonna find. No,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need that, we need citizenry to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do what they're going to do, support their community.
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  Speaker 1: That's what America is about, is rolling up our sleeves
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  Speaker 1: in a time of crisis, not finding people for stepping
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  Speaker 1: up in a time of crisis. And though I disagree
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  Speaker 1: with I'm using the DEI tactic today when describing the
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  Speaker 1: disaster at the FAA, I want to say, hearing that
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  Speaker 1: this worker might have been doing two different jobs, it
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  Speaker 1: kind of does show how poorly run the FAA might
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  Speaker 1: have been under the previous administration. Someone working two jobs
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  Speaker 1: and not being able to patrol the skies properly, that
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  Speaker 1: does feel like mismanagement. And we've talked about the FAA
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  Speaker 1: before allowing tons and tons of different thing, different people
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  Speaker 1: to be hired without the proper vetting. But to the
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  Speaker 1: worker that was working two jobs, I can't fault them.
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  Speaker 1: To the pilots of this airline, I can't fault them,
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  Speaker 1: And to our Department of Defense in this convergence of crisis,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to remind Secretary hug Except this, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure a Secretary Huggs knows this, but according to military
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  Speaker 1: dot Com, there were two insidants alone, just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, in twenty twenty three, when the same
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  Speaker 1: UAGE sixty Blackhawk was involved with deadly training cap crashes
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  Speaker 1: stateside in which the twelfth Aviation Battalion haused flights and
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  Speaker 1: in wake up the deadly incident that led to eleven
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  Speaker 1: deaths two instance in twenty twenty three alone. But because
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  Speaker 1: that did not happen in this fashion, it didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of coverage. But I remember that and wondering
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  Speaker 1: what the hell is going on with the black Hawk
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  Speaker 1: choppers helicopters. But I also know that we did lose
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  Speaker 1: three Army soldiers according to military dot Com, who were
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  Speaker 1: tragically killed in this crash. And this too was a
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  Speaker 1: training exercise according to the Pentagon. So where did it
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  Speaker 1: go wrong? And what a headache for Secretary of Hexeth
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  Speaker 1: and Trump to deal with the first week of his
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  Speaker 1: run as Defense Secretary. What a convergence of crisis that
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  Speaker 1: this administration has been tested with already. And while you
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  Speaker 1: can blame the bid administration, and all I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to do was say management at the FAA could be
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  Speaker 1: better if in fact two jobs were occupied with one person.
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  Speaker 1: But I think if President Trump is listening, he's got
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  Speaker 1: to focus on them now and then now is there's
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  Speaker 1: not only a convergence of crisis in a physical way
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  Speaker 1: because of this horror, there is now a convergence of
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  Speaker 1: crisis because of what our country is dealt with. Our
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  Speaker 1: West Coast family is dealt with cleaning up, there are
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  Speaker 1: remnants of their home, and now the East Coast is
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  Speaker 1: dealt with many, many, many too many memorials and funerals
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  Speaker 1: following this crash. But I'm hoping, I'm praying that this
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  Speaker 1: convergence of crisis, both literal and metaphorical, leads to unity
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  Speaker 1: and recognizing life is precious. Time is precious, and if
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  Speaker 1: the next four years are spent just arguing with each other,
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  Speaker 1: that's time wasted. If it's four more years of communities
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  Speaker 1: being divided over who got elected, that's time wasted. And
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  Speaker 1: don't you think sixty seven families tonight would rather be
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  Speaker 1: debating politics, so to speak, at Thanksgiving dinner then having
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  Speaker 1: to bear their life ones on a cold February day
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  Speaker 1: next week. In other words, be thankful you can debate
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  Speaker 1: about who you elected or who got elected. Be thankful
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  Speaker 1: you have family. Be thankful if indeed this crisis of
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  Speaker 1: convergence did not hit your family today, because for sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven families, they don't have that luxury. And they are also,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, American families, not just figure skating families
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  Speaker 1: or a champion duo that were married, a US and
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  Speaker 1: Russian couple that were married and thirty years ago won
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  Speaker 1: the gold and all that people. Sixty seven people were killed.
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  Speaker 1: So one leg with Alex Carrett. When I have time
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  Speaker 1: for this back and forth, I won't even have time
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  Speaker 1: to hear about family disputes because whatever the hell I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and divorced man lost his ex wife and he cared
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  Speaker 1: about that. So whatever disputes you might have in this
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  Speaker 1: in your family, look at this crisis of convergence and say,
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  Speaker 1: let's settle all disputes right now and recognize time is precious.
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  Speaker 1: Life is precious. Not only any of us have here
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  Speaker 1: have time of day to constantly be in dispute. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope, I hope the Trump administration learned from this
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  Speaker 1: crisis of convergence in the physical and the metaphorical. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope these words from Billy Crystal earlier tonight at
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  Speaker 1: fieried La sticks with you and tonight's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I felt it was a message from that fifteen year
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  Speaker 3: old me saying it's going to be okay, and it
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  Speaker 3: will be okay with your help around the country and
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  Speaker 3: here in the room, we'll laugh again. We're gonna listen
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  Speaker 3: one hot LA strong.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just wow, just wow. I hope that moved
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  Speaker 1: you as much as it moved Gabby and I hearing
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  Speaker 1: that in real time. So the night's episode is titled
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  Speaker 1: one having One leg Up over not just on, but
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  Speaker 1: over this crisis of convergence and as communities more for
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  Speaker 1: the next days and months and years. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: imagine we can all have one leg up for each
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  Speaker 1: other if we just stopped the bickering. I went back
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  Speaker 1: to that community outreach and even in Washington, they can
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  Speaker 1: have one leg up over this crisis of convergence if
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  Speaker 1: they simply settled their disputes and worked together so that
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  Speaker 1: these Pentagon training missions don't end up like this, so
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  Speaker 1: that the FAA is fully staffed and not one person
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  Speaker 1: is working multiple jobs in a very high, fast paced
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  Speaker 1: air traffic control situation. I'm telling the disputes, well, help
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  Speaker 1: us all have one leg up over the seemingly crisis
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  Speaker 1: of convergence, both the physical and the metaphorical. We were
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  Speaker 1: still talking