WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.280 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.240 Oh my goodness, So how do they know? How do 5 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:13.240 they know? Amy? 6 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:15.400 How do they know that they're close to their first flight? 7 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:17.280 Mike? 8 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:20.000 We actually talked to Sandy Steers at Friends of Big 9 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:20.559 Bear Valley. 10 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:22.600 Oh good, so anywhere. 11 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:26.600 Between ten and fourteen weeks, and Gizmo the littler one 12 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.000 hits ten weeks tomorrow, Sunny's already ten weeks, so they 13 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.320 could really take off anytime. 14 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:33.600 Now, what are they going to go? 15 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.399 Yeah, did they leave and then they come back? Do 16 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:37.719 they just come home for Thanksgiving? 17 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.960 They just fall off the nest and it goes, well, when. 18 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:41.679 Do they make babies? 19 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.119 Well, they're just still babies themselves. So here's the thing, 20 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.359 because I had all these questions too, because I'm like, 21 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:49.240 what happens when they leave? 22 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:50.600 And you said, just do or die? 23 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:52.679 And she says, well, if they don't have a successful flight, 24 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.560 they just sort of glide and then they'll work their 25 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:57.520 way back up to the nest. But sometimes that takes 26 00:00:57.560 --> 00:00:57.880 a while. 27 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.960 I was gonna say, how do there's no elevators? How 28 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:03.799 do they get back up there if. 29 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:04.959 They had to flap away? You got to figure it 30 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.640 out real quick. And then like take a tail feather 31 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:14.879 after they've left, Silly. After they've left, mom and Dad 32 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.079 still take them food because they don't know how to 33 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.159 hunt yet. And then they teach them how to funt 34 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.799 a hunt. And so Jackie and Shadow will sort of 35 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:24.920 follow them around and teach them how to hunt and 36 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:25.680 take them food. 37 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.959 They're like, this raw flesh doesn't just appear at home. 38 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.920 You actually have to go out and work for it, exactly, 39 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:32.280 go to. 40 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:35.120 The Kroger, come home, fry it up in a pan 41 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.640 or not in their in their situation. Well everyone, you know, 42 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.599 kids just think that food just appears, you know, and 43 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:42.879 learn an ugly lesson. 44 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:43.280 One day. 45 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.040 You learn that you've got to go out and kill something, 46 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.840 you know, whether it be proverbally or otherwise. 47 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.840 There's nothing for verbal about it, right, there's not in 48 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:53.760 this case, is there? 49 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:54.000 No? 50 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.439 And have you watched them? Have you seen them flapping around? 51 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.200 I have not. I just saw a still I think 52 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:00.799 on the tea news here. 53 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.239 Oh okay, so it's really fun that they they're practicing now. 54 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.879 They haven't jumped off the ledge yet, she said, just 55 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.919 when they're ready, they'll go. But they'll sit and they'll 56 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.919 flap and flap, and they run across the nest and 57 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:14.000 then stop. 58 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.360 Short of Oh my god, it's like riding a bike 59 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.360 or jumping into a pool, big milestone. 60 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:20.039 What are you doing? 61 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:20.319 Great? 62 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.520 What are you gonna do when they're out of camera shot? 63 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.560 Me or Shannon? You better be devas. 64 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.520 You're gonna have to, like, you know, go to Michael's 65 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:34.680 or something, Michaels and get. 66 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:35.080 A stuffed to eat. 67 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.560 Get it, no, get like a hobby. That's what I 68 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:39.400 do when i'm board. I go to Michael's. I pick 69 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.080 up some sort of craft project. Oh that's a good idea. 70 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:42.319 I know. 71 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.800 I've been watching them for like three months. Yeah, I 72 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.759 don't want you to feel a hole in your heart. 73 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:49.319 I know. If only somebody around here would make a 74 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:50.159 freaking baby. 75 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:51.240 I know. 76 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.479 Oh wait, somebody did. 77 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.000 What who do we need? 78 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.120 Carlo's daughter had a baby. Oh yeah, well she should 79 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.319 bring that baby in here. He should. We need to nurture. 80 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:06.120 We do need to nurture something. You and I were 81 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.280 both the big nurtures. 82 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:12.080 Yeah, you guys great aunties. 