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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the attack of the Wendy's bacon eat or cheese.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's now all.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Three of us have like a little serving of it now,
and I, you know, we're coming back from we're in
the break, and I was just like, uh, hey, Zach,
you want something.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
He's like, yeah, I have some of those. So I
just gave you some too, Chuck, because.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I know you're I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You're in maintenance.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I know you like those before, right, I mean you
it's not like you're like, oh and Alex Stone's joining
us now ABC News and.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Confused by these things? So where do you buy them?
Is this from Wendy's or like, this is a flavor
that you buy?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
I was at Kroger.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I was at Kroger and it was like an end
cap display. Now this was a couple of weeks ago
and I saw it and it's got the Wendy's logo
on it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know, it's a cheese it it's a box of cheese.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's yeah, and like you would buy wherever what do
you have there? When Dixie like, what do you have?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
We have?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Craws Well, Kroger, here is Ralph's and then Safeway here
is Vond's the Albertson's Safe company.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So that's that's most of That's pretty That's a weird
name for a grocery store. Anyway, Ralph's. I feel like
I should buy carpet from Ralph.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That's the Kroger brand. Here, it's you know, like Kings
and Colorado. Here it's Ralph's.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, we just we All we did was we contributed
hugely to publics and the whole like environment in the
south of Jacksonville area.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We were in.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Florida for the whole week, but we went to Publics.
We probably spent four hundred dollars there all week. It
was crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, public So I love that Kroger too, right, Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is it okay?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I want to go down south to go to a
Pigley Wiggly. Oh yeah, just because of the name to
Pigley Wiggly. I just want to buy something at Bigley Wigglely.
So I exanded it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So anyway, it's just a box of cheese. It's they
are the Wendy's bacon eat or flavor. Now, I don't
know if they had they must not have them there
in the La Area, but they they had them here,
and you know, Jenny and I were at the store
and I go, oh, I'm getting those.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We're too driving those on the air.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
So we probably do have them here. I don't. I
just haven't seen them.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I don't think I've been in a grocery store for
you know, my wife will go and do shopping oh Osco,
but i've been I haven't been in the regular grocery
store and probably I don't know, a month or so,
so we probably do have.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh man, and they're they're damn good. Alex, by the way,
I mean, I love cheese. It's it's a nice little
smack and they're not real greasy and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It tastes like a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's no, not really. You guys even think that. You
tell me what you think.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
We've got the underlying bacon. You can taste that. But
I don't taste bacon eater, per se. I just there's
an underlying bacon.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Right, whatever taste of a bacon eater is. But yeah,
I guess it's the beef that's kind of missing.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Where's the beef?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And I don't know that I would want to cheese
it that tastes like beef. I that have the weirdest.
It is weird, isn't it. It's very odd.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I think we've been talking about whether there's a beef
flavor and a cheese it today. Yeah, because don't they
Wendy's has right now the one where they put the
like cheetos on it, right, Yeah, the takis or whatever
it is that that are on the burger. So that's
what I thought you were talking about at the beginning,
that these are like what they put on the burger.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now, No, but that's a good idea to put these,
doesn't half bad?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I know, because I like crunch in the middle of that.
