WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:06.879 You're listening to the downbeat On ninety seven one the Free we will give away 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:14.480 tickets to see comedian Burt Kreischer tomorrow. All right, tomorrow. A couple 3 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.960 of text in about that, We'll give away tickets to see Burt Kreischer tomorrow. 4 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.559 That's happening. That's happening. A lot of people sitting against snake picks, 5 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.079 so dust spears. Snake Season is officially on board two and four eight 6 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:33.600 one seven seven eight seven one. Reacin always call and text in talkbacks too 7 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:37.560 on the red microphone button on the iHeartRadio app. Think this morning news coming 8 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.079 up in thirty Yeah, man, yeah, man, I got some low 9 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.920 level to mid stories that are going to blow your mind. So if you 10 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.359 can upstage the scuttle butt, dude, let's do this. J J. 11 00:00:52.439 --> 00:01:03.400 Cobby, the Cobby your mind, dim my news control. You never know 12 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:17.079 what the tobe hold. Oh, we never know what's it? Koby with 13 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:22.280 that intro short enough that one. Yeah, I was respecting about Rodney Anderson 14 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:26.280 dot com. All right, So this uh is something we've been talking about 15 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.920 for a long time, and I've now it's gotten to the point where I 16 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.519 think we got so desensitized to plane stories that we weren't even doing our daily 17 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.959 plane story of something going down, whether it be a door plug falling out, 18 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.519 which obviously that was a huge story, whether it be a fight on 19 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:49.120 a plane. Crazy plane lady was obviously big letting up to it. But 20 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.640 about a month ago we had the Dallas Morning News aviation reporter Alexandra on in 21 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.560 fact, what's going on here? Are y'all just getting stories and making them? 22 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.560 So we're talking about planes more? Is this something? Is it all 23 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:02.359 made up? Yeah? Is it a trend? Is it a new hot 24 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:06.920 news thing that we all need to be talking about or hearing? Right? 25 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.080 Well, good mite. No, it's just something that's instantly relatable to all. 26 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.360 Nobody loves plane travel, but a lot of people do it a lot, 27 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:15.960 whether it be once a year, a couple times a year, or 28 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:22.120 every week. Very relatable. So it's just naturally something that you can picture 29 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.719 yourself in that situation and hope it doesn't happen to you. So, yes, 30 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:28.800 I think it's an easy story to do. And the news three passengers 31 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.639 on that last Airlines flight where the door plug blew out. They're suing the 32 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:36.560 airline for one billion dollars. Oh, they're suing the last Airlines and Boeing 33 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.960 for one billion dollars. Well, whether you like the show or not, 34 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.319 I don't care. But John Oliver did a twenty minute So what you're talking 35 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:46.280 about us? Oh no, it's not. At the TV show. John 36 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:53.319 Oliver did a twenty minute one billion dollars. Yeah, one billion. That's 37 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.919 a quick off firm half a mill and make it go away and they will 38 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.159 accept maybe billion passenger. You think the rest of the passenger like, hey, 39 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:04.960 I want it on this. You did it and you can do it. 40 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.280 I wondered that the wildfire story we did yesterday, we were like one 41 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.360 lady, right, it's like word for you, the only one that saw 42 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:15.840 the fire start. Someone else could have quotations. I'm glad you're doing this 43 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:22.039 because I watched the John Oliver just last night and that's a great show. 44 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.759 It's so well done. The depth of the dive that he will do into 45 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.719 a concerning topic and then make it funny and callbacks to stuff he referenced earlier. 46 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:37.000 It's just an artfully crafted piece of news. I think from the school 47 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.120 of John Stewart, right. Yeah, but they never deep dive on daily 48 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.879 show like that, let's too much, have the courage to do something for 49 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.680 like thirty straight minutes like a one piece. That was the audio support and 50 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:53.759 visual support and context and research and investigation, unearthing stuff that you never heard 51 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:01.520 and making it so concise and digestible. Really ambitions journalism if you will not 52 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:06.520 the amount of uh, fact checking and research and then and then probably legal 53 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:11.319 stuff too is probably a massive part of it, to make sure that they're 54 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.600 protected in the things that they are reporting aren't infringing on anything, or or 55 