83 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:17.400 We do we as I bet much better than mommy, Amy. 84 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.000 I like that, Mommy Amy. 85 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.520 I'm gonna I'm gonna hold onto that mommy. 86 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.039 All right, Well, welcome to Friday. 87 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.080 So the president went to a mosque on his Middle 88 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.680 East trip, and everybody is up in arms. Oh my goodness, 89 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:37.319 he's talking ont of both sides. 90 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:37.599 Of his mouth. 91 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.120 He's going to a mosque after all the things he 92 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.719 said about Muslims. He said that Barack Obama was a Muslim, 93 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:47.199 he said that there should be camps that Islam hates us. 94 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:49.039 Uh. 95 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:52.879 This is just case in point that the president doesn't 96 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:56.000 care about religion. I'm sorry to say it. It's the 97 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.280 way it is. It doesn't mean anything to him to 98 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.719 go to this mam. He doesn't understand the gravity. 99 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:03.120 I don't know. 100 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.560 If he doesn't understand it, he doesn't care to understand it. 101 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:06.520 And that's fine. 102 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.879 There are people that go through their lives. 103 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.800 With no religion and they do just fine. And he's 104 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:11.599 one of those people. 105 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:12.199 You know. 106 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.400 It's like, you want to believe he's into religion. 107 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.480 Fine, but he put out a Bible. Fat did he 108 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:18.959 put out a. 109 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:19.759 Boy to sell it? 110 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:23.519 He cares about the almighty dollar. That's what this president 111 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.120 cares about and that's fine, but let's stop putting him 112 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:31.279 into the religious shoe because the foot doesn't fit. If 113 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:33.759 he was that much into religion, he would not have 114 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.720 There's a reason he's the first president not to go 115 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:38.240 or to go to a mosque. 116 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.600 He did say he had a pretty good trip. 117 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.800 In an amazing four day period. I think like none other, 118 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.360 there has never been anything like it. Is a great 119 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:54.160 relationship with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE has great friendships. 120 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.560 I can tell you that at the top level, the 121 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:03.120 relationship and friendship is really unified at least. 122 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:06.199 Okay, now, we have to remember back when Barack Obama 123 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:08.920 talked about reopening relations with Iran. 124 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.800 This is should be taken in that same vein. 125 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.439 A lot of people criticized Obama at the time because 126 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.439 they said that Iran was a terrorist state. There's nothing 127 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:24.639 different about that comment from Barack Obama. Although the deal 128 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.319 that came out of it was ridiculous, there's nothing different 129 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:29.920 between that comment from Barack Obama and this trip from 130 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:30.720 President Trump. 131 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.480 Uh. Could you imagine if Barack Obama, to your point, 132 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.360 went to a mosque and said these words, isn't this beautiful? 133 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.040 It's so beautiful, very proud of my friends. This is 134 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.800 an incredible culture. We would have been up in arms 135 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.519 if Barack Obama said that, like, oh, this is proof 136 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:49.000 he's a terrorist. 137 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:49.920 You know what I mean? 138 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.000 Like you, let's just take like you said, take this 139 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.360 all with a grain of salt. But don't but don't 140 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.680 be hypocritical in thinking that, like look at how look 141 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.199 at Trump, look at how sure he is embracing another culture. 142 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.040 It would have lost your damn minds if Barack Obama 143 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.920 did that, or Biden or any other Democrat. He went 144 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:09.600 on to say, this is the first time they've closed 145 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:10.480 the mosque for the day. 146 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:11.040 Is that true? 147 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:12.160 First time they closed it? 148 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:13.560 It's in a hundred of the United States. 149 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.399 I think, what, oh my goodness. 150 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.519 Again, if coming from anybody else, you'd be like, what 151 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:20.720 team are you on? Bro? 152 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:21.920 Bro. 153 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.240 He went on to say, let's see here. 154 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.800 Okay, So he's wearing only socks since shoes are not 155 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.160 allowed in the mosque. He's given a tour, he's given 156 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:35.680 explanations of various features in the building, and. 157 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:37.040 Then he asks reporters. 