DEI and the FAA

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay. Trump holds a fiery, a very strong press conference
yesterday where he clearly said, look, we don't quite know
exactly why, we'll find out very soon what happened. Who
exactly was to blame for the collision that now killed

(00:20):
sixty seven people over right near Reagan National Airport. But
he said, there's no question de Boodhajig Biden's policies of diversity,
dei wokeness have lowered standards across the board, especially in transportation,

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especially at the FAA, and that this now is going
to change and must change. Do you agree with Trump?
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number? Or do you agree with the media
and Democrats and liberals who say that Trump should not

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have politicized his press conference yesterday. That's what they claim
by attacking DEI and attacking Bootagage's leadership as Transportation secretary.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Listen now to Trump. He's elaborating now, reading from the

(01:25):
FAA's own website about what kind of intellectual psychological psychiatric
disabilities as part of the FAA's diversity hiring program regarding
air traffic controllers, in particular roll cut seventy a MIKE.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Targeted disabilities are those disabilities at the federal government as
a matter policy has identified for special emphasis.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
And recruitment and hiring.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
The FAA's website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities,
partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability,
and dwarfism. All qualify for the position of.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
A controller of.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Aeroplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot,
a little dot on the map, a little runway. The
initiative is part of the faas Diversity and Inclusion Hiring Plan.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Think of that.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
The initiative is part of the FAA's Diversity and Inclusion
Hiring Plan, which says diversity is integral to achieving FAA's
mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I think it's just the opposite. He's completely right. I
my god, Look, I'll be honest with you, Okay, I
didn't think it was that bad. I knew it was bad,
but I didn't think it was that bad. Epilepsy, seizures,
psychological psychiatric intellectual disabilities, paralyzed, completely paralyzed, and you want

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to put them on his air traffic controllers one of
the most stressful high performance jobs in the world. Were
literally hundreds of people's lives or at stake, you know,
you know, coming in flight after flight after flight after flight.
These people are mad. This is insane. And as John

(03:38):
said one of our previous callers, I'm not trying to
diminish what happened. My heart breaks for what happened to
those poor sixty seven people. But we're lucky. Was it more?
This is criminal? And notice how does this quote unquote diversity.
This is the heart of the mission of the FAA

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to hire dwarfs, to hire people with severe mental disabilities
and people who have seizures, psychiatric problems. That's your main No,
your main mission is to hire the best, most qualified people,

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period so that our skies are safe. Ding dong stupid
hi ya yai ai yea yay. And then you got
people like Bill and said I blame Trump Trump Trump
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree.

(04:47):
Mike in Florida. Thanks for holding Mike and welcome.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Good morning, Jeff from Sunny South Florida. I completely agree
with it quick shout out to your producer, Mike I
used to work with in another lifetime. He does a
great job for you. Anyway, I had the privilege my
dad worked in the Pentagon and I lived in Springfield,
Virginia near Arlington, and I can tell you the pathway

(05:17):
or the flight paths between BWI Andrews Air Force based
Dellas Reagan is one of the busiest probably in the world.
I don't know for a fact, but I know Andrews
Air Force Base from being a military brat, was one
of the busiest corridors. And they hired the best. They

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didn't hire somebody based on what music they listened to,
what religion they were. They hired the best of the best.
And it seems the last administrations kind of done away
with that, and look what we have on our hands.
I completely agree with John, one of your previous callers
who had some aviation experience, that you know, you're either

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qualified for the job or you're not. It's like teaching
at Yale or Harvard. You know, are you qualified or
you're not. It's not whether you have yellow hair or
brown hair or whatever. It's based on merit. And I'm
really encouraged by this Trump administration that they're trying to
make things merit based. Do you agree?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I completely agree, Mike, what I would? I agree with
you completely. Please don't get me wrong. But we're not
talking Yale or Harvard again. You should always hire the
best person for the job, Okay, for many reasons. A
just because of fairness, you work hard, you're the most qualified,
you should get the job. But let's be honest. If
you have a diversity higher at Yale or Harvard, you

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know you're you're shafting the students. It's wrong, but people
aren't going to die. Okay. It is the Kooner Country
Poll Question of the Day sponsored by Marios Mario's Quality Roofing,
Siding and Windows. If you were on a plane guided