So like if you bite into a soft bun and
you got the the beat, the rich taste of the
burger and all of that stuff, but then a crunch
in there where a few of these are in.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Now I'm now I'm looking hang on.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It looks like they're beginning to go to their like
Halloween food now, so everything's going. Oh, because of Wednesdays,
they're doing Wednesdays by Wendy's. You know that new the
show Wednesdays, Yeah, the Adams Family. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so everything is purple. Now they're doing uh those Oh yeah,
they've got the takis fuego burger like the Crunchy talkies
on there.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yep, I saw those when we were traveling. We went
to stop that a Wendy's to get.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Chili Raven's Blood Frosty. That's part of the like Halloween
Wednesday kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Wait, it's too early for Halloween. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No, oh well, I mean everything's starting to go. We
had the other day, you know those pretzel thins that
you know, the really thin pretzels that yes, yeah, that,
we had the pumpkin flavored ones where they're like dipped
in this like pumpkin cream. They're incredible with the saltiness
of the pretzel. And then yeah, my wife brought them
home from Sam's Club the other day.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
They're in icing coating or yeah, kind of. They're pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You probably needed to help her bring in that size
of if she got them from Costco, because they.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
When you buy it already gone. We ate them. They
were the for I finished them last night.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well here's my point with that comment.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean you hadn't tried those yet and she bought
like you never you can't buy just a little bit
of anything unless they had like a sample or something.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But our family pretty much anything pumpkin we're gonna be
good with. Okay, she made pumpkin bread this morning. We're
like already all in. It's August. Let's go, it's fall,
the kids are going back to school. Let's get right
into it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Even though it's a hundred there you hear from a
California person, it really is, because I mean, I just
don't picture California being, oh, it's autumn, you know the.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh, well, it may not feel like if you just
pump up the air conditioning and then you feel like
you're freezing inside and it's fall. Halloween and Disneyland begins
in like two and a half more weeks, and in
Florida they started in the end of July, the Halloween
time at disney World. Oh so yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
We're getting into it. It's it's pumpkin time. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We were about an hour and a half from there.
It is.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We're about an hour and a half hour forty five
from Disney World. When we were down there, and we
did not go, but we had so much going on,
and we paid a gajillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
For this house we were in. I'm like, we're staying
here and you're gonna enjoy the Atlantic. That's how this is.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
We're not going there to spend another thousand, you know
or whatever just to get in and my kids have
been there a million times anyway, But we contemplated it.
But I was gonna be like, let me hit up
Alex and see on a guest list or something.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Maybe maybe down.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There nor yeah, I know, but anyway, okay, so you know,
Chuck and I kind of hit this a little bit
before at the top of the hour when I was
setting up what you were coming on for this, you know,
the glitch that happened and all that. It's just like
Chuck brings up that which one was It as like
a floppy disc.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was like the US airports that are still out
there using old Doss machines and three point five inch
floppy disc and things. The antiquated technology in the airline
industry is terrible.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In some spots, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It's almost like using a you know, I still got
an iPhone too, this will work right, yeah, kind of well.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
The FAA, Yeah, I think there are the ones that's
still in some cases are using floppy discs. But the
airlines remember when Southwest had their big melt down and
then it turned out that they had a system that
was way outdated for what they were doing, and it
took them forever to come around. So the other airline's
been really worried about that and they've been updating a
lot of their systems and that has created some of
these crashes that have gone on. The last airlines had
(06:56):
one maybe two weeks ago, and that came back to
the day were upgrading their system and then it went down.
And Hawaiian Airlines was actually which is now owned by Alaska.
They had a cyber attack, so they had their problems.
But other airlines have been trying to upgrade and then
they have them go down with The good news is
this was relatively short lived for United last night, but
it was a computer problem. All of their flights worldwide
(07:19):
were grounded that were not already in the air. But
the damage was done and it turned into hundreds of
delays and cancelations last night and again today, pilots telling
passengers they were going to be stuck for a while.
This was on board one flight.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I apologize I'm going to turn off the seatbelt sign if.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You need to get up, just as stretcher legs or something.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It might be a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm guessing it's going to be at least that power.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It was more than a few minutes. It went on
for a few hours. United has the most canceled flights
of an airline in the world again today as they
tried to clean this up, one hundred and sixty two
canceled flights. Over four hundred and more of there are
delayed Denver, Chicago, Houston, their big hubs feeling most the impact.
But it went on for a while, and pilots didn't
immediately know what was going on. And this was from
air traffic control radio.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So we're having a bunch of issues right now.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And on the ground, planes couldn't go anywhere, those coming
in couldn't the plane because there were planes already at
the gates that couldn't leave, and United saying it was
a computer system called Unimatic, which houses the data for
weight and balance on a plane and flight times, and
it feeds all that into other systems that need to
use it. So on the ground, people were stuck like
(08:26):
this guy.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Like the first hour.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There's a few people like that were already sending up
and like just walking around the cabin because there was nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Else to do. I mean, I got on Netflix. Is
like it was just that mainly, and others were stuck
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah they're being nice, but there's nothing like the flight
attents or anyone on the plane could really do about it.