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.360 or untrue. Yes, it's it's intensive. It's all done in a week. 56 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:25.199 And sisters, one of the writers on that show, and that knucklehead 57 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:31.199 shows up, we're in pajamas us all she wins. Emmy's he unremarkable, 58 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:38.279 all the remarkability in that family in one direction. You talk about low level 59 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:44.199 to mid stories. Just wait till ten o'clock, mister mid, Mister, 60 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:57.879 mister mister Middle is at the mid table. For mister Mid. There's gonna 61 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.120 be a T shirt made in the midday, mister Mid. So, uh, 62 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.959 this is all going down. We talked about that the door plug blows 63 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:08.759 out the loose plugs was a story. Remember they or a loose bolts. 64 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:12.879 You know, we've seen all that like going on, but more than usual 65 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.680 at Boeing. This is their CEO, Dave Calhoun, taking some responsibility, 66 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.639 but also U like he's like, yeah, that boy was accountable for the 67 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.959 door plug blowing out, of course, but here's what he was asked, 68 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:29.160 like specifically, what happened when the door plug blew out? And you want 69 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.399 your CEO a CEO to have a better answer than this, how did an 70 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:41.120 unsafe airplane fly in the first place? Because a quality escape occurred? Can 71 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:46.480 you explain what is a quality escape? I think that's for description of what 72 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:55.319 people are finding in their inspections, anything that could potentially contribute to an accident. 73 00:05:56.199 --> 00:06:03.079 What quality didn't the scape of the planetings? Boy, he sounded like 74 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:08.399 uh, he sounded like norm going through a live spot that he had no 75 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:12.560 copy for. He's got he got the name of the company, Quality escape. 76 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:16.959 What does that mean? It's it's it's when things can anything that can 77 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:23.279 go, it's anything anything that could happened. They had the meeting and you're 78 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:29.199 gonna get asked this question and they came up with the phrase or quality quality 79 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.240 escape. It was a quality escape don't worry. They won't ask a follow 80 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:39.160 up. Most that the lady, what does that mean? I don't know. 81 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:46.279 Head the shaky, which is very anything that potentially contribute to an accident, 82 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:53.319 Okay, anything now, like keep in mind, like a greater than 83 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.639 fifty chance. Most every time you're on an airplane, it is a Boeing 84 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:01.600 made plane. And that's wild because there's only two big time manufacturers, which 85 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.079 is nuts. So Bowe's investigation shows that get four bolts missing. And then 86 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.519 there were other Alaskan airlines Max Nines were confirmed to have loose bolts. So 87 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.160 the AA comes in, this is just this week and did this. The 88 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:20.240 Federal Aviation Administration gave Boeing ninety days now to come up with a plan to 89 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:26.399 address safety issues. This comes after a report released on Monday found employees did 90 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:32.319 not understand their role in safety and they feared retaliation for raising safety related concerns. 91 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.920 Those are big problems when you've got a factory that is making jets. 92 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:44.439 I loved how snarky he was. That's a big problem if you didn't know 93 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:49.079 jets. So they get ninety days and I'm sitting here going, Mike Eugine 94 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:53.199 gonna be on a plane like we're playing within ninety days, like they get 95 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.360 ninety days to fix this. I think it'd be thirty days would be good. 96 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.439 I'd assume you're ninety deep dive in this whole thing and all what you 97 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.480 do. This was shocking, this whole thing. But for the first time 98 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:07.279 in my I've never once known what type of plane I'm on. For the 99 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.319 first time in my life, I am after watching that and after hearing what 100 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:15.920 Kevin's about to present, I'm curious. I want to like check what planes 101 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.199 I'm getting on. Damn sure, Yeah, you damn sure? Do have 102 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.120 you ever not now? Not in a while. I haven't been on a 103 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.759 plane. God, what seems like forever. Really, Yeah, it's probably 104 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:31.040 been two and a half years. I jit want to know. I'm an 105 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.240 airbus man. I don't want to fly in a bowing Yeah, as stupid 106 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.399 as that is. And I'm sure just keep going, yeah, because it's 107 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:43.080 shocking. So Boeing used to have a pristine reputation. They built seven thirty 108 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.519 seven, they built the Air Force one. I'm sure they helped out in 109 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.039 the war, you know, of World War Two. I would imagine they 110 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:56.080 started in nineteen sixteen but here's what happened in nineteen ninety seven. A lot 111 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:00.519 of people think change things. