Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: It's time for swamp Watch. I'm a politician, which means
Speaker 2: I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not
Speaker 2: kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 1: Here we got.
Speaker 3: The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits.
Speaker 1: So what I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 4: So now now you train the squat.
Speaker 2: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 2: what has been. You know, Murvans have always been going
Speaker 2: at President. They're not stupid.
Speaker 5: A political plunder is what a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Have the people voting for you were not swamp watch?
Speaker 2: They're all counterned.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 5: President Trump was on Capitol Hill today to try to
Speaker 5: deliver a message to House Republicans ahead of the vote
Speaker 5: on this massive bill for his domestic agenda. He wants
Speaker 5: them to stop fighting. He wants them to get this
Speaker 5: thing passed as soon as possible. In a closed door
Speaker 5: meeting that took place, the President spoke afterwards. Hear from
Speaker 5: him in a second The President took aim at a
Speaker 5: block of Republicans who have been pushing for a higher
Speaker 5: cap on the deduction that their constituents can take for
Speaker 5: state and local taxes. It's known as salt. He's also
Speaker 5: warning conservative hardliners against the deep cuts to Medicaid. This
Speaker 5: comes as at a I guess you would argue a
Speaker 5: critical time for the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
Speaker 5: who is trying to steer the party line. He's trying
Speaker 5: to trying to make everybody happy here. This multi trillion
Speaker 5: dollar bill would be one of the largest bills ever
Speaker 5: passed by Congress, just in sheer size, in terms of
Speaker 5: the money that it that it's that it deals with.
Speaker 5: After the meeting, President Trump came out and said, everyone's happy.
Speaker 2: No shouting.
Speaker 1: There was no shouting that I think it was a
Speaker 1: meeting of love. There were a couple of things that
Speaker 1: we talked about.
Speaker 3: Specifically where some people felt a little bit one way
Speaker 3: or the other not a big deal, and I covered them.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't so much a speech.
Speaker 3: I covered certain points.
Speaker 5: Car Samenez out of New York, Florida, Sorry, Florida Congressman
Speaker 5: UH Republican had said that this issue of the state
Speaker 5: and local taxes, which has been one of the main
Speaker 5: sticking points, is going to be workout. He says, they
Speaker 5: they will find some some common ground on it.
Speaker 3: Well, we will find the middle ground, uh for that
Speaker 3: will satisfy those in the blue states, uh that you
Speaker 3: know are asking for the an additional you know, state
Speaker 3: and local tax deduction, uh, and those that want the
Speaker 3: more spending cuts. Again, these are these are issues around
Speaker 3: the edges.
Speaker 7: UH.
Speaker 3: They're not the main part of this bill.
Speaker 6: And UH.
Speaker 3: And so I am confident that we will find uh
Speaker 3: that that sweet spot. You know, Speaker Speaker Johnson has
Speaker 3: a great ability of getting people together, is well respected
Speaker 3: by everybody, and you know in our conference.
Speaker 5: So that issue of these state and local tax deductions
Speaker 5: that right now, it would boost the salt cap up
Speaker 5: to thirty thousand dollars that you can deduct from your
Speaker 5: federal taxes based on the state and local taxes that
Speaker 5: you pay as much up to thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Currently it's at ten thousand.
Speaker 5: Pro salt Republicans say that that is way too low,
Speaker 5: and Trump says, hey, you gotta let it go. He
Speaker 5: specifically went after Mike Lawler, a Republican out of New York,
Speaker 5: who could potentially be running for governor by the way,
Speaker 5: and he said, end it, Mike, just end it. According
Speaker 5: to at least a couple of the lawmakers who saw this,
Speaker 5: Nick Laloda, also in New York, said we need a
Speaker 5: little more salt on the table to get to yes.
Speaker 2: Specifically.
Speaker 5: He also Trump apparently said to Lawler, if you, he said,
Speaker 5: I know your district better than you do, and if
Speaker 5: you lose because of salt, you were going to lose anyway.
Speaker 5: One of the others that he's going after is Thomas Massey,
Speaker 5: Republican congressman out of Kentucky, who can't be told to
Speaker 5: do anything. This is a guy, I guess you would
Speaker 5: say in the in the vein of the senator from
Speaker 5: his state in Kentucky, of Rand Paul, who is not
Speaker 5: going to toe the party line. If he doesn't, he doesn't,
Speaker 5: He doesn't tow the party line just to tow the
Speaker 5: party line. Thomas Massey is a giant no on this
Speaker 5: more because of the deficit spending than any other issue.
