Skywest close call with Alex Stone from ABC News

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alex Stone.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Alex Stone, ABC News is joining us now, Alex she
had a petticure before.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
No, never happened. Now hold on.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Now, hold on a second. Now, wait a minute, everybody
calmed down a second. Now I talked about it, I
was said at last hour on the air. I went
over the weekend with my wife. We we had petticures. Now,
the first time I had when was last year? Now
I made it fifty five years.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
We're talking feet right, not hands.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, manicure, manicure okay, yeah, so manny petties as you
hear webe.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Cures are okay. We learned that with Barbara Eaton in
Mayberry many years ago. Those are okay.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I never had one of those either, But go on,
I never had a manicure because I bite my nails.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've never man is in it is why? Well yeah no,
but I it's like I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I don't really there's not much for them to do
to my to my nails on my hands. But last
year Alex in we went when we went to Mexico,
first time ever. She talked me into it. We did it,
and I was like, wow, this was really I was
like hmm. And so We're headed for the beach this weekend.
We're leaving and I was like, do you want it?

(01:03):
Women always like to do they go get their toes
done and they're you know, And I said, do you
want to get you know, pedicures? And I you know,
and she was like, are you serious. I guess She's like, yeah,
there's a place.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
By her work that she goes to.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
So we went in there and it was fantastic, and
I was talking about it last hour.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Boom. You should have seen the phones explode. Alex. People
are like calling in and because.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
They were shocked that you had done it, or because
everybody's done it.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
They were supportive.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
They were saying, we had a seventy our first call,
I'm a seventy year old farmer and I've been getting
pedicures for as long.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
As I so.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And then they started getting older. The next caller was
seventy three. Then the next guy was sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
These are people who get pedicures on a normal basis.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Letting the combine run over your feet now and then
it's not getting a pedicure.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I want to tell you, guys live in California saying
all this, this is like backward stuff. It's you know
that you guys are you're gonna tell me you drink
your wheat grass and you're these and get your pedicures.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, let's not get crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
To be fair, Alex, I let only the people supporting
blazer on.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I didn't want him to.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
God love you, God love your Zach attack that very much,
thank you. Let me tell you something, Alex. Your Ali
I know is your wife.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I believe Alison, she would lose her mind if you
were like, you know, hey, do you want to go
get pedicures? And look I talked to you into fire,
you know the Jack Daniels.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
That's true, that's true. Your suggestions are usually very good.
Last night I was trying to get my neighbor into
jack Fire and he wouldn't do it, so we drink
beer instead. But but yes, you're probably right. She would
be excited about that.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
She would probably she'd actually.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Look at me weird for a few minutes and then yeah, okay,
yeah we could do it.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
And then you could just go, look, I got a
guy and look, once upon a time you could just say, hey,
one of the guys I do air hits with, like
he's yeah, she knows who you are once upon a time, Alex,
I actually used to bench four oh five, no, no joke,
and I did it drug free. And you could just
be like, this guy used to go to the gym
and he's you know, he's one of those you know,

(03:06):
chrow magnum guys. He's like a he's like a cave
man and he goes and he gets his toes done
or whatever, and so I don't know, man, that's you
could just be like he's rubbing off on me for
whatever reason.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
So but see, I'm also not somebody who goes. Do
you get massages too?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Absolutely, I've had not a massage guy either. Oh yeah,
it's weird to me. I'm like, no, thanks, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Because I brought that up on the air too.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I go in Vegas, man, I've had fifty one hundred
massages there or more. I mean, I get him multiple
times every time I'm there.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Alex and I are probably thinking the same thing though.
Having some stranger touch your body is just a weird thing.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
But they make you feel like the girl. And that's
and I said, I I don't like, I don't get
male texts.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I have to have a female tech. But it's not sexual.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm telling you, I'm at this point now.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
A Cold Play concert said that, Yeah, I think he's
over explaining this now.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
But but I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
While I'm doing this is there are guys that are
probably on the fence listening right now, and they're going, man,
I'm afraid what if I get excited Blazer when I
have a you know, a strange woman.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Tumbles retreat the movie, Oh.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, that's hilarious. Man, that's really funny.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Not like that, no, no, but but the thing is
too like the women that do this and I and
I'll be honest, I've never had a smoke show walk
in the room and get and be like okay, here
we go, and I have no clothes on, and I'm like,
have a sheet over me, going hold on, please know,
you know, like the obvious thinking there, But I've never