158 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.480 He turns to the reporters and the photographers and he goes, 159 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:41.120 is everybody having a good time. 160 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.439 That's not even a mosque for playing the room. 161 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:45.839 Easy. 162 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.800 Well, he's not playing that room, unfortunately, he's playing our rooms. 163 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.519 He's playing a room. That's a good points playing a room, 164 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:53.480 bro That's what. 165 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:57.720 But you know what I mean, Like if that came 166 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:01.199 from a Barack Obama, we would be like, what's guys, 167 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.040 We got to dig into this and we go. We 168 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.560 go through his past, We go through things that he 169 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:06.879 had said in the past. 170 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:09.560 We go through everything, his relationship with his fot. 171 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:10.480 Oh my god. 172 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:11.920 All right. 173 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:16.759 Up next, there was a pretty damning story Wall Street Journal. 174 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:22.240 Jonathan Stewart is an air traffic controller and he says 175 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.040 he averted a mid air collision. 176 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:29.000 Yeah, it's just another pilon of how scared. This scares 177 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:30.759 me as somebody who's gonna get on a plane in 178 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.600 a couple of days, but even a person who just 179 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:37.439 lives on the ground where the planes fly overhead. The 180 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:42.639 state of this system is terrifying. The fact that three 181 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:48.120 quarters of the air traffic controller system is obsolete should 182 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.639 be something we acted on, not yesterday. 183 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:53.759 But in the late eighties. 184 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.959 Yeah, when that stuff started aging, Yeah, is when we 185 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.120 should have done it. All right, we'll talk about this 186 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.959 what this Johnathan Stewart has to say about his life 187 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:02.600 there as an air. 188 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:04.920 Trans Did you see his picture as well? 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There was a point where 211 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.600 the A's knew it was over, and they put in 212 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:12.679 a backup catcher as their pitcher. 213 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:13.679 I love that. 214 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:15.919 That's one thing of all the games I've ever been to, 215 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.919 I've never seen a position player pitch, because that usually 216 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.879 ends up in those blowout games. He threw pitches that 217 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.559 were forty two miles an hour, which is like slow 218 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:28.480 pitch softball. 219 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.960 And he threw pitches that were ninety miles an hour. 220 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.360 That's fun, and he struck out show Hey O Tani Wow, 221 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.039 which he had the biggest smile on his face. 222 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:40.559 He took the ball and threw it to the dugout 223 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:41.679 so that they would keep it. 224 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.399 I love that on show Hey a Tony bobble Night. Nonetheless, yes, 225 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:46.679 you're the back of catching. 226 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:48.919 You already hit two home runs. Oh that's great. 227 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.480 Clayton Kershaw penciled in, by the way, to make his 228 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:52.960 season debut tomorrow. 229 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:56.360 Okay, so we're gonna have to spread out with this 230 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.600 one because we've talked about the FAA recently We've talked 231 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.519 about the struggle to fully staff air traffic facilities. We've 232 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.279 talked about the dilapidated nature of these air traffic facilities 233 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:13.960 to keep critical technology running. But so often we're just 234 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:18.159 getting the headlines and we're not really hearing about the anecdotes. 235 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.080 And it doesn't really matter if you fly a lot. 236 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.399 Even if you don't fly a lot, this impacts you 237 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.120 because it involves planes crashing to the ground. 238 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.240 And involves others. Oh, look at there's that bird of. 239 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:36.600 Prey that we bring in to scare away the ground mites. 240 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:37.759 Do you see him? 241 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:39.000 And he's eating something? 242 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.240 He is eating something? Is it a squirrel? What kind 243 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.039 of bird is that? Again? 244 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.480 Is it a hawk? Red? Redtail hawk? 245 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.159 What is his name? Again? 246 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.039 Not Nicodemus, that was the adele. But is it the 247 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:53.840 same guy that has Nicodemus that also has this bird? 248 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.039 Was it Fred Rogan we were walking out with and 249 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:57.759 he said, what the hell is that? And the guy's 250 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.279 walking around with this redtailed hawk on his shoulder. What 251 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.639 the hell's that guy doing as a hawk of some 252 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.519 kind of okay? And uh and and you said a 253 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:08.919 very matter of facty to Fred, Oh, the building hires 254 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.039 this guy to bring his big ass bird in to 255 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.919 scare away the other birds and the and the ground mites. 