So it's like, but they were like supplying us and
like just like trying to keep us.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It just seemed like they didn't really know what was
going on either, and they didn't know, I mean really
what it was in the moment. But United says they
are treating this as a controllable delay, which they don't
really have to. But I think United's learned its pr
lessons over the years of how quickly things can go
really bad. So they paid for hotels and meals for
everybody who was impacted, and it was resolved in a
(09:11):
few hours. Never impacted the United Express regional flights, just
the mainline planes, And so today they're trying to get
the planes where they need to be, the passengers where
they're supposed to be, the crews where they need to
be to get everything going again. But about two weeks
ago they had a computer failure that did it may
have been the same system, but to the grounded flights
for maybe a half an hour or so. I was
(09:32):
actually stuck at the San Francisco Airport during that. And
then United got things rolling, so they're updating some systems.
Seems to be some growing pains in that, but they're
back to normal today, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And then when you start also thinking about the you know,
the age of a pilot that they have to retire
at the age of sixty five.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I was hearing there's going to be legislature and.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Introduced that will allow them to continue working because we
know the shortage that's happening now where these planes and
you see it, Man, you have a front row seat
going into lax the busiest, if not well one of
easily the busiest airport's not just in the US but
in the world for that matter. But you you have
people probably you know, they say try to book the
(10:17):
first flight out because you know, throughout the day you
planes sitting there and you don't have enough people to
pilot them. And then you throw in this this whole
story and then the stuff that's happening. It seems like
it is a mess right now to try to fly
anywhere it's correct.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, yeah, there's been legislation and attempts to go down
to single pilot because there aren't enough pilots something that
the pilot's really and a number of lawmakers are pushed
back against it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Can you imagine dangerous?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, tell me having one up there that what if
that man or woman has a medical emergency or has
a mental health breakdown or just the Yeah, when it's
a normal flight, the workload may not be that great,
but when something goes wrong that you have one person
trying to do all of that of talk on the
radios and fix the system and figure out how they're
gonna what they're gonna do at that moment. So there
has been a growing push to go down to single
(11:04):
pilot in the cockpit, which I mean, I don't know,
that just seems dangerous.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
There should always be two, and there should always be
human beings because something's always going to happen. The no
computer is ever going to be prepared for.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, I think there used to be three, you know,
when there was a navigator up there as well, not
that long ago, and then now they're down to two.
But this push now to go to one. Pilots are saying, no,
they don't like that idea. I don't like it as
a passenger.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Either, me either, And they cannot get and it's like
they can't get enough people who you know, I'll just
say it worth a damn that, you know, get into this,
into that business and do that for a living.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It seems like, well it's expensive to get into it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Of all the getting the flight hours and renting planes
and going through flight school that it's so expensive to
do that. It's a real commitment and you've got to
have the money to be able to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Well the government could pay for that because all the
money they saved on the medical education for that fate nurse.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, put it into pilots raining.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's perfect. That's exactly what we should do.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Alex Stone, ABC News, Alex, you get to go look
for these cheese.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
It's now I think I'm gonna I'm gonna check every
day when I go home. You've got something for me
to buy, you know. Now I'm buying jack Fire. Now
I'm gonna go find the cheese. It's none of this
stuff is healthy. That you have me buying okay, and
I'm gonna go look for it tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And then there's some really good kale I tried one time.
You need to look for that in your grocer. Second
yeah no, and again obviously you got to like cheese.
It's to start with. In this situation, sounds like maybe you,
your family and the cheese.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Ye know. I mean we have in the house of
kids like them. I haven't eaten cheese. It's I don't
think them quite a while. So now I got to
try to baconator one.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah you do, man, They're They're really really good, not
crazy unhealthy for you. I know you have to keep
you got to keep that slim look, man, because you
do TV and stuff, you know. Anyway, Alex Stone, ABC News, Alex,
thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I guys see him, man,
It's the attack of the Wendy's bacon eat or cheese.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's now all.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Three of us have like a little serving of it now,
and I, you know, we're coming back from we're in
the break, and I was just like, uh, hey, Zach,
you want something.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
He's like, yeah, I have some of those. So I
just gave you some too, Chuck, because.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I know you're I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You're in maintenance.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I know you like those before, right, I mean you
it's not like you're like, oh and Alex Stone's joining
us now ABC News and.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Confused by these things? So where do you buy them?