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas today announced they were joined 112 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:05.360 together to form the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. This is, I believe, 113 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:11.480 an historic moment in aviation and aerospace. Yeah, the skyboys got business married. 114 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.039 Boeing merged with McDonald Douglas, who were primarily known for military planes and 115 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:22.720 had a lousy reputation for commercial airliners, most notably the DC ten, which 116 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:28.399 had multiple accidents resulting in over eleven hundred passenger fatalities. And look was merging 117 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.799 with the McDonald douglas Aerospace Manufacturing Corporation slash murder emporium. That Boeing CEO's worst 118 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:37.480 decision probably not because he also, and this is true, married his first 119 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.480 cousin. So the last decision I'd ask this guy to make is who it's 120 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.360 a good idea to couple up with? All right, So what's the bigger 121 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.759 story there that the Boeing CEO married his first cousin or that they merged with 122 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:58.480 a company that had a bad record basically in McDonald douglas. Oh, they 123 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:05.559 get DC tens were grounded like they discontinued the damn thing nineteen seventy nine. 124 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.120 Yeah, so that's wild and I know anything about that, and we're not 125 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.960 thinking about that stuff. But then it's also, well, there's the salacious 126 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.759 thing. I need to be even more invested and interested. The Bowing CEO 127 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.440 married his first cousin. How does that happen? I maybe we're all cousins. 128 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.440 I don't know, but how does that happen? You'd think you would 129 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.480 check that. So then they you know, they change a headquarters. They 130 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.720 moved from Seattle to Chicago. Well they're business offices, and yeah, their 131 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.919 business office, and they're way more focused on stock prices. Not necessarily, 132 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.159 it's about keeping shareholders happen, what's going on on the factory line, on 133 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.679 the floor. And there is a major campaign line. I'm sorry, this 134 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:54.559 is a mechanic. There was a major campaign launched called share Value, and 135 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:00.039 the idea was that they wanted everybody to be aware of the stock price and 136 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:05.919 they wanted everybody working together to increase the stock value. Even the technical meetings, 137 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:11.480 everything revolved around going stock prices. Okay, that's from a mechanic on 138 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.159 the plane. In technical meetings, they're talking about stock prices brutal. These 139 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:20.720 are the people building the planes that you are going to be on today. 140 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:26.799 Yeah, literally like half the planes, yeah, that are going place commercial 141 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:28.639 and commercially. And they move their business office to Chicago as far way as 142 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.720 they can get from Seattle, where their construction area is, and all they 143 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.440 care about is getting the number up. Yeah, and how do you not 144 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.279 abnormal? Then? How do you do that? How do you get those 145 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:45.000 stock prices numbers up? You make the company more profitable. And to do 146 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.559 those things, you you slash, cut corners, you work faster, Yes, 147 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.840 you work faster, You cut corners, You cut back on research and 148 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:58.759 development, you cut back on quality control, training, all that stuff. 149 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.000 But certainly this would not lead to planes full of passengers crashing, Kevin, 150 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.240 you wouldn't expect that to happen. Right this point, the CEO that married 151 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:13.960 his cousin, he is ousted because of a contract scandal. We're now moving 152 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.799 into the mid or mid two thousand tier. So the McDonald douglas CEO takes 153 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:24.639 over. But he ended up banging one of the vps, so there was 154 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:30.279 in a big affair there. So he gets ousted and they get another CEO. 155 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.759 They had three CEOs in three years. And this is all at the 156 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.879 time when they were rolling out the Dreamliner plane. Now, with the dream 157 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:43.519 Liner plane, they were very quickly trying to roll this thing out because basically 158 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.720 it got out of the starting gate a little bit late because the Airbus had 159 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.639 just made a new plane that was a little bigger and had a little more 160 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:54.080 fuel efficiency, and they're like, okay, we gotta make the Dreamliner. 