January 31, 2025 • 6 mins
We talk about the American Airlines tragedy that occurred earlier this week and how it makes us all realize we need to live for today and without regrets.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, welcome to Friday, Welcome to the weekend. Hey, as
we speak in the comfort of this beautiful studio on
fifty fifth Street, right down the block from Radio City
Music Hall in New York City, there are many people
who are in the car on the way to the airport,
not only to catch a flight maybe you're catching a
(00:25):
flight today, but also they're going there to help get
us off the ground safe and sound in many different ways.
Or they're there to feed us or make sure we're
safe at check in. Nothing weird in the bags, and
there's a lot of moving parts at the airport. And
I know, after what happened the other night in Washington, DC,
that awful, awful accident that happened, the loss of sixty
(00:50):
seven lives, I had a few friends who had to
fly the next morning and they would post something like
this feels different today. Of course it does. Of course,
you know, every time you sit on that plane and
you're taking off, to me, it's a miracle every single time.
I mean, it's all science, and it's all aerodynamics and
(01:11):
this and that all working together. But it's the people
who keep you the safest. It's been over fifteen years
since we've had an aeronautical disaster like that in the
United States. They've been happening around the world, and then
it happened, And I'm wondering how many people actually said,
you know what, we're supposed to go to Xyz next week.
I'm not going. I can't get on a plane. I
(01:32):
get it every time I fly, when I sit down,
I do have a moment of anxiety. Do you guys
have it every single time, every single time? Right, And
sometimes you just got to try to ignore it, ignore it,
And I remind myself, well, let's think of the millions
of planes that take off and land safely every single
month or year, year, whatever. So people were getting onto
(01:54):
a plane, sitting down and preparing for an American Airlines flight,
and the cap and came on. I don't know if
you saw this. The pilot came on and had something
to say to everyone about to take off. Wherever their
minds were at that time. I thought, this is the
best thing he could have done as the fearless leader
(02:15):
in the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Maybe I'm fearful about flying, and that's certainly understandable, but
I just please know that my first officer and on
fin of tenants and myself pleased your safety and the
responsibility of carried you to my engine. Aren't your families
or vacations your beats? You know, at the highest level,
I had no higher calling than carefully professionally transupporting you today.
(02:38):
So with that, relax and enjoy the we believed you
that we get to flying it.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We'll get to wish you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Would you walk on the morning. I don't know if you
understood him. It was kind of hard to understand. Do
you understand me? He said? I have What did he
say I ever written?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
He said, let's see.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The American Airlines captain just said the exact words that
everyone else needed to hear. Oh, I don't think it's transcribed.
I have no higher calling than carefully and professionally transporting
you today. Yes, there you go, There you have it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's nice that he know he knew people needed that.
Of course he did, and he took the time to
do it, not just you know.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, it doesn't make me nervous, though I'm not even
gonna act like it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Do you have like a ritual before you get on
the plane, because I do the plane, knock on the
plane before I get on it every time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What about your frog?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You know this is Lisa Flew yesterday. She flew an
American Airlines flight from from Montego Bay into Miami and
the Miami into Jacksonville last night. And that was something
that was done company wide. It was done on both
of her flights yesterday when she took off in Antigo
Bay and when she took off in Miami, and the
pilot made that exact same statement.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Good, that's great.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know, they are so busy to keep you safe
and to get on and off the ground on time.
This and that.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm sure they've been reminded time and time again that
the passengers behind them in the back that you know.
And but I will tell you this, I will always fly. Yeah,
I will always fly when when there's a plane available
and I have the money to do it, and I
can afford to fly somewhere and I can whip out
my passport, I will always fly because the thought of
(04:15):
not being able to visit other cultures and other lands
and eat other foods and go to the beach and
go see friends and go to funerals that I need
to be in. Yeah, I'll never give that up. I'll
never get about that freedom until they take it away.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And if you look up the stats of flying versus
everything else that we do on a daily and we
don't think about flying as far safe.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Oh yes, oh yeah, way more people dying, way more.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's safer than walking into this room. I mean with
daniel Drives, what happened with Danielle on the road. Scary
is the worst driver in here, not me, that's true. Actually,
yeah again, And I know I sound like I'm repeating,
but I'm gonna repeat it again. I can't stop thinking this.