Is this from Wendy's or like, this is a flavor
that you buy?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
I was at Kroger.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I was at Kroger and it was like an end
cap display. Now this was a couple of weeks ago
and I saw it and it's got the Wendy's logo
on it.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know, it's a cheese it it's a box of cheese.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's yeah, and like you would buy wherever what do
you have there? When Dixie like, what do you have?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
We have?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Craws Well, Kroger, here is Ralph's and then Safeway here
is Vond's the Albertson's Safe company.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So that's that's most of That's pretty That's a weird
name for a grocery store. Anyway, Ralph's. I feel like
I should buy carpet from Ralph.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That's the Kroger brand. Here, it's you know, like Kings
and Colorado. Here it's Ralph's.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, we just we All we did was we contributed
hugely to publics and the whole like environment in the
south of Jacksonville area.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We were in.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Florida for the whole week, but we went to Publics.
We probably spent four hundred dollars there all week. It
was crazy.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yeah, public So I love that Kroger too, right, Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is it okay?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Maybe not.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I want to go down south to go to a
Pigley Wiggly. Oh yeah, just because of the name to
Pigley Wiggly. I just want to buy something at Bigley Wigglely.
So I exanded it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So anyway, it's just a box of cheese. It's they
are the Wendy's bacon eat or flavor. Now, I don't
know if they had they must not have them there
in the La Area, but they they had them here,
and you know, Jenny and I were at the store
and I go, oh, I'm getting those.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We're too driving those on the air.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
So we probably do have them here. I don't. I
just haven't seen them.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I don't think I've been in a grocery store for
you know, my wife will go and do shopping oh Osco,
but i've been I haven't been in the regular grocery
store and probably I don't know, a month or so,
so we probably do have.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh man, and they're they're damn good. Alex, by the way,
I mean, I love cheese. It's it's a nice little
smack and they're not real greasy and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It tastes like a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's no, not really. You guys even think that. You
tell me what you think.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
We've got the underlying bacon. You can taste that. But
I don't taste bacon eater, per se. I just there's
an underlying bacon.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Right, whatever taste of a bacon eater is. But yeah,
I guess it's the beef that's kind of missing.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Where's the beef?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And I don't know that I would want to cheese
it that tastes like beef. I that have the weirdest.
It is weird, isn't it. It's very odd.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I think we've been talking about whether there's a beef
flavor and a cheese it today. Yeah, because don't they
Wendy's has right now the one where they put the
like cheetos on it, right, Yeah, the takis or whatever
it is that that are on the burger. So that's
what I thought you were talking about at the beginning,
that these are like what they put on the burger.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now, No, but that's a good idea to put these,
doesn't half bad?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
I think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I know, because I like crunch in the middle of that.