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by an air traffic controller, okay, this is the key question. Now,
who would you prefer an air traffic controller that had
been hired under A Biden or b Trump? In other words,

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would you want an air traffic controller under the diversity
equity inclusion programs aggressively promoted under Biden or the color
blind merit based new programs that Trump literally just signed
an executive order regarding the FAA under Trump. Which air

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traffic controller would you rather have guiding your plane? The
one hired under a Biden or b Trump? Ay to me,
it's a no brainer unless you have a suicide wish.
To me, honestly, it's Trump all the way. I want merit.

(08:16):
I want the best person for the job. I don't
care if they're white, black, brown, Asian, purple, green, man, woman, young, old, gay, straight,
I don't care. I just want to know are you
mentally stable? Are you operating at a very high level?
And can you handle the massive stress that comes with

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being an air traffic controller? If you can, that's all
I care about. Baby, best person for the job. But
that's me. I want to hear from you. You can
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And is in national Er at the Kooner Report. This
is from Mark on messenger Jeff, and it's true. He's

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completely right, Jeff. I'm sorry, but if I knew ahead
of time that there were people with psychiatric problems or
mental health issues guiding my plane in for a landing
or taking off. Knowing how stressful that job is, I
don't think I would get on that flight. What say you?

(09:47):
I swear to you not only do I agree with you,
Mark a thousand percent. Had I known that the FAA
had those so called hiring quotas with intellectual disabilities, people
with you know law, I mean you're going for with epilepsy,
people with psychiatric problems, I never would have flown. I

(10:13):
swear to you. I beg Now I'll drive well, Jeff,
I take you forever. At least I'll get there in
one piece. Man. I swear I would not have flown
had I known, I would not have flown six one
seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Eric again on fire. I gotta tell you this audience
is killing it. Uh. This is Eric on messenger, Jeff.
The problem with the Democrat Party's DEI program is that
it's always trying to fit the square peg into the
round hole. And I am pissed that people had to

(10:50):
die to prove it. Next time I get surgery for anything,
I'm going to ask can I have a doctor that
has hand tremored because I'm a liberal? I mean, that's
really that's that's what that's what they're basically asking for.
You know, are you blind? Yeah? Perfect, We want you

(11:12):
as the heart surgeon. Hold on your hands shake like
like me for example. Okay, I just I don't know.
My hand's always shake. I've always I don't know why
they just do. And you know, like one of one
member in our family said, hey, you know, I want
to be a doctor, maybe a surgeon. I said, I
could never do that job. Why, I said, look at
my hands. I don't know if it's just too much

(11:33):
caffeine or but I just my hands shake. I could
never be a surgeon. Here, you're crazy if you hire
me as a surgeon. They turned our skies and our
planes into social engineering experiments. That's what they did under
that DEI Transportation Secretary Pete Budagig. And it came back

(11:57):
to hunt us six one two six six sixty eight
sixty eight is the number? Agree disagree? Gina in West Roxbury.
Thanks for holding Gina.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
And welcome doctor Gina.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
I want how are you hi?

Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'm good, but upset. I wanted to raise some psychological
issues as it pertains to this situation. Yes, yes, I
agree with you, that absolutely merit. I don't care what
the job is. And I knew about this hiring a
plan of the by the FAA a long time ago.
I remember hearing it on the radio. I don't remember
what you always listening to, but the limitations that they

(12:39):
were accepting as being okay for the job. I almost
jumped through the roof a couple of things. Just from
a psychological standpoint before this incident, Schumer is already talking
about impeachment. Just the day before this incident, there was
a near miss in the same corridor. When I saw

(13:03):
the President come out and make his statement, I felt
such compassion for him. I thought he was going to
burst into tears. So there's a lot of stress on
him as he's talking. I think one of the mistakes
he makes is he assumes his audience can fully understand
what he's saying. The problem is with his audience, the
journalistic audience. They are sitting there waiting for a getcha,

(13:24):
and when they heard DEI, they launched on. They were triggered.
I hate that word, but they launched on that word.
They no longer heard the rest of what he was saying.
I think he could have been a little more clear
when he used the concept of dei. He wasn't talking
about the particulars of the pilots in either of the planes.
It was the situation. But if the media had the