(04:38):
had that happen.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I've had But they make you feel comfortable. They really do.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's not like you're not laying there like, well, I
don't know what this is, but you know what, I
talk for a living, so I can talk to anybody,
and I really I sit there, I black, but the
whole time that she's doing it, and usually man we've
I've had met some of the coolest people by by
the by the way with that, like we'll have like
huge things in common. Like the last couple of times

(05:04):
I've been there, they're actually these girls.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
The one start talking about how she's a Trump supporter,
and I was just like, what you know, And I
couldn't believe.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
But I could say, it's like doing your talk show
right now. It was crassage.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's it. My life is so unbalanced.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
So if I could say, hey, queen, let's go get
a couple's massage, we would go. We would get on
the table, she would go, oh, that feels so good,
and the woman would come in and come near me,
get get away from him. That's how I get.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Now we've done that where my wife and I've been
couples right in the same room.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
And then she'll have a female tech too. But she's
never been that way, you.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Know, some old, ugly ninety five year old woman with
one tooth in her head, award on her nose. Her
name's Brunehilda, and she would so get away from.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh geez, well, I'm I'm you know, twenty six years
in with my wife, twenty one married and dated for
five she's comfortable with with all that. Plus she's laying
right there too, so you know, I don't know anyway, sorry, Alex,
You're like, okay.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh no, this is fascinating. We've only done one couple's massage.
It was on our honeymoon, and I remember the whole
time being like, this is weird. All right, this is weird,
not being as a couple getting the massage, just getting
the massage.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I'm just not a massage guy.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
What was it a female that was?

Speaker 5 (06:15):
It was?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, you got it. That's it.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
There's some people there that, man, they're hardwired. Your DNA
will not let you relax in that setting. And yeah,
and I love to get the Oh my gosh, that's
my favorite thing in Las Vegas, besides winning thousands of dollars.
But yeah, sure, I mean that's right there. I mean
I schedule at least one every time I'm there. And
you know, getting them comped really helps to if you

(06:41):
can do that, because man, they're like two fifty there.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Or more expensive. Oh yeah, Pretty Vegas hotel.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, pretty crazy, Yeah exactly, But man, they have all
of the people there, know, they're so good at what
they do. That's what I really strongly suggest if you're
going to do that for the first time, you go
somewhere like Vegas where they got the best of the
best working in those places. They know exactly how to
maneuver around and keep it very very you know.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Above board, nothing sexual going on. It's very very It's
so relaxing.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
But anyway, all right, so how about this Delta plane
getting close to the Air Force bomber and then Alaska Airlines. Man,
there's this is never a good time for airlines to
have problems, but man, in the summer season, it seems like,
you know, business is elevated.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
So never they're busy and everything else.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
So yeah, on the Delta flight, it was a Delta
Airlines flight from Minneapolis to my not North Dakota being
operated by sky West, so technically a sky West plane.
It was painted, you know, Delta, and everybody was on
a Delta ticket. But they were lined up to land
and then the plane took an evasive maneuver to the right,
and on board passengers and they didn't know what was
going on. They knew that the pilots were doing something,

(07:46):
turning abruptly. They felt the plane turning. This woman was
on board, All of a sudden, we just.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Kind of jerk really hard to the right.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's kept taking more turns and more turns, and he
gets on the announcement and says like, I'm sorry everybody,
I'll explain everything once we've landed safely, which was like
kind of a red flag.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
So the pilot came on and in a lot of details,
so much so that it probably could get him in
trouble that he it said so much when they landed,
explaining every little thing to then, where the passengers on
board cheered for the pilot, he explained that as they
were landing that all of a sudden that he could
see a B fifty two bomber that was right on them,
and he took evasive action. We don't know how close