So like if you bite into a soft bun and
you got the the beat, the rich taste of the
burger and all of that stuff, but then a crunch
in there where a few of these are in.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Now I'm now I'm looking hang on.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It looks like they're beginning to go to their like
Halloween food now, so everything's going. Oh, because of Wednesdays,
they're doing Wednesdays by Wendy's. You know that new the
show Wednesdays, Yeah, the Adams Family. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so everything is purple. Now they're doing uh those Oh yeah,
they've got the takis fuego burger like the Crunchy talkies
on there.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yep, I saw those when we were traveling. We went
to stop that a Wendy's to get.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Chili Raven's Blood Frosty. That's part of the like Halloween
Wednesday kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Wait, it's too early for Halloween. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No, oh well, I mean everything's starting to go. We
had the other day, you know those pretzel thins that
you know, the really thin pretzels that yes, yeah, that,
we had the pumpkin flavored ones where they're like dipped
in this like pumpkin cream. They're incredible with the saltiness
of the pretzel. And then yeah, my wife brought them
home from Sam's Club the other day.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
They're in icing coating or yeah, kind of. They're pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You probably needed to help her bring in that size
of if she got them from Costco, because they.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
When you buy it already gone. We ate them. They
were the for I finished them last night.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well here's my point with that comment.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean you hadn't tried those yet and she bought
like you never you can't buy just a little bit
of anything unless they had like a sample or something.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But our family pretty much anything pumpkin we're gonna be
good with. Okay, she made pumpkin bread this morning. We're
like already all in. It's August. Let's go, it's fall,
the kids are going back to school. Let's get right
into it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Even though it's a hundred there you hear from a
California person, it really is, because I mean, I just
don't picture California being, oh, it's autumn, you know the.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Oh, well, it may not feel like if you just
pump up the air conditioning and then you feel like
you're freezing inside and it's fall. Halloween and Disneyland begins
in like two and a half more weeks, and in
Florida they started in the end of July, the Halloween
time at disney World. Oh so yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
We're getting into it. It's it's pumpkin time. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We were about an hour and a half from there.
It is.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We're about an hour and a half hour forty five
from Disney World. When we were down there, and we
did not go, but we had so much going on,
and we paid a gajillion dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
For this house we were in. I'm like, we're staying
here and you're gonna enjoy the Atlantic. That's how this is.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
We're not going there to spend another thousand, you know
or whatever just to get in and my kids have
been there a million times anyway, But we contemplated it.
But I was gonna be like, let me hit up
Alex and see on a guest list or something.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Maybe maybe down.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
There nor yeah, I know, but anyway, okay, so you know,
Chuck and I kind of hit this a little bit
before at the top of the hour when I was
setting up what you were coming on for this, you know,
the glitch that happened and all that. It's just like
Chuck brings up that which one was It as like
a floppy disc.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was like the US airports that are still out
there using old Doss machines and three point five inch
floppy disc and things. The antiquated technology in the airline
industry is terrible.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In some spots, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It's almost like using a you know, I still got
an iPhone too, this will work right, yeah, kind of well.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
The FAA, Yeah, I think there are the ones that's
still in some cases are using floppy discs. But the
airlines remember when Southwest had their big melt down and
then it turned out that they had a system that
was way outdated for what they were doing, and it
took them forever to come around. So the other airline's
been really worried about that and they've been updating a
lot of their systems and that has created some of
these crashes that have gone on. The last airlines had
(06:56):
one maybe two weeks ago, and that came back to
the day were upgrading their system and then it went down.
And Hawaiian Airlines was actually which is now owned by Alaska.
They had a cyber attack, so they had their problems.
But other airlines have been trying to upgrade and then
they have them go down with The good news is
this was relatively short lived for United last night, but
it was a computer problem. All of their flights worldwide
(07:19):
were grounded that were not already in the air. But
the damage was done and it turned into hundreds of
delays and cancelations last night and again today, pilots telling
passengers they were going to be stuck for a while.
This was on board one flight.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I apologize I'm going to turn off the seatbelt sign if.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You need to get up, just as stretcher legs or something.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It might be a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm guessing it's going to be at least that power.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It was more than a few minutes. It went on
for a few hours. United has the most canceled flights
of an airline in the world again today as they
tried to clean this up, one hundred and sixty two
canceled flights. Over four hundred and more of there are
delayed Denver, Chicago, Houston, their big hubs feeling most the impact.
But it went on for a while, and pilots didn't
immediately know what was going on. And this was from
air traffic control radio.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So we're having a bunch of issues right now.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
And on the ground, planes couldn't go anywhere, those coming
in couldn't the plane because there were planes already at
the gates that couldn't leave, and United saying it was
a computer system called Unimatic, which houses the data for
weight and balance on a plane and flight times, and
it feeds all that into other systems that need to
use it. So on the ground, people were stuck like
(08:26):
this guy.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Like the first hour.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There's a few people like that were already sending up
and like just walking around the cabin because there was nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Else to do. I mean, I got on Netflix. Is
like it was just that mainly, and others were stuck
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah they're being nice, but there's nothing like the flight
attents or anyone on the plane could really do about it.