Speaker 5: He thinks that we can't continue to spend our way
Speaker 5: into oblivion. That's what Thomas Massey has said and he's
Speaker 5: been a no on other bills before that have spent
Speaker 5: a lot of money. Trump told reporters that Massey should
Speaker 5: be voted out of office and that other reconciliation opponents
Speaker 5: should be should possibly face primary challenges. Of course, Thomas
Speaker 5: Massey doesn't care what the President says and is still
Speaker 5: a no. He's not going to be threatened and has
Speaker 5: stood up to Trump before, so that's not a giant surprise.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 5: Coming up at noon, President Trump is also expected to
Speaker 5: unveil plans for an iron dome system here in the
Speaker 5: United States.
Speaker 2: He would call it.
Speaker 5: The Golden Dome in order to protect the United States
Speaker 5: from any threat of missiles coming in from North Korea
Speaker 5: or elsewhere. It's very similar to if you're old enough
Speaker 5: to remember, the Star Wars program. Experts say it could
Speaker 5: cost The Golden Dome program could cost anywhere from tens
Speaker 5: of billions to hundreds of billions, depending on how it
Speaker 5: is set up, how thorough it is. Trump's going to
Speaker 5: be joined by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and
Speaker 5: General Michael Goutline, the vice chair a vice chief of
Speaker 5: Space Operations for the Pentagon. He is the one that's
Speaker 5: being asked to lead the Golden Dome project, so that's
Speaker 5: coming up at noon today. Up next, we'll be talking
Speaker 5: about what your brain does in those AHA moments. But
Speaker 5: a quick question. There's a study that came out. We're
Speaker 5: going to talk about it more tomorrow when we get
Speaker 5: into parenting issues with Justin Warsham when he comes along.
Speaker 5: But children and teenagers of any age who sip or
Speaker 5: taste alcohol with their parents' permission, that's a key, are
Speaker 5: more likely to engage in risky drinking in young adulthood.
Speaker 5: Did you did you drink with your parents' permission when
Speaker 5: you were underage? Or do you allow your kids to
Speaker 5: drink if they're not twenty one? And what impact do
Speaker 5: you think that made on your kids? Leave us a
Speaker 5: talkback message. Hit that little button as you're listening on
Speaker 5: the app and send us a quick message. Do you
Speaker 5: drink underage? Did you drink underage? Do you allow your
Speaker 5: kids to drink underage? And what's you're thinking behind that?
Speaker 5: So we'll talk about that a little bit later and
Speaker 5: then rejoin it revisit it tomorrow as well. The AHA
Speaker 5: moments look different in your brain. We'll talk about those
Speaker 5: aha moments we come back.
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Speaker 5: You ever have one of those moments when you are
Speaker 5: trying to solve a puzzle, or maybe something as simple
Speaker 5: as watching a TV show a murder mystery, and you
Speaker 5: figure out who did it before they tell you who
Speaker 5: did it. There was a study that came out of
Speaker 5: Duke University in the University of Berlin that talked about
Speaker 5: these light bulb moments, these Aha moments when a solution
Speaker 5: suddenly clicks in your head and it shows it's not
Speaker 5: just it's just not just satisfying that you solved this puzzle,
Speaker 5: whatever it was, that there's an actual physical change that
Speaker 5: goes on in your brain and how it processes that
Speaker 5: information and then stores that information and makes that kind
Speaker 5: of an Aha moment that solution so much more memorable
Speaker 5: than something that you just learn over time that's repeated,
Speaker 5: they said. They the researchers referred to these as Eureka
Speaker 5: moments and why we tend to remember the solutions that
Speaker 5: we came to through sudden insight as opposed to stuff
Speaker 5: that we learned through routine methods. New study Nature communications.
Speaker 5: If you get your local checkout after you're done looking
Speaker 5: at the classifieds. It came out this week's Nature Just Communications.