(13:45):
ability to open their ears and hear what he was saying,
they would realize that he was talking about the systemic
problem in the FAA, the chronic underemployment. There was no
I mean low staffing. The staffing problem didn't just stop
the day of the accident. The staffing problem has been

(14:07):
on the books for a long time. And have people
have notified the you know, the ones in the higher
US in the FAA, the employees, external sources coming up
and making reports and Buddhaje Edge and Biden and whoever
was the Biden machinery running the show did absolutely nothing.
Before he even took the podium, the media was always

(14:32):
already talking about the fact that it was his fault.
So he's walking into a situation where he has to
he wants to be compassionate, which he was. He held
it together. I was impressed with that. And he's also
trying to address the delicate issue of DEI and raise
that stake that you have to look at the whole picture.
It's not just this accident. And I don't care if

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both pilots in both planes were the best, the smartest,
the brightest, the most capable, the most flexible, they were
working in an environment where why don't you cut the
legs out from under them. You can be perfectly prepared,
perfectly capable, perfectly flexible, perfectly psychologically intact. But if you
put it in an environment where the whole environment is

(15:15):
set up for failure, there's going to be failure. When
nineteen people are supposed to be in that tower and
eleven people are there, that means that everybody is making
up for the loss of the other staff.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
You nailed it. No, now you nailed it. Look you're
on fire. I'm telling you you're on fire. And I
agree with you Again, I said, I don't want to
seem like I'm splitting hairs or nitpicking, but that's the
only thing. I said. Mmm, Look, he's talking about the
culture at the FAA, Okay, the larger culture, and he goes,
that's DEI and it corrupted the whole thing. And he's right,

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But we don't know if the specific area or the
controller or the pilot were DEI hires. So they pounced
on that that that he didn't make quite make that distinction.
Now you got what he was saying. I got what
he was saying. Most people did, but the media pounced
over that. And I just want to read this to you, Gina, okay,

(16:11):
because you are you're a psychiatrist, correct, yes, okay, so
our resident psychiatrist of Kooner Country. This is from the
New York Post, just so that people know where my
you know where I'm citing January fourteenth, twenty twenty four,
so this is over a year ago. Okay. The Federal

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Aviation Administration is now actively recruiting workers based on a
new diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the
agency's website. And I want to read it. Quote. Targeted
disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government, as a

(16:54):
matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment
and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis,
complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism

(17:22):
for air traffic controllers, Doctor Gina final word to you.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
They's best employee would.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Be six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty
eight is the number. Okay, just to reinforce what doctor
Gina in West Roxbury said, this is now being reported.
So the day before that fatal crash at Reagan National Airport,
just one day before, another American Airlines flight listen to this,

(17:56):
this one coming in from Connecticut en route to Reagan
National Airport was forced to abort its landing. Why because
they due to a helicopter. So apparently now they were
forced to loop around after a helicopter crossed its flight

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path near Reagan Airport on Tuesday evening, about twenty four
hours before what that fatal crash just before Reagan National
Airport by American Airlines from Wichita, Kansas. So they have
they almost had a crash and a collision the day before.
So clearly there's something going on at Reagan National. And

(18:42):
I think it's pretty obvious they were understaffed at the
at the air traffic control tower. They didn't have enough people,
probably overworked, right, you know, long hours, exhausted, stretched too thin,
and they were just making mistake after mistake. And let
me just throw this log on the fire. Why do

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we have military helicopters crisscrossing airports, especially the one at Reagan.
Really like Reagan Airport. I've taken it. I've flown in
and out of Reagan, you know, many times when I
was overseeing the White House congressional coverage at the Washington Times.