256 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.039 And Fred goes with, I don't know, I made that 257 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.759 up because I can't. I can't figure out. I couldn't 258 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:22.360 figure out what that word was, so I went with 259 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:27.600 ground mites. And Fred's like, what the hell kind of 260 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:28.440 place we work at? 261 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:29.039 They bring it in? 262 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:29.240 Like? 263 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:29.519 Bird? 264 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:29.960 What? 265 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:30.120 What? 266 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:30.440 Like? 267 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:31.480 It's the Renaissance Fair. 268 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:36.080 Suddenly, anyway, he's got something out there. 269 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:38.600 He's sitting on a street light that's just about level 270 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:39.919 with our window right here. 271 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:45.159 Yes, and he's uh lunch all right? Well, uh, just 272 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:46.320 as easily. 273 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:50.039 As we get distracted, so do overworked air traffic controllers. 274 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.440 And now we're getting anecdotes of. 275 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.840 Just how this dilapidated system is playing out for people 276 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.720 that are directing planes in the sky. We've got an 277 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:04.399 anim about a near mid air collision. This air traffic 278 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.200 controller is singing about it. They're not supposed to, but 279 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.159 he's giving us the details. We'll talk about it when 280 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:09.639 we come back. 281 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.279 Gary and Shannon will continue. 282 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:16.080 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 283 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:17.200 AM six forty. 284 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:20.919 A bunch of stories that are going on today, members 285 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.919 of the Railroad Engineers Union for New Jersey Transit went 286 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.919 on strike. About three hundred and fifty thousand people a 287 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.519 day rely on New Jersey transits, so they have been 288 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:34.080 shut down. Huge day of severe thunderstorms could be coming today. 289 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.039 About nine million people from Missouri up through Kentucky under 290 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:42.240 a level four of five risk of severe thunderstorms today. 291 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:46.039 And did you hear James Comey in this ridiculous post 292 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:46.960 that he made about. 293 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.799 Why is a anyone listening to him or paying attention 294 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.320 or giving him a microphone? 295 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:54.320 And b something scrawled in the sand. 296 00:12:54.519 --> 00:13:00.159 Is that somehow had the formation of eight six four seven. 297 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.799 Okay, get rid of the president? 298 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.000 Now why they're. 299 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:06.559 Taking it as a death threat? Is that right? 300 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:11.600 Yeah? Okay, why why would you post that? If you're 301 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:13.840 going to take that seriously, you're the death threat. But 302 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.200 you then also think Trump is a terrorist for going 303 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:17.919 to a mosque, Like if you're going to be that 304 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:19.639 overreactive with your thinking. 305 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:20.799 It's it's one of. 306 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.879 Those things that James Comy should know better as a 307 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:25.240 former director of the FBI. 308 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:26.399 He needs to know better. 309 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.240 The chronicle, dumb ass. 310 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.399 It's it's just it's one of those super frustrating, Like what, 311 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.320 First of all, the Secret Service and the Department of 312 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.440 Homeland Security don't need to waste their time by investigating that, 313 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.080 but they need to make a point by saying, don't 314 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:41.399 investigating that. 315 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:42.759 Investigating that? 316 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.559 All right, So we're talking about this air traffic controller 317 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:51.320 mess that is quickly turning into a disaster, and I 318 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.240 hope that I am wrong and I am overreacting to this. 319 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:59.200 Jonathan Stewart says he was in his fourth hour of 320 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.879 overseeing the planes flying near Newark. We've talked about how 321 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.279 Newark is kind of the hub for this air traffic 322 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:10.559 controller mess when it comes to staffing shortages, and I 323 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:14.039 believe the planes are monitored out of like Philadelphia or something. 324 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.440 It's just it's a they're having to cut down on 325 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.799 flights because there's just not enough people to monitor them. 326 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:23.200 It's just indicative of a greater problem there at Newark anyway. 