Speaker 5: During this experiment, they participants tried to identify objects in
Speaker 5: abstract black and white images they're called mooney images while
Speaker 5: they were inside and MRI scanner. And after they identified
Speaker 5: each job object, they rated how suddenly the solution came
Speaker 5: to them, how certain they felt about their answer, and
Speaker 5: about how positive they felt about solving it. And then
Speaker 5: about five days later they would ask participants to remember
Speaker 5: those solutions, and they said that those solutions discovered with
Speaker 5: the high level of insight AHA, that kind of insight
Speaker 5: were remembered about twice as well as those that found
Speaker 5: through gradual recognition. Something in there triggers your brain to
Speaker 5: store it in a specific area that gives it more
Speaker 5: importance than something you would learn over a routine, certain
Speaker 5: routine in your life. The brain scans revealed that during
Speaker 5: those moments, visual processing areas showed mark changes in how
Speaker 5: they represented information. And at the same time you get
Speaker 5: emotional about it, your emotional center in the amygdala and
Speaker 5: the hippocampus become more active and better synchronized with that
Speaker 5: visual area that you're in and that when we experience
Speaker 5: the high levels of insight again the aha, the Eureka moments,
Speaker 5: there are stronger shifts in the activation patterns within the
Speaker 5: brain regions that process solution relevant information, particularly the visual
Speaker 5: cortext for visual problems. These areas work very closely in
Speaker 5: the brain's emotional and memory systems and that form that
Speaker 5: interconnected network. I know it's not Thursday, it's not strange science,
Speaker 5: but this is an important thing, and they said it
Speaker 5: is very important for low earning as well, because outside
Speaker 5: of just the you know, the rote practice. Think I
Speaker 5: don't know, multiplication tables when you're in elementary school. If
Speaker 5: you can find a way to teach a kid an
Speaker 5: elementary school a way to work out the mathematical problems
Speaker 5: to an AHA moment as opposed to just practicing them,
Speaker 5: then sometimes those will stick better than the regular routine
Speaker 5: practice of here you go, this is what your times
Speaker 5: tables are going to be, and this is how you
Speaker 5: memorize them. So that's that's good. You can always leave
Speaker 5: us a talk back message. Just sit that little microphone
Speaker 5: button while you're listening on the iHeart app. I mean,
Speaker 5: my wife did it, so I guess everybody gets.
Speaker 2: Jim, I'm just trying to follow your instructions.
Speaker 6: Did you want beef or salmon tonight?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Jim, I said beef.
Speaker 3: Actually, hey, Gary, you know the Boles man of secrets.
Speaker 4: I thought maybe you were coming over to my house.
Speaker 5: Tonight forploy.
Speaker 2: And a hot dog?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Okay, don't play that.
Speaker 3: That was horrible.
Speaker 4: That was really a joke just for me.
Speaker 2: Well now you shared it with everybody, Gary bro Yeah,
Speaker 2: that message from your wife wasn't hey, you know what
Speaker 2: do you want for dinners?
Speaker 4: More like?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: And I am the show? And Shannon's out there? Because
Speaker 2: their two days when you guys are by yourself, you're
Speaker 2: a kind of hard to listen. You guys are too newsy,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So just an idea, have
Speaker 2: a good day? Are you my wife's agent?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 2: Is that? That's what I don't quite understand?
Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 5: All right, a whole series of Tearing the Sky stories
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Speaker 5: The FAA confirmed that yet another system outage occurred at
Speaker 5: the facility that handles flights in and out of Newark
Speaker 5: Liberty International Airport. And why not that's where we begin
Speaker 5: our Terror in the Skies.
Speaker 4: Flights to zero niner orlayer for day off, Roger, get
Speaker 4: off my plane, Roderick Rodgers.
Speaker 2: What's our Victor?
Speaker 4: Victor?
Speaker 2: En is enough?
Speaker 1: I have a hand to put these munkey fight and
Speaker 1: snakes on this money. It's Gary and Shannon's Terror in
Speaker 1: the Skies on KFI.
Speaker 5: So the FAA is investigating a brief radio system outage
Speaker 5: at the Philly Air Traffic Control Center that is responsible
Speaker 5: for handling flights at Newark International Newark Liberty International Airport.
Speaker 2: There in New Jersey.
Speaker 5: This is not good. It doesn't get much better when
Speaker 5: I play the sound for you.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
Speaker 3: I thought United had cleared well before that. Stare for
Speaker 3: a moment and I'm got to get together United and
Speaker 3: in the way we'll get you up for the owent man.
Speaker 2: Why does he have to get the other United out
Speaker 2: of the way? Oh, I don't know. Because the radio
Speaker 2: went out.
Speaker 5: Lost the radar frequency again.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: The FAA said the control tower lost radio frequencies for
Speaker 5: two seconds yesterday morning at about eleven thirty New Jersey time.
Speaker 5: Despite that, everything remained safely separated.
Speaker 2: There were no big deals.