This is in loop. It's on loop in my head.
Each one of these sixty seven people was an individual
that had an individual individual life. They had their goals,
(04:58):
they had their dreams, They've had their f ups in
life and regrets, and they each were individuals. They each
were a moving part.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I went down the rabbit hole yesterday of looking at
a lot of their Instagram posts from a lot of
them were at this like ice skating. You're standing yeah,
And they were all together eating dinner like right before,
and they were posting like what their future ambitions were
and how this one won a medal, and that one
did this and can't wait to see you again, and cheering,
and then they got on the plane and half of
(05:30):
them didn't make it, and I'm just like, oh my gosh,
it's just sewing. It's like crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's I think about this all the time. It's not
just sixty seven people. It is sixty seven communities that
all get impacted by this thing. Each one of us
has our own community. We have one together, and then
we have our own. And it's sixty seven of those
right now that are going through this. It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I really hate the word regret, and I always say
I don't regret anything I've done in life, but I
will say this, I'm now understanding regret as it applies
to I wish I could have said this to them, Yes,
before they died. I wish I could have let them
know how I feel before they passed away. Okay, here's
another equal, equal mountain of regret, the opportunity you had
(06:16):
to say that and they're still alive. Yeah, and you
didn't say it, say it, say it. Tell me you
love me, Nate, I love you, Elvis Durant, do you
regret that? No? Oh, I'll make you regret that. Yeah,
well yeah, in many ways. But you've done this before.
You've said, hey, just pick up the phone and call
someone and tell you tell them me you love them.
Do that right now? Do it? Do it? Do it? Well?
(06:37):
The flowers? I do that. Yeah, send them flowers, don't
tell them why.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And it's true. Nobody's promised tomorrow, just like that Lady
Gotga song and Bruno Mars says, you're not promised tomorrow.
So love everyone today and appreciate it.
Today's daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, welcome to Friday, Welcome to the weekend. Hey, as
we speak in the comfort of this beautiful studio on
fifty fifth Street, right down the block from Radio City
Music Hall in New York City, there are many people
who are in the car on the way to the airport,
not only to catch a flight maybe you're catching a
(00:25):
flight today, but also they're going there to help get
us off the ground safe and sound in many different ways.
Or they're there to feed us or make sure we're
safe at check in. Nothing weird in the bags, and
there's a lot of moving parts at the airport. And
I know, after what happened the other night in Washington, DC,
that awful, awful accident that happened, the loss of sixty
(00:50):
seven lives, I had a few friends who had to
fly the next morning and they would post something like
this feels different today. Of course it does. Of course,
you know, every time you sit on that plane and
you're taking off, to me, it's a miracle every single time.
I mean, it's all science, and it's all aerodynamics and
(01:11):
this and that all working together. But it's the people
who keep you the safest. It's been over fifteen years
since we've had an aeronautical disaster like that in the
United States. They've been happening around the world, and then
it happened, And I'm wondering how many people actually said,
you know what, we're supposed to go to Xyz next week.
I'm not going. I can't get on a plane. I
(01:32):
get it every time I fly, when I sit down,
I do have a moment of anxiety. Do you guys
have it every single time, every single time? Right, And
sometimes you just got to try to ignore it, ignore it,
And I remind myself, well, let's think of the millions
of planes that take off and land safely every single
month or year, year, whatever. So people were getting onto
(01:54):
a plane, sitting down and preparing for an American Airlines flight,
and the cap and came on. I don't know if
you saw this. The pilot came on and had something
to say to everyone about to take off. Wherever their
minds were at that time. I thought, this is the
best thing he could have done as the fearless leader
(02:15):
in the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Maybe I'm fearful about flying, and that's certainly understandable, but
I just please know that my first officer and on
fin of tenants and myself pleased your safety and the
responsibility of carried you to my engine. Aren't your families
or vacations your beats? You know, at the highest level,
I had no higher calling than carefully professionally transupporting you today.