So it's like, but they were like supplying us and
like just like trying to keep us.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It just seemed like they didn't really know what was
going on either, and they didn't know, I mean really
what it was in the moment. But United says they
are treating this as a controllable delay, which they don't
really have to. But I think United's learned its pr
lessons over the years of how quickly things can go
really bad. So they paid for hotels and meals for
everybody who was impacted, and it was resolved in a
(09:11):
few hours. Never impacted the United Express regional flights, just
the mainline planes, And so today they're trying to get
the planes where they need to be, the passengers where
they're supposed to be, the crews where they need to
be to get everything going again. But about two weeks
ago they had a computer failure that did it may
have been the same system, but to the grounded flights
for maybe a half an hour or so. I was
(09:32):
actually stuck at the San Francisco Airport during that. And
then United got things rolling, so they're updating some systems.
Seems to be some growing pains in that, but they're
back to normal today, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And then when you start also thinking about the you know,
the age of a pilot that they have to retire
at the age of sixty five.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I was hearing there's going to be legislature and.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Introduced that will allow them to continue working because we
know the shortage that's happening now where these planes and
you see it, Man, you have a front row seat
going into lax the busiest, if not well one of
easily the busiest airport's not just in the US but
in the world for that matter. But you you have
people probably you know, they say try to book the
(10:17):
first flight out because you know, throughout the day you
planes sitting there and you don't have enough people to
pilot them. And then you throw in this this whole
story and then the stuff that's happening. It seems like
it is a mess right now to try to fly
anywhere it's correct.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, yeah, there's been legislation and attempts to go down
to single pilot because there aren't enough pilots something that
the pilot's really and a number of lawmakers are pushed
back against it.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Can you imagine dangerous?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, tell me having one up there that what if
that man or woman has a medical emergency or has
a mental health breakdown or just the Yeah, when it's
a normal flight, the workload may not be that great,
but when something goes wrong that you have one person
trying to do all of that of talk on the
radios and fix the system and figure out how they're
gonna what they're gonna do at that moment. So there
has been a growing push to go down to single
(11:04):
pilot in the cockpit, which I mean, I don't know,
that just seems dangerous.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
There should always be two, and there should always be
human beings because something's always going to happen. The no
computer is ever going to be prepared for.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, I think there used to be three, you know,
when there was a navigator up there as well, not
that long ago, and then now they're down to two.
But this push now to go to one. Pilots are saying, no,
they don't like that idea. I don't like it as
a passenger.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Either, me either, And they cannot get and it's like
they can't get enough people who you know, I'll just
say it worth a damn that, you know, get into this,
into that business and do that for a living.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It seems like, well it's expensive to get into it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Of all the getting the flight hours and renting planes
and going through flight school that it's so expensive to
do that. It's a real commitment and you've got to
have the money to be able to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Well the government could pay for that because all the
money they saved on the medical education for that fate nurse.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, put it into pilots raining.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's perfect. That's exactly what we should do.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Alex Stone, ABC News, Alex, you get to go look
for these cheese.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
It's now I think I'm gonna I'm gonna check every
day when I go home. You've got something for me
to buy, you know. Now I'm buying jack Fire. Now
I'm gonna go find the cheese. It's none of this
stuff is healthy. That you have me buying okay, and
I'm gonna go look for it tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And then there's some really good kale I tried one time.
You need to look for that in your grocer. Second
yeah no, and again obviously you got to like cheese.
It's to start with. In this situation, sounds like maybe you,
your family and the cheese.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Ye know. I mean we have in the house of
kids like them. I haven't eaten cheese. It's I don't
think them quite a while. So now I got to
try to baconator one.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah you do, man, They're They're really really good, not
crazy unhealthy for you. I know you have to keep
you got to keep that slim look, man, because you
do TV and stuff, you know. Anyway, Alex Stone, ABC News, Alex,
thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I guys see him, man,
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