Speaker 5: But this is the fourth time since April twenty eighth,
Speaker 5: the fourth time that there has been a system outage
Speaker 5: of some duration at the Philly Air Traffic Control Center
Speaker 5: that's responding for these responsible for these flights to come
Speaker 5: into Newark. After the April incident, there was a second
Speaker 5: outage on May ninth that interrupted communications for about ninety seconds.
Speaker 5: There were more flight disruptions. There was a third outage
Speaker 5: two days after that which halted flights. Staffing shortages linked
Speaker 5: to the April incident led to white spread delays. They've
Speaker 5: been having construction issues with that Newark airport that we've
Speaker 5: told you about many times. In the first couple of incidents,
Speaker 5: both April twenty eighth and in May ninth, they had
Speaker 5: really bad weather. It was very overcast and foggy in
Speaker 5: that area, so they had other natural delays that were
Speaker 5: going to occur. Sean Duffy is the Secretary of Transportation.
Speaker 5: He said earlier this month that we are in the
Speaker 5: midst of upgrading our air traffic control system, but it
Speaker 5: is going to take some time. They include updating the
Speaker 5: system with new software, with new equipment, and he says
Speaker 5: that this revamp is going to cost tens of billions
Speaker 5: of dollars. Right now, we know that the FAA system
Speaker 5: relies on technology that was outdated before I graduated from
Speaker 5: high school, and that in some cases the FAA has
Speaker 5: had to resort to buying equipment on eBay, replacement parts
Speaker 5: on eBay, or even making them on their own using
Speaker 5: three D printers because some new components are unavailable for
Speaker 5: that same outdated equipment. Obviously, there are problems with the
Speaker 5: shortage of air traffic controllers in the US. More than
Speaker 5: ninety percent of the nation's airport towers are considered to
Speaker 5: be inadequately staffed. They fall short of standards that were
Speaker 5: set by the working group from the FAA and the
Speaker 5: Controllers Union that put them together. So no word today
Speaker 5: on an outage near Newark, but not good because yet
Speaker 5: another one has prompted problems and delays and they will
Speaker 5: continue at Newark for some time. Nearby up in that
Speaker 5: same area, there was a close call at LaGuardia Airport
Speaker 5: between two commercial jets currently under investigation by the FAA
Speaker 5: and NTSP. This is one of many of the close calls,
Speaker 5: the go arounds, and the accidents that has prompted calls
Speaker 5: for changes to that aviation system, not just air traffic control,
Speaker 5: but the way the FAA operates on a very general basis.
Speaker 5: So this happened right about twelve thirty in the morning
Speaker 5: on May sixth, and air traffic controller canceled the takeoff
Speaker 5: clearance for American Eagle flight forty seven thirty six because
Speaker 5: a United flight was taxing on that same runway, so
Speaker 5: he had to yell. The controller had to yell brickyard
Speaker 5: forty seven thirty six stop Brickyard is the call sign
Speaker 5: they use for Republic airways, and then rejected takeoff runway thirteen.
Speaker 5: Said the pilot, sorry about that. I thought United had
Speaker 5: cleared well before that, according to the controller. So the
Speaker 5: United flight that was coming in that evening from Houston
Speaker 5: carrying one hundred and seven passenger six crew members, the
Speaker 5: planes were about a quarter mile apart when the flight
Speaker 5: that was taking off hit the brakes, and the FAA
Speaker 5: said it's also investigating another like I said, radio outage
Speaker 5: at Newark. These close calls like this, yeah, they happen.
Speaker 5: One way I heard it to describe today is they
Speaker 5: need to stop calling them near misses, because that makes
Speaker 5: it sound like they were separated. But if you called it,
Speaker 5: if you just changed the nomenclature, if all you did
Speaker 5: was say we had a near hit at LaGuardia, that
Speaker 5: it would have changed pretty significantly and in fact, would
Speaker 5: make people think differently about how dire.
Speaker 2: The situation is.
Speaker 5: When it comes to the tens of thousands of flights
Speaker 5: that operate throughout the United just the United States, the
Speaker 5: tens of thousands of flights that operate in the United
Speaker 5: States each and every day, how many of these close
Speaker 5: calls are there? I'm surprised there are not more. But again,
Speaker 5: some instances like this one, today's the ninth, today's the twentieth,
Speaker 5: and we're only finding out about it two weeks later.
