1:18:12 You heard about that? The subway? Oh yeah, the subway running away. In fact, I'm starting to notice the trends. There's actually people taking sides. I'm thinking the New York Times is now on the side of planes. Well, yeah, and actually there's some more evidence that might corroborate that. But the most interesting... well, there's two stories about planes bad. And so Peggy Noonan, not a fan of Ms. Noonan's writing, She writes this whole essay or op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
1:18:48 About you know it's basically it's a setup for the video on the page And I want to play the video on the page because this shows you It's it's it's absolutely amazing How this story was planted to show you how bad plane travel is we got off on a little a little track here a sidetrack of the guys a hero and quit your job and all that so the Wall Street Journal which of course is a part of the Murdoch Empire and We believe is Probably also run by Democrats. They really bring it back with their Wall Street Journal dot-com report This will slay you John when you Journal Wall Street Journal Midsommar Jesus Christ the one thing I didn't think I knew because I checked it and it didn't have a pre-roll
1:19:36 That's the one thing I didn't have a clip of and it has a pre-roll. I'm sorry. It's only IBM well together. Well, if you're consistent, yeah IBM slash engines a story this week about a folk hero Steven Slater the The flight attendant with JetBlue who made headlines and here to talk about it are my editorial board colleagues Jason So editorial board colleagues, that means the shills, right? Yeah, these are the guys who are paid to say whatever is the message. Riley and Matt Kaminsky, thanks for joining us. So the news from the news side of the Wall Street Journal this week is that Mr. Slater is looking like less and less of a hero.
1:20:14 people who were on the flight from Pittsburgh to New York earlier this week saying he was abusive, he may have had that cut on his head when he got on the flight. He was saying, let me get the quote here, saying, I have to, I need to take care of myself first, honey, when someone asked him for assistance with some coffee that had spilled. By the way, another gay reference there. They keep pulling that out, the honey thing. But so we're seeing a picture here emerging of a guy and I should say there's a question whether this woman who... You hear it? You hear the setup? He claims harassed him even exists but... They're saying that the woman didn't even exist is what they're saying now. That she didn't even exist, there was no woman with baggage.
1:21:02 Whether or not his story is true, Jason, you never really bought into the idea that this guy was a hero. Not at all. I mean, you have to keep in mind this started as a baggage dispute. A woman apparently brought two bags on board, was trying to put them in the overhead when this dispute broke out. And Slater is a self-described bag Nazi. Now... I mean, can it get much better with calling someone on a plane a Nazi? John, it's getting good. Okay, hold on. It's just amazing to me that the storyline has been to sympathize with the airline employee. Flights have gotten more expensive in recent years. They want you at the airport three hours ahead of time for a one hour flight, which is often delayed if not canceled, where you have little recourse. Flights are more expensive and they're serving less food, fewer snacks. You have to pay for them. You have to pay for bags that they often lose on the way.
1:21:57 airline personnel to me. How good is this? This guy is like he's getting the star merit award of honor for the trains. Yeah, he's like listing everything as bullcrap by the way. You don't have to be three hours. It's a lie. It's a total lie. It's a lie. The excuse is that from the journalistic perspective, well I'm just exaggerating a little bit just to make the point that you do have to be there earlier and they'd make a big deal out of it and all the rest of it and but it's like the laundry list of problem that gov complaints he's doing it and exaggerating them all to make it even worse which is actually shouldn't be doing but wait there's more john it doesn't end there oh no
1:22:38 is the problem with the world here on the other hand we don't want to make generalizations about airline personnel but matt this idea that this guy is a folk hero that that a lot of people seem to not identify with the passengers but with uh... with slater in this case uh... i think it did and then rush limbaugh he was saying you know maybe the guy was racing home to hear the limbaugh radio program that day i mean i think there's a clear reason why we all of us in some ways sympathize with him. He had a bad day at the office, he kinda lost it, he had his Howard Beale moment, you know, I'm mad as hell, I'm gonna pull the emergency slide and just shoot out of there with a beer in my hand. Don't worry, I'm not gonna start cursing here or... There's so much I wanna talk about.
1:23:26 But then, I think what we're realizing now is that actually it's us passengers who should have this Howard Beale moment. Here you go, so he takes, now the other guy's gonna pile jump and do another plane's bad thing. I think anyone who's flown domestic in this country must have a masochistic streak in them. It is one of the worst experiences, especially compared to ten years ago. My favorite is the fee for the extra piece of luggage, which happens to be your first piece of luggage that you want to check in. Matt, people would check for luggage if they thought it was going to arrive with them at their destination. It often does not.
1:24:03 I mean, in the name of safety in the past 10 years, in the name of safety, I think airline personnel has been on a power trip. And frankly, and they've made airline travel in a large, in many ways, miserable. And again, my sympathies have always been with this woman, whether she exists or not. All right, so you get the whole point, obviously. Yeah, but they don't bring the trains in, you know, so I'm not. Do they? Yeah, they don't need to bring the trains into... I know, I'm saying that, but at least they didn't do that. We had one other planes bad story about the 15 year olds who took their babysitting money and hopped on a Southwest flight. I'm sure you heard about this story, John.