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That was my favorite airport, especially when I go up
to Montreal to visit my parents and you know, and
see them, especially when they were sick. So I can't
tell you how many times I've come in and out
of Reagan. It's a very compact airspace around Reagan. It's
a very congested air space. There's a lot of planes,

(19:48):
and you see helicopters all the time all the time. Now,
I get it, they're flying military brass to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon is nearby. You've got Marine one as well.
They're flying military leaders for them to give briefings. I understand,
But what's wrong with taking a car? I mean, I'm

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just saying. I mean, it seems to me, when you
got that much commercial air traffic coming into that airport,
why do you need to, you know, clutter the skies
with helicopters and as Larry and Lemonster and others have
been telling me, you look at Blackhawk helicopters in particular,
they can't see above them very well. In other words,

(20:36):
their range of vision is a tad limited by the
nature of the helicopter. And so you're going to add
that to already one of the most highly congested air
traffic zones or areas in the entire world. And as
I said on Irish radio yesterday, and I want to

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repeat it, the problem is we keep putting profits before people.
It's time we start putting people before profits. And you
know me, I'm a big free market guy, love capitalism,
nothing wrong with making a profit, but when you're dealing
with people's lives, there's why not take Dulles Airport. There's

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another major airport, Dulles. I also used to go through
Dulles forty five minutes away, but more people. But people
don't want to go to Dulles. And so that's why
they kept diverting more and more flights to Reagan. Why
because Reagan is closer, Reagan is more convenient, Reagan frankly
is cheaper.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
No.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
I understand, yeah, only long term flights fly out of Dallas.
But what I'm just saying is you know they're in
other words, they were putting. They're diverting more and more
flights to Reagan because it saves you money. You don't
have to drive, as it's cheaper. It's much more convenient obviously,
because you're much closer to the city than you are

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in Dulles. And if Reagan can't handle all that congestion,
can build another airport. But to just keep packing more
planes and more planes and more planes, and then adding
more and more helicopters. Leave aside the air traffic control
issue for a second. There's only so much space. Look

(22:34):
in the end, I think Trump was right. This was
a confluence of forces and a confluence of bad decisions. Agree,
disagree six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Rick in Quinsy, Thanks for holding Rick, and welcome. Hello,

(22:58):
you're on the air.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Go ahead, Yeah, sorry, Jeff. Can I identify the people
behind the scenes, you know, before before World War three starts,
just because that's going to be a very very frightening distraction,
So we must identify the enemy. And can I please
identify the enemy?

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Rick, I don't mind, but what does this have to
do with the crash?

Speaker 5 (23:25):
These are the people behind this DEI.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh go ahead, okay, yeah, please, yeah, go ahead, Rick, Yes,
please go go.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Go Blackrock, Van God and State Street.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, yeah, they were aggressively pushing the no question, absolutely
no question, and they're some of the most powerful corporations
and globalists in the entire world, with very deep pockets
and tentacles that reach way into the Democratic Party, way
into the political establishment. You're completely right, Rick, Rick, I'm

(23:59):
just curious. Yes, do you think Trump is right when
he says DEEI played a key role, an important role
in this collision and this crash.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Always spoad on because he speaks to gods are his truth,
and that's a fact. And these people that don't want
to seek facts to tell with them because your facts,
you know, facts, don't care about your fieldings and Bootah
edge age and people like that. They're just the symptom
of this disease because they've been elevated on purpose to

(24:36):
do these things. And whether wittingly or unwittingly, they're all
guilty as hell.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Rick, I can't disagree with you. I think you're hit
the nail right on the head. Rick, Thank you very
very much for that call. I really appreciated. Six one, seven, two, six, six,
sixty eight, sixty eight is the number. No, this is
I don't know. This is what I just find a
little bit disconcerting. Is anybody going to be held accountable

(25:06):
for this? Sixty seven people are dead, sixty seven people,
three warriors, sixty four passengers, fourteen members of the US
ice skating team or community. And you know, as Grace

(25:26):
said to me last night over dinner, and she's very
upset about this. Really, I mean hot, hot, hot under
the collar. And by the way, she loved Trump's presser completely,
she said, she goes one of his best moments. Why
because the country needs to be reassured. And that's what

(25:47):
he did. That's why he went up and say, listen, look,
we're gonna get rid of DEI. We're going to make
this a merit based Federal Aviation Administration, everything in the government.
But I'm talking about the the airplanes, the pilots, the
air traffic controllers, the staff, everybody. I want to reassure you,
we're gonna only keep the best. We're only going to