Speaker 5: Unless you were the pilot or the air traffic controller,
Speaker 5: this stuff isn't advertised very often. So that's just a
Speaker 5: couple of the of the stories. There are a couple more,
Speaker 5: a couple more terror in the Sky stories. One of
Speaker 5: them is actually a love story, Love in the skies,
Speaker 5: and one is a door dash story, which doesn't make
Speaker 5: sense because you would think, what does a door dash
Speaker 5: driver have to do with the terror in the skies.
Speaker 5: But we'll tell you more about that coming up. Also,
Speaker 5: taking your talkbacks, did you drink as a kid?
Speaker 2: I don't mean.
Speaker 5: That to be flippant, but there's a study out that
Speaker 5: talks about how it is people respond when they're allowed
Speaker 5: to drink alcohol with their parents as a teenager or
Speaker 5: a kid, what that does to them in terms of
Speaker 5: predictions about their future behavior.
Speaker 4: Hi, guys, I've got six kids and I've always let
Speaker 4: them taste alcoholic beverages. We've never been big alcohol drinkers
Speaker 4: in my household, although you know, I ran the when
Speaker 4: I was a kid. But all of my kids have
Speaker 4: found that they disliked the taste of alcohol, and that's
Speaker 4: the reason I let them try it, so that they
Speaker 4: don't like it, so then as they grew older they
Speaker 4: don't care for it. At least that's been my experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's experienced for a lot of people. Some people
Speaker 5: had said that their parents were teetotalers and they never drank.
Speaker 5: Others said that they grew up in an alcoholic family,
Speaker 5: so that was always available to them and they just
Speaker 5: fell out of love with it because they saw what
Speaker 5: was what it was doing to their adults in the house,
Speaker 5: to their relatives, to mom, to dad, to whatever. So
Speaker 5: leave us your talk back. If you're listening on the app,
Speaker 5: hit that little microphone button. And if you were allowed
Speaker 5: to drink when you were a teenager, did it effect
Speaker 5: the way that you handled alcohol in the future or
Speaker 5: do you allow your kids to do it? You allow
Speaker 5: your kids to drink alcohol with permission. We'll talk about
Speaker 5: all of that later on in the show. We'll also
Speaker 5: revisit it tomorrow with Justin Warsham. We do our parenting
Speaker 5: segment more in the skies though. Right around the corner you're.
Speaker 1: Listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 5: We were asking for talkbacks of your experience. Did you
Speaker 5: allow your kids to drink when they were teenagers or
Speaker 5: did you drink as a teenager and how it affected
Speaker 5: how you looked at alcohol for the rest of your life.
Speaker 7: I have to assume Child Protective Services is listening to
Speaker 7: these phone calls. No, that's what I'm going to refrain
Speaker 7: from talking about my alcoholic tendencies in my childhood.
Speaker 5: Okay, have a good one, Gary, Well, if it was
Speaker 5: your childhood, there's not much they're going to be doing
Speaker 5: about it now.
Speaker 2: So the other thing is, no, they're not, No, they
Speaker 2: are not.
Speaker 5: We're in the midst of an extended terror in the
Speaker 5: skies segment today, we talked about so those near misses
Speaker 5: that had happened, one of them at LaGuardia just a
Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6: What's up, Gary, justin here from Riverside, a former flight
Speaker 6: instructor and was just listening to terror in the skies
Speaker 6: or talking about that near miss on the runway, And
Speaker 6: we call those runway incursions and they do, indeed have
Speaker 6: different categories by the FA, so A through D for
Speaker 6: severity A which is like a near myst that was
Speaker 6: actually narrowly avoided, to D, which was just there was
Speaker 6: an aircraft or vehicle where they shouldn't have been, which,
Speaker 6: like you said, would be helpful to categorize those customer
Speaker 6: severe and some are not, but they all have been
Speaker 6: publicized quite a bit lately.
Speaker 2: Justin thank you for that. Appreciated.
Speaker 5: But speaking of here's an incursion a car where it
Speaker 5: shouldn't have been On Saturday, a door Dash driver made
Speaker 5: his way onto Chicago O'Hare International Airport grounds. Now I'm
Speaker 5: not talking about driving through the terminal. I mean through
Speaker 5: a restricted area, and they said may have accidentally driven
Speaker 5: over taxiways while trying to find his way back out
Speaker 5: of the airport. Thirty six year old driver making a delivery,
Speaker 5: he accessed the airside areas, how they referred to it.
Speaker 2: And you know who caught him or you know who
Speaker 2: noticed him.
Speaker 5: The air traffic controllers in the tower saw this unauthorized
Speaker 5: vehicle making its way through secured parts of the airport.