161 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.240 We gotta catch up, we gotta catch up. So they start kind of 162 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.279 working faster, not necessarily safer. Also, they were having, you know, 163 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.279 some cutbacks and things like that, which aren't good. Well, all 164 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.440 they were doing was refitting an existing design yet it's already been in production. 165 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.519 It's kind of like putting a It's kind of like putting a hummer shell on 166 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.279 a Prius. You know, Oh, look at that new car. No, 167 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:20.720 bro, that's a Prius. That's the same car. So the early 168 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:26.039 Dreamliner they have a couple of fires on board two within a nine day span 169 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:33.240 due to a battery problem, and then FAA had to step in and ground 170 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:37.120 planes the Dreamliner for the first time the FAA had stepped in and grounded a 171 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:43.320 plane since nineteen seventy nine. With the DC ten by McDonald douglass and then 172 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.759 twenty fourteen, this is a video that leaked of a worker at a Dreamliner 173 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.919 plant asking employees if they felt safe flying on the plane. It just gonna 174 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:52.960 be a little harder to hear here because it's like a cell phone video, 175 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.840 But yeah, did you fly one? Do you want flying one? Did 176 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:05.519 you fly one of these planes? Did you fly the one you wouldn't blow? 177 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:11.159 Wouldn't you? Because I see did you fly one of these? Y 178 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:20.559 sketchy sketchy? Probably? But I'm so out of fifteen wealcas they lost ten 179 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.320 said they wouldn't fly on that plane. And honestly, that lost guy is 180 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.639 almost worse death wish dice. I kind of have a death wish. Yeah, 181 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:33.759 the guy I get the planet as a death wish. And out of 182 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:39.600 fifteen workers said they wouldn't even fly on the plane that they are making jeezu 183 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:46.000 shocking, and it feels like, look, it does feel almost a little 184 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.159 like fear mongerish. You know, think about this like, oh, I 185 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:50.840 know, I just want to get on the plane and get to where I'm 186 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.120 going. But the evidence and all of it put together makes you go, 187 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.679 oh, I don't like it. And this is the thing things we've been 188 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.279 talking about on the show for the last two three months with almost a daily 189 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:07.960 or at least two or three weekly stories. Yeah, I'm just crazy crap 190 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.120 happening on a plane. Some of those humans just acting up on planes. 191 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.639 But the door fell off of a plane. And let's not act like that 192 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:20.679 just doesn't happen because they were missing bolts that came from this factory. Yes, 193 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.679 that did happen. And if someone was sitting in that window seat, 194 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.679 yeah, they get sucked out. Most lies sucked off. Yeah out, 195 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:33.440 you said that wrong. It's sucked out, sucked off, the sucked off 196 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:35.639 out of the plane. Yeah, from the plane, sucked off the plane. 197 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.320 Children. I work with children. We're gonna allow it. This brings 198 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.960 us to the seventh part, being the mature voice of reasons. Yeah, 199 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:54.039 babies, I bet you there were revenue banana earlier. It was that was 200 00:15:54.120 --> 00:16:02.519 the old I have changed. Gook tno banana, like said, he's get 201 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:07.399 right, oh, Gevin seven thirty seven Max. The next point here, 202 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.240 So the Airbus was its biggest competitor, or Boeing get caught off guard and 203 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.360 they announced the bigger one. I told you that and then Boeing makes this 204 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.720 conscious decision to work fast so I can compete. Here's a production line worker 205 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:22.960 who was worried about the corners being cut to make the seven thirty seven max. 206 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:27.080 What words would you use to describe that factory at that point? Dangerous, 207 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.080 unnecessary taking, unnecessary risk. He says. He urged the Boeing manager 208 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.960 to shut down the factory for a few weeks to straighten things out. And 209 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.120 what was his reaction to that? We can't shut down? And then I 210 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:44.879 kind of got mad and said, you know, I've seen military operations shut 211 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.960 down for a lot less. What was his reply to that? Something I'll 212 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:49.639 never forget. He said, well, the military is not a profit naked 213 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:53.759 organization. I will say the request to shut down the factory for a few 214 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.279 weeks did seem like a lot. It just seems like looking for some time 215 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:00.039 off. But we shut down the factory for a while to let's figure this 216 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.200 out. Yeah, I think it's fair, like if you're really worried about 217 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.519 it, and he was. I guess it's all easy to say about it 218 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.960 afterwards, because you find out that in twenty eighteen, a flight that was 219 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.160 bound for Indonesia crashed into the ocean, killing one hundred and ninety people. 