(08:23):
they got because the military aircraft doesn't appear on public
radar on the sites that we can go to to
do the calculations on how close they were, but the
pilot felt like he had to change course real quick
and make that move. Afterwards, he was telling everybody on
board sorry about.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
The resslive maneuver and coffee by surprises and not normal
at all.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
The not normal at all the military says, yeah, one
of it's B fifty twos was doing a flyover at
the state fair around that same time, and the fair
grounds are right there the tower and min Not is
staffed by private contractors and not the FAA. Not clear
why the pilots weren't told about the B fifty two
in the area. Miy NOT is what's called Class D airspace.
That means no radar. Everybody flies under visual flight rules,

(09:03):
so there's just a lot going on. Jeffery Needles and
former fighter pilots, Yeah, it's a problem.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
So I think that one of.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
The main things that they're going to look at is
the interplay and the sharing of communications between these organizations.
It's absolutely correct that everybody should have been on the
same page, but clearly there was a lapse in what
was passed off.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
And right now we're only getting one side of the
story from the Delta the sky West pilot, because we
don't know exactly how close they got did was his
perception of it different than what reality was. We don't
know the other thing that went on though, over at
Alaska Airlines, which you don't think of Alaska as being
that big, but they're now the fifth largest airline in
the US as a while back bought up Virgin America

(09:43):
and they more recently acquired Hawaiian Airlines. But last night
it was a mess. Wasn't initially clear why Alaska was
doing a full groundstop on all of its flights. They
say today was not a cyber attack. It was not
ransomware or anything like that, but they had a hardware
issue piece of hardware and their system that runs all
their computers that it went down. Planes that were in

(10:04):
the air they were fine because they already had their
flight plans and they were talking to air traffic control.
But those on the ground were stuck. Last night, they
canceled around one hundred and fifty flights. Today around ninety
more two hundred and thirty three delayed, and it's going
to take a while to get their planes and crews
where they need to be, get passengers out where they
need to be. People were stuck on planes for like

(10:25):
four and five hours last night trying to figure out
what they were going to do.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
So it was a big mess.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
What a nightmare I'm hearing like with regard to that,
I feel so bad for those people, man who are trapped.
But you know, with it being not safe, you gotta
make sure that you know, what's even worse than being
delayed or trapped, is.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know, dying in the air.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Oh yeah, it's all about safety.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, no question, all right, Alex Stone, ABC News. Alex,
thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thanks to see it.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Man.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
My sister just came back, her and her husband other
in law. They just came back from Europe. They were
on a really long cruise where they were literally it
was like a European cruise, and coming back was a
night mayre, I mean to the point where they got diverted.
My sister ended up finding somehow were they and I

(11:17):
my mom was telling me this.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I haven't spoken to her since she's been back, but
I do know.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
They were traveling all night, so on and so forth,
and they ended up finding a flight somehow from where
they were to Cleveland. They took an uber from Cleveland
to Columbus. Wow, that's how desperate they were to get home.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
At this point it was about five hundred bucks to
get it.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Was a couple hundred dollars. Yeah, it was a couple
one hundred.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
And they the guy that they ended up enlisting. It
was like four am. They're in Cleveland. This guy said, yes,
I can take you to Columbus. He lives here, and
somehow he was in Cleveland coming back four in the
morning and said, yeah, I can take you. Because they
were like, listen, it's one way. We're not paying your
round trip to go back to Cleveland and all that,

(12:00):
he said, no, I I yes, it's I live in Columbus.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
I can just take you. And it still is a
couple of hundred dollars. You know.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Once I had a van breakdown in Kentucky and a
tow truck pulled over at the side of the road
and I said, man, I don't know what I'm but
TRIPA only covers me one hundred miles. He goes, where
is I said, Columbus. He goes, I'm headed there now.
My brother's got to shop up there. I'm going up
to help him.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
What are the odds?

Speaker 4 (12:23):
I mean you that right there? That was that was
a miraculous event. So yeah, for like seventy five bucks,
he told me from Columbus, what or back to Columbus
from Kentucky?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Holy cow, that is huge. Seventy five dollars. Yeah, what
a deal, holy cow.