(26:08):
hire the best, period, So don't be afraid to fly.
Because the public needed to be reassured, and Trump reassured
the public. But you know, she made a very you know,
very good point to me. Look, I'm not diminishing, she says,
anybody that died, please, no, life is more important than
the other. But you know what a beautiful art figure

(26:29):
skating is, truly, and you know ice figure skating, and
and you know how many years of effort it takes
to pull off that kind of beauty and artistry on ice,
and what a beautiful gift it is to people who
watch it. And to just see fourteen of them gone,

(26:55):
gone like this, in their prime gone, And as I
said earlier, six of them our own from Massachusetts Skating
Club of Boston. They lived a couple towns away from
me in Norwood. Two coaches, by the way, world renowned coaches.

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Two teen skaters, phenomenal, beautiful, talented skaters in their prime,
and their mothers. And you're just gonna we're just gonna
stand there and say, well, you know, hey, mistakes happen, Hey,
hey they had a bad night. What can you do?

(27:38):
You know? Or if you're the bill in Sudbury, you know,
and the left, these idiots on social media, impeach Trump,
blame Trump. So that's it now, We're just gonna blame Trump.
That's your solution to everything. More hate, more Trump arrangement syndrome.
How does this happen? I'm sorry? How does this happen?

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How does a military helicopter, a black Hawk, be on
the very same altitude and elevation as a commercial jetliner
the American Airlines on a glide path to land? I'm sorry?
How the aff forgive me? How the blank does this happen?
All right to me? I just this is inexcusable. Now,

(28:27):
I'm sorry. Man, heads need to roll or am I wrong?
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Now, look to be fair, to be fair,
and this is a very important point. There are forty
thousand flights in the United States a day a day,

(28:52):
forty thousand a day. Two point nine million Americans fly
every single day. Two point nine. Let's not quibble, okay,
three million, forty thousand flights a day, three million Americans
flying every single day. You know, that's a lot of

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air traffic. That's a lot of people flying. That's a
lot of planes in the sky. So when everything is
said and done, and this needs you know, this needs
there to you know, this needs You need to be reminded.
People need to be reminded of this. Crashes are really rare.

(29:35):
They're incredibly rare. I mean it's it's almost a miracle
that we don't have more accidents. Forty thousand flights a day,
three million Americans every single day are flying. But still
when you look at this particular tragedy, I mean, it
was so avoidable, it was so preventable, and to me,

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there's no question it was duty incompetence and error. And
that the Democrats are trying to turn this into blaming Trump,
that the media are trying to turn this into blaming Trump,
as they're still pulling bodies out of the Potomac with
family members now waiting to see if their loved ones

(30:22):
may have survived. It's beyond disgusting. It's beyond disgusting. Eight
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Speaker 8 (30:50):
What gets me with these liberals like Selena Gomez is
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I didn't see any tears when three hundred thousand illegal
children went missing. I didn't see any tears. You know,
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All these tears for criminals getting hauled out of here
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(31:35):
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You've destroyed these people's lives by inviting them to come here.
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pardoning January sixth people than they are at the murderers, rapists,
and child lessers that have been allowed to come into

(31:56):
this country. I'm glad we're coming out of bizarro world.
But I still think we're kind of there.

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seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. So let
me ask you, who do you think is ultimately responsible
for that deadly plane crash near Reagan Airport? Trump says,
DEI played a role. Do you agree? And he says
in many ways? Look at Biden, look at Budajig. Do

(33:12):
you agree with the president? Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight? And should heads roll? Should
people be fired? Should people be held accountable? And liberals
are blaming Trump for what happened? Do you think they

(33:33):
have a point or do you think this is more
insane Trump derangement syndrome lines are loaded. Nick in Weymouth,
Thanks for holding Nick, and welcome.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
So it's Trump's fauld He's let me see several weeks
on the job. Now. This is what the word they
love to use, systemic. This is a systemic problem created
by the liberals over a number of years. Uh, you
hit it right on the head. And Trump, I'm sorry
when you said the military stuff, well, training, training, flight

(34:13):
in the midst of that kind of traffic. No, you
do that someplace else. It's obvious it's a no no
because look what just happened, right, Yeah, it's a chance
of the billion, chance of the million. But it happened
and it can happen again. So now, whoever got together
from the FAA and the military people and the local
government people to allow something like that, they are the

(34:36):
problem people that made those decisions. Also too, we do
not have the complete dialogue, correct me? I from Wrung
Jeff of the air traffic controller. Yeah, I heard that
technical jargon where they surrounder control to the helicopter. I
don't think they should have surrounded control whatsoever. That should
have been anticipated. They had the hardware, they had the software.