327 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.559 So Jonathan Stewart is tasked with overseeing planes there. He's 328 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:30.440 in his fourth hour and he notices two planes speeding 329 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:35.159 nose to nose on his radar. It was a business 330 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.879 jet that had departed Morristown Airport and was heading toward 331 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:45.720 another small plane that had taken off from Teterborough, they say. 332 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:49.759 He says a mid air collision was potentially seconds away 333 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:54.240 because the planes were flying at the same altitude. Now, 334 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.360 he had been scribbling call signs for the planes and 335 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.320 flight information in a note bok and a nope book. 336 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.159 He's a veteran, by the way, He's had years of 337 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:10.240 doing this, and he was doing this scribbling the call 338 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:14.679 signs for the planes and flight information handwritten, putting them 339 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:20.080 handwritten into a notebook because he was prescient. He felt 340 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.960 like radar and radio communication was just close to failing 341 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:24.879 at any time. 342 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:29.919 Because it had failed before it had he was able 343 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.559 to get them, like you said, to change course. No collision. 344 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:36.360 But he fires off an email to the FAA, to 345 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:42.519 his bosses and just basically says, the work situation is ridiculous. 346 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:45.360 I take my job very seriously as I. 347 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:47.919 Do the safety of the flying public, and I take 348 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.000 pride in my performance. And he said, I do not 349 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.519 want to be responsible for killing four hundred people. 350 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.559 Right, there's complaining about your job. 351 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.960 Right, there's should I really complain about this or should 352 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.519 I just let it go kind of mentality. But when 353 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.919 you are responsible for the lives of at least four 354 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:10.200 hundred people in the sky alone. It becomes less of 355 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.320 I just complaining about my job. It's life or death 356 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.200 for many, many people. And the ripples outwardly of that 357 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.320 are Could you imagine the stress of that, going to 358 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.240 work as an air traffic controller system, knowing your equipment 359 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.399 is antiquated, knowing that there's a potential that you could 360 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.679 fail at your job because of it and kill all 361 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.320 those people. I mean, of course they're overstressed. Of course 362 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.639 it's a job nobody wants. You would be able to 363 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:36.320 sleep at night. 364 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.600 Well, on his case, he's had bouts of these close 365 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.759 calls that he says are cumulative. You know that the 366 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:50.600 PTSD from this is a real side effect of his job. 367 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.919 Now he's not technically working in an airport tower. He 368 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.200 actually works as a supervisor at a facility known as 369 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.159 a traycon terminal radar approach control and in addition to 370 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.879 handling some of the smaller regional airports in the area, 371 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:09.519 like you mentioned the Morristown in Teeterborough, he and Trey 372 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:13.640 con oversees planes approaching Newark and he gots to toggle 373 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:18.480 between kind of supervising other controllers and then himself taking 374 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:24.799 a seat and obsessively tracking all of these. His description 375 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:27.799 of it is, it's like a video game, but it's 376 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.920 like playing three D chess at two hundred and fifty 377 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.880 miles an hour. We are the guys guiding your pilot's home. 378 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.559 He says controllers are not to blame for all of 379 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:41.839 the recent delays and disruptions in and out of Newark, 380 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.519 for example, And he says controllers did not walk off 381 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.200 the job, as the United Airlines the chief did say 382 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.359 in a recent letter to customers, now United specifically has 383 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:54.440 buy in because they use Newark as one of their 384 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.039 hubs for the East Coast. 385 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.240 Well, let's set all that aside. 386 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:02.359 And I don't mean to judge Jonathan Stewart, and I'm not, 387 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:03.640 but let's just talk about. 388 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:04.440 What kind of guy he is. 389 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.839 He likes to shoot guns at an indoor range where 390 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.119 he lives just outside of Philly. He enjoys cigars Johnny 391 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:21.559 Walker blue, who wouldn't He likes, He is hard charging, 392 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.000 he's confident, he's brash. He likes to spend time at 393 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.160 the gym. He likes to ride his motorcycle. And he 394 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.039 says that the reason he's in air traffic control is 395 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:31.920 because the adrenaline rush hooked him. 396 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:35.599 It's the job's high stakes. It's effing fun. 397 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:35.920 Man. 398 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:41.559 You play god because you cannot fail. That's one way 399 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:42.319 to look at it. 400 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:44.119 One way to look at He's got about a decade 401 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.359