(02:38):
So with that, relax and enjoy the we believed you
that we get to flying it.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We'll get to wish you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Would you walk on the morning. I don't know if you
understood him. It was kind of hard to understand. Do
you understand me? He said? I have What did he
say I ever written?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
He said, let's see.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The American Airlines captain just said the exact words that
everyone else needed to hear. Oh, I don't think it's transcribed.
I have no higher calling than carefully and professionally transporting
you today. Yes, there you go, There you have it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's nice that he know he knew people needed that.
Of course he did, and he took the time to
do it, not just you know.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah, it doesn't make me nervous, though I'm not even
gonna act like it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Do you have like a ritual before you get on
the plane, because I do the plane, knock on the
plane before I get on it every time.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What about your frog?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You know this is Lisa Flew yesterday. She flew an
American Airlines flight from from Montego Bay into Miami and
the Miami into Jacksonville last night. And that was something
that was done company wide. It was done on both
of her flights yesterday when she took off in Antigo
Bay and when she took off in Miami, and the
pilot made that exact same statement.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Good, that's great.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know, they are so busy to keep you safe
and to get on and off the ground on time.
This and that.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm sure they've been reminded time and time again that
the passengers behind them in the back that you know.
And but I will tell you this, I will always fly. Yeah,
I will always fly when when there's a plane available
and I have the money to do it, and I
can afford to fly somewhere and I can whip out
my passport, I will always fly because the thought of
(04:15):
not being able to visit other cultures and other lands
and eat other foods and go to the beach and
go see friends and go to funerals that I need
to be in. Yeah, I'll never give that up. I'll
never get about that freedom until they take it away.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And if you look up the stats of flying versus
everything else that we do on a daily and we
don't think about flying as far safe.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Oh yes, oh yeah, way more people dying, way more.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's safer than walking into this room. I mean with
daniel Drives, what happened with Danielle on the road. Scary
is the worst driver in here, not me, that's true. Actually,
yeah again, And I know I sound like I'm repeating,
but I'm gonna repeat it again. I can't stop thinking this.
This is in loop. It's on loop in my head.
Each one of these sixty seven people was an individual
that had an individual individual life. They had their goals,
(04:58):
they had their dreams, They've had their f ups in
life and regrets, and they each were individuals. They each
were a moving part.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I went down the rabbit hole yesterday of looking at
a lot of their Instagram posts from a lot of
them were at this like ice skating. You're standing yeah,
And they were all together eating dinner like right before,
and they were posting like what their future ambitions were
and how this one won a medal, and that one
did this and can't wait to see you again, and cheering,
and then they got on the plane and half of
(05:30):
them didn't make it, and I'm just like, oh my gosh,
it's just sewing. It's like crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's I think about this all the time. It's not
just sixty seven people. It is sixty seven communities that
all get impacted by this thing. Each one of us
has our own community. We have one together, and then
we have our own. And it's sixty seven of those
right now that are going through this. It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I really hate the word regret, and I always say
I don't regret anything I've done in life, but I
will say this, I'm now understanding regret as it applies
to I wish I could have said this to them, Yes,
before they died. I wish I could have let them
know how I feel before they passed away. Okay, here's
another equal, equal mountain of regret, the opportunity you had
(06:16):
to say that and they're still alive. Yeah, and you
didn't say it, say it, say it. Tell me you
love me, Nate, I love you, Elvis Durant, do you
regret that? No? Oh, I'll make you regret that. Yeah,
well yeah, in many ways. But you've done this before.
You've said, hey, just pick up the phone and call
someone and tell you tell them me you love them.
Do that right now? Do it? Do it? Do it? Well?
(06:37):
The flowers? I do that. Yeah, send them flowers, don't
tell them why.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And it's true. Nobody's promised tomorrow, just like that Lady
Gotga song and Bruno Mars says, you're not promised tomorrow.
So love everyone today and appreciate it.
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