220 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:22.720 The investigations determined it was due to a lot of short sighted decisions. One 221 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.039 of these, and this is where it gets a little technical, was because 222 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:33.400 of a software called m casts an m cast. Basically, I'm gonna let 223 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.640 this pilot kind of explain to you what mcast is, but basically, it's 224 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:44.839 an autocorrect feature that if the planes knows got up too high because of what 225 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.279 they had done to make the engines bigger. To modify the planes, they 226 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.799 added bigger engines, they had to move them forward and that causes the plane 227 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.880 often to tilt upward, upward, and if it tilts to too many degrees 228 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.480 up where the plane could stall. So to offset that, they put this 229 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.119 mcass on there to automatically push the nose of the plane down. Yeah, 230 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:10.400 so this m case automated software that would activate the tail fins at the back 231 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.599 end to keep to even out the plane. And this guy kind of explains 232 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.839 it a little bit better, but it's like it very important to this. 233 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:22.279 If a Happy Birthday mylar balloon gets stuck on that vein, it becomes unreliable, 234 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.400 I believe it or not. We hit balloons, we hit birds, 235 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.039 and all of these things are not uncommon. It's true the whole system could 236 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.880 be compromised by a balloon. At testament to how problematic it is to use 237 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:41.279 a single sensor and yet another reason to hate balloons. But it gets worse. 238 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.920 Because Boeing didn't tell pilots about mcasts, they decided to market the plane 239 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.200 two airlines as a money saver, and a massive selling point was that the 240 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:53.759 Max wouldn't require pilots to be retrained in a flight simulator. That that's a 241 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.559 pretty big expense for an airline, is it takes pilots out of the air 242 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:03.839 for multiple days. To save money by not telling you about this thing, 243 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.480 because we can't have you leaving your job to go to flight simulator training again 244 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.400 for a couple of days. So we saved money there, we just won't 245 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:17.400 tell you about it. And because it was also rushed and they didn't tell 246 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:22.240 them about it, the software didn't have a backup plan. It was a 247 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.359 it would do it on its own. This pilot, there was no way 248 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.559 to override it. They didn't even know that it was on. The plane 249 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:33.039 was outfitted with this particular apparatus and am I correct in saying that they're training 250 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:40.759 for these new planes was done in a two hour session on an iPad iPad. 251 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:42.920 The mom of the I didn't pull the idea of but the mom of 252 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:48.400 the pilot of one of the pilots of the Indonesian plane was like I was. 253 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.519 She was asking, what you don't have to go to a flight simulator 254 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.359 for these new planes? And he was like, no, I had two 255 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:00.640 hour iPad And she's like, iPad iPad, are you getting to it? 256 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:06.079 That that's what caused that flight to crash because them started pointing the plane downward. 257 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:08.440 Yeah, and the pilots didn't know what the hell this m cast was 258 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:11.079 and why this was happening. How backward is that? I mean, how 259 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:18.000 putting bicycle cards in your spokes is that that rather than configuring a brand new 260 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:25.000 fuselage that can accommodate this upgrade in size and engine, you have to create 261 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:30.839 an apparatus that counteracts the ill effects of that extra power on your plane and 262 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:36.720 not tell your pilots that it even exists. So when this thing enables itself 263 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:41.440 and goes wrong, they don't even know how to override it. They're like, 264 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.759 what, we can't do anything there's nothing we can do. I don't 265 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:55.759 see college class action lawsuits don't put these this particular airline one out of business 266 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:59.960 because there's so much negligence, so much negligence. Well, so they had 267 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:03.000 six weeks to fix the software, nothing got done. Four months later, 268 