Speaker 5: They may have crossed multiple internal roads and potentially even
Speaker 5: taxiways before they were noticed by the air traffic controllers.
Speaker 5: Airport authorities were able to intercept this guy. They questioned him.
Speaker 5: He said he was completely there by mistake, no big deal,
Speaker 5: accidentally drove to within that secured area, no malicious intent,
Speaker 5: no charges, no citations anything. Door Dash also had to
Speaker 5: come out. They acknowledged the event. They're actively reviewing the
Speaker 5: details around exactly what happened. This is not the first
Speaker 5: time that this has happened. Amazingly, you drive around Lax,
Speaker 5: you drive around Burbank, It's hard to find a place
Speaker 5: to get in that even looks like you could get
Speaker 5: in if you're unless you're going through the normal concourse
Speaker 5: in front of the airport. A former air traffic controller
Speaker 5: said that this was pretty frightening. This guy also flew
Speaker 5: business jets. Emphasized how dangerous it could have been because
Speaker 5: he says, imagine if this had been at night. Imagine
Speaker 5: if this was harder for air traffic controllers to identify
Speaker 5: that as an unauthorized vehicle. Yeah, you got headlines rolling around,
Speaker 5: but you got headlights for other vehicles that are traveling
Speaker 5: within that airside portion of the airport that are fine.
Speaker 5: Headlights all look the same in the dark, he said,
Speaker 5: And it could have been really, really bad. Chicago's major
Speaker 5: airports experienced several similar breaches. In April of last year,
Speaker 5: a city owned vehicle went on an active taxiway at
Speaker 5: O'Hare without prior clearance that prompted a near miss, if
Speaker 5: you want to call it that an incursion with a
Speaker 5: regional aircraft. That was one of at least three runway
Speaker 5: or taxiway access violations involving ground vehicles at O'Hare during
Speaker 5: that year. Chicago Midway there was just in February Chicago midway,
Speaker 5: there was a flex Jet Challenger three point fifty business
Speaker 5: jet that crossed an active runway without authorization and if
Speaker 5: you remember that, that forced a Southwest flight to abort
Speaker 5: its landing just a few seconds before a touchdown. But okay,
Speaker 5: let's send the terrans in the skies with a positive story. Shally,
Speaker 5: there's a woman from Ohio who's.
Speaker 2: Had a chance encounter with a handsome pilot.
Speaker 5: If you will, Tanya is her name, not even going
Speaker 5: to try her last name because it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5: It's just a bunch of letters, she says. Every time
Speaker 5: I tell the story, people think I'm making it up.
Speaker 5: She's flying home with her family to Cleveland. She catches
Speaker 5: this guy checking her out while she's at the airport
Speaker 5: in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sees that this guy has a
Speaker 5: pilot's uniform on Hello, and that he's a head taller
Speaker 5: than everybody else.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 5: She didn't think anything of it until she gets onto
Speaker 5: her flight Frontier and sees that this guy, Wesley, was
Speaker 5: on the same plane as he was in uniform. She
Speaker 5: initially thought, oh, that's our pilot, realized he was actually
Speaker 5: off duty. He's just deadheading to a different flight headed
Speaker 5: to Ohio. He gave Tanya's nephew a wave as she
Speaker 5: was carrying the kid down the aisle to her seat
Speaker 5: toward the back of the plane. She then didn't interact
Speaker 5: with him for the rest of the flight until they land,
Speaker 5: when he approaches her with a note, She said, I'm
Speaker 5: sitting in a row towards the back. About twenty minutes
Speaker 5: before landing. I got a tap on my shoulder and
Speaker 5: it's that guy handing me a napkin.
Speaker 2: I made my mom and my sister read. At first,
Speaker 2: I was freaking out.
Speaker 5: This message read again, written on a napkin of a
Speaker 5: Frontier airline's flight. Hi, I'm sure you get notes like
Speaker 5: this all the time, but I would love to take
Speaker 5: you out to dinner and get to know you.
Speaker 2: If that's something you'd be up for, let me know,
Speaker 2: and then he dropped his digits.
Speaker 5: She later learned the pilot had never asked out anyone before,
Speaker 5: let alone somebody on a plane, and had to be
Speaker 5: hyped up by one of the flight attendants who helped
Speaker 5: him right on the napkin.
Speaker 2: She said.
Speaker 5: She texted the guy the next day and they have
Speaker 5: been together ever.
Speaker 2: Since so.
Speaker 5: You can find love in the air twelve o'clock hour
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