(34:59):
For god sakes, the computers are telling them what to do, right,
the computers, it's not AI in a sense, it's somewhat
is obviously, but it's telling they're the ones that should
be controlling control. I heard some expert on Fox and
what's kind of like trying to get on the insiex

(35:20):
Ara at craft expert. It's trying to You're trying to
get on to an exit or ramp or entrance ramp
in the highway. They get on, you're getting off, and
unfortunately there's like human error. Yeah, unfortunately, there's no There
are no highway controllers, are there, right, That's why they
have them at the airport. So I think in that
sense they should have kept their control and told them

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what to do. The other thing is it is systemic.
It is a huge problem. The deficiencies of the hiring
speak for themselves. So it's as Trump would say, it's
it's common sense, and I wish people would pay attention
to that. Hey, Jeff, thank you for your time.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Thank you. Nick. Look, I agree with you on every count.
I completely agree with you. And look, I'm sorry, but
my blood is boiling over this because there's sixty seven
people dead that should not There's no need for this.
And in the end, what do they die for? So
liberals can feel good about themselves. No, really, so they

(36:21):
can stand back and say, yeah, even people with epilepsy
now can be air traffic controllers. Even people with severe
psychiatric problems are severe intellectual disabilities. Yeah, you can be
an air traffic controller too. You know, as Sandy said
to me in our pre show meeting, you know, she says,

(36:41):
I you know, Sandy has dyslexia. She goes, I can't
be a surgeon. I mean, I'm just sorry. There's people
have certain conditions that prevent them from doing certain occupations.
That's just life. I'm sorry. Well it's not fair. Well,
I'm sorry, life is not fair. I A don't whate
else to tell you. And as Sandy said, look, you
don't want me operating on your heart because I'm dyslexic.

(37:04):
Do you understand That's why I can't certain professions. You know,
I want it to be a surgeon, but I just
I can't. I got to do something else. And you know,
she's a lawyer, she's a radio show producer, you know,
And so what I'm saying is you know the expression
life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That's that's life.

(37:26):
So you know, I'm sorry. You know i'm blind. Well,
you can't be an eye doctor. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
That's just life. Doesn't mean you're a bad person, doesn't
mean you're an inferior person. It just means for certain
occupations and certain jobs. No, the answer is no. Here
I want to be. You know, let's say, cooner man.

(37:48):
You want to be a you know, a disc jockey.
You know, I love horses. I want to ride horses.
I want to ride horses competitively. Well, are you like
four nine four ten and about oh eighty pounds? Well no,
I'm six foot three and a half and two sixty. Well, buddy,
I don't care if you're six foot three and two hundred.

(38:10):
I don't care if you starve yourself. You're too big,
you're too tall. Period. You want to be a competitive
horse jockey, you gotta be short and thin. Period. That's
the qualification. I'm sorry, man, live with it. And now
it's gotten to the point, I mean, this is absurd.

(38:32):
I mean, this is this is a spoof. This is
not of Paul Potts, Cambodia, really where you're like, so
hold on. People with severe this is literally people literally
from the FAA's website. People with severe intellectual disability, people
with severe psychiatric problems. They've lost limbs, they suffer from

(39:00):
epilepsy seizures like a holy mackerel. And you say, and
we're aggressively targeting them, like in other words, we want them,
and we want them bad. Only Pete Budagig, only Joe Biden,
only a crazy woke liberal. And they put it up

(39:24):
on the FAA's website. They're playing with our lives and
they're doing it in medical schools. Doctors tell me this
all the time. They go, Jeff, you don't understand. They
are dropping standards and dropping standards and dropping standards in

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the name of diversity because they got to hit quotas.
And I'm telling you the go we're turning out in
any doctors that are not qualified