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:08.720 Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed into the ocean, same reason, because the mcast did 269 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.359 the same thing, killed everyone on board. Three days later, the FAA 270 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:18.079 comes in and grinted the seven thirty seven MAX. Now this is what came 271 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:19.599 out after the investigation. This is the last piece of audio I have, 272 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:26.119 but it kind of explains how this all happens and why there's nothing you can 273 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:30.079 really do about this. Hundreds of emails and instant messages show employees mocking the 274 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:34.920 FAA, the company, and problems with the airplane. One writing this airplane 275 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:41.599 is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys. That's pretty 276 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:47.079 much much of the oversight was being done by Boeing itself. For five decades, 277 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:51.960 manufacturers like Boeing were allowed to use what they call FAA designated inspectors. 278 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.160 Here's the problem. Those FA inspectors were employed by Boeing. It's the most 279 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.640 insistuous relationship we've seen in this story so far, which is something because this 280 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:10.440 guy was his first cousin. Amen, so Boeing owns the FAA's inspectors like 281 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:14.960 they own it. And his point at the end was, we don't need 282 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.200 Boeing to go away. We need Bowing to be good. We need them 283 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:19.599 to be better. Yeah, they used to be really good, man. 284 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:25.319 They need to be perfect. They need to be the standards are so much 285 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.240 higher. I get it that we all want to cut corners in life, 286 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:32.559 but when you are working for an airline and run an airline, the standards 287 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:37.799 have to be so elevated where any pretty much anything less than perfection is unacceptable. 288 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.279 Like this is happening in every business because that's just the world we live 289 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.559 in the world we live in sports. But if it happens at a restaurant, 290 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.599 you can stop going to the restaurant because water Burger have used to whatever. 291 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.119 Whatever you want to pick if there's cost cutting measures that you don't like, 292 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.599 but not with this. I mean, you're if you have to fly, 293 00:22:57.079 --> 00:23:00.880 you got there's two options Airbus and and it did mention Kayak, the 294 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:06.039 website that aggregates prices and now they have a feature that you can click flights 295 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:10.720 plane types you want to go on and don't want to get. It's such 296 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:15.680 a popular feature that they had to move that filter option up on their website 297 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:19.119 to basically the first thing that you click when you're planning your travel is to 298 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:25.720 determine which brand you want filtered out of the search results. It's wild because, 299 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:27.519 like you can see this, a plane crash into the ocean, it 300 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:30.599 happens on international waters. We maybe don't think about it as much as we 301 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:36.599 should here. Okay, whether if it was an American flight that crashed off 302 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:40.599 the coast, you might think about it a little more. A door falling 303 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:44.279 off a plane like what happened here almost would garner more reaction than one hundred 304 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:47.519 and ninety people dying in Indonesia. And I think that's where I think now 305 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:51.799 that has really started to get into people's minds. But all this stuff, 306 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.400 though, it's all asked backwards, think about the profit will make and it's 307 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.000 just not the way you should look at things. You have to start things 308 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:03.599 and grow them, like it's just the way you can't work. Scary comes 309 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:10.240 down to stock prices. Well done, Kevin, incredible way way better than 310 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.839 the scuttle butt today. All right, I'm going to assume that that Steve's 311 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:18.640 sister wrote all of that, uh, and then that he had absolutely nothing 312 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:21.599 to do with it. Of course, not did you guys want to buy 313 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:25.200 a because they said they still having their gift shop online. The If it 314 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:27.599 ain't Boeing Boeing, I ain't going. I thought about getting one, and 315 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:33.240 don't want a coffee. That's pretty That's what the pilot used to say. 316 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:41.079 Right now, if it's not an air bus, it's pretty sus for us, 317 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.720 for us, That works, all right. You may not know the 318 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:52.359 name of the stand up comic Nick Swardson, but you if you don't, 319 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.480 you will after I play you audio of an absolute bomb that he had on 320 00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:59.200 a night in a night club in Colorado.